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>>146714043

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

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

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

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

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

>BLOODBORNE
http://pastebin.com/WdLBWD8n

>DARK SOULS 3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u8Mak1goSv4g73g16XsWV4sJelDQUatWkP2kcO6GVAA/pub
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nth for the original "drake sword"
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I'm about to start Bloodborne friends, anything I should know before getting my playthrough underway?
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>>146762554
Wrong general, friendo
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>>146762554
magic is good.
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>>146762647
see>>146762202
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Guys, I have a question:

I've been playing a pirate version of DS for a while. I'll buy the game next week.

My saves are going to work on the original version?
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>>146762672
see >>146628593
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>>146762782
see>>146762202
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noticed this after i booted the magic grill invader off the cliff
what do you think it is? seems to match my position since no matter where i stand i can never get a shot at a different angle
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>>146762915
for fuck sake stop.
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>>146762986
I don't think she drops anything.
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i got stuck! i couldn't go further into the room for some reason
is it because my head is too big?
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>>146762554
Dodge a lot
Vit is good
Saw cleaver can carry you through the game
LHB is overrated
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>>146762986
It's a lightning artifact.
Every map has one, but they aren't visible because textures block your view. It's only visible in Untended Graves because they literally de-load every texture, giving you a clear view to the bottom of the map.
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>>146762997
>start shitposting
>tell counter-shitposters to stop
You first, friend.
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>>146763079
i know that, it looks nothing like an item drop

>>146763206
interesting to know
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>>146763258
wan't even him.
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>>146762202
Starting a new playthrough as a caster in DaS3.

What are some key spells and items I should be looking out for early. I only remember getting Orbit like nearly halfway into the game in my first playthrough.
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>>146763375
>Orbit
What
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>>146763375
>Orbit
u wot m8

Great Heavy Soul Arrow will be your main offensive spell for PvE.
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>>146763375
>Orbit
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>>146763375
Sage Ring in Crucifixion woods

What kind of caster? Sorcery?
If you decide to not start as sorcerer; the young dragon ring can be gotten from Orbeck; collect scrolls as fast as you can and buy GSA, GFD, and Flashsword from him
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>>146763375
Hidden Body makes going through the ares very easy, especially if you wear Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring as well
this combination even works on some bosses too

>Orbit
do you mean Orbeck?
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>>146763081
Happened to me once, I just rolled outside.
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>>146762986
It's Cosmos.
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>>146763375
>Orbit
m8 are you high
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>>146763748
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Why did the only god I liked die being devoured alive?
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>Orbit

DLC sorcery. Casting it causes 2 balls of magic to spin around your body, that hit anyone that gets too close. Effectively gives you free trades with meleers.
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>>146763375
Heretic Staff before encountering Orbeck and CS. You can use Raw ASS as close range weapon.
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Any way to make this better?
https://www.mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/49023
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>>146763510
>>146763541
>>146763554
>>146763667

The guy from vinheim that was always talking about going to school with him or something. Idk I was a pure melee on my first character so i didn't read any of his faggot books or anything
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>>146763375
Great Heavy Soul Arrow is basically your bread and butter ranged damage spell, but its slow as shot and will miss moving enemies so it can be a pain in the ass to use (especially against fast enemies with bad hitboxes and arbitrary iframes like thralls or dogs)

Farron Flashsword isn't very useful since it's essentially just a straightsword that costs FP to swing and does less damage, but it can stunlock the big skeletons in Carthus. Sometimes it will break them apart in 1 hit, too.

Soul Greatsword is solid because of its huge range. It's basically the only spell that can hit multiple enemies at once early on and does solid damage.

Avoid Farron Dart and similar shit for the most part. They do no damage until you have endgame spellbuff and aren't efficient damage/FP-wise so they're basically pvp-only.

You're essentially stuck with the super basic spells until lategame because all of the advanced scrolls are locked away in the 2nd half of the game. Be sure to do Irithyll Dungeon and Profaned Capital before Aldrich, as you'll unlock Logan's Scroll (homing soulmass and soul spear), the Court Sorcerer's Staff (strongest casting tool in the game) and Karla's dark spells.

Also, be sure to pick up the Izalith Pyromancy Tome because you can use Chaos Fireball without any requirements and it will deal more damage to Aldrich than any of your other spells. He's weak to fire but very resistant to sorcery and dark.
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Dark spells being mostly zoning spells and being castable (and scaling) with any spell tool, making them a useful addition to all all 3 spell types.
They'd also still fill the pve use they have right now of allowing a different damage type to be done for especially resistant bosses to whatever spell type you're going with.
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Dark CCS is pretty neat, also what the fuck was up with his abyssmal damage?
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How can I improve this build? (Hornet is for invasions)
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>>146764291
swap gotthards with carthus curved
wear a hat that doesn't obscure vertical vision
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>>146765020
>99
why
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>>146764291
go 125
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how do you make Creighton spawn?
i killed him with Sirris and talked to her, i'm embered and Pontiff is alive, but he still doesn't appear
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>>146764847
Barely any time is dark useful. Dancer is the only relevant enemy weak to it.
Dark is a PvP tool only.
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>>146765020
Start by removing Prisoner's Chain and Havel's Ring, learn to swap between your two weapons directly from your inventory so you don't have to waste a gorillion points and a ring slot for it.
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>>146765020
>buckler
huge sign that you're a bitch
you're going to get hornet backstabbed
don't
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>>146764291
Hollow is a waste. It actually does less damage than 40/40 refined on most weapons.

Switching to refined gives you more damage on Estoc and Gotthards and more Vig/End, with only a 3-4 point loss in WP damage.

https://www.mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/49029
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>>146764984
Are you on pc? I fought someone with a really similar fashion a while ago
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>>146764041
Degenerate. I'm assuming you like traps.
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>>146765169
Yeah, I am. Does the name Umbra ring any bell?
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>>146765063
sl99 so that i don't get matched with 120s if i decide to place my red sign and i already have a sl125 build
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>>146764847
The DLC adding a Black Witch's Staff is pretty much a forgone conclusion at this point, considering the non-dark casting types already got their crystal chime.

Aside from the lack of actual spell variety, a dark-focused build is basically impossible because you have to constantly juggle 3 casting tools to use all your spell options. Each casting tool literally only has 2-3 non-synergizing offensive spells each, which is just silly.
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Red pill me on the Drang Hammers dsg. I've been having moderate success (only against retards who can't space desu) but I want to know if anyone else has experience with these things and has any tips on how to use them effectively.
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>>146765272
99 still gets matched with 120, friend.
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>>146765210
Oh yeah, I was the guy with Alva Helm and Thorn armor and Profaned UGS iirc
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>>146765020
>prisoners chain
your better off having 27 vig it's not worth the huge extra damage
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>>146765037
Carthus Curved has no combo with lefstoc.
https://youtu.be/zQp-pLEuJok?t=197

>>146765064
Why not 142?

>>146765146
Jesus Christ.
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>>146765020
>FUGS
Worthless
Use BKUGS
>prisoner's chain
Do not wear this above SL50, it makes you take 1000 damage from carthus curved sword r1 combo
Use chloranthy
>buckler
Swap with a blessed elkhorn shield, recovery time is too long and it's a sign that you're going to spam parries
>lothric knight sword
No, it's not worth it if you're not 40/40, the damage is just shit, use a heavy broadsword or dark sword instead
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>>146765102
I got way better bang for my FP with dark fireball over cgfb on my pyro build on a considerable amount of bosses.

Vordt, Old Demon King, Yhorm (if you aren't using Storm Ruler) and Soul of Cinder all come to mind.
I think it was also more useful against NK's drake and still did pretty well against NK himself.
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>>146765113
but if i remove them then how am i going to fast roll? lotrhic knight sword isn't that heavy and i could only save 3 or 4 points
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>>146765317
WA has hyperarmor.
Use a +9 simple offhand with the farron ring and basically spam the WA. Running and rolling L1s are alright because they're kinda fast but they do shit damage and are easy as piss to parry

Standing L1s and standing R1 are fucking worthless. Slower than Greatswords with less damage and no hyperarmor. You can't even punish spacing errors reliably with them because they're so fucking slow.

