Talk:Uchigatana/@comment-25950924-20150206200909/@comment-25950924-20150208123806

Yeah, I really rely too much on my shield. It's gotten me through whole game, but now I'm at Artorias. I haven't really figured out what to do. At some point I will play around with 25% eq load and rolling. Rolling seems to be more of an advanced strategy. I'm getting close to 40 endurance which will give me more carrying capacity so maybe I'll try. The extra movement speed would also help me with ranged combat.

I did test the Iaito and Uchigatana and they seem similar in terms of R1. I've been using the Silver knight straight sword and it works really well, but I do want to test out different weapons. The Silver kn sword seems to do more damage and speed and stamina are close to the katanas. The only advantages of the katana I can see are bleed damage and vertical slashes to cut off tail (although silver knight sword does have vertical R1 when 2 handed).