What weapon or build to use in Lindell ?

[OVTSIDER]

Hi everyone, I've been playing for hours in this "city" advancing slowly, unlocking sites of Grace after dying numerous times.
But the knights (ones with spears especially) and the bandits with machine gun crossbows that one-shot me are getting on my nerves.
I mostly use a +16 claymore with bleed effect and tried with a +14 Zweihander with freeze, I use the knight armor that the twins at the hub sells.
But these guys are really resistant. What weapons or even builds should I use to beat them without having to roll away every single hit ? Are they weak to some effect ? What are they even named ? Any weapon I should grind for the area that would be useful as a whole ?
I feel underpowered even though I've been grinding a lot lately.

Thanks for the kind and useful replies

[Shiroe (cortana)]

uhm..
You should have nearly maxed upgrade on atleast 1 weapon by the time you reach that area and also have decent hp.

Im on ng4 with 1700 health and no enemies one-hit kill me, unless a boss use a supermove i forgot to dodge.

[desecratedpetals]

If you're getting one shot that's mainly a matter of not having enough vigor, you should really have 40+ at that point in the game.
Heavier weapons like claymore and zwei aren't as good with status effects as faster weapons, and I would just go pure strength and have them heavy.

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Shiroe (Cortana):

uhm..
You should have nearly maxed upgrade on atleast 1 weapon by the time you reach that area and also have decent hp.

Im on ng4 with 1700 health and no enemies one-hit kill me, unless a boss use a supermove i forgot to dodge.

He means the Page enemies i believe, theres a variant with the Pulley Crossbow and it does absurd dmg with it

[Lord Bob]

The enemies using the triple shot crossbows are called High Pages and they are notoriously hard to fight.
Here an anonymous users comment from the wiki about them;

High pages are the ultimate life form, as they have no weakness. Unlimited Stamina allows them to endlessly combo their extremely fast rapier. They can dodge you with easy and fire their oneshotting crossbow 3 times while they are making the dodge jump which oneshots you. Fighting it on ranged makes it spam his oneshotting crossbow too. The might of a page is far greater than any others. Even the demigods crumble to dust against such might.

This is of course a little exaggerated but you dont seem to be the only one struggling with them.

As others have stated before, be sure to have invested in vigor. Choose you weapons affinites according to your stats to get the most out of it. As many other enemies they dont enjoy heavy jump attacks that much.
Dont take this the wrong way, but yours might be a case of git gut.
Try to lure them out and fight them one by one instead of rushing into the the room. Learn their attack patterns and behaviours, to know when to dodge and when to attack.

[OVTSIDER]

Alright, time to get some more vigors and turn my zwei into an heavy.
Yes, I was talking about the High Pages, there's one hidden near a staircase that always kicked my ass.

[OVTSIDER]

Well, I trained for a few hours, only leveling vigor and put heavy on my zweihander, still a bit trickery, but I got to the yellow Godfrey, and beat him first try.
Edit : Morgott in two tries with some players help. Woow yeah bby