SOTFS is the "remastered" version they released for the PS4 and Xbone (DS2 was a PS3 360 game), it features a few changes which were generally considered positive, introduced 60 FPS, and therefore the 60 FPS bug to consoles that was already affecting the 60 FPS capable PC version DS2 standard, and because it now affected their valued PS4 fanbase, From gave enough of a shit to fix it while before they told PC players complaining about the bug to fuck off.
I am SL 31 and have been summoned for Vordt many more times than the Dancer.
That would make sense as most people fighting the dancer are a lot higher than 31.
Yep, which is why it pisses me off when asshats run all the way down the stairs to summon us lowbies in a fight we cannot possibly help with. The first time she destroyed me I started thinking that if she was the next boss that I was going to need to do some serious farming.
Most 2H movesets are worse than their 1H+shield counterparts. You get a minor increase in damage in exchange for significantly increased stamina costs, as well as shittier range in most cases. Not so much with huge weapons but I have yet to see a 2H moveset for a straight sword, katana, or curved sword that doesn't suck so for that reason I keep my shield out even on bosses. That's ignoring weapons with built-in dual wield, but most of those suck for other reasons. Dancer swords even got buffed yesterday and they are still garbage tier.
That's exactly what made me go to katanas/straight swords instead of my Farron GS. Hyper armor is all kinds of messed up. You can stunlock the shit out of most enemies if you catch them flat-footed, but if they've started to swing their weapon then forget it. They have basically infinite poise and there's not a damn thing you can do to interrupt them. Players benefit from this in a sense, but not how one would expect. I don't think I've ever been stunlocked/staggered out of an animation in PVE, regardless of whether I am wearing cloth armor with 0 poise or the heaviest shit I can equip while staying under 70% (~25 poise, iirc). I tend to just wear brass armor because it has the highest physical mitigation at a reasonable carry weight. That I've found anyway, I can't say that I've checked every single set of armor, and fashion souls prevents me from considering any sort of mix & match abomination.
Dark Sword for life, i use 1hs for both bosses and trash, i dont block shit, i roll and slash everthing.
Please stop using stupid naming schemes. DeS, DS1/2/3, BB is best.
Different strokes I guess. I've used Lothric Knight Sword my whole first playthrough, now on my second one I'm using Executioner's Greatsword and it's easymode. I've been slamming down skeletons all over the catacombs (fuck you ninja skellies) and now I'm staggering pontiff knights and fire maidens in Irythyll, and those mobs made me eat a lot of shit on my first character. I guess it helps that it was boosted in the last patch!
Is there a large difference between the executioners great sword and the Holy blade I bought with the Abyss souls?
It might become worth it for a mega str build, like 50+, but at my 35str/35dex it's just plain worse than dark sword and lothric knights sword.
