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>DARK SOULS 3
>PSX 2015 Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjK5f7ozzOM [Embed]
>Gameplay Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XwhYVzN_a0 [Embed]
http://www.gamersyde.com/hqstream_dark_souls_iii_gc_gameplay_reveal-35231_en.html
>Announcement Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RAlGv-IW4g [Embed]
>Screenshots & Artwork
Official: https://imgur.com/a/GUjb3
Leaked: https://imgur.com/a/c08Bb
New screenshots & artwork: http://imgur.com/a/5fhcQ
>Leak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyRJ5u-L8qw [Embed]
>Interviews
http://pastebin.com/PUSbw02s
>Gameplay
http://pastebin.com/yWzzuVV1

>/dsg/ Player List
http://pastebin.com/9hG50KHX
>/dsg/ Steam Group
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/DarkSoulsGeneral
>Draw
http://doodleordie.com/r/darksouls
http://imgur.com/a/wwtuf
http://flockmod.com/dsg

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

>DARK SOULS
http://pastebin.com/h1etMh8E
>Essential Mods
DSFix: http://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/19/?
PVP Watchdog: http://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/849/?

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

Old:>>124870039
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first playthrough
got cursed in the hollows
fo I try to get out through blighttown to firelink shrine and the merchant that sells the expensive thing that heals me?
or can I beat the boss cursed?
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>>124980628
the boss is very easy, but even if you beat him you will still be with half health.
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>>124980628
The boss is typically a wall to new players. The clams at the bottom of the hollow can drop the curse cure item randomly. Run through and kill them a couple times for one.
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ok, im home now. What exactly did you need from the interior and exterior of londo?
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>>124979471
Unless your opponent is using a weapon that does the Hilt animation backstab, you are going to get hit. It doesn't matter your iframes, I agree, but having less than 10 is sub-optimal.
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In the end I didn't want to deal with the bandits ass tier starting adaptability and agility.

Started Knight for safety sake, though i stared long and hard at warrior for giving me access to 2-handing the Bluemoon Greatsword, which is a pretty boss weapon with Raw infuse.

Will update if I get anywhere, I've already had some drinks, but I'll be surprised if I kick the bucket before I have a lord soul or two.
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>>124980850
but does the boss open some shortcut to previous areas or I still have to go up through blighttown?
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>>124981012
>this fashion
>this weapons

>>124981181
you are talking about what boss? if you are in blightown, the boss is not easy, and the boss don't open any shortcut, it goes to a new area.
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>>124981316
>not liking my weaboo wannabe samurai
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>>124981103
Naw, guy. Sub-50% load rolls are safe to use as long as you don't do blatantly stupid shit like that nigga. That webm is a bad roll getting punished, which is exactly what sticky-stabs do.
>sub-optimal
My ass. We were talking about pve in the first place but you seriously don't need more than 8 or 9 frames in pvp, either.
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>>124981518
honestly I hate it
it's impractical and ugly
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>>124981518
let me guess, you played ds2 fist, right?
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>>124981678
Nope, it was DaS1. Sorry my lack of fashion sense clashes with your DaS1 superiority complex.

>>124981656
it was supposed to be

>>124978515
probably should have linked this the first time, but here is a shot above the front gate. what else do you need from the outside?
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>>124981316

I googled and it is Quelaag.
I thought a shortcut may have opened after beating her to avoid having to go through the same area to get out to the surface.
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>fume knight
>get him 5 hits from death every time

fuck i hate this cunt
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>>124981921
this can't be, so it's not your first time, or you read shit in google. you are obviously not a new player, but a edgy flipping faglord

>>124982140
there is a shortcut already. look for it.
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>>124981181

The path through Blight town to Firelink is through the wheel. Keep going up and there's a key to get back. Quelaag's domain is to areas deeper under ground.
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>>124981678
what is it about his picture that makes you think this
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>>124982307
literally everything
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>>124982229
I really don't understand why this bothers you. I wanted to make the most obnoxious looking katana using ninja flipper and this is what I came up with.
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>>124982470
i dont like nigas that kill npcs for their gear psh
and also katanafags
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SEND HELP
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This is my first time on /DSG/ in like 6 months
what did i miss
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>>124982720
He was crazy, bro. I had to put him down.
And I would agree with the katanafag sentiment if the washing pole wasn't an ass weapon.

My favorite weapon is the BKGS. Does that make you feel better
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>>124981567
There's no way you can dodge a halberd WD1HR1 with 88 AGI. In pve, it's only a problem against fume and alonne.
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>>124982927
i bet you killed him in the first time you met him thinking ''he will be crazy later''
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>>124982953
What? Are you serious?
the 1HWD on the halberd/reaper moveset is pretty much the only decent attack in its moveset but you certainly don't need to bloat your adp to avoid it consistently. It doesn't even have a long active time or a lingering hitbox, I don't understand why you'd choose to bring up that one
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>>124982953
aava, Zallen and Lud are a pain without it too.

>>124983049
I love big hat bro. I paid every soul.
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>If you skip undead burg the dragon doesn't show up
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>>124983145
At least 92 or 96 to dodge it consistently. It has longer active frames than most running attacks.
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>>124982143

FUCKING GOT HIM

once the attack patterns are drilled into your head he's not so bad
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>>124983601
If you need the crutch, man. I'll save those points for more end or something.
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>>124983534
You only have to skip the first bridge of the burg. You can still go to the shop and not trigger him if you come from darkroot or the parish side.
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>>124981012
The stairs, archers, rooms, and the mounts of Drakes would be appreciated.
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Anyone here prefer Demon's Souls to Dark Souls?

Dark Souls was my first game and I'm having trouble getting into Demon's.
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>>124983974
ok, hold on, I killed the archers, but i can get the stairs really quick
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I just told Laurentius about Quelana, did I fuck up?
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>>124984063
A comparison of the hallway and several other rooms.
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>>124984063
ok, here is the stairs on the outside. will homeward bone and get the archers and rooms in a sec.
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>>124984504
They're all beautiful! The enemies would also be a nice touch along and the balcony where you go through to meet Siegmeyer.
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Shit on DaS2 all you want, but some of the music was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjlcO3fL3w
This really gives a feeling of "You fucked up" perfectly.
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>>124984045
>Anyone here prefer Demon's Souls to Dark Souls?

Me.

The lore, setting, and world are much more thought out and interesting. They also tell you what is happening in the intro instead of giving you vague "ring some bells and something will happen".

You have dignified underwear and character models more.

But I most like the speed. Everything just feels better.
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>>124984781
Ok, well here are the archers. I cant get a good setup with the binos on account of the incoming fire. I might be able to get a better look at one of them if I am quick with print screen
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>>124984781
do you need me to get closer?
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>>124985580
Yeah sure, I want you to get right in his personal space.
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>>124985580
here is an action shot from up closer. I will get right on his belt buckle.
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I have a fume sword+ 5 and have literally the bare minimum str/dex stats to wield it on my hex build.

Should I infuse it?
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>>124986019
If you have dark weapon, why not? However someone with Chaos Set will laugh at your damage. Going full elemental can be costly sometimes.
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>>124985757
I tried, and they both committed suicide :( I will try again when i get the front stairs with the giants.

Here is the hallway after the archers.
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Just got DS1 for PC, do I still need DSfix?
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>>124985757
first room
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>>124986243
obviously. Game is borderline unplayable without it. It also looks like shit.
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>>124985757
bonfire room
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>>124985757
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>>124984175
he's gone
buy everything you can if you're still there
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>>124986676
I really appreciate all of this hard work Anon. Pictures of the spiral staircase on all of the floors would be nice. Also if you're having problems getting up close with enemies just use the Fog Ring and the Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring.
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>>124986923
i completely forgot about those rings. I feel dumb. Anyway, here is the silver knight room. Will do balcony and staircase next.
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>>124986923
Archer aggroed on me, will get a shot of him in a second.
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>>124986923
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>>124986870
I bought everything that was left but my pyroflame is still only +12, will Quelana still be in Blighttown to upgrade it further?
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>>124987701
Mind zooming in on a Silver Knight and the Drake heads? By the way it's pretty Nito that you're using the Furysword.
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>>124987846
Yes, in fact you get a special pyromancy from her for killing the Bed of Chaos. Also its good to ascend your flame after you've defeated a boss since it cost so many souls.
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>>124986923
here is floor 1
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>>124988093
What's up with the brightness?
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>>124988260
its at 5, was at 7 earlier, I have been changing it if the shadows look weird. Forgot to turn it back up to 8.

Its not a zoom in, but its post parry close if thats good enough.
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I want to make a chaos claymore, do I first upgrade to +5 standard, then make it into a fire claymore, then upgrade it to +5 fire claymore and then make it into chaos? Not sure I understood this right since this is my first playthrough.
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>>124988479
Here is another shot.
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>>124988260
This is probably floor 2 truly, but w/e, 1.5
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>>124988260
and the drake head. Anything else I am forgetting?
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>how long it takes to get to Lud and Zallen

That is fucking retarded, luckily it's a recycled boss so no surprises except for the second one. But still that is a long and boring walk back to the boss if you fuck up
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>>124989667
No kidding. What made it easier for me was summoning to two npc phantoms as horsebait and then sending them home at the fogwall.

What sucks too is all it takes is one bad roll and you can get wombo combo-ed by the tale of two kitties.
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you what I hope Dark Souls 3 has but it probably won't?

Hogwarts Style castle, a magic school. Illusions and false walls everywhere, magic out the ass. In all the games we hear about the schools of magic but never go to any. Would be neat to see one.
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>>124989667
Maybe other people hated the boss fight, but I thought it was hype as fuck.
>finally manage to kill one of the cats
>working on whittling down other
>it starts regenerating
>! Crypt Blacksword +6 at risk !
>mfw
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>>124989667
I like that area, but not the boss. I was expecting a huge pony or something.

But yeah, a bonfire close to the fog gate would solve that issue.
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How much AGL do you need to not feel like a retarded roller?
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>>124989025
I think I'm good with these images. Thank you so much for your help and if you want me to draw you something just say so :-)
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>>124990064
Honestly, I got by fine with 88 until the dlcs and lost sinner. 92 was the bare minimum for what I needed to clear any attack I attempted to roll through.
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>go to the tree in the blighttown swamp
>"shield ahead" message on the ramp
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>>124990064

105 is ds1 roll
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>>124990210
Can't think of anything right now, sorry. I would just draw something cool and post it here, but no rush or anything. Was fun. I reminded me of running around in Windwaker with the camera.
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>>124990227
Yeah, I'm at Brume tower and my rolling timing is consistently late, despite the enemies there using attacks that look easy to roll through.
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how much worse off am I with a 50 percent roll than a 30 percent?

I'm using shadow top atm, but looking to switch it out to drakeblood chest for dark paladin build.
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>>124990747
20 percent
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>>124990064
88 should be fine. iframes start the instant you hit the button, DaS2 rolls have 0 frames of startup so if you're having trouble getting hit out of your rolls, just delay your timing a bit. Aim to dodge with the start of your roll.
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>>124990747
You lose a bit of roll distance and stamina regen speed. If it's a really big noticeable difference to you, switch to the lighter gear. Poise is useless unless you stack the best possible gear for it in DaS2 so don't worry about that.
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>Iron King DLC
>finally get past iron passage hell
>through fog gate
>oh look, this guy again
>fight going well, got surprised by the explosion during the buff, but whatever
>suddenly this fucker decides to do some sort of delayed attack
>he starts the attack, but just hold it
>I roll
>?
>roll again
>right after I get up he rekts me
>Alonne does the exact same bullshit but twice as much

Is this a From meme or something?
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>>124983671
This is why you use BDS, you can have near max i-frames because you're already at the bonus health caps for vgr and end.
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I don't want to set the world on fire
just the son of a bitch who made Blighttown such a pain in the dick to navigate
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>>124991015
According to some other anons, Sir Alonne's attacks had very slightly different telegraphs for their different delays.

Being able to tell which was which requires you being a fucking superhuman as far as I'm concerned, because the fast version of his quickdraw barely gives me time to react and roll in the first place.
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>>124990392
Yeah it was pretty fun. Despite /dsg/ being in a cesspool we can still have our moments...
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>>124991015
Yup, bosses will adapt to you and delay
Really one of their best moves, makes fights much more interesting than memorizing patterns, gotta have your timing on point too
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>>124991015
They deliberately adjusted Cool Ranch Smelter's attack timings so your muscle memory from the Nacho Cheese version would fuck you up and make you roll too early.
As for Alonne it honestly feels like you need some luck to dodge him consistently, he's way too fast for me.
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>>124991307
rolling backwards is pretty safe on everything but his stabs, even at low agility.
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>>124991548
Eh. Whenever I rolled one of his delayed quickdraws early, he'd hit me in roll recovery no matter which direction I went. It was safer to just 2h and block
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>greatsword build
>laggy connection

these people genuinely deserve to die
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Why don't large weapons touch my shoulder like in DS1? Is it cloth mechanics?

That gap in the bastard sword just kills the fashion for me.
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>>124992563
Just shitty/lazy animating.
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>>124992563
for the same reason dark souls 1 had awful clipping with greatsword two-handing
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Y'all blighttown haters are just pussies who can's appreciate a challenging level design.
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>fighting mage in arena
>he's so laggy i cant dodge any of his shit, die immediately
>fight same mage again
>he cant aim for shit, never lands a hit, doesnt even seem to be able to lock on

WHO WAS LAG???
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>>124991295
>just the son of a bitch who made Blighttown such a pain in the dick to navigate

You can skip 90% of it.
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>summon NPC
>Summon PC
>enter Quelaag's domain
>watch the resulting 2 vs 1 fight
>"chosen undead"
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>>124992936
giant mosquito detected
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>>124993243

You know they're infinite? I didn't know. I sniped one with a bow and bam another came up right after it.
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>>124993646
They actually stop spawning after you kill enough.
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Anybody use this? What does it look like?
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>>124993646
Only about two come up after you kill one, then they stop. If you really want to kill all of them, throwing knives do the job quite well.
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>>124993834
Why don't you just open the DSfix file and edit those?
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>>124994035
Why don't you just wipe without toilet paper?
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>>124980304
Will they ever let us wear that sweet armor with the plume?
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Pleb here, that can't beat the second boss on DS1. Any tips? Also zwei or scim
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>>124994276
anon he asked you a real question
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>>124994276
I was just trying to help. If you really need to download something because you're unable to write 0 and 1 on notepad, that's your problem.
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>>124994389
Which boss, specifically, are you stuck on? What's your Soul Level? What's your download region?
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>>124994389
Which boss? Taurus Demon? Gargoyles?
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>>124993060
not when you're going back to Firelink
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>>124994389
As much as people recommend the zwiehander for first time players, I really think the claymore and longsword are much more beginner friendly weapons. I would try one of those.
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>>124994549
11, stuck on Taurus demon
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>>124994756
I agree. Noobstick 2.0 is fast, hard hitting and has a nice moveset, zwei starters usually only know how to smash.
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>>124994656
Taurus
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>>124994862
Well, assuming you're human, and live somewhere in the States, then my sign is down if you really want some help.
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So, I have made an honest attempt to make a knight of each element, but I have not done a dark knight yet. I was planning to kind of go with the dark greatsword spell and the hp and damage reduction buffs since most of the other spells don't seem to good. any weapon suggestions or tips? I was planning to use either the roaring halberd, crypt blacksword or fume sword. Armor, weapon, spell and fashion tips also appreciated.
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>>124995075
I mean I tried Taurus like twice total, was trying to get 12>16 Strength for zwei. Just wanted some tips cause I'm trash at the game
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I'm getting completely rekt by the stray demon, is this supposed to happen?
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>>124995134
I don't know much about hexes, but I can help a bit. Fume sword is only good if you know how to use it, and there sure are better options. Dark hail and orb are quite good spells as far as I know.

