The item description for the “oceans of blood” katana mentions that it gets hyperarmour at the cost of receiving extra damage when hit. So I don’t think they’re bugged

The reason that one has hyper armor is in the weapon description. It gets more poise but in trade you have less defenses when trading with people

The most surprising part is great katanas are more balanced than regular katanas.

The days of knowing builds by armor are done, the time of solitude meta begins

I would prefer it doesnt have hyper armor, hyper armor resetting poise counting is really obnoxious for small weapons, so im not complaining that gkat actually requires good fundamentals

There is only one flaw with it, there's only 3 of them

i think that the weapon type being flawed but still strong is a good thing. every weapon type should be strong but flawed in a way.

15:11 "ahh yeah bro I really need some gravel stones can you drop?"

I love how the GK is nod to the Monster Hunter Longsword. 😃

There are two talismans I NEED YOU to get and use LACERATING CROSSED-TREE - Effect Enhances dash attacks (running attacks. More damage and I think ( I can be wrong about the last part) more range RETALIATORY CROSSED-TREE - Effect Enhances attacks executed after rolling or backstepping ( it also activates when crouch attacking every time. This is a 7% or 13% increase )

The only flaw I care about is the obnoxious sheaths clipping into the ground for 2 of the 3.

Steel, the two-handed talisman is only for physical damage?

the last clip is a cinematic masterpiece lmaoo

FYI GK has less recovery in the offhand, allowing L1s to true combo into a bunch of fast weapons. Its nice for mix ups

Honestly this “flaw” makes it perfect in my book. Sure it’s not as strong as it could be, but if it had HA and tier 3 hitstun it could start to feel a bit braindead. In its current state there’s nothing about it that makes me feel bad about using it and that’s why i love it so much. Going to enjoy it while it lasts

Yh I was disappointed with overhead stance too. I love the love itself it's so fast, but the fact it doesn't poise break people just trade into it. Kinda weird to be honest because I think that move was used as a stance break in samurai combat I could be wrong tho.

Something i notice in the "human dragon" boss fight (where you get one of the great katanas) is that if you fight a light weapon and if you trade with the great katana, you can get a true combo into an R1, but that's only if you poise gets broken and if you smash out of hits stun. I know this because i fought him with shamshir and when we traded the mf did that to me and trust me, it really hurts.

I was under the impression the great katanas are more comparable to great swords. The lack of poise makes more sense that way. I wish they made colossal katanas as well tho.

12:48 not the actual thrust of sword of that kill him but rather the stomp that does the final blow on him (steel fall onto his head)

Steelovsky can you please make a video on the greatsword of radahn (lord)? The AoW seems way too op and very difficult to dodge.

The great katana has no hyperarmor or in general there’s no more hyperarmor? Do other slow weapon types have hyperarmor?

5:06 Goonveil the sequel

My broke ass can't afford elden ring dlc rn. But i hope everyone is having fun!

Have you tried fire knights ugs , it has a true combo and is so broken

Great Katana 2H deserves to have spEffectId 6360, ignore damagelevel 1 & 8 hitstun, same as Reapers.

I’m really enjoying the great katana on strength tbh.

You should use the one the R2 theyre great roll catches

05:00 bro watching a song of ice and fire

My only gripe was this dlc nerfed invaders by about 10 to 20 percent and buffed gankers and and added no new pvp functions to the dlc

Just wait till people start getting the swift slash aow for backhand blades. Its sooo dumb

Are great katanas parryable?

The last one is so good. lol

I love this weapon it's a stun machine for bosses

Fun fact: the r1s are just the standard attacks for the Longsword in Monster Hunter

10:16 that was anime as fuck haha

read your item descriptions

I knew something was wrong when invading i was so confused. I was assuming the weapon had to have hyper armor since its a great weapon.

80 Arcane and 45 dex, Occult scaling has 742 AR

opinion on power stancing these?

Are there any straight swords in the dlc?

hey steel hru

Powerstance in general was a mistake, and paired weapons should be the norm

Should i level above lvl 150 if i want to pvp?

So what is the major flaw??

The 2nd R1 is kinda meh

I prefer to use dex because I am a filthy PVEer

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8:50 the left and the right brain cell of pvers, both are L2

DLC worse than patch 1.09

No weapon is flawed it is the person who wields it except if you make the thing with garbage materials and poor craftsmanship then it's flawed.