oh yes a early game weapon needing 32 str (22 str for 2H) and 18 dex to use it. This weapon is not good for early game, it's good for speedrunnes because they don't need defences for their perfect run. DS1 the most important stats are vitality and endurance, you need health for surviving, and endurance for stamina and equip load. Increasing stamina means both defensive and offensive power. Equip load allows the use of better heavy armour with poise, the most important thing in the game.

If you really don't want to struggle, get that green titanite shard before falling on Vamos and upgrade to fire any weapon with good moveset (Great Scythe, Balder Side Sword, Zweihandler), usually i prefer using the Longsword because it's only 10 str and 10 dex. Then get Weapon Smithbox and farm more green titanite when you arrive on Depths or Blighttown, to upgrade fire +5. Also buy a Heater Shield from undead male merchant, kill Havel and Lautrec to get their rings. The sword and shield only weights 5, spend all your points on vitality and endurance and equip high poise armour while maintaining fast roll. Now you will rarely die during your playthrough. With this you can even punish invaders that usually bullies low level players.

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DPS > DPA

Faster + better range

All I know is 1H BKH takes three R1's to kill a silver knight, BKGA takes four R1's. Even with the 610+ AR of the BKGA and the 512 AR the BKH.

Earlygame Zweihandler seems like a better option, cant speak on behalf of the greatclub, but once you can upgrade it at the Giant blacksmith in Anor Londo it'll carry you to the endgame.

The only reason that the average player use it, is because of the most viewed speedrun of Dark Souls 1. The Black Knight with the Halberd is conveniently at the same location that you get the Grass Crest Shield, so you get a very good damaging weapon and a stamina boost to run for more time. The thing is, this combination is terrible because normal people are not speedrunners. Speedrunners don't need defences or vitality because they're aiming for a perfect run, taking damage is the same as reseting for them.

As the other guy said, Zweihandler is better because you need only 16 str for 2H, compared to 22 str and 18 dex for the Halberd. Vitality and Endurance are way more important than every other stat. Usually i pick Heater Shield and Estoc that have almost no requeriments and upgrade to fire at Vamos, it has a great moveset and is easy to get like Zweihandler.

Because it is actually better.

Who said Raw +5 is easier? You can get this weapon, Kill the crystal lizard above you, Kill tree men for one moss of each type, Go to havel, Kill him, Kill the lizard next to taurus fog gate, Back down the stairs, Then go back to the asylum from the undead parish, Trade the moss you gathered for four total twinkling titanite, with the four early you now have +4 halberd, Get the last one by going to the great hollow or ash lake, Now you have a +5 halberd that deals 550 damage and you killed no bosses yet.

You can get the souls to level up by killing pinwheel and the moonlight butterfly with their specific summons that happen to two shot both bosses which means you are in no need of carrying a weapon to kill them, You will get 25k souls from the two boss kills, Which just happens to be the exact amount needed to level up enough to be able to two hand the weapon and upgrade it to +5. Just a coincidence.

Cope

were you a clown your whole life?

Lol your just bad

Lmao, go back to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

I'm pretty sure this is satire and im pretty sure people took the bait

Yep, it’s pretty clear at least 50 people fell for it. Guess that makes a good satire

Crazy how people are dumb enough to fall for this

1. 69 dislikes, nice.
2. Even if it is satire he kinda got a point about the whole "ruining first playthrough" thing, black knight weapons are crazy OP. Got the great sword just before O&S my first time playing and it carried me to Gwyn, where im now using the Halberd since its faster.

Imagine being this wrong

Only overrated thing i know is your intelligence, I am a giant dad enjoyer but no, You can't call this weapon overrated, You only need 25k souls to reach max upgrade and have enough stats to wield it as a warrior, It deals 550 damage, It just happens that there are two rings called havel's ring and the ring of favor and protection that give you more equip load, And a funny mask of the father that has the same effect, and a certain shield that gives you stamina regen, And guess what, All are 5 minutes away from the tutorial area, You can turn human, Use leeroy, Kill pinwheel, Homeward bone out, Go to darkroot, Kill the knight, Get the shield and the halberd, Kill havel, Go from andre's side, Free lautrec with the master key and kill him, Then take his ring, Now you have enough equip load to fast roll while two handing the weapon and having GCS on your back, Kill the moonlight butterfly for 10k souls and you have enough souls to upgrade to +5, Now kill the titanite lizard next to taurus demon and the one on the way to andre, Kill tree guys for one moss of each type, Trade with snuggly for four twinkling titanite, Get one from the great hollow, Now you have a fully upgraded weapon that deals 550 damage, You can quick roll with it, And deals increased damage to all demon type bosses.

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6 Jul. My intelligence? Jokes on you,I have none. This weapon is bad for every reason I said, not just upgrade material and stat reqs. And oh,good luck increasing vitality and endurance to an acceptable point with those lvlup costs early game after you get 24 str 18 dex and already eliminated every big source of souls. Unless you are a speedrunner-ass kid who says "I don't plan on getting hit",you're gonna need all those hp and stamina. With pinwheel and catacombs you get around 26K souls which can be used in a much better way than abusing a broken bad weapon to ruin your first playthrough. Oh,new player doesn't go defeat pinwheel unless they are psychopath, so they have no big source of souls early game until they beat taurus and lose all the souls on the dragon bridge and by the time they reach this weapon,there's already drake sword introduced to them by their buddies,which is curerently a better choice compared to most other weapons all the way up until s*x fortress, then here lies the former standard spear;the lightning spear. By that time PERHAPS the might have enough stats to use the [n-word] knight halberd, since every new player must balane their main stats in order to progress better. If they just go ahead and get 24 str 18 dex early then the lvlup cost kills them. When I started my first playthrough everyone told me to use this and I did, reached the depths without feeling what a Dark Souls is, with only 10vit and 11end I was openly r@ped before getting cursed in sewers and quitted the game after killing the gaping dragon because lvlup was impossible. I tried this weapon again recently and it's still that bad. After learning from my mistakes,I never advised anyone to use this and they do just fine. So this so called "saitre" was told from experience.

Black knight halberd is overrated but gravelord sword isn't better than black knight halberd

"lol who even levels dex" already tells what type of player you are, the annoying kind.

@17Aug. Ok and? Lvling sexterity is only done by weak people who play genshin impact and dream of beating up 10 armed people with a reverse grip katana when bored in the class.

Dude wrote an entire novel about how to upgrade chaos weapons when you can just grab a bunch twinkling titanite and be done with it.
Ultra size weapons suck in this game anyway.
If I wanted a faster weapon I'd just use a mace.

ruins your first playthrough because it makes it so easy and its overrated? complete nonsense statement lol

You say a bunch of stuff about how terrible the weapon is but then in the middle you say the weapon is so strong you will need no skill, how can it be both these

Yes, so E scaling is between 0-25% D scaling means that each point in strenuous will add some damage to this.

good job person above me for completely avoiding to answer his question...
Dexterity doesnt make your attacks faster, both Strength and Dexterity both do the same thing, which is that they increase damage

Great scythe>>>>>>black knight halberd

Isn't there only one Halberd BK in the entire game before the Kiln? Afaik the one in Darkroot is your only source for a long while

I did the same thing, got the halberd after 6 tries. Not ashamed at all

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Be glad you realize it now before beating the game

if you want to go for style i suggest the queelags furysword, that is cool af too