5 - Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear

Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear has been nerfed noticeably say the range of Elden Ring Runes Bloodboon Ritual was reduced, but that's not that relevant when we're considering how powerful of a bleed weapon this is. Ultimately if an enemy is in it say PVP, it'll still absolutely burst them with bleed build-up. And in PVE it's the same thing, you can entirely rely on that, especially if they staggered the animation, just they actually walk and still wreck people like Melania and that is no small feat. They also made this weapon type worse though in 1.09, they took Great Spears and reduced the hitbox size for various attacks, so they've got a little bit less Phantom range, certainly annoying but still very powerful when it does hit and we think great spear is a very powerful weapon type though. Spamming the Ash of War for bleed build up is going to be very strong with this weapon, so it is still in a good place.

4 - Eleonora's Poleblade

Eleonora's Poleblade has its own unique Ash of War and unique heavy attack when in two hand when you do this sort of vertical spin flip hitting many times successively. Also Pole Blades are just getting better and better every patch, in 1.08 they increase the speed of some attacks and recovery time when in two hand perfect for poor blade specifically, in 1.09 they improved running attack speed and reduced attack recovery time again for Twinblades as a whole. So it's feeling like really smooth to use, they're becoming a lot more relevant weapons and pole blade is feeling great because the two-handed version has got those specific Buffs. The ash of War while a bit awkward can deal a lotably build up if you can land it, forcing you to dash forward do a combo and dash back, it'd be easier to DPS consistently if you could just stay on the target. But in that burst combo, you have to admit it does good damage and it's just feeling better these days. So we'd recommend you give it a try if you haven't used the Eleonora's Poleblade in buy Elden Ring Items a while.