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Songbearer posted:None of my characters are optimised for PVP and I tend to lose most straight-up fights but I enjoy getting hit with invasions because I like to give it a drat good try and it's a fun test to see how well I can do (Or how quickly I can die). I don't invade myself at all except for doing red sign Pontiff duels. I'm kind of the opposite. If someone invades I'll use every dirty trick to murder their face, because they are dirty invaders. Well, except the gank squad, since I only ever summon up phantoms for bosses. That said, I've been mostly doing the hiding-in-plain-sight thing a lot recently and it's loving hilarious. It's also hilarious to see people over-relying on parries, because then I can teach them that 2-handed Zweihander attacks can't be parried 
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poptart_fairy posted:Yeah, ha. I don't think having to complete NG++ is that bad - most of us will be doing that if we're trophy hunting anyway - but tying master of miracles and master of pyromancy behind covenant turn-ins is frustrating as all hell. It feels like enforced grinding rather than a fairly organic part of gameplay. I don't think you should have to go into ng+, let alone ng++, to get everything. like alt endings are one thing, but this is lame. on the plus side, you can use the leave command in the menus to drop stuff for other players during coop so it should be possible to bypass that stuff if you can find someone willing to go through that hassle for you (assuming you can drop the rings - you definitely can't drop storm ruler because I tried, but normal stuff seems to be fair game). you could do this with the weapon trophies in demon's souls as well
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Boris Galerkin posted:Assuming I can recover my body is there any penalty to dying over and over again? What if I die again before I'm able to recover my first body. Does all that stuff just disappear? no penalty, correct.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Assuming I can recover my body is there any penalty to dying over and over again? What if I die again before I'm able to recover my first body. Does all that stuff just disappear? if you die before you recover bloodstain, you lose your souls. its not really a big deal
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Boris Galerkin posted:Assuming I can recover my body is there any penalty to dying over and over again? What if I die again before I'm able to recover my first body. Does all that stuff just disappear? No penalty for dying, but yes if you die with a bloodstain on the ground then you will overwrite it with a new one and those old souls are gone.
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Songbearer posted:None of my characters are optimised for PVP and I tend to lose most straight-up fights but I enjoy getting hit with invasions because I like to give it a drat good try and it's a fun test to see how well I can do (Or how quickly I can die). I don't invade myself at all except for doing red sign Pontiff duels. I am 100% like you here (with the exception of the Estus. I heal every time because this is my world, dammit). I have never summoned help to deal with an invader and generally have a good fight with them. Recently, however, I've been trying my hand at invading, and most people do not seem to have this philosophy. I can't tell you how many times I've seen "Summoning phantom..." show up on my screen multiple times while I try to find the host of cinders. Bunch of cowards, I tell you!
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SoldadoDeTone posted:I am 100% like you here (with the exception of the Estus. I heal every time because this is my world, dammit). I have never summoned help to deal with an invader and generally have a good fight with them. Recently, however, I've been trying my hand at invading, and most people do not seem to have this philosophy. I can't tell you how many times I've seen "Summoning phantom..." show up on my screen multiple times while I try to find the host of cinders. Bunch of cowards, I tell you! I am usually invaded about as soon as I get start a level, so I just summon on principle. Invader has the entire map of NPCs, and in theory the summoning should tell them where I am. Both at our strongest. Let the best team win.
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Man, I'm kicking myself for not trying the Grave Warden Twinblades earlier. While I use the Shield of Want, it's always on my back purely for the soul bonus and I don't even have the strength to wield it. I'm squishy but move quick, hit hard and have enough souls to cycle through the various buffs, resins and so on to adapt to any combat situation. loving love these things.  Also which one of you just ran a four man group outside of the Dragonslayer armour on PS4? Just got summoned by a host who refused to budge for anyone until we all got into a circle and used the toast emote.  Manatee Cannon posted:I don't think you should have to go into ng+, let alone ng++, to get everything. like alt endings are one thing, but this is lame. on the plus side, you can use the leave command in the menus to drop stuff for other players during coop so it should be possible to bypass that stuff if you can find someone willing to go through that hassle for you (assuming you can drop the rings - you definitely can't drop storm ruler because I tried, but normal stuff seems to be fair game). you could do this with the weapon trophies in demon's souls as well Oh sure, I just think beating NG++ in and out of itself for a trophy isn't a bad idea; although arguably far better suited to a situation such as DS2 where combat encounters and enemies change in the different cycles.
