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If you use them, **** you. Dark Souls easy mode unlocked

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I think I may have made a discovery, but I'm not sure, since I was playing Cinders. When I did a charge attack with one of these (One where it's a thrust, that might matter) there was a wind effect similar to using War Cry and the attack animation was different, the guy slammed the sword down instead of thrusting. Doesn't seem to have a hitbox, and I can't figure out for sure how to replicate it, but I think it involves holding L3 and releasing it at a REALLY specific time. Hopefully I'm not just sending people on a wild goose chase here, if anyone even sees this.

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I got to the end of the game with what I thought was a shitty broadsword I found early in, only to look online at the end of the game and discover it's one of the OP weapons.
I mean, I'm not surprised considering how quickly it swings. You can really build up the damage with these things in no time.

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Man I kinda wish the Puzzling Stone Sword or something like it was in this game, that was easily one of the coolest swords in any of the Soulsborne games.

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My reward for suffering the cane sword in bloodborne

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Seeing a lot of cope in these comments

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My second playthrough was a hollow Astora's Straight Sword and Elite Knight set for the cosplay but holy hell it gave me serious whiplash to go from spending multiple days on some bosses for my first playthrough to watching them die in moments. Would not recommend these to anybody looking to have a good time.

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Mad because bad

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R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1......... Let Stamina Refill......R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1

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I dont understand why you have to switch to 2-handing straight words just to be able to use their weapons arts, like guard break.
with greatswords/ultra greatswords, you can 1-hand them with shield in the other hand and still activate the weapon art without having to 2-hand.

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I mean it's no surprise that straight swords are meta in this game considering Poise is non-existant, It doesn't matter how powerful your weapon is or how skilled you are with it if you just keep getting stunlocked before you can even swing your weapon by an R1 spamming smooth-brain, That honestly summarizes this game's combat, when you're not roll spamming, it's a contest of who can R1 spam the hardest, oh yeah and if you wanna play in any other way (Mage build, Tanky high-poise giant weapon-using strength build) you're gonna get your ass reamed because screw you for wanting to have good build/playstyle variety, I'm not trying to be a hater, but In my opinion this game has the worst variety and combat overall of the trilogy, most of it is either nothing but Roll+R1 spam, or a nice game of "Who can R1 spam the hardest?"

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The year is 20XX, every build is LKSS + Arbalest. The only function of strength anyone can remember now is to press L2 with Ledo's. The game is slowly dying as the remaining players either succumb to dehydration while running around Anor Londo waiting for summons or are fired from work and become homeless because they spent 40 hours camping the Ringed Inner Wall bonfire. We can only play on wifi as years of yanking ethernet cables has left our LAN ports looking like the Darksign. Nobody remembers why we started or why we continue, all we know now is desperately awaiting old age or malnutrition to finally free us from Dark Souls 3.

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[quote="Anonymous"]I still do not understand why they would make the default, all-rounder also deal the best damage. As someone that mainly enjoys spears, none of the other games made me feel like I would be better off switching to a straight-sword. They basically have no real weaknesses in this game. Almost everything else feels nerfed in comparison.[/quote]

I don't know; I started as a knight with a long sword, but now I'm really liking the Lucerne.

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I still do not understand why they would make the default, all-rounder also deal the best damage. As someone that mainly enjoys spears, none of the other games made me feel like I would be better off switching to a straight-sword. They basically have no real weaknesses in this game. Almost everything else feels nerfed in comparison.

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This weapon class killed variety.

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please Elden Ring, give me my balder swag sword back :(

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best ss for a dark/chaos infusion?

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The new poise system made this weapons annoying as hell

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I use sunlight straight sword for the WA :))

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R1 R1 R2 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1

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Anyone who dare says Fromsoft are competent developers I pull this out

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If you unironically complain about large weapons when you're using light weapons, I think there's something wrong with your brain.

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I don’t see why anyone complains about these and curved swords in pvp. Everyone and their mother uses greatswords and UGSs that just invalidate all light weapons with their poise and range, guaranteed the user has at least 2 braincells.

