Buschmaki posted:

How does dual-wielding work with passive effect buildup? I have two bleed katanas and am wondering if L1'ing will give me basically two hits of bleed buildup. Also they natively scale off of dex so will buildups also scale off of that if I give them keen, or should I just add bleed attunement to them and respec into so arcane?

DrBouvenstein posted:

Well, gently caress. I'm stuck in Sellia Crystal Tunnel. Literally stuck, in the geometry. "Fell" into a small crack in the cave floor, and I can't get out. Twenty minutes of running, rolling, jumping, using several different weapon arts that do jump/flip attacks but I cannot get unstuck.

And because it's Sellia Tunnel ..I can't teleport out. And it happened right as I killed the last loving laser bug. I don't know what to do. I've quit and reloaded, I've invaded another world, but I keep returning to the same spot and can't move.

My only hope is waiting for a random invader to kill me, I think? How the hell do I kill myself? At least DS1 had dung pies.

RandolphCarter posted:

Starting to think level 125, max level weapons are not enough for Ordina.

Vermain posted:

the big magma wyrm Hack is that, as far as i can tell, he only does his sideways fire belch attack on his sword side, so you can bait it, run around to the other side, run back, and keep trying to get him to burp on you until he either dies or decides to ram his head into the 3 feet of combat arena from generously gave him

Eej posted:

Talisman: There's a Talisman that gives you 20% damage whenever you or your enemy pops a bleed. Which is great, but it combos really well with:
Weapon Art: The Ash of War Seppuku, where you stab yourself and then buff your weapon with a bit of extra damage and a crazy amount of extra bleed (like +100 bleed??). The crazy part of this is that stabbing yourself counts as Bleeding so it triggers the aforementioned Talisman so you can start every fight buffed and able to bleed an enemy with the merest of light touches of your Nippon Steel.

You can also put Frost affinity on both your katanas. This will reduce the amount of bleed application slightly but allow your katanas to apply both bleed and frostbite which is frankly kind of ridiculous stacking. Or you can put Bleed on your right hand and Frost on your left hand since frostbite can't proc again when it's still on an opponent. You could also have a Fire and a Frost katana so when frostbite procs the Fire damage will remove it so you can start reapplying Frost again.

Khanstant posted:

I got summoned by a few people using that weapon art, always wondered what was going on. I used Bloody Slash on my Nagakiba a lot, it's nice for bosses that won't bleed and have short attack windows, takes a little bit of your health but just does a nice chunk of solid damage to boss.

I didn't think about Fire and Frost katanas, what happens if you put Frost affinity on Rivers of Blood, I wonder. It has blood application and deals fire damage as is.

Nuebot posted:

So, uh, Millicent's quest line Gowry's her dad? Also, it seems like just flat out killing her after getting that sick talisman from her is the best route because the needle blows unless you somehow accidentally chaos yourself.

I'm not sure if that one's entirely true. The Graven Mass/School talismans say: "The primeval current is a forbidden tradition of glintstone sorcery. To those who cleave to its teachings, the act of collecting sorcerers to fashion them into the seeds of stars is but another path of scientific inquiry." and the entire goal of her quest was to reassemble her sick hacker team of rogue primeval magic obsessed mages. I interpreted it as she did exactly what she planned to do, but didn't realize that what she planned to do was what a fw hundred other people have done and was just going to resort in the three of them, and their followers, turning into a stupid ball of faces.

MechaSeinfeld posted:

I don’t know why this is supposed to be DS2 2 when nearly every gameplay addition to DS2 is removed akin to DS3 and is more in line with that and BB and Sekiro.

It’s no more a realised Draglic than Boletaria.

Char posted:

So, remember, I was ranting about those two valiant gargoyles a couple days ago.
I respecced full strength, it's like playing easymode. I got into Deeproot, then Nokstella.
While I was loving around in Lake of Rot I noticed the game was giving me a lot of somber smithing stones. "Well, I kinda get it, game. You want me to use them, I guess?"

Back to the roundtable, I pushed my Grafted Greatword to +8

Me, proceeding to meet Astel:


edit: Astel is art

big cummers ONLY posted:

Took a break to cool off (lol) and gonna take some more swings at magmaboi. I'm in the lljk group if anyone would like to help.

YoshiOfYellow posted:

A Small List:

There's a race of giants that have lost a war very horribly and the ones still left are hosed up or basically slaves.

In the Final Boss Arena you see Minor Erdtrees sprouting all over surrounding the place and it very, very much resembles Things Betwixt.

On that note, The Lands Between... Things Betwixt... very similar naming scheme there.

