yeah this is true but I think they mostly get the job done by giving us one infusuable version and then 1 or 2 unique aow versions. The collosoal weapons are very tiresom tho that's true. Some of the weapons have unique mechanics tho like the blacksteel great hammer. It is just a great hammer but It has a unique move when doing a guard counter
the fact they weigh as much as a dagger makes it so much worse everyone and their mothers have a pocket backhand blade ready to pull out whenever things go south
I do that just in case i encounter someone using them. No offense but this guy didnt really do the best job showcasing how broken blindspot is. I swear i might lose 5 matches out of 100 with them and it would be because of something dumb that i did. Its nearly impossible to get hit unless you suck because of the s and how fast it comes out. I think swift slash just has a lower skillcap.
@@sekaikage blindspot is kinda broken but at least its avoidable and doesnt have insane hyper armor and stagger, he focused so much on swift slash because it genuinely is the most broken thing to ever exist in Elden Ring PVP
@@sekaikage blind spot is pretty busted, no doubt about it. But swift slash is legitimately game breaking in pvp. If you run the infinite mana physic, you can initiate combat with it, then spam it until they die with no downtime until the 15 seconds of infinite mana run out. Even then, because it lets you travel pretty far, it’s completely unpunishable if you don’t do anything dumb.
Most people I find in duels are just having fun. I’ve really only ran into a handful of people spamming these. Honestly even if they run blind spot it’s not unbeatable. Just have to use weapons with extremely fast cooldown times. Swift slash however is pretty unstoppable
It's funny how when it comes to weapons like the backhand blades and the Bloodfiend arm, they're overpowered as all hell, but then when it comes time to balance the actual boss weapons, they're all mid as hell.
weird to me how they didnt make the Falx curved swords backhand blades. I mean you get Swift Slash, a backhand-exclusive ash as a reward for helping the guy who wields them, but theyre not even backhand blades.
@@monkwashere I heard that they might've been intended as backhand blades. Even the way the falx swords are backwards makes me think they were meant to be rotated 180 degrees at one point. Really sad seeing all the content that was cut from the DLC but we we got was still pretty good
the reason blindspot is so annoying is it gives similar frames to quickstep... but does damage and shield bypasses. Making it objectively the second best, since swift step is even more unfun.
Blindspot is easy to counter once you realize that's what they're doing. You can use Storm Stop or you can punish with a jumping attack. Some weapons such as reapers catches them mid ash with just R1.
@@infamousp5608 depends, it can be used as a reactionary counter so you literally just cant do that. Of course if you have high hyper armor u can just trade. But that is how it works with any low poise damage attack. Its not as bad as bone bow by miles, had a triple gank of bone bow with sleep arrows, literally did not die for 5 hours and barely took damage. Its disgusting how good it is
The Smithscript Cirques can also be thrown while jumping, which can make for a great way to cover a retreat by jumping back while throwing them out at people. Also great in PvE thanks to that where you can jump over attacks while throwing them even at range.
@@fredrick-jr1qi it's good enough considering how much power you can get from it; jump att talisman, throwing weapon talisman, rotten insignia, jumping heavy hits hit like a truck
Honestly, if the Aow on the Cursed blades went further, I feel like it would actually hold up well to the normal ones. We'll see if that gets changed or not though.
The running attack can also be done continuously if you hold the sprint button. Also, you can cancel the heavy attack with a dodge for a quick attack. It’s work really well with the smithscript one. You can through them pretty quickly this way. And don’t forget you can follow up on the heavy cancel with a light attack.
Blindspot: what if prenerf bloodhounds step also did as much damage as a jumping r2? No, I'm not crutching on backhand blades, no I will not use any other weapon in the dlc anymore
It wouldn't make sense to make them backhand blades as they were never intended to be used like that. Realistically it should be a str based weapon or at least have shield piercing properties like the shotels.
@@kunknown2340 twist them around and they’re perfectly usable as backhands, what do you mean? Also, strength based? How? Why? They’re twin curved swords, how much more dex based can you get?
@@kunknown2340 I know what a falx is. If it was a two handed falx, being a strength weapon would make more sense, not here though, and as for the backhand blade aspect, historical accuracy doesn’t matter either way, because backhand blades are a terribly impractical idea regardless.
@@BLP04 you act like ds games dont have str based single hand weapons. We can agree to disagree, a falx has no place being a backhand weapon or a dex one. FS dropped the ball when it came to this weapon.
