My current character only wears Patches' robe. He doesn't even wear trousers under it because he's running the blue dancer charm and trousers reduce his damage. I think he gets 5% physical DR. His poise is 2. Immunity etc? Forget it. It's overall a fun setup but sometimes it's very challenging to play. You get a better dodge roll and more damage output from light weapons and that is very useful, but that's all you get.
Tell me about it... Fashions dictates my current character gets no more than 8 poise. I sneezed—me, in real life—and my character was staggered.
I wish wearing lighter equipment made your attacks faster. Less startup frames; identical active frames; less recovery frames. Also, when very light, change the roll to Bloodborne's quickstep.
In other news: the way bows are handled really is something else.
I don't have framedata to back that claim up, but from playing with the Composite Bow, it feels like loosing an arrow while jumping then loosing a second arrow as you land takes about the same amount of time than simply loosing a single arrow while staying in place, unmoving. It's completely nonsensical. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?
Go make an anime, FromSoft—it's obvious you want to do it! You've already got the tsundere snow-witch, and the helicopter bosses, and the bleeding katanas made with supeliol japanese steelu; now you've just got to add a chorus of young women who go "Ehhhhhhhhhh?!" in the background every time something is revealed during a conversation, like in japanese talk shows.
Also, whether enemies will dodge my arrows or not is a total crapshoot. Sometimes enemies dart left and right then left again, and for the life of me I can't land a single arrow because the A.I. has decided it'll dodge every projectile for the next few seconds. Yet, at times, bosses—human ones especially—do that cringey sort of 'roleplay slow walk' towards me and at that point I can loose arrow after arrow with the Barrage skill, and the boss will eat all the damage straight in the face.
As a side note, the Mad Pumpkin Head spirit ash is a beast of a tank, and he can stagger bosses with surprising ease. As for the Vulgar Militia spirit ash, either they get squished by big area-of-effect or sweeping attacks, or they stagger the enemy almost continuously on top of bleeding it like a sacrificial lamb.
My other character uses full plate and runs his flame art greatsword on pure faith. He looks like a badass in Radahn's chest armor, a greathelm and banished knight gauntlets and greaves. I also run the charm that adds physical DR on him. Much, much stronger than what I'm doing with this guy and handled the gargoyles with far less trouble.
I'm tempted to make a character with the heaviest armor and all the damage-reducing gear or consumables possible, then give him the Great Mace and Iron Ball as weapons. I shall call him Bonk, eldest son of
Andnjord.
But I've just bought Outward: Definitive Edition, so I'll probably play Elden Ring a bit less until some DLC comes out.
