Talk:Ultra Greatswords/@comment-193.150.228.149-20140114014755/@comment-172.56.9.13-20140314012217

I'm again another person who had their play style changed by a Black knight drop! The first time I was in the burg, I decided to change direction, and go down the path which held the first black knight in the game. I didn't know what I was facing, so I backstabbed him with my scmitar +2. Needless to say, it didn't go that well, and I ended up desperately scampering up the roof were the hollows were with just about 20 health left. I already killed the hollows on the roof, and I had a pretty good amount of souls on me from farming early in the game, about 4000, which felt like a lot to me in the beggining of the game. Since I didn't want to lose these souls, I sat on top of the roof and waited. I expected the Black knight to climb up the ladder to kill me, so I held back. I then realized that he couldn't get up the ladder, so I drank some estus and started thinking of a plan to kill this major thorn in my side. I started throwing firebomb, and when that didn't work, I tried throwing knives. When that didn't work, I decided to use soul arrow, which I had about 21 cast of left. All I had was chain leggings and chain armor, with the wanderer hood and manchette. I managed to decrease him to 20% of his health, I used a plunging attack on him, before wheeling around and backstabbing him. He finnaly fell, and I picked up his Black knight shield. I didn't have enough strengh to wield it, so I decided to buff up my strength and dexterity to to able to use this shield one handed, and I ended up making a build with a near equal amount of strength and dexterity, and I still use the exact same shield, which I have recently upgraded to +5. If I hadn't had got the drop, it would have been a hard begining to my playthrough. I still love that shield, and the black knight shield is still my favorite in the game.