Messmer soldiers are broken, right?

[Aradner]

They are invulnerable after a backstab for way to long, one literally manged to hit me while still invulnerable.
Other times they just stand around and do nothing, once I killed a group of 3 and neither even pulled out a weapon, they just stared at me. I am just goong to assume they weren't supposed to work like that.

[Lahoo Eckbert]

Yes. They can also stunlock you and kill you in three hits.
I'm on Ng+. I'm guessing they are more manageable in NG.

[Aradner]

Originally posted by Lahoo Eckbert:

Yes. They can also stunlock you and kill you in three hits.
I'm on Ng+. I'm guessing they are more manageable in NG.

Oh no, they very much kill you in 3 hits in NG, first 2 hits dealing 90% health on 40 vigor, but I assume that part is by design

[ssj grumpig]

Yep. The broken hitboxes/AI was endearing back in DS1, not so much in one of the best selling games ever

It's one of those things you either learn to deal with or break the deal, unfortunately

[Tobi]

Never had an issue with them.

[Red Painted Elk]

No they are not broken, this is the intended experience. FROM deliberately screwed with the timings of a lot of standard things because they have run out of ideas how to make the game more difficult, and that is their marketing schtick.

[so007]

mesmer soldiers deal more damage than the bosses themselves, actually docummented. Like, Rellana kills you in 4 - 5 hits while the mesmer soldiers kill you in 2. No matter who you are or how you look at it, that is as objectively wrong as the the month of june being the month of you know what.

[Corporal Shephard]

I didn't have issue with vulnerability after a backstab. With x14 scadutree blessing, I am usually one shotting the basic ones with a backstab or kill them with 3 hits by using Rellana's double sword in normal combat.

The brute ones with spear and hammers are way more challenging but they are susceptible to stagger and their counter attacks take way more time. This will give you an openning to charge attack and stagger them. A high level weapon should stagger them with 2 charged or jump attacks.

I am on NG, by the way.

[Red Painted Elk]

Originally posted by Tobi:

Never had an issue with them.

It's objective that their invul. timers are significantly longer than any other soldier, including non-boss knights, in the game. Pretending that nothing's changed is just your way of harassing others.