As for weapon, silverblack spear seems really good to me.
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>>124995382
For the taurus demon, I would recommend using the environment to get an advantage. Have you tried plunging attacking him yet?

>>124995416
To be fair, he is kind of a weird fight. I either rekt killed as I land in front of him, or just cheese him to death.
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>>124995416
No, he's one of the bosses I kill at the start of each playthrough for free souls.
Get behind him and stay there. Back off a little bit when he jams his weapon in the ground and then go back in to continue attacking. He's a joke boss with a half-finished AI.
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>>124995510
I'm very interesting in it, it reminds me of the moveset of the longsword from dark souls 1. The only thing its missing is the sneaky r2 combo. That won me so many last hits in pvp.
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so I'm going through das1 for the first time and I'm leveling up some covenants I skipped earlier in the game; currently doing forest hunter. Is SL75 too high to invade anyone? I've been running around for half an hour now with no luck.
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>>124995572
Well the problem is that I can't even get behind him, he oneshots me every time and I can't even avoid it by rolling.
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>>124994484
>>124994543
That has nothing to do with hud modifications
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>>124995134

I'm playing a dark knight with fume sword ATM. Dark weapon,dark great sword, dark fog for spells. SBS is great PvE but too slow for pvp I feel. Same with roaring halberd.
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>>124995753
its the one where he throws his staff sideways and does the huge nova? Yeah, thats the one that would always kill me as I landed. How I avoid that now is stick the roll as you land when you fall from above and immediately roll towards him. Do not lock onto him and run-jump behind his tail as fast as possible. Then proceed to cheese him as he spams butt slams and the slow ass nova that doesnt reach too far behind him. Use his tail as a reference for the safe zone to stand behind him when he novas.
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>>124995637
I loved longsword in DS1, I really miss the combos in DS2. If you like fume's moveset, there are other straightswords that share it, like ashen warrior and sun sword.

The bonus on fume sword is the reach and poise break, the damage is underwhelming and I believe that infusing it with dark actually makes it worse.
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>no mod that randomizes item placement throughout the game
why even live anymore
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>>124995382
Ah. Well then, personally I enjoy the Claymore. Zweihander was a little too slow for me, and lacked the versatility of the Claymores one handed thrust, broad one handed sweeps, and two handed overhead chops.

Overall, I'd recommend trying out different weapons and see what you enjoy. Just about every weapon is viable in PvE. Maybe you'll enjoy what's suggested, or maybe you'll find something a little more obscure. The Halberd and Lucerne are pretty fun weapons. Longsword is pretty standard, but is dependable.
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>>124995949
It's the fucking explosion that gets me.
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>>124995416

Get a bleeding weapon.

Stand behind him and attack his ass.

Move away when he does the area effect attack.
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>>124995913
By SBS you mean silverblack spear? Because it's great in experienced hands. With the right build and buffs you can easily go over 600 AR, plus that nasty R2 combo. The only turnoff is reach really.
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>>124996208
Well that's what I've been trying to do but he spams the explosion right from the start and I can't really do shit when he pins me against a wall and blows up.
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>>124995913
Well, I pvp a lot with the dragonrider halberd, so i think i could make the roaring halberd work there, but yes in pve the consistant 700 damage per hit is insane. I will probably stick with the fume sword. any experience with numbness, the hp buff (forget its name) and repel?
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Anyone around 500k SM on PC want to help me kill Aava? big fat cat is a big fat damage sponge
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Booted up DS 2 today and it seems my Steam controller settings for it were changed. No I can no long move in one direction then stop and hold to keep rotating/moving the camera. I can only move the camera very slowly with the right track pad.

Is there some way to revert the controller settings?
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>>124996159
well, he has two. What does he do when he casts the explosion.
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>>124996308
Which one? the fast or slow explosion?

Either way, don't lock on and run straight behind him, that should get you out of the way.
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>>124996308
Don't lock on, turn the other direction and run the fuck away. Do not try to back-pedal/roll.

You can also try using a high Magic-defense shield. It will still hurt and drain your stamina but it helps slightly in case you misjudge the distance from his magic AOEs.
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>>124996596
>>124996625
>>124996730
I'm getting the hang of it now somehow, it's just very punishing to get hit even once.
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>skips stray demon, returns to Firelink
>then go down to Blighttown
>finally find the second bonfire at the bottom of the place
>found out lotsa shit I missed
>decides to go for Kelloggs'
>finds two poor infested souls
>mercy kill them
>get rekt by the worms, almost die
>engage Kelloggs with 75% of my health gone
>decides to use gold pine resin because obviously she isn't weak to fire
>first attack, she spits some burning snot
>spendidly rolls toward her, takes no damage
>"aaaaw yeah, Fume Knight gotta be a piece of kek"
>starts poking her butt with my thunder dick
>she does some AoE shit
>insta killed
Okay. So two things :
- she isn't weak to lightning,
- like the Smelter Demon, she'll kill me if I try to stick it in her. I mean, if I try to stick to her.
I don't think I can get my hands on blue pine resin yet.
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>>124997174
>with 75% of my health gone
Meant "with 75% of my health remaining" because I was too cheap to return to Firelink and use that Firekeeper Soul I found in Blighttown.
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Is a Bonfire Ascetic the only way to get enemies in a zone to start spawning again? I've been trying to farm Suspicious Shadows.
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Does Gwyndolin have a boipussy
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>>124997386
COVENANT OF CHAMPIONS
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>>124997174
there's only fire, poison, and lightning resins
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>>124997496
There's no magic resin? Weird.
Oh well, I don't think Kelloggs is weak to one of these. In the worst case I'll pick out my bow.
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Should I bother with watchdog?

I can't find out how to use it with the newest version of sweetfx
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>>124997574
Resins aren't as common or diverse like DS2.
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>>124997431
The best boipussy.
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>>124997738
Yeah but I can buy them freely so I use them a lot more often than I did in DS2.
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>>124997431
I thought we escaped this in 2013
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>>124997734
Do you plan to PvP a lot? The watchdog is good. Fuck sweetfx.
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So, I played through DS2 couple times when it first came out and never touched it since.
I just remember it being really underwhelming game, compared to DS1 and DS.
Just got annoying flu and got PS4 version of the game from my friend and decided to just run through it again.
I don't care that much of a challenge this time, so what will be somewhat easymode to run through this? I remember that I used pretty much spells on my first character, but I heard they nerfed those pretty useless. Thinking about melee build.
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>>124998143
Nice blogging. How do I subscribe?
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>>124992563

>Why don't large weapons touch my shoulder like in DS1? Is it cloth mechanics?

What makes you think it's something that didn't happen in Dark Souls 1?

I swear, people have such rose-tinted nostalgia goggles on sometimes.

By the way, it also happens in Bloodborne when you shoulder weapons like the Holy Moonlight Sword or the Beast Cutter, but I never see anyone complaining about it (at least not on the same scale as people complaining about it happening on Dark Souls 2).

People only seem to complain when it happen in Dark Souls 2 but give it a pass and ignore it if it happens in other Souls games.
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>>124998215
That's because when DaS2 does it, it's fucking B-team cash grabbing shitty release thingy, but when everyone does it, its awwwwright.
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>>124998143
just summon people
it'll be easier and more fun
there's a lot more npc summons this time as well
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Is it possible to repair a Ring of Sacrifice in Dark Souls, or is it lost forever?
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>>124998553
one use only
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>>124998672
Fuck.
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>>124998773
You can buy more
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>>124998184

You should see the subscribe button in top left corner of my post.
Remember to sign my patreon also.
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Fucking finally.
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Scholar is 16$ right now. Worth or nah?
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so, to add to a list of bad ideas I have had on this game, trying to kill the flexile sentry at sl 1 with an unupgraded dagger is a terrible idea. it breaks about 3/4 through killing him.

>>124998889
i enjoyed it more than i thought I would. Some of the changes are nice.
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>>124998289
What I find amusing is that a lot of people object to me calling stupid shit like this a case of nostalgia goggles. What else would you call it? Being forgetful? It's clearly not just being forgetful in the sense of "Oh, I forgot my password" or "Oh, I forgot where I put my car keys last night". It's more than just being forgetful. It's nostalgia goggles. Plain and simple.
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yfw you finally realize ds2 has superior game mechanics and ds1 will never compare
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>>124998889
Did you play non-scholar DaS2? Did you play the DLC?
If you're going in totally raw, it's definitely worth it. If you played the base game but not the DLC, it's still definitely worth it. If you already did the DLC and everything, then there's not nearly enough new shit to be worth the money.
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>>124999431
this is a bait post btw
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>>124999431

tfw i unironically and truthfully agree with this

ds1 is a better single player experience, but if you have any interest in pvp ds2 is a better game.
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>>124998289
>>124998215

Here, how it looks for me, and the reason why I asked.

But sure, it's my magic nostalgia googles. You angry teens are so fucking retarded that you read any opinion as some sort of offense to your autism.

By the way, I love DS2, so fuck off.
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This took way to long
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should I drop from 105 to 100 agility for extra vgr?
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>>124999638
Yeah, yeah, we get it, everyone else is stupid except you.
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>>124999968
Yes. I personally don't need more than 95 agi but the iframe difference past 100 really isn't worth it.
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>>124999638
You probably never used the skinniest body type in DaS1, so you never noticed. I always used the skinniest girl, and that hover shouldering happens all the time in DaS1. Haven't played DeS in two years, so I don't remember if that shit happens in DeS or not.
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>>124997972
>fuck sweetfx

What's wrong with being grossly incandescent, Anon?
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So I just bought the PS4 version of 2 and I haven't played it since the Fire DLC on 360 a year ago. Besides technical improvements and changed enemy placements what are some more major balance changes that have happened since then?
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>>125000430
Lotsa balances, a community that isn't dead, and all DLCs are already in.
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>>125000157
I only play as the skinny male as possible, that pic is exacly that. There was a small issue, but nothing like DS2, the gap is gigantic.
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I don't understand Dark builds at all. Should I be using catalysts or chimes? Should I be mixing in Sorceries/Hexes/Pyromancies at all or not? Is 30 Int/Faith enough or should I aim higher?
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>>125000430
They removed the unlisted base elemental resistance, so infused weapons are really powerful in pvp at low levels. Flynn's ring and spammy dex weapons are still king, but there's a big google doc floating around somewhere with an exhaustive breakdown of how poise works, so you can actually properly minmax around poise breakpoints now if you want to. Arena now has SL matchmaking that's +-5 levels from you, and the arena 'meta' is 150.

Pretty much anything is viable for random invasions and meta only really begins to matter with competitive arenafags around the endgame SL and SM-tiers.
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>>125000731
Builds in DS are not that simple, there's a lot of variety. I'd recommend getting the sunset staff and dark orb/hail, then change it to black witch's staff and mixing hexes/miracles however you like.
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>>124999638
That broken wrist in DS2

LMAO
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>>125001130
Guess I'll play around with it. I'm used to just standard Str/Dex builds and I thought I'd try something different but it's proving to be too different.
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>>125001246
If you think that is funny, look at the players ankles on uneven ground on at least one, maybe two in some areas. Shit looks so painful.
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Fucking Sen's.
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>>125000731
It's pretty messy.
30/30 is the softcap for dark scaling, so if you're a melee focused dark build, like a buff build or something, then you wouldn't want to go any higher than that.

Many various hexes requires much, much higher int or faith than that, though. Most notably, Affinity needs like 50 int or something to get all of the tracking orbs, and spells like PWoP and Profound Still, Dark Greatsword and whatnot all have huge int and faith requirements. If you want to be an exhaustively equipped caster you'll end up being like SL300 or something by the end of it because of all the int/fth and attunement you need.

Caster-focused builds are generally shit in pvp, despite most of the high req spells being pvp-focused. In pve you mostly just spam dark orb because it's cheap and stupidly fucking good (also boring).

If you're going for a melee build, then you'd only really want to level int/fth if you wanted to use a buff like dark weapon or wanted to milk a bit of extra damage out of a big weapon like the crypt sword or bell hammer. Elemental infusions are typically for 0-investment twink builds, they don't need any scaling int/fth to be effective. Scaling in general is pretty shitty in this game and it's not really worth investing a whole lot of points into a scaling offensive stat beyond the minimum requirements unless it has an A in strength or an S in dex/int/fth/dark.
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>>125001581
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2X9SANsME
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>>125001549
i meant DaS1 and DaS2, not one and two. Im tired, sorry.
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>>125001314
I have the same problem, I'm a melee guy through and through, never got it right with magic. The secret to magic builds is pretty much ring and spells combination. I think dark clutch and ritual bands are good rings to look at.
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>idiots will end up insisting on SL200 or some awful shit as DasIII 'meta'

I kind of like the way DS1 is working now since SL 50 results in much more specialized setups and that's the most active spot in my experience
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>>125001731
the most active spot is around SL 125 these days
sl 50 is probably ideal for invading random areas but it's far from the "standard" pvp level
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>>125001731
Cool opinion, newfag.
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>>125001731
to be fair, the 150-200 level range for DaS2 is pretty good stopping point IMO.
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>>125001978
To clarify, after the sale in particular I was getting a ton of action at 50
Is 125 really that populated? I was keeping my level down so I didn't lose out
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>>125001246
>>125001549

I'm not an expert, but isn't there something wrong with the way shields are held in Dark Souls?

This bothers me since DS1.
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>>125002184
>I'm not an expert
You answered yourself.
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>>125001731
DaS2's meta only got so level-bloated because of the brilliant idea to tie iframes to a stat and separate carry weight, hp and stamina into 3 separate ones. That, and the fact that the disparity in requirements, stamina cost and weight between weapons got so extreme that you literally can't even bring half of the game's roster into pvp at ~100.

After they removed base elemental defenses, even 150 is a little too low as it's now dominated by minimum str/dex/int/fth elemental infusion builds and the powergap between a flynn meta weapon with ~12 point reqs and a 25/30/40/50 req str or quality weapon is exacerbated even more.

Hopefully DaS3 takes a page from BB's book and makes the list of stats condensed and concise so that we can keep the meta sub-100.
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>>125002184
man, that hurts just to look at. Holy shit.
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What are the biggest giveaways of an invaded player being a gigantic faggot in Parish?

>elite knight
>halberd
>???
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>>125002306
The biggest of all is "Summoning Phantom"
after that, drakesword.
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I'm on my first playthrough of Dark Souls, why did everyone think Blighttown was so hard?
It was easy, all you had to do was run and jump down a bunch of platforms to the second bonfire and I got through in like 4 minutes.
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>>125002184
That's actually a proper way to hold a shield. Shields weren't just something you hide behind in actual medieval warfare, they were a weapon and an important combat tool for medieval fighting.

