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Is everyone going PC? I reinstalled on PC but can also do PS4, maybe I'll do both with different builds, I loving Love Ds2 have ever since the network test.
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thinking about finally doing the power-stanced orange and blue smelter sword run might try for a muscle wizard build if the stat requirements for the swords don't eat up all my levels
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Cnidaria posted:thinking about finally doing the power-stanced orange and blue smelter sword run but it's really fun, so
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Yooo maybe I'll do my fisticuffs run sooner than expected.
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John Murdoch posted:Yooo maybe I'll do my fisticuffs run sooner than expected. i did a vanquisher's seal run of sotfs not too long ago and it felt really good, especially when i got invaded
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I know my wording was ambiguous but Vanquisher's Seal doesn't allow you to drop kick. 
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gently caress yes I'd also been considering a punchmans build, guess I'll be starting it sooner than I thought
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Feb 22, 2021 18:39
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Time to pull out pates spear again and learn some people the importance of spacing
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i'm going to be doing some complicated SL1 type strats to get Vengarl's armor first thing and then absolutely beefing it every time an invader shows up
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Feb 24, 2021 02:50
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ds2 doesnt use soul level matchmaking, it has soul memory. You'll want to bee-line the Agape Ring from Straid. route is Heide, No-man's Wharf, grabbing the Fragrant Branch, to Lost Bastille, while killing as little as possible.
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enjoy the undead vikings just sometimes walking off the edge when you're in wharf for that btw
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It's really not an issue, you're not allowed to get the Agape ring until you have 30k souls, so you want to freeze your SM at just under 40k. You have several thousand souls worth of room until 40k by the time you get to Straid so a few hundred from enemy suicides aren't gonna put you over. Just don't die and lose your bloodstain.
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Reality Protester posted:ds2 doesnt use soul level matchmaking, it has soul memory. You'll want to bee-line the Agape Ring from Straid. route is Heide, No-man's Wharf, grabbing the Fragrant Branch, to Lost Bastille, while killing as little as possible. i mean what i said
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Feb 24, 2021 03:30
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Absolute lmao if you don't simply start a new character every time the bell covenant invasions start to trickle out
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Feb 24, 2021 16:17
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We could all not wear the agape ring and then we'd always have huge matching soul levels. Millons and billions of souls.
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Feb 25, 2021 02:46
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Rip and tear your souls! You are huge! That means you have huge souls!
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Feb 26, 2021 14:52
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Is it a common thing at all for someone to drop a bunch of items for you after invading and killing you? It happened to me and I thought it was kind of cool.
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I don't know how common it is but it definitely happens. I've had it happen a few times
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Feb 26, 2021 17:08
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I've had it happen after like, 4 invasions by the same dude. I also had an invasion by Santa Claus but there was no actual fighting in that one.
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Feb 26, 2021 17:20
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OK, I wanna return to Drangleic. I'm on PC. Are we doing OG DS2 or SotFS? What else do I need to do to make jolly co-op possible? I played DS2 many years ago, and really don't even understand how multiplayer works.
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betterinsodapop posted:OK, I wanna return to Drangleic. I'm on PC. SOTFS will probably be more populated. Stay human as much as possible in order to summon people. Get the white soapstone and/or small white soapstone from Forest of Fallen Giants in order to place signs so others can summon you. White soapstone is from talking to Pate near the ballista trap room, small white soapstone is in a chest above the Cardinal Tower bonfire. Whenever you kill a boss, go to a bonfire and select “nullify human effigy’s effect” to leave yourself open to invasions (don’t do this if you’d rather not be invaded).
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betterinsodapop posted:OK, I wanna return to Drangleic. I'm on PC. SOTFS recommended, says so in the picture. There's two soapstones in DS2, normal and small. You get the normal one from this guy Pate in the first level, Forest of the Fallen Giants. He's not very hard to find, just run around. Just talk to him, run through the gate, get back to him, boom. You just hit "use" on it to use it. Puts a mark on the ground. The marks appear in someone else's game, they walk on it and press "use" and you get summoned to their game. Normal soapstone has you run around with them until you and them kill the boss, or until you or they die. Small soapstone has you run around for a limited amount of time, I think it's based on stuff you kill. Maybe.
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hrmmm im considering making a character for this but I've never touched DS2 before. I dunno a thing about its mechanics. I own SOTFS on ps5
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g-c posted:hrmmm im considering making a character for this but I've never touched DS2 before. I dunno a thing about its mechanics. I own SOTFS on ps5 Have you played the other dark souls games? It's virtually identical.
