/dsg/ Souls General

Low lvl PVP is shit.
Use japanese 60-70SL meta for invasions

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Magic is fun

>>138647653
Fuck off, low level is way better

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RIght /vg/, need help here.

How's my build so far? I'm going for my standard STR/DEX build (I always use this for my first run) with dumps in Vitality and whatever else I see fit (might dump some in Vigor/Endurance for more carry weight/stamina) so is there anything I need to know before I go through with this build?

Also, where the fuck are the good weapons? I've been using this longsword (with firegem enchant) for pretty much the whole game so far and I have a butt load of weapons. I also have a secondary Claymore and Great Scythe that I swap out occassionally but they are jsut drastically inferior.

>>138647689
>cringe R1 mashfest with no damage weapon
Try DS2. This game is too fast for this shit

Does anyone know where to get a Target Shield ?

So what's the upgrade point for lothric castle? i'm getting chunks now so i'm thinking it's +9 right for being summoned?

>>138647725
You realize that your fire longsword isn't going to get stronger with your higher str/dex right?

What is the point of these rafters in Cathedral of the Deep? The only thing I found was the Blessed Gem.

>Spend five minutes being chased around by knights until they killed themselves because i'm too scared to fight them normally.
>End up falling off the rafters while checking for illusory walls.

>3 people invade me at the same time
purple fags are cancer, hope you drown in acid if you are just another forest ganker 2.0

Anyone else got the dark battleaxe from the mimic chest 10mins into the game?
People say straight swords are OP but this thing does so much damage it feels broken

>>138647653
Where should I be at around 60? I'm just helping people out with Old demon King right now at 57 and have a +6 weapon. Should I go through frozen anal rodeo now?

>>138648325
There's a covenant + a sign up there, go find it.

Just made the Crystal Sage git gud. How much of the vidyagaem do I have left? I don't want it to end any time soon desu.

>>138647678
magic is garbage

How sparingly should one use upgrade materials? Are they easily farmable or does someone sell them eventually?

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what am i missing?

there's got to be something up here, pretty long trek for just a dead end

Has the community decided on a PvP Meta yet for SL / NG(?) / and Location?

>>138648671
the platform to the right there that's literally in your screenshot. Drop down to it.

>>138648668
Titanite shards are sold if you get certain ashes, large ones are commonly found at a certain point, chunks i'm just starting to find.

I still don't understand how FROM can't make 2 player PVP not lag to shit, I'm the fucking HOST, why am I seeing the negative affects of someone else lagging when being invaded, it doesn't make any sense.

Any other game would have the Host crush the Peer, why is the Souls series the only one that just fucks it up completely and makes everyone laggy as shit

>>138648221

Yea I know

>>138647653
Mid-level PVP has always been best. Weighing Survivability versus Killing Power versus a balance between the two makes PvP more interesting, and these things are most apparent at mid-level where people are high enough level to be strong in some aspects while being low enough that having those strengths results in real weaknesses, i.e. 27/40 at SL60 usually means you have little higher than base health, end, and vit, and rely entirely on your damage output, whereas 80 Vig at that point is clearly represented by low damage.

pls migrate >>138647363

>>138648671
>>138648325
Drop down to the platform. This was really poorly designed though.

Once you kill the slime things, open the door that's accessed through a broken bit of gate, there's a bonfire and a hot lady who'll let you respec.

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>>138647492
Anyone got a unupgraded Flamberge they don't need?

>>138649174
>This was really poorly designed though.
everything in this game is poorly designed. The devs are cucks who have no idea what they're doing. They think they can just copy/paste situations and characters in the games over and over again and call it homage or some shit. It's just lazy development.

Ooh cathedral rafters
ooh catacombs
ooh onion knight

Asking again

Just found Dark Sword in high wall

Is this worth investing in? I just beat the tree and am using fire longsword still

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does this lift stop working after siegmeyer leaves? I can't interact with the lever and it won't go up

>>138649264
In dark souls 3 that is.

>>138647678

I killed a guy with soul arrow today. It was hilarious but I'm pretty sure it was a total lagfest on his end because there's no way someone dies to 70 damage projectiles that cast slower than stamina regenerates.

yoo pontiff is pretty tuff

>riposte
>survives by 10 hp
>r1 spammed to death by his 2 butt buddies hugging me during riposte
fuck it im getting hornet ring
fuck this game

>>138649264
Yeah man, whats your SL?

>>138648668

Chunks are limited, there are only 8 available per game and one is missable. Everything else is farmable and/or sold.

>>138649536
have you tried to step on the platform?

Cripes do invasions only happen to people with 2-3 phantoms? I didn't realize people were being carried so much.

>>138649819
>>138648668

Meant slabs, not chunks.

>>138649802
That doesn't matter with the password system.

Password is Flamberge

First bonfire in Lothric

>>138649819
That is not true.

Objectively BB PvP is better than DS3's.

