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HaB posted:- am I wasting titanite by leveling up my Sorc Staff? Also other things! 1. No, but it only upgrades the scaling, not the base magic adjust. It'll only really be a noticeable difference once your Intelligence gets higher. 2. The keys work, but they're intentionally loving with you. Read their item descriptions. 3. Pyromancy is great all through the the game, significantly better than sorcery on basically all levels.
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What's an effective way to take down CG? I'm hitting for about 200 a go (+10 sharp estoc) and with great magic shield I can block his hits and get him down by a third or more with no trouble. But once it wears off his aggro is so much I can't recast, and I can't consistently dodge enough to grind him down.
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HaB posted:Been avoiding this thread like the plague so as to avoid spoilers. Went into this one completely blind. Lackluster start, I gotta say - but it just keeps getting better from Crucifixion Woods on. -No, staff scaling doesn't really kick in until like 30+ Int, but in the meantime even 1 or 2 extra points of spell boost are nice to have. -The first key opens that window thing in the first hallway, if it didn't open for you that is weird. The second one is for Siegward's cell, which you probably already have the keyring by the time you get there. -Pyromancy is definitely the style of magic that gets rolling fastest, but I also chumped that guy with Soul Arrows, so it's not incredibly more so. It was before a patch, but we have that patch now! -He keeps firing arrows but they don't hurt you anymore, only your enemies. You kinda goofed up there. 
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Strom Cuzewon posted:What's an effective way to take down CG? I'm hitting for about 200 a go (+10 sharp estoc) and with great magic shield I can block his hits and get him down by a third or more with no trouble. But once it wears off his aggro is so much I can't recast, and I can't consistently dodge enough to grind him down. A heavy shield, dodge better, or pyro. There's no decent trick to him, he's just a fundamentals fucker.
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Apr 19, 2016 16:49
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Harrow posted:Pontiff made me a believer in the ultra greatsword again. I had a +7 Astora Greatsword for that fight (thanks, two random chunks I found before I even got it to +5!) and was taking off 300-400 damage per swing. The fight still took me four tries, but it was good that the rare times I could actually hit him between his seven-hit combos really counted. get the fume ultra great sword and smash everything imo. pvpers after pontiff got wrecked by it
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changing my build out of magic has been such an insane quality of life boost and I wish I'd done it sooner. losing a ranged option has been weird, but being able to deal actual damage has been so nice. gently caress magic and the moonlight greatsword for being at literally the end of the game, and also in comptetition with a spell you need to buy for a trophy. I went with the gimmick luck build with anri's straight sword, and it's doing about as much as soul spear was without the drawback of running off of fp and having a cast time. also my crazy high luck means that everything drops stuff for me, which is nice
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Apr 19, 2016 16:51
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Why does it show me every status effect bar really quickly every time I load or zone a bonfire? It bothers me deeply.
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Apr 19, 2016 16:51
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sector_corrector posted:Just as a note, your current equip load may as well be 69.9% for as much difference as it's making. You only get the fastest roll speed under 30%, and differences in between don't effect anything (that I'm aware of). That being said, medium roll is really good in this game, so you should just equip whatever you want as long as you're 70 or under. Harrow posted:The difference in rolling distance under 70% is way smaller than it was in DS2. There's honestly no reason to stress about it so long as you're under 70%. Meanwhile, armor makes a difference--you take a big defense penalty for having an empty armor slot--and you get a ton of HP per point of Vigor up to 27. Thanks guys. Anyway this i smy current build. Still stuck on Pontiff Sulyvan How should I change my equipment/invest my stats? [img]http://i.imgur.com/oE7NcCG.jpg?1[/img[
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voltcatfish posted:Why does it show me every status effect bar really quickly every time I load or zone a bonfire? You have a resists ring on.
