A particularly strong attack will cause you to be knocked off as Torrent disappears, leaving you highly vulnerable to follow up attacks.

Torrent has his own health bar, which can be hard to spot as it doesn’t appear often unless you’re both taking damage.When not in combat, you won’t use up stamina, so you can keep tapping the sprint button to keep up a fast pace. Instead, tapping the sprint button will use a small amount of stamina in exchange for a burst of speed, allowing you to outpace incoming attacks. Torrent doesn’t sprint like you do on foot.This also means you can’t block attacks or dodge roll - you’ll have to double jump instead. You can still cast spells or use bows, but you’ll have to swap to two-handing these instead of wielding a catalyst in the off-hand. When mounted, you’ll put away your left-hand armament, and instead use the left and right bumpers and trigger buttons to use quick or strong attacks on either side.Torrent can help with a lot more than just speeding across the map, and there’s a few things you should know when using your trusty steed: When you meet Melina, she’ll not not only allow you to exchange runes to increase your stats, but will also give you the spectral steed, Torrent. Just the simple act of being able to level up isn’t outright explained to you when you first start your adventure - though you’ll stumble into it eventually by activating three sites of grace in the overworld and resting.

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