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>Succumbed to scotophobia:
>>168566028

>1.10 patch notes:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/374320/announcements/detail/261608645322016043

>Ringed City DLC stuff
Announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igomOLwqsV0
Screenshots/art: https://imgur.com/a/83M79
Gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Ke647-xsU
Vaati's notes, trimmed (MAJOR SPOILERS, read with a grain of salt): http://pastebin.com/Y7MTapKN

>Character Planner
https://www.mugenmonkey.com/

>DARK SOULS 3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u8Mak1goSv4g73g16XsWV4sJelDQUatWkP2kcO6GVAA/pub

>DARK SOULS 2
http://pastebin.com/CAx8Yc8v

>DARK SOULS
http://pastebin.com/eNY3su63

>DEMON'S SOULS
http://pastebin.com/RjpF5s7a

>BLOODBORNE
http://pastebin.com/WdLBWD8n

>KING'S FIELD
http://pastebin.com/G8zw0sc3

>Community & Fanart
http://pastebin.com/vVWz9pJm
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DARK SOULS 3 IS SHIT
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>>168603218
DaS1 > DeS >= BB > DaS3 > > > > > DaS2
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nth for /our guy and gal/
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Whats next in his mater plan?
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>>168602903
>It's too slow to be fun.
We all know you hate greatweapons and therefore fun, it's okay.
>inb4 lucy utters something retarded like "i liked greatweapons in bb" despite kirk and souls greathammers having relatively same swing speed
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done and done
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This thread is now blessed by Gravelord Nito
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what do you guys do to finish DaS3 at incredible hihg speed
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why isn't there one of these for DaS3?

would it be worth making one?
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>>168603386
>mater plan
i would assume rosaria. but if you meant master plan, that would be crashing anor londo with no survivors
>>168603496
If anything it would be toxined. Blessed kills the skeleton
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Previous

>>168603256
To be fair, illusorywall is a top-tier dude, and he's trying to promote it as a cross-community event, but it's still based in tumblr and they'll comprise the majority of the audience.
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>>168603581
The game has no shortcuts, so probably just a good raw weapon or something plus pyromancy.
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>>168603458
Not a fan of Kirks, but at least it could transform into a Straight Sword when you needed something fast.
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>>168603581
Not collecting anything but important items you actually want/need and just running through the areas to the bosses gets it done pretty quick.
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>>168603656
I thought the DS2 day was a reddit thing?
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>>168603604
there was an anon doing it.
I don't have it, tho.
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>>168603635
>implying
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>>168603656
Tumblr's a blogging platform, m8. It doesn't have a single, cohesive community. Most normalfags on social media have or use tumblr to some extent and those are the same players who use reddit and use facebook and use funnyjunk and use twitter and so on. It's all the same shit.
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Is Irina of Carim for sexual?
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>tfw Gwyndolin will never let you past his fog wall to see him without turning hostile

Darkmoons are cucks
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>>168603604
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>>168603717
>he doesn't want to invade them in a game where equipment damage actually matters
At least DaS2 had it's discount scraping spear
>get warmth
>get poison-infused channelers trident
>get acid surge
>watch them suffer
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>>168603862
No, Irina is pure.
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>>168603581
Enjoy myself during it's fun gameplay. Clear every area 100% actually. I don't like rushing ds3. If you can't enjoy the game and are just doing it to create your ebin pvp build you're not going to have more fun you know. It's the journey that counts, not the destination.
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>>168603862
Only once she's become a fire keeper.
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>>168603376
How complete was the Dancer's mindbreaking and how loyal did she end up becoming to Sulyvahn?
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>>168603993
there's only so much of the first half of the game I can bear, even if the rest is quite enjoyable
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>>168603993
fuck off mom
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>>168603862
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DROP THE SHIELD YOU FAGGOT
>>168603808
it's literally called an infection by the game. blessing the thread with that is the equivalent of /v/ermin influx
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>>168604009
She was exiled and changed into a beast-like state, she's probably about as loyal as a dog.
>>168604081
>he doesn't like undead settlement and road of sacrifices
>he doesn't like fucking CotD
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>>168603990
Yuri isn't pure though
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>>168604009

She's no doubt a simple minded beast now, albeit a feminine one compared to the other Outriders.
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>>168603884
Nigger the devs fed my god to a pile of shambling sewage, then killed off my covenant.

You really think anything you can say can top THAT level of indignity?
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>>168603951
In a game where shields matter so much, I feel like sticking to the "this tier list only reflects weapons as standalone" rule is rather pointless. If you pretend a weapon's synergy with a BK shield doesn't influence its position in the tier-list, especially near the top, then your tier list woefully misrepresents the current meta.
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>>168604137
Nito is the Lord of death, decay, and all related things. Any blessing from him would be an infection by any other standards.

>he doesn't want to be blessed into a skeleton
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>>168604203
>>168604153
I was talking about prior to getting sent out as a beast though
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>>168604278
I don't think she was mind broken at all, she was just pressed into doing whatever because he's the pontiff.
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>>168604153
i would rather fuck a rusty razor than go through the unholy trifecta that is road of sacrifices, cathedral of the deep and farron swamp
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>>168604137
FUCK YOU
so, remind me. the best way to farm is to stack all items or only use the best one?
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>>168604121
This pic doesn't answer my question
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>>168603951
>Any spear
>Top-tier
Attacks are slow and telegraphed, easy to parry. Weapon Art is ridiculously easy to parry. Bad weapon tracking makes it easy to strafe.

Not saying spears are bad. Spears are pretty good, but if facing a high-skill opponent, they are not the best weapons to use.
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>>168604392
Farron swamp is the only bad area of those three, fuck your opinions.
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>>168604157
Yuri is the purest love!
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>>168604392
Seriously, they've got to be some of the most boring areas in Souls games.
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>>168604251
>>>implying I haven't already ascended
to call it a blessing is silly though
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>>168604221
Shields were stronger in DaS 2 yet that list was made without them as well
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>beat dark souls 1
>look up video for my ending since it cuts off abruptly

>literally hundreds of people talking pages in depth about all the lore in this game

>cut to me wondering where the fuck they got all this information.

WHERE THE FUCK IS ALL THIS LORE GIVEN EXACTLY?
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>>168604210
Aldrich Faithful is the one true faith. Gwyndolin is a fraud
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>>168604509
i'm sorry I have more respect for my eyes than to want to grace them with three whole areas full of endless GREY BROWN
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>>168604541
There was nothing sexual between those two sisters
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>>168604605
>he didn't read the item descriptions
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>>168604392
That's some pretty shit taste you got there.
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>>168604210
>You really think anything you can say can top THAT level of indignity?

Finding out that the god you worship turned into a dragon fucker is pretty bad. You know, as the enemy of your covenant are...dragons.
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>>168604745
Then why do they hang around eachother naked so much?
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>>168604605
E-celeb ass.
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>>168604439
Sure it does. Irina is not for sexual because Eygon will WoG you if you corrupt her.
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>>168604605
It's really popular to asspull with DaS lore since Memezaki leaves things vague or doesn't explain some things at all.
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>>168604596
Shields had terrible weapon-synergy in two and were basically nonexistent in the top-tier meta outside of pose-based estoc turtling, which was something that only really came about in the twilight of the game's life long after the tier list stopped being updated.

Meanwhile the BKshield is literally the hard counter to flame spear and washingpole and its synergy with straightswords boost their position in the meta meaningfully. By the same stroke, weapons which can beat BK shield + SS are more important in the meta as a result.

It's just like how Yhorm's is actually a piece of hot fucking trash outside of the OH gimmick with a mainheand SS. It has no business being high-tier outside of that synergy and yet there it is, in high tier.
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>>168603581
Watch some recent speed run and mimic what they do the "log-off" leap of death is really useful.


>>168603993
I rush characters to play the game at higher difficulties. Fuck pvp I'm bad at it.
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>>168604745
There is if you pretend.
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>>168604785
The ultimate irony is that his followers now kill him for tokens in order to donate to his statue to earn favor with him.

Explain that with your "theology"
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>>168604810
But what if Eygon himself is the one who's sexualizing her and she loves it?
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>Crescent Axe isn't even an axe anymore
Why do they keep screwing with this thing
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What the fucking fuck, just fought the Lothric princes and had some really BS happen to me.

I was out of estus and had 1 hit left before I would die, and so did the boss - so it basicly came down to a mexican standoff between me and the boss, as the princes had 1 hit left also.

I manage to dodge and get the last hit in first, effectively killing the boss, and starting the his death dialog, when their miracles hit me right after and killed me.
But some fucking how, it doesn't count as a win, even though I killed the boss, before they killed me.

I have fucking done the exact same thing with another boss, where it counted as a win
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>>168604605
Most of the generally agreed upon lore is based on on item description or very light extrapolation based on known facts. There's ton of informations about the setting if you read up the item descriptions, it's just tha a good part of it is incomplete or requires multiple items to pierce together.

And then you have the really out there theories, like how a subset of people think Executioner Smough is secretly one of the bosses in Dark Souls 3
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>>168604981

Dark Souls is literally suffering.
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>>168605068
Princest has a long bit of dialogue during their death animation. Kill credit is checked afterwards
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>>168604785
Firstborn's treachery happened before DaS1, so he was a dragonfucker long before you joined. Lothric's knights worshiped him (explained in their item descriptions and is also why the statue is there), and they also tamed, rode, and encouraged transformation into dragons.

The covenant is simultaneously about killing dragons and becoming them, because Firstborn has a very confused libido.
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>>168604767
I didn't unfortunately.

>>168604797
>>168604846
>>168605126

thanks. I have adhd and other memory effecting issues, so memorizing and understanding all the lore in item descriptions is basically impossible for me
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>>168604210
>snakes are imperfect dragons
>snakes symbolize undead and dark shit
>gwyndolin has snake feet
>gwyndolin is the dark sun, has a dark talisman, and channels faith for sorcery (heresy)
Good grief how deep does the rabbit hole go?
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HA GOTEM
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>>168605126
>like how a subset of people think Executioner Smough is secretly one of the bosses in Dark Souls 3

Aldrich?

Perhaps he ate his body [with armor] after the CU killed him back in 1.

Smough just made use of executed criminals by eating them.

The big thing with Smough is whether he's a giant or not. He's got a similar sounding name to Gough.
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>>168605018
Eygon is anti-degeneracy.
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>>168605160
Well I still think its fucking bullshit, boss hp bar reached 0 before mine, so I should have won that.

Got so pissed I summoned phantoms for the first time ever, and proceeded to kill the boss.

Im pissed and feel fucking dirty right now, as Ive never summoned in none of the the souls series before, for a boss. Feels like a cheap win
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>>168604810
>only just now noticed the chameleon pot scuttering behind Eygon
Additional kek
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>>168605350
>smough's name is similar to gough
>smough's armor is described as being too large for a human
>smough literally ground bones to make his bread

It isn't rocket science.
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>>168604904
Dark souls pvp isn't skillbased. The only fun pvp are invasions/coop. The game already has bad connections, limited attacks, and bad weapon balance. Any youtuber who makes dark souls dueling videos is just too shit at actual fighting games. And that's why they all flocked to For Honor.
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>>168604810
>morne gh powerstance
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>>168604137
>>168604394
Post your delicious stats you beautiful human being.
If you're going Dark O&R I can also recommend picking up a Dark Sanctum Shield and SMS so you can buff your shield with shield magic using another shield.
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>mfw snap freeze in Irithyll dungeon
There is no escape, fuckers.
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>>168605356
It's not degeneracy if it's loving and consensual
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>>168605517
He already did

>>168602271
>>168602446


Look at that damage >>168601916
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>>168604896
Shields in 3 are the weakest in the series, except for BB.

In 2, having the 100% reduction ones, specially gyrm, ready for swapping, coul shut down a lot of weapons.

In 3 they're okay, BKS is only that good because it has broken, near GS stats for such small investment, but they lack the gigantic reductions they had in 1 or any meaningful deflection.
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>>168605672
Damn he'd have to pump another 10 levels in STR to wield the babies, what a shame.
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>>168605578
>mfw walking through snap freeze because frostbite is a joke.
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>>168605517
44 str GETTING THERE. It was a guts build I picked back up to try all the weapons with. And I mean ALL the weapons. Smiting archdorks for titties as we speak
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>>168605672
>20int/20fth
No wonder he's only doing 1434 damage, my crypt clunker does way more than that at 30/30.
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>>168605831
b-but slightly reduced stamina gain and increased damage taken
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so, I don't wanna go over 40/50 str right for a str build where I'm heavy infusing my wep?
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>Do Siegward's quest line
>Notice that Yhorm has a real face and his hood only makes it look like a hole
>Look closely at the giant in Irithyll dungeon and the ones after Pontiff near the Drang knights
>DS2 holeface
>Yhorm's armor isn't in DS3

Miyazaki's an absolute fucking madman
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What's the most balanced Soul Arrow in terms of speed and damage? The arrow in between Farron Dart and Soul Spear?
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DaS1
>garg helm
>knight shield
>drake sword
>chain armor

DaS2
>drangleic sword
>drangleic shield
>drangleic armor
>vengarl helm

DaS3
>irithyll straight sword
>grass crest shield
>pisspants armor

Why do newfags have such poor taste?
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>>168606224
>Yhorm's armor isn't in DS3

Cut content because it looked horrible.
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>>168606224
What is the difference between holeface giants and normal giants? Some kind of chaos/abyss/deep/etc corruption?
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>>168606335
pisspants?

also idk drangleic armor looked pretty rad, though it was certainly overused.
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>>168606376
Never explained. DaS1 giants didn't have hole faces, they just looked kind of neanderthal but the texture was flat.

>>168606401
Fallen knight set. Read the pants description.
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>every covenant name except for dorkmoon displays properly in your character stat page

It really does seem like darkmoons are just an elaborate joke in DaS3.You will truly only find this advanced meta-level lore from a mastermind like Miyazaki
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>>168606401
>pisspants?

Armor of the Cowards aka Fallen Knight set.
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>>168606335
It's fucking hilarious to me how the faggot hosts with 2 scaled down bodyguards are invariably wearing fallen knight, it's like they're TRYING to fit the stereotype.
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>>168606335
I never actually saw anyone actually wearing chain armor in DaS1, and I did a ton of low-level invading.
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>>168606224
>Look closely at the giant in Irithyll dungeon

How closely?
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What are the sunless realms?
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first post decides what """build""" and/or weapon to use for my fingered run
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>>168606668
claw with miracles
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>>168606224
>>168606376
>>168606457
I promoted the theory that the Anor Londo/Cathedral/Settlement giants have holes based on this and several other images but it turns out what I've thought was a hole is actually just a gaping mouth, and their eyes are completely untextured because of the helmet. Will post in a second.
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>>168606504
Makes sense from a blind playthrough perspective, though. Fallen Knight set has the best defenses for its weight by the time you find it and for a while after, and Irithyll Straight Sword is the first clearly magical weapon with the first status effect players have experienced up to that point. The fact that defense and frostbite are largely insignificant aren't things they'd know, and the guide sure as fuck doesn't tell them.