I can hit hit an enemy, stagger him, and his next attack comes out and hits before I can raise my shield. I'm am literally hitting R1 -> L1 with no delay and it's not fast enough.
What do you want from me, game?

>>138649856
it just goes down lol

>>138649997

>>138649953

>>138647667
anybody know?

>>138649148
>/bbg/ exists
>Soulsborne General comes along
>It doesn't even use it's own tag
>/bbg/ still exists
Soulsborne Gen is a meaningless change if it doesn't actually join the two generals, and being meaningless and unasked for, is unwanted.

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How good am I /dsg??

>>138650049
Remember carefully before and after Siegward gets off the elevator. dumbass

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chillin with muh bud

Why is DS3's PVP so FUCKING BAD

>>138649753
>get the guardbreak
>stunlocked by phantoms so you miss the window

Migrating with my question

Abyss watcher tearing me a new asshole. How to git gud. Particularly how do you do sidestep. Like when the guy attacks - you somehow quickly shift and appear right behind him to backstab - is it just timing? Also, I can't backstab, char just performs a regular attack from the rear, is there anything else to push besides r1?

Sorry if these questions appear stupid, i'm new to these kinds of games.

>>138649996
Flamberge doesnt even fit in the password breh
PC right tho?

>>138650049
It also goes up, every other time you step on it.
So the trick is to step on it, but not go down.
You retarded little child.

How is the shotel in this? I wanna be Lautrec

Or if the shotel is bad, is there a comparable weapon that's decent to dual wield.

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Poor fella.

>>138650412
Fuck sorry. Just write Flamberg then. Yes it is PC

What weapon for pvp lads? Dark Sword is boring.

>>138650198
>>138650049
Topkek

Where the fuck can I get titanite? My weapon is +2 at cursed rotted greatwood/road of sacrifice and I need more dmg

Invasions dead level 90+? Been trying to invade from settlement to cathedral on ng+, nothing

>>138650198
Not him but.

>Crack open doors.
>Looks like an open room at the end, could be a boss fight.
>Go spend all souls.
>Sprint from bonfire up to church.
>Barge through doors and no cutscene plays.
>Turn around to deal with Chuckle and Fuck that chased me from the bottom of the hill.
And in that time, an Onion appeared.

Didn't take long to figure out the elevator system though. Always check the underneath and above of each elevator for potential free stuff. 19 times out of 20 it's a bottomless pit.

>>138650484
Me or you putting the sign down senpai?

How is faith and magic in this game? Are their even weapons that scale with faith/int? Or is that was infusions are for now. And more importantly how good is the classic faith/str build

>>138650798
You pls

>>138650373
Cause you are, it's barely different from DaS beyond bs' and chugging.

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>DS1
>play through it dozen of times
>always end up picking Uchigatana

>DS3
>first playthrough finished with Uchigatana
>look for other weapons
>can't really decide think about using Uchigatana again

Kill me.

>>138650832
Pretty sure fire scales with both? Same with dark(deep?).

>>138650928
back to /gbfg/ nerd

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>>138650852
Its down

>>138650902
now its chugging and r1 spamming
yeah what a world wew

Is there a covenant that is something like the Gravelords in DS1 except it actually works?

What's the most fun "I want other people to hate me / I want to cause a ruckus" covenant?

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>Summon to fight aldrich
>Using my dragonrider bow to finish her off
>Host runs into me while being chased by the arrows

>>138650984
It's the high wall of Lothric bonfire right? Also maybe you have to turn on cross region play?

>>138650994
>implying r1 spammers are hard to beat
It's good parry practice. I will admit the chuggin shit's annoying but you can use it too.

>>138651062
>her

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>>138651252
Looks all good to me, haven't a clue why it wouldnt be working

What am I supposed to about these two dragons in Lothric? I can't see anywhere else to go so I assume I'm just supposed to run through.

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Is pvp absolutely fucked for anyone else?
I just see sliding characters

Is this Australian internet?

>>138651057
Grapes. Just have patience.

So we know knight is fucking broken and so are swords.
So what the fuck happened too magic?
is it fucked?
haven't tried it yet but I hear its fucking done for.
Is it true boss weapons are all shit again and great swords are so op you can rush through the whole game as a knight?
I started as one with the life ring and went right through that first boss, while my first try as any other class actually cant do shit.
my health bar is through the roof.

>>138651447
what

>>138651426
>is pvp absolutely fucked
yes cause its garbage
its worse than BB pvp

>>138651412

I am a fucking retard. I forgot about the boss thingie. Put it down in the first bonfire the undead settlement. Foot of the wall. Sorry about this mess.

Is SL51 too high to help out with Watchers?

>>138651450
>while my first try as any other class actually cant do shit.

If you can't oneshot the first boss even as a naked guy with fists then you fucking suck ass buddy

Literally walk in a circle and attack

FUCK THE FUCKING ROAD OF SACRIFICE HOLY SHIT

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>>138651480

>>138651450
A couple of the sorcerers I summoned to help me in Road of Sacrifices were doing good damage against the crabs and invaders.

