/dsg/ - Demon's/Dark Souls General

RED MAN COME HOME!

DS2 return TOMORROW

First for crucify the BFposters like Aleksandra

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This thread is now blessed by Kriemhild's creamy thighs.

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With the rage against Aleksandra, perhaps you'd like to purchase some indictments?

>>169353198
Stop posting this wretched shit because a terrible artist made up a nonsensical headcanon for you to jack off to

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Anyone on PS4 need help with anything?

Alternatively, would anyone be willing to gift me any of the +2 rings? Especially Havel's, Chloranthy, and FaP?

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>>169353143
Never thought too much about Priscilla but the last one is accurate.

So, is anyone else oddly kinda hype for that new Zelda game?

I know it's not exactly the right thread, but the combat looks rather Dark Souls-y, as it supposedly has parrying and stamina management.

Also, some mild Zelda hype got me to roll a new build in Dark Souls 3 for the first time in a while.

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GLORIA FORTIS MILES

>>169353143
This is in the wrong order, and Maiden should be above Herald

>>169353324
>Scas has to trace his noses to make them look adequate

>>169353148
>>169353248
I'm actually quite proud to have made such an impact on this place with only ~3 days worth of shitposting.
I feel like I've achieved something

is Quelana of Izalith cute?

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This thread is now blessed by Gravelord Nito and Velka, Goddess of Sin.

>>169353143
Where does the Bloodborne doll go on that?


Also, has it been decided whether or not Bloodborne, Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and King's Field are all part of the same continuity, yet?

>>169353453
No, she has a perpetual case of swamp-ass

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>>169353402
>discordshit
literally who
fuck off

>>169353431
>reason why a dedicated host is gone
>acts like a faggot in every FC, takes space up all the time
>contributed to BF posting
>heh....it was just irony...totally...

>>169353518
>it's discordshit because I don't recognize the name of the artist
It's not my fault you don't know them, but it is your fault for screeching like a retard

>>169353518
>not knowing a shit drawfag

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>>169353501
King's Field and Dark Souls can't be part of the same continuity. The metaphysical aspects of the world are not compatible with one another.

Even if Dark Souls 2 throws some very interesting references to it.

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>>169353636
nice damage control

>>169353695
Nice damage control.

Ds2. Zweihander or BKUGS? I'm torn, help me decide.

>>169353818
Uninstall shit game

return to lords of the fallen when ???

>>169353818
Zweihander unless you're facing stuff with a vulnerability to fire, then use BKUGS.

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>>169353524
now that you guys have someone else to autistic screech over

am i allowed back yet

>>169353901
No.

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>fighting guy in wacky retarded armor who nonetheless is miles better than you at the game
nothing pisses me off more

>>169353901
>Ley
You'll never be allowed anywhere, just stay gone.

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>Vaati is Australian

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP

>>169353901
I don't b& people from my FCs, but I can't do anything about people not wanting to fight you.

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>>169354134

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>>169354078
>>169353979

>>169353901
just make a new character with a different name, dude

>>169354138
>>169354305
it was a joke, don't worry

Why are curved greatswords so shit in dark souls?

>>169353892
Is split damage that bad in Ds2?

>>169353012
>Ignoring that "child of dark" is literally never used other than to describe a fragment of Manus.
>Ignoring Alsanna the silent oracle is the size of a normal human.
>Ignoring that being a witch and a fragment of Manus is not a mutually exclusive concept.
>Ignoring that being a heretic and a fragment of Manus is not a mutually exclusive concept. If anything they could be mutually inclusive.
>Ignore that his corpse is in the same room as half a dozen jailors who would have a reason to kill someone trying to bust out a child of dark.

Dark edge is the only leg you have. But other than that all roads lead to Manus fragment.

>>169354392
Because the very idea of a curved greatsword is fucking stupid

are you guys brawling with a password or is there an FC going on?

>>169354467
No, it's actually probably has the best split damage in the series if you apply a buff over an infused weapon with base elemental damage.

is the dlc season pass worth it? just realized I had $25 leftover in my account.

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Anyone want to clear this whole area with me? On PC.

>>169354557
FC finished.

>>169354654
We won't know for sure until march 28th rolls around

>>169354032
What would you consider retarded armor? Something like Smough set?

>>169354725
Post the front of your character and I'll consider it

>>169354764
that and stuff like onion helmet just mixed together randomly with evangelist chest or whatever to look as dumb as possible

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>>169354775

Decide quick. These lizards are in need of purging.

>>169354764
smough leggings, dragon head, archdeacon robes, whatever gloves you like

what was DS2 about?

>>169354948
No

>>169354998
Finding a way to free yourself of the curse and learning about the futility of your actions.

>>169354725
Depends, what SL are you? And are you going to go for Nameless King afterward?

>>169353323
>le Dark Souls of Zelda
No, fuck off.

>>169354998
Mostly about a random country far removed from the center of events that were taking place in the world trying to deal with their own crisis as the rising Undead Curse swallowed everything.

It tries to make itself as ambiguous as possible on wether or not it was a far future of Lordran, until Dark Souls 3 came and decided that it wasn't.

>>169354591
Key word being "if," I assume.

>>169354998
>"you'll lose your souls.. over and over again"

>>169355242

89 and yes.

Aleksandra I love you

I'm the only one who miss the ridiculous damage that you could do in hyper mode on both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1?

>>169355290
Usually they're good enough without it but with a buff overtop of all that the damage is mad great.

>>169353323
Skyward Sword also had parrying and stamina management. It was awful.

>>169355384
i have a boyfriend </3

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were there bonfire placements more egregious than these in the series ?

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>>169355384

>>169355474
it's almost as if you want to force me into tripfaggotry

How hard is AoA in NG+? I would like to start it on my preferred char but not too keen on dying to bullshit over and over.

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>>169354483
>>Ignoring Alsanna the silent oracle is the size of a normal human.

Except in this exact case.

>>wahh there can't be a first time for anything

>>Ignoring Alsanna the silent oracle is the size of a normal human.

She's as big as the lanky milfanito, and the lanky milfanito is tall as fuck. You have been fooled by the simple illusion of "she's not standing upright", which is an incredible thing to be fooled by.

>>Ignoring that being a witch and a fragment of Manus is not a mutually exclusive concept.

It wouldn't be heretical for a dark fragment of manus to use dark spells. A witch is heretical by nature, both in DS and in real life.

