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Yea the difficulty can be quite brutal. Since progression is tied to levels, upgrades, and loot, you can be very good at soulslikes and fighting bosses - you'll still probably fail because it takes ages to deal damage to bosses with suboptimal weapons and you die in like two hits.
Viper and Volbaino were huge roadblocks for me because I was ill-equipped for the fights. Later on, the bosses can still be very difficult (final boss might be harder than Sekiro's final boss), but they get manageable because you have better gear. Definitely helps if you grind a boss for a little for their set armour (and weapon).
What's the weapon you're using right now?
I forget the exact name but I have the full butcher set with the dual wield weapon. Yeah I struggle because I deal very negligible damage to bosses so each fight takes like 5-10 minutes. And some of the bosses have really wack attacks/combos. But then sometimes I'm stuck on a boss for like 10 tries, beat it, then, without changing any of my gear, the boss in the next mission goes down first try. It's all over the place.
I don't think I'm gonna finish the game tho. What's kept me going are the achievements when I beat a really tough boss like Elamein and the Steam achievement thingy says 51.9% of people beat this boss like wtf. But after changing from the greatsword to the dual wield for most of the playthru now there just isn't any of the build crafting I like in these games and the gameplay itself is a bit too samey for me.
It gets quite grindy and a little repetitive - I'll give you that. You gave it an honest shot and seem to have gotten pretty far into the game so no shame in dropping the game if that's enough for me.
I started out with the spear and realised it might be most OP of the bunch. Dual Wield was a lot of fun too tho because you're so damn mobile.
I have to give spears a shot. Luckily the game's pretty forgiving on respeccing. Especially the skills being entirely non-committal is a really great decision.
It's awesome! One of the things I like a lot about the game.
Just had a thought that having such a limited number of weapon types to choose from as a negative. But then I realised that the weapons feel and play a lot differently from one another quite a bit and that a skill tree for these three weapon types must have been challenging already. So either they would have had to invest a lot of resources on many more trees or scale back the scope of each individual tree which would possibly have made quite a bit more monotone or uninteresting.
Ye the skill tree is quite awesome actually. Maybe I should engage with it a bit more b4 quitting. Rn im in the process of converting to a spear build so I'll see how t hat goes
Edit: Just did a quick n dirty spear build while checking which skills fit my playstyle and then tried Xaldin again (for his claws). Damn this build shreds ass. Totally unoptimized build and I'm inclined to agree this is pretty OP. And way more fun than Dual Wield and Greatsword.