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Hey so I'm coming in super late to the series and playing through the first one for the first time, mostly blind. Is it cool if I post questions and other DS1 stuff in here? Edit: don't worry about spoilers, I don't mind and the lore was what drew me in to begin with
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Oh, couldn't find that one for some reason. Thanks!
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Feb 27, 2018 06:15
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I'm probably gonna be done with ds2 in a week or two, anyone have recommendations for a ds3 build? My favorite so far has been my high-AGI character powerstancing a washing pole and warped sword, mainly for the speed and versatility of the moveset. I enjoyed pyromancy in ds1, too.
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Apr 17, 2019 02:52
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And Tyler Too! posted:Pyromancy in 3 is incredible and you can get two of the best spells (Black Serpent & Chaos Bed Vestiges) relatively early. The best part is drat near everything is weak to either fire, dark, poison, or toxin. Awesome. Is there anything fun, silly, or gimmicky I can do with pyro that's also versatile and viable? like, dual-wielding a greatsword + pyro or something?
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Apr 17, 2019 16:27
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 your guess is as good as mine on this one 
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Apr 25, 2019 15:36
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I believe you mean "Bearer of th seek seek lest"
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May 5, 2019 08:22
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heard u like girls posted:It probably helps people going through the games for the first time staying unspoilered about the other games i guess. Going through the soulsbornes for the first time, agree. Plus there's still enough discussions on tactics, builds, etc that i think it helps to keep them separate
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May 5, 2019 21:06
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Why the hell doesn't this game let me have a mohawk  I wanted to make myself, guess I'm gonna go with Bernie Sanders. Or maybe my wife again. e: or my daughter! lol
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May 7, 2019 16:18
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Posted this in the wrong thread: I was really feelin my oats after beating the final bosses in DS2 twice in a row. I strutted on in to Iudex Gundyr thinking "psh watch me stomp on you like a little baby" I'm now on my fourth try and properly humbled. e: guess a little humility was what it took. That, and getting used to a different rhythm of combat with my pyro.
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May 10, 2019 04:05
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I just remembered, when my left hand was empty and i pulled L2, my character did a shout thing and gained an aura, what's that about? Also with the pyro glove L2 seems to cast something like combustion, though i don't have it equipped afaik
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May 10, 2019 20:13
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Somebody was asking about fun and wacky builds, and this seems like a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX3igLxes7k
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May 14, 2019 04:51
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MeatwadIsGod posted:As much as I hate "git gud" talk, I think you shouldn't summon for any boss on your first playthrough. Facing down bosses on your own gives you more satisfaction when you beat them and reinforces the "you're on your own" element that runs through all the games. I couldn't decide whether to go totally solo or summon every time my first time through these, and eventually settled on "summon everything" because for the foreseeable future I'm only gonna have time for one play through each, so I wanna get as much NPC interaction and questlines as I can get. In the future when I come back is when I'll challenge myself to do it all solo.
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May 21, 2019 05:36
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lol just lol if you don't beat Dark Souls using only your tongue (llllllllladies  )(e: and fellas too )
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May 23, 2019 15:44
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Digirat posted:here’s a reference: my rear end What are you doing out here, get back in izalith
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May 24, 2019 19:49
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Finally got my first attempt underway for real. Meet Jacob Punchsmith, he's gonna punch Lothric into dust (using an axe for now until I can find a fist weapon) Managed to beat both Gundyr and Vordt on my first try 
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Mar 22, 2021 04:32
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I looked up fist weapons on wikidot (my only foray into the wikis until I beat the game, usually I don't look at all but I was getting frustrated at not finding any caestus on corpses or to purchase) and was confused for a bit that there was only one apiece, but then I remembered there's no powerstancing in 3  On the other hand, this lets me try a different fist weapon in each hand, so that oughta be fun. Dark Fist sounds really cool, I'm def gonna try and see if I can find the caestus and dark fist by the end of tonight's run. that demon fist looks awesome as hell edit: a couple other first impressions: * Firelink Shrine is extremely drab and nowhere near as beautiful as Majula, or even the first Firelink. Firelink in 1 had the sort of muted beauty you find in an overgrown grotto, Majula was an absolutely beautiful cliffside village and a place I would legit live. Firelink in 3 seems more like a mausoleum, and has its own kind of dark gothic beauty in the way that you would expect Edward Scissorhands to trim a hedge about, but after the first two it's kinda blah. I miss Majula, which always felt peaceful at least. * Andre is back!!  Can't believe that old sumbitch is still kickin around, not even a little bit hollow. Must've just been hammering away through the ages.