The point in holding the shield like that is that when you move to parry an incoming blow, it turns the shield away from your body, and the other person's weapon with it. This also turns the edge towards their body, which opens them up for a shield-pin, where you jam the edge of your shield against their shoulder, thus preventing them from swinging their weapon around your shield and attacking you, while opening their entire body to your own weapon.

wrist-strapped shield formations were outdated by the time shields like that were used. Smaller shields are made to be used as secondary weapons in melee combat.
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>tfw listening to Abba while clearing Undead Crypt

Name a better feeling
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>>125002445
>ends up speedrunning zones he isn't familiar with on first playthru
>somehow doesn't fall to his death every 10 seconds

easy game senpai whats the hype bout.
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>>125002445
The idea is it isn't hard, its a slog of bad frame-rate, and it has a few slip-and-slide areas that can lead to your death for seemingly no reason, particularly the log that goes to the crimson set.
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>>125002524
Dark Souls definately isn't an easy game. I was stuck on Quelaag for awhile.
But I don't get why everyone thought it was so difficult.
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DS1 has some of the shittiest areas
I really hope DS3 doesn't pull any of that super-cramped/balancing on a pole while trying to fight bullshit
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>>124999431
DaS2 falters too much in terms of the pace of combat thanks to the much less generous stamina management. It's understandable as a design choice, since a lot of DaS2's faults are overreactions to issues in DaS, and GCS+Blossoms meant stamina was everywhere in DaS, but any time anyone says that DaS2 feels slow, even though most of the animations are the same speed, that's what they're talking about.

Agility was a completely shortsighted and foolish decision from the development team to try and "fix" Resistance. You can argue for the merits of trying to promote build diversity, but the simple fact is that the Souls series method of handling iframes and lingering hitboxes means the game simply can't support AGL on a technical level. It will never be a satisfying or enjoyable experience for a player to be hit by an attack they saw miss them.

Powerstancing was a good concept, but the implementation is lacking. It is rarely more efficient to powerstance than it is to just twohand your weapon, and requires twice as many upgrade materials (and in a system where Soul Memory punishes you for upgrading more than one weapon). The best Powerstancing options were patched out each time they became common usage.

Guard Breaking is arguable, since kicking was not without it's own merits, but I can respect calling it an improvement. Backstab "confirmation" is a fair upgrade, though Jester's/Gower's/Ironclad were a bit much.

Altogether, no. You can hold it as your opinion that DaS2 has better mechanics, but it is an arguable subject and DaS fully can compare.
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>>125002632
i mean its pretty impressive to me, if im being srs.
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>>125002483
I see. The image of a shield glued to the arm is stuck in my head, so it just seems odd. It's good to know there's actual logic to it, and also looks like the arm position changes during blocking, so the blow doesn't go all to the wrist.
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Just reached the bottom of Brume Tower. Turns out, I'm missing one last smelter wedge to kill the noisy girl outside the fog gate.

wutdo.
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>first time playing though ds2
>all the way up to Velstadt and only have like 5 points in ADP
>redo my stats and try out 30 ADP

Holy shit, what was I thinking
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>>125003098
There are 4 more somewhere else in the tower you can now reach. Explore a little.
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>>125003098
How many did you use? Really all of them or just the ones you got at the beginning?

If you used all of them, just watch out so fume doesn'r go near it.
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Is there a reliable way to dodge Smough's charge?
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>>125003210
>>125003237
I've used all ten. So i'm out of wedges now?
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>>125003294
Rolling. Baiting him to hit a pillar. Walking.
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>>125003294
Roll through or run away.
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>>125002445
you didn't use a guide, did you?
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>>125002184
>Google "How to hold a shield"
>Third image result
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>>125003374
>>125003375
I try to roll through and always seem to get hit anyway... guess I'll go again
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>>125003359
Yeah, to get the last one you need to defeat Alonne, and the only way to get to him is by defeating Raime.

Just watch out so Fume doesn't go near the idol.
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>>125003473
Are you under 25% load?

If not, pillar or run away.
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>>125003458
>teddy bear shield
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I was kinda pissed when I didn't get into that DS3 stress test, so I didn't watch any gameplay about it, I havent actually looked into the game much at all.
What do we know about it right now?
Is it going to be just another game in the series like DS2 was to DS1 or is there going to be somewhat clearer continuation here?
Just throw all info on me you know.
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>>125003458
This makes me want to do a Santa build to get into the Christmas spirit.
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>>125003597
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>tfw my voice will never be as sexy as this mans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LiO2G_SanM
>or the man who plays djura/chester/vendrick
>or the man who plays patches and lautrec
>or the man who plays creighton
>i will always be a monotone faggot
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>>125004351
There's literally nothing wrong with vore.
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Good morning, /dsg/.
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>>125003098
Same here, except it's the one hidden behind a door guarded by a lava-vomitting giant.
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>try to fight the two titanite demons at the bottom of Sen's
>get rekt every time
I'm getting too tired for this right now. Oh well, at least I got out of Blighttown and beat the Stray demon.
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>>125004575
I usually just run and roll through the door, the wedge iframes do the rest.
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>>125004678
I seriously cannot stand fighting the titanite demons in the tar pool at Sen's. Even if I get the Rusted Iron Ring to move around there easier, for whatever reason the demons down there kick my ass more than the titanite demons elsewhere. There's only a small bit of treasure behind one demon down there, so I just skip the other 3 to get back up because fighting them is infuriating and pointless.
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I just launched 1 again after finishing 2, why does it seem so much less clunkier?
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>>125004678
strafe right into gap between tail and behind the ground arm. also use greatshield and be very careful about when you attack, making no more than 1 attack at a time.
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Is raimes armor a straight downgrade from drakeblood?
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>>125005621
disregard stats
acquire dark knight aesthetics
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>>125006028

I know ;-;. If it was a drop or something I'd just use it but it's 12k souls and I'm semi-twinking.
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>>125004678
EAGLE
SHIELD
PLUS
TEN
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>>125006028
I was going to do a dark knight with the same helm. How is my flame knight?
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>>125006629

>fume sorc mask

my nigga
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>>125006775
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>>125006629
>not using the Mad Warrior Mask

You only had one job.
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>>125007082
Not a fan of that mask, sorry.
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>>125007082

>fag warrior mask
>looking good

cmon
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>>125007420
>not wanting to look like Predator
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>>125007354
>>125007420
>shit taste
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>das1
>use red eye orb
>wait five minutes for the game to tell me i didn't get an invasion
>even if nodes are maxed

>das2
>use cracked red eye orb
>immediately told if i invade or not

This shit alone is why DaS2's pvp is so much more bearable.
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>>125007507
>>125007815
I thought hot topic chic stopped being a thing in 2010
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>>125008129
They had some decent shirts. Shame about the weird emo crap in the rest of the store.
>>
I'm starting to understand what you guys were saying about fume knight. He's like a slow-mo Artorias. Instead of jumping and spinning like sanic, he delays his attacks and it's sometimes hard to tell if he's comboing.

I dropped my shield, went powerstancing blue flames and progressed a lot further. Probably should be able to down him in a couple more tries. I'm still uncomfortably squishy though, most of his swipes are insta-kill.
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>>125006629
hi cutie
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>>125008392
>>125008392

I beat him today after about 5-6 tries. Just roll around him and he can't do shit. If you have high ADP you can even circle strafe him
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>Just won in a 25 minute long melee battle against Velstadt
>Nearly died three times

PALMS SWEATY, MOM'S SPAGHETTI
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>>125008798
I summoned 2 NPC phantoms and just unloaded all my sorceries on him from afar.
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>>125009214
I did it solo. I'm using aheavy armor/melee/greatshield character and the whole fight turned into an intense stamina management game.

It almost felt like a harder version of the final Ganon fight in Twilight princess.
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>>124981117
Figured I'd swing back around. i got interrupted by a dinner invite and only got to play a bit late tonight.

So far we got DickRyder, TotallynotPikachu, Giantbro, That faggot that shows up everywhere now (pursuer) and the Triplets down.

I'm regretting the knight pickup because my weapon pool is so very very small. 11 str 8 agility is like the perfect storm of failure.

Still alive tho, on my way to Sinner.
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>trying to edit my stats so i can coop with friends and not have to go through half the game for the umpteenth time
>max hp/stam doesn't change along with cheated vit/end for some reason
>need to get my HP to 1590 so i have both HP and max HP in the table as 1590
>this only changes my current hp and my max HP stays at 1908
what do? just ignore it?
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>>125010719
Stop cheating.
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>>125010746
im not cheating to get something i couldn't normally. the opposite, my hp is too high for my vit and i want to lower it to much my vit. it's UNcheating.
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>>125010818
Don't reply to moralfags who think it's good game design to waste hours upon hours of your time when you can fix an issue with 2 minutes of clicking.
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>>125010818
>im not cheating
>still editing his stats
Stop being a piece of shit.
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>>125010818
>much
match. wtf am i doing?
>>125010910
why are you so upset mate? i just want to have fun with friends and not have to go through blighttown and catacombs again. don't know if you noticed, i'm lowering my stats
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>>125011003
>why are people so upset when I say i don't want to play the game?????
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>>125011141
exactly. why? i've finished the game with 5 different characters and on ng+ with one of them and ng+++ on another. that means 9 playthroughs and that's just after i bought the game, i had done it another 3 before that with a pirated. also did some half finished runs, 2 mage and 1 cleric with which i got bored around sens-anor. i don't need to get through it again. and if i don't do this, i'll just coop with the stats i have now but 318 more health. and right now as i'm writing this, i figured out how to do it.
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>>125011486
Urgh learn basic English before posting on 4chan. Slavs are not welcomed here.
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>>125011561
there is literally nothing wrong with the text, sergei, except for some letters that need to be capitals. but pressing shift is too much effort
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>>125011637
>pressing shift is too much effort
Yeah, and playing thegame is too much effort.
I hope breathing will become too much effort for you.
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>>125011750
thank god for reflective breathing, i'd be long dead
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>>125011561
This is the part where you obviously couldn't come up with anything else to say.
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>>125011861
Friendly reminder that YOU ARE BLINKING MANUALLY.

Have fun feeling your eyes drying out because blinking is "too much effort".
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>>125011946
are we seriously going to do this? fine, the game, your tongue can't rest in your mouth properly, your ass and nose itch and you're breathing and blinking manually. done?
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>>125011946
>>125012060
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>>125012060
Not that guy but you now realize your jaw has weight.
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>>125012060
What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm Anonymous, mind tricks won't work on me; only money. No money! No parts!
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>>125012156
jokes on you, i always rest my jaw on my hand because lifting my head is too much effort
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>>125012238
You should uncross your legs and sit up straight too.
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Isn't there a way to get a pyromancy flame from both Laurentius and Eingiy? I'd like to have a fully upgraded flame for offensive spells and the normal flame for power within
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>>125012326
>You should uncross your legs and sit up straight too
HOW THE
I mean... You're deluded, Anon.
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>>125012326
i absolutely refuse to uncross my legs, even if it physically hurts me im really tall so my legs will almost always get stuck under the desk
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>>125010818
use mugenmonkey to find out what your hp should be at your vit without hp boosts from gear

set your max hp to that
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>>125012853
i said above i fixed it. it was the extra hp from fap
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Why is the Royal Rat Authority bigger than the Rat King?
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>Get summoned for Gargoyles
>Get invaded by a hacker from Finland
>He just runs around hitting you with a spell that heals you, gives you humanity, souls, poison and toxic

For what reason?
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>>125013174
because localizators mistakenly swapped the names.
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>>125013261
>hurr durr what is fun
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>>125013174
because the king is a leader, a thinker, a negotiator, not a brawler
>>125013269
that RRA with RRV, not the king
>>125013261
4 teh lulz
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>>125013174
For the same reason Veldstadt still has an armour while Vendrick is naked.
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>>125013409
I'm probably drunk and still don't find you funny or useful.
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>>125013409
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>>125013174
Hurrr
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>>125013409
>>125013495
A classic. Menas you glorious bastard.
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>>125013409
>>125013495
>>125013680
>>125013771
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>>125013409
>>125013495
>>125013680
Is there a more pathetic poster in the history of 4chan?
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>>125013824
the utv lover?
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what you're doing is like reminding us of the one time we fell head first into a pile of shit by sprinkling some on our tongues
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>>125013824
yes, 4cunts-shitposter.
thankfully he's dead now.
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When will the high poise armor + straightsword meta end? It ruins everything.
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>>125014489
when poise stops doing what it does. and then we get rapier robflynners
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Is two black flames really the best thing for giantdad meme builds? Why not a black flame + power within?
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>>125013392
IIRC Vendick retreated to the Undead Crypt in shame and decided to stay there as a walking corpse. And Velstadt, as his personal bodyguard, didn't want to leave his master alone. So it makes sense, more or less.
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Haven't done metashitter PvP in DaS1 at all but I know it inside out in DaS2, what are the best asshole scrub nearly-always-win builds in DaS1?
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>>125016075
Actually scratch that, I forgot they show him wearing clothes in the memory of the king from DLC. What a fuck up. Sure, he could've torn his clothes once he went completely hollow, but that's a shitty excuse.
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>>125016443
From my experience DaS2 doesn't even have a strict, rigid meta. The only asshole scrub nearly-always-win build I saw in DaS2 was that lvl 666 caprajester anon who used to post here.
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Pirated ds1 and loved it, now i wanna buy it cause fromsoft deserve the money. Is the multiplayer dead? Or will i find people online? Also, how hard it is to coop.
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>>125016717
Online it's not TOO active but at the right places there's basically always someone to do either.
in front of capra demon it's easy to get someone, level 15-25.
Basically always someone at O&S at levels 40-50
From time to time painted world level 55-65
Meta is 125 in oolacile township
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>>125017034
Ok, another question- i finished the original ds2 and liked it much less then the first game. Is the multiplayer and the improvments to singleplayer worthy of buying it instead of ds1?
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>>125017218
it's worth grabbing sotfs on sale if you haven't played the dlc
don't get it otherwise
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guys what's a good DaS2 helm for a siegfried/nightmare cosplay from soul calibur 2
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>>125018276
If it were DaS1 the gargoyle helm would be perfect
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what are the current death counter for sotfs on
ps4
and xbox

on pc it is near 72million
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>>125018276
Dragonrider's is bretty good for the Soul Calibur 4 version.
Don't forget the malformed claw.
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Anyone got the DaSII random character generator image?
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>fall off a ledge whilst invading
>my souls are now nowhere to be seen
>twink build ruined
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Is SL38 too high to be summoned for Capra? I wanted to help someone but so far no summons.
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>>125019204
it's too high and generally people don't go human for that area, you should try co-oping in Sen's funhouse
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>>125019462
I wanted to co-op for fun because I got stuck at Sen's earlier and didn't feel like continuing my playthrough right now.
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>>124997760
the best
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>>124998215
but it works on heavy armor, when you use light armor or have a very skinny character, the shield flies in your back as you can see on pic related, but both work fine with armor, but in ds2, the weapon stand like this even with heavy armor. also the angle is different.
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In das1 pc do others see your character name or steam name? I forget.
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>>125020696
Steam name, unfortunately. You could just change your steam name temporarily I guess.
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Fuck those swinging axes.

