Vanderdeath posted:

So does this mean the game will be playable on Thursday evening for us Americans?

Ricky Bad Posts posted:

hey gang. this thread moves pretty fast! but I just killed the final boss queen curse lady, but somehow missed the doors of pharros completely and vendrick/some other things I'm sure I passed over before heading in to NG+.

I'm kind of stuck being unable to make a decision with my stats/playstyle lol. Used dual clubs for the 4 primal fires chunk of the game, then eventually switched to the large club, now I'm swapping between the LC and 2handing one club. I don't really have any problem with how well it's working(its working great) but I'm tryna diversify.

My question is at SL 124-125, and a sikkazz 40 points sunk in to STR, what are my options for [x]bows, hexes/maybe a miracle or two? Here's how my stats look

, just recently started loving around with pyromancies, but I'm thinking I want resonant flesh/weapon. Should I maybe ditch most of the str and imbue my club/LC and sink those points in to enough FTH/INT to hit the requirements? How farmable are the spices?

tldr- help a big babby convert the strength pancaking mongol into some sort of combo build. I don't really care much about the damage dealing hexes, more interested in the buffs than anything.

aas Bandit posted:

Welp. Just got invaded while hollow by this dipshit, who was invincible and did nothing but spam corrosive urns. I just quit out and reported him, like it will do anything.

That was the first time I had seen someone obviously cheating, but I'm hollow most of the time, which has been a solid opt-out up until now.

Cleretic posted:

So, boss soul weapons. I want to make a character based around one, because they're awesome and I didn't get to use any of them in my first runthrough (pure sorceror; my equivalent DS1 character had the Moonlight Butterfly Horn as a sidearm, but since DS2 doesn't have an equivalent I went for the Enchanted Falchion).

What weapons would people suggest? I was probably going to go for a predominantly Strength-based build, but I'm not necessarily married to the idea. Are there any weapons people especially like, or think would be an interesting playstyle for someone who hasn't really experimented with anything DS2's introduced that isn't in sorcery?

nohopeindope posted:

I want to do this. How much strength is needed for that sort of build? Also, what's the best off hand ultra great sword? Been enjoying poison cestuses and lightning maces lately so this would be a nice change of pace.

nohopeindope posted:

Oh ok. I'm only at 40 str, 25 Dex, 20 vigor, and 15 vit. Got a long way to go. Time to farm iron king

Mighty Dicktron posted:

Alonne Greatbow has a bigger Dex bent (though is still basically a Quality weapon) and fires faster and uses less stamina in exchange for having less damage.
Dragonslayer Greatbow is unambiguously a Str weapon and is slower and uses more stamina, but does more damage.

Their requirements and weight and whatnot are different too, Dragonslayer requires less Dex and is much heavier. It's a build question first and then if you want to fire more or do more with one shot.

Mighty Dicktron posted:

All that means is that it's slow to fire, basically. It's like a quarter-second difference, and the difference in damage between the two is pretty intense - it's around 100 points or so.

Cephas posted:

I have a 40 Int character that focuses on meleeing with MLGS, Blue Flames, and a few melee-related sorceries like soul sword and the magic weapon spells. Are there any other weapons or spells that would help round this character out? I was thinking of leveling up the dragonrider twinblade so I'd have something beefier than blue flame to enchant. Is the dragonrider's bow worth it? My str and dex are sitting in the 20s right now.

poptart_fairy posted:

VEEEEEEEEEEEEEELSTAAAAAAAAAAAADT.

RBA Starblade posted:

Well it sure didn't take long for my low level pvp character to run out of dudes to kill in the belfries.

Vintersorg posted:

Is melee buffed now?

Avian Pneumonia posted:

ZZZorcerer posted:

After playing as a Hexer and dark orbing everything that looked funny I decided to make a str/dex melee. Any advises on things that would make my life easier ?
I'm using the mace now because of the low req and high damage but I'd like to use something different since that was the weapon my hexer used for most of my play through, any other weapon with good damage and maybe better range ?

lordfrikk posted:

I've never done a spear playthrough so I tried some long sticks on NG+ and I have to say that Pate's Spear is really good, but I don't do PVP so YMMV.

Acidian posted:

Actually, I think I might be gamer+.

Mr Dog posted:

wait, third fire? The third bonfire (The Place Unbeknownst) is an optional area that you can't access until a bit later in the game. The first fire is called The Crestfallen's Retreat and the second is called Cardinal Tower.

Mr Dog posted:

whoops, that's the one I meant. The Place Unbeknownst is not accessible until um.... WAY later.

Even so, that's a strange recommendation to make. Anybody who is having trouble getting to Cardinal Tower is going to get their poo poo utterly ruined by the enemies in the Soldier's Rest area, and the Bastard Sword is going to take some major stat investment before it becomes usable.

Tamayachi posted:

If the first sentinel falls off or gets knocked off, just wait a few seconds and he'll jump back up to the platform, unless someone else is down there and engages him for whatever reason.

Tamayachi posted:

Oh yeah, there's that part too

Nahxela posted:

Gandalf doesn't need to wear rings of life protection

Wurzag posted:

I only have 9 estus uses on my current character and it's really bugging me as although I could just look the locations up it's been so long now I can't tell which ones I've missed.

Fat_Cow posted:

So SOTFS releases tomorrow right?

Vil posted:

I have multiple words to describe DS2's gargoyles. "Fun" is not one of them.

It's not the dodging that I struggled with, so much as finding some way of damaging them effectively (for more than pathetic chip damage), which wasn't also slow and/or short-range enough to leave me open to being smacked around by the 2-3 enemies around at any given time.

I'm sure the explanation is just that I'm irredeemably bad, of course, but in case there's room for improvement, I'm open to advice. Otherwise I'll typically go with my usual solution of skipping them until much later.