WA is both faster than the R1, higher damage than L1s, unparryable and covered by HA. It's literally the move that makes the weapon usable. If you run out of FP, you lose the fight.
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>>146765393
so? you're 27 STR, why wouldn't you be two-handing
you don't get two-hand STR scaling bonus with paired weapons, anyway

css 2hr1 2hr1 beats l1 r1 damage anyway
lefstoc is overrated

>>146765146
you're wrong lad
mugenmonkey doesn't display +5 luck from +10 hollow weapons

a 40/40 washing pole 2h has 433 AR
a 27/40/30(+10) washing pole 2h has 450 AR
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>>146765376
>27 vig
Anon please, I would still get killed in 2 hits, at least with prisoner chain I have more vit and endurance
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>>146765317
try with weapon art shield (preferably bks)
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>>146765619
nig you asked how to improve it then straight up rejected my advice
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>>146765445
Here you go, shaved 9 levels off of that worthless VIT stat while still maining your build.
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>>146765580
also a 27/40 refined washing pole 2h has 413 AR

>>146765619
15% more damage taken from every attack isn't worth being able to swing 0.3 more times
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>>146765406
I like FUGS more, if i wanted more damage i can simply use Yhorm's, I need prisoner's chain to fast roll and I do have a dark sword, lothric knight is only for guarbreaking really (I forget broadsword even exists).

Also why specifically round elkhorn?
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>>146765780
Stylish looks and good stats for a light small shield, acquirable early.

Always liked the looks of Benhart's gear.
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>>146765752
Alright... I might just replace life ring +3 for chloranthy +2
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>>146765357
Oh yeah, I remember those ripostes. Wanna have another go?
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>>146766085
I turned off the game a while ago, perhaps you can add me so we can fight some other time? I will place my sign at the high wall so that you can see my profile and add me.

Pass is dsg
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>>146766232
Sure thing, I'm waiting
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>>146765580
I will mostly be spamming running R1s, right, but when I need to play reactive, I will be one handing. I guess CSS is just ridiculous but I want to try this combo shit. It does look more suited for a 40/40 build, I guess.
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Does ds3 take part in the same universe as ds1? I'd it before or after? Ive just started ds3 and I have no idea whats going on desu
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>>146764134
So like Darkstorm in DS2?
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>>146767181
The games are likely in chronological order but it's not like it matters much.
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Is CSS good for PvE?

>>146765182
You are right
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HUMAN DO NOT PRODUCE LIGHT
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>>146767181
it takes place in the last era of the same world as in ds1
ds2 happened in bumblefuck nowhere and is irrelevant
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>>146767479
If you think the damage output to FP ratio is worth it then sure, but many believe it's incredibly inefficient.
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>need vertebrae shackles

>invade in Anor Londo
>ganksquads galore
>fight Club faggotry
>11 shackles in 5 hours

>invade in Smouldering Lake
>everyone is solo and, if they have a phantom, it's always Tsurig
>enemies deal ridiculous damage
>6 shackles in 30 minutes
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>>146767479
No, it's not. Even a fucking sunlight spear is more useful thanks to melee distance damage bonus.
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>>146767761
>reds invading smouldering lake when i'm going on another ng cycle with my sl85 estoc turtle
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>>146767632
>>146767789
Then I'll leave it just for PvP. Thanks fampais
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Can someone explain to me how miracle casting works in this game? What's the difference between chimes and talismans?
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>>146767942
I'm turtling with a rapier too :^)
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>>146767995
WA, primarily. Talismans are better for offensive ones due to free hyperarmor and chimes are largely useless.
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>>146767995

chimes are basically good for weapon buffs only

you use the talisman weapon art to cast while having armor meaning your shit wont be interrupted
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>>146767995
Talismans are offensive-oriented tools.
Chimes have the most fp efficient healing ability in the game as a WA.
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>open chest
>see this
what do?
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>>146768079
>>146768135
>>146768158
So they're basically the same thing when it comes to casting miracles? You don't need different ones for different miracles like in DS2, right?
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>>146767528
*equips flame butterfly*
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>>146768207
Take new staff.
Close lid on the rest of the junk.
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HOLY SHIT
i can't find the words to convey what kind of retarderd clusterfuck that was
this run is the dumbest shit ever, i didn't even think i could make it that far
it's really fun though

also, can anyone help me?
>>146765070
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>>146768252
>You don't need different ones for different miracles like in DS2, right?
what
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>>146768207
back to nasushit threads with you
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>>146768301
I'm talking about hexes, which seem to be split between the different magic types in this game. For some you needed a chime and for others a staff.
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Should I get Demon's Souls or DS2:SotFS on PS3?

Which one has more replay value?
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>>146768382
There are no hexes. There's only dark sorceries, miracles and pyromancies
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Have to go to 30 vit for my new build. Feels bad
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>>146768412
Well ds2 is not the right choice
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How useful is armour? Should I actually invest in good armour and using my titanite or should I just go for pure fashion souls? I literally haven't bothered with good armour because I always thought that it didn't do much and weapons are more important.
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>>146768412
demon's souls of course, you can safely skip ds2
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>>146768412
If you have someone to play ds2 go for it. It gave me more than 500 hours of gameplay and I didn't got bored
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>>146768412
DaS2 is better and has more content, but DeS is cheaper and worth a go.
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>>146768657
Weapons are more important, but armor can be extremely helpful. Upgraded Elite Knight is some of the best in DaS1 in terms of weight to total defense. If you can spare the titanite, it's totally worth it.
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>>146768294
Did you go past Yorshka's church?
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>>146767592
So if it takes place after ds1. Does that mean the plot continues after ds1 where the chosen undead doesn't relight the flame? Or does it take place after ds1 when he does relight it

Sorry just trying to get a feel for where the universe is right now
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>>146768798
I hate listening to those metal plate sounds
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>>146768690
>DaS2 is better
What the fuck, no. I just finished sotfs and it's lame. Every boss is shit. Every one. The fucking pursuer was the only fun thing about it and he's not really even a boss.

I hope you like square rooms with not a single thing in them.
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>>146768921
nigga just play the fucking game, everything you're asking is directly answered
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>>146768921
Time is convoluted and the lands are transitory
It literally doesn't matter and is never never specified long after ds1 it takes place.
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>>146769036
i'm gonna fuck that
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>>146768946
Well you don't have to use EK, silly. I'm just using it as an example. Use whatever you want, point is if you have excess titanite, it's better to use it and maybe take an extra hit than sit on it and not be able to take that hit.
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>>146768961
Demon's has aged like dogshit on an Arizona sidewalk. 1-1, Tower of Latria, and Shrine of Storms are the only good levels.
>final boss is a defenseless blob
Wow
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>>146769112
never specified how long*
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>>146769174
>missing the entire point of the final boss
Aight
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>>146769174
Final boss is false king, you shit head.

Game plays just fine for me. Ds2 never had to age to be shit, it just always was that way
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>>146768893
what do you mean?
i lit the bonfire and went to the graveyard outside and waited near the big gravestone
does he not spawn if you light the bonfire or something?
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>>146769262
YOU JUST DON'T GET IT
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>>146769324
Except it plays objectively better than Demon's does. You just contradicted yourself.
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>>146769174
Final boss in DS2 is just as bad. She doesn't even seem to know her own moves.
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>>146769463
said blob being powerful would make no fucking sense thematically. it's just that simple
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>>146769576
>objectively
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
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>>146769174
final encounter of des is perfect lore and atmosphere wise
both final bosses in ds2 are shit gameplay, lore and atmosphere wise
not to mention that real final boss in des fucking destroys them in all aspects
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Thinking of making a Pontiff CS build. Can the WA be parried?
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>>146769137

But there are two.
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>>146769718
I know exactly what it means. DaS2 is better, in terms of core gameplay, in every single way than DeS. This is literally, absolutely, undebatable and I'd *love* to see you try.
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>>146769789
i'll fuck em all buddy
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>>146769789
one body, nerdlord
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>>146769736
>go inside tree
>it's a blob crocodile thing
>dies in four hits
I was 18 when DeS came out and even then I thought the boss was ass. I played through it again last year, then 25, and still felt the same way.
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>>146769928
Yes, that is the point.
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>>146769736
You probably defended the Yu Yevon fight too, didn't you?
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>>146769739
No. All spin WA are unparryable except Wolf Sword
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>>146770029
Old Wolf CS or Wolf Knight GS?
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>>146768893
never mind, got him
don't know what was wrong though
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Was this a headshot?
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>>146769982
>"he's supposed to be a shitty, unmemorable pushover!"

