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Why would you need to cheese uchigatana dude? Does he do unpredictable things and I just got lucky, or is this yet another case of the boring-rear end straight sword R1 stunlock combo being the answer to literally everything in the early game? I just hung out at a distance whenever he'd wind up, rolled backward when he lunged, moved in for a combo. He seems to have about a third more health but was otherwise much safer to fight than the new Balder knights, with their super-fast combos and that extremely hard-hitting wind-up slash attack that is strategically designed to gently caress with your dodge timing.
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Does lightning scale better with faith than blessed? I finally got a blessed weapon and thought my high faith would finally not feel like fully wasted stats, but even at high faith it is still significantly worse than a similarly upgraded fire weapon. Also, am I right in thinking that Aldrich's faithful is basically a bell covenant type thing? The covenant equip sounds like it by the description.
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Apr 14, 2016 19:18
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Maybe I just need to Git Gud, but is there a way to get more Estus before you fight Vordt? I can clear pretty much all of High Wall without incident save for the big chunk of Lothric Knight pain right before his door, and then I've got nothing left for him. Also gently caress Lothric Knights. 
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Apr 14, 2016 19:18
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gently caress SWAMPS Also gently caress those goat-cat dudes who eat your face 
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Apr 14, 2016 19:20
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Zaphod42 posted:Because they're rad as hell? They're rad as hell if you have a way to not be forced down to walking pace and fat-rolling speed, surrounded by bipedal enemies who inexplicably are not slowed down at all by the swamp. Which does not happen in Dark Souls 3. strangemusic posted:Maybe I just need to Git Gud, but is there a way to get more Estus before you fight Vordt? I can clear pretty much all of High Wall without incident save for the big chunk of Lothric Knight pain right before his door, and then I've got nothing left for him. You should look around for shortcuts.
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strangemusic posted:Maybe I just need to Git Gud, but is there a way to get more Estus before you fight Vordt? I can clear pretty much all of High Wall without incident save for the big chunk of Lothric Knight pain right before his door, and then I've got nothing left for him. You can get one estus shard before Vordt.
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Apr 14, 2016 19:21
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The secret to all poison levels to accept you will be poisoned
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strangemusic posted:Maybe I just need to Git Gud, but is there a way to get more Estus before you fight Vordt? I can clear pretty much all of High Wall without incident save for the big chunk of Lothric Knight pain right before his door, and then I've got nothing left for him. You should learn the true art of Dark souls: Running past every enemy. (also, open up a shortcut)
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strangemusic posted:Maybe I just need to Git Gud, but is there a way to get more Estus before you fight Vordt? I can clear pretty much all of High Wall without incident save for the big chunk of Lothric Knight pain right before his door, and then I've got nothing left for him. at least for me, I fought a grand total of 6 guys on the way to Vordt when I was trying to kill him If you spawn at the High Wall, just run across those rooftops and ignore everything, go down the ladder, kill the two crossbow guys and the two sword guys, go down the long ladder, kill the guy that gets up from the ground & the guy that comes over the railing I only say kill those last two guys because sometimes big fat guy isn't in a good spot and you have to wait run past fat guy and take an immediate right on the staircase is a crossbowman and to the left of the stairs is a hiding sword guy, right next to the hiding guy you can drop down and then run down stairs toward the boss past the spear guys that was really badly written and im sorry but maybe it will help
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Apr 14, 2016 19:23
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in the slow parts of the swamp you can just equip something with Quickstep (list of those weapons: Bandit's Knife, Brigand Twindaggers, Dagger, Manikin Claws, Thrall Axe) and hop around like an insane person
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strangemusic posted:Maybe I just need to Git Gud, but is there a way to get more Estus before you fight Vordt? I can clear pretty much all of High Wall without incident save for the big chunk of Lothric Knight pain right before his door, and then I've got nothing left for him. This is not a direct answer to your question, but you don't need to fight any Lothric knights before Vordt. Go up the tower elevator and unlock the shortcut to the first bonfire, then you can take that route and run past everyone except for a dog and axe-man you have to fight because of waiting on the elevator. You won't even aggro the patrolling knight in the area before the boss door if you hug the right wall and don't cross right in front of him, and if you keep your distance you can usually run past the two spear hollows before they get around to attacking.