>>Ignoring that being a heretic and a fragment of Manus is not a mutually exclusive concept. If anything they could be mutually inclusive.

literally what

>>Ignore that his corpse is in the same room as half a dozen jailors who would have a reason to kill someone trying to bust out a child of dark.

Do you remember where Alva is from? Do you remember his story? What, Alva just turned around and fucked a fragment of Manus instead of Zullie despite 2 games of descriptions saying otherwise?

If you want to believe Zullie and Beatrice were fragments of manus and that dicking a shard of manus and that garners an entirely new shard of manus (wewlad), that's one thing. Because of the nashandra painting, people to this day think that Dusk has something to do with the fragments of manus, and because of the Beatrice staff/Witchtree descriptions, redditors have somehow come to the conclusion that the entire witch family line are descendants of manus, so you have ground to stand on (even if its reddit ground).

But if you're honestly telling me that Karla herself is a fragment of manus and has been the whole time and Alva and Zullie aren't her parents after Alva's body placement and the Dark Edge, you literally cannot be saved.

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>>169355593
woops

i mean the bonfires 4 seconds walk away from each other at dragonslayer and grand archives

>>169355702
Outside of bosses any difficulty you might face will be up to whether or not you decide to actually fight milwood/corvian knights.

Vaati is /notourguy/

>>169355771
>>169355593
The bonfire placement from Dark Souls III is mostly fine, not as good as Dark Souls I, but not as bad as II. The one you pointed out is pretty weird.

>>169355702
the only hard parts of AoA are that one spot with two corvian knights (that you can bait to fight one at a time) and that one spot with a shitload of milwood knights being overlooked by two milwood archers

>>169355771
The only reason this exists is because Das3 gives you a bonfire for every boss you kill

>>169352789
Show me where all the painter art is

>>169355771
Shortcuts and Bonfires in Lothric are kind of fucked in general.

>>169353143
You got it backwards guy. The small brain is supposed to be the most sensible and the exploding brain is supposed to be the worst.

>>169355886
them also putting a key on the ground directly in front of the door that it opens is also pretty weird

>>169354998
Alzheimer, sins and cycles

>>169356126
That's because it was a half-assed method of gating the archives from you before the other LoC are dead. The body isn't there if you kill the dancer/armor early.

>>169355603
nice try impersonating me

>>169356290
didn't know that, so an early dancer kill is really only just for castle and untended graves? this game is even more linear than I thought

Who /return to sorcery/ here?

>>169356396
/pyrocleric/ here

>>169356396
That's what I plan to do, but I'm struggling with creating a female character face because I've never done in before in DaS2.

>>169355886
is this a meme?
Bonfires in 3 are about 30 seconds apart max. I think the largest run is the Cathedral of the Deep, but you've got that shortcut that circumvents the graveyard.

I dunno if 2 is just the slower game but you could remove over a quarter of the bonfires in 3 and be no worse for it, especially considering the weird ass boss bonfires.

I remember there being something about making your own bonfires a long time ago.... I think this may have been the intended mechanic with boss bonfires but they gave up.

>>169356290
Which is stupid. Why not let you get in to archives early? This game needs more options in progression, not less.

>>169356374
Nigga the castle and the archives are on the exact same path

>>169356374
>Linear
Well, it's as liner as Demon's Souls, you can do things in any order you want, but it doesn't affect the end result that much.

>>169355703
How can you not connect the idea that a living embodiment of what was once one of the greatest threats in the fucking world wouldn't be considered heretical by its mere existence? Think of this in real life, in say the days of the Spanish inquisition, if a broken of fragment of Beelzebub stood up one day and was its own demon/person, would that being not be considering a blasphemous, heretical abomination? Same principle applies here, Karla by her mere existence would be considered a heretic. How can you not put two and two together.

There's been an argument that Karla is literally just Zullie countless years later, having changed her name. If you want Occam's razor, that's the one that makes the most sense. Why the fuck would Fromsoft use a title like "child of dark" to describe something it has never been used to describe before?

Alva's corpse was found in the room with half a dozen jailors outside of Karla's cell, presumably he was there to snatch her but the jailors got to him. That's it. He found his lost love but failed just short of his goal. Karla is a fragment of Manus, which does not prevent her from being a witch and a heretic.

>hawkwood sits with you at the dragon mountain

What a guy.

Guys do I NEED to go to Shrine of Amana? I seriously don't want go there again.

>>169356374
Yeah, having teleportation at the start meant that they didn't need to program in ways to get to areas from other areas. That said having teleportation from the start is very nice in my opinion since we all had moments of accidently resting in ash lake and having to make the trek up.

>>169356374
Also theoretically for ADP, but to get there you would also need to progress to Irithyll Dungeon, and that requires you to beat about half the game.

I did some testing. Turns out RSS downscaling works differently than WSS downscaling. 120s don't get downscaled after 84, not 100. Ideal FC host level is 84.

>>169356491
Random random pink my man

>>169356726
approved by your resident dart shitter

>>169356495
2 has bonfire with very little spacing, mostly because how durability works. Without taking durability into account, many levels, such as FotFG, bastille or earthen peak use too many bonfires

>>169356676
You know they could have just had one way teleportion at the end of dead ends.

Honestly, teleporting shouldn't exist. The games are all better without it, even DaS1.

>>169356482
Is pyro any good?
Doesn't it have weird scaling?
Ds1 and 3 I loved it never tried 2, so it scales off the highest between into and faith? Not both together like 3?

>>169356663
Why do people hate it so much anyway? It's a perfectly fine area, certainly no worse than say, Farron Keep or Tomb of Giants

>>169356894
keep both at the same level and it'll scale with both

>>169356495
>Bonfires in 3 are about 30 seconds apart max.
Nope, they aren't, many times there's only one bonfire in the entire area and the game only lets you have a easier time getting to the boss through shortcuts, Lothric Castle being a good example, there's only one bonfire in the entire area.

>especially considering the weird ass boss bonfires.
The boss bonfires don't even make that much difference anyway

>>169356950
If you're not answering my question, then don't quote me.

>>169356676
I've never fully understood all the complaints about bonfire warping. Not having that feature just makes the entire game significantly more tedious, and is a sin in game design these days. If you want to be forced to explore a world, go play some indie game or something.

>>169357040
>>169356663
Like this?

>>169356495
>>169356495
>Lothric Castle
I mean the bonfire before Lothric Prince

>>169356894
All fire and dark damage scales off of one stat, whichever one is lower between int and faith, meaning you have to keep them the same

>>169356994
>lothric castle
>beat dancer
>bonfire
>get past 4 or so enemies
>bonfire
>get past half a dozen of cannon fodder enemies
>bonfire

>>169357040
If you're going to ask a pointless question like a fucking retard, then don't whine about the answers you get.

