Before we begin, I suck at this game so take my complaints with a grain of salt.
I went sorcery.
pros;
- attacking stuff at range
- killing mini bosses at range because they are not resistant to sorcery
- using Gemstone Arc to hit multiple enemies at once when they are close together
cons;
- Many mobs, especially bosses, kill you in two hits which fucking sucks
- It takes 2 shots minimum to kill most enemies which means in places like Stormveil Castle mana/fp management fucking sucks
- Having to split your flasks between healing and mana recovery
- I have only just finished clearing Stormveil and am still forced to use the 2 starting spells because every other spell I have found fucking sucks (I have just gotten a couple new spells I haven't had the chance to try out yet, though)
- Using ash to make your weapon do magic damage and scale off INT is all well and good but you still hit like a wet noodle and anything that is magic resistant or hardened fucking sucks to fight
- Can't play around with weapons because you don't have the stats to equip anything
- because you need to invest so many points into INT to reduce the number of casts to kill anything all your other stats suffer
- you are stuck using shitty armour because you can't afford to go above med encumbrance and into fat rolling
- enemies, especially npc invaders and those guys in those circle things, dodge your casts which fucking sucks
- Faster moving enemies, like birds, are hard to hit with your casts and you may end up missing which fucking sucks
- Your casts' range is difficult to gauge because lock on range is like 50% further than cast range so you may end up casting a few shots at something only to have it dissipate millimetres away from the enemy which fucking sucks
- Casting on Torrent in combat against anything that moves faster than a snail fucking sucks.
- there is a wind up when you cast and if you get hit you stop casting which fucking sucks
- Almost everything kills you in two hits, I mention this twice because this is the one that is making me consider restarting as melee and it fucking sucks.
Parts of the game are roflsnort easy mode and other part are hair pulling levels of frustration. I know that is par for the course in a SoulsBorne game but there is a difference between dying because you mistimed one too many dodges and dying because you mistimed one dodge. The only reason I beat Margit and Godrick was because of the NPC summons available. If I hadn't of used them I think it would have taken me 4 or 5 times the number of tries it took me.
But, like I said, I suck at these games.
And yet... I stop playing and 15minutes later I want back on.
Also, I know it has been said but removing durability from the weapons was a very, very sound decision.
9/10 thus far.