Talk:Abyss Greatsword/@comment-99.243.187.22-20170427030251/@comment-206.255.234.50-20181013175328

It depends on your build, as well as how much humanity you have. Although the regular GSoA isn't really in the running unless you've pumped your faith and/or intelligence really high, as it deals split damage (physical and magical). As such, the each damage AR is reduced by the equivalent resistance of the enemy. Even if you pump both Fth and Int to 99, due to the split damage, if you have fairly high Str and Dex, you're going to get more damage out of either the CGSoA or the AGS.

The CGSoA scales better with Str and Dex than the AGS (despite them both having the scaling listed as C). So if you take your Str and Dex to the soft caps, the CGSoA will be better than the AGS, as long as you don't have any soft humanity. The AGS scales with humanity, just like Chaos weapons, so if you have enough humanity, it will eventually out-damage the CGSoA...although generally not by very much.

If you're like me and you only tend to have soft humanity when you're farming for items, it's probably not going to be worth it. Conversely, if you tend to walk with a bunch of soft humanity pretty frequently, the AGS might be a better match for you. You might want to play around with an AR calculator to see specific breakpoints for whatever build you are planning. For my personal build (Str 40, Dex 45, typically 0 soft humanity) the CGSoA is the clear winner.

TL;DR: If you have high mental stats and low physical stats, go for the Greatsword of Artorias. If you have high physical stats AND you tend to keep a large amount of soft humanity on you, go for the Abyss Greatsword. If you have high physical stats but don't keep your soft humanity very high, go for the Cursed Greatsword of Artorias.