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Jose posted:get the fume ultra great sword and smash everything imo. pvpers after pontiff got wrecked by it Yeah, it's great even post-nerf. I'm loving the Astora Greatsword for PvP, too. Its moveset is fantastic, even if its damage isn't quite as "smash enemies flat" as the FUGS. I love that its weapon art is the spear Charge skill, not the normal greatsword Stomp--when someone tries to turtle you just destroy them with a charge, it's beautiful. Incidentally, if anyone is playing through and is worried about getting covenant rewards for Blue Sentinels and/or Darkmoon, hang out right after Pontiff, embered, with your covenant symbol on. Aldrich invaders get you super-ears that count for two and that happens whether they invade you or you get summoned to help someone else, and people are getting invaded constantly (and some are actually wearing Way of Blue!). I'm stalling there for a while at SL 60ish just to make sure I get Darkmoon Blade in case I want to switch this build to Faith in NG+.
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is it worth sticking a heavy gem on?
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Apr 19, 2016 16:53
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Orv posted:You have a resists ring on. I actually don't. Or do I? I've got Havel's, the Estus ring, and the Knight Ring equipped
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Apr 19, 2016 16:54
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punk rebel ecks posted:Thanks guys. Anyway this i smy current build. Still stuck on Pontiff Sulyvan How should I change my equipment/invest my stats? Have you found the respec lady in the Cathedral of the Deep? If so, give her a Pale Tongue. Then, take 10 points out of your Endurance and put them in Vigor. 27 Vigor is the first softcap and gets you 1000 HP, it's great. It could help to wear a little more armor; Fallen Knight or the Undead Legion armor have reasonable weight and good fire resistance, which is good for one of his swords. If you like the Hand Axe by all means stick with it, though see if you don't get more AR by making it Sharp--it's not guaranteed, but it's worth checking. Jose posted:is it worth sticking a heavy gem on? Most likely. Mine is Refined--it goes from C/C to B/B and it's great--though I think it gets A Strength scaling if it's Heavy. If you're still looking for an alternative weapon to FUGS for funtimes, do you have the Drang Hammers? Because: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_015EKDlY
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voltcatfish posted:I actually don't. Or do I? I've got Havel's, the Estus ring, and the Knight Ring equipped Then I don't know. Might be a piece of armor. Traditionally that would happen with pieces of gear that grant status resistances.
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HaB posted:Been avoiding this thread like the plague so as to avoid spoilers. Went into this one completely blind. Lackluster start, I gotta say - but it just keeps getting better from Crucifixion Woods on. The game spews titanite at you at least up to the +6 level. I've got four or five weapons there and a huge amount of spare titanite, and I can buy plenty more relatively cheaply, and I've not actually finished the game yet. I don't remember having any problems with the keys, but I also think I went back after getting the spoilered thing to open quite a lot of it. Pyro is pretty good. Not sure I could make a full career out of it, since the spells like to root me in place for ages, but now I've gotten all the levels I really need for my sword and I've got a chunk of health and stamina, I've started levelling att/int/fth and it's pretty good. I like it mostly as a ranged option, honestly. Should probably just get a bow. It doesn't stop him but it should make you immune to them, and let him just kill all the enemies for you.
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Orv posted:A heavy shield, dodge better, or pyro. There's no decent trick to him, he's just a fundamentals fucker. I had a feeling that'd be it. I don't have the strength for a great shield, so dodging it is. I got him down to a tiny sliver by stripping naked and using flynns and the two milkrings so I could catapult myself across the arena all day long. Then you get to the close sweep combo where he either goes for a slow sweep or a rapid punch and you're pretty much obliged to block otherwise you're leaving it to chance when to dodge.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Thanks guys. Anyway this i smy current build. Still stuck on Pontiff Sulyvan How should I change my equipment/invest my stats? That is...a lot of endurance. 20 points of that could go to other things: let's say 10 more vigor and 5 int+fth if you wanna be a pyromancer. For armor, you can go heavier. You'll feel a bit less distance in your rolls, so if that fucks with your playstyle, fine, but I'd try to get your poise up to like 15, and your equip load up to ~50-60%. Life Ring and Estus Ring aren't worth it in my perspective (Estus Ring especially, since you have such a small health pool). You should also have more estus by now, have you been doing optional areas?
