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| Weapon Type | Straight Sword | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attack Type | Slash / Thrust | ||||||||||||||||||
| Enchantable | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
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Heide Knight Sword is a Straight Sword and one of the available Weapons in Dark Souls 2. Heide Knight Sword is a Straight Sword obtainable by defeating Heide Knights. Upgradable with regular Titanite to +10, it has a versatile moveset with a unique one-handed and two-handed running attack resembling an Axe moveset.
Straight sword originating in Heide, A special alloy makes it very durable.
The composition of the alloy of these swords remains a mystery, but in Drangleic the attempt to imitate it resulted in the similar bradden steel.
How to get Heide Knight Sword
- Dropped by Heide Knight sitting at the base of the tree, located at the top of the ladder shortly after the first Bonfire in The Forest of Fallen Giants (not there in Scholar of the First Sin).
- Rare drop from one of the two red phantoms guarding the King's Door near The Place Unbeknownst Bonfire in The Forest of Fallen Giants in NG+ and above.
- Dropped by any sword-wielding Heide Knight (only in DX11 version) (Must be in NG+ or use have level 2 bonfire intensity to drop)
DS2 Heide Knight Sword Hints and Tips
- Upgraded with regular Titanite to +10.
- Can be buffed with Sunlight Blade and other spell buffs, but not with resins.
- One handed and 2-handed running attack uses Axe moveset.
- One handed light attack is a vertical upward slash then downward slash. Heavy attack is a sideways slash and then a forward stab. This move set is shared with the Royal Dirk, Black Flamestone Dagger and Blue Flame (light attack only) .
- Great starting weapon because of its lightning attribute.
- Even though the scaling on the Lightning Heide Knight Sword +10 just shows a B, it is a lot higher than the generic B scaling of regular lighting infused weapons.
- The vertical pattern of one handed light attacks allows one to kill Crystal Lizards and the crawling Undead quickly.
Youtube relevant videos:
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How to obtain the Heide Knight Sword
Dual Wielding Heide Knight Sword Tutorial
Required in Build:
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Heide Knight Sword Upgrades Table
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| Regular | 75 | - | - | 50 | - | ^ | C | C | - | - | C | - | - | - | 50 | 30 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Regular +10 | 150 | - | - | 90 | - | ^ | C | C | - | - | C | - | - | - | 50 | 30 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Magic | 53 | 48 | - | 36 | - | ^ | D | D | C | - | C | - | - | - | 46.6 | 56.6 | 31.6 | 31.6 | 21.6 |
| Magic +10 | 107 | 86 | - | 64 | - | ^ | C | D | B | - | B | - | - | - | 46.6 | 56.6 | 31.6 | 31.6 | 21.6 |
| Fire | 53 | - | 48 | 63 | - | ^ | D | D | - | C | C | - | - | - | 46.6 | 26.6 | 61.6 | 21.6 | 21.6 |
| Fire +10 | 107 | - | 86 | 64 | - | ^ | C | D | - | B | B | - | - | - | 46.6 | 26.6 | 61.6 | 31.6 | 21.6 |
| Lightning | 63 | - | - | 78 | - | ^ | C | D | - | - | C | - | - | - | 48.7 | 28.7 | 33.7 | 45.7 | 23.7 |
| Lightning +10 | 126 | - | - | 140 | - | ^ | C | D | - | - | B | - | - | - | 48.7 | 28.7 | 33.7 | 45.7 | 23.7 |
| Dark | 53 | - | - | 36 | 48 | ^ | D | D | - | - | C | C | - | - | 46.6 | 26.6 | 31.6 | 31.6 | 51.6 |
| Dark +10 | 107 | - | - | 64 | 86 | ^ | C | D | - | - | B | B | - | - | 46.6 | 26.6 | 31.6 | 31.6 | 51.6 |
| Poison | 53 | - | - | 36 | - | ^ | D | D | - | - | C | - | 153 | - | 46.6 | 26.6 | 31.6 | 31.6 | 21.6 |
| Poison +10 | 107 | - | - | 64 | - | ^ | C | D | - | - | B | - | 191 | - | 46.6 | 26.6 | 31.6 | 31.6 | 21.6 |
| Bleed | 53 | - | - | 36 | - | ^ | D | D | - | - | C | - | - | 153 | 46.6 | 26.6 | 31.6 | 31.6 | 21.6 |
| Bleed +10 | 107 | - | - | 64 | - | ^ | C | D | - | - | B | - | - | 191 | 46.6 | 26.6 | 31.6 | 31.6 | 21.6 |
| Raw | 86 | - | - | 57 | - | ^ | E | E | - | - | D | - | - | - | 50 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 25 |
| Raw +10 | 172 | - | - | 103 | - | ^ | E | E | - | - | D | - | - | - | 50 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 25 |
| Enchanted | 75 | - | - | 50 | - | ^ | E | E | D | - | E | - | - | - | 50 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 25 |
| Enchanted +10 | 150 | - | - | 90 | - | ^ | E | E | C | - | D | - | - | - | 50 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 25 |
| Mundane | 37 | - | - | 25 | - | ^ | D | E | - | - | E | - | - | - | 50 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 25 |
| Mundane+10 | 75 | - | - | 45 | - | ^ | D | E | - | - | D | - | - | - | 50 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 25 |
Dark Souls 2 Heide Knight Sword Table Key
Please see the Upgrades page for details on Upgrade paths, ore and blacksmiths. You can see the Stats page for detailed explanations on what they do.