>>168606627
>it's not a hole

o-oh...
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>>168606627
That's interesting, I guess I couldn't see the nose because of the helmet. Is that giant model actually missing the top of its head?
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>>168606645
Irithyll
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>>168606645
Presumably lands close to Irrithyl, where the sun doesn't shine.
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holy shit invasions piss me off sometimes, invaded a world where the guy had 2 summons, killed them both, he ran to summon more and when the summon failed he ran into the boss room
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>>168606702
alright, I hope that bleed still rapes dancer
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>>168606826
HIS WORLD
HIS RULES
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>>168606761
Ah fuck its already here >>168606627
Also I want to thank Based Zullie again for this.
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>>168606826
>tfw can't backstab them out of fog gates
DaS3 panders to hosts so, so much.
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>>168606627
So hole head giants are noncanon?
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>>168606645
Anor Londo and Irithyll.

>>168606826
>this is miyazaki's glorious vision
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>>168606831
it does. also claws with Blessed Weapon looks really nice
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>>168606950
There is a giant tree in Firelink but who the fuck knows.
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>tfw nobody uses Gargoyle flame hammer

It's like playing whack-a-mole except with fire. It's also really easy to farm.
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>>168606950
Hole head giants are the product of rushed development. Shibuya dev wanted to show what giant faces looked like under the mask, but the faces he made were absolutely retarded. There wasn't enough time to make new faces on top of everything else, so they just scooped out the faces and pretended the holes were their real faces.
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>>168606645
The lands that became Irithyll.
The Profaned Capital was former-Anor Londo
Sulyvahn orchestrated its destruction via the Profaned Flame and built a new city over its ruins. The only part of the old city that he kept and preserved is the big Cathedral and corkscrew lift
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>>168607049
Is the WA any good? Can you turn the way you do with fire surge/dragon head stone?
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>>168606335
drangleic is quite based armour though, looks rad as fuck.
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>>168607124
>The Profaned Capital was former-Anor Londo
>implying anor londo was ever under the ground
>implying sulyvahn is the one who flamed profaned capital
Lorefags really are retarded sometimes, huh.
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>>168606957
Rool
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>>168606950
There's a holeface giant tree in Firelink so the holehead giants are canon.
There's just presently no in-universe explanation for why some giants have holes for faces while others don't. It's not clear if they're two unrelated tribes that just so happen to both be large stone humanoids called "Giants" or if they're the same race and the hole head is the result of some phenomenon
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>>168606957
Roll.
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>>168607187
The WA is good for chasing but has poor damage even when fully upgraded. No you can't turn when using it but it has tracking though.
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>>168607049
You and me both, its lightweight and its weaponart has nice range, tracking, and damage.
>>168607187
It's good, but it locks into place after the second R2. You can plop it down, and when your enemy tries to circle you you'll turn around and burn em.
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is the black knight glaive good? or should i stick with my lucerne
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>hollows turn into dregs when they die
>giants turn into trees when they die
>ash lake is a deep sea full of trees
sausgusa miyazaki
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>>168607262
>>168607119
If they turn into stone trees when they die, does that mean chaos? Chaos shit is wooden, right?
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>>168606950
Probably only golems are assfaced
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>>168607348
>tfw the Calm One is the Ringed City's final boss
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>>168606957
>permadeath

What?

Also roll.
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>>168606957
>>168607348
>not a single additional right
FUCK you thats no fun im going to reroll I don't even care.
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>>168606957
/ss/ please
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>>168606957
Roll
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>>168607470
Not necessarily. Archtrees existed before Chaos ever did, hollows are turning into trees without being chaos infected, etc.
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>>168607540
The furtive pygmy is TRC's final boss
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>>168607242
Izalith wasn't ever in a forest of Archtrees, either. The shifting geography of the game's world just buried it.

What we know is that Sulyvahn discovered the Profaned Flame and recruited the witches who conjure it into his private army, and then used it to overthrow the Gods.

We know Irithyll itself is not Anor Londo because the architecture of the city itself doesn't match, and is clearly much newer. We also know that Irithyll was not called Irithyll when it was under the God's control because Sirris refers to it as "The Sunless Realms"
We also know that the actual Cathedral part of Anor Londo, which was preserved, is not a natural part of Irithy'lls architecture because there's literal broken stonefaces of discontinuous structure where Anor Londo ends and Irithyll begins. But, at the same time, we know Anor Londo's Cathedral wasn't just plopped into the middle of the city by "transitory lands" because that would imply that Sulyvahn turning against the Gods happened after his rise to power, which is clearly not the case.

So Sulyvahn used the Profaned Flame to destroy Anor Londo, the capital of the Sunless Realms and rebuilt it as Irithyll.
And there just so happens to be ruins of a capital city that was burned down by the Profaned Flame directly connected to Irithyll, almost as if the two are related.
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>>168605068

I had the same thing happen to me, except I was a phantom. I got the souls and the sunlight medal, but the host apparently didn't get shit since he summoned me again for the fight.
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>>168607912
But the DaS2 giants are also a race of pyromancers and tree people + fire = chaos if I understood DaS1 correctly
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>>168606335
>Fallen Knight is a very aesthetically pleasing set
>forever stained by being associated with plebs
Ah hell. It looks great on a pyromancer.
Either way the issue with the pants get diminished a lot when you realize half or more than half the people who laugh about it ignore the fact that they keep carrying literal piles of mois feces in their inventory while wadding through thigh-deep pools of liquefied giant feces or rotten swamps and sewers.
Dark Souls games aren't very hygienic at all.
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>>168606789
>>168606795
>>168606957
>>168607124
Are you people fucking retards or what?
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>>168608070
This must be bait
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>>168606778
>Is that giant model actually missing the top of its head?

Yeah. They had no reason to model or texture the top, since it's covered completely by the helmet.
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>>168607586

No Death/Ironman/Hardcore.
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>SL 16
>invading Farron
>crystal soul spear to the face on spawn

Well, alright then.
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>>168607124
>Ordered its destruction
Negro the prophaned capital was most likely destroyed because of Yorm. When Yorm linked the fire, the lore says that it rained with fire not only burning him but everyone around him in the capital.
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So how many levels above 120 is okay?
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>>168607978
>We know Irithyll itself is not Anor Londo because the architecture of the city itself doesn't match, and is clearly much newer.
Please show me the DaS1 screenshots of "suburban" Anor Londo that you could use to substantiate this claim

Also, if you're going to go by mismatching architecture, the Profaned Capital looks nothing whatsoever like Anor Londo
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>>168608370
0
You are banned
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>>168608528
*is banned*
ok
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>>168607978
>and recruited the witches who conjure it into his private army
Headcanon. The fire witch equipment does not state that they're the ones who created the Profaned Flame, only that Sulyvahn made them carry it around and use it until it corrupted them. Eleonora being dropped by the poop hand monsters in Profaned Capital make it very clear what happened to the Oracles who made the Profaned Flame.

>and then used it to overthrow the Gods
You made this part up, and it's not stated anywhere in the game. In fact, nothing ever says Sulyvahn took over Anor Londo by force of might. He worked his way up to a high rank before feeding Gwyndolin to Aldrich, which made him the next in line.

>Irithyll naming technicalities
And Profaned Capital was not called Profaned Capital before it got roasted. Your point?

If you can't figure out that Profaned Capital is what's left of Carthus after falling to dark, I have nothing to say to you.
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>>168608464
If anythng Profaned Capital looks a lot more like Oolacile or even Firelink Altar
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>>168608070
>Mirrah shield is the "shield of the Holy Knights of the Sunless Realms."
>Creighton the Wanderer (of Mirrah) invades in Irithyll

I'm surprised I've never noticed that before.
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>>168608362
>linking the flame created a dark, accursed fire connected to the abyss that burns only human flesh
>but also preserved the age of fire lol
Not buying it.
The irony of Yhorm's sacrifice is that he was the city's protector, it's unbeatable heroic vanguard. As long as Yhorm was around, nobody could fuck with them. That's why they made him king even though they hated him.

When he departed to link the fire, the city was IMMEDIATELY attacked and destroyed because they no longer had their guardian to protect them. They were defenseless because they turned their defenses into firewood.
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>>168608618
>When he departed to link the fire, the city was IMMEDIATELY attacked and destroyed because they no longer had their guardian to protect them. They were defenseless because they turned their defenses into firewood.

Holy fuck kill yourself along with your fucking fanic. Theres a item that litterally describes the fact that the prophaned capital was destroyed when Yorm linked the flame, because it started raining with fire all over the city. Its fucking canon.
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>>168607451
>sausgusa

lrn2weeb negro, looks like you're trying to spell "sausage"
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>>168608052
The fact that Bed of Chaos was a tree doesn't immediately mean all trees are chaos.

>>168608070
No, but you are.

>talisman given in the sunless realms
>talisman of the darkmoon knights
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>>168606957
Rolling
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>>168608070
>>168608906
Mirrah is one of the Sunless Realms then, checks out in my book.

My question becomes, what were Knights of Mirrah and the other Sunless Realms doing in the Undead Settlement?
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>>168608876
sasuga dense cunt, it totally wasn't intentional
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>>168608618
You clearly don't understand much about the Profaned Capital's history. Here, a brief rundown:

>the Profaned Capital is a wealthy city that hosts a famous sorcery school and some kind of empire, with Yhorm as its leader
>the priestesses of the Profaned Capital get butthurt at something the city has done, and so concoct a plan for vengeance
>use their magics to mix together a sample of the Abyss and some other flame (probably chaos) and unleash it on the city
>this Profaned Flame burns naught but human flesh, targeting exclusively the inhabitants of the city while leaving the stones intact. That which it does not incinerate it mutates into horrible monsters
>to end the carnage, Yhorm collects the Profaned Flame and sets off to the Kiln to obey his mandate as a Lord of Cinder
>he dumps himself and the Flame into the First Flame, hoping to destroy the rancid fire in the strength of the First
>this plan fails, as the Profaned Flame may never die
>it arcs through the skies, returning to the city and destroying everyone inside
>except those who cast it
Pontiff only ever saw the ruins
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>>168603386
He's dead you stupid fag, all gay baby bosses deserve to die.
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>>168608906
>The fact that Bed of Chaos was a tree doesn't immediately mean all trees are chaos
No, but pyromancy trees are certainly suggestive
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>>168609298
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>>168608464
>Please show me the DaS1 screenshots of "suburban" Anor Londo that you could use to substantiate this claim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T4g26Is9AI
Very clearly not Irithyll architecture, but the cobblestone matches the design in the less-ruined parts of the Profaned Capital, such as the WoG church.

The bonfire tower is very clearly a construction that was made post-DaS1 but pre-burning, since it's literally decorated with statues of bearded God-men in robes raising a tower. It was built as a commemorative structure rather than a practical one, probably as a testament to the city's glory

Plus the burning nicely mirrors the whole Rome/Constantinople theme DaS3 had set up. The culture and bloodline that made Anor Londo great abandoned it and moved on to Lothric, a city located as a transitory point between multiple lands surrounded by the greatest walls of the medieval world but gradually succumbed to stagnation and royal inbreeding.

Meanwhile Anor Londo burns down, leaving only a small "old city" remnant in the heart of a new, almost unrecognizable construction, with the old city serving as the locus for religious heritage (Vatican) and the new city being under control of a new, almost entirely unrelated culture of usurpers.

Irithyll/Anor Londo and Lothric are fictionalized historical allegories. It'd be silly to assume that the capital profaned by fire is unrelated to the capital of the gods of fire built directly over top of it and ruled by a tyrant that usurped the gods by using the same flame which just so happened to destroy the capital.
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>>168608618
>linking the flame created a dark, accursed fire connected to the abyss that burns only human flesh
READ ELEONORA'S DESCRIPTION YOU STUPID FUCK

Profaned Flame was created by a bunch of oracles in the capital. It was not made by Sulyvahn, it wasn't made by Yhorm.

Yhorm's ashes says
>Lonely Yhorm became a Lord of Cinder to put the Profaned Flame to rest, knowing full well that those who spoke of him as lord were quite insincere.

Profaned Flame spell says
>The Profaned Capital was consumed by fire after Yhorm the Giant became a Lord of Cinder. The fire, born of the sky, is said to have incinerated naught but human flesh.

Yhorm tried to quell the Profaned Flame by linking the First Flame. His attempt backfired, and fire rained down upon his city and roasted everything human.
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Posting this one more time. Full list of named areas, in order. I dont know size/bosses/bonfires/etc so please don't ask.


Dreg Heap
Outer Londo
Inner Londo
King's Chamber
Progenial Village
Ash Lake
Ashen Mist Shrine
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>>168607430
anyone?
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>>168603370
DaS1>DaS2>Das3>BB>DeS
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>>168609159
>>the priestesses of the Profaned Capital get butthurt at something the city has done, and so concoct a plan for vengeance
where is this stated? the rest I know for true except the "he dumps himself and the Flame into the First Flame", might've been just the PF, but it affects little
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>>168609561
>no elevator meme or miyazaki is stupid
Seems fake.
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>>168609410
>sulyvahn's body just straight poofs away instead of disintegrating into ash like all other boss death animations
>in the game that pushes the tangible illusions meme harder than any other
Post yfw Sulyvahn is the final boss of TRC
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>>168609159
I like this summation. It's not 100% confirmed, but it seems plausible enough based on information I can recall from memory.

Although it begs the question of why Yhorm would let a bunch of the people who destroyed his city to just roam around it and not stomp them into the ground.
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>>168609042
>misspelling on the internet
literally a dumpster garbage babby
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>>168609561
>Ash Lake

Terrible.
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I know this is a bit boring, but how do you build for quality at sl60?

Basically I want to do aldrich invades switching between all the duel weapons with a character called "Bring Back Powerstancing" or something to that effect, but Im not sure how to build it so it isnt COMPLETELY terrible.
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>>168609679
>sulyvahn's body just straight poofs away instead of disintegrating into ash like all other boss death animations
>then you make a sword out of his soul and kill his dogs and everyone in his church because he's dead
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>>168609638

The Profaned Flame was triggered by the curse of these women, relatives of a certain oracle, but despite their culpability, they went on living, without any cares. -- Eleonora

Oracles triggered a curse, they did so because they were obviously angry about SOMETHING
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>>168609561
>ash lake
>ashen mist
You're a funny guy.
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>>168609679
>sulyvahn's body just straight poofs away instead of disintegrating into ash like all other boss death animations
Isn't that how most bosses die? The effects doesn't look that different from other bosses, although I'm not entirely sure. I want to believe.
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>>168609561

Source: Anon's cute butt.
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>ds2
>host a fight club for a good hour with the same 5-6 people
>have to go but no idea how to make it clear
>forbidden sun the last guy bathing in warmth
>he runs away
>seed of a tree of giants
>dark spirit has been vanquished
It's not even fair how much fun this is
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>>168609706
It also begs the question of
A. how he "took" a flame
B. why he thought dumping a flame into another flame would do anything
C. why/how the fire just "flew back" across the sky and back to the capital after he linked the fire.

None of those things make sense without making huge assumptions in logic. It's not even suggested anywhere that Yhorm "took" the profaned flame, only that he linked the fire to stop it.

What those item descriptions tell us, though:
The Profaned Capital wasn't originally underground, or else the fire couldn't have come from the sky.
The Profaned Flame existed before Yhorm, linked the fire and was a threat to the city
The attack which destroyed the city didn't come until after Yhorm sacrificed himself.

Knowing, as we do, that the Profaned Flame is abyssal in nature, it would suggest that Yhorm's plan was to stop the Profaned Flame by banishing the dark that fueled it. He linked the fire because that was the only way to counter the dark, but it clearly wasn't enough to stop it completely and the defenseless city was destroyed when the "Oracles" retaliated.

