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Steve2911 posted:Man, the dark Firelink shrine got me good. Now I'm trying to figure out whether the 'main' shrine is a past, future or dream version. That ending doesn't lock you out of any others. It's an option. At the end you trigger the Fire Keeper ending by using her summon sign, so you can skip it entirely.
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Any tips for fighting Pontiff Sulyvahn? He leaps at me, I dodge it, and before i can get away, he spins around and hits me till I die.
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i was not a parrying person my first playthrough so he was second hardest boss for me. parrying makes the fight about infinity times easier. otherwise it's just tedium of having to roll five times in succession for one attack.
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Boz0r posted:Any tips for fighting Pontiff Sulyvahn? He leaps at me, I dodge it, and before i can get away, he spins around and hits me till I die. Keep dodging to the right around him instead of back. He almost never hits you with his fire sword, just look out for when he uses his magic sword.
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How have phantoms not figured out King of the Storm's gimmick yet, stop standing there idiots. e: Oh the NK can ignore my shield, gently caress RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 15:28 on May 7, 2016 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:Oh. I saw the travel option but I thought that was just like a waypoint system taking me back to the other bonfires I've already been to, not new ones. In general, your hunch would be correct, just not this time.
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Help me, thread. I'm slvl 55 or so. I started as an assassin so I could play a dex build. My stats are now 19 Vigor, 22 Endurance, 30 Dex, 15 Int, 15 Faith. I wanted to do a dex/caster hybrid that used a small handful of spells as backup. I'm currently in Ithryll. I made it to the dungeon bonfire but turned around. Haven't killed the zone boss yet. In my right is a +6 Estoc and a Longbow, and in my left is a ceastus for parrying, a pyro flame, and a grass crest shield. I feel...unfocused, and like my weapon isn't interesting. I upgraded the Estoc because it is supposed to be good in PvP, which I've been doing a little. It's not cool though, you know? I was using the Uchigatana, but that wasn't fulfilling either. At the same time, I wonder if I'm not far enough into Int/Faith to even have the spells be worth it. At the same time, I'm not sure I like ignoring an entire quarter of the left selection window. Please tell me what to do with this character that would be fun, whether it be simply a weapon switch, or a full respec. e: oh and I thought I should tell you guys that I got summoned as a bluecop probably 4 times in 10 minutes in Ithryll. The Wonder Weapon fucked around with this message at 15:57 on May 7, 2016 |
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In the end beat NK on the luck build by ignoring bleed, because it doesn't really work on him (it triggers, but after like ten hits and for very little), visceral attacking him, and also by getting a phantom with soul spear which apparently shits on him. Luck is fun for the first half of the game but by the time you can actually hollow infuse it kind of sucks.
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Zombies' Downfall posted:I always got the impression that she was the first or greatest Darkmoon Blade; "Lord's Blade" Ciaran and all that, combined with her appearance and the feminine associations with the Darkmoon mythos (Gwyndolin's androgynous and the Darkmoon Knight is a woman; the moon itself is described as having a feminine aspect). I thought the first darkmoon blade was the Anor Londo fire keeper
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Do proofs of concord kept have the lowest drop rate of any of the covenant items or am I just having terrible luck? I found 2 after killing roughly 150 silver knights in full item discovery gear. Figures the covenant that works the worst would also be the most difficult to farm. I also have no idea what to do with these 2.5 million souls since I soft capped all the stats I cared about at like level 110. Needless to say the covenant triggered 0 times during the entire time it took me to farm that plus the Farron and Aldritch covenants. The Moon Monster fucked around with this message at 15:58 on May 7, 2016 |
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The Moon Monster posted:Do proofs of concord kept have the lowest drop rate of any of the covenant items or am I just having terrible luck? I found 2 after killing roughly 150 silver knights in full item discovery gear. Figures the covenant that works the worst would also be the most difficult to farm. I also have no idea what to do with these 2.5 million souls since I soft capped all the stats I cared about at like level 110. Sure seems like it. I got a good dozen Swordgrass drops from about an hour of running circuits while waiting for summons, even though I only had 157 item find.
