DLC Faith build - Black Steel Greathammer

I wanted to make a post because I've been seeing a ton of people having trouble, especially with bosses. If you are a faith build, try to go snag a Black Steel Greathammer from one of Messmer's knights. Combine this with Prayerful Strike ash of war, and you can now out-poise a shit ton of attacks and trade net positive because of the heal condition on Prayerful Strike.

There may be better options than the Greathammer itself for this, but with a main Faith scaling build, in addition to the stance breaking potential on the guard counter bonus it has, this weapon has been doing a ton of work for me.

For example, I just fought Rellana and I legitimately ran up to her the entire fight and traded hits with her with this build. I staggered her twice and it frankly wasn't close.

Good luck tarnished!