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Brannock posted:Someone a few pages back said that the enemy progression in Demon Ruins was backwards -- you start fighting against the lethal Ghru and the flamebirthers and finish up fighting against the rats. Oh, where I left off I stubbornly got the ballista to kill the worm for me on principle while dodging like mad. Didn't work out so well against the crabs though, ow.
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Can you put resin on a simple or crystal weapon?
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Apr 28, 2016 07:24
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Woozy posted:Uhm. You don't need to climb all the way up the ladder. Double tap circle to jump off at any height you choose. You can also estus while on the ladder. Are you serious
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Apr 28, 2016 07:25
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Manikin Claws are surprisingly great. High bleed chance and the L1 costs less stamina than a single swing from most weapons. Warden Twinblades are stitll better though
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Apr 28, 2016 07:28
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It turns out you can apply a pine bundle after a parry! But it adds about 60 damage to a riposte 
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Apr 28, 2016 07:32
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I'm pretty sure you can just run past the worm. Like theres a gap to the right of where he pops up thats just large enough to pass though.
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Apr 28, 2016 07:37
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There's a spot behind the worm where you can just chill while the ballista kills it for you
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Apr 28, 2016 07:43
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I switched from an Uchi to a Washing Pole, and I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. No big difference in PvE (though the range and slightly higher damage output is nice), but it's absolutely brutal in PvP. The range just wrecks people.The Rokstar posted:People have trouble with Oceiros? I have literally only lost to him once in about 6-7 fights. Just stay behind him and he can't do poo poo. This was my experience, as well. Spacing is huge in these games, and learning the right spacing for different bosses is key to beat them. Backing way off will trigger his charge, which gives people some trouble.
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Apr 28, 2016 07:44
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If you stop the ballista, the worm doesn't really have all that much health either, me and a pal just shot it apart with our big manly ranged weaponry.
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I didn't fight the worm until I stopped the balista. The worm won't go on the land near the steps so you can just keep baiting it until it does a lightning attack, run back to land, repeat
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Apr 28, 2016 07:46
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il serpente cosmico posted:This was my experience, as well. Spacing is huge in these games, and learning the right spacing for different bosses is key to beat them. Backing way off will trigger his charge, which gives people some trouble. My choice of weapon is a greataxe so I have no choice but to stay on his body at all times, which meant I auto died the second he would decide to turn his body into a giant hitbox The solution was to stop giving a poo poo, spam warcry and continually walk into him mashing r1
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Apr 28, 2016 07:49
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im hosed up in the head and thought all the levels in the game were great except smouldering lake, gently caress that lovely place
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Apr 28, 2016 07:50
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ShadowMar posted:except smouldering lake, gently caress that lovely place gently caress Demon Ruins as an inclusion to Smouldering Lake and we got a deal.
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Apr 28, 2016 07:51
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I thought smouldering lake and demon ruins were super loving cool and I had fun exploring them Sorry y'all
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Apr 28, 2016 07:53
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Yardbomb posted:gently caress Demon Ruins as an inclusion to Smouldering Lake and we got a deal. i just condense demon ruins into smouldering lake, so yes, gently caress demon ruins too. don't bother fighting anything in there except tsorig basically.
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Apr 28, 2016 07:54
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Ruggington posted:I thought smouldering lake and demon ruins were super loving cool and I had fun exploring them Thematically I loved them. Enemy wise...gently caress the Ghru, especially the standy-jumpy ones, and the Fire-orb summoning demons.
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Apr 28, 2016 07:55
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there's nothing wrong with demon ruins' level design or appearance really, it's just the enemies are so ridiculously unfun to fight that it ruined that area for me
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Apr 28, 2016 07:57
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My favorite part was farming the black knight greataxe by leading the black knight into the rats and watching them loving tear him apart
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Apr 28, 2016 07:59
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The flame boys also annihilated him
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HnK416 posted:How the actual gently caress are you supposed to fight the gaping crocodogs in that basement area??? Cast 3 chaos fire balls. It's pretty funny how easy they are for ranged.
