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King of Solomon posted:No one pointed this out yet, but you're not actually advancing in the covenant. The Brotherhood of Blood only gains rank through net arena wins. It's stupid as hell and makes no loving sense. Nah, killing blue cops who were summoned to defend also advances rank.
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Control Volume posted:Nah, killing blue cops who were summoned to defend also advances rank. Why have I only just learned of this? Goddamn it.
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May 30, 2014 06:32
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I went back a few pages and didn't see these patch notes so if anyone can translate better than google:FROM posted:日頃よりフロム・ソフトウェアをご愛顧頂きまして誠にありがとうございます。 google translate posted:Thank you very much I received for your continued support of From Software than daily.
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King of Solomon posted:Why have I only just learned of this? Goddamn it. Because it's so rare that no one remembers it. 
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May 30, 2014 06:34
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Control Volume posted:Because it's so rare that no one remembers it. I suppose you still lose points if you lose those fights? I need to keep my expectations appropriately low.
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May 30, 2014 06:38
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I...think I'm gonna have to wait for a better translation on those patch notes  Japanese is a language that survives Google translate poorly. 
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May 30, 2014 06:39
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King of Solomon posted:I suppose you still lose points if you lose those fights? I need to keep my expectations appropriately low. According to all the wikis that talk about it, you can only lose points in the arena. e: Oh I remember the exception now, arena duels and bluecop murders don't stack. It's one or the other.
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masato tatanka posted:I went back a few pages and didn't see these patch notes so if anyone can translate better than google: It looks like they're balancing the damage of GRS, WoG, possibly increasing damage (or reducing) Flame + Resonant Weapon, Avelyn might be getting nerfed, Santier's Spear might be getting nerfed, doing something with the Abyss Seal and other stuff I can't comprehend.
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Control Volume posted:According to all the wikis that talk about it, you can only lose points in the arena. So your options for advancing in the covenant are tied to a stupid amount of net wins in an arena composed almost exclusively of unfair fights and winning fights that almost never happen. Great game design, From. neetengie posted:It looks like they're balancing the damage of GRS, WoG, possibly increasing damage (or reducing) Flame + Resonant Weapon, Avelyn might be getting nerfed, Santier's Spear might be getting nerfed, doing something with the Abyss Seal and other stuff I can't comprehend. It looks like they're also nerfing "Song Sword" parry, which could be either the Monastery Scimitar specifically or curved swords in general. Hopefully it's the former.
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Captain Oblivious posted:I...think I'm gonna have to wait for a better translation on those patch notes -Bat Staff poison bonus is for melee only -Avelyn nerf -No idea what "Onoyari of thine" is -Santier Spear nerf -No idea what "sword of the curse's" is -Cale's armor buff -Abyss ring nerf -Resonant Soul nerf -Wrath of God nerf -Resonant Weapon nerf -Flame Weapon nerf -Unsure what "Thorn Sword" is, presumably Thorned Greatsword moveset change -Axe/Greataxe change -Monastery Sword parry nerf -Reduced weapon enchantment buff -Buffed Lingering Dragoncrest/Nerfed enchantment duration?
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Looks like they're nerfing the capital of South Korea to me.
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A...Flame Weapon nerf? I wonder why. It's pretty much the same as all the rest, except for in how many uses it has, or at least I thought it was. Did it have some abnormally high % buff I'm not aware of? Maybe they're curtailing the cast amount.
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May 30, 2014 06:43
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Large resonance of Seoul? Hah.Captain Oblivious posted:I...think I'm gonna have to wait for a better translation on those patch notes Eh, it makes enough sense to follow. edit: We should keep in mind that balance doesn't necessarily mean nerf. Any one of these could be getting buffed for all we know. Well, for all we who do not read Japanese know at any rate. Manatee Cannon fucked around with this message at 06:45 on May 30, 2014 |
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LEGEND OF ZELDA: ONOYARI OF THINE e: looks like Onoyari of Thine is the Syan's Halberd, gently caress you users of that handsome only face fucked around with this message at 06:47 on May 30, 2014 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:I...think I'm gonna have to wait for a better translation on those patch notes From what I can interpret, it looks like the Bat Staff, Avelyn, Santier's Spear, Cale's set, Abyss covenant ring, Wrath of God, Resonant Soul, Resonant Weapon, Fire Weapon, and Greataxe powerstance moveset are getting changed in some way. I think they're doing something to piercing and curved swords but that part is even more confusing.
