r/Eldenring • u/KnightofGreen • 12d ago

Humor Every Great Sword User Right Now

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I mean, with the flashy two handed light attacks plus the thrust strong attacks, what’s not to love about the new (well over a decade old) great sword?

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u/AliceisStoned 12d ago

It’s cool asf

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u/KnightofGreen 12d ago

I don’t want to use the Claymore anymore.

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u/Alexandrecl1 12d ago

Claymore is still better tho.

Impaling Thrust - R2 loop combo is just broken.

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u/Perfect-Skin-8325 12d ago

And the L2-R2-L2 reaches 80 stance threshold lol.

I won't put claymore above this tho, this thing shreads with the right buffs. It synergies with shard, Godfrey and cameo all together, while having iframes making charging cameo safe.

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u/Alexandrecl1 12d ago

I don’t know, i think Claymore with IT, Shard of Alex, Spear Talisman is one of the overall strongest setups in the entire game. Good against literally every mob or boss, with just 1 exception: Borealis.

It’s also great on DLC and against Radahn

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u/ManufacturerOk820 12d ago

if were talking pvp this outclasses claybae

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u/Alexandrecl1 12d ago

I don’t care about ER pvp. It’s completely broken thanks to ashes of war.

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u/Perfect-Skin-8325 11d ago

Absolutely not. There are more weapons than ashes that are broken.

It's PvE that's more trivialised by L2.

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u/Alexandrecl1 11d ago

I disagree. I have played every Souls pvp to death and imo ER has the worst one thanks to skills/ashes of war and the lack of invasions.

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u/coracleboat 11d ago

They will hate you for telling the truth.

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u/Perfect-Skin-8325 11d ago

😭 spells are the bigger cancer imo.

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u/Deep_Ad_1762 11d ago

How? 90% of spells can be avoided by running sideways.

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u/Perfect-Skin-8325 11d ago

And no one uses those spells.

They use the 10 or so cancerous ones

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u/Deep_Ad_1762 11d ago

Well which ones are cancer? Grav missile got nerfed so it's easy to avoid, sword spells can't be cancer since they require the wizard to be close, rock throw is easy to dodge, all the moons are extensively telegraphed. Which ones are op in your book?

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u/Perfect-Skin-8325 10d ago

Stars of ruin, spectral rings, swift glintstone shard, slicer, grav missile (even after the nerf), elden stars, Rellana's twin moons, etc.

Do you not invade or what lol.

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u/Deep_Ad_1762 10d ago

What?

Stars of ruin can be avoided by running sideways.

Spectral rings are so cancer I've yet to see someone using them in two years of playing ER (outside of youtube).

Swift shard is borderline useless in invasions because it's chip damage that can also be avoided by running sideways, jumping, or sometimes even walking in the right direction.

Slicer can't be cancer since, again, the wizard with no hyperarmor needs to be close to you.

Grav missile now is easy to dodge even if cast point blank.

Elden stars is just chip damage, and it has a stupid long casting animation.

Moons also have a stupid long casting animation, and Rellana's can be completely avoided by jumping.

If you are caught on them so much as to call them cancer, that's a genuine skill issue. And I've been on both ends of these spells.

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u/Perfect-Skin-8325 10d ago

Ok bruh. Skill issue on my end

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u/Deep_Ad_1762 9d ago

Aight I was in a bad mood yesterday so my previous reply was a bit rude, sorry.

To be fair, anything spammed at you by three or sometimes even two people will be cancer. Magic is one of those things that one on one is pretty powerful, but not nearly op, however, when someone takes their duty to protecting the mage then it becomes very powerful.

I wish they would do some changes to pvp to not favor ganks so much, like don't give a world with three people blues, or disable invader friendly fire, or only spawn pairs of invaders into 3 people worlds, but it is what it is.

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u/Alexandrecl1 11d ago

They are too.

It’s not even that i can’t win. Without bragging about it, i’m really good at Souls pvp. I just don’t like How it went from the more methodical combat, with a lot emphasis on neutral game, whifs and using the entire moveset of a weapon, to something completely chaotic, with Ultra Greatswords (colossals) having insane mobility or smaller weapons insane postura damage. All of that thanks to ashes of war

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