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If someone is bored, especially a sorcerer, can you equip/unequip LINGERING dragoncrest ring and tell me if it changes the damage on spells like soul arrow, soul spear, or css Ring chat reminded me of some weirdness I noticed one very late night but then I went to sleep and forgot about it, maybe it was a dream... Also check that DEX ring with a bow or dex sword or something (Carthus milk ring)?
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Apr 19, 2016 17:00
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voltcatfish posted:Why is there a duplicate Firelink Shrine behind the Garden? What the gently caress. It gave me the Chaos Blade though, which is cool. Short answer: time and space are all hosed up
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Apr 19, 2016 17:01
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I'm a bit confused. If I want to play with a friend (through good parts of the game together cause I'm bad and multiplayer is fun), one of us has to use an Ember in order to do so? So we are almost limited as to the number of people we can summon?
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Lblitzer posted:I'm a bit confused. If I want to play with a friend (through good parts of the game together cause I'm bad and multiplayer is fun), one of us has to use an Ember in order to do so? So we are almost limited as to the number of people we can summon? Yes, but whoever is the phantom is going to get an ember as a reward if you beat the boss. And you only lose your embered status if you die. That won't be a problem, will it?
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Stupid q: if I reverse hollowing I'll lose the levels I got off of Yoel right? Also he died but the next person thats sposed to show up didn't. I read they "replace" him so I thought they would be in the same place as he was?
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Apr 19, 2016 17:12
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Lblitzer posted:I'm a bit confused. If I want to play with a friend (through good parts of the game together cause I'm bad and multiplayer is fun), one of us has to use an Ember in order to do so? So we are almost limited as to the number of people we can summon? yes, someone has to be embered to see the other person's summon sign on the ground. if you finish a boss on a summon you get your ember restored when you leave the world you're visiting, so it's only really limited by your success or lack thereof
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codo27 posted:Stupid q: if I reverse hollowing I'll lose the levels I got off of Yoel right? Also he died bu the next person thats sposed to show up didn't. I read they "replace" him so I thought they would be in the same place as he was? Do you mean having the Fire Keeper heal the Dark Sigils? You keep the levels--you're paying souls to keep them, basically. If you just mean using a Purging Stone or something, no penalty, you'll just hollow again on death. If you heal the Dark Sigil, you lock yourself out of Yuria's quest, so only do that if you're totally certain you don't want to do that quest. She only shows up if you took five levels from Yoel before beating the Abyss Watchers--if you didn't, you lost your chance.
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codo27 posted:I read they "replace" him so I thought they would be in the same place as he was? Go to his corpse and turn around. They should be on the right. If you've healed the Dark sigil I'm not sure if they'll show up
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I found my new favorite tactic as a Purple Bro: In the Catacombs: I run to the rope bridge (it works best if they have already opened the gate, but if not, I can still make do.) Run halfway across to trigger the skeleton army, then GTFO and do my best to lead my new undead posse to the host.
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Apr 19, 2016 17:14
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Yeah about forget nameless king He's completely unfun and I'm just going to summon for him
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Apr 19, 2016 17:15
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voltcatfish posted:Yeah about forget nameless king He's cool as hell and I would help you fight him if I could. Prob my favorite boss.
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Harrow posted:Do you mean having the Fire Keeper heal the Dark Sigils? You keep the levels--you're paying souls to keep them, basically. If you just mean using a Purging Stone or something, no penalty, you'll just hollow again on death. Yeah I only got 3 or 4 levels gently caress. At least I get to have my sexy body back I guess, if only I can remember where I found that item required last playthrough.. Also are the effects of giving fire keeper the eyes so basic as just lighting and music in Firelink?
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voltron lion force posted:He's cool as hell and I would help you fight him if I could. Prob my favorite boss. Okay let me correct myself, the first phase is completely unfun
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So my Miracles teacher disappeared a long time ago and I mostly just shrugged at it, now I've been through another half of the game it feels since then and there's no alternative character to learn them. Am I stuck without any Miracles teacher now? I assume not since them gosh darn Pyromancers get two teachers and the Sorcerers technically FOUR counting Yoel and Yuria as separate. But I haven't found any alternative Miracle teachers at least.