None of this runs contrary to the idea that Sulyvahn discovered the Profaned Flame and used it to destroy the capital. In fact, his established connection to the Sable Church and their magic would strongly suggest how the dark-fueled Profaned Flame remained a threat even after the fire was linked.
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>>168609718
>>168609920

Not him but ASH lake anons.

>world turns to ash
>giants become archtrees
>archtrees feed off of ash and sprout a new world from the branches
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>have to dump 30 points into a pointless stat to get the same default roll as in DaS1

Fuck this game.
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>>168610126
or you could point him to gravity/lava.
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Is Farron Keep Oolacile/Darkroot?
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>>168610270

The profane flame is the dark soul anon, the blackflame. Thats why sulyvahn and sable church give a shit about it.
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So should I take Lothrics Holy Sword, or Lorians greatsword

Which one is the most fun
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>>168610285
welcome to ds2
if youre enjoying your stay you wont be for long
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>>168610458
50%
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>>168610480
Blackflame is literally black.
Profaned Flame looks like normal fire, as seen by the Gargoyle weapons, Profaned GS and Immolation Tinder
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>>168610270
>how he took a flame
You can literally pick up a fire, you watch the Firekeeper do the exact same thing in the end of the game

>why he thought this would work
Because incinterating fires in larger fires has solid precedent in these games. See: kindling bonfires, the inherent process of linking the flame. If the Profaned Flame is indeed chaos + abyss, then all he would be doing is linking the first flame with an unusual dark/life soul mixture.

>how did it arc back through the city
How do pursuers pursue?
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>>168608370
10
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I think I heard Farron Keep might be Blighttown, but i cant fucking remember where it was
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>>168610458
Yup.

>>168610483
I like Lothric's Holy Sword best.
Not as powerful as a Lothric Knight Sword but it's gorgeous and the beam weapon art is useful on occasion
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>**ly K***ht **drick
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>>168610483
Holy Swords pew pew laser weapon art is fun, but its a straight sword which is kind of boring, but its a straight sword so its automatically S tier

Lorians greatsword is as fun as any other UGS, which IMO is pretty fun, but its pretty similar to Sullys greatsword so you might just want to make that instead and have the both the holy sword and the fire UGS.
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>>168610483
Take Lorian's Greatsword and use it to kill the Crimson Bat in The Ringed City
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>>168610483

Holy Sword is more fun. You can find Lorian's move set on other weapons.

Twin Princes is the most fun though.
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>summon Siegward for the Yhorm fight
>gets fucked to death by Yhorm in the time it takes me to run up and grab Storm Ruler


Well fuck.
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>>168609842
>then you make a sword out of his soul and kill his dogs and everyone in his church because he's dead
You can make the Dragonslayer Spear in DaS1 despite the fact that Ornstein was never there.

"Smough" dies in DaS1, but you can still find his hammer in DaS3 whether you killed him first or second.

Illusions dropping boss souls is a thing Dark Souls does.
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>>168610483
Lorian's is a generic UGS with a built-in buff. Its stomp followup does inherently less damage and thus is never worth stamina, but the free buff makes it really good damage for low stats.

Lothric's is the weakest straightsword in the game but has a neat laser. The laser is a useful quick poke in pvp, but the damage is too low to be worthwhile in pve.
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>>168610285
The 70% weight limit was a godsend.
I literally never played dark souls 1 with anything other than maiden/painting guardian set because it's basically impossible to use more than 1 weapon and fastroll unless you stack havel+FaP

>>168610295
To be honest i just got the spell and i wanted to damage test it anyway.
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I havent played in a while, do you still get instant aldritch invasions at sl 80?
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>>168610667
Good point as I already took Sullys greatsword

>>168610694
Damn, there might even be a easter egg, like when you wore velstads armor in ds2
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>>168610752
Both of this statements are lies.
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>>168610807
Yes, but they're usually really bad.
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>>168610753
>You can make the Dragonslayer Spear in DaS1 despite the fact that Ornstein was never there.

Not in a canon playthrough, just like you can't kill Gwyndolin or learn fancy pyromancy in a canon playthrough.

Sulyvahn is a necessary boss and there's no alternative to die in his place, his death is canonical and he's not coming back unless I go to NG+ to kill him again.
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>>168610809
>fighting bat
>reach phase 3
>Lorian's GS lights up and buffs itself on its own, red cracks glowing violently and fire blazing higher than it ever has before
Would be pretty neat.
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What are some good spots to do some low-level co-op, and at what levels? I know Abyss Watchers is probably a boss where people tend to summon a lot, but I'm wondering if that's the earliest reliable spot I should go and what levels I need to be for it.

I also need those damn proofs of concord for the miracle and I'm wondering if there's ANY level people actually make use of Way of Blue
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>>168610775
I preferred Demon Souls' 50%. Armor feels useless in 2.
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>>168610942
>learn fancy pyromancy in a canon playthrough.

Explain.
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>>168611023
>yfw it actually completely invalidates the fight like with Yhorm and Stormbringer
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>>168603581
Anri's Straight Sword or Sellsword Twinblades
Bleed is top tier
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>tfw krekk0v is doing worse than he used to be
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>>168611121
>you can combine the demon prince's soul with Lorian's GS to make a flaming pyro-based curved UGS
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>>168611079
>Armor feels useless in 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQDNwejRcM
it's the only game where elemental defense actually matter.
Can't talk about demon but in 1 and 3 it's completely worthless, at least for what you have to give up.
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>>168610942
But O&S illusion boss fight is canon, so making their weapons can be too
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>>168610270
>The Profaned Capital wasn't originally underground, or else the fire couldn't have come from the sky
>implying the terminology matters when you're so far underground you can look up and not see the ceiling
I'm pretty sure Profaned Capital still has a skybox, though.

>The attack which destroyed the city didn't come until after Yhorm sacrificed himself
The attack which destroyed the city happened at the same time Yhorm linked the flame. That's why they're mentioned together on his ashes description.

>and the defenseless city was destroyed when the "Oracles" retaliated
Oracles created the Profaned Flame, meaning their actions necessarily precede Yhorm's attempts to stop the Profaned Flame.

>None of this runs contrary to the idea that Sulyvahn discovered the Profaned Flame and used it to destroy the capital
The fact that "Sulyvahn destroying the capital" isn't stated anywhere runs contrary to your fanfic, you nutter.

>his established connection to the Sable Church and their magic
When and where? Nothing he does suggests any such connection, and nor do any item descriptions.

>would strongly suggest how the dark-fueled Profaned Flame remained a threat even after the fire was linked
Or, the fact that the Profaned Flame is stated to be literally undying would explain how it remained a threat for all this time. Occam's Razor, the explanation that depends on the fewest variables is the most likely.

You're kinda bad at logic, I take it.
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>>168611036
There are earlier co-op hotspots, but Abyss Watchers is probably gonna be a lot more fun than camping the tree or vordt.
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>>168611308
>The fact that "Sulyvahn destroying the capital" isn't stated anywhere
What is valid inductive reasoning?
Next you'll tell me Nameless King isn't the sun of Gwyn because it's not stated anywhere.
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>>168610942
>you can't use fancy pyros in a canon playthrough of DaS1
nani???
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>>168611085
Quelana pyromancy tome implies that Salaman was Quelana's only pupil.

>>168611305
>But O&S illusion boss fight is canon

Yes it is, and in it you kill Ornstein's illusion first and receive Smough's soul.
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>>168611345
At this point I'm really more committed to doing things that are effective rather than fun. I don't want yet another instance of starting a playthrough where I'm going to try getting those covenant miracles and items, only for me to beat Soul of Cinder and then realize that I did nothing of the sort. I need to get this started early
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How much does skull ring change enemy aggression exactly? Would a playthrough using that revive some of the fun you got on your first playthough?
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>>168610694

That's also my plan
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>>168611604
>not hunting the demon prince with the dedicated demon-hunting weapons of Gwyn's elite demon-hunters
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>>168610942
Both Oreos and Smores are a necessary boss fight. By canon, they both die and CU absorbs their souls. By canon, CU could only make one of their weapons if he were going to. By canon, both weapons exist in DaS3 and contradict CU apparently killing the both of them.

Orns and Smo were tangible illusions, and tangible illusions can drop souls. Friede's Scythe, the Crow Quill knives, and Follower's Spear also use tangible illusions to attack.

Illusion magic is OP as fuck in Souls.
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How would you combat the WA of Friede's Scythe if you have small weapons with no HA or block frames? You can always just tank the last hit of the first series and interrupt her before the next armor frames start. If you have a Straight Sword, would you just have to wait it out?
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>>168611601
It's only useful for co-op, it doesn't change aggro ranges.
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How hard is it to kill The Rotten as my first boss if I use a Bonfire Ascetic? I want to do an early Crypt Blacksword run. Is it a bad idea? Should I perhaps just get a Greatsword and switch over to Crypt Blacksword on my NG+ cycle?
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>>168611575
Oh, then in that case you could probably just camp Vordts fog wall. I wouldnt even level up past your starting level. Upgrade you weapon to +1, maybe +2, maybe fire infuse it or use the deep battle axe. Should be able to breeze through whatever covenant you want to level.
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>>168611704
>If you have a Straight Sword
Stand across the map and kill them with your phantom range
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>>168611284
>BLUE Onyx Blade
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>>168611392
>What is valid inductive reasoning?
Valid inductive reasoning would suggest that Sulyvahn didn't destroy any capitals with the Profaned Flame because it's literally impossible to extinguish. The rubble would still be on fire decades later, and you wouldn't be able to build anything over it.
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>>168611392
Not that guy but honestly just fuck off with your headcanon, youve had 3 guys proving you fucking wrong about how sully was not the one who destroyed the Prophaned Capital

Just fucking admit you are wrong, and get on with it ffs
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>>168611656
Who says that Smough was an illusion and that you didn't just kill him 2nd canonically?
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>>168611648
>not picking up where lorian left off and burning the demon prince to death with his own flame
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>>168611763
It's not too bad. Try to at least have a +3 weapon before you do though, since NG+ rotten gets a bit beefy.
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>>168611284
>>168611872
Ah, you said curved UGS
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>>168611751
>>168611601
IIRC, enemies will aggro a few feet earlier than they usually do. That's about it, though.
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>>168611894
The words "burned down the Profaned Capital" literally come out of an item description.
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>>168611656
>Both Oreos and Smores are a necessary boss fight. By canon, they both die and CU absorbs their souls.

Now you're just making stuff up Anon, you have to kill both but you only get one soul and DS3 has made it canon that the soul you get is Smough's.

>Orns and Smo were tangible illusions

Smough's hammer's description implies otherwise.
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>>168611763
The first fight is pretty piss-easy if you know the fight and are halfway decent at the game. The ng+ fight though has a bit of a significant spike in difficulty, but its still not too bad. Rottens a pretty predictable boss.

Use a rapier or a mace, I prefer rapier. The only move of his you really have to watch out for is his area of effect dark blast, when you see that animation start up, run the fuck away, it WILL one shot you.
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>>168611934
Yeah I was thinking of doing it with a +3 Rapier and a resin. Perhaps I should make way to Ornifex before I get to The Rotten, though.
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>>168611510
Or that the CU was her last student
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>>168612024
Yeah there's no point in killing the boss before you can make boss weapons
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>>168611656
>By canon, CU could only make one of their weapons if he were going to.

By canon, there were multiple Chosen Undead in parrallel universes participating in jolly cooperation with each other, and parts of those timelines collide with each other. Basically, any Chosen Undead could have dropped the weapon while summoned so that "canon" Chosen Undead had both. Even taking the idea of boss soul weapons as canon, it's easy to explain that part away at least.
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>>168611813
Many thanks, Anon
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>>168612002
>>168611751
Well, shit. I was hoping it would do something more to spice up my game. I'm having a hard time finding any motivation to play lately.
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>>168611648

>kill Lorian
>take his sword
>finish what he couldn't

He deserves being taken down a million notches.
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>Demon greataxe has a giant slam as weaponart
>Quakestone has basicly the same weaponart+perseverance
These dlc weapons are so broken compared to the basegame weapons
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>>168612012
>canon playthrough
Okay, knock that shit off. Firstly, we don't know if Quelana simply didn't record her interactions with CU. It's possible she just fucked off to see her spider sister as soon as he was gone. Nobody after the fact would have any idea of her life if the only non-firewood person to talk about her was Salaman. He was her most famous student, but he also isn't the one who's burning in a kiln.
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>>168606950
are you retarded?
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>>168612306
Quakestone does more damage with its WA, too.

So many base game weapons are just dogshit with dogshit WAs. Why does the ODK Hammer even exist?
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>>168612007
Go ahead and find the item description, then. By the way, we already went over the part where Sulyvahn wasn't the one who destroyed the Profaned Capital. Unless you honestly think he was there at the same time Yhorm linked the flame, despite that being at least an entire age ago.
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>>168611510
Assuming Salaman was human.
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>>168612012
Smough could've left after Ornstein, that still would have made him the last knight
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>>168609889
was it elves?
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>>168609830
you dont

sl80 is bare minimum for quality build and then you're fucked on stamina
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>>168612254
Make a build to use something early that you haven't tried yet. Killing the Dancer early greatly expands your options, by the way.
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>>168612430
>Go ahead and find the item description, then
http://darksouls3.wikidot.com/profaned-coal
Here you go, friend. I did the lore research so you wouldn't have to.
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>>168612374
I like that one honestly, sadly it's weaponart is lacking in pvp because everyone with a brain will just stay back. Real cool in pve though, glad the lava explosion now triggers on the second hit.
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>>168612306

Power creep through DLC is always a thing it seems.

Personally, I'd rather unique effects/moves with similar levels of power, with none actually overtaking the base game.
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>>168610642
>lying
>>168610869
if you immediately bolt for SR, Yhorm will slam the shit out of Siegman
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>>168612646
Right, and what does that have to do with Sulyvahn? Nothing, that's what. There is zero evidence in the game that Sulyvahn destroyed the Profaned Capital, or the "Anor Londo suburbs", or anything at all, it's just your headcanon, and your headcanon is stupid and retarded.
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>>168612694
>similar levels of power
The problem is that most unique basegame things are dogshit.
Even with the blatant powercreep, things like the Quakestone only barely break into usefulness.

It's not that they;re too good, but that the main game needs to be brought up to that same standard. They obviously won't be, though, because it's clear now that so many options in the base game were designed and balanced to be bad so that the DLC had a low bar set to overshadow.
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>>168612029
>Quelana, the sole surviving witch of Izalith, once accepted a human pupil, but after the pupil moved on, she never took another.

Ithink it's a stretch to interpret that as not talking about Salaman since she didn't seem to be in the habit of teaching people in general.

>>168612308
>Firstly, we don't know if Quelana simply didn't record her interactions with CU

That only matters if you assume that the flavor text is derived from things written in the tome.

>>168612487
Smough did leave after Ornstein, right around the time you killed him and walked out of Anor Londo with his soul.
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>>168611976
he also said flaming, you blind fuck
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Need help, 7 vertebra shackles left for Warmth, i need someone to kill many times for them.
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How do I get rid of the extra Stormrullers in my storage?
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>>168612928
Discard or sell them
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>>168612694
That would be fantastic, make the weapon decisions of the player based off of things like movesets,weaponarts, and range. Of course some weapons should have some AR difference but some weapons as of now are just bad.
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>>168612928
Move them to your inventory, open your menu (not the bonfire), highlight, and select "discard".
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>>168612854
There's no proof CU killed Smough. Only that he was in Anor Londo for longer than Ornstein.

