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hampig posted:I seem to be the only person who likes the Profaned Greatsword but I have no idea why. It has very respectable AR, the R2 thrust is loving brutal with Leo ring, and the weapon art is strictly better than the Zweihander because it's ON FIRE. I guess UGSs in general are not top tier at the moment, but it's far from useless. Ring of Favor does not have any drawbacks, however, whereas with the chain you pretty much need the ring of steel protection equipped.
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Genocyber posted:Ring of Favor does not have any drawbacks, however, whereas with the chain you pretty much need the ring of steel protection equipped. I edited at the same you posted, but I think this depends more on whether you're talking PvP or PvE. You can easily get away without it in PvE. As an aside, I do like the design of the Prisoner's Chain and the Carthus Blood Ring. They might as well be called the Tank Clutch Ring and the
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Genocyber posted:Ring of Favor does not have any drawbacks, however, whereas with the chain you pretty much need the ring of steel protection equipped. According to testing, the ring of steel protection doesn't actually do anything in PvP. Instead of giving 10% damage absorption it gets lowered to something closer to 2% against other players.
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Vermain posted:Prisoner's Chain honestly doesn't look great to me. You can get more-or-less the same effect with Ring of Favor. It's good on low level twinks, but you're better served with other rings. You can wear both though e: Genocyber posted:Ring of Favor does not have any drawbacks, however, whereas with the chain you pretty much need the ring of steel protection equipped. 700 AR attack with 150 defense and 25 percent absorption = 413 damage taken. With 15 absorption 468. That doesn't matter. It's a 10% penalty in a game where you take 3-6 hits. Probably the numbers are wonkier than that because they always are but still it's not that much of a difference and it's partially made up by the vit anyway. Tokyo Sex Whale fucked around with this message at 00:24 on May 18, 2016 |
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Vermain posted:It can be reinforced as a Titanite Scale weapon. The AR isn't awful for a quality build (516 AR at 40/40), although you could probably do better with something else. "Not awful" is a bit much, It's very close to the highest damage greatsword and is the most damaging greatsword with a standing thrust attack, though it is true that the claymore is close behind with an almost identical moveset and buffable so it's not that big of a real. Related, why do the GS have such loving bad running attacks. I feel like the UGS are faster. Internet Kraken posted:According to testing, the ring of steel protection doesn't actually do anything in PvP. Instead of giving 10% damage absorption it gets lowered to something closer to 2% against other players. Luckily I was expecting this as it did the same in DS2 IIRC.
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Digirat posted:Salt and sanctuary is good GulagDolls posted:its bad
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Let's say that with the matchmaking data out, you'd really like to make a new character to keep at a certain level for a while, so that you can bluebro a bunch for rewards, and help out at the first few bosses for hosts that hopefully have the right covenant equipped. What level would you stick that character at for the best possible bluebroing? Weapon level +2/10 naturally
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I found being around level 25-30 with +2 weapons gave me the highest summons to both the watchdogs and blue sentinels.
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Desperate Character posted:I found being around level 25-30 with +2 weapons gave me the highest summons to both the watchdogs and blue sentinels. I agree with this. Maybe 35 with +3 is okay for blues though too, I got a lot there.
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MrLonghair posted:Let's say that with the matchmaking data out, you'd really like to make a new character to keep at a certain level for a while, so that you can bluebro a bunch for rewards, and help out at the first few bosses for hosts that hopefully have the right covenant equipped. I stalled at L32 or so between Cathedral of the Deep & the Abyss Watchers and it got me an insane amount of summons for both watchdogs and sentinels across those areas. 20% or so were [getting summoned][target destroyed] instantly. Annoyed at the lack of a reward, but hey it's free health right?
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Desperate Character posted:I found being around level 25-30 with +2 weapons gave me the highest summons to both the watchdogs and blue sentinels. Yeah I've noticed that bracket is starting to fill up with NG+ twinks as well, presumably because it's active. Twinks find a way, I guess.
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I spent an hour farming Evangelists for a Spiked Mace. I finally got one and quit farming. I've killed the 6-7 remaining Evangelists in Undead Settlement. I now have 3 Spiked Maces.
