What is the best weapon for late game Dark Souls?

There is no absolute best weapon, since it's mostly a matter of opinion. If you go for damage, then go for the Great Club or Great axe. If you are more of an STR/DEX build, then the crystal or Normal Demon's greataxe. For faster weapons go for the crystal or enchanted Battle Axe or DarkSword.
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What is the most powerful weapon in Dark Souls 1?

Those familiar with dragons in the first Dark Souls game are likely well aware of tail-cut weapons: arms that can be harvested by doing enough damage to a draconic foe's tail for it to be destroyed. The Dragon King Greataxe is arguably the most powerful, at least in terms of single-hit damage potential.
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What is the best all around weapon in Dark Souls?

Dark Souls: 10 Best Weapons In The Series
  • 8 Lifehunt Scythe.
  • 7 Farron Greatsword.
  • 6 Gravelord Sword.
  • 5 Zweihander.
  • 4 Moonlight Greatsword.
  • 3 Claymore.
  • 2 Gael's Great Sword.
  • 1 Murakumo.
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Is the Zweihander a good endgame weapon?

Zweihander does better damage as you level your stats and upgrade the weapon. It only deals less damage if you're on a strength build. Two-handing also makes a big difference. great weapon R2 with really low damage.
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What is the best early weapon Dark Soul?

Axe. The Battle Axe is a starting choice that's still one of the best weapons in Dark Souls. Players can acquire it by starting as a Bandit, farming it from axe-wielding Hollows, or purchasing it from Andre the Blacksmith.
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How to get Drake Sword in Dark Souls 1?

The Drake Sword is obtainable in the Undead Parish. To obtain the sword, the player must deal enough damage to the Hellkite Dragon's tail to sever it, placing the sword in their inventory. One method of doing this is to stand on the right side of the bridge under the drake and shoot its tail with a bow.
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What is the best knight weapon in Dark Souls 1?

Manserpent Greatsword, Claymore, and Bastard Sword probably have the fastest movesets of the great swords. I prefer the MSGS, it scales very nicely with strength. The better straight swords (like the Balder Side Sword) scale with DEX.
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Is the claymore or Zweihander better?

The claymore is a fantastic versatile weapon for a quality build like you're going for. 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.
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What should I infuse Zweihander with?

Doing a strength build. Since you're going full Strength then choose Heavy. Chaos infusion if you have high Int and/or Faith gives really good scalings too.
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Who would use a Zweihander?

Zweihänder swords were mostly used by mercenaries to cut swaths into enemy pike formations. Besides military uses two handed swords were also used as bodyguard weapons.
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How to get +15 weapon in Dark Souls?

Giving the Very Large Ember to Andre of Astora gives him the ability to ascend a standard weapon from +10 to +11, allowing for further standard weapon reinforcement from +11 to +15 (the highest it can go).
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What is the best PVE weapon in DS1?

While getting this weapon might be somewhat of a grindy affair, there's no denying that the end result is more than worth it.
  • 3 Claymore.
  • 2 Great Scythe.
  • 1 Black Knight Halberd.
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What is the best fast weapon in ds1?

Daggers are the absolute fastest and can do significant when buffed. Other fast weapons aside from hand axe are curved, straight, rapiers, and maybe spears. Painting guardian sword is a rather good fast weapons that isn't used too much. Great Scythe is pretty good.
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What is the best weapon to reinforce in Dark Souls?

Try the claymore or zweihander or black knight sword. If you want to focus on critical hits a rapier or dagger would be better. If you want a balanced all around weapon with a great moveset try the long sword.
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What is the strongest strength weapon in ds1?

This weapon can decimate enemies without any problems and is unanimously chosen by speedrunners to make their battles much easier.
  • 6 Black Knight Greataxe.
  • 5 Demon's Great Hammer.
  • 4 Great Club.
  • 3 Dragon King Greataxe.
  • 2 Dragon Tooth.
  • 1 Demon's Greataxe.
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What weapon has the highest physical damage in Dark Souls 1?

For strength weapons the Demon Greataxe is a really strong weapon at 50 str but it's incredibly slow. At 99/99/99/99, the Enchanted Great Club has the highest AR (much higher than the Grant or GSoA), the Crystal DGA has the best pure Physical AR (much better than Smough's Hammer).
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Should I upgrade Zweihander to Lightning?

That depends on your stats, obviously. Lightning removes any stat scaling, so you should use it on a weapon that does not fit your build. Why would you even use a divine club if you don't have faith?
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Is Zweihander the best sword?

If you are looking for a sword with reach, power, and versatility, the zweihander is the better choice. If you are looking for a sword with agility, sharpness, and ease of use, the katana is the better choice.
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How much strength do you need to wield Zweihander?

The Zweihander can be found in the cementary where the The_Catacombs is. When you enter the cementary you will see a few skeletons and at least one giant skeleton. It can be found on the first grave you will find. You need 24 Strength and 8 Dexterity to wield.
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Is Chlorophyte Saber or claymore better?

The Chlorophyte Claymore is a Hardmode sword. It is the slower but more powerful of the two Chlorophyte swords, the other being the Chlorophyte Saber. Upon swinging, it fires a Chlorophyte Orb in the direction of the cursor which deals the same damage as the sword itself.
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Is Zweihander a quality weapon?

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The fact that this weapon is available fairly early in the game, coupled with the sheer damage it can deal with every hit, makes it one of the best weapons in Dark Souls by a country mile. In fact, the only weapon that is arguably better than the Zweihander is another popular greatsword.
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Is the Zweihander in Elden Ring?

Zweihander is a Colossal Sword in Elden Ring. At +25 this weapon reaches 345 base damage with a D/C str/dex scaling.
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What is the best spear in Dark Souls 1?

Best spear is subjective. Demon's has best range, but sub-par damage; Silver Knight has slightly less range, better damage, and a slightly better moveset; Pike has less range than either, worst moveset/weight/stat requirements, best damage. Everything else has even shorter range than the Pike and isn't really worth it.
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What is the best magic weapon in ds1?

Moonlight greatsword has definitely the highest magic output. At 50int it does more than 500 magic damage. On my int built I've used velkas rapier myself, and it's a great weapon. Fast, light, relatively high damage output and occult effect which helps in pve.
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What is the best weapon buff in ds1?

DMB is the strongest buff, but to really get it up there you have to rank up in Darkmoon Blades. Sunlight Blade isn't as strong as DMB, but it's lightning damage instead which has its uses. I'd go faith. Just getting your faith up high enough to use them will grant you access to a bunch of other handy miracles.
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