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Your Computer posted:I'm very happy that the swamp and the catacombs are both straight up better and more fun than their previous iterations I understand why you'd like the Swamp, but I was surprised at how anonymous the Catacomb level felt. There's none of the interesting usage of space and variety of enemies from Dark Souls 1, and honestly, I'd say even Undead Crypt had more interesting gimmicks and a straight up better take on the concept. I mean, it's a fun Dark Souls level, it's just pretty anonymous overall. But admittedly, I might be missing a better second half because I haven't beaten Wolnir yet.
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LibbyM posted:Does lightning scale better with faith than blessed? I finally got a blessed weapon and thought my high faith would finally not feel like fully wasted stats, but even at high faith it is still significantly worse than a similarly upgraded fire weapon. Blessed heals you constantly, 24/7. So yeah, naturally it isn't going to do NEARLY the damage that lightning does. That's exactly how DeS worked too.
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Only reason I don't like the catacombs is they remind me of chalice dungeons and also the insanoflipperbones.
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The scene by the suspension bridge is pretty neat but I thought the catacombs were a slog up until then. At some point I got sick of fighting skeletons and decided I'd just actually run past everything on my first trip through, until I found that second bonfire.Zaphod42 posted:Blessed heals you constantly, 24/7. So yeah, naturally it isn't going to do NEARLY the damage that lightning does. I never actually did a faith build back in demon's, didn't know it healed you back then. Neat. The healing is minuscule though. I wish this game let you do a good faith scaling weapon sooner than whenever the gently caress it actually lets you do it. I have the lightning gem but not the coal. LibbyM fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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actionjackson posted:Anyone comment on the great club? i summoned an unarmored woman who beat the poo poo out of the abyss watchers using it. seemed solid
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Zaphod42 posted:Blessed heals you constantly, 24/7. So yeah, naturally it isn't going to do NEARLY the damage that lightning does. The rate of healing is super low though, def not worth it.
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Andrast posted:You should learn the true art of Dark souls: Running past every enemy. Note: being a purple summon and kiting every enemy around into the host is great practice for this.
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Cathair posted:This is not a direct answer to your question, but you don't need to fight any Lothric knights before Vordt. Go up the tower elevator and unlock the shortcut to the first bonfire, then you can take that route and run past everyone except for a dog and axe-man you have to fight because of waiting on the elevator. You won't even aggro the patrolling knight in the area before the boss door if you hug the right wall and don't cross right in front of him, and if you keep your distance you can usually run past the two spear hollows before they get around to attacking. If you send the elevator back up when you get to the bottom you won't have to wait.
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CJacobs posted:They're rad as hell if you have a way to not be forced down to walking pace and fat-rolling speed, surrounded by bipedal enemies who inexplicably are not slowed down at all by the swamp. Which does not happen in Dark Souls 3. You should try maybe looking around instead of forcing the wrong direction. There's a natural path through the swamp that uses dry ground and shallow water, you don't have to do the wading through the slow part unless you're really stubborn or to grab a few items, and even then its a just a quick matter of grabbing the item and then going back to the path. You're doing it wrong. (Also just use a dagger to quickstep if you're really that much of a baby about it) CJacobs posted:You should look around for shortcuts. Hahaha 
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LibbyM posted:I finally got a blessed weapon and thought my high faith would finally not feel like fully wasted stats, but even at high faith it is still significantly worse than a similarly upgraded fire weapon. Don't have an answer for your lightning question, but as a fellow Faith guy the blessed weapon scaling really is a bummer. They probably wanted to reign in the damage to compensate for the HP recovery and went way too far.
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One thing that usually helps with shield enemies that will lunge after you as you run by them is to actually run straight at them and just go right around their sides, because when you are that close they think you actually want to engage and put their shields up for a second instead of doing that reaching attack that bites you in the rear end.
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Has anyone tried using the Red Eye Orb while a Darkmoon Blade if anything of interest happens? If you get a Proof for killing whoever it matches you up with etc?