Fuck them.
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>>125020818
I change my steam name constantly so that's cool
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>>125016443
DMB/SL falchion or a spear build. There's also the dark shotgun build but you have to actually try with that one
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>>125021161
What's the DMB falchion thing?
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>>125020827
Actually fuck everything about this god-forsaken shithole.
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i feel bad now, just why , i don´t want but i did it
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>>125020827
>>125021287
Sen's is pretty fucking fun once you get used to it. Keep at it.
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>>125021251
Darkmoon blade buff for the falchion, If you get to rank 3 in the cov you can 4-5 shot people with it if they don't use GMB or something to soak up the large amount of magic damage.
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>>125021567
Oh yeah? What's the level build like on that?
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>>125021592
125
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>>125021689
Oh, lol. gave you the sl.
Vit 30s
att 11
end 60s
str is starter str usually
dex 13
res (whatever stater is)
intel (starter)
Faith 30
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>>125021846
That build sucks
Use this one, it's better
https://www.mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/473567
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>>125022098
Eh, i was goin from memory i don't run it.
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>>124980304
>Spend an hour in character generator getting the perfect look.
>Finish up.
>Turn around...
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Best katana in DaS1 for pvp?
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>>125022509
Chaos blade
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Can you rank up in Bell Keepers covenant by defeating bell invaders while being in the covenant?? I'm sure you could at least in the past, but I can't for the life of me find any information about it.
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> another 4 months
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>>125022505

>get about 3 hours into playthrough
>realise your character looks stupid from certain angles
>remake
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>>125023212
>randomize because you want to play
>spends the entire game with a character you hate
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>>125023265
>Wear armour that isn't revealing the entire time
>Forget about character cause i'm playing the game
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>>125023634
>Royal Rat Vanguard
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>>125023634
I hope you're aware of how gay you are for posting that picture everyday.
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>>125023728
>Royal rat authority
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>Make a nice Iron Tarkus cosplay to coop
>Nobody summons you, ever
Why bother
>>
Will someone on 360 please trade raimes set with me for something?
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>>125023803
Uh yeah that.

I was too mad and tired to remember the name.
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>>125023634
>being so bad at the game you come here just to post it everyday.
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>>125023804
They're probably spooked and confused because they just saw your dead body downstairs
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>>125023804

What's you're SL?
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Quick question, I'm a piece of shit and started up DaS again, trying to beat it. I'm using a Heater shield and the Drakes sword, and having a lot of trouble with the Capra demon. I normally run in and try to roll out of the way of his overhead attack, and roll into one or two dogs, take the hit, and get surrounded by all three, and am unable to move. Horribly frustrating.

Is there any tips to specifically not get fucked right at the start? I think I can take him if I can dodge the first attack and kill the dogs, but I cant even dodge that it seems.


Also I am like three levels off from being able to use a Dark Knights sword, should I grind up some souls to get that instead of the Drakes sword? And if I do, and can get the souls to +5 it, does that raise the strength/dex requirement as well?
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>>125024853
Go around right, then to the stairs, kill dogs and then just block and hit Capra until you kill him. Don't try to block the strikes where he holds both of his swords close together, roll away from those.
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>>125024853
You got a Black Knight Sword drop? That's incredibly lucky, it'll carry you throughout the entire game while the Drake Sword drops off in usefulness incredibly fast. Upgrade your stats for that sword ASAP.

As for Capra, immediately go up the stairs when the fight begins to funnel the dogs up there so you can handle everything one by one. Roll off the ledge if capra comes up.
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Finally reached Anal Rodeo.
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>>125024963
Cool. I know about not blocking, but I was trying to roll left towards the stairs, and that was what was fucking me up.

>>125025042
Yeah, I heard it was a good drop, but thats great. I need like 10k souls for the levels I think, would it be worth it to grind those before Capra? Or since I can oneshot the dogs, should I try to beat Capra first?
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>>125025592
Just pull through and beat capra and use the souls he gives you to level for the sword.
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Dark Souls III confirmed for anime
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>>125025592
This >>125025676
Capra is fairly simple once you get the hang of it.
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>>125024853
stack poise, use heavy armor and the wolf ring, and try to not roll
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>>125025859
>walking simulator
well shid
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>>125025859
>casual
>family friendly
Fuck me I love steam tagging jokes
>>
why did I never get the sunlight maggot for tomb of the giants before? this fucking helmet alone makes the area about four times easier.
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How goes your suffering for today /dsg/?
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>>125026072
>forgot I already grabbed it
>used the skull lantern instead
a-at least the lantern and the cast light sorcery show you the glowing blue balls indicating where paths are right?
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>>125026352
Breddy bad
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>>125021326
Don't feel bad. She's making them suffer much more
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>>125026352
Lost my last humanity to a drake. I needed it to summon maneater and fight Kelloggs.
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>>125026674
>summoning fatty mcLovehandles
>ever
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>>125026795
>trying to solo Kelloggs
>ever
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>>125026851
I literally did today and I'm on my first playthrough m8.
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>>125020568
Might have something to do with the gravity center shifting when you equip something heavy in one hand and something light in the other.
Try a small shield and an ultra weapon.
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>>125026592
how so?
she had good intentions
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>>125026896
Cool story.
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>>125024521
125
50
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>>125026473
>tfw no firekeeper set
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>>125026851
It's really not that bad.
hug the first right leg from your perspective.
Always position the camera so you can see the human haf.
If she hugs the spider head it's the AOE
All the lava and sword swings will miss
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>>125026968
butthurt af
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>>125026851
Is this the current state of dsg?
where people consider quelaag to be nigh-unbeatable solo?
what the fuck happened to you?
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>>125026968
Dude, I fucking suck at this game and I could do it. Took me like half a dozen tries but it's perfectly doable.
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>>125026851
Pic related it's you
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>>125026851
literally easier than gaping dragon
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>>125027519
>"y-y-you're just shitposting if you call me out on being bad at the game and hostile towards anyone who recommends soloing an easy boss!"
I don't think this board is for you.
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>>125027512
Well I wouldn't go THAT far.
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>>125027581
Nice stuttering, kid.
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>>125027702
Yeah I think it suited your bitch ass perfectly. Stay mad.
>>
>>125023165
You think the hair ds3 will be as nice as it is in bb?
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>>125027519
First time playing DS1, first time actually using a controller for a game outside of emulators games while high/drunk, beat her on my 3rd attempt solo.
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>>125027751
>projecting this hard
Are you aware you're supposed to be 18+ to be here, kid?
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>>125027832
Stop talking and/or breathing, in whichever order you prefer, thanks.
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>>125027884
Epic repartee, kid.
You still haven't answered my question : are you aware you're supposed to be 18+ to be here?
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>>125027774
As long as it's not retarded like inDaSII
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>>125027969
Answer me this: can you shitpost without going for a bottom of the barrel insult like "kid" every time? Put some effort into it, mad baddie.

Just soloed queelag naked with an unupgraded zwei, bet you couldn't do that lmao
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>>125028083
Epic repartee, kid.
You STILL haven't answered my question : are you aware you're supposed to be 18+ to be here?
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>>125027998
There are very few things about ds2 that aren't retarded.
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>>125027969
I'm not even that anon but you really seem to be having issues accepting that other people don't find the same things difficult.
The only remotely hard part about spidertits is the explosion, everything else can be solved by facefucking
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>>125028154
Like its haters. They are very retarded.
>>
>>125027832
>>125027969
>>125028116
There's literally nothing sadder than someone spamming "kid" and thinking it's some epic and witty retort which makes THEM look like the mature one. I seriously doubt you are over 16.
>>
>>125028214
>>125028215
>shitposters getting mad that their troll is failing
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>>125028214
I think it really is just some literal child who's getting too big for his britches in trying out the Souls series, realizing he's not good and refuses to acquire skill, and then resorting to insults in order to attempt to save face. Sad, really.
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>>125026851
>kellogs is hard
Almost as bad as the other shitposter.
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>>125028203
So you're calling 90% of the human race mentally impaired?
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>>125024853
If you give up, cheese by running up the stairs, turn and using the ledge. dogs can get there but capra can't.
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>>125028116
>>125028083
>>125027969
And this is why even shitshows like the gulag are better than this general
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>>125028307
>>125028337
>being this retarded
Epic as usual, kids.
>>
>>125028350
most of the human race is retarded desu
>>
>>125028387
good riddance kid
>>
>>125028387
Nah, /tesg/ is worse.
>>
>>125028401
Yeah, sounds about right.
>>
>>125028461
This. It's in the top 5 of worst generals at least, right next to autism cripple simulator general.
>>
>>125028412
>"how dare you call me a kid!!!"
>"lol kid"
Shitposter confirmed for having double standards.
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>>125028538
Stop. You're only embarrassing yourself.
It's okay to leave, nobody even cares. You have no ego to protect on an anonymous imageboard. Just learn to love yourself and walk away.
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>>125028396
>my only insult is kid
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>>125028626
Back at you, kid. That works both way.
>>
Is the soft cap for ds1 100 or 125?
>>
>multiplayer latency
>have tranquil walk of peace cast for at least 15 seconds already
>host randomly teleport jumps ontop of me and takes 75% of my health with a backstab
cool
>>
>>125028154
Hey, the character creation is elaborated enough, but the hairstyles are garbage
>>
>>125029253
DS is so good.
>>
Any reason to visit the Iron Passage? I'm kinda burnt out after finally killing Fume Knight.
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>>125029379
Smelter Demon 2.0

Also
>having problem with fume knight
Git gud scrub.
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>>125029324
Agreed. Bald+mustache masterrace.
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>>125029379
You get a shitty skirt that doesn't match any other piece of gear after after you kill a reskinned Cool Ranch Smelter Demon that's slightly harder than the Nacho Cheese flavor.
The Cool Ranch smelter sword is slightly better than the Nacho Cheese version though, so if you like terrible weapon classes then by all means go for it.

If it's your first time through the game/DLCs I highly recommend killing every boss to see what it's like, but after that it's best to just skip the shitty ones that give bad rewards and are a waste of time.
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>Gwyndolin is described as a boy
>It has tits
huuuh
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How does the scaling for WoG in DaS1 work? Should I go 50 faith?
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>invade someone
>Sanic rolling round
>go to hit him
>goes through cause he turn off hitbox
>hits me, equipping dragon torso
>summoner sends you home
>Mfw
I thought the cheaters had left at this point.
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>>125029703
Spells scale off the talisman/ staff so technically yes.
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>>125029693
It's the robe. Either way he still has a dick and XY chromosomes.
>>
>>125029703

Low faith WoG is mostly useful for the stun and killing low HP enemies. High faith WoG is very viable in killing pretty much anything.
>>
First run through the sotfs also first time with access to dlc. Got the 4 great souls ending with freja, Didn't do the rat king or dog or whatever.

Should I storm drangleic castle or start with the dlcs? If dlcs where to start?

Can't make up my mind..
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>>125029379
You get the cool ranch version of the smelter sword and a mask that boosts your fire defense by ~100
>>
>>125029840
>>125029917
Oh, okay so that is the only scaling. So the bare minimum for darkmoon talisman is good enough?
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>>125029936
You can't even start the Ivory King DLC because the key for it is within Drangleic Castle.
Honestly I'd recommend waiting until you clear the Dragon Shrine at least before you tackle the DLCs, this also has the added benefit of letting you immediately go into the memory at the end of the Iron King DLC to fight Sir Alonne instead of having to clear through the main game more and then come back. Level up a lot.
>>
thread derailed thanks to one shitposter
post fashion or something goddamn
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>>125029936
DLCs are postgame content you retard.

>>125030151
Urgh no. Let's talk about lore instead.
>>
>>125029936
DLCs are all straight up harder than the main game, but they can appropriately be challenged as soon as you have a +10 weapon.
>>
>>125030082
No because talismans get higher magadjust the higher you level.

For Faith below 27, the Thorolund Talisman offers the highest MagAdjust.
For Faith in between 27 and 39, Canvas Talisman offers the highest MagAdjust.
For Faith above 39, the Darkmoon Talisman offers the highest MagAdjust.
For Faith above 42 and you wish not to join the Blade of the Darkmoon covenant (even temporarily) , the Ivory Talisman and Sunlight Talisman both equally offer the highest MagAdjust.
If your character has high (31+) Intelligence, Velka's Talisman is superior if Faith is at least 5 points lower.
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>>125030082
>So the bare minimum for darkmoon talisman is good enough?

No, you choose your talisman based on your faith, not the otherway around. See this helpful little graph.
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>>125030151
Huh? We're not fighting at the moment.
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>>125030268
Oh cool, thank you.
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>>125030293
Don't encourage the retard.
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Is there any reason you would ever not want to start as a pyro as far as SL is concerned?
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>>125030208
>>125030189
>>125030094

Drangleic it is i guess.
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>>125030672
Free double perk at start i suppose.
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>>125030672
Not for me, unless I plan to start with a specific weapon. Pyro is best class to start
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>>125030672
some builds that focus on say faith or pure melee would benefit from going warrior/bandit/cleric instead
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>>125030672
In DaS1? No reason not to use pyro, you lose what, two levels by getting one attunement slot? But pyromancies are so varied and useful it's always more helpful than to not use them.

In DaS2 pyromancies are a lot more optional. Magic in general is totally unneeded in that game.
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>invade afker in dukes
>no liquid manatees
>kick him behind the prism stone chest
have fun finding your bloodstain, m80
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Starting up DaS1 for the first time in years has me thinking back to all the dumb shit i did on my first playthrough back at xbox release. It was my first souls game.

>Started as thief because muh stealth
>No idea where I was supposed to be going
>Didn't even think to exhaust NPCs of dialogue for hints
>Fought skeletons for a while before giving up
>Down to valley of drakes
>nope.jpg
>Finally went to the burg
>Determined to beat the first black knight, took me forever to git gud
>backstab backstab backstab parry parry parry
>Assumed Havel was the first boss, spent 15 eternities getting smacked
>bsbsbsbsbsbsbsbsbsbsbsbsbsbs finally kill him
>end up going upstairs after anyway
>decide to keep using bandit's knife because i want the best crits
>upgrade that shit raw for some reason
>mfw i finally make it through sens fortress and the iron golem takes 10,000,000 hits
>mfw using a raw bandits knife with no vit all the way through anor londo
>never blocked anything because attacks were hitting through my buckler anyway

When I hit S&O i realized my knife wasn't going to cut it anymore and I proceeded to pump strength to 60.

