Originally Posted by ImmortalPig

Can overleveled even be a thing in a non-linear game where you always have a choice between buying items / upgrades or leveling up?

My weapon at the moment is +4 dragon greatsword, and it seems Orn will dodge it almost every time. I can't get timing for parry right on his attacks (maybe they are unparryable) and since he has such a long range and quick frontswing animation he has such a high chance to dodge.

I think I'll try a faster weapon.

50% of the time the people are easy kills in that forest, the other 50% I invade and there's 3 guys there waiting to gank (farming whatever drops invaders give). Pvp is laggy as fuck I don't think it's really viable. Just walking backwards blocking then they teleport behind you and crit, nice. Or you they are about to die then "disconnected from server", dat combat logging.

I don't usually use any armor in boss fights, I'm not sure how endurance works (because nothing ever tells you) but less things seems to make you faster, I usually just take a sword. So far none of the bosses have been blockable really, even with 40 endurance, a +5 tower shield and big heavy armour it doesn't seem like blocking is a good idea at all.

When I fought the big dog in the forest I'm pretty sure it's literally impossible to get through the door and in to the room without getting hit by the first attack unless you have no armour. So yeah, armour seems only good for when you are lazy and just want to farm weak crap easily.

Our level difference is too much for us to fight