Top 25 Best DLC Weapons! (NO SPOILERS) Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree 

UPDATE: Rolling Sparks for the perfumes got nerfed to the ground. Bloodfiend Arm got nerfed but only slightly (it’s probably number 1 now) and the smithscript shield glitch got patched.

We all know the best weapon in the dlc was Igon’s speech against Bayle. Not all weapons are physical

Leda’s light-greatsword is easily my favorite. Aesthetic & ash of war are nothing insane but man I just love this damn thing.

You also forgot to mention that Leda's sword's skill has the same effect as Law of Regression, because it dispells all buffs, debuffs and status effects.

Spear of the Impaler is good for the base game but the dlc bosses will delete you before you can even do the first attack of AOW on the spear of the impaler.

The Greatsword of Solitude was my MVP weapon for the DLC. A-scaling in Strength, the old reliable greatsword moveset, a really good AoW that obliterates enemy poise, and a stupid high physical block rate perfect for guard counters. Its only real weakness is that it can't be infused, but outside of that it can basically do everything and do it really well.

Sorry if I sound like trash in the video. i'm sick. I’ve been staying up till 3am almost everyday and I suppose that isn’t the healthiest thing. Might not upload tomorrow. Rip the streak

The ancient Meteoric Ore greatsword has become my favorite weapon across all Fromsoft games. It has the classical colossal sword unga bunga moveset, complete with the R2 poke I love, and gets a totally unique and badass ash of war. And the Ash is the perfect complement to the Colossal moveset. The fact that you can do just the thrust without the explosion is amazing. It opens up so many more punish opportunities that other colossals just don’t get due to the speed, versatility and range that the thrust covers.

In upper Rauh there is a birdman omen/beast warrior enemy who drops a pair of trousers which increase kicking attack's damage. You can use them with Dane's footwork.

The subscribe jumpscare at the start had me rolling 😂

2:18 useful tip: the reason as far i can tell is that colossal weapons are actually split between “colossal axes” and “colossal hammers.” Colossal axes generally deal more damage while colossal hammers deal more stance damage. So, If your colossal weapon looks/acts like a hammer, chances are its one of the higher poise damaging ones, but if it looks like an axe, itll be one of the lower poise damage ones.

Actually, the "Star-lined Sword" Katana in PVE is actually pretty darn amazing and should have been on the list. It has a standard Katana moveset, so that includes poking, and the ash of war is more than just flashy. It staggers almost any enemy outside of some big ones. The flame knights in Shadow Keep? Get staggered on EVERY slash of the combo, and it is quick enough to get a second combo in before they can act, usually killing them through bleed proc. It is quite an amazing weapon I must say :)

The backhand blades against Malenia make it an incredibly fun fight

Deflecting Hardtear Dane's Footwork build is fun and does good damage. Really liking the hand to hand combats.

Longhaft axe, and even the seperate AoW for blinkbolt, makes the DLC worth the money for me 100%

Kinda surprised Rellana's twin blades didn't make the list. Still good choices, though!

Great stuff as always- i’d also just like to point out that when you’re using the red bear claws, it’s safe to assume you have the rotten sword, insignia, and corresponding cracked tear- toss another buff on top of that, and the damage from connecting the complete AoW is jaw dropping. I got relanna on the ropes and homegirl got absolutely dog-walked. Less than a minute

Gotta say, my new favorite weapon has to be Devonia's Hammer. Yes, it's slow as a colossal weapon and yes its AoW is a slower Ordovis Vortex, but i love the huge damage numbers and it looks so sick

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Danes footwork and all kicking based attacks also get boosted by Divine Bird Warrior Greaves by 5% so there is another boost to them

Can’t wait for your video ranking all the weapons dlc and main game!

