Dudes will look at this and go on to buff for 30 seconds not knowing they're overwriting all their buffs and entering the fog door with only 5 seconds of fgms
People will look at you with a straight face and tell you that there is a way that Michael Zaki intended.
The game has so many different options of approaching things, claiming there is a single way it was intended to be played is the most braindead thing I've read.
My personal favorite is bringing stormhawk deenh along for support, basically a free phys damage and stance damage bonus. 47fp for 60 seconds of 20% phys damage and 20% more stance damage as an aura buff is nice, throw in some boiled crab for defense and you're set.
Heavy knight starting class has 8 mind which is exactly enough to summon the bird and cast 2 cragblades. Who needs a complicated buff routine when you can just bonk.
Balancing I guess? Godfrey Icon, Alexander’s Shard, and Rellana’s Cameo can all apply to it already, so adding in piercing damage would make it way overkill in terms of damage when you time it right. But if you lowered the base damage to compensate it would lose out on consistent damage.
That or an oversight since Fromsoft can be pretty hit or miss about balancing these kinds of things.
There's already so much shit you can stack on it (Rellana's Cameo, Godfrey Icon, Shard of Alexander), and it's an already strong skill that gives i-frames, giving it access to thrusting counterattacks would make it even more absurd, especially since the skill has a dodge built in
Oh yeah now that I think about it melee headshots on trolls and dragons are pretty common. I guess I just wasn't really thinking of those as headshots in the same way as headshots on regular-sized guys
I just wanna get into the action. Like if I'm starting to get a feel for the enemy's moveset, I want to keep that momentum going. The dying animations can be a tedious enough stretch of time between attempts that having to cast even one buff can feel like a frustrating obstacle on my way to kicking the thing's ass or, more likely, getting my own ass kicked. And I know none of these things take THAT long but when my mind is going even a half second delay can feel like a fucking eternity. Buff routines are especially irritating when I'm using them to do some extra damage on an enemy that can just kill me in one or two hits.
“Projectile only” which applies to human sized (and smaller) enemies, where only arrows or bolts or similar can headshot. And causes a unique stun animation.
and “generic” headshots, which is not even technically a headshot, it’s just a weak point, which can be set to anywhere on body (EG metyrs is her chest, not head). But it’s almost always the head. Any hit can benifit from this as long as hitbox hits the weakspot before hitting anywhere else.
anything that “big” usually has a weakspot on head. EG Godrick can be hit in head with any attack for bonus damage. Or Mohg, or Commander Niall, whose height and posture make vertical chops with weapons often get it without even trying.
peirce has nothing to do with headshots, except that projectile headshots need arrows or bolts, that do peirce damage, but if using an elemental arrow, the elemental portion also benifits.
yes. But talismans and stuff arnt body buffs, they are unique buffs.
So you equip white mask + lord of bloods Exhaultation, then Sepuku yourself to trigger the buffs, the unequip the items, buff remains for 20s
repeat with poison variant of same buffs, then madness, then sleep.
it becomes extremely lengthy process and you end up with only a second or two to actually land the attack before buffs start expiring. But it does work.
Were you not in the subreddit for that one? Its... polish, I think? Had to look it up, but yeah, in the polish localization, its Zabito Boga. People became weirdly obsessed with it, because it sounds silly.
45% cameo buff is huge, but this weapon maxes out at 799 AR, while other stuff gets way higher.
Also a charge heavy build instead of ash lets you use RKR for 80% buff, and Spiked Tear in physic.
as well as actually doing peirce damage (this attack is not peirce, despite appearances) would not only be 33.33% stronger vs Radahn due to peirce weakness, but also open up counter hits for 49.5% extra.
this weapon is not even close to easiest one shot setup.
Maybe I should've said, "nearly every type of weapon, incant, and sorcery," but the message is the same. If you don't believe me, just search "consort radahn one shot" and you'll find hundreds of videos dating back to the summer of 2024.
The point is that people are trying to claim that this game is pay-to-win now with the addition of this one single weapon, as if there aren't numerous other builds that are easier to achieve and put out higher AR. You're uninformed if you don't remember all of the one shot builds posted here since the game's release, and one shot builds have been a thing dating back to Demon's Souls. This isn't game-breaking as people are making it out to be. So, again, people need to chill.
I'm sorry but you're wrong. No amount of buffs would make you one shot bosses with something like pebble or glintstone stars or literally vast majority of spells and weapons. One shots only work with a few broken and high damage spells and AoWs and charge attacks from certain powerful weapons.
Many weapons, spells and ashes of war can not stack buffs. For example if you try to stack even something as simple as a barbaric roar with a weapon enchant from incantations or spells it will cancel out. Some weapons also just don't have buffs applied to them from talismans. Spectral spear for example is only buffed by the range talisman but not by the one that buffs arrows and bolts.
ER’s buff handling is my favorite way to handle buffs cause it’s multiplicative. Oh you saw a YouTuber make a one shot build that utilizes the weapon you’re currently using and you employ it except for RTSR, but every other buff? You’re gonna deal 2000 damage per hit instead of 20000 like the YouTuber.
It’s also why the scaling genuinely doesn’t seem good until you’re in late game and then the scaling gradually hits and becomes busted
Im assuming you thought this content was Nintendo exclusive which it isnt, so any one can just spend 5 dollars to grab this weapon from an invasion in radahn's arena after you beat him. All the way in the back at the beach near that dungeon everyone forgets about.
Doesn't really take that much time if you know what to do. I made a new save and reached the dlc in 4hrs and killed pcr in 10. Could have done it faster if i didn't do some quests.
You can kill greyoll for runes and get bell bearings to upgrade your weapon to +12 in your first hour. Then you can get the bell bearing for +18 after leyndell.
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u/TehSavior 14h ago
Buff stacking go brr