Baron O Beefdip posted:

One thing that disappointed me about dark souls 2 is I feel it has less cool looking weapons than the first.

I'm gonna make a new character to play through the dlc with someone recommend me a cool looking weapon.

Vib Rib posted:

For some reason Lucatiel never appeared for me in her final place at Aldia's Keep, even though I'd met her in all other locations prior to that. I wouldn't have gotten her equipment anyway, since I hadn't summoned her for enough fights, but it was kind of an anticlimax since hers was the story I found most interesting of all the NPCs.

argondamn posted:

Huh, you should get the achievement whether you're online or not, at least that's how it works with the consoles.

Manatee Cannon posted:

With 20 VIG and a random hodgepodge of armor I could take three hits from the final boss of the DLC. With 40 and actually good armor you'd almost be an NPC summon.


Nope. The key is added to your inventory automatically. You do still have to know to check out the primal bonfire room after the Rotten, though.

Artificer posted:

Nuuvem has a 10% deal on it. Thoughts?


And what of the Faith/Miracle PvP and PvE nerf? What is the general consensus on it? Should I switch out of Faith entirely or just switch my entire spell library to support spells like heals, barriers, and then like?

Flytrap posted:

Hex actually, the Dark Greatsword. Pretty sure there's something else too but damned if I can remember it.

RBA Starblade posted:

I can't tell if "Abbess Feeva" is a NPC or not I keep seeing her and if it's a player they keep acting like one. Also, it's great that Sinh is the first dragon to realize he can just crane his neck a little to breath fire on whoever is stabbing him in the butt (ie; me).

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

I haven't started the DLC but will I be in for a poo poo time if my guy is 40 Faith and his main weapon is Lightning Defender sword?

My other weapon is a lightning Heide sword I've never had a reason to not make everything lightning.

Crazy Achmed posted:

The shaded woods are not fun. Zero visibility that doesn't improve with a torch, and fast enemies with partial invisibility that you can't lock on to. Oh well, at least it wasn't a teleporter maze.
How limited is twinkling titanite in sotfs? I just noticed that the drangleic sword has good dex scaling. Likewise for slabs and getting my rapier up to +10.

Regy Rusty posted:

That was my experience. I tried to game it as people were saying that if you kept one skeleton alive she wouldn't summon velstadt. Turns out that's not at all true.

At that moment point I gave up and summoned a player and then went on to enjoy the rest of the DLC much more than that one fight. She was a definite low point for me.

GoldenNugget posted:

welp the first major sunken dlc boss is annoying as hell on top of me just hating the area in general. Also no one plays the area so I have no summons other than the girl who punches and dies doing no damage. Hate the caster, hate the big giant dude she summons and it's just painful all around.

snoremac posted:

Unfortunately it didn't seem to effect anything. Nobody's invading these days .

New issue: I was finishing off odds and ends before tackling the DLC for the first time and consumed the giant souls literally before deciding to kill Vendrick. It looks like it would take forever to kill him at the rate I'm chipping away. The best thing I've managed is to use the notched whip to shave off 200 bleeding damage every 5 hits, but it's still very little. Is there anything else I can do that'll improve things? I'm willing to kill Ancient Dragon if it'll turn 200 bleeding damage into 400, but not if it'll only take my whip attacks from 3 to 6. Also, is it necessary to kill Vendrick for storyline reasons in the DLC? A wiki I read said yes, but it was so poorly written that I'm not sure.

Digirat posted:

It's definitely your TV, you can see very far when the blizzard clears.

Honestly you should just skip it. It's a garbage area and the one thing I have never ever bothered to replay in the whole series after slogging through it once the first time. Here is everything meaningful you will miss out on by skipping it.

-Lucatiel's hat without the mask
-A ring that makes you look human while you are a phantom
-A boss soul that makes I think 1 weapon you probably don't care about at this point

There's incredibly little there for all the trouble. And if you can't even see when the blizzard is down, it's going to be even more miserable for you.

