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Sanctum posted:Someone explain Iron Keep bridge PVP to me. I've been putting red soapstone signs down (and getting invaded by 1 guy repeatedly.) Sometimes I get summoned to a fight club against other reds like in DS1. Since red phantoms can't heal, am I supposed to just leave after the fight if I've taken some hits? Or should I stay and fight the next guy with low health anyways? Usually hosts are pyromancers with Warmth equipped so you can heal up, but if not then yeah you're just supposed to fight more dudes.
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Sanctum posted:Someone explain Iron Keep bridge PVP to me. I've been putting red soapstone signs down (and getting invaded by 1 guy repeatedly.) Sometimes I get summoned to a fight club against other reds like in DS1. Since red phantoms can't heal, am I supposed to just leave after the fight if I've taken some hits? Or should I stay and fight the next guy with low health anyways? Well, Iron Keep PvP is basically just a community sanctioned place to have fun 1v1 fights. Sometimes people will host fight clubs there, where you're generally expected to stick around after winning (but you don't have to). If the host is adequately prepared, they'll have a copy of Warmth on hand so you can heal between fights, but not always. Basically do what you want there. Keep in mind the host doesn't always cast Warmth (or maybe they just don't have it.) One of the things you'll need to learn about DaS2 PvP (at least if you're the Spirit) is that yes, hosts frequently will chicken out and heal, so you're going to want to either keep a method of healing onhand (meaning a spell) or a good way to punish estus. Dragon spirits can use estus themselves if you want to keep things even. Mostly, though, just keep a black crystal on hand and have fun. It's a pretty relaxing way to get in some relatively even PvP.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:06
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The 2 that joined after me both started to jog right past me like I was there to help them kill the host. This isn't bellbros after all, I'm not going to fight the host 2v1 when I can just fight the other red. One of them got really cheesy after I 'surprise' attacked him, he ran into the keep and would use the santier spear lunge attack through the narrow doorway where swinging weapons would be useless. My caestus however, were not impeded by narrow doorways so his strategy was unsuccessful.
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During The Rotten boss fight, I keep glancing back up at my health bar only to find that I'm missing half my health. This is even if the boss hadn't hit me yet. I doubt I'm taking damage from the fire as there are no fire particle effects or burning sounds. What gives?
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Jun 8, 2014 03:09
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Ariong posted:During The Rotten boss fight, I keep glancing back up at my health bar only to find that I'm missing half my health. This is even if the boss hadn't hit me yet. I doubt I'm taking damage from the fire as there are no fire particle effects or burning sounds. What gives? The fire absolutely does deal damage to you; a lot of damage, and fast.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:11
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Sanctum posted:Someone explain Iron Keep bridge PVP to me. I've been putting red soapstone signs down (and getting invaded by 1 guy repeatedly.) Sometimes I get summoned to a fight club against other reds like in DS1. Since red phantoms can't heal, am I supposed to just leave after the fight if I've taken some hits? Or should I stay and fight the next guy with low health anyways? According to Miss Manners a good fight club host should be casting warmth to heal the reds between fights but if they're not yeah even if they're not keep fighting. Going on a streak with no heals is cool.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:12
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King of Solomon posted:The fire absolutely does deal damage to you; a lot of damage, and fast. I know it deals damage. Are you saying that there's no indication that you've stepped in it unless you're looking at your health bar while you do it? I hope not, because it was pretty clear when you were being burned in DS1 and it would be prett idiotic if they took that out for no reason.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:14
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Tokyo Sex Whale posted:According to Miss Manners a good fight club host should be casting warmth to heal the reds between fights but if they're not yeah even if they're not keep fighting. Going on a streak with no heals is cool. Earlier today I was in a fight club with no Warmth. I won three fights in a row (with the last leaving me with about a single hit's worth of HP). The fight immediately after that last victory was a double kill. You really do feel loving incredible after that. E: Ariong posted:I know it deals damage. Are you saying that there's no indication that you've stepped in it unless you're looking at your health bar while you do it? I hope not, because it was pretty clear when you were being burned in DS1 and it would be prett idiotic if they took that out for no reason. I think there is an indication, but it can be pretty hard to see if you're focusing all of your attention on the boss. Just try to stay out of the fire, not much I can really say about it.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:14
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Well drat dude. In DS1 there was a firey effect that appeared around you, along with a very audible FWOOSH. Sucks to see the game becoming worse in a very real way.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:17
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Sanctum posted:Basically I killed 3 reds that all seemed to want to attack the host and not me, does that make me a terrible traitor to my covenant or what? The gently caress is this? You're a bloodbro, not a whimpy blue boy. "Honor" and "respect" are qualities you only maintain for your own amusement. Your primary goal is to spill blood, and it doesn't loving matter whos blood it is. The hosts blood, blue boy blood, bell cop blood, your blood; whatever. Someone needs to loving die and it doesn't matter how you go about it. Though not a requirement, making someone miserable in the process is a nice bonus. Alright what I'm really saying is if you want to do "honorable" duels, join the dragons. Their entire covenant is built around fighting people 1 on 1.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:21
