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victrix posted:I haven't done an int caster ds run in an age, what's a good setup and stuff to look out for here in 2? As for spells you may want to look up the obscure stuff, but Huntsman's Copse gives out Soul Spear (more if you ascetic) and the same boss soul you can use for MLGS also works for Crystal Soul Spear.
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Oscar Wild posted:See I beat Senh and I feel like I got lucky with the attack combinations, it did the flame ahead like 3 times. I dont think I'm actually a better player after beating it, just that I baited attacks in a way that the RNG gave me an easy win. I dunno, I didn't like Midir either. I think I like bloodbourne humans instead. This has always been my annoyance with Fume Knight. Totally different fight depending on how often he does the vertical slam and keeps his sword cracked.
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Mar 21, 2021 07:09
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The first time I solo'd the Fume Knight I felt I had finally gotten gud.
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Mar 21, 2021 07:35
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Same, also for Alonne.I actually finished off my NG run by soloing Alonne
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axolotl farmer posted:Shrine of Amana is terrible. Homing missile mages that aggro from across the map, while stuck in a swamp. Eh, it's just a place to punish people that refuse to use either ranged weapons or cover on approach. You can take paths to mages that only aggro one mage at a time. You can use a shield with a high magical block. You can just shoot them with bows from out of their range. You can bring a torch to instantly aggro the underwater lurker dudes. There's a ton of different approaches to shrine of amana that simplify it. Yeah, it's rough but it only punishes lizard-brain players.
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victrix posted:I haven't done an int caster ds run in an age, what's a good setup and stuff to look out for here in 2? Also, I like to respawn the scorpion girl with a bonfire ascetic and kill her again, doing so makes her drop a ring with +3 spell slots. She is easy if you get the help of Manscorpion Tark. Not that she is very hard without him in the first place, but if you respawn her early in the run, you are a bit undergeared for a new game+ boss.
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Frida Call Me posted:Eh, it's just a place to punish people that refuse to use either ranged weapons or cover on approach. also there is a reason that the boss soul obtained immediately before shrine of amana makes a shield with really high magic absorption
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IronicDongz posted:not really. you can roll thru their spells just fine I'm playing a Sorceror right now and my biggest issue is spell variety in the pure magic department. Everything but the basic projectiles sucks rear end. Soul Shower, Vortex, even the soulmasses are terrible and can't compete with just pumping enemies full of GHS. If I could be bothered to Ascetic for more Soul Spears, it would be even clearer that there's no reason to use anything else because that even has AOE (pierce) which would be the only argument for the others. At least the MLGS owns and nobody in PvP can deal with the ultra delayed R2s!
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Made it to the Fume knight. This level was really fantastic. I really liked the enemies, the level design is probably the best in this game. Just a joy. I expect the fume knight is gonna be a brick wall. Should I get naked again like sinh and just dodge? I don't think I can tank these ultra great sword hits.
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Not necessarily naked, but yes you can reliably dodge him if you pay attention to his tells. In fact this was the fight that got me to start dodging all the time in DS2. Otherwise those sword swipes will bash in even the best shields over time.
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Eh, some people swear by a high stability shield for Fume Knight. Rebel's Greatshield was what finally turned the corner on him for a friend of mine. That being said you can absolutely beat him just with dodges-- I would say don't try to utterly change your playstyle to beat him because that will make it harder than just learning his moves and how to deal with them.
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Couple of trys and I'm gonna just bait that big rear end sword. He's very slow to recover. This shouldn't be that bad. Lol that overhead smash tracks. That's funny.
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I wanted to grab the Stone ring, so I headed back to Things betwixt, and started shooting poison arrows at the Shrek down on the beach. Forgot and the second one who punched me, rolled over and flattened me. Went back, and beach Shrek was gone. Killed the other one and no ring. Burnt an ascetic and killed both Shreks. Still no Stone ring. I am out of luck for this cycle?
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The stone ring is on the ogre on the other side of the firekeeper hut. The path is kinda by the waterfall.
