I'm having fun with the Thrall Axe in PVP.

[AH-1 Cobra]

If someone is looking for a non-meta weapon that's fun to play and isn't too OP, I recommend giving it a shot. You need to become proficient with quick step usage to get decent with the weapon, but its flaws are still hard to overcome against some weapons.

If you use the weapon I recommend using a Black Knight Shield or Shield of Want over caestus against straight sword and estoc users, unless you're a parry god. That way you can quick step with the shield out. But with proper quick stepping, you can punish the hell out of slower weapons. You're quick enough to hit, dash, hit on UGS/GA users. You can dance around them and light them up if you're good with it. Halberd users are a little trickier to do that on, but you can do the same thing vs them.

If you can get the other player in a trap if they're stupid. Get in, hit them once, they roll away, you quickstep in and hit them again as they recover from the roll. If they keep rolling away, you can keep rushing them down and not let them have any safe space whatsoever.

[ZeiroK]

I was using this build about a week ago. It by far has to be my favorite. Most people haven't fought the Thrall Axe so they aren't really sure what they're dealing with. I would pair it with Iron Flesh so I could just tank hits and swing at my opponent, usually hitting them 4 times.

[Groshen88]

I have a serpant man axe and I like it alot

[AH-1 Cobra]

I used to run a buffing build setup with the Thrall Axe, where I had lightning blade and Iron Flesh and ended up respecing out of it. I sacrificed mostly stamina for the extra buffing capabilities, but after playing awhile I realized that more stamina allows me to press people even harder. But that's based on my personal style. Running a Thrall's buffing build can be very good.

[AH-1 Cobra]

Paradox の投稿を引用：

Yeah it's especially tough for an UGS user, but not a whole lot different from someone just rolling and hitting with a fast weapon, except it's a little harder to try and predict a parry.

I'm looking for people to whiff parries. If you quickstep in and they parry whiff, often times you can circle around and backstab them. That's another bonus that quick stepping has, the super fast recovery allows you to more easily backstab people. They increased the recovery speed of a lot of attacks, that made it way harder to roll BS people in DS3 than in 1 or 2.

[AH-1 Cobra]

Here is what I use for my Thrall Axe build, its just a basic quality build:

SL 120 Warrior

VIG: 40
END: 35
VIT: 20
STR: 40
DEX: 40
others = base.

Use charcoal resin to buff. Its only maybe 30 points weaker than lightning blade with 30 FTH. Which is the primary reason I decided against sticking with a buffing build when resins are almost as good, and I get a ton more stamina.

[bunny puncher]

Been using a thrall axe as a sidearm for ages. Best to hide it at the start of the duel and switch to it at the right moment, and a weapon-skill shield helps, as the OP suggests.

Quickstep makes weapons that rely on hyperamor useless. With the right timing you can i-frame right through the attack and get two hits, ez pz. It's honestly kind of broken. Every time I get invaded by some poor sap with a great hammer or UGS or whatever I know I've already won. Often my opponent doesn't even seem to understand why their attack doesn't damage me, and they just keep trying to trade.

[Torch Hollow]

I hope you approve, OP

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=687776964

[bunny puncher]

crimsonedge11 の投稿を引用：

Use charcoal resin to buff. Its only maybe 30 points weaker than lightning blade with 30 FTH. Which is the primary reason I decided against sticking with a buffing build when resins are almost as good, and I get a ton more stamina.

Why charcoal when Patches sells infinite human pine? Most armors have less dark resist than fire.

[AH-1 Cobra]

bunny puncher の投稿を引用：

crimsonedge11 の投稿を引用：

Use charcoal resin to buff. Its only maybe 30 points weaker than lightning blade with 30 FTH. Which is the primary reason I decided against sticking with a buffing build when resins are almost as good, and I get a ton more stamina.

Why charcoal when Patches sells infinite human pine? Most armors have less dark resist than fire.

This is true, I just happened to have a massive stock of charcoal resin.

[ImHelping]

I wish you could get the sweet Red Hot thrall axe (and red hot Flamberge) the Thrall's use in the grand archives.