Just fought a warmaul barb and applied your hand blocking tip. They had no idea why the maul wasn't working and we cluched it lmao, thanks for the free win Ryan
We don't have them up on the wiki yet, but here are the stagger durations in relation to impact power: Buckler: weak 300ms, mid 600ms, heavy 900ms Round Shield: weak 400ms, mid 800ms, heavy 1,2s Heater Shield: weak 500ms, mid 912,5ms, heavy 1,5s Pavise: weak 300ms, mid 500ms, heavy 1s I've heard people say before that it's better to have a Round Shield than a Heater Shield vs a War Maul and the stats confirm it. Since it doesn't matter if the the impact difference is 1 or 2 points higher, the stagger duration will not increase further, so it's better to have a shorter stagger duration with the Round Shield.
Just a heads up: the blocking power of the buckler has been increased to 6. So it can stagger all weapon attacks (except for the war maul if the barbarian who is swinging it has the "Crush" perk).
One thing you could've also mentioned is how the light/medium/heavy block interacts with longsword parries. Rapiers only trigger light blocks, which causes the longsword to be in recovery for a very short time. This makes the time window for parrying (by pressing rmb again) after blocking extremely tight and inconsistent.
I learned the from a friendly fighter the other day that the shield bash ability has a different reach depending on the shield used! The buckler seems to have the most reach, with the bash being almost punch like.
finally someone who did a video on impact power, back in the 111 day long wait for EA i went on a multi day research and discovery about impact power out of boredom, your video covers everything nice job
thanks so much for this video, just days before you uploaded this I was searching the wiki for info about this mechanic and couldn't find much out there, so this is really helpful. keep up the great work please!
no idea if you will actually see this but thank you very much and any other videos like this on mechanics of the game you can make will help me out a ton as thats how i like to learn games and im sure will help out a ton of others. Thanks Ryan
Imo it's important to exaggerate your blocking angles in game - if its a horizontal/vertical swing coming at you, really lean into the appropriate block direction. When the game first came out I remember being trash at it, but after a week or two I understood the exaggeration a lot more. It's still difficult, but totally doable with practice/awareness! Extra tough in the dark though!
@@DGDfan13 yeah i get ya. i used to be a proper sweat at mordhau in its first yr of release. like the top 2% sweatyboys. in comparison to that the blocking in this game feels so nebulous
love the music, great info and content! Thanks for the quality stuff Ryan, just keep to your own pace, no need to burn out trying to keep up with some imaginary thing as your channel grows. Just continue to be genuinely you!
Great video, really helps demystify some of these more arcane mechanics. Also just chock full of insightful tidbits. And beautiful footage to portray precisely what you are talking about. Just a fantastic video as always! Also need to applaud ironmace for incorporating so many "hidden" mechanics like this, they seem small individually, but they add up to make a more dynamic, interesting, tight and just flat out better combat system than all of the imposter clones we have been seeing lately. Its all the little mechanics like this woven together why people say the combat in other dark and darker, (especially the melee combat) is far superior to any imitators. Its just extremely well thought out inconspicuous systems that all work seamlessly together under the hood to really flesh out the combat and exploration. Sorry for the rant but i was feeling a little inspired and this game (as well as your content) can never have enough praise!
Awesome video as per, One specifically on the longsword would be cool as the riposte effects is very strange. Low impact wepons such as rapier cannot be parried; however it can be if you you riposte before you parry. ex. Let go of block before you are struck, parry attack while LS block is still active, riposte. A video on this from you would be very interesting!
The community you're talking about will never go out of their way to learn how to play the game better. The ones who will benefit from this are the "clowns 1 shoting new players in grays" or people who will become these said "clowns" through these tips. But hey, hopefully the feeling of being righteous here made you feel good at least.
I spent about a week trying to save up gear to do a few kitted rounds. Finally go all the stuff I needed, went in for my first full kit run, but ran into you and your cleric buddy and got mopped... never even got to kill anyone with my nice gear I saved up 😢 I thought about unsubscribing because I was so salty, but I gave it a little time and ended up staying subscribed. You guys are just better :( gg buddy
ggs MGE! That was a great fight, your movement was insane! Were you guys also farming gold ore? I think a barb mined out the cave and ran during the chaos haha
@@ryan6daysaweek haha yes we had killed a team right before you arrived and there was still a team farming down below. It was insane, 4 teams in one corner all for the gold lol. Your crossbow shots were so patiently timed
Hey Ryan, thanks for making all this hidden stuff so easy to understand. Just one question. As some weapons with low impact power are incapable of breaking crates, barrels, and barricades, what are the thresholds for a weapons impact power against each type of material?
it looks like for crates and barrels you need to have an impact power of at least 3. Wooden barriers, pots, webs, and spider pots only need an impact power of 1 (torch).
