FromSoftware's wildly successful open world fantasy RPG has been out for nearly a year, giving its player-base lots of time to discover interesting exploits and combinations of character abilities that let them excel during PvE and PvP combat. Time since release has also given FromSoftware the chance to adjust and fine-tune the combat mechanics of with numerous patches, which have buffed and de-buffed certain weapons and spells, eliminated bugs, and even adjusted unintentional gameplay features such as spell combos. players waiting for the next DLC should try mastering these powerful combat strategies before patches included in said DLC change the game's meta once more.
When, which introduced combos to fighting games, was under development, developers working on the game's special moves accidentally created an exploit where players could chain certain attack inputs to trap their opponent in a string of consecutive blows; designers chose to keep this happy accident in their game, and the rest was history. Similar happy accidents occurred in, a game larger and more complex than any action fantasy RPG FromSoftware had worked on to date. As canny gamers experimented with the intricate combat system of they discovered unintentional but surprisingly potent exploits like the ones listed below.
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The «Perfect Block,» one of the newest high-level combos being tried out in ,is an unintentional exploit born from the intersection of game mechanics for blocking and game mechanics for sprinting. Normally, a Tarnished player character who's hit by an enemy's attack freezes up for a moment, even if they block the attack and suffer no damage. Wearing armor sets with
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