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King of Solomon posted:Earlier today I was in a fight club with no Warmth. I won three fights in a row (with the last leaving me with about a single hit's worth of HP). The fight immediately after that last victory was a double kill. You really do feel loving incredible after that. I had one where the host would drop a "very good" after every fight. Had a pretty good streak going, parried the last guy out of the gate and the host very gooded before I reposted. He got back up and owned me but it's nice to have people who believe in you. E: quote:Someone needs to loving die and it doesn't matter how you go about it. Though not a requirement, making someone miserable in the process is a nice bonus Insight into a posting philosophy. Tokyo Sex Whale fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Jun 8, 2014 03:21
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aegof posted:Greatweapon run. There's even one of the Large or Great Club in the Gutter, available at any time (that you can afford the cat ring). For full points, wear no armor. The large/great clubs are fantastic though so that one isn't much of a challenge. Large club and naked is the way I beat the 2nd Pursuer fight the first time around, I was too slow with armour on and gently caress all agility for iframes.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:27
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Ariong posted:During The Rotten boss fight, I keep glancing back up at my health bar only to find that I'm missing half my health. This is even if the boss hadn't hit me yet. I doubt I'm taking damage from the fire as there are no fire particle effects or burning sounds. What gives? You are essentially walking on lava. Stop doing that.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:35
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Do a Belmont run but don't use the Old Whip. Do an Angry Chef run with only the ladle. Do a One Ring To Rule Them All run where you only wear one ring at a time and pretend to be an LotR character, doesn't matter which. Do a Wolverine run where you only use claws and the only healing you're allowed to use is the Regen ring. Do a magic run where you never use lock on. Ever.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:42
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I have been having a tough time summoning a friend in the dragon aerie. Using name engraved ring, in human form all the usual stuff. Rebooted, we are within 20k souls and 5 levels of each other and had been summoning fine earlier. Any tips and tricks?
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Jun 8, 2014 03:43
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Ninkobei posted:I have been having a tough time summoning a friend in the dragon aerie. Using name engraved ring, in human form all the usual stuff. Rebooted, we are within 20k souls and 5 levels of each other and had been summoning fine earlier. Any tips and tricks? The Dragon Aerie and the Dragon Shrine technically do not have a boss until you piss it off, so you can only summon with the small engraved soapstone until then. You shouldn't even really need to until Dragon Shrine if at all, Dragon Aerie only has a few enemies and you can avoid the big scary ones.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:45
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What stats should I put points into, as a strength character? I've been playing as a preist, but miracles aren't my style. I'm going to re-spec. I mostly use the mace, the shield that you get after the pursuer, archdrake robes, and a manikin mask.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:47
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Ariong posted:What stats should I put points into, as a strength character? I've been playing as a preist, but miracles aren't my style. I'm going to re-spec. I mostly use the mace, the shield that you get after the pursuer, archdrake robes, and a manikin mask.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:50
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Ariong posted:What stats should I put points into, as a strength character? I've been playing as a preist, but miracles aren't my style. I'm going to re-spec. I mostly use the mace, the shield that you get after the pursuer, archdrake robes, and a manikin mask. VIG for hp, VIT to comfortably (<70% load) wear what you want to wear, DEX for gear requirements (maces are like 7), I've been going 100 agility with 24 ADP and took 13 in ATT for the cast slots then dumped rest in STR/END
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Jun 8, 2014 03:51
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The mace has a Dex requirement of 5, and the Gyrm Great hammer has 4, both of which are lower than the preist's starting DEX. How high should I put STR before I stop putting points into it?
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Jun 8, 2014 03:54
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Internet Kraken posted:The gently caress is this? You're a bloodbro, not a whimpy blue boy. "Honor" and "respect" are qualities you only maintain for your own amusement. Your primary goal is to spill blood, and it doesn't loving matter whos blood it is. The hosts blood, blue boy blood, bell cop blood, your blood; whatever. Someone needs to loving die and it doesn't matter how you go about it. Though not a requirement, making someone miserable in the process is a nice bonus. I love it when I'm doing bell covenant and the host gets invaded by a blood or crip, even better if there's a second bellbro. Earlier today I had to kill a bluebro who only wanted to kill the host, because the other bellbro that got summoned with me really wanted to kill the cop. We're all trying to kill the same guy but between our thirsts for blood, justice, and bells we just cannot let each other be.
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Ariong posted:The mace has a Dex requirement of 5, and the Gyrm Great hammer has 4, both of which are lower than the preist's starting DEX. How high should I put STR before I stop putting points into it?