>"WTF why is Bed of Chaos such a shitty boss!"
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>>146770092
Wolf Knight GS. The one that does Artorias flips.
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>>146769812
inb4 that one dude posts the shitty copypasta
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>>146770145
Bed of Chaos is bad because platforming in Dark Souls is shit. Not only do you have to make several jumps while getting blasted in the pooper or knocked around, but any mistake is instant death followed by a long trek back through lava.
It's not meant to be intentionally anticlimactic.
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>>146769812
If someone disagrees with you then you are literally wrong. The developers have done what they feel makes a better game and made some changes, yes, But "Objectively" means something quantifiable. 3 is objectively more than 2 and you're saying that the color orange is better than the color yellow.

If someone FEELS deeply in their FEELERINOS that Demon's is better because they liked the word "Nexus" then it's only "better" because that's your opinion.

I'm not sure how so many kids keep getting out of school without learning what the word opinion means.
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>>146770145
are you really this embarrassingly oblivious to thematic relevance or nah
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>tfw Aldrich and I fell together on NG+7

And fuck those arrows for all eternity
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>>146770136
just a thrust damage counter
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>>146768252
Chimes have a higher spell buff usually, so they're better for buffs since they scale off spell buff
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>>146770485
>NG+7
>still using dark sword

do you hate fun with a passion?
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>>146770136
>having dented tinfoil armor
IT DOESN'T EVEN LOOK GOOD REEEE
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>still no news on DaSIII DLC
>it was rumored to be coming in August

I hope they don't fucking delay it.
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>>146770631
i saw somewhere that it was moved back to september. don't have the source though, so take it with a grain of salt. i'm fully expecting a delay, in any case
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>>146770136
semi-related question
How good does my computer have to be to run DS3 with those graphics and that framerate?
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>>146770578

fuck me anon I knew I forgot to change something before the boss
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>>146770145
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>>146770145
Bed of Chaos being an easy fight isn't the problem, to me anyway.

It's that on a first playthrough, it's a trial-and-error fight. I realize that you could probably make an argument for learning enemy movesets being that way in general, but shitty platforming elements just make it frustrating.
And Sen's is my favorite area in DaS so it's not even that I think all ways to fall to your death are terrible.
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any good weapons for faith/dex?
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So I've swapped out my Life Ring +3 for a Lloyd's Shield Ring until I take damage and swap to Sun Princess Ring when I'm not at full health and it has been working out pretty damn good for me. Does anyone else use this?
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I want to do SL120 PvP in DaS3. What can I use to fuck with people?

I have no shame, I just want to win or at least fuck people (gank squads) up as much as possible. I'm highly considering bloodring + leo + cloranthy with 2H Astora GS. I considered Gotthards too but I figure AGS does a lot more damage and is unparriable.

Just fucking roll around forever and occasionally rolling R1. Full kirk armor.

Any other suggestions are welcome, trying to think of the most broken shit to use besides the obvious (sellsword DMB is overused and I have no faith at all in parrying at this high of a level especially because if you fuck up you get fucked up). I was thinking of maybe trying 2kat even though I'm a quality build, spam the shit out of the L2 L1 L1 combo.
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>Invade as a madman @ SL60
>"Kill the host or 3 phantoms"
>Wait, 3?
>Host with 3 pass phantoms (probably SL120)
>Blue Sentinel/Darkmoon pops out
>Host with some lag
>Only invaded that ganksquad
I hate that kind of people
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>>146771083
Swordspear (not even a faith weapon), Dragonslayer Spear.
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>>146762202
threadly reminder
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>>146771086
Scott does.
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>>146771165
thank you
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>>146768412
DeS. Besides being a shit game, DaS2 runs like crap on the PS3.
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>>146771279
my sincere pleasure
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>>146771165
>this dumb asshole thrives on negative attention
>post an image complaining about him

I have him and all replies to him filtered but your shitty post obviously still shows up.
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>>146771259
Who's Scott?
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>>146771086

The DaS3 menu navigation meta is disgusting.
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>>146771383
it's really easy to punish those fuckers though. just get aggressive when they pull back to fiddle their menus. it's usually obvious when they're attempting to mess with their equipment
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>>146771383
I feel like the menus have gotten more complex in every game to discourage hardswapping, yet people still do it.
I definitely think that's why they've removed sorting your inventory entirely.
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>>146771532
inb4 they add some kind of feature or item that prevents opening menus
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>>146771161
What about the lothric knight greatsword?
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>>146772081
It requires 24/16 and is better refined than any other infusion. I also don't consider it a Faith weapon since it has no faith scaling. Same with Wolnir's
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any of you guys want to help a luck mage kill the crocacats so i can join the aldrich faithful

PC PW: dsg and the bottom of the ladder
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>>146772147
>profaned aldia's grave
spookin me senseless
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>>146771878

They did something like that in Bloodborne; instead of rings you had runes, and you could only change runes at a specific workbench in the Hunter's Dream, they couldn't be changed at all out in the field.
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>>146772147
>profaned Aldia's Grave
>Sen Shrine
>Quelaag's Archives

Shame those are cut content it look interesting
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>>146770724
>>146770724
>>146770724
>>146770724
>>146770724
please respond
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>>146772147

Who's Sen?
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>>146771532
You could always manually sort your inventory by using filler items to align rows.
Done properly, and no weapon or ring is ever a single directional input from the one it's being swapped from.

It's still kind of obnoxious, but it's kind of unavoidable when so many rings only offer context-specific benefits. You can't tell me that the devs put thew Lloyd's rings in the game without fully understanding they were effectively just swaprings.
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>>146772239
on my way
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>>146772306
>cut content
bruh those are randomly generated souls names that an artist decided to develop
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Ok so what do i do against aldrich as pure magic build ? I can't raw ASS because no faith
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>>146772350
Gwyn's Firstborn Sen, Heir of Senlight.
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>>146772367
ty
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>>146772398
run nigga
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>>146772307
Probably start by checking the "Recommended Requirements" on the store page, scrub.
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>>146772359

Oh no, clearly you're supposed to only get the benefit until you get hit and then you just have a dead ring slot of course.
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What's a fun build and or weapon
This game is getting so dry
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>>146772350
the grumpy owner of a certain fortress
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>>146772409
Oh fuck off, that's as dumb as "Gwynfaraam"
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>>146772525
Witch's Locks is my weaponfu, play a pyro.
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>>146772379
Oh, I thought those were from an artbook
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>Morne's Great Hammer
>30 faith requirement
>AR doesn't scale with faith
>neither does the WA

What the fuck
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>>146772525
TPGS.
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>>146772747
>Vempirick.deviantart
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>>146772306
>cut content
>>146772350
The origin of the name Sen is not clear. Some say it was the architect who built the fortress, but others say that it was the name of a great kingdom ruined in a barbaric war.
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>>146772793
Because fuck nice things and fuck you
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>>146772793

did u rike it?
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>>146772409
>Heir of Senlight

Had a light kek.
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>>146772525
Gundyrs
I shit you not. Best weapon in the game.
No wasted move or combo move. All attacks are great 1H or 2H

Weapon art hits SO many people easily.
and if they have a parry tool just learn to free aim the art.
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Any tips for beating NK with a sorcerer? Killing King of Storm is piss easy but NK it's a different thing. Should I Soul Arrow his ass or go for fast-casting spells like farron sword and dart?
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>>146772946
>light kek
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>>146772398
Pyromancy
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>>146772793
>neither does the WA

Really? That's dumb. I mean, it's obviously supposed to be the Bramd/Grant of this game, so I guess the faith requirement is just because?
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>>146772307
You need a good GPU no matter what to get 60FPS.
At 1280x at minimum I get 60FPS less than half the time in the game on my GTX950.
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>>146768207
Ally - exhaust all speech options, keep alive until I'm about to fight last boss, kill.
Enemy- kill
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>>146770493
That can't be, my usual counter damage is 450 unbuffed. Blessed weapon with 15 faith adds like 40 AR, which is literally nothing.
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>>146772398
pyromancy yeah.

