How do you guys do colossal weapons?

[Lochlann]

They're soooo slow and the bosses and enemies in this game are pretty fast. Mainly asking this because I was curious but also in case I wanted to play around with colossal weapons in the future, how do you guys make it work?

[Morendie91]

Its one of those things you just practice wih and work on the timing. When they hit, they hit hard, you can usually time the swings so they walk right into them.

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

Greatshield > guard counter
Colossal stagger means you can combo low-poise enemies easily. Just be careful if they can counter attack during your combo's recovery time
Jumping heavy attacks + jump attack talisman + stonebarb physick
Play safely, be aware of how fast different enemy attacks can come out, and if it's safe to use yours, and when
Be aware of when your rolling and sprinting attack arcs might be helpful
Powerstancing dual colossals can be extremely potent; I basically killed Mohg before he could me

[Turt]

To make the most out of colossal weapons you will have to learn the bosses movesets and position yourself so you can bait certain attacks and control the pace of the battle. You won't be able to attack as often compared to faster weapons, but you should be dealing more damage with each blow. It's probably one of the harder weapon classes to use against bosses that don't stagger often, but can be one of the more rewarding ones as you should be breaking posture more often.

Jump attacks are good for high damage, but can be slow to pull off. Colossal swords have a good crouch attack that is good for shorter openings.

[Paradox]

I 2hand a Greatsword.
BHS, Poise/Defense, Poke (crouching poke, rolling poke, bhs poke), Jumping Attacks (stagger enemies).

If you want more of a 1-shot build...I hear you can hit upwards of 10k with dual wielding jump attacks and certain AoW (don't know if that's changed since I saw it). I'm not really a fan of the long to setup builds.

I've so far found it a lot easier than my lightly armored dual katana seppuku wielding character. Poise is the main difference. On my small poise build the smallest things stun me, so while if they can be bleed they are deleted, if there are a lot of them (able to get a hit in) I tend to get rolled.

[LongParsnip]

Well they stun lock mobs and stagger bosses rather easily. The swords are the best though, long reaching and hit very hard (crouch poke is really good for almost any mob), Zweihander has the best moveset for both PvP and PvE.

[psheue]

I don't like heavy armors so I'm running around with low poise, which means that I can't trade, so I need to space my swings.

Crouch poke is fast AF.

[George Cantstandya]

lions claw+poke = dopamine

[Polverrati]

Dual bleed Zweihanders are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nuts, and running them with Lord of Blood Exultation and Claw Talisman makes them hit like trucks.

[yuzhonglu]

Some of their weapon arts are amazing.

[battl3hamm3r]

Its one of the thing I dont like about ER compared to previous Dark Souls games, Colossal weapons are not that good since most bosses and a lot of enemies are on cocaine with weird move sets

My favorite builds are usually a colossal with a staff, but I gave that up after a couple of hours in ER...

[Friends with Benedicts]

iframe + powerstance and a lot of endurance and vigor

hit only once. Sometimes you can chain 2 attacks.

[vamirez]

Zweihander with Flame of the Redmanes wrecks everything. The weapon art staggers most enemies on the 2nd hit and also does good dmg. Ghiza's Wheel is also great - on stagger use the weapon art to chainsaw through the enemy.

[Professor Hugedix]

Jump attack everything

[Sabaithal]

- Stack lots damage resistance
- Bull goats talisman
- Use Barbaric roar
- Charge Heavy attack full force
- Fear is death!
- Do not hesitate even for a second!! DEUS VULT!!!

[TropicalLad]

Jump attacks and the crouch poke are your friends