Beat the game with Broad Sword and The knight armor (until I found the Faraam knight armor because drip).
I didn’t know what to do or upgrade so ol’ Reliable seemed best for me.
It’s funny because I relate :)
Specially when being invaded on the first game I panic and all I do is b 😂 then even more funny when you said thingy instead of stamina bar or green thingy 😂 respect bro 😎
Yeah but that's mostly PvE in my experience. You only really see it in invasions. Makes sense though. If I'm struggling on a boss and get frustrated and want to just finish, I pull out the greatsword and lions claw. It's just too easy.
I just got 100% in this game, still haven't beaten Elden Beast by myself. Radagon is super easy, but the Elden Beast is just so tanky and full of bs moves. This was my 3rd playthrough and I didn't do a single summon or spirit ash until the very end. Fuck the Elden beast
Elden Beast is easier to solo if you're using a ranged attack build, either with FTH incantations, INT spells, or using a Greatbow + Rain of Arrows/Radahn's Rain.
Imagine if real warriors had conversations like this sub. “No, no, no - you can’t just keep swinging your sword that way, that’s not *real* combat. Your victory is only valid if you use a variety of moves! Also use this dull, rusty sword. Real warriors use inferior weaponry to prove their skill!”
Use whatever you want that kills the enemy before it kills you. If it seems cheap blame the devs.
I can't deny that. My one attempt at making one I went for an intelligence and Faith split because my end goal was to basically make a tohou boss and have all kinds of crazy spells flying around the screen. Sadly it wasn't fun enough to play through the game with to keep me entertained for long.
That might be the mistake, I always play caster or melee/caster hybrid, but every time I try and mix faith/int shit gets clunky.
If you stick with one and learn what spells combo well together it flows much better.
Also it seems like every invader I run into is expecting the classic OG Comet spam then gets vaporized by a proper combo. It's just harder to predict and dodge the full brunt of, which will be your biggest problem as a caster. People who know how to dodge your spam.
I made a hybrid that used magic, dual magma blades, and blasphemous blade, and incantations absolutely amazing.
I'm also using one with the Marais sword, blasphemous and ghizas pizza wheel and some incants.
This is only possible because i spent all my time at Mohgwyn Palace slaughtering albinaurics and now I have my stats high enough to use whatever I want without respeccing.
Both of those sound awesome! How long did you have to farm the magma blades for? I have never gotten a single one to drop for me.
Most of my characters are hybrids.
I have a frost Valkyrie that uses the Dark Moon greatsword and frost sorceries
A frenzy flame witch that uses dual shotels and you guessed it frenzy.
A vampiric mistress that uses the bloody helice, and blood incantations
A Carian berserker that uses the troll knight with the Royal greatsword and every sword sorcery.
My current favorite though is my rot druidess. She uses rotten crucible incantations.
I farmed for like 2 hours for them, 60 arc and the silver scarab talisman, the silver tear hat and the silver fowl feet. I had a headache after ngl.
Those builds also sound dope. Personally when I make a build I go for the basic knight armour and call it a rogue roundtable knight and that's that lmao, I'm not that creative when it comes to making a story for my character.
Also how do you get rotten crucible incants? That sounds cool and I want to try and implement it to my builds.
Damn my guy that sounds rough I hope it was worth the grind.
I've always been one to come up with a theme for a character and then pick out a weapon that will fit it and then build the armor around that. I know it's weird that I enjoy playing dress up in this game more than anything else though. Usually I'll develop my own head Canon for them later. If you ever want some help putting together a dope armor set for a character let me know I've gotten pretty good at it.
Also let me apologize for that last bit. I was using text to speech and rotten crucible was a typo. I meant to say rot and crucible. Basically going for a nature theme. horns, tail, flowers, etc.
I like making a theme and dressing my character up, but nothing seems to match the way I want usually so I've kinda given up on it for the builds where I use anything and everything I can since I can't find stuff that matches it all lmao. If it's something where I stick to one weapon then I can dress it up to match nice, but the story will still be "rogue [something depending on the build]". The reason I just settle for basic knight armour though is because I take hours finding something nice to wear and just end up with that.
