Dark Souls Remastered: Top 5 Best Starting Weapons (And How To Get Them) 

1:12 you gonna have to kil... *nervous solaire noises*

I would’ve never killed the merchant simply cause I just love it when he says “neh he he he”

Claymore is amazing. One of the best balanced weapons IMO, it's a great starting weapon but also solid enough to upgrade and clear the whole game with.

One of my favorite things about Dark Souls 1 is how non-linear the game is from the very beginning. You can become OP early with any type of build if you know where you are going. DS2/3 are much more balanced in that regard but in a way that is a lot less fun.

"if you do it right you will probably get a nasty message afterwards too, which is nice you know because sometimes its nice to read" I can relate. Great video man.

I "killed" a black knight when it fell through the tower. Truly a great remaster

4:24 we all know what happened here

Hey Guys, I really appreciate all the people who have watched this video, liked it, and even decided to subscribe, I've never had a video do this well before, so thank you. That being said, there are quite a few who disliked the video (not hit the dislike button, I don't care about that quite frankly) but thought that this was a bad list, or that I missed some weapons. But please remember that this is intended for people who have not played dark souls before. This isn't a list of the best weapons in the game, so don't comment a list of what you think are the best weapons in the game because that's not at all what I was going for here. You can get nearly any weapon "early game" if you are skilled enough but I think a lot of you have forgotten what it was like to play this game for the first time. The weapons in this video are located in areas that players should be going through anyways because I didn't want to lead anyone too far off the normal path. These are reliable, easily attainable weapons that are meant to replace whatever weapon your class starts with, and to that end, I stand by every weapon on this list even if it won't carry you through the entire game on easy mode, which seems to be the only acceptable choice for a lot of you. Maybe I made some mistakes in this video, but I only had 45 subscribers at the time I uploaded it and most of my videos got 10-20 views. So to the 6000 people(and counting) who watched this one, know that I am always improving and I want to make every new video better than the last.

The claymore got me through so much in Dark Souls 1. I remember just wandering around swinging that thing around lol. Such a reliable wepaon.

I would add to this The Great Scythe. Consider by many to be the best dex weapon in the game. You can have it as soon as you arrive and you don't even need the master key. Still got a picture of this bad boy in my wallet on top if my wife's picture.

Astora's Straight Sword is really easy to get as well, you just have to run to the Valley of the Drakes where the Undead Dragon is and pick it up, and while you're there you can also get the Spider Shield a bit further down where the electric wyverns are, and if you make it past all of them and climb the tower you can also get the Red Tearstone Ring.

Personally, I believe the best weapon is Smough's Hammer, and its quite easy to obtain all you have to do is easily walk your way to Anor Londo and kill the bosses but dont forget to kill Smough last . Then “Forge any hammer or great hammer to +10 and ascend it with Soul of Smough at the Giant Blacksmith.” Congrats you have the easiest and best weapon to obtain in dark souls!

I got mad at my boyfriend for taking the controller out of my hands and killing the merchant for a sword. Turns out the gucci katana became my favorite weapon and I don’t want to use anything else

This video makes me wish I could be playing Dark Souls for the first time all over again. What an experience.

Black knight sword❤

Goes to blight town for falchion forgets about the great club :'(

When he started heading to the graveyard, instantly knew it was gonna be zwei

ive finished the game twice and still had no idea you could get the uchigatana so early. love ds for the fact that there is always so ething new you can find out about it

Literally started my first souls game last week and started with ds1. This is such a helpful guide. I've subbed

No Gravelord Sword? Parkour your way down to catacombs, avoid the headless demon get eye of death and hide in coffin = gg

For anyone checking out the comments, the Astora Straight Sword is a good early game faith weapon. You’ll need to start with the master key and go to drake valley through the new Londo Ruins. It’s awesome early on, but gets outclassed by the time you are making your own divine weapons. You can also grab the dragon crest shield while you’re at it

Halberd is really underrated. The normal attack is a thrust attack, so you can use the halberd in narrow spaces, and there’s the big attack that is basically a swing that goes around your back and also your front, so if you’re ambushed you can just use that. Pretty good. I would say zweihander is better but it takes off a lot more of your stamina.