>>138650619
Pretty sure most PvE players only get to lvl 80 by the end of the game. At that point they'll either go on to NG+ or start a new character.

>>138650017
yet you actually have to pay for it and its not actually good because you need shitty insight.

Is ds 3 just maybe far too different and people have to get use to it? or does it need to be fixed?
did arts change everything?

>do barely any damage
>anyone hitting me does like nearly half my HP
why. I got 400 fucking AR what is is this shit

>look at list of covenants
>none of them look very fun

what happened?
no ratbros, no gravelords, nothing crazy

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>>138651575
Nah it's cool familia
It's down

>>138651632
Yet with knight all you have to do is walk right into his face and attack and not give a shit about his patterns at all.

I've been told that you can trigger red summon signs in DS3 even if the area boss is dead, and even if you're not kindled. Is this true, because that would be fucking amazing

>Help Siegheil kill Demon.
>He gives me a bottle of goon.
>Much later, in a moment of desperation, I drink it thinking it would have the same effect as a Divine Sippy.

Am I going to regret that down the line or will it become like any other consumable?

>>138651414
Okay seriously, there must be some trick to this because I'm not fucking getting it. Do I really just pray the dragons decide to not burn the bridge?

Do dark spells/miracles still scale with Int and Fai?

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>>138651815
Thanks dude.

>>138651754
host gets 30% hp buff and you phantoms get 50% debuff

When should I stop leveling STR for a STR build?

>>138650397

pls help

Dark Souls 3?

More like Dark Souls 1.5

Get it?
Cause it reuses a million characters, locations, environment and gameplay tropes etc. from it

>>138650619
most people are sticking around 100-125 for PvP in this one so 90 should be fine, it's just that most normies playing the game haven't made it to 90 yet, so your options are sparser

>>138646104
I'm using my dark battle axe +0 I found somewhere
it's nice
I wish I found a weapon that scaled better than C in strength
still haven't put a single point into it, I'm at like 26 vit at this point though
havel's fucking WHEN jesus
>>138646085
+0 is the life for me it seems

Hows the online? are there a lot of people on? I just started so I didn't see any sign yet.

>>138652067
It's really easy to find a host and his two sunbro and 1 darkwraith buddy waiting to kill you 1v4

super fun m8

seriously out of 50 invasions only 1 didn't have a host with a full entourage

>>138652009
It improves on the classic Dark Souls 1 formula, which is more than I can say for Dark Souls 2 or bloodborne. best souls game hands down

>>138651917
Just run through, you can easily make it past without getting burned if you time it right.

Invading as a Mound Maker or a Sunbro is the most fun I have ever had in a Souls game. Usually end up being hilarious clusterfucks and I love assessing large skirmishes and finding the largest shitter out of the bunch to kill.

>>138652009
Yeah I hated when Terminator 2 also featured John and Sarah Connor.

does infusing a naturally holy weapon with say refined remove it's anti-skeleton properties?

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>>138652067
it's extremely active, but everyone is summoning, so you have to be quick to grab a summon sign

haven't been invaded yet, but then again I haven't been embered much
I've invaded 4 people so far, two I actually got to fight, they both had two phantoms helping host

>>138651896
say goodbye to sunbro armor :(

>>138651891
PLS CONFIRM

>>138652169
You're exaggerating, it's been 50/50 for me whether the host has summons or not and I've been invading every area in the game.

>>138652180
What makes Dark Souls 3 better than Dark Souls 1?

Worse covenants, reused locations, music isn't as good

>>138652169
>Invade ~15 times as a Grape in the cemetery.
>LITERALLY NOBODY KICKED DOWN THE FUCKING LADDER, EVERY TIME I SPAWNED NEAR THE CATHEDRAL DOOR I HAD TO FUCKING HOOF IT THROUGH ALL THE ZOMBIE FUCKERS, FUCK YOU CUNTS EXPLORE SOME MORE.
>Only one time did the host have a phantom.
>Twice I acted as a phantom and protected the host from invaders.
>All fifteen(ish) times I died and got nothing for it.

Everyone could fuckin' one-bang me because I only have 15 vigor at level 40.

>>138652336
then you're lucky as hell, i've had a single 1on1 invasion, dozens of ganks. even if you get lucky and find a lone host the bluefags will immediately come to help

>>138652336
I really wasn't, I legitimately get nothing but hosts with a full group. It's annoying.

I'm no "1v1 me honoraburu duel" faggot but this is annoying

There's no penalty for constantly changing your covenant, right?

>>138652290
>Sunbro armor.
phew

>>138652380
Actually good gameplay and no shit the bed second half. Take off your nostalgia goggles.

>tfw actually managing to trick a host by putting my summon sign down as a mound maker and wearing the white phantom ring

>>138652336
You're insanely lucky. I've had a grand total of two non-ganksquad invasions since the game launched, and I've got 20 hours played with only two bosses down. That's one hell of a lot of invading.