Tip: use the one handed running r1 to slice your enemy while not stopping your running animation. Just don’t let go of the O/B button. Alternatively the running heavy is an oddly long-range slash and pierce move. The two handed running r1 is not too good for 1v1’s. Heavy is good. Also, the base ash of the default BHB’s is better as a whiff punish or back-to-back stinger move since it has i-frames.
Curse blade cirque actually has a few plus sides. They have a high guard value, which can allow you to do the absolutely devastating guard counter on certain weapon types without needing the deflecting hard-earned. Though the blades work very well with it having enough guard that there isn't worry it'll run out. It has higher damage than the rest of the backhand blades making it very good if you decided to use a separate back hand blade in your main hand like the smithscript cirque but then still having access to the powerstanced attacks with high damage, you also get one hand light attack string with this kind of setup which is really cool because the first hit of the combo propels you forward. I do notice that these weapons become very underwhelming in pvp if you don't utilize blind spot or swift slash. I don't use those ashes for the sake of fairness
Flame art smithscript blues are insane. When set correctly the ar is nuts. Was testing buffs with flame gms, golden bow, and howl if Shabbir. 2700+ ar at 18 scadutree blessing and the running r2s or horseback r2s do tons of damage
yes because they habe base physical scaling for int and fth meaning when sacred, flame art, magic or cold infused both the elemental and the physical ar get scaled (scaling is a multiplier for the base damage because of that weaker weapons get less damage from the same scaling al stronger ones and bacause of that smithscript weapons get essentially double the scaling.
@@beef_baby wtf is the point of making objectively bad weapons? thats just shit design. take notes from dark souls 2, where there isnt any objectively bad weapons, even fucking shields are viable. Every weapon in dark souls 2 can be viable, some are slightly weaker than others. the difference is, dark souls 2 is almost a decade old, elden ring has had like 13 balance patches so far, and has yet to fix so many problems with their weapon designs. I DONT EVEN USE KATANA'S
@@duckyduckington9736 Sword of Night isn’t an "objectively bad weapon" pretty much any weapon can be made OP with buffs and talismans, and even without them, this weapon is still pretty good
@@duckyduckington9736 A weapon being worse than one of the best weapons in the game doesn’t make it bad 💀 what are you on about? First of all, it doesn’t even scale with the same stats so if you’re doing a sword of night build you literally CAN'T use SONAF in the first place. Secondly, it’s a completely different weapon type. I don’t understand this comparison at all. That’s like saying if you were talking about Bloodborne and you said the blade of mercy is bad because it’s worse than the whirligig saw. They’re not comparable at all
Without Cursblade's Cirque I would never have beaten Messmer. I'm ophidiophobic, so I spend half of the fight with my eyes closed. Each time I opened them, it was to spend all my stamina to proc bleed and it worked! So even if it's kind of lackluster compared to the other two, it's still great weapon for me. Also they fit my style better than the others.
I'm almost certain Curseblade's Cirques were designed for guard counters. It's got an exceedingly high guard boost for how fast they are. You also get the Deflecting Hardtear from the same area. I've been rocking it with multi-hit buffs on a Dex build and I like them over other guard counter builds that are slower and focus on more defensive playstyles. It also feels like they do more poise damage than the other two BH blandes, but I don't know the numbers.
Putting Swift Slash on the normal Backhand Blades, and buffing them with Royal Magic Grease (really just for the blue color,) you could potentially make an extremely cool Sin DT Vergil cosplay with the right fashion.
really love the first one for the ash of war (bosses who get staggered by it) for example Malenia it doesn't really stagger stagger but it stun her for some light attacks and it has dodge frames on top of that, although don't try that on Messmer dude never gets stunned
The running attack on the backhand blade also allows you to just keep running. You can kind of do circles in and out of your opponent's range when using it. The smithscript cirque might be one of the best weapons in the dlc because of its low requirements and great moveset. That said, smithscript weapons are awkward to get the most out of because of their scaling and it makes them feel really weak early on. Also the 1 damage you were dealing with the curseblade cirque seems to be because you were landing on your opponent rather than hitting them with the attack
I've noticed some DLC weapons have a unique move when you move forward, hold roll and tap RT / R2 but I don't know if any base game weapons have a move for that input
Anyone else feel like Falx should've been backhand blades instead of curved swords? The weapon design seems to fit, and it would give some more variety since 2 of them are chakrams
I have literally seen about 95% swift-slash spammers as invaders ever since the DLC released. It's even funnier when you see that they can't fight in any other way than spamming this ash of war and when you actually kill them because they're overly predictable, they post angry comments on your steam profile. This is why I leave my profile's comments open, to revel in the salt of op ashes of war spammers.