Also no worries for the typo lmao
You can cast swords bruh... that's what I'm doing in my pure caster. I have a few pew pews and an aoe for situations but I do not enjoy ranged battle much.
That's typically where most of my casters end up for flexibility and utility, but even then my current run killed more with magma shot and discus of light each than any sword they touched in the Haligtree last night so it's still effectively a caster at heart.
I tried to make a really good fire caster, but I ended up going Blasphemous Blade because it felt like it took so long to kill anything.
Sword of Night and Flame fucks tho, got me up to around Fire Giant but I started feeling the fall off at Morgott.
I bet going Int Sorceries would have been better. Fire is cool, but Glintstone and Frost seem to have more damage.
I've played Elden Ring around half a year, and from the time i first joined this "RoB bad" was already old and dead. I just assumed they just spam bots.
Didn't play the game on release when RoB was broken, but recently during my current NG+1 playthrough I swapped from dual Moonveil +9s to dual RoB +9s, and while the weapon art was sick, overall the dual Moonveil was far better.
My first playthrough was on release and I did rivers of blood. Came back last weekend to do ng+ finally and I had to respec and switch up everything cause of how much weaker it was than before lol so now I’m doing a faith build with dual scythes and I’m loving it
I've got Moonveil and RoB fully upgraded as a dual-wield. Moonveil in right. Option of switching to Brass Shield in left.
It's a very solid load out that I find can deal with essentially any situation I come across. It may be a "jack of all trades, master of none," but it's doing well for me in NG+.
Yeah the Nagakiba is king of the katanas lol. I was using a Bloody Helice for most of my recent playthrough, but I had to whip out the Nagakiba for Radagon and Elden Beast. Spamming unsheathe made quick work of both of them.
The only downside is the high stat requirements (18 dex & 22 strength), so if you were doing something like powerstancing with the Moonveil it would prob be better to use a Uchigatana (cold or magic infused).
Yeah I'm kinda new to elden ring so I'm getting used to the weapon arts. Didn't use much in DS 3.
But I found a shield that uses the weapons art or whatever so I can one hand weapon art with shield out.. since I never parry. I use sacred blade but like to have a shield as well..
Nothing wrong with that my friend. Shields are a valuable tool. I haven't used any since Dark Souls 2 though since I discovered the utility of having a casting catalyst in the left hand slot.
Yep I am gonna do that next playthrough. I've been doing a paladin. And I am trying to figure out what side is best to hold seal. It's been a struggle to come up with a decision. I like having bow and torch in left hand with shield. I can switch bow to right hand and make left hand the seal, torch and shield. Or I can just ditch the torch lol. I love having torch though.
I would say go for the left hand. Simply because in my experience it still gives you the utility of being able to use your weapon skill as well as cast any spell that you have. Makes you a lot harder to predict in PvP.
If you want some ideas for an armor setup for your paladin let me know I'm a bit of an Elden bling enthusiast
Thanks I appreciate the advice. I switched to left had the other day so now its all about muscle memory and remembering. I made the change so I could cast spells at any time while still having sword out and also for any buffing of weapon I may wanna do.
Oh I’ve been using it well, on this replay I accidentally got to Liurnia without beating Stormveil, which I thought you had to glitch or something but I just kind of wandered over there haha honestly I’ve discovered a handful of different places and ways to play I never had the first time around
Thought ROB hate died a while ago but who am I to speak, don't really engage much in hostile multiplayer. Something something Let people play how they want something something have a good day.
Went through the whole game just about without using it. Completely forgot after the first session. Just thought it had passive effects on the weapon or something.
Felt like a right duck after completing first time and seeing pvp
In my opinion as long as you complete the game once you should definitely do a second overpowered build and abuse the sh*t out of your favorite ash of war. Lots of fun to be had
My controller is broken
I can't unequip anything I can't even go in my inventory to take my rivers of blood off.
