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Max Wilco posted:He's also weak to Lightning/Thrust damage, so you could use the Dragonslayer Spear or Dragonslayer Swordspear, since those both have innate Lightning damage (of course, getting either of those requires beating the Nameless King). Rubbing some gold pine resin on a weapon will do the trick, too. I try to follow a personal rule that if I can hold off until halfway through the life bar or more, it's safe to pop a consumable buff like that. If you could do the first half without it, then the second half with that little boost should be achievable.
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Pine bundles are often overlooked outside of PvP, but they're very handy to have. Their buff duration is significantly shorter than resin but they apply near-instantly and you can carry lots of them. It's real handy for bosses where you're expected to hit & run a lot (Friede, Midir, Lothric Bros, etc.)
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It is done! Midir is vanquished by my BK Greataxe +5. Barely used the sheild and 2H most of the way. Now do I sink my teeth into some of the new games I've bought or go play DS1 & 2 like I've been wanting to?
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Beating to a pulp Be wary of bonfire In short, Praise the Sun You should of course play DS1 and DS2. They are both extremely good games, and you will find most bosses a lot easier than in DS3. I played DS3 first, then DS1 and DS2 and enjoyed all of them!
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Jan 4, 2021 08:56
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Play all souls games all the time
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Do DS1 and DS2 have fast travel because I started DS:R playthrough early last year and was looking for the way to travel between bonfires but it seems... there isn't? I'd like to get back to my DS3 playthrough (I'm due for Farron Keep after clearing out stuff in the Cathedral), but my fps is sub 30 on my 5 y/o laptop which makes parrying a bit harder
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Lily Catts posted:Do DS1 and DS2 have fast travel because I started DS:R playthrough early last year and was looking for the way to travel between bonfires but it seems... there isn't? DS1 has fast travel but you need to unlock it, around halfway through the game. DS2 has fast travel from the start
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Playing through DS3 as a pyromancer for the first time. Suprized as what has given me the most grief this run. Most bosses have been fairly ok with Great Chaos Orb and later Chaos Bed Vestiges. Hit the wall in the Ringed City, first with Pyromancer Zoey, and later with the Demon Prince. Zoey just dodges all over the place and is fast to punish. With a big weapon, she is easy to pancake and just stomp, but trying to burn her or poison her...oof. In the end I think I used a shield and the Onyx blade in combo with Chaos Bed Vestiges. Demon prince made me burn through nearly all the embers I have collected so far. First I tried with Pestilent Mist, and that worked ok for the Demon Bros, but the Demon Prince just stomped my phantoms, and then me. Made a run for Cathias Chime and tried Dorhys Gnaw, and that did it with the help of Lapp and Gael. Midir is going to be painful this run, but I read that Pestilent Mist is effective?
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skasion posted:DS1 has fast travel but you need to unlock it, around halfway through the game. The DS1 fast travel is also limited: you can only go to certain bonfires. DS2 you can go to every bonfire.
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Any tips for a new Cinders player? So far I’m going Warpi
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Basic Chunnel posted:Any tips for a new Cinders player? So far I’m going Warpi There are items you can pick up that offer permanent summons (until you or the summon dies) when you use them. They can be really helpful if you need a boost through an area. And outside of the obvious joke summons, they're all pretty good for the most part. If you feel you can handle the extra challenge, it's also super worth checking out the altar next to the target dummy skeleton. It activates curses that make the game harder, but also provides you with extra rewards.
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DoubleNegative posted:There are items you can pick up that offer permanent summons (until you or the summon dies) when you use them. They can be really helpful if you need a boost through an area. And outside of the obvious joke summons, they're all pretty good for the most part. It may just be the case that I wasn't the perfect DS3 player and the mod is designed around perfect play. Most total conversion mods are!
