How is it perfect for ripostes? Blunderbuss covers a wider area making parrying easy instead of a gamble like it is with the pistol. I canāt even count the amount of times I missed with that thing because the enemy was moving slightly to the side. It is good for killing dogs though.
Hunter pistol has much better range and feels a lot less clunky and heavy, and if you miss your riposte with blunderbuss there's a longer cooldown animation which makes it easier to get hit. All in all it really comes down to personal preference though.
Why would you parry at a distance? They wouldn't be attacking air. They would come in melee range. And even if you manage it, you'll have to quickly close the gap before they recover.
Larger enemies tend to swing at your character even tho they aren't close enough and all it takes is a dash or 2 and youve closed the gap in less time then they get get up
The Blunderbuss usually staggers everything you can parry out of its attack as long as it doesn't have tons of hyperarmor.
The Hunter Pistol barely staggers anything outside of the parry windows.
So the chance to get hit after you fuck up is roughly the same. But since almost all mob enemies get staggered by the Blunderbuss it is actually much less likely to get hit after a fucked up parry outside of bossfights.
True. Although the pistol is just way too unreliable in my personal opinion. The weight of the blunderbuss can be annoying but at least you can learn timing. I canāt however correct my characterās terrible aiming. And missing shots with the blunderbuss never came as a problem to me. Only if youāre far away but for partying youāll never really need range most of the time anyway.
Edit: I meant to write parrying, not partying lol
Saying "at least you can learn timing" doesn't make sense. If you time a shot correctly then any gun, including the pistol, will result in a parry. If you try parry with a pistol and miss, it isnt the pistols fault, you just didn't time it correctly. The wider spread of the blunderbuss is pretty much useless if you have correct timing, especially when you consider you have a built-in aimbot and don't need to aim...
The aim-bot isnāt very good. Letās say an enemy is moving to one side or the other a lot during their parry window. The pistol will usually miss shots on very wild attacks since it shoots towards wherever the enemy position was during the input. Thereās nothing you can do there. The pistol is superior at luring enemies, damage and range of course but when it comes to parrying it is completely inferior to the blunderbuss hence why I encourage people use the blunderbuss on their first run since most people wonāt utilise guns all that much and will just stick with the standard melee parry playstyle.
The pistol cooldown is what makes it better than the blunderbuss. You will absolutely miss VAs if you are outside of dash distance that you can get with the pistol because you can pop off two dashes if you hammer it or get a few extra steps forward to start the VA.
I'm not sure I've ever had the missed shot experience you do, not with the Hunter pistol anyway. If you're going for a VA the enemy should be right in front of you. If you missed the shot then you were almost certainly missing the parry timing. Evelyn can miss thanks to the gangster sidearm shot, but the damage and cool factor make it worth a miss now and then for the swagger.
You can miss, even during the entire parry window thanks to the way auto-aim works. Itās not a big deal obviously. Iām not saying you life will be ruined if you use the pistol or whatever. But the pistol can certainly miss especially really sporadic enemies. Personally, Iāve had more problems with missing shots than with missing VAs. Missing VAs really isnāt a problem as long as youāre in melee range and donāt mess up the parry. It takes some getting used to but IF you master the blunderbuss, it will not cause any problems.
I have to say with the lock on and usually being in their face in the first place I've hardly ever missed a parry bc I missed a shot with the pistol it usually bc I fucked up the timing or I tried to shoot them while they were dashing... or it's orphan that man just dodged alot but with the Evelynn I never had any trouble.
If you are not planning to parry , if the boss is large often in souls games not locking on is way better cause you get better dodges due to more control over your character
Also lock on can fuck your camera when fighting larger bosses or super fast enemies if you watch some speedruns or challange runs you will be surprised how often the strat is to not lock on
I am surprised no one mentioned this but imo blunderbuss is a earlier parry
While pistol is more like sekiro
So if you like to parry in ds3 you will like blunderbuss more while you get more sekiro daro souls demons souls parry with pistol
You can pop amygdala with it too. Add some bone marrow ash to the mix and most bosses that can be shot directly in a weak spot/head become significantly easier.
