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Jimbot posted:Both sound fun but it has to be the former. Stamina management in this game has been a problem for me. Endurance just gives you piddly squat. The uchigatana has a pretty nice moveset that transitions between moves pretty smoothly. I don't normally care about animations in video games, but I do like the uchi's. That and it's weaponset is a sheath and quickdraw parry which is samurai movie as gently caress
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Robo Reagan posted:How high do you need to upgrade your flame/which pyromancies do you need to not do poo poo damage? Mine is at like +6 but it does poo poo damage. Though tbf I'm still using the basic fireball. Too souls starved from trying to keep my main stats up to scratch to up int or whatever it is you need for higher level fireballs.
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Aldrich seems like one of those bosses where if he (she? I literally don't pay attention to the lore at all I just wanna kill things ok) gives you a bad pattern there's no a whole lot you can do. This probably means I need to practice this fight more.
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Dr. Abysmal posted:Going near the Farron Keep entrance would usually get her to pop up for me, and I'd lure her to that island to fight so the giant crabs wouldn't interfere. She will also invade you in Farron Keep near the basilisks if you can't her to spawn in the woods. The one place that I have always seen her consistently invade at is the corpse with the Knight Set.
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Apr 21, 2016 22:17
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Pyromancy is good as soon as you get Fire Orb. Regular Fireball is garbage.
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You can also get a few extra shots in as he is burrowing in. I 1-shot him with only 8 flasks available - he's honestly not that hard. ODK is my kryptonite tho - that fucker wrecks so hard. May need to go back soon. Cleared that stupid area out for the most part tho - but I saw a lava floor - reminded me of the amazing tunnels from Demons Souls where you go to deep and its just lava and beetles. e: Look at this poo poo -- god I need it in HD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01m69sbVqhk
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Also gently caress you mimics for not giving me your stupid mimic head thing. I want my huge bonus souls after boss kills. e: Chaos fire orb loving owns and I love that spell so much.
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Is a Blessed Infusion justifiable on any weapon as a Herald with light Faith allotment?
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Aldrich? More like little bitch Don't lock on, hit the tail, run the gently caress away when he whips out his bow. e bonus image 
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Desperate Character posted:I feel like an idiot for never finding the bonfire located in Crucifixion Woods in my first game run as I always ran from the Halfway Fortress bonfire straight to the Crystal Sage Boss That NPC will not spawn if 1) You already beat the boss of the area or 2) You joined Rosaria's Fingers. The Rokstar posted:Also gently caress you mimics for not giving me your stupid mimic head thing. I want my huge bonus souls after boss kills. There is a trick to farming the same one over and over again without killing it. Throw an Undead Hunter Charm at it, check for the head, if not, reset game and throw again.
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Steak Eater posted:Is a Blessed Infusion justifiable on any weapon as a Herald with light Faith allotment? The damage on Blessed weapons is pretty piss, unfortunately. I slap the one gem you get from Cathedral onto a Mace and use it to kill white eyed skeletons, but that's about it.
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Vermain posted:His tail is his major weakness. When he vanishes into the ground, go to the middle and then run to the direct opposite end of the room from him, then lure the arrow rain around the room so that you loop back around to him, and then slash at his tail until he dives. Equip whatever you have that gives you solid Magic and Fire resistance, as he does those damage types primarily. Shame, between balancing health because stuff hits harder in this game, dex so I can actually kill poo poo, and vit so I'm not fatrolling, paired with the fact that souls seem harder to get/keep in this game I'm having a rough time getting faith up. Maybe I should get the Shield of Want and farm some souls for a bit instead of faceramming bosses until they die.
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Jimbot posted:Both sound fun but it has to be the former. Stamina management in this game has been a problem for me. Endurance just gives you piddly squat. It honestly feels like vigor is a requirement in this game, which kinda sucks. With 40 vig, some endgame enemies could still hit me for half my bar, I know the solution is to Git Gud, but still.
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Cyberventurer posted:So I decided to make a new character from scratch and I'm trying to invade at the first area of the game to fight If you're trying to invade in the area after the first boss, keep in mind either people are going to be decent and through that area pretty quick or bad and die, losing their ember. It may even be that the game doesn't allow invasions there, but if you've been able to use cracked orbs that would be odd.
