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Etrips posted:So... being new to this series I do not understand what covenants are or how to go abouts joining one. Could someone write up a quick explanation? They're PVP or Co-op modes, which when you fulfil some requirement gives you a reward. Sunbros make you gold, and your 'goal' is to help people kill bosses. Every 10 token you get for doing so, you get a free cool item. Mound-makers want to pvp, but they're allowed to pvp anybody. You can kill other invaders OR the host. Bluecops get summoned automatically to protect you if you're in the way of blue covenant, and they get rewards for killing invaders to defend you. But then they get kicked out if successful, unlike sunbros who can go all the way to the boss with you. Joining: Find and equip the covenant symbol. They're scattered throughout the game. Leveling up: Find the covenant's headquarters and turn in the token you get to get rewards, like an arcade.
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Etrips posted:So... being new to this series I do not understand what covenants are or how to go abouts joining one. Could someone write up a quick explanation? Covenants, in general, affect how you approach the multiplayer. They're easier to manage in this game than any other in the series, which is great. You "join" a covenant by finding the appropriate covenant item in the world and equipping it in your covenant item slot (it's next to the rings on your equipment page, the one with the diamond around it). You can change covenants at any time by just equipping a different covenant item. Some example covenants are the Warriors of Sunlight. When you use a White Sign Soapstone to put down a sign for others to summon you to help, your sign is gold, and when you're summoned you're a gold phantom instead of a white one. When you help someone kill a boss, you get a Sunlight Medal that you can turn in at an altar for rewards. Or the Blue Sentinels--when someone who is in the Way of Blue covenant is invaded by a hostile player, there's a chance you'll be called to help them if you're wearing the covenant item. You show up as a blue phantom and get a reward for helping them defeat the invader. Scrub-Niggurath posted:That guys insanely retarded, there's a bunch of faith scaling weapons. Some from the world some from boss souls and then you can always stick a blessed gem in a regular weapon to turn it into a faith scaling one. There are a good number of Faith-scaling weapons, but none that are really pure Faith weapons, at least without infusing a normal weapon with Lightning or Blessed. And Blessed is very bad for offensive use--it takes a huge chunk out of the weapon's base damage and the Faith scaling doesn't really make up for it. It can be cool if you want to make your own Adjudicator's Shield, though.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:28
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In DS3 none of the covenant symbols are rings. People need to stop referring to them as rings, you're going to confuse the newbies.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:28
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Zaphod42 posted:In DS3 none of the covenant symbols are rings. People need to stop referring to them as rings, you're going to confuse the newbies. I coulda sworn the Way of Blue one was. I guess I didn't look at the icon closely enough.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:29
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I just found out you can attack on ladders. This is a gamechanger (Press R2 for down, R1 for up)
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Apr 13, 2016 22:30
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Pope hat is the height of fashion souls  Harrow posted:I coulda sworn the Way of Blue one was. I guess I didn't look at the icon closely enough. Sheepskin parchment  Its natural to think of them that way coming from the other souls games, but FROM was good and made sure to separate them from keys entirely since they're a different slot.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:32
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Am I supposed to be fighting the knight right after the Dragon fire in the first area? I can't even get a hit in right now.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:33
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on one hand im happy the red eye orb is back ototh oh god every person i invade gets a blue cop buddy and they have a coop buddy as well game is hard i need better burst or a way to just keep the host from rolling away and chugging poo poo e: also im never getting any hits for the sentinals and only uh, like 3 for the wolves.
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 Just realized you can press R3 to make the menu go out of the way when equipping armor for better fashion souls Jonny Nox posted:Am I supposed to be fighting the knight right after the Dragon fire in the first area? I can't even get a hit in right now. He's pretty tough early on. You can fight him, but its also entirely possible to sneak around him if you're clever.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:34
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Jonny Nox posted:Am I supposed to be fighting the knight right after the Dragon fire in the first area? I can't even get a hit in right now. You can beat him, or you can run past him. They're tough but they're still normal enemies in that area. -- The swamp is amazingly confusing I keep finding more treasure and have no idea where I am
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Apr 13, 2016 22:34
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Why the gently caress do the knights in the catacombs oneshot me from full embered health? Nothing else here does damage anywhere close to that. Of course they loving respawn too.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:35
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Man, choosing a straight sword is hard. The Astora Straight Sword would be an obvious choice because of ~RP~ but I just got a Darkwraith sword and a Lothric Knight sword. Both are longer, and I'm pretty sure the Darkwraith sword does more damage than the Astora. It also looks pretty anime, while the Lothric is like a prettier version of the Astora. And the Astora has a FTH requirement?? I easily cover it (gotta have enough faith for Homeward) but still weird if it's worse than the other swords.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:35
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Abyss Watchers down, took me wayyy too long. But atleast I'm not a stinkin magic user or a summoner 
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Apr 13, 2016 22:35
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So I quick leveled up to 82 and I can not get any blue summons for the life of me. Don't do it. Now I got to farm silver knights for the ears and its loving wretched. Everything else appears to be doable.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:36
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Tenzarin posted:Gaben will personally check your play history and technically you arn't posting screenshots of you soloing it. gently caress.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:36
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Is the 60fps lock on PC a console port thing or will that get fixed eventually? I remember downloading some patch for Dark Souls 1 to enable that + better AA? I haven't played in a real long time. It looks gorgeous at 1440p/max. Seems like a few of the crashes are limited to Nvidia? Haven't had any issues at all w/ my Fury Is it worth it to try and sperg out on my first time through? It seems like bumbling through cluelessly is pretty viable
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Apr 13, 2016 22:37
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Internet Kraken posted:Why the gently caress do the knights in the catacombs oneshot me from full embered health? Nothing else here does damage anywhere close to that. Of course they loving respawn too. What level are you? They hit hard but not thaaat hard. Regy Rusty posted:The swamp is amazingly confusing I keep finding more treasure and have no idea where I am The swamp is one of my favorite zones ever. Lots of people were complaining about wading through it, but if you follow it, there's a path that explores all the areas and leads you around mostly through dry land. If you're going through deep water, you're going against the intended path. Also you can use the dagger sword art to cheese your way right through the swamp, hilariously effective
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Oovee posted:Abyss Watchers down, took me wayyy too long. But atleast I'm not a stinkin magic user or a summoner Magic's not too big of a deal this time around.