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%^#*$(%^*#$()%^ I fight off 3 loving phantoms trying to get to the host, he's out of estus, one hit away, and he's ballerina-rolling away and I CAN'T loving HIT HIM. And in the process of trying to chase him down again, he summons 3 more and I finally go down. God this is frustrating.
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Sorry if this was talked about recently, I'm like 100 pages behind, but why do people think Aldrich ate Nito? Isn't Nito destroyed by the time Aldrich would be around?
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Sorry if this was talked about recently, I'm like 100 pages behind, but why do people think Aldrich ate Nito? Isn't Nito destroyed by the time Aldrich would be around? They think he came back (or at least his soul did), and was subsequently chumped again by Aldrich. Or something.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Sorry if this was talked about recently, I'm like 100 pages behind, but why do people think Aldrich ate Nito? Isn't Nito destroyed by the time Aldrich would be around? The parts of him that aren't Gwyndolin or the meat/poopsnake coming out his back resemble very strongly Nito's hairy skeleton bone coat thing, and supposedly his music combines the two melodies from their boss fights.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Sorry if this was talked about recently, I'm like 100 pages behind, but why do people think Aldrich ate Nito? Isn't Nito destroyed by the time Aldrich would be around? Not so much ate as inherited his soul or niche. He for sure eats Gwyndolin though, if you can call it that, since he's puppeteering Gwyndolin and using him to cast spells in the boss fight. edit: Fuligin posted:The parts of him that aren't Gwyndolin or the meat/poopsnake coming out his back resemble very strongly Nito's hairy skeleton bone coat thing, and supposedly his music combines the two melodies from their boss fights. Not so sure about that. Sure, he's got a history of eating gods, but him eating Gwyndolin is of such significance that it's explicitly mentioned several times while Nito has 0 mention, and his black slug bone body has the explanation of cannibalism gone to extreme lengths. Hamshot fucked around with this message at 16:26 on May 7, 2016 |
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Anyone gotten use out of the Morion Blade? Even at 40\40 it's kinda lame, and the lack of spell buffs really hurt.
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I've enjoyed the hell out of the game. I just beat all the bosses on NG+ and about to go into NG+2 and do it again. Might record the boss kills. I've been using the Enchanted Dancer Blades for most fights and Drakeblood Sword for the most difficult boss. You know the one. PRAISE THE SUN! Character is 120 and I'll be keeping him there. I see PvP is fairly active at the Pontiff Bonfire still. PvP however is not enjoyable. Straight Swords, Estocs and Giant Dragon Slaying Axes for days. That is all it is and its just not fun if you're not using those yourself. I used a Scythe and Whip combo to be different and got some kills because people aren't used to it but it feels bad to have to fight uphill all the time compared to mister "swing swing swing swing." Maybe I'll use play as Gundyr on another character for PvP. I got the Unobscured ring (The one that lets you be invisible at a distance to other players) and was pretty disappointed in it. I'll invade people a few times and have the cat ring, obscuring ring and silent moving ring and actually stalk them and their 2 phantoms for a bit. Fights are uphill though. And when you do kill phantoms, you can't catch the Host. Which are all problems I've seen people echo before so I'll not rehash it even more. So I loving love the enchanted blades. Terrible for PvP. The spamming weapon art can lock someone down but the damage between the first and last flourishing hit is rear end. Its really only good if you have a partner to also hit a player. For PvE, the damage isn't bad. I've got a 30/30 and 20/20 build for STR/DEX and INT/FTH. I left Vitality alone and pumped Vigor and Endurance. With the Pontiff's Right Ring (The one that boosts damage), my damage goes up quite high, especially against bosses. For all of NG+ I stayed embered and got invaded infrequently. I always stayed and fought, switching to pvp weapons and rings when I saw I was invaded. I wouldn't flask unless the other player did. And they NEVER did, probably because they understood I had double the estus. The fights were always fun because the people who did invade didn't run only straight swords or estocs. Shocking, I know. I don't remember what my level was when I got to Farron Woods but there was enough invasions from Wolf Bro's that I would just book it because I was getting invaded by Red Phantoms, Wolf Bro's and there were no summon signs for me. The whip is glorious for multi-opponent combat though. So sitting at lvl120, I'd equip the Aldrich or Blades of the Dark Moon covenant items and never get hits. I would wait by the Pontiff area for 20 minutes at a time, playing a game on my phone. Never got a hit and did this maybe 4 times. There were plenty of summon signs on the ground and I could always get a hit with my red eye orb. So.. Not sure what is going on with the covenants but it is frustrating. I hope they give it a Bloodborne patch fix where it touches on these things to make the game much more fun.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN3dM9-BlNE Host wanted to hide from an invader. I became a Looney Toon. The invader ended up being a big ole bro that just wanted some PvP and let her summon a phantom for him to fight 1v1 instead. Please don't judge my fashion souls, I dress much better now.
