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

[B1G_DADDY_WES]

Netsa님이 먼저 게시:

There are so many good Ash skills in this game, it's crazy. Just try them out. I even started a couple of threads before to talk about good ones that are "underrated". A few highlights: Giant Hunt
Determination/Royal Knight's Resolve
Flame of the Redmanes
Glintblade Phalanx
Quickstep/Bloodhound Step
The Stomp (_____) skills

Here's something to remember:
If your "melee playstyle" was completely reliant on Hoarfrost Stomp and/or Bloody Slash, that means you suck at melee.

Op clearly stated they have no skill. Otherwise, wouldn't be using broken mechanics to cheese the game.

[Raigavin]

Currently on my only playthrough of the game, that too with SL1 and no weapon/spirit upgrades.

The nerf doesn't affect me too much, I only required the stomp to trigger burst damage and not the damage from ice particles.

[Caz]

People saying Hoarfrost and Bloody Slash needed to be nerfed. I vehemently disagree. Other WAs and Ashes needed to be buffed. Nerfing should always be the LAST option.

[ReddKnight]

as long as seppuku stays the way it is i am absolutely fine with that

[Veritas]

you could literally stamp your foot for 1600 damage with barely any stat investment, cry more casul

[NightUndead]

Caz님이 먼저 게시:

People saying Hoarfrost and Bloody Slash needed to be nerfed. I vehemently disagree. Other WAs and Ashes needed to be buffed. Nerfing should always be the LAST option.

This will often result in power creep though.
One thing gets buffed to be in line with something else, oops went too far now we need to buff everything else, so that someone's "feelings" isn't hurt.

Sorry, nerfing IS sometimes the better option, I don't know about bloody slash, but I completely agree with Hoarfrost

[Nomeat710]

the stomp was more broken in PvE than the Sword of Night and Flame. Im not defending it eather they both needed the nerf. ♥♥♥♥ think how the speed running community was able to get a sub 40 speed run. Im sad they got nerfed but hell now im having fun running around duel welding greatswords

[Blackwood8812]

So basically you are mad because you need more than 1 button to finish the game now?
Ok 😂

[Veritas]

NightUndead님이 먼저 게시:

Caz님이 먼저 게시:

People saying Hoarfrost and Bloody Slash needed to be nerfed. I vehemently disagree. Other WAs and Ashes needed to be buffed. Nerfing should always be the LAST option.

This will often result in power creep though.
One thing gets buffed to be in line with something else, oops went too far now we need to buff everything else, so that someone's "feelings" isn't hurt.

Sorry, nerfing IS sometimes the better option, I don't know about bloody slash, but I completely agree with Hoarfrost

Bloody Slash does like 180 less damage but it still hits really hard at range for little stat investment. It's a tad slower to use and costs more hp so you can no longer mindlessly spam it

[NightUndead]

Nomeat710님이 먼저 게시:

the stomp was more broken in PvE than the Sword of Night and Flame. Im not defending it eather they both needed the nerf. ♥♥♥♥ think how the speed running community was able to get a sub 40 speed run. Im sad they got nerfed but hell now im having fun running around duel welding greatswords

While it was impressive that you could get sub 40 minutes runs, that was also because of being able to utilise a wrong warp (getting teleported to a zone they should not be getting teleported to)

[60mph gorilla]

Wield 2 str collosall weapons and cast knights resolve on both. Congrats you have an alternative to hoarfrost

[True Facts]

Cope

[stewart]

bro the stomp was crazy broken made game easy mode legit come on jesus lol your not even playing souls game if your spaming your way through game with frost stomp

[Helghast]

- Uses Hoarfrost Stomp
- Calls sorcery braindead
- OMEGALUL

[Tr0w]

I don't care if hoarfrost isn't as good vs bosses anymore, is it still good for for rune farming those mobs in mohgs area though?