This is why all your backstabs feel fair and most of someone else's feel bullshit. It's just the way games work when you play them online, it's just that Souls mechanics make you notice it more. It's unfortunate but unless you can solve the problem of updating the connection theoretically infinitely then there's no reasonable way to fix it. I back-stabbed someone mid cast, and it still managed to one-shot me. My butt is ON FIRE. WATAUGACJ 11 years ago #5. Demon Great Axe + Darkmoon Blade+3 + Power Within + Hornet Ring = 1hko. For your stats tho a +15 rapier with all the buffs might come close. For Dark Souls on the PlayStation 3, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "What's your opinion on backstabs?" - Page 3. If you prefer light weapons, use something like a 2H Falchion, unlock, turn around mid-swing and spam R1, they'll most likely get caught and be killed. watch that, it's a video showing how to counter backstabs. Once you see it in action and clearly explained it's much easier to practice in-game. Once you get good at this (which also requires For Dark Souls on the PlayStation 3, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "urgghh how do I avoid backstabs?". DS3 backstabs still were possible but not janky and annoying, where there's basically no chance of me getting backstab wakeup chained in DS3. I think backstab wakeup chains are stupid. I just saw a video of the Demon's souls remake pvp and the guy was backstabbing people instantly and they rolled away during the animation and still got backstabbed. Updated: 05 Apr 2023 22:34. New Player Help is a page dedicated to guiding new players on their first steps in Dark Souls. While it does not attempt to replicate or summarize the playthrough guides or other information found elsewhere in this wiki, its intention is to give new players the basic tools to have success at playing Dark Souls. Backstabs are the easiest thing to do in the game due to reverse rolls. They've been around since dark souls 1 and they're extremely broken. Reply As for daggers, the Umbral Dagger and the Shadow Dagger are both great for backstabs, yet the Shadow Dagger was way too troublesome to farm for me, so i went with the Umbral. The one that boosts spells is the BLue Dagger from the same source, the Fume Sorcerers (aka worst enemy right after DS1 bonewheels) iK4YMZn.

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