You can reach this area very early in the game if you are willing and able. Need more help? Check out our monstrous Dark Souls 3 guide and walkthrough. Pull them towards you from a distance to battle them one at a time. If you wait patiently until all the Ghru are dead, the Darkwraith will often take a great deal of damage. They will attack a group of Ghru (stayrs). Travel cautiously towards the Abyss Watchers boss arena and two Darkwraiths will patrol in from your left.

Although there are a couple of opportunities to fight these foes, by far the easiest place to farm them is near the Farron Perimeter bonfire. The Dark Sword only drops as rare loot from Darkwraiths. Update, July 2016: Yeah, FromSoft nerfed it. We fully expect From Software to nerf the Dark Sword or to buff alternate weapons, as it currently makes the entire Greatsword and Ultra Greatsword class look ridiculous. It can also achieve A grade faith scaling with a Blessed infusion, S grade intelligence scaling with Crystal infusion and S grade faith scaling with Lightning infusion. It has C grade strength scaling and D grade dexterity scaling, but when upgraded beyond +4 achieves A grade strength scaling with a Heavy Gem infusion.

The Dark Sword requires 15 strength and 15 dexterity, and inflicts bleed. It is perhaps the best one-handed sword in the game.

This heavy-hitting ability, combined with the much speedier move set and lighter weight of a straight sword, makes the Dark Sword a fearsome blade indeed. It allows players to assume a low stance which high poise (very hard to interrupt and stagger) and then unleash a spinning slash strong attack. Stomp, for those not yet au fait with advanced duelling techniques, is normally reserved for Greatswords and Ultra Greatswords. The signature blade of the terrifying Darkwraith NPC invaders, it boasts a unique vertical slash heavy attack, and is the only sword with the Stomp weapon art. The Dark Sword is one of the most popular weapons in Dark Souls 3 as of 1.03, because it is rad.

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