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stupid question here:
how does the summoning works? how do I join and help people for some souls? and how do I call for help and summon other people?

>>138652380
>better connectivity with less lag.
>parry/backstab fags don't have their I win buttons anymore and actually need skill to win
>more shenanigans thanks to new phantom limits

should i be going up further into lothric castle or go down to the garden after dancer?

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>summoned as a grapist to help a host against a red
>decide to help the invader
>suddenly 2 (TWO) darkmoons come in at the same time

So is the Farron sword a meme? Did I fuck up my transposing it instead of Artorias sword the even bigger meme?

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>THAT FUCKING SWAMP

JESUS CHRIST IT'S BLIGHTOWN ALL OVER AGAIN

>>138652875
>he's never played any souls game before

hate these newbois

WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE TWO /DSG/s RUNNING SIMULTANEOUSLY?!

WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DROP RATE ON THE GREATAXE

GOD DAMN

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Can you actually get up there?

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Did they stealth patch the tree jump at the firelink shrine?

>>138653263
yes

>>138653137
>Someone starts a new.
>A bunch of people miss it because they're just tabbing back in, scrolling down to the bottom and posting.
>30 posts later, somebody starts a new.

>>138652380
better PvP (parries/backstabs finally done right, better netcode, can use red signs while hollow, etc)

better gameplay (combat is faster/better, more critical attacks)

more weapon variety per character due to sharp/heavy gems

better enemy/boss design (visually, anyway, and quality wise many of the bosses are DS1 tier)

Way better level design. Yeah, I'm going there. I agree that DS1 has better *world* design, with the way everything intertwines, but the individual areas are so much better designed in DS3. The undead settlement is more fun to explore than Anor Londo was in DS1, and the latter was supposed to be some big climactic area. There are areas in Dark Souls 3 that are on par with the painted world level design wise

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Let's settle this bros.

Post best:

>strength weapon
>dex weapon
>sword
>Greatsword
>Ultra Greatsword
>best shield
>best greatshield
>best armor set

Let's see how casual you plebs are

>>138653263
>These fucking retards

Explore you dumb fuck

>>138653051
>Those giant voodoo tree stump motherfuckers

Change of pants required. Also, how do you do two-part messages? I want to shitpost harder in this game.

>>138653338
>better pvp

>>138653281
Thanks. I'll keep looking.

>>138653351
I will, you dumb fuck.

>>138653263
You're dumb. I bet if I told you to jump off a bridge, you'd actually do it. Absolute maddummy.

So, why did Lautrec do all the shit he did. Who is Fina and why is he so thirsty for her

What's the best infusion of the uchi? Or are they all worthless

>>138653263
yes, you need to fall off near the bridge a bit further ahead so that you land on the cliffside, there's a way up from there

>>138653137
i count four

>why the fuck am i not being summoned
>check password
>one
>remove it
>instantly get summoned
Everytime.

>>138652250
So you have to be embered to be invaded? whats this ember stuff about?

Codex safe or wait a few weeks?

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>get summoned for Dragonslayer Armour
>host is sliding across the ground with no animation
>oh fuck
>well maybe the boss will work too
>he slides his way through the fogdoor
>no boss bar appears
>can't even go through
>all i can do is sit and wait for him to die or hope he wins

Real nice game, From. Top quality stuff. Never change. It happened twice.

>>138653474
gods aren't real, they're excuses

>>138653398
how is it worse?

wheres the zweihander at

>>138653338
So im still in the beginning but why did miyazaki go back to doing demon souls like areas in bloodborne and dark souls 3?

lol enb's lp on 80k views while vaati's is on 1 million

Why did they not add father mask out of everything they added, did miyazaki not like the meme?
Its kinda weird.
if there are returning characters where big titty queen and her covenant?
besides another waifu level up character (I don't see maybe talk about her here yet) who else is a waifu?

>>138653724
as far as I understand, yeah
ember is like humanity from previous game, but instead of it being incremental like in das2 it's one huge jump of like 50% of your health bar

killing a boss or using embered or winning an invade makes you embered

what is the best chime or talisman for using miracles? specifically lightning spears? also what is better chime or talisman?

THE ONLY FUCKING TIMES IVE EVER DIED IN THIS STUPID GAME IS WHEN IT JUST FUCKING KICKS FOR NO REASON

I DONT NEED TO KICK IN PVE PLEASE STOP THIS SHIT

>>138653724
You have to be embered to be invaded while playing solo. You can be invaded while unkindled, but only if you have summoned help.

In my opnion it's an improvement from how it worked in DS1, where there was little-to-no reason to be human unless you planned on summoning

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STANDING

>>138654223
huh. So do you need to be embered or human to see signs still?

>>138653963
Why? I don't know.

But it's okay. I loved the interconnected world of DS1 and when I heard 3 was more linear I thought I'd be really upset, and really miss it, but I don't. The individual areas are so large and nicely designed for the most part that they will sate your desire for interlinking shortcuts and the like

Rosaria is a shit monster girl. WHERE ARE THE GOOD ONES FROM

>>138653963
more focus on design of individual zones rather than trying to link everything up?

