Spears are cool, but feels very weak

[DrDarkStorm]

seems like Bonk stance is the best and only stance to use, the others just fall off short.

[Big Boom Boom]

Spear is good to build up Qi, also good for Erlang because he will just evade your charged Smash. Charged thrust with spear however hit him every time.

But yes if you look for all out dmg smash is the best.

[Phishfood]

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

Spear is good to build up Qi, also good for Erlang because he will just evade your charged Smash. Charged thrust with spear however hit him every time.

But yes if you look for all out dmg smash is the best.

Erlang won't evade your level 4 charged poke if you got the stance maxed out, if you do the evade and heavy attack in the middle of him performing his own attack it'll hit.

[thorin.hannahs]

I believe Smash has the strongest heavy attack which makes sense as there is little to no evade/range component to it. I stay in Smash because I like to Resolute Strike which works on the human sized end game bosses quite nicely.

[palacentes]

Do you mean the modified light attack of spear weapons? It has its perks. The first r1 is super fast and you can shift to parry very quickly. It makes parrying midcombo much easier, and parrying in general.

If you meant thrust stance, smash stance, and pillar.... yea, smash is the hard hitter.
Thrust is more defensive, w tactical retreat into big thrust giving u the most distance. You will prob be ok, even if you mistime it.

Its best to switch around to different stances as the situation changes.

[redhongkong]

erlang's spear are probably the only spear weapon u wanna use.

[gungadin22000]

I'm kinda missing Nioh's stance mechanic, convoluted as it was. I'm about halfway through BM, but I've yet to see a reason to switch between stances mid-fight.

[yyjihy]

Yes I think they should buff other BD. Spears BD is weak in first run.