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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
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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.

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reject thrusting meta, return to bonk

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Plan A: running r1
Plan B: running r1
Plan C: running R2 into flaming strike

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Oh look, your opponent has a main hand halberd, and an off hand thrusting sword. Wonder where they came up with that BIG BRAIN strategy.

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Probably the most accessible weapon class for people trying to get into PvP. Good reach, good 1 handed, 2 handed, and powerstanced movesets with a mix of stabs and slashes, and versatile ashes of war.

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I love how entitled Halberd users are. Like they point down and say get gud against practically every other build, but the moment they go up against dual greatspears or a Greatshield they cry that those players are on Ez mode. As if all thrust weapons aren’t problematic.

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#HalberdRing

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Anyone else tired of people spamming the halberd running attack? like, its not hard to dodge its just annoying and if a decent player has one you just cant do anything. I swear this weapon class is a crutch to like 50% of the playerbase

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Pest’s Glaive is life

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why doenst it say what KIND of damange it does slash strike hwatever ..

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the dual wield moveset is so opressive in pvp. those backstep and run attacks are naaasty

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I miss designs like Black Knight Halberd or Splitleaf greatsword, the halberds in this game are pretty disappointing to me in terms of design.

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So the most recent patch says it improves the guard counter of halberds, but it's way worse than any weapon type, just a basic soldier with a dagger stuns me in one hit, with full bullgoat, but with a straight sword I can successfully guard counter, every time it's not fixed in the slightest.

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The over head r2s are just so perfect. Pvp or pve. People can’t help but walk into them. And the followup r1 surprise is icing on the cake.

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After using mainly axes and daggers for my first few hundred hours, I decided to give this weapon class a try and it feels like I moved from the slums to the wealthy suburbs. It feels nice to be able to play reactively instead of planning ahead for every attack string. I didn't realize how much axes in particular were really lacking until I tried this class and straight swords.

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Patch 1.06: Fixed a bug when two-handing a Halberd which made it harder to withstand enemy’s attack after using guard counter.

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I’m deciding between the Guardian’s Swordspear and Banished Knight’s Halberd. I’ll use Int or Faith affinities, so I think the Banished Knight’s Halberd has better scaling, even though Guardian’s Swordspear has better damage overall. The ashes of war damage doesn’t seem to change. I have only enough materials to upgrade one. What are your thoughts?

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If that image is right then BK has slightly more range over its basic cousin. At least that's something to set them apart. I wonder if it uses a tiny bit more stamina too?

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Hot take: I liked running attack from DS3 much more than the poke, that lets be honest, doesnt fit half of the halberds (how do you poke with shotel or saw, come on). At least they could make some weapons with poke running r1 and some with overhead swing.

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Power stance halberd wreck like crazy. The running r1 catches people off guard like crazy because of the poke/thrust meta

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I wish they would just ditch the spinning heavy attack on Halberds already. Not only does it take forever to charge, it takes forever to do the full damage. I always get hit before the second attack lands - which no other weapon class has to deal with. It looks silly too. Seems like the Japanese weapons are the only ones with realistic, well-thought-out movesets. I wonder why that is...

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Don't worry about learning the moveset for these things. The running R1 is literally all you need

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Can you poke with halberds while having your shield up, like spears do?

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Wish we had more Int scaling ones than Loretta's, would love to run an INT build with a halberd that didn't require me get to the end of the game

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Very strong weapons mainly due to the spear run attack.

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i feel underwhelmed

i like ds3 halberds better

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Damn, and here I was thinking this weapon class wouldn't be able to top the general usefulness it hit in DS3. I will happily eat my words there.

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the running r1 from gundry iz very epik i think it should be brought back




as well as l2+r2 combo

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as someone who mainly plays with swords i cannot get the hang of this moveset for the life of me. i've been trying to put my finger on it and i think it's the fact that halberd attacks don't move you forward nearly as much as, say, straight swords. even colossal swords have a pretty acrobatic moveset for how slow they are. how do y'all manage positioning when you gotta stand relatively still to do melee damage?

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D A U B E N Y!

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Rip the Black Knight Halberd design. This is my absolute favorite weapon class, but the old guandao look will be missed

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#GUNDYRISBETTER