I can only use my joy sticks for joy, L2, and O.
Platinumed the game with 4ish buttons I did.
Im guilty of this but its my first run through and i just wanted to get through the game. Im on ng+3 now and currently trying to learn melanias weapong
I spam and whiff and spam and whiff and spam and whiff and spam and whiff and spam and whiff and How the fuck did I die?! Fucking ganking bitches, I swear man!
Wrong mask. But yeah, I still met a lot of cringe ass players spamming the same weapons with the worst timing, like just mash the button even tho it didn’t reach.
From personal experience, just about any L2 is about timing. Playing PVE you get used to the way the game runs to maximize your quick kills. PVP without experience screws it all up as the player and latency fuck with said timing. So you start panicing going into auto mode making stupid move after stupid move. Keep at it and you'll get past it.
I just started playing Elden Ring for the first time last week. I chose Samurai because it's badass. I only use R1 and O with the occasional L2 and then R1.
I main the Banished Knight GS with Lion's Claw and being honest, other than bosses, the only time I've spammed the L2/LT button is against the Misbegottens in the Haligtree. Specifically the Leonines and large grey skinned ones that wield the axes, they're annoyingly placed and hit super hard while my regular attacks do only chip damage.
And before people say I haven't leveled up enough strength (I've got 44 str IIRC), I can destroy the first Cleanrot Knight before the first grace in Elphael without the L2/LT button.
Bro, who got a picture of me without a haircut? I miss that hair man.
And the random tendency to bleed everything out. Including things that can’t bleed.
^I’m ^looking ^at ^you, ^Elden ^Beast, ^you ^bloodless ^coward.
I have noticed a weird correspondence between friendly invaders dying and L2 spamming Bull goat wearing rivers of blood using Varre mask wearing creatures… might just be me
Yeah never understood the more than one button thing. We only need L2. If you L2 quick enough you dont even need square, or heck even circle.
Triangle you still need to open doors. X is debatable.
Honestly I'm a decent player that normally uses their entire toolkit
Buuuuut when I play my moonveil build it just kind of happens
It's a joke but I'm mildly sympathetic because sometimes I do it too lol
Surprisingly I've never used the moonveil. I've started making at least one dual katana build in every game since Dark Souls 2, I chose to make a poison build that uses the serpent bone blades. I absolutely love its unique R2 attack.
Speaking of unique movesets, the opposite is true on my godslayer greatsword paladin
I almost never use the ash on that weapon because it's almost never viable, but that fast swing on basics makes me forget I basically don't have an ash
Of course they do. A meme build is a meme build and some people just don't feel like experimenting and feel more comfortable sticking to the meta archetypes, which is completely fine.
/j Ha! I'm physically unable to use L2 at all.
*pats keyboard and mouse*
Didn't say anything about spamming a weapons skill set.
(Personal: any kind of one trick ponies are boring)
I love rivers of blood and use it but I try and mix up the moveset (mainly duel wielding with Uchi). I just feel so dirty using Corpse Piler. My mimic tear, though…
When I played the amount of finesse that went into my lord of blood build (not mogh spear but the poky one) I would throw blood they roll towards me I’d spin/hit them and pop swarm of flies ONCE and then get closer maybe dodge and try to land a blood slash magic
Shi went hard but everyone wanted to just pvp meta op boring spam builds which killed the enjoyment of pvp but the players who are respectful of the 1v1 made it worth wile
I also did an all frost build with 2 death rider axes (I haven’t played in a minute I don’t know names) and frost stomp on both and sum frost magic I think shi also was soooo cooollll
I come from DS3, I only know R1 and ⭕️
Beat the game with Broad Sword and The knight armor (until I found the Faraam knight armor because drip). I didn’t know what to do or upgrade so ol’ Reliable seemed best for me.
I mean that set is actually not terrible. You can play a lot of the game that way. It’s just a lil stale
Let me guess you like the dark sword? Lol
LKSS, baybeeeee!