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god i love the r1 button SO MUCH

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name: guts
armor: fallen knight set
pants: full of piss
sword: long
That range was too long to be a sword. Too long, too fast, too strong, and too meta, it was more like a large middle finger to strength weapons.

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Dex weapons suck

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Here's to hoping that Elden Ring handles this class in a more balanced way. Although since its built off Dark Souls 3 I don't have high hopes.

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r1 (sorry for bad english)

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there are few experiences less joyless than fighting a straight sword

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could u please make weapon section sortable by clicking each stat. just wondering

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I don't even think I've ever used one of these in anything but my first playthrough where I switched to executioner's GS as soon as I got it

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Proof of the massive ignorance that is known as Fromsoft. And you guys thought they were decent developers. Miyazaki didn't even want to make this one. That's why it's just a clone of Bloodborne

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can't believe people actually cries about the straight sword

come on guys if someone is R1 spamming just parry or get away from there, tada super easy
straight swords works well for roll catching anyways, better if its longer like Gotthard's
don't cry about the weapon, it might be fault of your skill seriously

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Here is the range of all Straight Swords from Longest to shortest:

1-Gotthard Twinswords : 19.9
2-Lothric's Holy Sword : ~19.6
3-Ringed Knight Straight Sword : 19.5
4-Dark Sword : 19
5-Irithyll Straight Sword :19
6-Lothric Knight Sword : 18.9
7-Morion Blade : ~18.8
8-Anri's Straight Sword : 18.7
9-Astora Straight Sword : 18
10-Sunlight Straight Sword : 18
11-Longsword : 18
12-Cleric's Candlestick : 18
13-Valorheart : 17.5
14-Barbed Straight Sword : 17.5
15-Broadsword : 17
16-Shortsword : 17
17-Broken Straight Sword : 15.5

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ALL R1 SWORDS SUCK ASS. casuls love them though

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Imagine a dark souls with decent PvP

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R1 R1 R2

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Anon 10 Nov - holy **** you really did that! I'll post the link in the reply

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that face when you end up using the starter knight sword and dragon shield until lothric castle

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To those why try to say straight swords are not OP when they definetly are: i'm handing the dancer her ass with an UNLEVELED knight and an UNUPGRADED, RAW INFUSED broadsword. I'm close to kill her before going to undead settlement.

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Straight swords gets the most hate because they reward too much the r1 spam, wich shouldn't be viable in a souls game. Then the spammers hate about those things that punishes r1 spams like parries or perseverance. Make up your mind, ppl.

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Wish there was a balder side sword in this game.

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So which straight sword hast the longest reach? (with and without Phantom hitbox) I'm not going to use one, because I don't really like them that much but I'm curious about the stupid range some of these get and if they are equal to greatswords sometimes?

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10/10 would cancer again

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I hate straight swords not because they're bad but because there are such cooler weapons but you decide to use a metal sheet

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I want a *** Sword, not a Straight Sword.

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The only reason i would ever touch this class for use in pvp is for a solaire cosplay (then again solaire is so nice, he would never pvp), not becuase it is bad, but becuase it feels so overpowered, im not dissing on it, but i generally dislike using the meta, which at the moment is straight sword and poise monster two handed ultras, that and i dont want to become another r1 spammer

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is it me or the valorheart sometimes block hits when doing the r1 and r2 attacks

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"yeah I'm pretty good" *r1* *r1* *r2*

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Does anyone know of a straight sword with a wind effect like stormruler with a unique party animation? I just got 1 shot by it

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What's the best sword to go for in starting a new game? (New)

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What swords would look like a silver and steel sword from witcher 3? I’m doing a geralt cosplay and would like to know, as I’m not a fan of greatswords, and the usual cosplay calls for greatswords (greatsword of judgement, claymore are usually used)

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More like "metal gear soul-id 5: the phantom range"

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Spammers all over the shop... you ll parry them, sooner or later...

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Is Anri's sword any good for a faith build?

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TRASH CASULS R1!

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It's the deep, satisfying PvP experience that keeps me coming back for more /r1

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Underrated weapon class

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Broken Straight Sword in right hand and Cleric's Candlestick in left hand. Straight Swords are an overpowered weapon class, after all.

