What weapon has the most poise damage in Dark Souls?

Pretty much all Great class weapons deal a lot of poise damage, but Great Hammers in particular have the highest poisebreak. So a fully charged heavy two-handed Great Hammer attack is the highest possible poise damage you can deal per singular attack.
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What is the highest poise damage in Dark Souls?

The highest possible poise is achieved by wearing the full Havel's Set, and equipping the Wolf Ring, totaling 161 Poise. This is not including the uncountable poise granted by Havel's Greatshield and Iron Flesh, which both actually alter staggering mechanisms, rendering most attacks incapable of staggering the user.
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What weapon has max damage Dark Souls?

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 most overpowered weapon in Dark Souls?

15 Most Overpowered Weapons In Dark Souls 3
  • 8 Harald Curved Greatsword. ...
  • 7 Splitleaf Greatsword. ...
  • 6 Crystal Sage's Rapier. ...
  • 5 Millwood Greatbow. ...
  • 4 Crucifix Of The Mad King. ...
  • 3 Demon's Scar. ...
  • 2 Repeating Crossbow. ...
  • 1 Lothric Knight Sword.
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What is the highest damage attack in Dark Souls?

Maximum attack rating in Dark Souls : 1271, with 99 Strength and Faith, Crystal Demon's Greataxe +5, Darkmoon Talisman, and Darkmoon Blade. Starting with the Cleric class, this is SL174, long but not that hard to achieve. No ring nor equipment piece can boost this rating.
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Elden Ring - Stance breaking in depth (Poise, Staggering and more)

What is the hardest fight in Dark Souls?

Hardest Bosses In Dark Souls, Ranked
  • 8 Gwyn, Lord Of Cinder.
  • 7 Sanctuary Guardian.
  • 6 Four Kings.
  • 5 The Bed Of Chaos.
  • 4 Dragon Slayer Ornstein & Executioner Smough.
  • 3 Manus, Father Of The Abyss.
  • 2 Artorias The Abysswalker.
  • 1 Black Dragon Kalameet.
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What is the highest damage weapon in Dark Souls 1 reddit?

Great Club deals the highest overall damage, Demon's Greataxe can beat it on the pure phys end via Crystal.
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What is the most powerful build in Dark Souls?

Best Builds In Dark Souls, Ranked
  • 8 Kirk Knight Of Thorns.
  • 7 Knight Artorias.
  • 6 Slow-Walk Build.
  • 5 Ayriak's Quality Pyromancer.
  • 4 Crestfallen Warrior.
  • 3 Bonewheel Skelly.
  • 2 Oroboro's Falchion Build.
  • 1 Giant Dad.
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What is the best boss soul weapon in DS1?

Top 3 boss souls equiptment:
  1. Greatshield of Artorias (highest Stability in the game -> DS1 Easy mode)
  2. Chaos Blade (Katana duh)
  3. Dragon Bone Fist (solid strenth weapon)
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Can weapons permanently break in Dark Souls?

You can still repair them but you can't use them until they're repaired. The only items that break permanently are crystal ones. in Lost Izalith I fell into a trap with multiple Tentacle Demons (or whatever those freaky things are called). They broke my sword and heavily damaged the rest of my gear while killing me.
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What armor has the highest defense in Dark Souls?

Once upon a time, preceding a certain patch, the top spot would've gone to Havel's set, in keeping with a once-popular build. However, the Giant's Set is now the most desirable (and likely overused) set in Dark Souls, offering superior defensive capability at the cost of some poise.
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Which weapon to reinforce 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 weapons deal the most poise damage?

Pretty much all Great class weapons deal a lot of poise damage, but Great Hammers in particular have the highest poisebreak. So a fully charged heavy two-handed Great Hammer attack is the highest possible poise damage you can deal per singular attack.
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Is poise worth it Dark Souls?

There are multiple situations in Dark Souls where mobs of enemies are attacking the Chosen Undead at once. Poise makes a huge difference here, as it allows the Chosen Undead to tank the damage while they fight their way out.
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How much poise is good Dark Souls?

Therefore I'd go for at least 21.44 poise, not being able to tank curved swords or spears even once with your standard attack is miserable. Strong attacks have better poise, but they're situational and I'd rather build around your light attacks.
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What is the fastest weapon in Dark Souls 1?

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 hardest boss in DS1?

Top 5 Hardest bosses DS1?
  • Ornstein and Smough (Yeah)
  • Gaping Dragon (First boss I fought with a lot of HP)
  • Stray Demon (Instakilled me if it hit me)
  • Capra Demon (DOGS)
  • Iron Golem (Arena sucks)
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Can you get Gwyn's sword?

Is it possible to get or craft Gwyn's fire sword? You can craft his sword after NG+ (since you need his soul for that) using any +10 straight sword, but it's just a 100% physical greatsword, no fire effect nor damage whatsoever.
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What is the easiest build to beat in Dark Souls?

Easiest starting class is knight. Once you get a black knight weapon, you pretty much won. Keep playing untill you find a weapon type that you like, THEN find out how to make a build based around it. Make sure to put points in Vitality and Endurance, try getting 14 Faith and going for Astora's Straight Sword.
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What is the strongest class in Dark Souls 1?

1. Warrior: excellent starting equipment, great stats for melee builds as he can equip almost anything early on. 2. Bandit: Best starting class for vitality/strength builds, strongest starter weapon.
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What is the easiest PvE build in Dark Souls?

The Cleric Knight build, AKA "Dark Souls on easy mode", is one of the most effective and, more importantly, most efficient PvE builds in the game. Unlike many other builds you will find, the Cleric Knight build requires no farming, no grinding, and no prayers to RNGesus becuase you don't need him.
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What is the strongest dagger in ds1?

Yes, the Bandit's Knife is generally the best dagger. It competes with Dark Silver Tracer in crit damage (and is stronger when Crystal), has bleed that doesn't have horribly slow buildup (unlike Priscilla's), and has the highest AR of all daggers (tied with the Dagger) with 40dex.
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What are the longest weapons 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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Why is Dark Souls the hardest game?

The game is a test of patience. Be it killing the enemies, finding a way forward, completing a puzzle, backtracking or anything at all, you have to take it slow. Especially with the enemies, taking time to analyze their moves and attack patterns is vital to not getting killed.
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