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Professor Wayne posted:In my old age, I've become less excited about video games. If something amazing comes out, I will buy it a year later on Steam for cheap, get around to it whenever, and play it in 15 minute bursts over a couple of months until I finally finish it. I'm installing this game before I leave for work, then playing it all weekend. The only thing that bums me out is that I will only be able to play it for the first time once. On my first Dark Souls character, I grabbed the zweihander at the beginning and smashed my way through the game. Is there anything like that I can grab early on? If you're lucky and you pick the right starting gift, there's a chance that you can get something that's even bigger and smashier than the zwei right out of the gate!
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HenryEx posted:How do i boost my Item Discovery? I could really, really make use of that. It all comes from equipment now. For example, the hat the explorer starts with boosts item discovery.
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Apr 27, 2014 03:58
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Just had the best bellbro kill. I got summoned to Luna. The gate was still up so I went up the ladder to wait for the host. When he got to the top of the ladder he saw me and immediately slid back down. So I did a plunging attack and took off 90% of his health with my +10 Large Club. (the other 10% came from the exploding barrels right next to the ladder)
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Apr 29, 2014 07:50
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Alkydere posted:Infusion: Permanent, you go to the special blacksmith and permanently make your whatever a fire whatever. Or dark, or bleed or what have you. Also note that you can enchant infused melee weapons. When you enchant a weapon, it gives 50 base damage in the elemental category of the enchant, and also increases the weapon's elemental damage in that category by 30%. So if a weapon does 100 physical/100 lightning and you enchant it with gold pine resin, it will now do 100 physical/180 lightning. Also I'm falling in love with the large club. S strength scaling is great, but the icing on the cake is that the 2-hand strong attack flattens other players long enough for me to do the Dikembe Mutombo emote while they recover, and that's what really matters.
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Apr 29, 2014 17:08
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I was just about to make a post bitching about Shrine of Amana, but then I discovered that Havel's Greatshield, when infused with magic, has 100% magic block 
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May 5, 2014 10:24
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Holy poo poo how am I just now discovering that the ring of life protection can be repaired. This changes everything.
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May 5, 2014 20:00
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Summoning Lucatiel is actually really helpful for the Smelter Demon now.
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May 5, 2014 21:03
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Drakes posted:Its actually the black phantom after the gargoyles Except that guy doesn't show up for a few seconds, giving you a chance to clear out the dogs. The capra demon is on top of you before your brain has a chance to even process what's happening, and that's 90% of the challenge.
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May 5, 2014 21:14
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Calidus posted:Smelter is the perfect example of kill it faster so you have dodge less. Two hand and Pine Resin! Yeah, this. Smelter demon is like the Four Kings, but with only one of them.
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May 5, 2014 21:17
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Baron O Beefdip posted:I'm gonna make a Shrek lookalike and name it Emerald Herald. Dude with bright green hair and mustache named Emerald Harold.
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May 6, 2014 03:05
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RBA Starblade posted:I always thought that Solaire was a little short to be Gwyn's firstborn. It's cooler that he's just a guy really obsessed with his sun to me that he gets exactly as far as you do without any bullshit (if you save him from a bug). I always saw him as being like Herakles/Hercules.
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May 6, 2014 05:35
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Heavy Lobster posted:Okay so I see IK/fork trotted out every time but be perfectly honest, what other parts of the game don't make geometrical sense? IK was pretty egregious, and as I stated earlier I never noticed the fork discrepancy at all, but this is one of the bigger arguments against DS2 and I'm amazed that people are letting two things ruin the entire game for them. The elevator in Heide's Tower takes you down below sea level, and then when you enter No Man's Wharf you're above sea level, without having gone up by a noticeable amount. Also you can look back from Heide's and see the shrine in Majula, and it's a LOT farther away than that short little passage you took. But it's already established that the flow of time is convoluted, so why not the flow of space as well?
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May 15, 2014 06:15
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poptart_fairy posted:The Rotten is Pharros! I'm sure Pharros is in there somewhere.
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May 16, 2014 19:30
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Butt Ghost posted:Is the leveling system rebalanced in this game? I just started playing today, and I'm already level 53. Either way, what's a good weapon to invest in as a STR build? The man-snake-thing's knife was super good to me in Dark Souls 1, and I'm curious if there is another strength-scaling weapon that you can hold onto forever. I already defeated the Pursuer, and I read that his Ultra Greatsword is a powerful weapon, but I have a feeling that it'll be outclassed in the long-run by another weapon. Yes, levels are a lot cheaper in DS2. I was close to SL 150 by the time I beat the game. For a good strength weapon, the most reliable all-rounder is by far the plain ol' mace (buy it from Lenigrast), but if you want something bigger and smashier I suggest the large club (treasure in Lost Bastille).
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May 17, 2014 07:47
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I want to try a run with a character that focuses on dex and poison. What are some good items to prioritize in the early game? I guess the dagger from Mytha's soul is the earliest weapon with innate poison; is it any good? Also what bosses are immune to poison?
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May 18, 2014 21:52
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Three words: Poison Ricard's Rapier (it would be bleeding if more things were susceptible to bleed)
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May 19, 2014 07:00
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Control Volume posted:In trying to figure out what sort of helm Heide knights wore, I stumbled across this thing  Henry VIII's helmet (also if you check the credits, they list a medieval weaponry consultant)
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May 19, 2014 07:36
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Alright, here's a lore puzzle for you lore puzzlers out there: who does the Majula mansion belong to?