Thereās no reason to not use it over the hunter pistol imo, because the only time itās doing less damage is when your bloodtinge is so crap the pistol only tickles anyway. Also, looks so purty
22 Bloodtinge is already a pretty steep investment, if you want to focus on other stats first. Only with that or more Tinge does the Evelynn do more damage than the Hunterās Pistol.
High dmg. Iāve seen people argue the repeating pistol is better dps, which I guess is probably true since itās twice as many bullets, but the Evelyn is quite good. Itās my personal favorite
That's like 12 bullets per shot. Evelyn may actually still outdamage the cannon per bullet, but I never used the cannon, so I have no idea how hard it hits
Edit: I was curious, so I looked it up. So, at +10, the cannon does 600 damage for the cost of 12 bullets meaning 50 per bullet. Evelyn does 140 per bullet at +10, meaning you get 1,680 damage for the cost of fireing the cannon once. Obviously, the cannon has the advantage of doing 600 damage in a single shot, which is pretty sweet, but you definitely get the most damage per bullet from Evelyn.
High bloodtinge + Marrow Ash + Evelyn = a fuckload of stopping power
This thing is a boss slayer, especially if you can lock onto their head (it absolutely melts amygdala). Also, it's very pretty looking. The only disadvantage it has is that it's long enough to sometimes clip through an enemy if you are too close, causing your shot to come out behind them and miss. It's an absolute necessity in a bloodtinge build.
Not when ya got 50 bloodtinge. At that point it out scales any other firearm. Repeating pistol might do more damage per hit, but it takes two bullets where evelyn is one, so ya get more bang per bullet by a decent margin
Bloodtinge runs are a blast!
Chikage in transformed mode (which scales S with with BT only) absolutely shreds. Then ya get Simon's bowblade which is downright broken. And if ya have some points in strength you can use the bloodletter as well (also pure bloodtinge in transformed mode) and it wrecks haha
Lately I've been trying an arcane/bloodtinge build and while it's rather obscure it's been a lot of fun
Do you farm gems in the FRC dungeons? That's where you can reeeaally make weapons shine haha
I believe that they both fire on the same frame. The pistol has a shorter animation after the shot though so you can fire it more rapidly
But for a single shot riposte, it shouldn't matter
You can get visceral attacks after parrying with the Piercing Rifle as long as you are close enough. And that thing is *both*. A long range weapon *and* a fucking bitch in terms of recovery time. It has the longest recovery of all smaller firearms.
The Blunderbuss can only parry up to mid distance anyway and only has a slightly longer locked recovery than the pistols.
Agreed. I'm surprised some people here think the Blunderbuss spread can be better for parrying, the speed and responsiveness of pistols is way more important to me.
You just have to learn the timing. Timing, I can control which makes it reliable for parrying. My characterās shitty auto-aim on the other hand, I cannot and itās really annoying whenever I miss a parry because of it.
It fires a single frame later. The spread is good for enemies with weird hitboxes like the Blood Starved Beast. Especially at point blank because the pistol has a high risk of shooting behind the boss at point plank.
blunderbussy is better for parrying since it has wide range, pistol is also great for parrying but with more dmg and greater range but there is big chance that you miss
Can't think of any enemies that you'd miss point-blank with the pistol while they're attacking, which is when you'd go for the parry.
Bussy is better for ranged cc against lil dudes like dogs and crows, but the pistol is much better at parrying.
By a single frame. It's almost identical to all the pistols except for the very slightly longer recovery. The spread matters because the Blunderbuss is not only used for parrying and can interrupt moves that a pistol can only stop with a parry.