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Cinders changes extremely quickly, so my advice (from summer) might be partly out of date. But the main advantage players have in Cinders other than the extremely powerful summons is nearly unlimited, powerful ranged attacks. Magic builds of any variety are seriously overpowered, but bows and crossbows have been solidly buffed and are seriously good for physical builds. Throwing knives and other consumables are also really strong if you go for luck. Using ranged attacks to thin out and soften up enemies is a really good idea. Overall Cinders is actually a good bit easier than vanilla if you use the tools it gives you. Regarding builds, any type of magic is supreme. Luck is really versatile and strong, but takes a while to get started. Strength is improved over the base game and is more straightforward than dex. Hybrid builds are dead, and quality is very questionable, since there are no more soft caps, so you should dump everything into a single main damage stat.
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If you join the summoner covenant (up on the top floor of Firelink, the lady with the crystal lizard pet) then one of the cheapest upgrades is 10 summoner tokens and like 5000 souls to be able to summon while not embered. So all you have to do is run around with your buddy killing stuff for a half hour with the summoner covenant equipped and you'll be good!
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some of the poo poo y'all talk about regarding cinders makes it sound like an entirely different game in a good way
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The other day I picked up an item dropped by the host of embers, I had been called in as a Blade of the Darkmoon. I stupidly picked it up, and it was 99 souls of a venerable old hand. Discarded that as soon as I could, but is my account at risk for picking up a hacked item? Playing on PS4.
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Even on PC you’d only get banned for hacked items rather than duped ones. You’ll be fine
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Heithinn Grasida posted:Cinders changes extremely quickly, so my advice (from summer) might be partly out of date. But the main advantage players have in Cinders other than the extremely powerful summons is nearly unlimited, powerful ranged attacks. Magic builds of any variety are seriously overpowered, but bows and crossbows have been solidly buffed and are seriously good for physical builds. Throwing knives and other consumables are also really strong if you go for luck. Using ranged attacks to thin out and soften up enemies is a really good idea. Overall Cinders is actually a good bit easier than vanilla if you use the tools it gives you. This was my biggest takeaway, ranged is so good now. I set out on my Cinders run to play a miracle build, but pretty rapidly discovered all I needed was Lightning Arrow, which with the FP-restoring tool you get at the beginning meant I had an extremely powerful ranged attack with nigh-on unlimited range and ammo from the jump.
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Heithinn Grasida posted:Cinders changes extremely quickly, so my advice (from summer) might be partly out of date. But the main advantage players have in Cinders other than the extremely powerful summons is nearly unlimited, powerful ranged attacks. Magic builds of any variety are seriously overpowered, but bows and crossbows have been solidly buffed and are seriously good for physical builds. Throwing knives and other consumables are also really strong if you go for luck. Using ranged attacks to thin out and soften up enemies is a really good idea. Overall Cinders is actually a good bit easier than vanilla if you use the tools it gives you. This is a good summary of why I didn't really like Cinders, it buffs all the cheese options and then rebalances the game around expoiting that cheese. Playing as an honest melee character is just exhausting, especially with the constant new NPC minibosses
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can I just stand around outside a boss area and wait for a summon sign to appear? or do I need to reload or something? I'm not seeing any appear for a certain boss and I'm embered.
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d0grent posted:can I just stand around outside a boss area and wait for a summon sign to appear? or do I need to reload or something? I'm not seeing any appear for a certain boss and I'm embered. Yeah, but there might not always be players online and in your level range in that specific area. I recommend pulling out your soapstone and seeing if you can write anything. If you can, then you're in an area where someone else can write a sign that you can see. A related trick is to pull out a homeward bone as well; if you can't use the homeward bone, that generally means that you're in the process of being invaded.
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Heithinn Grasida posted:Regarding builds, any type of magic is supreme. Luck is really versatile and strong, but takes a while to get started. Strength is improved over the base game and is more straightforward than dex. Hybrid builds are dead, and quality is very questionable, since there are no more soft caps, so you should dump everything into a single main damage stat. are ds3 players actually under the impression that strength builds are underpowered
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Johnny Joestar posted:some of the poo poo y'all talk about regarding cinders makes it sound like an entirely different game in a good way You can use weapons not named Lothric Knight Straight Sword or Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords. The quarterstaff weapons are extremely dumb right now and will probably be nerfed in a later update. I know the proper Quarterstaff was moved from a weapon you acquire early on to being gated behind transposing the Nameless King's soul. It's that good.
