Say what you will of Souls II. I'm glad I can still have so much fun in it.

Specifically, I cannot understate my love of the Zweihander. It doesn't have the best scaling, and it doesn't do the most damage out of all the greatswords. But that terrific moveset I swear. Three stories, all in the iron keep as I placed my red soap down.

1. Summoned to a three man gank squad. Immidately run and dodge all spells and press further into the keep. All three go after me. I slow down. All three catch up to me right near the bridge. And just as they came in striking range, I dead angle turned on them. All three were stun fucked because stone ring+zwei=fun. The host was hit with an arrow from the archers, staggered, and then knocked into the lava by me.

2.Three man gank squad. Same thing except the host despawned all the enemies. Except for one. Across the bridge, jump across the lava onto the building where you get the ember for the blacksmith. All three followed me into the room with the red phantom knight on new game.

The knight stunfucked them and split them, boxing them in. My red tearstone ring activated and I proceeded to wreck the entire room of three gankers because the knight blocked the doorway.

3. Two man gank squad. Ran below onto the platform with the red phantom captain on new game. Climbed the ladder and sat up there with the archer. The host and phantom come over and tried to take potshots at me without going up the ladder.

As they focused on the archer, and started backing off, with my red tearstone ring active again, I did a run jump off the edge and a plunge attack.

Hit a solid 800 damage on the co-op phantom and killed him outright and caught the host which left him in critcal health. Another swing and he staggered when he kept his shield up, leaving me not to riposte him, but use the zwei's golf club attack to send him into the lava.

I love the sword so much that just for the hell of it I'm going to track down the neccessary stuff to make a giant dad imitation.

Discuss your favorite weapons and your favorite moments with them.

1) equip Poison enchant spotted whip

2) equip That butterfly Armor that poisons nearby enemies

3) Invade and run in circles around people, occasionally whipping them

4) Receive hate mail

Invaded some guy in Anor Londo with my Claymore, wrecked his ass and I think he was expecting an honorable duel. I got sent this lmao.

>be me
>strength/pyro guy
>be dragon broing
>git summoned
>it's a generic dexfag
>thief mask, rapier, and a buckler: the works
>I bring out my Iron King Hammer
>dat 756 ar
>he buffs with sacred oath
>herewego.jpg
>I buff with flame weapon
>the ar has left the atmosphere
>he runs at me, R1 spamming
>I dodge the first hits
>he tries parrying me, though my attack misses
>"nigga wut"
>the idiot doesn't know you can't parry a two-handed greathammer
>typical dex user
>he starts up an R1
>I start up my R2
>I poise through his attack, taking about 400 damage
>He takes over 1200 damage
>he tries rolling past me for the backstab
>I use the follow-up R2, aim it around, and destroy the rest of his health
>dexfag is ded
>Iron King Hammer is love, Iron King Hammer is life

Really though, Sandtrap, poise is amazing on heavy builds thanks to the hyper-frames ultra-weapons get while attacking. I can regularly poise through small weapons, even greatswords and curved greatswords, with 91 poise.

I think he was expecting an honorable duel.

because why wouldn't you

this is exactly what i fucking hate about this community

and the game, for allowing it to happen

>be me
>strength/pyro guy
>be dragon broing
>git summoned
>it's a generic dexfag
>thief mask, rapier, and a buckler: the works
>I bring out my Iron King Hammer
>dat 756 ar
>he buffs with sacred oath
>herewego.jpg
>I buff with flame weapon
>the ar has left the atmosphere
>he runs at me, R1 spamming
>I dodge the first hits
>he tries parrying me, though my attack misses
>"nigga wut"
>the idiot doesn't know you can't parry a two-handed greathammer
>typical dex user
>he starts up an R1
>I start up my R2
>I poise through his attack, taking about 400 damage
>He takes over 1200 damage
>he tries rolling past me for the backstab
>I use the follow-up R2, aim it around, and destroy the rest of his health
>dexfag is ded
>Iron King Hammer is love, Iron King Hammer is life

Unbuffed non elemental weapons are generally better. While elemental damage may list your AR as being better than the default non elemental, you have to consider that you now have two damage paths.

Physical and your respective element. If you ever meet somebody who's stacking elemental resists through the roof, you lose the effectiveness of your elemental side of the weapon.

But nobody can ever resist pure raw default goodness. Escpecially bosses.

Always hated making an elemental build because coming up against resistant enemies makes everything a rainy day.