Every light attack stops heavy ones. It was this way before as well. Foes like this that’s constantly repeating the same pattern were combo breakers and now they became heavy attack breakers too. I said it a lot of times the past 30 hours , like a broken record, strength builds need the handy cap of agilty now. You need to be swift and circus acrobat to play 2h strength weapons. If you use rolling thrust you are a freaking terminator. But without agility, 2 handed weapons are risky now.
On the npc of mob side, hammers have become really punishing, they insta rotate to any direction and in some cases, you can be one shoted too.
Don’t get me wrong, i like difficulty, but the grace of the strength pve battle is lost, “style on fights” is gone and replaced from double dodge
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Light armors and agility are better with hammers, check it.