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BlackFrost posted:Speaking of names, is there any way to change your name? I didn't realize it would be displaying my character's name and kinda want it to be a little less...lame. You have to use Cheat Engine or a similar tool. I'd recommend doing it offline.
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Finally started my NG+ run. Immediately invaded at Cardinal tower, and as a bonus Melentia got hit by my dark fog and attacked me. Did you know she does a ton of curse damage? It's true!
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May 6, 2014 08:54
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404notfound posted:The monsters aren't a problem on their own, but it's a combination of all the elements that makes the run to the fog gate harrowing. I have some difficulty budgeting my stamina between killing the monsters/mace dudes, blocking their attacks, and dodging the magic projectiles. And with the water slowing me down and hiding deadly pitfalls, I'm also eating up some stamina to sprint backwards along the path I took to find some cover. Wait which bonfire are you using, the one in the cave? I dont remember there being any priests between the cave and the fog wall... Mr Wikstroem posted:Too bad I don't use a shield eh? Get a DEX weapon, they are gonna turn you into swiss cheese before you ever swing a dickhammer
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May 6, 2014 08:55
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May 6, 2014 08:57
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Captain Oblivious posted:I actually think the game almost overstays its welcome is the issue. It's TOO long and by the end I just wanted it over with. I enjoyed the game overall, but wished it had as much atmosphere was DS1 to let you know what was going on. It would of been another hook to keep players interested, I didn't really follow what went on in DS2 aside from theres dark, where the king?, here be dark. The last stretch really lacked substance and sorta felt like filler. I liked the last stretch in DS1 apart from lost izalith being a rushjob and a pain to stare at. And it was neat seeing the zones and what happened/went on there, like new londo got too deep into the daaaarrrrk with spooky ghosts, seath got messed up with crystals all over the drat place, lost izalith is demons and fire cause someone tried to split the soul atom, while nito was chillin in his hole. I never really got the sense of reason in DS2 of why the great souls where they were, and why you wandered there. DS sorta led you along with the O Chosen Undead thing there which strung you along without revealing too much.
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May 6, 2014 09:14
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Alan Smithee posted:Wait which bonfire are you using, the one in the cave? I dont remember there being any priests between the cave and the fog wall... Shrine of Amana > Crumbling Ruins. It's after the first milfanito. There is a poo poo ton of some real loving bullshit between the bonfire and the fog gate, and I still haven't figured out a good way to tackle it all. I've tried using the torch to lure out the monsters to eliminate that variable from the equation, but rather annoyingly, some of them still don't seem to aggro until you get pretty close to them--at which point you've also aggroed two or three other enemies, and the whole situation has just gone to poo poo. I seriously don't understand what I'm missing here. There's simply no safe way to approach this section, and charging in just means getting swarmed by monsters and perfectly timed projectiles to gently caress you over time and time again.
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May 6, 2014 09:14
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What are good sources of Twinkling Titanite? I'm trying to upgrade a Red Rust Scimitar.
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May 6, 2014 09:17
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Artificer posted:What are good sources of Twinkling Titanite? I'm trying to upgrade a Red Rust Scimitar. Anime wizards.
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May 6, 2014 09:22
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404notfound posted:Shrine of Amana > Crumbling Ruins. It's after the first milfanito. There is a poo poo ton of some real loving bullshit between the bonfire and the fog gate, and I still haven't figured out a good way to tackle it all. I've tried using the torch to lure out the monsters to eliminate that variable from the equation, but rather annoyingly, some of them still don't seem to aggro until you get pretty close to them--at which point you've also aggroed two or three other enemies, and the whole situation has just gone to poo poo. Uhh duder you know there's a bonfire in the cave after the 3 priests and the healer right? The ones with the equipment breaking bugs Around the 5:45 mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCXwt7XHn3o Artificer posted:What are good sources of Twinkling Titanite? I'm trying to upgrade a Red Rust Scimitar. Shrine of Amana. Wear Traveling Merchant Hat +10 and Gold Covetous Serpent ring priests and priestesses drop that poo poo. Water bitches drop humanity
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May 6, 2014 09:23
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Mariposa posted:I just picked up 2 blacksteel katanas in Iron Keep. And when I read about the katana on the wiki, I realized that all of those "friendly" summoning signs at the beginning of the keep are probably people who want to rush through and farm katanas. Hah maybe. Dex builds dont seem very popular, and I ended up with two blacksteel katanas too so I never considered that they might be rare drops. I was one of the people that threw down my small sign like a half dozen times, although that was about replenishing the humanity to summon Lucatiel after every failed Smelter Demon attempt. I just assumed they were either trying to keep her story arc going too or needing to summon others for that fight.