I love that DaD has all these in depth mechanics, but i HATE that they are never shown or discussed in game, at all. i would have never known about any of this.
@@CreatureVision yea thats dogshit, people shouldnt have to spend days testing various things out, and people shouldnt have to rely on those who are willing to spend those days to generate that information
I was fighting a Barb and just kinda brought him around small corners and when he did attack and I couldn't just dodge I blocked at the hilt. It's quite funny that everybody assumes the War Maul is some unstoppable force.
100% sharing with my friends. Thank you my guy! We really appreciate you. May your loot be good and your fighting swift! (Any tips for the bard?? I've been thinking he needs a blue pot on spawn or a health pot. The sitting down to heal from his song doesn't really work when playing as him)
@TheHonestSage Not really tho, you get maybe 20 seconds of that healing via song, want to play it again? Nah gotta stand up and lose all the recoverable HP when you could finish resting for another 55 seconds. Kinda crappy, I'm for everyone else sitting to heal, just not me. (Edit) personally I'm not good enough to take no damage from mobs; usually I'll take at least one hit, and that 22 hp matters in my pvp fight, and I don't want to take myself out of the game for almost 2 minutes sitting there. (I get once you get geared/buy potions and stuff totally different) but starting kit, a blue pot or health pot would help tremendously in terms of not wasting my time sitting
@darklotus6595 ? I know this to be false for 2 reasons: 1) Personal experience. I usually like to run GC purely naked before hopping into ruins/crypts with gear and from my experience, you can full red health from from a goblin archer/ swing with just tranquility alone (which lasts 30 seconds, longer if you use rousing rhythms before tranquility, due to the fact it raises your resourcefulness/persuasiveness which increases song buff duration). 2) Tranquility guarantees 30 health return over the duration of the buff. It heals 1 per second and can be verified through google search! Though, I do understand the gripe, it can be pretty annoying to have to constantly make up for not having a starting advantage, however id have to counterpoint that with the fact we as bards get access to a free 15 extra move speed+ rousing rhythms and invisibility with SoS! In terms of solo play, we're a slower rogue without da burst which can feel a lil rough
thank you darklotus! Bard has been on the nerf side of the balancing in these latest patches so it is definitely tough to play. I would say to definitely take advantage of your ms and ranged options as you can usually kite any 2h weapon/full plate user and fit attacks in between swings. Right now I usually run falchion and crossbow and lead every fight with a note-skipped shriek followed by a crossy shot and a drum throw as they will be slowed from the crossbow. This usually makes it so you usually only need 1 or 2 falchion hits to finish them off. I can't give any song advise here as I really only played bard prior to the most recent patch so I am unsure how big of the nerfs the songs got but I know shriek is untouched so I included that one above haha
@ryan6daysaweek you're so very welcome my guy! I usually do open up with the weakness song, haven't thought about the drum throw after a crossbow. That's pretty good. Thank you, crossbow I feel is a must, he needs a bit of range dmg or you get clapped. Hopefully they change his healing song a little or give a blue pot or something. Thank you my guy! May we see each other in the dungeons and may the loot be fantastic.
I just ran a game with shield slam on a buckler. Using your hilt block tech it was hilarious finishing people off with a slam after 2-3 hits from sword
Does the warmaul right click combo where the first attack entires with attacking with the hilt gets interrupted on a shield up close? I know the wodden part of the weapon is the sour zone in the war maul, however is the hilt still considered the sour zone when using the right click combo? I would love to know if i can us the right click to get through the shield up close and then come down for the over head swing for 120% of damage.
wait, could a buckler block a warmaul at the hilt and be all good to counter attack? It could right, because block power doesnt matter when blocking hilts? Great video, very very useful. I think shields are one of the strongest things in the game and people that say the combat is too simple, or something like BoC has no counter are just ignoring shields/limb blocking.