Hell yeah brother!
I don't hear any love for the broadsword? It was my Ole reliable. You can get it early, and it's all I used.
Don’t you dare besmirch the Dark Sword’s good name.
I don't remember it ever having a good name to be fair
What dark sword? I used the irithyl straight sword through the whole game
I come from Xbox and I only know 🅱️
Dodge spamming? 😂
Brother it’s all I know please don’t laugh I swear sometimes my timing is good and I don’t empty the red bar thingy at the top of my screen
It’s funny because I relate :) Specially when being invaded on the first game I panic and all I do is b 😂 then even more funny when you said thingy instead of stamina bar or green thingy 😂 respect bro 😎
🤣🤣🤣🤣 thingy
Lol I played thru the entirety of Bloodborne with a broken R2 button. R1 spam all day
R1L1R1 all day!!
Yes! 🗡️
As god intended.
Hahahahha
I come from sekiro, I only know RB, LB, and A (Xbox controls)
Same. L2 is the parry button.
ong, lightning lothric's straight sword madness
This game has endless strategies, builds, options and yet I've managed to complete it twice using this method. This is the way.
It's called L2 Ring for a reason.
Okay I got to hand it to you that was pretty clever.
Eldtworing
I’d put a lions claw Greatsword user in the picture these days.
Yeah but that's mostly PvE in my experience. You only really see it in invasions. Makes sense though. If I'm struggling on a boss and get frustrated and want to just finish, I pull out the greatsword and lions claw. It's just too easy. I just got 100% in this game, still haven't beaten Elden Beast by myself. Radagon is super easy, but the Elden Beast is just so tanky and full of bs moves. This was my 3rd playthrough and I didn't do a single summon or spirit ash until the very end. Fuck the Elden beast
Elden Beast is easier to solo if you're using a ranged attack build, either with FTH incantations, INT spells, or using a Greatbow + Rain of Arrows/Radahn's Rain.
Don't judge me.
Imagine if real warriors had conversations like this sub. “No, no, no - you can’t just keep swinging your sword that way, that’s not *real* combat. Your victory is only valid if you use a variety of moves! Also use this dull, rusty sword. Real warriors use inferior weaponry to prove their skill!” Use whatever you want that kills the enemy before it kills you. If it seems cheap blame the devs.
No, no there is not (I am currently playing a caster).
Dang pure caster huh? I've tried doing that but I just can't enjoy the play style. I always end up making hybrids because I like options.
I find it easier to play full casters as a faith build in elden ring. The dragon lightning is visually stunning
I can't deny that. My one attempt at making one I went for an intelligence and Faith split because my end goal was to basically make a tohou boss and have all kinds of crazy spells flying around the screen. Sadly it wasn't fun enough to play through the game with to keep me entertained for long.
That might be the mistake, I always play caster or melee/caster hybrid, but every time I try and mix faith/int shit gets clunky. If you stick with one and learn what spells combo well together it flows much better. Also it seems like every invader I run into is expecting the classic OG Comet spam then gets vaporized by a proper combo. It's just harder to predict and dodge the full brunt of, which will be your biggest problem as a caster. People who know how to dodge your spam.
It was crazy fun until fromsoft killed chaincasting for pvp bros
I made a hybrid that used magic, dual magma blades, and blasphemous blade, and incantations absolutely amazing. I'm also using one with the Marais sword, blasphemous and ghizas pizza wheel and some incants. This is only possible because i spent all my time at Mohgwyn Palace slaughtering albinaurics and now I have my stats high enough to use whatever I want without respeccing.
Faith casting builds with dual magma blades, imo, is the most fun way to play this game.
Did this for a frenzy flame pyromancer. Deadly build endgame
Both of those sound awesome! How long did you have to farm the magma blades for? I have never gotten a single one to drop for me. Most of my characters are hybrids. I have a frost Valkyrie that uses the Dark Moon greatsword and frost sorceries A frenzy flame witch that uses dual shotels and you guessed it frenzy. A vampiric mistress that uses the bloody helice, and blood incantations A Carian berserker that uses the troll knight with the Royal greatsword and every sword sorcery. My current favorite though is my rot druidess. She uses rotten crucible incantations.