Had an invader spam it while co-oping on the way to Radahn's fog gate. He died too easily and had to message that we were both bad because he was spamming this AoW. I had a hearty chortle and simply replied YOU DIED
I am so happy that we have games like this that makes usages of reverse grip fun and usefull because in irl it doesn't work that way unfortunatly. That looks rly cool imo :D
I believe the gold disc faith spell is the most slept-on attack for pvp. It cost 3fp and chains together so well with any weapon. The range is almost the largest of any attack, plus it hits twice for poise damage. You can also use it to herd ganks into position for a combo wombo.
I love using backhand blades cause I used to just stand there waiting for the enemy to come then use the ash of war to completely catch them off guard lol
the Cirque is my favorite. if you can fully charge a R2 at close range you will deal INSANE damage with the right talismans since your guy throws both, but it is worse at range than some of the other throwing weapons
Another good place to farm the Curseblade's Cirque is just northeast of the Gravesite Plain grace- there's a Curseblade hanging out on an arch that will descend when you come close.
for the smithscript weapons, put flame art/sacred/magic scaling on it with a faith or int build they already have innate faith and int scaling which affects the physical damage, which will go from E to C/B when you change the scaling and affect both the physical and elemental damage like that
One thing I think is really worth abusing with all the smithscript weapons is the jumping heavy, they come out fast and are gonna catch people off guard
Backhand blade with bleed was the only way for me to beat the DLCS bosses as they hit to hard and fast for me to consider using anything else. Hell Bayle took 8 attempts because he just doesn’t let up and when he isn’t attacking for a split second he’s jumping around like a crackhead.
I put swift slash ash on the backhand blade with blood affinity and I put the blind spot ash on the Cirque's with blood affinity and they're ABSOLUTELY INSANE!
I went into the DLC with a dual short sword character I had been enjoying playing with, switched to keen backhand blades and it's carried me through all the content ever since.
The irony in souls games having bleed as the king of status effects truly does get old not to mention the dlc weapons out match anybody in the base game
Smithscript Cirque with Swift Slash convinced me to ditch Moonveil. It's worth noting that jumping heavy is also a throw move. I use it a lot when jumping away from assailants.
I still think they get outclassed by power stanced curved swords for love at least. They have significantly better dps and a better jump attack that applies bleed quicker
You like the Smithscript Cirque because it's broken. I like the Smithscript Cirque because it basically lets me roleplay as Xena, Warrior Princess with her chakrams. We are not the same.
I thought the smithscript weapons were going to suck, but the smithscript cirque may be one of the most fun weapons they’ve ever made. Also, you didn’t mention this, but weapons also get physical damage scaling with faith when flame art infused.
Honestly I just wish that flying kick on the Curseblade weapon art was on the martial arts weapons lmao Also, fun fact, the Smithscript Cirques actually have a heavy feint! They're the only backhand blade that does! And also because of Smithscript weapons having int/faith that effects physical damage, they have a weird interaction where when you infuse them magic or sacred/flame art it will actually gain both physical AND elemental AR with those stats, making them do a lot more damage than I think was intended lol
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I put Flame Art on the Smithscript version which gives it really crazy Faith scaling and huuuuge AP. Combined with Golden Vow, Flame grant me strength, 15% fire damage tear and Alexander's charm, the damage is ridiculous. Base AP is around 1300, with all buffs it's over 2000.
Swift slash is straight up one of the most op things from soft has added in a dlc, right beside the unnerfed version of Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords when the ringed city came out
Backhand blade swords worked a charm against Maliketh on my second play through after beating DLC and continuing main story. Not so much against Radagon and Elden Beast.
The Smithscripts are my favorite because they fit my Pyromancy build perfectly. A flame themed Chakrams that can be thrown? I'm practically Axel from Kingdom Hearts!
tipp for all smithscript weapons the int / fth scaling for physical persists after infusion meaning you get insane damage on flame art, sacred and magic on flame art with 40 str and 80 fth the smithscript greathammer is only 13 ar behind the giant crusher.
with running you can spam the light attack and you dont lose momentum it actualy prepels you foward. i tried it on like the first day and its probably really good in pvp
This is what I think fromsoft purposely leave some ash of war overpowered and watch people freak out for a week or two and then nurfs them only to find out about imbalances of others after updating the game 🤔
Re the backhand blade moveset - you missed one of my favourites - the sprinting heavy, which is a nice, reasonably quick 1, 2 for pretty big damage. You used it in your pvp fights but didn't mention it when going through the moveset
You never mentioned the running r2 attack on the backhand blades it’s so ridiculously broken. For some reason, the first hit of the running r2 is pretty weak, but the second hit of it does nearly 2600-3000 damage for me and it’s so fast.
