Fire Knight's Greatsword

Notes

• A Colossal Sword despite its name, requiring 22 Strength, 18 Dexterity and 12 Faith. It weighs 16 and has a normal critical rating of 100.
• With Standard affinity, Physical damage favors Dexterity over Strength, while the Fire portion scales with Faith. Heavy shifts the Physical focus to Strength, and Keen strengthens its Dexterity focus.
• Flame Art makes Faith the main attribute for Fire damage. Fire affinity instead uses Strength and retains a Faith contribution, so the two Fire affinities are not interchangeable.
• Its Flame Art setup concentrates much of its attack power into Fire. That can help against enemies weak to Fire, but a large combined attack number is not the same as damage dealt against a Fire-resistant target.
• Uses the sweeping light-attack style shared with Godslayer's Greatsword, with long reach. These light attacks also build consecutive-hit bonuses quickly.
• The first two light attacks cause a shorter hit reaction than ordinary Colossal Sword light attacks. The old two-hit PvP true combo was removed, so landing the first hit does not guarantee the second.
• Magic, Cold, Lightning and Sacred affinities keep some listed Fire damage but lose the usual Fire hit reaction. In those cases, ordinary hits do not clear active Frostbite, ignite red barrels or cause the special Fire reaction on Fingercreepers. The other affinities retain that reaction.
• Can use compatible Ashes of War. Grease or a weapon enchantment can be applied while using Standard, Heavy, Keen or Quality affinity; the built-in Fire damage does not prevent those coatings. Elemental and status affinities prevent ordinary grease or spell coatings.
• Starts with Stamp (Upward Cut): five FP for the bracing step and another eight for the heavy-attack follow-up. Flame Spear and Flame Skewer are compatible alternatives that add a temporary Fire coating through their own skill effects.
• Upgrades with Smithing Stones to +25. Only the greatsword-carrying Fire Knight variant drops it, with a 4% base chance before Item Discovery.