Just get some chaos orbs. has no stat req.
probably for this exact reason/boss
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>>146773252
Blessed weapon adds 7.5% phys damage, anon.
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>>146773018
Hit him with soul arrows from far away. He'll mostly walk slowly towards you and not attack, but if he does just run away and shoot him some more.
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>>146773270
Pyromancy kills everything!
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>Yhorm the Giant
>30ft tall badass with a 10ft long motherfucking MACHETE
>motherfucking Lord of Cinder and also a GIANT
>From makes him a gimmick fight

just fuck my shit up senpai
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>>146773252
>Blessed weapon with 15 faith adds like 40 AR, which is literally nothing.
Do you not understand how the attack/defense relationship works? Or did you not know that BW increases physical attack? It stacks, it doesn't just add other damage type.
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>>146772576
>Sen's fortress and Archdragon Peak share common architecture and snekmen guards
>Sen's Fortress is positioned as the stronghold guarding the entrance to Anor Londo, but has clearly long been abandoned by its original defenders and the gate it was guarding scuttled.
>filled with statues of Silver Knights, the dragonslaying warriors once lead by the dragonslaying Wargod
>guarded by a golem with a core made from an everlasting dragon, the eventual allies of the firstborn.
Sens' Fortress is pretty obviously supposed to be the stronghold of the firstborn, abandoned and repurposed after his betrayal and exile. That's why Archdragon peak has the same motif as Sen's Fortress

Fun fact, Sen is an archaic first-person pronoun. It's just a way of saying "I" or "myself," which makes Sen's Fortress just a play on words that essentially means "My Fortress."
It's common in japanese writing for nameless characters to identify themselves with 1st person pronouns as a cheeky way of avoiding a name. In effect, the first person pronoun is used as a name, or in substitute of one. Sen as the name for the nameless king is pretty obvious wordplay, as it's essentially like using "Nameless" as a name, it's ironic. Doubly so since Sen, sun, and son are all close to one another in spelling and pronunciation, in both english and japanese.
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>>146771157
>that feel when you invade some random asshole with 3 phantoms
>that feel when you hold your own for several minutes and make the host chug estus at least 5 times
>that feel when you finally succumb to R1 spam on all sides and die
>that feel when the host walks up to your corpse and points down.
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>>146773520
You know you CAN fight him without using the storm cancer, right?

>>146773563
The webm shows what looks like the headshot animation.
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>>146773520
He also has a face instead of a butthole
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>>146770145
> mfw all these people complain about shit platforming
I just walked and rolled. When I had to jump down I looked and walked over the edge. What are you guys talking about.
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>>146773179
I don't know if there's something wrong with my setup, but I always get a few drops every 50 or so steps on my 970. Pisses me off.

>>146773520
Hitting his head is the best gimmick fight in the game.
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>>146773639
>You know you CAN fight him without using the storm cancer, right?
If I wanted to hit something for 30 minutes straight I'll be sure to play Killing Floor 2.
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what is better, lightning infused dragonslayer axe or lightning blade buffed dragonslayer axe?
none of that tumblebuffing bullshit
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>>146773445
He always spams charge attacks which he gets me everytime because I'm casting
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How do you pronounce Smough?
Smoff?
Smow?
Smaw?
Smo?
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>>146773759
https://youtu.be/lRsXcSl2IS8?t=3911
pls
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>>146773709
The game's just poorly as fuck optimized. FROM could get lazy now that they didn't have to abide by PS3/360 limitations.
Too bad the game doesn't have a lot to show for how much it strains GPU.
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>>146773639
You can headshot with katanas, and they don't make a unique animation or sound when it happens. The only indication aside from additional damage is that there will be a special blood particle that emanates from the head.

As far as I know, katanas are the only melee weapon type that can headshot outside of headshot-dedicated WAs.

The reason that hit did extra damage is because sprinting and WD attacks have a small window where the user takes instability damage in addition to their thrust defense being compromised. Trading with the startup of a running attack generally nets higher counterdamage.
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>>146773897

Sumo.
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>>146773897
smo
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>>146773897
Smau
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Is the regular old glaive worth using other than to be contrarian and not use the BKG? Also, is Gundyr's halberd good? I never see it or hear anyone talking about it. I compared a 40/40 BKG build to a 60/15 Gundyr's glaive build and the AR difference is only about 8 or 9 points. Seems like a decently fast weapon for a strength build.
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>crystal magic weapon
>96x(spellbuff/100) buff
>45 fp cost allowing to cast twice at 10 att

>lightning weapon
>96x(spellbuff/100) buff
>50 fp cost so you need to level att just to get two casts

why is this allowed?
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>>146773778
Raw Lightning Blade
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>>146773897
hawkeye gough is confirmed to be pronounced "goff" since we hear him say it. So I guess it's pronounced "smoff" English is convoluted and pronunciation distorted though.
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>>146773993
Gundyr's is good. Glaive is like an alright version of Gundyr's
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>>146773903
>tfw only glaives, vertical UGS and greataxes can actually headshot Yhorm consistently
I feel like they threw stomruler in because they realized they'd fucked up his boss design and the vast majority of weapons couldn't actually fight him properly.
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>>146773893
You might be too close to him still. I stay as far away as possible while still being locked on, and back up after every few casts. He only ever charges me once or twice during the whole fight. You may also want to try faster spells or wear the sage ring if you aren't already.
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>>146774219
GUNDYR FAN CLUB
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>>146773897
the katakana is スモウ (sumou)
so yeah, "smo"
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>>146774131
his name is "gou" in Japanese though
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Fighting royal rat authority in DaS2, how many lockstones should I farm until I actually try to beat him?
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>>146773661
that's a good thing
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>>146773993
All glaives are great. Gundyr's one is more for invasions and to chase chuggers, don't ever do WA if opponent has a shield in hand.
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do the magic/miracle rings boost weapon buff damage this time around or do they still have no effect?
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>>146773993
Regular Glaive has less AR and is heavier than BKG. You can buff it though, but I don't think that's a plus.
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>>146774534

I like how the regular glaive looks and I like the moveset, it just doesn't seem as good as the lucerne since you can leo ring with it. I also really the crescent axe, warcry is so good and really mixes up the moveset. When I use it in pvp it seems like most people don't know how to handle the warcry R2s.
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>>146774382
https://youtu.be/R0L-SCY_fg4?t=77

>his name is "gou" in Japanese though

Shiva, pls go
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This is about a guy dropping "Rubbish" for someone.
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>>146773993
Gundyr's has a really strong WA, but it's parryable. I believe you can technically combo into it, but it's range-specific and can't be buffered (meaning you cane to link the charge after R1 or else they recover). It also deals high poise damage, which means that most HA weapons will lose their HA for a little while after eating a few hits from you.

GKGlaive has unique R2s that are pretty good with extremely strong tracking. You can combo R2->L1->R1 or R1->L1->R1 for more damage than standard 2 hit combos and it also does more poise damage, though not as much as Gundyr's.

Glaive is the lowest AR of the 3 but also the lowest stamina costs and the lightest. It can combo R1->L1->R1 like the BKG but not R2->L1.

Personally, I think BK is best-in-class because it actually has a decent R2, but there's not a huge difference between the 3 in terms of stats.

Worth noting that the Lucerne is the 2nd shortest Glaive and 2nd lowest AR, but is actually the best for trading thanks to its thrust damage and leo counter potential.

The only glaive that's outright bad is the Cescent Axe. Despite having a glaive moveset, it has axe AR, so the godlike hyperarmor doesn't actually help it trade positively against most weapons. It's also the shortest glaive, and straightswords can outrange it.
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>>146774253
straight swords can do it too
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>>146774714
DS3's crescent axe is a first good crescent axe in series, warcry allows to really mix things up.
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I've been googling for hours now but there just doesn't seem to be a solution. I just installed this game and I get no sound with my Razer usb headset. The sound plays fine through my monitor's speakers, but they're too shitty to seriously consider playing through the game like that.