Fun fact : if you put a holy scaling on the last one , faith will not only scale the elemental damage bht also the physical , so putting flaming on it and having faith build is broken
Do someone remember flipping Havel moms before they patched them out in DS1? For some reason backhand blades reminded me of them. With how lightweight they are and how fast you can move with them (with help of weapon arts) even with heavy armor equipped
what's hilarious is most coopers will miss swift slash from their need to 100% coop every inch of the game, so they won't even see the summon signs for the fight you get it from.
When the slash is swift
Who up swifting they slash?
Me when I slash swiftly
get swifty in here
the maidenless slash.
Shit's so easy to counter. I honestly have no idea why everyone is shaking in the corner...
Pretty funny fromsoft added 8 new weapon types , but added like 3 of each then added a million fucking colossal weapons
Yeah.... I do love the new weapons and all.. but come on :/
wait til bro finds out how many throwing weapons there are
Wait till he finds out how many perfumes
Smithscript daggers moment
yeah this is true but I think they mostly get the job done by giving us one infusuable version and then 1 or 2 unique aow versions. The collosoal weapons are very tiresom tho that's true. Some of the weapons have unique mechanics tho like the blacksteel great hammer. It is just a great hammer but It has a unique move when doing a guard counter
Love how theres only 1 blade and 2 disk
Ong man so frustrating
Also, missed opportunity to add the crystalline disks
Where are my backhand Uchigatanas 😭😭😭
Almost like reverse grip fucking sucks LAMO
More like 2 blades and four discs lol
the fact they weigh as much as a dagger makes it so much worse
everyone and their mothers have a pocket backhand blade ready to pull out whenever things go south
I do that just in case i encounter someone using them. No offense but this guy didnt really do the best job showcasing how broken blindspot is. I swear i might lose 5 matches out of 100 with them and it would be because of something dumb that i did. Its nearly impossible to get hit unless you suck because of the s and how fast it comes out. I think swift slash just has a lower skillcap.
@@sekaikage oh I know how bad they are
I’ve been on both ends of the stick
@@sekaikage blindspot is kinda broken but at least its avoidable and doesnt have insane hyper armor and stagger, he focused so much on swift slash because it genuinely is the most broken thing to ever exist in Elden Ring PVP
@@sekaikage blind spot is pretty busted, no doubt about it. But swift slash is legitimately game breaking in pvp. If you run the infinite mana physic, you can initiate combat with it, then spam it until they die with no downtime until the 15 seconds of infinite mana run out. Even then, because it lets you travel pretty far, it’s completely unpunishable if you don’t do anything dumb.
Most people I find in duels are just having fun. I’ve really only ran into a handful of people spamming these. Honestly even if they run blind spot it’s not unbeatable. Just have to use weapons with extremely fast cooldown times. Swift slash however is pretty unstoppable
It's funny how when it comes to weapons like the backhand blades and the Bloodfiend arm, they're overpowered as all hell, but then when it comes time to balance the actual boss weapons, they're all mid as hell.
and the final boss weapons are literally a repeat from the base game.
@@102ndsmirnov7 reskin))
Does everyone start with "its funny" like holy it's so overused to shit
All weapons should be equally op enough with the nerfs, that's why ds3 is unplayable
@@Orgi3out of their entire comment…. that’s what you have to complain about?
I like how fromsoft was like: we’re gonna add paired back swords as weapon class, sike its a ring blade class now!
And they don't even add the crystal ones to complete the crystallian trio weapons.
@@mlhx9181for real I’m so pissed they didn’t do that
hopefully thats the plan.
1:55 bro just casually hit one of the most baller kills and just keeps yapping like nothing happened. Legendary
GG
Bro the ash of war is easy af to use lol
@@mhead1117 I know but it still looked cool asf
@@TheoneandonlyRadicles dont look so cool the 50th time
Bro casually hit baller yapping legendary.
weird to me how they didnt make the Falx curved swords backhand blades. I mean you get Swift Slash, a backhand-exclusive ash as a reward for helping the guy who wields them, but theyre not even backhand blades.