What dumb shit did you do your first time playing a souls game?
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Are you fucking kidding me with this Fume Knight guy? He's almost worse than blue smelter demon.
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>>125030920
>mfw i finally make it through sens fortress and the iron golem takes 10,000,000 hits
>mfw using a raw bandits knife with no vit all the way through anor londo
>never blocked anything because attacks were hitting through my buckler anyway
>When I hit S&O i realized my knife wasn't going to cut it anymore and I proceeded to pump strength to 60.
don't ever stop playing video games
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>>125030862
I see that now,
>>125030869
The benefits of starting with the flame are diminished with the existence of the lower brug skip though. I thought that at max level everything evened out anyway, but you can shave off a few levels with other classes.
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>>125030920
I used a raw bastard sword and a divine claymore because they sounded cool. It wasn't that bad until O&S because i didn't level up faith
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So Im still getting fucked on Capra, Im an awful scrub. But I tried wearing basically nothing and only two handing the DKS, and I get fast rolls. Is that better than putting on some armor and using the heater?
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>>125030920
Not my first time with Souls but on my first playthrough I missed the Emerald Herald until I had gotten to the ruin sentinels.
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>played das2 for ages online with no problems
>today it wont let me summon anyone and says the sign has disappeared

what is going on
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>>125031238
Blocking and fastrolling should serve you fine. You're at the early point in the game so not one armor set can justify midrolling because all their stats fucking suck and your END is very low.
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>>125031274
>mfw i got to rotten before figuring out we had to use her to lv
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>>125031238
Keep you weapon and your shield. The second you go through the fog, try your best to roll up the stairs and take the dogs out. Then you can pick him off with pyro/fire bombs. Once you run out of projectiles just plunge him.
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>>125031421
I was using a gargoyle helm, and chainmail, then some leather shit. I made it approximately thirty seconds longer without any of it at capra, even after taking a huge hit from him.
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>>125031238
Blocking Capra's attacks is painful on your stamina but it may prove useful on the doggies
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>>125030920
>Never talk to solaire
>try to kill Hellkite with melee
>spend 2 hours before beating it with hand axe
>wear balder knight cause it had armor
>walk all the way to blighttown with no blooming moss
>kept dying to dart blowers
List goes on forever.
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Man, the game is more alive than I thought on PS3, got summoned 7 times to do O&S
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I am the guy in his first playthrough who got cursed in the Hollows.

I found the shortcut to firelink shrine, healed myself with the stone the female zombie merchant sells, and went back to the bonfire before queelag.

Is it ok to play with the Claymore the whole game? or is it a weapon that is ok only for the first half?
I am a hunter
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>>125032212
It's a good weapon. Keep using it and upgrading it.
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>>125032212
The claymore's fine. You'll get some more diverse weapon options later in the game, but a lot of the basic stuff you get near the start of the game is fine as long as you keep it upgraded.

Just stick with the basic upgrades; best not to mess with elemental weapons until you become more familiar with the mechanics.
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>>125030920
I thought consuming humanities would make me human, also I thought that consuming firekeeper souls would get me better estus.
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>tfw compelled to make a beginners guide to capra demon webm
>i've been up for 20 hours and using obs to record dark souls is a hassle

Guess i'll do it when I wake up.
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>>125032212
>I am a hunter
does't matter
the claymore is amazing, that and bastard sword are probably my favourite swords. you can either make it +15 if you plan on pumping str and/or dex, make it lightning or chaos if you want to keep the base wielding stats
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>>125031238
I am in my first playthrough.

This is how I beat Capra

first, after you enter, right at the start, the first thing you have to do is kill a dog, even if you get hurt.

after doing that, which should be quickly, run to the stairs, use the estus to heal, and kill the other dog which should be running after you through the stairs

when Capra tries to climb the stairs jump down, and have a patient 1 vs 1 duel with him.

I lost like 7 times before beating Capra, but I defeated him the second time I managed to kill the 2 dogs.
The dogs are the most difficult part of the boss fight. If you kill the dogs you should have a 50% chance of beating Capra.
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>>125032212
Claymore is probably the single best greatsword in the game and easily one of the best weapons in general. If you like it, stick with it.
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>>125032212
The Claymore is great. One of those weapons that can carry you for the entire game if you know what you're doing.
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>>125032212
The clay is one of the best weapons in the game, especially for PvP if you're into that.

It scales C in both str and dex so it's a true quality weapon. If you want to use it end game (along with a ton of other weapons you find in your travels) try going for 27 str and 40 dex.
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>>125032570
How is it good in PvP exactly?
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>>125032502
>>125032567
>>125032570

Thanks, I will do that, after all I got used to the weapon dont want to learn to use a new one.
I will have the claymore and faris bow.
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>>125032449
Why obs? stuff like shadow play/raptr exists.
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>>125032402
For DS2 I kept burning Human Effigies at the bonfire, trying to restore humanity. Finally figured it out 20 hours into the game.
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>>125032654
Decent if you know how to use it. it flows very well between heavy and light attacks
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>>125032654
Probably the best pvp weapon actually. Fast, hits hard and versatile moves.

For both pvp and pve the r2+r2 almost seems broken.
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Why is the titanite demon in Anor Londo harder than O&S? His movements are dumb shit, your camera can't even move correctly on such a tight space and it has a shit ton of HP.
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>>125032654
probably one of the best weapons
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>>125032725
Open source, shadowplay is garbage, and I've never heard of raptr.

Too be fair, obs is only shit because it has a hard time hooking onto the game because of DSfix. I can get around it by turning on borderless windowed mode and using window capture with aero on, but window capture is dogshit.
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>>125032856
>>125032850
Really that good huh? I don't have much PvP experience with the clay and it never seemed that good to me. Can you dead angle easily with it like the zwei and murakumo?
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>>125032654
Good moveset, decent damage, good poise damage, easy dead angles, fast, and _fun_.

>>125032867
Don't lock on.
Cheese by standing in doorway and lobbing projectiles.
Don't fight it and go back to the titanite demons in Sen's
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>>125030920
>attacked crestfallen and got my ass handed to me
>fought skeletons for a while until I found the way to the catacombs
>saw the exploding skulls
>NOPE.avi
>found the burg eventually
>got DKGS early
>go through most of the game kind of disappointed I can't find a good upgrade
>manserpent gs drops
>level up to use it
>meh
>demon great machete drops
>level up to use it
>"meh, nothing has a better moveset"
>get all the way to gwyn
>get my ass kicked because I can't parry
>read somewhere he was weak to fire
>left to make a fire bastard sword
>hit vamos while fighting a skeleton
>FUCK
>went to talk to priestguy
>got the sword
>get shat on some more because I'm trying to block gwyn
>finally kill him by using a pillar to cheese him
Also forgot to mention I went through blighttown the hard way.
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>>125032938
Whys it garbage? seems to work just fine. Raptr is essentially the same thing except for AMD gpus.
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>>125033108
>the hard way
what?
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>>125032856
you're killing me
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>>125033242
I think he means through the Depths as normally intended instead of using the Master Key shortcut from Firelink.
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>>125033349
You can skip it without Master Key I think.
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>>125033443
How?
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>>125030920
>Get to the Depths
>Fall into the Basilisk lair
>Willingly get killed by them, thinking I would just respawn and try again
>mfw
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>>125033349
What he said. Man I should go through that area the legit way next run.
>>125033443
Yeah, you could go the through the darkroot basin way instead of new londo. Man I love the ds1 map
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>>125033509
>mfw one of my friends managed to get cursed by a basilisk
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>>125033349
Maybe he means going to the New Londo Ruins, draining the water, running past the valley of drakes, then blighttown.
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>>125018731
Xbone is about 45mil
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>>125033507
I think Darkroot -> tunnel to Valley of Drakes

It's a long way around but you still skip blighttown
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>>125033507
I think you can go from the forest to the valley of drakes
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>>125033228
Shadowplay is bad because it uses so much damn power and overheats shit and doesn't run better than anything else that is completely free.

Shadowplay is the gaming motherboard of recording. I'd rather use fraps or xsplit.
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>>125033605
>draining the water
That would work, but it would be as aroundabout as going through darkroot.
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DS2 Scholar

How do I stop people from invading me other than playing offline? It was easy to avoid invasions in DS1 and DeS but how the fuck do I do that in DS2?

I still get invaded in undead form.
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>>125033618
>>125033659
Oh shit that's true I didn't even think of that.
Fuck, DaS1's map really was phenomenal. Even with all of DaS2's gameplay improvements I still can't pick it as the better game just because of DaS1's world.
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How easy is it to get softbanned from DaS2?
I just want to dick around and help my girlfriend without having to worry about soul memory bullshit
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Anon by the name of /dsg/ waiting outside the first bonfire in Undead Burg

Sl 6

Dark Souls pc
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>>125033709
>uses so much power
What
>overheats shit
Double what, i don't get higher temps using it. What're you using?
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>>125033797
If we tell you we literally won't have anyone to invade.
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>>125033797
Learn to enjoy the challenge, anon.
I wish I was still scared of invaders.

If you really don't want to git gud, burn an effigy at a bonfire. It'll stop all online activity in that area for 30 minutes. The same effect also applies automatically once to beat a boss.

>>125033841
Don't edit stats or soul memory at all, that shit will get you bunned. If you want to help her with low level co-op just make a new character and get the Agape Ring.
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>>125033797
Just go offline. It's pretty fucking dumb that you can be invaded while hollow.
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>>125033797
Burn effigies at the bonfire to stop invasions for 30 minutes at a time
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>>125033797
I'm nearly done with my first sotfs playthrough and haven't been invaded once. Whats your secret?
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>>125030920

Thief is one of the best starting classed though

>Parry shield

>Bleed dagger

>Master Key

>Light roll
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>>125033996
I've been getting invaded by the same guy in different areas after several hours of play, m8. We are equal so far.
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>>125033797
You can burn an effigy at a bonfire to disable invading in that entire zone for 30 minutes.
After killing a boss, the effect is automatically applied to that entire zone for free.
You can disable it at the bonfire afterwards if you change your mind.
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>>125033841
They went full tyrant in SoTFS so modding there would be very bad. Vanilla isn't too bad, just don't mess with your SM, use item souls to raise it.
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>>125034023
Pyromancer is the undisputed EZmode of DaS1 though. Thief is only better if you're on a returning playthrough and mastered parries/know what the master key does/etc.
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>>125034023
>lightroll
Just take off a piece of armor or something if you aren't
>masterkey
There's literally no other worthwhile starting item so that doesn't matter.
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>>125030920
I'm playing through DS2 blind. You know the part of Iron Keep after Smelter Demon? I lost around 100k souls last week clearing my way up the optional path and down the adjacent room multiple times. I didn't realize that I was looking at the same fog gate. I thought they led to more bosses or something.
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Would wearing Stone Ring do anything for a Great Bow? I want them to feel like they've been hit by a truck.
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>>125033841
I got softbanned for getting the agape ring early with itemswap.
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>>125034258
Pretty sure it only works with melee weapons now. Just aim for the head if you're using a bow, it's always an insta stagger unless they're wearing the Bell or Minotaur helmet.
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>>125034258
Greatbows are guaranteed knockdown if they break poise and are guaranteed poisebreakers unless you have hyperarmor and a million poise. Stone ring is pointless for them.
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>>125034110
Does the Name-Engraved Ring really work? Even for very different SM levels?
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>>125034318
>>125034332
Alright.

Any rings to wear to make Great Bow a bigger pain in the ass?
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>>125033841
just don't fuck with soul memory and don't cheat in items like dark binoculars +14 and you should be fine

don't cheat in an agape ring before you reach 30k sm if you need it, just don't
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>>125034407
it extends the sm ranges by like a tier or 2
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>>125034317
>>125034110
I-is this true for SotFS? The only thing I do with CE is use Infinite Items so I don't have to farm cracked red eye orbs. Will that cause a ban?

>>125034443
Hawk Ring and the one ring that causes more stamina damage against shields I guess.
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Does stone ring effect force?
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>>125034446
>Cheating in an Agape Ring
>When you could just modify another piece of equipment to apply the Agape Ring's effect

You're not cheating hard enough.
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>>125034407
Yes. It does still have limits on Different SM tiers though.
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>>125034537
I heard it won't. If it does though, there's a workaround.

I don't know how much luck you're going to have invading anyway, the game feels really dead.
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>>125034537
Just a softban (where you have online, just not with everyone).
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>>125034317
>>125034110
>>125033953

Jesus thats brutal. I just hate how everything feels so limited at the start of the game compared to the first game. I guess we can just stick to name engraved ring and try to stay in range then.

There was a thing about using steam family sharing in the OP somewhere. Does that still work if I wanted to make a steam account dedicated to cheating?
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>>125010425
Mortal Man has acquired the soul of an old one. I have no clue what it does though, I haven't talked to that antisocial chick over by the water in the cape.

I've never had more appreciation for the ring of restoration then I do in this run so far, this thing's healing adds up over time with no bonfires.

Knight may have shitty weapon selection, but hand axe, mace, and broadsword are doing good work.
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I got 9 soft humanities in DS1, what do I do with them?
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>>125035014
Kindle bonfires/save them for when you go hollow.
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>>125035014
Offer them to a useful covenant like the Fair Lady or Darkwraiths, or to unhollow+kindle bonfires as you need to, or just keep them on you for the extra boost to item recovery.
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>>125035014
You can get infinite humanities man.
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>>125035014
I think it's time you go farm that balder side sword.
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So am I crazy, or did they unnerf the UGS golfswing?
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>>125035014
Give them to our fair lady of course.
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>>125035104
>>125035376
>they haven't mercy killed Kelloggs' sister
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>>125035420

>They haven't killed Kellogg's sister for her firekeeper soul
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>>125035104
>>125035376
Uhmm, I thought about it, but I don't want to save Solaire, his talisman is pretty stronk
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>>125035014

Reminder that you can exploit the consumable items glitch to easily have 99 humanity using a firekeeper soul that does not even need to be consumed
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>>125034802
please respond
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>>125035807
Yes, it still works i believe.
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>>125035730
This guy. The absolute worst.
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>>125035730

Unlock the shortcut anyways.

You should kill solaire when he sits in Lost Izalith near the bonfire.

Try to summon him as much as you can to offer the sunlight medals to the altar to get GOAT miracles

Also kill the parasite for the sunlight maggot
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Best place to farm humantits?
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>>125036250
Other players.
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>runs away into the level when you are beating him
>sends you a message saying "magic is for noobs"
>only spell you used was dark weapon

why do these people even play this game
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>>125036250
You don't need to farm if you have a fire keeper soul.
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>>125036250
Like he said>>125036368
for soft humanity, but for hard humanity either the rats in the sewer or the ghosts in the abyss
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>>125036250

Rats on depths

Abyss in Artorias DLC

Firekeeper soul glitch (you need one unused firekeeper soul, which will never be spent if you do the glitch)

To do the glitch equip the item, consume it and quickly press start, items, estus, use.

You will consume the item without spending it, so you still have it to do this again.

This works with souls from bosses too.

You gain 5 humanity each time you consume a firekeeper soul
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>>125036250
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFo7P98Hohw
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>>125036371
>complaining about magic in dark souls 2
>dark souls 2 has the most interesting and non-cheesy spells to date
I really don't know either. Spell Blade for life.
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Summon me bitches!

Undead burg bonfire!
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>>125036606
>non-cheesy
SUNLIGHT SPEAR SUNLIGHT SPEAR SUNLIGHT SPEAR SUNLIGHT SPEAR SUNLIGHT SPEAR SUNLIGHT SPEAR
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>>125036807
>not being able to dodge sunlight spear
if you are going to complain about a miracle, do blinding orb.
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>>125036807
Oh no release memes!
Shouldn't you be bitching about Resonant weapon?

