/dsg/ - Demon's and Dark Souls General

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3rd for gitting gud.

>That guy who doesn't bow before a duel and attacks you while you're doing it

>>126620792
I wish everyone in arena rolled so predictably

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Post some stories about bullying

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why is the souls community so bad?

>>126621064
Because your stale bait needs some more work.

>>126621064
GermanSpy and DreadedCone are fucking disgusting

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So why do the sorceresses not look hollowed at all?

As far as I can recall, they're the only enemy in the game that actually looks human and not hollow, besides NPCs.

>>126621172
Let me guess, the fat redshirt is German Fedoratipper?

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>>126620792
Meanwhile in DaS.

>>126621064
Is that team soulbrant? The only one i can pick is Ty/dreadedcone because hair.

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>>126621203
They could still be undead and not hollow. Either way hollow tits are kinda gross.

>>126621210
>let me guess
>when there's a guy literally tipping his fedora in the middle

You fucking what, mate?

>>126621203
Item description from their drops says that they use magic to enhance their appearance. Including their cup size.

Guys, why does my save behave like it's read only when it's not? It doesn't actually save anything I do.

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>>126621064
>Oro looks like a meth addict
>dreaded cone looks like some kind of horrible amalgamation between a /fit/izen and a tumblr hambeast
>german spy is an autist

Dunno who all the other fags are.

what the cheapest DaSII PvP strategy, currently?

So why does every faggot with a waifu character have white hair on their waifu?

>>126621541
They think it's original. Waifufags are cancer in every community but at least in things like TES games you have more customization options so you don't have to resort to speshul snowflake (literally) hair most of the time.

>>126621064
>agermanspy

>>126621064
Is Peeve there?

>>126621064
dreadedcone would look like nero if he painted his hair white, woah
would be better than the gay shit he has right now

>>126621515
Same as in DeS, same as in DaS.
Estoc turtling.
DaS3 is not going to change.

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>>126621541
My waifu character is a red head.

>>126621806
THIS

>>126621817
Thank goodness she has that thing on her head.

>>126621712
The guy in the armor.

>>126620560
is pvp still active in scholar of the ps4? bought a ps4 mainly because of bloodborne during a christmas sale but hope to not have bough it for just a single game

>>126621926
>that flimsy justification for a $400 bloodborne machine
lol

>>126621720
Spotted the teenager.
Poor insecure boi.

>>126622001
Ty please go.

>>126622001
get out of here

>>126621064

Where is ENB?

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>>126620792
>arena

>>126621997
>mustard envy
lol emulators, right?

>>126622206
ENB doesn't exist

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>>126621064
>Tips fedora

You can't make this shit up

>>126620792
Why do scythes have such terrible movresets?

>>126621997
>he plays dark souls on the PC
who plays dark souls on the PC?

>>126622206
I think he's the only responsible adult in the Souls content creation bunch, so he couldn't make it.

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>>126622406
I play dark souls on the pc. Is that weird?

>>126622406
ore people than on any other platform

>>126622270
Why did he switch his weapon?
Halberd criticals wreck shit.

>>126622521
Actually, the LSS has a higher critical damage.

repost because it got buried in last thread

I want to make a playthrough to get all the achivements in DS1. So I need all the weapons, pyros, sorcs & miracles.

I guess the best option is to go for a int character swapping to dex in ng+ so I can do bosses fast, is there any stat requirement apart from the 10 int to get sorceries from Giggs?

Is there any better build to do the achievements? I have no idea where to start, I guess I'll have to notepad everything

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>>126622521
Maybe he likes that animation?

>>126622682
If you had gyrm gloves you could have poised through that crystal soul spear

Is SotFS upgrade worth it for 10 euro?

>>126621609
I have a waifu, two in fact one for DaS1 and another for DaS2. Neither with white hair, and both wear full face covering helmets.

>>126622721
You need to go to NG+2 at least for the Unique Weapons achievement, since Sif's soul makes 3 fucking weapons.

>>126622772
Yes

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How do I get the highest crit damage in DS2?

>>126622772
do you play pvp? yes
do you not have the dlcs yet? yes

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>>126622816
read >>126622673

>>126622723
I fought that guy in vanilla. The turtling was unreal.

>>126622987

I'm not satisfied with that answer. Isn't DARK better than lightning anyway?

>>126622987
>Lightning LSS
For what purpose?

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>>126621541
>>126621609
>>126621817
>>126622787
>Having a character waifu
This is the only waifu i will ever need.
and then fromsoft made her retarded in DaS2

>>126622824
I have all the dlcs and play some pvp.
What about pve? Did it change for good?

>>126623109
1625 damage is not enough?
>>126623151
I usually invade in Amana

>>126622987
>posting prettyfeces
BEGONE

>>126621064
>Tips Fedora - The Person

>>126623232
what

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>want DaS since launch
>no console to play it on
>released on PC
>PC too shit to play it
>try everything in my power to make it run anyways, lowering the internal resolution to the point where it would make a GBA 3D game look polished
>still no luck
>look for similar games
>no good ones, let alone passable ones that would run
>many years later get decent laptop after extended family takes pity on me once both my PC and smartphone break down simultaneously
>runs Dark Souls fine seemingly
>get to Queelag's Domain
>game starts crashing my GPU driver and causing my computer to freeze
>exhaust every possibility for the cause to no avail
>can't play further at the peak of my addiction
>ultimate despair

I was born to suffer.
Can't pinpoint the reason why it's happening. Not overheating, already tried downgrading drivers, alternative drivers, NO drivers, reinstalling, changing settings, etc.
I just want to play it so bad and now that I've gotten closer than ever it just decides to stop working right.

