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So I guess I'm not the only one not able to log in at the moment, that's kind of a relief, sort of. But I have no idea what to do once I get back in...got the four big souls, greenlady tells me to go to the castle. Thinking this is the gigantic tower you can always see in the distance, I try that northernmost gate that says to produce the symbol of the king. Signs on the ground suggest that maybe a ring is required.
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May 7, 2014 02:39
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The Protagonist posted:So I guess I'm not the only one not able to log in at the moment, that's kind of a relief, sort of. Gotta go to the Undead Crypt adjacent to the Shrine of Assholes and recover the King's Ring from the depths.
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May 7, 2014 02:40
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Good Citizen posted:Fair enough. Think I'll just offhand my dagger and not get hit then Too bad you're not a hexer, the Disc Chime counts as a shield in the off-hand and has absolutely no physical requirements. Great for absolute glass cannon builds. A real pain to get early on, but boy is it a lifesaver. 3 strength for life! Edit: Heck, the requirements may not actually affect its ability to block, so try for it anyway. You just gotta go down the pit in Majula to the Saint's grave, beat the boss, go down another pit past the boss room and then make a tricky jump from your vantage point there. Just don't drop down to the wood bridge, the jump is impossible from there. It has to be from the platform above it. Tuxedo Ted fucked around with this message at 02:43 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 02:40
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The Protagonist posted:So I guess I'm not the only one not able to log in at the moment, that's kind of a relief, sort of. Go to the Shaded Woods. You know where the miniboss Flexile Sentry is? Go there, look to the left. There's a path that leads you there.
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May 7, 2014 02:40
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You need to go to Drangleic Castle, conveniently located on the left from the Shaded Woods bonfire before the foggy part.
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The Protagonist posted:So I guess I'm not the only one not able to log in at the moment, that's kind of a relief, sort of. Need to go to that bonfire by the path that splits into three (shaded woods maybe?) and take the left path. It's the one that had the flexible sentry at the end
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May 7, 2014 02:41
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The Grand Lance is absolutely amazing because no one expects it. Put the Leo Ring on with it, bait someone into taking a swing at you and WHAM SKEWER POISE BREAK INVADER BANISHED. I'm starting to realize that most PvP in DS2 has no basis in reality and should be approached as such. I may be a whiz with a rapier and a parrying dagger, but the flow of time is warped so I might as well just pick up this tremendous hunk of iron I can barely hold and poke people with it.
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May 7, 2014 02:43
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Is anyone else getting forced into offline mode at start up? I have internet (obviously), but it says it's unable to reach the dark souls servers.
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May 7, 2014 02:47
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While we wait for it to come back up, help me decide whether or not I should start on a ng+ on my guy, or a new game altogether. I want to switch to a melee-focused character, but don't know if just respeccing will work out. Maybe do that and save my current character so I can do invasions in ng+? Or will the bellkeepers not be any more active there? At the least I have 10 dragon scales, so I only need 10 more to become the dragon-man-mage I was born to be.
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May 7, 2014 02:49
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NeurosisHead posted:Is anyone else getting forced into offline mode at start up? I have internet (obviously), but it says it's unable to reach the dark souls servers. Yeah, servers are down. Right when a friend and I were going to co-op for the first time ever, too. 
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May 7, 2014 02:50
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I just reached the doors of pharros, what a great time to not have the servers up. 
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RBA Starblade posted:While we wait for it to come back up, help me decide whether or not I should start on a ng+ on my guy, or a new game altogether. I want to switch to a melee-focused character, but don't know if just respeccing will work out. Maybe do that and save my current character so I can do invasions in ng+? Or will the bellkeepers not be any more active there? Go with ng+, it adds some stuff you'll miss out on by just starting a new character. I got to rank two of the bellhops today in ng+ starting from scratch before quitting, though keep in mind that the inferior Belfry Luna is by far the more populated area. Respeccing is easy, you just need to make sure you have the equipment to make it work. Incidentally, when you go ng+ you keep your current covenant active. Something to keep in mind if you're looking to do something in particular.
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May 7, 2014 02:53
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BrainMeats posted:Going back in time to kill a dude doesn't seem like such a big deal when the entire multiplayer aspect is contextualized as you assisting the previous/next chosen one to continue the cycle while you're in the middle of doing it yourself. It's not parallel worlds it's one world repeating endlessly. What? No. It's always been a parallel timelines/worlds thing. What are you on about? I mean not that it matters much because the multiplayer is basically irrelevant to the lore but still.
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Manatee Cannon posted:Go with ng+, it adds some stuff you'll miss out on by just starting a new character. I got to rank two of the bellhops today in ng+ starting from scratch before quitting, though keep in mind that the inferior Belfry Luna is by far the more populated area. Respeccing is easy, you just need to make sure you have the equipment to make it work. I actually like Luna way more, so that works better for me. Maybe I'll just do both, after a bit, and for the rest of this game be a dragon until I get the torso stone, then back out to the bellkeepers. Keep my battlemage then also do a melee guy, and just dial things back. I don't exactly want to burn out so soon.
