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The only good reason I can think of for soul memory is to prevent low-level invasions (regardless of how people feel about low-level invasions). I'm of the opinion that once you get to 500,000 SM (or some other arbitrary low-midrange number), SM restrictions should be massively loosened or entirely removed. It is a bad mechanic.
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This is just the best thing ever: Everyone with voice chat who summons me loves it, "A punching clown? Are you kidding me!"
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May 4, 2014 02:40
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Manatee Cannon posted:Snipe him with lightning, he didn't even get close to me when I did that abyss. The Black Gulch one is the real bastard. Keep in mind that if you die to the Darklurker you have to do whichever abyss you enter all over again, so go to the Shaded Woods if you don't want to tear your hair out. The Black Gulch one was super easy for me. I guess maybe I shouldn't be trying to sandbag my GLS shots for the boss.
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May 4, 2014 02:40
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I understand the "point" behind Soul Memory(To prevent Twinks, like what made Undead Bourgh a nightmare for beginners in DS1), but it's honestly completely pointless, since Cracked Red Eye orbs aren't available from vendor before NG+. And NG+ players are in a different matchmaking pool than those in NG as far as I know.
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May 4, 2014 02:41
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Elysiume posted:The only good reason I can think of for soul memory is to prevent low-level invasions (regardless of how people feel about low-level invasions). I'm of the opinion that once you get to 500,000 SM (or some other arbitrary low-midrange number), SM restrictions should be massively loosened or entirely removed. It is a bad mechanic. Same thoughts here. I just want to help other Sunbros out 
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May 4, 2014 02:43
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Cicadalek posted:Hexers hood is so good though. I mean I can take or leave 1 faith/ 1 INT but its also the difference between 2 soul geysers or 3 The first time I used soul geyser it brought back memories of begging my alcoholic mother to buy me one of the fountain fireworks for the fourth of July, and then disappoiningtly finding out it only releases a few lovely sparks and lasts all of 5 seconds
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May 4, 2014 02:43
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Bobnumerotres posted:I'm at a soul level of 4 million and getting no summons whatsoever. Soul memory system is dumb as gently caress. "Want to be a completionist? Sure! You'll be exiled from pvp" One of my guys is around 6 mil and I can get constant invasions using stones, and get constantly invaded by blues. Heide's seems to be the go to spot for high sm pvp.
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May 4, 2014 02:45
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Sultan Tarquin posted:It's barely even noticeable. Take off that lion mage poo poo and hexers hood Brother you have set me freeeeeee Fashion souls!
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May 4, 2014 02:47
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Robot Randy posted:The first time I used soul geyser it brought back memories of begging my alcoholic mother to buy me one of the fountain fireworks for the fourth of July, and then disappoiningtly finding out it only releases a few lovely sparks and lasts all of 5 seconds Are you thinking of Soul Vortex? Soul Geyser absolutely wrecks a fair amount of bosses. Sex Robot posted:So I finally burned the gently caress out after the final great soul was just chilling on the floor behind a generic spider boss I thought the game got really good at the area you'll go to after having obtained all four of the Great Souls, but I enjoyed the first half as well. If you aren't enjoying it by now I don't think it's going to particularly win your heart over. Umberger fucked around with this message at 02:49 on May 4, 2014 |
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May 4, 2014 02:47
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dis astranagant posted:The Black Gulch one was super easy for me. I guess maybe I shouldn't be trying to sandbag my GLS shots for the boss. The boss is so incredibly weak to lightning that you won't need much. If you have two attuned you should have enough without even requiring an item to restore uses.
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May 4, 2014 02:48
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Umberger posted:Are you thinking of Soul Vortex? Soul Geyser absolutely wrecks a fair amount of bosses. Nah, soul geyser is the one that shoots up and rains down poo poo for a bit, right? All that happened when I used it was a few sparkles came out and hit a hollow for like 91 damage, so I unequipped it and never looked back
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May 4, 2014 02:50
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Robot Randy posted:Nah, soul geyser is the one that shoots up and rains down poo poo for a bit, right? All that happened when I used it was a few sparkles came out and hit a hollow for like 91 damage, so I unequipped it and never looked back Nah, that's Soul Shower (Which is indeed worthless). Soul Geyser is basically three Soul Spears, and is probably the highest damaging PvE spell for Sorcerers.
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May 4, 2014 02:52
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Robot Randy posted:Nah, soul geyser is the one that shoots up and rains down poo poo for a bit, right? All that happened when I used it was a few sparkles came out and hit a hollow for like 91 damage, so I unequipped it and never looked back That's Soul Shower, which is terrible.
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May 4, 2014 02:52
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I keep dropping my small white summoning stone before the second part of Iron Keep and dropping my host into the lava with the pressure plates after completing my duty. I can't stop, its become an obsession. I should feel bad, but when you summon a guy wearing a clown costume you really outta be expecting shenanigans.
