META: apply cold, bleed bonks

[Sunami]

Most efficient tactic available on this game will forever be this.
Once cold is applied everyone deals more damage.
Heavy weapons with bleed, bleeds as much.
The stance breaks stunning and crit while letting all the team dps is way more impactful than in ER.

Wylders boom bonking bleed, maybe a dutches that actually uses the chrono skill nonstop.

[Ponyeater]

You say that as if it couldn't be rebalanced.

Remember Blood Build humble beginnings. In Demon's Souls it was a very weak DoT that was only a little extra if you chose to go Morning Star over other bludgeon onehanders.

Dark Souls made it okayish, but it really only started to shine in Dark Souls III and Elden Ring. It did get a nerf, though.

My guess is if you want to go Blood Build, you need to get very lucky with the drops and also have the right relics / passives to make it good.

[Sunami]

Originally posted by Ponyeater:

My guess is if you want to go Blood Build, you need to get very lucky with the drops

There's relics to have bleed built-in any weapon, so it's pretty easy. And with that any bleed weapon gets extra bleed build ups. Then two wielding would double that. Ganking adds to that.

It's not really all that about luck. And blood wasn't nerfed that much in ER. In pvp it still builds up over i-frames xD

[Mecharion]

Oh boy i cant wait for the massiv new tactical options that will be introduced with nightreign.

Frost and bleed meta ! Never seen before! So refreshing!

[Hollow-Enigma]

Oh no, a meta exists! Guess we should all just uninstall and never touch anything that isn’t frost/bleed. Fun? Variety? Experimentation? Never heard of ‘em.

By this logic, Elden Ring is just Rivers of Blood spam, Dark Souls 3 is nothing but straight sword R1s, and Bloodborne is basically "press L2 with the Whirligig Saw." If you willingly ignore everything else because “not optimal,” that’s not the game’s fault that’s just you speedrunning boredom.

Like, imagine going to a buffet and only eating bread rolls because they have the best calorie-to-effort ratio. Sure, you can do that, but don’t act like the rest of the food doesn’t exist.