50 Hours playtime - General combat overview and specific examples

[mindlesspuppet]

Only active weapon counts towards weight.

It’s so easy to get Ichor (certain world mobs drop it too, the ones used in bounties, there’s a handful) that everyone will have all slots unlocked pretty quick.

[IAmGrimbo]

@TeoH

I think this discussion is going to benefit from specific examples because you’re generalising a lot here. There are a large number of available abilities as well as unique movesets across a big catalogue of weapons plus rolling/sprinting and charged attacks. I strongly suspect that what you’re talking about here is the Dual Dagger Rune ability “Dashing Stab” which is currently dealing absurd amounts of stagger damage to the point of being able to break the final boss in a single use while also full healing you and fully restoring your focus in conjunction with On-Damage stat rolls. It’s a ridiculous ability and comparing it to the normal weapon swings of any weapon is going to make them look pointless.

very true

@TeoH

The point I was trying to get at is that the balance of Focus attacks against basic attacks and the balance of Focus attacks against each other is far more significant for the game right now. These Focus attacks comprise the majority of your damage, the majority of your posture damage, are your most reliable way to interrupt enemies and are endlessly available due to the excessive Focus regen which can be attained on gear. I can fully agree that some of the 2h weapon basic movesets are unusably terrible, but I can still put Lightning Assault on them and now I have a 20 meter long charging slash that knocks the boss over in one hit and deals 3x as much damage as I would have dealt by trying to use the actual weapon moveset. Those problems with weapon movesets aren’t going to matter until the game actually encourages you to use them.

very true.