The Wonderful Weapons of From Software! Quiz

Answer: Bloodborne

The Whirligig Saw made its debut as a part of the Old Hunters DLC pack in "Bloodborne". Despite its impressive stats and imposing appearance, it has a very modest prerequisite of needing just 18 Strength and 12 Dexterity. Because players typically tend to save the DLC for last in a typical playthrough, this means the weapon will likely be readily accessible should the player desire it.

Answer: Elden Ring

The Rusted Anchor has one of the highest base physical stats (147) in the game and has a relatively reasonable prerequisite of 26 Strength to wield. It has an above average poise stat of 15 as well-- this helps to compensate for its sluggish moveset by enabling the player to have a better chance at basically tanking a hit and continuing with their attack rather than get stunned.

Answer: Demon's Souls

The Magic Sword: Makoto is a bizarre weapon in numerous ways. For one, it has an absolutely astronomical bleed stat of 270, which is almost three times higher than the second highest bleeding weapon, the Meat Cleaver (95). For another, despite numerous prerequisites of 17 Dexterity, 11 Strength and 11 in Faith, the Magic Sword: Makoto has absolutely zero scaling whatsoever, meaning it will be just as effective for a player with the bare minimum stats to wield it as it would a player with 99s in those stats. Finally, the Magic Sword: Makoto imposes a self-bleed on the player which is permanent, necessitating the use of the Adjudicator Shield or quite a lot of Healing resources in order to not die just holding it.

Answer: Dark Souls 3

The Friede's Great Scythe is an extremely deadly weapon with amazing stats and a very imposing combat art. The Flail of Ariandel isn't as desirable- on paper. In practice, its combat art can be unwieldy but can also potentially lead to extreme bursts of damage with skilled use.

The former is best served on Dexterity and/or Intelligence based builds, while the latter is strictly intended for Faith builds.

Answer: Dark Souls 1

Much like Havel's other gear, the Dragon Tooth is extraordinarily heavy, requiring a 45 in Strength in each game it appears in to wield. Unfortunately, it lacks a signature combat art like Havel's Great Shield has.

Answer: Dark Souls 2

Requiring a 30 in Strength to wield, the Mastodon Greatsword thankfully gives the player both an easy regular Titanite upgrade system while also providing an excellent base 150 damage to boot. Lacking a unique combat art, this makes it a serviceable albeit fairly bland choice for a weapon on Strength builds.

Answer: Bloodborne

The Kirkhammer is accessible very early in the game to the player, available out of the lantern shop as soon as Father Gasciogne has been defeated. With a modest 20 in Strength and 11 in Dexterity while providing a strong 139 in base damage and a very fast moveset, the Kirkhammer is often considered to be the best early game weapon in the game, capable of being taken to endgame and performing quite respectably there as well.

Answer: Dark Souls 3

The Firelink Greatsword can be obtained by using the Soul of Cinder's boss soul. It's ambiguous prerequisite of 15 Strength, 15 Dexterity, 15 Intelligence and 15 Faith is sadly backed by a weapon with a very spread scaling build, making for a jack-of-all trades, master of none weapon that doesn't cleanly fit any specific, serious build.

Answer: Demon's Souls

The Northern Regalia is quite the oddity, in that it doesn't actually scale off of any stats; instead scaling off of the player's Character Tendency, prompting the player to either get Full Black or Full White to maximize the Northern Regalia's potential. If this is done, the weapon boasts second to none raw power that blows through heavy armor and literally incinerates dead foes' bodies when they die.

Answer: Elden Ring

The Golden Halberd has a high 147 base physical damage with a reasonable 30 prerequisite in Strength. While it's moveset is relatively cumbersome, it has great range and very high poise (24) to make up for this.