>>169356627
different anon but while I agree that Karla is a witch, and a heretic, and a shard of Manus, there is very little that links her to Zulie aside from Alva. Furthermore Alva in DS3's armor says that it was modeled after OG Alva's, not that it is OG Alva (thought that is a possibility). So the combination of no clear indication of the process that makes a Manus shard and no clear indication of who the seeker of the spurned was (item descriptions make it seem as though the spurned in his name and weapon were a group of people not a person), prevent any kind of ending to be made along this story strand aside from Myazaki's usual maybe...or perhaps

>>169356994
>many times
>cotd and archives are many times

>>169357118
But the enemies are super hard, dude. They can block and everything.

>>169357118
Like I said, I meant the bonfire before archives and lothric prince, the entire area is fucking huge and there's only one bonfire in it.

>>169356950
It is a completely shit area. Hell, you can be getting sniped by enemies across the map that aren't even spawned in yet.

>>169357118
You forgot:
>warp to Vordt
>bonfire
>go past a few cannon fodder enemies
>beat dancer
>bonfire

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It's been a while since I've played, what's the most fun starting class in your opinion, guys?

>>169357409
Pyromancer

>>169357190
>>169356627
>kill her
>no boss soul


woooooooow

also hey

>If you want Occam's razor

I don't know what your highschool freshman class taught you but that is not what occam's razor is or means

>>169357046
Not having it is one of the reasons that DS1 has the most organic and creative level design in some of its locations and it was pretty cool to open a door and find yourself in a completely different route than before. In DS3 levels are expansive but don't really connect kind of like DeS where each level had its own shortcuts and paths instead of the entire game having shortcuts and pathways within a level and also between levels like DS1.

>>169357229
There's only two bonfires in High wall, not counting boss bonfires, and that area is as large as Lost Bastile, which has five if I'm not mistaken. Only three in Cathedral of the Deep and again, that area is even bigger than Lost Bastile. Only two in Irithyll Dungeon and like you said, archives as well.

https://discord.gg/8mt778b

Overwatch, Rainbow six etc. discord chat

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>>169357460
t-thanks, I guess...

>>169357046
>More tedious
It makes the world more memorable and organic, I can remember every piece of texture from each area in Dark Souls, whereas most areas in 2 were just forgettable to me, you can that's because their poor level design, but it goes further than that.

it's a sin in game design these days because everything got more casualized and trivial as time went on and it's a pity that this affects even Souls games.

HOW TO MAKE DS3 LORE
>place random callbacks in nonsensical places
>write meaningless bullshit in the descriptions
>let the "LOREMASTERS" make it up for you
It's brilliant, really

>>169357557
I feel like counting the Rosaria and the Deacon bonfires are kind of cheating.
Rosaria is there for quality of life improvement, it's an out of the way area completely detached from normal gameplay progression. Deacons of the Deep is basically the "you've beaten the area, now come back to the Shrine" bonfire.

Really, the cathedral only has one bonfire of relevance when you're playing through it.

Honestly, even with all this complaining about "there's too many bonfires!" I am yet to see someone make a case as for why deleting boss bonfires would improve the game in any way, when they serve no purpose other than save you time.

Like the Wolnir bonfire, directly followed by the two first bonfires of Irithyll. Yes, they're unecessary. But in what way do they make the game WORSE? It's not like they break up two sections of gameplay and combat that would work better if they were together. They literally do nothing but allow you to allow you to get through an empty tunnel and bridge faster.

>>169357889
Dark Souls lore was always vague and cryptic

>>169357889
Listen, every second not wasted on lore is a second spent modeling the most aesthetic and qt feet in video games. I for one am glad that Myazaki has good priorities.

>>169356950
Its better in sotfs/patched now, used to be cancer speels sniping you

>Friede
>3 boss fights in a row
I want to rip this cunt's throat out.

>>169358142
>sends so much time modeling feet a lot of armor sets look either shit or downright unfinished

>>169357992
LOL

>>169357984
Boss bonfires are also convenient for putting down Sunbro signs really fast, instead of having to trek through a level yourself before putting it down.

>>169357557
But then you have other levels fucked up with bonfires.

Tower on the wall has no reason to exist.
Settlement has one bonfire when you arrive and then another 10 seconds later,
Road of sacrifices has ones past the elevator, another just past a few corvians, then ones more in the middle of the swamp because reasons, when the farron keep ones is just a few seconds away. Then the keep has two bonfires in the middle, when the non covenant one should be removed as it's redundant.
Farron keep perimeter is a huge offender: it's right next to a good shortcut back to read of sacrifices, a shortcut never used because you just warp to it.
CotD has one bonfire between sage's with only a few saw enemies for no reason
Irithyll has that wolnir-irithyll-central irithyll bonfire combo with a single miniboss between them.
Church of yorshka is located after a very small gauntlet.
Dragon barracks is one of the worst bonfires in the game since it breaks invasions in the area (invaders that spawn in the middle of it have no way to guide themselves to the host) it's also after only a few cannon fodder enemies.

>>169353501

Bloodborne and demon's souls are same universe, however not same story. Dark souls is unique. Kings field may be related to demon's, but no proofs.

Is dark/hex still strong in ds2 or has it been needed as hard as they say

>>169357984
I left the Deacons and every boss bonfire out since they don't make any difference in the overall level design of the game. I counted the Rosaria one, but agree with you.

And as for what you said, like many things in Dark Souls III, it gets needless hate for no reason. I don't know why people complain about that game so much, it's perhaps the Souls game with the best boss battles, level design and atmosphere, its only drawback are that the story and lore leans to much on Dark Souls 1.

>>169358305
>Covering your feet
Listen dude you may want a different game series. Go play Skyrim or COD because you sound a bit to casual.

>169358384
>Tower on the wall has no reason to exist.
Stopped reading there. The game doesn't exist to cater to the 125th time play through speedrunners.

>playing through the series for the first time
>decided to finally give pvp a serious attempt on ds3
>obtained red eye orb; invading constantly
>everyone spams estus + has allies

does feel good to win 2/3v1's though

>>169358384
>>169358606

>>169358385

>Bloodborne and demon's souls are same universe

What? Nothing in BB even implies that it took place in the same universe DeS did.

