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Yea, if they really wanted somewhat equal matching, the game should check for SL and Gear lvl rather than SM. My second char has a way lower Sm than my first, while having a higher SL and far better gear. And if they wanted to keep SM, it should probably be changed so it doesn't count lost souls.
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Internet Kraken posted:I somehow managed to oneshot a guy wearing full Havel's. It wasn't a backstab or anything, just a normal strong attack with my thorned greatsword Havel guys drop like flies. I tend to worry more about the crazy naked/near-naked katana/dual katana/hybrid katana casters.
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Duke's Dear Freja Chat for melee characters. IMO I found a pretty cheesy strategy for this boss. I sunbro'd it a few times first - and subsequently watched the hosts die hilariously - but after that it only took a couple tries to get my strategy down pat. 1. Generally speaking ignore the adds by circling to one side. I've found that Freja's presence in the room causes the spiders to have strange pathing problems where they don't necessarily know how to deal with the giant two headed spider in the room (the legs in particular). If you get a clear opportunity to kill one then absolutely take the chance. 2. Stand far enough back that you induce Freja to use her laser beam, but close enough where you're not too far away to perform the next step successfully. 3. As soon as she rears up to make her attack sprint to the other head. 4. Get a couple hits in 5. Back off and repeat. I only died doing this while ignoring Freja too long while trying to kill some adds and got hit by the laser beam. Also, is that laser dodgeable? I thought it was like the Chariot sycthes but I was never successful at doing it.
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Manatee Cannon posted:Sunlight Spear is what I'm referring to. Too much sunlight in that covenant I tell you. They should try more DARK DARK LET ME UNLOCK YOUR TRUE DARK. gently caress darklurker You can only get one copy of Sunlight spear without having someone else drop one for you, NG+ doesn't reset it and Wellager doesn't sell it either unfortunately.
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man, the mad warrior set is a pain in the rear end to get
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Ice Fist posted:Also, is that laser dodgeable? I thought it was like the Chariot sycthes but I was never successful at doing it. You can dodge straight through it but it seems to have a pretty wide hitbox. I've failed more than I've succeeded, easier to just run around.
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It's one of the few attacks that moves slowly enough that it's appreciably easier to dodge through at low encumbrance since you move so much farther.
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Domattee posted:Too much sunlight in that covenant I tell you. They should try more DARK DARK LET ME UNLOCK YOUR TRUE DARK. gently caress darklurker That's what I figured, oh well.
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Ice Fist posted:I think you're wrong that that a shield does make it easier. Getting the timing down on dodging a bosses' various attacks can take a bunch of tries, especially for someone new. If you're struggling with dodging then a shield does help. The sentinels are not like the Smelter demon or OIK where most/all of their attacks straight up cannot be blocked. Earlier today I beat the sentinels for the first time with a character who's actually using a shield, and I still ended up rolling through most of their swings. Granted that might just be force of habit since I've already done it a bunch of times without a shield, but to be honest I think in general shields are a little overrated, especially with the new guard break mechanics leaving you very vulnerable if you run out of stamina while blocking. A shield might help with the sentinels, but it might not; if he's having trouble just dodging their attacks, blocking instead can solve that, but if his trouble is getting caught while attacking/healing/otherwise locked in an animation or running out of stamina blocking won't change that. The Ruin Sentinels are a lot like the DS1 gargoyles in what they're teaching you and how they teach it, although the fight is paced differently and they've got entirely different movesets: you start off fighting a single enemy, which gives you an opportunity to see its moves and learn how to deal with them in isolation, but then they ask you to fight two at once and all of a sudden the battle is really about taking the tactics you learned during the first phase and applying them to a situation where you're under a lot more pressure and have to look at the fight with a much wider eye. By the time you reach the sentinels you should be comfortable enough dodging and/or blocking, whatever your preferred defensive verb is, to deal with any of their individual moves, so what the game's really trying to teach you is how to manage fighting two large enemies at once: playing conservatively, not getting greedy with your attacks, being careful about when you heal, making sure you've always got both sentinels in view and are prepared to respond to any moves they make, that sort of thing. If you're not comfortable dodging their attacks at all, then picking up a shield will help, but the real difficulty of that fight is something entirely independent from your preferred method of damage mitigation.
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Is the drangelic shield good? I just got enough strength to wear it, along with +5 heide knight sword.
