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What ape on the dev team decided to put the ds3 katana running r1 on a weapon class that can get over 700 AR casually?

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It's been pretty funny to witness this game's PvP meta mirror real life

polearm supremacy is real

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Question how does something with E scaling in dex eg nightriders and gargoyle make its way up to A scaling with keen when something with D scaling in dex eg saw and glaive can only get up to B scaling

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Unironically, one of the few quality weapons in the game that is actually good.

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Titanite Catch Pole still has the best heavy attack in the series for halberd. hope they bring it back.

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The Gargoyle Halbs should have the loretta moveset, tried it in ds map studio, it looks so clean

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I really hope we will get some cool somber halberds in the DLC in terms of AoW. Right now, the lineup is a little bit bad. We have two buffing halberds in the form of the Commander's Standard and the Golden Halberd. Gargoyle's Black Halberd could be removed from the game, and no one would notice. Lorreta's, while being my favorite weapon, is not very unique, and the devs missed the mark by not making it able to cast spells. The only outlier is the Dragon Halberd, with its unique frozen lightning version of the spinning slash AoW.

tldr Crucifix of the Mad King please come back :(

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Poke, poke, poke. Deepest souls pvp scene.

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Its interesting that adding a heavy axe to a spear makes it faster on running thrust attacks than a standard spear. Its almost as interesting, as thrusting with a f ing shotel

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I met this dude in the arena, he killed me once when I was experimenting a new weapon, he only used running r1, I got back at him and and for the rest of the match he didn't kill me again and I won. You are allowed to play however you want but are you even having fun if you do only 1 move the entire game? ( Later I received hatemail from the guy ) :(

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Super easy Halberd only speedrun:
1. Start as Vagabond and equip halberd
2. Go to Gatefront and acquire Torrent
3. Go to Castle Morne and kill Edgar for the +8 Banished knight halberd (if you don't want to be a murderer you can finish his quest and get invaded at Revenger's Shack)
4. Kill Commander O'Neill, Tree Sentinel, or Dragonkin soldier (in Siofra).
5. Follow the normal somber stone upgrade path and just build for max damage and HP.

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Super easy halberd only run:
1. Pick Vagabond and equip halberd
2. Acquire Torrent
3. Go to Castle Morne and kill Edgar (or complete his quest and let him invade at Revenger's Shack) for the +8 Banished knight halberd
4. Kill commander O'Neill, dragonkin soldier, or Tree Sentinel
5. Follow the somber stone upgrade path and just build for maximum damage.

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Correct me if im wrong but I think halberds and greatspears are the only bigger weapons that havent received any attack speed buffs since the game launched.

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This weapon class is funny, whenever you see someone using one of these, try switching to one yourself and notice how 80% of the time they don't know anything other than running r1 and dismantle them.

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I just miss the Black Knight halberd strong attacks from DS3. Those were so much fun to spin around on people quickstep spamming.

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I you have not used a halberd and only watch other use it, you would be forgiven for thinking it on had a running r1 attack.

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Elden ring halberd efficieny/poise op.
Ds3 halberd ok. Spinning strikes Splitleaf op.

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I hate how the ones with the thrusting moveset are basically just spears but better in every way.

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bc these need hyperarmor on running r1s

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Lucerne (heavy) 675 Ar - Nightrider (heavy) 777 Ar; 80 str.

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It seems that doing the "warm welcome" gesture after dodging the halberdier's first 2 to 4 attacks reduces their skill by %50.

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I'm confused af as to why the militia halberd doesn't do bleed

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i miss the demons souls halberd moveset

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Early hit is enough to make this the best weapon class for PvP. We don’t even need to talk about how fast you can chain running r1s/R2s together. Free roll catches.

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The 2H heavy of most of these is poopie and leaves you open too much in pvp (the spinny one)

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Ehhh, crucifix of the mad king, why have you abandoned us....

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So fun that one of the longest classes also get a thrust attack faster than most small weapon running attacks.