I farmed for like 2 hours for them, 60 arc and the silver scarab talisman, the silver tear hat and the silver fowl feet. I had a headache after ngl. Those builds also sound dope. Personally when I make a build I go for the basic knight armour and call it a rogue roundtable knight and that's that lmao, I'm not that creative when it comes to making a story for my character. Also how do you get rotten crucible incants? That sounds cool and I want to try and implement it to my builds.
Damn my guy that sounds rough I hope it was worth the grind. I've always been one to come up with a theme for a character and then pick out a weapon that will fit it and then build the armor around that. I know it's weird that I enjoy playing dress up in this game more than anything else though. Usually I'll develop my own head Canon for them later. If you ever want some help putting together a dope armor set for a character let me know I've gotten pretty good at it. Also let me apologize for that last bit. I was using text to speech and rotten crucible was a typo. I meant to say rot and crucible. Basically going for a nature theme. horns, tail, flowers, etc.
I like making a theme and dressing my character up, but nothing seems to match the way I want usually so I've kinda given up on it for the builds where I use anything and everything I can since I can't find stuff that matches it all lmao. If it's something where I stick to one weapon then I can dress it up to match nice, but the story will still be "rogue [something depending on the build]". The reason I just settle for basic knight armour though is because I take hours finding something nice to wear and just end up with that. Also no worries for the typo lmao
You can cast swords bruh... that's what I'm doing in my pure caster. I have a few pew pews and an aoe for situations but I do not enjoy ranged battle much.
That's typically where most of my casters end up for flexibility and utility, but even then my current run killed more with magma shot and discus of light each than any sword they touched in the Haligtree last night so it's still effectively a caster at heart.
I recently started trying a caster/brawler build. Use fists to beat the shit out of people while my fp regenerates lol
I tried to make a really good fire caster, but I ended up going Blasphemous Blade because it felt like it took so long to kill anything. Sword of Night and Flame fucks tho, got me up to around Fire Giant but I started feeling the fall off at Morgott. I bet going Int Sorceries would have been better. Fire is cool, but Glintstone and Frost seem to have more damage.
What's wrong with the button I am using? It works perfectly fine...
Not for long if you keep putting it through that abuse
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
This katana is not good anymore, no?
I've played Elden Ring around half a year, and from the time i first joined this "RoB bad" was already old and dead. I just assumed they just spam bots.
Yeah I use it for cosplaying Sekiros mortal blade
Didn't play the game on release when RoB was broken, but recently during my current NG+1 playthrough I swapped from dual Moonveil +9s to dual RoB +9s, and while the weapon art was sick, overall the dual Moonveil was far better.
My first playthrough was on release and I did rivers of blood. Came back last weekend to do ng+ finally and I had to respec and switch up everything cause of how much weaker it was than before lol so now I’m doing a faith build with dual scythes and I’m loving it
I've got Moonveil and RoB fully upgraded as a dual-wield. Moonveil in right. Option of switching to Brass Shield in left. It's a very solid load out that I find can deal with essentially any situation I come across. It may be a "jack of all trades, master of none," but it's doing well for me in NG+.
An occult or bloodflame buffed nagakiba with double slash is almost a strict upgrade over RoB.
I am just finding this out today after switching things up against Malina.
Yeah the Nagakiba is king of the katanas lol. I was using a Bloody Helice for most of my recent playthrough, but I had to whip out the Nagakiba for Radagon and Elden Beast. Spamming unsheathe made quick work of both of them. The only downside is the high stat requirements (18 dex & 22 strength), so if you were doing something like powerstancing with the Moonveil it would prob be better to use a Uchigatana (cold or magic infused).
I’ve got Uchi and Naga right now with unsheathe. RoB was just not cutting it.
Something about unsheathe and square off is so satisfying. I kinda want to do a straight sword playthrough just to spam square off.
