Dark Souls 2
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Raes
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It's hard to get an exact comparison, since he does the full 4 swings with the longsword, but only 3 with the bastard. Even so, the difference is less than 1 second for 4 swings. And the argument is:
"milliseconds? lolwut, the big weapons are slow as fuck and have huge recovery."
"The speed difference to most is drastic."
Edit: Forgot to add, it's not just about the speed. It's the speed plus the range/cleave, plus the damage.
Vaclav
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That one second I found mattered on bosses with my playstyle personally.
I used mace (that is similarly slow) for blunt weak stuff that had long windows, and Heide KS and better when I needed quick stuff.
I can't imagine wasting the extra seconds on Smelter, Ancient, Giant Lord, and others. (prenerf NG+ Flexile would likely be close to impossible with a slow 2H)
I used mace (that is similarly slow) for blunt weak stuff that had long windows, and Heide KS and better when I needed quick stuff.
I can't imagine wasting the extra seconds on Smelter, Ancient, Giant Lord, and others. (prenerf NG+ Flexile would likely be close to impossible with a slow 2H)
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Vyemm Raider
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It's not a second, it's quite a bit less. Milliseconds. If you don't want to waste them, that's your business.
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Vyemm Raider
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Adaptability speeds up shield raise. Are you still basing this off memory? Cause I've had the game open this whole time and I've been testing. The differences you're talking about are miniscule. Also, the shield raise time with the bastard sword isn't as bad as it could be, since you are raising your shield and raising your sword back to your shoulder at the same time.
Vaclav
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At the hospital with the wife til tomorrow so, yes mostly off memory.
Although running the YouTube videos of movesets with some comparisons with her and my matching phones side by side looks around a full second to me on swing alone. Besides slooooow 1H like maces. But I don't have a third device to stopwatch.
Regardless apply it real world on Smelter and Pursuer 2 before committing to them being the end all eternally. BKGS is amazing many places though but mostly for packs. (good for the kitties near Doors too - those suuuuuck 1H IMO)
Although running the YouTube videos of movesets with some comparisons with her and my matching phones side by side looks around a full second to me on swing alone. Besides slooooow 1H like maces. But I don't have a third device to stopwatch.
Regardless apply it real world on Smelter and Pursuer 2 before committing to them being the end all eternally. BKGS is amazing many places though but mostly for packs. (good for the kitties near Doors too - those suuuuuck 1H IMO)
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Like I said, it's not just the speed, which is barely different. (Looks to me like less than a second per 4 swings, that's a very small difference per swing) It's the tiny bit of downside to all the upside. I used katanas in DS1, so it wasn't an issue, and greatswords had more downside there as well. Not a huge deal, just feels a little off. Maybe it's just that longswords should be faster, like the broadsword.
I'm doing a spear playthrough and spears are just so shit. Most of them have 50 durability, which isn't quite enough (especially on a weapon that's prone to striking walls), and their damage is really low. They're miserable against armor, they're awful for AoE, and most of them don't even really have much more reach than a sword's thrust or any larger weapon's R2 attack. The ability to attack with a shield raised is of marginal value as the damage of these attacks is less than half of a regular R1. There are very few noteworthy spears in the game as well, it's missing stuff like the mastodon weapons or Ricard's Rapier. There's just Santier's Spear which works for one specific build only.
Vorph
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If you want the feel of a dex build without being gimped by the terrible dex weapons and scaling this time around, you really should try it once you're SL129 (22 dex/20 in the rest).
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Vyemm Raider
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Terrible dex scaling? You must meancreativedex weaponbalancing, right? Cause ain't nothing wrong with this game, bro. I'm sure the devs only did it so you'd have the pleasure of trying other types of weapons, get ya out of your comfort zone, ya know?
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Spears are good for defensive one on one boss fights, but not much else this game. The reach was amazingly useful on Smelter and for drilling shit in narrow corridors. The Halberd is a much better weapon of similar moves. The BKH, in particular, is a very good option for modest stat investment. My mage character is still maining it. Spears and Halberds are still good for methodical mele, just not as ezmode pve like in Demons Souls.
The timing stuff with the Great Sword, I just do not see. My tanky build with a BKGS does just fine against all bosses, even one shotting Pursuer 2.0 with it. The issue with smelter is the fire damage pulses raping you late in the fight. The BKGS worked decent for me in normal PvP, too (by normal I mean people running PvE setups for fun) and it absolutely destroys in coop when someone else is there to draw the heat.
The timing stuff with the Great Sword, I just do not see. My tanky build with a BKGS does just fine against all bosses, even one shotting Pursuer 2.0 with it. The issue with smelter is the fire damage pulses raping you late in the fight. The BKGS worked decent for me in normal PvP, too (by normal I mean people running PvE setups for fun) and it absolutely destroys in coop when someone else is there to draw the heat.