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https://clips.twitch.tv/AnnoyingMildReindeerTwitchRaid-Pa2-w-5v9mOzGf0v
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Proclick. loving lol Edit:reported for mod sas Oscar Wild fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Crystalgate posted:I would go for Ice Rapier and Blue Flame. IR in right hand and BF in left hand, then powerstance them. IR is considerable stronger than BF, but two of them are awful in a powerstance and with one BF, you can enchant both weapons at once. Using two BF is more for a character setup with low intelligence. Also, do not magic infuse the BF, you take a too big drop in physical AR for it to be worth it. You want the Staff of Wisdom found in Tseldora as well. With these three tools, you have powerful sorceries, but can also deal a lot of melee damage without a high str and dex investment. If you want even less str and dex investment, go with just the IR and don't bother with powerstancing.
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GodFish posted:The stone ring is on the ogre on the other side of the firekeeper hut. The path is kinda by the waterfall. Ah, that explains it. Thanks! 
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Paracelsus posted:To add to this, Magic infusing the IR (using a Faintstone, NOT a Magic Stone), both makes for an abnormally strong weapon even on characters without much INT investment, which gets nutty on a high-INT build, but also considerably strengthens the Soul Spear-style special attack to the point that it does around the same damage as the real thing, which again will be amplified even more on a high-INT character. Leo Ring counterhit R2s are so loving illegal in PvP, it's honestly disgusting
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Wait he’s streaming again? How much have I missed? 
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Dark souls 1 and the first third or so of ds2
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He'll be heading to the castle on Tuesday if you wanna join in
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Made a quick highlight reel of my PvP shenanigans during Return to Drangleic. I've got a handful of other fun clips that I might mash together or might just upload separately as lil bits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-tG_lZr7bk Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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How effective is dual cestus really? I'm trying it out, but so far it does not seem that great. The problem seems to be the subtractive defense system, I hit fast, but weak, but the enemy defense reduced the weak hits even further. I can see that I could become better later on though. A second question I have is how do you make a miracle build good? Miracles seem to be very back loaded. The number of charges for many miracles are heavily attunement dependent, meaning you get almost no charges early. Further, sorceries tend to follow the formula [catalyst magic atk]*X+Y whereas miracles has Y being zero, making them much weaker for an early build. Sure, I can heal a lot, but estus + life gem is usually enough. I do also not see any good cheap lightning weapons, the Dragonslayer Spear for example, has a high stat requirement and offers little that a lightning imbues Pate's Spear doesn't offer unless you combine it with a repair sorcery.
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Crystalgate posted:How effective is dual cestus really? I'm trying it out, but so far it does not seem that great. The problem seems to be the subtractive defense system, I hit fast, but weak, but the enemy defense reduced the weak hits even further. I can see that I could become better later on though. My secret is the stone ring. +30 poise damage per hit combined with the quick attacks means you can stagger or even stunlock a lot of enemies and players  And if you're power stancing, the L1/LB attack has a really small windup time so you can get in that crucial first hit and possibly poisebreak them to interrupt their attack, you can see me doing that to a few people in my video, it's most obvious in my fight with Faulkner at 2:13. He goes in to strike with his dual greatswords, but I easily punch him during the windup, breaking his attack. Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Crystalgate posted:How effective is dual cestus really? I'm trying it out, but so far it does not seem that great. The problem seems to be the subtractive defense system, I hit fast, but weak, but the enemy defense reduced the weak hits even further. I can see that I could become better later on though.
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Crystalgate posted:How effective is dual cestus really? I'm trying it out, but so far it does not seem that great. The problem seems to be the subtractive defense system, I hit fast, but weak, but the enemy defense reduced the weak hits even further. I can see that I could become better later on though. Dual cestus works great but you need your scaling stats and weapon upgrades to really make it shine. As for miracles, you kinda don't. Lightning spear and emit force were super good when the game first came out but they've since nerfed most attacking miracles into the ground.
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Dual cestus is a comfortably game-beating build with the exception of a couple types of enemies that the moveset has trouble hitting. Just make sure to wear stone ring for more stagger, keep both weapons upgraded and pump both strength and dex. The relatively low damage is usually counterbalanced by the fact that it has the best physical damage type (blunt) and can put out loads of hits with the L1 combo. Imo, it is not particularly worth making a faith-only caster build in SOTFS. It can be done but it is easier to get a strong hexer or pyromancer. There are good buff miracles but the damage ones have almost all been nerfed hard long ago. Heavenly Thunder is the standout. The lower tier lightning spears are pretty bad. Sunlight spear, wrath of god, and blinding bolt are all strong though kind of annoying to get.