Damn, this video is very well made, I was expecting some no effort video listing off good weapons but this is planned out and it never drags on. Great job man

Really helpful video. My friend is guiding me through so I know some of this stuff, but an all round amazing tutorial/guide. I can tell you put a lot of effort into making this. :D

Hay man, I really appreciate this. Thanks! Wish you much success with your channel. Kind regards, random passerby

Top 5 with honorable mentions had a nice ring to it

Good content, man. Subbed.

Great video. Thanks. I liked the inclusion of moveset demos

If you're lucky getting the Black Knight Sword or BK Halberd early would make the 1st half very manageable and comfortable.

Great video and straight to the point with good information! One of the best top weapons vid imo. Thanks!

nice video,clever presentation and your voice is calm enough to understand the meaning of every info without distracting your mind.il sub of course,you helped me alot in points of the game was difficult to get it...keep on the good job and most of the times im not fully satisfied by videos on games but yours was good simple and calmed.

I love everything about this RU-vid channel, it’s honestly god tire and helped me when I first started playing that’s for sure

4 years later, still using this guide! I just finished Elden Ring and am trying to get the Platinum trophies for the souls games now, so I figured I should start out with a few good weapons

Guys please don't skip out on the gargoyle halberd which you get from the gargoyle boss. If you play your cards correctly you can get the helmet and the helmet and the halberd from the same run which provide much needed poison resistance for the swamp level which I hear a lot of people have issues with.

Wish I saw this when I started with these games! Great video bud! :)

Great video man, keep up the good work!

Uchigatana was my first dark souls weapon. It will always hold a special place in my heart

Not sure why I watched this, played far too much Dark Souls to need it. Left this on in the background and got a few laughs out of it, great video!

This video actually came out around when I first played DS1. I'm looking around on youtube to see ideas to try something new than my standard favorites. I have a story for you about my first encounter with the black knight in the basin. I was so bad at killing them starting off because of course i was. I managed to roll off the edge after grabbing the grassroot shield i had seen, and .. the knight followed me. And dropped the shield. I was baffled. it was new player luck. I've never seen that shield again. The list here is pretty decent from when I was a new player this is all the weapons most people recommended or liked. Thank you. Didn't help me decide what to do, but well done for an older video.

I love your straight forwardness and you attitude. Definitely subscribing.

In the Firelink Shrine graveyard area you can also get the Winged Spear, which has amazing scaling and at +15 upgrades and 40 or more Dexterity is one of the best dex weapons in the game.

the claymore is my favorite weapon overall, it's so simple, so normal yet so effective. i always do a only great sword run and later a only claymore run. in ds 1,ds1 remastered, ds3 and eldenring

What a video. Props to you my dude, you covered... well pretty much everything! GG

Nice video thanks bro 😎

Halberd is really underrated and solid af. Upgrade to +5 does 200dmg thrust and reg. Good reach. Fast and light.

“Top 5 sounds better than Top 8 so...” Lol. Helpful video man, thanks!

Awesome video! Thanks a lot for this.

This is a pretty nice list of starter weapons. Good job, it's well thought-out.

"Not strong enough to wield the sword with one hand" - It isn't called a Zweihänder ( = "Two-hands") for no reason. Great video, might have to go after the merchant now. :D

Personally, my favourite starter weapon, might even just be my favourite weapon is the grave lord curved greatsword. You can grab it by doing a suicide run into the catacombs and it doesn't have super high requirements so you can use it almost immediately.

I'm liking the Astora Straight Sword as an early weapon. It's easy to get, the move set is nice, the Divine damage component is great and it's light and fast. It works well no matter what kind of melee build you're going for, imo, because it scales equally well with Str, Dex, and Faith. And, bonus, you can find 2 Twinkling Titanite to upgrade it to +2 before you even get to the Taurus demon. A +2 Divine weapon that early is nice, I'm using the Astora and the Zweihander, but mostly the Astora because it handles so well.