He could've left the day after and he still would've been the last knight
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>>168612852
>It's not that they're too good, but that the main game needs to be brought up to that same standard.

I agree. Ancient dragon greatshield pretty much isn't worth using now.
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>>168612928
You don't
can't you store them in the bottomless box? good luck after ng+300 though
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54.14 is max poise, right?
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>>168613097
It was hardly worth using in the first place, IIRC its overall regen speed was the same as any blessed shield.
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>>168613097

it's a shame too, I love how it looks since it reminds me of des
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>>168612812
Man you sure got mad as fuck from seeing arguments you don't like.

I've proven my point, so if you don't have anything left to respond with but "h-headcanon!" then I guess we're done here.
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>>168613174
no
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>>168613305
Your argument was that Sulyvahn did various shit with the Profaned Flame, and you tried to claim that the game supported your argument.

>y-you're just mad!
Generally speaking, the one desperately flailing and grasping at every little thing they can, only to resort to calling the other person mad when they've run out of straws, is the one who's mad.
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>>168613097
It's like they completely forgot the ancient dragon greatshield existed while they were making the etheral oak shield
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when is the next pcfc?
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>>168612636
I don't really know what I haven't done yet.

I did just find out lightning stake is pretty neat, but I'm not sure how far that'll carry me.

I've used most weapon classes, done a pyro range build, played a sneaky magical assassin and have kind of ran out of ideas now. Worst thing is, the second dlc is still quite far away. I don't think I can keep on playing until then.

I always tell myself I'll do all bow run at some point, but that doesn't really seem that fun. A tanky melee range caster build could be fun, without using any of the sworceries, but that's kind of what I'm doing right now with the lightning stake.

>>168606957
Rolling, give me something neat.
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>>168613563
>n-no u!
It's just getting sad now, guy.
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>>168613305
Kek you are shit, and gotten proven wrong by various people in this thread
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>>168613179
The ADS at any upgrade level heals like a +10 blessed shield (6 HP every 3 seconds) but is applied every second (2 HP per second). The EOS has the same regen as the ADS.
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>>168613587
why
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>Profaned Capital was this awesome city dude literally Anor Londo tier
>only get to see a tiny postage stamp of ruins immediately before Yohrm
Finish your fucking games Fromsofto.
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>>168606627
Holy shit, so the face is, indeed, based on the ones in 1. Wonder why they made the mouth constantly open. Are giants mouth breathers ?
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>>168613713
want to hang out with my friends
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>>168613657
>"you have no evidence to support your claims"
>you're just mad
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>>168613084
>There's no proof CU killed Smough.

Except the soul you receive.
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>>168612854
>That only matters if you assume that the flavor text is derived from things written in the tome
Why wouldn't you assume this? The narrator isn't omnipotent
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>>168613745
It's a compromise between giant gaping holes and a semi normal face.
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>>168603990
I want source
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>>168613762
They're not your friends
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>>168613798
>provide evidence
>NO EVIDENCE HEADCANON UR MAD I'M NOT GRASPING AT STRAWS YOU ARE
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>>168613673
Last I checked, EOS regenerates 2hp every 1 second, not 2hp every 2 seconds. I remember trying to compare it to the blessed kite shield in my inventory and seeing the tick rate go faster.
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>>168613897
oh
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Oh boy, finally killed every boss in the game (including dlc) but this guy. Im getting my shit pushed in by his second phase
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>>168613897
Don't worry, no charge for them.
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How does it feel knowing that the DLC will have a dragon boss
And that this dragon boss will have at least 3 phases
And at least two full healthbars, if not more
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1st playthrough of Dark Souls done.
What a beautiful game.
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>>168613976
Roll into him, you fucking coward.
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>>168613904
that wasn't my image, what the hell hiroshimoot

Anon, come on now. Let's be serious here.

You said there was evidence that "the Profaned Capital was burned down by Sulyvahn", and gave an item description that says "the Profaned Capital was burned down". That's evidence that the Capital was burned down, but isn't evidence that Sulyvahn had anything to do with it.

Post evidence that Sulyvahn is the one who roasted the Profaned Capital.
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>>168613976
Lothric Knight Shield. Hold L1. Roll when he does his grab.
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>>168614023
Why would you want an fc then?
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>>168614183
What kind of character did you have?
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>>168613515
Oh yeah, shit. Thanks
Trying to get high poise without looking retarded is really hard
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>>168614183
It's the worst souls game though
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What's the best greatshield for pve only run?

I'll switch out of it if I get invaded, I wanna do a stronkth run.
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>>168614183
Grad you riked it, anon.
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>>168613762
pcfcbf?
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>>168614206
I am rolling into him, im just really fucking bad when he delays his attacks cause it throws me off.
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>>168614408
Then you're going into the right direction.

Keep at it until you have it down.
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>>168614275
They were trying to grab your host. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
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>>168614183
Now go back to find all the shit you missed. You've also been granted the right to have any question answered, as long as there is an answer
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>>168614503
Dad?
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Could someone help me move some stuff from one character to another? PC.
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>>168614183
>>168614527
Indeed, we'll tell you all about the wonderful things you can find in NG+. All you have to do is ask. And say your SL and platform.
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>>168614476
Yeah I know, I got him down to about 25% the first time I was against him, so I guess I just have to keep pushing foward
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>>168613896
Nevermind I found it.
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>>168614380

Where?
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>>168613147
You'd presumably stop picking them up.
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>>168614728
But muh completion
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>>168614660
MIldred eats cock.
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>>168614649
Summon them on board, I'll call it in
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>>168614649
Aye
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>>168614778
But you've already completed that, though.

>>168614728
You can actually get two stormrulers per playthrough with Seigward's questline.
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>>168613830
>Why wouldn't you assume this?

Because there's no reason to. I don't assume that the flavor text of the braille tomes comes from a blurb on the back.

>The narrator isn't omnipotent

Even if that were true, so what? You're just assuming that the narrator is unreliable because it's telling you something you don't want to hear.
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>>168614331
Cathedral Knight Greatshield is the best one you can get early on. Less Str requirement than Lothric Knight Greatshield, better stability, and only 0.5 units heavier. You have to farm it though, since it can only be obtained via drop. Its elemental resistance is shit against anything that isn't Dark though, the Lothric Knight Greatshield is better against magical and fire threats (such as Pontiff).

Greatshield of Artorias isn't as stable and has pretty bad elemental resistance, but is a lot lighter and lets you use WAs. Also, you have to farm Ghrus for it.
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Anyone down to help me out with 4KANGZ?
Platform is steam, SL59.
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>>168614856
"The fc roster I just filed with Gwyndolin list me, my phantoms, Dr. Havel here. But only one of you!
First one to talk gets to stay in my world!
Who paid you to stagger Dr. Havel?
He didn't git so gud! Who wants to try next?"
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Any DLC2 leaks yet?
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>>168615117
Yes. Read the OP.
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>>168615117
No.
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>>168615117
yeah, all the bosses! thanks from
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>>168615179
I mean not the fake ones
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>>168615039
>but is a lot lighter and lets you use WAs

I will aim for Artoria's then and switch around depending on what I fight. I want to limit myself to greatshields, because otherwise I will just do the whole run with black knight shield.
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>>168615303
In that case >>168603146
>Vaati's notes, trimmed (MAJOR SPOILERS, read with a grain of salt): http://pastebin.com/Y7MTapKN

Assuming vaati wasn't just lying, at least.
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>>168615394
>vaati
>lying

Nice joke
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>>168615061
Tell me about Dad! Why does he wear the Father's Mask?
A lot of loyalty for a red phantom!
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"Dr. Havel, I'm with the DMB."
"He wasn't alone."
"You don't get to summon phantoms."
"They're not my phantoms."
"Don't worry, no phantom slots for them."
"And why would I want them?"
"They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the legend. The masked dad."
"Dad??! ...... Summon them, I'll call it in."

"The fc roster I just filed with Gwyndolin lists me, my phantoms, Dr. Havel here. But only one of you!
First one to talk gets to stay in my world!
Who paid you to stagger Dr. Havel?" *bans* "He didn't git so gud! Who wants to try next?
Tell me about Dad! Why does he wear the mask!?! A lot of loyalty for a mad spirit!"
"Perhaps he's wondering why someone would backstab a man before black crystaling him out of your world."
"At least you can r1. Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our stunlock."
"No one cared who I was until I put on the mask."
"If I pull that off would you die?"
"It would be extremely cumbersome."
"You're a big guy!"
"For you!"
"Was getting summoned part of your plan?"
"Of course..... Dr. Havel refused our offer in favor and protection of yours, we had to find out what he told you about us."
"Nothing! I said nothing!"
"Well congratulations! You got yourself summoned!
Now whats the next step in your master plan?"
"Crashing this fc!........With no survivors!"
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>>168612854
She only taught two: Salaman, and 200 years later or something, the CU. Then I guess she sat with her sister and waited for death, I guess
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>>168612372
>>168606950

Maybe the hole in the face is the equivalent of being hollow for the giants, like while for humans the curse forbid them the tranquility of death/darkness and the gods the curse eventually hollowed them until they were nothing more than a husk for their once mighty souls, the giant normal ''death'' was to grow into a tree and their equivalent of the curse prevented that, which might explain why all the giants you kill in game never actually start to grow into a tree after their death but their body simply dissipate with their souls being taken by the abyss. Also if their fate was to eventually grow into tree, its kind of understandable that they hated the gods for burning the archtrees all over the place in their war against the elder dragons, hell maybe a few of them were actually giants for all we know. Maybe the cataclysm that affected the profaned capital is just that, the curse of undeath : giant edition that affected everyone when Yhorm became a lord of cinder (if he was pretty powerful and just, maybe he had a genuinely powerful soul, one that when sacrificed released something equivalent to DS ending when you sacrifice yourself to the kiln, hell given the physical state of the once-mighty knights that accompanied Gwyn when he went down there, we can guess it had a similar effect on the giants there.) and he fell into seclusion as everything and everyone he had fought for eventually turned into hollow husk of their former selves.

Also time is convoluted in the Souls game, so what say a guy from one era can't just jump to another? Ain't like it wasn't happening, just look at that jolly fellow Siegward
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>>168615338
If you're on PC, I can savescum you one since I completed that covenant early on.
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>>168615117
First TRC boss attempt, in case you haven't seen it.

https://my.mixtape.moe/skopje.mp4
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>>168606957
Roll
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>>168615629
>red phantom
>not madman
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>>168615529
You're right, he's just wrong a lot.
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>>168615630
Have we linked the fire?
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>>168615843
No, the fire fades.
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>>168614527
I did literally everything though, I killed all bosses and minibosses, visited all the areas of the game, got all the best armor and weapons. I guess I would play again to try a magic/stealth based build.
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>>168615630
>Dr. Havel refused our offer in favor and protection of yours
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>>168615775
LMAO 2BAT.
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Dsg, i need your help. A friend of mine and i were arguing dark souls lore and I need to know which of us is wrong. Neither of us is exactly knowledgeable. He says men were just hollows and not men until after the linking of the first flame. He also says that the linking happened before the dragons were killed.
I say otherwise and, admittedly going off of half remembered shit from the scholar of the first sin, that the dark sign and hollowing happened after the linking which was after society had gotten up and running. Which of us is least wrong?
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>>168615775
>a boss inflicting status effects
neat
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>>168615967
I bet you haven't done PvP yet.

If you're thinking of playing 2 next, I'd suggest starting with low expectations. That game had huge piles of development trouble. Raise Adaptability to 30, it helps.
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>>168615639
#Headcanon
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>>168614325
I've heard II is the worst. I'll wait til I play II and III before I decide for myself.
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>>168615814
What does this mean?

>You (formal)
Is formal a compliment? What does it mean when someone calls you formal?

>possessive particle
Does this mean Londor used science to find a particle that possesses people?

Maybe formal is an insult and Kaathe was being controlled by this particle?
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>>168615786
>cleric
>fingers
>right-hand bows
>left-hand axes
>pyromancy

what even is my life
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>>168616002
should do it our protection in favor of yours
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>>168616059
The dragons were defeated long before Gwyn linked the fire.
Can't say for sure when humans came to be but it was definitely before Gwyn linked it as the four kings were humans who got a piece of his soul.
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>>168616151
Well I've been invaded by a couple players but that probably doesn't really count.
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I just had to kill 175 Followers to get the Armor
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>>168615630
>Not Bishop Havel
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>>168604605
Did you do the npc storylines or did you not realise they were there either?

You have to do some of the game in a specific order to complete them all, also buy everything shopkeepers sell.
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>>168616425
you can read the descriptions from the shop i'm pretty sure
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>>168598505
This is my exact situation with Sprint. I have true unlimited data and have used 100's of gigs a month cosisently with no complaints from them.

However, the speed is absolute trash and limits online play for me pretty regularly. Only downside of living waaay out in the boonies is crappy ISP's
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>>168616262
>right-hand bows
>left-hand axes
>pyromancy

Right hand:
>Dragonrider bow
>Knight's crossbow

Left hand:
>Millwood BA
>Pyro flame

Shouldn't be too bad Anon, you just can't crit shit unless you switch to an unoccupied slot and go for a halfass visceral.
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>>168616262
>>168616661
>they don't know about left hand greataxe
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>>168616309
Thank God. This argument made my fucking brain hurt so i cannot thank you enough. He also says that being human has always been temporary since without gwynn linking the fire they can't burn humanity to be human. I'm starting to think he doesn't get the periods of no hollows
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>>168616059

Are you sure they said 'linking' and not 'finding', because other than the linking they're on the right track.
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>>168616767
>axes being greataxes
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>>168606957
I do not understand at all how to read this.
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>>168614679
Use the i-frames ring or quickstep
Gives you enough iframes to roll the delayed attack even if you mistake it for a normal swing, as long as you swing into it.
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>>168616179
Just saying that the description leaves it vague if the pyro tome is talking about Salaman or the CU
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>>168616551
Yes but I'm not talking about the item descriptions. I'm talking about how to complete the npc storylines.

I think some characters won't move until you've bought all their shit or followed their upgrade path, ect.
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>>168616858
He said linking
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>>168616262
>implying rosaria isn't a goddess
>implying klimt, former way of white archdeacon, didn't convert for dem titties
>implying deep deacons aren't sorcerer clerics and don't cast fire

Aside from the left-handed axe, it actually sounds about right.
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>>168616817
>He also says that being human has always been temporary since without gwynn linking the fire they can't burn humanity to be human
That's not really -becoming- human as much as using humanity in some way to de-hollowify yourself.

Human is someone who either got a piece of the dark soul from the pygmy or is a decendant of one who did. I don't think a god for example could become a human by burning humanity.
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>>168605068
If you die before you get the souls it doesn't count as a boss kill. No trading.
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>>168615630
Bretty good, my dude, just change that tumblr-tier faggotry "favor and protection" line
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>>168617079
No, you said she taught two students.

