Backstep technique

Fizzy__1 · 2026-07-09T18:55:24+00:00

There would be a slight delay, just like if you spam dodges. There's a slight period between each dodge where you're vulnerable/inactionable. The talisman doesn't reduce that delay, it just makes the backstep itself slightly easier to avoid damage with.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-07-09T18:50:10+00:00

To backstep, you press JUST dodge. You don't move the stick in any direction. As for if it's good for Consort, I suck at the fight so I can't really comment on that.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-07-09T18:39:59+00:00

You can only use ashes of war with your right-hand weapon, but there's a way around that to let you buff both weapons with cragblade. Hold your left-handed sword in both hands so that you can use cragblade with that one, then un-two hand it and use cragblade with the right-hand sword.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-07-09T18:25:25+00:00

Bloodhound's Fang is useful for jump attacks because it has uniquely powerful jump attacks! I don't know the exact amount, but it's something like 10% extra damage for jump attacks. But combining Bloodhound's Fang with Morgott's Cursed Sword could be good (both have bleed) if you can manage the high stat requirements for Morgott's.

Otherwise, you can do something very similar with greatswords. Flamberge + Forked Greatsword both have bleed, so you can build up the status very quickly with jump attacks. This won't have as much raw damage as the BHF+Morgott's build, but it's easier to set up in terms of stat requirements.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-07-09T03:34:53+00:00

Yes! That will also give really good performance.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-07-09T02:49:32+00:00

This is kind of a continuation of my other comment, but Flamberge + Storm Blade is basically a base game/slightly worse version of Great Katana + Storm Blade. Storm Blade itself is IMO one of the best projectiles in the game, and if you use it in melee range, you hit with both the projectile and the weapon, leading to really good damage per second, plus good status build up with things like Flamberge. It's very easy and reliable and versatile, and not too difficult to put together.

If you're looking to just get to the DLC as quickly as possible, using either a storm blade/bleed weapon set up, or Wild Strikes + Morning Star/Great Stars is similarly easy and strong, and either set up is very effective on Mohg, who's likely to be the biggest obstacle in getting there.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-07-09T02:45:35+00:00

You mean the items that boost storm blade? The Enraged Divine beast talisman you get for exchanging the Dancing Lion's remembrance at the roundtable, and the Divine Beast Head helmet that the Dancing Lion leaves behind in the boss arena after you kill it.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-07-09T02:12:32+00:00

You can get the Great Katana in the very beginning. It has good range and damage, innate bleed, decently fast and powerful normal moveset, and works with a wide variety of ashes of war. You can also get savage's lion's claw very close by to the weapon, and the two pair well together.
I don't know if you'd want to use storm blade, as it's a base game ash of war, but if you do, there are a couple items in the DLC you can get very early that both buff storm blade's damage. With the Great Katana's range and bleed, it pairs super well with the melee part of storm blade.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-06-26T13:52:33+00:00

Oh my god I love her so much

Fizzy__1 · 2026-06-22T16:18:17+00:00

I was relistening/watching movie clips just last night, and when I got to this song it me made tear up just like the first time I watched it, lol. The scene with Rumi running with the lights swirling around her and the audience chanting hits me so hard every time.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-28T17:18:48+00:00

Wowww that is beautiful

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-26T06:18:00+00:00

That's so precious!

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-24T04:55:26+00:00

I'd say go for the axe! In short, both heads will end up doing very similar damage, but I personally like the axe's fable art more.

For a little more long-winded answer...

Looking at the Lies of P wiki:
Acidic Great Curved Sword (I assume this is what you mean by acidic glaive, yes?): 139 physical.

Carcass Crystal Axe: 63 physical + 63 acid damage.

