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I don't agree that the Estoc should be mainly a strength weapon, if anything it should be a quality one. In these games piercing is associated with precision = dexterity.

Being realistic of course a lot of weapons would scale best with strength, and it doesn't make much sense that something like the Murakumo has much higher DEX than STR scaling, but the game clearly associates certain weapon categories with either strength or DEX and I find it off putting that in DS2 some random weapons have reversed scaling for their category; sure, it does allow for more build variety but it's very counter intuitive and goes against the idea of Strength = slow and hard hitting, Dexterity = weaker but faster.

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The Estoc being a strength weapon makes a lot of sense when you consider what they're supposed to be like, since historically Estocs were big weighty thrusting blades made to pierce through plate armor, so suffice to say of all the thrusting swords to be strength-scaling, it's proly the most fitting one for that role

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Winstoc

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At first I thought that it was stupid that they made this a Strength weapon, then I started using it on my Strength build and immediately took that back. This gives Strength builds a small, lightweight and fast attacking weapon to accompany the larger and slower weapons often associated with a Strength build. This is an amazing sidearm for a Strength build with it's light weight, fast attack speed and respectable damage.

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if you like rapiers you are better off with the rapier it just melts thorough bosses

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Ah yes Bestoc

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"Strength rapier isn't real, it can't hurt you"

Strength rapier:

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Kayla says hello

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Estoc Bestoc

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So my dad is currently playing his first dark souls run. He saw me play these games for almost 2 years now and he thought DS2 looked amazing. So he tried it by himself. He likes Rapiers IRL and the Estoc seemed kinda fitting for him. I think DS2 may be not the best game to start in the DS Trillogy because of its mechanics. (Adp, Human Effegy etc.) But it's nice to see him try it. I wish him the best of luck.

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This gotta to be one of the most underrated weapons on DS2 , with the right build this thing can be a monster ! With 45 in DEX and the Flynn's Ring and the Ring of Blades +2 you can deal 400 of damage that is insane for a weapon that is so fast , in a meter of 2 seconds with 3 hits you deal 1200 of damage.

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Absolute monster for quality builds. Good scaling, super fast R1s, and takes very little stamina.

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Infused one with Fire and upgraded it to +5 with the intention of using it as a backup to my Heide sword. While it's a good weapon to punish enemies after a block (f.e, falconers), the moveset is very unreliable when locked on. Good stats, not so good moveset imo.

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lol the worst weapon in da game

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ITS 12/12 not 10/12

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i wonder if its worth enchantment?

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I never knew a thrusting sword could be a strength weapon.

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Estoc requires 12 Strength and Dexterity to wield properly, not 10 Str/12 Dex.

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Estocs can drop from Fores Grotesques (just experienced that myself) and I recalled that the wiki entry doens't list that. For some reason I can't edit the page myself and Estoc is already in the lost of potential drops from Forest Grotesques; if anyone else can make that edit please add that estocs can drop from Forest Grotesques on this page.

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