Duel Wield question

[nub]

When you duel wield, does both weapons to full damage, or if you do duel wield, they do less damage together?

[nub]

If you do dual wielding, does it do more poise damage as well?

[LuckyCheshire]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nub:

If you do dual wielding, does it do more poise damage as well?

No, it generally does about as much poise damage as hitting with each weapon individually, or slightly less. It's still faster and thus has a faster buildup than hitting with each weapon individually.

[nub]

Any recommendation for Straight sword and Great sword in the middle of the game?

[Strelok]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nub:

Any recommendation for Straight sword and Great sword in the middle of the game?

Sword Of Night And Flame is up for grabs in a chest at Caria Manor, it is a good weapon with strong ranged attacks

[darinbob]

No strength bonus, but if you're using keen or other weapon with low strength scaling, it doesn't mean too much. But worse I think is that you give up shield use, which means you take more damage but also give up decent guard counters.

On the plus side, damage goes way up. It's a very different play style than shield with strength pancake maker. You have to go on the offensive, Bloodborne style, get in there and roll to the Rune Bear's soft underbelly and slash away. Quite a few boss fights I find myself unexpectedly winning even when I'm confused and not sure what I'm doing, because I just start slapping back like a toddler with a tantrum :-)

Also, you can get two status build ups. I have bleed and cold, others do flame and cold and bleed (innate bleed doesn't vanish just because you added fire).

[nub]

My Knight's greatsword is DEX build and Claymore is a little more strength build. So which great sword is a DEX build so I can use it with my Knight's great sword?

How do you know a weapon is STR based and DEX based?

[darinbob]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nub:

How do you know a weapon is STR based and DEX based?

Well, if there's any "attribute scaling" listed with STR on the weapon, then it's technically strength based - sort of. But even KEEN weapons will have a STR scaling, but it will have attribute scaling of E which is the worst, and any two-handing bonus will be somewhat small.

To dual wield great swords I don't think it matters if it is innately STR or DEX. You can always just change the affinity to what you want, it's very flexible.

[csand]

Remember also, dual wielding you lose hyper armor. It is easy to be interrupted mid swing and lose a trade. 2h boosts hyper armor do you can power thru trades especially with heavier weapons

[nub]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von csand:

Remember also, dual wielding you lose hyper armor. It is easy to be interrupted mid swing and lose a trade. 2h boosts hyper armor do you can power thru trades especially with heavier weapons

What is hyper armor?

[csand]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nub:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von csand:

Remember also, dual wielding you lose hyper armor. It is easy to be interrupted mid swing and lose a trade. 2h boosts hyper armor do you can power thru trades especially with heavier weapons

What is hyper armor?

It is a reduction to poise damage (and a little regular damage) taken during your attack swing. It stacks with your passive poise (passive poise being just the poise value of your equipment). It varies with different weapons and ashes of war, but generally speaking the bigger and heavier the weapon, the more hyper armor it has.

This video explains it a bit more
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ji56uohQW7s

[Walf]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von mpcgannon:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Madao:

Dual-wield. Not duel wield

What if you're dueling?

Duel wielding dual wielding?

[Drunkenstein]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nub:

Any recommendation for Straight sword and Great sword in the middle of the game?

Ornamental Straight Sword - it's possible to get it at the beginning and it's a "paired weapon."

[Pusheen]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Drunkenstein:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nub:

Any recommendation for Straight sword and Great sword in the middle of the game?

Ornamental Straight Sword - it's possible to get it at the beginning and it's a "paired weapon."

Ornamentals have horrid stats and are over all probably one of the worst ss

[P.]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Walf:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von mpcgannon:

What if you're dueling?

Duel wielding dual wielding?

duel wild is bettah