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[ER] Star Fist, my beloved!
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I always return to this busted weapon (ᵔ◡ᵔ)
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Me with the Giant Hunt AoW
The star fists are objectively really, really good, but I never seem to be able to adjust to how short the range of my attacks is. I just flail in the air near my enemy instead of actually hitting them. It's not you, star fists, it's me :(
What's your favorite giant Hunt stick?
It's always fun to yeet stuff into the air :) Also Giant Hunt has really nice pierce damage.
Yeah, the range of the Star Fists takes a bit to adjust to. You need to carefully position and roll just into the right locations to punish. Also a bit of game knowledge, for example if you stand at 90° of Mohg you can't hit him with the first charge attack, doesn't matter how close you stand; you have to move a bit further back or forward. But really, the charge attacks are so fast, if you miss the first charge attack, you have most of the time enough time to do the second charge attack which as a bonus also goes a bit further forward.
Star Fists are so busted, I just executed Midra with them at RL1.
I absolutely love the guardian swordspear. I have no idea how it stacks up in objective terms, but I like it! The fact that I habitually go for polearms probably exacerbates my problem with fist weapons too
The Guardian's Swordspear looks so cool. I almost switched to it in my first playthrough when it dropped, just because of how it looks.
In objective terms Guardian's Swordspear is quite good. It's the premier dex halberd and gets insane scaling with Keen infusion. I think Nightriders Glaive might me a bit better all around? Since it's has longer reach, but Nightrider's Glaive is definitely a strength weapon and doesn't look as cool as the Swordspear.
The wide swing of the Swordspear are a bit of an antithesis of a Fist weapon ;)
I really wish the Nightrider glaive's blade was just a liiiiiittle bit smaller. It's a great design, but any time I use it I find myself distracted by how it looks just a bit mis-proportioned, too top-heavy. The swordspear just has that elegance to it
The one I'd really like to try is Loretta's glaive, but I've actually not done Str-Int yet. And also I have to go all the way to the Haligtree to get it. At least I really like the Loretta fight though!
~~also the (k)nightrider glaive should come with a little red light and a robot voice that talks to me~~
It's perfect
Upon checking: Loretta's war sickle scales slightly more with dex? Huh. Although it seems like it scales quite poorly overall. If only it worked as a catalyst
Loretta's War Sickle is probably the purest quality-int weapon that I can think of. You should get really good damage if you invest evenly between Str/Dex/Int and you get the same moveset as the Swordspear with longer range. The only disadvantage is that you only get the non-unique Loretta's Slash and you could just put the AoW Loretta's Slash on the Swordspear at the beginning of the game for more or less the same experience.