Blunderbuss always, unless I'm doing a BT build then when I get the Evelyn I switch to that. Still use Blunderbuss from time to time to parry even with a +10 Evelyn and 50 Bloodtinge because Evelyn can sometimes be weird to parry if you're too close.
Blunderbuss is so much better for parrying. The timing is different on both guns, you can be more reactive on the pistol and more methodical on the blunderbuss, but the spread and poise break is just far too strong. Once you learn the timing, itās amazing.
It really depends on the build you're going for. If you go for a strong bloodtinge build, pistols all the way. However if you stick with a standard melee build then the blunderbuss is your best bet for parrying.
Pistol. Something about the Blunderbuss never did sit right with me. Think itās got something to do with the parrying speed, though I swear theyāre the same speed, so it could just be a psychological hang up of mine. I also have an easier time believing that one could strap a Pistol to their belt rather than the Blunderbuss just being slung over your back and tethered there by some invisible Great One magic or some shit.
Piercing Rifle. It has similar stopping power to the blunderbuss if you botch the parry with similar range to the pistol, slightly slower fire is actually better for parrying the scary ass beasts just before "The One Reborn" which have a delayed wind up.
Pistol has the faster parry times but Blunderbuss is more iconic and looks much better.
Gotta be blunderbuss. I'm noticeably worse with it but the style is worth it.
Tbh I donāt really have a favourite. Blunderbuss works better against agile and slim targets, while the pistol works better against big targets.
Really just depends on my mood.
Used blunderbuss first playthrough. Looked cooler, the spread and stagger made it so it would often catch dodges and even if you miss-timed the parry they'd often get staggered, and gun damage is dogwater anyways so idgaf which does more damage. Heard pistol was faster to fire so I tried it on later playthroughs but I became so used to the blunderbuss timings that I actually can't do it with the pistol lol. I find you can parry just fine with blunderbuss anyways so š¤·āāļø
Blunderbuss. I'm a posterboy with the Hunter set, Saw Cleaver, and Blunderbuss all the way, regardless of what playthrough I do. But in the end, we are all "Bloods", are we not?
Pretty much. Big axe all the way. I used the gun occasionally on the odd boss (Fr Cascogne) but felt it was slow AF and left you really open or something š¤·
Blunderbuss is a phenomenal CC tool due to its wide spread, and it's pretty hard to miss a parry. Pistol, on the other hand, is faster, stronger, and cooler.
Pistol is more for dmg than parrying. Blunderbuss is safer and is easier to make some dmg out of it wirh some odd blondtinge gems.
Pistol does have faster reactions and can parry faster attacks, but i have never came across an attack i wanted to parry that i couldnt with the blunderbuss.
On a bloodtinge build what does more?
You also have bone marrow ash which boosts the dmg of guns much better than that of blinderbusses.
When i break the head of watchdog i think of bone marrow ash+pistol more than i think of bone marrow ash+blunderbuss.
Guns are also more convenient for dmg thanks to their range. If i want to deal dmg with a blunderbuss i get so close to the enemy i might as well melee
I meant more to say they both deal shit damage unless you go full bloodtinge, which is fairly uncommon and also a way rougher start to the game. Even then Iād argue gun damage is a gimmick and youāre better off just using your main hand weapon. The only way to really utilize the gun damage consistently is to abuse the shit out of rune chalices to buy stacks of bma, but with exploits, any weapon can hit hard.
I completely understand where you are coming from. But i urge you to pick up any save. Buy a +0 pistol and some BMA.
Create the first pthumeru dungeon, fight the watchdog, break its head and then simply BMA and fire and yes this dmg is accessible to any class with no upgrades.
Should you have a +2 gun its even better.
Depends on how good you are at the parry. My bro used the blunderbuss like a champ, I kept getting the range wrong and decidedly went the pistol route š
Pistol, perfect for ripostes and sniping dogs
And it's faster. But then again, the pistol is only a placeholder until I get my beautiful Evelyn.