BobTheJanitor posted:

Quality advice. In a few hundred hours of DS2, I've never run out of enemy spawns. I think you have to kill an enemy something like 15 times before it stops spawning, or thereabouts. Anyway, you really have to be trying to reach that number. Also really really don't worry about soul memory, especially on your first playthrough. The chances that it would ever get filled up enough that you somehow locked yourself out of PvP are miniscule, and even then you're probably better off making a second character later to dedicate to PvP if it's important to you.

Golden Goat posted:

I have no idea how they messed up lock on in DS3 so much. I didn't think it would be what I miss about DS2

Paperhouse posted:

Also am I a scrub for using the summons you get, like Lucatiel and Pilgrim Bellclaire? The Flexile Sentry fight was so easy with Lucatiel, and the Ruin Sentinels seemed sort of impossible without having Bellclaire there.

Vargs posted:

-2h Halberd (pick any one of them). Very reliant on hitting enemies with the sweet spot of your weapon where the blade is positioned, which gives it an interesting and fun extra dimension.

Gobblecoque posted:

It's real dumb and bad looking how when you get close to them they'll spin on a dime like a goddamn dreidel to face you.

Samopsa posted:

Yeah I'd recommend skipping all the coop areas of the dlcs (iron passage, frozen waste, cave of the dead). They're terrible and don't offer good rewards.

Orv posted:

Thematically it's neat and there's a certain sense of pleasure to be had from beating a boss that is the most basic of all Souls principles: Slow and steady, don't panic.

UnderFreddy posted:

why do you think they made that choice? One of the things I've always liked about the Souls games, is that they respect if you know what you're doing, you can straight up run through enemies and areas.

For a lot of DS2, it feels like they hate the very idea of you doing this and will have enemies chase you to the ends of the earth and attempting to do anything while they chase you is just death

Merry Deciever posted:

ah, durr, there is a bonfire right before the Fume Knight. That makes things easier

axolotl farmer posted:

Frozen outskirts isn't so bad if you do it after getting the King's Crown so you won't have to spend effigies to be human.

Bring your pals Head of Vengarl, Abbess Feeva and Manhunter O'Harrah, then watch for the first landmark when the wind dies down, and hoof it over there. If any ponies show up, your posse will fight them. Wait for the wind to die down, look for the next landmark and haul rear end again. never stop to fight a pony. Run run run.

giZm posted:

6 more deaths. 1 to gravity, 4 to Pursuer because I'm a big dumdum with a greed problem, and 1 to Ruin Sentinels because I fell down and panicked.
Freed Straid, got Dark Orb, need to level FTH now I guess to get the damage of it up?

e: more Pursuer deaths, but Sinner down
e2: Belfry Gargoyles down, because why not. Died a few times to those pesky bell guards, but worth it.

goblin week posted:

giZm posted:

Boss room is physically in the volcano behind poison mill, and Iron Keep is at the top of the volcano in the caldera. There, makes sense.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

It doesn't suck, actually.

A dense honeycomb of interesting stuff is kind of immersion breaking to me, if that makes sense.

Having stuff spaced out makes one appreciate the scale, I feel.

Vermain posted:

The general impression I've gotten from reading comments and discussions about Elden Ring is that the people who enjoyed it the most primarily enjoyed it because of the impression given by the unfathomably vast scope: it genuinely does feel like the game goes on forever with how much the map opens up, and that sense of covering a tremendous distance and poking your nose in every spare corner has a certain appeal if you have that exploration/completionist mindset. I personally enjoyed From's more linear efforts far more, as the actual content available in that expansive world feels, at the best of times, like generative AI more than it does a carefully considered and hand-crafted experience. It's a tradeoff of quality for quantity, and whether you find that appealing or not is going to depend on how much more you're grabbed by atmosphere over gameplay. I fall far more on the gameplay side of the coin, so I tend to find the game a frustrating experience of impressive highs that you have to chew through a mountain of cardboard padding to get to.

I think this may be part of the difference in reception between DS1 and DS2: the interconnected world of DS1 is great for building that sense of atmosphere, but DS2's focus on linear paths allows for a more curated escalation in challenge and greater freedom in creating stronger individual themes for each area, since there's less concern about how they logically fit together in the world.