It's not directly stated that Salaman was Quelana's final pupil but it's implied so that's what I'm going with. I've never known "X once did Y" to mean "X did Y a couple of times" unless Y was cocaine.
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>>168606826
Thats right faggot, you dont get to win them all
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>>168615768
Ah, thanks, but no thanks. Too much of a hassle, I will progress trough the shields naturally until I get it.
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>>168606957
Rolling then.
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>>168617308
That's what i was saying to him. Sweet sweet validation
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>>168616817
But being human IS temporary. In normal condition, humans can die and while the fire fades they don't die but become hollow upon death. Humanity is never permanent
>>168616927
>not reading the reply chain
>>168616946
your last 3 digits are (red)(green)(blue). You need to conform to whatever your combinations match
you
>must start deprived
>must go aldrich faithful
>can't use shields
>can only Gshields left hand (meaning your left hand can only have a catalyst)
>must use Greataxes right hand
>can use sorcery if you want
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>>168617193
right, right. It's true with Logan (goes nuts), Griggs (goes hollow) and Rhea (gets caged and goes hollow). Anyone else?
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Why the fuck did they decide to make armor irrelevant for DS3? It was my least favorite part of Bloodborne and they carried it into the main series.
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I can't beat the Twin Princes. I killed them in my first playthrough with 2 phantoms and it was very easy. Now I'm going at it alone but can't do it. Help.
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>>168617647
It's pretty easy to get confused about the details of these games.
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>>168617830
Because FUCK FARMING TITANITE JUST TO CHANGE ARMOR.
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>go into settings
>realize I can still see the dragon on default darkness settings
>set it to 0, game looks so much better
>i can still see the dragon

fuck me, only 400 hours in boys.
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>>168617920
Stop being bad.
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>>168618094
Then help me faget.
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>>168606957
>roll 863
>can't use anything
genius
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>>168617661
While it is certainly temporary on the large scale, he meant in every human's life time. I don't think he gets that civilization recovers after the flame is linked
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>>168617963
He could have removed armor upgrading without making armor fucking irrelevant.
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>>168618314
We are actually not certain about humanity's true face. If SotFS wasn't a bunch of pseudophilosophical bullshit, the "human" form with the smooth skin and non-beef jerky body MAY be a fleeting illusion cause by Gwyn's firelinking
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>>168618631
Yes but surely every human doesn't come back as a hollow at every point in history. In times where the flame is high i assume they can actually die die
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>>168617830
Because they decided that dodging should be the best and most reliable form of defense.

It's a bad mishmash of ideas though. Why have a stat tax like vitality if armor isn't going to provide a meaningful defense and fat rolling/using a shield as your primary mode of defense is mostly nonviable entirely.
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>>168617830
Armor isn't irrelevant, it just depends on a combination of factors to work. It's kind of like rolls in DaS2 where you had to invest in an otherwise completely useless stat or two just for it to be any good, but once you did the gameplay improved dramatically. People running around with base Vit in DaS3 are like that tripfag Kobra saying Adp in DaS2 was worthless.

When looking at defense, you need to know how character defense works before you even think about armor defense. General rule of thumb is that the closer your character defense is to another weapon's AR, the more severely that weapon's damage will be reduced. This becomes especially noticeable against split damage weapons like dark or chaos infused stuff since they have lower individual ARs which can sometimes put them below your character defense and massively reduces at least one of the damage types. On the flip side, if the opponent's weapon AR is way the heck over your character defense for that damage type, their AR can basically ignore your defense. This is why the dark infusion seems like it's on par with the refined infusion, because nobody except pyros bother investing in Faith which boosts dark defense, and against other pyros they can just switch to chaos for the same effect. For the most part, character defense will only help you survive one more hit at best, except against smaller weapons or split damage ones.

Armor defense only kicks in after character defense, and simply reduces the remaining damage by roughly the listed percent. For the most part this only helps you survive one additional hit, mainly because it's hard to get more than 25% reduction, but if you're already surviving four hits then 25% will change that to a fifth.

After that, heavy HP investment will let you survive one extra hit without armor. With armor, the effects can be borderline multiplicative if you can get a really huge amount of HP to really give those damage reduction effects room to work.
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>get into the series with bloodborne
>decide to try out dark souls
>get stuck at the tomb of giants

Is this normal? I didn't play this game when it was popular.
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>fight against UGS dude
>sometimes he poises through things
>sometimes he doesn't
I don't understand this shit.
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>>168619006
Altogether, you're looking at about 3-4 extra hits of survivability if you devote pretty much every point into defense.

Which is why defense is irrelevant, because it costs too much when you could be killing stuff faster.
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>>168618780
Sure, but we don't know if humans were the same before the first firelinking. They other school says that Gwyn somehow linked humanity to the First Flame, so that whenever it's weakened, humanity is also weakened, so that undead will be produced and pushed to link the flames. Bonfires burn the bones of undead and as evidenced by the ending of ds1, the first flame is the mother of all bonfires
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>>168618631
That's a given, isn't it?
Life and death both come from the fire, which means that dark is something outside of both. If humans are dark beings, their true form should be neither living nor dead. The fact that they can do both means they're influenced by fire. The fact that they stop doing both as the fire fades is telling, I think.
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>>168619065
Getting lost is pretty normal, yes. Let me guess, you don't even know what a Lordvessel is, do you.

Back out of the tomb and try a different direction. If you see water, you went the extreme wrong way.
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>>168619260
Nah dude I'm just really bad at this. I've got the lordvessel.
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>>168618156
You already got help by two phantoms before, and now you want more help?

I bet you think you're doing it legitly now, don't you? you whiny bitch...

git gud.
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>>168619065
Dark Souls 1 is a game that absolutely will let you wander into an end game area without telling you. Tomb of Giants is an end game area, but the place just before it is an early game area. You're supposed to back out after killing Pinwheel, but they don't tell you that part. I guess they figured the dark would scare people away?

The ghost lake is also an end game area, except there you can actually encounter the boss if you get too lost. Stay the fuck away from the ghost lake if you value your humanity.
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>>168606957
Rolling
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r8 my cosplay
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>>168617440
Well that's just your personal interpretation of the text, or should I say, headcanon
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>>168619473
Oh, you're fine then. Equip the necromancer's lantern as a shield and hold it up, the glowy blue orbs will light your way.

Be glad you weren't one of the ones who got lost in there on a brand new character.
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>>168619087
There are two important poise values
Maximum poise (normal)
Minimum poise (80% of max)

Basically when you get hit, your poise health decreases. Your poise health refreshes every time you do something that activates poise; however, it only returns to full if your poise was broken or a poise-triggering WA was used. Otherwise, it refreshes to 80% effectiveness (minimum poise)

For big things like UGS, there's a massive difference in the breakpoint where their maximum poise can resist an attack, and the breakpoint where their minimum poise is enough. This means they can trade through your first attack, but the next one will stagger them. After they're staggered, they can trade through your first attack again. They can refresh their poise back to max at any time by using stomp. Reddit spread a false rumour that WAs don't refresh poise anymore, so many players fail to take advantage of useful WAs like stomp and perseverance to increase their poise effectiveness and lower then amount of vitality their build needs.
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>>168619181
Dark comes from the fire as well.
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>>168620018
False.
Dark came with fire, but will persist even after fire is no more. They are are related but not dependent.
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>>168605068
The weirdest thing happened when I was fighting Aldritch. He was below three quarters of his health bar, I was annoyed and rushed for the final combo, starts with the arrow rain, and he was able to summon his attack maybe a second or two before he died, the effect remained and the arrows killed me. I kept my souls, it was just weird.
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>>168620128
Then what you said is also.
False.
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ahh, oh
bring poise to me, please
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>>168620128
>dark will continue to exist without the thing that defines its existence
Nah. My bet is we'll have an age of dark for a little bit, then all the dark will dry up because it, too, is a soul just like the first flame was. Then we'll get another Age of Ancients where the only things that still exist are the ones that removed themselves from the equation of life like hollows, trees, and dragons, and then they just sit around enduring until another flame sparks up and it all happens all over again.
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FLAYUHL
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>Rap is looking for the Purging Monument in the DLC

I guess Velka fags might get their wish, at least in statue form. Unless said monument is a Londor design. IIRC, Velka and Yuria are associated with Purging Stones.
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>tfw dsg is a bunch of old meanies

i-i thought you guys were my bros ;_;
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THIS IS THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST FOR ALL THE ALDRICH FAITHFULS
Mound-makers and Rosaria's fingers are invading our sacred city, get you staves and defend Aldrich's realm
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>>168620941

Dark Souls is suffering

Git hard
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>>168620941
>le reddit meme frog exde
kys
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>>168620943
>your sacred city
Get back to your sewers already, sludgeboy
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>>168620489
MUH FLAYUHL

>>168620804
>velka in the dlc
Was there anyone who doubted this? Vow of Silence was Velka's miracle, Rings of Sacrifice were created in one of her rituals, and her priest sold purging stones. There's no way she isn't.
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>>168621472
And where Velka goes, so go her pardoners
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>>168620943
>purples and reds invading Anor Londo
>they're actually helping you by invading hosts that are attempting to kill Aldrich
Why would you want to kill people that are trying to help you?
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What's a cool weapon nobody uses, /dsg/?
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>>168621472

That chick with the egg thingy has black hair too.

I'm guessing Velka was the first daughter that was given to the Pygmies for whatever reason.
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>>168603951
>Dragonslayer Greatbow
>Bad tier
Sorry, but paired with the obscuring ring, it's probably my favorite weapon in the game. Nothing feels more satisfying than skewering a guy that was pointing down at an invader he killed and didn't see shit coming.
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>>168620943
>killing other invaders
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>>168621251
I shall tell Royce about this heretic.
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>>168603290
>commissioning some /co/ related stuff
>see a pic of the dancer and a futa ashen one having some fun with the dancers booty
>suddenly get the urge to change my comm to that

What the fuck do i do lads?
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>>168621695
The executioner's GS is actually pretty good, though.
Being a buffable pure-stat GS makes it the best-in-class buff carrier.
27str and 10fth + a ringswap gives you like 500 pure physical AR.
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>>168621695
assuming cool doesn't mean good
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>>168621869
>changing commissions after you've already sent them
Don't actually do this.
Just bide your time and make a new commission when you have the spare dosh again.
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>>168621251
>Get back to your sewers already, sludgeboy
I'm sorry, I wont fit in the pipes with your shitty waifu in my belly. :^)
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>>168621552
>>168621797
Illegal cockfights.
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>>168621869
Learn to stick by your decisions, fagass. Don't make choices you think you'll regret later, and don't suddenly change your mind halfway through on a whim. If you wanted something before, you'll still want it after unless the reason for wanting it went away.
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>>168621715
>for whatever reason.
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>>168621695

Gael uses that.
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>>168621993
>those hp/fp/stam bars
holy shit what
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>>168622153

>Be Gwyn
>have emo goth daughter that is ironically into punishing sinners
>god I hate her
>what to do
>I know! Give her to those retards that picked up the Dark Soul; they always sin
>I'll promise to come back and check on her, sometime....
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How does scaling with Friede scythe work? If I level Int will it raise the two handed attack ar or only the second one used in the weapon arts?
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>>168622495
Magic damage is only on the magic illusion L2 scythe. Physical damage is only on the normal scythe. You only get the full combined AR during the L2R1 combo, and only if both hits per attack connect.
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>>168621472
How is it confirmed though? This is almost as bad as the retards who thought solaire was gwyns first born.
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>>168621916
>tfw wanna change my executioner build to include buffs but don't want to invest stats/use out of character spells

guess I'll have to deal with charcoal pine resin.
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>>168622408
Considering what a terrible parent Gwyn was I wouldn't be horribly surprised
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>>168622408
>>god I hate her
>not "by myself, I hate her"
ya blu it
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>>168622680
Who said anything about confirmed? All I'm saying is it looks pretty damn likely.

>>168622408
>wife isn't mentioned ever
>first son is a dragonfucker, disown him
>first daughter runs off with some dudebro at the first sign of trouble
>second son is a mutant, raise him as a girl and give him daddy issues
>"gift" second daughter to weird pygmy race after "gifting" them a city as far away as possible

Gwyn was not a family man.
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>>168621251
>not "dont you find it humerus"
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>>168622495
It;s a little weird
The main scythe is pure physical. The physical AR listing is the entire physical AR of the main scythe, including the entire standard 1H and 2H moveset

The small illusory scythe is pure magic damage. The magic AR listing is the entire AR of the second scythe.

The second scythe is only active during the weapon art attacks, which means that the WA attacks apply both physical and magic AR, while the entire rest of the moveset is pure physical.

The int scaling only applies to the magic AR, obviously, so increasing int beyond the minimum requirements only makes the WA stronger, and does so to about the same degree that dexterity does. The faith scaling boosts the physical damage but is so small it might as well not exist.
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>>168621761
these kind of lists are usually duelfagging, which is why greatweapons are generally considered low
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>>168623153
Why would a duelfag list even include greatbows?
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>my jewtube vid recommendations have trap related shit in them
w-what
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>>168623264
You're surprised?
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>We'll never see stone greatsword (or tranquil walk of peace), channeler's trident, bone fist, puzzling stone sword, dead again, gravelord sword, or the rings that make your weapons invisible in Ds3.
Why live?
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>>168623381
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>>168623423
D r a k e k e e p e r ' s G r e a t a x e
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>>168623423
the only ones I miss out of those are the trident and the puzzling stone sword.

plenty of armors I still miss from das1 and 2 though.
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>>168623261
why wouldn't it? it also includes obvious joke weapons. besides, you're forgetting that your opponent's stupidity is always viable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SouTozZ-oX8
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>>168604605
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwjUe4B_g7M
hawkshaw's vidyas are pretty gud
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>>168623423
>stone greatsword with buff swapping
Yeah, nah.

The invisible weapon rings were really annoying in PvP. The others are nice, though.
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>>168623264
Google tracks literally everything you do online, anon.
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>>168623482
Id never use anything else if this was added.
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>>168623060
Fuck it's not as suited as an int build as I thought, I rarely use the weaponarts in pve. I have yet to pvp with this character and I fear the worst
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help soc
ps4
dsg
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>>168619574
Just when I thought his set couldn't get any skinnier.
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>>168623538
I thought that was recently patched out. Still think it would be fun outside of abuse by glitchfags.
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>>168623461
Why isn't there any Nito porn? I thought people liked skeletons.
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Using a finger and watching the chaos ensue as aldrichfags, dorkmoons and reds show up and try to kill me and eachother is so fun.

Can't even remember the last time I enjoy pvp so much in a souls game.
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>>168623482
It's probably for the best, its DaS3 moveset would be:
Generic Greataxe vertical R1s
Generic Greataxe vertical R2s
Generic Greataxe rolling attacks
Generic Greataxe running attacks
Warcry
Generic Greataxe Warcry R2s

It would be a "long" greataxe and be unable to combo 2HR1s, but the model would be personally rescaled by Miyazaki himself to ensure that it has less reach than Yhorm's. It would be a quality weapon
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>>168623864
No genitals
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>>168623736
What do you need?
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>>168623423
>We'll never see dead again
SEE IT'S SO AFWUL YOU ACTUALLY FORGOT IT'S IN THE GAME
GOD DAMN IT FROM
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>>168623959
I'm crying right now, stop it
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>>168623636
Yeah, it's mostly a dex weapon.

