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Bonfire Ascetics are one of my favorite things in the game. I farmed up I don't even know how many Soul Vessels and crafting materials by using them In any case, the best (read: most fun) weapons in the game are in the DLCs, and I hope Geop manages to find/show them off at some point. Though I don't think he'll do the DLCs until they all become available. They're... kinda difficult.
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The drumstick is the best weapon, especially with the heavy two handed attack. See also: BenRGamer posted:They're... kinda Parts Kit fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 4, 2017 |
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gently caress the dlcs. I have all three, but the one I tried I got to a certain point and just gave up because it felt like such a slog. Didn't even bother with the other two. Bonfire ascetics were the best for cheesing your way to becoming a super punch man.
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BenRGamer posted:In any case, the best (read: most fun) weapons in the game are in the DLCs, and I hope Geop manages to find/show them off at some point. Though I don't think he'll do the DLCs until they all become available. While those DLC weapons maybe all fun (and very anime), i would not consider them ease-of-use. The mace (and the other stuff from Leningrast) are kind of the "gold standard", if you want to feel safe and being effective (=boring). Drat. Now geop will never let go of his mighty mace.
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OutofSight posted:Drat. Now geop will never let go of his mighty mace. you take that sentiment back right now geop went and +9:ed some Claws in DS1 on a whim and proceeded to learn us all how even a garbage joke weapon of ninjas sold by a japanese cold steel hoarder can be good, fun and useful
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OutofSight posted:While those DLC weapons maybe all fun (and very anime), i would not consider them ease-of-use. The mace (and the other stuff from Leningrast) are kind of the "gold standard", if you want to feel safe and being effective (=boring). Eh, I think they're fun even if they're not as easy to use out of the box. DS2 was the first game where I've been able to say I jumpkicked a skeleton horse. Not sure if that would count as a spoiler or not, I don't even name anything that we haven't already seen, I think, but I tagged it just in case.
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All this time and still relevant!SilverhawkPX45 posted:Did someone say "Rouge Leggins"?!
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I just noticed the LP is back!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp28JPs25ek
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A WYRVEN? The "Wyrven" is really punishing Geop for being so overcautious and hanging back. I think Geop would NEVER have figured that coffin out if Kuvo didn't make him do what he does at the end.
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aaaaand THAT's the second most hilarious thing DS2 has given us!
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Oh god dammit, the bell's back again.
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Midnight Voyager posted:I think Geop would NEVER have figured that coffin out if Kuvo didn't make him do what he does at the end. Or at least until he died and had a female death shriek.
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RareAcumen posted:Oh god dammit, the bell's back again. Praise be upon The Bell, for The Bell is Love, The Bell is Life.
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I think the logic behind the wyrven's placement is that the Dargonrider parked it there.
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May 5, 2017 08:18
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There should really be a no parking sign there.
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geop iirc you can drop multiple items for the crows without leaving the inventory. open inventory ->leave one ->leave one->leave one ->leave one->leave one ->leave one->exit inventory.
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double nine posted:geop iirc you can drop multiple items for the crows without leaving the inventory. open inventory ->leave one ->leave one->leave one ->leave one->leave one ->leave one->exit inventory. even that way it's a tedious process, they should've let you exchange everything smooth & silky at the same time... I haven't played ds3 yet so I don't know if it's still a thing.
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necroid posted:even that way it's a tedious process, they should've let you exchange everything smooth & silky at the same time... I haven't played ds3 yet so I don't know if it's still a thing. DS3 has fixed lists and you can only trade each item once.
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Wait, no, I got it. Were-Vin!
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Too bad these games have never figured out how to let you change names, despite opening (and arbitrarily closing) other things you can do to your character as the series progressed. By the way... The Dark Souls 2 DLCs are good.
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Pet peeve tangentially related to that coffin, I designed my character around Rikimaru from Tenchu as a joke because they're both From Software games, but the mask I wanted to use has a hood specifically only for the male model, it's perfect as a Rikimaru mask if you're a lady 
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Mazed posted:By the way... I'll probably enjoy them more in retrospect, because the sheer difficulty wall burned me out so hard I can't fathom going back yet.
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magikid posted:I'll probably enjoy them more in retrospect, because the sheer difficulty wall burned me out so hard I can't fathom going back yet. Don't ever try to play DS3's DLCs, because good lord have I got a case study for you on difficulty walls.
