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sushibandit posted:You can get 3 copies of Lightning Spear, 3 copies of Great Lightning Spear, Sunlight Spear, 3 copies of Emit Force, and varying quantities of the chime based hexes in NG before even beating the final boss. You get infinite copies of Lightning Spear & Emit Force after beating the final boss. Cool. I'll respec to this once I've picked up a few more spells. The huge amount of sorceries is useful. Edit: drat, seems like bonfire ascetics are fairly rare for where I am in game still. Was hoping to use one and beat Freja, Skeleton lords and Najka for their items/soul. Would I be making a big mistake trying them at SL 111 with a +10 archdrake staff/chime? Jose fucked around with this message at 19:44 on May 13, 2014 |
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skasion posted:They do look vaguely like Chasm of the Abyss which is, after all, what they're apparently supposed to be according to Grandahl. I guess, maybe. It's probably the weird over-bright washed out effect that seems to permeate the game, but to me they just looked like bland gray caves. Chasm of the abyss might have been exactly the same, but maybe it looked different since DS1 didn't have its brightness knob locked on overkill. 
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May 13, 2014 19:42
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The Abyss had those little stalagmites, the Chasm has 'em. That's about the only direct connection I could find.
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May 13, 2014 19:46
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Lemon Curdistan posted:You will never be able to play through the game without picking up a weapon and hitting things but yes, you can do fine with 50 FTH/50 ATN and 12 STR (basically, you use a lightning mace or regular mace on most things and save the GLS/Sunlight Spears for the big stuff). Oh yes you can. Lightning spear is an infinite buy pretty early and shreds everything in pve. Eventually you'll end up with your first 5 slots being homeward, sunlight spear and 3x GLS and will rarely need more attack spells, but you can easily slot some LS or Emit Force if you need to.
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May 13, 2014 19:47
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Being a secret red phantom in undead crypt is great. Get summoned as a shade, get to the pit/boss hall and DING DONG DING DONG. Actually had a guy on the mic scream "BRUTUS" as he was murdered by pillars of fire and magic spears.  e: just realized this would be a million times better if I shaded as Pate. extremebuff fucked around with this message at 20:51 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 20:11
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Hurf durf, I thought for the longest time that my multiplayer wasn't working since I was in the blue cops and wearing my blue ring and I didn't get to go all  on sinners.It's the grey ring not the blue ring you retard!
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May 13, 2014 20:14
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dis astranagant posted:Oh yes you can. Lightning spear is an infinite buy pretty early and shreds everything in pve. Eventually you'll end up with your first 5 slots being homeward, sunlight spear and 3x GLS and will rarely need more attack spells, but you can easily slot some LS or Emit Force if you need to. Who the hell wastes a slot on homeward 
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May 13, 2014 20:15
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voltron lion force posted:Who the hell wastes a slot on homeward People without a feather!
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May 13, 2014 20:16
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voltron lion force posted:Who the hell wastes a slot on homeward Yeah you get more bones than you could ever use and then towards the end of the game you get an infinite use bone that transfers to NG+.
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May 13, 2014 20:16
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Jose posted:Edit: drat, seems like bonfire ascetics are fairly rare for where I am in game still. If you're comfortable with your damage output and have the Ashen Mist Heart, you can aescetic the giant memories and get 2 aescetics back (net gain of 1) per run, along with ~300k liquid souls (only killing the giant king), 2+ twinkling titanite, spice, a few great hero souls, and assorted other consumables if you run through all three memories each time you burn. It's a great way to farm up millions of souls while staying in NG if you wanted to for some reason.
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May 13, 2014 20:22
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So I finally completed the game. By accident. And I first timed the end boss. Just as the game was starting to feel a little more like Dark Souls as opposed to Knights Corridor Yawnfest, BAM game over. I have no idea why I won, what I won, why I care. When I finished Dark Souls. I watched the credits, and I instantly rolled a new characters because I felt I had so much more to get out of the world. This time all I felt was enui and cheated. I wouldn't shut up for ages about when I learned about the fate of Solaire or the first time I went into Anor Londo. I don't even remember any of the NPCs names in Dark Souls 2. Here's hoping that this "Project Beast" that Miyazaki has supposedly been working on is something a little more elegant and a little less ham fisted. What a shame  This sums it up pretty well Spoilers Everywhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrgaZchJQVg Sex Robot fucked around with this message at 21:15 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 20:32
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So for a puny Sorcerer who has only put points into Attunement (32), Intelligence (40) and Faith (40), and absolutely nothing else, infusing my dagger with dark would be the best thing to do, right? Just wanted to make sure since I only have one of these stones at the moment and I keep hearing things about the scaling for infusions being weird to a point where I should forgo infusing things at all, except for my staffs (and speaking of staffs, if I infuse Dark in them, will that make it so that only Hexes will be powerful on that staff, while making normal sorceries weaker?).
