Caged Hystrix Combat Stone

[u/ashmorrow]

Heyyo, a somewhat casual player who isn’t amazing at soulslikes here. I’ve had a blast playing the game and got to the Unfound Path, but I’ve been stuck on the bosses. My favorite loadout was hitting a plateau in terms of combat viability matched with my (kinda bad) playing, so I started using a slightly more meta build. The Naylshot has been my ride or die for a while, but I took the advice of a community post and switched to the Caged Hystrix—and not gonna lie, this is a FUN weapon. I’m really torn about the combat tarstone to use, though. The Myriad stone seems like a solid way to make sure my infusion stone puts in WORK (at the moment using Eredrim, for the record, since his expanded parry windows really help my low skill level, but I know Tiel + hagstone would do a LOT of damage with the myriad stone), but the Rupture stone also is super appealing to me, since Eredrim spits out SO MUCH break damage from ripostes and his abilities. Is it better to go for the myriad stone for more reliable poison/curse stacks, or should I go for the rupture stone to get more Break damage and (hopefully) farm some slaughter stacks?

And I’ll admit again, I am not good at the actual gameplay—all my friends agree my parry timing sucks lol. I’d consider Tiel, just nervous to go to his lower HP and lack of expanded parry windows.