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The more I play with profound still the more amazing it becomes. The radius is ridiculously huge. I don't know how big, but I'm hitting people like 20 feet away. Catching people in its radius is easy as hell, and since its so big I can do it from a safe distance. Oh, it also extends vertically as well. So if your target is sitting on top of a ladder or something, you can hit them with silence from the bottom. Also if someone is casting a spell and then gets hit with the silence, the spell gets canceled. They complete their casting animation and nothing happens. I'm wonder if lingering dragoncrest ring would make it last even longer. Equester posted:Yea, if they really wanted somewhat equal matching, the game should check for SL and Gear lvl rather than SM. My second char has a way lower Sm than my first, while having a higher SL and far better gear. And if they wanted to keep SM, it should probably be changed so it doesn't count lost souls. Changing it to only count souls spent definitely needs to happen. It will let people twink far more easily and indefinitely, but I that's the price to pay to solve a bunch of SM issues. They're never going to stop twinking completely until matchmaking takes gear into account, because gear matters a ton despite not really having a big soul cost. Plus since they make 0 effort to stop hacking, someone can just keep their SM artificially low anyways. Shouldn't make such a strict, limiting system when you don't even attempt to keep people from working around it! ComaPrison posted:Havel guys drop like flies. I tend to worry more about the crazy naked/near-naked katana/dual katana/hybrid katana casters. Yeah Havel's players usually suck (or are obnoxious minmaxers that crush you), but you'd think I wouldn't be able to oneshot someone wearing that armour with a normal attack.
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Does this dress make my rear end look big? (Saint's Dress)
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What the hell am I even supposed to do to this chariot rear end in a top hat? He literally just flattened me in one hit 10 seconds after the fight started and now I have to go back and fight those stupid mouth of sauron looking fuckers
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May 19, 2014 19:43
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Pretty sure you can't drop spells, among other things, so you're probably limited to a single copy of sunlight spear per playthrough.
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Bob NewSCART posted:What the hell am I even supposed to do to this chariot rear end in a top hat? He literally just flattened me in one hit 10 seconds after the fight started and now I have to go back and fight those stupid mouth of sauron looking fuckers There are alcoves you can hide in along the circuit. Look for an alternate way of beating him that doesn't involve letting him ram your face.
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FirstPersonShitter posted:man, the mad warrior set is a pain in the rear end to get Do you know all the tricks to getting it? Wearing the red string ring makes him appear more often (apparently), but the real trick is keeping the Task Manager open to the processes page and monitoring the memory usage by darksoulsii.exe or whatever its called. Rest at the bonfire just below the belfry ladder and keep an eye on it (run the game in windowed mode or slap on a second monitor), and after you rest any time the memory usage spikes by 10 or more k it means he spawned. Then you just take the trek up, murder him, then head back down to chain rest until the memory usage spikes again. Its a race to see what maxes out first, the mad warrior set or your Bellbro rank. Luckily, he seems to work by dropping only one of each piece of equipment per NG+, so you don't have to worry about getting doubles. Any time there's a drop, its one of the pieces you need. Bob NewSCART posted:Is the drangelic shield good? I just got enough strength to wear it, along with +5 heide knight sword. Yeah, its not awful. One of the earliest 100% block shields you can find, so if you have the strength for it no reason not to use it. But if you're intentionally keeping your strength low for your build, there are other shields with 100% phys block that have lesser requirements, so you oughta truck through with 95% until you can get them. Tuxedo Ted fucked around with this message at 19:49 on May 19, 2014 |
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y_3 posted:Pretty sure you can't drop spells, among other things, so you're probably limited to a single copy of sunlight spear per playthrough. Can anyone confirm this?
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Bob NewSCART posted:What the hell am I even supposed to do to this chariot rear end in a top hat? He literally just flattened me in one hit 10 seconds after the fight started and now I have to go back and fight those stupid mouth of sauron looking fuckers He's just a gimmick fight. You want to get as far as you can and then hide in one many of the cubby hole wall sections before he hits you. The skeletons that follow you will respawn until the necromancers are killed. When you get far enough there'll be a lever that lowers a gate and the chariot will crash into that, then you fight the horse.
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DON'T TOUCH MY BELL
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Bob NewSCART posted:Is the drangelic shield good? I just got enough strength to wear it, along with +5 heide knight sword. The Royal Kite Shield has better resistances but lower stability, and upgrades with ordinary titanite meaning that it's probably more useful for most of the game. On the other hand is the King's Shield which uses Vendrick's soul but is equal or better in every aspect to the Drangleic shield. The Drangleic shield is nice for helping out with the Ruin Sententials but otherwise your better off with one of the other two.
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ComaPrison posted:Can anyone confirm this? Yes. You can't leave spells Bob NewSCART posted:Is the drangelic shield good? I just got enough strength to wear it, along with +5 heide knight sword. It's okay. It's one of the first 100% physical damage resistt shields you can get. But it requires twinkling titanite to level up. In my opinion, it's worth farming the old knights in heides tower for their round shields. It has a bit high str requirement. But really good stability and high resists, it's lowest being dark at 55% at +10, while the rest are at 77%. And the old Knight's shield upgrades with normal titanite Atreiden fucked around with this message at 20:03 on May 19, 2014 |
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DoctorStrangelove posted:The Royal Kite Shield has better resistances but lower stability, and upgrades with ordinary titanite meaning that it's probably more useful for most of the game. On the other hand is the King's Shield which uses Vendrick's soul but is equal or better in every aspect to the Drangleic shield. Vendrick is a waaaay late-game boss, so I don't think recommending him the King's Shield is really pertinent, since he seems to be a new player.