Drangleic had a lot of Norse inspiration. From the atmosphere to the lore to the armor designs. Elden Ring shares a lot of that as well though it's much more varied with a lot of other stuff too.

Both games have a story much more focused on royalty and how their lineage and legacy affected the entire world.

Eej posted:

Each hit with a weapon will apply the listed amount of debuff on a weapon. So yes, powerstancing with katanas and using the L1 attack will get you two taps of bleed application.

Putting Bleed Affinity on a katana will increase the amount of bleed significantly (like almost double?) but on a uchigatana changes the scaling to B/D Dex/Arc. For pure damage it's probably not worth going Arcane.

There's a couple paths you could take to being a Bleed Lord though.

Talisman: There's a Talisman that gives you 20% damage whenever you or your enemy pops a bleed. Which is great, but it combos really well with:
Weapon Art: The Ash of War Seppuku, where you stab yourself and then buff your weapon with a bit of extra damage and a crazy amount of extra bleed (like +100 bleed??). The crazy part of this is that stabbing yourself counts as Bleeding so it triggers the aforementioned Talisman so you can start every fight buffed and able to bleed an enemy with the merest of light touches of your Nippon Steel.

You can also put Frost affinity on both your katanas. This will reduce the amount of bleed application slightly but allow your katanas to apply both bleed and frostbite which is frankly kind of ridiculous stacking. Or you can put Bleed on your right hand and Frost on your left hand since frostbite can't proc again when it's still on an opponent. You could also have a Fire and a Frost katana so when frostbite procs the Fire damage will remove it so you can start reapplying Frost again.

Re: Arcane. Bleed affinity gives your katanas a poopy D scaling in Arcane but Occult affinity gives them a B scaling. Arcane does increase Bleed by like 1 point per stat point or something but Occult is more for attacking damage with a slight benefit to your bleed build up since it doesn't outright give your weapons a big bleed boost like Bleed does. Either way it's a fine route to take if you plan to use Arcane scaling incantations.

Tarezax posted:

Doesn't Rivers of Blood have a unique weapon art

Stormgale posted:

At higher arcane levels the difference between bleed and occult for bleed amount is like 10 percent bleed for a lot more damage

MechaSeinfeld posted:

I haven’t finished the game so I will not read the spoiler text so I don’t know if that explains how Elden Ring is DS2 2 since Elden Ring is actually good to play and to look at and to listen to.

MechaSeinfeld posted:

I haven’t finished the game so I will not read the spoiler text so I don’t know if that explains how Elden Ring is DS2 2 since Elden Ring is actually good to play and to look at and to listen to.

deep dish peat moss posted:

This is proof enough that Elden Ring is Dark Souls 2 2, tarnished

YoshiOfYellow posted:

Next time you play DS2 try turning on the TV.

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Cowcaster posted:

i don't know why there's so many sex perverts on these forums that demand that we kowtow to their weird cult of thinking ds2 was good but i will never succumb

Dr. Clockwork posted:

Managed to beat Malenia on my 8th attempt. Simultaneously in disbelief I pulled it off and also flying high on adrenaline.

I’m sure this has been posted and figured out but I didn’t seem out any videos: her bullshit super move seems to be better dodged by rolling INTO her. Still got hit but much less doing this way.

Vermain posted:

i don't need to demand since it's objectively good due to both editions having sold well

Verisimilidude posted:

Ds2 was good don’t act like you all didn’t play it to completion

Oxxidation posted:

i learned this with those horrible giant birds in the mohgwyn blood swamp

Yardbomb posted:

DS2 had the largest part of the most fun weapons in the series and the best PVP.

Flytrap posted:

the more i think about it the more i hate that a significant part of the settings backstory is about a love triangle between a pedophile, a brotherfucking pedophile, and a boy that just wants to grow up to be big and strong but dies painfully because the first pedophile couldn't contain himself long enough

why did this have to be a thing. what the gently caress george. i know that part was you.

Flytrap posted:

the more i think about it the more i hate that a significant part of the settings backstory is about a love triangle between a pedophile, a brotherfucking pedophile, and a boy that just wants to grow up to be big and strong but dies painfully because the first pedophile couldn't contain himself long enough

why did this have to be a thing. what the gently caress george. i know that part was you.

deep dish peat moss posted:

It also had the best implementation of co-op with both small and large soapstones. Small white soapstones are the item that most needs to make a comeback

deep dish peat moss posted:

It also had the best implementation of co-op with both small and large soapstones. Small white soapstones are the item that most needs to make a comeback