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May 13, 2014 20:44
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Is Rosabeth likely to be the character that resulted from that odd bit of concept art with the girl wearing puffy short pants that seemed out of character for a Souls game? She does seem to have a more upbeat personality than is usual, which was the impression the art gave as well.
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May 13, 2014 20:47
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Paracelsus posted:Is Rosabeth likely to be the character that resulted from that odd bit of concept art with the girl wearing puffy short pants that seemed out of character for a Souls game? She does seem to have a more upbeat personality than is usual, which was the impression the art gave as well. Well she didn't seem very jolly to me. More like a vulcan or something just flat and stern.
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May 13, 2014 20:52
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Bobnumerotres posted:Well she didn't seem very jolly to me. More like a vulcan or something just flat and stern. I think you're confusing her for another NPC.
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Paracelsus posted:Is Rosabeth likely to be the character that resulted from that odd bit of concept art with the girl wearing puffy short pants that seemed out of character for a Souls game? She does seem to have a more upbeat personality than is usual, which was the impression the art gave as well. She's easily my favorite character. I like happy friendly characters 
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FutureCop posted:So for a puny Sorcerer who has only put points into Attunement (32), Intelligence (40) and Faith (40), and absolutely nothing else, infusing my dagger with dark would be the best thing to do, right? Just wanted to make sure since I only have one of these stones at the moment and I keep hearing things about the scaling for infusions being weird to a point where I should forgo infusing things at all, except for my staffs (and speaking of staffs, if I infuse Dark in them, will that make it so that only Hexes will be powerful on that staff, while making normal sorceries weaker?). Pretty sure EC murdered me pretty well with a dark resonant dagger once. Dark infused staffs/chimes are a definite go, if you're using hexes. It does weaken magic/lightning damage, but that's kind of whatever if you're throwing around Greater Resonant Soul.
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New to the franchise here. Would you recommend starting with the first game or this one? Can't decide what to buy.
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aeverous posted:New to the franchise here. Um, I would play the first one first, just to get the experience and get the gameplay and lore callbacks. You can do it pretty quickly too.
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May 13, 2014 20:57
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Dark Souls first. I would play it on PS3 or xbox unless you're really obsessed with fps.
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aeverous posted:New to the franchise here. Play them all, in whatever order you like. Dark Souls 1 PC may lose it's online side soon, when Games for Windows Live dies, but it's a good game even without that. Demon's Souls is a PS3 exclusive, and apparently still has some people playing it. Dark Souls 2 is the newest thing, so is the most active online. All three have enough plusses and minuses relative to one another that which is "better" comes down to taste. Also I guess there are a few references in Dark Souls 2 to plot elements and characters in Dark Souls 1, but nothing really important.
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I'd say DS2 should be a first because the series has made a lot of improvements in terms of accessibility, as well as convenient stuff like the warping/more forgiving drops etc. you can always see where it all started and reverse-get the references if you like DS2.
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May 13, 2014 21:04
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aeverous posted:New to the franchise here. I would recommend starting with Dark Souls 1 because it is cheap and if you find that you don't like the style of game you wouldn't have sunk as much into it. The gameplay is largely the same between the different games, and for some people it just doesn't click.
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flowinprose posted:I would recommend starting with Dark Souls 1 because it is cheap and if you find that you don't like the style of game you wouldn't have sunk as much into it. The gameplay is largely the same between the different games, and for some people it just doesn't click. I would agree with this. DS1 is fairly inexpensive now, while DS2 is brand new. If you hate DS1, you're not out much. If you like it, you can afford to price hunt DS2 while finishing the first game.
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10 ascetics later, my fashion souls is finally complete, and I've come to the conclusion that the Heide Knight Leggings are the rarest drat item in the game, took 5 ascetics alone to finally get the leggings, also Heide Knights are mother fuckers at NG+7 or so, they have the weirdest spazzy move-set.
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Appoda posted:I don't know if these are in high demand, but I have a guy with a In addition I should probably leave my Steam ID. http://steamcommunity.com/id/Appoda/
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Bobnumerotres posted:Well she didn't seem very jolly to me. More like a vulcan or something just flat and stern. You're thinking of her teacher, Carhillion of the Fold. BobTheJanitor posted:I guess, maybe. It's probably the weird over-bright washed out effect that seems to permeate the game, but to me they just looked like bland gray caves. Chasm of the abyss might have been exactly the same, but maybe it looked different since DS1 didn't have its brightness knob locked on overkill. More or less my reaction. It looked nothing like the Abyss at all, I thought they were just caves. Kind of lame, to say the least.