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Kild posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4jqpnb/you_did_it_guys_from_suddenly_posted_the/ I am shocked they did this, this rules. Invaders only get -10% towards their level minimum (no -10 levels), weapon reinforcement matchmaking is only +/- 2 until +5 or above, covenant invaders are -20, -20% min and +10% max, which I didn't expect but is great to know. And apparently, if you use a matchmaking password reinforcement and SL are just straight up completely ignored. also mound makers get a +5% max for invasions lol
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i have successfully invaded like 5 times after the last patch
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May 18, 2016 01:20
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Can you turn the ballista back on? I forgot to let it break the stuff in the smoldering lake
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Lemonpieman posted:I am shocked they did this, this rules. Its hilarious how stacked against reds the invasions in this game are. GulagDolls posted:i have successfully invaded like 5 times after the last patch I haven't had any trouble invading. Mental Midget posted:Can you turn the ballista back on? I forgot to let it break the stuff in the smoldering lake Yes but there's nothing there worth getting.
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Mental Midget posted:I was reading one of the rings is behind a destructible wall? I'm trying to collect all the rings in NG Yup. Forget which ring (I think it might be Speckled Stoneplate?).
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Vermain posted:Even though Sorcery eventually does start doing excellent damage by NG+, the game is more-or-less over (and there's nothing new to see in NG+), and there's not so much "Sorcery builds" as "one Sorcery build." Doing anything other than wearing all three Magic damage rings + the Sage's Ring, the Oolacile Kid's Crown, and offhanding the Scholar's Candlestick is strictly suboptimal. About the only choice you have is whether you want higher burst with Sage's or more consistent damage with Court Sorcerer's. It's just dull how there's no room for creativity with Sorcery builds, and it's something that simply hasn't improved since the original days of DS1 (and, with the Candlestick's addition, has arguably gotten worse). Make sorcery great again!
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SciFiDownBeat posted:the weird thing about dark souls 3 is that newcomers who didn't play the other installments wouldn't have any context for the flames and whatever. ds1 explicitly outlines that everything revolves around a magical flame but ds3 just kind of assumes you have the context of dying fires and undead curses In all fairness hey have no obligation to spell it all out for people again, especially at the third and final iteration.
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GulagDolls posted:its bad I got the remastered valkyra chronicles. It's like XCOM meets anime and I don't know if I'll like it.
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lite_sleepr posted:I got the remastered valkyra chronicles. It's like XCOM meets anime and I don't know if I'll like it. It's an excellent game. It's a much more character driven storyline than xcom.
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flowinprose posted:It's an excellent game. It's a much more character driven storyline than xcom. I'm realizing this. I get that it's a JRPG and 'lol a million cut scenes' but drat. I have to click through 4 ~5 minute cut scenes to get some story, then I get a mission. A mission for every 4 or 5 5 minute cut scenes. Is there perma death like in XCOM or do they simply 'retreat' when killed?
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flowinprose posted:It's an excellent game. It's a much more character driven storyline than xcom. Yeah but its an anime story soooooo EDIT: Oh wait I'm thinking of the sequel the turned up the anime to ridiculous amounts Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 01:52 on May 18, 2016 |
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Internet Kraken posted:Yeah but its an anime story soooooo so its good
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Valkyria Chronicles, 2008 or 2016, is godlike. Maybe I don't need that bottle of Minttu and eating out this weekend.. e: Permadeath if a fallen character gets reached by an enemy trooper only, the feeling when it happens the first time is devastating Viperix posted:I spent an hour farming Evangelists for a Spiked Mace. I finally got one and quit farming. I've killed the 6-7 remaining Evangelists in Undead Settlement. I now have 3 Spiked Maces. I wanted to try out the Pikes, you know. The log carrying dudes in the road of sacrifices drop those. Put on some 300+ of equipment and coin cracking. 30 minutes later I finally get one, so I go and complete the route of them to finish the fight, and I get two more. Random doesn't feel random in DS3. Spiked Mace is an unparryable beauty of a playersmasher, a hoot in the lower tiers when forestbroing, but I wonder how it performs in higher tiers?
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lite_sleepr posted:I'm realizing this. I get that it's a JRPG and 'lol a million cut scenes' but drat. I have to click through 4 ~5 minute cut scenes to get some story, then I get a mission. A mission for every 4 or 5 5 minute cut scenes. The side characters can definitely permanently die. The main characters can't die, because if they did you would lose the mission anyway.
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flowinprose posted:The side characters can definitely permanently die. The main characters can't die, because if they did you would lose the mission anyway. Oh no I can't deal with loss 
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You just play it like Fire Emblem where anytime someone dies you reset.
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Viperix posted:I spent an hour farming Evangelists for a Spiked Mace. I finally got one and quit farming. I've killed the 6-7 remaining Evangelists in Undead Settlement. I now have 3 Spiked Maces. The RNG knows what you want.
