You may also be attacking when you're out of range of a backstab. You have to get up so close that the enemy starts to turn around, but you backstab them before they do. Practice by first sneaking up on the balder knights in the undead parish to get a feel for backstabs, then start circling-strafing longsword hollows when they charge you to There are hidden critical modifiers for the rapier and estoc. The nice thing about the rapier and estoc when attempting backstabs is if you fail you're not as open for a backstab yourself. A buffed greatclub +15 (perfectly fine vs. the crappy gankers in the forest) will do more backstab damage but if you miss you're in for a world of hurt yourself. The area outside the first bonfire in the Undead Burg is a good place because of all the hollows right outside. Try parrying during each of their attacks until you can consistently do it. If you get hit, it won't do that much damage. Once you get it down with the short sword guys, move to the spears, then the axes, then the long sword guys. For Dark Souls on the Xbox 360, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "A compromise between backstab haters and lovers". I picked up the remastered edition a week ago and I've been having fun murdering things and dying repeatedly. But I can't get the hang of… Pursuer Information. The Pursuer is a boss in Dark Souls 2. A giant, aggressive knight that relentlessly "pursues" the player. Heavily armored in black, it wields the Pursuer's Ultra Greatsword with a corresponding "heavy hitter" moveset. He can move very quickly for such a large enemy, and can, in particular, close rapidly on the player from a Murakumo does not backstab. It everywhere stabs. Why try to backstab with my Murakumo when I can hit everywhere with it? All murakumo has to do with stabbing is getting rollbackstabbed lmao Why someone with a Murakumo wouldn't wait until the guy fishing for the backstab tried to do something and messed up to swing is beyond me. Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but you backstab with R1 not R2. It’s all about practice. Too early and you do a normal R1, too late and they will begin to turn around (even if you are completely silent). It’s a fine region somewhere between arm‘s length and butt-hugging length. 8UlTfhi.

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