bialy0021 wrote:Juli wrote:knight swords. Not a great weapon IMO
i always felt that ks was exactly how it should be - well balanced. if youre good enough its good enough.
musicismath wrote:Spell casting on asian Des was, at one time, about a thousand levels above the skill of the best mages most of us will have seen.(...) It's a shame, it seems to have fallen out of favor.
it prolly still is. i remember pivot boom when it was introduced for the first time to na/eu. everyone had a spellsword or a mage. unfortunately not many players pursued it further than what was know at the time - faster casting and some dbs combos.
It ain't that KS is bad, it just doesn't have the auto-win moves that make the other top tier weapons more competitive, as in non-BS/regular attacks. Most threatening would be the 2h stunlock, I suppose... that's why BBS was so freaking popular on NA. I like to work the shield. I am suggesting that it should be played defensively, and yes that does make me a troll by souls logic.

I need to rediscover my inner parry-whore because that's really good for the setup.
If you've any casting strategies to share, new or old, please share. I never actually got on to the DBS Mage but I loved fighting them - thinkin' of jumi and hag esp. When the meta of magic was declared (jumi?) about 70% of my builds were spellswords, generally w/ small weps: KS, spears, katana, broadsword, short sword, epee rapier and the like. Tend to prefer blessed/ToB to go with the turtle/regen approach. Maybe it's a glitch or lag, but I find that I can reliably initiate a "stunlock" with locked on fireballs, no pivot. Oki FB, run R1>ignite, FB>ignite... hell, I'm a novice, that's all I can think of tbh.
In closing, I was recalling the finest mages on NA.
digi and ralph. These guys "rolled" with iron knuckles and literally head-busting spell combos. Both were heavily influenced by pep and the middle age of the asian meta. ah the memories.
Also I have to give another blatant shout to my old sensei, morrigan. She was truly dangerous with a magic build long before it was cool and trendy, but then she was basically good at everything. I know that sounds like ass-kissing but it was just really ggs; I am indebted to all the players I mentioned.