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Hey! I also spent an hour farming for a spiked mace the other day. I got 3 Great Wooden Hammers and 2 full sets of Evangelist stuff before I finally got the mace.
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MrLonghair posted:Spiked Mace is an unparryable beauty of a playersmasher, a hoot in the lower tiers when forestbroing, but I wonder how it performs in higher tiers? It's more or less a one-shot with Carthus Rouge, full Luck, and R1 -> L2 -> R2. At the very least, you're going to send them into the single digits.
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I hardly get any bites on my Farron covenant. I think I may have levelled out of it? It only works on people in the woods who havent beaten the Abyss Watchers right?
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I proceeded with my pure Faith Lightning build I was asking about yesterday, it's actually really fun. I've got something like 24 ATN/60 Faith/19 Dexterity. My Sunlight Spears hit for about 1k with Sage's Ring/Ring of the Firstborn Sun/Lightning Clutch. I need to get Morne's ring but I sold it or something so it'll wait for NG+. My biggest issue is just FP. I can use exactly 3 Sunlight Spears, or about 5 Lightning Stake's. I'm rocking the Painted Guardian's Set, mostly for PvP because Fashion Souls, also because when you have a shield equipped (but not out) it's hidden on your back. My whole PvP gimmick has been element of surprise based. I throw a few Sunlight Spears, if I get a hit I can go in hard and maybe finish them off. If not I can usually bait them into mistaking my Lightning Stake for a Sunlight Spear and get the kill that way. I've been using the Grass Crest (or whatever shield that gives you small stamina regen boost) because the bonus applied even while it's on your back, so it's better than no stamina boost at all. I've been using Yorshka's Chime, which at +9 seems to have the best raw scaling for Faith in the game, but i'll grab Sunlight Talisman on NG+ because I apparently sold that too. I have the Painted Guardian's Sword with Lightning infusion because Fashion Souls. it's really, really short, like insanely short. However, it basically has a dagger moveset with the damage slightly less than my Astora Straight Sword. The R2 is also a weird jumping/spinning slash which can catch people off guard. I should probably get something better, but I'm really just kind of loving around. There's a lot of weird weapons that get S scaling with Faith, so I might pick up a reaper or something goofy just because. My big question is to what extent does Dexterity affect my casting? I would really like to do a Dragonslayer Swordspear build, but the requirements mean I'd have to pump a lot into Strength, and I'm keeping at 100SL so I don't have a lot of wiggle room. I need at least 25~ Vigor, 15 Endurance, and I really can't justify going under 60 Faith. my 19 Dexterity I have right now is just so I can use Painted Guardians sword, but I might respec and drop it back down to the base of 11 so I can get an extra 8 Faith, because even after the soft cap it seems to scale well. But I've seen people doing something like 55 Faith (With Priestess Ring to get soft cap) and 30 Dex, which would make spell casts pretty fast with Sage Ring. Anybody have suggestions for where to go from here?
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Tequila Sunrise posted:My big question is to what extent does Dexterity affect my casting? I would really like to do a Dragonslayer Swordspear build, but the requirements mean I'd have to pump a lot into Strength, and I'm keeping at 100SL so I don't have a lot of wiggle room. I need at least 25~ Vigor, 15 Endurance, and I really can't justify going under 60 Faith. my 19 Dexterity I have right now is just so I can use Painted Guardians sword, but I might respec and drop it back down to the base of 11 so I can get an extra 8 Faith, because even after the soft cap it seems to scale well. But I've seen people doing something like 55 Faith (With Priestess Ring to get soft cap) and 30 Dex, which would make spell casts pretty fast with Sage Ring. Dex improves cast speed from 11-50. Sage's ring boosts speed equivalent to 30 points of dex, and will not go beyond the cap. So if you have 20 dex and the Sage's Ring+0 then you'll have hit the cast speed cap. If you're looking to up your weapon variety I'd suggest considering going 18 str/16 dex, which will let you use quite a few weapons. Most notably the Dragonslayer's Axe and Drakeblood Greatsword. Both have innate lightning damage and can be infused. For a faith build you can make them raw to boost their physical damage, and then buff them with LB to make them quite hard hitters.
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Get hosed, Great Wyvern I was entirely out of Both kinds of estus, and had popped a last minute Ember, but I did it on the fist shot 
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argondamn posted:Hey! I also spent an hour farming for a spiked mace the other day. I got 3 Great Wooden Hammers and 2 full sets of Evangelist stuff before I finally got the mace. Getting the fire witch skirt has given me enough immolation tinders to build a new irithyll entirely out of tinders
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