is there a reason to disassemble weapons?

[ya boi]

I'm a good way through my second playthrough of the game and I'm wondering if theres any point in disassembling/reassembling weapons? my primary weapon is the puppet's sabre you get at the start, I've found it does pretty decent damage when fully upgraded and havent had to change weapons, or disassemble it. to be honest I dont really see a point, even if you change what stat it uses with the cranks it jsut reduces another stat and I'm going for a realatively balanced build, (motivity and technique are at 40). any other handle i use just feels too clunky or not all that different. i don't really see a need to mess with them

[ChompyRiley]

I mean if you refuse to experiment and are satisfied with 'good enough', then I guess there isn't a point for you.

[LuckyCheshire]

You're one of those people that plays Elden Ring, picks up the Club, and never uses another weapon or any spells for the rest of the game, aren't you?

The point of assembling weapons is to mix-and-match different movesets with different speeds and ranges, as well as gaining different special abilities. The basic Puppet Sabre is certainly a decent weapon, but there are somewhat better and much more interesting options out there.

[ChompyRiley]

Originally posted by LuckyCheshire777:

You're one of those people that plays Elden Ring, picks up the Club, and never uses another weapon or any spells for the rest of the game, aren't you?

The point of assembling weapons is to mix-and-match different movesets with different speeds and ranges, as well as gaining different special abilities. The basic Puppet Sabre is certainly a decent weapon, but there are somewhat better and much more interesting options out there.

And different scaling for your attributes too. Well, your attack stats.

But yeah. I mean? There's nothing wrong with vanilla ice cream or plain cheese pizza. Some people like that. I do. I just also like variety. But if you have fun with just the regular old puppet saber, then have fun. Don't let 'basic ♥♥♥♥♥' be an insult if that's what you prefer.

[BiskutMentega]

I started with the sabre, but then I need something to be hard hitting that could one shot enemies because I don't want to waste time guarding attacks from regular enemies.

Found the wrench, great damage output, but move set it awfully slow, and I can't quite time my attack right. Most guide tells to use the police baton handle as it have better scaling with strength, but the move set still feels stiff.

Few experiments later, I got the bramble sword handle, paired with with big wrench. The charged R2 attack have great distance and it can one shot or simply stagger most enemies. Then tune the handle with B scaling for motivity for more damage.

[ya boi]

Originally posted by ChompyRiley:

I mean if you refuse to experiment and are satisfied with 'good enough', then I guess there isn't a point for you.

every time I tried to experiment it felt bad so I just gave up and use the puppet sabre, it very well could be that I'm just used to the way the weapon attacks and so everything else feels wrong but idk, never really found anything else to be more useful.

[ya boi]

Originally posted by LuckyCheshire777:

You're one of those people that plays Elden Ring, picks up the Club, and never uses another weapon or any spells for the rest of the game, aren't you?

The point of assembling weapons is to mix-and-match different movesets with different speeds and ranges, as well as gaining different special abilities. The basic Puppet Sabre is certainly a decent weapon, but there are somewhat better and much more interesting options out there.

i tried elden ring but didn't have a controller at the time so i stopped playing lmao. i switched to a sword as soon as I could.