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Meadowhill posted:Finally beat everything except Malenia on my big rear end Iron greatsword run and every boss was easy except can't beat Malenia. Now I'm doing a dagger buckler run and it is so satisfying to hit the parry on enemies. Did you try jump attacking her repeatedly
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Slap Giant Hunt on the sword, play defensive until you have an opening, then 1 GH to knock her into the air and another when she's on the ground. If the first doesn't knock her down, leave it at that. Rinse and repeat. She's not terribly fun to fight as melee imho, but I recommend Giant Hunt over most anything else because you crouch down for the first part of it and a surprising number of her attacks will go right over your head, which means more openings if you have balls of iron to match your sword
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Nov 30, 2023 17:03
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I found a new cheese on Placidusax. 1) Post Latenna up about 10yards away from where you zone in. 2) Start the fight but never get close to the dragon. 3) Just shift left to right in a wide arc dodging the lightning AOEs. 4) Latenna will gun him down and he'll never enter phase 2 if you never get close.
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Nov 30, 2023 17:22
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Yadoppsi posted:The Poker has to be the best of the Deathbird weapons. I had made an Int/Fth necromancer and thought about doing something cheeky like putting Int scaling on an erdsteel dagger or Fth scaling on the clayman's harpoon but as soon as I got the poker it turned into another greatsword bonk build, albeit with a few magic tricks like Rancorcall for stagger and roll catching. the poker is really, really good. it's arts are incredibly useful against almost all the bosses in the game and for those it's not, you can probably rancorcall/ancient death rancor the poo poo out of them with your elixir. the field of ghostflame also procs frostbite really well, if you're into that.
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Nov 30, 2023 17:23
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A fun use for the flame path is to cast it several meters in front of a lobster and watch it slowly trundle over it. Repeat until dead. They don’t seem to use the spit attack at mid-range so its a reliable and low effort way to get rid of them. Even got it working on the lobster packs in the mountaintops.
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Nov 30, 2023 20:31
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Yadoppsi posted:The Poker has to be the best of the Deathbird weapons. I had made an Int/Fth necromancer and thought about doing something cheeky like putting Int scaling on an erdsteel dagger or Fth scaling on the clayman's harpoon but as soon as I got the poker it turned into another greatsword bonk build, albeit with a few magic tricks like Rancorcall for stagger and roll catching. It’s my favourite weapon in the game. It’s weird it only scales with int and not faith but what can you do
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Drain 001 posted:I found a new cheese on Placidusax. I need to try that some day 
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Nov 30, 2023 23:21
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If you really wanna trivialize Plassie, embrace the doot edit - also pretty much every enemy as big or bigger than an omen
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Nov 30, 2023 23:34
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Epic High Five posted:If you really wanna trivialize Plassie, embrace the doot I highly endorse the doot, it works extremely well against larger bosses. Except for that stupid Elden Beast. Then you just need to apply a very large hammer instead.
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Nov 30, 2023 23:55
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OGS-Remix posted:I highly endorse the doot, it works extremely well against larger bosses. Except for that stupid Elden Beast. Then you just need to apply a very large hammer instead. No it shreds the beast too. 80% resist doesn't help against incredible posture damage and so much damage in total that 20% is still a huge amount. Any faith build will be built for the doot and the WA scales off faith (though is still extremely good with minimum requirements) ADLS or pest threads is better overall but the beast is no reason to stop dootin, it's Radagon that it suffers on but even then it's still a great hammer and thus extremely capable as a weapon
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Meadowhill posted:Finally beat everything except Malenia on my big rear end Iron greatsword run and every boss was easy except can't beat Malenia. Now I'm doing a dagger buckler run and it is so satisfying to hit the parry on enemies. When I beat Malenia on my large club run I did it with Lion's Claw ash and using a lot of blocking. When she waterfowled I'd roll - block - roll, and then hit Lion's Claw right after the little bonus flury. She spent a lot of time pancaked.
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WaltherFeng posted:Did you try jump attacking her repeatedly Epic High Five posted:Slap Giant Hunt on the sword, play defensive until you have an opening, then 1 GH to knock her into the air and another when she's on the ground. If the first doesn't knock her down, leave it at that. Rinse and repeat.
