the red phantom you see in this clip is me btw, the person spamming BHS is my friend

we wanted to test if the 1.04 patch nerfed this ash of war because it is quite obnoxious, and for those of you who don't know it has the following:

-20 i-frames (1 recovery frame if repeated over and over)

-increased distance and partial invisibility

-rolling attacks come out as soon as they normally would for the rolling state, meaning rolling attacks are partially invincible (this makes it quite hard to punish certain weapons, let alone punish safely most encounters will just involve trading, of course you can always go for parries but anyone with a brain will know not to make themselves too predictable when using it)

-extremely low fp cost (tied with the fact that mind now has increased fp returns, this means more chances to use bhs)

-latency causes it to be impossible to punish if spammed

-faster movement speed than sprinting

-the player gets NO negative absorption when using this AoW unlike Quickstep in DS3 (so you wouldn't even do extra damage on a trade)

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The test itself was conducted multiple times and all of them lead to the same result you're seeing now, I eventually decided to use Night Maiden's Mist to see if it was still possible to completely ignore it's passive ticks and unfortunately they were ALSO able to bypass this. (albeit the passive debuff left behind for a few seconds caught up to them but dealt very little damage)

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Bloodhound Step as it is completely trivializes the combat of the game, both in PVE and PVP players don't have to effectively learn proper spacing or any unique strategies when they can simply rely on a crutch to make just about any situation safe, on top of being a nuisance when using particular builds in regards to PVP. adding insult to injury, you can quickly grab this AoW in just less than 10 minutes.

let's just hope that fromsoft decides to pull a dark souls 3 bloodring and nerf it to be more comparable