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It's the middle Skeleton Lord that spawns the bonewheels.
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Er, doesn't burning effigies work? I've only been invaded by NPCs, but I'm still in the early game.
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May 3, 2014 20:19
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Elysiume posted:I've been invaded either 2 or 3 times in something like 40 hours. While a portion of that is me idling in already cleared zones to assist on bosses, that still leaves with me with at most 1 invasion every 10 hours. It's pretty pathetic. From what I hear, the invasions really ramp up in frequency in NG+, especially if you have enough sin to get the attention of the Bluebros. The Wizard of Oz posted:Er, doesn't burning effigies work? I've only been invaded by NPCs, but I'm still in the early game. It only works in the area that particular bonfire is connected to. So if you were trying to opt out of PvP altogether, you'd have to burn an effigy at every single bonfire you encounter.
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May 3, 2014 20:22
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Lori posted:I killed all three at give-or-take the same exact time and the entire skeleton horde spawned and it was still a pretty easy fight I didn't like the idea of fireballs for my melee character so I just smashed everything. The Wizard of Oz posted:Er, doesn't burning effigies work? I've only been invaded by NPCs, but I'm still in the early game. Yeah, this should work. Burn human effigies at a bonfire.
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May 3, 2014 20:22
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The mage spawns the bonewheels.
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May 3, 2014 20:22
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Are people actually playing right now? I'm trying to figure out if the server outage is region specific.
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May 3, 2014 20:24
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buzzsaw.gif posted:I have no idea. I didn't get invaded until NG+ on PS3, and I haven't been invaded at all on PC. I went to the Namco forums to see if there was anything on there about the servers being down, but I just saw thread after thread of people bellyaching about the CONSTANT INVASIONS INTO THEIR GAME. You mean like burning an effigy at a bonfire?  The official forums must be absolutely insufferable.
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May 3, 2014 20:24
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Once again, the burning an effigy thing only works in the area of that individual bonfire, it does not cut off online interaction in the entire game world.
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May 3, 2014 20:26
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Red Crown posted:Are people actually playing right now? I'm trying to figure out if the server outage is region specific. Still can't login to the PC servers in US West.
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May 3, 2014 20:26
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Red Crown posted:Are people actually playing right now? I'm trying to figure out if the server outage is region specific. I mean, offline mode is fine while i get my second characters (glass cannon caster) up a few levels, but i was hoping for some SM 2.6m coop later. We'll see how that goes.
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May 3, 2014 20:28
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Red Crown posted:Are people actually playing right now? I'm trying to figure out if the server outage is region specific.
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May 3, 2014 20:28
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Internet Kraken posted:Having sunbrod that fight many times, I'll say this; Skeleton Lords go from trivial to impossible if you make the fatal mistake of killing the 3 lords first. That's probably your first intuition, since they are big and spooky, but they honestly aren't that dangerous. Killing each one spawns a bunch of skeletons though, and a dozen skeletons is a lot more dangerous than one big skeleton. If you run into that fight and murder the 3 lords right away, you're gonna get swarmed by all their minions and annihilated. I did it that way and won. But that was also on the way to the last lord soul I needed, and the powerstanced falchion strong attack is a sweep that can hit a bunch of skellingtons at once. Git gud, etc.
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May 3, 2014 20:31
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How much better is than the regular one is great lightning spear? I'm trying to make up my mind if I want to respec out of something (probably end and adp, maybe atn) so I can use it. It's a dozen points out of my way, though.
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May 3, 2014 20:32
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dis astranagant posted:How much better is than the regular one is great lightning spear? I'm trying to make up my mind if I want to respec out of something (probably end and adp, maybe atn) so I can use it. It's a dozen points out of my way, though. I never got my fth high enough to try it, but if you want you can go to the merchant in Iron Keep and have him lower the stat requirement for the miracle. Edit: Oh and skeptic's spice will help too. Kimmalah fucked around with this message at 20:38 on May 3, 2014 |
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May 3, 2014 20:34
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Raygereio posted:It's not region specific. The problem with logging in seems to be steam's community service making GBS threads itself.  I just logged in
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May 3, 2014 20:34
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So is this harder than DkS1? It feels like it is, I played the poo poo out of 1 and it seems like there are a lot more damage sponge enemies that you have to slog through everywhere. I also feel like I can't defeat the bosses solo. I guess it could be my build but *shrug*.
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May 3, 2014 20:34
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Gonna try to stream some of my Champion's dex/int run. http://www.twitch.tv/horriblejerk I'm bad at Dark Souls.