>>138654429
Rosaria >>>>> Priscilla

>Dark Orb is now a pyromancy

That's it, I'm leaving

Goodbye

>>138653905
Same shit happened to me, man. If you see it lagging that hard, just black crystal immediately and hope they didn't trigger the boss in time.

I know people have been saying knight was way to good, but god damn. This feels like playing with a cheat code compared to temple knight.

So when do you get that new dark guts Armour on the cover? thats the new promotion Armour right? just like how every game has a new promotion knight set.
Is that the demon souls set you start out with as a knight?

>>138654415
guidance miracle lets you summon without ember.

>>138654192
>big titty queen and her covenant
Well you get slug queelag. That kind of counts.

Literally nobody used Princess Guard in DaS1.

>>138653131
:(

>>138654619
It really is, I picked life ring and holy fuck.
I picked another class but then saw how my brother beat the first boss in one try doing nothing.
Repicked knight.

>>138654750
did PG even do anything?

>>138654750
Yeah but I thought see would make a appearance, really what happened to miyazaki he doesn't do waifus anymore. does the soul lady have anything to do with the story this time around.

>Place sign
>summoned within 2-4 seconds
>look around
>no signs at all
goddamned this is lame.

>>138654750
Because PG did literally nothing and gave you no new dialogue with fake Guin anyways

>>138654558
Have you gone full hollow m8?

>>138654750
Why did everyone kill her? what did she talk about if you chose her?
>>138654959
Is it hard to get help?
What does turning on match making do?

>>138654959
are you embered?

>>138654896
More prioritized to get summons to WoS, WoW, and PG. Less chance to get invaded.

So does patches sell anything decent later on? All he got for me is Onion armor

>>138654909
Fire Keeper is the best waifu since Maiden in Black

You can even go for Yuria and Anri if you want your hollow harem

>>138654896
It had the only AoE heal miracles in the game. It was basically a shittier version of sunbros.

do i fucking upgrade my sword to +15 of lightning if i'm going str/faith?

>>138655115
who who & who?

>>138655094
Yeah, at least for later parts of the game i suppose. Turning on matchmaking just allows jap connections.
>>138655106
Yes.

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Will I ever get summoned with this? I'm SL50.

This giant is like the offspring of Dragon God and Ceaseless Discharge.

Can you gain access to the Darkmoons and Fingers in a single playthrough? I want the rewards from both covenants and don't want to fuck up any quests that might ruin that.

>>138655259
might be too high level then

They should've just made it so that Watchdogs/Faitfhul get scaled down to whoever they're invading so that you don't invalidate your covenant just by playing the fucking game

Is there something I have to do before the Dragonslayer Armour to get rid of these butterfly things? Like what the fuck, how is raining down big ass fireballs that I can't see coming fair?

>>138655265
>SL50 for low level babby invasion covenant

great jobbr u

Reposting question just in case:
Why Leonhard is not coming back? I got a tongue for him.

>>138655226
Plain upgrades are usually the worst option this time around. Go for what suits your weapon's scaling best. Probably Heavy infusion if you're going a full 40 points into strength.

>>138655390
get darkmoons forst then reds.

>play dark souls
>memorable as fuck OST, so many great songs
>play dark souls II
>barely any music I can even recall
>play dark souls III
>barely any music I can even recall

Why did only DS1 get it right?

>>138655247
Warriors of Sunlight, Princess Guard, and Way of White.

>>138655265
It's too late, go join Aldrich's cult and drink the koolaid.
>>138655415
How queer, sounds like a certain bellbonging or rat covenant from times of old.

>>138653348


>strength weapon
heavy uchigatana
>dex weapon
sharp uchigatana
>sword
uchigatana
>Greatsword
uchigatana
>Ultra Greatsword
uchigatana
>best shield
uchigatana parry
>best greatshield
uchigatana
>best armor set
master swordsman

>>138655549
hmm i've yet to decide what weapon to use. probably zweihander or grearsword. Can you upgrade your weapon and infuse it?

>>138655398
You think a +8 longsword'd be to high for lothric castle?

>>138655172
cool , really I didn't get far in demon souls but maiden in black looked hot.
funny how ds1 didn't have one but at least you could level up anywhere... yet ds1 did have a lot of actual important main characters.
Hope ds3 has some too unlike shitty ds2.
The ds3 souls waifu looks ok, didn't really look at her yet. bloodborne had a interesting one with a tied story. ds2's one had a shitty random ending but all of ds2's story made no fucking sense.
Snice ds3 is more miyazaki does it have some sort of story thats not a confusing mess like ds2? At least ds1 was explained in game half way through.

i just joined roasaria's fingers covenant, did I fuck up any quests?

going quality+faith, should I go 18 att or 24?

>>138652619
Please.
It sounds too good, what's the catch?