This makes me tempted to try out an agility fighter with a buckler and maybe a rapier or something. I used to run an offhand buckler in all my DS1 PVP builds to become a parry god and I can imagine the salty confusion at stopping a barb with a warmaul with a buckler lol.
Thanks, I was wondering why somehow it felt like I was being rewarded more for blocking with the buckler than with other shields. turns out, i only block heavy weapons and people's hands so i never can benefit from more blocking power
I didnt know the round shield had faster recovery than the heather, and breaking crates faster with parrying, actually game changing for me, gotta add these behaviours to how i play
additional physical damage does not benefit from Physical Power Bonus but it will apply to any instance of physical damage as weapon damage may not. So in the case of the Bard's flute song +1 Additional Physical Damage will apply but not +1 Weapon Damage
so how the figther's "perfect block" skill affects this? u suddenly gives the opponent the slowest recovery leaving them open for a counter attack like an infinite defense? Or it just nullifes the negative effects? On top of that from your Info I noticed the buckler could be kinda op in a skillful figther..
know this might be difficult but do you know/can you find out the min amount of ip to destroy crates, barrels and other breakables (other than barb who i think 1/2 hits all of it with base axe)
unless im wrong, it seems like most weapons hitting a shield have a recovery time thats about the same as the shield recovery time, meaning the only weapon that can actually take advantage of a long block recovery time is the war maul. Can any other weapons land hits on the fighter between shield recoveries? or no?
I haven't tried them all but if you are running crush these attack combos will beat the shield recovery: bardiche (heater, round), quarterstaff (round, buckler), zweihander (round), double axe (heater, round)
As a barrel smasher, Which weapons bust open the barrels and crates in 1 hit? If I recall correctly, green morningstars break crates in 1 hit, while a white or grey morningstar takes 2 hits. How can i maximize my crate smashing?
Would you consider looking at how stats from one player (Such as debuff duration or magical healing) affect other players when certain spells or abilities are used on them? When the cleric perk Protection from evil is used it shows up as a -50% debuff duration, however the debuff duration bonus stat on items will increase this number instead of decreasing it. Seems like it's either a visual bug or debuff duration bonus does not work as intended. I've also heard that magical healing only applies to the wearer and does not benefit healing spells used on other players but never really confirmed myself.
magical healing applies to any casted heal (whether self or on others). The debuff duration is definitely a bug as it should be a beneficial stat instead of a impairing one - I'll submit a ticket for that one
Hey Ryan, it would be nice if you made a guide for dodging all nightmare enemies. They seem to all have new attacks especially after the recent updates.
Most people opt for a bigger shield when playing cleric/fighter mainly because in order to successfully block any attack in DaD the attack actually has to hit your shield. If the attack hits your body while you're holding your shield up the attack will deal full damage as if you weren't blocking and the Round and Heater Shields cover a much more significant portion of your body. Actually having a shield equipped has a lot of other upsides and drawbacks and I would say that the only significant drawback to having a larger shield other than the slower recovery time mentioned in the video is the slightly reduced movement speed. Meanwhile the other benefits of having a big shield(mostly the heater shield because the Pavise sucks) include hugely increased AR and ofc higher blocking power.
It seems to be a set value at each impact power and doesn't follow a formula, so for: Impact power of 3: Barrels(4), Boxes(3), Barriers(3), Pots(1) Impact power of 4: Barrels(2), Boxes(2), Barriers(2), Pots(1) Impact Power of 5: Barrels(2), Boxes(1), Barriers(2), Pots(1) Impact Power of 6: Barrels(1), Boxes(1), Barriers(2), Pots(1) Impact Power of 7: It's the object deleter
Your player becomes invulnerable to an attack as soon as it is blocked so no matter the Impact/Blocking Power relationship you will never take damage from a blocked swing. However, your player model can get hit by an attack before your blocking surface (shield, longsword parry, etc.) does. This interaction makes is so you technically get hit first and then later (fractions of a second) block the same swing. Blocking power and Impact power just decide what kind of stagger happens to both players on a successful block.
Ryan I’m curious how you feel about the state of dark and darker right now. I think there are many balance and loot issues but I’d like to hear your opinion
I was ready to type out a response to this but then another big update happened haha, I will give it a few days and revisit this comment! Sorry for the late reply!