I thought the same thing when I first tried them. The unique ash would be so much cooler if they were backhand blades too
@@monkwashere I heard that they might've been intended as backhand blades. Even the way the falx swords are backwards makes me think they were meant to be rotated 180 degrees at one point. Really sad seeing all the content that was cut from the DLC but we we got was still pretty good
@@hassanrao470the falx is a real sword, they're made like that
@@X-Vidar o that's pretty interesting
@@hassanrao470 Yeah, like the other guy said since the falx is intentionally made like that they likely never intended to make it a backhand blade
the reason blindspot is so annoying is it gives similar frames to quickstep... but does damage and shield bypasses. Making it objectively the second best, since swift step is even more unfun.
How well does it fare in PvE?
Blindspot is easy to counter once you realize that's what they're doing. You can use Storm Stop or you can punish with a jumping attack. Some weapons such as reapers catches them mid ash with just R1.
@@davidcopperfield5345 its fast, safe and does good damage on the best weapon type. Its really good as an attack, but debatable on best AoW
@@infamousp5608 depends, it can be used as a reactionary counter so you literally just cant do that. Of course if you have high hyper armor u can just trade. But that is how it works with any low poise damage attack. Its not as bad as bone bow by miles, had a triple gank of bone bow with sleep arrows, literally did not die for 5 hours and barely took damage. Its disgusting how good it is
1:55 bro that finish was cold asf. It's like some shit you'd see in an anime
The Smithscript Cirques can also be thrown while jumping, which can make for a great way to cover a retreat by jumping back while throwing them out at people. Also great in PvE thanks to that where you can jump over attacks while throwing them even at range.
Except for how abysmal the range is 😂 it’s the only reason I don’t use them
for some reason one jumping attack on them also takes like half my health bar 🇺🇿
@@fredrick-jr1qi it's good enough considering how much power you can get from it; jump att talisman, throwing weapon talisman, rotten insignia, jumping heavy hits hit like a truck
Honestly, if the Aow on the Cursed blades went further, I feel like it would actually hold up well to the normal ones. We'll see if that gets changed or not though.
I SAW THAT TALISMAN, YOU MURDERED MILLICENT
The running attack can also be done continuously if you hold the sprint button. Also, you can cancel the heavy attack with a dodge for a quick attack. It’s work really well with the smithscript one. You can through them pretty quickly this way. And don’t forget you can follow up on the heavy cancel with a light attack.
4:36
it looks like your attack missed but since the spin attack jumped yiu in the air they took the minor damage from you falling on them.
Blindspot: what if prenerf bloodhounds step also did as much damage as a jumping r2?
No, I'm not crutching on backhand blades, no I will not use any other weapon in the dlc anymore
You were never disciplined enough for the Arts anyways.
Hornsent’s weapons should’ve been backhand blades too. I love them as curved swords, but they would’ve been so much cooler
It wouldn't make sense to make them backhand blades as they were never intended to be used like that. Realistically it should be a str based weapon or at least have shield piercing properties like the shotels.
@@kunknown2340 twist them around and they’re perfectly usable as backhands, what do you mean? Also, strength based? How? Why? They’re twin curved swords, how much more dex based can you get?
@@BLP04 look up a falx and the history behind it.
@@kunknown2340 I know what a falx is. If it was a two handed falx, being a strength weapon would make more sense, not here though, and as for the backhand blade aspect, historical accuracy doesn’t matter either way, because backhand blades are a terribly impractical idea regardless.
@@BLP04 you act like ds games dont have str based single hand weapons. We can agree to disagree, a falx has no place being a backhand weapon or a dex one. FS dropped the ball when it came to this weapon.
Personally i really want to see a video on the new main gauche dagger. It has a really cool moveset when you use it with a thrusting sword.
1:55 Bro that was cold af
L@, the instant win button 🥶
But yo that was clean, I'm not gonna lie
Tip: use the one handed running r1 to slice your enemy while not stopping your running animation. Just don’t let go of the O/B button. Alternatively the running heavy is an oddly long-range slash and pierce move. The two handed running r1 is not too good for 1v1’s. Heavy is good. Also, the base ash of the default BHB’s is better as a whiff punish or back-to-back stinger move since it has i-frames.
