Whip

For the Dark Souls II variant, see Whip (Dark Souls II).

For the Dark Souls III variant, see Whip (Dark Souls III).

The Whip is the most basic whip weapon in Dark Souls.

Availability

In Blighttown near the Parasitic Wall Hugger. At the Fog Door inside the shaft, drop off to the left. If heading there from the Depths, some falling is required.

Characteristics

The Whip has low attack power, cannot be Parried, and cannot Riposte, Backstab, or be used for Plunge Attacks. Compared to other weapons available by Blighttown, the whip’s damage is lackluster.

When buffed with buff that has particle effects, the buff does not show until you attack.

Moveset

Attack	Description
One-handed Weak Attack	Vertical lash. Minor start and end lag.
One-handed Strong Attack	Diagonal lashes. Barely slower than the one-handed weak attack, but shorter range.
Two-handed Weak Attack	Horizontal lash. Minor start and end lag.
Two-handed Strong Attack	Holds the whip overhead, then brings it down. Some start lag, minor end lag.
Jump Attack	Jumping horizontal swing. Good hitbox, but some start and end lag.
Running Attack	Vertical lash. Almost no start lag, minor end lag.
Rolling Attack	Identical to the running attack.
Kick	Standard kick.
Left-handed Weak Attack	Identical to the one-handed weak attack.
Left-handed Strong Attack	Standard parry.

Upgrades

Scaling Percentage Values

The following chart lists the scaling percentages when this weapon is fully upgraded. Be advised that:

• Scaling letters are not an accurate indicator of how a weapon scales, players should look at the percentage scaling of a weapon.
• Magic and Enchanted upgrade paths reduce Physical Damage while adding Magic Damage, splitting damage between two types. Strength and Dexterity scaling is drastically reduced while adding Intelligence scaling.
• Divine and Occult upgrade paths reduce Physical Damage while adding Magic Damage, splitting damage between two types. Strength and Dexterity scaling is drastically reduced while adding Faith scaling. Divine adds Divine Auxiliary and Occult adds Occult Auxiliary secondary damage types.
• Fire, Chaos, and Lightning upgrade paths remove all stat scaling and splits damage between two types. Chaos path adds Humanity Scaling.
• Raw upgrade path caps at Weapon Level 10 while drastically reducing physical damage scaling and adding slightly more base damage.
• Crystal upgrade path dramatically increases the base damage of weapons while rendering them unable to be repaired.
• For PvE purposes all weapons will be better on the Standard Upgrade path to +15. This is because the Split Damage of elementally infused weapons is not added together. The values are reduced separately when going through enemy defenses leading to less damage in practice due to the values of each damage type being smaller.
• To learn more about how damage is calculated visit the Damage Calculation page.

Upgrade Path	Strength	Dexterity	Intelligence	Faith
Standard +15	-	85%	-	-
Raw +5	-	64%	-	-
Crystal +5	-	85%	-	-
Magic +10	-	23%	61%	-
Enchanted +5	-	16%	60%	-
Divine +10	-	32%	-	61%
Occult +5	-	30%	-	71%
Fire +10	All stat scaling bonuses removed, Fire Damage added
Chaos +5	All stat scaling bonuses removed, Fire Damage added, scales off held Humanity up to 10
Lightning +5	All stat scaling bonuses removed, Lightning Damage added

Gallery

Whips
Guardian Tail • Notched Whip • Whip