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Straight Swords? Gаy Swords anywhere?

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Playing dark souls 3 with straight sword are op but my weapon is sellswordtwinblade

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i was hopeful to be able to get the silver knights straight sword,guess not sadly

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It almost feels like people are*****ting on straight swords for memes. Like yeah they are good and easy to use, but far from OP. No poise, average damage, average range, easy to parry, very boring to use. Swing speed is an upside, but curved swords are faster and harder to counter

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@the guy below me: Straight swords as a class aren't OP, at most it's just LKS, Irithyll SS and MAYBE the dark sword that're particularly good. Straight swords are easily spaced once you get the hitbox down, you can use hyperarmor to trade, there is a guaranteed setup parry if you block the 1st hit and parry the 2nd and shields reduce their damage to chip damage. The 3 hit combo is good, but can be easily rolled if you time your roll. You mentioned that it has a 2 hit combo, which is redundant as EVERY r1 combos into another r1, be happy the r1 doesn't combo into an r2 or jump attack. Literally, just having a noticable parry tool in your off hand will deter people from attacking as much because SSs are so easy to parry. If we're talking meta range, literally everything will kill you in 4 to 5 hits, only certain weapons can 3 shot you and not even the LKS, let alone the rest of the SS class, is able to. Early game SSs don't do that much damage. If you're taking many, or even consecutive, hits then you need to work on that.

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Straight swords were a mistake: arguably the best/fastest moveset in the game (want to put daggers in a fight? I ain't stoppng you), ridiculous phantom range (especially on the r2), WA has the same benefits of perseverance while nothing f**cking states it and many of them are statistically better than other things (Lothric Knight Sword, hellooo?). Yeah: curved swords needed to be nerfed in all of this. Straight swords are just fine except dark sword. Mace is a joke compared to this (good karma that maces are a counter to this plague)

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Pure strength, offhand greatshield, best strait sword with heavy gem? Open to suggestions

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lothric straight sword with great magic wepong 20 INT is a really 120 build

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Ringed Knight Straight Sword has its fth/int scaling and requirements mixed up, lol

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Which one of these would be best for a 40/40 quality build?

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Best straightsword for 20 faith and 27 dex/ 30+ strength?

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i freaking love the valor heart i love that they added a gladius

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In a Strength build, which Straight Sword would you guys recommend, using Heavy Infusion?

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I think the Firelink coiled sword would be better as a Straight Sword instead of a GS. Just make it the longest/slowest straight sword.

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Now if they could just nerf the crazy phantom range and that stance that for some reasons has perseverance in it while nothing says it...

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Hi, which straight sword is best for a general strength build to one hand with? (sword and shield) and the reason for it being the best, thanks.

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whats a weapon that looks like soulbrandt from demons souls?

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Hi
So I'm running a faith build right now and have damage question. If I take my straight sword and imbue with lightning I get an AR of about 470, but if I imbue with Blessed I get an AR of about 390.
Now because the lightning is technically "Split" damage would blessed do more actual Damage?
I'm thinking all around for both PvP and PvE.

Thanks guys =)

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Why do the requirements and scaling switch places halfway down the page

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So sad there's no Silver Knight Straight Swords in this game....was amazing in DS1

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lothric knight sword is the top tier straight sword now

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oh sh*t i am losing better switch to a longsword play reactive and spam r1.r1.r2 combo with broken r2 hitbox that has more range than a pike
also dont forget to put caestus off hand too lol gotta parry spam that

every faget in an arena group match.