Is there anything at all I can do? The only solution I can possibly think of is to plug in some random, shitty iphone earbuds or something and playing like that, but come on.
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>>146774918
I'd believe it, since straightswords have pike range on their R1s thanks to shitty hitboxes, but I've never actually seen it myself.
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Are there any sliders for Quelaag/Fair Lady's face anywhere? Or can an anon come up with them?

Also what stats should I use for a pyro for levels 20-30, 40-120 and 130? I know 15/40/40 is the hardcap for pyro/dark anything, but I struggle when it comes to other stats. I also need a few good side weapons so I'm trying to take that into consideration. I've done research and used mugen a lot but I can'tell seem to figure out what stats to sacrifice on(of course luck stays at the base). I really want to stay at a PvP meta until I complete the DLC, after which I may or may not max out. Please help me out here.
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>>146774976
sorry i'm tired and retarded. i'm talking about dark souls 3, and my drivers are up to date and starting the game with the headset unplugged and plugging it in once it's running doesn't work.
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>>146774858
Did you perhaps mean pls gou?
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>>146774714
>When I use it in pvp it seems like most people don't know how to handle the warcry R2s.
What
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Previous dream: >>146528462 → #

>Patch 1.09 Info
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>>146775015
you can try it yourself
two-handed R1s and WA hit his head pretty consistenlty, but you must wait for a certain attack
if straight swords can do it, i think, katanas should work too
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>>146775348
epic meme lucy
fuck off
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>>146774861
Kek, redditors always being butthurt.
I've gotten like 30ish~ friend invites from invasions, but only one piece of hatemail. Some dude got butthurt that I was using the hornet's ring and he sent me a wall of text about it. It was pretty hilarious; he even had the Reddit passive aggressive ;) multiple times to show that he wasn't angry. Pity I couldn't respond because I accepted his friend request then left to microwave some burritos and he deleted me before I came back.

>mfw imaging him seething with anger
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What the most effective physical damage type in PvE/PvP? Standard. slash. thrust or strike?
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>>146774287

...sumo?
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>>146774976
Have you double-checked which audio device drivers the game's volume is being channeled through?
Sometimes games don't default to 3rd party audio hardware and you have to manually disable whatever driver it defaulted to to force it through the one you want.

360 controllers have an audio driver that piggybacks off their controller driver and frequently confuses windows as it will force sound channels through the "headset" device of the 360 controller, even with no headset actually plugged into it. This can still happen even if you're only emulating 360 drivers for a Dualshock controller through some software like DS4Windows.

Go into the sound devices section of your control panel, play some music or something that normally goes through your headphones just fine and watch to see which device it's actually going through. When you startup the game and your headphones stop working, watch which device that sound channel is "playing" through and disable it.
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Before the Throne of Want, Paladin Tempus has reached end of his journey in Drangleic. Adorned in his worn Heide Knight Armor, his distant and fading memory of former homeland, he turns his back on throne and braves into the path beyond the flame and beyond the dark. He does not know what waits him but his drive to search for his fate is unsatiable, for that is his fate....

The End
***

Well that was fun. Dark Souls 2 has my favorite credits song. Did i enjoy SotFS better than Dark Souls 3?
Yeah, kind of, t b q h. I'm about to load up ds3 again anyway but ds2 was such a great journey and I glad I played through it again. Someday, i'll play it again as a different build.
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>>146775396
Makes me want some burritos. You still got the message? Could make for a good read.
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>>146775157
If you want a Quelaag cosplay you need carthus curved sword which means 15 str/18 dex which also allows you to use a whole fuckton of good light weapons.
At low levels better just pump vigor and wield raw astora straight sword, when you get to smouldering lake start leveling up pyromancy stats as you will find all the best pyromancies there but you will need a raw weapon to kill the boss.
Here's my SL125 build, if i would go to 130 i would just either throw 5 points into the end or 4 stats to use dark washing pole to really fuck up the estoc turtles.
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>>146775479
Yes. It's wordplay.

In fact, the majority of names of people and places in the souls games are wordplay with varying degrees of obscurity.
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>>146775398
Standard - all arround
Slash - weak vs armor, good vs flesh
Thrust - decent dmg, usually high reach
Strike - good vs armor, bad vs flesh

Ideally you want to have more than one type of dmg, but in this game that does no longer matter that much
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>>146775538
That's what I'm doing. I've got to get one more Lord soul and then I can finish the game. Then I'll be off to DaS3.
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>>146775645
Shitty answer to a shitty question.
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>>146775316

Crescent axe has standard halberd R2.

When you use warcry it changes the R2s to the kind the greataxe has during warcry. Warcry also buffs the crescent axe's damage and its R2s have hyper armor. It's really good and really fun.
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>>146775398
In PvE there's only a handful of enemies that deal standard damage, however most player weapons deal standard. So there's that
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>>146775615
10 end you got ME.
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>>146775931
Oh shit I though it was about defences
Am retard, pls ignore
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>>146773897
Small
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>>146775892
I know what it does, I'm just surprised it's "effective" in pvp, I mean you can just parry it.
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Giving away a Symbol of Avarice since I've got a spare on this character.
Name a place and pw if you want it. PC
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HOW THE FUCK DO I PLAY AGAINST HALBERDS
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>>146775508
Thanks for the suggestions; I tried doing that but when the game is playing no sound is showing anywhere, disabled all emulating softwares, etc. I guess I'll just request a refund and forever shit on from's name. I've been playing since Demon's Souls and I have to put up with this retrograde bullshit? fuck that
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>>146776106
yeah, if you're going to just do it like that sure. You can "just parry" most everything.
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>>146773018
Use CSS for damage, wear lingering dragon crest ring, equip a decent shield, and then use great magic shield. He won't be able to touch you outside of his spear grab attacks.
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>>146776046
>needing end for light weapons in a game with nearly bb tier stamina consumption and strong passive game aided by fire surge
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>>146775578
Nah, I should have screencapped it, though. Is there any way to recover messages on steam?
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>>146773994
>>146773994
both are shit anyway
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>>146775398
Slash is the worst type for pve. Anything with meaningful defense will have a large amount of slash resistance. It's only effective against enemies that are low-defense in general, but low-defense enemies are almost always low-HP enemies as well, so playing to damage types is pointless against them.

Standard is basically slash, but better. High-defense enemies resist standard less than slash but nothing is weak to it, so it's consistent regardless of your target.

Thrust is weird. Many enemies have high and low thrust resistance buit the difference seems largely arbitrary and not really based on logic or appearance. For example, Vordt and Winged Knights have low thrust defense despite having curved armor, which is explicitly stated to counter thrust damage. All enemies in pve and pvp incur a massive penalty to thrust defense for a brief window during attack animations/recovery. This penalty negates thrust defense entirely and usually puts it well into the negatives, boosting the damage of your attack significantly. Thrusting weapons, as a consequence, do high DPS to enemies with long animations that give a wide window for thrust damage and are ideal against enemies that have no poise or long recovery animations, to exploit that bonus. In pvp, thrust weapons are exceptionally good at trading or abusing passive-play and spacing to punish for counter bonus. Despite having this huge bonus, there isn't a notable amount of enemies that resist thrust damage, and thrust doesn't suffer any AR penalties compared to other damage types.