>>168623839
The most recently found one was patched out, yes. But spellswap and all its offshoots are a product of the engine Fromsoft has been using since Demon's Souls, so it'll keep popping up until they use a completely new engine like they did for DaS2.
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>>168623894
>SS parry king shitter enjoying running around non stop when outnumbered then sometimes turning for two quick r1s

Gee, who'd have thought?
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>>168623965
him dead
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>>168623894
try that phantom ring with hidden body, slumbering dragon ring and lingering.
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>>168624061
Were you one of the people that showed up?
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>>168624324
I don't even play 3, it's easy to guess how every person who likes these fuckfests plays
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>>168610458

farron keep = darkroot + blight town

profaned capital = sunken oolacile + new londo
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>>168624060
what should I use then? I have a crystal sage rapier, a moolight greatsword and a greatsword of judgement, those are int weapon.
I don't really want to use a straight sword, thats kind of boring even if it's the most viable class of weapon in the game

I hope the aquamarine dagger will be good
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>>168623962

You don't need them when you have a Gravelord Sword
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>>168624413
I mean, you have a good point that it's a stupid fuckfest, but it can be a lot of good dumb fun
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>that guy who starts a fistfight but once your hp is low he pulls out a dragonslayer greataxe

I bet you fap to Gwyndolin's porn.
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>>168623962
All that means is I can post skeleton porn on blue boards and not get banned. It doesn't make it not lewd.
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it always baffles me when i get summoned for end game bosses and see people die in stupid ways to easily avoided shit

I also don't understand why people summon phantoms and get them to escort them through the map. where is the fun in that?
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>>168624481
That thing is poisonous, though
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>>168624467
>I have a crystal sage rapier, a moolight greatsword and a greatsword of judgement, those are int weapon
That's kind of it, really. Add an Immolation Tinder on there and your build is pretty much over.
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So, what's the better infusion between Bleed and Hollow?

Bleed increases the size of the "take a chunk of HP off when bleed procs" damage that the target takes, but since you can't buff, it takes more attacks to proc an instance.

Hollow increases the amount of bleed buildup that the target takes per hit, via Luck (which also requires you put points into Luck, and be a part of Yuria's questline), but you still have a normal-sized HP loss on proc. Hollow weapons can still be buffed with Carthus Rouge, but Luck also soft-caps at 40. So at best you want 30 Luck and two Hollow-infused weapons, plus Carthus Rouge, for faster bleed buildup and thus more frequent procs.

Just looking at it like this, I assume that Hollow is the best infusion simply because more procs will mean that in the same number of hits you'll deal more overall bleed damage?

Also, assuming that you have two different bleed weapons (and maybe also Kukris), is it the weapon that procs the bleeding that determines how much damage the proc does? Like, if you hit a guy several times with a 30-bleed weapon, and then trigger the blood loss with a 40-bleed weapon, then the guy loses more HP from the proc?
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>>168624015
Oh shit youre right. I dont know why they nerfed it so hard. It wasnt exactly broken seeing as it took a good deal of prep to one shot someone.
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>>168624247
just don't forget the untrue white ring and only go for bs
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>>168624675
oh yeah it serve as a catalyst, i hope that I wont have to point any point in vit
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>>168623962
you haven't seen any undertale porn I presume
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>>168624420
>farron keep = darkroot + blight town

Where's the Blight Town part?

I got a Darkroot-has-been-taken-over-by-the-Abyss feeling, but I didn't see anything relating to Blight Town there.
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>>168624675
You could also make use of the infusion system and get some crystal weapons. Or raw buffed weapons. Also, you forgot crescent moon sword.
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>>168624619
>I also don't understand why people summon phantoms and get them to escort them through the map. where is the fun in that?
Because they're babies that need 2 sunbros to keep them from the big scary invading mans!
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>>168624782
Don't remind me, please.
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>>168624015

>literally made from corpses
>literally uses a gravelord sword miracle
>not nito
>>
fuuuuuuck
>make lowlevel twink character
>bullying with RAW ASS in the high wall
>kill Anri for her hpregen sword
>apparently killing Anri makes Yuria never appear
>I can never buy the untrue dark ring (mai ringfu)
shit i just have to delete the character and make another one now, right
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>>168624619
After the first playthrough, the game is very boring, so you at least summon friends
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>>168624619
So they can brag to their chad friends about how theyre mlg and breezed through superhardsouls and hardly ever died.
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>>168624702
Hollow is best right now because of how broken carthus rouge+innate bleed weapon is.
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>>168624931
You are fucking retarded.

Are you on PC, I'll drop you the ring.
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>>168624702
Bleed is shit, hollow gets better damage and can be buffed with carthus resin.

Bleed infusion most certainly fucking does not increase the damage the target takes from bleed. It just affects normal buildup.

Hollow doesn't inherently increase the status buildup of the weapon, it just gives you incentive to level Luck which does increase the status buildup. Again, HP damage from bleed doesn't ever change, ever.

Where the fuck are you getting your information? Because wherever it is, you need to stop.
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>>168622408
I thought that he gave them Velka as a peace offering cuz he was scared
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>>168623530
Just so you guys know this guy said Ciaran is Gwyndolin's mother and they are both secretly cyclopses.
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>>168624897

I figured he was the reincarnated Nito for this go around of the Linking.
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>>168624702
>if you hit a guy several times with a 30-bleed weapon, and then trigger the blood loss with a 40-bleed weapon, then the guy loses more HP from the proc?
Nothing changes bleed damage, idiot. Those numbers only show how much buildup it does per hit.
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>>168624971
>So they can brag [...] about how theyre mlg and breezed through superhardsouls and hardly ever died.

So, basically Souls threads on /v/?
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>>168624874
I forgot clerics candlestick.
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>ashes of ariandel
>wolf pack
>prepare lightning stake
>5 of them jump me
h-heh, nothing personal, kids
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>>168624874
>Also, you forgot crescent moon sword
That's because it's shit, also more of a dex than int weapon.
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>>168625267
Sometimes stake is the best magic spell in the series.
Sometimes.

I wish it did more damage or was at least more stat efficient so I could feel like an angry lightning god more often.
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3 hours with no darkmoon blade summon, should i just farm silver knights instead
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>>168621797
>>168620943
>>168621552
As Aldritch Faithful I've had red phantoms wave at me and then hit me in the back of the head with a claymore.
And one that was actually defending and helping the host
"If it's red, it's better off dead"
hard to trust you motherfuckers
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>>168625135
Noone fucking reincarnates, don't get the DaS2 stuff wrong.
Different people just pick different souls and use their power accordingly, just as the player can get a cool soul and then turn it into a weapon.
Oceiros is not reincarnated Seath, he's simply channeling his power into himself, same with the Rotten, Abyss Watchers and so on.
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>>168625267
>throw alluring skull
>kill them while they sperg out over it
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>>168625170
bleed-infused weapons do 100 more damage on bleed proc than non-bleed-infused

also, some sources of poison like storyteller staff do more DPS than normal poison

in both cases it just depends on which source filled up the last bit of the bar, the source of the rest of the bleed buildup doesn't matter
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>Try the arena after a while since i'm bored
>first opponent hides away from a pillar spamming witch's lock WA
>When he is about to die runs to heal and pulls out avelyn with GFS

Why do i even bother.
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>>168625267
>equip breakdance sword
>become undead, the wolfslayer
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>pyromancy scales the same as dark magic, using both faith and intelligence

what did miyazaki mean by this?
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>>168625465
Shit, son. That didn't even cross my mind. Trying that in a bit.

>>168625267
Yeah, I never thought that spell was so fucking fun. Just bullied Aldrich with it as well.
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>>168625470
>they made bleed worse than in DS2

why live
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>>168625470
>bleed-infused weapons do 100 more damage on bleed proc than non-bleed-infused
Since when?
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>>168625436
Yeah, at least purplefucks wait till someone gets low to go for an easy kill, while a decent amount of reds seem to follow some kind of "muh honor" mentality and go out of their way to fight the gank covenant members, even if ganking is much more prevalent among whites in this game.
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>>168625604
BUT WITH FIRE
CAME DISPARITY
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>>168625267

Dragonslayer Greataxe WA is even better
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>>168625604
>"shit, we made pyromancy too strong in DS1 and the memes are abusing it, this looks bad on our company"
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>>168619656
>Not reading "once" as "twice" is a personal interpretation

OK Anon.
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>>168625639
Are you fucking retarded? Have you even played DaS3? It's nowhere as bad as in 2. It's pretty much das1 bleed, except it's much easier to stack now.
Even Frostbite is better than DaS2 bleed.
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>>168625639
???
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>>168625629
>>168625376
Fuck, responded to myself before.

Any other spells that are that fun? Lightning spears seem to be pretty dull and pyromancies don't have that high impact feeling.
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>>168625651
since forever

bleed has always done 18% of HP, bleed infusion does 21%
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>ash lake
>ashen mist heart
>ash

ASH SEEKETH EMBERS
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>>168625651
well according to fextralife at least
but then again it's fextralife

>>168625639
no
DS2 bleed was a flat 200 damage or some useless garbage like that
DS3 bleed is 18% of maxhp +50 (for natural bleed weapons) or +150 (for bleed-infused)

actually DS2 bleed came back as DS3 frostbite -- a pathetic amount of damage plus slightly reduced stamina regen
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>>168625440
It's more accurate to say that pieces of the lord souls remain powerful and continue to be found by people.
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>>168625830

Pillars of Light can be fun for Faith, albeit it suffers the same problem with most spells; poor overall damage.

Lifehunt Scythe can be fun to use in melee too.
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>>168625440
Silly Anon, Seath needs no phony third party reincarnation, he's doing just fine on his own
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>>168625908
DS2 bleed was flat 200 damage + half stamina + reduced stamina regen + slow walk.

Except in pvp, the non-damage effects didn't work, so players just took a little extra damage (less than they would lose through bleed infusion). That's what made it useless, since bosses don't have stamina either. Bleed was only really a status effect for the player to avoid, not to inflict on others.
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>>168625841
>bleed has always done 18% of HP
It most certainly has not, bleed has always done 30% of HP.

I seriously think you don't even use bleed.
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>>168625932
I would say the other anon's was better actually.
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>>168625908
Don't forget the reduced absorbtion.
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>>168625126
Trapgod is not a cyclops, his model has two eyes.
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>>168625440

Reincarnation is probably too literal.

More like the original Souls tend to go a specific way each cycle. So, you'll have someone/something like Nito, even though it's not Nito.
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>>168625908
DS2 bleed didn't reduce stamina regen, it reduced your max stamina and running speed.
Fun fact: bleed also blocked the ability to perform running attacks (except by backstepping) which was actually pretty handy for arena pvp.
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>>168626160
I know.
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>>168626079
also because DS2 applied that non-functional debuff, you couldn't actually inflict bleed again for the 15 seconds it was active because the bleed bar was still "ticking down"
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>special faith-scaling candlesticks
>but they're for casting sorceries
>but they actually shoot fire at you
Why can't the Deacons make up their fucking minds?
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>>168626045
the problem with pillars and other aoe spells is that they don't cover enough ground. I've had countless times where the enemy just walks past the pillars and doesn't get hit. Also, it deals physical damage so lots of enemies are able to block holy pillars of light, which is stupid. It would be handy if it had shield piercing.
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>>168626386
>faith scaling
No they aren't.
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>>168626386
>DS2
>pyromancer enemy drops a staff that can be used for both sorceries and miracles (but not pyromancies)
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>>168625908
>well according to fextralife at least
That page is disturbingly in-depth compared to the general quality of the site.

>>168626386
They don't scale with Faith, either. They scale purely with Intelligence but have a 12 Faith requirement.
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>>168626045

I hope DLC2 adds more divine miracles, it's pretty neat that dark miracles are fancy flashy angel dust shit

I'd be perfectly happy sorcery knock-offs like divine spear of light, divine hail, divine lightmass, etc. that do little/no damage butapply curse
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>>168626542
>>168626618
Oh, I guess I just assumed it did scale with faith.
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>>168626634
It'd also be nice if the circlet spell could be buffed up enough to actually do something
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>>168626618
basically fextralife is a ton of random redditors adding random bullshit
sometimes you get 11 year olds adding rumors that they heard from their brother's friend's bf
sometimes you get cool turboautists who spend 5 hours with cheatengine looking at exact hyperarmor/poise values for every weapon in the game
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>>168626386
Fire Sorcery used to be a thing, pontiff probably reinvented that, just look at his fire witches.
Also the staff is the one that lets you channel faith in sorcery.
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>>168626693
the Aldritch covenant 30-dreg reward does scale with faith though

apparently at 60fth it's the most damaging catalyst in the game
so, uh, i guess that's handy for SL802 builds
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>>168626634

As do I.

That lightning phantom bow thingy in the trailer is probably a Faith spell (if weapon, it'd be a Faith one, so there's that at least).

The Faith discuses from Ashes were disappointing.
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is it worth using the archdeacon great staff on a pure faith build?
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>>168626742
It's too slow, it should be thrown like a frisbee. Not up in the air like a lightning spear.
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>>168626386

Sulyvahn and everyone within his church (he's like the pope of the sable church or something) abuse the profane flame, so it makes sense that they would be able to cast fire magic.
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>>168606957
Rolling
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>>168627029
if you have sorceries you want to cast and enough int to cast them, i guess

soul arrow spam is probably better than lightningbold spam for pve
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>>168626545
>1 of 4 attacks is a fire spell
>Pyromancer
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>>168626634
>dark miracles are fancy flashy angel dust shit
But that's wrong. Dark miralcles are either your ordinary DaS2 purple shit or Deep goo shit or literal BEES.
Stuff like Divine Pillars of Light is not dark, despite having an allegedly malign origin.
>>168626742
One anon reported that IIRC the sunlight talisman boosts physical miracles and he managed to reach 300 damage per hit so 600 total if you hit them while the disk is returning. Doesn't seem too horrible, I'd say that the main problem is that it dissipates if it hits the wall, and it's also not the fastest projectile.
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>>168627130
On the contrary, make it slower. Make it hit multiple times if you stand in it and be a pain in the dick to dodge. Then you could fire off a few and switch back to your main weapon to apply pressure from both sides.
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>>168606957
Rolling for anything but mage
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>keep dying to Papa sully
It's like my first playthrough all over again
I really regret that they didnt put us his weapons as paired sword with some bit of his moveset like the spin or his diving attack
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>>168626961
It's actually pretty neat. The Greatstaff only beats out the court staff by a few points of spellbuff, but since the good sorceries only take around 23int, you can fit sunlight spear/stake with a canvas talisman onto a build with darts and soulmass. HA nukes actually come in handy when you have timing changeups and fast. low-risk skirmishing spells to mix with it.
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>>168627462
Magic has become so messy, everything meshes together. Surprised they haven't said fuck it and just made an omnicaster that scales with nothing.
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>>168606957
Roll
>>168627289
That's a crock of bullshit. Sunlight Talisman does nothing to physical miracles and the spell never reaches 300 damage a pass.
It's just fucking bad
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>>168606645
Gwyndolin had his own reign before it all went to shit. Look at the windows in the cathedral and you'll notice something.
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>>168626545
That one is actually from an older version of the game before they swapped lead designers. In the beta, staffs cast sorcery and pyromancy while chimes cast miracles and hexes. In theory, the black witch staff would simply be a combination staff and chime. Tanimura left it as a staff and chime combo, but gave pyromancy a separate catalyst for whatever reason. They missed a few spots though, like the Black Witch Staff having a value for fire scaling or Felkin using the Sunset Staff to cast pyros and hexes.