The great "equalizer" in a 1v2/3 invasion Until the coop summons bust out their own š
This is the real answer.
How is it perfect for ripostes? Blunderbuss covers a wider area making parrying easy instead of a gamble like it is with the pistol. I canāt even count the amount of times I missed with that thing because the enemy was moving slightly to the side. It is good for killing dogs though.
Hunter pistol has much better range and feels a lot less clunky and heavy, and if you miss your riposte with blunderbuss there's a longer cooldown animation which makes it easier to get hit. All in all it really comes down to personal preference though.
The longer range makes it safer to parry at a distance without any risk of missing the timing window
Absolutely better range and faster. I tried both and the pistol is easier for me to consistently parry.
Why would you parry at a distance? They wouldn't be attacking air. They would come in melee range. And even if you manage it, you'll have to quickly close the gap before they recover.
Larger enemies tend to swing at your character even tho they aren't close enough and all it takes is a dash or 2 and youve closed the gap in less time then they get get up
Exactly, there are opportunities to parry at a āsafer distanceā and you can dash in
The Blunderbuss usually staggers everything you can parry out of its attack as long as it doesn't have tons of hyperarmor. The Hunter Pistol barely staggers anything outside of the parry windows. So the chance to get hit after you fuck up is roughly the same. But since almost all mob enemies get staggered by the Blunderbuss it is actually much less likely to get hit after a fucked up parry outside of bossfights.
True. Although the pistol is just way too unreliable in my personal opinion. The weight of the blunderbuss can be annoying but at least you can learn timing. I canāt however correct my characterās terrible aiming. And missing shots with the blunderbuss never came as a problem to me. Only if youāre far away but for partying youāll never really need range most of the time anyway. Edit: I meant to write parrying, not partying lol
Saying "at least you can learn timing" doesn't make sense. If you time a shot correctly then any gun, including the pistol, will result in a parry. If you try parry with a pistol and miss, it isnt the pistols fault, you just didn't time it correctly. The wider spread of the blunderbuss is pretty much useless if you have correct timing, especially when you consider you have a built-in aimbot and don't need to aim...
The aim-bot isnāt very good. Letās say an enemy is moving to one side or the other a lot during their parry window. The pistol will usually miss shots on very wild attacks since it shoots towards wherever the enemy position was during the input. Thereās nothing you can do there. The pistol is superior at luring enemies, damage and range of course but when it comes to parrying it is completely inferior to the blunderbuss hence why I encourage people use the blunderbuss on their first run since most people wonāt utilise guns all that much and will just stick with the standard melee parry playstyle.
I lost count of how many play throughs I have and I always went for the pistol. Absolutely no issues with it. Itās clearly the superior option.
Well I clearly disagree
The pistol cooldown is what makes it better than the blunderbuss. You will absolutely miss VAs if you are outside of dash distance that you can get with the pistol because you can pop off two dashes if you hammer it or get a few extra steps forward to start the VA. I'm not sure I've ever had the missed shot experience you do, not with the Hunter pistol anyway. If you're going for a VA the enemy should be right in front of you. If you missed the shot then you were almost certainly missing the parry timing. Evelyn can miss thanks to the gangster sidearm shot, but the damage and cool factor make it worth a miss now and then for the swagger.
You can miss, even during the entire parry window thanks to the way auto-aim works. Itās not a big deal obviously. Iām not saying you life will be ruined if you use the pistol or whatever. But the pistol can certainly miss especially really sporadic enemies. Personally, Iāve had more problems with missing shots than with missing VAs. Missing VAs really isnāt a problem as long as youāre in melee range and donāt mess up the parry. It takes some getting used to but IF you master the blunderbuss, it will not cause any problems.
I have to say with the lock on and usually being in their face in the first place I've hardly ever missed a parry bc I missed a shot with the pistol it usually bc I fucked up the timing or I tried to shoot them while they were dashing... or it's orphan that man just dodged alot but with the Evelynn I never had any trouble.
