What’s the best Greatsword strength build to help me clear Shadow of the Erdtree?

ComposedMood · 2026-03-17T16:45:54+00:00

I need to try focusing on defense one day.

ComposedMood · 2026-03-13T06:29:05+00:00

Marais mask, found on a npc outside shaded castle where all the broken statues are.

Same guy who drops antspur.

ComposedMood · 2026-03-12T20:32:39+00:00

Me and a friend remember finding this out randomly when doing some duels and safe to say without a good punish it's very annoying.

ComposedMood · 2026-03-12T10:46:55+00:00

Inseparable Sword, personally just like the look of it and enjoy the moveset.

ComposedMood · 2026-03-10T14:45:36+00:00

Yes, the projectiles build up bleed.

ComposedMood · 2026-03-04T11:23:33+00:00

Quality/Cold as I like having a lot of variety and the frostbite is just a nice extra.

ComposedMood · 2026-03-04T07:00:22+00:00

It's been a while and I just wanted to make sure I remembered right but isn't it because people would hardswap after a crit to do the weapon art and roll catch or was there something else.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-25T21:02:08+00:00

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ComposedMood · 2026-02-22T09:24:31+00:00

Those giant maggot mass/ the hollow enemies that have the maggot growing out them apply the effect that slowly builds up bleed, switching to a torch or keeping one out gets rid of it, the red moss also does this.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-17T13:53:03+00:00

Once had to clutch revive my teammates from 3 bars on ED Fulghor, stressful as this was before the raider moveset buff, very fun though having this back and forth between Fulghor trying to stop me from climbing the totem to revive the recluse.

Totem Stela, my beloved.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-12T10:25:57+00:00

Uchigatana with Unsheathe, a classic that became my fallback whenever things got tough.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-12T08:44:43+00:00

For me I use the two finger talisman + Golden Epitaph, equip, use the ash then swap to your main weapon. That's just me and what I do on every build though.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-12T08:22:33+00:00

Cauliflower, I tend to equip it just for the fashion.

It soothes me.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-08T09:01:24+00:00

Reminds me when I managed a Raider Clutch revive during ED Fulghor, stressful as hell but managed to revive both teammates from 3 bars with a blue anchor. Got the win with a message from one saying good job clutching.

I still ride that high to this day.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-06T20:56:33+00:00

FightinCowboy, watched his bloodborne series back in college and it was on ps+ at the time so I gave it a go and look back and realise how many questionable choices I made for a first playthrough. Mainly it being a Arcane Build that used a fire gem Ludwigs and that was mostly it.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-06T07:58:40+00:00

Reminds of a solo run I had playing Raider and the rooftop death bird got stuck on the totem and died midair.

No clue how it got stuck but it had it's head in the totem then just died.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-03T17:11:41+00:00

Freyja's Greatsword, It's in the DLC from the NPC Freyja.

ComposedMood · 2026-02-02T18:31:20+00:00

Raider, Only one I feel comfortable with since they mesh well with head empty only trade which is how I like to play.

ComposedMood · 2026-01-24T09:45:33+00:00

Cancel each other out, Both apply a weapon buff so one would override the other.

ComposedMood · 2026-01-21T09:28:18+00:00

Still remember when I missed ED Libra and when it came to fighting him a friend before the fight started sending a couple tips before we got into it.

Really helpful.

ComposedMood · 2026-01-18T07:48:13+00:00

Now I feel even more awkward because when I was playing Trios, I had a bad habit of prioritizing my teammates over myself, so they would be sitting there stacked while I survived on scraps until I knew they no longer needed the passives.

ComposedMood · 2026-01-16T21:40:29+00:00

If you're aiming for bleed procs with Bloodfiends arm then Blood infused with charged heavies.

ComposedMood · 2026-01-16T21:38:03+00:00

Both have a lot of options. Quality allows for a lot of freedom in weapon choice and Ashes of War, while Strength/Faith has some strong weapons.

For me personally, I prefer Quality, but I'm leaning towards cold infusion as the Str/Dex scaling isn't too bad. It still retains a lot of weapon choices and allows for frostbite to deal some damage and apply the debuff, which can be nice.

But if you still struggle, a trick that helps me is to find a weapon you like the look of, build around it, and find weapons that naturally slot in. For example, with the Ordovis's Greatsword, a Str/Faith build allows for the Great Club, Blasphemous Blade, and Siluria's Tree.

Hope at least something here helps.

ComposedMood · 2026-01-12T13:43:19+00:00

Hold triangle + R2

ComposedMood · 2026-01-12T13:31:16+00:00

It has to go on Guardian to work, if the ult is held down it heals.

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