is it just me, or are the skills for some weapons really weak and pointless?

[Someasianguy]

Like with the scimitar, I 2 handed it and pressed L2. Then used the strong attack. This got me 71 damage.
Then I just used the strong attack by itself, and it got me 73 damage.
So Im wondering like why even bother with that long drawn out attack, when I can just use the strong attack on its own?

I also ran around for a while dual weilding the sellswords, thinking they are really weak. Then I started using the regular one hand attack, and was doing a litle more damage. Not a whole lot, but then I wondered why would you want to sacrifice the use of a shield to do the same damage? And with attacks taking longer.

[Fast Pooper]

It adds variety. Weapon arts aren't supposed to be activate to win techniques.

[Sanguinius]

They often cut through shield guards and screw the guarders stamina over.

[motleyguts]

You can change how a weapon scales. You can take a dex weapon and make it scale more evenly between str and dex, you can change it to scale more with str, and you can make a dex weapon scale more with dex. In order to get more damage from two-handing, there has to be at least some scaling on its STR stat.

[Wolfe]

I really don't understand the point of the Stomp skill on the Dark Sword.

Like, you can armor through a hit during the stomp animation, but as soon as you go to attack, the enemy can just knock you out of it. I really don't understand how to apply Stomp in combat or why it would even be useful.

I kind of prefer the Stance of the regular straight swords.

[Sa†o]

Originally posted by Big Ben:

I really don't understand the point of the Stomp skill on the Dark Sword.

Like, you can armor through a hit during the stomp animation, but as soon as you go to attack, the enemy can just knock you out of it. I really don't understand how to apply Stomp in combat or why it would even be useful.

I kind of prefer the Stance of the regular straight swords.

I can sometimes trick people in pvp to trade with me, especially weak clothie r1 spammers with spear or rapiers.

You get hit once but can land 3 blows in return.

Problem being everything attacks so fast in PvE thats its utterly useless since it only absorbs 1 hit.

[Wolfe]

Originally posted by Duero:

Originally posted by Big Ben:

I really don't understand the point of the Stomp skill on the Dark Sword.

Like, you can armor through a hit during the stomp animation, but as soon as you go to attack, the enemy can just knock you out of it. I really don't understand how to apply Stomp in combat or why it would even be useful.

I kind of prefer the Stance of the regular straight swords.

I can sometimes trick people in pvp to trade with me, especially weak clothie r1 spammers with spear or rapiers.

You get hit once but can land 3 blows in return.

Problem being everything attacks so fast in PvE thats its utterly useless since it only absorbs 1 hit.

Yeah, that's what I mean, especially since most people are using fast straight swords, katanas, or the estoc, so I really don't get much use out of Stomp.

I'm still not entirely even sure how poise works in this game either.

[Fezzik]

Usually weapon (attack) skills are there so that you can fight those poop heads who spent 5 hours practicing parrying every weapon class's basic attack.

[Sa†o]

Originally posted by codyjacobr:

Usually weapon (attack) skills are there so that you can fight those poop heads who spent 5 hours practicing parrying every weapon class's basic attack.

Yes you can use the stomp as a gap closer and feint instead of following up with r2 you do another r1. That is indeed true.