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May 3, 2014 20:36
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Elysiume posted:I've been invaded either 2 or 3 times in something like 40 hours. While a portion of that is me idling in already cleared zones to assist on bosses, that still leaves with me with at most 1 invasion every 10 hours. It's pretty pathetic. I don't think it matters if it's cleared. Someone wearing Havels invaded me in the Lost Basille way after I'd cleared it. It took me by surprise cause I was idling at McDuffs waiting for belltower summons. That was the only time I've been invaded in 60 hours across two characters, and I'm always in human form.
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May 3, 2014 20:36
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May 3, 2014 20:37
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Crackbone posted:So is this harder than DkS1? It feels like it is, I played the poo poo out of 1 and it seems like there are a lot more damage sponge enemies that you have to slog through everywhere. I also feel like I can't defeat the bosses solo. I guess it could be my build but *shrug*. What kind of build? I know when playing a caster some bosses were harder to solo without somebody else to distract them a bit.
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May 3, 2014 20:39
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Crackbone posted:So is this harder than DkS1? It feels like it is, I played the poo poo out of 1 and it seems like there are a lot more damage sponge enemies that you have to slog through everywhere. I also feel like I can't defeat the bosses solo. I guess it could be my build but *shrug*. It can be. I find it to have a lot of peaks and lows, overall being a bit more difficult. Nothing that stumped me as badly as O&S though, since multiplayer works now. Work on your character. Upgrading my weapon always helps a bunch. How difficult the game is and in particular where the game is difficult depends on your build.
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May 3, 2014 20:39
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Since I'm heading to NG+ I should probably kill the NPCs for their clothes as per usual but I always feel so bad about it. 
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May 3, 2014 20:42
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Crackbone posted:So is this harder than DkS1? It feels like it is, I played the poo poo out of 1 and it seems like there are a lot more damage sponge enemies that you have to slog through everywhere. I also feel like I can't defeat the bosses solo. I guess it could be my build but *shrug*. Wellllllllll I think it's been easier so far (I just finished not-Blight Town though, so early game), but I don't want to make that sound like I'm calling you a scrub or anything. What I've been doing with the bosses is using the white soapstones to help people quite a few times to get an idea of the boss's patterns, and if you win you get a free refill on your Estus flask and your weapons are repaired and you get a smooth/silky stone or the other thing depending upon the soapstone you use. It's not quite the same experience as solo since the boss will just be concentrating on you, so don't pick up any bad habits; always look at what the boss is concentrating on and how you can deal with that. I got so many souls I don't know what to do with them, since I don't want to level. I had 100k souls by the first boss.
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May 3, 2014 20:43
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Internet Kraken posted:Having sunbrod that fight many times, I'll say this; Skeleton Lords go from trivial to impossible if you make the fatal mistake of killing the 3 lords first. That's probably your first intuition, since they are big and spooky, but they honestly aren't that dangerous. Killing each one spawns a bunch of skeletons though, and a dozen skeletons is a lot more dangerous than one big skeleton. If you run into that fight and murder the 3 lords right away, you're gonna get swarmed by all their minions and annihilated. Murdering 3 lords at once is perfectly cool if you're not in bizarro land where people ain't running around with 2-handers cleaving everything  .Crackbone posted:So is this harder than DkS1? It feels like it is, I played the poo poo out of 1 and it seems like there are a lot more damage sponge enemies that you have to slog through everywhere. I also feel like I can't defeat the bosses solo. I guess it could be my build but *shrug*. I feel its abit harder for various reasons, like upgrade stones being really limited early on. Where in DS1 you could get alot of the basic ones rather early. Going with a 1-hander/shield doesn't feel as good as in DS1. It maybe theres either a big dude which gets staggered easier with a 2-hander or mobs coming in packs where a 2-hander can cleave and stagger a bunch easily. And yeah hybrid builds can be a bitch, going all magic swordsman with the CoC covenant was not the best of ideas  .
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May 3, 2014 20:43
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Kanfy posted:Since I'm heading to NG+ I should probably kill the NPCs for their clothes as per usual but I always feel so bad about it. You should, a lot of them will just give you their clothes if you talk to them.
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May 3, 2014 20:45
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Drakes posted:Murdering 3 lords at once is perfectly cool if you're not in bizarro land where people ain't running around with 2-handers cleaving everything I only learned through this thread that killing the lords spawned the skeles, as I just flailed a bastard sword through everything. 