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Motioning to ban referring to the Bat Staff henceforth as anything other than "wand flying rat" weapon.
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The Iron Keep is a shithole, the Smelter Demon is an rear end in a top hat and the Blacksteel Katana is disappointing. Also, holy poo poo people are really bad at this game. I was trying to Small Sign Sunbro to get my humanity back and most people died before even getting to the fog door. The rest died to the Smelter Demon, but I can't really fault them for that.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/26uq3u/dark_souls_ii_v106_regulation_notes_poorly/ slightly better translation. Some of these changes are dumb. i.e. Santier's. It was only "OP" when made mundane, whereas it sounds like it'll get a flat nerf. And nerfing res weapon makes no sense, it already has a ton of downsides.
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Inspector_666 posted:The Iron Keep is a shithole, the Smelter Demon is an rear end in a top hat and the Blacksteel Katana is disappointing. Smelter Demon is legit hardcore but he WILL make you a better player. Learn to rely entirely on dodge rolls. Time it right, squeeze right out under his swings. Remember, roll INTO the swing. Less time in the hitbox makes the most of limited iFrames.
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So I just read what the Covenant of Champions does when you join it. I guess that explains why the game is so loving hard, because apparently it makes the game's difficulty ramp up to NG+ levels. I can only really laugh at myself. Here I am bashing my head against the wall when I didn't even realize I ramped the difficulty up shitloads by joining a covenant when I started playing.  e; time to abandon the gently caress out of this covenant so I can enjoy the rest of the game.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Smelter Demon is legit hardcore but he WILL make you a better player. Learn to rely entirely on dodge rolls. Time it right, squeeze right out under his swings. Remember, roll INTO the swing. Less time in the hitbox makes the most of limited iFrames. Oh, yeah, Iron Keep has already made me change up my play a lot given how everything there attacks. And I have had some good fights against Smelter, just none good enough, yet.
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Alabaster White posted:-Santier Spear nerf Just finished my Mundane run. Was fun while it lasted.
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Genocyber posted:And nerfing res weapon makes no sense, it already has a ton of downsides. Duration and soul cost, but is there anything else?
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NTT posted:So I just read what the Covenant of Champions does when you join it. I guess that explains why the game is so loving hard, because apparently it makes the game's difficulty ramp up to NG+ levels. I can only really laugh at myself. Here I am bashing my head against the wall when I didn't even realize I ramped the difficulty up shitloads by joining a covenant when I started playing. This is why you stop, think, and ask yourself: "Hmm the game has asked me three times are you REALLY REALLY SURE you want to join this Covenant maaaaybe this is a bad idea".
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Inspector_666 posted:The Iron Keep is a shithole, the Smelter Demon is an rear end in a top hat and the Blacksteel Katana is disappointing. The Blacksteel is the best early katana in the game, what are you talking about The only things that really outdo it are the washing pole because of the range and the chaos blade because of the bullshit damage output.
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aegof posted:Duration and soul cost, but is there anything else? Requires 2 slots and gives 2 casts, compared to Dark Weapon's 1 slot and 4 casts.
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Captain Oblivious posted:This is why you stop, think, and ask yourself: "Hmm the game has asked me three times are you REALLY REALLY SURE you want to join this Covenant maaaaybe this is a bad idea". I just saw that as the usual 'picking a covenant isn't trivial, because if you switch to another one you'll be penalized'.
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Inspector_666 posted:Oh, yeah, Iron Keep has already made me change up my play a lot given how everything there attacks. And I have had some good fights against Smelter, just none good enough, yet. You can do it  Also the final boss of Iron Keep is a total joke after the INTENSIVE TRAINING REGIMEN of Smelter Demon.