>>169358892
Umbasa

>>169358384
>Tower on the wall has no reason to exist.
Its the first level anon and this is some people's first souls game I'd say a little leeway is fine.
>CotD has one bonfire between sage's with only a few saw enemies for no reason
the first is right after a hard encounter and the second is right next to what will be a lot of players first time fighting NPC's.
>Irithyll has that wolnir-irithyll-central irithyll bonfire combo with a single miniboss between them.
They are split so that if someone goes there without the doll they won't have to go through the catacombs again.
Anon the only bad ones you listed were the Farron keep ones and the amount is probably so on people's first play through if they got lost looking for the torches to put out they could start from a couple of different areas.

>>169358954

...Which was cut.

>>169353681
>Tree is Vallad
>two figures to the side of it represent Seath and Guyra, who it made to govern Valicia in his stead

Neato

I still wonder what that thing was meant for though.

Redpill me on Lothric knight greatsword

>>169358892
In the early versions, Gascoigne said Umbasa during his fight. Otherwise, there's nothing

>>169358384
>Settlement has one bonfire when you arrive and then another 10 seconds later,
It doesn't really matter because the bonfire placement in both Settlement and High wall are good, you could say that the second bonfire is kind of pointless, but it has no real effect in the overall level design of the area, which is good and makes each death count because the bonfire is very far apart from some places that you can die in that area.

>Road of sacrifices
I'll admit that Road of Sacrifices has too many bonfires, even though that area is really big it didn't need that many.

>CotD has one bonfire between sage's with only a few saw enemies for no reason
I don't really understand this complaint, you mean Cleansing Chapel? It's basically the first bonfire in the area, so again, it doesn't affect the level design and overall feel of your deaths there.

>Irithyll has that wolnir-irithyll-central irithyll bonfire combo with a single miniboss between them.
Same as before, the bonfire may be pointless, but it doesn't have much effect in the area because you are just starting it.

>Church of yorshka is located after a very small gauntlet.
Agree with you here, even though I find the bonfire placement in Irithyll mostly good.

>>169359108

I know about that, but it seems more like a reference or an easter egg considering they didn't actually do anything with it.

>>169359083
>It's big
>it hits like a truck
>if you buff it with SLB and/or sacred oath it hits like two trucks welded to the front of a freight train

>>169359156
It was also removed. That's all there is to establish a link, it's safe to say that Souls and BB are in different universes

>>169359083
Its like Astora GS for people who like girls.

>>169359127
Church of Yorshka is kind of necessary desu, I mean there's 5-6 Pontiff Knights, 2 Fire witches and 5-6 invisihollows between Central Irithyll and it, which isn't much getting to the bonfire itself but when you consider that this is the bonfire you'll be using for going down into the water and up the back area to unlock the gate to Pontiff, as well as the bonfire you'll be using for Pontiff himself, adding on those extra guys to every run would be a major pain.

>>169358384
>Tower on the wall has no reason to exist.
Nonsense. It's a perfectly fine bonfire.
>Settlement has one bonfire when you arrive and then another 10 seconds later.
Fine, but that's a problem with the first bonfire, not the second one. It's just there so people who die to the dogs don't have to spawn at the Wall again and go through another loading screen and cutscene.
>Road of sacrifices has ones past the elevator, another just past a few corvians
It's a significant sequence of gameplay.
>Then ones more in the middle of the swamp because reasons,
A bridge between multiple sequences of gameplay, plus a fork where you can go in multiple directions
>When the farron keep ones is just a few seconds away.
Removes padding travel time after the non-respawning enemies at the keep's entrance are dead
>Then the keep has two bonfires in the middle, when the non covenant one should be removed as it's redundant.
Maybe, but these two bonfires serve different purposes. One is for level progression, one is for covenant business. They don't break up any gameplay
>Farron keep perimeter is a huge offender: it's right next to a good shortcut back to read of sacrifices, a shortcut never used because you just warp to it.
HAH. Good shortcut? Perimeter is the "boss attempt" bonfire, it needs to be close to the boss fog room. Abyss Watchers bonfire being back in Halfway Fortress would be bad design.
>Irithyll has that wolnir-irithyll-central irithyll bonfire combo with a single miniboss between them.
Please refer to >>169357984
>Church of yorshka is located after a very small gauntlet.
A very small gauntlet with enemies that hit like the devil and where any mistake kills you? Pontiff knights are very dangerous, it's not like back in AotA where you can cross all of Oolacile killing dozens of bloatheads without them laying a finger on you.

>>169358606
Look at DaS's areas: in blighttown you need to climb down all the way until you can get a bonfire again.
Sen's has you go through many traps and snake encounters before you can get the bonfire.
Depths bonfire is only opened once you beat a big chunk of the level.
Anor londo has its second bonfire after the archers and demons, you also need to activate a shortcut for it.
These are good placements.
For comparison, if it was remade thinking like they did in 3, it'd have a bonfire right when you're dropped, because god forbid a player dies to a single sentinel that won't even aggro if they just walk by, then darkmoon's one would be moved upwards near the shortcut, invalidating why it exists.

>>169359021
The only thing that exists between CotD first bonfire and sage's are a few saw hollows and an evangelist, the NPCs and the dogs are both after it. If it was removed, nothing of value would've been lost and the FK NPC would be important at teaching players to not always go to optional paths with strong enemies. As it is now, they get a free bonfire right near him to keep trying as long as they need and he won't respawn. That'd be like placing a bonfire right near the first black knight in 1.

The crux woods bonfires and castle ones are also pretty bad, and as I said, they make the level design worse by invalidating a shortcut you only ever open once, for instance. The doll thing is an excuse, I suppose, but I'd much rather have them remove wolnir's bonfire.

>>169359758
Dark Souls 1 has the best bonfire placement in the series, no one will argue that will you. However, the placement in 3 is mostly fine, certainly better than in Dark Souls II, which has five bonfires even in areas that are extremely small and only have corridors, such as Drangleic Castle.

WORDS WORDS WORDS BONFIRE WORDS WORDS

>>169360219
Wow, so this the power of shitposting.

>>169358391
*nerfed
Seems like it needs a whole lot of stat investment for not a huge return

>>169360068
>Dark Souls 1 has the best bonfire placement in the series, no one will argue that will you.
Dark Souls 1 does some very obtuse things with its bonfires, like needlessly limiting which ones you can or cannot warp to, and having pointlessly long walkbacks to many boss arenas. Of particular note is the progression through the Kiln of the First Flame, probably the longest walkback in the entire franchise. Or the walkback to Sif, or heavens forbid if you for ANY reason want to do some smithing with Vamos, because you're going to be walking for a while. The Painted World bonfire also retaining its one-way status even after you leave it for the first time is also quite unecessary.