Two handed keeps momentum too, it's just a weapon class feature
Curse blade cirque actually has a few plus sides. They have a high guard value, which can allow you to do the absolutely devastating guard counter on certain weapon types without needing the deflecting hard-earned. Though the blades work very well with it having enough guard that there isn't worry it'll run out. It has higher damage than the rest of the backhand blades making it very good if you decided to use a separate back hand blade in your main hand like the smithscript cirque but then still having access to the powerstanced attacks with high damage, you also get one hand light attack string with this kind of setup which is really cool because the first hit of the combo propels you forward. I do notice that these weapons become very underwhelming in pvp if you don't utilize blind spot or swift slash. I don't use those ashes for the sake of fairness
Flame art smithscript blues are insane. When set correctly the ar is nuts. Was testing buffs with flame gms, golden bow, and howl if Shabbir. 2700+ ar at 18 scadutree blessing and the running r2s or horseback r2s do tons of damage
yes because they habe base physical scaling for int and fth meaning when sacred, flame art, magic or cold infused both the elemental and the physical ar get scaled (scaling is a multiplier for the base damage because of that weaker weapons get less damage from the same scaling al stronger ones and bacause of that smithscript weapons get essentially double the scaling.
why did they make this so good, then give a C SCALING TO THE NIGHT KATANA?
weird af that they made these so much better.
Bro you katana users have enough really good weapons, you don’t need more
@@beef_baby wtf is the point of making objectively bad weapons? thats just shit design.
take notes from dark souls 2, where there isnt any objectively bad weapons, even fucking shields are viable. Every weapon in dark souls 2 can be viable, some are slightly weaker than others.
the difference is, dark souls 2 is almost a decade old, elden ring has had like 13 balance patches so far, and has yet to fix so many problems with their weapon designs.
I DONT EVEN USE KATANA'S
@@duckyduckington9736 Sword of Night isn’t an "objectively bad weapon" pretty much any weapon can be made OP with buffs and talismans, and even without them, this weapon is still pretty good
@@beef_baby it IS objectively bad.
What makes it more useful than sword of night and flame?
@@duckyduckington9736 A weapon being worse than one of the best weapons in the game doesn’t make it bad 💀 what are you on about? First of all, it doesn’t even scale with the same stats so if you’re doing a sword of night build you literally CAN'T use SONAF in the first place. Secondly, it’s a completely different weapon type. I don’t understand this comparison at all. That’s like saying if you were talking about Bloodborne and you said the blade of mercy is bad because it’s worse than the whirligig saw. They’re not comparable at all
Without Cursblade's Cirque I would never have beaten Messmer.
I'm ophidiophobic, so I spend half of the fight with my eyes closed.
Each time I opened them, it was to spend all my stamina to proc bleed and it worked!
So even if it's kind of lackluster compared to the other two, it's still great weapon for me.
Also they fit my style better than the others.
Are you being serious about closing your eyes for half the fight
@@Adestria66 Yes I’m serious! I have a phobia!
@@ultraphoenix95Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard
@ultraphoenix95 you can't just say the name of a random phobia without saying what it means
@@montecarlowithdawningornam1817it’s the fear of snakes I think
Something I don’t think you mentioned is that you can running attack and then keep running without delay, keeping the pressure up as well.
I'm almost certain Curseblade's Cirques were designed for guard counters. It's got an exceedingly high guard boost for how fast they are.
You also get the Deflecting Hardtear from the same area.
I've been rocking it with multi-hit buffs on a Dex build and I like them over other guard counter builds that are slower and focus on more defensive playstyles.
It also feels like they do more poise damage than the other two BH blandes, but I don't know the numbers.
Putting Swift Slash on the normal Backhand Blades, and buffing them with Royal Magic Grease (really just for the blue color,) you could potentially make an extremely cool Sin DT Vergil cosplay with the right fashion.
Monks gonna have fun with this series
Can’t wait for him to cover the hand-to-hand arts
Also possibly because he’ll find it challenging lol
I went blood with the backhand blade and provided you have 60+ arcance and compatible talismans it melts evertyhing
really love the first one for the ash of war (bosses who get staggered by it) for example Malenia it doesn't really stagger stagger but it stun her for some light attacks and it has dodge frames on top of that, although don't try that on Messmer dude never gets stunned
The running attack on the backhand blade also allows you to just keep running. You can kind of do circles in and out of your opponent's range when using it.
The smithscript cirque might be one of the best weapons in the dlc because of its low requirements and great moveset. That said, smithscript weapons are awkward to get the most out of because of their scaling and it makes them feel really weak early on.
Also the 1 damage you were dealing with the curseblade cirque seems to be because you were landing on your opponent rather than hitting them with the attack
I've noticed some DLC weapons have a unique move when you move forward, hold roll and tap RT / R2 but I don't know if any base game weapons have a move for that input
It's a feint attack, and is on some other weapons as well. The Astel Wings, being my favorite int blade with this feature.