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Lakbay posted:27 vigor will last for the entire lifetime of your character Until you get repeatedly one shot in PvP by guys fishing for parries
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Hurray, I've actually put up with PvP to get my 30 Vertebrae Shackles because gently caress FARMING, and here I am! Earned them all fair and square.  ...somewhat. I think of the ~26 successful invasions I did - some gave me more than 1 shackle, I think because I murdered so many phantoms in them - I had maybe 8 fair fights, maximum. Most were a one-sided gang execution when me and 2 Aldritch Faithfuls surrounded a host, who was either clueless or had all his summons murdered. Some where successful ambushes (fragrant branches + bridge up to the archers... perfect for kicking off), some were dumb luck (host dies somewhere else just as I spawn), some are hilarious (mad phantom arrives to fight club, gets bored, backstabs host + all four present dark phantoms shrug and join in murdering the host). And then there's the PAINFUL invasions. I'm not even talking about the constant gank squads - I knew what I was getting into, I was expecting at least 2 additional phantoms on the enemy side, but with the constant stream of Aldritchs and invaders that was no big deal. No. I started hating the Carthus Milkring. Constant rolling, running away, summoning new ones, virtually uninterruptable Estus drinking, NO DAMAGE. It's a constant chase. I actually had one guy, just vs. me, who rolled around, ineffectually poked the air, rolled around some more, got hit, rolled, healed, got hit during the healing animation but was already healed, rolled, rolled, repeat - until all his 12+ flasks were empty and I finally got that dork. I couldn't even parry or backstab, he barely attacked and always ROLLED ROLLED ROLLED HEAL ROLLED. GOD that was annoying. Not to mention all the connection issues: teleport stabs, invisible projectiles, animationless enemies, the usual. I really liked PvP when it got goofy and had maximum chaos, with 6+ phantoms going at it, but "normal" PvP really didn't endear itself to me, once again. Too much rolling, too much lag with wonky hitboxes as a result, far too fast healing (do throwing knives even stagger ANYONE out of healing? Never got that to work). And I really don't have the patience for trying out online gimmicks and waiting for the rare chance that I actually get to pull it off. Also, goddammit you dumbshit dark phantoms, stop trying to backstab a mound maker, YOU GET NOTHING FROM THIS, I wouldn't have to kick you off the roofs if you just kill the host with me  Oh well. With Mound-Makers + Rosalia done, I'll just... completely ignore Darkmoon + Blue Sentinels, since THAT poo poo certainly never worked, until they patch in a better way of farming OR functional auto-summoning. Might as well start NG+ now - I don't think Silver Knights would be much harder to farm in NG+ than in NG...
