Ring of blades is a terrible design choice.

[Lampsundae]

This ring is so good, if you dont use it, you lose. simple. It has good durability, an amazing benefit, and it's not even DLC. Why. Just make every weapon have the +2 damage bonus, and remove the ring. Dark souls 2 has 3 ring slots, all because there is no situation where this ring isn't the best.

[Ishamael]

There is a lot of "must have" rings in the game for a lot of people. Imo you should be able to wear more then 4 rings since they love to give you about 5 more every damn dlc.

[LazyPear]

RoB seems to work best with non infused or non elemental weapons. My pure Str build has a +5 RR Sword main with a +10 badit axe as a back up I don't use elemental infussions. I use the temp buffs like SLB, FW, GCMW, DW however the extra damage for the RoB is quite nice when I don't buff my weapon. But for builds that use elmental infusions like my Faith/Str/Dex build I find the lighting Clutch ( or crutch as on invader called it) ring works better with my +5 lighting DSC axe. As would the fire clutch ring would is better for my fire build, same with the magic and dark clutch rings.

So saying its the best ring in general is kind of narrow minded, it works great for dex builds, ok for str builds, and meh for elmental builds.

ZippyMaGoo původně napsal:

piszczel1 původně napsal:

Flynn's + RoB +2 + Third Dragon Ring + Stone ring. Your opponent is ♥♥♥♥♥♥, no exceptions.

I put on Flynn's while I had no gear on except for my weapon and it increased my damage by 1. I don't get it.

Same I striped down to my axe, chime, and sheild and didn't see that large of a damage boost.

[Dr. Marker]

♥Lampsundae♥ původně napsal:

This ring is so good, if you dont use it, you lose. simple. It has good durability, an amazing benefit, and it's not even DLC. Why. Just make every weapon have the +2 damage bonus, and remove the ring. Dark souls 2 has 3 ring slots, all because there is no situation where this ring isn't the best.

The only situation I've found where this ring is the best choice is if you're a build that focuses purely on physical damage and you don't have more utalitarianly useful rings avalible to you.

It's sort of like the Stopping Power perk in CoD4, it sounds really useful on paper (more damage means I kill things faster, right?) until you realise that it's only a minor efficency increase that denies you the ability to take something more universally useful.

The benefits of the Third Dragon ring, Cloranthy ring, Bracing Knuckle ring, Ring of Regeneration (I use it as a sort of healing buff to make my Estus flasks and life gems work faster rather than for the passive regen), resistence rings or Clear Bluestone rings are all rings that come to mind which are more universally useful during a playthrough than the Ring of Blades due to their utility and problem mitigation.