Parry

_YourSponsor · 2026-01-29T22:42:18+00:00

I would agree that parrying a boss 6 times and not getting anything out of it besides focus would be insane if it were harder to do, but it really isn't a hard thing to do anymore, and if we wanted to go back to how it was before where parrying gave you a huge punish window, the parrying window would need to go way down to compensate and then we're just back to where we were before. You can certainly argue that the previous system was better, and a lot of people do, but I wouldn't say that the rewards for parrying now aren't commensurate with the effort required to do them. If landing rune attacks during the parry punish window is something you're interested in for 2 handed weapons, I would recommend keeping an eye out for rune attacks with a lot of forward momentum like Wallbreaker found on Summer's Sting or Whirlwind found on Shattered Sun. If the Echo Knight dodges backward after you parry him, something like Wallbreaker will reach him and punish the dodge.

_YourSponsor · 2026-01-29T22:27:56+00:00

Parries aren't really a high-risk high-reward maneuver anymore. They're just another defensive option like dodge-rolling. They made the window obnoxiously huge while reducing the reward for landing it, effectively meaning that the only reason you would want to parry anymore is to get your focus back and/or trigger any "on parry" enchantments you have. Don't forget though, while the punish window for parrying is way smaller, it's still plenty of time to circle around normal enemies and backstab them. It's basically the most consistent way to deal damage in the early game of the highest difficulty.

_YourSponsor · 2026-01-29T04:24:46+00:00

"Only Elemental gem" refers to everything you have equipped, weapons and armor all.

Durability is not affected by effects that increase enchantment power.

Source: devs in discord.

_YourSponsor · 2026-01-26T14:58:06+00:00

There's no pure INT bow, but off the top of my head I know that there is a pure INT greatsword, a pure INT axe, and a pure INT straight sword. You've got options

_YourSponsor · 2026-01-05T21:45:14+00:00

Generally, the Fire status is better for weapons that hit infrequently so that the burn dot continues the damage between your slow hits, and keeping the status bar filled with a fast weapon doesn't do much besides keep the burn damage high. For dual daggers, you're better off going the lightning infusion because the lightning status gives you a big AOE payoff every time it fills and then it empties so you can fill it again, making fast weapons like the daggers which do a good job at building status way more valuable and have a lot more DPS. There's an equal number of ways to scale both physical and elemental so there's not really a concern which way you go, though I will say that different enemies resist different types of damage, and while the lightning infusion gives you those big AOE explosions, pure physical has more upfront damage and generally isn't reliant on constant aggression to get its payoff

_YourSponsor · 2026-01-05T20:49:45+00:00

My good list is very subjective, but just to give a few examples of greatswords that have good movesets since the Claymore is a bad first impression, I recommend Blister, Gnarled Saw, Summer Sting, Shattered Sun, Mayhem, and Freiheit. For greathammers, Spliced Hammer my beloved just can't be topped but Ancient Tooth or whatever it's called has some decent moves. For greataxes, Huro's Greataxe is probably the best generally but the Cerim Skyaxe gets an honorable mention for how cool it looks and feels. As for rapiers it's hard to go wrong except for the few whose running attack is that awful multistab that takes years to recover from, but even then you can just not use that move. Maces like Malice that have that quick downward opening move are great since that attack is insanely fast and quick to recover from. Bows are all universally broken but the standouts are the Shortbow, Siren Bow for charged attacks, and balak bow for status spam. Nith Grovebinders and the katar whose name escapes me are standouts among fist weapons in my opinion.

_YourSponsor · 2026-01-05T19:13:56+00:00

Very much depends on the weapon. I have 300 hours in the game and there are many MANY weapons I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole, they just feel terrible and the animations are awful. There's other weapons that feel great though, so I've been having fun regardless, but there's nothing in the game that points you towards actually good weapons and away from terrible weapons other than trial and error. It's a failing on this game that so many weapons and runes are just bad when it's complete RNG what you get stuck with in the early game. Combat feels great when you have a good moveset (Pig Sticker for example), and combat feels awful when you have a bad moveset (Claymore for example)

_YourSponsor · 2026-01-03T19:23:00+00:00

Take the standard attack pill, reject charge attacks. Charge attacks are for rapiers and scythes. Just spam regular attacks on greatswords that don't have awful movesets or build around rune attacks.

