Darkmoon Blade buff frustration.

TooLeet wrote:I agree. It's a lot easier to hit someone with a katana etc. than a zwei. Buffs only last so long. I'd rather be able to do insane damage as fast as i can instead of waiting around for the right time to swing my big *** sword with the possibility of missing and getting BS'd or just as easily parried.

Forum Pirate wrote:Again, you can't parry dead angles. Most zweih users arn't good with it and don't know to dead angle, but against a competent player you'll never parry it because they'll deadangle you every time you try.

TooLeet wrote:More hackers though but oh well.

TooLeet wrote:If you would have read the conversation you would have known we were on the topic. And how are you gonna say there's more hackers on Xbox. You can't have unlimited accounts like you can on Ps3 (you can but it's gonna cost you a **** ton of money.)

kozak wrote:So I have been having a lot of fun with my blade of the Darkmoon build, http://mmdks.com/2oh1

However I have to say I am rather frustrated by the darkmoon blade buff. First, finding time to buff is often problematic and has gotten me killed on several occasions. There are those in common pvp areas that will just not let you buff and attack as soon as you spawn. If I am hunting outside of those areas I often have to go searching for the host, meaning I cant buff before I find them and by the time I see them it may be to late to buff depending on how aggressive they are.

Second, it just does not last very long. I am very much a defensive player, I keep my enemies at a distance with the spear and move around a lot frustrating them into making a mistake and striking at the right time. This means that its entirely possible for the first  minute of a fight not to see any strikes landed. So now I am left with an unbuffed spear and I need to menu switch to my elemental spear to keep the fight going, and of course fumbling with equipment is always dangerous.

Finally I have a composite bow in my right hand that i like to often use during fights, the only problem is darkmmon blade on my spear disappears if I switch to the bow. This means I can not use it until the buff wears off.

So in short for all these reasons I have lately been opting to just go in with my elemental spear and spare myself all this trouble. I feel much more confident knowing I can engage in battle at the drop of a hat, pull my bow at any time and not have to worry about menu swaps, not to mention the attunment slot I will be freeing up if i forgo the buff.

But on the other hand i feels like a waste to be a a blade of the darkmoon and not put the most powerful buff in game to use, especially since I have the faith to use it. After all it does have more then 150 dmg on my regular elemental spears.

So I guess I am not sure what to do, do you guys think I should forgo the buff or just learn to use it more effectively?

Sorry that be me I dont like darkmoons (nothing personal more rp than anything) and will attack as soon as they start to buff to even the odds most darkmoons act like forest hunters(Me) but instead of just the forest ,play dirty everywhere. When one invades me and sees my armor (almost non existant) and buffs it angers me in my mind I think in their mind they got an easy kill so I kill them. And since Im light on me feet due to lack of armor after Ive backstabbed them for buffing depending on what they do when the get up is how I treat the rest of the fight. Ive noticed alot of darkmoons lately on xbox with unlimited wrath and dkmoon blade  (not cool) but thats beside the point I just wanted to post is all.