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Having someone to take the heat off you while you desperately sip bonfire juice is very useful for the Fume Knight.
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# ? Aug 5, 2017 22:59 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 07:09 |
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You've served me well Magic Mace+10, but I finally have the strength to swing the Aged Smelter Sword+5.
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# ? Aug 7, 2017 05:55 |
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Well I've killed all the bosses in Dark Souls 2. The Burnt Ivory King was a cool fight and the tigers in the frozen waste were super frustrating to get to. Not sure weather to move onto NG+ right away or try to grind Sunlight Medals.
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# ? Aug 11, 2017 03:29 |
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As long as you don't mind just keeping your gaming unit on, leave your sign at the King's Gate and you'll probably get all the medals you need in a day or so. ( )
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# ? Aug 11, 2017 04:59 |
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Bogart posted:As long as you don't mind just keeping your gaming unit on, leave your sign at the King's Gate and you'll probably get all the medals you need in a day or so. I found the bonfire before the Burnt Ivory King to be a good spot so far. Had a heartbreaking fight where we three summons killed the boss just as he killed the host. Got the souls but not the medal.
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# ? Aug 11, 2017 22:30 |
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character update martial onion ready for kombat
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# ? Aug 26, 2017 07:31 |
That's a handsome souls adventurer
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# ? Aug 27, 2017 03:33 |
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# ? Aug 27, 2017 13:05 |
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I'm thinking of running my bro through SOTFS on the PS4. Does anyone have experience with how hard is it to get summoning signs to show up reliably?
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 15:36 |
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The Kingfish posted:I'm thinking of running my bro through SOTFS on the PS4. Does anyone have experience with how hard is it to get summoning signs to show up reliably? There's that one ring you buy from the cat in Majula. Once you guys both pick the same "god" or whatever it was, you're pretty much guaranteed to see the others sign unless your soul memories are WILDLY different.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 19:49 |
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The Kingfish posted:I'm thinking of running my bro through SOTFS on the PS4. Does anyone have experience with how hard is it to get summoning signs to show up reliably? Yes the ring and also get the small and large soapstones.
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# ? Aug 30, 2017 12:19 |
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Went back to DS2 on the weekend after not playing for ages (stuck at Iron Keep, would you believe) and happily let Lucatiel take all of Smelter's agro while I pelted him with soul spears. Beat him in one
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 00:44 |
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Went back to DS2 on the weekend after not playing for ages (stuck at Iron Keep, would you believe) and happily let Lucatiel take all of Smelter's agro while I pelted him with soul spears. Beat him in one I kinda got discouraged in Iron Keep too, at some spot where right after the bonfire is a room with a bunch of tall knights who come out of doors. Haven't tried many times but the stretch to the next fire sucks.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 01:59 |
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I've beaten the main game but never played the DLC, got SOTFS now and I can't wait to see how Frozen Wastes could possibly be worse than Iron Keep, the worst area with the easiest boss.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 02:09 |
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Wait until you find the other two zones worse than IK.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:22 |
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Guillermus posted:Wait until you find the other two zones worse than IK. No such thing. IK is either the worst or you already had a strike weapon so it didn't matter and neither did everything else because strike is OP.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 06:56 |
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New Butt Order posted:No such thing. IK is either the worst or you already had a strike weapon so it didn't matter and neither did everything else because strike is OP. And yet the 2 best weapons in the game are thrust and slash, even there.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 09:41 |
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For IK you just need a rapier (or Estoc) or a mace. That's it. No matter what build you run, either trust or strike gently caress all enemies in there.
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 10:36 |
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I should resume my powerstanced-maces run. I paused to go play Bloodborne and finish DS3, but I still wanna come back to Scholar and play it including DLCs, which I've also never played before (I played DS2 vanilla on 360 but now I have Scholar on PS4).
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 11:53 |
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If you change up your build/weapons to get through an area in the game you're weak! You're supposed to bash your head against the wall with the exact same clearly-suboptimal-for-this-task setup that you've arbitrarily chosen to go through the game with!
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 12:09 |
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Amppelix posted:If you change up your build/weapons to get through an area in the game you're weak! You're supposed to bash your head against the wall with the exact same clearly-suboptimal-for-this-task setup that you've arbitrarily chosen to go through the game with! lol if you use weapons or a build when playing dark souls
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 12:16 |
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Yeah I do SL1/fist only every time. Only way to play, GET GOOD SCRUBS
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# ? Sep 13, 2017 16:38 |
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Amppelix posted:If you change up your build/weapons to get through an area in the game you're weak! You're supposed to bash your head against the wall with the exact same clearly-suboptimal-for-this-task setup that you've arbitrarily chosen to go through the game with! I choose to believe that there is no such thing as suboptimal in a Souls game. I do not care if it is true, it is what I choose to believe.
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# ? Sep 14, 2017 06:57 |
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I play online and hope for an invader to come so I can pop a Seed of Giants and have them fight the enemy for me.