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I want a second Great Knife so I'm hustling my lvl 5 rear end to Lakeside Crystal Cave and I'm going to farm that the demi human Pray for me Hey that only took 7 kills nice verbal enema fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Unless they patched it, for the longest time the most hilarious way to deal with Malenia was Horns. Cast it, she's down. She tries to get up, you hit her again. Repeat until phase 2.
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Horns is still incredibly good, but if you're casting then the fire giant spells, specifically Flame of the Fell God and Burn, O Flame! are way way better and both also knock her on her rear end (a running theme with dealing with her lol)
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Dec 1, 2023 07:31
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I’m playing dark souls for the first time…figured I’d make a push to be able to equip the zweihander since I had so much luck with it in elden ring. It’s slower and a bit clumsier, and I found that the club is so far the easiest and raddest weapon to use. I killed a bunch of those loving big knights with it, and have just been one hitting everything in the catacombs easily because of it. Upgraded to 5 and have 24 str and took down the necromancer dude with the masks first go 🍗 My only wish is for a longer club
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Dec 2, 2023 07:06
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i am harry posted:I’m playing dark souls for the first time…figured I’d make a push to be able to equip the zweihander since I had so much luck with it in elden ring. Best part of the Zwei is the R2 slam interrupts enemies it lands near even if it doesn't hit, it's insanely powerful. There isn't a shortage of big stupid hammers tho so don't worry there, strike damage is just really strong in these games
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i am harry posted:I’m playing dark souls for the first time…figured I’d make a push to be able to equip the zweihander since I had so much luck with it in elden ring. Are you talking about the Club, the Large Club, or the Great Club? The normal Club is fine, but it's worse than the Reinforced Club, which has the same moveset and speed and is better in every way. RC is basically a nailbat. RC is so good it can reliably SL1 the game. Large Club is a rare drop and not that good. Great Club is guaranteed loot from Blighttown and it's Great. It's pretty Long as well.
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Dec 2, 2023 07:27
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Elden Ring did the Great Club dirty by making it a colossal weapon, aka worse moveset than the Large Club. There's no longer a Reinforced Club, but there is a Stone Club, which is the best hammer in the whole game.
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Man this double Great Knife run is loving brutal I'm finding this harder than trying to be a sorcerer. Might swap to twinblade or claws maybe
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Double Daggers has basically no hitstun, it has what is termed a DamageLevel 8 ministagger which is very short. And because what governs ministaggers against the PVE is based off the DamageLevel, daggers will not interrupt anybody. This is why Halberds and Great weapons with DamageLevel 2 can reliably interrupt most enemies with most of its attacks, and why colossal swords can completely lock down even enemy Knights and Omen. Also Whips also have a DamageLevel 2 hitstun, and to me they are the easiest method I have of killing Malenia.
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verbal enema posted:Man this double Great Knife run is loving brutal I'm finding this harder than trying to be a sorcerer. Star fists or spiked caestus will do what you want better than daggers imo.
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They really whip Malenia's rear end
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Hmmm.. maybe a whip run..
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verbal enema posted:Hmmm.. maybe a whip run.. Id save it for ng+ when you can rock dual wielded diallos whips.
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Elden Lord Godfrey posted:Large Club is a rare drop and not that good. Wait, why? I was under the impression it was about as good as the Great Club. Also on the ER side I took the beastman club (or w/e it's actually called) to be the rough equivalent of the reinforced.
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Daggers are kind of a pain in the rear end with some enemies. Anything vaguely humanoid sized with fast attacks requires lots of dodge rolling. I ended up relying on ashes that did poise damage for opponents that I couldn't consistently proc status effects on.
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Large club is better than great club cuz it has a better moveset
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Epic High Five posted:Best part of the Zwei is the R2 slam interrupts enemies it lands near even if it doesn't hit, it's insanely powerful. There isn't a shortage of big stupid hammers tho so don't worry there, strike damage is just really strong in these games The 2-hand R2 knocks most humanoid enemies on their rear end. It really is absurd and let's you cheese every knight in DS by chain slamming them.