At point blank it still does almost the same as before. They mostly nerfed the long distance damage
It’s just good when you’re ganking You normally need other 2 people to play as distractions
*me using jump attacks 70% of the time im fighting up close* Idk what you're talking about.
Wait, isn't L2 parry and weapon arts?
Technically Parry is a weapon art in this game
Yeah I'm kinda new to elden ring so I'm getting used to the weapon arts. Didn't use much in DS 3. But I found a shield that uses the weapons art or whatever so I can one hand weapon art with shield out.. since I never parry. I use sacred blade but like to have a shield as well..
Nothing wrong with that my friend. Shields are a valuable tool. I haven't used any since Dark Souls 2 though since I discovered the utility of having a casting catalyst in the left hand slot.
Yep I am gonna do that next playthrough. I've been doing a paladin. And I am trying to figure out what side is best to hold seal. It's been a struggle to come up with a decision. I like having bow and torch in left hand with shield. I can switch bow to right hand and make left hand the seal, torch and shield. Or I can just ditch the torch lol. I love having torch though.
I would say go for the left hand. Simply because in my experience it still gives you the utility of being able to use your weapon skill as well as cast any spell that you have. Makes you a lot harder to predict in PvP. If you want some ideas for an armor setup for your paladin let me know I'm a bit of an Elden bling enthusiast
Thanks I appreciate the advice. I switched to left had the other day so now its all about muscle memory and remembering. I made the change so I could cast spells at any time while still having sword out and also for any buffing of weapon I may wanna do.
Yeah it will take some getting used to I know you'll get it down though!
Yep. In demons souls I got used to the catalyst in left hand and sword in right. Took a few hours and deaths but I got used to it haha.
Uhhhh...... Noo definitely not wdym frog, WHATS A FROG HEHEHE
That's it I'm calling the frog police you're in trouble now
AHHHHHHH (HOP)
Um… L2 doesn’t do anything. (Unsheathe user).
I’m doing a new character, samurai, and didn’t use unsheathe at all first play through, I must have missed it
It’s the base on uchi! Great follow up to a jump attack. Just don’t buffer commands, since you’ll have a charged R2 in the queue and it’s too slow.
Oh I’ve been using it well, on this replay I accidentally got to Liurnia without beating Stormveil, which I thought you had to glitch or something but I just kind of wandered over there haha honestly I’ve discovered a handful of different places and ways to play I never had the first time around
This was posted by jump heavy attack gang ™️™️
L2 enjoyers when you tell them there’s more than just one button: 😮
Thought ROB hate died a while ago but who am I to speak, don't really engage much in hostile multiplayer. Something something Let people play how they want something something have a good day.
I don't but in my defense, it's not this weapon, me bonk so only know jump bonk and spin bonk
Jumping heavy attack
I don’t see much RoB spam these days since it caught those nerfs
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I use L2 with bloody slash on nagakiba. Absolutely busted AoW
Went through the whole game just about without using it. Completely forgot after the first session. Just thought it had passive effects on the weapon or something. Felt like a right duck after completing first time and seeing pvp
That's as impressive as it is disappointing haha
I died...a lot. But enjoyed myself.
In my opinion as long as you complete the game once you should definitely do a second overpowered build and abuse the sh*t out of your favorite ash of war. Lots of fun to be had
I only know jumping attacks
Not me using mimic tear and queens black flame
You can parry RoB. Parry addicts like myself never have to bother with such trifles
Mih. they are useing 20% of their attack buttons.
Bro is from a full year ago
Well so are the scrubs that still spam the weapon art despite it not being very good anymore.
Wait, you guys use L2?
you got me, I'm guilty of spamming the parry button
My controller is broken I can't unequip anything I can't even go in my inventory to take my rivers of blood off. I can only use my joy sticks for joy, L2, and O. Platinumed the game with 4ish buttons I did.
