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If I'm going to be using the Defender's Greatsword, is there any reason to keep sunlight blade around? I can't even use it on the sword anyway, and its buff seems as strong as sunlight blade and it doesn't take off that much durability to use it.
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Inspector_666 posted:One dude invaded me in Heide's Tower and when I put my shield up and just started walking at him, he rolled backwards right off a ledge. The first time I invaded someone (which was fairly late), I ended up in Shrine of Amana, and I'd never been there before so I didn't know what to expect. My first move was to roll straight forwards into an abyss.  I wonder what the heck the other guy thought I thought I was doing.
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May 12, 2014 18:27
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:If I'm going to be using the Defender's Greatsword, is there any reason to keep sunlight blade around? I can't even use it on the sword anyway, and its buff seems as strong as sunlight blade and it doesn't take off that much durability to use it. Not really since it'll just take up a spell slot, and it's only one cast. The Defender Greatsword will last you a real long time too. Like well into NG+ and probably even NG++.
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May 12, 2014 18:31
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It's extremely crappy that losing in invasions/duels costs you rank in the blood bros covenant. I'm barely breaking even with all the assorted nonsense I run into.
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May 12, 2014 18:32
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Leper Residue posted:Not really since it'll just take up a spell slot, and it's only one cast. The Defender Greatsword will last you a real long time too. Like well into NG+ and probably even NG++. ...What exactly would one replace it with in NG+++? 
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May 12, 2014 18:34
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quote:With that power you can do almost anything. You choose what to see with the Throne, or maybe it just shows you what you want. Except you forgot what you want. I'm not sure what this has to do with relinking the fires like the herald mentions though.
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May 12, 2014 18:35
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RBA Starblade posted:You choose what to see with the Throne, or maybe it just shows you what you want. Except you forgot what you want. I'm not sure what this has to do with relinking the fires like the herald mentions though. Yeah she kind of just offhandedly mentions it during her senseless rambling. 
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May 12, 2014 18:36
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Man why did they have to give the Wicked Eye Shield such terrible stats. Its one of the few greatshields that doesn't look awful but its just terrible to use.
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May 12, 2014 18:37
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Can you do a pure sorceries playthrough or at that point are you really just screwing yourself by not using hexes /
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May 12, 2014 18:37
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Captain Oblivious posted:...What exactly would one replace it with in NG+++? Just straight up hexes
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May 12, 2014 18:39
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Ciaphas posted:Can you do a pure sorceries playthrough or at that point are you really just screwing yourself by not using hexes / You can but you don't get the opportunity to get a decent staff what might as well be the end of the game
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May 12, 2014 18:40
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FirstPersonShitter posted:Dear gang: which is the best of the greathammers? I have pretty much all of them, I just dunno which turns out best in the end. Its the gyrm great hammer, because its an anvil chained to a stick you see.
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May 12, 2014 18:40
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Internet Kraken posted:Man why did they have to give the Wicked Eye Shield such terrible stats. Its one of the few greatshields that doesn't look awful but its just terrible to use. Same with the Watchdragon Parma. They went through the trouble of holding a shielf design contest, then ensured that nobody would use them by making them suck. At least the rose shield has stamina regen.
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May 12, 2014 18:40
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RBA Starblade posted:You choose what to see with the Throne, or maybe it just shows you what you want. Except you forgot what you want. I'm not sure what this has to do with relinking the fires like the herald mentions though. You see what you forgot so you don't forget it. You get the one thing everyone in the game wanted, the answer to "wait, what's going on?" That's enough to make you the king.
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May 12, 2014 18:40
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Leper Residue posted:Just straight up hexes Pffffftttttt. Hexes are for nerds. Internet Kraken posted:Man why did they have to give the Wicked Eye Shield such terrible stats. Its one of the few greatshields that doesn't look awful but its just terrible to use. The Tower Shield looks awesome 
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May 12, 2014 18:44
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HellCopter posted:Same with the Watchdragon Parma. They went through the trouble of holding a shielf design contest, then ensured that nobody would use them by making them suck. At least the rose shield has stamina regen. The Rebel Greatshield is actually from the shield design contest and it's basically the best shield in the game for PVP. Plus it's part of a great piece of lore where Vendrick executed the wrong dude between Vesdalt and the dude who owned the Rebel Greatshield! On the other hand, every single other one sucks.
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May 12, 2014 18:45
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It's kind of awkward finding the good spells early in the game, too. You need to get to Carhillion before you even get the upgraded arrow spells, and the homing versions are even later. You'll need to melee at some point (with magic weapon or otherwise), but you're pretty squishy so you need to get good at dodging crap.
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May 12, 2014 18:45
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Fereydun posted:The Rebel Greatshield is actually from the shield design contest and it's basically the best shield in the game for PVP. Rebel Greatshield is one of the few other ones that is great both in terms of use and aesthetic. Is there a way to cheese the fire salamander guarding it without magic? Captain Oblivious posted:The Tower Shield looks awesome Maybe if you're a lame a blue boy it looks cool.
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May 12, 2014 18:50
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Internet Kraken posted:Rebel Greatshield is one of the few other ones that is great both in terms of use and aesthetic. Is there a way to cheese the fire salamander guarding it without magic? I just shot them with lightning arrows from a Dragonrider Bow. Hyper Crab Tank posted:It's kind of awkward finding the good spells early in the game, too. You need to get to Carhillion before you even get the upgraded arrow spells, and the homing versions are even later. You'll need to melee at some point (with magic weapon or otherwise), but you're pretty squishy so you need to get good at dodging crap. Only as squishy as you wanna be.