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May 20, 2014 06:34
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Iretep posted:The skeleton who lives there? Then who are the other skeletons in NG+ and onwards?
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May 20, 2014 06:42
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Wrist Watch posted:So I've gotten three out of the four great souls I've been told to get and finally got an ember for this smith. What's the general opinion on infusions? If I'm going for a "find the biggest weapons and smash faces with them" build with 33 str/20 dex should I bother infusing my +10 Greatsword with anything? Is it basically like how in DS1 splitting your damage was a bad idea generally because defenses applied twice? I don't think split damage is nearly as bad as it was in DS1, but at the same time elemental infusions won't increase your damage quite as much as elemental ascension did in DS1, and if you're putting most of your points in strength, infusing will most likely be a damage loss.
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May 20, 2014 21:25
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david... posted:In the world of Dark Souls anybody of non-standard height is always evil.  ???
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May 21, 2014 14:56
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I'm starting a new character as a lightning slinger. Right now I'm agonizing over which chime to upgrade. I currently have the starter chime, the archdrake chime from Felkin, and the idol's chime from Licia. At 30 faith (+1 from Licia's hood), the idol's chime gives me the most lightning damage despite its D scaling - but it also has terrible casting speed, I guess. What should I do?
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May 25, 2014 07:46
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Kaldaris posted:None of the Above. Nahxela posted:Yes, you should definitely go grab the Priest's Chime from Bastille (after Sentinels, under the Servant's bonfire, if I recall correctly) I had a feeling it was going to be this, but I loving hate fighting the sentinels 
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May 25, 2014 07:58
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Kaldaris posted:You can actually go around them, just so you know ... ! I know! But unfortunately you do need to fight the sentinels to get to the servant's quarters bonfire, which is my objective here.
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May 25, 2014 08:14
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Weapons degrading faster at 60 FPS might be one of the funniest things I've heard in a while.
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May 25, 2014 17:23
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Or you can just drop a small white summon sign, kill a few enemies for your host, and return to your world with everything at 100%.
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May 25, 2014 17:36
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I wouldn't say as often as normal summon signs, but I've never had to wait more than a minute or two. It's insanely useful, because it restores everything - spell casts, estus flasks, humanity, you name it.
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May 25, 2014 17:39
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Big smashy weapons like the large club lose durability really fast too, because they hit loving everything, but fortunately they have the durability to deal with it.
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May 25, 2014 18:22
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AndroidHub posted:Maybe a little rare, but definitely not good, not anymore. They had much better damage at release on console, but now they are just bad, and have no scaling at all. Wow, that helmet really cuts off circulation, huh?
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May 26, 2014 08:08
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Motherfucker posted:It used to be you could ascetic the black gulch bonfire and get a second from the giants there, now you can't. I had zero problems against Vendrick with only a single soul in my inventory and I'm always surprised to see people say you need 4-5 to beat him. Of course I was rocking a +10 mace with 50 strength and some weapon buffs at the time, so I don't know.
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May 26, 2014 13:23
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:So Jugo is still a desert, then. Just a desert full of Scottish people. It's not a scottish accent it's a (some obscure town in northern england) accent, god don't you know anything.
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May 26, 2014 15:31
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turtlecrunch posted:Weird Corpse Committee checking in with our Monday report: Draw me like one of your French corpses.
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May 26, 2014 16:28
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Cardboard Box posted:it took me forever to figure out why I was suddenly exploding in No Man's Wharf the first time through. For me it was "what are these vikings throwing at me? I'd better light my torch so I can s-  "
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May 26, 2014 22:03
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Regy Rusty posted:I thought people might have been exaggerating but this guy in the wheelchair seriously can't go more than 2 sentences without saying the word "dark". How does he get around in that wheelchair anyway? I don't see any handicap accessible ramps in Drangleic.
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May 27, 2014 04:12
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Being a dark diver, does that make him the opposite of a holy diver? 
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May 27, 2014 05:41
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All of you arguing about the story of DS2 are completely missing it. It's actually very simple. It's the story all about how your life gets flipped, and turned upside down, and you eventually become the monarch of a place called Drangleic.
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May 27, 2014 23:32
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scamtank posted:The spearmen are piles and piles of bullshit, though. YOU ARE SWINGING THAT SHIELD ABOVE YOUR HEAD IT DOES NOT PROTECT YOU NOW The best part is when you try to guard break them and accidentally just do a regular attack and get a face full of spear.
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Jun 4, 2014 07:51
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Control Volume posted:Even though I'm able to run through it in less than a minute, and poison is cured by an easily farmed material, my thought process running through Black Gulch is still "Oh gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress oh jesus I'm poisoned aaaaaa" I'm gonna make a mod that plays the Sonic drowning music when you get poisoned.
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Jun 5, 2014 08:11
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I hope the DLC adds a new ratbro area(s).
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Thwack! posted:I got a few questions about fire weapons. What kind of stats should I focus on when using a couple of Fire Caestus, and if I already have the Flame Weapon spell, would it be pointless to infuse fire to a weapon? Thanks! Flame weapon (and other elemental buff spells) increases the weapon's fire damage by 50 and then increases the total fire damage by 30%, so using it on a fire infused weapon can be really powerful. But like others said, infusing a caestus is a bad idea because the main advantage of the caestus is its great scaling. If you want to focus on fire damage, get a weapon that has innate fire damage, like black knight weapons, infuse it with fire, and use flame weapon.
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