Bloody Slash and Hoarfrost stomp nerf is a complete and utter BS

[artesva]

I am 150+ hours in the game, and I had only 2 weapon arts there which were worth using - Hoarfrost stomp and Bloody Slash.

They look cool, they feel great and satisfying to use, they actually do decent damage.
Ot at least they DID, to be more precise. Now they are unplayable.

So now I have 0 (zero) interesting arts to use, and I have about 40 of those overall.
But others are just garbage.
Maybe I can BUFF myself a little bit of damage before a boss fight, wow, or have a BUTT JUMP - how exciting

But you buffed brain-dead sorcery, instead of caring for melee playstyle.

I have never played online and never will I, so why do I have to suffer from a boring gameplay from now on because of your griefers and ♥♥♥♥?
This is a solo game, and you took the fun out of it

Thanks From, finally changing my rewiew to ''not recommend''

UPD
I guess i have to add this, because obviously they provided internet access to mental institution patients, who spam brainless ''git gud'' here:
I have zero problems with the game's difficlty, it's one of the easiest games in the genre I ever played, with or withour weapon arts.
Cool arts just made long and frankly pretty dull game with countless reusable bosses and enemies fun to play,
And nerfs by itself are fine, but they killed the arts completely

[BenTen Rolex]

Maybe use something else other than that 1 ash of war that was unbalanced? Lmfao

[Nikki]

- Used Hoarfrost Stomp
- Calls sorcery braindead

This isn't subjective. Hoarfrost Stomp was broken and objectively one of the most overpowered moves in the game. It was exclusively the move speedrunners used to get sub-30 minute runs.

Hoarfrost Stomp as it was pre-patch was just as 'braindead' as you claim sorcery to be, except it had 0 stat requirements attached to it.

[Lucifer_]

Not gonna debate if nerf was justified or not but if you're looking for op weapon arts there's still a lot out there.

[Freak4Leeks]

Thats the price you pay for PvP in a PvE game, that is why i would be totally fine if some day they just no longer include multiplayer.

That being said there are already "unbalancer" mods that try to make everything kinda broken like spells, ashes of war etc etc if that is your thing.

[artesva]

Originally posted by Rooney:

Maybe use something else other than that 1 ash of war that was unbalanced? Lmfao

Maybe create something interesting to use, so people wouldn't need using one skill?

[××]

you're just coming here to cry like a baby to people who don't care?

[Gladiator Yeti]

doing a full run in heavy set gear power stance fist. with ash of war quick step.
these patch notes are fine. I'd even go as far to say they are top notch.

as for you the poster of this thread. your just a crying baby. go suck on a rock.

[KruxSmash]

Hoarfrost stomp needed to be nerfed. It did not need both damage and speed nerfs though.

[Deadeye64]

There's dozens of neat AoW's that also have good damage and practical use, just because you only liked a couple that pretty much played the game for you, doesn't mean there aren't other good options.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by artesva:

Originally posted by Rooney:

Maybe use something else other than that 1 ash of war that was unbalanced? Lmfao

Maybe create something interesting to use, so people wouldn't need using one skill?

There's a ton of interesting weapon arts and all of them have viability. Just because two were completely overpowered and over utilized does not mean they were the only options.

[Timbermaw]

Originally posted by Freak4Leeks:

Thats the price you pay for PvP in a PvE game, that is why i would be totally fine if some day they just no longer include multiplayer.

That being said there are already "unbalancer" mods that try to make everything kinda broken like spells, ashes of war etc etc if that is your thing.

Bro you blind? Hoarfrost was being used in pve to pwn every single boss

[NightUndead]

Originally posted by artesva:

Originally posted by Rooney:

Maybe use something else other than that 1 ash of war that was unbalanced? Lmfao

Maybe create something interesting to use, so people wouldn't need using one skill?

There's plenty of "interesting" ashes of war, problem is "interesting" != "good", which is really what you're actually looking for

[artesva]

Originally posted by Freak4Leeks:

Thats the price you pay for PvP in a PvE game, that is why i would be totally fine if some day they just no longer include multiplayer.

That being said there are already "unbalancer" mods that try to make everything kinda broken like spells, ashes of war etc etc if that is your thing.

No, my thing is to play the game the way which it was intended.
And now we are down to the point like in DS3, but from a different perspective.
DS3 had a lot of cool weapon arts, but they were unusable because of game system

Now they are very usable, but there are nothing cool

[Tao314zdin]

Originally posted by Freak4Leeks:

Thats the price you pay for PvP in a PvE

True for some things, but the stomp was broken in PVE not PVP, pretty sure they nerfed it because it could be spammed to kill most of the non-boss and a lot of boss encounters by pressing 1 button.

[Slut Dragon]

Lol they weren't nerfed because they were op in pvp, they got nerfed because they were literal cheats in both PVE and PVP. I was having extreme difficulty with a boss (Commander Niall) and gave up and used hoarfrost stomp. Holy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ both him and his adds got MELTED in mere seconds and i have zero investment with int or fp. You think that's ok? If you still wanna cheat go download a trainer and set your stats to all 99 then. Because thats what hoarfrost was.