If you have enough levels to get a ton of int and faith then not only does Smithscript cirque get more elemental damage as the basic backhand blade, but it gets ALOT more overall damage. With 80 int and faith, 40 dex and 16str a sacred ash of war (blindspot can be sacred) you get 859AP without any talisman or DLC bonuses while the backhand blade gets only 681. That is a difference of 178. The difference with magic is even bigger with Smithscript cirque getting 867Smithscript cirque that is 188AP more than the regular, but with magic you don't get access to blindspot so sacred is a far better option even with a little less AP. So the Smithscript has far more damage scaling if you have the levels for it.

Anvil hammer hits SO damn hard, it's probably my new favorite colossal weapon lol. You can just spam the ash and shred just about anything, especially bigger bosses since all of the spears hit. Really awesome weapon.

About to make a build with Leda’s sword so this is exciting

i'm happy to see poisoned hand so high up, i had a blast playing it but sadly i'm not skilled or pacient enough to use it on most bosses because of the atrocious range, but it was fun to use it on everything else and it felt amazing to defeat some bosses using it.

spear of the impaler is probably the best and most fun weapon i’ve used

Thanks for the Vid youwy wow i am missing a few of these ☺

Thanks for pumping out all these dlc videos, best in this biz!!

I absolutely love the carian thrusting shield, I rock a pure int build with a cold infusion, a couple projectiles and scholars shield. The moveset is one of my favorites and it's so fun

I started ng+ after beating the dlc, started using the death knight longhaft axe. The sheer pleasure of I-framing through Margit's hammer just to stagger him with the follow-up made it my favourite new weapon.

Flowerstone Gavel being a Dragon Cult weapon (Florissax gives the dragon cult form and serves Placidusax so I consider it Dragon Cult and not Dragon Communion) that scales off of Arcane is such a huge miss. Having a weapon for pure faith builds to debuff enemies against lightning damage would've been so great to combine with Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike, and even the new Knight's Lightning Spear incantation.

Honestly the bit where you were about to say how many people are actually subscribed to your channel but then said jk is what made me sub.

My favorite thing with the twin axes is unlocking to blink in a random direction, even away as a dodge, then lockon for the followup spin

Really appreciate this no spoiler content. I basically had a good little spurt of the DLC to start and then went on holiday. Beat the first area and a bonus place with a friend Igon cheering me on, and trying to keep in the dark as much as possible but can't resist watching all the new stuff get played with. I've really loved the new stuff I got to play with already. Milady, backhanders, and great katana have all been really good. Also tried the swift spear thingie but that did seem a little lackluster and didn't see much use, and same for the dragon katana unfortunately. It didn't even feel particularly strong against dragons, which was disappointing. I think I picked up the poison hand so I made a mental note to put that to use with my dex/arc build as a boss poisoner, kinda just glossed over it when I found it. I've been a little disappointed with the lack of proper new pure strength weapons for when I start on the DLC with my bonk guy, but seems like there are some cool somber stuff I can make work with some minimal faith investment. Looking forward to that as well now.

man I love the footage you use for the showcases, its always very satisfactory to see how good you take those windows, watching your videos makes me want to play with everything even if its on the bottom tier

Lol you got me with that “i noticed not everyone is subscribed” psych 😂 #subscribed

Even though you were kidding about the subscription stats at the beginning, it gave me a chuckle. Subbed.

Every time i've seen a swift slash spammer, Flowerstone Gavel tracks, shocks them, and a multi thunderbolt follow-up sends them back home packin.

Great content man, appreciate the hard work

Hope u get better, as you rest, you should think of more cool ideas for content like these. Love your content bro! Keep it up. The streak lives on

Thank you for pumping out these videos like babies, You-Poo

I think the current fire knights greatsword is underappreciated since it has a damage level higher than the godslayer greatsword, it can interrupt some additional enemies and true combos more enemies. Flame infusion also gets monsterous AR and is probably the best user of the top tier fire knight ash of war.

