It's not that weird when you consider that increases in weight capacity scales well all the way up to 99 endurance unlike other stats. It's almost as if if you don't arbitrarily handicap yourself to level 125 - 150, the number of viable build and gear setups goes up significantly.
But that isn't how bleed works though. Because as simple as Hit enemy until bleed, bar resets but has higher resistance is.. that doesn't ring true from actual gameplay. I have repeatedly seen double bleed procs from the same or very close attacks. If it was a simple Beat this number, it resets and beat a higher number then you wouldn't occasionally see a double bleed proc completely melt an opponent's health bar. So something is more complex than even the simplest version of bleed. Which means there's no way to understand a core mechanic to the dex stat gameplay.
No one is arbitrarily capping themselves at 125 SL. It's roughly where the game ends and if your build variety doesn't cut in until you beat Elden beast your game is fucking stupid (and this is going for the Nioh stuff I've read before. Don't gate keep shit behind NG+ you fucking queers). You don't need max stats to make a viable build in ER. I've got multiple RL1 builds using Radaghon's soreseal and a the next +stat helmets. I can go traditional roll and poke to weapon art spam. As much as I dislike AoW stuff it's pretty good for giving a variety of special moves and you can even equip different weapons to get some coverage. The biggest issue with them is that From still lack a way to interact between moves. Either enemies stagger and you can hit them again or they don't and there's little you can do to change that. From combos would break the game with how much damage they would do to players so we don't have them.
It's not the weight that's the issue, it's the fact that the DR doesn't really scale with investment past a certain point.
A lot of people are. You are delusional if you don't think so.
Your stats define the range of weapons you can viably use. Key word here is range. Weapon/ash swapping depending on the circumstance is core to the game. Far too often, people stick to a single weapon at all times and wonder why certain encounters are frustrating.
That is by design. No different to how damage scaling drops off past 60 points. Regardless, your level is uncapped. Besides time, there is no opportunity cost to get 99 endurance vs 60.
Look, if you want to pretend PvPers are people you can. But I'm not going to buy into retardation like that. You may as well say you're a tranny or you enjoy CRPGs if you want to tell lies. It would be more believable.
Plenty of players cap their level because they feel they are cheating if they level too high, the same way they decide not to use ashes. Then they wonder why their cool MAD build that they want to use doesn't work all that well. Good thing Myazaki gave those guys Fire Knight Greatsword, so they can realize their pure faith melee dream.
More likely, they spent their upgrade materials on the first 4 weapons that seemed kinda cool, found out 3 of them are shit for some reason, and are now stuck with 1 unless they go grind to upgrade a new weapon that seemingly has a 75% chance of being shit.
But there is the opportunity cost of having 99 END and wearing (extremely heavy armour sets with medium rolling) vs (fairly heavy armour with light rolling) and/or equipping additional weapons to quickly swap during combat.
The difference in DR from a medium armor 51 poise setup and maxed setup is around 5% at 20 scadu frags. That's 15%+ DR or 15% increased ehp, and not at all insignificant.
"People".
Therein lies one of my main gripes with the game. Not going 40-60 vigor asap is a bit of noob trap.
That would be true if I were talking about a 51 poise setup, but I wasn't. I specifically mentioned a 71 poise armour set (crucible knight). The DR difference vs full Verdigris is around 2% total DR (after both having Dragoncrest Greatshield and 20 Scudd blessings) for light roll with full talismans and load for weapons (at least enough for buckler + antspur).
You are already close to high end armor already, so I don't understand your point. Even still, 2% difference at that DR is 7.5% EHP. The gigafat amor still sees use and if DR scaled too well at the high end they would be the only armors to ever be used.
My point all along was that very high-end fat-boy armour isn't really worth upgrading to once you get to Crucible (or Tree Sentinel+Erdtree Talisman+2 if you really want) as the gains really don't outweigh the load you have to carry and the extra poise you gain really doesn't make much difference to most of the things you fight in the DLC.
Grinding takes virtually no skill, just time and patience. It's not really a surprise that those that grind their way up to max level are far less skilful than players who stay within a level range that will make PvP matchmaking quicker.
Nah, I don't mean that. I still need 10 - 30 runs at bosses, getting my stupid fat ass kicked like a fucking normie. It's just everything in between bosses is vast, empty and boring. Except the visual design.
No reason to grind in any of their games. You can smash through any challenge with enough skill. SL1 runs exist to prove that.
I mostly agree except for the 'mini' boss enemies you run into. The Lion/Bird knights are a fucking nightmare of difficulty. The fire knight before Mesmer is arguably harder than Mesmer is. There's a few of those enemies just completely nuts and boss worthy that aren't. Other wise I agree. It isn't helped the hollows in this game are shadow people so they don't stand out.
The DLc is about 30-40 hours, which is a solid length for a game. My only issue is a lot of it is spent doing sweet fuck all because you have to pick up scooby snacks.