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John Murdoch posted:Wait, why? I was under the impression it was about as good as the Great Club. Large club is excellent, only slightly weaker than great club and it does poison weirdly enough. But you have to grind it forever from fatties, unlike great club which you can just go grab
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I know its been said a million times, but I was just replaying Sekiro to get the boss rush challenges done and it feels even more obvious to me than previously that Malenia was a scrapped and reworked Sekiro boss, probably from an abandoned Tomoe dlc.
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Carian sword spell gimmick is reaching its limitations with Malenia. The stamp ashes or giant hunt are strictly better than carian piercer in terms of damage per FP. And Azula's range is sadly too short to tag Malenia when she's in the "sidling to the side, not going to react to an opening" mode. On the plus side, I actually have to engage with the fight this time. Two-handing a greatsword is very different from colossal bonk with an overpowered summon  Dodging waterfowl pretty reliably now so long as she's at mid-range, now it's just a damage race with a bit of RNG and a split damage sword. Although the frost procs probably make up for that.
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I’m always like “gently caress yeah pizza cutter” when I start this game up and then I end up in agony when I remember it’s not nearly as fast as the BB pizza cutter. The Godfrey axe is sadly the “speedy, sparky two-hander” of this game.
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I appreciate Ghiza's wheel purely for the irony that its actually super good at killing Iron Virgins.
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The pizza cutter got some buffs in the last patch in addition to the ones all colossals got awhile back, it may not be great still but it may be workableBug Squash posted:The 2-hand R2 knocks most humanoid enemies on their rear end. It really is absurd and let's you cheese every knight in DS by chain slamming them. This was my entire last DS1 run and it was a hoot khwarezm posted:I know its been said a million times, but I was just replaying Sekiro to get the boss rush challenges done and it feels even more obvious to me than previously that Malenia was a scrapped and reworked Sekiro boss, probably from an abandoned Tomoe dlc. Demon of Hatred and Malenia were part of a boss exchange program
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Large club is not a drop. You are crossing some wires. It's on the back edge of the bloodhound gaol hill in limgrave. That's one of the reasons I'm a big evangelist for it: great move set, extremely good reqch for a great hammer, nonsomber, and possible to get without even having to fight a single enemy or leave any zone.
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My blind playthrough continues unhindered; bonkin’ a Greatsword +12 through Caelid and Dragonbarrow. I kept falling into the open-world game trap and then getting bored, so now I’ve inverted my approach to mainline an areas major dungeon before I loot the countryside and become overleveled. I have had a couple struggles with some gank bosses (double Pumpkin mainly), otherwise it’s been smooth sailing. Omenkiller was a nice little homage (but the arena was far too spacious). CommonShore posted:Large club is not a drop. You are crossing some wires. I think you might be crossing some wires because to my reading the context is DS1, where it’s dropped by the fatties in Blighttown.
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CommonShore posted:Large club is not a drop. You are crossing some wires. It's on the back edge of the bloodhound gaol hill in limgrave. That's one of the reasons I'm a big evangelist for it: great move set, extremely good reqch for a great hammer, nonsomber, and possible to get without even having to fight a single enemy or leave any zone. DS1. In Elden Ring the situation is reversed, large club is just lying around in the sticks and great club is a boss drop halfway through the game. Too bad the ER large club doesn’t have innate poison
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Finally got back around to Elden Ring and just beat the game as a Strength/Faith build. I want to go through again doing the opposite and do a Dex/Int run. I know about the Moonveil but what else should I be looking for? Any tips on how to start this run? I largely ignored everything Int focused last time around so any starting tips would be appreciated.
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Vandar posted:Finally got back around to Elden Ring and just beat the game as a Strength/Faith build. Cold Godskin Peeler (especially via Loretta's Slash), Death's Poker, Dark Moon Greatsword, Wing of Astel, Cold Nightrider Flail, Bastard's Stars. For the start of the run, find any Dex weapon that you like and make it Cold. Most staves scale on Int, but the scaling curves kick in at different minimum Int values. For a Dex/Int build you'll probably want to eventually max out the Academy Glintstone Staff, which scales best for Int 41-68. If you want to just barely dabble in Incantations, the Golden Order Seal scales with both Int and Faith.
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