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Bobnumerotres posted:I'd say DS2 should be a first because the series has made a lot of improvements in terms of accessibility, as well as convenient stuff like the warping/more forgiving drops etc. you can always see where it all started and reverse-get the references if you like DS2. I find I need to play series in order of releases. Usually due to refinements in sequels that make it rougher to start back on the previous title. As much as I enjoy DS2 it felt like two steps forward and then a step back.
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Lalus posted:I'm at the same tier as you and honestly the only thing you can do is learn how to fight them off. I wasted a shitton on time learning to pvp with the claymore/grand lance combo but you can just carry a bat staff and dark fog with you to gain the upper hand immediately. When I get invaded I ready affinty and take out the bat staff. As soon as you land a dark fog get in their face so they can't use the grass to heal it. If they aren't carrying any they'll panic and come after you which makes it even easier. The hardest thing to learn is timing rolling under GRS & Avelyns and maybe how to parry that cheesy Santier's Spear. I'm glad you posted this because I was about to post something substantially similar...invaders are not necessarily PVP superstars. They are usually just one-trick ponies. They can be beaten. At that tier you can get really fast Bellboy summons...that's a great way to experience LOTS of PVP against all kinds of players and at no cost to you...plus you get CHUNKS. I was having some trouble getting summoned for Belfry Sol last week, but everyone must have hit the game hard on PC over the last several days because this weekend I was Bellboying in front of Smelter Demon's gate, hoping to get summons there as well...I got yanked into Belfry Sol literally before I could even put my soapstone down after my last trip to the belfry. CONSTANT action at about 2M soul memory, and a great variety of players. I think I only managed to get summoned for Smelter Demon 4 times in like 20 hours of playing there. Oddly enough, there were really no casters on the belfry to speak of, and the few ones I did run into were pretty bad. It's certainly a lot more fun at higher tiers than it is at the lower tiers. One particularly memorable fight was against a guy who melee'd with an estoc, I think, but I was never able to close on him into mace range. He mainly used a whip and shot arrows at me. I was chasing this guy for a good 6 minutes. He killed me with a jillion arrows after poisoning me four times with that whip. Speaking of this, how the gently caress is it that people can run backwards at full speed as fast as you can run forward? It's crazy; never get off the roof as a Bellboy unless it's 2-on-1 or 2-on-2, otherwise you're just going to have 5 minutes of Benny Hill.
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Captain Oblivious posted:You're thinking of her teacher, Carhillion of the Fold. Whose voice actor reminds me of Jeffrey Combs every goddamn time, but it isn't.
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david... posted:10 ascetics later, my fashion souls is finally complete, and I've come to the conclusion that the Heide Knight Leggings are the rarest drat item in the game, took 5 ascetics alone to finally get the leggings, also Heide Knights are mother fuckers at NG+7 or so, they have the weirdest spazzy move-set. It took me like 15 to get the gauntlets. 
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Mighty Dicktron posted:It took me like 15 to get the gauntlets. I lucked out and got the chest piece on my first try, then another one, and then the helmet, i think two swords and then gauntlets, and then a heartbreaking run of bad luck. But it was all worth it to get to see one of those depressed motherfuckers sit on a throne.
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Sweet. Durgo's Hat just dropped for me. It'll go well with my Hawk Ring and Sea Bow.
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What are the best weapons to power stance? Fists are fun, though the range sucks. Swords have a fun double-slash on the L2...
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Is there any way to edit a characters appearance post-creation?
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Magus42 posted:What are the best weapons to power stance? Maces, the L2 will stunlock just about anything.
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I have a dumb question that may have been asked before: Can I use an ascetic in the Undead Crypt and get another Darkdrift from Agdayne? Do I get another King's Key for that, or can I just use an ascetic and grab another Darkdrift since I already have the key? And no, I've never used an ascetic so I'm not sure exactly how it works. Also, I wanted to avoid killing him. Spoilered just in case.
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What the hell is up with all these random fight clubs on the iron keep bridge? I just want to fight dudes but 7 out of 10 times I get summoned into a fightclub where I have to wait for 5 minutes for 2 other reds to finish honordueling.
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FirstPersonShitter posted:Is there any way to edit a characters appearance post-creation? Not aside from the gender swap coffin at the start sadly. Magus42 posted:What are the best weapons to power stance? Curved swords have a really fun move set and good range.
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