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could someone break down what they did to nerf hollow infusions/luck scaling? i get the impression it's something to do with bleed, but i don't rely on bleed for my hollow build so I'm wondering if I'm still hooped
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Has anything been said about where or at what recommended level The Ringed City takes place? IIRC Ashes of Ariandel had a recommendation of "reach Lothric Castle first" but could be accessed after just Vordt and Crystal Sage and I'm hoping this one is similar.
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New patch is really cool. I was pretty content with the build variety already in the game but the patch has significantly buffed both pure Faith caster builds and pure Strength heavy armor builds (and therefore everything in between as well) which I felt were by far the two weakest builds. Some other weaker weapons got nice QoL buffs as well, notably daggers, which are now easier to use (more base damage, less crit damage, meaning their regular swings are better and total damage on a crit remains unchanged). Looking through the datamined DLC stuff, there is some crazy poo poo in here . Build variety is going to be off the chain and I'm already planning my new characters. A new (and endgame) PvP covenant is an excellent addition as well. I'm personally happiest about the addition of the Dragonslayer Armor as a wearable set, that always bugged the poo poo out of me. Looks like FROM has done it again. Martian Manfucker posted:could someone break down what they did to nerf hollow infusions/luck scaling? i get the impression it's something to do with bleed, but i don't rely on bleed for my hollow build so I'm wondering if I'm still hooped They nerfed the base Bleed amount (the amount the weapon builds up per hit) on basically everything with Bleed on it. So it just means it'll take another hit or two to proc for your Hollow build.
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How did they buff faith builds? I was mulling going lightning/lothric greatsword on my next run.
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Mar 24, 2017 23:10
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Gerblyn posted:How did they buff faith builds? I was mulling going lightning/lothric greatsword on my next run. They improved the animation on several spells, including Lightning Stake, which is the best offensive faith spell already. Knocking someone on his rear end, then spamming 2-3 lightning stakes when they get up is great.
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So I take it sharp/heavy is actually useful now? I still love quality builds just because I love switching to all sorts of weapons, but with the new changes I might make some "pure" str or dex characters. How did they buff faith? And did the buff to poison actually make a difference? What about frostbite? Frozen Weapon is the coolest spell (  ) but it always seemed kinda useless.
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Maleh-Vor posted:They improved the animation on several spells, including Lightning Stake, which is the best offensive faith spell already. Knocking someone on his rear end, then spamming 2-3 lightning stakes when they get up is great. Nice, am looking forwards to it after I finish Nier Your Computer posted:How did they buff faith? And did the buff to poison actually make a difference? What about frostbite? Frozen Weapon is the coolest spell ( I used Frost a lot in my last run and I'm not even sure what it actually does. It does some damage when it procs and then I think it's supposed to reduce defense, but I never really noticed my attacks doing more damage while it was active.
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Frostbite supposedly reduces enemy stamina (or maybe stamina Regen?). Triggering it on a heavy weapons user could gently caress them up.
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Mar 24, 2017 23:25
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Weeping Wound posted:Whole shitload of spoilers came out today. This one's the big one for me. The bells! The bells!  I'm ready for the end of the world again.
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Looked up info on new DLC items and there's a lot of rad poo poo in there. This might get me back into DS3 again (I mean, moreso than just playing through the new DLC). We got a dual-wield greatshield again, gently caress yeah.
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What's the strongest kind of Casting Magic / Weapon build? Is it Faith + Str?
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Turtlicious posted:What's the strongest kind of Casting Magic / Weapon build? Is it Faith + Str? Onyx blade pyro is a strong contender
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Turtlicious posted:What's the strongest kind of Casting Magic / Weapon build? Is it Faith + Str? Sorc id imagine. Last patch at least the strongest poise weapon build was basically moonlight greatsword and tons of vit for armor. Might have changed since newest patch though.
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I just went through Ariandel DLC again and man...I really hate these bosses. The Gravetender is just aggravating; either he should have been a one-on-one dual that leads into a giant wolf interruption or he should have been a tougher foe with smaller wolves helping him, but having to kill all the little wolves, then him, then the giant bullshit wolf and he is such bullshit he just never stops attacking at low health, he just dashes and dashes and dashes The DLC's main boss is just a goddamn marathon.
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I hate to ask this, but does anyone have a good summary of the patch notes? I'm really paranoid about reading this thread right now because I'm trying to avoid any sort of spoilers on the DLC.
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Internet Kraken posted:I hate to ask this, but does anyone have a good summary of the patch notes? I'm really paranoid about reading this thread right now because I'm trying to avoid any sort of spoilers on the DLC. Here is a pretty full rundown which is spoiler free. It's a bit long to try to paste it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/60mif2/the_patches_notes_march_24th_no_spoilers/ Basically: added 2 maps to arena buffed dagger damage but lowered crit modifier (same damage on actual criticals) buffed UGS and curved great swords either with more damage, better animations, or less stamina consumption buffed a bunch of specific weapons nerfed a few meta weapons (smaller attack windows on Dark sword, gargoyle flame spear, follower sabre, etc) buffed poison/toxic dealt by players nerfed passive bleed on weapons but buffed bleed-infused weapons. nerfed carthus rouge let you walk around more before some offensive miracles go off and improved the animations on some offensive miracles improved defense and weight of heavy armor, making it an actual choice. buffed Heavy and Sharp, and maybe nerfed refined.
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It's pretty cool the bonfire shows where all the players are but I already knew everyone just hangs out at pontiff.