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It is done, rank 2 bluebro on NG. Time for the Jesus build.
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Equester posted:Yes. You can't leave spells Or titanite, as I found out when I tried to leave a gift for some phantoms. Get bellkeeping for those chunks I guess.
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Bob NewSCART posted:What the hell am I even supposed to do to this chariot rear end in a top hat? He literally just flattened me in one hit 10 seconds after the fight started and now I have to go back and fight those stupid mouth of sauron looking fuckers Its a fight that looks like its a big rush but its not. Take your time with it and its pretty easy. Kill a pair of skeletons, hide in an alcove until the chariot comes by, move up to the next alcove, kill skeletons, hide, etc... The skeletons will get back up again because of Necromancers, but you'll kill them as you progress up the gimmick race course. Don't summon anyone for this fight, it makes the skeletons harder to kill. You can also roll through the chariot's murder spikes if you're feeling like a badass. Take your time and progress through the fight in baby steps and its not so bad.
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ChaosArgate posted:Vendrick is a waaaay late-game boss, so I don't think recommending him the King's Shield is really pertinent, since he seems to be a new player. The Old Knight's Shield is better than the Drangleic and it's actually rather easy to get.  I also prefer the Throne Watcher's Shield to Vendrick's.
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I'm in a section of the Huntsman corpse where theres a bonfire behind a locked door, and a cave full of skeletons that regenerate. Where is the key and how do I stop the skeletons?
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Keep pushing onward. You'll find the key eventually. The answer to reviving skeletons is always the same: there's a Necromancer somewhere you need to kill.
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If you have the int for it, Yearn will trivialize the Executioner's Chariot fight by giving the skeletons something else to do while you hop from alcove to alcove looking for the necromancers. Alluring skulls should work as well. The Scythe of Want's 2h R2 looks really sweet, which I presume means that it's impractical and sucks. Scythes in general seem to have gotten the shaft when it comes to movesets.
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RBA Starblade posted:Or titanite, as I found out when I tried to leave a gift for some phantoms. Get bellkeeping for those chunks I guess. At least you can drop upgraded weapons!
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WYA posted:I'm in a section of the Huntsman corpse where theres a bonfire behind a locked door, and a cave full of skeletons that regenerate. Where is the key and how do I stop the skeletons? Rather than asking about it like you have everything else, try actually exploring the level.
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So. I just killed the mimic at the entrance to Aldia's Keep but aggor'd the beasts near him in the process and died before I could pick up the Dark Helmet. I respawned and went back only to find no trace of the item! Can I do anything to get it again?
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Doflamingo posted:So. I just killed the mimic at the entrance to Aldia's Keep but aggor'd the beasts near him in the process and died before I could pick up the Dark Helmet. I respawned and went back only to find no trace of the item! Can I do anything to get it again? Nope. Don't die at the same time as killing an enemy.
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Dear thread: After getting my hands on the first three bigass souls, I am officially stumped. I have been down the hole, through the Bastille and the Old Iron King is now a dead Iron King. What am I missing?
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Got a Fragrant Branch of Yore? Use it to depetrify the statue holding the lever back near Majula. (Leave majula, head towards the way back to the tutorial, but go right instead of left.)
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Doflamingo posted:So. I just killed the mimic at the entrance to Aldia's Keep but aggor'd the beasts near him in the process and died before I could pick up the Dark Helmet. I respawned and went back only to find no trace of the item! Can I do anything to get it again? Bonfire Ascetic and fight it again, but better this time.
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RE: only 1 Sunlight Spear per character - can I add that this restriction on charges is some buuuuuuuuuuullshiiiiiiiiitttt My sorcerer has like 20 Crystal Soul Spear casts just because it can.
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y_3 posted:At least you can drop upgraded weapons! Speaking of this, I just started a new character that's going to be dual-fists (to teach me how to finally dodge correctly) all the time and would like to mule over some +10 Caestuses to him. Are there still brackets with the Name-engraved ring or does it just work regardless of SM or level?
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So, I just started a new character... ...and they won't go through the fog gate in the forest of fallen giants. Like, they just won't go. I hit the button and the prompt goes away and the character just rubs their face on the fog like "yep, this sure is an impassable wall". edit: I had to go back to the bonfire, sit at it, save and quit, and then go all the way back for it to work. 
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Vanderdeath posted:Speaking of this, I just started a new character that's going to be dual-fists (to teach me how to finally dodge correctly) all the time and would like to mule over some +10 Caestuses to him. Are there still brackets with the Name-engraved ring or does it just work regardless of SM or level? There are still brackets. They're much wider than without the ring, but you probably won't be able to just dunk a +10 weapon over in a single move.
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