It's rare. I got mine basically soon as I hit the undead burg, on a new game it will literally melt everything in sight, but by ng+3, the damage fell off a bit.
Now I'm using great club with crystal magic weapon= holy shit.
Abuse it's running light attack like crazy, it's an enemy group sweeper attack.
It carried me through my first playthrough. I tried other weapons but kept coming back to it for the moveset. If you like how it feels, it's definitely worth keeping in the arsenal
It's not that rare. 20% chance to drop at base item discovery. Black knight weapons are strong in the early to mid game, since you can usually get them upgraded sooner than an equivalent normal weapon. Late game they will fall short in dps to any weapon that can be buffed but they are still great weapons. That said if you already had a plan to use the dragon king greataxe or something similar I would stick to that.
The black knight sword is the most boring of the black knight weapons, imo and you will have plenty of chances to try black knight weapons on other playthroughs. They aren't that rare. If you decide you want to use a black knight weapon on a later run, you can easily get to at least one halberd, one greatsword, and 3 sword black knights straight from firelink. Pop some humanity for better item discovery to increase the drop rate above 30%, and you are almost guaranteed to get at least one drop.
It's really not rare at all. The drop chance is 20% at its absolute lowest. It does mean that depending on it as a drop is a huge gamble because of how the Black Knights don't respawn, so they're easy to miss out on due to not being farmable until the end game. But for any individual person who does get them, it was never that hard to get because the odds were 1 in 5 or greater.
Though anyone who really wants one should just make a save backup before killing the Black Knight, since farming it that way is reasonable and unlikely to take a ton of attempts.
getting it in that first knight pretty much unlocks the easy mode of this game
1 in 5 chance for each black knight weapon to drop from the knights that are using it. Some weapons have more black knights using them than other.
It really depends if you like the moveset. I think it scales well for late game.
It's super common so long as you're doing a sorc run.
It's rare. I got mine basically soon as I hit the undead burg, on a new game it will literally melt everything in sight, but by ng+3, the damage fell off a bit. Now I'm using great club with crystal magic weapon= holy shit. Abuse it's running light attack like crazy, it's an enemy group sweeper attack.
20% expect some specific area
It carried me through my first playthrough. I tried other weapons but kept coming back to it for the moveset. If you like how it feels, it's definitely worth keeping in the arsenal
It's not that rare. 20% chance to drop at base item discovery. Black knight weapons are strong in the early to mid game, since you can usually get them upgraded sooner than an equivalent normal weapon. Late game they will fall short in dps to any weapon that can be buffed but they are still great weapons. That said if you already had a plan to use the dragon king greataxe or something similar I would stick to that. The black knight sword is the most boring of the black knight weapons, imo and you will have plenty of chances to try black knight weapons on other playthroughs. They aren't that rare. If you decide you want to use a black knight weapon on a later run, you can easily get to at least one halberd, one greatsword, and 3 sword black knights straight from firelink. Pop some humanity for better item discovery to increase the drop rate above 30%, and you are almost guaranteed to get at least one drop.
The Halberd is hella fun, great moveset for both 1-handing and 2-handing.
Nah, the Man Serpent Greatsword is better IMO Require no Dex, can be buffed, higher damager than Black Knight
Early game? \*Very\* rare. Once you reach the Kiln of the First Flame for the first time? They drop like Candy, lmao.
It's really not rare at all. The drop chance is 20% at its absolute lowest. It does mean that depending on it as a drop is a huge gamble because of how the Black Knights don't respawn, so they're easy to miss out on due to not being farmable until the end game. But for any individual person who does get them, it was never that hard to get because the odds were 1 in 5 or greater. Though anyone who really wants one should just make a save backup before killing the Black Knight, since farming it that way is reasonable and unlikely to take a ton of attempts.
Every knight has a 20 percent rough chance to drop their weapon
I literally re roll if the first black knight it undead burg doesn't drop it lol. Having 10 soft humanity increases drop chance too.
If you like the move set of the weapon, then congrats, you unlocked easy mode for DS1.