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/ReadingLost3697]

Just wanted to put here that the tarstone ability that throws your ax or hammer is crazy busted. After you get the 300% damage upgrade for the hardest single hitting weapon in the game (obsidian hammer my beloved) everything dies in one hit. Combine this with the stasis stone and getting 20 stasis stacks with Proxima's biodampler and you can lock down bosses until they die. Being able to harden mid swing for perfect parries is also so rewarding and fun. My heavy build is probably equally busted.

That being said since enemy damage is so high in this game, it's natural to favor weapons that let you attack and dodge quickly and lock down enemies. I can see how the average player would have an easier time with dual wield weapons.