I agree with both of them, BUT, if your cornered, especially in a solo mission, the levi is your best bet cuz of its knockback, therefore protecting you from the enemies. I know it will just send them flying without hitting them much more than once, but you can also easily kite, hit them, and run, then repeat the process. It takes longer, but its safer than just going in with sword and shield.

Also, since you got a CTR, it will speed up the said process above, so i think levi is overall better, since the CIV is more spcialized... BUT if youre doing tons of SL and FSC, you should go for CIV. Not many people can solo shadow lairs or vanaduke, so youll likely be in a team, and as Batca said, the CIV is more team friendly, and since theres tons of undead in FSC and Shadow lairs, CIV will absolutely DESTROY

If you wear full skolver (or use two damage trinkets (or put a Very High versus Undead UV on the sword)) and wield the Snarby shield, you'll do more damage versus Undead with Leviathan than Cold Iron Vanquisher.

I still say go for CIV. You think it looks cool and that's honestly more important. Where's the fun of being efficient if you have to be boring for it? The damage reduction isn't even all that big.

It's not a terrible sword if you just don't have more than +3 damage bonus on top of the Levi blade. If you go for Vog Cub armour and Snarby shield you'll have a +5 against undead and increased attack speed which also increases your damage over time. Undeads are a very common enemy, and in your future you'll be fighting a lot of them in Firestorm Citadel, Legion of Almire and Shadow Lair Snarby so as far as anti-family weapons go, it's definitely not the worst you could go for.

Just be aware that even against undead your damage will be weak compared to a Brandish or Divine Avenger.

i got civ too.i chose it `cuz` i dont really like divine avenger.and the time i crafted it the bradish line was not so well-known.and even this way,i dont regret the choise i had made.civ is many times superiour to the levi while fighting undead monsters as long as u dont have skolver or vog or snarby. but i dont have this armours, i got divine mantle.so for me...the civ was a better choise than levi.and anyway. i have another specialised wepons for jk or roamulus or for snarbolax.i do vana twice every day.so i need a wepon with dmg bonus vs undead.i think the levi is good too.it depnds on the gear u have....is hard to choose between the levi and civ(at least for me was).
saberyoko..by the way..my civ have dmg bonus vs undead high.

i dont want players to craft the civ instead of levi.im just saying that bots are good,but in different ways.but the look..let` admitit..it`s important when u choose a wepon.the grey-steel colour plus the chains sorrunding the blade is awsome.

Well, personally I think any comparison here would be senseless. Go for your choice.

The maths say Levi would be better with ultra and maximum dmg bonus, but u cut down everything with that gears. Someone would even say get a counter-type sword and you'll forget your calibur.

In lower tiers, 110dmg is much better than 84; but in T3 it's 200 - 300 per hit for a normal sword, 30 or even 50 wont make any change. You can kill something with 2 copper bullets, then you can shoot 3 with a style. If you want it real fast, get a silver. I once carried an Acheron into a zombie map, it was fine. People even beat Vanaduke with proto gears, right?

About the charge attacks, a Levi has strong knock back, but CIV would instant kill any turret with its swing. For corners, improve ur dancing, or a Nitronome bomb.

So unless u'r wearing angelic set in fsc or wanna shoot puppy guns down with Magnus, there aint any real difference. This game is one of skill, so choose anything you like I'd say.

Don't forget their type!!!! They are both NORMAL weapons and normal means all-around weapon. CIV sucks as a normal weapon!!!!!! If u face undead, get an ELEMENTAL sword!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leviathan:
Insane knockback, deals more damage than CiV (exclude undead), generally the charge only hits once and spanks the enemy away. It's very annoying in teams... I don't reccomend you to use Calibur charges unless necessary.

CiV:
Looks nice, generally charge may hit twice, has high damage bonus to undead.

My recommendation: Make Levi, it's fun to use :p Arena killer!

not free. you have to spend energy doing the missions. plus ih av a bomb [elemental] and a catlayzer i plan to alchemize into toxic catalyzer [shadow]. so i think my Cic i have will work well. dont anyone dare say- "ur missing a pierce weapon", i dont care i can get that for "free" by defeating snarby on solo.
@plarosel- thanks for the tip. good help.
@batabil- i do not want a piercing/elemental or shadow sword though i already have the nightblade for LD.
im after a sword against all things with a sense of style to it the levi's too boring for me. thats me done now, so who else would like discuss their prefered sword out of the two? and finally, is their anyone else who'd get Civ over the Levi?

yes i have been all the way through the swords. personal taste, the fact theres a chain attached to it makes it special! screw ur floating rocks [jk]! more of a mid sword anyways. thanks.

the knockback produced by the civ is a medium one so it puts u at a safe distance from the ememies.levi`s charge is huge knockback.is maybe too much .it just doesn` keep u safe from eneies it really throws them everywhere on the field so 25% of that knockback is useless.plus dmg dealt on charge is less

DVS was my first choice i might stick with it now actually. too many supposed faults.

some of u here just ignore the wiki stats and the just try to predict what happenes if u get an uv on levi.....
the pure levi is weaker than the pure civ vs undeads and non stationary enemies hitting more times:mostly for 2 times per one charge.
i admit that in some situations levi is better(non undeads stationary enemies)
solo....levi is better but in a party civ is the better choise.
and it looks so cool.