>>138653348
>no great axes
>no great hammers

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TRIED TO ROLL, DIDN'T WORK

>no gravelord covenant or covenant where you basically make the game a nightmare for other people and they have to come and take you out to stop it

Sigh

I'll never have this again and it was bugged as fuck in DS1

Sucks

>>138655650
Pontiff, abyss watchers, soul of cinder, iudex gundyr, vordt, deacons of the deep, lothric/lorian and dancer all stood out to me m8

Just listen to this beauty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwFA2VdCGcY&index=11&list=PLKzg0DeoAjD8kkBC33GsrIH1xPwch14CO&nohtml5=False

I'm only disappointed that nothing came close to Ash Lake's theme for me

As far as I know I only have gw- the nameless king and whatever the last boss is left.

Can I go back and keep playing after the final fight or do i have to do nameless right now?

>Crystal Sage
That was pretty fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnEzkbdTa0I
Why was demons souls knight armor so cool?
Did they add something like it in 3?

>>138654772
I picked fire gem. How good is life ring?

>>138656074
the catch is that half the covenants are just shittier versions of other ones in the game.

faithful>dogs
darkmoon>sentinels
mounds>not dickwraiths
only reason to bother with the lesser versions of the above is completion.

>Made it to the pontiff
>fought him once, this is gonna be a fun fight, he's pretty tough
>take a break because I'd been playing for awhile
>come back, game keeps crashing as soon as the loading screen ends
>when it doesn't crash I get under 1 FPS

Alright I'm just gonna start a new characters on a console because PC is fucked and I can't be asked to wait for patches, I've tried fixes and they only work temporarily

What should my new class be, thinking faith with some dex or a quality weapon, did STR last time

>>138656227
>no dragon covenant

where my dragonbros at? why did from do this to us? They should have just fixed it so we could invade anyone holding a dragon scale.

So whats the worst area in the game and why is it the swamp?

>>138656372
life ring+ knight is crazy retarded. you have a shit ton of health right at the start.
They really made knight sword users the main focus. everything else got fucked it seems, magic more so.

What happens if i give the girl a fire keeper soul?

And is the only use of it, giving it to the girl?

>>138652604
What do you lose exactly when you die as a invader anyway? I thought invaders keep their humanity and souls so no big deal invade again!

>>138656550
Also to add I hear magic users get even less of a set than ever.
how many weapons or staffs do they even get?
Its weird because miyazaki actually added the mana bar back.
Is it true noboby actually uses arts at all even though they are meant to be the new meta? did they fuck up and not make them as good as they should be?

Sounds like from needs to really buff and debuff a lot of things. Are they listening too whoever to talking about it on steam again?

Can you keep playing after beating the game?

>>138656561
Yes

She can heal the Dark Sigil once you give it to her, you need it for something later in the game I don't know yet

>>138656849
Yes, if you press "no" when asked if you want to advance to NG+.

How much am I cucking myself by staying with the base warrior armor through the whole game?

>>138656758
Nothing, you just have to pick up your souls again, but the bloodstain is where you died in the hosts world so it's a bit more challenging if they're off in bumfuck no-where

>oh i see you have joined the fingering of rosario
>guess we're enemies now bye

what the fuck lady? how much shit did i miss out on now?

>>138656825
arts are so slow they aren't viable for pvp let alone half the enemies in pve.

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Jesus christ why would you allow this

>>138656857

Does it automatically heal one sigil when you give the soul to her? I don't want to heal them.

>>138657084
So what the fuck were they thinking?

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Why is there no faith merchants in this game?

>>138657084
>>138656825
Some of the arts are lethal as hell though.

The guard break one is an instant counter attack.

>>138657195
You have to spend souls to heal them, I had one that cost like 7k souls but I didn't even know what it was

OOOOCEEEEEELOOOOOOOOOOTTE!!!

>>138657179
Cause it's easily avoidable.

>>138657293
Because you don't explore.

Is the Washing Pole in DS3 as broken/fun as it was in previous games?

I want to make a washing pole low level invader

>>138656825
Arts are slow as fuck and telegraphed as fuck. They're useless in both PvE and PvP unless your weapon was lucky enough to get one of the ones that functions as a buff

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>>138653940
When you enter the swamp take a right near the 4 set of voodoo monsters and bend over and look up your BUTT

>that faggot in the swamp area who literally is a one hit kill if you get hit because one attack stuns you and takes off 90% of your heal bar
Calling bullshit on that one.

Dark Souls 3: Dark Souls 2-2: Bloodborne 2: What if Bloodborne Could Block Edition

>>138657224
they wanted to give non-magic fags something to do with their mana. there are some weapon arts that are useful, like the great machete is literally just a weapon buff. for the most part weapon arts are just a second R2 that consumes mana though.

>>138657379
where is it? unless you'r just memeing

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Pretty location

>>138657658
And the stances look baller as fuck in 1v1

>>138656550
Right, more health, but how much more?

Whats the armor set on the cover of the game and how do i get it?

