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How much poise should I be aiming for? I wear a full set of Heide, but I'm getting stunlocked even against players that have stupid little knives. I thought that armor would be heavy enough, but I guess not.
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Node posted:How much poise should I be aiming for? I wear a full set of Heide, but I'm getting stunlocked even against players that have stupid little knives. I thought that armor would be heavy enough, but I guess not. You need a lot of poise to tank through even a small hit. In general, it's not worth trying to poisetank through something unless you're using an ultra greatsword/greataxe/great club; those weapons give you hyper poise during most of the attack animations, wherein you only take half the poise damage you normally would.
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Aug 17, 2015 20:28
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Its time for some cosplay.        
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Aug 17, 2015 20:39
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Aug 17, 2015 20:53
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You know, I've seen a lot of DS cosplay online and even saw a Solaire and a Dusk in person at Magfest a couple years back but I'm kind of surprised I've never seen a Giantdad.
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Aug 17, 2015 20:54
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RBA Starblade posted:You know, I've seen a lot of DS cosplay online and even saw a Solaire and a Dusk in person at Magfest a couple years back but I'm kind of surprised I've never seen a Giantdad. They're out there is you go looking at the dark souls tag on tumblr*. I saw one recently. *don't do this on a regular basis, it will make you insane
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Aug 17, 2015 20:56
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RBA Starblade posted:You know, I've seen a lot of DS cosplay online and even saw a Solaire and a Dusk in person at Magfest a couple years back but I'm kind of surprised I've never seen a Giantdad.   (complete with grass crest shield) Also, a capra demon: 
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Aug 17, 2015 21:05
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Ha, well there you go. That zweihander is enormous.  Capra's really well done there too! I like the led eyes.
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Aug 17, 2015 21:11
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Well, weapons in the souls universe are loving huge, I'd like to have that Plastic or whatever is made of Zweihander on my mancave 
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Aug 17, 2015 21:42
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This is amazing.
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Aug 17, 2015 21:51
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Guillermus posted:Well, weapons in the souls universe are loving huge, I'd like to have that Plastic or whatever is made of Zweihander on my mancave Zweihanders are actual weapons and are very long in reality 
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Aug 17, 2015 21:56
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Wikipedia posted:Due to their size and weight—typically at least 1.4 m (4 ft 71⁄8 in) long and with a weight of over 2 kg—Zweihänders require two hands; as such they require at least 25 cm (9.84 in) for the grip.[3] Zweihänders above 4 kg are considered to be more ceremonial than practical. Looks like they weren't just huge, but also practical apparently according to the wikipedia article. quote:Frisian hero Pier Gerlofs Donia is reputed to have wielded a Zweihänder with such skill, strength and efficiency that he managed to behead several people with it in a single blow. The Zweihänder ascribed to him is, as of 2008, on display in the Frisian museum. It has a length of 213 cm (84 in) and a weight of about 6.6 kg (141⁄2 lb).
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Aug 17, 2015 22:06
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I was really hoping it'd be an actual Giantdad with his kid with him. I loving love this.
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Aug 17, 2015 22:07
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Ekster posted:Looks like they weren't just huge, but also practical apparently according to the wikipedia article. They were pretty good for using with a Mordschlag technique, too. Can't quite cut through someone's armor? Punch through it instead!
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Aug 17, 2015 22:25
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Samuel Clemens posted:This is amazing. You could say it's real fuckin' Nito.
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Aug 17, 2015 22:46
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Ekster posted:Looks like they weren't just huge, but also practical apparently according to the wikipedia article. Jesus, I thought they were used as an anti-cavalry weapon. People used them in direct combat? 
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Aug 17, 2015 22:47
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poptart_fairy posted:Jesus, I thought they were used as an anti-cavalry weapon. People used them in direct combat? Yep! Swung by men in fabulous tights and hats. 