Bottom line is, as godly as the level design is, it isn't godly enough to account for the "atmospheric" limitations they were aiming for, and just becomes grating on subsequent playthroughs. The fact that they have mostly done away with boss fights without any nearby bonfires at the fog door is a good thing.

>>169358892

-umbasa
-both games take place within lovecraftian universe. DeS is more subtle about it and requires pre-knowledge of things like the king in yellow and azathoth
-blatant similarities between the old one and rom, both in entrance and design
-ailing loran
-drastic similarities between the maiden in black and pthumerians, as well as her usage of eye coverings.

Off the top of my head

Bloodborne is not a SEQUEL to demon's souls, but they exist disconnected within the same world at different periods of time.

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Goddammit, this blob will just have to do.

Sure was nice to have a spell to kill the hungry hitbox hippo with though.

Opinions on the standard Scythe in DS1? The one from the tar pits in Sen's.

Anyway to make DaS2 SotfS less washed out looking? Some areas look way too high contrast.

http://www.strawpoll.me/12412976

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>>169360650
>-umbasa
Cut from BB
>-both games take place within lovecraftian universe. DeS is more subtle about it and requires pre-knowledge of things like the king in yellow and azathoth
All because Myazaki used similar inspirations doesn't make them the same universe. All soulsborne games reference Berzerk
>-blatant similarities between the old one and rom, both in entrance and design
Ones a giant tree thing and one is a spider. Only similarity is that they are both on lakes
>-ailing loran
I am not sure where you are going with this
>-drastic similarities between the maiden in black and pthumerians, as well as her usage of eye coverings.
The Pthumerians don't cover their eyes, also the MiB is made from stone and looks nothing like the Pthumerians

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>Dingy Set only available in NG+
>already used an ascetic

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How to beat abyss demon? I'm stuck in tutorial zone and he pops up everytime i try to rush toward the door.

>>169361357
>abyss demon

u wot m8

>>169360507
>and having pointlessly long walkbacks to many boss arenas
Nothing wrong with that though, death is supposed to have weight in Souls games and If the walk back to the bosses was instantaneous you would feel no weight or real regret in dying or making a mistake. Long walks make you rethink your strategy and your mistakes and make you more careful around the boss next time, which is the whole point of bonfires, making your death something actually bothersome and not just something you can reload exactly where you died.

>Kiln of the First Flame
Atmosphere. And the two cats walk is longer btw

>Or the walkback to Sif
Nothing wrong with this one, what I said above applies.

>The Painted World
This is where you lose all credibility. The bonfire in painted world is probably the most elegant one in the entire franchise. Instead of putting bonfires throughout the entire area they made you open up the place through shortcuts and gates that were close at the beginning and in the end, the area only needed one bonfire. After opening the first gate the fog gate where Priscilla lies is hardly distant and you can easily get there in a matter of a minute running through the enemies.

>>169361357
Plunging attack

>>169361357
>abyss demon
Do you mean Asylum Demon?

>>169361429
Sorry i rage quited the game, by the 5th death, didn't pay attention to name. *Asylum demon* /v/ told me this game was easy...

>>169361357
You just reminded me of that video by that super autistic guy ranting about the asylum in DS1 but I can't find it anymore.

>>169361032
Probably one of the best dex weapons, can deal up to 750 dmg at +15 with each hit if you are using power within, probably up to 1200 with darkmoon blade.

>>169361534
You should pay attention to the messages on the ground, when you enter his area you'll see one on the left telling to to run or something like that and leading you to an open cell door. You're not meant to fight him until you go through the rest of the level and get your gear.

>>169361572
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8OjoOT8Tg

>>169361357
Is this falseflag? You mean the first time he appears, or the second? If the former, you just need to rush towards the door at the left, the torches and the fact that you're using nothing but a broken sword should be enough of a hint that you're supposed to run, not fight.

>>169361720
Thanks, that video is a real gem.

>>169358384
>Tower on the Wall
Early game it's a godsend, at least at first when you're a beginner, because of how hard the Lothric Knight wails on you when you first arrive.

It's also useful because it navigates the latter half of High Wall before you get the shortcut that brings you back to the first bonfire.

>>169361032
>Fast
>Long range
>Good moveset
>Insane damage at +15
>Can be buffed
It's the best dex weapon for PvE, also pretty good for pvp.

>>169361432
I would much rather have death mean a gradual and ever increasing reduction of my HP pool, like II does, than have it mean "welp, guess you have to spend 3 or 4 minutes fighting/running through these sequences of levels that offer you no meaningful challenge but serve only to pad time until you can try the boss again". Forcing the player to waste his time with no other drawbacks is not an adequate punishment.

Also, i'm not claiming that there's anything wrong with the painted world bonfire as you're progressing through the area. The area is very well structured. But after you are done with it but want to visit it again for whatever reason, the fact that the only way to leave is is to make the long run through the bridge, then out the painting, then through the long cathedral, then up the rotating tower while maybe even having to wait for it to rotate again [maybe. I'm not sure on this last part] adds nothing to the experience nor atmosphere of the game when compared to the possibility of the game simply "unlocking" warp from that bonfire since you've already proven that you've bested its challenges once.

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DaS3 has good bonfire placement but also trivial decisions like Wolnir's > Pre Bridge at Irithyll and Dragonslayer Armor > Front of Archives

IIRC there's a few other instances of that too, and while not harmful, it's questionable

>>169361043
Turn brightness all the way down.

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>>169361720
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8OjoOT8Tg
>OPINIONS
>This is a European game
>Lemme tell you
Jesus I forgot all about this video but I'm glad you posted it.

>>169356627
>There's been an argument that Karla is literally just Zullie countless years later, having changed her name. If you want Occam's razor, that's the one that makes the most sense. Why the fuck would Fromsoft use a title like "child of dark" to describe something it has never been used to describe before?


I felt my autism permanently increase from reading this.

>Alva's corpse was found in the room with half a dozen jailors outside of Karla's cell, presumably he was there to snatch her but the jailors got to him. That's it. He found his lost love but failed just short of his goal.

>Passed from mother to daughter, this blade was intended for both protection and as a means of taking one's own life. The young girl never swung it more than once.

Who's mom?

