Which katana do you think it's better? I'm planing to stop using strong weapons because of the slow moves and high strength requirements. So I need to be sure about my next choice of weapon. I'm still using a Drake Sword with my Radek (recently made) at SL 20.
So far I have a Lightning+4 Washing Pole, Lightning+5 and Chaos +4 Uchigatana, Normal+15 and Fire+10 Iaito in my collection of katanas. In terms of sheer power they're all fairly similar and there's no real dominant one. The Uchigatana is the easiest to use stats wise and can be found early on potentially though most likely not, the Iaito has a slightly different R2 attack which is more useful for PvP and awesomeness with higher Dex requirement leaving the Washing Pole with sheer size as it's advantage at the cost of a higher Str requirement and is slightly slower I think.
Missing from my collection however is a Chaos Blade (boss soul weapon), I plan to get one asap though in my NG+.
My pick? My +10 Fire Iaito is my personal favourite, only beating out the Uchi because of the different R2 attacks both 1 and 2 handed and the blades design appeals to me more and style is the main reason for most of my weapon choices. The Uchigatana in practical terms is just as effective though, the Washing Pole is just to huge for my tastes and looks a bit silly to me.
Another excellent weapon type for Dex characters is spears, in PvE the ability to block and attack with good reach is extremely useful, I'm personally using a +9 Fire Winged Spear, which allows you to safely chip away at enemies damage with ease. Though spears don't deal heavy damage, attacking from behind the shield has obvious advantages which means slow but safe kills and they attack straight which is good for narrow areas. The jumping forward attacks for spears are also pretty epic.
Tip: Jumping attacks can't be parried to my knowledge, execute in the same way as a kick but with R2 instead of R1. They can be blocked, but some enemies (Balder knights with thrusting swords for example) go in to parry mode and just stand there and wait for you to attack, this wipes the smug undead smirk from their face.
I finally beat the game last night. Such an awesome experience, just like Demon Souls. It took 71 hours and I was SL 101. After the credits roll it takes you straight to NG+ so I started that and reached the Undead Burg. I'm going to try and keep playing but I also need to finish Skyrim. Good luck to everyone still playing the story.
I'm at almost 100 hours and last night I decided today I would finally take on Gwyn for the first time, but I have so much gear and such in preparation for PvP and NG+. I'm going in to this fight completely blind, I want to dual him using only my trusty Iaito unless I absolutely must use my spear instead.
Targets for my Gwyn kill:
- Try to win first time, most bosses I've taken first time with only the 4 kings in recent memory who I had down to another slash but wasn't watching my health closely enough.
- Defeat him whilst not hollowed assuming I fail on first attempt I must reverse hollowing again. (50 humanity + 6 twin humanity means I have 62 attempts
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- Use Thief armor set even though Elite Knight armor would have absolutely no negative affects with much greater protection on my build.
- Use 1 weapon only.
- Throw in a taunt mid fight.
- Finish him Mortal Combat style, preferably with a parry and riposte if possible.
NG to NG+ Tip: Make sure you acquire 1 of each Titanite Slab before progressing in to each NG+, red, white, blue and normal. There is only 1 guaranteed place in each playthrough for each, the chances of a 2nd are slim to none and for trophies and experimentation each slab is priceless.
Sorry for the long posts, currently have no home internet so rather say too much than not enough.
Good fun though.