Great video really quality weapons didnt think of falchion

Solid guide, and I got a nice laugh out of how you handled Blighttown. Regarding the Drake sword, small bit of advice for new players and/or anyone who always gets that weapon for each playthrough -- it is possible to hit the dragon 4 times "per round" (from the perched position, to the bridge, til it lands back at the perched position) - 1st hit is of course the arrow to the end of the tail to make it fly over to the bridge. - 2nd hit is to the thicker part of its tail, closer to the body, which hangs over the bridge once it lands (very easy target if you just stand near the edge and dont let the wall block your shot) - 3rd & 4th hits must be fired immediately after the 2nd at its wings, which are huge targets and hard to miss if timed correctly. The catch is you may have to release your arrow at the spot in the sky where the wings *will be* before they actually appear there, so for the first time I'd say just observe and take note of where to shoot so next time you can do it, then do it the same til you get it. That may seem like a small tip and I'm sure lots of people do it that way, but the uploader did it the slower way in the vid and this is significantly faster, if you care about that kind of thing. I do for some reason. Efficiency, I guess. So if you have good aim and know the pattern, then you don't have to endure the tedious process of waiting for the dragon to go back and.forth so much for only one or maybe two hits each time. Anyway, I think its more fun this way because it's a relatively more skillful approach that keeps you engaged instead of mostly waiting, plus Souls games are all about those tricks and shortcuts both big and small, and it's kind of a shortcut/timesaver IMO

Nice selection of weapons, although as a few others have said the zwei and claymore are more for quality/infusion builds. Also, you don't actually need to have the master key to get the falcion (probably mispelled that) rather early, although you will need to kill the taurus demon and the run up can be a bit more dangerous. If you take the elevator behind the halberd black knight you can reach drakes valley and if you dodge the drakes (or cheese them with the bow) take the left cliff and dodge the drake on the ledge (can get him to jump off the edge with the right positioning) you can reach the special dragon corpse. After that you can reach the tunnel to blight town and at the end of that passage is the key for the new londo ruins so you can go straight up to fire link from there. Also, at the base of that dragon corpse you can grab one of the best medium fire shields as well as the astora straight sword, a rather good divine weapon for faith builds and can make those dreaded catacombs a bit easier. Edit: Remembered after posting that the winged spear is located in the same area as the zwei which is an ok spear to use, and since its in the same area you may as well pick it up.

such a helpful vid thanks!

Thank you for this

i think that the gravelord sword is the best starting weapon. you get it from the catacombs and you only need to do 1 faith jump, then just run to the titanite demon to grab the undead eye and at last just go inside the sarcophagus near the demon and you'll be transported to the nito arena, you join his covenant and you get a weapon with 290 damage that can be 2 handed with 16 strength

You can proc the hollow guy near the undead merchant (in the room before) without getting any sin for killing him. Just get him to agro you and burst through the boxes, then run behind the merchant. The hollow will try to kill you and hit the merchant. Once the merchant is down, just kill the hollow and grab your uchigatana!

Thanks for showing me the exact stop for you to shoot an arrow at the dragon tail and get the drake sword, thank you very much 😉

watching this for ideas for my second playthrough and man, the shade at oroboro in this is absolutely on point

For cutting the Hellkite drake sword I always hit em with an arrow then when he flies down do an r2 with the halberd to his tail. Only takes a few swings even with an unupgraded halberd and the reach is so long on the swing it's hard to miss. Also the regular halberd is a great weapon in general. Very underrated. It's straight poke is good for tight corridors and the wide r2 is good for crowd control. Good damage too. The BK version is better of course but it's not guaranteed on every run.

I've been trying to find a way to get to the lower level of blight town for tye whip, for DAYS... and I just figured out how yesterday! Why couldn't I find this video earlier!!! ;~;

Great explanation and right to the point !!!

great video, dude.

My favorite early game weapon is actually the Battle Axe and what's great about it is that you can get it as a starting weapon for the Bandit class, it carried me through the entire first half of the game in my 1st (blind) playthrought.

Great Club in blighttown is extremly powerful and always overlooked. If you're gonna considere blighttown "starting weapon", I would just go for the great club too.

Thank you bro this has helped a lot I just got the game

Much like other people mentioned, I was extremely lucky and managed to get a black knight sword early on my first playthrough. I used it the entire game.

Not a super early-game weapon, but the Lightning spear that drops from a Mimic in Sens fortress is a really solid option. It's fast and does fantastic damage to early game mobs and bosses. Low stat requirements too.

Crimson robes are really good early on. I'm wearing then post Sen's fortress (~level 45).

Well-made video! 🤗

I would also mention winged spear that can be found in the cementary at Firelink. I actually used it in my very first playthrough and found it rather stronk for starters.

1:08 You could get back out, but just not the way you came, if you take the path that leads to the winged spear you can get back out through there. Edit: you also forgot to mention that another good early weapon, is Solaires straight sword...but I wouldn't recommend it, only monsters would kill a sun bro!