But no, it's clearly Zullie who's gone through an arbitrary name change.

The fucking mental gymnastics for this shit.

>all these hexfags
why?

>get to SL150
>see that I need to up my VIT a few more times so I can stop fatrolling
FUCK

>>169353390
>implying
Herald is boring as fuck and took all of her interesting aspects from Maiden.

>>169361936
>I would much rather have death mean a gradual and ever increasing reduction of my HP pool
Why not both things? I agree that what they did with the hp reduction in 2 was a good thing, but the bonfire placement was trash because you could easily get back to where you died in a matter of seconds, which is something that goes against everything that Souls games are about. Ever since the series's conception having long walks back to where you died was one of points of having bonfires and even archstones in the case of Demon's, instead of just quick save/quick load, as that forced players to actually take their life seriously, because they for damn sure wouldn't want to go back all the way from where the first bonfire was.

>>169362624
*Firekeeper

>>169362616
take off havel's you fag

>>169357409
Swordsman.

>>169361231
>also the MiB is made from stone
what in the fuck are you talking about

>>169361936
>I would much rather have death mean a gradual and ever increasing reduction of my HP pool, like II does
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>169354998
bad game design

Dear DSG, what is "twinking"? Im meming around and invading people with a fire barbed sword but im not sure if im giving them a fair chance to fight back.

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>>169362669
The problem is, that the general rule about bonfire placement and actually allowing them to serve as meaningful milestones of your progress through the world, with the challenging treks between them making the reward of unlocking shortcuts all the more valuable, becomes warped when you introduce bosses into the equation. Bosses are, by their very nature, challenges all of their own, typically the greatest that a level has to offer, only of a different nature than level progression. As a result, I feel that by design that always warrants the existence of a nearby "boss" bonfire, or at least an incredibly efficient shortcut, so as to not excessively punish players that are struggling with the boss fight by piling on them something that translates into little more than a timer.

Really, as someone who has struggled for a long time against bosses like Sulyvahn, Fume Knight, Ornstein and Smough and Gwyn, to the point where many times they would pretty much just oneshot me within ten to twenty seconds of starting the fight, it's hard to overstate how welcome the bonfire placement of the first three was, as opposed to how hellish the last one was to experience. To the point where it actually completely shattered the atmosphere for me, not because it was hard, but because I realized "I HAVE TO WALK ALL THE WAY BACK THERE -AGAIN-?" over and over and over.

And before cries of git gud start piling up, consider that there's a reason why shortcuts and multiple bonfires within the same area exist. Very few people would draw enjoyment from starting at the Darkmoon Knightess bonfire and having to cross the painting guardian rafters, the archer buttress, and the spiral staircases of Anor Londo every time they tried to fight O&S. There IS such a thing as being excessively harsh, to the point of detracting from the enjoyment of the game.

Hexes are so fucking cheesy. I remember getting to the last rank of the pvp covenant in Dark Souls III with a pure mage build by only using affinity, dark resonant soul, darkstorm and dark dance.
>Cast Affinity
>Know that opponent you will roll towards me to avoid affinity, so I immediately cast darkstorm
>8 out of 10 times, he eats the darkstorm and gets knocked back, even if he doesn't he will hardly punish you
>Recast Affinity while he's on the ground and spam resonant soul when he wakes up
>If he tries to get close to you again, just cast dark dance, It's almost impossible to punish, always makes the guy keep his distance and always hit at least some orbs
I almost never lost using that build and It was basically a RP build.

>>169363787
Dark Souls II*
I'm referring to the arena in the blood covenant.

>>169362536
because darkness is so cool :)

>>169363706
Dark Souls based its bosses around the assumption you'd have run through some of your resources getting there, and if you wanted to summon for them, you had to keep your Humanity the entire way. They're easier to compensate.

Gwyn's was just a joke though. It's a fucking giant area with four enemies you can run right past. There was no reason to make that brutal walking treadmill be the final bit of the game.

>>169364037
Is it effective though

>>169363706
I agree with you to an extent, but really, the only bosses in Dark Souls I that have really long walks to them are Gwyn, 4 Kings and maybe Sif, but I don't find much of a problem in Sif's case because the battle isn't really that hard. The rest of the bosses have walks that are long enough to make you feel the weight of death, but not long enough to be extremely tedious.

Also on a side note, your position about this makes me think that you must hate Demon's Souls, since that game doesn't have bonfires and you have to actually go run through the entire level to get to the boss if you die.
>>169364101
Although I also find the distance excessive in Gywn's case, that long walk is there only for atmosphere reasons.

Any tips for playing Souls games with keyboard and mouse?

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>going for Ring of the Living with only 15 END
Please pray for me, guys.

>>169357857
What this guy said, it made the game much more enjoyable being able to run from one zone to another and all the shortcuts connecting everything, amazing.

I started with 2 and then 3 and then i played 1, I cant understand why they didnt keep in the no warping at the start, just made them lazy with connecting up zones.

How early do you get hexes in ds2?
Started a sorc yesterday because wanted to use blue flame but I've been changing my mind, jiust dont wanna spend 7 hours with a mace and no spells, feels like that with lightning builds

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>>169364478
>tfw CE

>>169364730
Isn't DS2 super ban-happy about that kind of stuff or is there really very little risk?

what the fuck do i infuse das2 mlgs with

>>169364890
Enchanted

>>169364607
Straid sells it, you can find him at the lost bastile, which is right after the Persuer or the goonies level. There's also the guy that you find at the forest after shading woods, but you have to complete his questline to buy his Hexes.

You can find most hexes scattered throughout the game, just look at the Wiki.

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>tfw you push a hacker off the ledges in anor londo

>>169364398
4Kings is weird because the fast walkback to it is more like a sequence break than an actual shortcut. If I recall correctly it involves just jumping off the aqueduct bridge into a watery area below, with no indication or "unlocking" necessary for that.

I want to get to the heirs of the sun as soon as possible how do I stay low level but also manage to get all the way to the windmill so I can help people with all the bosses?

>>169365283
Rush to the Bastille/Straid ASAP and buy agape ring from him, use it as you see fit to avoid inflating your SM as you progress.

>>169365283
Run through literally everything?

>>169365283
I've only played through the game once months ago so I don't remember paths for shit but I remember getting to harvest valley pretty easily.

If I didn't have to get my boyfriend to wake up and family share the game I would work on a character right now and make a desert sorceress garb wearing paladin.