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SHISHKABOB posted:Have you played the other dark souls games? It's virtually identical. With a few very important differences/exceptions. The big one being that your first 20 levels should go into ADP, because it increases your AGI, which determines how many iframes you have when rolling as well as how quickly you sip your Hi-C
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SHISHKABOB posted:Have you played the other dark souls games? It's virtually identical. yea I just beat DS1 and have been replaying DS3. I thought I read that this game was a whole lot more obscure with some things and stats can be weird Son of Thunderbeast posted:With a few very important differences/exceptions. The big one being that your first 20 levels should go into ADP, because it increases your AGI, which determines how many iframes you have when rolling as well as how quickly you sip your Hi-C
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Also matchmaking tiers are based off of your soul memory, which is a permanent record of how many souls you’ve collected, rather than your character level.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:With a few very important differences/exceptions. The big one being that your first 20 levels should go into ADP, because it increases your AGI, which determines how many iframes you have when rolling as well as how quickly you sip your Hi-C This kind of stuff shouldn't impede you from just playing a video game. Run around and hit stuff with your sword, bro.
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Overall I’d say ds 2 is a little more accessible than ds1. The upgrade system is simpler and you can teleport between bonfires from the start. If you have experience from the first game you should be fine.
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g-c posted:yea I just beat DS1 and have been replaying DS3. I thought I read that this game was a whole lot more obscure with some things and stats can be weird the similarities way outweigh the differences. It's really only one or two things like the ADP thing and soul memory that make any noticeable difference. The cool differences make DS2 better than the other games in some way. Like powerstancing, which owns
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DS1 in 2021 wasn't the best time I've had in video games. everything feels so heavy and I really hated how it was mid game before you could warp between bonfires ... and the slog runs to boss gates if you died was excruciating. im down to join in on the fun though but I feel like doing the entire game cooperatively so this is good timing I suppose
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What's a fun build? I used dual caestus last time which was fun, but switched to dual maces late game. Usually I go dex because I like to be fast. Maybe some of those curved swords?
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Item Getter posted:Is it a common thing at all for someone to drop a bunch of items for you after invading and killing you? It happened to me and I thought it was kind of cool. I afk'd at one point for an hour and when I came back not only was I still alive, but invaders had dropped hundreds of prism stones in Drangleic's basement and a full set of Ruin Sentinel armor for me Thanks friends
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Oscar Wild posted:What's a fun build? I used dual caestus last time which was fun, but switched to dual maces late game. Usually I go dex because I like to be fast. Rapier/katana
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Oscar Wild posted:What's a fun build? I used dual caestus last time which was fun, but switched to dual maces late game. Usually I go dex because I like to be fast.
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g-c posted:DS1 in 2021 wasn't the best time I've had in video games. everything feels so heavy and I really hated how it was mid game before you could warp between bonfires ... and the slog runs to boss gates if you died was excruciating. im down to join in on the fun though but I feel like doing the entire game cooperatively so this is good timing I suppose DS2 is extremely generous with bonfires, shortcuts, and homeward bones. You can warp between bonfires immediately (and kinda have to by design since you have to level up at Majula)
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Oscar Wild posted:What's a fun build? I used dual caestus last time which was fun, but switched to dual maces late game. Usually I go dex because I like to be fast. Powerstancing whips. Notched for bleed, spotted for poison, offhand a shortbow with poison arrows. Ruin those corny spellcasters and parry spammers in pvp. Combining bleed with poison and mid-long range damage is hilarious in pvp. Poison lets you deal with havels sets pretty well as well
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How Rude posted:Powerstancing whips. Notched for bleed, spotted for poison, offhand a shortbow with poison arrows. Ruin those corny spellcasters and parry spammers in pvp. Combining bleed with poison and mid-long range damage is hilarious in pvp. Poison lets you deal with havels sets pretty well as well Nb, pack repair powder or the durability increasing ring if you do this. whips are pretty good but they break easy because of their weird hit boxes
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How Rude posted:Powerstancing whips. Notched for bleed, spotted for poison, offhand a shortbow with poison arrows. Ruin those corny spellcasters and parry spammers in pvp. Combining bleed with poison and mid-long range damage is hilarious in pvp. Poison lets you deal with havels sets pretty well as well I forget - how well does poison/bleed work on the PVE side of things? Is it like DS3 where a lot of enemies you'd want to bleed / poison are immune or so resistant as to practically be so? Thinking of doing a Dex-y powerstancing build. Whips and/or Thief Knives or rapiers or the like.
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