People use that shit pretty rarely in PvP and its worthless in PvE
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>>124980304
Why did Ornstein respec from lightning to dark? Wouldn't Gwyn be sad to know that Ornstein is now dark and edgy like Artorias?
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>>125037123
1) It's not actually him just some dude cosplaying
2) Got corrupted by the dark like literally 90% of everything in dranghelich
3) It's just fanservice don't try to think about the lore impact
4)How would gwyn even care? The fuckers ded.
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>>125037123

Dark Souls II is not canon
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>>125037123
>The dragonslayer hiding in a building when there's a dragon outside
That ain't Ornstein
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>>125037123

Ornstein II is just fanservice. Also this >>125037264
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>invade forest of giants, its says its a hotspot
>guy's name is father soulsmass
>fat dude dancing with channeller's trident
>weapons on the ground
Nope, not falling for this shit. Not gonna get softbanned for +14 binoculars. I black crystaled the fuck outta there.
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>>125037264
Epic meme, kid.
>>
What's the region meta for Dark Souls 1 PvP? Just got back to the DLC on my new character and I want to have fun with my good friends.

Also I fucked up and gave the Lordvessel to Fraampt instead of Kaathe so no red eye orb for me. Can I still expect activity with blue eye orb?
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>>125036807

I have literally never been hit with a sunlight spear.
>>
So I just chose the alternate ending in DaS2, fuck you fate I'm my own man.

My only question lore-wise is, does CU ever get mentioned anywhere in DaS2? I love reading about these sort of things (like the Great One who gave the first death being Nito, when did he ever get the time to teach a bunch of homeless girls to sing though?) or the queens being shards from Manus. However I haven't found anything about CU I think.
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>>125037667
>talks about PvE cheese stuff
>YEAH WELL GIT GUD AT AVOIDING THEM SCRUB LOL
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>>125037632
In Oolacile Township I can still do invasions with the Blue Orb, since PvPers don't bother gooing further or taking out the boss

Also you could try the Dragon Covenant
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>>125037712
Never explicitly mentioned, you can take the Vendric = CU fantheory if you want to but there is literally nothing in the game about the DS1 protag

Also they fucked up the ending requirements from a lore point of view, should only be available if you have Vendrics Blessing or it makes 0 sense
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>>125037729
you can't even cheese with them anymore. They hit for less and only have like 8 casts,
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>>125037493

C'mon, just take one..
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>>125037712
I don't think the CU is ever mentioned directly, but DaS2 can be seen as his legacy, as he was the first undead to go on a big mission to rekindle or extinguish the First Flame. Other undead, including the Bearer of the Curse, followed in his footsteps for thousands of years.
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>>125037729

Are you deliberately missing the point or are you just retarded?
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>>125037881
CU = sublime bone dust
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>>125037989
Yeah, sublime bone dusts are the remnants of other undead who've linked the flame, so the Chosen Undead's remains could very well be mixed in there.

Personally I only consider the Dark Souls 1 protag 'the Chosen Undead' rather than it being a title for all undead who link the flame.
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>>125037264
We can only hope.
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>>125037729
Wow you sure are going to cheese the fuck out of the game with those 5 casts!
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>>125037881
> as he was the first undead to go on a big mission to rekindle or extinguish the First Flame.

First to succeed you mean. Plenty of undead went on the journey in the first game before CU.
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Need help with capra demon

Sl 12 on pc
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>>125038142
Maaaaaaaaaaybe
>CUs that linked the flame become sublime bone dust
>CUs that walked away became kings in Drangleic and other kingdoms.
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>>125038380
Agro him and walk back to the fog gate
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>>125038380
Throw dung pies through the fog gate without going in.
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>>125038443
What happened to the female CU's ?
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>>125037757
>since PvPers don't bother gooing further or taking out the boss
Oh yeah, I've always wondered - does Manus count as the area boss for Township, or does Township not count as having any boss so it can always be invaded?

I have considered Dragon Covenant. I've never joined it so I've never played around with dragon mode, though I'm not all too interested in doing that right now. I do have the red sign soapstone so I can always use that if I want someone to summon me for dueling.
>>
daily reminder

Lorefags are autistic

Fashionfags are literal faggots

Summonfags are casual scrubs
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>>125038685
And what are you?
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>>125038589
They sit in the coffin or bitches burning is all they are good for
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>>125038556

Can I buy those?

Do firebombs work as well?
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>>125038263
>First to succeed you mean
Oh yeah, of course. Also Solaire fulfills the criteria if you take his summon sign being at Gwyn proof that he actually made it to the Kiln and could technically light the First Flame.

>>125038443
Could very well be. The funny thing about the Dark Souls 2 DLC seems to be that they're trying to showcase how the world is stuck in a cycle and kingdoms constantly rise and fall due to the Undead Curse and First Flame - except, oh, woops, they forgot to make the Undead Curse relevant to any of those kingdoms, only Drangleic. Eleum Loyce falling to the Chaos Flame which is still churning away undergrounds after thousands of years is hella cool though
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>>125039183
>The funny thing about the Dark Souls 2 DLC seems to be that they're trying to showcase how the world is stuck in a cycle and kingdoms constantly rise and fall due to the Undead Curse and First Flame - except, oh, woops, they forgot to make the Undead Curse relevant to any of those kingdoms, only Drangleic
See maybe instead of going "well the DLC is about X but has nothing to do with X so its poorly done" you could consider that the DLC is in fact, not about that shit at all?
If anything really its just about what the other shards of Manus went off to do and what happened to them and basically how only Nasharda was actually successful and the rest failed to a smaller or larger degree.

Also the keys say you get teleported to a faraway land not a faraway time/dimension/whatever
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>opponent tries every dirty trick they can
>you still win

does a better feel exist?
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>>125039183
>Solaire became King Vendrick
>he went hollow in the cold dark, so far from the radiant sun.

Jesus christ no.
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>>125037712
i swear to god, everyone fucking forgets sublime bone dust
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>>125040042
Because it's possible for it to be the CU or Solaire.
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>>125039897
If it makes you feel better he figured out what Nashadra was after, made like triple sure she could never actually get what she wanted, figured out how to at least somewhat solve the issue of the undead curse and cycles AND as a final fuck you locked away his own soul and crown behind a door that only a human could open.

Also for some reason I really like the look of the room you find vendric in, just the statues and shafts of light coming from plotholes make for a pretty nice scene
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>>125040164
Impossible. In Dark Souls, you use all the souls to get to the Kiln.
I don't know how Vendrick did it, but in Dark Souls 2's world, the witch of Izalith never turned into the Bed of Chaos, since you fight her as the Lost Sinner.
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>>125039476
>you could consider that the DLC is in fact, not about that shit at all?
Yeah, fair enough actually. The cycles thing being such a big deal in the main game made me think they were trying to continue it by showing off other kingdoms in the DLC.

>>125040271
What was Nashandra even after? Did she just want to destroy the Throne of Want so no one could use it to light the First Flame?
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>>125040271
>Vendrick managed to do all that
>also commanded an entire kingdom
>hundreds of thousands would die for him
>unparalleled charisma and bravery
>some silent fucko who's just good at killing things qualifies more as a "Monarch" than him, because the value of a king is decided in his personal combat prowess right?
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>>125040164
solaire IS a CU, just not the MC. how do you think he managed to leave his sign inside the kiln? and because of the endless cycles, anything that they wrote there could be dismissed as another CU, not the MC.
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>>125040164
>tfw our chosen undead is with solaire as a piles of mixed dust.
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>>125040413
You can summon solaire in the kiln. it's not impossible.
Also
>witch of izalith never turned into BoC, she's the lost sinner
Where did you get this from.
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>>125040520
the value of a king is his ability to bear the souls of his subjects. btw, does anyone have the "light and all those who bear it are fagit" pic?
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>>125040520
That's an odd thing to get annoyed about. You've defeated four lord souls, Vendrick and his knights, a fucking ancient dragon. Of course you reign supreme.
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>>125040413
The Witch of Izalith still became the Bed of Chaos and created the Chaos Flame. Her soul reincarnated as the Lost Sinner - it's not actually her. Just like how Gwyn's soul reincarnated as the Old Iron King, Nito's into The Rotten, Seath's shard into Freja and maybe the Four King's shard into Darklurker.

I doubt the Lordvessel actually consumed the souls you gave it. They were more of a way of identifying the Chosen Undead as a bad enough motherfucker to kill Gwyn and fuel the First Flame for a good length of time.

>>125040042
Like >>125040525 said,
>anything that they wrote there could be dismissed as another CU, not the MC.
The First Flame has been linked by countless undead between the two games. Dark Souls 2 happens incredibly far down the line.
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>>125040520
Well nothing ever implies that you are more qualified, the issue is that Vendric chose not to take the throne of want, if you listen to his dialogue he seems to be fully committed to letting the flame die
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>>125037852
>running straight at you with dark weapon ice rapier
classic
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>never played any of these
>get demon soul's
>die on the tutorial boss
>get to first level
>die on sir lancalot on the narrow bridge three times

Eh I quit
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>>125040669
Not that guy but

> Prisoner of Sinner's Rise, the Lost Sinner eternally punishes herself for the sins of her past. Indeed, she committed what some would believe to be the ultimate sin - she attempted to relight the First Flame.
>The Lost Sinner possesses the Soul of a Great One; she holds the remnants of the Soul of the Old Witch of Izalith. Eons have passed since the legendary Witch walked the land, but such was her power that it persists even now.

My theory is that she's Quelana.
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>>125040413
>in Dark Souls 2's world, the witch of Izalith never turned into the Bed of Chaos, since you fight her as the Lost Sinner
wut
That reincarnation theme went right over your head, didn't it?
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>>125040669
How about you play DaS2?
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>>125041175
how about you play das1?
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>>125041078
>>the ultimate sin - she attempted to relight the First Flame.
Does it actually say this in game, exact phrasing? It should be 'replicate the First Flame,' not 'relight the First Flame.' Relighting the First Flame is what literally countless Undead have done and it is by no means a bad thing. The Witch fucked up when she attempted to make a copy.
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>>125041175
How about you think maybe it's what >>125041078
said. Cause while the bug is there, it not causing the same effect is a bit dumb.
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>>125041049

>three times
>depriving yourself of one of the best series of games of all time because you cant beat a boss in three tries

what the fuck
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>>125041078
Never mind read other posts and realized I'm retarded. Serves me right for not playing the game at release.
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>>125041297
Nice repartee, kid. You sure proved me wrong.

>>125041370
Nah, he's wrong.

>>125041352
Go play DaS2, and go talk to Shalquoir you fucking secondary.
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>>125041476
>Nah, he's wrong.
Nice counter arguement there
>Nice repartee, kid. You sure proved me wrong.
And you're the same dude from earlier, disregarding posts now. Thanks bud.
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>>125041476
>go talk to Shalquoir
Shalquoir says the same thing.
>The fool, trying to light the First Flame.
It's a fuck up on B-Team's behalf. Witch's fuck up wasn't lighting the First Flame, that's the point of your character's entire fucking quest. Her fuck up was replicating it, creating the Chaos Flame.
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>>125041667
>arguement
Learn to write first.
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>>125041702
>It's a fuck up on B-Team's behalf. Witch's fuck up wasn't lighting the First Flame, that's the point of your character's entire fucking quest. Her fuck up was replicating it, creating the Chaos Flame.
If we go super apologist we can just assume it was someone trying to relight the flame while being "unworthy" for some reason or another, or doing it too early or whatever who knows.
Or we can just say its a plot hole and call it a day, your choice
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>>125041730
>has to resort to spelling mistakes
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>>125041832
I wouldn't even call it a plot hole, just a misuse of terms. I admit it's a super autistic complaint for me to have but I feel like it matters, lore wise.
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>>125041146
Given the alternative is that she was reincarnated only to be locked up, I think you're the retard here.
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>>125042057
>only to be locked up
Locks herself up, the game is pretty clear about that
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>>125042057
>given the alternative that Gwyn was reincarnated only to be a big lava demon, I think you're the retard here
>given the alternative that Nito was reincarnated only to be a big mass of corpses stuck at the bottom of a well, I think you're the retard here.
>Given the alternative that Seath was reincarnated only to be a big spider, I think you're the retard here.
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>>125042123
I don't remember that part being in the game. You sure you're not pulling things out of your ass again?
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Could someone help quantify soul memory for me? Like what would be twink level, what would be the SM for a focused PVP build, the most active SM tier, what the SM for a completionist would be, etc.?
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>>125042439
>The Lost Sinner eternally punishes herself for the sins of her past.
>eternally punishes herself
Literally in her souls description
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>>125018276
I'm also making a nightmare build, decided on these armor pieces with the malformed claw and the smelter sword
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>>125041409
It took me like 6 minutes to get back to him, kinda done it was forever
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>>125042726
ahahahaha the smelter armor looks like a fucking diaper
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>>125043016
Don't you have some arguement to find?
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>>125043016
yup, I got pretty much the same reaction the last time I posted this.
but as far as I know there aren't other chestpieces that matches Nightmare.
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>>125029693
>model a girl
>call it a boy

Whoa.
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>>125040849
both of the last 2 posts are me, SBD is as close as they could get to an MC reference without ruining the whole "maybe this is lordran, maybe not, you’ll never know for sure" theme.
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>>125042535
http://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Soul+Memory
Scroll down for the tiers HURR DURR FEXTRALIFE elitists incoming
Those are your tiers, the best idea for twinking is to take a new character and play through the game without wasting souls (rob flynn with rapiers is the easiest way to breeze through the game and stay way ahead of the people you want to invade in terms of SM) and see when the orange boxes move (feel free to pick up the Agape Ring if you feel that you are failing at a boss too much or just want the entire map explored before rising in SM), the orange outlines mean that that area is the most active in your current SM tier, which translated to "if you put on the agape ring now you are pretty much stuck in those areas for invasions", the early game is very active and you can twink to your hearts content in Heides/warf/bastille, it gets harder and harder later as the deviation in SM are larger and larger with people doing areas in different order meaning less people to invade.

Past 1 mil you will almost always find someone at the bridge, just put on the agape ring once you think your build is finished or you will get matched with people with far more stats than you, the meta is either 120 for megarob/150 for light armor robflynn estocs and straight swords/200 if you want to use heavy armor and still get shat on by estocs and fume sword.
whatever you do don't go above tier 39 if you plan on invading, that puts you in the same pool as people who are in NG+9000000 and who will probably not give a shit about your hunorable duels or lack of stats

TLDR: For twinking expore the map watch your SM move up and watch the orage outlines move, thats going to be the area you will be twinking in (ignore iron keep its a pvp hotspot)
PvP 1mil+SM at iron keep, or the bloodbros arena, be warned the arena is only based on NG cycle and ignores everything else, a SM30k can be matched with a SM45mil for all it cares.
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>beat LGK
>Shrine of Amana next

Hold me
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>>125043949
Get a bow you pussy
Get a crossbow you retard
Get a greatbow you monkey
Roll you ape
Walk in straight lines you fuckwit.