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Victory Position posted:You can use weapons not named Lothric Knight Straight Sword or Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords. if you think that the only weapons you can use are the ones that youtubers tell you are the best, then I'm sorry to say that that's not the game's fault, that's you having brainworms
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And here I was thinking that the Sellsword’s Twinblades was the Broken Strong Weapon of DS3.
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i am tim! posted:And here I was thinking that the Sellsword’s Twinblades was the Broken Strong Weapon of DS3. You're not wrong. Crow Quills are pretty busted too if we're talking Dex weapons.
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I'm currently playing through the game with the whip that you can pick up in the cleansing chapel and it's funny as gently caress but also perfectly viable, people who are mad about weapons are weird.
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I always carry a whip when I invade and my victim is gung-ho parry-spamming. A *lot* of players don't seem to realize that whips can't be parried.
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I did a whip run and it was real fun in pvp, I especially enjoyed hitting people through walls lol This talk of weapon viability in pve is weird. You can beat the game naked with bare fists, "viability" only matters in pvp, and even then only against good players, and EVEN THEN only if they are using a "viable" weapon.
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Every weapon is viable but some weapons will make it much easier or much harder. For example, I recently ran a couple characters through the early game, the first one doing a str build with a claymore, and when I fought the katana master guy in Firelink, it was a complete cakewalk. The second one I was going for a dex build so until I got the katana I was just using a shortsword and he killed me repeatedly until I got it down really well. Is the Claymore better than the shortsword? Is the Claymore better than the shortsword? Eh - not really. Is it more viable? I'd say so.
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I only ’fought’ Sword Master and ’won’ once, and that was with pyromancy. Every other time he just threw himself off the cliff after a little while. Maybe his AI is a throwback to the most rushed parts of DS2.
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IronicDongz posted:to be more specific of the around 200 weapons in ds3, ones that are bad enough to be actual trap options are Wolnir's Sword is distinctly Okay. It's not a suicide machine like the other 'unique'/boss soul weapons can be, at least, which are almost universally hot garbage and not worth using, like Yorshka's Spear, Demon's Greataxe, Old King's Greathammer, etc. The weapons you listed are definitely the worst of the worst, though. Trying to use the Handmaid's Dagger or Scholar's Candlestick as legitimate weapons is also a recipe for failure.
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Kite Pride Worldwide posted:Wolnir's Sword is distinctly Okay. It's not a suicide machine like the other 'unique'/boss soul weapons can be, at least, which are almost universally hot garbage and not worth using, like Yorshka's Spear, Demon's Greataxe, Old King's Greathammer, etc. The weapons you listed are definitely the worst of the worst, though. Trying to use the Handmaid's Dagger or Scholar's Candlestick as legitimate weapons is also a recipe for failure. old king's greathammer is not the best greathammer in the game, but the damage is tolerable. not exceptional for its class, but ok. it's split damage but the base physical AR is high enough that you won't struggle using it-you'll have a bit less physical AR than most other greathammers but you will do more damage against certain enemies due to the fire damage. demon's greataxe is the same story. all these weapons are legitimately good examples of how weapons that people call "not viable" are actually just slightly worse. they're just a bit outperformed by other options, and even then in some situations it's debatable. handmaid's dagger I forgot about and is legitimately terrible, though, so we can just pretend I wrote that instead of wolnir's on that list of six baddies  scholar's candlestick is bad as a weapon but it explicitly exists to be a sorcery booster at the cost of a hand slot so that's fine.
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Most runs of mine begin with dueling Katana man and then wearing his rags throughout the rest of the game
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