>>169365283
All you REALLY need to put points in is ADP, at least enough to get 95 AGI or so

And get agape ring ASAP

>>169365115
>If I recall correctly it involves just jumping off the aqueduct bridge into a watery area below, with no indication or "unlocking" necessary for that.
It actually becomes a shortcut ever since you remove the water from the city, it's a shortcut in the same way that falling in the platforms from the catacombs, Tomb of the Giants or Blighttown to get where you want faster are considered shortcuts. The walk is still really long anyway because there's no bonfire in New Londo and you need to take that long ass elevator from Firelink shrine and go all the way since the beginning of the level until the boss.

>he doesn't use rob flynn leo espada ropera

only viable way to play DaS2

>Frigid Outskirts
Nah, I'm not going through this fucking abomination again for a ring I'll use for a few fucking days. Who the absolute F U C K greenlit this area? I want them fucking castrated. I want their fucking daughters raped and lynched. I want their house burned to the fucking ground. I want to eat their fucking hearts as they watch.

>>169365827
Frigid Outskirts is a pretty atmospheric area, which is more than I can say about most of Dark Souls II

>Woah this demon sure hits harder than the one that I fought with Onionbro
>He falls down a ledge and skeletons gangbang him to death
Thanks Nito

>>169366107
I keep trying to get him and the mimic to fight but the mimic always gets btfo in practically one hit

this still work in SOTFS?

http://www.leviathyn.com/2015/02/22/how-to-become-an-early-game-dark-souls-2-hexer-in-10-minutes/

>>169365827
Carry a shield.

Summon the AI phantoms.

There, now you can walk through the snowstorms zero problem.

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Instant invades at heides this event... i love it, wrecked about 30 normies games in the past 20 mins.

>>169365827
It would probably be my favorite area in DS2 if the rapehorses were toned down a bit in regards to their health pools or damage output.

Although I think the span of time where the blizzard has cleared should be at least 30 seconds longer.

>>169362669
>agrees that hp reduction in 2 was a good thing
>complains about bonfire placement
hp reduction is worse
it was literally punishment for failure when learning from your mistakes and trying again is what its all about

>all those cucks asking retarded questions about the easiest fucking souls game

go play hello kitty online faggots

>>169366364
How did you get your cracked eye orbs? Farming them?

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>>169366364
A few of them have taken to suicide, might see whats poppin off at belfry

>>169366438
It's probably because it's their first Souls, but that makes me question why they aren't playing 1 first.

>>169365827
Get a weapon that can pancake, it makes Rudolph the Asshole Reindeer a pushover

does monastery scim still have those op parry frames or not

>>169366472
Those Old Knights drop Blue Cracked, it's really easy to farm them. Just put on Agape and CoC, and you have an infinite supply.

So how bad was shrine of amana prepatch? what kinds of things did they change? Also i heard they changed dragon aerie as well

>>169366686
no

>>169353275
>Excuses to draw porn are now considered headcanon.

Boy, you're a special kind of whiny retard, aren't you. Why do you even give a fuck? it's just porn.

>>169366906
Shrine of Amana was hellishly hard on release, the sorceresses that pelt you with homing soul arrows could do so from beyond your visual range so you'd be getting hit from enemies you can't even see yet

The last stretch right before Semen of Dong was basically a bullet hell

>>169355276
Drangleic was built over Vinheim though. The Undead only went to Drangleic because the Kiln happened to be there.

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>>169366492
Aw found my first either hacker or laggy ass motherfucker, he didnt take no damage and lagged all over the fucking place.

>>169367480
espada ropera is better than rapier in every way faggot

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Do you ever feel bad for blues, /dsg/?

Talk to me about katanas, I almost beat DS1 on my first run using a katana. Should I fight the lost sinner with a bofire asthetic and get the chaos blade early?

Which are the most fun weapons and builds of Dark Souls 2?

>>169367824
>Dark Souls 2
>fun

>>169367824
Fists
double ultra weapon
mega homosexual butterfly catpants poison master with double spotted whips

>trying to suicide run the great scythe
fuck this f a m

>>169367824
It used to be Vanquisher's Seal, until From nerfed for absolutely no reason.

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>lost over 10k when I'm almost done with my RtD character
>repeatedly smack and punch myself in the face because I just spent 6+ hours building this shit just to get fucked by SM
Please end my suffering. Please. I can't fucking bare this never ending cycle of work and disappointment.

>sitting at Lost Sinner
>no one summoning
Damnit I just want to co-op.

>>169367605
Like i care fagnut its killed everyone except him but i think that might have to do with having a 30ft range scimitar and invincibility.

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>dual-wielding Ultra Greatswords

Best Female body settings for dark souls 3?

>>169368392
Legs: 255

>>169368392
Custom in the advanced settings. Make as large a difference between legs and waist as possible, with legs being larger. Beyond that, anything goes, be it thicc, sticc, or muscular.

>>169368392
>not asking for examples

What's the best early weapon for a pyro?

>>169368667
okay. what are some examples?

>>169368669
rapier

>>169368669
Pyromancy Flame

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>>169367480
>losing to a scimitar

>>169368392
What kind of girls do you like?

>>169368112
i've never heard this much autism in my LIFE

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Everyone has taken to running to the bonfire like this is DaS3 babby phantom mode, I mean really?

>>169368901
I am a die hard ass man

>>169368112
>not backing up your save the moment you have to retrieve a large amount of souls

lesson learned friendo

>>169368992
255 legs. Get the black leather boots too.

>>169368992
>>169369126
abdomen slider controls ass size not legs, sadly.

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Gravity kills are the best ones, especially when they are wielding some big fuck off halberd and they go over the edge trying to attack you.

>>169368986
says the faggot using babbynobackstabbu armor

>>169369309
my first pvp weapon in DS2 was a shitty rapier/estoc, boring as fuck spamming R1 after awhile.

sadly its effective at low levels

>>169369309
>>169368986
This isn't your blog fuck off

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>>169369372
Its for the look, none of these babbys even know what a backstab is, I havent been backstabbed once no one even trys, Ive lost around 5 to people with brazilian internet which cant be helped.

>>169369445
>Waaaaaa theres dark souls shit in my dark souls general wub wub waaaaaaaa

Fuck off you faggot.

DaS 2 player
Should I level up ADAPTABILITY?
Its at 5. Warrior. Will my dodge rolls really get better?

>>169369648
Das2 isn't darksouls :^)

>>169369684
Yes. Aim for 98 Agility.