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Hamshot posted:Not so sure about that. Sure, he's got a history of eating gods, but him eating Gwyndolin is of such significance that it's explicitly mentioned several times while Nito has 0 mention, and his black slug bone body has the explanation of cannibalism gone to extreme lengths. This, and the fact that It doesnt seem like Aldrich has much time to eat Nito if he does. He travels from the Cathedral to Anor Londo, eats Gwindolin and apparently stays there. I guess he could have eaten Nito before being locked in the cathedral, but it's weird that it would not be mentioned.
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Well I think it's far from certain, that's for sure, but if you look at a screenshot the parts of Aldrich you fight really do look uncannily like someone stuck Gwyndolin on top of Nito and called it a day. I say parts cause the sludgy floor that covers the arena imo is probably the actual body of Aldrich, that "bloated like a drowned pig" or whatever. It's the only thing that actually resembles his look in the opening cutscene, and it would explain why the mobile part of his body keeps diving back down into it to resurface elsewhere.
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I read something on Reddit that I should reroll and take the fire gem to make things easier. Should I?
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Question for those trying to get Proofs from being a blue cop: are you sitting around looking for hits or do you leave it on the whole play-through? On my two characters I've wanted DMB I've just left it on for the duration and by the time I can turn them in, I've got enough. I'm genuinely curious and recognize I might be one of the lucky few who's on the list of players who can get hits.
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RBA Starblade posted:In the end beat NK on the luck build by ignoring bleed, because it doesn't really work on him (it triggers, but after like ten hits and for very little), visceral attacking him, and also by getting a phantom with soul spear which apparently shits on him. Luck is fun for the first half of the game but by the time you can actually hollow infuse it kind of sucks. It's excellent for some bosses (in the late game most notably princes and Lords of Cinder) but I wouldn't ever bother to run a full luck build on any character that wasn't being set up for PvP. mastershakeman posted:Until you get repeatedly one shot in PvP by guys fishing for parries What this guy said, I'm not even using heavy weapons on most of my pvp guys but I can still 1 shot some people with ~440ar and a hornet ring. For some reason I can only parry properly with the non-parry-specialised small shields, but OTOH the Iron Round Shield is stylish as gently caress so it's all good. Viperix posted:Question for those trying to get Proofs from being a blue cop: are you sitting around looking for hits or do you leave it on the whole play-through? On my two characters I've wanted DMB I've just left it on for the duration and by the time I can turn them in, I've got enough. I've left the various summon covenants on for maybe 20-30 hours total while playing normally and had a grand total of 1 summon in that time, which timed out. The only one which works is Aldritch Faithful at ~SL60.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I read something on Reddit that I should reroll and take the fire gem to make things easier. Should I? Don't bother rerolling. But the fire gem is handy early on because its a while before you fight anything resistant enough to need raw. Don't plan on keeping it though.
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Fuligin posted:Well I think it's far from certain, that's for sure, but if you look at a screenshot the parts of Aldrich you fight really do look uncannily like someone stuck Gwyndolin on top of Nito and called it a day. I say parts cause the sludgy floor that covers the arena imo is probably the actual body of Aldrich, that "bloated like a drowned pig" or whatever. It's the only thing that actually resembles his look in the opening cutscene, and it would explain why the mobile part of his body keeps diving back down into it to resurface elsewhere. What I find really cool is it looks like Aldrich went in through the side where the Giant was positioned. Its the only open door and the stairs leading up are slick with black Aldrich goo. I wonder if he's the one who killed the poor Giant.  You can also see signs of where Aldrich has been at the Cathedral of the Deep. A lot of the walls where brick is missing have gooey black looking poo poo moving under it.Viperix posted:Question for those trying to get Proofs from being a blue cop: are you sitting around looking for hits or do you leave it on the whole play-through? On my two characters I've wanted DMB I've just left it on for the duration and by the time I can turn them in, I've got enough. I did most of my NG+ run with Darkmoon Blades on and never got any hits. Not one of those chosen few, it seems. 
