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My perspective is that I like hitting things with swords and maces, and whatever other vaguely weaponizable implement I can manage to swing at someone's face 
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Dark is bad because the DS1 DLC showed it turns people into weirdo freaky monsters. Or is it good because then you have more things to hit with a sword?? HMMMM
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May 28, 2014 00:01
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animatorZed posted:My perspective is that I like hitting things with swords and maces, and whatever other vaguely weaponizable implement I can manage to swing at someone's face Yeah whatever the lore is, throughout all the ages, the games are letting us see a couple moments in time where an undead person whooped on a bunch of scary-rear end monsters and stuff. I eagerly await the third installment.
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May 28, 2014 00:02
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Fister Roboto posted:All of you arguing about the story of DS2 are completely missing it. It's actually very simple. It's the story all about how your life gets flipped, and turned upside down, and you eventually become the monarch of a place called Drangleic. I'll tell you a story all about how my soul memory flipped upsidedown. I'd like to take a minute, just let me say it and I'll tell you how I became monarch of the ruins of Drangleic. Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 00:09 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 00:03
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Ok why the gently caress are so many people summoning red phantoms in the Iron Keep Bridge in NG+ while rolling with 2 white phantoms just to gank them over and over? Normally I'd think it's just someone trolling but I've tried dueling for like 2 hours today and like 1/3 of the summons would end up 1v3 with them just stomping me. What is even the point of this? Soul grinding? (and no, they aren't summoning red phantoms like in a fight club)
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May 28, 2014 00:04
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My new favourite activity is to put down the small soapstone near the first iron keep bonfire. If I get summoned to a gank squad then throw lifedrain patch on the host and his buddy. The dumbfucks keep walking into it. That extends to summoning the shades that are part of gank squads and dropping it on them when they spawn in. Gank squads must die! Edit - Nice timing there
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May 28, 2014 00:04
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Does a red soapstone invader get anything for winning?
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May 28, 2014 00:08
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Daynab posted:Ok why the gently caress are so many people summoning red phantoms in the Iron Keep Bridge in NG+ while rolling with 2 white phantoms just to gank them over and over? Same thing happened in Dks. People like to gank.
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May 28, 2014 00:11
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Cyberventurer posted:Does a red soapstone invader get anything for winning? Souls and a token of spite.
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May 28, 2014 00:11
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Genocyber posted:Same thing happened in Dks. People like to gank. Sure but one squad in particular was there for like one hour. It can't possibly be fun to just summon -> roll up on someone and murder them within 10 seconds.
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May 28, 2014 00:13
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You severely underestimate how dickish this community can be.
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May 28, 2014 00:14
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Daynab posted:Sure but one squad in particular was there for like one hour. It can't possibly be fun to just summon -> roll up on someone and murder them within 10 seconds. They have the exact same motive as the average invader. gently caress people over.
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May 28, 2014 00:20
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Daynab posted:Sure but one squad in particular was there for like one hour. It can't possibly be fun to just summon -> roll up on someone and murder them within 10 seconds.
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May 28, 2014 00:25
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Lalus posted:My new favourite activity is to put down the small soapstone near the first iron keep bonfire. If I get summoned to a gank squad then throw lifedrain patch on the host and his buddy. The dumbfucks keep walking into it. That extends to summoning the shades that are part of gank squads and dropping it on them when they spawn in. Gank squads must die! Haha, i think you might have done this to me. Repeatedly.
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May 28, 2014 00:26
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skasion posted:Drakekeeper? Royal Swordsman? Ironclad? Actually i went for this: 
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May 28, 2014 00:27
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Ganksquads are terrible players who think its some sort of trolling to kill the reds. Theres shitloads of them on the iron keep bridge. Last one, the host summoned in a red and expected us two whites to help gank. I caught the other phantom with lifedrain in the archway so he had to run and heal. The host was then solo with the red and got his rear end handed to him. Last time I heard on his voice chat was "help me motherfuckers" just before he died  I'm also a fuckin lovely bastard juden bitch 
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May 28, 2014 00:27
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Daynab posted:Sure but one squad in particular was there for like one hour. It can't possibly be fun to just summon -> roll up on someone and murder them within 10 seconds. I guess it would depend on the execution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxu--N3hm-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKOTXadWRtg e: okay, not DS2 videos, but I haven't seen that many funny DS2 ones yet.