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May 6, 2014 09:26
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Alan Smithee posted:Uhh duder you know there's a bonfire in the cave after the 3 priests and the healer right? The ones with the equipment breaking bugs Apparently I've been dying just before the third bonfire. There's a fog gate sealing off the cave with the bugs and the bonfire, and that's where I died while trying to run past all the enemies. I don't know if the guy in the video has simply extincted one of the priests or what, but at that point I have two priests flinging spells at me, which makes it considerably harder to stay alive. Plus my bow doesn't have that really handy crosshair on it--do I need to do something special to get in that mode, or is there a different bow I need to be using?
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May 6, 2014 09:36
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Oh my I wasn't expecting Black Witch's Staff to be this good. Dark Black Witch's Staff +10 is only slightly worse at hexes than Dark Caitha's Chime +10 and Dark Sunset Staff +10 but it can cast both kinds of hexes at the same time. And Magic Black Witch's Staff +10 is the best magic staff so far and might actually make lovely sorcery nukes worth casting.
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May 6, 2014 09:40
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Dreggon posted:The Ruin Sentinels at the King's Gate bonfire do not respawn if you use their souls to open the doors. This room is now easy. e: Alan Smithee posted:Shrine of Amana. Wear Traveling Merchant Hat +10 and Gold Covetous Serpent ring Sanctum fucked around with this message at 09:42 on May 6, 2014 |
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May 6, 2014 09:40
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404notfound posted:I don't know if the guy in the video has simply extincted one of the priests or what, but at that point I have two priests flinging spells at me, which makes it considerably harder to stay alive. Plus my bow doesn't have that really handy crosshair on it--do I need to do something special to get in that mode, or is there a different bow I need to be using? L1, Left Bumper, or look up the M&KB binding for aiming with the bow. And bring at least iron arrows.
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May 6, 2014 09:46
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The Royal Rat authority is such utter horseshit, even when you kill all of it's underlings in one swoop, the loving beast is too fast and too powerful to negotiate a tactic, it's like when he knocks you down, no matter how fast you are by the time you get up he's already attacking you again and killing you, there's no room or time to escape. what an rear end of a boss. what the gently caress am I gonna do?! Also, the real kicker is the fact that I cant place or read any soapstones around this area. thanks From software. thanks.
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May 6, 2014 09:48
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I hate that goddamned chariot! First run through the game died to him a tonne on my Mage (no shield makes life tough) and now I am back with a claymore and a shield and I am still struggling. What adds injury to insult is the fact that when I summon some bro's most times they die before we even get to the horse and then the rest die soon afterwards. I think I might figure this fight out and just Sunbro it up for a while.
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Al-Saqr posted:The Royal Rat authority is such utter horseshit, even when you kill all of it's underlings in one swoop, the loving beast is too fast and too powerful to negotiate a tactic, it's like when he knocks you down, no matter how fast you are by the time you get up he's already attacking you again and killing you, there's no room or time to escape. what an rear end of a boss. what the gently caress am I gonna do?! This is a fight you must do alone. It's also optional, so don't feel pressured. I thought this was a really hard fight until I manned up and just did the "stand under him" tactic. Every time he jumps away, run under his belly. Don't lock on. Hit him with whatever you can while under him. You're 100% safe if you're under his belly.