Strike is supposedly the lowest defense of most high-defense enemies but only explicitly resisted by enemies that are essentially big wads of flesh or fat, of which there are exceptionally few. Strike is supposed to be most effective against the curved armor that supposedly counters thrust damage, but Winged Knights are actually explicitly resistant to strike.
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>>146776263
don't go for trades

>>146776294
Nah, it's different. Look at that fucking wind up, and the warcry use was a bigger enough sign of what's to come. You can't just parry an estoc R1 or a Washing Pole WDR1 on reaction, while in the webm I had 3 seconds to parry the warcry R2.
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>>146776263
longer halberd
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>>146774269
Done. Using Great Deep Soul helped a lot. Im still playing the 1.03v so sorceries are not buffed
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>>146776263

you don't, you just take the carbs into your body directly, you fat fuck.
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>>146776106
So most parry spammers switched to iron round shield. Is there actual up-to-date parry window data available?
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>>146776263
Use a shield and/or dodge
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Why do I see katanas and dual swords all the time in DEX builds? (thank god estocs are gone) There has to be more competitive weapons for DEX, hell, there has to be funnier weapons for DEX.
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>SL120 pontiff duel
>get the guy I summoned down to like 10% health while I've taken no damage
>he runs away into the level
>doesn't black crystal out, afks somewhere with obscuring ring

How much of a pussy do you have to be? You're really THAT mad you're losing? Even though you effectively lose nothing if you lose and win nothing if you win?

I mean, this is literally the first time this has ever happened to me, PC. This kid must be literally 8 years old, right? That's the only thing that makes sense to me for someone to be THIS salty about getting destroyed in a 1v1 duel.
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>>146776486
>parry spammers
parry spammers are still using buckler/target shield. The thing is Iron Round Shield weighs 2.0 and has 62 stability at +10, that's why it's so good. It still has small shield parry frames though.
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>>146776263
I like to bait them into attack and then throw something at them.
It doesn't work great but it's easy and safe.
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>>146776528
because edge
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>>146776528
Scythes got nerfed a little too hard. Daggers are still riposte tools.
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>>146774385
Pretty sure you find more than enough for all the actually useful things just by playing through the game.
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>>146776594
Why not caestus > buckler and target shield?
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>>146776614
That's probably the safest way to deal with them, yeah. Avelyn or Arbalest is pretty good.
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>>146776556
why dont you have 5 seeds on hand?
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>>146776263
If you use a straightsword or carthus vurved sword, you can hover passively outside of their range and punish whiffs with R1s. You can stand just outside of the reach of the little ground shockwave, take one step forward as they whiff and safely punish their recovery consistently with those weapons.

There's really no other effective counter to halberds. They out-trade everything, have perfect hyperarmor covering the entirety of all their animations and are unparryable at sweetspot range. They can swing as you enter their max range every time with impunity because they're 100% safe and maintain a tempo advantage as long as you roll their attacks. Punishing whiffs is really the only effective counter, but only a select few blatantly overpowered weapons can do so consistently.
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>>146776408

Just using warcry doesn't mean someone is just going to stand there and charge the R2. Warcry is good enough on its own for the attack buff. And you don't have to charge the whole thing, I've caught people parrying too early or too late because I just held it down a little bit
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>>146776556
>that pathetic hp bar
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>>146776263
Parry, even 2h they can be parried. They are also slow as fuck, so roll and hit with a faster weapon or even backstab them if you can. Got a few surprises like that as a halberd user.
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>>146776556
What was his name? i think i beat that nerds ass and he pulled the same shit.
Is he using dark sword?
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>>146776556
>Gotthards + blessed cestus
>rings setup explicitly to abuse rolling L1spam and absolutely nothing else
I would've done the same thing desu.
One less tumour at Pontiff's while I sit somewhere and watch chinese cartoons sounds pretty worthwhile.
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>>146776528
Good R1 reach makes up for lack of forward step straight swords have, they still have nice damage and the running attack is actually useful thanks to thrust and lag.
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>>146776364
Can't remember. Last time I used stream was 2013. Try searching for a trash section in your messages, like on Gmail..
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>>146776798
Can't parry the halberd sweetspot, m8.
You can even test it against the autoparry skeletons. Halberds are only parryable at point-blank range, where the shaft hits you but the blade misses completely. As long as they R1 at max range every time you approach and roll backwards after, you can't approach into parryable range.
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I feel like such a boss
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is equipping both pontiff rings worth it while using the old wolf curved sword?
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>>146776556

>gotthards + leo + bloodring

LOL

fucking blow your brains out
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>>146776957
WUT RINGS U GOT BITHC?
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>>146772147
>Sen's Shrine
>absolutely nothing in common with Sen's Fortress in terms of aesthetic

>Quelaag's Archives
>implying a half-demon spider that's part of a cult that practitions Pyromancy is even half that literate
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>>146776980
not really, this game isn't bloodborne :^)
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>>146776556
This happens all the fucking time to me on PC 120
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>>146776957
lmao giantdad git gud waht rings u got bicth legend never dies xdD
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>>146777045
Havels, FaP
i dun me homework casul
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>>146777048
Every book is just the chaos servant roster.
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>>146776980
Only if you use the Old Wolf CS as a backpack and have a paired weapon in the mainhand.

The Old Wolf sword can't actually hit often enough to trigger the effect itself unless you have practically infinite stamina and are mashing into a sandbag. The best way to use them is with a paired weapon that can combo L1->WA, since you'll trigger and benefit from the eye effects in the same combo, and it will linger long enough for a rollcatch attempt to potentially extend the effect.

In general, both effects are trash in pvp but great for pve against bossfights.
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>>146777048
this is some autism right here
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>>146776957
>Combusion
You've still got to beat him on NG+.
Now that's more like bit of a challenge.
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>>146776628
what about curved swords, curved gratswords and the specific weapons (like hollowslayer greatsword. the fuck are them?
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>>146777291
>and the specific weapons (like hollowslayer greatsword. the fuck are them?
Dude what
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>>146777073
you could have killed him here.
black flame combos into Flame Weapon art
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>>146777291
Curved Swords are everywhere. Curved Greatswords aren't as broken, so they're rarer.
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>>146777262
I literally never used magic in any context before, I only equipped it for the cosplay. First playthrough.
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>>146777384
it combos into longsword R1s too, but I got scared of the halberds, halberds are scary. Hindsight is 20/20.
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>>146777073
>he pulls out a greatbow
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>>146776727

Seed doesn't matter when they just run to the end of the level somewhere away from enemies and hide for an hour. Even if I went through the level killing shit and eventually found him he'd probably just parry fish all day while chugging.

I mean it's just one of those things where even though I can beat that, it's a gigantic waste of time. I mean oooooh, I jumped off the side of the arena after playing a few more matches with dried finger and he still didn't leave. Guess you got me, kid. Now I only have 146 embers instead of 147.

I mean what I'm really trying to wrap my head around is how pathetic you have to be to do that in DUELS. Not invasions, that I can understand and at least people can progress to the boss if they want. Duels. You just run off and afk somewhere wasting both your time and mine because you're mad you got your ass handed to you so I'm stuck in the fog and can't exit the game. It's never happened to me before in over 200 hours of dueling, I'm more fascinated by understanding the mindset of this guy than anything.

>>146777002
>>146776847

Oh nevermind I get it now.

>One less tumour hurr durr

I mean, it's not since I can just dried finger and when I'm bored jump off the side and lose literally nothing because I have backup saves. You're actually just wasting your own time because you can't play the game for however long you stay in my world, so you're pretty fucking stupid, anon.
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>>146768412
DeS is a better game and also there's no point to getting SOTFS on PS3 because it runs at like 20 fps
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>>146777073
Welcome to Dark Souls, honor is optional.
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>>146776954
One step closer and you can parry. A good parrier rolled to me, then parried my second R1 and one hitted me. They require more skill but people can parry them.
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>>146775615
This is good, I just think I'd prefer a Vig minimum and higher End so that I can dash/roll dodge when things get hairy. Or has that not been a problem for you? I basically want to use my weapon at close range but I want to stay at far/medium range for pyro which is going to be my priority.
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https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/49086

hows this for a magic build
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>>146777048

To be fair, in Quelaag's day it was fire sorcery and it might've been more refined. Also, we do learn pyromancy from books in DS3.
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>>146777073
It is because magic isn't viable.
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>>146777549
Honor is dead and buried. All we have now are tryhards trying to show off "skills" and posting screenshots of their hard earned Ws on twitter or facebook of their favorite e-celeb circlejerk.
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>>146777448
You'll actually want the two black flames if you're going to do PvP with zweihander.
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>>146777603
>two crystal sorceries with only 24 fp
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>>146777451

idk if it'd help with your setup and how much weight you're willing to carry, but black knight shield + gargoyle FS works incredibly well for turtlepoke backstabbing halberds. I'm mainly a spear user and I've found that to be the most effective way to beat them, just dodge the first attack, tank the second attack, guardpoke when you're roughly behind them. It's a much faster backstab animation.
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>>146777361
It scales D STR and C DEX, so its a DEX weapon. Its a decent weapon, and a great early option to katanas.
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>>146777785
I know what the hollowslayer is
I was confused about the question itself
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>>146777781
I've done that and got bored out of my mind in 2 hours. It's just not for me, much like curved swords.
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If you had to choose 1 location in all the dark souls games to settle down and live, where would it be?