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Fashion souls question: Can you get the gear from those crow warriors you see in the woods, and if so, how does it look like on a player character?
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Dark Souls name censoring. K***ht. But the actual n-word is just fine.
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I think you have to capitalize the word to bypass the filter. But yes it has a lot of easy exploitations. Binged the thread so gonna reply to some old posts, sorry about that. Obligatum VII posted:PS. Still searching for the proper values to make a character that looks like patches. Surely someone has managed it?  Internet Kraken posted:The goblet is Wolnir's skull. When you touch it, it creates a magic hallucination of Wolnir to fight. Its not actually teleporting you to the abyss and Wolnir wasn't actually a 50 foot tall skeleton man. As for Aldia, well, while he's nowhere to be seen, his legacy still exists in the Grand Archive. There's a bunch of items that mention the Scholar (capitalized just like that), and while it may be a different person, Soul Stream says Scholar is the one that basically taught Lothric that hey, linking the flame sucks, don't do it. And that's kinda what Aldia was going for in the end. Also Soul Stream was basically Soul Geyser in DS2 and surprise, that's an Aldia heirloom. NTT posted:Opinion: the two spider things that drop Aldrich rings are cute. Also, someone earlier on asked why people were going on about Ciaran, and it seems like her swords were in the game at some point:  quote:Golden Dual Swords
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I never made the Aldia connection but it sounds perfectly reasonable, considering he is literally the Scholar of the First Sin and was very vocal about how linking the fire is fabricated lies, nonsense and all that. Prince Lothric is also an interesting character because his reaction is so incredibly human. He would rather let the world burn than extend a seemingly never ending cycle.
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WaltherFeng posted:Prince Lothric is also an interesting character because his reaction is so incredibly human. He would rather let the world burn than extend a seemingly never ending cycle. I'm not sure that's the word I'd use...
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WaltherFeng posted:I never made the Aldia connection but it sounds perfectly reasonable, considering he is literally the Scholar of the First Sin and was very vocal about how linking the fire is fabricated lies, nonsense and all that. He's the most powerful of the Crestfallen
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Rigged Death Trap posted:He's the most powerful of the Crestfallen im pretty sure hawkwood would kick his rear end tbh hawkwood is super real for some reason edit: HGH posted:Also Soul Stream was basically Soul Geyser in DS2 and surprise, that's an Aldia heirloom. soul geyser and soul stream have the same name in japanese between ds2/3 same with forbidden sun and chaos bed vestiges apparently (???) see: http://00tn2.blogspot.ca/2016/04/dark-souls-3.html Fereydun fucked around with this message at 13:58 on May 9, 2016 |
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Deserter or not he was at least, for a time, part of Farron's Legion.
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In farron swamp by the basilisks, there's two items up on a ledge. Its possible to jump up into boulders and almost get there but I can't get to the ledge itself. Is there another route? I never found it first play through.
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1.06 changes Overall AR increase to Daggers [15%?] Twinblade-type weapon L1 damage increased [~1.8 times damage of R1] Farron Hail Spread has been decreased. Same damage. Crystal Hail now fires 3 volleys of small Crystal soulmasses. Same damage. Great Farron Dart's successive cast speed increased (maybe). Same damage. No spell damage buffs/nerfs in the regulation at all.
