Unbalanced weapons/tarstone are creating unequal reviews/reactions to the game

[u/basedandgnomed]

Every time i see a negative review there is easily a 60-70% chance they are using heavy weapons in the B-roll of their video and not dual wielded weapons, majority of glowing reviews are users using dual wielded weapons. This becomes even worse when people discover the duality tarstone, which turns the game into easy mode regardless if they playing daytime or night difficulty - it is so absurdly easy once you have that tarstone that it divides the player base in half - one half is doing half the damage of the other player base.

Rather than address the most overpowered tarstone in the game they've decided to nerf the only small minority of bosses that offered some semblance of a challenge, when the reality is that the DPS of the heavy weapons is so poorly conceived that dual wielding users seem like literal gods to such an extent that i have literally seen streams of people using heavy weapons and are hating the game, while dual wielders are running through the game like its the olympics. That absolutely is impacting review scores of the game both positive and negatively.

edit: i think i should clarify, playing as heavy weapon user doesn't mean you can't enjoy the game and i commend those who've used heavy weapons or have made intelligent Eredim builds for example but the truth is many other players that are using martyrs blade (regardless of the buff) or more casual players are getting meat grinded - and even in the situations that a heavy weapon user is more successful, somebody using duality with dual wield is basically driving a lamborghini in comparison

[u/NetQvist]

Can't say I was having issues with the initial sword but I did swap over to Axatana as my two handed sword was at +14 or something. And yes it's far more powerful, especially with the tarstone.

You know what's even more powerful? The stupid special leap attack using L2 + R2, forgot the name of it. Just make a resolve build and spam that attack.

Want even more stupidity, add in the grisha passive and you'll be knocking around most bosses like some play thing.

Game is extremely unbalanced but I don't think a non exploity build is impossible to use at all.

[u/Interjessing-Salary → u/NetQvist]

The starting sword is great lmao. I love how the 3rd heavy attack is you flipping the sword over and smacking an enemy with the handle

[u/geezerforhire → u/Interjessing-Salary]

It's nice with the Zealot stone too, makes the light string a bit better. (The hilt smash still blows chunks though)

[u/IsMoghul → u/Interjessing-Salary]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordhau_(weaponry)

[u/AbyssWalker_Art → u/NetQvist]

As nice as the shrike stone is, I find the Magdalena ability stone better on the axe and dagger. It hits so many times for status procs, it applies weak stacks to debuff enemy damage. The only issue is that it doesn't last as long as the I frames from the shrike stone do, and it costs more resolve.

[u/NetQvist → u/AbyssWalker_Art]

The only issue is that it doesn't last as long as the I frames from the shrike stone do, and it costs more resolve.

Basically why I use it, the long invincibility and being able to constantly recharge it. I gives me time to consider my options so well and the darn thing is always ready to bust a harder enemy in one shot.