Shit really aint that hard these days
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>>125042431
desu, nito was mass of skellies as the bottom of a cave and seath didn’t reincarnate exactly, tseldora infused his spider with seaths soul, which he found in a cave with lots of crystals
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>>125044169
Don't waste your breath with the retard.
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>>125044375
>don’t discuss ds lore in /dsg/
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>>125043387
Are you going to change his skin color?
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>>125044490
Who are you quoting?
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>>125044169
My incredibly witty and well communicated argument, anon, was that
>the alternative is that she was reincarnated only to be locked up
is literally a non-argument. It has no bearing on whether she is or isn't the Witch of Izalith in any way. It's like arguing there's something wrong with the rest of the reincarnations.
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>>125042726
consider using thicker pants and/or large lower
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>mfw black gulch
>those carefully placed statues covering each other
>hard to hit them because my weapon bangs against the wall
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>>125045345
use whips
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is the ps3 version still alive?
if so what slvl and where is best for coop magic
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>>125045682
There are 3 souls games available on the ps3. Please specify.
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>>125046003
DS1
Or DeS, although I assume that's even more dead
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Any fashion tips to improve this?
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>>125046224
those gauntlets look like tumors
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>>125045601
It would probably take me 5-6 whips considering the first and last time i used it it broke after 4 enemies even at locked 30 fps
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>>125046521
Breaking every statue is fucking dumb. It's cheaper and faster to just buy poison moss and spam it as you sprint through the area to collect all the goodies.
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>>125046521
My whip lasts 10 enemies. Try to get good.
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>>125046663
>spam poison moss going through the gutter
What. Anyone saying this should be caned. Just run through to the bonfire near the rotten then sit at it.
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>>125045682
>best for coop magic
A real life friend probably, its even gift giving season, I'm sure you have at least a friend who owns the ps3 videogame console
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>>125046663
>moss
For what possible reason when lifegems exist?
If you don't know the layout yet or just plain don't have a branch for rotten you just spam lifegems.
2 heal for like 30 hp less than a full poison bar takes
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>>125047193
>>125046767
These too. There are so many simple solutions for getting through Black Gulch, you shouldn't complain at all.
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FUCKING PYROKEKS KILLED A MILFANITO FUCKING MAGIC USERS NEED TO DIE PAINFULLY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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so did the lords create the curse of the undead so one can rise up and sacrifice themselves to keep the age of fire going a little longer or are they just using the curse to help themselves?
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>>125047520
No one knows
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why do fgg players like souls?
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>>125048318
Aris is a huge DeS fag.
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>>125019141
Anyone?
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>>125048318
Because its way easier to find excuses for when you lose and pretend it never happens on the other players screen when you win
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>>125048468
Aris barely even plays Souls PvP though and he called it bootleg Souls Calibur.
He's not one of those fgc rejects.
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>>125045601
the statues dont respawn if you sit at a bonfire, only if the area is reloaded
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>>125047520

Nito created it motivated by Kaathe with the objective of eventually defeating Gwynn and the Witch.
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>>125048318
Because Souls games have some of the same mechanics and competitive nature of fighting game (although in a horribly unbalanced form), but without the retarded input system that gives fighting games an artificial difficulty barrier.

Souls pvp comes down to simple mindgames. It has most of the fun of a fighting game with less of the frustration.
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Inna forest if anyone wants to pvp (pc)

Forest hunters seem to be the only shitters that can invade me.

We can fight many times and try out gear
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>>125047520
Origins of the Undead Curse is a big mystery. It's funny: despite being the main focus of the games the rest of the lore works just fine without the Undead Curse. Removing the Undead from the game has no impact on the light vs dark theme.

In my opinion the Undead Curse stems from dark/humanity. In the first game, there's only two undead creatures other than humans: rats and dogs. I'm pretty sure you can see the rats feasting on human corpses at some point, so I think in doing so they've inherited the humanity in those bodies and become undead. Same situation for the dogs. I think the Undead Curse occurs when dark has grown more powerful than light. When humanity outnumbers light souls, the undead are created in an attempt to reunite all the humanity in the world, remaking the dark soul.
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>>125049051
>but without the retarded input system that gives fighting games an artificial difficulty barrier.
Because only being able to stab with a sword on a backstep attack is totally not the same fucking thing.
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>>125049221
What about the armoured boar, then? And the mosquitoes in Blighttown?
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>>125049223
Never said Souls combat couldn't be improved, but it's not on the same level or retardation as thing like the Shoryuken motion.

Fighting game controls are intentionally designed to make it harder that necessary to do things.
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>>125049070
>spangoy
tengo preguntas
I wish I had a decent toaster to play the copy I have
But I must stick with pstree for now
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>>125049330
The armored tusks do have glowing eyes, true. It could just be to show that they're big and angry and evil, though. None of them actually respawn, which is the mark of most undead enemies bar a few. I think it's more likely the armored tusks are creations of Seath, so their eyes are glowing because of some sort of magic.

And what about the mosquitos?
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>>125049584
>designed to make it harder that necessary to do things.
Spoken like a true reject, they are necessary to a degree for the same mindgames you praise so much

The souls game have as much in common with Dota and its various clones as they do with fighting games
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>>125049930
They respawn.
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Anyone got any cool MLGS build to share?
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>>125049070
Be there in a tick, let's see if you can handle DUAL PIERCING SHIELDS
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>>125047520
You can only speculate these things. But if there's any one lord that seems suspicious, it would be Nito.

>He seems to have some involvement in the creation of the bonfires, seeing how the rite of kindling was part of his power.
>When you fight him, he has a huge aura of humanity surrounding him. Could he be accumulating the dark souls offered to the bonfires? What is he doing with all these dark souls?
>Gravelord covenant is a generally a dick covenant

On the other hand, you could argue that this could be Nito's role in Gwyn's plan--to collect and contain the dark soul.
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Do you run a risk of getting banned for using enbs and other graphical mods like that in DaS2? Not sure how their filescan system works.

What's some good enbs/resolution mods?
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>waiting outside Kelloggs on ps3 for summons at 30 at s30
>finally summoned after 15 minutes
>host dies in seconds
frustration
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>>125050152
ds1 btw
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>>125050294
Yeah it's called pump INT.
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>>125049940
>they are necessary to a degree
Explain why.

Explain to me why it is somehow necessary to input a series of motions which have nothing to do with the actual attack I'm trying to perform.

Explain to me why it's necessary to do this when there are plenty of single direction + button combinations that aren't even being used, and plenty of other timing based inputs that they could use that would make it easier to perform the same attack.
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>>125050115
I think that's just an indication of how many of them are rather than there being anything special about them. You're in a swamp, after all. And given that they're the only enemy that respawn on their own rather than at a bonfire refresh (except for skeletons), I think that's meant to show that there's a whole load of them.

In DaS1 respawning isn't consistent. Like I said, a lot of the times it makes sense because an enemy is undead. Other times it's an indication of enemies being present in such great numbers they can just be replaced, or maybe magical creations who could feasibly 'reactive,' but sometimes it's just game mechanics and doesn't really have an explanation.
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>>125049584
Came here to say fighting game motions are deceptively easy
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>>125050152

16 STR
10 DEX
40 INT
28 FTH

MLGS+WoG, Pure magic damage build.
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>>125050504
>Explain to me why it is somehow necessary to input a series of motions which have nothing to do with the actual attack I'm trying to perform.
The stronger a motion the more powerful the move, its harder to execute and easier to see coming, the easier the motion the weaker the special is the general rule of thumb

This has been talked to death by people who know for more about it than you do and if you wanted to actually know rather than bitch about shit you could have figured it out yourself. Sure you can make games without motions, see whateverthefuckthatrobotsfightingamethatsinbetarightnowwascalled, but motions definitely have their place.
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>>125050234

Waiting because I have DUAL WHEEL SHIELDS

Also be forest hunter. I'm too high in levels to be invaded or invade
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>>125049070
Level and region, famalam?
I'm 61 right now but I'm desperate for PvP.
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>>125051224
>too high in levels to be invaded
No such thing if i remember correctly, red orb goes inf up, just not down.
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Hey can someone send me a copy of DaS for xbox 360
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>>125051506
>>125051414

Then invade me!

forest where Alvina is

sl 710 but I can fight naked
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>>125051732
>>125051414
He meant steam DL region i believe m8.
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>>125051794

Wot is DL region?
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>>125051732
>>125051794
Yeah, I meant steam region.

Also I hope you've dickstabbed some NPCs so I can invade you with a blue orb, anon, or I hope that you can see red soap signs.
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>>125051932
Download region.

Steam>settings>downloads
It'll say there.
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>fighting host while they use LHS
>get parried
>nearly dunks me
>bs them and swat them on the recovery
>mfw
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>>125052129
>>125051940

Spain & portugal

But I'm white I promise
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>>125052401
you fucking paella nigger i'm not going to play with you

Na just kidding. Download region matters because you're more likely to succesfully invade someone if they're in the same or a nearby download region.
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>>125052401
Don't care what color you are, we want some PvP.
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>>125052580

I was memeing anon

I want pvp too.

>>125052563

If I change my dl region would anything change?
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>>125052853
Some dl regions are more active than others, yeah. Luxembourg used to be a sort of agreed upon one for PvP and co-op but because Dark Souls isn't nearly as popular as it used to be I don't know if people still use it.
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I finally got the DLC for Dark Souls II but I can't decide on what kind of build to play through with.

Can anyone give me some advice and a general build that works well though all of SotFS? PVE but workable in PVP? I had done quality and hexes before but that's kind of it.

Are there a large amount of Dex weapons that a single build can support? I haven't done a katanafag yet.
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>>125053065
I've seen people use Dallas. Lux doesn't seem to get a lot of nodes for me though.
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>>125051581
sent ;)
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>>125053067
Don't bother with trying to beat the whole game and do PvP, your SM will get bloated to all shit, besides the meta in DS2 is really boring just use whatever weapons you think are fun, CREO when you feel like it and see how it goes.
The games were never meant to have a deep PvP meta or anything like that so don't put too much pressure on it in the first place

As for dex builds Rapiers are the best PvE weapons in the game but honestly everything is workable, the only thing you really need to keep in mind is that if you plan to powerstance things like katatans you probably won't be able to get the full use out of Flynns ring, if you plan on sticking to a low equip load and light armor then don't go above 60 equip load and get Flynns ring from the Sunken DLC when you get around to it.
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I can't for the life of me figure out how much damage dead again does.
Could it be 850 with 18 int and 10 faith and a sorcerer catalyst +3?
It one shot those earthen peak mankins so i think it should be at least 500 but both seems a bit high
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>>125053574

Would you say heavy dex gives me access to a decent amount of interesting weapons? I tend to get bored of one moveset and want to have several weapons at a decent level. I really only know basics about dex, I never really jumped into it. Spears, katanas and rapiers and shit?
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>>125053842
For PvP mainly metashitter dex weapons reign supreme with a few str exceptions like the Estoc which IMO is the best PvP weapon ever.
For PvE however the best weapons are maces, specifically the craftsman's hammer. That thing tears through the entire game.
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>mfw I want to play Dark Souls 2
>but I'm stuck between Aava, the Fume Knight, and Sinh
I just want to kill things.
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>>125051732
>>125052401
Hey spainbuddy, you might not be getting invaded because it seems like non-Forest Hunter invasion items aren't working in the forest. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm definitely not hollow yet I can't use blue orb, cracked red orb or red sign soapstone.
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>>125053842
>Would you say heavy dex gives me access to a decent amount of interesting weapons?
Quite a solid amount yeah, but again it's DS2 not DS1, 10 extra levels to dump into STR for using some weapons that seem interesting wont come to bite you in the ass later, there are more than enough bosses and areas to get shitloads of souls.
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>>125053951

Is there a good default starting class if yuou aren't sure what you wanna do with stats or are they all ideal for a specific build? Again, I really like using various weapons rather than being shoehorned into just one.
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>>125054073
Try git and then gud
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>>125054194
I'm not sure about that. For general PvE effectiveness and an ezmode starter I would recommend Cleric but if you want to use lots of weapons then try one of the guys with more than 10 dex / str.
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>>125054132
Remember to not stand on the stairs, otherwise you're like me right now just getting failed to invade.
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>>125054194
the classes in ds2 are alot more homegenized than in ds1. Early on, your build will likely be at the same SL no matter what class you start with, unless you are dead set on not using any atn fai or int.
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>>125054132

We Anor Londo?
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>>125054194
Starting classes matter fairly little unless you want to be a low SM twink
Sorcerer if you want spells right off the bat
Cleric if you want a miracle right off the bat, the rest are all fine.

Again there are loads of bosses, enemies drop quite a bit of souls and you can halve the STR requirement of any weapon by 2 handing it on top of all of that Soul Vessels exist and let you respect everything.
Start the game and start taking dex and picking up/buying weapons as you go, see something interesting that you might want to use and it doesn't ahve 40+ STR needed? Dump a few points into STR, you souls to spare

I personally start with wandered a lot for PvE playsthroughs because he gets two +1 weapons and a set that doesn't look dumb
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>>125054348
>Remember not to stand on the stairs
Welp I'm a retard
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Okay, I need help.
The Dark Souls wikidot explains that kicking an enemy causes him to get staggered, which means more damage and a coloured flash instead of the white one.

But then, in Dark Souls 2, the wiki says that it's now a riposte, and adds :
>Guard Break Ripostes can be made at any point through their animation, however, attacking too early, or chaining attacks after they go into the Guard Broken animation means that they will take one normal attack instead of the critical attack.
>During a guard break, you will have time to change weapon or two-hand it for extra damage during the critical,
>Using weapons with a higher poise break will cause a guard break quicker than a weapon with higher damage. (Needs Confirmation)
Tell me if I'm wrong, but Guard Break is the thing that replaced the kick, right? Anyone managed to land a riposte after a guard break?

Oh yeah, and apparently the thing with greatshield staggering the attacker disappeared in DaS2.
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Fucking sorceryfags no skill etc etc

Anyway if that was you I just invaded spanishfriend I'd keep playing but I've got to do something in five minutes, and I've only got a limited amount of cracked reds but you're too sin free for me to invade with a blue.
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>>125055328
Yes, guard breaks replaced kicks. What exactly are you having problems with there?
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>>125055613
Read the post.
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>>125055328
>Tell me if I'm wrong, but Guard Break is the thing that replaced the kick, right? Anyone managed to land a riposte after a guard break?
Yes and yes.
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>>125055328
Guard breaking only puts someone into a ripostable state if you, you knon. break their guard. Meaning you hit them with as they have a shield up.

It has 2 different animations depending on if you do it when the enemy is still standing up or after they have fallen on their ass

Also greatshields do stagger and it will annoying you once you run into it
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>>125055757
What weapon were you using? I tried with the spear and a bastard sword, only got a normal attack.

>>125055853
I'm really confused here.
I understand that Guard Break = Stagger.
I also understand that Parry = Enemy falls on his ass = Riposte with special animation.
But here, it sounds like you're mixing both, and I'm confused.
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>>125054520
>>125054447
>>125054347


Thank you very much! I was stressing over what to start as. I always just did Knight or Sorcerer and did the obvious builds that went with them. Never really even looked at the others.
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>>125056032
>What weapon were you using?
Every fucking weapon in the game that are not catalysts?
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>>125056032
>I understand that Guard Break = Stagger.
>I also understand that Parry = Enemy falls on his ass = Riposte with special animation.
Oh dear god no

Guard breaking exists solely so that you could deal with enemies players and AI alike that keep their shield up, if you hit someone with a shield up with a guard break it puts them into a special animation where you can do a riposte on them, its the same effect as hitting them until their stamina is depleted but much much much faster.
Parrying is another matter entirely
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Where can I see a recent place talking about builds? I only see really old stuff that I think has been changed since it was posted when it comes to builds.