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Aug 17, 2015 22:52
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God almighty, Giantdad's not the reckless cookie cutter fantasy I thought it was.
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Aug 17, 2015 22:55
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 "What art thou, a peasant?"
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Aug 17, 2015 22:55
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Fabulous tights being the clothes they stripped from the people they killed in combat. Also they had only the finest codpieces.
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Aug 17, 2015 22:57
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Hahaha, From intentionally put a crystal lizard in Tseldora that's just close enough in range to lock on and fire at with a spell, and also just close enough to the ledge that if you do so you fall off and die. e: what do you mean the loyce greatsword takes twinkling titanite and not dragon bone I put all of that into the ice rapier noooooo RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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Aug 17, 2015 23:11
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Idk even in PvE (ultra/curved) greatswords show their superiority against most greataxes and greathammers due to the large sweeping one handed attacks. They're basically like a broom; a couple of sweeps and trash mobs are gone. The 2 handed attacks usually have some good clobbering power when needed,
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RBA Starblade posted:Hahaha, From intentionally put a crystal lizard in Tseldora that's just close enough in range to lock on and fire at with a spell, and also just close enough to the ledge that if you do so you fall off and die. Petrified dragon bones go into boss soul weapons; twinkling titanite goes into special weapons Is it not a special weapon you find out in the world?
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Aug 18, 2015 00:42
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Manatee Cannon posted:Petrified dragon bones go into boss soul weapons; twinkling titanite goes into special weapons You get the Loyce Greatsword (and shield) from the Frigid Outskirts bosses' souls! The Ivory Straight Sword from Aava's soul uses bones, though. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Aug 18, 2015 |
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Aug 18, 2015 00:51
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That is weird then. Maybe it was an oversight? Or maybe someone just wanted to dick with people that didn't think to check since why would this one thing be different?
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Aug 18, 2015 00:56
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Safety Scissors posted:Idk even in PvE (ultra/curved) greatswords show their superiority against most greataxes and greathammers due to the large sweeping one handed attacks. They're basically like a broom; a couple of sweeps and trash mobs are gone. The 2 handed attacks usually have some good clobbering power when needed, The real advantage of those big sweeping hits is that you're able to manually change direction mid-swing. In many cases this lets you swing in an arc as wide as 270 degrees.
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Aug 18, 2015 01:46
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Manatee Cannon posted:That is weird then. Maybe it was an oversight? Or maybe someone just wanted to dick with people that didn't think to check since why would this one thing be different? The Blue Smelter Sword isn't twinkling too is it? Maybe the optional bosses just don't count. Also man, pvp was great today until it hit 9. Then I met my first hacker and it went downhill from there.
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Aug 18, 2015 02:05
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I looked it up just now and the Aged Smelter Sword needs dragon bones. Weird!
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Genocyber posted:You need a lot of poise to tank through even a small hit. In general, it's not worth trying to poisetank through something unless you're using an ultra greatsword/greataxe/great club; those weapons give you hyper poise during most of the attack animations, wherein you only take half the poise damage you normally would. Well I could be hit at least five times with this dagger before I could roll. It seemed silly. I expect to be stunned by something medium or large when wearing Heide gear, but I guess that is wrong? How much poise would I need to be able to tank through one swing of a longsword? Manatee Cannon posted:Zweihanders are actual weapons and are very long in reality I really want to see this used in a battle. That thing is enormous.
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Node posted:Well I could be hit at least five times with this dagger before I could roll. It seemed silly. I expect to be stunned by something medium or large when wearing Heide gear, but I guess that is wrong? How much poise would I need to be able to tank through one swing of a longsword? This link explains how poise works, basically each weapon type (and sometimes individual weapons) have their own breakpoints for tanking one hit from a certain attack. With 60 poise some guy tonight hit me with a curved sword six or seven times straight until I died. He broke my poise on the first hit and I couldn't recover or act after it. gently caress that sword. e: It was the Warped Sword. e: I'm also back to the point where bell invading doesn't happen anymore. 
