Maneater_Mildred wrote:DMB buff lasts 60 seconds and you only get 1, even on ng+++, only 1. It may be abit stronger than SLB, but not by much & it takes alot of work to make it stronger. Must ppl run when you use it and you are left wiith a simple +15 weapon(and sucky stats to use said weapon) and last but not least, GMB kills it, unlike SLB.
Taking all the above into account... No i dont think its op.
Having said all that^^ i use DMB when its 2 or 3 vs me, slb for 1vsMe.
I see your argument, though my response would simply be that I don't run from PvP
Also, I'd have to throw in that somebody who has built any SL120 PvP character
has put in just as much work as somebody with a DMB-utilizing SL120 character.
Still, I know I've used GMB on a toon with 50 Faith and taken some pretty decent damage from a Darkmoon Blade buff in the past...by that same token, perhaps my opponents were simply good with their weapons, anyway. I have no way of knowing their stats, but my empirical evidence is all I really have to go on.
Again, I don't have a huge problem with it, and in an honorable duel I'm not going to complain...but I might roll my eyes just the slightest bit :roll:
In the end, though...why do you use DMB when outnumbered and Sunlight Blade whilst dueling? You don't turn to DMB in those situations because it's the less/equally powerful option.
ViralEnsign_ wrote:
I really
don't like to be the guy who pointed this out but isn't using sunlight
blade turning your weapon into a super powerful lightning weapon?
Additionally as Joocy showed me the the recent FC tourney DMB isn't a
game winner nor is it OP. He used Sunlight Blade and matched me AR for
AR and when I did get one win against him showed me my folly on relying
on a buff that adds magic damage by using GMB to nullify my advantage.
I
don't complain about much except for the Giants/MAsk thing but at the
end of the game it really doesn't matter what weapon you have. Most
people are good with their chosen weapons and can 3-5 shot you, OHKO
you, or riposte you to death.
DMB hasn't upped my win ratio by much but it does mean I can compete with the stronger vit builds.
As I said before, I'd rather face a lightning weapon than a Darkmoon Blade buff, so even if Sunlight Blade "makes your weapon a lightning weapon", that doesn't matter much to me. Still, no matter what kind of damage your weapon is dealing (normal, magic, lightning), the actual power of the buff scales with your Faith stat in the end, and I'd bet that going stat for stat DMB v SB, you'd find some interesting results at +2 or +3 DM covenant.
Also, the fact that DMB isn't a "game-winner" doesn't mean that it's not overpowered - the Ring of Fog pre-patch (something that was
patched), the Darkwood Grain Ring, the Black Knight Greataxe (which I argued is more OP than DMB) are all OP in my book, but they're certainly not game-winners. In fact, I think it's safe to rule out any one thing in Dark Souls as a "game-winner", because even spamming WoTG, chain backstabs, and most cheap tactics can be relatively easily avoided with some practice.
Finally, you say that DMB hasn't upped your win count "by much," but again, you're not using it because your count stays the same.
I agree with your statement about how which weapon you use doesn't really matter, though. Moveset > statistical damage
by Forum Pirate Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:56 pm