The subscriber bit at the beginning actually made me chuckle great video

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS HECK YEAH

I have 54 STR and infuse my Fire Knight Greatsword with Fire...and I had no idea that with this infusion, the damage is increased while two-handed with both physical and fire damage. So, it is not only viable for Faith builds with Flame Art.

The patch might be coming, but I would still love to see you rank all the weapons of the DLC. Hell, I would even want to know your opinion on how they compare to all the basegame weapons once the balacing settles down. Keep up the good work! Love the content.

immediately subscribed when you didnt try to push your statistics, you are by far the best creator for that sole moment, so thank you!

Ur subscriber joke deff earned a sub, lol - great content also. Ur channels typically on point 🤙

Best most objective elden pve content out there

Love your ranking lists, they're all well reasoned out lists

Thanks for another banger video

Backhand blades are definitely the most fun to use for me, in the base game I was always one to use only greatswords and the like but having a light weapon with such a swift moveset that does as much damage is so fun

The *Poisoned Hand* is low-key a MONSTER of a utility weapon to have with Pure Arcane setups; this will allow you to have BOTH Kindred of Rot AND Lord of Blood Exultations at the same time as well as the Mushroom Crown! (Or White Mask to allow heavier armor/you don't like how stupid the former looks) *Proc Bleed and then proc Poison with the help of Poison Spear-Hand Strike* and with all four buffs active (It can be tricky to do at times), you'll end up with a whopping *70% AR BONUS*

played the whole dlc with the great katana w/ cragblade. it just fucks

Thanks, love your weapon videos dude.

Leda's sword ash of war also removes buffs, debuffs, and status on enemies if hit with any of the projectiles as well, making it a better version of law of regression only applied to enemies instead of both you and the enemy. I believe that's why the damage isn't as high as most would like.

Dont sleep on the Rakshasa Great Katana. It has really good dex scaling and the AoW is basic AF but it gives hyper armor and procs bleed fairly quick since its multiple swings.

Love the Great Katanas Moveset. Cant get enough of the Monster Hunter Longsword moveset. Also those roll pokes are awesome

Neat video! You bring up some points that are having me rethink my opinion on a few weapons. A few notes of my own: I've seen a lot of people saying the fire knight's greatsword is bugged, and I assume they're referring to the true combo. Assuming it's not a mistake that it has the Godslayer Greatsword's R1's, that's not a bug -- you can combo with the godslayer sword as well. Regarding normal claw vs beast/bear claw DPS -- one thing you don't bring up is boss dependent, but can lead to better uptime doing damage, is the fact that the moveset itself, along with lunging, also brings your hurtboxes low, letting you go under a decent number of attacks and continue doing damage. I think there's a few weapons I'd have bumped off of this list to include one of the smithscript weapons, such as the smithscript hammer. Those have insane scaling with int or faith due to innate physical scaling with those attributes, so you get to double-dip on damage increases per point of int or faith once infused, and having a throwing attack is great in the open world. You can repeatedly knock enemies on their ass in the open world, or even one-shot them, with a charged heavy throw of the hammer. The downside is you'll probably want to swap talismans out between open world and bosses, as against bosses you can't rely a ton on the throw, but with the massive AR, that's not a big issue.

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I'm surprised you didn't put the thrusting shields on here, they are a bit boring but seem extremely strong in pve.

Perfume bottles are so cool, it's like you're using magic without the fp consumption. But yeah, they will 100% nerf it. Right now it's an underpowered weapon but with a broken art, and they will just remove the broken part and leave the underpowered part as it is, making it just a gimmick weapon that's barely useable (even tho you have to dedicate an entire glass cannon build to make it have 1-shot potential)

Been waiting for this since release 🙏

Your bit about % of subscribers at the beginning was so funny lmao it threw me for a loop

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0:50 good one

I've been waiting for this one 🔥

Subbed 😂😂 that “I noticed” got me

Truth be told the strongest weapon in the game is the motivation that Igon and Ansbach gave you

the smithscript shield is also really good because it natually headshots many different enemies, doing WAY more damage

milady with wing stance is so fluid and beautiful, amazing weapon!!!