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Apr 28, 2016 08:05
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The worm is pathetic. I spent the entire level anticipating my fight with it after turning off the balista. Then I discover that it is a terribly programmed enemy that can't hit you when you stand right next to it and poke it to death  It feels like they had this cool idea for a boss but didn't have enough time to make it work so they just shoved it into that level half done.
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Apr 28, 2016 08:13
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If you can split the Bloodborne Dog Bros they're also pretty easy for giant weapon Str builds because you can go ham when there's an opening and they stagger and become open to a riposte, like some of the other big monster guys in the game. This happened to the one on the bridge with my gimmick Berserk Greatsword guy and surprised the poo poo out of me.
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Apr 28, 2016 08:14
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Turtlicious posted:Can you put resin on a simple or crystal weapon? No. You can only buff weapons that do pure physical damage.
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Apr 28, 2016 08:15
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HnK416 posted:How the actual gently caress are you supposed to fight the gaping crocodogs in that basement area??? You can visceral attack / riposte them by hitting them directly in the face, katana, great sword and straight sword overhead 2hr1s do a really good job. Only takes 2 hits to set up with most of the weapons I tried with, and as soon as one's dead you've won basically. Or you can be boring and fight them one at a time but eh
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Apr 28, 2016 08:17
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RabidWeasel posted:You can visceral attack / riposte them by hitting them directly in the face, katana, great sword and straight sword overhead 2hr1s do a really good job. Only takes 2 hits to set up with most of the weapons I tried with, and as soon as one's dead you've won basically. Speaking of, what am I doing wrong with giant crabs there? I can knock them down but then I don't get to do a fancy canned animation attack. Or can you not Visceral giant crabs, just knock em down for a bit?
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Apr 28, 2016 08:20
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What does equip load do? It seems to make me fatroll at 75% but other than that not doesn't have as much of an effect as in DS1.
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Do dried fingers make you count as a group if you are solo? I got rarely invaded in my first game but lately I've been using the dried fingers and getting invaded lots. I was bored as hell with ng+ until I started using it and getting invaded. To make it even faster I started equipping the way of the blue thingy and as soon as a blue is summoned, entire armies start gating in. Lots of great fun.
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il serpente cosmico posted:I switched from an Uchi to a Washing Pole, and I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. No big difference in PvE (though the range and slightly higher damage output is nice), but it's absolutely brutal in PvP. The range just wrecks people. Yeah, rule #1 of Souls game bosses seems to be that the safest place to be is right up in their grill. Generally speaking, the further away from a boss you get the more danger you're putting yourself in. There's exceptions to that of course, but not as many as you'd think. Also I'm really hoping that this patch coming out today helps with the Farron/Darkmoon poo poo. I'm going mad trying to get summoned for those drat covenants.
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Jewel Repetition posted:What does equip load do? It seems to make me fatroll at 75% but other than that not doesn't have as much of an effect as in DS1. Fat roll over 70, fast roll under 30, normal roll in between. No difference in iframes between fast and normal, just a quicker animation. Not much different from how it was in DS1, except that the fast roll is less of an improvement. DS2 was the only one where the roll was heavily affected by different levels of equip load.
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Internet Kraken posted:
How did you deal with the fact that all her gapclosers are horrible deathtraps with extremely unpredictable hitboxes?
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Apr 28, 2016 08:32
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I just booted up Bloodborne after playing through most of DS3 on PC, and holy poo poo, what a terrible framerate. I didn't mind it at the time, but it'd be really hard to play through it again at this point.
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Apr 28, 2016 08:35
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The Rokstar posted:Yeah, rule #1 of Souls game bosses seems to be that the safest place to be is right up in their grill. Generally speaking, the further away from a boss you get the more danger you're putting yourself in. There's exceptions to that of course, but not as many as you'd think. Pretty much every boss is basically all about footsies. Figuring out where you can stand to prevent the enemy from doing its worst moves, and then keeping yourself there as much as possible is 90% of the gameplay. It's pretty rare for footsies range to be far away, but it happens. Generally it's bosses who are dudes with swords--Artorias, Gwyn, Pursuer, etc.