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Clearly the superior choice in any situation... It's my firm opinion that the straight sword class in general is OP, the dark sword being on it's own tier of bullshit. Maybe that sounds whiny or salty, but i don't honestly have issues with people using straight swords so much as i have issues with being 4 hit killed by a dark infused straight sword. Fighting with straight swords really is as simple as just managing your spacing and punishing, i'll say that straight swords are easy mode and don't really take skill to use, that isn't to say that you CAN'T fight using a straight sword with skill. I've been on both sides of the argument and know what its like both fighting and using straight swords, there are people who actually fight with skill, it's just "skill" involving straight swords really just seems to be being really aggressive and roll catching at every possible opportunity, it can feel really cheap. You know what i'm talking about, those skilled straight sword users that basically dominate the fight and usually have you dead in around 30 seconds the first time you fight them, then you git gud the next time you fight them and eventually their "skill" (aggressive playstyle) gets easier to handle as you fight them more. That or you have those guys that will just walk away from you untargeted and R1 back at you when you go to follow them and just repeat this. I can say from experience that the default straight sword class WAs can be SO good if you know how to use them... It can feel unfair how good they can be... shields basically become useless and that WA R2 is just AMAZING if used right. The WA R1 comes out quicker than most regular r1s on almost every weapon type and chains into the WA R2 really well too, its not a true combo but will land often if the opponent doesn't time their roll well. There really are just so many reasons straight swords are just too good, are there counter measures? Of course. There're counter measure to everything, but anyone with skill knows how to handle said counter measures for their weapon.

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Hey guys, i noticed something the other day, try using the WA R2 to trade with katana running r1s for interesting results.

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My opinion on straight swords, Hmm, well they are mainly used for spam this would be okay if they just lowered how much they make you stagger with each hit that way you can get away

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Everyone complaining about the phantom range caused by latency and the missing silver knight straight sword that no one noticed there was no faith scaling on Sunlight Straight Sword (just fixed it)

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petition for the silver knight sword:
https://www.change.org/p/fromsoftware-add-silver-knight-straight-sword-and-or-silver-knight-spear-into-dark-souls-iii

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I'm trying to make a pyro and one handed build (katanas, straightswords, curved swords, etc) and I may have just shafted myself with these scalings

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OK we're going to have to beg for the silver knight weapons back because its just not right to get everything else but the weapons

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please fix the *****ing hitbox !

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Was hoping the silver knight straight sword would be in here. How can they have everything from the silver knight but their weapons? I have to be mistaken...

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People do realize that the reason youre being hit from 10+ feet away by anything smaller than a greaysword is because of how games handle latency and lag. On the attacker's screen it wouldve shown you being hit, even if on your screen you clearly were not. The slower the internet connection, the greater the lag and latency therefore the higher chance of you being "hit" even if you clearly were out of range. I've killed and been killed many times due to that, and sometimes you can't really fix it, especially if you're in a "cross-region" match up because the further you two are from each other, the longer the latency. This isn't some bug with the weapons at all.

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Ben using the same Raw Broadsword ever since high wall of lothric, it's +7 now and i just want something new but nothing is good enough and i dont have enough titanite ;-;

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Why even try to use something like an Exile Greatsword when invading? Cucks are always in groups of 3 or 4.In case of 3 vs 1 i say %$#% those memelords, just rock that Raw Astora Straightsword at low levels or Sunlight/Lothric Straightsword at high levels, buff it and go with it, roll and bait.You'll be surprised how good this type of weapon is against multiple opponents.You don't even need to spam r1... just don't get hit.

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The amount of UGS users who are *****ing about straight swords is hilarious

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So most people can agree that EVERYONE uses straight swords, and frankly it got really boring considering the fact that almost everyone is using a god***** Darksword or barbed straight sword in the NG cycle. I really don't want some stupidly powerful axe or hammer, but I'm saying it would be more interesting if the straight swords did not show up 100% of the time you invade or get invaded. Pls up the scaling slightly but drop the base damage.

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Like im sorry From i love your game, but im tired of being hit mid roll 10ft +/- only because they delay their attack, actually distance on the rollcatch capability should be wayyyyyyyyy less

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I would really like to see a straight sword with half-swording attack techniques. Standard/Strike type, with more weight than a normal sword, as well as with more AR. This kind of melee fight looks really fascinating.

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for people complaining that straight swords are 'too fast' (when they're not), maybe you should stop using surf-board swords that takes all the time for a straight-sword wielder to attack and roll away to land a single hit or just git gud (isn't that what you UGS users had been saying throughout the entire series?)Dark Sword's ridiculous phantom range excluded btw, glad it got nerfed

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