Evaluating the Use Value Of The Crystal Straight Sword The Crystal Straight Sword, as with all weapon types in the Dark Souls series, is characterized by a few unique features and weaknesses. A full post-mortem from different perspectives:
LIMITATIONS: WHILE BOTH REPAIR AND UPGRADE ARE UNLIMITED.
Its lack of repair or enhancement causes its ability to be rather short-lived in the game.CrystalStraightSword (ad) Players really have to watch out for using it due to its fragility, especially in longer fights when durability really counts. No need to maintain it however; just keep that in mind, it’s no different from any other weapon that you can reinforce, only this one is easy to break and becomes less effective the more damaged it is.
Crystal Greatsword The other top end sword is also tied to a boss (Seath the Scaleless,) hits with divine magic, and scales heavily off of Intelligence.
In comparison to the Crystal Greatsword, the straight sword lags behind in a number of ways. Long as is often the case in boss fights where your goal is to burst down a foe as quickly and efficiently as possible, so if you find yourself in that kind of situation then go straight to Greatsword. However, the greatsword is not nearly as good at soaking up damage when attacking tougher enemies that hit hard like in some of the larger areas — large shield and straight sword tend to be best for those mobs.
Practical Use Cases
It remains a nice weapon against regular enemies with all these shortcomings. With equal damage stats to a Longsword +8, it is usable in all early-game and most mid-game areas. Still, playstyle might vary here: heavy shield reliance players may not benefit as much from it than other weapons which provide stronger defensive means.
To sum up, the Crystal Straight Sword has the common benefit that performs fairly well against most enemies and its open status can exploit by upgrading your enemies for upgraded ones, but it can not repair or reinforced so if you want to fight with tougher enemy like giant bosses this sword would have a repulsive enough property to yourselves.