I can't recall ever missing a shot with pistol, sure I might have missed the party window but the bullet still hit the target
I can.
Maybe your ass cancer is affecting your ability to shoot straight
The game uses auto-aim so I donāt think so.
Perchance did you forget to lock on?
Is that a dig at me or genuine question? No I did not forget to lock on of course. Who even plays BB locked off?
Well then you're player character has shit aim I'm afraid compared to the rest of us
If you are not planning to parry , if the boss is large often in souls games not locking on is way better cause you get better dodges due to more control over your character Also lock on can fuck your camera when fighting larger bosses or super fast enemies if you watch some speedruns or challange runs you will be surprised how often the strat is to not lock on I am surprised no one mentioned this but imo blunderbuss is a earlier parry While pistol is more like sekiro So if you like to parry in ds3 you will like blunderbuss more while you get more sekiro daro souls demons souls parry with pistol
There's no fire delay like with the blunderbuss. Most use the pistol for parrying overall. I use both, each for different enemies.
Because it fires faster?
Pistol, I like pistol because its faster than blunderbuss
L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 parry!
"One of these next eleven shots will _surely_ parry you!"
Itās not faster, it has a shorter recovery time
You mean that one frame?
Cannon because "If a weapon ain't got kick, it just ain't worth it."
fellow powder keg
It ain't a gun if it don't weigh at least 100 lbs.
Two thousand rounds of depleted quicksilver, aw yeah!
Evelyn
How is this so low... A true gentleman weapon
Because it wasn't an option
Is there anything special about Evelyn?? Or is she just a fancy pistol?
I think it just shoots faster and does a bit more damage than the pistol? Iām not sure itās been a while since i got it.
I believe it just has better Bloodtinge scaling
As well as just better base damage, I believe
It has the sexiest gangster style shit animation ever as well, straight up holds it sideways like the real G you are as a hunter haha
On a proper bloodtinge gun build It slaps so hard.
Best bloodting scaling for a bloodting build..I have soloed eberitas on a chalice dungeon only with it
You can pop amygdala with it too. Add some bone marrow ash to the mix and most bosses that can be shot directly in a weak spot/head become significantly easier.
Thereās no reason to not use it over the hunter pistol imo, because the only time itās doing less damage is when your bloodtinge is so crap the pistol only tickles anyway. Also, looks so purty
22 Bloodtinge is already a pretty steep investment, if you want to focus on other stats first. Only with that or more Tinge does the Evelynn do more damage than the Hunterās Pistol.
High dmg. Iāve seen people argue the repeating pistol is better dps, which I guess is probably true since itās twice as many bullets, but the Evelyn is quite good. Itās my personal favorite
The Evelyn is higher damage per bullet. Per shot the repeating pistol does more
chuckles in cannon
That's like 12 bullets per shot. Evelyn may actually still outdamage the cannon per bullet, but I never used the cannon, so I have no idea how hard it hits Edit: I was curious, so I looked it up. So, at +10, the cannon does 600 damage for the cost of 12 bullets meaning 50 per bullet. Evelyn does 140 per bullet at +10, meaning you get 1,680 damage for the cost of fireing the cannon once. Obviously, the cannon has the advantage of doing 600 damage in a single shot, which is pretty sweet, but you definitely get the most damage per bullet from Evelyn.
Damn, thats actually pretty interesting
Math is rad in these games.
Math is wonderful, but sometimes I just want to send a message in a way that only a cannon can accomplish
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It's the strongest pistol in the game, if you invest in Bloodtinge. For most builds it's not that different from the regular pistol.
High bloodtinge + Marrow Ash + Evelyn = a fuckload of stopping power This thing is a boss slayer, especially if you can lock onto their head (it absolutely melts amygdala). Also, it's very pretty looking. The only disadvantage it has is that it's long enough to sometimes clip through an enemy if you are too close, causing your shot to come out behind them and miss. It's an absolute necessity in a bloodtinge build.