The subscribe jump-scare made me subscribe lol

So... the real question. Is there anything better than the blasphemous blade?

Maternal Staff when paired with Staff of the Guilty and Impenetrable Thorns while going full arcane is absolutely disgusting. Rivals the perfume bottles and the bloodfiends arm. I four shot Radahn on NG+ with it.

Finally a chill video with no spoiler and no frenetic editing or nerd yapping 🎉 well done, i appreciate it

Loved this video. Subbed! 👍

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Gotta say as a perfume enjoyer myself, rolling sparks is only KINDA broken. Its absolutely broken, but only specifically when you free aim it at the ground or other terrain object, which can sometimes be tricky to land against certain enemies, of course when it does land perfectly it destroys everything nearby, but i really hope they take a nuanced approach to balancing it rather than just tanking the damage into the ground and washing their hands of it..

You had me with the subscribe joke :) for not actually asking for it you have earned mine.

Really hope to see some builds featuring that Mesmer's soldier spear, have to search a good place to farm them but they seem to have a decent reach.

Bear Claws should be way lower on this list for a few reasons. 1.) Can't change the Ash of War or scaling. 2.) Doest get an A in strength at upgrade lvl 10. Nor does it have a arcane scaling. 3.) It's 1 of 2 weapons in this class and the other can do everything thing I just mentioned 4.) The Ash of War is very buggy. Some times it will dump loads of dmg, and other times it will only partially hit. 5.) Let's be honest you are only going to be using the weapon with the bear armor. So build diversity with this weapon goes nowhere P.S. the Dragon Slayer Katana really should have had arcane scaling to match with Dragon communion builds since it does get the redish communion effect.

I'm sad you don't enjoy making these videos enough to do a full weapon pve list every update but I get it lmao. Thanks for this. I rate your thoughts Greatly due to your experience

lmao that joke about subbing was so good that I did sub

Ansbach is pronounced "Ans-bah", the ch is silent

oh wow this vid really popped off. nice one youwy

i used the poison hands for the 1st half of the dlc and fell in love i recommend running multi hit talismans, twiggy tear and stonebarb tear

Since you mentioned the Smithscript Shield I paired it with a seal and it's been ridiculously fun. Using it point blank gets a little hit when you throw before the big one with the full hit.

Great video!

A small note on the Captain America shield. It also has a hitbox on your throwing arm at point blank range, so it can do even more damage. Not that you would usually want to use it at melee range, but it's insane how much damage it does for only 3 FP.

the beast claw skill is great, specially with bloodflame blade, just so many hits and ground covered

The Bloodfiends Arm is what pushed me past Promised Consort Radahn. I didn't think anything about it when I found it, but after testing it out it really is almost unmatched for bleed build up.

Great content, getting into elden ring. Very helpful

Quality Milady with Wing Stance hits like a truck, definitely my favourite weapon of the DLC... All Light Greatswords have a special place in my heart!

I really appreciate this video for containing no spoilers. Thanks for the insight!

Death Knight’s Longhaft Axe is my baby. The weapon ash you can unlock and charge in any direction, then reposition or lock on in air to attack, it rules.

Red bear claw is very lethal in PvP, I tested it trading blows with backhand blades. It has true combo AoW, 1 hit of it and you're done even if you have 2K HP.

you forgot to mention dane's foot work also gets buffed by the dive bird's leg armor, so it has more buffs to it's dmg than the fist version has access to.

I LOVE the Falx. The weapon art is just fun to use

Congrats on getting on trending for gaming Youwy!

As soon as I saw the death knight axe’s I fell in love. Blink bolt looks so damn cool. Gonna have to respec one of my four characters to run the Longhaft axe. Or make a new one cuz I have a hard time changing my builds