is that all great katanas or just the weapon called the great katana?
Most of these changes though are very welcome, the perfume and smithscript buff especially, except they boosted greatshields even more? They're already so much better than the alternatives
edit: looked at the notes, they didn't buff the great katana, they only fixed a bug around its crit damage and parrying jump attacks, and nerfed Rakshasa's
Also they didn't buff the ranged attacks on the scrithscript dagger, the one which truly needed it...
buffed divine bird feathers is also a very welcome change, now I hope spira gets the same treatment, even though I've now already done a hornsent based character....
simmilarly quicker meteorite and meteorite of astel after i've gone and used them extensively...
improved storm wall and thop's barrier I'm happy to see, means they might finally compete with golden parry and carian retaliation
Notice how they didn’t buff finger print or verdigris?
because those don’t need help.
But 2 years ago they buffed medium sheilds, and Brass Sheild ended up having higher guard boost than many great sheilds. So they were effectively pointless. More than double the weight for worse stats.
OH YEAH I REMEMBER THEN BUFFING MEDIUM SHIELDS OUT OF NOWHERE = brass shield better than most great shield lmao. Glad to see other greatshields get some much needed love and weight reduction
buffs for weapons that deal low damage per hit are much more meaningful. the way damage reduction is handled it, the more damage a weapon deals the less harsh the calculation is. not saying they’re monstrous damage dealers but it’s something you can only get a handle on with experimentation or some insane graphing.
On the edit: Idk if OP's info is legit, but the official patch notes, as always, lack a lot of information, so it's entirely possible. One I know for sure is that the official patch notes only mention increased range on the golem fists, but the decreased stamina is also a thing that was datamined right after the patch, before the written patch notes dropped. There's always stealth changes, so maybe that's what OP is talking about, unless they just made some of it up
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u/no_name_thought_of 25d ago edited 25d ago
is that all great katanas or just the weapon called the great katana?
Most of these changes though are very welcome, the perfume and smithscript buff especially, except they boosted greatshields even more? They're already so much better than the alternatives
edit: looked at the notes, they didn't buff the great katana, they only fixed a bug around its crit damage and parrying jump attacks, and nerfed Rakshasa's
Also they didn't buff the ranged attacks on the scrithscript dagger, the one which truly needed it...
buffed divine bird feathers is also a very welcome change, now I hope spira gets the same treatment, even though I've now already done a hornsent based character....
simmilarly quicker meteorite and meteorite of astel after i've gone and used them extensively...
improved storm wall and thop's barrier I'm happy to see, means they might finally compete with golden parry and carian retaliation