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Leon Sumbitches posted:I never understood how he got his name though Souls lore has many mysteries.......
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Harrow posted:It's a hallmark of the Souls games to have some sort of headgear that a) boosts your magic damage a ton, making it highly desirable to wear, and b) looks goofy as gently caress. I'm talkin' Crown of Dusk, I'm talkin' the Custard Tornado from Demon's Souls. gwyndolin’s crown boosts magic albeit not as much as dusk’s and that poo poo looks great
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Cowcaster posted:gwyndolin’s crown boosts magic albeit not as much as dusk’s and that poo poo looks great It's pretty fly but it's no Big Hat
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Brandfarlig posted:resistance is the "only" trap stat unless I'm forgetting one. Everything else will give you something useful. Endurance is very powerful since it gives you both stamina and allows you to equip heavier stuff. Resistance is flat bad and you shouldn't invest in it at all, but it's also pretty easy to accidentally spread yourself too thin if you jump around between casting stats and physical stats, too. You can recover somewhat by grinding out more souls, but it's more of a band-aid answer. Thinking on it, have they confirmed if re-speccing will be a thing in Elden Ring? I assume so but I don't recall seeing a definitive answer on that.
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Nov 26, 2021 17:06
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Generally if you spread your stats thin there's still stuff with high base damage you can use, including elemental upgrades. You might not be able to use everything you'd want to but you can't really screw yourself over to the point you can't finish the game, even SL1 players end up with strong and capable characters (they just need to be more careful about taking damage).
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Nov 26, 2021 17:12
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CYBEReris posted:Generally if you spread your stats thin there's still stuff with high base damage you can use, including elemental upgrades. You might not be able to use everything you'd want to but you can't really screw yourself over to the point you can't finish the game, even SL1 players end up with strong and capable characters (they just need to be more careful about taking damage). I do appreciate that about DS1. The elemental weapons can carry you through most of the base game with no problem if you're not getting good damage any other way.
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Nov 26, 2021 17:15
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The two things to hammer home to people is that folks beat these games naked, with a broken sword, having leveled up 0 times....so don't stress your build *that* much. And second that death really really doesn't matter. Did you have like 8k souls on you and then you die twice trying to zoom back to them? It doesn't mean poo poo, you can grind souls quick is you really really want to. You haven't lost anything that really matters, even if it is a bit annoying. Just let it go and move on, you are fine.
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Point of order, losing a bloodstain does matter in 2.
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Mulva posted:The two things to hammer home to people is that folks beat these games naked, with a broken sword, having leveled up 0 times....so don't stress your build *that* much. And second that death really really doesn't matter. Did you have like 8k souls on you and then you die twice trying to zoom back to them? It doesn't mean poo poo, you can grind souls quick is you really really want to. You haven't lost anything that really matters, even if it is a bit annoying. Just let it go and move on, you are fine. The thing is that the people that beat these games naked and with broken swords are gods at dodging and ripostes. If you're really bad at those, builds start to matter a lot more.
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Nov 26, 2021 17:47
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ymgve posted:The thing is that the people that beat these games naked and with broken swords are gods at dodging and ripostes. If you're really bad at those, builds start to matter a lot more. But those are learned skills, not innate, and as long as someone is patient they can pick them up for themselves and will probably even learn faster throwing themselves into the deep end
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Not everyone is willing to take off all their clothes just to be good at Dark Souls.
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Nuns with Guns posted:I do appreciate that about DS1. The elemental weapons can carry you through most of the base game with no problem if you're not getting good damage any other way. DS1 is still kind of operating on Demon’s Souls logic where pure physical everything is the “hard mode” and magic/fire/lightning is deliberately op. Dabir posted:Point of order, losing a bloodstain does matter in 2. Only for multiplayer which itself doesn’t matter.
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Nov 26, 2021 18:02
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Does it actually matter for soul memory if you get your bloodstain back in DS2? I thought the way it worked as soon as you died the damage was done because picking them back up will count separately against you from their original acquisition, so whether you pick up your bloodstain or farm new souls its all going in the SM anyways
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Nov 26, 2021 18:09
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CYBEReris posted:But those are learned skills, not innate, and as long as someone is patient they can pick them up for themselves and will probably even learn faster throwing themselves into the deep end It all comes down to timing - some people are better at timing than others. It can be learned to a certain extent, but it's not possible for everyone to become a naked fistgod.
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Nov 26, 2021 18:13
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The real thing about builds in Souls games is that if you're willing to spend more souls, you can always level more stats. People stop at levels the community tends to agree on for multiplayer matchmaking purposes, especially PvP dueling, but if you're not in it just for the endgame dueling, you can always just level higher than the PvP build levels you see around.
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You don't need to be a naked SL1 guy to learn how to dodge...
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The main advice I'd give someone starting out in Souls games who's intimidated by their challenge is just that there's no such thing as "playing fair" in Souls. These games fight dirty. You can fight dirty, too. Go ahead and use magic. Use bows to pull enemies farther away without aggroing other nearby enemies (or to outright snipe enemies to death in Demon's Souls, where bows are OP). Level stats higher than you're "supposed" to. Grab a big-rear end shield and tank stuff if you're finding dodging and parrying too hard. Summon help, NPC or player. Do whatever makes the game most fun for you because what's the point if you're not enjoying it?
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Nuns with Guns posted:I do appreciate that about DS1. The elemental weapons can carry you through most of the base game with no problem if you're not getting good damage any other way. My first play through the drake sword carried me through to the lightning spear in sens, which carried me the rest of the game I think. My stats were a mess of course. I dont remember any one boss giving me too much trouble outside of taurus demon and of course O&S, but only for a bit.
