5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

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I effing hate those tongue wagging beak-nosed filth piles.

5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

bioctoplasterio 10 Mar 2010 18:26

Does anyone else hate with a passion the shoving-you-backwards move the smaller goblins do? Even with a grand shield that would stop a semi, they still manage to shove me backward two or three steps while doing an impressive amount of damage. It's even worse in 5-1 where they're usually shoving you off a ledge. It's enough to make you want to go buy 500 fire arrows, strap on Lava Bow and just range them all.

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

StefanieTN 10 Mar 2010 19:53

Were they real, I would imagine there'd be some horribly bad breath to accompany that shove. lol

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

Skully 10 Mar 2010 22:53

They're almost as bad as Flying Mantas stabbing you in back while you are trying to fend off 3 Skeletons and your stamina has just ran out.

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Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

StefanieTN 10 Mar 2010 23:16

The Thief's Ring usually keeps the Mantas off my back. But yeah, when that happens, it's a downer.

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

heyzoos70 04 Apr 2010 04:11

Annoying when ur trying to lock on to the gold skeleton on the ledge on 4-1 and then ur lock on changes to the mantas and you fall to your death

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

Muffin_Monster123 14 Mar 2010 01:08

You can actually completely block that rush if you have a good shield, one of my characters has Dark Silver Shield +5 and i manage to block it just fine.

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

DavidScott 22 Mar 2010 16:39

I've never had the displeasure of being shoved off a ledge because of it, but I definitely agree. I think their moves in general are just impossible to read. They look like they're doing an interpretive dance with their little pointy sticks, then all of a sudden, it damages you somehow.

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

soulcrusher65 24 Mar 2010 22:30

before I got my purple flame shield +10 I absolutely hated this move because it destroys your guard and gives them time to do some massive damage attacks and if your fighting a group of them when one does it then they all attack you at once its complete garbage.

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

bioctoplasterio 26 Mar 2010 17:53

That's the situation that I hate the most. One on one, I can handle it. But when you get one of them shoving you back like a drunken meat-head and the other two or three start hacking at you in their weird flailing style.. I hate it. I'm not a controller thrower but I have stopped playing for the night more than once because I got shoved back off a sheer drop or killed by the shover's companions.

I agree with DavidScott, their moves are impossible to read..not so much with the flaming spear weilders.. but those dudes with the little blades.. hate hate hate them. For that reason alone, I love using Firestorm in world 5.. for those goblins and the swarms of rats that will tear your profane-word-for-poop up.

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

Lichschool 01 May 2010 12:17

Stick, move, counter. Provoke an attack, move away, jump in and whack em while their animation is finishing.

I use a bow on the rats. Hate those little bastards.

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

Benjamin_Draco 02 May 2010 03:45

Those goblins seem easy to read for me(still their stagger move is bloody annoying in 5-1 when caught in it).

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Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

LegitClaymore 02 May 2010 04:32

just wait until you get to NG+++++++ the stagger move took out one of my lives

Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

Benjamin_Draco 02 May 2010 08:54

Yh but not to offend but by then they should be easy to either avoid or predict their moves to kill them.

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Re: 5-x Goblins have the most annoying stagger move ever

gren_demonssouls 03 May 2010 19:44

To remove your annoyance, try to anticipate their path towards you and then stay a good distance away before counter attacking them. Or better yet, use a simple shield like the Dark Silver Shield and hold it up and after they attack, use heavy attack and they're dead one slash (at least for my North Regalia). And yes, they're annoying especially in new game plus.