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May 28, 2014 00:29
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neetengie posted:gently caress it man, lets go bowling Dark scythe of Nahr Alma or whatever does enough damage with a buff to be useable. Not great, but fun. Also the silverblack weapons, the spear especially (the sickle's alright too but it's just the Nahr Alma scythe but less so). The spear is legit good. Don't see many helix halberds, and it is also good. Scythes, spears, and claws are basically the things you never see. There's no reason for it with spears either, they're perfectly fine (although I guess not as good as syan halberd so that's probably the reason).
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May 28, 2014 00:29
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Lalus posted:Ganksquads are terrible players who think its some sort of trolling to kill the reds. Theres shitloads of them on the iron keep bridge. Last one, the host summoned in a red and expected us two whites to help gank. I caught the other phantom with lifedrain in the archway so he had to run and heal. The host was then solo with the red and got his rear end handed to him. Last time I heard on his voice chat was "help me motherfuckers" just before he died Yeah i usually just watch when i see the host summon a red. I've been summoned as red when he had 2 more guys with him, so gently caress you host.
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May 28, 2014 00:30
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I hope it gets patched out BUUUT roll parrying solves a lot of ganker problems.
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May 28, 2014 00:44
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Improbable Lobster posted:I'll tell you a story all about how In West Tseldora, born and raised In the quicksand is where I spent most of my days Chillin' out, maxin' and petrifyin' some fools while the mages shootin' magic at some ghouls when a couple of undead who were up to no good started making trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight and the Duke got scared and said, "You're gonna go kill the Lords to be heir."
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May 28, 2014 00:44
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Tokyo Sex Whale posted:Scythes, spears, and claws are basically the things you never see. There's no reason for it with spears either, they're perfectly fine (although I guess not as good as syan halberd so that's probably the reason). The bone scythe is fun to mess around with but it's pretty weak all in all.
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May 28, 2014 00:44
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It took forever to get my Yellow King hat, but my goofy-rear end poisonmancer is complete.
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May 28, 2014 00:50
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Improbable Lobster posted:I'll tell you a story all about how Honorable Prince, take your throne. And do fresh things, if it please.
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May 28, 2014 00:53
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What would you guys think is better for a murakumo pyro build(50 29 12 20 20 20 20 x x), fth or int? I'm bandit so I'd get more bang for my buck with fth, but stuff like camouflage, soul great sword, etc does sound enticing over well, great magic barrier.
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May 28, 2014 01:01
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Martman posted:But... delicious pubby tears!! Any and all bullshit from the game or from its players is justified because  and they should just suck it up. or something.
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May 28, 2014 01:07
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Flytrap posted:I abuse the copy glitch maliciously in DeS for just that reason. I always have at least 99 of every upgrade material I find. Does one of these exist for dark souls 2? I wanna upgrade all the poo poo that I actually want to use but most of it requires twinkling or petrified dragon bones which are both decently rare and scarce so I don't really ever have enough to spare for upgrading anything more than one item once in a while.
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May 28, 2014 01:09
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Gestalt Intellect posted:Any and all bullshit from the game or from its players is justified because drat skippy.
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May 28, 2014 01:12
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Tokyo Sex Whale posted:I hope it gets patched out BUUUT roll parrying solves a lot of ganker problems. Eh, not really. Most gankers I've found are people spamming magic or avelyns, which you can't really parry.
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May 28, 2014 01:12
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Vanderdeath posted:In West Tseldora, born and raised Well done. Sang it in my head. - Do a lot of you have the voice enabled? I know I turned that off immediately. I prefer gestures.
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May 28, 2014 01:18
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Bob NewSCART posted:Does one of these exist for dark souls 2? I wanna upgrade all the poo poo that I actually want to use but most of it requires twinkling or petrified dragon bones which are both decently rare and scarce so I don't really ever have enough to spare for upgrading anything more than one item once in a while. Ascetic the aerie and kill lizards to get a bunch of both. Bring lightning spears, GRS, or some other way to one shot them from range or you'll be cursing their very existence, though. Actually, that will probably happen regardless. Run through and kill the dragons first, then come back to get the lizards. But back to Demon Souls. The 1000 different types of upgrade ores, combined with the fact that they tended to weight a ton, combined with the fact that you had limited item burden, all came together to create a really frustrating system. Item burden, and world/character tendency were the really awful parts of Demon Souls. I still think its a fantastic game, but man those systems were terrible. e: Oh man, I just remembered the fixed number of crystal lizard spawns. I'd blocked that one out of my memory.