Slight correction and possibly misleading, but the ability text for counterattack reads for 10% attack speed, not action speed. action speed is not correlated to attacking faster and is worded separately in most instances.
the ability text should state action speed - it changes the action speed value in the character stats for the duration of the buff which results in faster attacking. Checked it for the latest patch too
the attack animation at 1:52 your hitting it with the butt of your weapon LOL so the atatck is ending faster its not interrupting this also happens with barb axes sometimes its not a feature of the shield or blocking it just resets after you hit something with the butt of your weapon as if the attack is complete
Very informative but a barb that is good with war maul would not body hug u to let u hit is hands hes swinging the thing wildly jumping and accelerating it into u with high dpi but doable just wouldn't try it as u will likely get 2 tapped
almost everything, I pinned a comment a bit ago about the buckler as it now has a blocking power of "6" making it tied with the pavise in terms of what it can block Other than that, the info in this video is accurate to the current version of the game! (HF #57)
at this moment they do not but some of the skill tool tips imply that they will some day - I'll keep track and reply to this comment if that changes! Right now the only variables that control shield recovery time is they type of shield you are using and what type of block reaction happens
Just fought a warmaul barb and applied your hand blocking tip. They had no idea why the maul wasn't working and we cluched it lmao, thanks for the free win Ryan
I smacked up a barb with the hilt block last night, felt good
Blocking power for the flute though? Moat people don't even know you can riposte same as Longsword with it #flutebop
#fluteboop
@@Marethyuu How do you attack with the flute? I tried and it only blocks or makes music...
@xNatheeeGamer you have to successfully block just like the Longsword. Attack after the block
Need more content creators like this in dark n darker... subbed
We don't have them up on the wiki yet, but here are the stagger durations in relation to impact power:
Buckler: weak 300ms, mid 600ms, heavy 900ms
Round Shield: weak 400ms, mid 800ms, heavy 1,2s
Heater Shield: weak 500ms, mid 912,5ms, heavy 1,5s
Pavise: weak 300ms, mid 500ms, heavy 1s
I've heard people say before that it's better to have a Round Shield than a Heater Shield vs a War Maul and the stats confirm it. Since it doesn't matter if the the impact difference is 1 or 2 points higher, the stagger duration will not increase further, so it's better to have a shorter stagger duration with the Round Shield.
i LOVE this community
awesome work Esthelion! Thanks for the info, going to pin this comment!
Just a heads up: the blocking power of the buckler has been increased to 6. So it can stagger all weapon attacks (except for the war maul if the barbarian who is swinging it has the "Crush" perk).
One thing you could've also mentioned is how the light/medium/heavy block interacts with longsword parries. Rapiers only trigger light blocks, which causes the longsword to be in recovery for a very short time. This makes the time window for parrying (by pressing rmb again) after blocking extremely tight and inconsistent.
There is so much value in these videos i am actually taking notes
I learned the from a friendly fighter the other day that the shield bash ability has a different reach depending on the shield used! The buckler seems to have the most reach, with the bash being almost punch like.
Super useful content, had a general "feel" for how blocking + recovery times worked but this makes it SO much more clear lol. Well done.
finally someone who did a video on impact power, back in the 111 day long wait for EA i went on a multi day research and discovery about impact power out of boredom, your video covers everything nice job
thank you pidgeot!
thanks so much for this video, just days before you uploaded this I was searching the wiki for info about this mechanic and couldn't find much out there, so this is really helpful. keep up the great work please!
no idea if you will actually see this but thank you very much and any other videos like this on mechanics of the game you can make will help me out a ton as thats how i like to learn games and im sure will help out a ton of others. Thanks Ryan
thank you for the kind words twisted, sorry for the late reply! I'm glad this video could be helpful and best of luck on your adventures out there!
I'll be honest, I didn't realise blocking was this in-depth. I never bothered with it as I'd always get hit even when blocking
same, but now we know why we get hit while blocking 😂
Imo it's important to exaggerate your blocking angles in game - if its a horizontal/vertical swing coming at you, really lean into the appropriate block direction. When the game first came out I remember being trash at it, but after a week or two I understood the exaggeration a lot more. It's still difficult, but totally doable with practice/awareness! Extra tough in the dark though!
@@DGDfan13 yeah i get ya. i used to be a proper sweat at mordhau in its first yr of release. like the top 2% sweatyboys.
in comparison to that the blocking in this game feels so nebulous
played DnD for a year now and learned something very helpful today, thanks.
love the music, great info and content! Thanks for the quality stuff Ryan, just keep to your own pace, no need to burn out trying to keep up with some imaginary thing as your channel grows. Just continue to be genuinely you!