I think I'd pick the crucifixion woods. Despite the name, its pretty peaceful, lots of clean water and all the crabs I could eat.
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>>146777518
>You just run off and afk somewhere wasting both your time and mine because you're mad

the really sick thing is if you jump off the side of the arena he'd probably think he actually won.
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>>146777423
Curved Greatswords are one of the best pvp weapon types in the game.
They're the only HA weapons aside from halberds and the hollowslayer spear that are pvp viable, and HA + being functional in pvp gives them a whole bunch of weapon-specific tech and ways to counter things that no other viable moveset has. They're also the only viable weapon class with access to 1H HA, which means they can combine with a shield to hardcounter a lot of pressure weapons. Certain high-tier things like Gotthard's and WP can't do shit to a high-stability medium shield, which makes Curved GS insanely versatile.

Their WAs are also unparryable, which gives them what I believe is the 2nd strongest unparryable attack of any pvp-viable weapon and a powerful/safe way to shut down parry fishing. This excludes the Carthus GS, which is probably the worst curved GS as a result.

Curved GS are amazing. They're just seen less because they aren't as scrub-friendly as most top-tier weapons.
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>>146777576
Rolling is never a problem as long as you're not using anything larger than thrusting halberds. Thanks to low rolling cost there's virtually no situation where i wasn't able to double roll my way out of hazard. Surge is your main offensive tool, it allows you to control distance to opponent.
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>>146773601
Neat
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>>146777881

well I'm just saying since you're a pyro so gargoyle FS should be a good weapon for you naturally. it'd just be something you swap to for specific matchups like BKG. not something you must do but it's an option to keep in mind i'd say.
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>>146777884
Majula or anor Londo. Not an argument
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Just about to finish my first run.

Want to play through as a mage (Pyromancy) Should I respecc and gear up before starting a NG+ or should I do a clean run?
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>>146777884
Ash Lake feels like it would be a pretty chill place. It as that whole "trees at the bottom of the world holding everything up" feel.

Besides that, Painted World is also pretty atmospheric. Beyond all the bloated zombies and crow demons, living in a snowy mountain retreat would be pretty nice.
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>>146777873
The question is where the fuck are those weapons in PVP, because i only see 2 kinds of DEX weapons
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>>146778141
doesn't really matter tbhwufam
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Couple of quick questions.

The cathedral knigh GS deals impact damage on r1s. Does the r2 poke also deal impact or does it deal thrust?

I don't use the hornet ring. That being said, I've noticed that any weapon I use that has the spin slash WA usually ripostes for less damage than the WA would hit for on full combo. In a parried state is the spin slash techable after the first hit, or would it true combo?

thanks in advance
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>>146778141
Forgot to add, first run was washing pole Quality.

and it's DS3.
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>>146769324
>DeS shitters still trying to say this
a boss you can fight as the 7th out of 17 is not final
gwyn is a final boss
nashandra / aldia depending on your completion are final bosses
soul if cinder is a final boss

false king allant is not a final boss
true king allant is the final boss
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>>146777073
Go SL80. Since SL120 is the most popular for casual players because of ecelebs you're way less likely to encounter faggotry at SL80.
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DaS3 is so shit that I want to replay SotFS
Fucking hell
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Should I go for the lothrix brothers or the nameless king first? Which one gives a better endgame feel? I wanna save them for as last as possible
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>>146764984
I have always enjoyed these displays of honor and sportsmanship.
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>>146777884

Probably Yharnam, it's the only location I can imagine being able to get food and water in. Well, at least once the sun comes up.
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Hey did the phantom glitch get fixed? Yesterday I was trying to do the sword master dancer cheese and it didn't work. I let him die, reloaded, summoned him and went back in and he died.
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>>146778526
Yaoi brothers are pretty underwhelming.
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>>146778223
"What the fuck are those" is not the most articulate way of asking.
You have decent options with Dex, but you probably only see the msot meta, like CCS, OniUda, etc. Kumo is good, Hollowslayer is all right, it's only real weakness is that it's a greatsword. Scythes are still shit. Spears are good and halberds are good.
>>146778267
Yes, the poke does thrust. WA is trash and never use it please.
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did he do anything wrong, dsg?
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>>146777884
Hunter's Dream obviously.
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>>146777983
I did not know all that, also sorry to be a pleb, but what is HA? Maybe I'll try the exile or murakumo myself and see if they are fun.
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>>146778693
He lost.
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>>146778595
Been fixed for a couple weeks now.
>>146778749
Hyperarmor aka "contextual" poise
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When did you begin to realize that nobody's opinion matters in this game?

It's like Smash 4 and Brawl; everybody thinks they're good but the game hardly takes any skill.

>I'm not even good at the game, but I win a solid 4/5 fights with random weapons at 80-120 Pontiff/High Wall FCs. On a good day, easily 10-20 fights in a row by just spamming braindead shit.
>Even on my first characters, all I did was spam invasions and I won the majority against multiple people
>On my more optimized invasion characters, I probably fail like 1/50 invasions

You realize when somebody bitches about a weapon or praises how strong something is, they're probably a scrub who doesn't know how to roll and thinks r1 spamming is broken.

yfw you think you're good for winning the majority of your duels, but that doesn't matter because the vast majority of people in the game have no idea what the fuck they're doing, so the fact that you even lose duels means you're trash

/dsg/ general
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>>146778693
He's parryable
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>>146777734
i don't get that, why 2 black flames? a joke as part of the joke build?
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>>146778813
Oh wow, that sucks. I wanted to do a greatlance only run since you could get it so early if you did that. Man, that's kind of lame, das3 sure got linear fast.
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>>146778854
>he thinks smash 4 doesn't take skill
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>>146776716
>tfw pulling out my knight's crossbow + BKS against them
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>>146778918
I could drop you one if you're on PC my dude
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>>146773994
simple off hand by the time the buff wears off with lingering ring you will have enough for another cast
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>>146778918
Just rush a Dark Hand and kill her solo, it's really easy.
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>>146778854
Wait until the "brag to friends that I beat dark souls" crowd leaves and only the autists are left. I too won nearly all of my duels in 1, 2, and 3 until I was almost always against people with 2000+ hours of pvp.
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>>146778682
I wouldn't, I was referring to the WA of other weapons
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>>146778434
So BB has 3 final bosses?
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Anyone know if its possible to drop/trade miracles in dark souls 3? Been farming concords for 2 hours to get dkm blade. 0 drops, 0 summons.
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>>146778898
>a joke as part of the joke build?
THAT MEANS NEW GAME PLUS BITCHES
The build's just not complete without it.
It's also actually good spell. Since the investment is so low you might as well have it, can come handy in ganks and stuff. Combustion/great combustion/black flame are the generally useful PvP pyromancies thanks to high damage, cast speed and generous hitbox.
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>>146778693
He killed the boipucci
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>>146778982

Thanks, I'm on my phone at work though.

