Are Ultra Greatswords crap? Or am I using them wrong?

[Justin_760]

I honestly cant see all the buzz about them. They have the same AR as greatswords but weigh twice as much and are very slow to swing. I upgraded the Astora UGS to +4, and it has the same AR as the generic bastard/claymore greatsword. It seems strange that a sword with such immense weigh and size would have the same damage output as something half the size, and considering GS are faster their DPS is higher.

Do UGS start getting better once you upgrade them really high? It seems like hammers are far superior, as they only have slightly less range but way more damage. Axes far surpass damage as well but have short range. Just cant get into the UGS, and I really want to use them, hoping Im just missing something.

[Finn ™]

heavy weapons such as Great hammers and UGS are really slow, since the game is pretty fast and cheap rolls, you can only catch bad players with them, this is why they aren't used so much.

[SnowingFate]

UGS and most overly large weapons are unparriable when two handed, there are a few exeptions to this like all rolling attacks, and some weapon arts. Dragon Armor's Weapon art can be parried so can Astroa's. And yes there is the reach with the large Weapons and the Two handed moveset of some of the UGS like Black knight that on the second attack punish the roll behind.

Yes I do agree that UGS are mostly for PvE though I don't really see why as most bosses will just punish the Stam comsuption of them.

[louie]

UGS are for massive poise i.e GLORIOUS ZWEI HAVEL

[SnowingFate]

Автор сообщения: Achilles

UGS are for massive poise i.e GLORIOUS ZWEI HAVEL

What is this poise everyone is talking about?

[Hugh Mungus]

Автор сообщения: SnowingFate

Автор сообщения: Achilles

UGS are for massive poise i.e GLORIOUS ZWEI HAVEL

What is this poise everyone is talking about?

The one a Giant Dad (grass shield, chaos zwei and black flame) cosplayer just used to absolutely cave my face in just now. I've never seen so perfectly timed unlocked R1s and R2s...wish I had recorded that.
Anyway, with high poise you can trade even with rolling and running attacks which are most people's idea of the perfect chance to cancel your animation, most don't expect you to have the poise to keep going, so it's usefull.