What the hell is with all the cool greatswords having an INT requirement?!

The weapon art is nice, the damage is nice.. shame its ugly.

Memories of Onyx Blade

This weapon should scale in Faith instead of Int

Too bad it doesn't scall in Faith, would have great synergy with Dark magic

They have the wrong image for this sword, its similar but actually looks thinner with little spines

At 60 int, 28 str, and 11 dex, it's stats are 775 at +9, compared to 774 with the +9 moon greatsword. Note that the heavy of the moon does about 200 more damage per hit because of thr special. Still, this is a fantastic GS.

Works like the Onyx Blade from DS3 and the Weapon Art adds 50 Magic Damage and an unknown amount of Frost buildup. It's a pretty cool sword but unfortunately is edged out every so slightly by the Darkmoon Greatsword. With optimal stats at +10, it will slightly outdamage it and has frost buildup by default and gains more through the weapon art. This doesn't even mention the heavy attack projectile. The builds are too similar as well, which makes the situation even worse.

However, Helphen's Steeple's weapon art works just like an attack and can easily be woven into your exisiting attack strings. It's also arguably faster to use since Darkmoon's has a long wind-up and doesn't do anything right away. So it's probably more martially-adapt than the DMB, but not nearly as versatile.

The INT/FTH requirements of death-themed spells in Elden Ring are quite unique. I haven't build around them yet (so I can't say whether they actually suck *** LOL), but this weapon not scaling off of INT and FTH as well seems like a missed opportunity. Especially since Darkmoon Blade exists and is highly similar to this weapon.

Looks like the ability causes frostbite. Causes cold mist to radiate off the target after a few hits with a burst of dmg.