All I wanted was to git gud...

>>126623207
some changes to pve are nice, others awful so that alone isn't worth it in my opinion
lighting was somewhat improved in the sense that dark areas now are dark, although in a clumsy way

but the pvp/online aspects alone are worth it, I would be surprised to find anyone still playing vanilla ds2 online

>>126623317
the stutters happens to alot of people when they reach that area
restart your PC and it should be fixed

>>126623207
PvE has a ton of enemy and loot placement changes. Enemies are more aggressive and can aggro from further range...you will understand this when you reach Iron Keep.

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2bh

>>126623213
You only did one tick of damage for 876 here
>>126622270
Halberds don't have that problem. They actually used to do 3 ticks of damage in the old days.

>>126623317
you might be fucked because the pc port of ds1 is extremly bad
there is also the possibility of just skipping to ds2 which runs on every toaster

how do i cosplay as a jew

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Whenever people complain about how hard this fight is what are they doing wrong? It wasn't that difficult it only took me 3 tries the two times I died was because I didn't anticipate the lightning butt attack

>>126623317
Have you tried DSFix?

>>126623449
It's havel's armor + sacred oath.

>>126623462
>playing DaS2 instead of DaS

>>126623524
ideally you would play both, of course

>>126623619
yea

>>126623505
People want the ring and try to kill smaugh first probably

>>126623505
It's only because there are 2 bosses. Their individual movesets are manageable.

>>126622987
You need to be a goathex when using the wrathful axe m8.

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post fashion

>>126623317
try to run it in a virtual machine. that would eliminate the possibility of any driver issues

>>126623772

Peasant/10

>>126623505
The first instinct of most players is to buckle and run under their pressure and get destroyed by ornsteins retarded tracking .Those people who fight them head on and dodge their attacks close in fair better.

>>126623354
>I would be surprised to find anyone still playing vanilla ds2 online
I'm getting constant invasions at 200k sm at the Lunar Belltower/post-sentinels Bastille bonfire. Probably the result of Christmas steam sales or something, but whatever, I'm quite happy.
The arena and the bridge are still alive as well, although they've always been active.
I am too lazy to buy and finish SotFS at this point, since it's less than 4 months till DaS3 release..

>>126623406
It's not a stutter. It makes the game crash, then my driver crash, then my computer freeze irreparably. Amusingly enough my admittedly average specs managed to hold out fine in Blighttown and my FPS was pretty stable through all of it. Now it just decides to crash and burn seemingly at random. At first I assumed it was overheating, since the exact thing happens in OTHER games when it gets too hot, but after extensive testing it seems Dark Souls is the only game where it just happens out of the blue, even when the temperatures are fine.

>>126623462
It might be just the game hating my hardware for poor optimization reasons, but if that was the case chances are I'd find people with similar problems somewhere, which I've been unable to. And I have faith I could run DS2 fine but I wanted to play through the first one before that.

>>126623514
That's... a bit of a no brainer, but thanks all the same. It's the thought that counts.

>>126623785
That's a good idea, but I wonder if my laptop could handle it.

>>126623516
Physical defence doesn't do shit.
It's a fps related issue. You can lower the damage of criticals by lowering your fps. I think the first breakpoint was 42 fps.

>>126621541
white hair is hoat

and dsII is one of the few games where I can make a proper brown waifu with pure white hair

>>126623991
source on that

>>126623823
i'm comfortable with it
i'm just afraid no one will summon me for co-op because of my gear

>2 friends buy ptde on steam sale
>have them install dsfix and watchdog while i redownload
>sit around and collect nodes while they mess around in burg
>smooth summonings up until parish where friend A drops to 4 nodes and cant find us
>2 hours later were in depths having a good time again until friend A gets invaded by a person using demon machete
>down in blighttown we lost our nodes again and sat around at first fire and friend B kept falling off ledges
>kill quelaag and move on to funhaus
>i get invaded by a blue with silver tracer + hornet ring and a red chainmail+mom mask chaos great scythe
>friend A gets a phantom rock to the face when he summoned us and falls down to the tar pit on 2nd try
>friend B gets teleported to the abyss and cursed
>they both get refunds and i uninstall

>>126624016
I still want the 4kings to rape me and leave me a mindbroken mess of cum

>>126624162
>Playing online
Fucking Millenials fuck off

>>126624162
>have watchdog
>dont use it

>>126624241
Unless you were born before 1985 you are a millenial too, dumbass. And if you weren't, why the fuck are you here?
Also, the game was designed to be played online.

>>126624115
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/2c0phz/the_reason_behind_ripostes_randomly_doing_less/

DaS3 is going to be fun on PC..

>>126624479

That's assuming they don't patch it out. They patched it out of Scholars because PS4 and Xbone had the problem.

tfw ignored PC userbase.
tfw played the harder version of the game

>>126624479
Since then Scholar came out on ps4 and xbone and since they both run at 60fps, from couldn't ignore the consolebabbys.

I want to play with more weapon types, but every time I struggle I keep going back to "safe" weapons. Anyone else have this habit, how did you break yourself of it and learn to be enlightened by all weapon types?

>>126624714
learn with easy targets, lower sm invasions and the bridge

Is there somewhere that I can just read up on the lore? It seems like these games are extremely vague.

>>126624714
i don't
there's no point in me limiting my options by using gimmicky weapons
i'll use whatever weapons that i find satisfying and fun to use like the claymore

>>126624892
The lore is full of speculative stuff and if you try to figure out the lore with the help of guides you'll end up like all the faggots that literally can't tell the difference between fanfic and lore. That being said Deddan's image series is a good place to start.
VaatiVidya is entertaining but the biggest offender when it comes to spreading fanfic like it's canon.

https://thedcgamer.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/the-history-of-dark-souls-by-deddan-on-rdarksouls/

Plague of Gripes also has that one joke lore video which presents stuff in an easy to explain way, although some parts are flat out wrong.

