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r/DarkSouls2•
TheRedJester

Tip for quickly breaking a weapon (like that one you may want to intentionally break).

So I've seen a lot of people talking about how much of a pain it is to break Spoiler: due to its high durability. Just hitting it against a wall takes forever.

Well there's a bit of a collision bug that any halberd user is probably familiar with. If you hit an enemy corpse with your weapon (easy to do with a halberd by swinging one time too many), it takes off a lot of durability.

Even more, this can be multiplied by hitting multiple corpses at once!

So the solution is to go to an area with multiple enemies and kill them so their corpses end up in a pile (it doesn't have to be perfect, hitting 2 or 3 corpses per swing is plenty). Then just go to town on this pile of corpses!

I was able to break that weapon in just a couple of minutes with this method.

TL;DR - Pile up enemy corpses, swing weapon at them.

Posted Mar 24, 2014, 1:47 AM UTC

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LamenotcoolAlso on PC!•

I just handed my controller to my sister and had her mash the R1 button against a wall while I played the new Animal Crossing on her 3DS. Whatever works, I guess, lol.

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A_New_Day_•

So would the pile of dead bellguards work in belfry luna?

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Moongoat•

I tried it. Also tried shinybro corpses. Seems like wailing on the corpses of killed enemies is the fastest way.

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cgmcnama•

Question....why do you want to break the weapon?

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yodawgiherd•

santiers spear has 500 durability, reducing it to 0 changes it to a faster version or something since it's a unique weapon

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SirRuto•

Santier's Spear "breaks" when it hits 0 durability. Specifically, the heavy-ass stone head impaled on it breaks, reducing the weight and entirely changing the moveset. It then behaves like a twinblade-halberd combo. But since it just stays at 0 durability, it will never break, as twinblades tend to do. It's a fun weapon.

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cantthinkofit•

Unfortunately the weapon doesn't scale at all, but it's still an extremely fun weapon to use. If you poison infuse it, you'll have a hell of a time since it hits about 10 times in one combo.

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SirRuto•

I figure I'll raw infuse it, since I don't want to reduce the base damage anymore.

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RayInfinite•

Will the acid pool at drangleic castle work?

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IfThatsOkayWithYou•

No

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neohampster•

Just dance in the corosive acid?

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TheMancersDilema•

Sadly only works for equipment, not weapons.

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matiez•

What about getting spat on by Spoiler:. I noticed she ate the durability of my Shortsword really fast. Maybe it wasn't her spit but mashing her armor? All I know is I'd run to her without attacking anything and after 3 or 4 attempts in Coop my Shortsword would be at risk.

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Crjbsgwuehryj•

Or just only equip the weapon and then walk into the corrosive pools near the shaded ruins bonfire.

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TheRedJesterOP•

Others have reported this does not work, nor any form of equipment corroding attacks/items/pools.

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Crjbsgwuehryj•

It breaks my stuff when I stand in it, I guess your mileage may vary.

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TheRedJesterOP•

I know, but others have said they tried it and it doesn't work for this spear. The spear is a pretty unique/weird situation when it comes to weapon breakage, so I believe them. In the future I'll try it myself to be completely sure, but it seemed entirely believable given the situation with this weapon.

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kazumoshi•

Pools will break armor and rings but not weapons.

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