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mastershakeman posted:In farron swamp by the basilisks, there's two items up on a ledge. Its possible to jump up into boulders and almost get there but I can't get to the ledge itself. Is there another route? I never found it first play through. iirc you drop down onto that ledge somewhere near the farron keep perimeter bonfire, if you found that EDIT: vvv listen to this guy Baku fucked around with this message at 14:01 on May 9, 2016 |
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mastershakeman posted:In farron swamp by the basilisks, there's two items up on a ledge. Its possible to jump up into boulders and almost get there but I can't get to the ledge itself. Is there another route? I never found it first play through. You drop down to those items via an opening near the Farron Keep Perimeter bonfire - around where those three swamp enemies are sitting down.
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Watching Geop's DS2 LP reminded me of a thing I wish they'd carried over: DS2 had fantastic backstab animations.
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I like the vague dark souls endings but I wish the mechanics for activating them were a lot more clear. I just beat the game last night, got the Lord of Hollows ending, but spent literally 25 minutes googling on my smartphone after beating the final boss because, when you approach the last bonfire, the button prompt always says "link the flame" even if you're all set to usurp the flame. It kind of kills the magic of the moment when you have to stop and google!
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The way From handles quests in these games has always been pointlessly dense and I hate it. If you don't read a guide you'll have no idea how to finish any of these quests in this game unless you talk to every NPC after you do absolutely anything just to see if you advanced a quest yet. I'm not saying there needs to be glowing arrows and ?s over everyone, but even a basic quest log like how Morrowind did it would be fine. It was vague enough that you still had to explore and use your noggin, but it had plenty enough guidance to get you where you needed to be.
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Polo-Rican posted:I like the vague dark souls endings but I wish the mechanics for activating them were a lot more clear. I just beat the game last night, got the Lord of Hollows ending, but spent literally 25 minutes googling on my smartphone after beating the final boss because, when I approached the last bonfire, the button prompt always says "link the flame" and that's not what I wanted to do. It kind of kills the magic of the moment when you have to stop and google! It really should have said usurp the fire at that point. I also googled it the first time
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Polo-Rican posted:I like the vague dark souls endings but I wish the mechanics for activating them were a lot more clear. I just beat the game last night, got the Lord of Hollows ending, but spent literally 25 minutes googling on my smartphone after beating the final boss because, when you approach the last bonfire, the button prompt always says "link the flame" even if you're all set to usurp the flame. It kind of kills the magic of the moment when you have to stop and google! Yeah, they shoulda updated the little tooltip for that one. The other two endings are very clear--you either pick Link the Flame or you use the Fire Keeper's summon sign like she told you to, but there's nothing at all to tell you that the Lord of Hollows ending overwrites the normal Link the Flame one if you unlock it. RyokoTK posted:The way From handles quests in these games has always been pointlessly dense and I hate it. If you don't read a guide you'll have no idea how to finish any of these quests in this game unless you talk to every NPC after you do absolutely anything just to see if you advanced a quest yet. I just think the quests need to be less time-sensitive and maybe with less exacting triggers. None of these games have really done NPC quests all that well. I'd say DS3 comes the closest just because I love the reversal it pulls on summoning NPCs for bosses to advance their quest--it's cool that the player is the one who's summoned this time--but the attempts to make some of the NPC quests sort of intersect and interact just makes it all the more fiddly. Greirat's and Anri's quests, in particular, routinely get hosed up even if you already know what you're doing. I wouldn't be opposed to a little journal or something, like you suggest. They could even make it an item you use to keep it in-universe, just to remind you where you last saw an NPC and what they were saying, maybe with a subtle hint about where they might be headed next. I don't want actual quest steps in there, but reminders about what you already know would be nice. Harrow fucked around with this message at 14:45 on May 9, 2016 |
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mastershakeman posted:In farron swamp by the basilisks, there's two items up on a ledge. Its possible to jump up into boulders and almost get there but I can't get to the ledge itself. Is there another route? I never found it first play through. Yes when you're above in that castle like area that leads to that door into the lake area there's a place you can drop down.