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wow the weapon with one of the most varied movesets in the game, i wonder how people in pvp use i-
RUNNING R1 RUNNING R1 RUNNING R1 RUNNING R1 RUNNING R1

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Poke. Zig-zag. Poke. Zig-zag. Poke.

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Class that seperates OP and not OP.

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Halberd users when you just dodge their running R1 spam to the side and don't get rollcatched

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The best weapon class, by FAR
- Good poise damage
- Reasonable weight
- The best ones are easily obtainable early in the game (Commander's Standard, Golden Halberd, Dragon Halberd) from cheesable bosses.
- Excellent range. Only the Pike is longer than the Commander's Standard (Fallingstar beast jaw ties it, but moveset is lacking).
- Stabbing moveset halberds (Commander's Standard, Dragon Halberd, Halberd) are very good with Spear talisman
- No bosses (except Crystalians before you poise break them) strongly resist Standard damage, and you get Pierce damage as well (the glaives do Slash instead of Standard, which is only a problem against Borealis)
- Moveset is extremely good on horseback.. The charged R2 hits multiple times and launches enemies into the air
- Very effective for two handing, shield, or power stance
- Malenia gets staggered out of attacks by a single thrust, and you have enough range to interrupt her without getting hit.

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Strange lack of halberds with the pokey r1 moveset instead of the slammy r1 moveset.

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Hot take but...

I don't like running attacks generally in this game since there's barely any commitment to any of them and most opponents will pull out a halberd, thrusting sword, katana or whatever when they are losing a fight to just spam running attacks.
They do this since the normal attacks are slower than the running attacks and the running attacks has way too fast recovery and even if it is a heavy running attack. Running attacks also has enormous phantom range issues. Another stupid thing is people who uses Commander's Standard, Dragon Halberd, Banished Knight or Halberd have an excellent thrusting moveset for defensive play and a quick heavy attack that perfectly works to roll-catch people who tries to roll into you.
Despite this information most of these halberds are used for a running light attack since they are easier to roll catch with for the unexperienced player.

The same information like the last could be applied to the weapon "Great Epeé" which I never see anyone use outside of running heavy attack. It can easily use a heavy attack for punishing people who rolls into you. But that is another topic for another day.

But the absolute worst part of halberds running attacks are the fact they are thrust based attacks. You cannot poise through them because of the poise damage they inflict and if you trade with them you're most likely going to do more damage to you due to the thrust damage.
Which is the most broken damage type in Elden Ring outside of Poison/rot/sleep/madness and frost/blood where frost is worse than hemorrhage because it weakens your defense even if it never hit you which will make your defense weaker towards the next attack. Because thrusting damage can be enhanced to such high amount of damage that you wont survive a single hit. Sorry, getting side tracked...

Point is running attacks needs more punishment for the lack of commitment they have right now and I don't have the perfect solution. Maybe give us a tripping animation so we can make the fools fall to the ground and lose all their stamina for spamming these attacks or give guard counters the ability to be like a parry towards running attacks so shields/bigger weapons can be more viable.

Anyways, that's all I had to say and thanks for reading and replying below : )

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it would be cool if they nerf the running r1 a bit, 95 % of people using these weapons only use that attack, fast as a jab, longer reach than a spear, high damage, very high poise damage and quick recovery, super hard to punish... on top of that i cant seem to parry this attack, ive parried most of the parriable attacks in the game but i cant get this one right

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Is there a Halberd that has the splitleaf greatsword moveset?

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There is a halberd called the golem halberd i just got so plus one

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People meme about the running attack, but the powerstance jumping attack for these weapons is exceptional in all categories as well.

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honestly i think everyone would use these if they didn't have the moveset of a sharp stick and the moveset of one of the most versatile weapons in history

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I’ve done so much PvP at base level 9 vagabond using only halberd and longsword offhand. During the first few months, overleveled phantoms would literally hit me once and I’d be dead (RoB, Moonveil, etc, all the broken sh*t) but I can say, this made me a monster at PvP. I’ve sent so many goofy coward hosts & over leveled phantoms straight to Davy Jone’s fu*cking locker using halberd running R1 R1 rollcatch.