Anyone else feel like Falx should've been backhand blades instead of curved swords? The weapon design seems to fit, and it would give some more variety since 2 of them are chakrams
Agreed
I have literally seen about 95% swift-slash spammers as invaders ever since the DLC released. It's even funnier when you see that they can't fight in any other way than spamming this ash of war and when you actually kill them because they're overly predictable, they post angry comments on your steam profile.
This is why I leave my profile's comments open, to revel in the salt of op ashes of war spammers.
Had an invader spam it while co-oping on the way to Radahn's fog gate. He died too easily and had to message that we were both bad because he was spamming this AoW. I had a hearty chortle and simply replied YOU DIED
Lowkey upset that we got ranged chakrams, but they weren't the Crystalian discs.
The blind spot ash of war is insane
Monk, if you use swift slash I swear to god-
I am so happy that we have games like this that makes usages of reverse grip fun and usefull because in irl it doesn't work that way unfortunatly. That looks rly cool imo :D
Can you try madding hands it’s pretty good with axe talisman and aged one exaltation talisman.
I believe the gold disc faith spell is the most slept-on attack for pvp. It cost 3fp and chains together so well with any weapon. The range is almost the largest of any attack, plus it hits twice for poise damage. You can also use it to herd ganks into position for a combo wombo.
11:10 even the guard wanted to jump them💀
I love using backhand blades cause I used to just stand there waiting for the enemy to come then use the ash of war to completely catch them off guard lol
These weapons are awesome, super cool running attack.
Nice video can you do the remembrance weapons pls
I was so happy when I saw they added shacrans into the game! Not many midias show them but I think they are awesome to look!!
the Cirque is my favorite. if you can fully charge a R2 at close range you will deal INSANE damage with the right talismans since your guy throws both, but it is worse at range than some of the other throwing weapons
Another good place to farm the Curseblade's Cirque is just northeast of the Gravesite Plain grace- there's a Curseblade hanging out on an arch that will descend when you come close.
The stage front one is better cause you can backstab him first every time you fight him
That guy grabbed me and threw me off the cliff when I first went by him.
I feel so bad for him having to use swift slash for the video my deepest respects for this man
for the smithscript weapons, put flame art/sacred/magic scaling on it with a faith or int build
they already have innate faith and int scaling which affects the physical damage, which will go from E to C/B when you change the scaling and affect both the physical and elemental damage like that
One thing I think is really worth abusing with all the smithscript weapons is the jumping heavy, they come out fast and are gonna catch people off guard
Backhand blade with bleed was the only way for me to beat the DLCS bosses as they hit to hard and fast for me to consider using anything else. Hell Bayle took 8 attempts because he just doesn’t let up and when he isn’t attacking for a split second he’s jumping around like a crackhead.
Finally, someone is testing weapons in Duels and not just Invasions.
I put swift slash ash on the backhand blade with blood affinity and I put the blind spot ash on the Cirque's with blood affinity and they're ABSOLUTELY INSANE!
I went into the DLC with a dual short sword character I had been enjoying playing with, switched to keen backhand blades and it's carried me through all the content ever since.
ive also found that the heavy backstep attack on the Smithscript one is pretty good for when you're being pressured
Now I feel like my build is not original ☹️ The last weapon + that art was my idea, but now I feel unoriginal
What armor sets are you using with the land of reeds helmet though?
Ronin armor for chest, not sure about the rest tho
the most satisfying thing in pvp is countering the backhand ash of war with the obsidian lamina
Great vid. Cant wait for the Light greatsword vid, my new fav weapons
I wish blind spot could go on daggers, that's how it was in ds3
What would be a good video idea is review every smithscript weapon
The irony in souls games having bleed as the king of status effects truly does get old not to mention the dlc weapons out match anybody in the base game
Smithscript Cirque with Swift Slash convinced me to ditch Moonveil. It's worth noting that jumping heavy is also a throw move. I use it a lot when jumping away from assailants.
I’ve been just using those standard ones and they’re really really good
I still think they get outclassed by power stanced curved swords for love at least. They have significantly better dps and a better jump attack that applies bleed quicker
You like the Smithscript Cirque because it's broken.
I like the Smithscript Cirque because it basically lets me roleplay as Xena, Warrior Princess with her chakrams.
We are not the same.
I thought the smithscript weapons were going to suck, but the smithscript cirque may be one of the most fun weapons they’ve ever made. Also, you didn’t mention this, but weapons also get physical damage scaling with faith when flame art infused.
Honestly I just wish that flying kick on the Curseblade weapon art was on the martial arts weapons lmao
Also, fun fact, the Smithscript Cirques actually have a heavy feint! They're the only backhand blade that does!
