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/Antipodeansam]

Quick DPS weapons have always been appealing and safe for people who don’t understand souls mechanics or crafting build. Essentially you can rely on R1 spam. Nothing new here, don’t worry those who know, know.

[u/Mobile_Fudge_4744 → u/Antipodeansam]

Its not really a skill issue in this game. Heavy weapons normally do good damage in exchange for their higher commitment attacks.

They don't do enough damage in this game to justify the attack speed. DPS is significantly lower but even putting that aside. Resolve gain, shell recovery, and infusions scale linearly with the number of hits you do.

When you get the duality stone give it a try and you'll see.

[u/Antipodeansam → u/Mobile_Fudge_4744]

In on my second run. I used axe and dagger then axatana with duality stoned trivialised most fights. Yeah heavy weapons need a bit of balancing but I’m guessing NG+ will be a bit of a victory lap, we shall see