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Speaking of NPC questlines whatever happens to that dude who's all cynical and laughs at how stupid it all it in the Shrine but disappears soon after Faron?Harrow posted:I just think the quests need to be less time-sensitive and maybe with less exacting triggers. None of these games have really done NPC quests all that well. I'd say DS3 comes the closest just because I love the reversal it pulls on summoning NPCs for bosses to advance their quest--it's cool that the player is the one who's summoned this time--but the attempts to make some of the NPC quests sort of intersect and interact just makes it all the more fiddly. Greirat's and Anri's quests, in particular, routinely get hosed up even if you already know what you're doing. The bigger problem is that a game that lets you explore (to an extent) shouldn't then punish you for exploring. For example, - if you explore from the Manor in Irityhl, Seigward advances there and cannot save Greirat. - in the same Greirat line, you CAN send Patches ONCE to save Greirat but he'll only do it in Onion armor. So if you have advanced Seigward you have no way to save Greirat unless it's NG+ (by the way, the only way to save Greirat from Lothric is to be on NG+ where they both have onion armor) - Trying out even respecing punishing you from the Sirris questline. I realize they are enemies and all, but the honest mistake would be that it's not the same as "offering" it to Rosaria.
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have i blocked access to the mound makers by killing the cursewood and then doing thee rosaria's fingers quest?
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mastershakeman posted:Does respec break sirris' quest chain? JetsGuy posted:- Trying out even respecing punishing you from the Sirris questline. I realize they are enemies and all, but the honest mistake would be that it's not the same as "offering" it to Rosaria. According to this wiki: http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Sirris+of+the+Sunless+Realms this has changed and you apparently can respec without breaking the chain. I wouldn't risk it though unless you desperately need to respec. Keep in mind though that the way to get tounges aside from the few random lucky ones requires equipping the covenant item, which will void the questline. quote:Using a Pale Tongue to change your appeareance or respec won't void Sirri's questline as of regulation version 1.05. EDIT: Jose posted:have i blocked access to the mound makers by killing the cursewood and then doing thee rosaria's fingers quest? Yes. Two ways to join Moundmakers. 1) Talk to the spider cage guy behind the house, which turns the cage monster docile. Enter the cage, get the covenant before the Greatwood fight. 2) Sirris summon sign around there after beating Alrich (won't appear if you have turned Sirris against you). JetsGuy fucked around with this message at 15:21 on May 9, 2016 |
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JetsGuy posted:According to this wiki: http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Sirris+of+the+Sunless+Realms No it's not. You get tongues just from killing people normally, without a covenant that alters the reward you get.
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JetsGuy posted:Speaking of NPC questlines whatever happens to that dude who's all cynical and laughs at how stupid it all it in the Shrine but disappears soon after Faron? That guy goes off looking for dragons. If you find the Twinkling Dragon Torso Stone, he'll leave a message with the blacksmith, challenging you for it. The game doesn't punish you for exploring, it only punishes Greirat. If you bring his ashes to the handmaiden, you can still get everything he would've offered. The world is a harsh and arbitrarily punishing place sometimes. You appear to be offering the severed tongue of somebody you hunted down and murdered to the maggot-goddess to be reincarnated through her unholy process. Sirris is not ok with that. Jose posted:have i blocked access to the mound makers by killing the cursewood and then doing thee rosaria's fingers quest? Yes, sorry.
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Who knew you could put mimics to sleep with undead hunter charms? Nothing in the item description indicates they can be used for this. After, you should be able to drop a firebomb into their open mouth like Geralt does with monster nests.
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lite_sleepr posted:Who knew you could put mimics to sleep with undead hunter charms? Nothing in the item description indicates they can be used for this. It's an easter egg and returning feature from Dark Souls.
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Nuebot posted:So I had a weird thought about something I want to see in the DLC. Random mimics. Just make every chest have a random percent chance of being a mimic. Sometimes you open it and get your item, sometimes you open it and get a mimic. Oh no! i can't be the only person who attacks every chest exactly once, no matter what, even if i know based on replaying the game, that it's not a mimic, right? i feel like random mimics wouldn't make any difference, unless they could randomly be things like bonfires or crates or trees or truly a random assortment of things.
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