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May 4, 2014 02:57
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Wow, gently caress you Darklurker. You all know why, just gently caress you.
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May 4, 2014 02:57
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RobertDowneyJr posted:Question. It doesn't seem like there's any Dex weapons that can actually do damage. The katanas are great, actually! If you're a Dex build I strongly recommend getting to Iron Keep ASAP so you can get a blacksteel or an Uchi. Once you've got one of those mess around with poo poo until you get something you like (I hear a lightning infused chaos blade with sunlight blade is stupid strong, if you've got the stats for it.)
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May 4, 2014 02:57
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Robot Randy posted:The first time I used soul geyser it brought back memories of begging my alcoholic mother to buy me one of the fountain fireworks for the fourth of July, and then disappoiningtly finding out it only releases a few lovely sparks and lasts all of 5 seconds Is that the 64 int one? They're all called Soul something. I didn't like the one which was a ball of blue which went through some old knights at Heide's and did about 250 damage total to any of them it hit. Which one am I thinking of? dis astranagant posted:Wow, gently caress you Darklurker. You all know why, just gently caress you. "Man, I got all prepared and hyped up for a boss this easy?" Lightning Spears, man.
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May 4, 2014 02:58
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DSauer posted:I keep dropping my small white summoning stone before the second part of Iron Keep and dropping my host into the lava with the pressure plates after completing my duty. I can't stop, its become an obsession. I should feel bad, but when you summon a guy wearing a clown costume you really outta be expecting shenanigans. Yeah, that makes 2 of us. Or pull the lever when they;re crossing the middle bit. They panic and hurl themselves into the lavs
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May 4, 2014 02:59
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Dreggon posted:Is that the 64 int one? They're all called Soul something. I didn't like the one which was a ball of blue which went through some old knights at Heide's and did about 250 damage total to any of them it hit. Which one am I thinking of? Soul Vortex. For future reference this is Soul Geyser. It is incredibly effective on most large enemies and bosses.
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May 4, 2014 02:59
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Broken Cog posted:I understand the "point" behind Soul Memory(To prevent Twinks, like what made Undead Bourgh a nightmare for beginners in DS1), but it's honestly completely pointless, since Cracked Red Eye orbs aren't available from vendor before NG+. And NG+ players are in a different matchmaking pool than those in NG as far as I know. Yeah they basically doubled down on the solutions there and ended up with a double oopsie. The soul memory system is actually a really good idea (I say this as one of the people that would flood all my souls into pyromancy and dominate at low level), but an ideal system would just account for souls spent (levels, purchases, and upgrades) while ignoring souls lost to avoid punishing inexperienced players or those participating in co-op/pvp just for fun instead of levels. I'm still doing pyromancy because I like fire, but its another example where soul memory doesnt make things better anything since they already spread out the upgrades all over so I couldn't even dominate at a low level if I wanted to. And man they took way too much advice from the scrubs about the dickwraiths. I didn't end up using my cracked eye orbs until I already made it into the covenant thinking I'd get more but then realized what a hastle it was and burned through all 10ish I had a once. It was a hell of a run though, even got to see a blue phantom in action. At least the bell bros are fun as hell. Havent tried rats yet, although I constantly head back there in between warps just for the fight and chance at an extra pharros stone. EvilTobaccoExec fucked around with this message at 03:01 on May 4, 2014 |
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May 4, 2014 02:59
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Soul Memory is a fine mechanic but everyone with a 1 or 2 mil SM should be in the same bracket. Or higher I mean. It's so goddamn irrelevant at that point.
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May 4, 2014 02:59
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keyframe posted:Just finished the game and still got no idea what the story was about or who that end boss was or anything really. Really simple story explanation Nashandra or w/e her name is is basically Manus reanimated after the abyss broke up into tiny pieces. she was the smallest of the pieces and decided to find the the other pieces of the abyss (maybe? idk) to be all powerful or whatever. she marries the king and basically tells him to do all certain kinds of stuff, most notably take something the giants find sacred or really important. This pisses the giants off and they invade and topple the kingdom. Somewhere during this time the king kinda realized he's been manipulated by the queen and goes into exile where he eventually goes hollow. Nashandra rules over the kingdom until you show up i guess. feel free to correct me if i'm misunderstanding anything dis astranagant posted:Wow, gently caress you Darklurker. You all know why, just gently caress you. Only reason why I upgraded Rebel's shield to +10/dark
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May 4, 2014 03:02
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Dreggon posted:Is that the 64 int one? They're all called Soul something. I didn't like the one which was a ball of blue which went through some old knights at Heide's and did about 250 damage total to any of them it hit. Which one am I thinking of? More like motherfucker hits me for 99% no matter what he does and then flails around with his lovely lightsaber during his death animation. Killed me with that as I figured I'd just chuck the killing blow and reach for my drink.