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So my good PC broke and I just realised my toaster can run DaS II but not DaS. I've got the vanilla version, should I upgrade to SotFS? Will the spikes fuck me up or something?

>>126625357
Cool. Thanks a lot.

Is there ever going to be a simple staff weapon or a double ended spear? I want to play a monk.

>>126621064
because dark souls 2 happened

>>126625531
Twinblades count as that I guess if you don't look too much into them.

>>126625434
If you don't have a DX11 OS, you can't run Scholar. Check your specs first. Other than that it's about as graphically intensive as vanilla DS2.

>>126624756
Yeah, be a fag elsewhere Sephiroth

What are some fun weapons to use alongside the Bone Fist other than Majestic GS? I'd go double bone fist if I could still hadouken with no durability but I just tried and it does the animation but doesn't fire the projectile.

>>126625620
those guys are all from ds1 times tho

>>126621203
nothing in ds2 makes sense, don't even try to think about it. also >tfw female character look like shit using her armor

>>126623505
>katana

>>126625620
i mean, these people are more DaS2 players than DaS players but many of these people have been playing since DeS/DaS

>>126625620
Nah, more like since they started marketing their games with stuff like "prepare to die edition" and so on.

So how does pvp work in sotfs? SL based, soul memory based, what?

>>126625627
I've got a 32bit W7, I guess it'll work?

>>126625895
Nope, you need 64-bit. Sorry anon.

>>126621064
say what you want, I still like german spy - even despite all that euphoria

>>126625939
Well then, I'll stick with vanilla until I can upgrade again the computor, thank you kindly

>>126625963
how the fuck can you watch his videos
he is terrible at the game
his interests are terrible
his opinions are terrible
he is overalls a terrible person

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>>126625963
*tips fedora
Its ok, i like dreadedcone. We all have shit taste in something

>>126625531
Santier's spear has a twinblade moveset.

You could also use a sorcerer's staff R2...

>>126626117
Plague likes him

>>126625886
Purely SM based. The Bloodfag arena is SL based but very rarely will you come across someone in your SL range, when it can't detect anyone it just removes matchmaking and will put you with an 838 Havelhexer most likely.

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>>126626139
>i like dreadedcone
just leave. really.

>>126626230
If you're 150 this rarely happens if at all.

>>126625963
>>126626139
LEAVE.
NOW.

>>126623423
roll

>>126626326
no
who should I like then to fit into /dsg/s hivemind?

>>126626382
anyone that is not dreadcone

>>126626382
me ____;)

>>126626345
pretty boring but I'll take it

>>126626448
ok, bby, whats ur patreon

>>126626401
DaS3 will maybe get some of them back
hopefully it won't be another dark souls 2 ;_;

>>126626382
hitler

>>126626142
I guess I was more hoping for the staff. Using a spear isn't really the same feel as smacking/controlling someone with basically a big stick. I don't see how you could add that kind of weapon to dark souls without it either being terrible or too good.

>>126626401
>no afro, shitpikki

Good.

>>126626504
https://www.patreon.com/A_German_spy

>>126626606
Go for the other flavor of monk then, use the Bone Fist.

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Hey, noone expected Bloodborne to be about ayylmao's initially, right? What do you think FROM might try to pull off in DaS3 then? Maybe something like Nier/Might & Magic series with some ancient sci-fi shit?

>>126626575
the worst part of the ds2 community death was the meltdown of team majula or whatever their name was

>>126626762
>worst
more like one of the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPemXquyqi0

>>126626698
>A GERMAN SPY IS CREATING
>YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND FACILITATING ENLIGHTENED, CIVILIZED DISCOURSE
>I'm a humble man with a predilection for video games, travel, culture, cuisine, tea, history, swords, firearms and amicable conversation.
>>126626678
THIS, glad they are gone and wont come back

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>>126622350
Because, as large farming implements, they're not really designed with combat in mind.

>>126626729
From what we've seen of the leaked screenshots (specifically that one vista of the bleeding sun) I really get the impression that they'll be going for something similar to Bloodborne where the First Flame fading out and returning the world to Dark causes tons of weird shit to happen like when the Ayylmaos invaded.

>>126626914
yfw the first flame was literally the sun all along

>>126626838
To this day I still don't actually know what happened, only that all of them just vanished into thin air.

>>126627037
inb4 solaire makes it in as a sekrit final boss related to the sun somehow

>>126627039
mocha posted a picture of abyss gravelord on twitch chat that was instantly deleted. abyss then blackmailed mocha out of existence. then he commited internet suicide

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>>126626729
>>126626914

Lore notes from DaS3 beta:

>“Grave of a nameless retainer. Raised his sword for the Lord of Cinder”

>“This exile was chased from his homeland, and haunted by a black sun”

>“To honour and shadowy retreats. Fear the sun’s tempations, and the winged executioner”

>Died in solitude. May his soul find its way back to Frigid Valley”

Also all the decapitated corpses around that headless statue gives me some spooky vibes

>>126625357
I do prefer lore videos done like DaveContol's. He mostly flashes in-game item descriptions and voice clips relating to the subject, then provide his short speculation. The divide between fanfic and lore is clear and you can form your own opinions.

>>126627147
HAHAHAHAH
dark souls community drama is the best

>>126627256
The best part is that Abyss blackmailed the whole team majula about leaking their infos, the backed down, but the infos got leaked anyway because he's fucking stupid.