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Aug 18, 2015 02:17
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I've been working on getting 30 medals to max out my Sunbro covenant and just ran into a problem. I'm sure it's been discussed and whined about for over a year now but I loving hate soul memory. I didn't realize it went up simply when you gained souls, I thought it was when you spent them. Since I've defeated 15 bosses, and not spent any of those souls, I've gone up a soul bracket/tier, and now I'm never getting summoned in Drangleic Castle King's Gate. I don't know if I can ever get those remaining 15 medals. I'm sure this argument has been done to death, but this is really goddamn stupid.
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The general rule of thumb is that every weapon does at least 3x as much poise damage as it claims to, and the number's increased even more if they 2-hand it or use heavy attacks.
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Oh come on. The one time a Forlorn invades me, it's in the ghost room in Shulva so I die before I even see the Forlorn. I hate Shulva so much. e: But I love the Sinh fight! RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Aug 18, 2015 |
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Node posted:I've been working on getting 30 medals to max out my Sunbro covenant and just ran into a problem. I'm sure it's been discussed and whined about for over a year now but I loving hate soul memory. I didn't realize it went up simply when you gained souls, I thought it was when you spent them. Since I've defeated 15 bosses, and not spent any of those souls, I've gone up a soul bracket/tier, and now I'm never getting summoned in Drangleic Castle King's Gate. I don't know if I can ever get those remaining 15 medals. You'll be fine one you hit NG+. The soul memory tiers broaden dramatically when you hit one million SM as well.
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Node posted:I've been working on getting 30 medals to max out my Sunbro covenant and just ran into a problem. I'm sure it's been discussed and whined about for over a year now but I loving hate soul memory. I didn't realize it went up simply when you gained souls, I thought it was when you spent them. Since I've defeated 15 bosses, and not spent any of those souls, I've gone up a soul bracket/tier, and now I'm never getting summoned in Drangleic Castle King's Gate. I don't know if I can ever get those remaining 15 medals. I ran into this problem tonight and had to farm the last few sunlight medals from NPCs. If you join the Covenant of Champions, npcs will never stop spawning no matter how many you kill. There's a group of 5 falconers between the Ruined Fork Road and the Shrine of Winter in the Shaded Woods that have a chance to drop medals. It's a pretty low chance though (probably like 1%). Alternately, you could try DLC bosses. And yeah, Soul Memory sucks. I just want to engage in jolly cooperation 
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The way the soul memory brackets work tends to create dead zones where you're too high to co-op with people doing their first run and too low to encounter NG+ and beyond. Generally the only solution to this is to just get more souls until you reach another populated bracket. It's not a good solution, but I'd say it's better than endlessly farming falconers.
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RBA Starblade posted:This link explains how poise works, basically each weapon type (and sometimes individual weapons) have their own breakpoints for tanking one hit from a certain attack. Out of curiousity, were you on the Iron Bridge and was this person also holding Pate's Spear? I saw a few goony names tonight I thought.
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Aug 18, 2015 07:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVWY7bgVrFI This is great.
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I bought this a few days ago, having not played since release when I got it on PS3. I'm level 60ish now, and I've killed the Giant, the Pursuer, both Heide's Tower bosses, Ruin Sentinels, and the Lost Sinner. In all that time I've only seen one summon sign. Is the population that low, or is it more likely to be network stuff on my end? I remember easily being able to get summons for every single boss back on PS3.
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Bardeh posted:I bought this a few days ago, having not played since release when I got it on PS3. I'm level 60ish now, and I've killed the Giant, the Pursuer, both Heide's Tower bosses, Ruin Sentinels, and the Lost Sinner. In all that time I've only seen one summon sign. Is the population that low, or is it more likely to be network stuff on my end? I remember easily being able to get summons for every single boss back on PS3. Summons are lower than before, yeah. I don't see them that often.
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