>attacks where you need to think and decide whether you need to roll to the left or to the right
that it? is this all it takes to get everyone endlessly moaning about iframes and hitboxes?

>playing dark souls 2 for the first time without ADP
>absolute kino, coolest fights of the trilogy, have to actually dodge out of the trajectory of the attacks
>every boss holds up dodging through their combos, great parries but mostly trying to not use shields
>unironically most exciting defense of the whole series
>sometimes a little annoying in PVP but still more than doable, won most of the time

>arrive at frigid outskirts
>ice stallion forward charge is literally undodgeable without ADP, you need to pray for it to miss itself
>if you dont have ADP its also practically luck-based whether or not you can land more than a single hit in with melee
>the kings' pet is specifically the one boss that is a little aids to dodge without ADP and now theres two of them which means either you win the DPS race or you die
thank you for listening to my blog post

I never powerstanced before, i wanna be a dual wielding dragon guy in this playthrough. Any suggestions of stuff that is great and flashy for powerstancing? preferably that works on pvp