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>>126627037
>>126627081
>Sun Presence
IT'S LIKE POTTERY

>>126626838
what a shit and forced generic video

Wanna do a STR/PYRO run. Best start class and INT or FTH?

>>126626401
Is "God-King Lucifer" the /bbg/ Lucifer?

Playing through DaS1 again. Went Dex/Faith last time and ended up with the Great Scythe, this time I'm going for Str/Dex. What are some fun, powerful weapons I could use that take advantage of both stats?

>>126627695
Claymore

>>126627695
The Claymore is pretty much the best Quality weapon in the game, use that.

>>126626382
Dreadedcone is a meme streamer
but a guilty pleasure of mine, unfortunately
Some if my faves include:
Comradegunmad
Emarrel
Krazy999
Hugh G. rection
GrimDisaster
Onlyafro (earlier stuff)
Emarrel

Ok tier
Afro's newer stuff
Legendaryrp
Ipikki
Adel al ashamari (sp)
Infernoplus
Ironpineapple

There are a few i forgot.
Avoid team soulbrant like the plauge, all honorfags, weirdos or memers.
Vaati always sucked.

>>126627778
this
28/40 claymore is the best

>>126627796
>Not listing ENB

>>126627440
It's albino, what did you expect?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p045L5s0wz8

>>126627796
remove ironpinapple, ippiki and afro
everything else is fine and good taste

>>126627796
>Comradegunmad
a true god amongst men

>>126624892
At first there was nothing( 1) except for dragons that weren't alive nor dead, but then the First Flame came into existence and along with it came disparity

Primordial humanoids (2) found souls within the First Flame. Some of them turned out to be Lord Souls (3). The humanoids turned into godlike humans (4)

These godlike humans began waging war on all dragons

Gwyn ushered the world in the Age of Fire by linking the bonfires

After some time the fire begins to fade because that's what fire does, the Souls of living things get weaker and thus their drive to live dies off. This spread of the Dark is represented in the form of the Dark Sign. When your Soul/inner fire is extinguished you turn Hollow, lacking all drive (5)

Every human infected by the Dark Sign (6) begins the Hollowing process. You can stop the process by gathering Souls and Humanity to keep your drive to survive up. (7) The player character is NOT Hollow, he's Hollowing. All sane NPCs are merely Hollowing. Only once they view their purpose in life as fulfilled they turn Hollow (8)

Gwyn tried to stop the spread of the Dark by linking the bonfires once more, but it didn't work (9)

1: See intro, 2: We don't know what the humanoids in the intro are, where they came from or for how long they've been chilling in that tree stump, 3: Gwyn, Nito, the Witch and Pygmy acquired Lord Souls. We don't know whether the holders shaped the souls or the souls shaped their holders, 4: The community often refers to them as Giants which is confusing as fuck since there's a race of actual Giants that's already called Giants, 5: Half fact half theory, 6: We don't know what triggers the Dark Sign itself, 7: Humanity is like a bundle of life, 9: Like half the NPCs, 9: Probably because he was too weak at that point

That's my take on it, but I'm just a faggot

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So since it can be easily agreed upon that Vaati a shit, which Youtuber(For lack of better term) is better suited to explain Souls game lore?

>>126627450
Do you prefer sorcery, hexes or miracles? You're going have access to one of these types of magics if you intend to go pyro, so you might as well choose your 2nd favorite.

>>126627936
I can do that. I met ipikki on das1 and he was a cunt. Pineapple cant edit and afro is a memer.

I wanna do a Simon cosplay run
Is the whip good enough to play through NG?
Or would it be like a fists only run?

How much did they change the gutter is sotfs?
Apart from the item/torches positioning it seems to me they reworked the platforms and such.

>>126627992
ENB, although he hasn't done much for either ds2 or bloodborne

>>126627820
That being 28 Strength, 40 Dex?

>>126627992
Plagueofgripes and Epicnamebro

>>126628082
>ds2
>lore

>>126627796
>Dreadedcone is a meme streamer
>Ok tier
>OnlyAfro

>>126627975
My theory is that the godlike humans began to wage war on the dragons because the Primordial Serpents tricked them into doing it. After all they're imperfect dragons by lore, so they were probably turbo jelly.

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So after all this time I ran into this dialogue with kaathe
>Magnificent, you have followed my teachings faithfully
>You are the true lord of men, the Dark Lord
>Now go forth, and rid us of that enfeebled Gwyn
>I, Kaathe, shall await you here

Thought it was neat and didn't see it on the wiki

>>126628085
yes!!!!!!
no point in going above 28 strength

>>126628156
onlyafro is cute and i want his boipucci

>>126628026
Doing a shitty Smelter cosplay, want to have a few pyro spells to fit with it, hence STR/PYRO

>>126628139
about as much as ds1 and des, just with less fanfics so far

>>126628156
And yet afro at least has SOME comedic sense where dreadedcone just memes pretending to be a flamer and is not funny.
But yes, both are memers.
>>126628269
Get the fuck out if here, afro.

>>126628265
doesn't 2 handing only need 27

>>126628331
because ds2 lore is so shitty and uninteresting that no one wants to do fanfic about it

>>126628189
Eh that actually makes sense, considering that Kaathe and Frampt don't seem to be against each other despite promoting opposite goals.

>>126628356
yeah but 28 for using a couple of other weapons like the kumo

>>126628389
guess that someone needs their belly rubbed

>>126628525
fair enough

>>126628389
It's because it's harder to write fanfic because the lore is way more cryptic.

