Can also go two-handed for sniping/luring enemies in. Not much stat-investment required for a relatively strong ranged option that can be used one-handed for quick shots on openings or to finish off a weakened enemy. Universally useful tools on pretty much any character. Even the guys who start out using the exploding bolts at the beginning of your fight don't refrain from just freeaiming literally the ENTIRE fight. Honestly, it's the same with exploding bolt users, you get some guy to low hp and he whips out his exploding bolts and does like 200+ damage each hit with very easy to land hits. People don't quickstep as a strategy, they quickstep when they're low on hp and you pissed them off. Quickstep daggers are easier to handle, but still a cheese method, just a more manageable cheese method. There is a reason it's so ez to land hits with this, the aoe is retarded. No, rushing isn't a viable counter, not willing to argue that, it's idiotic to even bring up. Not to mention if you're cosplaying/don't use a shield. The only reliable counter to this is a good shield, but it's not like you're going to be turtling the entire time and the bolts will do chip damage. All the other cheese methods are 'put in the game' too. The freeaim exploding bolts are cheesy as hell, using 'they're just a tactic put in the game' isn't a valid argument. Transposed with Soul of Slave Knight Gael Looted from a corpse at the top of a gatehouse just before the dragons in Lothric Castleĭropped by the crossbow-wielding knight in Cathedral of the Deep Sold by Greirat of the Undead Settlement.

Range / Durability / Weight - Attack Type - Skillĭropped by the Undeads with Crossbows at the High Wall of Lothric.

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