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Another soft advantage of playing with dual caestus is it forces you to get better at the game overall. I had to learn to stop being afraid of hugging the gently caress out of enemies (and huge bosses) and got even better at rolling. I credit my dual caestus run with giving me what I needed to beat Gundyr and Vordt on my first try in DS3
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Another soft advantage of playing with dual caestus is it forces you to get better at the game overall. I had to learn to stop being afraid of hugging the gently caress out of enemies (and huge bosses) and got even better at rolling. I credit my dual caestus run with giving me what I needed to beat Gundyr and Vordt on my first try in DS3
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Heide sword is a good fast lightning weapon.
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betterinsodapop posted:That Vordt fight was impressive. I was in chat when you beat his taint into submission. Thanks! Yeah I remember seeing you in there  Between beating Vordt's taint and punching a tree in its bulbous sack DS3 seems to be much hornier than 2
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Dragonslayer spear R2s point blank do tons of damage and can feel worth it to pull off, though you have to be conservative with them. A lightning Heide spear is a monster when buffed, and the Heide sword is great too. I really enjoyed using a lightning drake blood great sword (hits hard, low stamina use, very high counter damage), but that weapon works for int too. For spells, the only thing you’ve got is heavenly thunder, which is good, but not great. Miracles generally got savaged by nerfs. Faith can still be fun, though. The faith weapons are strong and come pretty early.
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Miracle build in dark souls 2 nowadays is yeah, pick a heide weapon (sword is easiest to equip) and just use healing miracles until you're around 3+million soul memory. At that point you can grab 50 attunement and 60 faith in addition to softcaps for health/stamina and enough adaptability to get to a reasonable amount of iframes. Grab the crown from fume knight to restore spell uses and then and only then can you use offensive miracles effectively. You can make a killer sunbro like this but the days of grabbing an early few casts of lightning spear to dumpster trash AND bosses are long dead. If you want to be a caster early, the best way is hexes or sorceries. Pyromancy is pretty bad, too. Frida Call Me fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Being able to follow up a stagger with a fastcast combustion is still satisfying for pyromancers. It does take a long time to come online though. This game doesn't even have a pyromancer starting class.
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It seems faith builds work as I expected. Well, I do have a hexer with 40 int and faith and the support miracles just happens to require a relative low faith, so I'm not really seeing the point of a faith build right now. As for a punchy build, I'm getting the impression that they are more fun than powerful, which is fair enough. I think I'll try to combine Ring of Blades +2, Flynn Ring and Sacred Oat all at once to boost it. That will be quite an investment, but perfectly doable when I tried it out on mugenmonkey.
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Frida Call Me posted:If you want to be a caster early, the best way is hexes or sorceries. Pyromancy is pretty bad, too. Agreed, at least on the early game stuff. It's just odd the way that From balanced the magic systems in this game. Your basic Sorcery damage spell gets 30 uses. The basic Hex gets 20. The basic Pyromancy? 8. Not to mention that upgrades for your catalyst are unique and so your Flame can fall behind if you don't know where to find or prioritize Fire Seeds. It is balanced out a bit by the later game Pyromancies tending to be a bit more interesting and varied. You get access to some good AoE spells, some good buffs, and the toxic effect.
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Thinking of making a new character to co-op with a friend and I really want to use the orma and reeve greatshield combo. But also was thinking faith miracles would be kinda good in co-op... but after reading about all the early game woes of faith, i'm not so sure. Would minimal faith to just get some tiny heal miracles, then pumping strength be the way to go?
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whalestory posted:Thinking of making a new character to co-op with a friend and I really want to use the orma and reeve greatshield combo. But also was thinking faith miracles would be kinda good in co-op... but after reading about all the early game woes of faith, i'm not so sure. Would minimal faith to just get some tiny heal miracles, then pumping strength be the way to go? Dex/faith is better than str/faith, imo. Heide spear is cool, poke poo poo to death. You can get a neat lightning bow from the second to last vanilla boss. Rapier is the best PVE weapon in the game, you can infuse that with lightning if you want to invest in faith later, and it scales really well on dex. You can also be a complete degenerate (like me) and infinite farm both bonfire ascetics and then skeptic spice's once you're about 75% of the way through the game. Heals don't scale on faith, so if you farm enough spices you can even cast the big boy heals with 10 faith. Biggest takeaway is don't start as a cleric. It's way easier to start as a knight and put the faith in when needed to cast heal/great heal. Frida Call Me fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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