>>126628389
Honestly, it had potential. I find shit about Drangleic and Vendrick to be way more interesting than Lordran or Gwyn. Problem is, instead of actually developing what they had, they just threw in DaS1 fanservice wherever there could have been room for original lore.

>>126628309
OH. Then just throw it into INT so you can switch over to cool-ranch smelter demon on the weekends, duh.

And also powerstance the 2 flavors.

>>126627148
Is that Jormungand's younger cousin? God I really want to see the way that thing moves.

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>>126628613
Hows this? 95 was my cap from the start and I can use +1/2 southern ring and have 5 spells

>>126628596
>Nashandra = Namco Bandai
>Vendrick = Miyazaki
>Forlorn = Shibuya and his monster hunter weapons
>Scholar of the First Sin = Tanimura

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>>126628540
you know its true

>>126628596
vendrick seem just a normal guy that got cucked for me. While Gwyn was something different, he liked everyone. i feel really sorry for him, have you seem the way he dies? he fall on his knees and look to the sky

>>126628759
Well, what I like most about Vendrick (other than him being a total badass despite just being human) is his regret and the conflict he feels over the fact that he still kind of loves Nashandra.

>>126628759
>liked everyone
>segregated humans from the gods
>rounded up and hunted the cursef

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>>126628898
i am playing soft now, but i didn't saw the memories or anything, i know you can see one of his memories or something, the only part i really liked of ds2 is that there is a part where you can see the normal soldiers fighting the giants, and there is a hollow soldier attacking a dead giant, that were nito things.

>>126628938
>i never cared about the lore of ds1:the post

>>126628741
Looks fine but you might want to just put 20 points into str and 2h the sword. You can spend the 20 points in VIG, END, VIT, ADP or even INT.

>>126629197
True, I'll cap 30 though just to get as much hard hitting out of it.

>>126627148
>black sun
>sun's temptaions
>it's fucking bleeding how evil is that
At this point, would you really mind if the Praise le Sun gesture was unlocked by joining the obligatory evil invader covenant?

>>126629135
Gywn straight up flooded an entire city, threw the pious undead into nito's deathtrap, and shunned his trap child. He was a cool guy, but he wasnt a saint by any means.

>>126628759
>vendrick seem just a normal guy that got cucked for me. While Gwyn was something different, he liked everyone
Is this to be read as "vendrick liked everyone but gwyn was something different"?
if so I agree

>>126629605
>Gywn straight up flooded an entire city
>what are the darkwraiths
>threw the pious undead into nito's deathtrap
>how the fuck are gwyn and nito involded in patches kicking people
>and shunned his trap child.
i think he was the one that less shunned gwyndolin because all gwyndolin is doing is for gwyn, everyone else left gwyndolin.

>>126629694
no.
vendrick was human, of course he would like humans, while gwyn liked everything.

>>126629605
Gwyn is also possibly the guy that initiated the whole undead curse and bonfire system.
>running around
>sticking fiery swords into random undead
>burning them to ash, creating a bonfire.

>>126629865
>implying he was not just trying to help
>implying the bonfires are not nito shit messing with dead people corpses

>>126629950
Nito only had power over the dead. Gwyn is one in-charge of the Fire and Lightning department.

So whats the "meta" SL and the fun SL for both Dark Souls?

>>126630024
>bonfire is made of BONES
>what is the rite of kindling
>nito have a fucking giant cloak of humanity

>>126630127
It's a joint venture between Gwyn and Nito. After Gwyn was fired, Nito became chief administrator. The first thing he wanted to do was to increase the RAM, but Pinwheel stole the plans to it.

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>>126630345
>After Gwyn was fired
Comedy gold.

>>126630127
I think you're just jealous you don't have a warm humanity blanket and a nice sarcophagus to settle in

>>126630120
Meta is around 125, I've had more fun at 100 and 50 or so personally

>>126630553
note: for DS1, didn't see 'both'

What's the best place to invade at level 106 in dark souls 1? I was in anor londo for a while but only managed to invade two people.

>>126630816
Townshit is still the high level hotspot.

>>126629865
>Gwyn is also possibly the guy that initiated the whole undead curse
You can't be this clueless

>>126631020
t. guy with a zillion hours in dark souls 1
he was involved, but he had good intentions.

>>126631157
What does t. mean?

>>126631157
i should had used the t. after the post

>>126631217
t. alberto barbosa

>>126631217

regards

>>126630553
>100 and 50
>not sl1 twinking all the noobs

>>126631319
why is it abbreviated as t.?

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Will this be more damage or less? I only have the baseline stats to equip it

>>126631469
it's a finnish meme

>>126631469
it's from some kind of ancient moon language

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>>126631639
equip the weapon and switch to the panel that shows your total AR rating.

>>126631639
see:
>>126631748
That first screen doesn't show how much extra you get from scaling, only the base damage of the weapon. Switch over to the other screen to see the total AR you'll get with scaling, if it's a red number then don't use that infusion.

The moonlight butterflies in the crystal cave drop moonlight butterflies souls?

I need some of these souls.

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So, Shanalotte is a curse-free human that was artificially created by Aldia, supposedly through experimentations with dragons and their immortality. Is that right?

>>126631961
Nah but they can drop Blue slabs.

>>126632028
She's a fake firekeeper, at least bad Navlan refers to her as such.

>>126632187
I thought Navlaan only refers to her as The Muse.

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>that polished sheen
damn, this thing is beautiful, i just wish it had the claymore's moveset

>>126632028
No, she's a ......................slut

So I heard Dark Souls 3 will be using instant parrying, instead of using the delayed parry from Dark Souls 2. Is this true?