>>169369684
Yes, you'll get more iframes. Check your agility stat; you want it to be around 95-100 (more or less depending on personal preference). Atunement also raises it very slightly, so if you're gonna have loads of spells you might be able to leave a point or two out of adp.

>>169369493
>>169369648
>>169369789
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0FYNj2mhFpt

>return to drangleic
>been summoned all of once for ruin sentinels, summoned once for early pursuer
>invaded once, summoned a dragon spirit while trying to rest once, both in FoFG
>have done shit-all multiplayer otherwise
nice event :^)

My fps drops by half when I have another player in my world anyways. No idea why - npc phantoms don't affect me at all.

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10.000 years in character editor and this is the only shit I can come up with.
fuck from softs char editors.

>>169359723
there's no bonfire at the very beginning of archdragon peak and dying before you get to the first bonfire doesnt send you back to irithyll dungeon

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>>169369972
the fuck is wrong with you

>>169370116
i fail to see the waifus
those are all abominations

>>169368986
Just saw your ghost senpai

How do you get early red eyes boys?

>>169370249
Turn your monitor on.

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>>169370116
all ugly as sin

>>169370319
Majula pigs or collector's edition

>>169369929
>barely getting any online activity
>"nice event :^)"
>1:58:22
Go to bed.

>>169369798
alright thanks.
>>169369789
>

>Armorer Dennis
What the fuck is this guy's problem? Last I checked, armorers don't shoot Soul Vortexes at people in earlygame areas.

>>169370340
What are the red squares

Doing Return to Dranglaic, wanna go Strength/Offensive Miracle. Is deprived a viable start?

>>169369893
>>169369795
>>169369798
>more i-frames
no fucking wonder why i got my salad tossed at belfry luna from other players. ffs, from
>hey were gonna have a literal stat that negates skill level and not tell you :)
absolute worst thing about DaS2 from what i can tell so far. otherwise im really enjoying it

>>169370509
It wouldn't be so bad if rolling wasn't fucked to begin with. Here's how it works in 2:
>tap roll button
>character model rolls, hitbox stays in place
>iframes are applied as determined by your agility
>when roll completes, hitbox teleports to your new location
This is why you get some famous webms of grab attacks hitting nothing then teleporting you into them hopefully a kind anon will provide a few.

If your hitbox moved WITH your character model, adp would be worth a lot less.

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>>169367630
No

>>169370509
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0DQZhKHgkm5

>>169370319
Things Betwixt gives you 5, you can then dupe those 5 into 5 full stacks of 99 with CE

What's the persuers deal leave me alone m8

>>169370729
>pursuer
>pursuing you
pottery
if he's giving you trouble, slap on a buckler and parry his ass

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>>169370509
>>hey were gonna have a literal stat that negates skill level and not tell you :)

>hey we're gonna have a literal button on the controller that negates skill level, period.

I don't remember the opening cinematic of DS2 looking so good.

Or the intro with the witches spending so much time on uncomfortable closeups of old lady teeth.

>>169370853
Kind of sucks that the intro is from a game we didn't actually get. That whole sequence is so fucking cool.

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>when you and your homeboy strike a pose
So this is the power of anime

>>169370837
To be fair, it's possible to have a dodge button and actually require a bit of skill. Hyper Light Drifter did it - your dodge is really good, but you have no iframes whatsoever unless you invest in the upgrade that deflects bullets, but that costs energy. Point is, your dodge is just fast movement, not a magic invincibility button.

>>169370837
kek. are you implying that the only good Souls are De, Da1, and DaS3?

>>169371056
the opposite

>>169368003
>suicide run
>early as hell into the undead settlement

What? Even if you're SL 1 it should be no problem.

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>>169370251
I know right, theres so much activity, heides-belfry have been orange bordered for me all morning.

<-
Outskilled by a heide knight

>>169371152
sm?

best greatsword in DaS 2?

>>169371152
What SM you running? Sub 40k?

>not playing the definitive edition
also just got summoned for pursuer.
cant believe ppl really participate in this event.

>>169371109
>dodging is not skill based
theres literally no other way an action-y game can work. dodge is needed

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>>169371167
About 160k which was enough to upgrade armor+2-3 weapons and level 50. Its the most fun ive had invading in a long while, its refreshing not to invade into 3 phantoms constantly.

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How do I pyro in DaS2? What are some fun weapons and spells? How much should I put into int and faith?

>>169371227
You have to consider how many people will also be losing their souls.

>>169355276
The devs said well before release that Drangleic takes place in another geographical region entirely.

>>169371414
Did you CE for rings?

>>169371421
INT+FTH=60
30/30 hits softcap.
only relevant pyros are Great Chaos Fireball & Forbidden Sun.

do Pyro/hexers work well?

>>169371892
Ofc, CE is the only way you can twinkvade at such low SM, otherwise your SM would be too high for it.

>>169356553
>DaS3
>as linear as DeS
It's way more linear than Demon's Souls

>>169372083
But thats faggotry

Anything I should know about SOTFS? I want to do a relatively complete run. Do I need to worry about abandoning covenants?

>>169372207
the only punishment for abandoning covenants is that all of your progress towards the next rank is reset, but you'll keep your rank if you've reached it already

>>169372304
Thanks. Any major missables I should worry about?

>>169372117
No, thats fun.

I was immensely sloppy and ended up at 112k SM by the time I got my agape ring. Will this still be okay for being a bellbonger?

I haven't tried this thing since near-release DS2.

>fashionsouls is gone
WHEN THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PLAN OUT HOW TO LOOK AS BALLA AS POSSIBLE NOW

>>169372109
linear isnt bad at all as long as the game is designed well.

the most overrated thing of all time in games is "non-linear"

*HEY*

why didnt anyone invent an emulator that can run demons souls on pc

So /dsg/ quick question:

Why is a Berinike knight in the painted world in DaS? I'm talking the one on the bridge just before Priscilla. If he made it to the painted world, why is Tarkus held in such high esteem for falling off the rafters? Random Berinike bro definitely got further than him.

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>>169372653
yeah defo, i have orange borders at 160k for heides-belfry and everything in between, ive gotten 44 tokens in past couple hours at heides after using 57 orbs.

>>169372747
what do you mean "fashionsouls is gone"

>>169372936
just get a trip so we can filter your shitty blog

>>169373038
>hes posting dark souls stuff in the dark souls thread when i want to get back to real discussions such as gwyndolin vs gwynevere hnnnngh waaaa booo hoooooo

Shut your butthurt asshole up faggot