>Moonlight Greatsword scales likes hit with everything even Int
WHY

>>138657880
beat the game

>>138647492
Where do I find Chameleon? How?

snib snib

Fuck, im afraid i screwed up. I got 1 level from Yoel, then visited carthus catacombs, and hes dead. I didnt get all 5 level from him and Yuria didnt appear yet, will she appear or is she gone for rest of game? I didnt cure hollowness, but i didnt got all 5 levels.

>>138657813
~5%

Anybody got the chant on where the the Pyromancy NPC is? I've been trapping about the settlement for a while, and while I've found a bunch of shit I didn't get on my first go through, none of those things seem to be a pyromancer.

Has anyone figured out strategies for twinking yet?

>>138658027
She's gone for the rest of the game.

JESUS FUCK WHY DOES THE WATER IN CATHEDRAL CAUSE BLEEDING

How many souls have you lost so far and where are you at?

I think I've lost maybe 40k and I'm in the large swampy area.

Im finished my build and am at sl100. 100 will be meta

So the only way to remain my beautiful self and still get the Dark Sigil is to use purging stones?

>>138658121
Pretty sure you got leeches mang

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>Fallen Knight Armor
>Morion Blade
>Dark Blade buff

anything else I can use for my Dark Knight build?

also should I head to farron keep or cathedral of the deep next?

>>138657346
>all these items in the water
COME ON MAN
I'M SCARED

>>138658280
>caring about high level pvp

lvl 10 - 30 invasions are most fun

>>138658116
I was thinking of making a lvl 30 with end level gear and sitting in the forest for farron invaders. Since the restrictions only affect the invader.

>>138658046
He's above the under the cliff bonfire.

>>138658235
30k, crabland

please tell me I can get yuria's mask thing.

>>138658046
>none of those things seem to be a pyromancer

Kek

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>>138658116
:::git gud:::

Best tip for all twinks, honestly.

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>>138658352
Is it true there's a restriction based on how upgraded your weapon is?

Saw a site mention it but it seems sketchy, I thought it'd be only about the level difference...
I even see it mentioned on leddit

>>138653940
paladin ash
get it near the start of cathedral of the deep

>>138658325
use a bow then, scare it off.

>>138658117
fffuuuck, and I just went few meters into it. Bye bye darkdrift

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what does this mean?
and what's with people hating on the catacombs? I'm really enjoying them

>>138658558
Yeah, apparently you can only invade up to your level and up to your weapons upgrade, even if you discard the weapon. I'm having problems invading anyone with the farron covenant, but I assume if I was the one looking to be invaded it wouldn't matter.

>>138658558
For what i have read in the wiki it seems, can't test it right now

>>138658732
that is a dropped item

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Is the game really short or something? seems like a lot of you guys are already finishing it? or are those consolefags?

>>138657750
>53 fps

K E K

Is there a list yet for what gets name censored? ie is "Knight" still "K***ht"?

>>138658826
no it isn't, it won't let me pick it up

>>138658732
nice bum

>>138656547
Catacombs/shit lake

Is there a good video out there that summarizes the lore/plot of DS1 and 2 in about 15 minutes without a bunch of fluff?

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come at me brahs

>>138657179
Wait for poison swamp :^)

What's the difference between damage absorption and damage defence in the stats menu?

>nearly killed that dragon knight who instakills you in the swamp
>SUMMONING TO PROTECT SOME FAGGOT
>I get summoned to fucking undead settlement
>by the time I get back the dragon knight has all his health back because that makes sense :DDDDDD
>Everything reset except the quick items I had had while fighting him
>instead of drinking estus I throw a bomb and then get killed
Who the fuck designed this trash?

>>138658753
>>138658786
I'll have to delve into this eventually to figure out what's the most I can squeeze out of a dedicated low level (say 20-25 or so) invader while still getting a lot of invasions

>>138658998
>guy uses flames to kill dragons
>flame fades
>you rekindle the flame
>undisclosed amount of time has passed
>flame fading anew
>you rekindle the flame again
>some more time passes
>flame is fading once again
>guess what your job is

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>>138658642
>scare it off
I'm too afraid you're trolling, I don't want to piss them off causing them to come on land
I'd probably uninstall if they did

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>>138659005

>katanah

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sorceror or pyromancer

>>138659110
>I'm retarded
>it's the games fault
DSP please focus on your stream

>>138658998
>shits fucked, yo! you should go kill everything, maybe that'll fix it.
that's the story.

>>138658867
Happens if you don't explore too much.

>>138659134
I'd assume you'd get plenty of invaders, just no invasions yourself. If I'm correct in thinking it works only to penalize the invader. Which is why I was thinking of just sitting in the forest and getting invaded.

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Anyone have a flamberge they don't want?

>>138659336
miracles

Is Dark Weapon worth using if I'm going Strength Faith? What buff should I be using?

>>138658867
>>138659376
game's shorter than bloodborne, 20 hours first playthrough exploring everywhere

>>138659390
What, no, why would it work like this?