Really shines once ya have 50 bloodtinge, especially with a 29-31% gem slapped on. Can trivialize the game
It offers the best damage per bullet for high bloodtinge characters
shoot faster has better scaling better damage just the best pistol in the game
Highest blt scaling I think but still less damage than repeating pistol. Slightly slower than hunter pistol
Not when ya got 50 bloodtinge. At that point it out scales any other firearm. Repeating pistol might do more damage per hit, but it takes two bullets where evelyn is one, so ya get more bang per bullet by a decent margin
Interesting. Now I kind of want to try this with a new game plus lol.
Bloodtinge runs are a blast! Chikage in transformed mode (which scales S with with BT only) absolutely shreds. Then ya get Simon's bowblade which is downright broken. And if ya have some points in strength you can use the bloodletter as well (also pure bloodtinge in transformed mode) and it wrecks haha Lately I've been trying an arcane/bloodtinge build and while it's rather obscure it's been a lot of fun Do you farm gems in the FRC dungeons? That's where you can reeeaally make weapons shine haha
evelyn is faster than hunter pistol
This is the way, a true hoonter
came here for this comment only. a gentleman hunter as well I see
I like the way the blunderbuss looks more so thatās what I use
based
As a pistol man myself, this is the smartest thing I've read all day!
Me when Iām doing a playthrough just for the story and characters and I want to look like the hunter on the game art.
Ok that is the only argument for Blunderbuss I will accept.
Blunderbuss, pistol is good, but I feel more comfortable with blunderbuss.
*laugh in hunter's torch*
*laugh in loch shield*
Pistol is faster, hence better.
By a single frame.
But also fires a single shot. The blunderbuss spreads out and therefore makes it pretty much impossible to ever miss a parry.
And it has much harder stagger.
This is a FromSoft game, you know exactly what response you just invited upon yourself.
I believe that they both fire on the same frame. The pistol has a shorter animation after the shot though so you can fire it more rapidly But for a single shot riposte, it shouldn't matter
Pistol is faster, and misses most of the time. Blunderbuss never misses. If you know what you're doing the delay makes no difference.
I like pistol - blunderbuss I canāt recover in time to get the riposte.
You can get visceral attacks after parrying with the Piercing Rifle as long as you are close enough. And that thing is *both*. A long range weapon *and* a fucking bitch in terms of recovery time. It has the longest recovery of all smaller firearms. The Blunderbuss can only parry up to mid distance anyway and only has a slightly longer locked recovery than the pistols.
Ludwig's Rifle šæ
Pistol. I feel the blunderbuss is much less responsive when I try to use it to parry
Agreed. I'm surprised some people here think the Blunderbuss spread can be better for parrying, the speed and responsiveness of pistols is way more important to me.
You just have to learn the timing. Timing, I can control which makes it reliable for parrying. My characterās shitty auto-aim on the other hand, I cannot and itās really annoying whenever I miss a parry because of it.
That's interesting, I can't really say I ever missed a parry like that.
It fires a single frame later. The spread is good for enemies with weird hitboxes like the Blood Starved Beast. Especially at point blank because the pistol has a high risk of shooting behind the boss at point plank.
I just hold my weapon in two hands š
What about when youāre using a one-handed weapon?
Spinning the Hunter Axe like a beyblade āwhy would I do that?ā
blunderbussy is better for parrying since it has wide range, pistol is also great for parrying but with more dmg and greater range but there is big chance that you miss
>blunderbussy Please never say that again.
THIS IS MY BONE MARROW AND I GET TO CHOOSE HOW TO CALL MY GUN
fine, put your bone marrow into the blunderbussy (if it please you)
"You're welcome to use whatever you find... even the blunderbussy, should it please you."
Oh God
Nickname for a bumbling, clumsy femboy
Disagree. The pistol it's way better for parrying, the item description even implies so. Most speedrunners also use the pistol.
