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Tae posted:Early talks say the Sunken City DLC was baby cakes compared to Iron King which worries me, because I struggled quite a lot with the Sunken City. A goon in the console thread said the early parts at least (up to third bonfire) are easier than the first DLC.
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Aug 26, 2014 05:31
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I haven't played this in ages, and am getting back into it for the DLC. Have they changed the way dex scaling works so it's in line with strength? Or is it still 2 points for strength scaling, one for dex?
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Aug 26, 2014 05:36
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The greatest track in Dark Souls II to date is up on yt but the name of it is a dlc spoiler, so: click for dlc spoilers!
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Aug 26, 2014 05:37
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Old Iron King isn't on the Steam store for purchase, was this normal for Sunken King? Since I bought that a week after the fact
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Aug 26, 2014 05:40
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Leper Residue posted:I haven't played this in ages, and am getting back into it for the DLC. Have they changed the way dex scaling works so it's in line with strength? Or is it still 2 points for strength scaling, one for dex? They didn't change Dex scaling, but most dex weapon got a huge buff, like Spears and Twin Blades got AR and/or scaling buffs.
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Aug 26, 2014 05:43
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Tae posted:They didn't change Dex scaling, but most dex weapon got a huge buff, like Spears and Twin Blades got AR and/or scaling buffs. Yeah! Spears are now awesome, Thrusting Swords are now awesome, Twinblades are now awesome, Curved Swords are now awesome... I'd say dex is doing very good  e: Unrelated, I've been invaded more the last couple of hours than I've been in the last month. Some of whom are using DLC items.  I guess you now have to play offline to not get spoiled before the DLC comes out. gently caress.
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Aug 26, 2014 05:55
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Concurred posted:Old Iron King isn't on the Steam store for purchase, was this normal for Sunken King? Since I bought that a week after the fact I bought Sunken King a day before it came out. I did have to kinda "trick" the store into letting me buy it. I clicked on DLC, then on Season Pass, then on the top I clicked on "Dark Souls 2 Downloadable Content" and it showed up in there. Searching just yielded the Season Pass. This trick doesn't seem to work for the Iron King.
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Aug 26, 2014 06:01
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I had a good time tonight in the blood arena, but there were a few instances where my reasonably-hard-hitting spells and melee swings didn't break the poise of dudes in heavy armor, even with the newly buffed stone ring on. I'm beginning to doubt that stone ring affects spells, or if it does, that it works in PVP as well as it does PVE.
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Aug 26, 2014 06:11
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Okay time to get back into the swing of things with a new build. My 'utility spell' build was mediocre, at best, so I'm thinking of switching over to something more purely martial with a side of poison. I'm thinking dual poison dagger and/or poison trident and spotted whip? Then primary damage with Pate's and a Blackbow. For rings/misc equipment I've got Stone, Flynn, Leo and Rat ring...or would blades be better than the small boost Rat gives? Also sanctum soldier gauntlets. Then for stats? I'm at SL 166 now. I'm not up and up on what changes and other items I may have missed though, anybody try something similar to this out?
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Aug 26, 2014 06:29
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Your Computer posted:Yeah! Spears are now awesome, Thrusting Swords are now awesome, Twinblades are now awesome, Curved Swords are now awesome... I'd say dex is doing very good drat, wish I would have made a dex guy instead of my standard dual club dude. Also what the hell, the mansion chest doesn't give a soul vessel anymore? That's crap.
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Aug 26, 2014 06:33
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Leper Residue posted:drat, wish I would have made a dex guy instead of my standard dual club dude. It always does, it's just there's a promo item at the moment. Try warping back and forth between Things Betwixt and it should refresh with a Vessel.
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Aug 26, 2014 06:45
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Alabaster White posted:It always does, it's just there's a promo item at the moment. Try warping back and forth between Things Betwixt and it should refresh with a Vessel. Oh cool, thanks. I was rather pissed that I got a lovely black steel katana (which maybe is good now?) instead of my soul vessel. If I've already opened the chest on the character from way before, will I get the promo item?
