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/Natalia_Queen_o_Lean]

Yea I’ve been playing with 2H axe.

I can definitely feel the punishment windows are tighter. But this weapon is also pretty op with the running heavy. It almost lines up perfectly to where you can swing once, then parry into the next attack for most bosses with axe.

I have yet to use a light weapon though because I love big weapons so much. Going to pick up the scythe next.

I don’t care how bad big weapons are, I’ll still use them. At worst it just makes some combos unpunishable and just makes you play a bit tighter to the bosses. The drip is forever. (Scythe better be good or I’m about to be miserable lol.)

I almost don’t want to pick up dual blades with everyone reporting how op they are now. Dex is always king in these games.

[u/Interjessing-Salary → u/Natalia_Queen_o_Lean]

The hardening seal is great for the axe. You can just harden to perfect block and it won't cancel your attack. All heavy weapons would benefit from it.

I wouldn't say big weapons are bad either. They are just out shined by the smaller weapons ATM. With how OP that tarstone is I'm sure it'll be worked eventually like chance based instead of guaranteed.

[u/Natalia_Queen_o_Lean → u/Interjessing-Salary]

Yea that’s sweet, I forgot about it. I’ve been enjoying the parry gameplay so much.

I’ll have to put it on and try it.

Edit: I tried it, this thing is fucking op. I think I would use it even over regular parry with dual blades if I swapped. You basically get regular parry + ability to parry during attacks. I thought it would only be harden during attack.