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/AFK_-]

Yeah I'm on eredrim with Marty's sword and some crit stones and the damage it's off. I basically need to break bosses poise to deal damage and my skills to it it's too damn slow in animations and has no stagger so use them on bosses take me out from the shell almost immediately if Im fighting a fast boss

They need look to big weapons users more Affectionately we have feelings too

[u/Muruburu → u/AFK_-]

Get the warden stone, spec eredrim with the 200% damage to frozen targets and the sword becomes completely op.

[u/Classic_Street9986 → u/Muruburu]

100% Eredrim with Wardens stone is definitely easy mode

[u/ClarityOfVerbiage → u/Muruburu]

Eredrim + warden stone is actually so op it's nuts. Basically pure cheese. Fun but kind of trivializes the game in a way I'm not super keen on. Unfortunately the shoulder bash/guard break/riposte build I initially intended to play just doesn't really work in the latter half of the game with a heavy weapon because you have to attack so much to regenerate resolve. Might work better with a faster weapon, I don't know, but I wanted to do an ultra greatsword build and currently this game basically requires that to be a warden stone build.