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May 7, 2014 02:55
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Why must Petrified Dragon Bones be so rare  There are so many fun boss weapons I want to tool around with
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Just ascetic Dragon's Aerie, there's like 10 there.
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Manatee Cannon posted:Just ascetic Dragon's Aerie, there's like 10 there. It's a pretty annoying problem that the only way to get a reasonable supply of dragonbones and twinkling is to ascetic areas that are basically at the end of the game. If you want to use a boss weapon on your NG playthrough even if you find every single static dragonbone your weapon's going to be like +3 tops by the time you get to Aerie whereas a normal weapon will be +10 ages before that.
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May 7, 2014 03:08
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I want to start some sort of spellsword class, anyone have some tips?
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May 7, 2014 03:09
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Cast fist. No really. Enchant your fist (caestus). Thank me later.
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RBA Starblade posted:While we wait for it to come back up, help me decide whether or not I should start on a ng+ on my guy, or a new game altogether. I want to switch to a melee-focused character, but don't know if just respeccing will work out. Maybe do that and save my current character so I can do invasions in ng+? Or will the bellkeepers not be any more active there? At the least I have 10 dragon scales, so I only need 10 more to become the dragon-man-mage I was born to be. Start both. Get to a point where you're like 'gently caress, I need a coop partner so this fight doesn't suck', then switch to the other.
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The acolytes in aldias drop petrified bones pretty frequently with a gold serpent +1 and merchant hat setup. They don't even give that many souls so farming for them isn't really going to hurt your ~*SM*~
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omg chael crash posted:I want to start some sort of spellsword class, anyone have some tips? Get a sword, get a staff, fight people like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0KVV55cbOc
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Tommy Ray Handly, once a heavy weight champion, corrupted by the manikins of earthen peak, turns into an astronaut to soothe his pain.   I would have done a fashion souls earlier, but there was already a high saturation of shirtless tuffguys.
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The Iron Rose posted:Okay seriously what's that helm Weirdo vivisectionists in Aldia's keep wear it I think?
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Dropped by the petrified ogre thing in Aldia's Keep.
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Kanos posted:It's a pretty annoying problem that the only way to get a reasonable supply of dragonbones and twinkling is to ascetic areas that are basically at the end of the game. If you want to use a boss weapon on your NG playthrough even if you find every single static dragonbone your weapon's going to be like +3 tops by the time you get to Aerie whereas a normal weapon will be +10 ages before that. You don't even have access to boss weapons until you find a branch of yore, which is mid-game for the majority of players. But if it makes you feel better, most of the boss weapons suck.
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Bobnumerotres posted:You don't even have access to boss weapons until you find a branch of yore, which is mid-game for the majority of players. Yeah, I gotta own em all, but I mostly just use them for a minute or two before thinking naaaaaaah
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Spooky Bear Ghost posted:Tommy Ray Handly, once a heavy weight champion, corrupted by the manikins of earthen peak, turns into an astronaut to soothe his pain. That chest armor makes me want to make a Samus gimmick character. Now, what spell is the most beam-like...
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Bobnumerotres posted:You don't even have access to boss weapons until you find a branch of yore, which is mid-game for the majority of players. I've gotten a ton of dragon bone from the birds, for what it's worth.
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Bobnumerotres posted:You don't even have access to boss weapons until you find a branch of yore, which is mid-game for the majority of players. And yet, when I finally had the strength and dexterity to powerstance the Pursuer's Ultra Greatsword and the Zweihander, my life was complete.
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Bobnumerotres posted:You don't even have access to boss weapons until you find a branch of yore, which is mid-game for the majority of players. That's not true at all. Most I would consider, at worst, to be side-grades made somewhat less useable for PVE due to the lack of dragon bones (hopefully something they'll patch at some point), with a number of quite good ones, and of course a decent amount of stinkers.
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It's brilliant really. The Mad Warrior set is tailor made to drive you mad via the process of farming it, just like the former wearer. It's a Dread Pirate Roberts thing, except with insanity 
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Genocyber posted:That's not true at all. Most I would consider, at worst, to be side-grades made somewhat less useable for PVE due to the lack of dragon bones (hopefully something they'll patch at some point), with a number of quite good ones, and of course a decent amount of stinkers. The barbed club along with a couple others are pretty broken when infused, they actually gain damage from it. I think Malformed Shell is the other main weapon affected by that.
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Party Plane Jones posted:The barbed club along with a couple others are pretty broken when infused, they actually gain damage from it. I think Malformed Shell is the other main weapon affected by that. Infused with what? Bleed?
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Annath posted:Infused with what? Bleed? Elemental. Adds ~100 physical base damage, 100 elemental damage, and some bleed damage, at +5, compared to un-infused.
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