It gets under my skin so much that faggot redditors will spend gigabytes bitching about bleed and especially rivers of blood, but won't acknowledge that BHS is far and way the most broken, game sullying shit From has ever done. Bleed is OP -- everyone knows it -- but you can counter bleedfags just by playing better.
But BHS is ridiculous. It trivializes PVE, so many fucking faggots think they melted some boss and are like "hurr durr that was easy" yeah of course the game is easy when you have a cheat code for the mechanics you spastic.
And then the damage it does to PVP is profound. There's no "counter" to BHS, there's just turning 30 second engagements into boring 5 minute affairs with the benny hill music playing in the background because you've got to chase these fags down repeatedly across the map until they FINALLY exhaust all their blue and chugs. There's your "counter" bro. If someone competent is using BHS, forget about it. You might as well just alt f4.
If they nerf it, how am I gonna keep up with this game's speed and bosses with dual Colossal Swords?
I NEED the Step to stand a chance
Otherwise I will need to revert to spamming some broken ability like Hoarfrost Stomp again untill they all die.
I run dual colossal swords. It's certainly far more challenging (and sometimes a lot more boring) than anything else in the game but its not unviable the way people make it out. If you're powerstancing colossals you're getting 2x damage on every l1. If you do a jumping l1, it's insane damage and especially posture damage. I've yet to meet a boss that was so fast you couldn't get at least one attack in, and most of the colossals have the roll/crouch r1 poke for when the window is too small for anything else.
But with dual colossals I'm pretty much stuck with fatroll (unless I wore light armor or something - and I suck too much to do this). Too slow without the Step.
Though in most PvE its actually okay. Unless facing some Black Knives, Crucibles, Godskins or those frozen reavers turned normal mobs. Or bosses....
Of course, for bosses there are the Wonderous Flasks that give light encumbrance - but I still struggle greatly. Maybe I suck too much.
Have you tried Radahn's? That's what they are for - paired colossal swords for the weight of just one.
The Radahn's swords are a huge trap IMO.
They are short, they don't have pokes, can't two-hand one of them, the WA is flashy and deals significant damage BUT costs a shitton of FP (you pay twice if you want to deal damage), will often lead to trading and I guess its probably entirely useless vs bosses.
Avoid like the plague IMO.
I main them now. I initially thought like you, but I was wrong.
Anyway, of course you cant two hand them - you are powerstancing two for the weight of one colossal. That's huge, all the benefits of powerstancing while still being able to get a med roll in good armor like radahns, veterans etc. I can even go full bull goat with arsenal on, but I don't because I like to keep a pulley crossbow with sleep darts ready for rivers of blood fags.
The sword DOES have a poke, the same poke every other colossal sword has but you need to switch to one hand. The range is deceptive, if you're just looking at the moveset in a vacuum it looks very short and choppy, but against actual opponents there is decent range.. WA not useless on bosses, just like everything else with colossal timing and position is everything, think of it like a fully charged r2. If you can get a window to land the 2nd part of the WA, its devastating and I think there's hyperarmor during the mid animation, I can't remember ever being staggered during the 2nd attack.
(albeit, I think ruins greatsword WA is better for dealing with bosses, because range is king always and forever)
((P.S patch 1.04 just dropped and one of the major changes is a speed buff to colossals, lmao lmao lmao))
