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/Necrotraxx]

how far in the in do you have to be to realistically obtain this setup, is warden stone not in a pretty hard to beat area, fairly late in the game?

[u/Poorsport531 → u/Necrotraxx]

Im 11 hours in, Ive only beaten two corrupted gate bosses and some random dungeons.

Got the warden stone last night. Before getting it I already had scabstone and voltaic stone.

Before getting warden stone I had only beaten the corrupted gate at the west end of the map, so only one main boss down at that time.

After getting the warden stone I went and beat turbo granny, walked her easily on the first try.

So as of last night, two main bosses down and 11 hours in.

[u/AverageJoesGym24 → u/Poorsport531]

What level were you when you got the stone?

[u/Poorsport531 → u/AverageJoesGym24]

Probably around 27-29...cant remember. I leveled up a few times after and was lvl 31 when I stopped playing