Guard Counters (before the DLC)
Obviously the Deflecting Hard Tear is a game changer, letting you pull off crazy counter builds without worrying about guard boost or stamina. But what’s your favorite way to build around guard counters early game?
With shields, and if so with small, medium or great shields? Maybe a large 2H weapon with enough guard boost to handle blocking an attack or two? What’s your favorite weapons or weapon classes to counter with?
I’m thinking of a new run focused on guard counters, and notice some interesting possibilities: Hammers have incredible weight:speed:poise damage ratios, Great Spears are as fast as spears, curved swords are slightly faster than straight swords, katanas have higher MVs on theirs (also HTS but they’re very slow).
Anyone get counter hits often using guard counters with pierce damage weapons?