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May 6, 2014 09:56
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404notfound posted:Apparently I've been dying just before the third bonfire. There's a fog gate sealing off the cave with the bugs and the bonfire, and that's where I died while trying to run past all the enemies. Sanctum posted:Wait what, how do you do that? Also aren't there 5 of them? aka the Traveling Merchant Hat 
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May 6, 2014 09:57
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Bellbros seem to be none too bright. I invaded the guilty at Belfry Luna, where I was assaulted by three successive gray phantoms. None of them seemed to grasp that I was there to kill the host. I eventually wound up teaming with the host to kill grays until my timer ran out, because a case of the stupid that bad is probably a bigger sin than whatever he did.
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Al-Saqr posted:Also, the real kicker is the fact that I cant place or read any soapstones around this area. thanks From software. thanks. Some areas are meant to be traversed alone. As a knight, I stood by its legs and wailed on it. Shield and mace. Or like mentioned earlier, that belly. Mages can use lingering flame or other painful, painful things. Firestorm for one. Silentplanet posted:I think I might figure this fight out and just Sunbro it up for a while. Hmm, I thought that fight was pretty neat, but not too difficult for my setup (block and/or dodge the big hits). I went through as a knight and mage. So far, I've never needed a really high str shield as a mage. I used, in chronological order, the large leather shield, the archdrake shield, and the watchdragon parma. Usually when you hide in the sides from the blades, the other players pick up on this. You can also dodge them. Tallgeese posted:I eventually wound up teaming with the host to kill grays until my timer ran out, because a case of the stupid that bad is probably a bigger sin than whatever he did. Aww, I was hoping you killed him in the end.
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May 6, 2014 10:04
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Did I ever enjoy murdering looking glass squires the other day, while sunbroing dressed as the host's very own looking glass knight. Gotcha back.
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May 6, 2014 10:05
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Captain Diarrhoea posted:Did I ever enjoy murdering looking glass squires the other day, while sunbroing dressed as the host's very own looking glass knight. Must remember to purchase set in NG+. Gosh darn it.
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May 6, 2014 10:07
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Tallgeese posted:Bellbros seem to be none too bright. Reminder: kill all other phantoms before you kill a host. Be there for the blood, not just for a kill 
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May 6, 2014 10:09
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Al-Saqr posted:The Royal Rat authority is such utter horseshit, even when you kill all of it's underlings in one swoop, the loving beast is too fast and too powerful to negotiate a tactic, it's like when he knocks you down, no matter how fast you are by the time you get up he's already attacking you again and killing you, there's no room or time to escape. what an rear end of a boss. what the gently caress am I gonna do?! He's one of the easiest bosses to kill if you can deal with the adds. Charge right under him and stay between his two hind legs, none of his attacks can actually hit you there. You can murder everything in the shrine of anime with poison arrows, same goes for the big armored guys before the ancient dragon. The Grym Greatsheild has 100% fire resist and 100% physical resist, use this to chump the smelter daemon solo. King Vendric also has no attacks that can hit someone standing directly behind him, lose the shield and circle strafe like a madman. You can kill all the dragons in the Aerie by standing right next to their left leg, they only do the stomping attack if you do this.
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I feel like my goal in life is to have an all Looking Glass fight LG host, LG spirits, LG squires and of course LGK
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May 6, 2014 10:10
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Jamfrost posted:Aww, I was hoping you killed him in the end. He was running around as a torch post almost the whole time, slightly moving every time I looked until I caught on. It was like something out of a cartoon.