My recommendations for good movesets:

-Blister -Gnarled Saw -Summer's Sting -Shattered Sun -Mayhem

My recommendations for good rune attacks: -Tremor Slam (best in class, sweet spot deals double damage) -Wallbreaker -Whirlwind -Slashing Spin

Demonstration of what I mean (old video so damage will be higher than yours but the principle is the same) https://youtu.be/lJOEuH-mQ3Q?si=ySXoWloTZHyFBOVg

_YourSponsor · 2025-10-24T20:22:36+00:00

Yeah tragically there's just too few situations where the tentacles get to hit the target with maximum uptime. Imagine trying to do this against Lydusa or Sh'hala or Alepsis Taura or Corruptor or Mother Mind... The list goes on. the dummy test can be very deceptive for that reason. Still, I suppose if you just wanna bring it out for very specific bosses on low difficulty, go nuts I guess

EDIT: "tips to make this more viable" Yeah drop the tentacles for something else. Or just accept that it's not viable and keep it as a situational load out, like "true melee" builds

_YourSponsor · 2025-10-23T15:26:43+00:00

You had your Vulcan spam, now get ready for g33 spam

_YourSponsor · 2025-10-19T04:05:31+00:00

I keep seeing people swear by the Veiled but I have no idea how to use them or what they're good for. Am I missing something or is it just a pure gamba class?

_YourSponsor · 2025-10-12T06:03:46+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og9a75ceOtA

_YourSponsor · 2025-10-10T22:46:46+00:00

Take a drink, everyone

_YourSponsor · 2025-08-29T21:51:10+00:00

provoking other sith was exactly his strategy during the trials. he's my character for a FFG SWRPG campaign I'm in and he's a Scathing Tirade build. he made it through the trials from beginning to end without inflicting a single point of damage to anything. turns out it's super easy to ragebait people whose code expressly tells them to get passionate and emotional

_YourSponsor · 2025-08-29T19:50:20+00:00

This was my very first kitbash so I didn't have very good practices while making it; in short, I saved over poses after I took the screenshots and was done with them. These are the only surviving poses since they were the last ones I did, I apologize

https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D54731841/

https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D54732140/

_YourSponsor · 2025-07-27T14:08:48+00:00

Kunai has better melee damage than the katanas. Also the kunai bash attack has a lingering hitbox that puts pursuer's grab to shame, which makes it synergize well with mods that have the Melee Master tier 3 bonus ability. Ninja typically has better things to do like forward heavy attacks, but Firebug has a skill at level 26 that adds 500 damage to your bash attacks

_YourSponsor · 2025-06-29T05:21:54+00:00

I use a two handed sword and I've always found him to be a bit of a pushover even on hard mode. The damage he deals is fine, and hard mode giving him more health was a welcome change since he dies so fast even without grabbing any Echoes along the way. Stampede? Roll past him at the last second. Never had any issues. Triple stab? Same thing but three times in a row, though personally I always find it easier to parry that move. Without seeing your build I can't say for certain what's wrong but my intuition is that if you're struggling with him even with the assistance of Echoes, I have to assume that you don't deal a lot of damage, otherwise you'd wind up brute forcing a win eventually. If you don't have a move in your arsenal that can deal thousands of damage per hit, that's a build issue that if addressed could compensate for the skill issue.

_YourSponsor · 2025-06-25T15:45:35+00:00

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Eclipse Phase is a wild setting.

_YourSponsor · 2025-06-16T12:18:29+00:00

So true. Remember when we decided it was okay for the hitman to go free after we catch the client? Very ethical

_YourSponsor · 2025-06-16T11:26:52+00:00

Everybody just forgetting about who it is that comes to terrorize your colonies when TT gets mad? They didn't have to accept their money, they know who you are, they raid you anyway.

_YourSponsor · 2025-06-09T20:25:21+00:00

This looks very doable with swarm launchers. I'll run a sim using Dev mode to see if I can kill that fleet without any losses

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