LogFAQs > #941484792

saw spear and saw cleaver meet basically all of the requirements mentioned above for high tier weapons, yeah. and on top of that you can get them early on, they're easy to use, and you can make them insanely viable with very little investment. they check basically every single box you could want to check.

for my money I also consider to be the hunter axe a very high tier weapon. although it's not gonna be as good as the two mentioned above, there can really only be one "best." it also fits all of the qualities mentioned above, but it trades a little bit of striking speed for god tier stun, rally, and knockdown. you can more or less facetank the entire game by just holding down the R2 button and smashing enemies while they run into you and stab you. yes, they will damage you. but they also end up getting pancaked in the process, and you recover all of your health when you damage them.

if you like the tanking playstyle in the other souls games, the Hunter Axe is the closest comparable weapon in bloodborne. and it doesn't even require investing in equip load or figuring out the optimal armor set, since the poise is built into the weapons in BB.


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all the rest weren't so unfortunate
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