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IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
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IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
This will be fun, since I'm doing a magic build for my own run. I wonder what Geop is gonna settle on?

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
My brain is going crazy trying to tell Geop to explore Majula more for a decent weapon.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
I understand that folks dislike DS2, but I really enjoy it because... I dunno, it has this feel to it that isn't in the first DS.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

Suspicious Dish posted:

This is the only Dark Souls enemy that has legitimately frightened me.



That's just plain rude.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

Harrow posted:

Try parrying

tongue but hole

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

Garrand posted:

There are some linked enemies but I don't know how prevalent it was.

I've been playing through SotFS, and I've hardly encountered linked enemies.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

SynthOrange posted:

Huh, did the timing on the boulder get adjusted to not flatten a player for Scholars, or was it just geop's cautious exploration saving him?

I think it was Geop's caution.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

No spoiler tags, friend. Unless you want to get the thread locked yet again.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Hey Geop, do you want me to leave you a summoning sign to help you through this area? I'm... I'm worried about you, buddy. :(

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Oh my gosh the very end of that video.

Goonther is back, baby!

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
try horse but hole

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

InequalityGodzilla posted:

Aaarrrggh as soon as he went to the armorer i was quietly dreading that he would find the falconers helm. Hate the look of that drat thing. But alas, now Goonther is dandy with a feather in his cap.

Yankee Goonther went to town
Full of fear and loathing
Bought a feather in a cap
Kuvo said 'try jumping'

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Geop when are you gonna let us invade/jolly co-op with you

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Great Job!

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
:goonsay: So the problem with weapon durability is

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Dammit, I must have blown like 10 Cracked Red Eye Orbs trying to find Geop. No such luck.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
If this thread gets locked again, I just want to let you all know that I hate you dumb nerds for ruining everything.

But for now, everything is just hunky-dory! :)

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
This area is a lot better in the Scholar version. Geop'll do fine.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Lightning was severely nerfed in DS2, so it's not nearly as attractive as it once was.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
I'm trying to come up with a Truffle Shuffle joke but I'm coming up empty.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
GEOP STOP PLAYING DARK SOULS 2 WRONG


No for reals though, attacking Gavlan made me curl up in my chair in anguish.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Kuvo make Geop be Human all the time so we have a better chance of invading laying down summoning signs to help him out.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

inthesto posted:

While pyromancy does scale on intelligence and faith, they're generally perfectly usable without any investment in those stats. Pyromancy base damage is insane, is what I'm saying.

From what I understand, the scaling bonus is flimsy if not practically non-existant. Geop can throw powerful fireballs all day every day if he pumps up his flame.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Fish Noise does it again. :neckbeard:

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

Slaan posted:

Welp, that was new. And a dick move. And great.

I don't remember the mummy jailer guys having pyromancy before. I never saw them use it in vanilla DS2. Did they add it in Scholar?

No, they always had it. Additionally, they can drop a certain pyromancy but it's a pretty rare drop.

*E* Hahahaha, Geop finds the Pursuer again!

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

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vdate posted:

DS1's iconic armour also had the advantage of being available, just lying around, fairly early on. I don't have the foggiest idea where Dark Souls 2's iconic armour is. I will agree that the fur collar looks pretty great on the cover, though.

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IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Sorry for being dumb. :(

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

Paracelsus posted:

Shields aren't high-stability magic wands that make all your problems go away anymore, but they'll still make sure that the next hit doesn't utterly obliterate you if you try and roll too late, and that's often all they need to be.

Except for Greatshields. They make all my problems go away. Even the financial ones!

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

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Slaan posted:

And PC keyboard/mouse controls weren't good enough to react fast enough.

I highly recommend that all Dark Souls games be played with a controller, regardless of the platform.

But yeah, the bonfire that's placed right after Majula/before the Shaded Woods was a little baffling to me. I guess they wanted to show some mercy after running the gauntlet of Infected Hollows?

Also I am super excited for the next session. :dance:

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
So uh hey how about them cornhuskers?

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
I broke my Trident from dancing too much. :v:

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

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Tylana posted:

Also remember that "No bonfire" runs are a thing. So there needs to be ways back other than teleporting. IIRC anyway.

How does that even work? Every time you die, you get sent back to Things Betwixt?

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

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Beamed posted:

I really never understood this - to me, Capra Demon was a pretty trivial boss, if you take out the dogs first.

True, but he was the first gank boss of the game, which catches a lot of people unawares.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Kinda surprised Goonther didn't break out the Pyromancy right from the get-go against that Forlorn.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Geop should drop an item for the Red Phantom to pick up and then backstab him. :v:

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
I mostly dropped those effigies 'cause there are some cool NPC small soapstone summons around.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

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You rank up in Way of the Blue when you defeat an Invading Phantom. Way of Blue awards you for defeating invaders.

Also, I don't think Geop noticed, but I was frantically tossing Alluring Skulls around during the boss fight so he wouldn't get ganked by skeletons.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

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Geop posted:

Just so folks are aware (and folks jump to the final page here), the LP is just on a brief hiatus because there *is* no backlog :staredog: Scheduling issues abound! Asura's Wrath is the side-project since it's short-ish (and we have a different sent of schedules to juggle there).

Also, Yokaiy posted this on twitter and it's gorgeous :3:

https://twitter.com/yoYokaiy/status/772931513885323264

Awesome. :kimchi:

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IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:
Hooray, he found the improved ring! :woop:

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