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May 12, 2014 18:53
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Internet Kraken posted:Rebel Greatshield is one of the few other ones that is great both in terms of use and aesthetic. Is there a way to cheese the fire salamander guarding it without magic? If you're cooking up something in Drangleic, but it just doesn't have that cheesy taste, why not try serving up some Poison Arrows? Guaranteed to slowly kill enemies from a safe distance, or your souls back!* *you will not get any souls back ever
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May 12, 2014 18:53
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All of a sudden, the game is getting stuck on the loading screen when I'm summoned for coop, it's happened three times in a row now. Has this happened to anyone else?
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May 12, 2014 18:56
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FirstPersonShitter posted:Man, using the red sign soapstone is a fool's errand. All white phantom ganksquads. Or weird situations where some dingus has summoned like 3 red phantoms and for some reason the other red phantoms are killing eachother instead of the guy. I put a red sign last night in Drangleic trying to get summoned by the Looking Glass Knight. Some guy summoned three red phantoms then immediately hopped onto the giant elevator. I had the perfect view, I spawned directly in that room, and I saw him walk on and the elevator left before I gained control of myself. I couldn't even get mad at that, it was pretty funny. I jumped into the hole as to not waste my time.
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May 12, 2014 19:01
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This has probably been asked several times before, but the thread moves faster than I can keep up with it, so my apologies: If I like maces but want something with a bit more range to it (so I don't have to be nearly hugging the enemy to hit it), what should I look out for?
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May 12, 2014 19:02
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Internet Kraken posted:Rebel Greatshield is one of the few other ones that is great both in terms of use and aesthetic. Is there a way to cheese the fire salamander guarding it without magic? I like how the dragonrider greatshield looks but I don't really know if it sucks or not.
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May 12, 2014 19:04
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Drakekeeper Greatshield also looks slash is good.
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May 12, 2014 19:06
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Which one of you goons is named Cinder and is dressed like a butterfly?
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May 12, 2014 19:06
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Ruggington posted:You can but you don't get the opportunity to get a decent staff what might as well be the end of the game It's not impossible, but you do need to game it a little. If you get your Faith up to 8 you can buy the Archdrake staff from Felkin, which is a very good midgame staff. If you don't want to waste those points you can respec afterwards using the soul vessel from the Majula mansion.
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May 12, 2014 19:16
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Is the best way to kill the gargoyles just two-handed blitz?
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May 12, 2014 19:16
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StashAugustine posted:Is the best way to kill the gargoyles just two-handed blitz? lightning works great and so does a 100% shield but blocking is kind of risky with so many around. Grab a gold pine resin or ooze or whatever and just go to town on them to keep their numbers down. Vil posted:This has probably been asked several times before, but the thread moves faster than I can keep up with it, so my apologies: Some kind of large club. If you like STR scaling the Large Club from the Lost Bastille is great, otherwise there's a Great Club in the Gutter.
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May 12, 2014 19:19
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Vil posted:This has probably been asked several times before, but the thread moves faster than I can keep up with it, so my apologies: The basic club, and... that's it, really.
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May 12, 2014 19:20
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The Demon of Song is kicking my rear end. I am the worst at video games. 
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May 12, 2014 19:29
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Ciaphas posted:The Demon of Song is kicking my rear end. I am the worst at video games. Demon of Song is a really easy boss. He has like two attacks: flop around, then flop around some more. Wait for it to open its face covering, then wait for it to start hitting the ground in front of it and after 2 (sometimes 3) attacks, move forward and hit it a few times. Sometimes it will raise straight up so dodge to the side a few times. Pretty much always dodge back and sideways away from it and everything will miss, including it's water spitting move.
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I did some low level invading in the wharf for fun. One guy I invaded had a sunbro with him. The sunbro responded to me invading by using his black crystal to bail on the host, leaving him to die  RBA Starblade posted:I like how the dragonrider greatshield looks but I don't really know if it sucks or not. Determining if a shield is worth using is pretty simple. Follow this two step process; 1.) Does it have 100% physical block? If yes, its a good shield. 2.) If no, does it have some other quality going for it like really high magic resistance? If no again, then its worthless. So it turns out most shields in this game are garbage 
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Internet Kraken posted:I did some low level invading in the wharf for fun. One guy I invaded had a sunbro with him. The sunbro responded to me invading by using his black crystal to bail on the host, leaving him to die In addition, "parrying shields" are actually worse at parrying than scimitars.
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May 12, 2014 19:32
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StashAugustine posted:Is the best way to kill the gargoyles just two-handed blitz? Unless I totally misread that fight when I did it, another gargoyle spawns when one drops below 50% health, so eliminating them one at a time and/or focusing on any that has below that point is really the key.
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Everything is garbage. Dodge dodge dodge.
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Internet Kraken posted:I did some low level invading in the wharf for fun. One guy I invaded had a sunbro with him. The sunbro responded to me invading by using his black crystal to bail on the host, leaving him to die Yeah, I just stuck with one of the 100% phys. resist kite shields on my first game, then moved to the throne defender's shield. I want to use a greatshield on my melee char in conjuction with greatswords/ultra-greatswords if I can ever figure out how to git gud with them.
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Ciaphas posted:The Demon of Song is kicking my rear end. I am the worst at video games. What build are you using? Personally, I just always try to keep close enough so that I never trigger the pounce attack, then I sneak one or two attacks while it opens the suit and finishes with the arm flails. It doesn't have a lot of health, so it works out pretty decently.
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Appoda posted:I don't know if these are in high demand, but I have a guy with a channeler's trident who doesn't need it at the very beginning of the game. I can meet up at the forest river and drop it for someone if they really want it. Is this trident still up for grabs? I'd really like it, add me on Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/SineSineSINE/
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Is Belfry Luna particularly laggy or something? I haven't had problems with random invasions but that place I can get backstabbed by people walking backwards through me.
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