BKH is always my first goal. Need the halberd.

I dismantled many imvaders in game by using the large axe with a strength/defense/stamina character build. I crush through their blocks like nothing. It's especially deadly when you start putting shards into it and leveling up the weapon.

For anyone new try and rush for gravelord great sword it’s so good early to mid game depending on your build but I’ve completed the game a few times using only the great sword

Great SCythe in the catacombs is a good dex weapon, and not hard to get. It has bleed damage and B dex scaling until you get it to +14 then it's got A. Only need to get used to the length and slow-ish speed of it then your good.

very surprised the winged spear wasn't on this. it's in the graveyard with the Zwei and is great for the tight corridors of the early game since its all long range forward thrusts that hit all enemies in the range.

Great vid dude keep it up

The Black Knight Halberd+5 carried me the whole game

11:31 "goodbye cruel world, I can't take this anymore"

The Black Knight's Halberd is pretty OP, actually. In the glitchless speedrun of DS1, the strategy revolves around going through the valley of drakes and baiting that guy off the edge. Yes, it's not a guaranteed drop meaning 1 out of 4 runs end there, but the weapon is so damn powerful it's worth the reset. High damage, fast moveset, can stagger bosses easily. OP weapon especially with RTSR (which, conveniently, you can grab on your way to the black knight.)

Great vid man. On the first play through...cheesed the burg knight and got his sword first drop, I know it gets hard later but I just got to the first bell having a laugh. It's a bizarre experience given the game's reputtion.

Yeah the int and dex weapons are on point, but the str weapons that you recommended are actually for quality build, for both dex and str, for strength build the best early one are the 2 clubs on blightown, the one that drops from the fat dudes, and the one down there guarded by the fat dudes with bolders, and if you don't have str needed, go for the reinforced club bought from the 1st vendor that drops the uchigatana. If you want swords, than the butcher knife or the big serpent sword are the ones for you, you can get the butcher knife drop pretty early on blightown from the NPC invader near that one bonfire on the poisonous swamp

You should have shown exactly where the grass crest shield is, it is near one of the black knight and it's a quite good combo with weapons that use a lot of stamina like the falshion.

Thanks great video

For anyone doing a faith playthrough, you can grab the Astora's straight sword from the valley of drake's going from Firelink. *Be warned* it falls off very quickly. Due to a lack of scaling, but it's great for early catacombs exploration and just getting though the early game. Just before gargoyles you can run into the Dark wood garden and kill moonlight butterfly to get the Devine ember and ascend a weapon to give it faith scaling. Split damage can be a problem when fighting an enemy that has some resistance in magic but it _very_ good damage in crits since it applies the multiplier twice.

Exactly how a tutorial should be. Short, simple, and accurate.

Zweihander maybe the best weapon you can got at early game before you get drake sword. Or... Kill merchant at undead burg for uchigatana.

Wow, unexpectedly informative. I’m impressed and pleasantly surprised

I love going for the Falcion because it’s probably the best easily obtainable curved sword in the game which makes it valuable as it can be upgraded into Quelaag’s Furysword which is great for most things especially OnS

2 years late but to get all the Black Knight Weapons and shield, it's easier to make a save before the Black Knight and take a back up. Kill the Black Knight and if you don't get the weapon, just reload your save from back up and try again. Don't need to make a new character from scratch. Hope this helps !!!

I used the estoc, you don't even have to kill a single enemy once you get to fire link, and it's range is epic

I just got into This game the other day. I have the balder side sword. With I had 0 humanity so I got it completely by chance on my very first run. And one of my first few encounters with it. Wow I had no idea

I've been using the Black Knight sword since I got it, and it's amazing

I played dark souls straight to 6th new game+ only used zweihander.

Nice vid

Good video, I thought I knew all thia but never knew how to get the Uchigatana.

Brilliant! 5:53 ---Also, great quick video. No bullsh*t. Sub'd.

I prefer Dex builds in ds3, but my first ds playthrough, I got the black knight great sword. Decided to level and use it because why tf not. It owns the entire game. Decimates pretty much every boss if you have the timing to use it well. And a strong majority of enemies will be one shots pretty early on. Even the sentinels in anor Londo are one shots if you use the jump attack.