Enemy health is pointless when Deflect bar delivers same results.

[KnightimeX]

Pretty much no point in using your sword to attack when all you really need to do is guard break.
In Ng+ it's even MORE useless.

Sword does pitiful damage even after multiple upgrades.

[flow]

Good to see another person who managed to beat the game without even understanding a core mechanic of it.

You don’t damage the health of enemies to get them to 0, except for the rare exceptions. you do it because enemies with lower health regenerate posture much slower, and barely regenerate at all below 50% health.

[^7ja^1co]

I think what OP means is that when you do the death blow it should remove a full bar of health not the remainder of health left on the current bar.
So if I am fighting a boss his health is at 50% and he is on 2 life orbs and I break his posture I would expect him to go down to 1 life orb and 50% life remaining.

They way its now feels stupid, boss is at 1% HP I finally break his posture guess what all that effort to remove 1%

[MundM]

I think you missed out that the posture bar fills up faster the lower the hp of your enemy and even yourself is.

If you never had an encounter where you can kill the enemy with far above half health, then you should improve your parrying skills. I killed that ghost lady two days ago, and after some practise, I was able to posture kill her while she had above 80% hp, that felt really great because I almost perfectly deflected all her attacks and I felt like a real ninja doing so!

[隻狼]

Strange because i think i killed Demon of Hatred trough Life drainage.
Anyhow, the Lifebar is not useless. Its as essential as the posture bar.
They both go hand in hand.

[Jotun]

Good luck killing Owl with posture damage only.

[Hatchetforce]

Originally posted by ^7ja^1co:

I think what OP means is that when you do the death blow it should remove a full bar of health not the remainder of health left on the current bar.

I did not get that translation form the OP at all. To me it says exactly what he wrote which is I am clueless about how this game works.

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by flow:

Good to see another person who managed to beat the game without even understanding a core mechanic of it.

You don’t damage the health of enemies to get them to 0, except for the rare exceptions. you do it because enemies with lower health regenerate posture much slower, and barely regenerate at all below 50% health.

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[Codester]

Originally posted by Jotun:

Good luck killing Owl with posture damage only.

That's exactly how I did it.

[Robin]

that's like saying "Enemy posture bar is pointless when health bar delivers the same results". different enemies require different approaches

[HypetheKomodo]

You could try to win every fight with Deflections only. That may be an interesting challenge run to watch.

However, you will have a pretty bad time against a lot of bosses, not to mention the tragedy of human error when you miss deflects.

Attacking, outside of doing Vitality damage, is to also put your opponent on the defensive. Allowing your enemies to just unload their combos puts you at much more risk. And as mentioned, the lower their Vitality, the faster their Posture drains and the less it recovers.

[Jotun]

Originally posted by Codester:

Originally posted by Jotun:

Good luck killing Owl with posture damage only.

That's exactly how I did it.

Might be doable without the bell demon on but I had the bell demon on in NG and just going after his posture is waaaaaaaay too long. You really have to bring him mid life through the process of building posture.

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Jotun:

Good luck killing Owl with posture damage only.

This lol, it's the same with most bosses, unless significant damage has been done to their HP bar, their posture bar will drain back to 0 very quickly.

[Jotun]

Originally posted by Spr1ggan:

Originally posted by Jotun:

Good luck killing Owl with posture damage only.

This lol, it's the same with most bosses, unless significant damage has been done to their HP bar then their posture bar will drain back to 0 very quickly.

And Owl has a massive posture gauge and many moves that allow him to disengage quickly.

[KnightimeX]

You all know full well that someone is going top play NG+6 or whatever is max with a level 1 sword.
Even NG+1 enemy health is ridiculously high.