Talk:Greatsword of Artorias (Cursed)/@comment-50.149.28.119-20140305155026/@comment-3492791-20140827032050

That's just base damage. The point is you're ignoring scaling. Black Knight weapons all have very high base damage but mediocre scaling. Other weapons with better scaling will eventually make up for the lower base damage with scaling damage. Black Knight weapons are also balanced for NG+.

A quality build would get more out of the GSoA than the BKS, but the GSoA requires a very specialized build to use at all so that makes unpopular to start with.