My name is EWGF, or E-W-G-F, or Phantom EWGF. I used to play Dark Souls and Demon's Souls a fair bit (I'm a wash-up now, but will be returning to face Artorias on PC) and was requested by a user to do a sort of AMA on these threads about PvP for both Demon's and Dark Souls (not too sure how this is going to fly for a first post). In addition I believe another friend of mine (a person whom I play Blazblue CS:EX with biweekly who shall remain nameless) also posts here.
Who am I?
Most of you probably don't know me, but I did a lot of PvP research a while ago. I (with the help of a couple others) wrote the "quintessential" (ha!) Demon's Souls PvP guide, and did a series of Dark Souls PvP instructional vids (https://www.youtube.com/user/PhantomEWGF?feature=mhee).
Here's a partial list of my contributions:
- How to crack ToB/CW (DeS).
- How to de-level while maintaining spells (DeS).
- The properties of Counter Hit (DeS/DkS).
- Most stuff involving spell/weapon combo proclivities (DeS/DkS).
- How AR actually works (see: basic arithmetic).
- Pretty much everything to do with Poise is a result of my testing.
- The relevance of swing speed variation within a class (DkS).
- Stun variation within a class by virtue of upgrade path/level (DkS).
- The hidden properties of Toggle Casting post-discovery (DeS).
- Most stuff involving Dead Angle after it's initial discovery.
- Instant Blocking (DeS/DkS).
- Frame Parrying, and basically all data on parrying (DkS).
- Most DeS special swing properties.
- Probably a lot more I can't think of.
Ask me anything!