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Ariong posted:The mace has a Dex requirement of 5, and the Gyrm Great hammer has 4, both of which are lower than the preist's starting DEX. How high should I put STR before I stop putting points into it? 50 for Havel's cosplay with Dragon Tooth
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Jun 8, 2014 03:55
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argondamn posted:I love it when I'm doing bell covenant and the host gets invaded by a blood or crip, even better if there's a second bellbro. Earlier today I had to kill a bluebro who only wanted to kill the host, because the other bellbro that got summoned with me really wanted to kill the cop. I have a dream, that one day the red, white, and blue phantoms of this great nation of Belfrytopia will come together in the common bond of brotherhood, and killing the host, to put aside our differences~ 
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Jun 8, 2014 03:57
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Shindragon posted:Wait what? Pretty sure the vast majority of weapon-based enemies/bosses have a backstab move. Given that most mobs are much more predictable and have much longer recovery animations than players, though, you just don't see them very often.
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Jun 8, 2014 04:04
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Captain Oblivious posted:I have a dream, that one day the red, white, and blue phantoms of this great nation of Belfrytopia will come together in the common bond of brotherhood, and killing the host, to put aside our differences~ You're looking at it in the wrong way. Think about it. If the blue/red phantoms are invading, they have to be in the belltower. In the belltower. Next to the bell. They could be bellringers. That gray one over there? He might be standing with you now, but in his world, he could be a bellringer. You never know. You have to be safe, keep the bell safe. Kill them all. animatorZed fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Jun 8, 2014 04:08
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It's a real shame I'm not good enough at PvP to actually win 1v2s and 1v3s, because I actually managed to encounter a blue defender a couple times today. 
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Jun 8, 2014 04:10
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If I fight one more person wearing Havel gloves/pants I am going to poo poo myself I swear to god
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Jun 8, 2014 04:10
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Havel's gloves look good and go with several chest armors.  The pants are lame though.
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Jun 8, 2014 04:12
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The pants used to be great with the boar helm since they sort of made your legs look like beastman legs. That plus no shirt plus a greataxe made you look like some crazy minotaur motherfucker. It was boss.
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Jun 8, 2014 04:14
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TGLT posted:The Dragon Aerie and the Dragon Shrine technically do not have a boss until you piss it off, so you can only summon with the small engraved soapstone until then. You shouldn't even really need to until Dragon Shrine if at all, Dragon Aerie only has a few enemies and you can avoid the big scary ones.
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Jun 8, 2014 04:17
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Did you know the mimic eating you if you open it isn't actually related to you opening it? If you're in soul greatsword range or less within the timeframe of it opening up you just teleport into its mouth and (probably, I did on NG+) die.
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Jun 8, 2014 04:18
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RBA Starblade posted:Did you know the mimic eating you if you open it isn't actually related to you opening it? If you're in soul greatsword range or less within the timeframe of it opening up you just teleport into its mouth and (probably, I did on NG+) die. I discovered this by trying to be clever with the first mimic in Earthen Peak and attacking it from behind. It didn't work out well.
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Jun 8, 2014 04:19
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Regy Rusty posted:I discovered this by trying to be clever with the first mimic in Earthen Peak and attacking it from behind. It's really the only dangerous move they seem to have.
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 why is there underboob  Also, help, I can't stop poisoning people in the belfry.
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Jun 8, 2014 04:34
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That dress wasnt made for women. What, do you think it'd magically grow a bra if you put it on?
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Jun 8, 2014 04:38
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Just hit Shrine of Amana and I've got 80k souls to my name and I'm not sure what to spend it on. I can't upgrade any of my armor because it all needs Twinkling Titanite and my weapon needs Petrified Dragon Bone. Fresh out of both of those. I'm at level 100 but I don't really feel like I'm hurting for any more stats. Is there anything at all worth spending them on?
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Kaubocks posted:Just hit Shrine of Amana and I've got 80k souls to my name and I'm not sure what to spend it on. I can't upgrade any of my armor because it all needs Twinkling Titanite and my weapon needs Petrified Dragon Bone. Fresh out of both of those. I'm at level 100 but I don't really feel like I'm hurting for any more stats. Buy titanite, buy boss armors, buy ascetics, items... weapons are usually the most fun to expiriment with.
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The fun of PvP is seriously diminished when you continually run into min-maxed (and probably hacked, yeah sure you have the CoC ring and rank 3 Brotherhood of Blood, guy,) characters that I do like, 50 damage to per attack.
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SynthOrange posted:That dress wasnt made for women.  what happened to that bra, huh
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Kaubocks posted:Just hit Shrine of Amana and I've got 80k souls to my name and I'm not sure what to spend it on. I can't upgrade any of my armor because it all needs Twinkling Titanite and my weapon needs Petrified Dragon Bone. Fresh out of both of those. I'm at level 100 but I don't really feel like I'm hurting for any more stats. More levels. Seriously. If every stat isn't at 40, you aren't soulsing right. Or whatever. There's plenty of other crap to spend souls on. Get alternate armor sets from the dude in the house or whatever. Meanwhile, I made a new character who has the tiny buckler in offhand and a rapier in the main, with ricard's rapier as an up-and-coming backup. She's appropriately named Parrymancer. Now to hop into the gutter and grab the pyromancer set to complete the pun.
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