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 18:48 |
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Just went back to my powerstanced maces run today and absolutely annihilated Flexile Sentry, Belfry Gargoyles, and Lost Sinner all on the first try. This build is preposterous and so loving fun
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 23:41 |
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Today I was doing Earthen Peak and legitimately forgot about Covetous Demon, so I bumbled through the fog wall with no Estus and 1 lifegem left. Easy peasy, didn't have to heal at all. What a boss. (I actually like the boss but he's definitely super easy)
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 22:21 |
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I'm going back to DS2 because I had a character halfway through the game going and completely forgot what plans I had for it...I killed a bunch of NPCs to get their stuff early, I guess, but then I didn't use that but instead got a Great Lance +10. Which is absurdly good but boring. I also called it "Durchschnitt" which is German for "average" but also "cut-through" so great pun, me; all stats were about equal, 22 22 in STR/DEX and 18/18 in Int/Fth. So I guess I can just use...whatever, and that was, indeed, the plan. I had to pay souls to get Pate back to get the Soapstone. Past me was dumb. I figure I might as well use this guy to try and get all Achievements...AGAIN (got them for Vanilla, but not SotfS), and a few other things I never did. Fortunately, I see that I had done the playthrough so far in challenge mode and already amassed 20-something Awestones (without grinding!). Just to give me even more indecision, I'm now up to 41 with a little help from my good friend Rhoy. Still a little wibbly wobbly about what to do. I'd love to try the Forlorn gear, and I do have two items already available to buy so that's nice, with one caveat: I tried to get the fuckers to invade me a whole bunch but it simply never triggered. Does anyone have experience with farming them? I sadly don't know which one already invaded me apart from the guaranteed one in the Copse, but I tried running through Tseldora in circles (Ornifex and the bridge) as well as the fog area in Shaded Woods, which I googled as common invasion spots, but no dice. Any tips? Also, if anyone has cool ideas for builds where you'd basically need all stats, but you always go "ah drat but that'd require lots of grinding and poo poo...", hit me with it and I might give it a try! No Roaring Halberd, though, I hate Halberds. Also, I did already take it for a spin or three (get it) in the past and it still left me wanting for something that always hits for the same damage, ya know...
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 22:40 |
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Fists, you coward
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 06:30 |
Powerstanced bone fists infused with elements. Powerstanced mundane weapons? I seem to recall using powerstanced mundane daggers and having them turn out okay.
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 10:33 |
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If you're going mundane, don't forget your mundane avelyns (one in each hand)
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 19:29 |
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Captainicus posted:Powerstanced bone fists infused with elements. Powerstanced mundane weapons? I seem to recall using powerstanced mundane daggers and having them turn out okay. Infusing bone fists is a really bad idea, because their base damage is extremely low. Even mundane won't work well, because you'll lose Flynn's Ring bonuses. Certain weapons' mundane damage got a big nerf at some point, including daggers, so it's possible you may have been using that build before the nerf.
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 20:25 |
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Bogart posted:Fists, you coward Captainicus posted:Powerstanced bone fists infused with elements. Powerstanced mundane weapons? I seem to recall using powerstanced mundane daggers and having them turn out okay.
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 20:51 |
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Getting the Forlorn to invade is a pain in the butt. They spawn when you reach certain locations in a level, but only sometimes. If they don't show up, you need to rest at a bonfire and try again. The base chance seems to be very low. My personal experience has been that they show up much, much more frequently if you've died and have unclaimed souls lying around somewhere. I don't know if it's just confirmation bias, but I've often gone through an area a ton of times without the Forlorn showing up, but the moment that I've died and have to go retrieve my souls: BAM! there they are.
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 23:24 |
Paracelsus posted:Infusing bone fists is a really bad idea, because their base damage is extremely low. Even mundane won't work well, because you'll lose Flynn's Ring bonuses. I was under the impression elemental bone fists were ok because the scaling was very good, from what I can tell, the element bonus you get is much higher than the base damage and also comes with S scaling. I haven't actually tried it, personally, to see if it pulls ahead against enemy resistances. Normal +5 bone fists - 20 damage / S str scaling / A dex scaling Magic, fire, dark or lightning - 12 damage / 69 elemental damage / B str scaling / C dex scaling / S magic, dark, fire, or lightning scaling I've got no idea about mundane scaling on certain weapons, it was ages ago that I played the mundane daggers, before sotfs, so they could very well be weak now.
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# ? Sep 18, 2017 07:31 |
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Soul Reaver posted:Getting the Forlorn to invade is a pain in the butt. They spawn when you reach certain locations in a level, but only sometimes. If they don't show up, you need to rest at a bonfire and try again. The base chance seems to be very low. Really? I'm going through Scholar for the first time and that fucker never fails to invade me.
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# ? Sep 18, 2017 08:12 |
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Soul Reaver posted:Getting the Forlorn to invade is a pain in the butt. They spawn when you reach certain locations in a level, but only sometimes. If they don't show up, you need to rest at a bonfire and try again. The base chance seems to be very low. Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Really? I'm going through Scholar for the first time and that fucker never fails to invade me.
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# ? Sep 18, 2017 09:38 |
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How many Forlorns do you have to kill to get the gear? I think I must've done 4. Also, how often do y'all get to do PVP with the rat covenant? I got to invade a shitload as a Bellbro but I switched to the rats and didn't get any invades the whole time I was hanging out in Doors of Pharros yesterday
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# ? Sep 18, 2017 10:05 |
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Noob DS2 player after 1,000+h of DS3, and I cannot believe how many chests I 'tested' for mimicry without realising they didn't initially contain rubbish ...
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# ? Sep 18, 2017 10:36 |
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kilinrax posted:Noob DS2 player after 1,000+h of DS3, and I cannot believe how many chests I 'tested' for mimicry without realising they didn't initially contain rubbish ... Happily, most of the good stuff - equipment, spells and so on - is found in iron chests, which are unbreakable. You haven't screwed yourself out of any build-enabling pieces of gear. One Hundred Monkeys fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Sep 18, 2017 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 07:09 |
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:How many Forlorns do you have to kill to get the gear? I think I must've done 4. Rat stuff is heavily dependent on soul memory, I'd wager; I usually, if I want to do it, go into the first area with a newish character, having just done enough progression to get the souls for the Cat Ring, that gives me enough hits of players just going through the area normally on their way to the Gutter. Pharros I rarely do, but I guess it's also best to do is asap to catch people who're just there for the items.
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# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:22 |