Any Tips For A New Longsword User?

[Something]

Anybody got any tips for a new longsword user? I spent the materials to make a rarity 10 longsword without learning the weapon in a fight. I can do everything perfectly in the training grounds, but for some reason whenever I fight a monster I am lucky if my gauge gets above yellow. Most of the time the gauge sits at white because whenever I try to do the spirit combo at full gauge the monster always dodges away from it and I miss the last hit of the combo.

Any tips would be appreciated.

[primobrainlet]

Foresight slash right as a monster is about to hit you, then make sure it connects, and mash that spirit slash button, it combos into the last hit and fills it up very quickly.

[CiD EviL]

https://youtu.be/e73zWlua_Fs

[レミリア スカーレット]

Learn to counter with forsight slash is the key.

[Shichiya]

Foresight slash, if performed successfully into round slash, can increase your gauge by one. It's better to use it as soon as possible since it doesn't consume gauge bar.
If you can't, using fade slash can save you a little bit of gauge bar when you want to perform the whole set of spirit round slash.

[astranabeat]

You need spirit combo to get red gauge only when monster don't hit you. Ex: when it down and when it target someone else. FFS can bypass entries combo and let you use spirit round slash ( move that upgrade your gauge)​ after successfull dodge. Basicly use FFS for red gauge and use combo when you have openning only.

[Valentine (Lunaticus)]

Just take your time and get used to the weapon and you'll naturally learn when you can usually get a full Spirit Combo. And then there's the Foresight Slash which can get your bars up really fast. It's not like you immediately have to be a master with the weapon and be capable of maintaining red gauge almost constantly, just take your time.

[Dan Niton]

Originally posted by Mahboobehs:

Anybody got any tips for a new longsword user? I spent the materials to make a rarity 10 longsword without learning the weapon in a fight. I can do everything perfectly in the training grounds, but for some reason whenever I fight a monster I am lucky if my gauge gets above yellow. Most of the time the gauge sits at white because whenever I try to do the spirit combo at full gauge the monster always dodges away from it and I miss the last hit of the combo.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Don't try to rely on full combo too much if the monster is not downed or flinched as you wont make it most of the time, instead just keep doing partial combo is enough. As for weapon, the only craftable good ones so far is divine slasher(white sharpness) and reaver(raw damage).

[Something]

Foresight Slash is the sheath draw Iai one right?

[bolabuga]

Originally posted by レミリア スカーレット:

Learn to counter with forsight slash is the key.

This is, indeed, the thing to learn.

Just dont forget you need to connect the hit to finish the combo and pressing R2 will fill you combo lvl by 1.

[bolabuga]

Originally posted by Mahboobehs:

Foresight Slash is the sheath draw Iai one right?

Its like a counter attack (R2 + B on my xbox controller).

You are invencible for a lot of time during this, and if you do at the right time, you will listen a "bell sound" indicating that you dodged right. You just need to learn where to point the counter attack, because it will be more useful if you can connect a attack at the end.

[myhr2]

In multi, don't be selfish and try to adapt your position to your teammates. If there is a Hammer or Hunting Horn, go for the tail. If there are people to the tail or the legs, try the head. You have reach, use it. LS got a bad wrap because they trip their teammates quite easily.

[ciel]

yeah, pick a different weapon

[Valentine (Lunaticus)]

Originally posted by myhr2:

In multi, don't be selfish and try to adapt your position to your teammates. If there is a Hammer or Hunting Horn, go for the tail. If there are people to the tail or the legs, try the head. You have reach, use it. LS got a bad wrap because they trip their teammates quite easily.

Of course the only reason you even have to do this is that the Hammers, SnS, etc. are too damn stubborn to use Flinch Free.

[iRaged]

Don't use LS in multi if you are going to slash your entire team.

[a7wingedsheep]

Originally posted by Valentine (Lunaticus):

Originally posted by myhr2:

In multi, don't be selfish and try to adapt your position to your teammates. If there is a Hammer or Hunting Horn, go for the tail. If there are people to the tail or the legs, try the head. You have reach, use it. LS got a bad wrap because they trip their teammates quite easily.

Of course the only reason you even have to do this is that the Hammers, SnS, etc. are too damn stubborn to use Flinch Free.

Even with flinch free, a lance player can't counterguard a monster's in peace because a LS douche decides he wants to slash the entire team.

Don't be that douche.

also, not everyone has a large gem slot to spare for your "entitled" mindset.