>>126633196
They're reusing pretty much every mechanic like that from DaS1 so yeah. Kicking is returning instead of guard-breaking.

>>126633338
Ugh, pleb souls.

>>126631748
>AR rating

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>you will never experience the anxiety of going through Sen's fortress for the first time

>>126633196
I didn't realize that you had to wait to parry until halfway through the game. I would just parry and smack them a bit every goddamn time, but I'm also retarded.

>>126633462
I still get mad when I go there

I'm convinced there's a certain shitposter on /v/ dedicated to making "DaS2 is bad" threads all day long. When will this meme end?

>>126633790
When DaS3 is released. He'll move on to say "DaS3 is bad"

>>126624160
People don't tend to look too closely at gear when summoning. If anything, they looked at that one naked guy with only a club I got summoned with and said "Wow, he must be really good at the game to be rolling around with that getup."

>>126633790
I think it's because DaS2 felt like a big letdown after the first one. I still like the second one a lot, but it missed so much of what made the first game amazing.

>>126633790
The guy was saying how DaS2 is not as bad as it's actually claimed to be, and told people to offer specific reasons as to why it is flawed, instead of just writing shitty opinions.

But yeah, there certainly is a hate-relationship for the Souls community, which is probably rooted in the "PRAISE THE SUN DARK SOUL IS IMPOSSIBLE" response this game has gotten in popular culture.

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this fuckin' guy

>>126633196
People have been reaction parrying sword arts.
They better make ultra weapons unparriable or we have an issue.

>>126629575
That would be amazing, all the sunbros would lose their shit.

>>126634645
That's actually pretty funny.

Should I portforward or something for dark souls?

I haven't been invaded once and it takes so long to be summoned for co op. Even When I tried to summon people for gaping dragon I got summoning failed 4/5 times.

>>126635562
Your soul memory may not be appropriate for the area.

>>126635753
>soul memory
>das1 matchmaking

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>>126633790
He's pretty dedicated though so you gotta give him that.

Are there any italian sabaku fangays?

>>126635847
I can't comprehend people who religiously shitpost everyday.

>>126627992
shy cassie

>>126636491
I know right, the autist that keeps spamming four kings shit is just sad at this point.

>>126636645
don't summon him

>>126636743
He summons himself at this point.

Is level 43 too high to be summoned for gaping dragon?

>>126635847
But he's right.

hey guys. i've never actually used the cracked red eye orb. it seems like it's always greyed out even when i try to go to a place with an orange frame in the map

what do i have to do?

>>126637771
Make sure you're human.

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>instead of BEAR SEEK SEEK LEST GO KILL SOME STUFF we could've gotten a loli daughteru with actual depth as a character
>meeting her grown-up version in drangleic/dragon aerie and recieving a feather you gifted her at the start of the game would actually make a rather touching moment
GOD WHY THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO DAS2 ACTUALLY HAPPENED
FUCK SHIBUYA AND FUCK BAMCO, MAY THEY BURN IN HELL

What's the best Halberd in DaS1?

>>126638016
>loli daughteru with actual depth as a character

>>>pedos are this fucking delusional

>>126638031
Black Knight for sure. Great Scythe is a close second for dex builds.

>>126638012
yep, i'm human. do i have to be in a specific area to use the stone?

>>126638135
I used Great Scythe before, looking for some more variety. Is there anywhere I can reliably get the Black Knight Halberd, or do I just need to get lucky?

>>126638203
You probably have the effigy effect on you. It activates each time you kill a boss, since the last pre-SotFS patch.
Just go to your bonfire and de-activate it.

>>126638031
Scythe (bardiche).

lucatiel, vengarl body , gavlan and creighton disappeared, any clue to find this npcs? its like they hide them in soft(i met all of them but vengarl body, but i cant find them again)

>>126638031
For pve the Black Knight halberd is the best.
For pvp the best are the gargoyle's halberd, the scythe and the regular halberd

>>126638362
Kiln of the First Flame, so literally at the end of the game.

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>Ornstein
>Drops the Leo Ring
Did this come from Miyazaki or the translators

>>126638506
They all move to the next areas after you exhaust their dialogue.
Or are they gone from their final spots?

>>126638725
>translators
>having any say in item placement
Wat?

>>126638362
Nowhere reliable in the early game. Just pray that the Halberd knight next to the Grass Crest Shield drops it, pop at least 1 humanity for higher item discovery.

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>Get summoned as Old Monk on my regeneration and Scraping Spear character
>That moment when they realize they can't kill you and you're not going to kill them
The current guy has been away from his game for like 20 minutes now.

>>126638790
He's refering to the ring's name. Leo Ornstein was a composer

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Guide for the Dark Souls 3 fanbase:
1. Don't insult DS1
2. Don't compliment DS2
3. Don't mention DS2 unless you are actively shitting on it
4. Make sure you state that any given thing in DS3 is "like DS1/DeS", so that you aren't insinuating in any way that anything from DS2 has made it outside of DS2, even if it is a potential improvement or sidegrade.
5. State that you hope Soul Vessels make a comeback, but never mention the downsides and do not make any references to DS2.
6. When someone mentions DS2 (or even passively reminds you of its existence), drop oneliners such as (but not limited to):
>a. "lmfao are you defending DS2 right now"
>b. ">he still plays DS2"
>c. "DS2 was just fundamentally bad. Really glad FROM is returning to their roots with DS3."
>d. "It just had no story and wasn't very fun"
>e. "It was just so slow compared to DS1."
7. Pretend you are playing and have been playing DS1 for the entire duration of the wait for DS3 if at any point DS2 is mentioned in a conversation you're a part of.
8. Any time someone brings up a part of DS2's story, refuse to acknowledge that it happened at all. If they directly reply to you, respond with "lol too long didn't read" or any variant.
9. Constantly state how any part of DS2 that was a reoccurance was fanservice. Do not acknowledge any reoccurences that are already visible from DS3, or if you have to, state that it's fine because of "x" reason. (Usually mentioning Miyazaki's name or "mumble mumble b-team" will allow you to continue "being a part of the community".
10. Do not acknowledge any lore that is outside of Vaati's videos; either from DS1 or DS2. If anything is brought up outside of the content contained within them, claim that the person is "reaching" or state that you "don't buy it". If Vaati is ever proven wrong, state that you knew he was retarded the whole time, then go back to the beginning of this step.

