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Son of Thunderbeast posted:You should go back to where you can walk up to the windmill uh, blades or whatever, and use a torch on it I had done that but I don’t actually know what it did. The wide knights and also the glowing red things that randomly pop up can eat my rear end drunken officeparty fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jan 13, 2021 |
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drunken officeparty posted:I had done that but I don’t actually know what it did. It reduces the level of poison in the level, mostly removes the poison from the boss arena except for a small ring, and... I think that's it?
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Jan 13, 2021 19:57
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It also un-poisons the Pharros contraption by the mimic.
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Jan 13, 2021 21:20
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By glowing red things that pop up randomly you mean the enemy phantoms? Because yeah, Iron Keep has a lot of NPC phantoms. It's one of those things that's a bit of a meta-joke by the developers when they made Scholar of the First Sin. Iron Keep was the de facto dedicated PvP duel zone, so they gave that area in particular a bunch of phantoms. I enjoyed just popping a Seed of a Tree of Giants, which makes regular enemies aggro against phantoms, and then letting the Allone knights take them out.
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Jan 14, 2021 01:20
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Giant tree seed was how I dealt with the rear end in a top hat in Brume Tower who would run down into a tower full of enemies at half-health
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Also it has a 25% chance of respawning every time you get invaded, so you don't have to feel like it's a one-time use thing. (And it's right next to the Soldier's Rest bonfire, so it's easy to pop back and check every so often.) I definitely remember using it on the collector guy who pops up later on in Iron Keep.
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I don’t understand the covenants at all and I always just join them when I get to one and immediately abandon
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DS2's covenants are super cool and I wish 3's weren't basically just "what slightly different flavor of PVP do you want?"
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drunken officeparty posted:I don’t understand the covenants at all and I always just join them when I get to one and immediately abandon The game doesn't really explain any of them, I recommend looking them up in the wiki to decide which one you want to stick with http://darksouls2.wikidot.com/covenants
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Felt bad being backstabbed by a sunbro in 3. Does the sun covenant's statue being in the earthen peak mean anything?
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John Murdoch posted:DS2's covenants are super cool and I wish 3's weren't basically just "what slightly different flavor of PVP do you want?" Rat pvp is the peak of pvp in the souls series.
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Charles Bukowski posted:Felt bad being backstabbed by a sunbro in 3. I think the most it means is probably "this is a thing that the oppressed people here took solace in". Like a lot of things in DS2, it's meant to be a shade of what it once was, but I don't think it's meant to imply any physical connection to the altar from DS1.
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drunken officeparty posted:I don’t understand the covenants at all and I always just join them when I get to one and immediately abandon You always just get the sunlight one so you can have a yellow summon sign and do the praise the sun emote when you get summoned.
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The statue branches are making me mad now. There’s 1000 statues in this forrest and I apparently chose wrong because I locked myself out of a blacksmith until I get another?? I can look up the locations but how the gently caress am I supposed to remember which ones I’ve already got and which ones I missed
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drunken officeparty posted:The statue branches are making me mad now. There’s 1000 statues in this forrest and I apparently chose wrong because I locked myself out of a blacksmith until I get another?? I can look up the locations but how the gently caress am I supposed to remember which ones I’ve already got and which ones I missed How do you feel about keys in Zelda dungeons?
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drunken officeparty posted:The statue branches are making me mad now. There’s 1000 statues in this forrest and I apparently chose wrong because I locked myself out of a blacksmith until I get another?? I can look up the locations but how the gently caress am I supposed to remember which ones I’ve already got and which ones I missed by going and checking i guess to be fair, she's the boss weapon blacksmith and you don't actually find her until two zones later ("just down the road" she says...) so you may in fact have time to find another flagrant branch before then Djeser fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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Jan 15, 2021 01:59
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yeah you can't actually make stuff with her until you find her house in a weird unfortunate spot that is really annoying to backtrack to, so it will probably be a while anyways
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That blacksmith probably has nothing for you at this point anyway. they deal in high end boss souls that the weak and pitiful Straid cannot. have you bought the Branch from Melentia yet? or Magerold? those are easy ones to get (once you get to Magerold) RealityWarCriminal fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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If I remember correctly sotfs throws so many branches at you it doesn't really matter what you choose. Also the "blacksmith" is just for boss soul weapons which are so specialized they are only really for repeat playthroughs where you have a specific build in mind from the start. As usual for souls games the weapons you find near the beginning are the most useful for new players for the entire game.