Great video, really helps demystify some of these more arcane mechanics. Also just chock full of insightful tidbits. And beautiful footage to portray precisely what you are talking about. Just a fantastic video as always!
Also need to applaud ironmace for incorporating so many "hidden" mechanics like this, they seem small individually, but they add up to make a more dynamic, interesting, tight and just flat out better combat system than all of the imposter clones we have been seeing lately.
Its all the little mechanics like this woven together why people say the combat in other dark and darker, (especially the melee combat) is far superior to any imitators. Its just extremely well thought out inconspicuous systems that all work seamlessly together under the hood to really flesh out the combat and exploration.
Sorry for the rant but i was feeling a little inspired and this game (as well as your content) can never have enough praise!
So helpful. Easily one of the most informative vids for me as a fighter. tytyty
Glad it was helpful! Fighter is a great class - best of luck out there in the dungeons!
Highest quality DaD content on TH-cam. Well done!
One of the few helpful DaD videos I’ve seen. Thanks. Earned a sub
I have so much respect for channels that try to read all their comments
nice kill on that warlock at the end, your videos are amazingly edited and extremely informative, keep up the good work!
thanks ash!
This was massive for fighters. Probably one of your best vids although they’re always great. Ty so much!
Also pretty big for Barbarian's as you may bring the crush perk with a weapon with impact power 4 and confidentely hit heater shields.
I think most high lvl barbs were already doing that@@lastwayyt
@@franpschorr3646 I certainly wasn't
@@lastwayyt sry meant high skill lvl
Amazing video, this can be applied to counter barbs. Thanks!
best of luck out there iliam!
Yet another classic ryan6daysaweek banger thanks for sharing your wisdom with us ryan
I live to serve the dog, glad you enjoyed this one kdog!
Ryan back at it again with the one of one content! Keep it up brother.
thank you goaty, I'll do my best!
Thanks Ryan
Awesome video as per,
One specifically on the longsword would be cool as the riposte effects is very strange. Low impact wepons such as rapier cannot be parried; however it can be if you you riposte before you parry.
ex. Let go of block before you are struck, parry attack while LS block is still active, riposte.
A video on this from you would be very interesting!
buckler gang rise up
Quality as usual, thanks Ryan
Thank you reid, glad you enjoyed the video!
WOW! This makes me want to try a fighter with the two shield perks!
Amazing guide! Thanks for your hard work!!!
thank you for the kind words 399!
absolutely brilliant content
thanks creatureVision, that profile picture is absolutely brilliant
Incredible content my man :)
thank you patrick, i appreciated it!
You are saving this community bro, you deserve all the praise and gamer money..... Not these twitch clowns 1 shoting new players in grays.
The community you're talking about will never go out of their way to learn how to play the game better. The ones who will benefit from this are the "clowns 1 shoting new players in grays" or people who will become these said "clowns" through these tips. But hey, hopefully the feeling of being righteous here made you feel good at least.
Some people are naturally better at video games than other, and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you will start rolling kids
awesome content & delivery!! also super helpful - easiest sub of my life haha :)
Fantastic video ryan!
thank you katie, long live the wizard of the caves
I spent about a week trying to save up gear to do a few kitted rounds. Finally go all the stuff I needed, went in for my first full kit run, but ran into you and your cleric buddy and got mopped... never even got to kill anyone with my nice gear I saved up 😢
I thought about unsubscribing because I was so salty, but I gave it a little time and ended up staying subscribed. You guys are just better :(
gg buddy
yikes. grow up. unsubbing over a content creator killing you is actually baby level shit.
ggs tp, sorry we ended up on the wrong sides of the battlefield. What class do you play?
@@ryan6daysaweek I play bard and my buddy plays fighter or ranger. My bard is getting nerfed to death right now but I still love him haha
GGs for that ruins fight
ggs MGE! That was a great fight, your movement was insane! Were you guys also farming gold ore? I think a barb mined out the cave and ran during the chaos haha
@@ryan6daysaweek haha yes we had killed a team right before you arrived and there was still a team farming down below. It was insane, 4 teams in one corner all for the gold lol. Your crossbow shots were so patiently timed
Incredible vid, thanks!
great video, going back to fighter for bit
fighters rise
Hey Ryan, thanks for making all this hidden stuff so easy to understand. Just one question.