Speaking of Sunset Staff, one of the preorder bonus weapons made a big deal about how it could cast sorcery and dark because it was a staff that got corrupted by darkness. Since the beta version had hexes as a thing for chimes, this made it unique and probably worth something. It ended up being perfectly normal in the final version, though, but stuff like that would explain weird shit like the Chime of Screams (in theory it'd be another pyro/hex catalyst) or Wrathful Axe having only Faith and no Int requirements despite its special attack being dark.
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the fuck she doin?
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>fighting friede
>not really taking it seriously, die a couple of times
>shoot her with a bow for some reason
>realize that when she goes invisible the arrows remain visible
>proceed to pincushion her

They do basically the same damage as my R1s and stagger her out of 80% of her attacks. I just shoot at where the arrows are and knock her out of invisibility. This is hilarious.
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>>168627638
What even are the physical miracles? Just force variations and circlet? Those seem to be more useful for utility purposes rather than straight damage.
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Which is the best catalyst for a sorcerer? I'm currently using a +4 sorcerer staff. I intend to go for 50/60 int
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>>168626823
Well, at least you can tell which is which on sight.

Dayum.
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>>168627831
archdeacon greatstaff
int is for pussies, praise jeebus
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>>168626545
>he uses it for pyros
>best dark staff
>similar design to chaos shield, supposedly used by the same guy (in the concept art)
>who wears the hexer set and sells pyros and is voiced by the same dude who voiced laurentius
>there is a chaos set in the game
>it's worn by a completely unrelated npc
>who sells and uses hexes
>doesn't even use a staff for them
>there is another npc who sells pyros
>looks like gypsy voodooist
>also was depicted with the bone staff, a hexer's staff
ds2's development was a mess. i wager the sunset staff was initially supposed to be able to cast pyromancies and hexes, with a special extra bonus to chaos pyros
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>>168627760
Soon.
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>>168627456
Literally this. And he always killed me with 1/4 hp left. Jeez, that was kinda embarrassing.
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>>168627289

>But that's wrong. Dark miralcles are either your ordinary DaS2 purple shit or Deep goo shit or literal BEES.
Stuff like Divine Pillars of Light is not dark, despite having an allegedly malign origin.

divine pillars of light is a "dark" miracle. dark souls 3 is very heavily playing up the light is dark angle and considering that the usurpation of fire's sun is literally the way of white circlet, I'd more than reckon that that covenant is going to be featured in DLC2
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>>168626386

Fun fact, Fire Sorcery used to be a thing using catalysts until Pyromancy became a thing and the little palm flames became a thing.
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>>168627752
Pissing, don't bother her.
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There really is no winning against Black Serpent
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>>168621695
I used it for most of the game ,was fun.
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>>168627752
did you lvl up with Irina?
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>>168627462
Checking descriptions and damn
>Golden Ritual Spear
>sacred spear that was given to the most devout of trapfag knights until evilbad Pope Dope took over, lets the user channel faith into sorceries
>Archdeacon's Greatstaff
>NO BAD THATS HERECY YOU CAN'T BE CHANNELING FAITH INTO SORCERIES NUUUUUUuuu
he truly did nothing wrong.
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>>168627915

What type of damage does Divine Pillars do?
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>>168627831
As we've been discussing, you have a lot of options. If you wanted to be weird but have some fun, you could do a hollow build and use the mangrub staff that scales only with luck.
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>>168627289
>One anon reported that IIRC the sunlight talisman boosts physical miracles and he managed to reach 300 damage per hit so 600 total if you hit them while the disk is returning
Actually, I said it was the Saint's Talisman. Sunlight Talisman is just weak but has nice poise.

>>168627638
40 Faith, Saint Talisman, Firstborn + Morne rings, flail Awakening buff. 300 damage per pass.

Assuming your opponent is nice enough to let you whip yourself. Might not be necessary at 60fth, though.
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>>168626961

>best sorcery catalyst in the game
>scales purely on faith

on that note, I have the archdeacon great staff and haven't even found the aldritch faithful covenant. what's up with that?
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>>168627789
Wrath of the Gods
Divine Pillars of Light
Way of White Circlet
And Blessed Weapon (technically)

Emit Force actually does lightning damage in 3.
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>>168627925
if you had a weapon with better damage you would've won that trade

otherwise you can just stand farther back and dodge sideways
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Darkness ahead
therefore
Try thrust
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>>168627579
That's exactly what they did in Bloodborne. The only spellcasting stat is Arcane, there is no Attunement, spells are reusable items (or some weapons) that cost bullets to use, and casters were actually viable in PvP for once.
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>>168628097
>Emit Force actually does lightning damage in 3.
nani
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>>168628097
emit force did lightning in 2 as well
but in 2 all the elements were tied strongly to particular stats
there wasn't any magic-damage shit that scaled with faith or anything like that
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>>168628097
>Emit Force actually does lightning damage in 3
Nope, it's physical. Emit Force and WoG did lightning damage in 2, not 3.
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>>168628043

physical, like blessed weapons.

>>168627915

>mfw way of white and way of white related miracles were dark miracles the entire time.
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>>168627895
>chaos shield, supposedly used by the same guy (in the concept art)
Felkin actually starts using the Chaos Shield and Chaos Rapier if you cast Profound Still.
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Why is Oceiros so easy and simple? Its second phase its supposed to be harder but is actually easier since all you have to do is stick to a side and hit, the only attack you have to dodge is the tail and depending on where are you standing it wont even hit you
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>>168627752
She's ashamed of you for using a katana do you have untre dark ring on?
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>>168628219
Casters weren't viable in pvp, Arc was viable in pvp.
There's an important difference there.
Arc had access to spell tools but they were mostly (read: all) shit
Arc was strong because the gem buffs made cold abyssals godlike, so most weapons which could be turned bolt were optimal as bolt. This also included shit like saifs that were already godlike.

Arc could use tools without any additional stat investment, which might mislead people into thinking that casting was good. But no, it wasn't. Arc was good because saws and saifs and dashweels were good. Tools were just a waste of time to use
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>don't find orbeck before killing abyss watchers
>is gone forever
>locked out of 90% of sorcery until NG+

literally what did miyazaki mean by this?
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>>168624765
Has the firelink gs been buffed at all?
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>>168628774
honestly Karla should be able to read scrolls, except golden Oolacile
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>>168628946
No.
It's a decent twink weapon, though.
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>>168625604
Abyss = darkness version of chaos
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>>168628774
Does he ? I rememeber recruiting him only after I got the Scholar Ring in the Archives, in my first playthrough.
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>>168628946
gs were buffed in speed and hyperarmor as a whole iirc
>>168628765
So basically same shit as ds2 with the dark buffed chaos blade
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Do we have any stat reqs for the new weapons?

I'm prepping a pyromancer to use totally-not Quelaags and I want to get a feel for how I should stat
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>>168628765

>phantasm shell
>old hunter bone
>call beyond
>shit
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>>168628774
Its a common thing in Souls games to miss NPCs and with it a lot of items, spells, etc.

If you were doing a magic build then it sucks for you, if not, you need to go to NG+ anyways to get all weapons or rings
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>>168628575
Unfinished/stripped down in some way because apparently smashing a baby against the ground is too triggering.
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>>168629096
Yes, those 3 especially.
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>>168629096
Not the guy but phantasm shell was actual trash.
A Call Beyond was good.
Blacksky Eye = soul arrow.
Brew = Fireball.
etc. etc.
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>>168625793
Once, I went to a Chinese buffet and got diarrhea from the food. I never went there again.

This statement does not imply that I only ate at the restaurant once, it specifies the details of the last visit. Please learn english.
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>>168628765
Accursed Brew was a strictly better fireball because it exploded in midair and hit people who tried to strafe it, or could be tossed at the ground to tag people trying to close in.

Blacksky Eye was good for ranged pressure, and for keeping people from just backing off and shooting at you.

Augur is always useful as a two-handed parry or knockback effect, but on Arcane builds it did good damage especially for the cost.

Executioner's Glove, the one everyone says is good, was better for setups than doing damage.

Tiny Tonitrus just wasn't useful.

A Call Beyond wasn't good for anything unless you wanted to fuck with someone while they were trying to back off and heal.

The people who said casting was shit in bloodborne were the people who didn't know what the fuck they were doing. It was always a good idea to keep Eye, Brew, and Augur at a minimum on your bar just for how good they were and how far they expanded your effective threat range.
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I finally beat DS3 for the first time. What a fucking ride that was, being my first souls game, I wish I got into it earlier or got gifted DS1 first.
Still haven't beat Nameless King and Champion Gundyr
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>>168629106

>Its a common thing in Souls games to miss NPCs and with it a lot of items, spells, etc.

not like this it's not, only time a major teacher was blocked off from you was DeS when you recruited the murderer.
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>>168629253
Soul of Cinder is just a harder Champ, you should be able to beat him.
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>tfw can't infuse my longbow
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>>168629253

why the fuck would you start on the 5th game in a series

what the fuck is wrong with you
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>>168629464
gifted + no money
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>>168629402
You what. They're nothing alike, and Soul of Cinder is easy af. So is the Champ once you learn to parry him but that takes a little practice.
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>>168628774
Refined and pyromancy are the 'default' options in DaS3. Sorcery and miracles take special effort to keep from fucking up, but if you do you can always fall back on pyromancy. Dark is for lucky fuckers who find all the NPCs and can keep three different questlines running in tandem.
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>>168629464
>5th game
Guess I started on the second and skipped the fourth.
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>>168629247
Brew was punishable if it didn't hit. It was always unsafe to cast unless it resulted in a stagger, which means that you'd always eat shit if your opponent dodged it properly.

Blackskye eye was slower than shooting, so it would lose outright to someone popping you with a blt build. It was trivial to dodge as well and only created 'ranged pressure' against super slow weapons like the tricked kirkhammer, which could already be passively bullied to death with anything else.
Augar is a joke. It's a parry but slower and with less range. It required a total callout of your opponent's approach in a game where a gunshot is a better callout
Exe gloves were literally the closest arc had to a good tool and they were basically just DaS2 affinity. Once you learned the tricks to dodge them, they were harmless and a waste of bullets.
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>tfw no friends or social life so can spend entire Friday night pvping
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>>168628946
It got buffed a while back, the weapon art self-buff now lasts way the hell longer so it's actually pretty decent.
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>>168629458
I honestly don't understand why won't they make everything infusable like in DaS2.
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>>168629781
>everything
Shame you couldn't do it with some boss weapons in 2
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>>168629781
because ds2 had such a poor execution and reception theyre terrified to reference or take anything from it
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>Maneater Mildred will never plop her thicc sweaty swamp ass on your face
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>>168628774
>don't find orbeck before killing abyss watchers
>is gone forever

What? This playthrough I went and grabbed him right before I fought homoincest
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do dlc bosses advance npc questlines?
will patches come back if i defeat dlc boss
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>>168628439
I just remembered that legend, Thomas
>silence creamfilled
>sits and scratches her head like a dumbass
>silence thomas
>comes at you with that 99int 99fai fire longsword
what a legend
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>>168629979

>He will disappear permanently from the game should you defeat Abyss Watchers or any 4 bosses after recruiting him without giving him a single scroll for study. Only one scroll is required to prevent him from leaving. If he disappears from the game, you will not be able to get his ashes, and won't be able to complete Yuria of Londor's optional quest. Both the Golden Scroll and Sage Scroll can be acquired in Farron Keep.
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>>168629663
Brew was punishable if you used it wrong, yes. That's why you freeaimed it at their feet instead of locking on.

I said Gloves were for setups. If you actually think Affinity was good for its damage, you're already more wrong than you think you are.

Bullets and Eye are just as easy to dodge as each other. Eye has slower startup, but hits harder and doesn't require you to untrick your weapon. Augur is the same, except unlike a gun if you get the timing wrong your opponent is still knocked away and can't retaliate.

If you think casting is bad in Bloodborne, you don't know what the fuck you're doing. That's all there is to it.
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>>168627924
>firekeeper will never piss on you
Why must life be so cruel?
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>>168629865
Well overwhelming amount of weapons, bows, catalysts were infusable. I actually struggle to name something you couldn't infuse. Maybe MLGS? I don't remember.
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>>168630092
>after recruiting him without giving him a single scroll for study.

Nigger read what you post.
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>>168629781
Because DaS2 shouldn't have let you do that, either. It was only ever redundant, there was no situation where a player would ever want to infuse the Moonlight Greatsword with fire and they had to make the uninfused Moonlight Greatsword weaker because they knew everyone would infuse it with magic anyways. It was stupid.
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>>168629781
You could even infuse bows in DaS1 (or however infusion was called in that game, I forgot). Why was this removed in DaS3 ?
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>>168630180
you could infuse mlgs
if you went enchanted it became a full physical int scaling weapon that could double as a decent shield
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>trying to fight the Dancer at low level
Why do I do this to myself
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>>168630239
>choices are bad
Memeahackifags
>>
>Love the Faraam Set
>Wearing it makes me feel the pain of playing Dark Souls 2 again

God damnit
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>>168630317
BLEED
L
E
E
D
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>>168605061

>in DaS it was a long axe
>in DaSII it was an axe/straight sword hybrid
>in DaSIII it's a halberd

FROM isn't consistent with the damn thing.
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Gonna do a super heavy fatroll-greatshield-spear miracle build. Where's the earliest greatshield I can find?
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can someone help me with Oceiros? I need titanite scale in huge amount as I need to use something else than Friede scythe
Put your sign in front of the door shortcut in consumed king garden, plat is pc and pass is dsg
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>>168630343
The whole point of what I said was that those were never choices to begin with.

>>168630294
Forgot about enchanted MLGS, though. That shit was pretty cool.
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>>168630343
Meaningless choices. Refined in 3 is the same issue, if ever weapon's damage was like it was already refined, the game would be better
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>>168630395
Probably farming off of spear-wielding Lothric Knights.
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>>168621472
I'm calling it right now that Velka is the third sister of the Sable Church. My girl, I knew she was on humanity's side all along.
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>>168630239
It was just an answer to making every build have weapon moveset options.
Sure an infused FUGS would preform worse than an unifused optimal build FUGS, but it didn't hard lock you out of 90% of weapons by going for a non STR/DEX build.
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>>168630395
twin dragon greatshield. light with a good stability, but a bit weak on physical protection, have someone drop you a big shield early game
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>>168630395
That wooden one in watchdog zone. Biggest earliest one is Curse Ward outside Cathedral of the Deep.
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Hello
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>>168630562
She changed her name to Lilliane ?
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>>168630395
twin dragon is in road of sacrifices but has only 85% physical
lothric greatshield can be farmed off of the spear knights in high wall
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>want to make a dark pyros+hexes build
>get the spells so late that I become bored of the game before
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>fucking around in DaS2 with CE
>put the pass thru doors thing on
>it won't go away

WHAT DO I DO
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Oh look its Nashandra :O
>das2 canon confirmed
>cycles
>delectable lorenerd tears

M I Y A Z A K I
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>>168621715

her name doesnt start with gwyn you fuck.
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>>168630564
There's a difference between every build having weapon moveset options and every build having every weapon moveset option. The second is exactly what's wrong with Refined Souls 3 right now.
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>>168630564
>casters affording 50 str 30 dex to infuse fume
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>>168630651
This is disgusting, please delete this
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>>168630395
>fatrolling
The game was designed with no fatrolls in mind, hence the 70% rolls. Just raise your vit, man.
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>>168627752
refilling your estus flask
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>>168630378
Dark Souls 2 was a good game. It was disappointing sure, but then 3 was as well for different reasons.
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Theres an item over there that I want, how do I get to that ladder?
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>>168621797

tfw some deacons are fat because they've started to consume people like aldritch
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>>168630869
Nigga they did the same shit with a bridge in the base game.
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>>168630869
R1
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>>168630239
You could actually infuse MLGS with either magic or enchanted, and both variants were valid. Also giving MLGS as an example is pretty weird, because I can imagine a shitload of situations where a person might want their warped sward magic, or lightning, or whatever. I kid you not but closer to the end of DaS2's lifespan stuff like poison pate's spear and heide sword were used by 2cool4you twitchfags.
>>168630468
>>168630541
No they were not, it opened up a solid chunk of options for casters. Also being uninfusable is precisely the reason why some weapons (like Wolf Curved GS) are inferior to their infusable counterparts. Either everything should be infusable or nothing. There is no valid reason why boss/twinkling weapons are uninfusable aside from "w-well they're special and have a special place in muhlore".
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>>168630869
Break the bridge you're standing in and get on your way to the bottom, when youre here head in the direction of where that ladder is and you will eventually reach it
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>>168627925

You mistimed it. Anyways, Black Serpent can almost always be traded or backstabbed.
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>>168623962
Imagine sticking your dick in Nito.