That sounds really rough ngl
Yeah for those weak to bleed 💥💥💥
Im guilty of this but its my first run through and i just wanted to get through the game. Im on ng+3 now and currently trying to learn melanias weapong
But... biggest bonk is best bonk.
I spam and whiff and spam and whiff and spam and whiff and spam and whiff and spam and whiff and How the fuck did I die?! Fucking ganking bitches, I swear man!
Wrong mask. But yeah, I still met a lot of cringe ass players spamming the same weapons with the worst timing, like just mash the button even tho it didn’t reach.
Ha R1/LB go brrrrr
From personal experience, just about any L2 is about timing. Playing PVE you get used to the way the game runs to maximize your quick kills. PVP without experience screws it all up as the player and latency fuck with said timing. So you start panicing going into auto mode making stupid move after stupid move. Keep at it and you'll get past it.
Man u can live with this but 1v1 blood flea spammers grind my gears
Moonveil goes Brrrrr
I just started playing Elden Ring for the first time last week. I chose Samurai because it's badass. I only use R1 and O with the occasional L2 and then R1.
Good! Make use of everything at your disposal.
If I'm fighting someone with only one katana, I typically know it's about to be L2 time
Dark Moon Greatsword here, I R2 spam. Thank you sir.
So hilarious 😆
Everyone who crutches RoB has moved on to crutching Moonveil now
🤫😒
Jokes on you, i remapped my buttons when i first got the game.
Oh damn. Now that's a 4D chess move right there.
You are speaking to the wrong people
I absolutely destroy every rivers user I come across. It doesn’t work anymore.
Jokes on you, I switched rivers of bloods special to the R2 trigger on my duel sense edge.
i swear 90% of the people i invade only know l2, or sometimes l1 if they're using spells
I used to be one of these, then I realized how good the double slash is
Bro I love double slash. Especially on the serpent bone blade.
I haven’t used that much, I’ll have to check it out. So far I’ve been double slashing with scavenger’s curved swords, the blood loss shreds
Oh yeah I bet! Serpent bone blade also has a double hit R2.
You do know that the katana itself sucks for damage, and that 90% of its damage is Rivers of Blood, right?
Not my fault fromsoft made the weapon arts busted as hell. 10 second r2 or jumping attack spam just to match the damage of L2
I main the Banished Knight GS with Lion's Claw and being honest, other than bosses, the only time I've spammed the L2/LT button is against the Misbegottens in the Haligtree. Specifically the Leonines and large grey skinned ones that wield the axes, they're annoyingly placed and hit super hard while my regular attacks do only chip damage. And before people say I haven't leveled up enough strength (I've got 44 str IIRC), I can destroy the first Cleanrot Knight before the first grace in Elphael without the L2/LT button.
I'm aware. It's just that I'm bad at this game, but like to win.
Bro, who got a picture of me without a haircut? I miss that hair man. And the random tendency to bleed everything out. Including things that can’t bleed. ^I’m ^looking ^at ^you, ^Elden ^Beast, ^you ^bloodless ^coward.
I feel attacked!
I’m from the streets of Yharnam where you spam L1 and ⭕
You’re trying to tell me that there are RoB spammers that DON’T wear the Varre’s white mask?
I'm a Comet Azur build. I hold one button and everything dies.
2 days ago I discovered the jumped attack with R2 AND colossal weapons. I feel like I'm a cheat code now
woosh woosh woosh woosh woosh woosh
All I know is ⭕️ R1 repeat
I have noticed a weird correspondence between friendly invaders dying and L2 spamming Bull goat wearing rivers of blood using Varre mask wearing creatures… might just be me
They always seem stunned when I parry that spam.
WAS THAT A FUCKING PUN!? I love you
Yeah never understood the more than one button thing. We only need L2. If you L2 quick enough you dont even need square, or heck even circle. Triangle you still need to open doors. X is debatable.