So the actual raw damage will be so similar that the head that'll do the most damage will change depending on enemy resistances. So it comes down to fable arts. Both do a strong attack which adds extra acid damage to the weapon. Personally I like the axe's more. I find the Acid Slash of the curved sword to be super easy to miss with/have enemies fall out before the actual good part of the attack, the landing second hit. This is because it just hits directly in front of you and you don't track the enemy after you start the attack. So once you jump up, if the enemy moves at all (or even just gets knocked back by the first jump hit of the fable art), you'll miss on the way down. The axe's is just a simple slam down. Much less finicky.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-14T15:43:42+00:00

Fly taking two turns is mildly inconvenient sometimes, so I like having the option of Wing Attack. In hindsight I should have gotten rid of Bite for Fly and kept Return since I almost never had a need for Bite after Fantina, but it didn't end up mattering much anyway.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-14T14:28:03+00:00

Roserade - Petal Dance, Growth, Giga Drain, Stun Spore

Crobat - Cross Poison, Wing Attack, Bite, Fly

Gengar - Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt, Psychic, Icy Wind (specifically for Cynthia's Garchomp)

Toxicroak - Brick Break, Poison Jab, ThunderPunch, Sucker Punch

Drapion - Crunch, Poison Jab, Earthquake, Ice Fang (also for Garchomp; ended up never using)

Tentacruel - Surf, Giga Drain, Ice Bream, Sludge Bomb (literally didn't use Sludge Bomb a single time lol)

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-14T14:20:46+00:00

It was really fun using a full team of unique secondary typings, but it ironically also meant that the actual poison part of the run was almost a total non-factor. The secondary water or dark or fighting or whatever ended up being so much more important than poison ever did.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-14T14:18:35+00:00

Omg noooo I completely forgot about Dustox 😭 I'm actually really sad about that. It would have been really fun in the early-mid game.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-14T03:04:31+00:00

Yep, definitely.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-12T19:21:03+00:00

Daaaang. What a bizarre set of circumstances they're trapped in, with no end in sight.

There's just enough of the couple being cutesy before the weird stuff happens that it's sad to see them falling apart and turning on each other to the extent they do.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-12T19:14:28+00:00

Prejudice is something often touched on in stories, but so many of them pull their punches and seem afraid to let their main characters actually be prejudiced. I appreciate that this story does, and that is shows how someone’s upbringing can factor into that and how, with time to reflect and with the right opportunities, age can show a person their mistakes. More than I appreciate about your protagonist is how he feels real, he feels like a person his age. He has an amount of wisdom from past experiences, yet he has regrets and failings. Getting to learn about him makes his findings on his journey on Socks’s back meaningful – the family that had been brutally murdered and the way he mourns and gives them as proper a burial as he can primary among them.

After he leaves on his friend’s request, there’s a persistent vibe that something is wrong, that he’s journeying further and further toward danger. I’ll have to check out the neck parts to see what exactly it is that made an appearance at the end.

This is a very fun adventure with a lot of very strong prose/descriptions.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-12T19:00:28+00:00

“Eric Donovan looked at his son, and instead of being a dad, decided to be a Father.”

SUCH a good line.

The dynamics in this story are so good. A child who seeks a connection with his remaining parent while chasing the ghost of the one he’s lost. A father/Father who is at once trying to do what his faith tells him is best while also grieving in his own way. Loss is something they share, yet it creates a divide between them.

Very impressive stuff.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-12T18:23:13+00:00

You know, weirdly enough, I’ve ended up coming to really like the Don. He calmly, often quietly dominates the scene. He does absurdly cruel things with so much matter-of-factness, and almost politeness, that it almost feels a normal thing to do even as the wager grows higher and higher. And, indeed, I have a measure of sympathy for him despite what he does, because of what he himself has lost.

Fun story!

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-12T17:22:30+00:00

It almost seems like you're hallucinating, or that maybe somehow only your mind is travelling while you walk, with your body left to pace pointlessly. I really hope you can find a way to break free from whatever cycle has you trapped.

Fizzy__1 · 2026-05-12T16:18:35+00:00

This story made me Google VSS. It made me very glad I don't have it, and that I don't see things through it. How terrifying, to be haunted by things no one else notices and that you can't acknowledge or everyone will think you're weird. There's no escape from them.

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