To understand the importance of the 1.04 patch, one must first remember the chaos of the launch version (1.01 on consoles, equivalent to 1.03 on PC).
: Fixed an issue where new character profiles would incorrectly inherit "reset stats" from previous characters. Environmental & NPC Fixes Resolved the "1-second delay" in certain attack animations. Solaire of Astora bug where he would fail to appear in New Game+. Patched the Frampt shard bug dark souls remastered 1.04
In the current meta, certain weapons reign supreme due to their moveset stability in the Remastered engine: To understand the importance of the 1