Talk:Great Lord Greatsword/@comment-33552985-20171104085413/@comment-4511886-20171104103131

The GLGS will always outdamage the bastard sword on a rational build (e.g. not 99/99 or something like that), assuming you at least match the requirements of the GLGS. Of course, the R2 is quite slow, but also very powerful. This means that it's never a bad thing to pick up for people with the stats to wield it, since at the very least you can still use the R1 attacks just as well as any other greatsword.

The Sunlight Spear is the strongest lightning spear variant, and it deals quite substantial damage to emphasize this point. However, it takes up two slots, requires a whopping 50 faith and has only half the casts of other lightning spear variants. This means that it excels at bursting, but it's unfit for prolonged use away from a bonfire, as well as being very inefficient in terms of total damage per slot. All in all, the Sunlight Spear isn't bad, but there are some drawbacks to using it.

Notably, you need both for the sake of trophies. The former is required for Knight's Honor, the latter for Prayer of a Maiden. Of course, you could just complete these on different saves.