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Torquemadras posted:Hurray, I've actually put up with PvP to get my 30 Vertebrae Shackles because gently caress FARMING, and here I am! Earned them all fair and square. I think I got multiple vertebra shackles when I fulfilled my duty by killing another invading purple phantom. Make sense since invading purples drop shackles even if you're not in the covenant. Even with the gank squads and the fact that it probably ended up taking longer, actually being able to PvP for the Rosaria and Mound Makers covenants was so much better than farming...
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RBA Starblade posted:In the end beat NK on the luck build by ignoring bleed, because it doesn't really work on him (it triggers, but after like ten hits and for very little), visceral attacking him, and also by getting a phantom with soul spear which apparently shits on him. Luck is fun for the first half of the game but by the time you can actually hollow infuse it kind of sucks. I beat ng with the worst possible build: dex and great scythe up through pontiff, then respecced to anri short sword with carthas for bosses and faith for buffs. Neither work well. I'm in ng+ now and goign to switch to a quality or str build soon because might as well. Anri is just over 400 AR, 450 with the 28 faith 2 slot miracle. Woop Dee doo. The warden twinblades are even worse , around 250 ar and no range at all. I'm glad I finally did a luck build in this series but yikes. I think the problem is just that there's too many awesome str weapons, or even str/dex , and very little for pure dex or luck.
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Viperix posted:Question for those trying to get Proofs from being a blue cop: are you sitting around looking for hits or do you leave it on the whole play-through? On my two characters I've wanted DMB I've just left it on for the duration and by the time I can turn them in, I've got enough. Left it on for my first NG for ~40 hours just playing through, no hits. 30 more hours NG+ at SL120, no hits. Rolled a new character sit in Undead Settlement at SL20 +0 for 6 hours, no hits.
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Viperix posted:Question for those trying to get Proofs from being a blue cop: are you sitting around looking for hits or do you leave it on the whole play-through? On my two characters I've wanted DMB I've just left it on for the duration and by the time I can turn them in, I've got enough. I've left it on for entire playthroughs. On my most recent character, I got one summon in 14 hours.
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Deckit posted:I've enjoyed the hell out of the game. I just beat all the bosses on NG+ and about to go into NG+2 and do it again. Might record the boss kills. I've been using the Enchanted Dancer Blades for most fights and Drakeblood Sword for the most difficult boss. You know the one. PRAISE THE SUN! That's not... you're not implying that that's Solaire are you?
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Fuligin posted:Well I think it's far from certain, that's for sure, but if you look at a screenshot the parts of Aldrich you fight really do look uncannily like someone stuck Gwyndolin on top of Nito and called it a day. I say parts cause the sludgy floor that covers the arena imo is probably the actual body of Aldrich, that "bloated like a drowned pig" or whatever. It's the only thing that actually resembles his look in the opening cutscene, and it would explain why the mobile part of his body keeps diving back down into it to resurface elsewhere. Adding to this from reading Wikis, and against my own opinion, turns out the tip of his staff is the gravelord sword from DS1.
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mastershakeman posted:Until you get repeatedly one shot in PvP by guys fishing for parries I think people are using this number simply because it is an even 1000 hp un-embered. Seriously though, put some more points into VGR guys. That extra base 200 hp goes a long way.
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Tokyo Sex Whale posted:My brother and I are going to do a co-op play through. If we want to maximize how often we're invaded should we stick to the wiki's co-op levels or go a little higher or a lot higher or what? My first play through was almost always embered and I was invaded I think 3 times. But I think I was probably under-leveled the whole time and over-upgraded a lot of it. If you want to get invaded just rub dried fingers on your face. You'll constantly get reds throwing themselves at you that way. If you want to use sorcery and also an interesting weapon, I heartily recommend the immolation tinder. A lot of people are put off by its bizzare stat requirements, but its a solid weapon that actually has really drat good scaling. Its also a weapon that scales off int but doesn't deal magic damage. This is quite useful, as it means your mage won't get walled by enemies that resist magic. Plus it just plain looks cool.
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