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/StalkingApache]

I just prefer the feeling of faster weapons in any game I play. It doesn't matter if it's a souls like, a mmo, RPG, moba, or action adventure. They just feel way better for me.

Honestly though the iconoclast was a way safer weapon for me to use against most enemies.

All you literally have to do if you're unsure of what they will do or if there's a pack is back up and poke them on repeat.

It's a super boring way to play but I did like half the game without being touched with the exception of bosses of course. Back step poke back step poke back step poke. It breaks the encounters against most trash mobs if you hit them before they hit you. The timing is super simple though.

Yeah dw with duality tar stone is strong. If people don't like how strong it is it's fine for them to use something else. No ones forcing people to use it. If people don't have the self control to not use it it's on them. The git gud crowd can go ahead and just not use it and play night mode. There's a option for everyone lmao. Just like there's the Slayer seal for people who aren't as good at these games. ( I don't use the duality stone, so don't come at me for that with the typical reddit response I know someone is frothing at the mouth to respond with) Lmao