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Funky See Funky Do posted:I just got Lusat's Glintstone Staff which is supposed to be the best staff in the game. The wiki says it's bugged though. Before I put any resources into upgrading it - is it bugged? Does the effect work? Eh, its a 50% increase in FP used for a 10-13% damage boost. Not nothing but I personally didn't find it worth it. The best staff is probably the Carian Regal Staff you get from Rennala's remnant since it has the same scaling but no FP increase. You lose about 10% damage but also have enough juice to actually kill enemies. Lusat's is only really useful if you're using the 'do not consume FP' mixture with Azur Comet to melt a big boss.
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drunken officeparty posted:Whoever thought these rolling spike chariot dungeons were a good idea needs to be shot into the sun There are secret paths you can take that make them 90% easier
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vandalism posted:Not sure how much I agree with that claim but limgrave is 12/10, Liurnia is like 11/10, Leyndell is like 10/10 and caelid is poison swamp/10. Then from snow zone til the end its like 7/10. It doesn't help that the snow zone is bigger than Altus + Liurnia combined but has like half the content.
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Mar 15, 2022 01:58
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Zore posted:Eh, its a 50% increase in FP used for a 10-13% damage boost. Not nothing but I personally didn't find it worth it. Carian Regal is the baller staff and works with moon magic which is where it's at.
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Zore posted:Eh, its a 50% increase in FP used for a 10-13% damage boost. Not nothing but I personally didn't find it worth it. I found that by the time you get to around 30-40 mind you don’t really have to worry about FP that much. The damage boost does make a huge difference when dealing with trash mobs, as it can mean the difference between using 2 pebbles to kill something versus 3, which makes the act of clearing trash mobs that much better. Considering nearly every boss has a stake of marika near it, meaning you can go into almost every boss fight with max potions, I found the damage buff to ultimately be worth it especially when coupling the extra damage from the staff with extra damage from knights resolve.
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Mar 15, 2022 02:01
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Zore posted:Eh, its a 50% increase in FP used for a 10-13% damage boost. Not nothing but I personally didn't find it worth it. Is the prince of death's staff not better?
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Mar 15, 2022 02:02
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Going through Raya Lucaria as a caster in NG+ with all my tools and mimic, how on earth did casters deal with this place at level?? Like man I thought it was rough as a melee class but these mother fuckers seem even worse as a caster
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Mar 15, 2022 02:03
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Funky See Funky Do posted:They really front loaded the staves didn't they? I've got like 4 of the top 5 staves and I haven't finished the third area. I think I'm maybe halfway through the game. There's a ton of them, but they're all pretty meh. They certainly frontloaded all the good ones. Carian Regal requires a boss but it's the easiest boss. Meteorite's initial scaling and no need for upgrade makes it the best until you can pump +6 into Regal, and Lusat's is great but limited to enemies you can oneshot. There's a late-game staff that is potentially the best in the game as long as you have 60 Int and 60 Fai, but at that point it's just a NG+ victory lap and you really don't need it. Then you get a bunch that are "good for X spells" except you never use X spells and the staff scaling sucks. :/
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Is the prince of death's staff not better? It's cool if you actually use death sorceries but it also uses regular smithing stones to upgrade which is an asspain.
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Macaluso posted:Going through Raya Lucaria as a caster in NG+ with all my tools and mimic, how on earth did casters deal with this place at level?? Like man I thought it was rough as a melee class but these mother fuckers seem even worse as a caster That's where I spent 10 points on dex and broke out the whip, only really using glintstone pebbles to get aggro or chip something to death. Nothing in there can stand up to HYAH HYAH GET BACK SORCERER GET BACK MAGICIAN HYAH
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Is the prince of death's staff not better? You need heavy Faith investment for it to scale better, it upgrades off normal stones so its much harder to upgrade and it boosts some of the worst spells in the game
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Macaluso posted:Going through Raya Lucaria as a caster in NG+ with all my tools and mimic, how on earth did casters deal with this place at level?? Like man I thought it was rough as a melee class but these mother fuckers seem even worse as a caster You get yourself an Int scaling sword and learn to stab. I was really glad I came across the Carian knight's sword before I went in
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Eej posted:but even though it looks really cool powerstancing spears is probably the worst melee experience I've had in this game.