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Aug 26, 2014 06:58
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Leper Residue posted:Oh cool, thanks. I was rather pissed that I got a lovely black steel katana (which maybe is good now?) instead of my soul vessel. Yes. The chest refreshes every time a new item is placed in it.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:14
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Anyone run a poison build with pretty good success, or is it more of a gimmick? I've hardly ever encountered poison but I've been wanting to try it out.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:19
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The Protagonist posted:Anyone run a poison build with pretty good success, or is it more of a gimmick? I've hardly ever encountered poison but I've been wanting to try it out. I found it pretty useful on my bow build, poisoning a boss then switching to an arrow type that caused more raw damage until the poison expired seemed pretty efficient. In PVP, stunlocking people with a poison side-dagger was a useful trick to have up my sleeve - it was pretty panic-inducing when it worked - but it wasn't super reliable. You can't rely on poison for your main damage type but you can definitely weave it in there.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:22
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The Protagonist posted:Anyone run a poison build with pretty good success, or is it more of a gimmick? I've hardly ever encountered poison but I've been wanting to try it out. I keep trying to make poison pyro builds, but they're not nearly as good as the sorcery/mixed-school builds I love. A large part of this might just be (lack of) player skill with that build, though. I shelved it indefinitely when I got a guy poisoned, readied a forbidden sun to punish his moss usage, and it sailed right past his very slow crabwalk animation mid-moss.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:25
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Space Hamlet posted:In PVP, stunlocking people with a poison side-dagger was a useful trick to have up my sleeve - it was pretty panic-inducing when it worked - but it wasn't super reliable. You can't rely on poison for your main damage type but you can definitely weave it in there. Yeah I posted a rough build of what I was thinking with just a regular (raw?) Pate's as my primary with poison-dealing stuff offhand, but I just wanted to get a feel for what I should invest in before I respec. I've seen recommendations for both spotted whip and a poison infused trident, not really had a chance to play around with either much.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:29
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The Protagonist posted:Yeah I posted a rough build of what I was thinking with just a regular (raw?) Pate's as my primary with poison-dealing stuff offhand, but I just wanted to get a feel for what I should invest in before I respec. For me it was a poison parrying dagger, regular dagger +10, and some kind of bow in the left hand. In the right hand was another +10 dagger, a pyromancy hand, and a blacksteel katana. Dex build, had a lot of fun with it though my miracle build was more succesful for PVP.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:32
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The Protagonist posted:Anyone run a poison build with pretty good success, or is it more of a gimmick? I've hardly ever encountered poison but I've been wanting to try it out. I've run into a couple people running power-stanced spotted whips, which is pretty brutal when it lands. Not much else, though.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:33
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I'm doing a run through with a poison build right now and its a lot funner late game than it is at the beginning and middle. At the start you aren't really poisoning enough and in the middle there are a lot of poison resistant things (at least the route I took) but by end game a lot of guys get poisoned after just a few hits and you can just sit back and watch. Now that I think about it I may want to take my poison guy through this DLC because he made Iron Keep about ten times easier.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:34
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 LORE SPOILERS AHEAD, REFERENCING NEW ITEM DESCRIPTION http://i.imgur.com/c6hO4MK.jpg Harry Potter and Dark Souls take place in the same universe: CONFIRMED. TIME IS CONVOLUTED Crazy lore implications! Had to forgo img tags because it was breaking tables and spoilers don't play nice with timg.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:38
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Anyone know the item ID of the pharros mask? No time like the present to revive The Legend.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:40
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Getting pumped for the DLC, the Ashen Warrior Sword looks like the return of the Baller Swag Sword.
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Aug 26, 2014 07:43
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:I'm doing a run through with a poison build right now and its a lot funner late game than it is at the beginning and middle. At the start you aren't really poisoning enough and in the middle there are a lot of poison resistant things (at least the route I took) but by end game a lot of guys get poisoned after just a few hits and you can just sit back and watch. Now that I think about it I may want to take my poison guy through this DLC because he made Iron Keep about ten times easier. Yeah the dude I'm respecing is 166 and just now ready to jump into ng+. What is/was your stat spread around that level?
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Aug 26, 2014 07:49
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WarpedLichen posted:Getting pumped for the DLC, the Ashen Warrior Sword looks like the return of the Baller Swag Sword. It does look very similar in terms of design and moveset: from what I've seen it's basically a combination of all the best parts of the Foot Soldier Sword and Drakekeeper Sword with more damage (138 base damage, upgrades with Titanite meaning 276 base damage when +10, C/B scaling). It seems kind of OP, really, I am sure some of the info I have must be wrong. Oh, it does have low (30) durability which From seems to think is a good balancing factor. I mean I'm going to use the gently caress out of it if this is true but unless there's some other super strong weapons in the DLC everyone is going to use this thing. The Fume Sword looks interesting as well, a straight sword with S dex scaling and built in Dark damage and scaling. It has a moveset more like the Sun Sword's. RabidWeasel fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Aug 26, 2014 |
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Aug 26, 2014 08:13
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How're the early reports of how good the Majestic greatsword is?
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Aug 26, 2014 08:15
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DLC is open, restart steam to get the update.
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Aug 26, 2014 08:18
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Awesome, thanks for the heads up.
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Aug 26, 2014 08:22
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so my only question is how the heck we get access to it in the first place
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Aug 26, 2014 08:27
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The Iron Rose posted:so my only question is how the heck we get access to it in the first place Primal fire after the Old Iron King
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Aug 26, 2014 08:27
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Dang, I need to get up in ~4 hours. What unfortunate timing for me.
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Aug 26, 2014 08:29
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Nahxela posted:Dang, I need to get up in ~4 hours. What unfortunate timing for me. I am going to work right now, I can assure you that this is worse Is any of the new armour actually good or is it all pure ~Fashion Souls~?
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Aug 26, 2014 08:38
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did this shithole npc phantom just shrug at me drat you from
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Aug 26, 2014 09:01
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Played up to the third bonfire but I have to sleep  Feels significantly easier and more straightforward than Sunken King so far. I noped out of the tower of 'gently caress you poo poo's cursed' for now though 
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Aug 26, 2014 09:02
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Thumbtacks posted:did this shithole npc phantom just shrug at me oh jesus it's basically a person at this point
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Aug 26, 2014 09:04
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It's still closed for me. Or are you all hacking in your keys?
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Aug 26, 2014 09:21
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NOT A HUGE FAN OF THESE MONSTERS CONSTANTLY SPAWNING BEHIND ME ON THE SIDE OF CLIFFS
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Aug 26, 2014 09:28
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It's open for me. I think it seems easier so far since the last dlc both superpowered my character and I'm being incredibly cautious. Some pretty cool enemies/attacks too I like the dudes popping up out of the ash, the big  motherfuckers with firebreathing bull shoulder pads, the hollow golem bowmen that'll levitate their bowarm up into the air to get a better shot at you, and ohgod the teleporting backstabbing mage typesI'd recommend having some fire arrows handy too.
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Bewitched Greatsword and Bracing Knuckle Ring +2  This DLC is way more fun to me than Sunken King. Maybe the imagery was too bleary or something, but when I zoned into this one I was like "WHOA HEIDE'S WITH SNOW" and then about 15 seconds later I was like  oh nevermind.
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