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I tried doing the first DS3 DLC at maybe halfway through the main game. Boy was that a rush.  magikid posted:I'll probably enjoy them more in retrospect, because the sheer difficulty wall burned me out so hard I can't fathom going back yet. Just don't do the one type of side area that each one has. Or do, with an army of summons, because they deserve nothing less.
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KieranWalker posted:Don't ever try to play DS3's DLCs, because good lord have I got a case study for you on difficulty walls. They're much easier than DS2's DLCs, though?
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Sum Gai posted:They're much easier than DS2's DLCs, though? From multiple playthroughs with different characters on DS2's DLC, honestly, they seem geared towards different builds, if you don't have the right build for the right DLC, you'll probably have a bad time. If you do? Well, you won't have a cakewalk because it's still  but it won't be bashing your head against the wall, either.
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BenRGamer posted:From multiple playthroughs with different characters on DS2's DLC, honestly, they seem geared towards different builds, if you don't have the right build fo.r the right DLC, you'll probably have a bad time. If you do? Well, you won't have a cakewalk because it's still I don't know, I was able to manage through all three DLCs with a dual-wield caestus run, and I don't consider myself especially good at Dark Souls in general. Though I'll admit, dual caestus is really powerful in DS2.
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There are quite a few ways to handle everything in the DLCs. The only real restriction is in being able to deal good damage, but unless you're clearing each DLC at the first possible moment you'll probably be fine. And even if you do that, you can still grab a +10 weapon with relative ease and effort. But speaking of the caestus and other sorts of punchyfist runs, I recently completed my second. Now that I had a handle on how short the range of weapons was, I was better equipped to mitigate that and punch the living daylights out of everything. 
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NGDBSS posted:But speaking of the caestus and other sorts of punchyfist runs, I recently completed my second. Now that I had a handle on how short the range of weapons was, I was better equipped to mitigate that and punch the living daylights out of everything. It's a delightful way to play once you get used to it. It's the closest you can get to playing as a martial artist in a game like this, and if you don't bother with armor you can get really good at dodging and punishing with fast attacks. With that said, it lends itself best to 1v1, so certain enemy groups and bosses can be quite troublesome.
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funktopus posted:I don't know, I was able to manage through all three DLCs with a dual-wield caestus run, and I don't consider myself especially good at Dark Souls in general. Though I'll admit, dual caestus is really powerful in DS2.
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Once you get over the short range, the Cestus is just as good as the mace is. They even nerfed the Cestus at one point!
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Playing as a punchomancer is just good, clean fun.
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funktopus posted:I don't know, I was able to manage through all three DLCs with a dual-wield caestus run, and I don't consider myself especially good at Dark Souls in general. Though I'll admit, dual caestus is really powerful in DS2. Oh, yeah, its still perfectly do-able, but that doesn't mean they're not easier with certain builds. Loved my fist weapon run, though. Punchmans is the best mans.
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I'd say my favorite run was indeed as Broseph Brostar: Praiser of the Sun, Slinger of Lightning, and Puncher of Mans. That powerstance was a treat and felt better to me than my attempts to play Professor Pugilist in Bloodborne. What were people's preferred spell class? I felt Faith and Dark to be my jam.
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Dark Souls 2 has fantastically fun pyromanices, it's a shame they got nerfed.
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Sternieliscious posted:I'd say my favorite run was indeed as Broseph Brostar: Praiser of the Sun, Slinger of Lightning, and Puncher of Mans. That powerstance was a treat and felt better to me than my attempts to play Professor Pugilist in Bloodborne. I'd always loved to have faith to have some backup healing in case I gently caress up hard.
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anilEhilated posted:Dark Souls 2 has fantastically fun pyromanices, it's a shame they got nerfed.  I don't recall any Souls game really nerfing pyromancies, except maybe DS3? There are only a few major differences between DS1 and DS2 pyromancies, and all effectively serve to "smooth" your character progression in DS2 rather than have it be rather modal as in DS1. The first is that you start out with fewer casts in the latter but can end up getting strictly more with sufficient Attunement. (There's also equipment for increasing casts.) The second is that you can't just boost your Pyromancy Flame with sufficient souls, but instead have to use Fire Seeds in return for requiring fewer souls overall. (But you eventually get access to about 20 across an entire playthrough, and you only need 10 to fully upgrade the Flame.) And the last is that Pyromancy Flames get scaling with your fire bonus, accounting for around half the potential spell bonus, so you can't just dump your casting stats like you could in DS1. (But you don't need much investment, relatively speaking, to hit the soft caps for fire in the first place.)
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