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May 6, 2014 10:10
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I've invaded as a Red in Iron Keep bridge but because I put my sign down. When I got there the other red and I think the dragon covenant guy attacked me, the red ended up killing me. No honor amongst reds I guess
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May 6, 2014 10:11
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Sanctum posted:Wait what, how do you do that? Also aren't there 5 of them? Kill all the stone guards away from the doors except for the ones at the first left. Kill the stone guards at the first left near the door so it opens, and you get a sentinel. Kill that sentinel near the second left, kill the second left sentinel at the third left, kill the third left sentinel at the third right, kill the third right sentinel at the second right, and kill the second right sentinel at the first right. You'll have no sentinels left and all the doors will be open. Unfortunately you need to have acquired gud before you can do this, but it's well worth it. The advantage of this is that even if one of the sentinels kills you, you can still freely clear the room and not be bothered by respawning sentinels (because they won't respawn).
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Jamfrost posted:Some areas are meant to be traversed alone. As a knight, I stood by its legs and wailed on it. Shield and mace. Or like mentioned earlier, that belly. Mages can use lingering flame or other painful, painful things. Firestorm for one. I think I am just having a bit of poor luck mixed with impatience. I do mostly everything fine but this is usually the first hurdle I face. I had a heap of trouble initially on my Mage because I had zero shield. Which can be a huge pain when you're in the little dips on the side trying to avoid getting gang banged.
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Al-Saqr posted:The Royal Rat authority is such utter horseshit, even when you kill all of it's underlings in one swoop, the loving beast is too fast and too powerful to negotiate a tactic, it's like when he knocks you down, no matter how fast you are by the time you get up he's already attacking you again and killing you, there's no room or time to escape. what an rear end of a boss. what the gently caress am I gonna do?! I think most of that bossfight I was just amazed that I was far enough away to not get hit. Usually when a boss does a lunge attack that is really close to connecting to your actual character model but doesn't quite connect, you expect it to fully connect because that's how dark souls works. Also summoning is cheating.
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I can't decide between dual daggers thief build or dual shields tank build.
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How is the dual dagger power stance? I keep wanting to try it but forget to pick up the second dagger.
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Al-Saqr posted:The Royal Rat authority is such utter horseshit, even when you kill all of it's underlings in one swoop, the loving beast is too fast and too powerful to negotiate a tactic, it's like when he knocks you down, no matter how fast you are by the time you get up he's already attacking you again and killing you, there's no room or time to escape. what an rear end of a boss. what the gently caress am I gonna do?! Honestly it's optional, just walk away if you can't do it in like 5 tries. Level up stamina or ADP, come back later
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May 6, 2014 10:27
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Awww yeah, Aldia Warlock helm from the Huntsman invader. Feels good. 
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May 6, 2014 10:33
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Wow. I just invaded someone trying to kill Straid. I wound up shooting the guilty one in the back, and Straid just bonks him on the head with his staff for the finish. That was poetic.
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May 6, 2014 10:39
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Tallgeese posted:Wow. I just invaded someone trying to kill Straid. I wound up shooting the guilty one in the back, and Straid just bonks him on the head with his staff for the finish. I hope you were a blue, that would be some precog poo poo
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May 6, 2014 10:41
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Welp. Powerstance Blue Flames are really disappointing.
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Alan Smithee posted:I hope you were a blue, that would be some precog poo poo Indeed I was. I literally walked up to see him make the first shot at Straid with a Sunlight Bladed katana.
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May 6, 2014 10:42
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Gonna ask again, anyone know what the best bow might be? I'm running around with a Bow of Want currently, is it worth maxing out though? Really enjoying using bows this time around.
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Babyface Mingo posted:Gonna ask again, anyone know what the best bow might be? I'm running around with a Bow of Want currently, is it worth maxing out though? Really enjoying using bows this time around. Rather fond of the Sea Bow that sometimes drops from the vikings in No Man's Wharf. Good range and good scaling all around, and doesn't have the massive stamina consumption of the Dragonrider Bow. I have a question as well: Does anyone know of a resource to find which bonfires affect which specific areas and bosses when you Ascetic them? The one in particular I'm thinking of doing is the Exile Holding Cells in Lost Bastille, to try and farm up something, but if that one extends to the Ruin Sentinels, I'm a bit hesitant.
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