And also because of Smithscript weapons having int/faith that effects physical damage, they have a weird interaction where when you infuse them magic or sacred/flame art it will actually gain both physical AND elemental AR with those stats, making them do a lot more damage than I think was intended lol
"Helloooo? I'm here with very broken shit and I'm looking for bloood." 😂😂😂
Hilarious
jesus that Ash of war is absolutely disgusting
Played my first dlc run entirely with backhand blades + black flame blade incantation, such an amazing weapon
Brother...
I have been watching you since your fist videos
I completely love them and used your videos a lot to gain more power across the lands between
But now our beloved journey ends
Because of the DLC that i don't have
But you are still amazing
I want to watch you reach a million or even 100 million
Keep going my brother
- radagon of the golden order -
@@user-cc1bi9cv6k what platform do you play on?
I'm pretty sure all the new weapons have heavy attacks that true combo into the light attacks.
regular backhand blades with blood affinity carried me through the DLC.
I put Flame Art on the Smithscript version which gives it really crazy Faith scaling and huuuuge AP. Combined with Golden Vow, Flame grant me strength, 15% fire damage tear and Alexander's charm, the damage is ridiculous. Base AP is around 1300, with all buffs it's over 2000.
Swift slash is straight up one of the most op things from soft has added in a dlc, right beside the unnerfed version of Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords when the ringed city came out
Sick of getting invaded by people spamming that last ash of war
Yeah, but you have the option to run it… up to 3 can use it against 1 person. Not all that bad
@@SUBJECToDELTA rather fight with skill honestly, easy to beat it but it's rather annoying
Tbh the backhand blades(not rings) are my favorite weapon I’ve ever used in any soulslike ever. I love this moveset so much
The jump throw is insane into a light attack string. So easy to get off with some pretty insane damage
Backhand blade swords worked a charm against Maliketh on my second play through after beating DLC and continuing main story. Not so much against Radagon and Elden Beast.
“Yes.. you’re invisible I see”
That’s not how vision or invisibility works…
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The Smithscripts are my favorite because they fit my Pyromancy build perfectly. A flame themed Chakrams that can be thrown? I'm practically Axel from Kingdom Hearts!
you forgot to mention that with the smithscript cirque you can throw them with the jumping heavy
tipp for all smithscript weapons the int / fth scaling for physical persists after infusion meaning you get insane damage on flame art, sacred and magic on flame art with 40 str and 80 fth the smithscript greathammer is only 13 ar behind the giant crusher.
Ummm my Smithscript Cirque came with Blind Spot AOW and not swift slash…. Did I do something wrong?
It's interchangeable
with running you can spam the light attack and you dont lose momentum it actualy prepels you foward. i tried it on like the first day and its probably really good in pvp
For me the most broken part of these weapons is the fact that you can keep moving even attacking.. it's soo good at roll catching.
This is what I think fromsoft purposely leave some ash of war overpowered and watch people freak out for a week or two and then nurfs them only to find out about imbalances of others after updating the game 🤔
Re the backhand blade moveset - you missed one of my favourites - the sprinting heavy, which is a nice, reasonably quick 1, 2 for pretty big damage. You used it in your pvp fights but didn't mention it when going through the moveset
Dual reverse grip is every fence master nightmare and I love it
You never mentioned the running r2 attack on the backhand blades it’s so ridiculously broken. For some reason, the first hit of the running r2 is pretty weak, but the second hit of it does nearly 2600-3000 damage for me and it’s so fast.
For some reason the cirques have absurd damage scaling with certain affinities though. The faith req adds pure physical damage which is neat
The 1 damage happened from your body hitting the opponent rather thwn the weapon, sinilar to when you fall onto an enemy from above without attacking
Fun fact : if you put a holy scaling on the last one , faith will not only scale the elemental damage bht also the physical , so putting flaming on it and having faith build is broken
Do someone remember flipping Havel moms before they patched them out in DS1? For some reason backhand blades reminded me of them. With how lightweight they are and how fast you can move with them (with help of weapon arts) even with heavy armor equipped
what's hilarious is most coopers will miss swift slash from their need to 100% coop every inch of the game, so they won't even see the summon signs for the fight you get it from.
Anyone: "It is impossible to release another weapon that is even more pathetic than Rivers of Blood"
From: "Hold my beer"
11:45 i cant believe the tables have turned 😭 a host getting ganked?!
I've been playing a quality/faith build using the Smithscript shield in my offhand and the Smithscript cirque in my main. I have dubbed it PIZZA TIME.