Imagine an artificial made of the ethereal blackness that his cloak is made of. Imagine hear the voices of one thousand dead souls moaning in lust, not in the air, but in your very mind.

Imagine the hole within consisting of the gentle, curious, prodding skeletal appendages that form Nito's body. Dozens upon dozens of dead fingers grazing your genitals to stimulate completion.

That is what it is like to bang the skellingtonlord.
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>>168631024
>mistimed it
Nigga I jumped over it without any damage, it only hit me when it spun 360 degrees and walked away right into my face
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>>168630923
>R1 bridge
>this side explodes and falls into the abyss

Fucking retard

>>168630998
I'll try this.
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>>168629781
Hexes were also better as a separate category.
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Any fun builds to try a new game on?
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>>168631253
Fatrolling Build aka your mom
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>>168630983
You can use them, but it doesn't make them good. They're mostly subpar trap choices you can use for fun and pretend they're good. That doesn't make them relevant to the game, a caster would most of times be better off with weapons already good for them
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>>168630684
Give Irina the Deep and Londor tomes, Gnaw Dancer to death, loot Caitha's Chime in Dragon Barracks. Run through the rest of the game with an early weapon buff, a dark chime for your dark spells, the best status effect + range, an off switch for Crystal Sage, Deacons, and Aldrich, and a corpse explosion at a point where it can actually kill things.
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>>168630983
heide knight sword had innate lightning, so faith builds flocked to it. Pate's spear is a lightweight spear with the lance running attack. Put poison on that and it will trigger it instantly. The infusion system was neat, but most of the people only infused weapons with the corresponding innate damage. Or weapons that already have the status effect you want to use, because in most cases those were the most powerful.
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>>168630651
cool corvian knight cosplay, try yuria's mask instead
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>>168630317
https://my.mixtape.moe/lafaua.webm
S L A P T H E A S S
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>>168631253
That build where you dump 30-40 points into a damage stat then use a weapon to kill stuff. OH WAIT THAT'S EVERY "BUILD."
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>>168631187
People might not have liked that, but them being a separate category alone gave the game more spell variety. Like, compare the amount of hexes in DaS2 (twenty fucking three) to the total amount of dark spells in DaS3 (14).
That's just sad.
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>>168631118
>stick your dick in Nito.
absolute heresy. I want the rapelord to penetrate me
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>>168630769
I refuse.
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>>168630983
And yet, mysteriously, casters would always use the same shit anyways, and the shit they used was already magical to begin with before they infused it to simply be more magical. All those extra "options" made zero difference because they were redundant at best and superfluous at worst.

Uninfusable weapons are fine, because they give builds unique options to distinguish them from all the infusable trash that every other build uses. Dexterity builds literally only have twinkling/scale weapons and one rapier that might as well be uninfusable for all the difference it makes. The problem is that most uninfusable weapons are just quality weapons anyways, so it doesn't really help.
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>>168631253
60 faith pure miracle caster. It's viable now in ds3.
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>>168631163
>being on the wrong side of the bridge
bravo
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>>168631692
my only regret is that I have boneitis
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>>168631756
That's a mean prank, anon.
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>>168631692
Son?
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>>168630562

My guess
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>>168631751
>made zero difference because they were redundant at best and superfluous at worst.
Which was explicitly the goal.

Infusing a STR scaling weapon to scale with INT, wouldn't make it outdmage a STR build, it just meant that you weren't completely locked out of using the damn thing.
Odd infusions were not meant for PvP, they were for PvE variety and they succeeded at that.
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>>168631795
So you get there from down by the entrance to the Grave tender bossfight?

That would've been more useful information than "LMAO R1 THE BRIDGE"
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>>168631702
>666KB
nice
>666.6 GB
not nice
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>>168631838
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>>168631564
I don't understand why anyone didn't like it. Is it just because of the different catalyst shit?
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>>168630562
No, Velka is the mother of the 3 sisters. That should be obvious
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>>168631187
>>168631564
Hexes being a separate category in DaS2 was literally no different from them being just sorceries or miracles with weird scaling.

If I give you five spells that can only be cast with staves and five spells that can only be cast with chimes, would you be able to tell me which of them were hexes? No you wouldn't, because hexes being a separate category was completely redundant. You'd still cast staff hexes with staves just like sorceries, you'd still cast chime hexes with chimes just like miracles, and unless you wanted your Affinity to be terribly weak you'd still want 50int+ anyways which would make your sorceries just as strong as your hexes, especially if you were casting them with a staff that had equal scaling in magic and dark.

Dark Souls 2 had the Black Witch's Staff, which was the only thing that let people pretend hexes were a separate school since it could cast all of them. Without it, they're just sorceries and miracles with weird scaling, exactly as they are in DaS3.
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>>168631838
Seriously though, its really good. You got the saints bident which scale off of your faith, can be buffed, and has low requirements. That weapons was made for pure faith characters. And the offensive miracles like lightning reach insane damage at 60 faith. Buffs for some extra protection against attacks. And healing spells. Even against some bosses, you have enough time to can cast heal aid. Also, quite a lot of bosses are weak to lightning. And with fp you're not tied to low amounts of casts.
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>>168632407
1 is the only game where muscle maging is possible and I see nothing wrong with how hexes scale in that game
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>>168631140

The best to combat it with Valor is to take blocking damage. That way you don't get hit with Serpent naked.
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>>168632450
I would say my ability to tell slow moving black spells apart from fast moving orange/blue spells is pretty high up there, but then again maybe I'm just not retarded and understood the whole
FAI = MIRACLES
INT = SORCERIES
PYRO = FAI + INT LOW SOFTCAP
DARK = FAI + INT HIGH SOFTCAP
Balancing logic they went for.
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>>168632307
>Canvas talisman
When will this meme end? If you want a high faith casting talisman, you should go for: saints talisman or talisman. Saints has really low unfaltering prayer so you're easily staggered, but talisman has the same amount of unfaltering prayer as the canvas talisman while having a higher spellbuff.
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>>168631751
>casters would always use the same shit anyways, and the shit they used was already magical to begin with before they infused it to simply be more magical
Have you even played the game at it's peak? CMW Warped Swords/Chaos Blades/Santiers were extremely common, because they were good weapons so casters wanted to use those weapons too. Some weapons, like Roaring Halberd, which had A in dex/C in dark uninfused and C in dex B in dark when infused, could be used for caster AND martials builds, depending on the upgrade path.
>>168632140
They were fucking fine and on par with the uninfused version if you put a buff on it, which is also a problem with DaS3 infusions. I have no fucking idea why buffing elemental weapons is a nono, but shit like refined is fine. I understand that they're trying to apply some weird ingame logic for that, but the gameplay balance should come first.
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>>168632435
Sex is a sin, though.
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Just started playing this game, why isn't it dual audio? English dubs are fucking cancer.
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>>168632140
>all weapons should be infusable
>but it shouldn't make any difference

That's stupid. That just turns infusions into a tax for non-physical builds. "Oh, here's a weapon that scales with Int just for you! Except, if you want it to scale even better with Int, you need to farm a special stone and pay the blacksmith to make it an even better magic weapon!" What is this, a free-to-play game? There's literally no reason for that, just make it scale better with Int in the first place and be done with it.

I for one hate the current meta we have where only way to distinguish between builds is by what particle effect you get when their weapon hits. People talk about the PvP being samey and bland, and here you are encouraging the very thing that causes it.
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>>168632926
>>168632926
>>168632926
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>>168632928
There literally is no Japanese audio, it's English in their version too.
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>>168632450
>No you wouldn't, because hexes being a separate category was completely redundant.
It wasn't, because them being a separate category actually forced them to have an amount of spells more or less equal to other schools of majick.
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>>168632931
>"Oh, here's a weapon that scales with Int just for you! Except, if you want it to scale even better with Int, you need to farm a special stone and pay the blacksmith to make it an even better magic weapon!"
I really fail to see the issue with this considering we have been shoving shiny stones into weapons for like 5 games now.
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>>168632846
Right up her alley then
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>>168631412
Corvian Knight, you say?
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>>168632450
They do a different damage type. And I used to use the staff that cast anything but pyromancies anyway.
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>>168632928
FUCK YOU. Fromsoft games have some of the most amazing and consistent voiceacting.
>>168633267
>mansplaining
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>>168632738
That's not what I said and you know it.

You're playing DaS2. Here are five spells, the only thing you know about them is that they're cast with a staff. you don't know what they look like, you don't know what damage type they do, all you know is that you need a staff to cast them. What kind of spells are they?

You can't know, because the only effective difference between hexes and sorcery/miracles was what type of damage they did. Sure, some staves were better at dark than at magic. Maybe you were using a different infusion for your staff. But at the end of the day, you could still pick up any staff and cast hexes and sorcery the same. In practice, it's no different from DaS3.

>>168633005
Being a separate category didn't force them to do shit, they could've just as easily made less hexes in DaS2 or more dark spells in DaS3. DaS2 had more and better hexes because they made more and better hexes for it, is all.

>>168633278
Yes, they do a different damage type. That wasn't the question. The separate category for hexes in DaS2 is functionally no different from the way they're handled in DaS3, DaS2 just had better spells. Reminiscing about how DaS2 was better because they separated the schools is missing the point entirely.

>I used to use the staff that cast anything but pyromancies anyway
That's the Black Witch's Staff.
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>>168633647
>because the only effective difference between hexes and sorcery/miracles was what type of damage they did
And what they scale off of.
THE DAMAGE TYPE AND SCALING, are pretty fucking big deals in this series.

Anon I honestly and truly don't get what point you are trying to make here, it's like saying that Greatswords are not a weapon class because you can find greatswords with wildly different movesets as well as different stat scalings. It just doesn't make any sense.
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>>168631374
Hmm, I'm a bit reluctant to bully Irina, but got to make sacrifices I guess. Trying that out, thanks.
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>>168633952
God damnit anon, the reason I'm not mentioning the damage type and scaling is because THOSE ARE ALREADY A GIVEN. I'm not mentioning them because we both already know about them, quit being semantic.

Here, let's do it this way. Describe the differences between DaS2's dark casting and DaS3's dark casting. The point I was trying to make should come to you about halfway through.
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>>168633647
Yes it is functionally different because it fucks up the organisation. In 2 you've got all your hexes together instead of spread about in different lists.

Its simply fucking something 2 did right up for no reason.
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why am I so fucking shit to get killed by faggots with greatswords who press R1 over and over again.
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>>168632928

I hope you're being facetious
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>>168634338
The sheer virtue of not having a bunch of spells with fucked up scaling in the same cattegory as bunch of other spells?

There is literally no reason to revert to the DS1 bandaid quickfix that was "they are pyromancies/sorceries but with strange scaling" instead of "here is an entire spell class that shares the way they scale"

Scaling and logic are far more important than if your character is holding a chime or a staff when casting them.
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>>168634502
Organization isn't a mechanical difference. If dark spells in 3 were called "hexes" and were grouped off separately from the others, the system would be identical to DaS2. As you can see, making them a separate classification has no actual difference on the game.
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>>168634735
Except in DaS3, they aren't strictly pyro-scaling. They absolutely can be used by pure Int or Fth builds with no significant loss in damage. They're just slightly better when used on hybrid builds, on top of being able to use all of them instead of only a few.
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>>168634739
And you say its us that are 'missing the point entirely.'

Really anon?

And don't you dare fucking tell me I'm moving the goalposts because I started this conversation here >>168631187
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>>168631504
this triggered the h*ck out of me
why did he go so long with that much HP missing without drinking a flask
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>>168635332
I ain't no bitch, I can do it with half hp
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>>168632738
that's not how it works

pyro is "mix and match fai+int"
dark is "you need equal fai+int"
both will hit the softcap at 30/30, but pyro can also softcap at 40/20 or 3/57
so pyro is designed to be accessible for hexers, sorcerers, and priests
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>>168635294
Who's moving the goalposts? I've been saying since the beginning that being a separate category in 2 was no different at all from what they are in 3. It changed nothing, Fromsoft was just being lazy when they designed dark spells in 3.

The "missing the point" line wasn't referring to Fromsoft, it was in reference to players who thought hexes being a supposedly separate category somehow made dark spells better. The only better thing about hexes in DaS2 is that Shibuya apparently knew how to magic better than Tanimura or Miyazaki do.
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>>168628043
It does absolutely no damage, because it never hits anything.
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>>168636256
>Who's moving the goalposts?
You are.

I don't give a shit if its 'not a mechanical difference'. That was never what I was talking about in the first place.
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>>168636856
>I don't give a shit if its 'not a mechanical difference'
Obviously. Pretending it's somehow different doesn't make it different, though.
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>>168637048
What are you even talking about anon?
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>>168637137
Just shut up and nostalgia, I guess. It's not like you were ever willing to discuss in the first place.
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>>168603496
I wondered what that smell was.
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>>168637561
Well I'm still in this dead thread with you anon for some reason. Even though you want to bend my opinions to fit your autism rather than actually discuss them.

You've got nothing anon.

You can just sit there saying shit like 'Obviously. Pretending it's somehow different doesn't make it different, though.' even though I never pretended anything, and it was actually you that randomly decided I was talking about mechanics, and not a category system, and so talking about catagory and damage types doesn't count towards said catagory system.
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>>168638279
What do you mean nothing? What's the "nothing" about pointing out how using dark spells in 3 is no different from using dark spells in 2?

If you took all the dark spells in 3, named them hexes, and put them off in their own little corner of the spell list, it wouldn't change a single thing about how you use them. If you took all the hexes in 2 and reclassed them as sorceries or miracles based on which catalyst they're cast with, it wouldn't change a single thing about how you use them.

Ergo, them being "different spell schools" is not what made hexes in Dark Souls 2 better, since that wasn't an actual difference.

Besides, when we're talking about video games, everything comes down to mechanics. It's all code.
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>>168603668
>IMPLYIGN!

You can skip most of the Irithyl Dungeon with spook.
And you can skip a lot of the Catacombs.
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>>168638743
>If you took all the dark spells in 3, named them hexes, and put them off in their own little corner of the spell list, it wouldn't change a single thing about how you use them. If you took all the hexes in 2 and reclassed them as sorceries or miracles based on which catalyst they're cast with, it wouldn't change a single thing about how you use them.

So what anon? I never mentioned how they were used, I never said that it made the hexes themselves better mechanically.

What I said was that they were better in their own category. Not that they were better in themselves remember, that they were better organised in their own category.
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