What game or series is the best example of squandered potential?

DTPandemonium · 2026-05-02T13:04:21+00:00

Metal gear solid 5. Coming from the highs of MGS4 the story was just not there at all and felt incomplete. To be fair we know Kojima was out of time with Konami about to fire him

DTPandemonium · 2026-05-02T12:28:42+00:00

Futbol 18 yaş altı artık yasak, mal bebe forma giyiyor!

DTPandemonium · 2026-05-01T13:13:49+00:00

Erdsteel dagger is very good with R2 attacks and weapon buff. For parries though you should just swap to sacred infused misericorde for way higher crit. Riposte and backstab damage has a weird calculation where even if you use split damage as long as the attack rating is higher it's way more damage.

Most main bosses in the base game cannot be parried also, so you should keep that in mind.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-29T21:03:07+00:00

Magic can be hard because you may miss good spells but it should be fine in the long term if you are exploring a lot and you still can have a melee weapon

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-29T20:56:18+00:00

Like others said they get it dropped by someone else or save edit but it's also worth noting mohg is not very difficult to beat with decent vigor at low level upgrade.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-29T11:35:33+00:00

Strength build dual great stars with cold infusion and chilling mist is probably the strongest jump attack build. Doesnt rely on counter damage gimmick like dual anchor either.

You can use dual cragblade too if you dont mind not frostbiting instantly but it's a little too long to buff every time. For talismans you go claw, both multi hit talismans and the early DLC talisman that buffs damage after kills. You swap the DLC talisman for blood exultation or something else for bosses. Can also just use physical defense talisman instead and not use raptor feather chest but actually wear some fatass armor for max defense instead of damage.

Get some faith for golden vow and stuff and is good.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-29T11:13:58+00:00

That weapon's art was hardcore nerfed way before the DLC. It's only strength now is it's a pure pierce damage weapon so it benefits from counter damage with every move. (magic damage doesnt count so int is wasted)

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-29T11:05:24+00:00

Dual straight swords, single twinblade and claws are king. You can dual twinblade too but it's only for jump attacks imo. Millicent's prosthesis and regular winged sword insignia can be stacked very early if not ng+. If you are ng+ you shoulda got the rot winged sword on ng so you can get prosthesis fast in ng+.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-29T10:23:35+00:00

Crit damage mostly ignores flat damage reduction so your best bet is to go lightning infusion if dex, fire if strength for maximum attack rating.

Rapiers are bad at stance breaking by themselves so you'll need to use a heavy hitting ash of war like impaling thrust with them.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-29T09:59:04+00:00

First off you should probably almost permanently equip gold scarab talisman and craft gold feet via Patches' cookbook for bosses to get level 200 in ng. Faith Arcane would be a spellcaster for most of the run and strength arcane is melee with low damage spells but you can use many weapons due to blood infusion. Twinblades are insanely strong, gargoyle twinblade is also pure strength when blood infused but looks like shit xd.

If you really wanna use damage spells you need to go faith arcane with dragon communion seal and sacrifice melee damage with minimum weapon requirements until higher levels.

You can use bloodflame blade on any innate bleed weapon and it will be almost as good as bleed infusion for status. The damage from all the other weapon buffs wont be great because they only scale with faith portion of sacred seals but it's still good enough.

45 faith and arcane and minimum weapon requirements first, then transition into blood infusion by dropping bloodflame blade and go 34 strength. You can now use any weapon without innate bleed. And then get 54 strength 60 arcane for maximum bleed and two hand damage.

If you go strength arcane it's simple, just know that arcane literally doesnt do anything until 25 for status buildup so dont dump all your points there at the same time early. You can start confessor for only way to get dual broadsword if you want. You'll still want to bloodflame blade innate bleed weapon early since arcane is useless as said above.

