Large Sword of Moonlight | Demons Souls Wiki

I just spent half of the game building a magic character for this weapon only to realise it's faith in this game for some reason

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They need to change the weapon damage for this weapon incorrect

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If you want to get LSOM as soon as possible, grab the Thief Ring in 1-1, Soul Remains from 4-1 (near the first katana skeleton and Crescent Falchion), and a weapon you're comfortable with to get through 5-1. Getting through it is actually the hardest part. Once you kill Leechmonger, the rest is simple. You just run through 5-2 with the Thief Ring avoiding everything, circle around the island with a shaman and two giant trolls, run away from mosquitoes, go up, kill slugs one by one, get to their nest, hit it till it collapses, jump down safely. Then, all you need to do is make sure you have some space left in your inventory, throw Soul Remains to lure all the slugs away from the sword and grab it. Congrats, you did it!

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This sword looks so amazing! Best durability in the game and pretty decent in PvP. Please allow me to nerd out for a minute: I remember the first time I saw this weapon when I was a kid. I was playing the original King's Field 1 and 2 (American release versions). In those games it's only called the Moonlight Sword. I hope that someday From Software brings the Dark Slayer (the Moonlight Sword's polar opposite) from those games to the Soulsborne franchise. The lore behind these two blades in the original games were amazing. The Moonlight Sword was created to kill the good dragon, Seath, where the Dark Slayer was created from the Dark Crystal to defeat the evil dragon, Guyra. A fight fire with fire scenario. Light weapon to kill a light God, dark weapon to kill a dark god (the 2 dragons were considered Gods in the PS1 King's Field series). Both these blades have awesome sword magic as well. I wonder how the Dark Slayer would scale in the souls games. Personally, I was thinking of tattooing the Moonlight Sword onto my left wrist and the Dark Slayer to my right. Meh, we'll see. Thanks for letting me nerd out!

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If using both this and adjudicator's shield which would it be most worth upgrading?

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Someone posted a comment on God's Wrath that this sword increases it's damage. I've tested it with original PS3 DeS.

It's not. I've tested both in off-hand with 1 hand talisman, and both with 2H talisman + offhand weapon. The same damage at 32-ish faith level, leaving enemies with 38 hp left both with and without sword. I'm pretty sure 5% increase would be noticeable.

Miracle power doesn't change if you look at it through maiden either. They also don't change with kris blade, but with kris blade you can see buff effect under your stamina bar. With Large sword, there is no similar buff.

Extrapolating this further, I'm pretty sure this sword don't affect any miracles in any way.

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It scales with faith?! Interesting...

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Can someone precisely explain what does upgrading of this sword does, apart from better faith scaling. This page says faith bonus under special effect, but I dont see it in my character info.

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Though best for cleric/paladin types, it’s still a good weapon for mages. Just pair it with the Talisman of Beasts and the extra points you put into faith will strengthen your sorceries as well.

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Doubles as a decent torch in really dark areas.

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How you get the Moonlight Greatsword in FromSoftware games:

DS1: By cutting off the tail of the last surviving dragon from the Age of Ancients.

DS2: By transposing the soul of a magical spider empowered by a bonfire aesthetic or a second playthrough.

DS3: By transposing the soul of a king consumed by an obsession with dragons that he became one himself.

Bloodborne: From defeating a monster who used the sword as a guide throughout most of their life.

Elden Ring: From becoming the consort of an empyrean who you helped defy her destiny and receiving as a gift.

Demon’s Souls: S l u g s

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This weapon is good because:
1. No split so the damage is reduced only one time
2. It weighs nothing to be a greatsword
3. No str/dex requirements
4. Easily obtainable
5. It can be upgraded (sadly only the scaling is affected, not the base damage)
6. Bypass most of the shields
7. Is cool as **** so the damage is increased by just wielding the sword, it's a psychological buff, the most OP buff of all

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f in the comments for everyone who thought it scaled with intelligence.

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By God at mine side, I will slay thee daemons!

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Oh it's a faith weapon in this game? That's neat.

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Wow. This didn't do nearly as much damage as I was expecting. I only had 16 faith when I found it, and I didn't get it until nearly the end of the game. So I grinded out 8 level at Altar Of Storms. Was super excited to try out the DeS version of this legendary weapon annnnd...it just wasn't very good. Since it was so late game for me, I had multiple other weapons that outclassed it, even my other Crescent weapons out preformed it. Enemies not being able to block it is pretty cool, but there really aren't very many enemies who block in the first place so it's not that useful and I only play PvE. Those 8 levels would have been much more helpful in Magic, Strength or Dex. Shame that it only scales in Faith. Still absolutely love the weapon, but in this case it was disappointing.

