Does everyone use Knight Slayer ring?

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

Or is my 27 stamina and Shield of Want ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless? I guard against ANY attack, and its BLAM- stamina completely gone, open to riposte. Even ♥♥♥♥ as small as a katana completely drains me of stamina, and I'm even using the +1 chloranthy.

No wonder everyone just dodges, unless you're an endurance monster using a GS, shields are useless except against single attacks.

[Facu]

I alwayys use it.

[Mr. Kitty Saves The World]

Basically everyone uses it.
Non-parry shields are pretty pointless in PvP; dodging is really the only way to do things.
Blocking in general is pretty ineffective in Dark Souls 3; the game really wants you to roll.

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

Originally posted by Mr. Kitty Saves The World:

Basically everyone uses it.
Non-parry shields are pretty pointless in PvP; dodging is really the only way to do things.
Blocking in general is pretty ineffective in Dark Souls 3; the game really wants you to roll.

I'll one up the game and just go straight to Bloodborne, if that's the case. No wonder I don't remember ever doing a medium shield run in 3.

[Facu]

Originally posted by William See:

Originally posted by Mr. Kitty Saves The World:

Basically everyone uses it.
Non-parry shields are pretty pointless in PvP; dodging is really the only way to do things.
Blocking in general is pretty ineffective in Dark Souls 3; the game really wants you to roll.

I'll one up the game and just go straight to Bloodborne, if that's the case. No wonder I don't remember ever doing a medium shield run in 3.

To be fair, i never do any shield run in Demon/Ds1/Ds2/Ds3 but yeah, medium shield need some..buff? Idk

[zero]

bloodborne pvp is a mess
it's mostly about spammy weapons and getting caught in ongoing attacks
i use a medium shield on my lothric knight character and i only block the first attack if its not an ultra weapon, and try to parry the second attack because people think they're gonna guard break me in the next attack(which is true but i just parry them instead) it works wonders for greatswords, axes and similar non-superfast weapons

[Mr. Kitty Saves The World]

Blocking isn't totally useless; it's good against some enemies. It's just a lot more situational than it should be, and fatrolling is totally out of the question. You can't make defensive builds anymore, which is just stupid.
Dark Souls 3 in general is just so much less varied than previous games; even Dark Souls 2 had better variety in its combat, and that game was ass. Everything feels the same, and it gets boring incredibly quickly.

[꧁༺tS.KIRIHARU༻꧂]

Black Knight Shield.
Best shield in the game.

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

Originally posted by Ozzy:

bloodborne pvp is a mess
it's mostly about spammy weapons and getting caught in ongoing attacks
i use a medium shield on my lothric knight character and i only block the first attack if its not an ultra weapon, and try to parry the second attack because people think they're gonna guard break me in the next attack(which is true but i just parry them instead) it works wonders for greatswords, axes and similar non-superfast weapons

Bloodborne's PVP was an afterthought, but for what it was worth it was okay. I had a blast playing the PVP. At least you could escape being caught in an infinite combo.

Originally posted by Mr. Kitty Saves The World:

Blocking isn't totally useless; it's good against some enemies. It's just a lot more situational than it should be, and fatrolling is totally out of the question. You can't make defensive builds anymore, which is just stupid.
Dark Souls 3 in general is just so much less varied than previous games; even Dark Souls 2 had better variety in its combat, and that game was ass. Everything feels the same, and it gets boring incredibly quickly.

I only use one actual shield, and it's on a joke build that only uses a Greatshield. It's like the game is telling us "Welp, it's all or nothing."

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

Originally posted by DIChrisKringle@YouTube ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°:

Black Knight Shield.
Best shield in the game.

It's got the best general absorption, but I'm talking about stamina depletion. It seems medium shield in general are terrible fr PVP purposes.

[꧁༺tS.KIRIHARU༻꧂]

Originally posted by William See:

Originally posted by DIChrisKringle@YouTube ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°:

Black Knight Shield.
Best shield in the game.

It's got the best general absorption, but I'm talking about stamina depletion. It seems medium shield in general are terrible fr PVP purposes.

60 Stability?
Thats basically a greatshield.

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

Originally posted by DIChrisKringle@YouTube ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°:

Originally posted by William See:

It's got the best general absorption, but I'm talking about stamina depletion. It seems medium shield in general are terrible fr PVP purposes.

60 Stability?
Thats basically a greatshield.

Refresh me on that. So stability is how much stamina damage it can absorb?

Edit: shield of want has 58 stability, I don't see the difference.

[꧁༺tS.KIRIHARU༻꧂]

Originally posted by William See:

Originally posted by DIChrisKringle@YouTube ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°:

60 Stability?
Thats basically a greatshield.

Refresh me on that. So stability is how much stamina damage it can absorb?

Yep.

[zero]

Originally posted by William See:

Originally posted by DIChrisKringle@YouTube ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°:

60 Stability?
Thats basically a greatshield.

Refresh me on that. So stability is how much stamina damage it can absorb?

yep
more stability = less stamina consumption on blocking attacks

[꧁༺tS.KIRIHARU༻꧂]

Originally posted by William See:

Edit: shield of want has 58 stability, I don't see the difference.

Knight slayers ring is good I guess?
I have no idea haha

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

*gigantic shrug* guess I'm gonna have to adapt somehow and assume everyone has that damn ring on.