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May 28, 2014 01:20
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Wow a lot of plot chat today! I think a big problem with plot analysis is that a lot of the fire/dark/nothingness/whatever makes no sense at all if you try taking it literally rather than more of a thematic element. The age of fire as a theme is when things flourish and prosper, the age of dark as a theme is when things settle into a deep calm, and the word dark itself seems to serve more as a counterpart to fire rather than any set idea, shown by dark meaning different things when talking about Manus or the age of darkness or humanity or a metaphor for suffering and madness. Fire is power and greatness, dark is the absence of these qualities. The Japanese just aren't huge fans of literalism I guess. e: Agdayne seems to have sort of a dig at this sort of analysis as well with his truth/fiction line.
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May 28, 2014 01:29
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I don't get why people hate item burden so much. It's a boring mechanic, but as long as you dump excess ore and weapons onto Thomas when you return to the Nexus it's never gonna come up, especially if you make sure to keep the Ring of Herculean Strength handy. World Tendency is a good mechanic but not the best implemented. Everything as it is is fine imo, it just needs more ways to control how tendency changes. That you have a limited number of chances to raise tendency into white is unfortunate. That said, it's not even remotely a big deal because all the stuff locked behind WT are completely optional items and in some cases are not even good. Character Tendency I don't know why you'd complain about. It barely has any effect; three weapons scale with it, there's a sidequest chain available for PB, and you get a small damage bonus at PW.
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May 28, 2014 01:30
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Bob NewSCART posted:Does one of these exist for dark souls 2? I wanna upgrade all the poo poo that I actually want to use but most of it requires twinkling or petrified dragon bones which are both decently rare and scarce so I don't really ever have enough to spare for upgrading anything more than one item once in a while. I think one might exist, though I've never looked into it. While twinkling is rare, Petrified Dragon bones drop quite often from the Dragon Acolytes(?) behind the paintings, etc. at the back of Aldia's Keep. Perhaps I was just lucky, but I farmed there using only one ascetic and I got bones from ~50% of the mobs (in other words, quite a lot). There's also the crystal geckos in the Dragon Aerie, as well as dragon loot and stuff lying around. The dragons can be easily cheesed with ranged attacks, so it's a nice place to farm those things.
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May 28, 2014 01:33
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Genocyber posted:I don't get why people hate item burden so much. It's a boring mechanic, but as long as you dump excess ore and weapons onto Thomas when you return to the Nexus it's never gonna come up, especially if you make sure to keep the Ring of Herculean Strength handy. Because it doesn't add anything to the game. The question about a game mechanic shouldn't be "is it tolerable enough to not be completely obnoxious" but rather "does this in any way enhance the gameplay experience?" If you can't say yes, then it shouldn't be there. Sin is largely a more interesting implementation of character tendency, and world tendency should absolutely not have been implemented in a way that would lock you out of optional items given that it's otherwise supposed to be a super malleable game mechanic. The idea of intentionally cultivating levels for specific purposes is neat, but the implementation was loving miserable.
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May 28, 2014 01:33
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I've only come across a handful of ascetics throughout my whole play through, and I just beat the looking glass knight. Is there anywhere you can get a meaningful amount?
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May 28, 2014 01:35
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Bob NewSCART posted:I've only come across a handful of ascetics throughout my whole play through, and I just beat the looking glass knight. Is there anywhere you can get a meaningful amount? Your Computer posted:I think one might exist, though I've never looked into it. While twinkling is rare, Petrified Dragon bones drop quite often from the Dragon Acolytes(?) behind the paintings, etc. at the back of Aldia's Keep. Perhaps I was just lucky, but I farmed there using only one ascetic and I got bones from ~50% of the mobs (in other words, quite a lot). There's also the crystal geckos in the Dragon Aerie, as well as dragon loot and stuff lying around. The dragons can be easily cheesed with ranged attacks, so it's a nice place to farm those things.
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May 28, 2014 01:40
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Furthermore on not taking things literally, I think the transitions between areas are not supposed to be literal distances or some manifestation of madness or ~spacetimedistortion~ but rather an approximation of spreading things way the hell out without the tedious slog between them as a sort of compromise between world-building and gameplay.
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May 28, 2014 01:42
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Bob NewSCART posted:I've only come across a handful of ascetics throughout my whole play through, and I just beat the looking glass knight. Is there anywhere you can get a meaningful amount? Info like this is easy to get at the different wikis (unless you're against that stuff) like here. Long story short; two NPC's sell 10 each, Gandahl (after joining) and Navlaan (after doing/skipping quest)
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Anyone in NG+ around 3.5 SM have the Shadow Hat and leggings for trade? I'm up to 18 kills and I can't muster up the will to do the run to the ship again. I think FROM went a little batty with the drop rate on these sets.
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