Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree introduces a wide array of new weapons and powerful skills to the pool, widening it and adding a lot more variety. Some of these weapons are interesting enough to be the centerpieces of entirely new builds, which speaks to their competitive viability.

All the weapons in the DLC have a place in someone's heart, but there are a few that are just not as good as the others. These fall behind the others in the pack based on their looks, their effects, or their overall damage.

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By Megan Smith

6 Main-Gauche

High Skill Floor

What's cooler than using a dagger, the Main-Guache, to parry incoming attacks and pierce the enemy with an elegant rapier? Staying sane enough to live life and not spend a ridiculous amount of time learning the exact timing for a subpar parry compared to that of a larger shield. Not a lot of people use the parry mechanic in Elden Ring to begin with, so adding a weapon that's harder to parry with doesn't do much for most players.

If someone has masochistic tendencies or has already gone mad with the forbidden knowledge, then this dagger is something that will make them look absolutely slick. For everyone else, it's a recipe to fail 90% of the attempted parries and end up feeling miserable. It's not bad for what it's made for, it just has a very high skill floor, making it inaccessible for the vast majority of players that enjoy the game.

5 Smithscript Dagger

The Short Range Holds It Back

Throwable weapons are a treat to play with, letting melee players experience the true cheese of baiting enemy attacks and punishing them from afar. However, that fantasy falls apart when it comes to the Smithscript Dagger because of the massive damage fall off, and restrictively small range.

While the range is definitely long for a dagger, it's not long for anything else. Certain talismans buff the range slightly, but not enough to save this borderline pure melee weapon. The only correct way to use it is right up in the face of enemies, defeating its purpose as a throwing weapon. It's not horrible, but it doesn't perform like it was supposed to.

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4 Dancing Blade of Ranah

Ash of War Doesn't Get It Done

Although it looks cool, the Dancing Blade of Ranah is quite underwhelming. Dual-wielding curved swords isn't a bad idea, seeing how the weapon class is one of the best ones in the entirety of the game, but that's where the theory ends and reality takes a look over the build. This weapon has a fast hit rate, letting players stack up statuses fast. Oh, never mind. It doesn't have any status effects which can use that aspect of the moveset.

Players can't add any status effects themselves either, since the ash of war can't be changed. The second problem it has is that the Ash of War is only good against small enemies that can be staggered by it. Players don't get any invulnerability or high poise during the attack, so they can be easily knocked out of it by a ranged enemy or a high poise enemy that doesn't get staggered.

3 Horned Warrior's Sword

Lackluster Damage

The Horned Warrior's Sword is a mediocre Curved Sword that has one of the worst ashes of war in the game. It deals more damage in the hands of enemy warriors than it does in the players' equipment when fully upgraded.

The ash of war has good range and affects a decently sized area, but it deals fairly low damage. The base attacks of the sword scale with STR and DEX, while its ash of war scales exclusively with FAI. Additionally, the Ash of War isn't good enough to be spammed, making the disjoint much more obvious. It does look cool though, which might make it worth it in the eyes of some people.

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2 Forked-Tongue Hatchet

Irrelevant Ash of War

A STR/DEX axe with a dragonflame breath ash of war might sound too good to be true, and that's because it is. The Forked-Tongue Hatchet has one of the smallest ranges out of all the axes, and its Ash of War doesn't do it any favors either.

Spewing forth flames from an axe is cool, but if those flames don't hit anyone, there's no real point in having them in the first place. Compared to the dragonflame breath incantation, this Ash of War does much less damage and has a much smaller range.

1 Moonrithyll's Knight Sword

Copy, Paste

The only thing worse than having a useless weapon is having a really beautiful useless weapon that could've been great. The scaling is good, filling the niche of INT builds that want to wield something solid for a change, and the aesthetics are beautiful. However, the Ash of War is ultimately useless, making the weapon much worse overall. This was the Troll Knight's Sword.

The Moonrithyll's Knight Sword is the exact same sword, same looks, attack patterns, and stats, but with a different Ash of War. Why fix something that's broken? That would be a good place to stop, except its Ash of War is just as bad as the Troll Knight's Sword, though for different reasons. Not only is it a copy and paste of an already existing weapon, but it's also criminally bad, making it a useless remake of a useless weapon.

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