Question for anyone who beat the DLC with a colossal sword / colossal weapon build

[Quadsword]

How's life in the insane asylum?

Okay, I jest, but I do seriously respect people who've gotten through it with the hardest to use weapon class (that isn't just a joke weapon like a broken straight sword or dagger).

[Sycler]

Did a duel dagger run my second time through. It was worth the insane asylum free room and board. Plus they do my laundry.

[Toast]

Haven’t used anything other than the Greatsword, since I got lost in Caelid on my first play-through. Nothing beats my trusty slab of iron.

[miep miep]

I thought the dlc was a lot easier with a colossal sword because of all the staggers you are getting against bosses. Not just the riposte damage is insanely helpful, but the dlc also has a lot of humanoid bosses, which can be infinitely stun locked by spamming the crouch pokes of colossal swords.

[Greywander]

I used the Fire Knight's Greatsword for a big chunk of the DLC. That said, I did have some trouble in a few spots, and somewhat ironically the solution to get past it was to fall back on my original build: Great Stars with Prayerful Strike, some heavy armor, and a whole buff routine to maximize defense and HP regen.

[aaron_cotton]

Colossal Swords and weapons suck in general.

[Old Captain Yon]

Honestly fine. Switch to powerstancing with Raptor for more mobile bosses. They get stancebroken as babies. Common enemies are a joke. Minibosses like fire and even DEATH nites (who is actually a boss) are a joke. Colossals are easy mode second only to shield pokes because they stagger soo good. And have fast long attacks (c. swords). Maliketh's bb carried me hard on my str/fth. New sword is poggers too, the Fire knight one.

[Xengre]

Jump attack abuse, aside, because that would be one of the most broken PvE options in the game...

While I don't play heavy weapons, typically, myself as they're slow and I like faster mobile combat have people having issues tried tossing Endure on it with some tanky defensive talisman / buffs? I imagine that would trivialize some fights that might otherwise pose an issue for heavy weapons. Also, sometimes thrusting ones can be pretty great.

[楊玄。杨玄。LangrisserWWE]

??? It was hard?

[Rena Ichigawa]

Kinda made half the dlc a complete pushover. Collosal weapons are insanely good if you know what youre doing.

[AlmaDarkSpell]

I completed my first run with shield and spear, my second with colossal weapons and no shield. I enjoyed the second one better.