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Zaphod42 posted:He's pretty tough early on. You can fight him, but its also entirely possible to sneak around him if you're clever. Or lure him back to the dragon fire zone and let him get roasted
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Jonny Nox posted:Am I supposed to be fighting the knight right after the Dragon fire in the first area? I can't even get a hit in right now. You can beat him! Try to dodge towards him and to the side, instead of dodging backwards or blocking. Also, there will be more of those knights later, so it pays to learn how to fight them. They are not easy when you first run into them. Alternatively, run past him and go through the right-side door in the room he comes out of. There's a bonfire up the stairs there.
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GodspeedSphere posted:So I quick leveled up to 82 and I can not get any blue summons for the life of me. Don't do it. Now I got to farm silver knights for the ears and its loving wretched. Everything else appears to be doable. Welcome to my wolf world.  Took me 3 hours to farm swordgrass. And about 90 rusted coins.
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Irithyll Dungeon is giving me serious Tower of Latria vibes, I love it. The enemies that lower your max health can gently caress right off tho.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:41
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Summon all of the people for bosses if you're trying to play a mage, don't listen to the gitgud people b/c you're already playing with an arm and leg tied due to how trash magic is for 70% of the game
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Zaphod42 posted:What level are you? They hit hard but not thaaat hard. 42. Though I was wrong about them being the only enemy that could oneshot me. Lava crabs can also do that if I don't dodge their body slam like a fool. At least I deactivated that ridiculous contraption. Emalde posted:Summon all of the people for bosses if you're trying to play a mage, don't listen to the gitgud people b/c you're already playing with an arm and leg tied due to how trash magic is for 70% of the game Pure mages in Souls games are dumb. Just use magic in addition to a weapon which you buff.
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Anyone else getting this minor audio glitch? The background ambience restarts itself every time a new line of dialogue starts or I make a menu selection. It's a tiny thing but very annoying. I've only noticed it in Undead Settlement so far.
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Emalde posted:Summon all of the people for bosses if you're trying to play a mage, don't listen to the gitgud people b/c you're already playing with an arm and leg tied due to how trash magic is for 70% of the game You made your choice
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Emalde posted:Summon all of the people for bosses if you're trying to play a mage, don't listen to the gitgud people b/c you're already playing with an arm and leg tied due to how trash magic is for 70% of the game magic users are scum.
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Do the weapon buff spells work on the twin-blade weapons? I'm assuming so but don't want to sink a load of stat points to use a buff spell only to find it doesn't work.
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I like how purple pals spawn nowhere near hosts, or even the bonfire you put the sign at.quote:magic users are scum. Same but katanas.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:48
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Tell me I didn't gently caress myself out of that merchant you unlock in Lothric permanently by giving him the bone.
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Can I please get some general game advice. Each time I try to play this in general I find myself just dying to everything that so much as looks at me the wrong way. I don't know what happened to me between Bloodborne and this but fully kitted out Knights are almost garunteed to slaughter me and these zombiemen that explode into goop eels just shred me if I don't throw a firebomb or two at them first. I don't want to give up on the game at the starting gate, not like that but really finding it hard to play when I feel this weak damage output wise. E: There's a knight in the first area with a tower shield and a pike/spear and when I try to kick the shield to break guard it does nothing and I just get stabbed.
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codo27 posted:Tell me I didn't gently caress myself out of that merchant you unlock in Lothric permanently by giving him the bone. No, that's the right way to do things. He'll just be depressed for a little bit. He'll be back to normal soon.
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So do the darkwraiths just have infinite poise?
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RBA Starblade posted:Same but katanas. im a beautiful ninja otaku and you cant stop me
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Oh that's stupid, blue sentinels spawn in already being attacked by npcs. I got stunlocked to death before I could even figure out where I was.
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Can I please get some general game advice. Each time I try to play this in general I find myself just dying to everything that so much as looks at me the wrong way. I don't know what happened to me between Bloodborne and this but fully kitted out Knights are almost garunteed to slaughter me and these zombiemen that explode into goop eels just shred me if I don't throw a firebomb or two at them first. Batttle Axes can stagger Knights. With my warrior I'd just block until I got an opening and then whaled on the Knight till he recovered. Dodge away, rinse, repeat. It doesn't work all the time. Every once in a while blocking is ineffective. But for the most part it works.
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DOUBLE CLICK HERE posted:So do the darkwraiths just have infinite poise? They may as well.
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I find it really annoying that once again Blue Sentinels are completely worthless since almost nobody is ever going to stay in Way of Blue.
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TaurusOxford posted:I find it really annoying that once again Blue Sentinels are completely worthless since almost nobody is ever going to stay in Way of Blue. I tried but I got killed but a fat witch one second after showing up.
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Wurzag posted:Do the weapon buff spells work on the twin-blade weapons? I'm assuming so but don't want to sink a load of stat points to use a buff spell only to find it doesn't work. Just tested it for you, and yes they do work 
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