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I don’t actually need to go there. I don’t even really want to. It’s just the audacity to tell me I can’t 
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drunken officeparty posted:I don’t actually need to go there. I don’t even really want to. It’s just the audacity to tell me I can’t welcome to dark souls mother fucker
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Sealed by the Great Lord's power
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IronicDongz posted:Sealed by the Great Lord's power This is my second favorite “no dice” message in any of these games “Alas, nothing happened” has pride of place though
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Reality Protester posted:Gaping Ring: achieved. Soul Memory, 99251. I'm sure I could do better but Forest of Fallen Giants is still popping up orange so this should be fine. You can easily get below the 50,000 threshold if you beeline through No Man's Wharf and crutch on Lucatiel and Bradley of the Old Guard to fight off the Flexile Sentry. Speaking of Bradley, he's still the best NPC summon in all of the games. He's just the best 
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Djeser posted:by going and checking i guess Flagrant branch of whore.
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That's her business and we shouldn't discuss it. Why is she a bird lady though?
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Charles Bukowski posted:That's her business and we shouldn't discuss it. Well, see, Dad saw a crow outside one morning,
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She looks like the weird bird people from the Painted World. Legend has it she crawled out and got an internship with the Giant Smith, had some success, but got really hard into ball-joint dolls so now the only place she can afford to rent is that dive in Spider Town.
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Am I all done just upgrading at the home blacksmith guy until it disappears from him or am I supposed to go to a different one and be able to get +30 or whatever
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+10 is max. Majula blacksmith is fine for that. You can infuse weapons with elements at another blacksmith. If you haven't found him: he's in the Bastille.
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Simply Simon posted:+10 is max. Majula blacksmith is fine for that. Will doing that remove the stat bonuses like the first game
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drunken officeparty posted:Will doing that remove the stat bonuses like the first game
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drunken officeparty posted:Will doing that remove the stat bonuses like the first game It will shift the scaling towards the specified element, reducing others. Raw infusions will increase the base damage of all elements already present while reducing scaling; for weapons with no scaling to begin with, it's a straight improvement and in general Raw is much better than in DS1. Magic stones add Int scaling but reduce other types. Mundane stones are their own niche thing you don't need to worry about that was nerfed to near uselessness a long time ago.
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I've always wondered about raw and mundane. The other infusions I get, but what possible niche build would raw or mundane be useful for? Mundane especially sounds extremely useless
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I don’t understand so I am going to keep my broadsword just normal The guide I’m using to know what area to go next doesn’t have the dlc parts in it. Last game I finished and it started the game over before I even knew I had the dlc so then it was too late unless I played all over again in ng+. Will that happen to me again
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luckily no, in DS2 after you beat the final boss you won't start NG+ until you go back to Majula and talk to BearSeekSeekLest and actually choose the option to start over. Or maybe it's the Majula bonfire, I forget which.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I've always wondered about raw and mundane. The other infusions I get, but what possible niche build would raw or mundane be useful for? Mundane especially sounds extremely useless They nerfed the poo poo out of Mundane, but it was for weapons with little/no scaling. Like the mundane Santier's Spear was insane, and then there's goofy poo poo like the mundane ladle. Raw is raw, use it on weapons with no scaling (crossbows, mostly).
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I've always wondered about raw and mundane. The other infusions I get, but what possible niche build would raw or mundane be useful for? Mundane especially sounds extremely useless Mundane was good if you specifically built around it and used weapons with high base damage and little or no scaling. Mundane Santier spear builds with 20(+) in every stat were stupidly strong and became flavor of the month. To my knowledge, in current patch there is no case in which Mundane is significantly better than raw. Raw is still the best upgrade for non scaling weapons on builds that don’t have magic stats. Saltier spear, black dragon sword, any crossbow, etc
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I've always wondered about raw and mundane. The other infusions I get, but what possible niche build would raw or mundane be useful for? Mundane especially sounds extremely useless Raw's nice for early game when you might be investing in defensive stats over offensive stats, or in magic (sorcery/pyro/faith/hex) stats but not yet have enough scaling or materials to make a more suitable infusion. It's also nice as a physical option for magic builds, especially on enemies that are resistant to non-physical damage, like those lion enemies.
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