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You can beat the game at SL1, naked, fists only, on a DDR mat, blindfolded. I wouldn't recommend doing this on your first playthrough. Pick a weapon (or magic) you find fun, level your stats to match its scaling, don't neglect Vitality and Endurance along the way, don't stress over lost souls, and keep your shield up. The new game experience is neither so easy you need to tie one hand behind your back or so hard that you need to agonize over every point spent.
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My first time playing DS I got lucky with Black Knight Greataxe and Halberd drops and those weapons carried me nearly the entire game. It was cool to get such good weapons, but otoh I never really got to experiment with the others
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Nuns with Guns posted:Resistance is flat bad and you shouldn't invest in it at all, but it's also pretty easy to accidentally spread yourself too thin if you jump around between casting stats and physical stats, too. You can recover somewhat by grinding out more souls, but it's more of a band-aid answer. You could, but there's basically no reason to level both int and faith on top of a physical damage stat since there's no spells that support that until later games. I'm having a hard time deciding what I'm doing for my first ER playthrough. Normally I'd do quality so I can use basically any weapon but not being able to cast any spells sounds like a miss. Dex + a casting stat seems tempting, in particular if dex still boosts cast speed. Son of Thunderbeast posted:My first time playing DS I got lucky with Black Knight Greataxe and Halberd drops and those weapons carried me nearly the entire game. It was cool to get such good weapons, but otoh I never really got to experiment with the others Ugh, don't remind me. I wanted to do a vanilla run of DS1 with the Halberd and I had to kill that knight in darkroot like 10 times before it dropped. I'm pretty good at getting through the asylum quickly at least. Now I'd just find a mod or cheatengine it. The worst thing is that there's probably a smarter way of doing it even in vanilla but I found 1 halberd knight and stuck with it. Brandfarlig fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Nov 26, 2021 |
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Brandfarlig posted:You could, but there's basically no reason to level both int and faith on top of a physical damage stat since there's no spells that support that until later games. You can make builds that use low-requirement spells getting scaling from the opposite stat using the Velka Talisman or Darkmoon Catalyst. i.e. a Faith build that can also cast Dark Bead and in the process also has access to the various Oolacile and Vinheim utility spells. There's nothing as synergistic as hexes but that doesn't mean you can't mix it up.
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CYBEReris posted:You can make builds that use low-requirement spells getting scaling from the opposite stat using the Velka Talisman or Darkmoon Catalyst. i.e. a Faith build that can also cast Dark Bead and in the process also has access to the various Oolacile and Vinheim utility spells. There's nothing as synergistic as hexes but that doesn't mean you can't mix it up. Sure, but a new player is unlikely to try to go for faith+int+str/dex since there's not much to steer them in that direction. At least I hope so.
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skasion posted:Only for multiplayer which itself doesn’t matter. There's limited respawns for every enemy. If you lose a bloodstain, those particular souls are gone forever.
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Dabir posted:There's limited respawns for every enemy. If you lose a bloodstain, those particular souls are gone forever. Covenant of champions turns that off.
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Currently in Anor Alonso with an Iaito +10 going for faith/dex. Chaos blade doesn’t sound worth it, should I go Iaito +15? Also at 25 faith, need to run back and grab my spell for the Sun Spear or whatever. That’s a LONG run back though
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If you’re faith hybrid go +15 and cast sunlight blade on it
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Leon Sumbitches posted:I never understood how he got his name though Logan's Run is his favourite movie
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Sakurazuka posted:Logan's Run is his favourite movie Here I was thinking he’s a big Succession fan.
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acyclicity posted:Not everyone is willing to take off all their clothes just to be good at Dark Souls. poo poo, if I knew that's all it took I'd have done it when I installed the game multijoe posted:You don't need to be a naked SL1 guy to learn how to dodge... Aw, man. ... Oh....you guys were referring to my character. *puts my clothes back on*
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Gaming pro-tip: Wearing armour will decrease damage taken and allow your character to withstand more hits without dying
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multijoe posted:Gaming pro-tip: Wearing armour will decrease damage taken and allow your character to withstand more hits without dying Citation needed
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acyclicity posted:Not everyone is willing to take off all their clothes just to be good at Dark Souls. Speak for yourself 
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multijoe posted:Gaming pro-tip: Wearing armour will decrease damage taken and allow your character to withstand more hits without dying ha ha funny guy that's what the resistance stat is for
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Aidan_702 posted:Trip report please, or just do what everyone else is doing now on these them forums and let us support mock and deride you while giving you the most oblique hints in history on twitch stream Borrowed a "universal" controller but the game didn't recognize it so doing KB/M. Made a pyromancer per instructions. Took me 3 tries and 8 fire bombs to get the Asylum Demon. Made it to Firelink and explored around a bit, found so treasure chests, fell off the cliff and got killed by skeletons 3 times before I had to go do family stuff. Enjoying it so far but I expected the remaster to have better graphics.
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LongDarkNight posted:Borrowed a "universal" controller but the game didn't recognize it so doing KB/M. Made a pyromancer per instructions. Took me 3 tries and 8 fire bombs to get the Asylum Demon. Made it to Firelink and explored around a bit, found so treasure chests, fell off the cliff and got killed by skeletons 3 times before I had to go do family stuff. Enjoying it so far but I expected the remaster to have better graphics. It’s better than the original graphics in that it can successfully set its own aspect ratio without making GBS threads bricks. That’s it pretty much. They didn’t really remake assets or anything.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Speak for yourself sup, fellow unclothed video game player? WE do what it takes 
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BiggerBoat posted:sup, fellow unclothed video game player? WE do what it takes nice ultragreatsword u got there 
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