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kazil posted:The Gutter is a great zone. It's more like Tomb of the Giants than Blighttown. Black Gulch is too short to get angry about. Especially if you know about / find The hidden second bonfire
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I saw a guy in full Jester armor powerstancing greatswords called "Gameshardlol" when sunbroing. 
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ebony granny posted:I've been spending most of my time invading the bell towers and putting down my red sign at the Iron Keep bridge, and I've been winning the vast majority of my PvP; what's the deal? Most people don't even seem to understand the idea behind guard break A lot of people basically can't guard break, so they don't use it in PvE, and forget that it even exists. The window is so small for guard break that the timing ends up being really awkward on a lot of controllers. I have two 360 controllers (same model) and can easily do guard break on one but not on the other. Like there is some very slight input delay on the stick of one of them so that creates a very awkward timing where you have to push the stick just very slightly before you press the button. Didn't have this problem with the kick in DkS 1.
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Apr 30, 2014 22:37
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Can someone come help me with the looking glass knight in NG+? I hate this boss so much. I have no idea what to do against him  He also keeps summoning assholes through his shield.Nevermind, I finally got him. Now it's my turn to invade... Just kidding, I'll probably hang around and sunbro pogothemonkey0 fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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Apr 30, 2014 22:39
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I like helping people. One waved as my duty was fulfilled. PvP must feel so empty, someone invaded me then ran away........ If you are going to invade at least be prepared.
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Apr 30, 2014 22:42
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Zaphod42 posted:Black Gulch is too short to get angry about. Also the statues stay dead as long as you dont zone out.
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The Gutter is kind of a paradox for me because it was very close to being good. I love how it messes with your head. You enter the area and its dark. The only sounds you hear is that of a steady heartbeat and ichor oozing down the walls. Its too dark to see anything clearly and you can't tell what exactly you're looking at. Then suddenly poison comes out of nowhere. You panic and wonder what the gently caress is going on, but its still too dark to see. And no matter where you go, that disgusting heartbeat follows you. Its incredibly unnerving. But then as you explore the area you realize the terror was all in your head. Almost all of the enemies are weak and pathetic, easily falling before you. When you cast away the dark your left staring at the pathetic ramshackle houses that once belonged to the feeble inhabitants you just killed. the ominous heartbeat isn't some massive monster you were walking in too. No, it was coming from the completely nondescript statues you probably overlooked. Those statues are so innocuous, yet are the biggest threat in the Gutter. Once you realize whats going on, they are easy to dispose of. The Gutters is cobbled together out of trash and muk, the unwanted refuse tossed aside by the kingdom's inhabitants for ages. And as it is nothing but trash, it can't pose any real threat to you. The dangers of the Gutter were entirely in your head. That's all really cool and clever, but it has one fatal game design problem; those statues are annoying as gently caress. If they stayed destroyed it would be fine, but if you leave you have to chop through them all again.
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pogothemonkey0 posted:Can someone come help me with the looking glass knight in NG+? I hate this boss so much. I have no idea what to do against him You dual wield maces with the poise damage ring and you SMASH HIS FACE
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Domattee posted:A lot of people basically can't guard break, so they don't use it in PvE, and forget that it even exists. The window is so small for guard break that the timing ends up being really awkward on a lot of controllers. I have two 360 controllers (same model) and can easily do guard break on one but not on the other. Like there is some very slight input delay on the stick of one of them so that creates a very awkward timing where you have to push the stick just very slightly before you press the button. Didn't have this problem with the kick in DkS 1. It's not that they don't guard break (even though they don't), it's that they get their guard broken (and the followup crit attack) then continue to just stand around with their shield up and do nothing to dodge the guard breaks
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Internet Kraken posted:The Gutter is kind of a paradox for me because it was very close to being good. I love how it messes with your head. You enter the area and its dark. The only sounds you hear is that of a steady heartbeat and ichor oozing down the walls. Its too dark to see anything clearly and you can't tell what exactly you're looking at. Then suddenly poison comes out of nowhere. You panic and wonder what the gently caress is going on, but its still too dark to see. And no matter where you go, that disgusting heartbeat follows you. Its incredibly unnerving. You're way too invested in this game, holy poo poo. 
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HellCopter posted:Of course you can powerstance ultra-greatswords. This is Dark Souls. I regret all of my build choices now that haven't lead me to this path.
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Vintersorg posted:You're way too invested in this game, holy poo poo.  What? Now you're getting mad at me for praising the level design? Lighten up, its just a game.
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Giant Isopod posted:I regret all of my build choices now that haven't lead me to this path. Fair warning though, it's really slow and really bad for PvP. But on the other hand, dual wielding Greatswords. On the other other hand, 1100 damage in one hit.
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So, there's a sword that acts as a catalyst for sorcery and it can be powerstanced with itself AND it can be CMWed (which adds damage to spells). You really can have it all in this game. 