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Mar 25, 2017 00:38
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Your Computer posted:Has anything been said about where or at what recommended level The Ringed City takes place? IIRC Ashes of Ariandel had a recommendation of "reach Lothric Castle first" but could be accessed after just Vordt and Crystal Sage and I'm hoping this one is similar. No one knows for sure but Vaati said it's endgame after playing it. He said it's pretty hard.
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Maleh-Vor posted:Here is a pretty full rundown which is spoiler free. It's a bit long to try to paste it here: Cool thanks quote:Improved motion of Crescent Moon Sword's skill, Crescent Blade. Oh wow maybe now I can actually hit something with it. EDIT: Oh wow the beams actually go where you are aiming now instead of arcing into the ground. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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hanales posted:No one knows for sure but Vaati said it's endgame after playing it. He said it's pretty hard. Here's hoping they will still make it available for low level characters then. Half the fun of DLC areas is rushing there on a fresh character to pick up fun weapons and do gimmick runs. At least I'll have plenty of DLC-ready characters when it releases though
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Well, let's put it like this: you can see the Ringed City from where you are at the Kiln of the First Flame!
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Weeping Wound posted:Well, let's put it like this: you can see the Ringed City from where you are at the Kiln of the First Flame! I read that the entry point is right near the bonfire that warps you to the SoC boss leadup. So unfortunately there'll be no sequence breaking into the dlc.
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Oxyclean posted:I read that the entry point is right near the bonfire that warps you to the SoC boss leadup. So unfortunately there'll be no sequence breaking into the dlc. If this is true then I guess it's time to break out CE again  Why would they do that.
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Your Computer posted:If this is true then I guess it's time to break out CE again Honestly? It might be the last piece of Dark Souls content we'll ever get. I'm glad it takes place at the very end, it's fitting. And it might lead to some big lore answers too.
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Elman posted:Honestly? It might be the last piece of Dark Souls content we'll ever get. I'm glad it takes place at the very end, it's fitting. And it might lead to some big lore answers too. I'm fine with it being endgame content though, I actually prefer that since you can go in with all the tools and levels you've gathered on your playthrough without steamrolling everything. I just wish you could access it earlier. Dark Souls II's DLCs could be accessed way before you were "intended" to do them, same with Ashes of Ariandel. It lets you go there, run like hell and grab some loot even if everything one-shots you. Opens up for so many fun and interesting runs! I don't mind using CE to get the items (since I don't care much for online), but I prefer if I can do it legitimately like in previous DLCs.
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Your Computer posted:If this is true then I guess it's time to break out CE again It's not like they force you into ng+ friendo. Always keep a character at the end of ng for the DLC.
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Genocyber posted:It's not like they force you into ng+ friendo. Always keep a character at the end of ng for the DLC. That has nothing to do with his point though. He wants to be able to rush to the DLC relatively early so he can play with all the cool new weapons in the main game too.
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Yeah that's a fair complaint. Bloodborne's the only one of the games I've played multiple times, but it was really fun to dash through the DLC on my latest playthrough and grab weapons I wanted to use after only fighting 3 bosses.
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Internet Kraken posted:That has nothing to do with his point though. He wants to be able to rush to the DLC relatively early so he can play with all the cool new weapons in the main game too. They hadn't clarified that at the time I made my post. It's a little disappointing I guess, but not all that big of a deal imo. The base game already has good-enough gear variety, and it's a fairly linear game already so slotting it in at the end makes a little more sense.
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So the PS4 Pro patch unlocked the framerate so now it'll hover around 40-45 FPS...ideally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrR3ak6dMwM From why would you do this. Just make it locked 30 FPS.
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It's cool that they buffed poison/toxic. I just wish there was a toxic inflicting weapon to mess around with.
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Obligatum VII posted:It's cool that they buffed poison/toxic. I just wish there was a toxic inflicting weapon to mess around with. Yeah, I was thinking of making a gimmick build utilising that before I realised that there aren't any toxic weapons  I'm guessing infusing a weapon with poison is still fairly worthless in PvE due to lower damage/scaling unless you only use it to apply poison and keep a "real" weapon handy for damage?
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Pretty much everything from the DLC has leaked by the way. So be careful where you browse if you don't want spoilers.
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Lol, so I have an SSD and Dark Souls wants me to have 60gb for it to update. 20gb from the install, 20gb from the "download" and another 20gb for god knows what else.
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Regy Rusty posted:Yeah that's a fair complaint. Bloodborne's the only one of the games I've played multiple times, but it was really fun to dash through the DLC on my latest playthrough and grab weapons I wanted to use after only fighting 3 bosses. Church Pick still remains one of the worst sticking points of the DLC for me. Such a good weapon and gated behind Ludwig, a key, and a dipshit hunter. 
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Weeping Wound posted:Church Pick still remains one of the worst sticking points of the DLC for me. Such a good weapon and gated behind Ludwig, a key, and a dipshit hunter. That hunter has punked me more times than I care to admit. You know why? Cause he has the best weapon in the game! Motherfucking Church Pick demands blood.
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Can anyone tell me what the hell the thread title is referencing? It's been driving me crazy.
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I know it involves Father Ariandel, last boss of the first DLC but I don't know about the rest.
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I can't believe it took me this long to realize, but VIG gets you a lot of HP. Like holy poo poo a lot. With the amount of Estus the game throws at you, facetanking and chugging estus seems to be a real strategy in this game. I never invested much into it because I felt like everything killed me so quickly anyway, and I just got used to "DS3 is the one where you die if you get hit" I put a couple of hundred hours into this game and over a dozen characters before noticing this!  From now on I don't think I'll make another character without 25+ VIG, this feels like easy mode.
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