As some weapons with low impact power are incapable of breaking crates, barrels, and barricades, what are the thresholds for a weapons impact power against each type of material?
it looks like for crates and barrels you need to have an impact power of at least 3. Wooden barriers, pots, webs, and spider pots only need an impact power of 1 (torch).
I love that DaD has all these in depth mechanics, but i HATE that they are never shown or discussed in game, at all.
i would have never known about any of this.
I think that’s part of the charm. Now that you know this information, YOU are the one with the advantage
@@CreatureVision yea thats dogshit, people shouldnt have to spend days testing various things out, and people shouldnt have to rely on those who are willing to spend those days to generate that information
I was fighting a Barb and just kinda brought him around small corners and when he did attack and I couldn't just dodge I blocked at the hilt. It's quite funny that everybody assumes the War Maul is some unstoppable force.
100% sharing with my friends. Thank you my guy! We really appreciate you. May your loot be good and your fighting swift! (Any tips for the bard?? I've been thinking he needs a blue pot on spawn or a health pot. The sitting down to heal from his song doesn't really work when playing as him)
Eh, it kinda can, just depends on how ya roll with yourbperks
@TheHonestSage Not really tho, you get maybe 20 seconds of that healing via song, want to play it again? Nah gotta stand up and lose all the recoverable HP when you could finish resting for another 55 seconds. Kinda crappy, I'm for everyone else sitting to heal, just not me.
(Edit) personally I'm not good enough to take no damage from mobs; usually I'll take at least one hit, and that 22 hp matters in my pvp fight, and I don't want to take myself out of the game for almost 2 minutes sitting there. (I get once you get geared/buy potions and stuff totally different) but starting kit, a blue pot or health pot would help tremendously in terms of not wasting my time sitting
@darklotus6595 ? I know this to be false for 2 reasons: 1) Personal experience. I usually like to run GC purely naked before hopping into ruins/crypts with gear and from my experience, you can full red health from from a goblin archer/ swing with just tranquility alone (which lasts 30 seconds, longer if you use rousing rhythms before tranquility, due to the fact it raises your resourcefulness/persuasiveness which increases song buff duration). 2) Tranquility guarantees 30 health return over the duration of the buff. It heals 1 per second and can be verified through google search! Though, I do understand the gripe, it can be pretty annoying to have to constantly make up for not having a starting advantage, however id have to counterpoint that with the fact we as bards get access to a free 15 extra move speed+ rousing rhythms and invisibility with SoS! In terms of solo play, we're a slower rogue without da burst which can feel a lil rough
thank you darklotus! Bard has been on the nerf side of the balancing in these latest patches so it is definitely tough to play. I would say to definitely take advantage of your ms and ranged options as you can usually kite any 2h weapon/full plate user and fit attacks in between swings. Right now I usually run falchion and crossbow and lead every fight with a note-skipped shriek followed by a crossy shot and a drum throw as they will be slowed from the crossbow. This usually makes it so you usually only need 1 or 2 falchion hits to finish them off.
I can't give any song advise here as I really only played bard prior to the most recent patch so I am unsure how big of the nerfs the songs got but I know shriek is untouched so I included that one above haha
@ryan6daysaweek you're so very welcome my guy!
I usually do open up with the weakness song, haven't thought about the drum throw after a crossbow. That's pretty good. Thank you, crossbow I feel is a must, he needs a bit of range dmg or you get clapped.
Hopefully they change his healing song a little or give a blue pot or something. Thank you my guy! May we see each other in the dungeons and may the loot be fantastic.
PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE OVER OTHER MECHANICS
will do!
I just ran a game with shield slam on a buckler. Using your hilt block tech it was hilarious finishing people off with a slam after 2-3 hits from sword
love the buckler haha but I am terrible with blocking with it
Does the warmaul right click combo where the first attack entires with attacking with the hilt gets interrupted on a shield up close? I know the wodden part of the weapon is the sour zone in the war maul, however is the hilt still considered the sour zone when using the right click combo? I would love to know if i can us the right click to get through the shield up close and then come down for the over head swing for 120% of damage.
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wait, could a buckler block a warmaul at the hilt and be all good to counter attack? It could right, because block power doesnt matter when blocking hilts?
