It will probably be outclassed, but that is not to say that it would be bad if you were to max it out. The things that matter most for weapons are
Upgrade level
Ashes of war it can take (or the built ones for the unique weapons)
Built in status effect infliction
Scaling
Bonus effects (like healing)
Move set
Requirements
Your sword can accept almost any ash of war, which is good, but it won’t have one of the more abusive ashes of war in some uniques. Its scaling can be pretty good if you give it quality affinity and are pumping both strength and dex, but others figure to be better, especially if you aren’t planning to focus on both of those attributes. But ultimately, if you max it out, it would carry you the whole way.
No shame in pumping it with the smithing stones you have now even if you plan on switching weapons later, because there will be plenty more stones as you progress
Random rant … fought Godrick on first attempt and got him down to about 90% health before dying thinking he was going to be much easier. I think I was just lucky with his moves and just running up behind him and wailing away - which seems now to have been the best strategy. Died another 20 times getting him down to barely half life trying to time his moves which wasn’t working - was summoning the girl and the wolves. Not sure how lucky I really got on Margit because I was out of flasks and with no Rogier left when delivering the final blow.
I am gonna go back to exploring for a bit and get my strength up and find myself a good heavy weapon. I need a lot of luck I think to beat godrick at my level and skill.
If you are thinking about a heavy weapon build, be sure to track down the flame of the redmanes ash of war and the flame grant me strength incantation in Caelid near fort Gael. The former you can put on your weapon to give it fire affinity and use the skill to break stances for easy critical strikes, and the latter is a substantial boost to fire and physical damage for a modest investment into faith (15).
Still rocking the 2x Keen Scimitar Build. Any of the Dex Special swords worth using as an upgrade? I do like the curved sword moveset so probably sticking with that.
elden beast? yeah he sucks hard I had to gear just for him, put on holy resist, I think fire does more damage to him. Really irritating run around forever fight unless you get lucky and he just stands there on occasion.
Managed to one shot the crucible knight and misbegotten at redmane castle. Level 90, mimic tear +4. Felt good after dying to the evergoal crucible knight about 30 times.
Alecto is tough but you almost have to beat her because the reward you get seems to be key against the final boss, which I am still struggling to beat.
OK, in desperation I turned to reddit to find a way to cheese the final boss and finally managed to beat that fucker. You don’t need to defeat Alecto. You do need two things that are a bitch to get.
Haligdrake Talisman +2
Haligtree Crest Greatshield +24
With your guard up, your holy damage defense will be so high that all the beast’s attacks only do chip damage. The fight is trivial.
RIP Carian Retaliation, but it looks like Flame of the Redmanes lives on. Thought for sure that source of easy crits was going to get rekt. Looks like we get some resolution on Patches, too.
Kicking the tires on the new black flame at the famed albinauric farming hill, it didn’t seem that impressive to me (although I hadn’t done much “before” testing, either, so maybe they’re just fire resistant?), but dragonmaw is slapping, and I probably should have been using it more.
Oh, and if you’ve been using swarm of flies, it still seems…pretty good? I still seem to get blood loss within a 3-4 casts on randos, which might be worse, but it still seems like it’d be fine against susceptible enemies, even if it may not be the best against middling or resistant enemies who might be more susceptible to other things. Doesn’t seem like an invalidating nerf.
I’m also enjoying honed bolt, lightning bolt’s higher faith cousin. It requires more faith, and it doesn’t hit as hard, but it costs a lot less FP, and you can chain cast it quickly. If you just keep casting, you can avoid the symbol-spawning animation and hit a bunch. Lightning bolt does more damage, but if you’re in a spot where one cast is either too much or too little, check out honed bolt.
Is this just the Elden Ring thread now or video games in general? Anyway thought I’d show my n00bness - Had to take forced leave (I have too much annual leave) last week and was so bored I decided to play red dead redemption 2 that my friend had lent me four years ago when I got a PS4 and I had never opened (nor played any other games on it, basically used it as a smart tv as I was too cheap to buy one until last year). I’m only real a management/simulator/paradox gamer so this was my first open world but tldr played like 40 hours in 3 days. Just an amazing game!