The game is always about punishing the invader so that you don't go in to kill a noob with your +10 fire weapon

You can always invade higher levels of course, but I don't want to invade endgame people. I want to invade early game people and have fun

>>138659357
Have you ever heard of a little thing called concentration and how that can be completely fucking broken by being summoned in the middle of a fight?

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Is the Perserverance weapon art as fucking useless as it sounds? I really like Vordt's Greathammer but this art sounds awfully worthless.

>>138659612
>I'm retarded

>>138659612
and how is that the games fault?

Is the giant on the tower in undead settlement Gough?

>big ass bow
>giant
>drops hawk ring

>>138659727
50% damage resist, weapons deflect off you, and infinite poise

>>138659727
remember the turtles from DS2 and how they would hit you and not be hit stun? remember giant dad in DS1 where the fucker would hit you and not recoil when you hit him and thus win trades? its like that.

>>138659596
That's what I'm saying, it punished the invader, so if you're trying to get invaded, it wouldn't matter if you have a +10 weapon, it only cares about what the guy invading you has, which would be anything up to +10. So long as you're like lvl 20 or something, you'll get lvl 20 invaders and due to the punishments for twinks, none of them will have decent gear.

>>138659727
It's useless, doesn't last long enough and completely pointless for great weapons.

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>>138659612
>equip coven that can pull you away at any given moment
>doesn't expect to get pulled

Raw or Crystal lucerne for an int build?

>>138659792
I don't know, how hard would it be for a competent developer to implement a system so being summoned only works when your not in combat?

>>138659861
>>138659892
Alright, but it seems like it lasts for all of half a second.

>>138660053
you only need half a second to push someones shit in.

>>138660026
>i'm retarded

>>138659967
Yes. I want to be the guy invading though, so I'll have to carefully think about the balance between being too gimped myself or too strong to meet enough lowbies

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I love how long the arrows stay lol

I'm doing dex/int using int buffs
can you buff magic infused weapons? Is it worth pouring into magic and just using that on a magic infused dex weapon? or should I go for sharp infusion for dex scaling

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>>138656525
>finally think I've gotten the hang of him
>it's an enemy Stand user

>>138660119
>shitposting
Back to /v/

>>138660135
I wonder if spells or items are taken into consideration, or if it's literally just the upgrade of the weapon.

Why is there a storm again in Archdragon Peak? I've killed Nameless King already.

>>138659989
He doesnt know

Also
>Almost 50% absorption
Come at me faggots

>>138660436
I only know that estus upgrades are not counted

>>138660135
SL 30 and a +3 weapon should be a safe bet.

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>>138660285
What's his stand I only got like halfway through killing him on my first try

How does absorption work ? Is it a %reduction ?

>>138658235
35k, 40k if you count the 5k I accidentally spent on prism stones.

>Catacombs / Deep Chapel

Being that almost every enemy from ds1 I walking about in one form or another can we assume that our character from ds1 never existed and things in that world carried on without our interference

>>138655650
I just played through DS1 and nothing stood out to me. DS3 already has a lot shit I'll remember forever.

>>138658121
It's not the water, it's the enemies. Whip out a torch.

>>138660285
>>138660636
>invading in the forest
>invaded the host of embers Joseph Joestar
I love how you can read players character names but goddamn some of them are cringey as fuck

>>138660857
>he doesn't know that the Chosen Undead is in the gsme

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>when you successfully slay a Host of Embers and his two golden fuccbois

>>138655650
Bloodborne blows DaS' soundtrack the fuck out

>>138660636
Disregard that
I thought it wasn't capable of getting hit, at first.

>>138660667
Correct.

%reduction on everything, including crits

Who blind-run here?

I have no idea what the fuck im doing holy shit.

Actually if you were blind running you probably wouldn't be here.

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>>138661056
The problem I get it that the word filter is downright retarded

I invaded a guy named Donald Trump but it came up as "Donald T****" Because "Rump" is a no no word that we can't be allowed to see

Same with stuff like Chosen undead, sorry buddy but "ho" is blocked so it's C**sen undead"

>>138661254

Nah it sorta makes sense, his stand has the ability to make my game unplayable

IS THERE AN REPRECUSSIONS TO KILLING NPCS. I HAVE A GREAT NEED FOR LEONHARD'S SET BUT DON'T FEEL LIKE DOING HIS QUEST.

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L-Let's go on an adventure, anon-kun!

>>138659269
They don't.
>>138659551
I'm near 30 and i'm still not at the prince yet. just killed Dragon armour though.

>>138661160
>>138661160
>>138661160
>>138661160
>>138661160
>>138661160

Are there actually people who have already beaten the game and only played it from launch day on? How is that even possible, I'm still in crabland and have a good 15 hours in it so far.

You people either rushed through everything and barely explored, watched guides and streams and just went to the areas you needed to make your mediocre twinked characters, or are even more of a NEET than I am.