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Attack Values | Damage Reduction (%) Reducing the elemental damage taken in % |
Auxiliary Effects | Others |
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Parameter Bonus: Strength, Dexterity,Magic, Fire, Lightning and Dark bonuses - The scaling multiplier applied to the [Attack: stat]. Scaling quality is from highest to lowest as follows: S/A/B/C/D/E.
The higher the player's [Str, Dex, Mag, Fire, Light] stat, the higher the [Attack Bonus: Stat] is (found on the player status screen). The higher the scaling letter, the higher the percent multiplier applied to the [Attack: Stat].
This resulting bonus damage is added to the base physical damage of the weapon and is shown in the equipment screen in blue numbers as a "+ X".
Durability: The weapon's HP, when the durability hits 0, the effectiveness of its attacks become weakened to the point of almost uselessness. When an items durability is low, a message will come up saying "Weapon At Risk!" at this point the weapon does not perform at it's best.
Weight: How much the item weights when equipped.
Stability: How well the player keeps stance after being hit
Attack Type: Defines what kind of swing set the weapon has.
Regular(R), Thrust(T), Slash(Sl), Strike(St)
AnonymousIf your playing on Vanilla this sword is great for the beginning of the run until you can infuse a longsword with lightning. If playing SotfS don’t bother farming this weapon since you can probably just get an infused longsword in the same amount of time it takes to get one to drop. The longsword also has a MUCH better moveset
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A definitely strong option early-game, what with the Heide Knight in the forest. However, later on it falls off a bit, and can definitely be replaced by a lightning Longsword/Vargrarian Sword/Drakekeeper's sword for faith builds. Also, the general moveset is a little lacking IMO.
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Can drop from knight closest to tower of flame bonfire. Who initially was blocking the chest containing Ring of Binding.
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Farmed all the Heide Knights at Heide’s Tower until they didn’t respawn any longer. Killed about 60 of them- NO sword drop. 3 Gauntlets only.
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I'm trying to get the armor set, but they keep dropping this. I'm on a faith+sword build, but my Lightning Bastard Sword is better than this, so it's kinda pointless...
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Remember: Lightning Battle Axe +10 is 190 + 190, only difference is E scaling in dex. and yeah lenigrast sells this very early in the game, boltstone needed is in shaded woods, same room as that scorpion boi you'll mistake for a mini boss
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i got it within ca 20 minutes, jesters mask, prisoners tatters and gold covetous serpent ring +1. had to join champion covenant but i got the sword plus gauntlets and leggins eventually.
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im really upset neither this nor the silver knight sword returned in 3, such fun weapons
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As awesome as the lightning damage is on these, I don't understand why the Heide knights themselves only do physical with their weapons. The descriptions don't mention the lightning effect either, unless that "special alloy" is tied to it like brass was in DS1 (where the Giant Sentinel's brass halberds also only deal lightning damage when used by the player).
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I have farmed for 7 hours now and have 200000 soul memory... I dont believe this sword exists anymore
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Why is it whenever I actually want to farm a weapon/item it takes a embarrassingly long time to get but when I’m just testing a build out at Heides I get this thing in a manner of minutes
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i just got this after farming for a bit in the fire tower area on my first play through and am truly blessed by god
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If there is one thing I don't like in Scholar vs Vanilla, then it's that this sword is no guranteed drop anymore. Heide Spear: check, Heide Lance: check, but Heide Knight Sword: need to farm Heide knights for an infinitely long time to get a drop of this awsome sword, the best in the game.
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I have the Heide sword and a fire longsword... One on each hand and I'm shredding everything despite that I only have them at +8
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"The vertical pattern of one handed light attacks allows one to kill Crystal Lizards and the crawling undead quickly."
