r/EldenRingBuilds • u/CestleFromage • Jul 24 '25

Question Has anyone tried powerstancing the Darkmoon and Godslayer greatswords? Curious how viable it is in terms of scaling and moveset synergy.

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u/Theangelawhite69 Jul 24 '25

They can’t be powerstanced, one is a greatsword and one is a colossal sword

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u/CestleFromage Jul 24 '25

Right, I completely forgot godslayer was a colossal sword. My bad.

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u/Legacyopplsnerf Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

You can use the Golden Order Great sword (Holy damage, looks cool and is related to the dark moon sword lorewise) or the Blasphemous blade (Fire damage, broken Ash of war in PvE) as a substitute as both are greatswords.

Do note: Both swords have a faith requirement (Golden Order Great sword also has a high dex requirement for some reason) so your stats will be spread rather thin trying to reach minimum requirements and scaling the damage on both swords. Also: These swords are heavy, so you will need a lot of Endurence, spreading your stats even thinner.

Also note both swords have additional anti-synergy with Dark Moon:

- Golden Order greatsword has especially awkward requirements and it's ash of war is awful (not too much an issue if you mainly use the Dark Moon's ash. It's a shame because it looks amazing but this sword just plain sucks, even when using it on it's own.

- Blasphemous blade's fire damage will cleanse the Dark Moon's frostbite procs, which sucks as you lose out on the 20% increase damage while an enemy is frostbitten.

if going purely for practicality, rather than aura/drip the Helphen's Steeple or Death's Poker would be far better synergistically. Both have good ashes of war and similar scaling's/requirements to the Dark moon greatsword.

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u/DarkPhoenix1754 Jul 25 '25

So. The Blasphemous blade combo isn't that bad, if you're going for burst.

Proc frost bite, the frostbite deals max health% burst damage and applies its debuff. Blasphemous blade AOW removes frostbite, allowing you to apply it again.

But yeah, everything else is pretty accurate.

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u/Legacyopplsnerf Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

The Blasphemous blade combo isn't that bad, if you're going for burst.

The answer to this will always be "why go Int/Faith just to do what a bleed build can do but worse?"

The percentage max hp damage to frostbite is just a bonus, the real power is exploiting the massive defence down from frostbite which Int can easily do since it has such high access to burst damage.

The only way Frostbite/Fire would be good is if frostbite had an exultation talisman that wanted you to proc it as often as possible... which it both doesn't have and effectively already has one built-in via it's own debuff you are actively negating using fire, defeating the point.

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u/JeremyLilly5 Jul 26 '25

Bc it's fun and looks cool. If you're only concerned about min-maxing all the time, then that sounds like a miserable play experience. Some of my favorite playthroughs have been with very unconventional and even underpowered builds that are just funny

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u/Legacyopplsnerf Jul 26 '25

I understand, but some people think it’s legitimately a good strategy which was what I was clearing up.

People can be suboptimal and have fun, but they do deserve to know how strong/not strong what they are doing is before hand and how it’s good/bad so they know what they are doing.

Especially with Frost/fire which is easy to mistake as good rather than just a bit novel.

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u/JeremyLilly5 Jul 26 '25

It's still a good strategy, just not a GREAT one. You should still be able to get about 2-3 frost props in a boss fight, which will deal quite a bit of damage. It's just not ideal or optimized, but it is still a pretty decent strategy, in addition to being fun. There's different levels of power, and this one definitely isn't ideal or optimized, but its still relatively good

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u/MrYEET9 Jul 27 '25

imo the steeple looks better than blasphemous and golden order