You can backup a save file right before you attempt the black knight fight, if you fail to get the item drop you can just replace the save file with the backup and keep trying the fight until the desired item drops.
On my first ever playthrough, I got the Black Knight Sword and a Black Knight Shield in my first two Black Knight fights, but because I didn’t know they were good weapons, and because I got lost, I ended up starting a new game and deleting that old save file It wasn’t until I beat the Moonlight Butterfly on my followup playthrough that I looked up better weapons and found videos talking about how the Black Knight equipment is the best equipment in the game It’s always the noobs who have no clue what the fuck they’re doing that have the best luck, then throw it away
I'm on my first blind playthrough right now, and didn't realize how insanely lucky I am. I've played the majority of the game as hollow with zero humanity (because I haven't figure out how to git gud) and got the BKH, BKGS, and 2 (two!) BKSs. The BKS+5 is truly a beautiful thing to behold and is probably the only reason I was able to beat O&S with my sloppy play.
They are certainly formidable weapons - but I prefer the claymore, which is a guaranteed item, has low stat requirements, an outstanding move set and can be buffed with resins/ spells. The major advantage of black knight weapons is the fact that they can be fully upgraded by O&S, but then again so can any weapon, if you’re willing to kill a NPC- and know what you’re doing in general. By endgame, the damage output of a Claymore on a quality build is incredible. Having said all of that, a black knight weapon will certainly make life easier for a new player- particularly when you consider the bonus damage to demons. I love your videos - please keep up the wonderful work! PS - Havel following you that far was hilarious!
@@ozzer4176 The Zweihander is actually my 2nd favourite weapon! It totally counters 2 of the more challenging enemies in the game: the snake warriors in Sen’s fortress and the dark wraiths in New Londo. Overall, I prefer the Claymore, due to its reliability & versatility: I find killing faster enemies, like dogs, with a zweihander awkward - but the claymore handles everything quite well.
My current (first) playthrough has been made SO much easier by the fact I have the BKGS. When I fought him, he somehow fell off his tower while I was backing away down the stairs! Got the greatsword without even having to kill him. Beginner’s luck, I guess.
The Black (Dark?)Knight EVERYTHING is the best gear and weaponry in DS1 hands down, end of conversation, so many problems solved. I am almost finished on NG+ and I have been using the Black/Dark Knight everything, with the exception of a set of Black Leather armor, for quicker movement and its leveled to 10. Great video!
A while back I tried to check out what all the gossip around the BKH was about, and I wasn't really ready for the results. It's fast, has range and hits like a truck. With the elite knight set I managed to down the Capra demon on my first try within 5 seconds of entering the arena. It literally feels like cheating.
Item discovery (higher drop chances) has a HARD cap at 10 humanity. Meaning you won't get any higher chances over 10 humanity. Also the human form doesn't affect item discovery.
Seems I was lucky then, because I got my Black Knight Greatsword on my first try, with zero humanity and being hollow. Liked it a lot and used it until the end. I asbolutely love the heavy attack with it. I trained on some oppponents to beat them with, which requires a good timing, as its buildup is SO painfully slow. But It's really fun to see them flying if it connects. 😄 In some cases I used some other weapon to go along with, because I feel that Astorias is quite hard with the Black Knight sword as it is so slow. 😄 But so far Astorias is about the only one that I can't handle with it.
Very helpful, I had 18 humanity after farming rats 🐀 and went after the halberd and great sword one. I did manage to get the great sword :) thank you, love your voice and personality
Great guide, I remember back in my first ever ds1 run I used the black knight sword to defeat ornstein and smough after having much trouble with them. All the black knight weapons are really fun but my favorite is the greataxe. You can also get it somewhat early but you have to go to the bottom of the catacombs and it’s pretty annoying, especially if he doesn’t drop it. I’ve mostly used it in NG+ because the respawning axe knight in the kiln is by far the easiest way to get it. Also something I usually do at the start of every run is go down to new londo, use the master key to get to the valley of drakes, grab some souls laying about while running to darkroot, then get the grass crest shield and kill the black knight by knocking him off the ledge after popping my humanities. If I’m lucky then I’ve got arguably the best weapon in the game within 10 minutes, and after that it’s just a matter of getting 18 dex and 22 str to two-hand it.
I defeated the Black Knight using Gravity when I lured him to his death in the chasm located in the cracked staircase railings. Those armored lummoxes are so simple yet so deadly too.
OMG i just started my souls adventure, and i managed to get bks by falling into abbys when doging his attack and he just folowed my steps. Then i play with it and wonder why everyone says its such a hard game, now i realizee how lucky i was 😅
Get the Black Knight Halberd by grabbing the master key and going down from the shrine right after you got there. Pass the valley of drakes and go up, lit the fire and beat the Black Knight ... you get a 20% chance of dropping without humanity. If it does not drop create a new Character. Each try costs you about 8 minutes if you don't die. Do not backup your save file and cheat your way xD
For those that want to win against the first dark knight(the one that protects the ring), you can lure him by that side of the stairs where you fall, you jump down there when he isnreally close to you and if you have luck, he will jump too, you will still get the loot
The first time i played this game i ran with the claymore, and then i got the black knight halberd from the catacombs. I knew about the black knight sword and i like it more then the halberd when i saw it in streams. I love its R2. when i replayed it the undead burg black knight dropped it and i jumped out my chair XD
after killing the second black knigth, he gave me a "black knight sword" (wich is really a greathsword) and I used it for the rest of the entire game and in the NG+'s (yes, the knight in the stair tower)
I got the same thing. I got the Black Knight Ultra Greatsword last time but I accidentally hit Andre so I had to restart again and I lost the Ultra Greatsword. But at least I got its lesser variant back from the Black Knight in the Undead Burg.