To dodge this skillful combo, roll left diagonally thru the halberd.

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recovery frames are a myth, passive play is the only viable playstyle

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running r1 into running r1 mixup

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I’ve spent a year playing pvp, mostly halberd. But I’m just now experimenting with off meta weapons like mace or sword+board. And my God halberd/epee poke spam is actually a problem. I keep getting stabbed by people’s shoulder twice in a row. It’s not even a roll catch, it’s hitting me before I can roll from the last ghost range poke. I’m standing still and the guys are missing in circles around me... but each miss still connects. The biggest problem is the recovery, if you punish a missed halberd joust, you already got hit by the next halberd joust. Not a problem if you got a halberd or epee but it’s very oppressive when using off meta weaponry. It should have a really good joust, but it shouldn’t be a spammable joust with no commitment.

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I gave my Redmane character a Halberd w Flaming Strike and an off-hand Crystal Sword when I was starting the game, because I thought it was cool and on point thematically for what the Redmanes are all about. People never pay attention to the more historically grounded weapons like halberds when fancy katanas and surfboard-sized slabs of rock swung around like a Shonen character exist, after all, right? I wonder a lot, how many of the folx I invaded trying to be friendly and show them around Caelid just thought I was a meta monkey there to ruin their day...

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Think these are spears
Never seen someone actually swing with them

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running r1
running r1
running r1
running r1

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man.

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Look how they massacred my boy(s)

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FromSoftware: "what if we made a whole weapon class based on DS3 washing pole gameplay?"

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Coming from a longtime halberd enjoyer, I hate the buffs From gave them in this game. The running R1 slam from DS1/DS3 was both cool looking and effective but not OP. Now I cringe in guilt runpoking someone like some kind of DS3 katana user. Also removing the sweetspot completely destroys the skill curve and satisfaction of the weapon class. Earning a clean hit with proper spacing felt GOOD

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halberd range is completely stupid, it doesnt depend on the size of the weapon, but where your character decides to hold the damn thing.

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Halberds are probably the most accessible weapon class to people who are starting to pvp, theres some variety in the moveset with wide arcs, downwards slashes, and poking attacks.

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1-attack-andy

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Contrary to what many players may tell you, only whiff punishing doesn't equal skill. Go back to DS3

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Enough hate. Now how to deal with stacked poise halberd + offhand estoc? My build with no poise and two handing light weapon never have a chance

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halberds are fine now, albeit kinda boring with the constant passivity into predictable running r1

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I like the nightrider glaive. +24 lightning affinity with spinning strikes or stormcaller, the spinning strikes AoW has the better follow up attacks of the two for my money.

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Long weapon: * actually has range *
Salty souls PvPers: delete dis

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They replaced the insta running R1 attack katanas had with a slower version just to pass that cancer here.

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For love of god lower their phantom range. Getting hit by 3 meter every time no matter how far I dodge.

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I want a halberd that’s kind of like a axe halberd hybrid like the hunters axe from Bloodbornes l1 form

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"I'll have a halberd with flaming strike" how original
"oh and an offhand estoc" daring today aren't we

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These weapons have the potential to be so fun, but some halberd players just exclusively running r1 whiff punish and i wonder how they don't fall asleep.

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for those wondering, normal halberd has *slightly* better strength scaling than Banished, and vice versa with dexterity, making base halberd better for strength based builds, while banished is better for quality/dex.
P.S. also keep in mind weapon length.

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One of the more fun weapon classes to dual wield with

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I think some Halberd work much better with Reaper's default R1 moveset than the either the default R1s or poking ones. Mainly those shaped like a poleaxe: Dragon Halberd and Lucerne. Reaper's diagonal chopping moveset also fits both of Vulgar Militia weapons very well: one is a shotel on a stick, the other is a saw on a stick, so itakes sense and looks cool.