If you need a weapon to kill enemies that are lower to the ground, use the Berserker Blade's 2H R2. It's WAY more consistent.
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Honesty would not reccomend as a main weapon. At 50 faith it only has around 15 more AR than a lightning longsword; and has a much worse moveset. Even as a backup weapon too a spear, or a lance it's not great, since its close range verticle slices can easily miss an enemy.
Don't spend time farming it for your faith build, just infuse a longsword.
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wanted two for power-stancing, restarted my save cuz most of the ng+ map is rough at early-level. only had to do that once though, feelsgood
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man i farmed this for 2 hours and got only the pants once...
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Brooooo, I got this from the first heide knight that attacked me while I was doing a crossbow only run.
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Use a +10 Lighting one + Sunlight Blade on my 900K SM character and it shreds eveyone.
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Slap some lightning on this bad boy and destroy people in early- mid pvp
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So, I died when I killed the Heide Knight in the Forest of Fallen Giants. Screwed Up big time.
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lightning-infused sword can be enchanted with dark weapon and great magic weapon, too
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I has used this sword for the entire game and, one handed moveset asides, i can tell you, it's do the job very well.
Quite a good general purpose sword that is quite similar to the longsword. Not sure if it's my playstyle, but I found the 2nd 2-H attack would typically miss as the first attack would push them out of range slightly. Also I've discovered that this sword attacks can go straight through some mobs without hitting them, though this could be an isolated issue with hit-boxes. But in general I find it hard to chain all of the 2-H combo. For this reason it's my intuition that the longsword is probably a better weapon, if only for the more reliable thrusting attack. Despite the natural lightning damage, I found the Heide swords damage is pretty lacklustre in the early game when compared to using other weapons with resins. At +6 it was very slow to take down ruin sentinels, compared to say a battle axe or bastard sword with pine resin. It's been a good ride with this sword, but I think it's time to part ways.
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I forgot to mention, but it works with any attack the weapons do, not just roll attacks.
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Actually, I did a bit more testing and it seems like most smaller weapons and a few larger weapons allow you to do a normal straight sword attack right after them. Some spears and the Chariot Lance don't work.
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Not sure if anyone else found this, but at least is SoFS if you R1 immediately after roll attacking with the weapon in your other hand your first slash is a regular straight sword slash. It has to be a fast roll attack though.
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Actually, it seems your roll attack just needs to be fast enough.
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Not sure if anyone else found this, but at least is SoFS if you R1 immediately after stabbing from a roll with the weapon in your other hand your first slash is a regular straight sword slash.
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infuse it with raw, it increase both lightning and pyshical damage, raw have the highest infused damage over other infusions in the weapon, tested on a low level build.
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Should i invest in faith to make this weapon stronger? I dont quite understand the whole scaling thing in this game, although i do fully understand it in Dark Souls 1 and 3, this one seems a bit off compared to the other games. Or maybe i am wrong?
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It is possible to get it as a rare drop from Heide Knights in SoTFS
Very good early-game sword if you can get it to drop from one of the heide knights early on.
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Using a Lightning infused one for my playthrough and so far I'm absolutely loving it. While some things are hard to hit with it, the vertical swings are great for opponents laying on the ground or otherwise small ones, strong attack is a horizontal slash great for groups, it still retains the rolling poke, scales well with strength and particularly faith, it's quick, has decent range, no bounce in tight spaces and has low dex requirement. Using it alongside with a fire Estoc, but I'm finding the latter much more finnicky moveset wise. Got it from one of the Heide knights while grinding down Heide's, which was a particularly difficult area for me.
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Useless in DLC Almost useless with Leo ring. Move set missing 2h strong thrust attack. Maybe I'll use it for Gargs or sell it or favorite gyrm for few souls. claymore I am coming for ya.
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Anyone else hate the way this sword swings compared to other straight swords?
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25/25 STR dex 46 faith
at +10 I get 126+35 phys
140+108 lightning
oh that's with lightning imbued
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Fast attack, good scales, have lightning damage, low states require, easy-to-find upgrade materials. This one is a very good sword!
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This wiki is wrong
it is on SoTFS edition where it says, atleast on ps3 anyway
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i have SoTFS edition and i got the sword the the knight at the top of the ladder in FoFG
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It is the length of a shortsword with the handle of a greatsword/longsword.Someone explain this.
To people who own Scholar of the First Sin, the Heide Knight will not be in Forrest of Fallen Giants. You will have to farm for it in Tower of Flame.
Drop description is totaly wrong, you can drop this sword in your first game by heide knights, tested it multiple times (last yesterday, bcs i needed one)
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