Moonlight Greatsword - DarkSouls II Wiki (2024)

In-Game Description

The blade of this greatsword shines like the brilliant rays of the moon.
In the oldest legends, rarely spoken of today,
it is said that the sword was born of a great white being.
The strong attack unleashes its strength, launching a wave of moonlight.

Effect: special attack (strong attack)

Availability

Trade Old Paledrake Soul and 10,000 souls with Weaponsmith Ornifex.

General Information

Image	Damage	Aux Effects	Counter Strength	Poise Damage	Stats Needed Stat Bonuses	Damage Reduction	Aux Effects Reduction	Stability	Durability	Weight
	0/152/0/0/0 (Slash/Thrust)	0/0	120	35	18/18/18/0 -/-/A/-/-/-	60/10/40/40/20	20/20/20/20	40	75	8.0

Move Set

1H Normal: Horizontal slash x2
1H Strong: Horizontal slash with magic projection, vertical slash with magic projection
2H Normal: Vertical slash x2
2H Strong: Vertical slash with magic projection, horizontal slash with magic projection
1H Rolling: Stab
2H Rolling: Vertical slash
1H Running: Horizontal slash
2H Running: Horizontal slash

NOTE: All heavy attacks with magical projections cost 10 durability, one handed or two handed. This can be reduced to 5 with the use of a Bracing Knuckle Ring+2.

Notes

• The Moonlight Greatsword does not gain a damage increase from the Ring of Blades since it only augments physical damage and the sword has none (unless upgraded to do so). It does benefit from Flynn's Ring but the bonus damage is physical.

• Infusing this weapon with the Enchanted path causes the entire magic-damage portion of the damage to turn into physical damage. This also causes it to benefit from the Ring of Blades and Flynn's Ring and boosts physical-blocking (L1 while two handing) to 90%+ damage reduction. The special attacks (strong attacks) will do zero damage (but still retain their poise damage and durability loss).
  Overall, you gain a powerful INT-scaling pure physical-damage weapon that doubles as a decent shield.

• The high base damage and damage scaling are offset by the fact that the 2H normal attacks are completely vertical. These attacks are also fairly slow and consume a considerable amount of stamina: stamina consumption of 2 consecutive 2H normal attacks is about the same as a Mastodon Greatsword's, which is about 15% more than a Claymore's.

• Getting parried while using a strong attack will not negate the special magic projection, it will still hit. (08/2014)

Upgrades

Basic

Boss upgrade path.
Requires:

• Petrified Dragon Bone

Infusions

Magic

Reduces: Base damage, STR and DEX stat bonuses, damage and aux effects reduction.
Adds/Increases: Base magic damage, INT stat bonus, magic damage reduction.
Requires:

• Faintstone
• 2,000 souls

Fire

Reduces: Base damage, STR and DEX stat bonuses, damage and aux effects reduction.
Adds/Increases: Base fire damage, INT and FTH stat bonus, fire damage reduction.
Requires:

• Firedrake Stone
• 2,000 souls

Lightning

Reduces: Base damage, STR and DEX stat bonuses, damage and aux effects reduction.
Adds/Increases: Base lightning damage, FTH stat bonus, lightning damage reduction.
Requires:

• Boltstone
• 2,000 souls

Dark

Reduces: Physical base damage, STR and DEX stat bonuses, damage and aux effects reduction.
Adds/Increases: Base dark damage, INT and FTH stat bonus, dark damage reduction.
Requires:

• Darknight Stone
• 2,000 souls

Poison

Reduces: Base damage, STR and DEX stat bonuses, damage and aux effects reduction.
Adds/Increases: Base poison damage, poison damage reduction.
Requires:

• Poison Stone
• 2,000 souls

Bleed

Reduces: Base damage, STR and DEX stat bonuses, damage and aux effects reduction.
Adds/Increases: Base bleed damage, bleed damage reduction.
Requires:

• Bleed Stone
• 2,000 souls

Raw

Reduces: Stat bonuses.
Adds/Increases: Base damage.
Requires:

• Raw Stone
• 2,000 souls

Enchanted

Reduces: Stat bonuses.
Adds/Increases: INT stat bonus (excluding weapons that have base magic damage).
Requires:

• Magic Stone
• 2,000 souls

Mundane

Reduces: Base damage, stat bonuses.
Adds/Increases: Damage scaling from lowest stat.
Requires:

• Old Mundane Stone
• 2,000 souls

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