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May 4, 2014 03:02
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No one goes to Belfry Sol
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May 4, 2014 03:02
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SM murdered gimmick characters. In dark Souls 1 it was common to have chars dedicated to certain areas such as helping at certain bosses or invading certain areas. The most fun I had in dark souls 1 was playing a faith build that ran around sen's naked armed with nothing but emit force, the hello carving and poo. Sex Robot fucked around with this message at 03:06 on May 4, 2014 |
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May 4, 2014 03:03
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dis astranagant posted:More like motherfucker hits me for 99% no matter what he does and then flails around with his lovely lightsaber during his death animation. Don't get close to him, shoot lightning. He take an absolutely absurd amount of damage to Great Lightning Spear and if you stay away he just casts slow moving magic. It's honestly a little pathetic.
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May 4, 2014 03:03
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I met my first hacker just now. It was in one of the arenas. He had infinite hp that wouldn't go down, so i ran away with the stamina ring forever. Six or so minutes later he adds in infinite stamina and manages to catch me. What a great engine that guy has!
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May 4, 2014 03:09
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A great... CHEAT ENGINE that is 
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May 4, 2014 03:10
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bef posted:Really simple story explanation This is correct as a general summary, though its probably also worth noting that Vendrick was trying to find ways around the undead curse while his kingdom crumbled around him, unaware of what Nashandra had done. He was already beginning to go hollow when he fled to the Crypt. Its honestly not that hard to understand if you pay attention. The themes behind the game and some of the more subtle plot details require more analysis but the basic gist of the story becomes pretty clear from Drangleic Castle onwards. I enjoyed the story a lot, but it ends on such a low note. Sex Robot posted:So I finally burned the gently caress out after the final great soul was just chilling on the floor behind a generic spider boss If you're already willing to seek out cheats and abuse them no, you're not going to enjoy this game. Spooky Bear Ghost posted:No one goes to Belfry Sol I was getting a bunch of hits there between 2-3k SM.
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May 4, 2014 03:12
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Spooky Bear Ghost posted:No one goes to Belfry Sol I just went to belfry sol to see if I could get that unique phantom to spawn and got invaded almost instantly. Around 1.7m soul memory.
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May 4, 2014 03:15
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Is there any info about how the delicate string (item that increases chances of being invaded) works? I was about to ask if anyone knew of an item that resets the invasion timers when I remembered that thing sold by the Brotherhood of Blood sounding kinda what I wanted. Although I can't really tell what group that even applies to... probably just red? maybe, blue. I was hoping for something that would effect covenants too.
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May 4, 2014 03:17
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I didn't realize that some of the enemies actually hunt down the host when you invade as a Blue Sentinel. I was doing invasions in Huntsman's Copse and two of the bandits actually ran with me all the way from the area right before the second bonfire to the first bonfire where the host was camping. Another time I got summoned on the bridge to the Undead Purgatory and the phantom that guards the fog gate ran all the way out to the middle of the bridge all on his own.
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May 4, 2014 03:18
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Is there any info about how the delicate string (item that increases chances of being invaded) works? I was going through Doors of Pharros while having forgotten I was wearing the delicate string and just got chain-summoned repeatedly.
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May 4, 2014 03:21
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Is there any info about how the delicate string (item that increases chances of being invaded) works? As far as I am aware, the Delicate String simply removes the invasion timer. That is, normally the game won't let you get invaded X amount of minutes after you were just invaded, but if you wear that ring you can get invaded instantly. It's also purported to put you higher in the "invasion queue".
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May 4, 2014 03:27
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Spooky Bear Ghost posted:No one goes to Belfry Sol Belfry Sol was where I farmed out like 70% of my covenant wins but as the game gets older I imagine that will get a lot harder.
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May 4, 2014 03:27
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Finally managed to punk the gargoyles in Belfry Luna, although dealing with that huge dog pack and NPC invader afterwards was pretty harrowing. At least now I have the key and can do Lost Sinner in easier fashion 
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May 4, 2014 03:30
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Speaking of the Lost Sinner, what does lighting the torches do? I went back to that near the end of the game and all they did was light the boss room up.
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May 4, 2014 03:32
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Manatee Cannon posted:Speaking of the Lost Sinner, what does lighting the torches do? I went back to that near the end of the game and all they did was light the boss room up. Thats all they do. You can lock on from further out.
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May 4, 2014 03:34
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Manatee Cannon posted:Speaking of the Lost Sinner, what does lighting the torches do? I went back to that near the end of the game and all they did was light the boss room up. Makes it easier to target him. I don't even think it's that useful.
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Lock-on range is decreased in the dark. You have to have the lights on before the fight for it to matter.
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