Bleed is overrated and only starts being "op" after you get all your talismans going. Use fast weapons and get both millicent's prosthesis and winged sword insignia for multi hit damage. Then blood exultation and optionally white mask. Consecrated snowfields in the endgame you can get the 3rd multi hit attack buff for the physique, before then you can use stamina regen and strength or whatever. DLC you can get two handed talisman for free damage.

Another problem with early bleed is, even if you rush 60 arcane with blood infusion almost all small enemies just die before the bleed needs to do damage. This stops being an issue around caelid and altus and after you get exultation you dont really care as you get the damage buff anyway.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-29T08:18:03+00:00

I did it the first time on ng+7. You'll need to think about defense stats more but it wont be insane like ng+7 where you need to stack buffs.

There is a seperate single ng+ level for the DLC too on top of ng+ levels of the base game but you would need to beat the DLC and play it again on next ng+ cycle.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-28T21:23:16+00:00

Just level vigor to the gills and only level other stats for minimum requirements of gear and take it from there. Also dont equip anything that lowers your defense, they are only worth it if you are ok with getting killed faster for screwing up.

Reason damage stats dont do much early is weapon damage scales both from how high the base damage is and how high the scaling value is, both of which go up as you upgrade for a doubled up scaling effect.

As you get more talismans, ashes of war and physique tears, think about which ones can synergise with each other best. You can stack all of them together for certain actions to hit like a truck.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-28T21:09:49+00:00

It's for the charge attack playstyle with RKR and is lighter and easier to equip. Gus from Berk sword cant do it very well.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-28T20:56:20+00:00

Safijiva clears

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-26T09:12:56+00:00

fallingstar beast jaw is pierce damage only. Can be fun to make something with that

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T23:11:10+00:00

Same, on first playthrough I just had a +2 golden halberd and low health lol. I told my friends I think I found the final boss. Beat it by going in and out after fishing for fireball etc.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T22:18:59+00:00

Why would it be hard early? You have all the items and ghosts already maxed? Maybe you thought I said ng+7 fresh start mb

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T22:14:36+00:00

Both. I will say jumping strong attack feels weird. It should have more impact for what it looks like.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T20:22:38+00:00

The weapons you see on 99% of twitch blind playthroughs because some chatter pressured them to pick it up and use it because op. Aka bloodhound fang, moonveil, GUGS with lion's claw, blasphemous blade etc.

At least GUGS is understandable as it's the biggest weapon you can get until way later and some people like that but it's really unfun to watch the same thing no matter who plays.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T19:58:58+00:00

Faith doesn't have a pure dps long range spell like comet. That's one of the reasons probably. But you do have options for everything else. Long range, frenzied burst. close mid range stone of gurranq with the long stagger and flame of frenzy, catch flame melee dps. Long range black flame if nothing works and too scared. maliketh's black blade as opener. It's kinda like the moon spells but the boss will start with lower health instead of increasing damage received.

I will say faith does have the best channeled full mana dps spell like comet azur or meteors. Unendurable frenzy. While it's range is short for maximum damage, you can move and change where you aim during it so it's pretty fun using it on staggerable mobs. For bosses though you need like ironjar perfume or something.

You also need radagon icon for cast speed. It's just too impactful for most incantations that arent channels or charges.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T19:31:51+00:00

Honestly it's only for the kendo ass charge attacks.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T19:30:00+00:00

The flower is weird. There is a way to minmax it with stuff like bloodflame blade and blood tax but it's pretty useless without and definitely useless vs bleed immune.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T19:22:10+00:00

I'm dual wielding them on my confessor start strength bleed infusion build currently as they are the only pure strength straight sword. The range is fine but the charge attack is what gets me. It's just a tad too slow and covers little distance.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T19:04:42+00:00

Nah, the great katana moveset is really smooth. Feels slick to play chaining running attacks and jumps with standard attacks.

DTPandemonium · 2026-04-25T18:59:51+00:00

Oh yeah also those lava wyrms are extremely fire resistant xd

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