I want to do Quality so I can use a lot of weapons.
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>Guard Break is the thing that replaced the kick, right? Anyone managed to land a riposte after a guard break?
Yeah. It's not hard, just walk up and hit light attack.
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>>125056093
Keep in mind you can find a Sou Vessel in the mansion in Majula so its possible to get one really early, they are not that rare and one of the ladies from the intro will let you respect all of your spent levels.
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>>125056173
>>125056276
Okay, I get it.
But then, there's a problem : I used guard break a lot, and I never got a riposte, I always got the normal attacks. What am I doing wrong? Am I supposed to wait a little bit or be really close to the enemy?
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>>125056454
Get close to their face and tap r1 while they're in that recoil animation.
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>>125034023
Thief was a terrible choice for me because as a new player the master key made me get completely lost. Bandit and Knight stomp everything in comparison and have 100% damage reduction shields from the start which is a huge difference. I wouldn't have wanted it any other way though.
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>>125056454
Get right in their face, like a visceral attack in Bloodborne. I would say wait like 1 second in their stun animation before R1. You can only guard break if they raised their shields up (or if they are using their two-handed weapon as a shield). You get the same stun animation from guard breaking as you do if you attack their shields until they don't have any stamina anymore (like when you raise your shield and a boss hits you so hard you are in a stun state because you have no stamina).
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>>125056454
Did you actually guard break an enemy with a shield up, did they wave their hands in the air like a retard and then fall down on their ass?
Again there are 2 animations for riposting someone whos guard you just broke, one for when they are falling down and one for when they are on their ass, the first one does more damage but its far less reliable.

For the best results guard break someone, wait for them to fall all the way down make sure you are not in a combo facefuck them really hard and do a light attack. That will net you a ripose every time if its possible on that enemy, after you get that down start experimenting with the angles and how early you can do it and still have it land.
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>>125056990
>Did you actually guard break an enemy with a shield up, did they wave their hands in the air like a retard and then fall down on their ass?
Enemies don't fall on their asses when you guard break, that's when you parry.
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>>125056454
Oh yeah >>125057104
Is 100% right, disregard >>125056990
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>>125057104
You can do the same riposte animation for guard breaking where you hit them standing up if you tap r1 fast enough after a parry before they fall on their ass. Same thing, though.
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Still necessary to forward ports on pc?
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>>125057650
And do we know if das3 will be as much of a lagfest where insane 1+ second lag is considered the norm?
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>>125057650
Nah.

>>125054487
Pretty sure i got you once, died like a retard though. Mostly getting the same 2-3 people with you never in there.
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>>125056990
I guard break a random enemy, and then try to attack with a light attack. I tried on several "volunteers", it doesn't work.

Is it restricted to guard break on enemies actually raising their shields or what?
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how the hell do i even get this?
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>>125058237
>that build
>that ui
my god
and you'll find that treasure if you just go around exploring normally
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>>125058168
>Is it restricted to guard break on enemies actually raising their shields or what?
Of course, why would you think otherwise? Enemies raising their shields or their two-handed weapons as a shield.
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>>125058168
>Is it restricted to guard break on enemies actually raising their shields or what?
Jesus christ mate we have told you like 5 times by now
You can only guard break someone that has their shield up.
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>there are people who actually bought DaS2, played through it and still continue to play it in these very threads
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>>125058401
Because it seems to stagger even normal enemies, so I may have completely misunderstood that part.
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>>125058237
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>>125058102

I go by the name of ASS

Going back there senpai

I seriously need egg vermifuge too, if you have any.
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>>125058237
>chaos scythe
>mfw
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>>125058463
Maybe if I give From enough money they'll actually finish one of their games?
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>>125058463
>people enjoy things that I don't
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>>125058624
Oh, i just got some dude wearing giants chest and child mask so i assumed it was you. I'll have the vermifuge though if i catch you.
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>>125058480
It staggers them but it doesn't put them in a stun state required for a riposte. You can use guard break to push an enemy down a pit though.
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>>125058871
Haaa, okay. So I can stagger anyone, but I can only riposte enemies hiding behind shields.
Okay, I get it.
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>>125058775

I need 99 if you can buy them from the guy in daughter of chaos

Can also give you stuff I guess I can buy anything buyable (except for eggs, because I killed the guy like a retard)
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>>125054073
What's your Platform and SM maybe someone can help
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>>125059076
Why 99, keep attaking the egg carriers or something?
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>>125059282
PC, SotFS, 5M, and a really shitty connection.
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>>125059362

To exploit the Snuggly the Crow glitch and get at least 30 dragon scales

I'm now at the forest, dl zone Luxembourg
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>Nasharda fights you in DS2 for no real reason because there is literally nothing she can do about anything at the point whatever her plan was
>Gherman fights you if you refuse his offer in BB even though you literally come back to life 5 feet away from him and he knows about that shit too
I really hope they either don't pull this shit again in 3 or at least have some kind of justification for why the final boss is just sitting around waiting for you (both DS1 and DeS were perfectly fine because one was basically mad from not having soul anymore and the other was a slug), shit they can even keep the gherman/nashandra style ending of "ooh you were helping the real big bad all along" if you just justify it with a different kind of death, like shit BB would have been perfect fit for something like pic related and "it was just a dream of how you would fail you didn't actually fight and die to him 20 times".

Rant thats not really related to anything over
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>>125059668
>both DS1 and DeS were perfectly fine
Hu-uh.
>when these games that I like do it, it's fine but when it's a game I hate, it's bad
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>>125059402
>aava
You got the eyes right?
Anyway see if you have any stab weapons, aava is strong against slash and dark, other than that git gud
>Fume Knight
You can force the overhead smash move by drinking estus during the first phase when he is not in a combo, if he does it his UGS will start glowing and as long as it glows he won't enter phase 2.
If you wear veldstads helm he will enter phase 2 at the very start if you for some reason find that easier
>Sinh
Well you can get a free 1-3 hits in when he first appears and charges to the middle of the arena, other than that no real easy tip for him other than try to avoid cutting off his tail when possible because he seems to fly more if you do
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>>125059668
what's this? oblivion+skyrim+minecraft?
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>>125059537
Be there in a sec, some dingus wants to play sword and board with a rapier and power within.
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>>125060026
EYE Divine Cybermancy.
A game with good ideas, but a really awful realization.

>>125059973
It's all about getting good, I guess.
And knowing where to roll. And probably getting a iron skin pyromancy to help.
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>>125060231
cyber souls then?
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>>125059962
Buddy I like DS2 more than I like DS1, its just dumb how Nashadra fights, then sits at the throne waiting for you to finally git gud enough and beat her.
She literally has nothing to gain from any of this, same goes for gherman.

DS1 it was justified with gwyn not thinking anymore and DeS was justified with it being a slug that couldn't really fight anyone anyway.

>>125060026
EYE divine cybermancy, a really strange shooter but I brought it up because if you run out of lives in a mission you literally wake up in that area, a guy tells you "What you just played was a vision of how you fucked up and failed don't do that" and you get put back to the start.
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>>125059668
I think the final battle with Ghermann would have been better if the way your fight went decided the ending.
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>>125060407
Nashandra can't go against Veldstadt, and the Ancient Dragon would recognize the dark in her immediately and refuse to cooperate. And even if she could get the Ashen Heart by killing you, she can't really go to the past and murder the Giant King. Everyone would remember her.

Gherman doesn't care for your quest, he's just here to kick out of the Dream once your task is over.

>>125060325
One day, hopefully.
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>>125059668
>DeS was perfectly fine
>How did you defeat my demon?
>Well, whatever, come on down
>Welcome, the Old One accepts all
>Walk through fog gate

>FUCK YOU IT'S ALL POINTLESS NO ONE WANTS TO GO ON

Gherman didn't want you to share the same fate as him. He's literally begging in his sleep and when sleep-talking for someone to free him.
DaS2 was just a clusterfuck.
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>>125060687
So, in the whole context of Bloodborne's lore, you become a Elder God literally because you've seen some shit?
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Is there any way to play Demon's Souls online?
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>>125060840
No, that's because you eat the ombilical cord, and murder an Elder God. You just take its place.
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>>125060687
in his theme*

>>125060840
You become a Great One because you consumed the umbilical cords of surrogate Great Ones and the pale blood of the Moon Presence or some shit.
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>>125060568
That was my original though as well but thinking from a design point of view its kind of a slap to the face for the player and a pain to design around.
If you make the fight too hard and are forcing people to start new chars just to fight the final boss more than once then everyone will hate you
If you make it too easy it wont make for a good final boss

Thats why I think just a different "you died" screen with like 1 line of dialogue justifying it would work, you can keep the core idea of how the game works so far but also have it make logical sense.

>>125060646
> he's just here to kick out of the Dream once your task is over.
Thats muh point, if you refuse it and he kills you you don't get kicked out, he literally cant win at that point so what is he trying to prove by fighting you?
Same goes for nashadra she can't take the giants kinship from you and trying to kill you won't make you work for her, the only thing she can do other than die is force you to hollow somwewhere else and then she is even more fucked because the person that has the giants kinship is now hollow who will never help her anyway.
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>>125060948
Eating Umbilical Cords give you Insight, doesn't it? Why does it show Nightmare Slain when you kill Moon Presence and Mergo's Wet Nurse?
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>>125060921

Yeah, just do it.
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>>125061156
>Mergo's Wet Nurse?
Because its literally the nightmare of the baby who is such a badass that his baby nightmares are creating hardcore monsters who rape your shit.
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>>125061156
You kill Mergo's Wet Nurse and end the red moon nightmare making everyone go insane.
You kill Moon Presence, you end the Hunter's Dream, but take its place and keep it going.
You kill the Orphan of Kos, you end the Hunter's Nightmare and end the curse of Byrgenwerth.

All these keep going anyway in the game due to gameplay, but it's the point.
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>>125061143
>Same goes for nashadra she can't take the giants kinship from you
She can't?
And Plan B, she can kill you until you go Hollow and then turn you into her puppet.

Same for Gehrman, if you don't accept to leave the dream, he'll just kill you until you abandon (aka leave the game) the dream.
In both case, they're trying to get the character in a battle of attrition until he gives up.

>>125061156
Because they aren't "real".
That's complicated, but simply put, Mergo's Nurse lives in a nightmare. Same for the Moon Presence, it's the thing living in the Hunter Dream.
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>>125058463
>You still take the time to post this at least once a week

I'll bet you have a strong opinion on 4kings too.
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>>125061494
but you're the chosen undead
you're willpower is unbreakable, and you literally can never hollow
i'd assume a similar thing exists with bb, but ive never played it
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Did anyone ever figure out what the Primal Bonfires are, lore-wise? Or are they just special "Yeah let's warp back to Majula" bonfires for no other reason than to get you to do that?
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>>125061494
>She can't?
Yeah, she can't. The kinship is a mistranslation, it means more like Ressonance. And it's your ressonance with giants, no one can take that away.
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>>125061730
>you literally can never hollow

Have you ever deleted a character before finishing the game?
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>>125061730
>but you're the chosen undead
In the first game, yeah. In the second, you're just a random faggot.

>>125061825
Oooh. Well, then I guess we can only go for the "make you her puppet through forced hollowing" theory.
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>>125061494
>She can't?
If she could logically speaking she would just take it after you die once. Again its a gameplay thing that I would rather have justified by something other than "don't think about it"

Besides we have 0 proof of nashadra being able to puppet around anyone, she has no servents running around doing shit like Seath did, she has no demonstrable control over hollows.

No cutscene like the one we see if you choose ghemrans ending plays when you just quite so your character is not waking up, if anything gheramn fighting you does the opposite of booting you out, you might get stuck in the nightmare forever because he wont let you leave.
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>>125061772
>Or are they just special "Yeah let's warp back to Majula" bonfires for no other reason than to get you to do that?
Pretty much. It's the same reason why bonfires appear after beating the Lords in DaS.
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If you get killed in pvp in DaS does the winner take all of the loser's souls?
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>>125061990
But ultimately, it's the player that keeps the character in the dream.
Same thing for the character not hollowing, it's just because you're still here. In fantheories, if you give up and uninstall the game, your character go hollow, so I guess it's the same thing for Bloodborne : if you stop playing, your character stop dreaming.
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Is DaS2 the only game where difficulty increases up to NG+7? Every other game seems like it's NG+6.
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>>125062237
Isn't lobos doing a NG+7 fist only run of Bloodborne right now? He says it's +7.
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>>125062170
No.
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>>125062191
See I can sort of accept it for Dark Souls, I can't for bloodborne because there is quite literally an ending cutscene for you waking up, and it does not trigger when you quit the game.

Ultimately neither nashanrda or gherman have any real reason to fight you because of the way the respawning system works, and that was my original point, it could all be handwaved with so many different excuses if they just gave you a special little cutscene that plays if you die to the final boss explaining why exactly the bosses are still sitting around waiting for your ass to show up again.

It feels so lazy to just ignore
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>>125062191

If you kill yourself you end the dream
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>>125062682
>See I can sort of accept it for Dark Souls, I can't for bloodborne because there is quite literally an ending cutscene for you waking up, and it does not trigger when you quit the game.
Because it has to stay opened, in case you replay the game weeks later.

>>125062682
>Ultimately neither nashanrda or gherman have any real reason to fight you because of the way the respawning system works, and that was my original point, it could all be handwaved with so many different excuses if they just gave you a special little cutscene that plays if you die to the final boss explaining why exactly the bosses are still sitting around waiting for your ass to show up again.
You seem to be missing something important about the Souls games : nothing's explained, you have to figure things out by yourself.
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>>125062903
>Because it has to stay opened, in case you replay the game weeks later.
Yes then why not just justify it

>You seem to be missing something important about the Souls games : nothing's explained, you have to figure things out by yourself.
Are you high? A lot of shit is explained, even why you come back to life at bonfires, its not a deep explenation or a complex one but it works, so it's lazy to just not add one for what is supposed to be the end of the game.
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>>125063206
(you have to figure things out by yourself)^2
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>>125063272
Why have a plot at all?
You have fallen far too deep into the "dark souls so mysterious" meme buddy, shit gets explained and outright told to you quite a few times.
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Neither DaS1: PtDE nor DaS2: SotFS will work with my PS4 controller. The controller works with all my other games and I can use it as a mouse as well, so I know my PC's recognizing the controller. My PS3 controllers work though.

Anyone else encounter this? I've Googled around a bit, but all I've found it stuff related to fixes for methods and programs that (AFAIK) I'm not using.
I'm using Jays2Kings DS4Windows program for my DS4 and that SCP DS3 driver for my DS3s, and all that does is make my PC recognize them as Xbox controllers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suV2wJ0K3s8
You want to punch him, you lose. Tell me your best score.
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>>125063561
Try using x360ce, it makes your controller emulate a 360 one for the game
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>invade forest 2 people in world
>Watchdog: Hey there's a max level parading as a lv 50!
>Ok which ones the faggot
>blue runs off, pops humanity
>There he is
>chain bs to death
Fucking garbage CE noobs man.
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>>125063869
Ten seconds.
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