Or that I'm just terrible with them, which I find hard to believe considering I've been using them almost exclusively ever since Demon's Souls. Being beaten by someone better than you is to be expected, but I fared much better, even against gold-ranked players, when I switched to katanas and straight swords, which tells me that the heavy weapons are simply out-classed by virtually every other weapon type.
It felt like, generally, I only won against people who got too greedy and made careless mistakes, or against clueless fools who thought they could trade hits with me against anyone remotely skilled, I stood no chance. My attacks were always so slow that people could easily dodge them or interrupt me, and while I could occasionally catch people by feinting an attack or delaying a followup attack, it only ever worked once because they didn't fall for those tricks a second time. This was readily apparent in the PVP arena, where I noticed an immediate uptick in the number of people using medium weapons, and where I felt constantly disadvantaged trying to get by with my trusty zweihander.