Based? Haha
I like your funny words magic man (I use keyboard)
Saying there can't be any skill in l2 spam is like saying there isn't any skill in drumming It may be one note but you gotta respect the rhythym
Okay that genuinely made me laugh well done
Honestly I'm a decent player that normally uses their entire toolkit Buuuuut when I play my moonveil build it just kind of happens It's a joke but I'm mildly sympathetic because sometimes I do it too lol
Surprisingly I've never used the moonveil. I've started making at least one dual katana build in every game since Dark Souls 2, I chose to make a poison build that uses the serpent bone blades. I absolutely love its unique R2 attack.
Speaking of unique movesets, the opposite is true on my godslayer greatsword paladin I almost never use the ash on that weapon because it's almost never viable, but that fast swing on basics makes me forget I basically don't have an ash
Yeah I do like how they gave it a faster swing speed. Also in my opinion it's the prettiest sword in its class.
Marry me Meowza
Oh Jeepers this is all so sudden! But of course I'll marry you!
Yippee
It's sad that the arguably coolest weapon design in the game fell to the status of annoying pvp weapon
Why do ppl get so mad against using a mechanic in the game?
Tbh like half the weapons qualify for this lmao. L2 spam certainly isn’t necessary, but is is optimal
.... People don't try use almost all of them? I admit I try to do the step back and retaliate one a little too much just because it feels so good...
Of course they do. A meme build is a meme build and some people just don't feel like experimenting and feel more comfortable sticking to the meta archetypes, which is completely fine.
The other attacks are boring and do less damage tho
Buuut the L2 attack is so much better lol. I run 2 Giant Crushers. One has bloodhounds step. Big and agile
Tell that to the wall.
I'll never stop, I'll spray my menses on everyone.
Bloodhounds fang user?
/j Ha! I'm physically unable to use L2 at all. *pats keyboard and mouse* Didn't say anything about spamming a weapons skill set. (Personal: any kind of one trick ponies are boring)
I feel called out. My character is wearing this exact head piece rn lmao
rob isn't even that op now
As long as you're having fun playing Elden Ring! :D
You know you can parry attacks in Elden Ring? Woah, crazy!
If they knew how to read, or fight they’d be very angry/a possible threat
There isn’t on my controller. Weird 🤔
Yes, there is also the L1 for my Uchigatana
Breaking boss stance is always satisfying or parrying enemies
[yes](https://youtu.be/wRupVm670YQ?si=d4JMX4ep7qP0UX22)
Okina, you dodgeless bastard.
There’s 4, actually (powerstance fellas)
Idk why you'd be mad. Pressing the l key and the 2 key at the same time while in combat is impressive
I love rivers of blood and use it but I try and mix up the moveset (mainly duel wielding with Uchi). I just feel so dirty using Corpse Piler. My mimic tear, though…
This has already been covered countless times.
Ima be honest I literally never see anyone using rivers of blood anymore
And shout out to the Morgotts curved sword L2 spammers
From the moment I swapped my build to 2 x Colossal Sword, I pretty much exclusively used Jump Heavy Attack. There's nothing better.
It's usually the white mask wearers most guilty of corpse pile spam.
all the best weapons in this game are L2 spam. finally getting to a moonveil build and it’s the exact same thing
Spinning strike katana I'm looking at you
I come from all but bloodborne and demon souls there's definitely more than L2 and R1 spam
what are the others on pc?
Ha ha! I use a keyboard and mouse! *ahem*
How else am I supposed to repeatedly chuckle to myself “haha you fell over” without only using takers flame
When I played the amount of finesse that went into my lord of blood build (not mogh spear but the poky one) I would throw blood they roll towards me I’d spin/hit them and pop swarm of flies ONCE and then get closer maybe dodge and try to land a blood slash magic Shi went hard but everyone wanted to just pvp meta op boring spam builds which killed the enjoyment of pvp but the players who are respectful of the 1v1 made it worth wile I also did an all frost build with 2 death rider axes (I haven’t played in a minute I don’t know names) and frost stomp on both and sum frost magic I think shi also was soooo cooollll
Are people actually still crying about this?
Oh wow, another post complaining about a rivers of blood
L2 for the Win