DUAL WIELD!! Great with another straight sword; currently have the Rotten Crystal sword in the off hand. Frost also good

This is truly a weapon for int/fth hybrids. it doesn't really perform on a pure fth or pure int build that well.

Sword is good, people in this thread just don't know how to make a build that isn't just 99 int and 9 vigor

Hope they buff this weapons base attack damaged it looks amazing and has really cool lore so it’s underwhelming damage is really sad, you’d think they’d learn from the dancers twin blades how not to make a bad split scaling weapon

take away the fire and faith req so i can use this thing

I dont understand this sentence: "This weapon utilizes Thrusting R2s when one-handed, and Slashing R2s when two-handed. Due to the very low STR scaling, and the superior thrusting moveset, one-handing this weapon is advised in most scenarios"

I am in a NG+ so if I want to use two of these swords powerstanced and have a build with high INT+FAI would that somehow be weaker than having just one sword? Is there a difference between "thrusting" and "slashing" in terms of scaling? I thought it was only visually?

The good: it looks cool and has fun AoW
The bad: does crap damage and costs way too much FP.

Of all the legendary weapons in this game, this one requires way too much skill investment for very little return. Takes 6 swings to kill one low level soldier enemy? Boooooring. Might as well be using a wet noodle.

Pretty sure that the damage from regular attacks with this weapon just doesn't count as fire damage for interactions with anything else. Doesn't affect fingercreepers or flowers.

The basic attacks are weaker than a broadsword. The AOW is okay, but costs a ton of FP and is outclassed by a glintstone kris, moonveil, darkmoon greatsword or a frost spear. Bad weapon with high stat requirements.

If you're a caster of either faith or intel, you can stop looking for weapons after this one tbh unless you want something else stylistically. AoW acts as two spells that free up memory slots, and even on a hybrid intell/faith build they hit pretty hard if your enemy isn't resistant to magic or fire. Going full faith or full intell will still give you at least one nasty ability that'll hit like a freight train. The Comet portion also has a nasty habit of guard breaking or outright toppling over many human sized if you get a full beam, which isn't too difficult as the AI doesn't tend to want to bother to dodge it. The Flame Burst decimates crowds and staggers them briefly to SORTA make up for the very slow cast time; be careful, the wave can and will get you killed if you aren't careful with your timing.