The only good movesets from great weapons IMO are Moonlight Blade (int scaled), Black Knight weapons (but required big dex), Grant (50 faith lolol), Demon's Greataxe, and the Zweihander. I'd use the Claymore but it is in no way shape or form a scaling weapon, only useful as an elemental weapon.
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Finishing the game isn't the problem, it's going into PVP and hitting 40 on somebody with a 2 handed power attack when your weapons scaled at over 600 damage that's the problem. 
That and people suddenly becoming Albert Wesker and backstabbing me from 10 feet away.
That and people suddenly becoming Albert Wesker and backstabbing me from 10 feet away.
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Finishing the game isn't the problem, it's going into PVP and hitting 40 on somebody with a 2 handed power attack when your weapons scaled at over 600 damage that's the problem.
That and people suddenly becoming Albert Wesker and backstabbing me from 10 feet away.
Don't you just love PC gaming? Like on this game I never get any lag at all, never been backstabbed without me being a muppet etc etc. I get some bullet lag on BF3 though and many others don't, love it. How to devs fix stuff with some many different setups I will never know.
I lag all over the place with a lot of fights, last night I invaded 4 unique people, 2 were from Korea and another from Taiwan. The 4th was some little gay from the UK who quit out as soon as I invaded.
People ALWAYS lag behind me and backstab me though, and there is some bull**** lag that makes parries not work, I'll parry them successfully, they'll be stunned and reeling backwards but then I'll press RB and nothing, just a normal attack, no riposte or anything.
If you have the stats the Abyss Greatsword is great, I've been using it with my Dark Wraith build. It scales with your stats a little, and then how much Humanity you have. It hits for a bit more damage than the Black Knight sword.
The moveset is good, standard light attacks, but one handed heavy does a 360 attack that gets people who try to backstab, two handed heavy does a flip attack like the boss which does loads of damage and grounds them for a second.
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This happens in the normal game sometimes as well, I will parry, hear the noise they will fall back but I do a normal hit. Right pain in the butt but it happens
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Mother of god, I read the game was rock but I can't make it past the bloody early stages. Died around 11 times fighting some bloody undead skeletons only to then do a runner into some catacombs full of more undead skeletons.
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Yeah that happened to me then I realised that was the later part of the game and not the first level.
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Oh - doh
Yea, it's called going the wrong way
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Aha! found the winding staircase. Well at least I got some decent weapons from the mad dash through the cemetery. Even if I can't use them just yet .
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Cheers
I would say for a first playthrough, get the drake sword and a decent shield. A hollow undead shield will be good.
With 16 strength you can use both, he has the Zweihander so he might as well, its much better for cutting down bosses. The best shield you'll find until mid game is the Balder Shield, mainly because it has 66 stability without upgrades, which is 13 more than most medium shields, which is about 20% less stamina cost for blocking. That adds up. You'll run into elite knights known as Balder Knights later on, you'll know who they are when you see them, quite tricky for new players.
Go Dungeon Siege on their arses, sword and board groups and whack out the Zweihander for the big strong mobs.
Go Dungeon Siege on their arses, sword and board groups and whack out the Zweihander for the big strong mobs.