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May 3, 2014 20:51
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Even with 999 fire res and a ton of life gems I still can't survive the run to the chaos storm chest 
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May 3, 2014 20:51
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Kimmalah posted:You should, a lot of them will just give you their clothes if you talk to them. Yeah, I suppose I'll just off the ones I need to. Which I guess is only the blood and sentinel covenant guys and the hex trainer. Well that's okay, don't much care about those guys anyway. Although being invaded more as a sinner could be more interesting too.
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May 3, 2014 20:52
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dis astranagant posted:Even with 999 fire res and a ton of life gems I still can't survive the run to the chaos storm chest Are you rolling through all the water urns that are up the ladder there before trying? Also equip the cat ring and jump down from the walkways above, no need to run the whole way.
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May 3, 2014 20:53
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Kanfy posted:Yeah, I suppose I'll just off the ones I need to. Which I guess is only the blood and sentinel covenant guys and the hex trainer. Felkin? He'll give you his clothes too if your stats are right. Don't know why you'd want them unless you're a caster, the whole set is drat ugly.
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May 3, 2014 20:54
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I really am confused about pyromancy and fire imbuement scaling. If I have 30 faith and 3 intelligence, how would pyro spells and fire imbuements help me? I keep getting conflicting reports of how this game handles fire damage and spells.
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May 3, 2014 20:54
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The server's coming back up has made things way better for multiplayer. Not much lag at all! And I just fought a dragon invader. We killed each other at the exact same time. VERY GOOD e: I appear to no longer be able to use my red soap stone while a hollow. Reverting to human fixes it.
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Kanfy posted:Are you rolling through all the water urns that are up the ladder there before trying? Only rolled through a couple. Cast flash sweat, magic barrier and an orange burr and my health still drops like a rock. And yes I jump off the side there. Wildtortilla posted:I really am confused about pyromancy and fire imbuement scaling. If I have 30 faith and 3 intelligence, how would pyro spells and fire imbuements help me? I keep getting conflicting reports of how this game handles fire damage and spells. Fire scales off the average of your int and faith, so yours would scale like you have 16 in an unlisted fire stat. The good news is that the pyromancy flame has such a huge base power that between it and the minimum fire bonus you don't really get a huge bonus to pyro spells from raising your stats, only about 50% more at 99 int/faith vs the bare minimum. dis astranagant fucked around with this message at 20:58 on May 3, 2014 |
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May 3, 2014 20:55
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dis astranagant posted:Even with 999 fire res and a ton of life gems I still can't survive the run to the chaos storm chest e;fb, I guess you did. No idea what the problem is then.
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May 3, 2014 20:55
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Just found a dragon sage hood that makes my head look like a large glass eyeball. Goodbye dong helm.
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May 3, 2014 20:57
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dis astranagant posted:Only rolled through a couple. Cast flash sweat, magic barrier and an orange burr and my health still drops like a rock. And yes I jump off the side there. Some of these buffs break each other. I did it without the burr or barrier.
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Wildtortilla posted:I really am confused about pyromancy and fire imbuement scaling. If I have 30 faith and 3 intelligence, how would pyro spells and fire imbuements help me? I keep getting conflicting reports of how this game handles fire damage and spells. Miracles scale with faith Hexes scale with the minimum of intelligence and faith Pyromancies scale with the average of intelligence and faith
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May 3, 2014 20:57
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Kimmalah posted:Felkin? He'll give you his clothes too if your stats are right. Don't know why you'd want them unless you're a caster, the whole set is drat ugly. Now why would I play a medieval dress-up simulator if I didn't try and get as many outfits as possible? Also I wouldn't know his name, I've always been too dumb for him to even talk to me.  E: dis astranagant posted:Only rolled through a couple. Cast flash sweat, magic barrier and an orange burr and my health still drops like a rock. And yes I jump off the side there. Just roll through urns and cast Flash Sweat and that should be enough, as mentioned some stuff overwrites earlier stuff. I know I managed it without barriers or burrs as well. Kanfy fucked around with this message at 21:00 on May 3, 2014 |
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Wildtortilla posted:I really am confused about pyromancy and fire imbuement scaling. If I have 30 faith and 3 intelligence, how would pyro spells and fire imbuements help me? I keep getting conflicting reports of how this game handles fire damage and spells. Ok you have your magic/fire/light/dark BNS(bonus) stats, your elemental damage pretty much scales off those. And those stats scale off int/fth. So magic scales only with int, fire with int/fth, light with fth, and dark scales with lowest int/fth value.
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Noob Question - Should I be reinforcing my armor with titanite shards as well as my weapons? Currently only have done it to my weapons, while wearing the Drangelic armor I can take 2-3 hits, most bosses its 1-2. Also, anyone know where to get some awesome medium/heavy armor that is better than the Drangelic set?
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