Melee weapons are vital to success in Dark Souls 3. There are numerous weapons available in the world. Some of them can be discovered out in the world, some can be found while exploring the world, some drop from enemies and some weapons can be created using Soul Transposition.
It is a special process of creating items from powerful Souls by the NPC Ludleth in the Firelink Shrine Also you can upgrade your weapons by visiting The Blacksmith. And for mundane weapons, you can infuse them with special Gems to give them new abilities.
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Weapon Bonus Damage:
Black Knight Greatsword
- Bonus Damage vs. Demons: 20{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Black Knight Sword
- Bonus Damage vs. Demons: 20{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Black Knight Greataxe
- Bonus Damage vs. Demons: 20{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Black Knight Glaive
- Bonus Damage vs. Demons: 20{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Hollowslayer Greatsword
- Bonus Damage vs Hallows: 50{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Farron Greatsword
- Bonus Damage vs Abyssal Foes: 20{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Wolf Knight’s Greatsword
- Bonus Damage vs Abyssal Foes: 20{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Wolf Knight’s Greatsword
- Bonus Damage vs Reanimated: 10{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Anri’s Straight Sword
- Bonus Damage vs Reanimated: 10{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Any Blessed Weapon
- Bonus Damage vs Reanimated: 20{ad0b53be2d5c5d18a99e20ff09d5b2ab365deb4c843e9bf9a16eb8b27c6b832d}
Daggers List:
Daggers are good lightweight and quick weapons with low cast weapon skills. They have critical damage above 100 but don’t hit hard per swing and hard to use against massive enemies in the world.
Bandit’s Knife
- Skill: Quickstep
- Can be found in Greirat
It is a wide single-edged shortsword. It is the favorite weapon for lowly thieves and bandits, especially effective when locked on to target.
Brigand Twindaggers
- Skill: Quickstep
- Can be found in Road of Sacrifices
Brigands of distant lands like these daggers. When two-handed, the wielder holds a blade in each hand, allowing for divergent attacks that include left-handed moves.
Corvian Greatknife
- Skill: Blind Spot
- Dropped from Corvians
It is a big weapon with a powerful attack and use against shielded foes to break through their guard by attacking from the side. But this transparent attempt to intimidate foes reveals much about its owner’s fears.
Dagger
- Skill: Quickstep
- Dropped from Hollows
It is a standard small dagger but can deal quick consecutive hits due to their light weight. It is good to use for critical hits. It is effective when locked on to target.
Handmaid’s Dagger
- Skill: Blind Spot
- Dropped from Jailers
This dagger is used by handmaids of the Profaned Capital. And its each successful attack replenishes a slight amount of FP.
Harpe
- Skill: Quickstep
- Dropped from Peasant Hollow
It is a worker tool in the Undead Settlement and used for severing corpses. It is designed for cutting and pulling and allows good damage against shielded foes.
Mail Breaker
- Skill: Shield Splitter
- Can be found in High Wall of Lothric
It is a small sword for thrusting attacks. It can pierce through tough armor, and boasts a deadly critical attack.
Parrying Dagger
- Skill: Parry
- Buy from Shrine Handmaid
This dagger is special made for parrying and usually equipped in one’s left hand in place of a shield.
Rotten Ghru Dagger
- Skill: Quickstep
- Drop from Ghru
It is a poisonous weapon of the blunt-horned Ghrus, descendants of the acolytes of Farron Keep.
Scholar’s Candle Stick
- Skill: Guiding Light
- Dropp from Grand Archives Scholar (Enemy can be found in Grand Archives)
This dagger is served as the guiding light for Scholars of the Great Archives. It provides a temporary source of light which reveals additional guidance.
Tailbone Short Sword
- Skill: Unleash Dragon
- Drop from Wretch (Enemy can be found in Irithyll Dungeon)
This dagger is cherished by the wretched prisoners of Irithyll Dungeon. It is similar to an ancient dragon weapon, only with its power tragically faded.
Straight Swords List:
Straight Sword is the standard weapon in Dark Souls. These swords are easy to use and they have good speed and damage. Some of the Straight Swords have the Stance skill, a two-part skill that allows you to assume a stance and then lash out with a rising swing or a lunging strike.
Anri’s Straight Sword
- Skill: Stance
- Can be found in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley
This blade is found in the ruined land of Astora. While instance, use normal attack to break a foe’s guard from below, and strong attack to slash upwards with a forward lunge.
Astora Straight Sword
- Skill: Stance
- Can be found in High Wall of Lothric
It is a well-crafted sword named after the ruined land.
Broadsword
- Skill: Stance
- Can be found in High Wall of Lothric
Its broad blade is designed for slashing and it is good against crowds.
Broken Straight Sword
- Skill: Stance
- Can be found in Cemetery of Ash
This is a straight sword with broken blade. It has no exceptional qualities. Only a mad Hollow would choose to fight with this.
Clerics’s Candelstick
- Skill: Guiding Light
- Found/Dropped: Deacons of the Deep Soul
This stick can be used as both sword and catalyst. Used for worship by the Deacons of the Deep. It provides a temporary source of light which reveals additional guidance.
Dark Sword
- Skill: Stomp
- Drop from Darkwraith
This is a pitch black straight sword of the Darkwraith, survivor of the land swallowed by darkness.
Gotthard Twinswords
- Skill: Spin Slash
- Drop from Grand Archives
These paired weapons belonged to Gotthard, who fled the castle.
Irithyll Straight Sword
- Skill: Stance
- Can be found in Undead Settlement
This sword bestowed upon the Outrider Knights of the Boreal Valley. This weapon is enshrouded in frost, and causes frostbite.
Long Sword
- Skill: Stance
- Drop from Hollows
This is a balanced and widely used straight sword with good standard damage and high thrust damage.
Lothric Knight Sword
- Skill: Stance
- Drop from Lothric Knight, Greirat after pillaging Irithyll
It is a well-crafted straight sword designed for thrusting attacks, wielded by the venerable Knights of Lothric.
Lothric’s Holy Sword
- Skill: Sacred Lothric Light
- Drop from Twin Princes Soul
This is Prince Lothric’s straight sword, blessed by Emma with potent magic. You can assume stance to imbue sword with sacred light, and use strong attack to release light together with a great thrust of the sword.
Morion Blade
- Skill: Stance
- Drop from Yuria of Londor
It is a sword resembling the towers of Londor’s Sable Church. Eight branching blades and thorns induce bleeding.
Shortsword
- Skill: Stance
- Buy from Shrine Handmaid
This is a light weight and easy to wield sword excelling in thrusting attacks.
Sunlight Straight Sword
- Skill: Oath of Sunlight
- Drop from Lothric Castle
This sword imbued with the strength of lightning. It has the very power of the sun. Raise the sword aloft when praising the sun to boost attack and damage absorption for self and allies in vicinity.
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