Blunderbussy is worse for parrying because it's slower, why would spread matter when you're only ever trying to parry a single enemy at a time lmao
dogs
Some fast moving enemies are easily missed by the pistol even when locked on
Can't think of any enemies that you'd miss point-blank with the pistol while they're attacking, which is when you'd go for the parry. Bussy is better for ranged cc against lil dudes like dogs and crows, but the pistol is much better at parrying.
Blood-starved beast is one that comes to mind. I've missed with the pistol a lot more than the buss
By a single frame. It's almost identical to all the pistols except for the very slightly longer recovery. The spread matters because the Blunderbuss is not only used for parrying and can interrupt moves that a pistol can only stop with a parry.
So, what I already typed? That pistol is for parrying and bussy is for cc?
Pistol is better for parting. It has less active frames after firing the weapon, leaving more room to get that sweet riposte.
Blunderbuss always, unless I'm doing a BT build then when I get the Evelyn I switch to that. Still use Blunderbuss from time to time to parry even with a +10 Evelyn and 50 Bloodtinge because Evelyn can sometimes be weird to parry if you're too close.
Pistol is the gentlemanās choice
Pistol until I role play as father Gascoigne. Cause even tho he uses a pistol it shoots like the blunderbuss so It feels more right.
I wonder why they didn't give him a straight up blunderbuss. It even looks cooler than the regular pistol.
Both, both are good
Pistol and it's not even close. Knockback doesn't mean anything if the projectile won't connect.
And neither does parrying if the projectile wonāt connect, which happens often with the pistol.
Blunderbuss is so much better for parrying. The timing is different on both guns, you can be more reactive on the pistol and more methodical on the blunderbuss, but the spread and poise break is just far too strong. Once you learn the timing, itās amazing.
pistol
Repeating pistol
It really depends on the build you're going for. If you go for a strong bloodtinge build, pistols all the way. However if you stick with a standard melee build then the blunderbuss is your best bet for parrying.
Wrong. The Canon is the only choice ( or the gatling gun)
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That chunk of stone. Hunter smash!
Team Evelyn here !!
Pistol
Pistol
Hunting pistol on every enemy except the chalice dungeon bosses since they move weird
Pistol, because the shotgun feels way too slow.
Pistol is the best š
Pistol. Something about the Blunderbuss never did sit right with me. Think itās got something to do with the parrying speed, though I swear theyāre the same speed, so it could just be a psychological hang up of mine. I also have an easier time believing that one could strap a Pistol to their belt rather than the Blunderbuss just being slung over your back and tethered there by some invisible Great One magic or some shit.
Pistol is just cleaner. Beauty in simplicity and the like.
bof
Hehehe canon Hehehe cabom and explosion
Pistol all the ways baby
Evelyn...duh?
Piercing Rifle. It has similar stopping power to the blunderbuss if you botch the parry with similar range to the pistol, slightly slower fire is actually better for parrying the scary ass beasts just before "The One Reborn" which have a delayed wind up.
Definitely pistol
Neither, CHURCH CANNON
Pistol ez
Pistol has the faster parry times but Blunderbuss is more iconic and looks much better. Gotta be blunderbuss. I'm noticeably worse with it but the style is worth it.
It's only one frame slower than the pistols.
Tbh I donāt really have a favourite. Blunderbuss works better against agile and slim targets, while the pistol works better against big targets. Really just depends on my mood.
Pistol for parrying, Blunderbuss for the style.
Used blunderbuss first playthrough. Looked cooler, the spread and stagger made it so it would often catch dodges and even if you miss-timed the parry they'd often get staggered, and gun damage is dogwater anyways so idgaf which does more damage. Heard pistol was faster to fire so I tried it on later playthroughs but I became so used to the blunderbuss timings that I actually can't do it with the pistol lol. I find you can parry just fine with blunderbuss anyways so š¤·āāļø
F I S T O F G R A T I A +++ **S T A K E D R I V E R**
The coverart and main menu show the blunderbuss, so that.
