I've been missing out

[lestatdark]

Slimebeast said:

lestatdark said:

Slimebeast said:

lestatdark said:

Slimebeast said:

I edited my post above.

With a sword guy how do you even reach Storm King?

Easy, there was the Storm Ruler Long Sword on the northern part of the arena where you fought him.

From NGplus forward, though, I used a bow exclusively. A Sticky Compound Long Bow plus 5 is an amazing weapon indeed

Hmm... why is my memory of that Storm Rules Sword so vague? I remember seeing it and maybe picking it up too, but was it maybe that I couldn't use it due to stat restrictions?

Stormruler had no stats restrictions, but it could only be picked up during the boss fight. If you didn't pick it up before killing Storm King, then the sword would disappear for that playthrough.

Ahh, dam, that's it! So would it have been usable further in the game had I picked it up?

The sword itself is pretty weak, and it's special effect only activates against the Storm King and his Manta minions in that fight alone. So even though it's usable, I wouldn't recommend it at all.