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Macaluso posted:Going through Raya Lucaria as a caster in NG+ with all my tools and mimic, how on earth did casters deal with this place at level?? Like man I thought it was rough as a melee class but these mother fuckers seem even worse as a caster Being a caster doesn't mean you don't have a regular weapon for easy/magic resistant enemies  Rusty Anchor destroys them even when its magic infused.
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Zore posted:Malenia suuuucks. Why did you make a boss that heals every time they hit you? Good news is she's fairly predictable about what she does, moreso than most bosses. She very rarely goes full ham aggro on you (except for the wombo combo and the occasional telegraphed dash stab), she tries to hang back, flutterstep away from your swing and then hit you. I had a lot of luck baiting that first swing and hitting her when she landed. Ended up being pretty fun And then comes phase 2 which sucks rear end and I can't even pretend to justify it. Cheese that poo poo with whatever you got
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vandalism posted:I just read a claim that I think makes sense. there is definitely a noticeable lack of QA the further you go on in the game, which is, admittedly, not abnormal for large games. stuff like mountaintops being so poorly tuned and empty, tons of copy-paste repeat bosses, enemies that seem completely ill-fit for where they're placed (ulcerous tree spirit's original shoe box arena, the pest sorcerers in sellia caves comically glitching into the floor, leech corpses yeeting themselves out of sewer pipes, the giant blade lions getting stuck on wooden ramparts in various castles, etc.), oddly balanced subzones (zamor knights being harder than some minibosses, and then the next enemy you run into is birds that die in two hits), weapon arts and spells ranging from "absolutely useless" to "100% gamebreakingly powerful," great runes aside from godrick's being complete garbage, etc. etc. it probably needed another year to cook in the oven, but six years for a single video game is simply too much development time to ask for
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Blue Raider posted:The shaded castle is a bad area. A dookie area. I didn't think it was all that bad except for 2 major bullshit encounters. -The perfume guys shooting you with their glitter through the wall. (if that's not a glitch and it's intended that is some ROYAL bullshit) -The hyper aggressive amalgam revenant guy in the courtyard. I laughed that the boss is the same guy I had to kill on my archer to be able to easily craft arrows.
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Zore posted:Being a caster doesn't mean you don't have a regular weapon for easy/magic resistant enemies I am a small angry mage with a morning star and a shield.
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aw it really sucks there isn't ultrawide support. The game looks so pretty in UW but going without online is pretty tough for someone who isn't very good at Souls games.
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im in raya lucaria right now as a caster and its rough but moonveil is doing decently well.
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I think I’m gonna call it at Malenia. That’s my playthrough down! I enjoyed it, very ready to move on tho.
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Zore posted:Being a caster doesn't mean you don't have a regular weapon for easy/magic resistant enemies or there's always Carian Slicer if you genuinely don't want to use anything other than your staff, it costs like nothing and does great damage in melee range.
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Funny how I went from Malenia "how is this even possible" not even being able to out dps her healing to beating her so bad I had 5 flasks left.
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Does anyone have any idea what the giant droopy face underneath stormveil is?
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4000 Dollar Suit posted:Funny how I went from Malenia "how is this even possible" not even being able to out dps her healing to beating her so bad I had 5 flasks left. In this fight I was basically praying, "Don't spam that move don't spam that move."
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I'm not sure why you would ever want to lightning-infuse a weapon in this game
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vandalism posted:I just read a claim that I think makes sense. My favourite is the elite haligtree knights that have like 2x the hp of the elite cleanrot knights in the same area, who by themselves are already red eye lothric knight tier in terms of bloated hitpoints
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MasterBuilder posted:Does anyone have any idea what the giant droopy face underneath stormveil is? Your mom lmao
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Real Cool Catfish posted:Big proponent of finding at least some type of ranged, bow/spell/incantation that you like. Less about cheese and more that quite a few bosses have one or two “I’m about to do some crazy poo poo to anyone within 5 feet of me” moves, and being able to get a couple of ranged hits in whilst they have fun doing that is always nice. Every little helps chipping down that hp bar. Bloodbone arrows are easy to mass and do serious work, or you can farm butterflies to make Rotbone arrows for people you really dislike.
