No. 9 - Wing of Astel

Wing of Astel has been improved in not one but two ways in 1.09, this is one of Elden Ring Runes the highest DPS weapons in the game. Simply because if you can span the Ash of War on a single Target stand still, it's going to deal a shed load of damage. It's also got this incredible Baseline heavy attack where you do a range attack at no FP cost like a magic range attack that costs no FP just a bit of stamina, you can charge it to send out two and then you can do a follow-up where you do one or two more swings. This is incredible in all content to have an infinite resource where you can at medium to close range harass or finish or chip out an enemy.

In PvP we cannot express how incredibly good this is or just rely on the fact that these are curved swords, so they have some incredibly quick very damaging movesets in 1.09. The running attack speed was somehow improved, when this is one of the fastest in the entire game, they also improved the recovery time so combo is better, and they increase the first attack speed for the curved sword as a whole so the first swings quicker, and the running attacks are quicker and they were already bloody incredible.

No. 8 - Bloodhound's Fang

Bloodhound's Fang is the best early-game weapon in the game. This curved great sword has just great damage, excellent early game scaling, comes with bleed, a really good range, and an incredibly powerful Ash of War that has iframes as part of its combination. Admittedly it falls off a bit in the late game but it's still one of the best if not the best weapon in the early game. And in 1.09, it's been buffed, just weapon type the Curved Greatsword has increased speed, increased range, and increased recovery time for a variety of attacks.

In PvP, the attack speed feels just slightly better and nicer catching people where you just wouldn't be able to, the range is amazing. Bloodhound's Fang is better than it was and it was already ridiculous and as you can get it like basically at the beginning of the game, it's one of best place to buy elden ring items the best picks to do so.