Thanks for the vídeos, you are helping me a lot on my first playthrough on DS1... I do got that sword, but I am only 11 Dex haha gotta a long way to go.
If you kite him thru that door you can close before that before bridge dudes yeet firebombs at you, he didn't open it and I just poked him in the eye until he died
Everyone hates on the black knight great sword as being the worst but it's the best one for staggering enemies and has decent range really makes the O&S fight easy because you're able to get 3 hits on ornstein and stagger him on the second first time playing the game and I second tried the fight because I was stupid and didn't respect rolling and went in with 3 estus flask on ng+ I also second tried it but I did go with powered up ornstein instead of smough because I did smough last time
i got the black knight sword with 4 humanity and human. got it suuuper early on with the first black knight i encountered and farmed a bunch of souls now everything is one shot
I'll be honest I love the knight set but when I got artorios sword I fell in love with and the armour but in the end game area I farmed for dear life and the greatsword for the black Knight and the halberd is just ace 🙏🏿💯
Got the black night sword from the first guy, on my first playthrough and then was like oh cant use it so i forgot aboutnit, used the drake sword for half the game and then saw i had it realized op m finished the game with it,
You can make the first Black Knight fall off a ledge and you get sword guaranteed that little ledge on the stairs where you go after that Taurus demon. You drop Down there the black knight does it too but he. Falls and dies
I got the BKGS after so many attempts in that tower I have to stop playing and do again Got the drop while being hollow with zero humanity And got in to a white glowing sign on the floor and some player got me ton of Great hero soul. I am now lvl56 with 74 GHS to spare
@@HowToSouls I do not even know what he gave me that time Or what it does All I know is I have a ton of souls and I have to use it and now I felt like I am cheating the game and I do not want to restart I felt like I have died a lot and have to finish the game
i watch your whole playthrough and i was kinda jealous that u have a bks. but i made a new character few days ago "thef" class to be more specific, i was so luck that i got 2 bkgs and 2 bks without even trying . The game was so easy that I first try every boss
Or you can just wat till at the end and farm knights for there weapons easy actually the weapon i use and its the best strength scaling weapon its the great club which is amazing scaling strength A
I am actually starting to play the DS games on the steam deck. Never got a grasp on them on pc and i don't know why on the portable one they're so much "better". Anyway, thanks for the videos, lots of newb tips for guys like me years late to the party XD
I got this so early so i was exploring the undeadburg then come and stumble this tall knight i thought he was an npc and approach him bro started chasing me and somehow bugged out and drops the sword pretty lucky i guess
I play on PS3 and play bandit car.and first 3 black knights i killed i get all 3 weapons but i played with at least 10 humanities and in human form! Dont forget.
I was told the master key is great for cheese and sequence breaks so I didn't choose it. I somehow got the black knight halbred but that is the only one.
I thought it's a guaranteed drop form The undead parish tower black knight because in every playthrough I got the bk great sword from him. Is it only me or sheer luck
You can literally set yourself up better by spending 3 minutes at the start going and getting the gurantees Gravelord Sword in the catacombs. Better than all the black knight weapons aside from maybe the halberd, and you dont have to worry about rng. Even if its your first time and first game if you follow a guide it shiuldnt take you more than an hour, and if youre a veteran it shouldnt take you more than 10 minutes.
I got the black knight sword off the first knight then the shield off the GS black knight in the tower. It seems the game wants me to sword and board thus time around lmoa
I don't think being human increases drop rate, unless I missed something? The Item Discovery didn't go up when I restored humanity. The wiki seems to insist it doesn't happen as well.
I think I'm the luckiest person, because on my new first playthroug on my PS4 DS1 I (just now) I received on the same run the black knight halbeard, sword, and great sword. (+ in that playthrough I got gravelorded and found a red double humanity crab, and found 2 twinkling titanites from the first crystal lizard that I used to +2 the BK Sword ) Idk if Im lucky af, or Fromsoftware patched stuff to make everything appear 100%
Or show them how to get the two versions of artorias's sword or the Abyss Sword, which are both valid weapons. I enjoy the cursed Artorias's Great sword. Because fuck all them ghosts, ain't got time for discount Halloween decorations
@@HowToSouls Bro today I just killed the first one in the Undead Burg (that's what it's called?) for the first time with 2 humanity, not human, first try, and got the sword from him. what is my luck? (and then I died right afterwards)
Got them all, but I think the sword is good, but inferior to the others. The sword have bad reach, and not enough speed to justify the lower damage output. You only get faster if you invested also in dexterity, which won't scale much for damage, so kinda disappointing.
@@HowToSouls What I'm saying is that for a sword could be a little faster, it's somewhere between the longsword and the greatsword in terms of speed. I think the BK greatsword is little better for the base game, the halberd is way better (at least when you need both speed and range), I liked the black knight sword, just got a little disspointed when I tried to use it agaisnt kalameet and artorias (could not meet the required speed or reach for those fights).
@@HowToSouls Well, I stand corrected. Just tested on a new playthrought and worked very well. Just don't know if that be the case fot the DLC. Either way, great choice, even beat my previous time record. Just beat base game in 08 hours and 30 minutes with the black knight sword.
There’s more in the catacombs and tomb of the giants but peril. Might just be better to either restart and try again or just use a different weapon this playthrough
@@HowToSouls yeah problem is already done half story basically not really the best to start again i will eventually take it at end i can go with claymore
I kill all of them first try and i got all weapons first try too and i didn't even know what the fuck the are and i dont know how to use them... Can someone gives me a hand?