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Smith Comma John posted:I'm not sure why you would ever want to lightning-infuse a weapon in this game It’s stronger when it rains 
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Perfect Potato posted:My favourite is the elite haligtree knights that have like 2x the hp of the elite cleanrot knights in the same area, who by themselves are already red eye lothric knight tier in terms of bloated hitpoints i'm glad i'm not loving crazy in thinking that they were ridiculously overtuned might be the whole poise level scaling thing people were speculating about earlier but they were also basically impossible to stagger, too. every other enemy in the game takes, like, 2-3 charged R2s to stagger and i could not loving stagger them or the cleanrots for love nor money
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Sample_text posted:I didn't think it was all that bad except for 2 major bullshit encounters. The perfume guys are the main reason for my post, yeah. They’re bullshit in the way that enemies are in this game occasionally. As always, hoarfrost stomp adjusts their attitudes. I still think the dungeon sucks overall though. Not much reason for it, but I guess the same can be said for a few other non-demigod dungeons.
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DeathChicken posted:Good news is she's fairly predictable about what she does, moreso than most bosses. She very rarely goes full ham aggro on you (except for the wombo combo and the occasional telegraphed dash stab), she tries to hang back, flutterstep away from your swing and then hit you. I had a lot of luck baiting that first swing and hitting her when she landed. Ended up being pretty fun Also she's very vulnerable to frostbite.
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Artelier posted:In this fight I was basically praying, "Don't spam that move don't spam that move." I had to tell myself to relax
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Man Rennala is just the worst for my sorcerer character. I can't do enough damage - is she super resistant to magic or something? I've got all her moves down, but half the time I don't even get to the second round because I get caught by a stray chandelier, or stuck between two firebreathers. How do I summon help from a goon? The wolf spirits are great but if she fires off two quick blasts in a row during the second phase I'm toast. I know, I know - get gud and add more vigor but ugh. This is the only unfun part I've come across so far.
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Beat the game and the last 4 or 5 bosses was just an escalating "Whhaaa?". I have no idea who I fought or why and I accidentally got a cryptic ending because I tried to read a message only for it to be apparently a summon sign for an ending
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Red Rox posted:Man Rennala is just the worst for my sorcerer character. I can't do enough damage - is she super resistant to magic or something? I've got all her moves down, but half the time I don't even get to the second round because I get caught by a stray chandelier, or stuck between two firebreathers. The secret to Rennala is very simple: Stop trying to mage duel the ultra mage Stop pussyfooting around and hit her with a sword. She has no poise to speak of and the more time you let her Do Things the more you lose control of the fight. She folds like wet tissue paper if you just stay in her face. (And yes of course she’s resistant to Magic)
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Yardbomb posted:Supposedly there's some kind of dialogue and stuff people found, that led on that maybe she was gonna be a/the candidate to be the lord what's his name would want for Fort Haight. Unknown if it's just completely cut threads hanging in the files or if there's some kind of esoteric series of actions needed to make it happen yet. Its highly likely to be cut content because NPCs tied to those quests aren't even in the game. From Software might have some esoteric quests, but somebody should have at least encountered them. Also, there is an unused ending cinematic that is just a dummied out file.
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Red Rox posted:Man Rennala is just the worst for my sorcerer character. I can't do enough damage - is she super resistant to magic or something? I've got all her moves down, but half the time I don't even get to the second round because I get caught by a stray chandelier, or stuck between two firebreathers. She is resistant to magic. However, if you have Rock Sling, that counts as a physical attack (I guess cause they're rocks that are literally being ripped from the ground) which works well against her. You can get that spell from the Streets of Sages Ruins over in Caelid, in the big blood lake place. I recall it being pretty straightforward to get, you didn't need to fight a boss or anything.
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