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voltcatfish posted:It honestly feels like vigor is a requirement in this game, which kinda sucks. With 40 vig, some endgame enemies could still hit me for half my bar, I know the solution is to Git Gud, but still. I'd say 20 Vigor is about the minimum you can get away with comfortably, though this varies depending on your absorption.
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Vermain posted:The damage on Blessed weapons is pretty piss, unfortunately. I slap the one gem you get from Cathedral onto a Mace and use it to kill white eyed skeletons, but that's about it. Well that's a bummer. I figured I'd be resorting to that but I was kind of hoping the damage was acceptable. Guess I'm waiting to make my Astora Straight Sword lightning.
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The Rokstar posted:Also gently caress you mimics for not giving me your stupid mimic head thing. I want my huge bonus souls after boss kills. Wearing the mimic head for boss fights sounds like hard-mode to me. Would be a fun NG+ trick.
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The Rokstar posted:Also gently caress you mimics for not giving me your stupid mimic head thing. I want my huge bonus souls after boss kills. Kill all 12 in the game, last one's a guaranteed drop. And most of them are in the Irithyll Dungeon/Profane Valley region anyway so you won't even have to look very hard.
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I like tossing a Blessed Gem on my shield, though. You get the minor health regen at the cost of a small penalty to block absorption which is probably a worthy trade-off if you do block and is obviously just free if you avoid 90% of attacks by rolling/moving and either live with a shield on your back or just use it to parry/weaponskill while one-handing your main weapon.
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Vintersorg posted:Wearing the mimic head for boss fights sounds like hard-mode to me. Would be a fun NG+ trick. You can just swap it before you obtain the souls, sort of like in DS2. The window to do so appears to be a lot more generous this time around.
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turtlecrunch posted:Hell incarnate with a sorcerer on your first playthrough Couldn't you just spam greatsword to clear out huge chunks of them?
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The Rokstar posted:Also gently caress you mimics for not giving me your stupid mimic head thing. I want my huge bonus souls after boss kills. There's a way to farm the mimic head without killing them if you feel like being cheap. Throw an Undead Hunter Charm at them. They'll do an animation where they stretch and yawn and there will be a chance for the head to appear. You can do this forever until it drops because you're not killing them. Another fun note is that any damage you do during their yawn won't wake them up so if you keep getting gobbled by mimics you can cheese them with the charms.
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Vintersorg posted:Wearing the mimic head for boss fights sounds like hard-mode to me. Would be a fun NG+ trick. You put it on after the boss is dead but before the souls drop triggers. You have a few seconds so you might be able to get the Shield of Want, Silver Serpent Ring and Mimic Hat all on if you are really fast.
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Internet Kraken posted:Couldn't you just spam greatsword to clear out huge chunks of them? No, they are resistant to magic.
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Robo Reagan posted:Shame, between balancing health because stuff hits harder in this game, dex so I can actually kill poo poo, and vit so I'm not fatrolling, paired with the fact that souls seem harder to get/keep in this game I'm having a rough time getting faith up. Maybe I should get the Shield of Want and farm some souls for a bit instead of faceramming bosses until they die. If you're gonna pyromance go all the way. With Int/Fth Flame Weapon will let you sword things and heavy armor is unnecessary. Increasingly larger Fire Orbs trivialize large enemies and bosses. It's DS2 1.0 lightning spear levels of busted in PvE.
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Internet Friend posted:If you're gonna pyromance go all the way. With Int/Fth Flame Weapon will let you sword things and heavy armor is unnecessary. Increasingly larger Fire Orbs trivialize large enemies and bosses. It's DS2 1.0 lightning spear levels of busted in PvE. I usually build a bit more general than that. Faith for miracles in coop, dex because I like being quick and dodgy, and I usually use pyro as more of a harassment in PvP thing.
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WrightOfWay posted:You put it on after the boss is dead but before the souls drop triggers. You have a few seconds so you might be able to get the Shield of Want, Silver Serpent Ring and Mimic Hat all on if you are really fast. I'd rather just do quick laps of Ithryl with the baby pontiff knights.
