oh dang, I’m actually pretty far past that, I’m in one of the endgame areas now. I’ve been running a pure strength Heavy scaling claymore. Hoarfrost stomp weapon art for some range when necessary. the R2 poke is really nice even if it doesn’t have the best scaling. Also, the mimic tear is pretty amazing and I just started using it and it crushes bosses. I wanted to respec into magic but then i started having to think, and I don’t like thinking that much in souls games. haha steel go thwack

I DID have a ton of trouble in caelid, just not on the magma wyrm. The minor erdtree avatar+catacombs and the duo warrior/crucible knight kicked my ass.