>>126638948
>look ma i posted it again!

Do your fucking jobs mods jesus christ

>>126638783
i talked with them once or twice and they disappeared, they arent in the old places they were in normal ds2

>>126638864
Yeah, shame Ornstein was named after a mecha from Armoured Core, so it's probably just an odd coincidence.

>>126638506
They have moved in SotFS, lucatiel in the wharf is now leaning on a wall in the building to the left of the large set of stairs, Vengarl's body is now in the shaded ruins near Manscorpion Tark down a little alleyway, a Fragrant Branch is required to get to it.. Gavlan is where the shortcut opens in No Man's Wharf (the black portcullis. Finally, Creighton can be found up the tower just before the fight with Scorpioness Najka

>>126638725
Miyazaki. He loves naming characters composers.

See: Ornstein, Ornstein again, Berlioz, Ludwig, etc

>>126638990
Why do you respond every time?

Where do you put your summon sign when you want to help with a boss? In front of the fog gate or next to a bon fire?

>>126639403
Depends on the area, most of the time in front of the bonfire is fine though.

>>126639403
Usually beside the fog gate. People summoning at the bonfire could be going anywhere. That could be fun too though.

>>126638948
too long didnt read lmao

>>126639403
For DaS2 at least here are some places that I tended to get good summon times. It's a good idea to warp and help in places where there are orange borders around the icons as these are the places where people in your soul memory are most active.

Heide's Tower: Fog door before Dragonslayer or by first bonfire.
Forest of Fallen Giants: Fog door before Last Giant or around the second bonfire.
Lost Bastille: The fallen over pillar just before the petrified guy you need to move for the Ruin Sentinels.
Harvest Valley: Outside the Fog Gate for Covetous Demon
Iron Keep: Outside the fog door for Smelter Demon. (I tried outside the fog door for Old Iron King but got no summons in 10 minutes.)

Hope this helps.

>>126640012
>>126639403
is it possible to summon help for the pursuer? or is it a filter boss (which it is anyway)

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i found the ancient dragon now, it was actually pretty cool what they did in soft in this area
mfw

>>126638452
that worked thanks, the only problem now is my shit lag from liiving in hong kong

>>126640125
You can summon for every Pursuer encounter except for the one in the Smelter Demon's boss room.

>>126640125
Sure, i'm pretty sure that the bonfire on top of the ladder is one of the most active.
The playthrough i started 2 days ago began with me summoning 3 people for pursuer and last giant just because i could

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>your favorite weapon type in souls
>your least favorite
just generally curious, feel free to share and discuss weapons.

>you will never have an orgy with all the sorceress girls
>including the Sanctum Priestess

>>126640125
Yes it is, back in DaS2 this was popular to summon as you'd get your summon pal to get the attention of the Pursuer and you'd use the big crossbows to 2 shot the boss. I haven't tried to summon in SotFS as he's very easy for me now to solo but you may get some summons there.

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What is the /dsg/ opinion on co-op?

>>126640357
Straight swords and greatswords/ultragreatswords.
Least favorite are katanas, greataxes, and magic weapons if they count.

>>126623423
Rollin'

Is poise even worth stacking? I got lots of endurance so I can midroll in the knight set, but the more I play the more it seems that combat is purely hit without being hit, making poise useless.

>>126640540
If you have cleared the area by yourself first then it's ok

>>126640540
I love it, but it makes shit too easy, both from souls gained from being summoned and for trivializing bosses in general by the boss only focusing on one person at a time. Now I mostly just summon if the boss consists of multiple targets, like O&S or the Ruin Sentinels.

>>126640357
ZWEI
W
E
I

>>126640357
>greatswords
>curved swords

I like to have variety in the moveset. Greatswords have a lot of variety even in one sword, while curved swords don't have much moveset variety overall. The best way to use a curved sword is R1 spam, shits boring.

>>126640746
>the Ruin Sentinels.
After your first run of this game, they really shouldn't be that hard to solo

They take like 6 hits to kill if you have skilled/equipped your character well, and their moveset is predictable.

Does everyone still use the Finland download region? Should I switch to it for co op?

>>126640387
>as he's very easy for me now to solo
smooth

>>126640989
I just don't like the elongated wait times for attack opportunities when you're fighting two opponents at once.

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>>126640540
It's fun. Personally I'd only use it as a last resort if I've died a few times solo as you don't have to rely on your own skills to beat the bosses which may hinder you further in the game.

>>126640357
Call me boring, but I like the longsword in both games as it's highly reliable. I usually end up using it from start to finish in DaS1. If I had to pick a weapon other than it, I'd say the Giant Warrior Club because it's hella fun to hit people with a rock tied to a tree.

My least favourite weapon would have to be the sickle weapons. I don't think they look good and I at least can't get any use out of them in PvE or PvP.

On another note, this is my first time I'm going to do the Sunken King DLC from start to finish!