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Am I the only one who thinks DS1 Lost Izalith, despite its shortcomings and questionable enemy placements, was a lot more interesting, varied and creative compared to Smoldering Lake? Aside from that broken skybox and the bed of chaos, it was still a bigger zone with more nooks and crannies to explore. I was quite surprised to see just how poor Smoldering Lake is after seeing all the complaints about Lost Izalith, I thought FROM would have put in considerably more effort this time around. Not just that, but LI felt like a logical place to stumble upon since you were always going down into the earth. SL is just another room in a catacomb and while it's not as nonsensical as that elevator in Dark Souls 2, it's still a jarring transition.
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Internet Kraken posted:The worm is pathetic. I spent the entire level anticipating my fight with it after turning off the balista. Then I discover that it is a terribly programmed enemy that can't hit you when you stand right next to it and poke it to death if you touch it while it's moving, it'll knock you down and do damage tho. really you should just think of it like the hydras from dark souls 1: cool looking and intimidating at first glance, but in practice pretty easy and very boring to actually fight
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cheetah7071 posted:How did you deal with the fact that all her gapclosers are horrible deathtraps with extremely unpredictable hitboxes? Well I partially lied; in phase 1 I beat her up with my barbed sword. Once you get past the first phase though, she loses her only good gap closer in the form of the sprint slash. The ones she picks up in phase 2 are garbage. The jumping slash is really easy to dodge. Her spin to win is negated by just standing behind a pillar. The most dangerous move she has is the double lunge, which can phase through the pillars. Even that is easy to avoid if you remain alert though, and it will only kill you if both swords connect (or your vigor is poo poo). You have enough time to dodge after the first one hits you so its not an instant kill. Fighting her in melee is still hard in phase 2 but you can kite her for ages easily, so if you have the patience for it you can bring her down with enough ranged spam.
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Lore question re: Lost Izalith vs Smoldering Lake. I don't recall any tree pillars in Lost Izalith. Is Smoldering Lake supposed to be a mashup of Ash Lake and Lost Izalith?
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Internet Kraken posted:The worm is pathetic. I spent the entire level anticipating my fight with it after turning off the balista. Then I discover that it is a terribly programmed enemy that can't hit you when you stand right next to it and poke it to death If you stand at a certain distance from it, it always uses its big laser beam attack. Except for some reason it can only fire it in one direction? So if you stand at just the right distance only behind it, it'll shoot the laser off into nowhere and then you can run up, hit it, then back off back to laser distance and get it stuck in an AI loop where it can never do anything to you at all because it's so hideously programmed. What a ridiculous monster.
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Just got through the game's obligatory poison swamp. I like this one a hell of a lot more than previous. There's a kind of atmosphere here that's just really solidly done, and the mechanic for proceeding to the next area contributes greatly, showing those fiery towers above the murk. Plus it's got the Jersey Devil as the signature enemy, which is sure a hell of a thing.  Like altogether, it's impressive how much seems to be actively going on in each place you visit. Unlike prior Dark Souls where you're arriving on the scene after most of the poo poo has gone down, you're right in the thick of the mayhem this time.
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I just found the Carthus Sword and I'm thinking about using it, but I don't have 15 Strength. People were saying that the scaling still got borked if you two-handed a weapon you can't wield in one hand, did that turn out to be true?
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Internet Kraken posted:Well I partially lied; in phase 1 I beat her up with my barbed sword. Once you get past the first phase though, she loses her only good gap closer in the form of the sprint slash. The ones she picks up in phase 2 are garbage. The jumping slash is really easy to dodge. Her spin to win is negated by just standing behind a pillar. The most dangerous move she has is the double lunge, which can phase through the pillars. Even that is easy to avoid if you remain alert though, and it will only kill you if both swords connect (or your vigor is poo poo). You have enough time to dodge after the first one hits you so its not an instant kill. Well when I fought her early I had base assassin vigor so I was onehit by all her gapclosers. I got tired or failing to dodge the second hit of her jump and the fire sword in her giant stand-up spin thing so I just stood behind her butt to make her use moves I could actually dodge. I didn't even consider using a crossbow, though, that could very easily be much much easier.
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