Is the Drake Sword good in Dark Souls 1?

Drake Sword is a Weapon in Dark Souls. This weapon is one of the most powerful options early in the game, offering significant damage that outclasses most weapons at that stage. However, it lacks the stat scaling and upgrade potential that other weapons possess, meaning it may be outperformed later in the game.
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What is the best sword in Dark Souls 1?

Here are the best swords in Dark Souls.
  • 8 Gold & Dark Silver Tracers. ...
  • 7 Quelaag's Fury Sword. ...
  • 6 Moonlight Greatsword. ...
  • 5 Gael's Greatsword. ...
  • 4 King's Ultra Greatsword. ...
  • 3 Zweihander. ...
  • 2 Estoc. ...
  • 1 Lothric Knight Sword. Speaking of spamming light attacks, this sword is the pinnacle of that.
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Is the Drake Sword better than the zweihander?

The zwei is also pretty solid, but it's more efficient for a STR oriented build. The Drake sword is only useful if you plan on keeping the base requirements to wield it because of its lack of scaling. A quality build will be better off with just about any other straight sword.
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What does the Drake Sword do in Dark Souls?

Unlike most dragon weapons, the Drake Sword cannot be enchanted. It grants 15 points of Flame and Magic Defense when wielded. This effect remains active when in the off-hand and two handing a weapon in the right. Feeding it to Kingseeker Frampt grants 5,000 souls.
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Does the Drake Sword break easily?

It breaks fast if you use it's R2 two-hand special. It goes down 30 durability a pop.
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Is it worth it to level up the Drake Sword?

Each upgrade will add 20 more points of physical damage, and it maxes at +5 (300 damage). And they don't scale with stats. So, good in the beginning - less so as time goes on. It's up to you if that's worth it.
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Can you repair Drake Sword DS1?

You can also buy repair powder, for around 500 souls I believe, from the undead merchant. This will fix your weapon and you don't have to be at the bonfire like you do with the box.
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How many hits to get Drake Sword ds1?

If you continue shooting the wyvern's tail, after 20 or so shots (determined by your weapon damage stats and the size of your arrows) you will see a screen prompt saying you have received the Drake Sword. Congratulations!
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When should I replace the Drake Sword?

After Capra, go get the Large Ember in the early part of the Depths. Then, you can take weapons to +10 if you have enough titanite. At that point you should be able to make something to outclass drakes. If you haven't found a weapon you want to upgrade, there's always the lightning spear in Sen's.
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What is better than the Drake Sword?

Your best options are probably Zweihaender, Man Serpent Greatsword, Black Knight Axe, Gargoyle Halberd or Claymore. And upgrade that stuff, pronto. The difference between a unupgraded and a +5 is massive, nevermind +10 or +15, which is why all your weapons seem so bad compared to Drake Sword.
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What sword should I get after Drake Sword?

Personally, once you get to Sens Fortress, you should farm the Man Serpents for a Man Serpent Great Sword and get that bad boy to a +15. In the meantime, you can also use zweihander and claymore, both are good. If you're lucky a Black Knight may drop a halberd, which is pretty popular.
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Does Drake Sword scale with Dex?

The Drake Sword neither scales with dex (or anything for that matter), nor has a particularly high dex requirement. So my answer is no.
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What is the best standard sword in Dark Souls?

The Balder Side Sword is considered one of the most reliable weapons in Dark Souls. It's well-suited to most situations and has excellent scaling with the Dexterity stat. The main downside is that it is not guaranteed — the player has to farm it from Balder Knights, and it has a 1% drop chance.
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What is the highest damaging weapon in Dark Souls 1?

The Dragon King Greataxe is arguably the most powerful, at least in terms of single-hit damage potential. It can be obtained from the Gaping Dragon.
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What is the best strength weapon in Dark Souls 1?

  • 18 Reinforced Club. ...
  • 17 Stone Greatsword. ...
  • 16 Grant. ...
  • 15 Claymore. ...
  • 14 Zweihander. ...
  • 13 Gravelord Sword. Join The Gravelord Servant Covenant. ...
  • 12 Dragon Greatsword. Cut The Tail Of The Everlasting Dragon. ...
  • 11 Demon Great Machete. Sold By Shiva Of The East; Also Obtained As A Rare Drop From The Capra Demon.
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What is the strongest class in Dark Souls 1?

  • 8 Knight.
  • 7 Hunter.
  • 6 Sorcerer.
  • 5 Wanderer.
  • 4 Bandit.
  • 3 Cleric.
  • 2 Warrior.
  • 1 Pyromancer.
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How many wooden arrows does it take to get Drake's sword?

As long as you hit the dragon anywhere with approximately 50 arrows the tail will fall off and you will be rewarded with the Drake Sword. Walk into the room with the three Undead Rats and kill them. Now walk back out of the room and go right. Walk as far to the right as possible.
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Can you modify Drake Sword?

Drake Sword can be upgraded by using Dragon Scales. When equipped grants Magic DEF +15 and Flame DEF +15. It's not recommended to spend Dragon Scales and 10,000 Souls per upgrade on this weapon as the resulting low increase in damage does not offset the high cost.
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How much damage does the Drake Sword do?

Basically, if you want a strong melee character, look for weapons with B, A or S as your Strength scaling, and so on. The scaling for Drake Sword is -/-/-/-, which means it doesn't give a crap about how high your stats are. It does 200 damage and that's it.
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What is the longest reaching weapon in ds1?

The Demon's Spear is the longest spear in the game (second being the Dragonslayer Spear slightly), and cooperatively features a moveset extremely well suited to exploiting the spear's length. The spear's strong one-handed and two-handed attacks share the longest range of any melee weapon attack in the game.
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What is the fastest sword in ds1?

Painting Guardian Sword is the fastest as far as I know. But the Gold Tracer is also good&fast, and it's easier to get and upgrade. If you hadn't already used Quelaag's soul for the Furysword, I would recommend the Chaos Blade. Thrusting swords are usually *kinda* fast, Ricard's has the best scaling if I remember.
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What is the biggest greatsword in ds1?

Ultra Greatswords, as their name suggests, are the biggest, heaviest, and quite often, strongest type of sword you can acquire in the game.
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What strength do you need for Drake Sword?

16 is the required strength to hold it in one hand effectively. The sword also provides some sort of defense boost as well, which is what the shield with the up arrow means. At this point in the game the Drake sword is almost too good, it is blowing through things!
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Can you get the Drake Sword later?

it comes back when you go to the middle of the bridge. (if it doesnt come back try reloading again). note that you just have to cut its tail, not kill it, to get the drake sword.
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