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>>126640751

>this is going to be a top tier pve and p weapon in das3

>>126640697
Don't stack poise unless you can fastroll imo.
Here's the most useful poise breakpoints to stay at for DaS1: http://darksouls.wikidot.com/poise

Would Loyce Gs or claymore be a better choice for a faith build?
Going for 50 faith for the dragon chime + sunlight spear that would be spiced down.

Just made it to Drangelic Castle so I cant really test it out yet.

>>126640697

Midroll in Knight set is not good. If you can midroll in heavy armour like Black Iron or Giant's you've got a pretty powerful build.

>>126641328
Loyce GS has a better moveset but I'm not sure which is better off infused or uninfused. Compare their ARs.

>>126640357
MLGS will always be my baby.
All maces in DS2. I was just disappointed on the cosmetics of them all.

http://strawpoll.me/6377819

>>126640357
Favorite is straight swords. Slash-slash-stab is the greatest thing ever.
I can't say I ever liked boxing weapons all that much, though. Even with Bone Fist's nito moveset in DaS2, I've never felt the need to make a build around them.

>>126640540
It trivializes most things. Although boss fights like Throne Watcher/Defender can feel like chores without it.

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>>126640357
>your favorite weapon type in souls
The obligatory Weaponized Shield, which includes ormareeves, skelliewheel and so on. DaS3 will probably not be an exception to the rule and feature something like that, ESPECIALLY considering that weapon arts are a thing now. Really curious about what they're gonna make to greatshields. Hope they're bringing running/rolling attacks back.
But basically, I enjoy anything wacky (like Smelter Hammer or the Kos Broccoli), especially if it may look like a joke weapon at the first glance but actually deals a decent amount of damage.
I also really want flails in my souls games, but by the looks of it it's not happening, ever.
>your least favorite
Straight swords, they're just yawn inducing. Rapiers are also really boring. But to be fair, this kind of shit is what I think I actually prefer to fight over greatweapons, well, assuming I get to choose. Greatweapons kinda put more pressure on you.

>>126640746
>and for trivializing bosses in general by the boss only focusing on one person at a time
Someone recently posted that Fume Knight's AI actually targets people who heal during the fight, but I don't know whether that's true or not. Can someone confirm/debunk that?

>>126642520
From personal experience, he does so hardcore. He will immediately go after a person who is healing, and if a person he's targeting is healing, he does a dashing stab

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>Tfw whipping Skeletal Fucking Shits
Oh yee

Im currently level 25 and getting wrecked in dark root gardens. My claymore and halberd +2 are doing fuck all damage to the enemies there.

Should I farm the baller knights for shards and souls til I can upgrade all my armour and weapons, or should I go through the depths first?

Also last night the fucking game glitched out when I killed the capra demon resulting in me not getting his souls at all when I killed him.

>>126642860
How are you in dark root garden? I'm just starting sens fortress and I'm level 43. Are you using the master key?

Thoughts?

>>126642860
Yeah, you're probably too underleveled yet to really do much in dark root garden
Do the depths

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>>126642649
That's really neat and should be appreciated more. Definitely a mechanic that shouldn't be exclusive to only one boss.
Kinda insane though, considering he also gets free damage/resistances/hp with every phantom summoned.

>>126643204
>That's really neat and should be appreciated more. Definitely a mechanic that shouldn't be exclusive to only one boss.
It's not. Attacking while the player heals is pretty common in DS2 AIs

>>126643007

I've killed the gargoyles, went to the cliff path to kill the halberd black knight, except he didnt drop shit, then killed the hydra, and then climbed up the ladder. I got keep getting killed by the plants through so I figured I might kill the moonlight butterfly for the souls to buy the crest of Artorias and the rest to level up for the depths

Is it just me, or is DaS1 way more broken by being overleveled than DaS2 is? Because I was overleveled in both and only in DaS1 was shit really trivialized because of it.

Can you play Dark 1 on PS4?

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>>126630553
>nice sarcophagus to settle in
4chan.

>>126643402
No

>>126643204
Most bosses do it and a lot of common enemies do it too
Thronebros deserve a special mention for this because they both attack the same target and tend to switch targets fairly randomly

>>126643448
Fuck. I don't have a ps3 and it runs like shit on my PC. I don't want to go back to 360. Are there mods or something that help performance other than the DSfix thing?

>>126643323
Is that so? I never really noticed that, although I don't summon people often.

>>126643640
No DSFix is the only that one I'm aware of, but just how shitty is your PC?
My brother can run it fine on a five year old prebuilt

>>126643640
>>126643743
I got both ds1 and sotfs in this sale, but had to return ds1 as even with dsfix ds1 worked SO much worse than ds2

ds2 on med-high has zero problem staying over 30 even when very busy, ds1 had trouble getting to 20

>>126632028

NAshadra
ElanNA
AlsanNA
NAdalia
ShaNAlotte

Every king has a queen :-^)

In the gutter we find all the statues that resemble the herald thrown down there because they were most likely failed experiments, and they spit poison at us as a metaphor for her telling lies, which is a metaphor for how she guides the Feeble cursed one down the path to taking the crown.

Miyazaki probably had a really good story in mind, but Bteam fucked it up and delivered the watered down version of it.

>>126640357

Any historically "accurate" sword of any type.

Broadsword, Longsword, Claymore, Falchion, Zweihander

>>126643743
Does DSfiz help with the choppy framerate? I have a good computer and the choppiness happens in blight town and even when the hellkite dragon breaths fire

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>>126644305
>shanaLOTTE
>there is an unused child herald model in the files
>Miyazaki probably had a really good story in mind
>REALLY GOOD.jpg