Originally posted by OperationFAIL:

Originally posted by Quineloe:

yeah well then remove armor and shields entirely if we're just supposed to Bloodborne the entire game.

This is kind of what I'm getting at.

I know how to avoid hits entirely. I can roll, I can bait out attacks and then move. But we have shields and armor so that not every engagement has to be a dodge fest. It's like shields went from being S tier to F tier.

I am way better off not equipping a shield now at all. Blocking is a liability. I shouldn't be mining and spending all these resources on something that is a net loss to my combat performance.

I havent any problems in black forest to plains , a black metal shield lvl 3 can parry 135 damage
But you must eat 2 top HP foods of the biome you are fighting ( swamp : sausage and black soup , mountain : wolf skewer and sausage/serpent stew , plains : lox pie and serpent stew )
The stagger system that devs adds makes food that you ate trully important in the time you want parry or blocking