Great Martyr's Blade does dramatically more damage, but its i-frames were removed...

The weapon straight up one shots most small-medium enemies now, but it feels dramatically harder to use against big enemies and bosses because the protection you had during certain heavy attacks has been removed so it's extremely difficult to find openings to swing, where as before, anytime you were able to make room to sprint-heavy-attack you had protection during the swing and could potentially create a stagger or freeze to create further openings. Without that, the weapon feels worse IMO, I think I preferred it when it did less damage but had i frames. Now the weapon looks sick when you hit the combo but any time you don't you get face rolled and basically no way to recover.

Here's some highlights post patch [versus aggressive enemy group](https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/13659676634819012768/DC48C2EB596F2C97B91F092CD07422C0D88D18BE/) [Versus Mini Boss](https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/14835844601979380812/80E667C5C6673A0A0EAC76B665FFF01CDA107747/) [Against a large enemy group](https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/12175927183477705565/ABF40915215C442DC69FA0AF5F1C77ABB957411B/) [Major Boss](https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/13470334797014945451/96C1E80A7476CA18371C4AF8B7B71BBD7715B43B/)