What's so special about the balder side sword?

I fell out of love wth this sword for a while, but have recently rediscovered its greatness since doing more serious PVP.

It does more poise damage than people expect it to from its appearance. Since it's very fast, and uses relatively little stamina, you can just wail on people until their guard breaks and then continue to slash them.

That's a risky strategy which leaves you wide open to parrying from a good player, but I find it effective against 2H washing pole users who attempt a similar strategy to inflict bleed.

In fact, assuming similar poise levels for each player, vs. a katana I think BSS will always win because it will inflict stunlock first using this method. People often don't expect such an aggressive approach from what looks like a light thrusting weapon, and this often takes them by surprise. Try it and you'll see.

Otherwise, the moveset (2H WD R2 is great), scaling, speed and decent AR advantages already cited make this a fantastic dex weapon. It's also available early on (always dropped quickly for me) and is quite effective in PVE as well.

I use it with Great Scythe as a backup, which provides a great, more defensive alternative against certain weapons.
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