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LibbyM posted:I never actually did a faith build back in demon's, didn't know it healed you back then. Neat. The healing is minuscule though. I wish this game let you do a good faith scaling weapon sooner than whenever the gently caress it actually lets you do it. I have the lightning gem but not the coal. Yeah its definitely miniscule healing. What would work is just leaving it vanilla and using a buff for faith damage, but sunlight blade is pretty deep in the game, unlike magic blade or flame blade. So faith is overall harder to build for damage than any other stat, until late in the game, yeah. You can always try doing flame weapon in the meantime?
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well, I guess since Final Fantasy IX got a release on Steam, I'll take up the Dark Sword and make a crappy Adelbert Steiner STR/VIT character
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Lightning Stake is the sweetest miracle and works shockingly well in PvP
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I can't be the only one stupid enough to beat Yhorm without realising the storm ruler was there right The fight took like 20 minutes. I was doing 90 damage hitting his leg/226 if I hit his arm
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TheQat posted:i summoned an unarmored woman who beat the poo poo out of the abyss watchers using it. seemed solid Assuming it gets S strength scaling eventually, would there no point in a heavy infusion?
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actionjackson posted:Assuming it gets S strength scaling eventually, would there no point in a heavy infusion? The letter is more like a range, so you can boost it within S
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Help Im Alive posted:I can't be the only one stupid enough to beat Yhorm without realising the storm ruler was there right I beat him as a sorcerer shooting him in the head.
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actionjackson posted:Assuming it gets S strength scaling eventually, would there no point in a heavy infusion? fextralife wiki says that it never reaches S and reaches A only with Heavy. So I think it might be good to do that? I'm kind of an idiot when it comes to this stuff http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Great+Club
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I just discovered two neat things 1) You can change between one-handing and two-handing while running now 2) If you use a heavy attack while running it'll immediately do a jump attack instead of a running attack
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Nuggan posted:Charge up to him on the stairs so his back is to the cliff. When he winds up for an attack just kick him off. One of two kicks and he's done. I haven't gotten the kick to work. Just started out as the assassin. Is it because of the weapon I'm using? Forward + R1 does a quick retreat attack which doesn't break guard. Forward + R2 is just a strong jump attack.
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turtlecrunch posted:The question is why you, a Souls fan, do not like this critical component of Souls games? Because moving through sludge at the pace of a snail isn't very fun.
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RedTonic posted:I haven't gotten the kick to work. Just started out as the assassin. Is it because of the weapon I'm using? Forward + R1 does a quick retreat attack which doesn't break guard. Forward + R2 is just a strong jump attack. it's supposed to be a forward tap + r1 simultaneously i believe in other words, forward for a split second at the same time you hit r1
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Zaphod42 posted:You should try maybe looking around instead of forcing the wrong direction. There's a natural path through the swamp that uses dry ground and shallow water, you don't have to do the wading through the slow part unless you're really stubborn or to grab a few items, and even then its a just a quick matter of grabbing the item and then going back to the path. You're doing it wrong. (Also just use a dagger to quickstep if you're really that much of a baby about it) The path you are describing does not exist past the way to the first tower. There are spots of land that are dry that you can stand on, yes, but those also existed in Blighttown. edit: And also, "you're doing it wrong" isn't even an applicable statement in this situation. No matter what you do, you cannot mitigate the effects of the muck besides not going in it, which is not possible. There's nothing to do wrong, unless you count the game designers doing the players wrong by putting in a lovely area like this for the third time CJacobs fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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RedTonic posted:I haven't gotten the kick to work. Just started out as the assassin. Is it because of the weapon I'm using? Forward + R1 does a quick retreat attack which doesn't break guard. Forward + R2 is just a strong jump attack. Yeah poking swords and curved swords have a different move instead of the kick.
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RedTonic posted:I haven't gotten the kick to work. Just started out as the assassin. Is it because of the weapon I'm using? Forward + R1 does a quick retreat attack which doesn't break guard. Forward + R2 is just a strong jump attack. The Rapier class of weapons replaces the kick with the retreat, one of the reasons I don't use them as much actually.
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