Great video, very very useful. I think shields are one of the strongest things in the game and people that say the combat is too simple, or something like BoC has no counter are just ignoring shields/limb blocking.
This makes me tempted to try out an agility fighter with a buckler and maybe a rapier or something. I used to run an offhand buckler in all my DS1 PVP builds to become a parry god and I can imagine the salty confusion at stopping a barb with a warmaul with a buckler lol.
Can't believe I played fighter for so long, and now barb and not having this information
Thanks, I was wondering why somehow it felt like I was being rewarded more for blocking with the buckler than with other shields. turns out, i only block heavy weapons and people's hands so i never can benefit from more blocking power
I applaud anyone that can use the buckler, it's like blocking with a dinner plate haha
I didnt know the round shield had faster recovery than the heather, and breaking crates faster with parrying, actually game changing for me, gotta add these behaviours to how i play
Crazy we had to watch this video to know this
i feel dumb today because this is so confusing haha.
ima have to rewatch this.
very well made video
amazing video as always
thanks bingo!
wow dude. wish i knew this like 3 playtests ago!!!
RYAAAAAAAN
this comment is blessed
Another banger.
always the best videos from you.
I have a question aswell: Does Additional Physical damage scale with Physical Power Bonus?
additional physical damage does not benefit from Physical Power Bonus but it will apply to any instance of physical damage as weapon damage may not. So in the case of the Bard's flute song +1 Additional Physical Damage will apply but not +1 Weapon Damage
so if i stack 15 phys dmg and hit a barb achilles they will just die? xD@@ryan6daysaweek
so how the figther's "perfect block" skill affects this? u suddenly gives the opponent the slowest recovery leaving them open for a counter attack like an infinite defense? Or it just nullifes the negative effects?
On top of that from your Info I noticed the buckler could be kinda op in a skillful figther..
know this might be difficult but do you know/can you find out the min amount of ip to destroy crates, barrels and other breakables (other than barb who i think 1/2 hits all of it with base axe)
these are always usefull to know that might save you
You need to do a DaD mythbusters video
great vid this helped alot
unless im wrong, it seems like most weapons hitting a shield have a recovery time thats about the same as the shield recovery time, meaning the only weapon that can actually take advantage of a long block recovery time is the war maul. Can any other weapons land hits on the fighter between shield recoveries? or no?
I haven't tried them all but if you are running crush these attack combos will beat the shield recovery:
bardiche (heater, round), quarterstaff (round, buckler), zweihander (round), double axe (heater, round)
Oh man and here’s me thinking my blocking wasn’t working because I was just standing too close
As a barrel smasher, Which weapons bust open the barrels and crates in 1 hit? If I recall correctly, green morningstars break crates in 1 hit, while a white or grey morningstar takes 2 hits. How can i maximize my crate smashing?
top notch, as usual.
thank you zrak, I hope I can continue delivering the good stuff haha
Would you consider looking at how stats from one player (Such as debuff duration or magical healing) affect other players when certain spells or abilities are used on them? When the cleric perk Protection from evil is used it shows up as a -50% debuff duration, however the debuff duration bonus stat on items will increase this number instead of decreasing it. Seems like it's either a visual bug or debuff duration bonus does not work as intended.
I've also heard that magical healing only applies to the wearer and does not benefit healing spells used on other players but never really confirmed myself.
magical healing applies to any casted heal (whether self or on others). The debuff duration is definitely a bug as it should be a beneficial stat instead of a impairing one - I'll submit a ticket for that one
Hey Ryan, it would be nice if you made a guide for dodging all nightmare enemies. They seem to all have new attacks especially after the recent updates.
I probably miss something but what is the point to take bigger shield if you recover faster anyway with the buckler like you show at 4:56
Most people opt for a bigger shield when playing cleric/fighter mainly because in order to successfully block any attack in DaD the attack actually has to hit your shield. If the attack hits your body while you're holding your shield up the attack will deal full damage as if you weren't blocking and the Round and Heater Shields cover a much more significant portion of your body. Actually having a shield equipped has a lot of other upsides and drawbacks and I would say that the only significant drawback to having a larger shield other than the slower recovery time mentioned in the video is the slightly reduced movement speed. Meanwhile the other benefits of having a big shield(mostly the heater shield because the Pavise sucks) include hugely increased AR and ofc higher blocking power.
agreed with that kdog said
Can you do a video for the new warlock, magic damage scaling on the abilitys, cast times and stuff like that :D
Hey Ryan, do you know how to determine # of hits required to break an object given impact power? Thanks!