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cat doter posted:Fair warning though, it's really slow and really bad for PvP. But on the other hand, dual wielding Greatswords. On the other other hand, 1100 damage in one hit. Ridiculous gimmick builds are like 95% of the fun of pvp though.
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Giant Isopod posted:Ridiculous gimmick builds are like 95% of the fun of pvp though. I've got a slvl 200 odd Greatsword dual wielder on the xbox 360 version, and I'm out of the level range of most PvP, but when I was in the right range, even the most basic PvP focused builds blew me up, it's just a super difficult build to kill people with really.
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Whats the point of dual weilding if you just attack as slow and cant block?
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WYA posted:Whats the point of dual weilding if you just attack as slow and cant block? Power Stance does a loving shitload of burst damage.
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WYA posted:Whats the point of dual weilding if you just attack as slow and cant block? If you alternate right and left attacks its actually faster. If you power stance you get more damage for the same amout of time spent attacking (at the cost of stamina). You can't block, but you can still parry with certain weapons in the offhand.
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BARONS GAMES WHINER posted:Power Stance does a loving shitload of burst damage. Not when you're dead.
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Holy Cheese posted:Not when you're dead. Try rolling ahead, then skeleton
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BARONS GAMES WHINER posted:Power Stance does a loving shitload of burst damage. Yeah if you can get enough of an opening on a boss to do 2 L1 attacks then an L2, that can be like 2200 damage or more depending on stats and buffs.
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I have a Bastard Sword and a Spear; it's pretty fun to poke people when all they're focused on is my main-hand weapon. Whenever things get tough though I typically switch over to my shield because it's 10x better to have than the Spear.
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Black Gulch is doing a wonderful job of showing me how little From has improved the level geometry's hitboxes. e: Is the witchtree staff and chime worth using over my magic archdrake staff and archdrake chime? I'm using the chime for lightning spear and resonant soul. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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Apr 30, 2014 23:03
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Oh also the poise damage with power stance maces is loving crazy, you can literally stunlock bosses.
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Cardiovorax posted:After loving around with respeccing for a while, there's a few general pointers that I would give to anyone playing the game. What weapon are you using and how does it scale with your stat? Is it A for dex/Str?
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I've doing some jolly co-op and a few times when the summoner entered the boss arena, I got a message saying that the master of the world has left the area and I'm kicked out. Anyone know what's up with that?
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Apr 30, 2014 23:09
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Farming for item drops is tedious when you can't run around with 15 liquid humanity on top of gear that increases drop rate. I have a feeling I won't be able to get the chest piece off of those great bow dudes in Iron Keep before having to enter the boss door.
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Apr 30, 2014 23:16
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Shrine of Amana is like if the archer bridge was an entire level long.
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Raygereio posted:I've doing some jolly co-op and a few times when the summoner entered the boss arena, I got a message saying that the master of the world has left the area and I'm kicked out. He beat the boss for that section.
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Beat Darklurker Finally. Got his boss spell. Owns bones. Hurts friendly phantoms 
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That's amazing.
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ulvir posted:Farming for item drops is tedious when you can't run around with 15 liquid humanity on top of gear that increases drop rate. I have a feeling I won't be able to get the chest piece off of those great bow dudes in Iron Keep before having to enter the boss door. Ye olde favorite, the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring, can be had in the Iron Keep.
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Baron O Beefdip posted:Shrine of Amana is like if the archer bridge was an entire level long. And if the archers also had homing arrows. Doesn't beat how hilarious it is going into the fogged Shaded Woods area blind, not knowing what horrors await you there. Goddamn it's hilarious being summoned there, and watching people get oneshot backstabbed every single time.
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Lemon Curdistan posted:It's basically not explained anywhere as far as I can tell, so: ebony granny posted:I've been spending most of my time invading the bell towers and putting down my red sign at the Iron Keep bridge, and I've been winning the vast majority of my PvP; what's the deal? Most people don't even seem to understand the idea behind guard break
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I spiced down great resonant soul and holy poo poo. Fires fast, does twice as much as great heavy soul arrow, costs 1k souls but I'm late enough that really doesn't matter. Time to make my chime dark.  Soul vortex is also fun but seems kind of limited.
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RBA Starblade posted:I spiced down great resonant soul and holy poo poo. Fires fast, does twice as much as great heavy soul arrow, costs 1k souls but I'm late enough that really doesn't matter. Time to make my chime dark. Once you get to Drangleic Castle get Caitha's Chime and make it +10 Dark.
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neetengie posted:He beat the boss for that section.  The 3 times this happened was when the summoner when through the Last Giant's foggate. If that foggate is up, then he hasn't beaten that yet right? And as far as I know the only other boss in that area is the Persuer and you need the key the Last Giant drops to access that guy.
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I beat the game today.  The final boss was hilariously easy, even fighting the throne defender/watcher and Nashandra back to back wasn't enough to stop it from being a joke. Now the only thing left to do is kill Vendrick and I can call this playthrough complete. Is it just me of is the Giant Lord boss awful?
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