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Mar 22, 2021 15:31
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Finally got my caestus! Thanks for explaining the two-handing moveset, that helped a lot. Not sure how I feel about having a weapon art instead of my useless-but-looks-so-good three-hit lariat. These weapons seem to want you to be a lot more aggressive than in DS2. In DS2 I'd basically wait, hit em with a one-two, then dodge or wait for another opening. In DS3, as long as I'm staggering the enemy with my hits, it's best if I just mash L1/LB and absolutely wail on them. I like it so far. Some enemies I just sprint past for now because fists just don't seem to be an option for them yet, or I'm not gud enough. Definitely looking forward to trying the other fist weapons out there! Also met Siegward tonight and punched a fire demon to death
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Mar 23, 2021 06:48
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DS2 is very good
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Mar 23, 2021 15:41
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yeah if I had any criticism of DS2 it's that on my second time through I definitely noticed how many stone hallways there were. Some absolutely gorgeous places and even gorgeous stonework areas but man that was a LOT of stonework as far as the eye could see. I'm only a little ways in to 3 so far (just beat the curse-rotted greatwood last night) but already I'm seriously impressed by the environments. Especially how absolutely massive they seem to be! I was also kind of worried about linearity, because I saw an abstracted map showing which major areas link to others, but actually getting in the game it seems like a non-issue. The individual areas are big enough with enough loopbacks and shortcuts you can open that it feels more like a return to DS1's design philosophy after 2's obvious hub-and-spoke setup. e: oh no I burned a bone shard at firelink shrine, thinking it would reinforce my estus like the bone dust in 2, but now the bonfire level is 2. Did I just burn a DS2 bonfire ascetic equivalent? lmao Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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Mar 23, 2021 22:32
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Oh phew! Lol bones hard
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Mar 24, 2021 03:16
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Hey nice, I found some brigand armor. This should do for now until I find fashion that more befits a punchsmith of Jacob's caliber (hopefully) It's crazy how much more active this game is than 2. I was helping people beat the greatwood and consistently getting summoned within 30 seconds of putting my sign down. And everyone seemed to really appreciate the help with how much they emoted afterward! Game good
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Mar 26, 2021 00:51
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I just put my sign down for Vordt, then someone summoned me, pointed up the stairs, and ran up them. And that's how I got a future boss fight spoiled lol not a big deal I just had no idea
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Mar 26, 2021 04:02
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Logan 5 posted:Hah, what SL were you? DS3 is pretty linear comparatively, but that boss is actually one of the few sequence breaks you can do, you can fight them as soon as you get to that room. I'm in my late 20s or so I think, somewhere between 25-30. I haven't been paying close attention haha That reminds me, what's matchmaking like in 3? I think DS1 was entirely soul level, DS2 had that soul memory garbage, then DS remastered included your max weapon upgrade tier. Is 3 back to just soul level?
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Mar 26, 2021 22:34
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Yoel gave me a few free levels and died, and now Jacob's more handsome than ever e: Oh and some lady took his place, thanked me for killing Yoel, and seems real eager to help me now that I'm a Hollow. I'm so intrigued by the hollowing mechanic, because it was the default thing to happen when you died in 1 and 2, but in 3 it seems I'm a special undead that doesn't go hollow when I die normally, so Yoel had to do something to me to hollow me? So now I can go hollow and whatever the other state is called. I have a feeling I'm gonna be looking up a lot of lore after I beat this game Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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Mar 27, 2021 20:45
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Simply Simon posted:Check your key items  codo27 posted:Reminding me of my old character Mr. Skeltal  Saul Kain posted:That lady sells the dark hand btw. Logan 5 posted:Oh yeah, they were probably making a twink and wanted a meat puppet to draw aggro. Either that or just the hilarity of summoning low level people that don't know about that boss. I went back and explored through the earlier areas for things I'd forgotten or missed, and I just wanna say Greirat is cool as hell also, jesus loving christ Siegward, you clown e: almost forgot I took this lol 
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Mar 28, 2021 06:24
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Logan 5 posted:Dark Hand tips Moola posted:whenever I see this message I remember this video oh man so someone in the stream chat the other day was giving me some tips and he was like "if you befriended the giant archer, he'll kill this crab for you if you stand by the white tree" and I stopped playing for a minute because I was like gently caress, gently caress, you can befriend him?? I started punching the poo poo out of his ankles the second I saw him I also accidentally killed some dude who dropped Chameleon, who was apparently needed for the dark ending I was hoping for  and I did it because of a soapstone message that said "attack here"  e: heh 
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Mar 31, 2021 00:39
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I have no idea how to help, Cleretic, sorry! Hopefully someone else does, or at least knows where to point you for help with your issue. That sucks Man I'm still salty about accidentally killing that dude in the church of yorshka because of that stupid "attack!" soapstone message. I figured I'd get over it because it's dark souls and it's my first time but man. That sucks.