It seems to be a set value at each impact power and doesn't follow a formula, so for:
Impact power of 3: Barrels(4), Boxes(3), Barriers(3), Pots(1)
Impact power of 4: Barrels(2), Boxes(2), Barriers(2), Pots(1)
Impact Power of 5: Barrels(2), Boxes(1), Barriers(2), Pots(1)
Impact Power of 6: Barrels(1), Boxes(1), Barriers(2), Pots(1)
Impact Power of 7: It's the object deleter
@@ryan6daysaweekamazing, thank you for gathering this!
No mention of Perfect Block? It makes any blocked attack considered "light".
I have one single question - if impact power is higher than blocking power, then can you hit your enemy with this same attack?
Your player becomes invulnerable to an attack as soon as it is blocked so no matter the Impact/Blocking Power relationship you will never take damage from a blocked swing. However, your player model can get hit by an attack before your blocking surface (shield, longsword parry, etc.) does. This interaction makes is so you technically get hit first and then later (fractions of a second) block the same swing.
Blocking power and Impact power just decide what kind of stagger happens to both players on a successful block.
@@ryan6daysaweek Thank you, i was just thinking can i deliver any damage as a bear when fighter is blocking. looks like, usually not.
I know it's pretty much useless info but the Flute can also block, and has a riposte like the longsword!
Ryan I’m curious how you feel about the state of dark and darker right now. I think there are many balance and loot issues but I’d like to hear your opinion
I was ready to type out a response to this but then another big update happened haha, I will give it a few days and revisit this comment! Sorry for the late reply!
What block power does the Flute have? Its a flimsy thing but it does block and has a repost to boot.
block power of 3
Thanks for let me know. So the same as the long sword which makes sense for the reposte.
thank you
the best video would be how to block every weapon and / or how to dodge every weapon
cool video still never gonna use my shield
So smashing against the target with a shield is the best defense when going against a 2 handed attacker?
This man has killed me more than 3 times. Please stop getting into my games, I wanna live😂
haha I'll look into this for sure
@@ryan6daysaweek look for meowdy
Slight correction and possibly misleading, but the ability text for counterattack reads for 10% attack speed, not action speed. action speed is not correlated to attacking faster and is worded separately in most instances.
the ability text should state action speed - it changes the action speed value in the character stats for the duration of the buff which results in faster attacking. Checked it for the latest patch too
@ryan6daysaweek interesting. It is worded separately for adrenaline rush too.
@Ryan6DaysWeek, Does 7 impact power have more stagger duration compared to 6?
not at this time! It triggers the same heavy block reaction that a 6 would
the attack animation at 1:52 your hitting it with the butt of your weapon LOL so the atatck is ending faster its not interrupting
this also happens with barb axes sometimes
its not a feature of the shield or blocking it just resets after you hit something with the butt of your weapon as if the attack is complete
this is to showcase the light block as the butt of the weapon has minimal impact power
fantastic info have a sub from me keep up the good work
Very informative but a barb that is good with war maul would not body hug u to let u hit is hands hes swinging the thing wildly jumping and accelerating it into u with high dpi but doable just wouldn't try it as u will likely get 2 tapped
How does impact power work in relation to a longsword parry?
good job bro
What does perfect block do i still dont understand
as of now it turns any block into a light block reaction
Is anyone else facing this issue @5:12 where you constantly block after every attack without pressing block?
Love your videos, love this game but still don't understand the blocking.
9 months later and still no weapon impact effect into longsword parries..
Is everything in this video still up to date?
almost everything,
I pinned a comment a bit ago about the buckler as it now has a blocking power of "6" making it tied with the pavise in terms of what it can block
Other than that, the info in this video is accurate to the current version of the game! (HF #57)
The thumbnail reminds me of Exanima
Does agility/action speed affect shield recovery time?
at this moment they do not but some of the skill tool tips imply that they will some day - I'll keep track and reply to this comment if that changes! Right now the only variables that control shield recovery time is they type of shield you are using and what type of block reaction happens
You forgot to mention the flutes blocking power 😢
Isn't the bp of a buckler now raised to 6?
Buckler is underrated lol
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