With 40 strength the great club is best, one handed at 28 40 murakumo does the most. On lower strength dex builds the silver tracer or rapier are the best for pure criticals, the estoc is good but having a 1 or 1.5 unit weapon is really nice since you don’t need to invest more points into endurance. farm away ladsidk why i kept calling it the "hornets" ringif you want to know anything about dark souls iii tell me in the comments and i might make a cheeky 14 votes, 17 comments. 573K subscribers in the darksouls3 community. A community dedicated to everything about Dark Souls 3. RELATED: Dark Souls 3: All Thrusting Swords, Ranked One of the best weapons for this tactic is the Irithyll Rapier, which has the innate frost effect which can greatly hinder Gundyr's massive Claymore is a Weapon in Dark Souls 3. An unusually large and heavy greatsword normally wielded with two hands. This highly versatile weapon can be swung broadly or thrusted. Skill: Stance. While in stance, use normal attacks to break a foe's guard from below, and strong attack to slash upwards with a forward lunge. A riposte is a critical damage attack that can be executed after a successful parry (types 1 and 2) or a guard break (type 3). The exact calculations of riposte damage are not entirely clear, but thrusting weapons deal more critical damage than other types of weapons. The riposte damage is not related to the weapon's counter damage modifier weapon critical modifiers in this game dont matter; almost no weapons have them. basically its hornet ring+ high ar weapons. black knight ultra great axe was probably highest before nerf. now its likely other great axes. Yep, best bet is ultra weapons. Kinda a shame, wish they gave the best backstab or riposte damage to daggers, or mainly claws 18 Sep 2021 19:14. Dark is a damage type that does not inflict any type of status ailment. Blood infusion inflicts the bleed status while keeping whatever damage type is inherent to the weapon. Enemies have weaknesses, changing damage types is for targeting weaknesses and making use of your stats. 3. gWHn.