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All of the Pyromancy boss strategies on Fextralife right now can be summarized as, "Shoot Great Chaos Fire Orb at the boss and dodge his attacks. When he gets to 50% health, continue to shoot Great Chaos Fire Orb at the boss."
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voltcatfish posted:It honestly feels like vigor is a requirement in this game, which kinda sucks. With 40 vig, some endgame enemies could still hit me for half my bar, I know the solution is to Git Gud, but still. What armor are you using? I had 30 vigor at the end of the game and I don't think anything except for the like super obvious 8 second charge up boss attacks could kill me in less than three hits. That's pretty much always been my metric in these games: if I can't gently caress up two boss attacks in a row without dying then it's time to get more HP.
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Vermain posted:All of the Pyromancy boss strategies on Fextralife right now can be summarized as, "Shoot Great Chaos Fire Orb at the boss and dodge his attacks. When he gets to 50% health, continue to shoot Great Chaos Fire Orb at the boss." Not wrong.
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Mortimer posted:Dragon's Tooth Vintersorg posted:Aim for rear Vermain posted:His tail is his major weakness. When he vanishes into the ground, go to the middle and then run to the direct opposite end of the room from him, then lure the arrow rain around the room so that you loop back around to him, and then slash at his tail until he dives. Equip whatever you have that gives you solid Magic and Fire resistance, as he does those damage types primarily.
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I've been trying to summon people for the past few days for Aldrich and all I get is "unable to summon phantom". During that time, I can't rest at the bonfire or change my covenant item. What gives? My internet isn't that bad and I have summoned people before no problem. I've read that hollowing affects this? But it can't be the cause of "unable to summon phantom" type of thing. I've tried to summon at least 20 different people and that's all I've gotten.
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Oh one other thing for Aldrich is his fire on the floor is deceptive, most of the time you won't take a whole lot of damage from it and it won't hinder you, so once again continue wedging up his rear end in phase 2, fire or no. I discovered this was a thing for people last night on my co-op run when my friend complained he couldn't get close enough to attack because eeeeeeeeeee fireeeee (hops up on chair)!
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Vermain posted:All of the Pyromancy boss strategies on Fextralife right now can be summarized as, "Shoot Great Chaos Fire Orb at the boss and dodge his attacks. When he gets to 50% health, continue to shoot Great Chaos Fire Orb at the boss." Remove the dodge part and that's dead accurate
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A really easy way to farm quick souls/large titanite shards later in the game with chaos orb is the Anor Londo bonfire. Equip all the +fire damage rings and the silver covetous ring (as well as the shield of want + mimic head if you have those) and chaos orb the spear silver knight while you back up to the rotating stairs where he will de-aggro. Keep baiting his spear-dive into the stairway so you get the full damage on him. Finish him off with the Crystal Sage Rapier for a better chance of shards and then do the same for the sword silver knight.
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So, there are exactly two instances that reliably kick me into offline play for alleged framerate reasons. One is after assisting someone at Abyss Watchers - makes sense, for whatever reason that room fucks my framerate when I'm not fighting the boss, and adding on the post-boss processing might kick it over the edge. The other is when I'm talking to Ludleth the Exiled at Firelink. 
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Vintersorg posted:I'd rather just do quick laps of Ithryl with the baby pontiff knights. Honestly the Shield of Want is a really good shield if you can use it anyway (or good thing to hang on your back if you 2hand 100% of the time for the souls), and four ring slots means it's not a big deal to wear the Silver Dragon Ring for the entire boss fight (I'm p sure I had one of the Covetous rings on 100% of the time, most of the rings have negligible benefits on a non-caster in PVE)
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I feel like the only way mimics will ever catch a veteran player off guard nowadays is if their locations were randomized each playthrough.turtlecrunch posted:No, they are resistant to magic. Ah. The bane of any magic build.
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Anor Londo has made me so glad I played both of the previous games before this one. Nostalgia!!
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I kind of miss the powerful rings from Dark Souls actually, having four slots and weaker rings is probably like objectively better from a balance point of view but it's not like there were only two good rings in Dark Souls or something (Havel/DWGR is infamous but off the top of my head FAP and Wolf were just as generically good, Hornet was great for crit weapons and PVP, the Covetous rings had a larger downside to choosing to wear them while you fought a boss or farmed, etc)
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