Dark Souls II

[Vibe]

Avelyn + Greatsword is very Berserky indeed
The whole series is influenced by Berserk quite much, to be honest!

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

I've played through this bastard 4 times. And had to sit through the credits *sigh* 4 times as well.

For me it's a toss up between my faith my old friend and stranth crutch as far as PVP & PVE competitiveness goes. The dex build was enjoyable but by far and away the most fun I had was playing the game only using caestus and only wearing the brigand shorts with the Engraved Gauntles.

I named him Mohammad Ali and off I went on my merry tale of punching shit in the face. I killed every boss except for the king and the stupid dragon. I should have killed the king for the bad ass looking armour but this char is 100% fashionsouls so I either stuck to the brigand shorts with gauntlets or I wore the butterfly armour because of the lols of having a charcter named Mohammad Ali wearing a butterfly costume.

+10 caestus ftw.

It's crazy how good it can be against pretty much everything :/

Still you can get gimped by the cheap builds just as easily as everyone else.

[IR_Kuoin]

Summoned someone doing that exact build with butterfly costume and all, just he was named Mike Tyson, for the church boss.

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Summoned someone doing that exact build with butterfly costume and all, just he was named Mike Tyson, for the church boss.

I, him and Gorge Foreman took on a few bosses together and then did a bunch of PVP. It was epic fun times. That's if names are exclusive and can only be used once.

What's you name in game???

[IR_Kuoin]

I, him and Gorge Foreman took on a few bosses together and then did a bunch of PVP. It was epic fun times. That's if names are exclusive and can only be used once.

What's you name in game???

My 2 main chars. are named Feit Demonsage and Lay(something) Demonsage and the other one is Melinda (doing full butcher cosplay)

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

My faith sinner is named Shitzy Le Poo. I went on a pretty good murder run with him and happily became a sinner. It makes invasion by blue jerks happen all the time in NG+ which can be a lot of fun.

[SixThumbs]

Nice! Ive alsoyet to face any real hindrance of the weapon, everything still looks to go good atm. it's still only practice that I need for certain bosses/mobs, never do I feel like my gear is causing me to lose.

What is it that you use now?

The mastodon greatsword. It's the same thing really but has better strength scaling ('A' rating at +10) and overall damage but consumes maybe a centimeter or two more stamina.

[Joseph Porta]

The mastodon greatsword. It's the same thing really but has better strength scaling ('A' rating at +10) and overall damage but consumes maybe a centimeter or two more stamina.

Ill look into it! Ty!

I just started a new game, and I must say my plan went extremely well.

Started, got petrified something, dropped it and got pet drag remains, grabbed the morningstar, grabbed estus shard, went to kill the heide knight(kind of pointless) ran for the first bonfire in forest fallen giants, got lenigrasts key, went to cale for the house key, grabbed the estus shard in the house, went to heides tower, killed the dude with mace for bone dust, killed all the knights to elevate the platform at dragon knoght, lured the 2h knight infront walked past him to the dragonknight killed him, unlocked the bonfire, went to upgrade the estus flask with the bone dust, rushed to no mans warf, ran past all the mobs and got myself the greatsword at SL 27.

Fucking win, took me like 45 min lol. 

[SixThumbs]

The ulta-greatswords are great for PVE. Lastnight I tried to PVP with the pursuer greatsword and zweihander though and it didn't work out so well.

The unbuffed pursuer sword did about a quarter of someone's health but it's all vertical attacks, slow recoveries, and From nerfed the rolling stab ulta-greatswords had in the first Dark Souls; you used to be able to come out of a roll and stab someone chasing directly behind you.

Zweihander I had a bit better success on because the R2 is a long range, unparriable stab and the R1 sweeps a giant arc around you but I couldn't punish someone who just wanted to run away and chug estus because of the long wind-ups; it does have decently short back-swing animations though.

[Joseph Porta]

Hmm, did you try switching between 1h/2h mode? The 1h mode has nice sweeping attacks imo.

Im still practicing with them, still missing alot of my overhead attacks, does not having the req 28 str decrease the damage aswell as the weapon speed?

I still one hit the hollow soldiers though 

[SixThumbs]

The speed of the attacks is the same all the time from what I understand, they even got rid of the flub animations from DK's not meeting the stat requirement. Two-handing effectively doubles your strength for that particular weapon so you can meet the requirements but you get less damage from the scaling.

[Joseph Porta]

The speed of the attacks is the same all the time from what I understand, they even got rid of the flub animations from DK's not meeting the stat requirement. Two-handing effectively doubles your strength for that particular weapon so you can meet the requirements but you get less damage from the scaling.

So if I wield my greatsword in 2h mode it only reqs 14 str? (28 str base req)

[SixThumbs]

So if I wield my greatsword in 2h mode it only reqs 14 str? (28 str base req)

Yes, this works for any weapon's strength requirements.

[Patoson]

You will also notice that when you don't meet the requirements and wield it as 1h, there is a red cross on the weapon's icon, and, when you switch to 2h, it disappears if the double STR meets the requirements.

[IR_Kuoin]

The Greatsword is great for PvP, easy to bait with and not so easy to parry the overhead attacks as it is when using r1 1handed. It is a really versatile heavy weapon and I personally love it. If you managed to land the roll stab you can get 2 r1 hits off. Due to the long windup animation still kicking in if you wait for half a sec it is pretty easy to bait those pesky r1 katana spammers into attacking then swish swosh your attack suddenly hits them in the chin.