For some weapons I agree, but honestly jump attacks being so strong is necessary for keeping colossal weapons viable with all these limited punish windows and speed on some of these bosses, being able to jump an attack and bonk them makes those weapons worth using for people who enjoy them.
I think jumping attacks are completely fine. They have far more startup and recovery than other attacks, and are very easy to dodge on reaction. Not saying they aren’t good, they definitely are, but not at all “too good”.
Really only talking about PvE.
I get it. I would hope that there would be more variety there though. It feels like for those weapons the jump attack is pretty much all you do.
I hear you, weapon arts obviously add lots of variety. I like having high endurance and since it’s PVE, go beyond the arbitrary lvl 150 cap and have END high enough for heavy armor and never get staggered. I love trading hits using the greatsword and AOW like cragblade and lions claw and posture breaking bosses every 15 seconds.
I don’t even mind that I haven’t made too too much progress in the DLC tbh. Gives me something to still look forward to. Even though I’m going to go through it multiple times on my main character and also my challenge run character, as I’ve said, the first playthrough is always the best!
I went in blind and still don't know what level is intended for the DLC, but I was around SL140 with 70 Dex and maxed out Dex weapons, barely scratching bosses. It definitely feels like collecting the scadtree things is the intended way to play the game. I'd say if anything feels like you are doing not nearly enough damage then just keep exploring other areas and come back later.
Sounds rough! Im 50 dex, 40 arcane using a fully maxed eleonora's poleblade and doing barely okay damage. Glad to know its not just me. Also I started it on NG+, as I didnt have the patience to start alllll over again just to get the base level bosses and enemies, this probably makes a difference as well.
I came back when I was at like +3 or +4 of the Scadutree Blessings. And used Mimic Tear to help me kill him. There’s more than 1 btw (like later on in the DLC i mean). Anyway, definitely want to abuse the iframes getting on Torrent gives you with some of his attacks. Also, if you can stagger him and get a riposte, it does a SHIT ton of damage. Just two riposte’s along with all the other damage done to him was enough to kill him. But keep in mind I’m lvl 138 and in NG+, so idk if it’ll be harder or easier for you depending on your level and what NG you’re in.
Im level 165 so it should definitely not be much harder. I found that you can easily avoid the fire stomp attacks by simply jumping, even if on foot. The problem was that I was doing less than 5% of his overall health at each opportunity to attack, and if he hit me twice I was dead lol.
If you’re talking about the horned warriors I think you are, they kept fucking me up. Their attacks aren’t just strong, they have ridiculous range. Shit had me raging for a bit there lol
He’s the new tree sentinel, there to show you that regardless of how badass your loadout is, you need to level up before taking on the dlc as a whole.
The Tree Sentinel is only really hard when you’re newer to the game. Once you’re a lot more familiar with the game, Tree Sentinel isn’t nearly as tough as he was when I first fought him. For instance, I’ve beaten him at lvl 1 as the Wretch class with all base unpgraded gear and or course completely solo and without Torrent as well. Just takes patience, learning his moves and patterns, and how to properly dodge them and outspace him. It’s actually a really fun fight at lvl 1 once you get better at the game.
I remember my way of beating Tree Sentinel. I was trying to find the twinblade early on and came across the infamous teleporting chest to Caelid. For some reason I didnt figure out you COULD teleport back to Limgrave after exiting the cave with the weird shrimp dudes and just got around exploring Sellia and the scarlet rot swamp, eventually coming across the rotten dog spirit ashes. After I figured out how to get back to Limgrave, I basically just had to unleash the putrid canine wrath upon that Tree Sentinel and make sure I dont die while the rot would slowly digested his health bar. Fun times!
Nice! I can’t even remember the first time I beat him. I’m pretty sure I just came back later on when I was higher level with better gear.
I of course agree, I’m not as good as you and I can beat the tree sentinel at starting levels, but that wasn’t the point I was making.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah for sure, and they recently slightly buffed the blessings as well. Actually it was a very smart way to slightly nerf the difficulty, as so many have been complaining that the DLC is too hard (which is absolutely wild to me. Not that I disagree that the DLC is hard, it absolutely is. It’s just wild that so many people are complaining about the difficulty in a FromSoft game. Like, it’s honestly worse than those who were complaining about how difficult Sekiro was and were asking for an easy mode/difficulty settings). Since the blessings are optional, you essentially can alter the difficulty to your liking, to an extent of course. Even if you have max blessings (which I believe is +20? Not sure, I just recently got to +5 Sunday), from what I’ve heard it’s still fairly difficult, which makes me happy.
Still on the topic of "strong enemy you can beat later", I think the Evergaol Crucible Knight (near stormveil) is arguably an even better example than tree sentinel. You absolutely can beat him before Godrick, but you will struggle hard. After Godrick (and probably after getting that blood slash ash of war) you can take him down easily.