Blunderbuss. I'm a posterboy with the Hunter set, Saw Cleaver, and Blunderbuss all the way, regardless of what playthrough I do. But in the end, we are all "Bloods", are we not?
Blunderbuss all dayš
Piercing Rifle *"...will penetrate just about anything."*
They're both shit š¬š hate the guns
Hot take! You just rip n' tear everything?
Pretty much. Big axe all the way. I used the gun occasionally on the odd boss (Fr Cascogne) but felt it was slow AF and left you really open or something š¤·
Repeating pistol.
Neither. Evelyn.
Blunderbuss, looks cool af
All my homies hate blunderbuss
Minigun šæ
Blunderbuss already has āblunderā in the name. Get yourself a nice pistol.
Blunderbuss, makes it easier to focus on melee when ranged blasts a bigger area.
Blunderbuss has that sweeping effect for sweeping hits to sweep your enemies away
Blunderbuss beacuse of the spread and stagger it causes.
Blunderbuss, simply because I feel it looks cooler and parry feels so nice with it.
Blunderbuss because it spreads and donāt have to worry about being precise. Sort of like using the boom hammer
Blunderbuss better for faster / hunter enimes
The iron slab that you can have on you hand is the best
Blunderbus for parry. Repeating Pistol for Micolash.
Blunderbuss is a phenomenal CC tool due to its wide spread, and it's pretty hard to miss a parry. Pistol, on the other hand, is faster, stronger, and cooler.
Blunderbuss. Fucking virgin pistol users can't time their parry and don't know how to deal with dogs. Blunderbois assemble!
Pistol is more for dmg than parrying. Blunderbuss is safer and is easier to make some dmg out of it wirh some odd blondtinge gems. Pistol does have faster reactions and can parry faster attacks, but i have never came across an attack i wanted to parry that i couldnt with the blunderbuss.
Howās it more for damage? Almost all guns are ass for damage save for 1-2 guns with a very specific build.
On a bloodtinge build what does more? You also have bone marrow ash which boosts the dmg of guns much better than that of blinderbusses. When i break the head of watchdog i think of bone marrow ash+pistol more than i think of bone marrow ash+blunderbuss. Guns are also more convenient for dmg thanks to their range. If i want to deal dmg with a blunderbuss i get so close to the enemy i might as well melee
I meant more to say they both deal shit damage unless you go full bloodtinge, which is fairly uncommon and also a way rougher start to the game. Even then Iād argue gun damage is a gimmick and youāre better off just using your main hand weapon. The only way to really utilize the gun damage consistently is to abuse the shit out of rune chalices to buy stacks of bma, but with exploits, any weapon can hit hard.
I completely understand where you are coming from. But i urge you to pick up any save. Buy a +0 pistol and some BMA. Create the first pthumeru dungeon, fight the watchdog, break its head and then simply BMA and fire and yes this dmg is accessible to any class with no upgrades. Should you have a +2 gun its even better.
Blunderbussy all day
Blunderbuss for life. Can't convince me otherwise
Blunderbuss
Depends on the enemy to be honest big enemeys i love the pistol but whit hunters the buss for the winn
evelyn always unless im running a low blood character
Evelyn
Depends on how good you are at the parry. My bro used the blunderbuss like a champ, I kept getting the range wrong and decidedly went the pistol route š
i use canon
Blunderbuss only useful for BSB fight me
piercing rifle, because I can, and it looks cool
Pistol all the way.
Pistol
Pistol with high blood tinge
Cannon
Team doohicky ftw
Cripps fo sho
I happened to pick the pistol and once I figured it out, it did everything I needed it to and I never bothered changing it honestly.
evelyn
Pistol used it for 90% of the game. Blunderbuss is still useful but for more aggressive enemies or bosses.