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voltron lion force posted:Yes, but whoever is the phantom is going to get an ember as a reward if you beat the boss. And you only lose your embered status if you die. That won't be a problem, will it? TheQat posted:yes, someone has to be embered to see the other person's summon sign on the ground. if you finish a boss on a summon you get your ember restored when you leave the world you're visiting, so it's only really limited by your success or lack thereof drat, it wasn't like that in the previous games was it? That kind of sucks though as you have to kind of pick and choose when you want to team up with friends. I wish it didn't have that requirement when doing passworded ones but I guess that could be abused pretty easily.
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Is there a reason Yoel just straight-up dies at some point even if you don't heal your dark sigil or, hell, accept the free level-ups from him in the first place? I have no idea what makes it happen. Every playthrough so far I've come to Firelink at some point and he's just dead and I don't know what I did to trigger it.
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codo27 posted:Yeah I only got 3 or 4 levels gently caress. At least I get to have my sexy body back I guess, if only I can remember where I found that item required last playthrough.. Also are the effects of giving fire keeper the eyes so basic as just lighting and music in Firelink? Giving her the eyes unlocks an alternate ending.
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CJacobs posted:Is there a reason Yoel just straight-up dies at some point even if you don't heal your dark sigil or, hell, accept the free level-ups from him in the first place? I have no idea what makes it happen. Every playthrough so far I've come to Firelink at some point and he's just dead and I don't know what I did to trigger it. Someone mentioned before the trigger is entering the catacombs, I can confirm that
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Say, people are saying that the other Firelink Shrine is one from the past or something, but I don't think that's necessarily the case. Certainly, then, I think it's located in roughly the same spot as the one you use for most of the game; which would mean that big castle you see standing over the cemetary is actually Lothric Castle? It seems possible, you can't walk back that way from either version of the zone.
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turtlecrunch posted:If someone is bored, especially a sorcerer, can you equip/unequip LINGERING dragoncrest ring and tell me if it changes the damage on spells like soul arrow, soul spear, or css Nope. Incidentally, Damage test numbers for 50 Int, Crystal Soul Spear, with the Sorcerer's Staff +9 (201 Spell Buff), on the hollows outside firelink. Dusk Crown + Bellowing Dragoncrest + Young Dragoncrest (Cruising Setup) = 976 Dusk + Bellowing + Magic Clutch Ring = 1004 Dusk + Bellowing + Young + Clutch = 1124 Dusk + Bellowing + Young + Clutch + Scholar's Candlestick(Boosts sorceries even if you don't have the stats for it!) = 1347 Dusk + Bellowing + Young + Candlestick(I'd like to crush this boss but not die in one hit setup) = 1171 It kinda bugs me I have to go to 51+ Int for the Court Sorceror's staff to finally outdo the base staff. Not as much as it bugs me that the Heretic's Staff has sudden power spikes that leave it like 10 spell buff ahead of the Sorcerer's Staff until it falls behind again a couple points of Int later though. I imagine the Sage's Crystal Staff is probably better than either base or Court but I haven't found it yet.
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Welp, I died more times to the crocodile dog at the entrance to Irithyll than to any boss so far. It's hitboxes are insane, some of those attacks hit you no matter what side of it you're standing on. I only beat it by just hitting it in the face a few times and stunning it for a critical attack. Which is a weird mechanic that I'm not sure I fully understand. Meanwhile, I found the Pontiff to be a complete pushover. I stumbled onto him after exploring for a while and I only had 4 estus left. Summoned a couple of sunbros and we took him down no problem. A good shield seems really essential to that fight, I've upgraded my lothric knight shield a few times and he basically never broke my guard.
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CJacobs posted:Is there a reason Yoel just straight-up dies at some point even if you don't heal your dark sigil or, hell, accept the free level-ups from him in the first place? I have no idea what makes it happen. Every playthrough so far I've come to Firelink at some point and he's just dead and I don't know what I did to trigger it. Once you beat the abyss watchers and enter the next area he dies. I of course in my current playthrough triggered this before learning about it or using his services at all. Sigh.
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