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Apr 2, 2021 17:24
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 this is my favorite mimic warning ever 
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Apr 3, 2021 07:34
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Decided to roll a couple new characters to play around with in the early game while I continue advancing my punchman. I made a pyro, who I plan to probably do strength/pyro stuff with, probably quality weapons but I haven't decided for sure. The other one is an assassin so I can play with dex weapons and sorceries. Any suggestions for either? The assassin is my very first caster in this game too, not counting the few hours I played with pyromancies in 1, so general tips on caster builds would be helpful. e.g. is 40 still the softcap for most stats? I'm guessing I wanna focus on raising dex/int to 40, as well as my attunement. e: my assassin already has the uchigatana. First thing I did when I got to Firelink was parry the poo poo out of the sword master and take his stuff. But looking at the upgrade chart it only gets up to C scaling in dex at +10, so I'll probably upgrade this for now, at least to +3, but I'm guessing I'll wanna switch weapons once I start getting more large shards and up Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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Apr 4, 2021 19:28
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oooh how does this Crystal Sage's rapier stack up as far as weapons for my assassin sorceror? Should I get that with the Crystal Sage soul or Crystal Hail?
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Apr 6, 2021 01:05
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Ah, boo. Guess I'll keep truckin with this uchigatana +2 e: the irithyll straight sword looks nice too. Is it also a noob trap? Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Apr 6, 2021 01:11
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Thanks! thanks to DS1's drake sword I'm always suspicious of new weapons now especially if they seem like they're high damage at first
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Apr 6, 2021 02:28
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VG has moved on to DS3 https://clips.twitch.tv/AdventurousShyNostrilFreakinStinkin-Q0GP-8B3FkJ4vn2H
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Apr 9, 2021 20:01
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hahaha holy poo poo pontiff sulyvahn sucks HARD if you're committed to punches only. Caestus and demon fist have a hard time reaching/hitting him even when I'm hugging his nuts, so I'm using the manikin claws which do about 113 per hit. I've gotten him down to half. Tomorrow I'm gonna see if I can parry him using my caestus-demon fist setup.
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Apr 11, 2021 06:39
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Last Celebration posted:Goddamn, Patches’ reaction to you falling for his trap if you already killed the giants (surprisingly not that hard tbh, to the point that the souls gained feels like overkill) is great. Got a hearty laugh out of me, at least. Have you no shame?? I managed to beat the poo poo out of Sulyvahn with the caestus parry tactic! I wasn't sure about it until I saw how much damage my demon fist riposte did--about 1/4-/5 or so of the health bar. I was able to parry his leap attack pretty consistently, and learned to parry his other attacks enough that he became 100x easier to read and fight. Now I'm dealing with loving Anor Londo archers again I love how active the sunlight covenant is in this one, I've been getting summoned nonstop for Sulyvahn on my pyromancer. I kept seeing this phantom named HmmmmmmGreg while sunbroing, and then after fighting with him as a phantom a few times, he summoned me to his world to help him beat Sulyvahn for himself 
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Apr 12, 2021 05:57
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I liked how easy the swamp was for my pyromancer. It rewarded the hell out of my immersion~* to see everything in the swamplands absolutely melting from my pyromancies Also discovering Anor Londo was kind of a trip lol. I was like "oh that building in the distance resembles Anor Londo's architecture, neat callback" and then after beating the Pontiff, "lol archers on the building, yeah this is very Anor Londo" to "oh poo poo this is the antechamber to Gwyndolin's old spot, but no bonfire, this is literally anor londo wtf"
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Apr 12, 2021 17:34
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Siegward Also I've hosed up and gotten Greirat killed twice now in Irithyll. DS3 is just gonna kill all my friends huh
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Apr 13, 2021 03:54
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I thought the pontiff knight curved sword looked good for my dex/int assassin guy, so I put all my twinkling into it and made it +3, and it's a little faster than my +6 uchigatana but the uchi still puts out more damage. Any opinions? I've also got this shotel and great scythe that both look tempting.
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Apr 16, 2021 00:23
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I found Aldrich, and I was intimidated at first because I'd heard a lot of people talking about how hard he was, but I managed to beat him on the first try by just punching the poo poo out of his grub rear end. Then the dancer handed me my rear end repeatedly until I finally managed to punch her taint into submission too. Took 2 tries to beat Oceiros, then I strolled all cocky n poo poo into Champion Gundyr who is now ruthlessly and repeatedly owning me lol Didn't know the tutorial boss had this in him. That loving kick gets me literally every time
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morallyobjected posted:PSA: don't go rolling into fake walls Lmao
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