Talk:Dragonslayer Spear/@comment-2.104.104.179-20160911220941

I'm new to this game and absolutely love this spear. Went for a spear build with tower shield for no other reason than I love phalanx formations. Naturally I had to get the spear with the longest reach and this is apparently it. The high strength req is fine since I needed 30 to wield my towershield anyway. Both fully upgraded and with high dex + faith, this tears through anything + its really hard to be overwhelmed behind the safety of your shield. The only problem is potentially boss killing. The stab can often miss or go between a boss' legs totally missing the damage. I recommend having a backup fast sword for boss killing (like a falchion or gold tracer, I have the latter)

I have a ton of fun with this build and highly recommend it even tho I'm a DS noob who only started 2 weeks ago. Just beware it requires quite alot of lvls to be efficient. Alternatively you can use a Pike if you don't wanna sink stats into faith.