thats me, humbled. I now rock heavy armor and defensive tailsman and fast cast speed.
Is that the armored night dude with the square sword that he shoots at you? You fight the final time at the shack in Caelid right?
He's the dude you fight at the end of the Shaded Castle. His first version is at the Warmasters shack, only at night. I fought his first version by accident in my first playthrough, but never did the Shaded Castle and supposedly there's a 3rd version of him in Caelid. I haven't done that one yet either.
Because dumping all points into STR and spamming jumping strong attack is somehow more skill intensive.....
FTH STR has plenty of options and weapon styles, plus you get to use the best buffs in the game. The various Beast Incants also are incredibly effective and efficient for such a character and require very little initial stat investment to be useful. Unlike the base game, there are not a lot of holy resistant mobs and even lots of enemies who are weak to holy. At high stat levels of FTH, a lot of weapons really start to shine. Fire hits hardest of any build with this setup, but your basic weapons and weapon arts will always wind up being superior.
The wind up is long and it drops you in the middle of enemies, but the damage on this is unreal with the right stats.
There is a tracking frost ring spell in the red area of the Cerelian Coast, guarded by a half dozen spell birds (Heima works great here) that tracks and chain casts faster than Ancient Rancor Call. It also completely melts Mesmer. This is the one spell in the expansion that has been money, as far as I am concerned. The Metyr quest line also has some options, but mostly just upgrades to existing sorceries. DMGS is still very viable, you just have to accept that against certain bosses the window to activate the shot buff is just not going to happen due to hyperagro. The biggest disappointment as a caster is the lack of items and spells, though, for certain. This AI twitch controller read shit has been a slow boil going on since DS1 DLC dropped. Like I said earlier, FROM really wants to turn this game into Seikero or Bloodborne.
It staggers who you hit and then the AOE is damn near full screen. It gonna get nerfed. Currently using it for chafe clear and boss dmg/stagger. Second dancing lion got bodied hard with it, and the bear boss. Shut them down hard.