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NTT posted:I just saw that as the usual 'picking a covenant isn't trivial, because if you switch to another one you'll be penalized'. Did you actually read the warnings, though? One of them specifically says it will "set you on an arduous path." Genocyber posted:Requires 2 slots and gives 2 casts, compared to Dark Weapon's 1 slot and 4 casts. Dark Weapon can only be cast by staves though. 
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What gets me on smelter is after dodging all of his basic attacks, he'll hold that smash attack over his head just long enough that I gently caress up my timing and roll early and eat flame sword. Also, I kinda wish his phase abilities happened later in the fight. Seems like 60-75% of the fight is phase 3.
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Control Volume posted:The Blacksteel is the best early katana in the game, what are you talking about It's so slow though. It may just be that I've come to know and love the Drangleic Sword so much, but something about the katana just feels wrong.
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You know, in hindsight I did see that warning. However I was far too "YAY DARK SOULS" to really think about it. I've been trying to play the game without 0 knowledge or internet to help me advance, just like it would have been had the game came out in the 90s. I came into the game blind, but it appears I unintentionally hosed my experience by making it way more  than it needed to be.
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Inspector_666 posted:It's so slow though. It may just be that I've come to know and love the Drangleic Sword so much, but something about the katana just feels wrong. Two words: running attack.
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Inspector_666 posted:It's so slow though. It may just be that I've come to know and love the Drangleic Sword so much, but something about the katana just feels wrong. There's nothing wrong with its attack speed. Except maybe for its quickdraw heavy, that's kinda slow.
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Control Volume posted:Two words: running attack. The greatsword running attack is also extremely good.
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Control Volume posted:Two words: running attack. Yeah, I was just told about that today. I'll probably try to work it in more since it looks cool. I just hyped that whole family of swords in my head. King of Solomon posted:There's nothing wrong with its attack speed. Except maybe for its quickdraw heavy, that's kinda slow. Like I said, I think it's just because the Drangleic Sword is so good that I'm not happy. I mean, that thing will 2-shot Alonne Knights and the thrusting heavy attack comes out super fast and will knock an enemy back enough that I can always connect with the follow up slashing heavy, and generally that means I've killed everything I fight. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 07:01 on May 30, 2014 |
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NTT posted:You know, in hindsight I did see that warning. However I was far too "YAY DARK SOULS" to really think about it. I've been trying to play the game without 0 knowledge or internet to help me advance, just like it would have been had the game came out in the 90s. I came into the game blind, but it appears I unintentionally hosed my experience by making it way more Well it wouldn't be Dark Souls without running it multiple times with drastically different playstyles each time. Inspector_666 posted:Like I said, I think it's just because the Drangleic Sword is so good that I'm not happy. I mean, that thing will 2-shot Alonne Knights and the thrusting heavy attack comes out super fast and will knock an enemy back enough that I can always connect with the follow up slashing heavy, and generally that means I've killed everything I fight. The Claymore/Drangleic/Burger King Sword/Defender Greatsword moveset has that effect on people. It's hard to go back.
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Genocyber posted:Requires 2 slots and gives 2 casts, compared to Dark Weapon's 1 slot and 4 casts. 1 extra slot is hardly a tradeoff for the bonus 20% power compared to every other enchantment in the game, and casts barely matter at all thanks to herbs. Even as a phantom, 2 casts will probably last you long enough to do whatever it is you're doing.
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Inspector_666 posted:Like I said, I think it's just because the Drangleic Sword is so good that I'm not happy. I mean, that thing will 2-shot Alonne Knights and the thrusting heavy attack comes out super fast and will knock an enemy back enough that I can always connect with the follow up slashing heavy, and generally that means I've killed everything I fight. Yeah, greatswords are probably actually a little too good to be honest. Katanas are totally fine though, you just have to put in the effort and/or stats and you'll gently caress poo poo up.
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