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Ah, you were at my side all along. My true mentor. My guiding moonlight.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this and I’m probably 10+ years late but you can use soul remains to pull the slugs off the sword once the pile has dropped. Just throw one to the side every few seconds and eventually the sword will be easily obtainable.

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*Insert Ludwig reference here*

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Looks great. By the time I found it though I had a Blessed Mirdan Hammer +1 or +2 that was already outperforming it at either 25 or 28 faith, which is a shame...

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Even at 60 Faith this is still inferior to the Northern Regalia, provided you are at PWCT or PBCT. I was kind of bummed with how weak Faith-focused builds feel.

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As usual info is great but linked timestamp is just horrifically bad, please change it to 27:35 since that's the initial location + how to get to the slug hive then to the sword itself instead of "OH HEY! ITS A SWORD!" timestamp

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It scales with faith!? Been putting my points into magic :(

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Because it ignores shields does that also mean it can't be parried?

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Literally use any Dragon Weapon instead.

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This weapon in antique mode with the Saints set is absolutely beautiful.

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My favorite redesign in the remake, it looks awesome

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My true mentor, my guiding moonlight (horse noises, eargasmic music starts)

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Good hunter, have you seen the thread of light?

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Equipping this in the Remake , while having the Talisman of Beasts and having the God's Wrath Miracle... It just shreds with the AoE ( You do get Bonus Damage while having the Moonlight Sword on , for a pretty Satisfying AoE ). Also works really well against Most Bosses with God's Wrath... Even though i'm mainly a Magic Build character with Blueblood Sword & Magic Spells. But the Talisman of Beasts works really well with a High Magic Stat & decent Faith stat Soul Levels... This is also the only Large Sword in the Remake that cuts through Shields aswell along with Blind , which makes it very viable weapon specialy Late game or NG+ runs.... However , the Blueblood Sword excels at Damage outputs considering it can be Buffed with Resin Buffs & other Spell buffs too for Insane Damage.

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Watching a noob try to block this thing with his shield while you relentlessly abuse him is sad and amazing at the same time.

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Does this thing shoot projectiles like in DS and BB?

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I'm not getting a lot of damage out of it at 45 faith and +5 upgrade. 300 base magic, but on NG+ its not scaling high enough. Its fantastic for killing shields, but fails to achieve great output. I went back to using blessed weapons instead that scaled higher, and bust this out whenever someone invades. Its a great R1 spammer in that situation.

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No wonder I couldn't break the MLG of the person I invaded, 900 durability!

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Nowhere does it mention how much of a ****ing beast this things durability is.

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This sword is not appearing in my game. Does world tendency play a role?

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The light weapon esque aura around it looks amazing

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ahhhhhh, you were at my side at along

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Looks closer to the Blue Moon Greatsword from Dark Souls 2 than any of the other Moonlight Greatsword

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When clicking
Moonlight Greatsword in Dark Souls 3 it take you to the Dark Souls 2 version of the sword, not the Dark Souls 3 as it should

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this weapon looks amazing in the remake

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It ain't just a recurring theme in "Soulsborne"
go play some King's Field and Armored Core ya goofs.
Best Sword No matter what though.

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This would be a great low level weapon in the remake to obliterate those casuls that think shields can protect them. Would probably work better with Blind though.
[T]/

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It uses faith?! I skipped over it during my faith playthrogh becuase I assumed it uses intellegence like the other souls games..

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Can’t wait to use this in remake

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Particularly useful for killing Bearbugs, the Red and Blue Dragons and the Flamelurker and Armor Spider.

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The best iteration of the MGS in the series, in my opinion.

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Aah, you were at my side, all along.

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Not just recurrent in the Soulsbournes, but also King’s Field.

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A revelation from god? Was this Astraeas weapon until she casted god (and his revelation, this sword) away?

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I think the damage chart is off. It goes 100, 200, and then 100 for the rest of it for some reason. I feel like this is not accurate.

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Ahh, You were at my side all along!

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I have a str/fth build and this thing rips through those red eye Knights like butter! :-D

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