>>146779075
I'll just do this, this sounds like fun
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>>146779330
you can't
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>>146779390
Fuck, guess I'm not platinum'n this game
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>>146779508
Good riddance.
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>>146779275
assuming you mean mergo's wet nurse + submit your life, gehrman, and moon presence, yes
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>146779618
settle down
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Will there be any PvP ifor I go to SL 150? That's the minimum for all the equipment I want to use and still has minimum Vit/End.
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>>146779781
142 matches you with 120.
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>>146777175
I thought the old wolf effect only boosted damage for itself (even if the heals work)
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>>146779781
What kinda of equipment even requires that many stats?
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>>146778112
Yeah, it has good AR on my build when I actually allocate points into the correct stats and it allows for a backup curved sword too. I did test both in the same day, making a backup before it because I knew that to use them with the stats I wanted I need to go to 125. All I did was circle around people and poke them, didn't even need to use pyros at all because that strat is just so effective and cancerous. It's just not my pyro style, I like to use pyros a lot, and using a shield and spear totally defeats the purpose, even though it does ridiculous damage with retarded range. Fuck I created a pyro because I wanted to use spells, not to be a reactive shitter.
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I just started the series two weeks ago, finally moved up to DaS1.

I've already +5'd two weapons (longsword and a spear) and I feel pretty good with them. Any point of taking them to +10/+15 or should I rotate them out once I get through The Depths and start earning better gear?
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>>146779781
By equipment you mean weapons as well? Can you use FaP or Havel's? Can't you hardswap weapons as needed?
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>>146780051
Use whatever you want senpai
Armor is usually not worth upgrading early on since you usually swap out sets more frequently than weapons
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>>146778267
Thrusts on the Cathedral GS deal thrust damage.
It can also combo 2HR1 into 2HR2 to deal more damage than the standard R1R1 combo.

As for the riposting thing, it's weapon-specific. Most weapons with spin slash/bash/sweep can combo into or out of it for high damage, but ripostes on high AR weapons can be apocalyptic on their own. It would depend on the weapon, really. Most non-paired weapons deal more damage with R1->R1 than their spin slash, and paired weapons don't usually have time to parry, swap to 2H and land an attack into WA.
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https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/49105
what can i do to make this better
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>>146780303
Wear a different set
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>>146780303
It's fine but these 5 points in endurance are wasted. Even with FaP+2 and Chain you won't be able to get 6 swings and a dodge. The real problem now is that there's nowhere to allocate these 5 stats that would make it a good investment for your build. Maybe inteligence for great magic weapon and 2 extra spells with darkmoon ring?
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>>146780303
>sL20 for watchdogs
Way2low
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>>146780303

-chloranthy
+hornet ring

if you're gonna twink like that and not use the hornet ring its fucking pointless
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>>146780506
>there's nowhere to allocate these 5 stats
vigor is never a waste
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>>146779971
This desu.

Also for my Pyro build i'm using the crescent axe but I might move over to the red halberd because the damage on the crescent is laughable.
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>>146780515
>got to SL30
>watchdog invades one after the other
>"let me just get a smidge more endurance"
>SL33
>invasions complete dry up

I hope that was just a coincidence or the time of day or something.
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>>146780242
the two I use most often, Carthus GS and shotel, got me thinking about it which in and of themselves are lower AR options for their respective classes

It seems like I riposte with the shotel for somewhere in the 450 range when I know I could get 600 out of the WA+r1 as long as I don't push them out of range. The CGS seems to riposte for 650-700 ish but I know I could get 800 out of the WA as long as I can true combo through the parry stun and not just land a hit and have them roll out
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>>146779968
Exile Greatsword, Carthus Curved Greatsword, puts you at 26/22 Str/Dex plus you need 28 Vit to wear rings and light armor. Also to have well rounded magic. There's certainly heavier shit with higher requirements as well.
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Anyone as a spare hunter's ring to give on PS4?
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Yo /dsg/, I need to know what's more cancerous for twinking
Build 1: Raw ASS w/ 1561 health 15 end
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/48382
Pros: Extremely tanky and I can bait people into invading me
Superior moveset and much better for duels
Better roll catch weapon, quicker attacks means easier to interrupt slow weapons
Cons: Less hornet parry damage, less END

Build 2: Dragonslayer's Axe, 20 end
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/38339

Pros: Likely 1-shot KO hornet parries when I'm using lightning resin, meaning superior for invasions
Cons: Inferior moveset, slow, not that great in duels, roll catch is bad

I've been using build #2 for a while, collected 650ish tongues and I'm wondering if I should switch to shackles or create a new build
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Going for the last hero cosplay.
I'll be using the twin greatsword once I trudge through the game twice. Is there a better weapon for complying old king?
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>>146780624
Iunno man, after 27 you get minimal returns, albeit they are being inflated by LR and RoF, but still, it doesn't add much. You get like 100 hp for those 5 points.
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>>146778878

He was kinda disappointing for that reason. He'd be better if had a lot more health, wasn't parryable (blockable maybe with a heavy enough shield) and used magic more. Considering sulyvahn was a court sorcerer, the lack of magic in that fight was pretty surprising. Granted the clone thing was cool but in the end it actually hurt the fights difficulty more than it helped, considering it basically just told you what the actual pontiff was going to do a half second later.

Maybe the clone would have been less gimmicky if they made it so he couldn't be damaged while making the clone, his clone would die after 30 seconds and every successive summon brought in another clone, probably capping at 4 or 5.

I mean he's such a central figure to the plot you'd think he would have actually been difficult. All the bosses in this game were surprisingly easy desu.
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>>146780895
factually incorrect
after 27 you get great returns
40 is the softcap
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>>146780085
What's the rate for two-handing? I might be able to sacrifice an a lot for that.
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>SL 125 meta
Who started this meme?
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>>146781040
Also 50 is the sharpcap just FYI
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>>146781120

the first guy who realized he had to get dark sigils in ng++ when he was at 120
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>>146781040
We're talking about a twink, here.
22 to 27 you get 142 hp. 27 to 32 you get 92. That's almost a 50% drop.
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>>146780394
what would you recommend then
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>>146781120
People who are too ashamed to go to 142 but need an extra edge against 120.
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>>146781120
ds1 was 125 so ds3 should be 125 as well
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>>146779952
It's been tested and it applies to all weapons currently in use. They must have literally just copypasted the effect code from the rings.
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>>146781362
DS1 had awful PVP
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>>146781362
I was 135 in das1, I will make a 135 in das3.
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>>146781362
Pokémon can only go up to 100, I think that's why SL100 should be the meta.
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So, excluding pikes, GFS and DSS are tied for best reach right? Are all other spears weapons with the same lenght or there are still some smaller ones?
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Is Black Serpent any good?
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>>146779078
This is true. Every Souls game destroys my egos this way. It makes you think you're good by shitting on scrubs, then one day, all the scrubs leave and you become the scrub cuz' you aren't willing to drop 1000+ hours into PvP mastery.
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>>146780737
It wasn't, the downwards range for auto-summon covenants is even shorter. You went from 28 - 63 to 30 - 67.
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>>146780876
Who the fuck are you taking about
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What's the recommended INT level for the Moonlight Greatsword if I'm not interested in using any accompanying spells?
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Is the Exile GS worth upgrading?
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Currently bored with all of my builds.
What are some fun builds for Pvp? I don't really care what level.
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>>146782078
Sure, both Refined and Hollow are amazing quality builds
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I'm thinking of doing some classic Shinobi and Splatterhouse cosplay PVP videos, maybe Streets of Rage if I can figure that out.

For Shinobi it'd be pretty obvious, Shadow set, katana/maybe Chaos Blade, some pyromancy etc.

Splatterhouse would be the Exile Mask, beefy dude, shirtless, whatever the hollow pants are, deserters I think. Fist weapon.

For SoR, I'm drawing a blank.

What do y'all think?
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>>146782194
Pyro, Witch's Locks.
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>>146782194
Dsss
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Ugh, after going back to ds3 after awhile of playing the others, I'm quickly reminded that this entry easily has the most annoying enemies. Not difficult, just annoying. Most of them have movesets that are designed specifically to chase players. I really hate having to run past the enemies because they are trying so hard to catch you, the hollows are especially annoying because you have to hear them panting eagerly after you, like fucking autists

>>146782051
40
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>>146772147

>Profaned Aldia's Grave

Now that would have been an actual shocking and lore-relevant twist. I think it would take me a while to recover from reeling from the implications that would have.
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>the one mob that drops it comes after a guaranteed arbalest
>worse than the arbalest in every way except for niche min/max equip load
>rare drop off of one cathedral knight in the game, in a precarious spot that almost always requires you to drop down to loot him

This goofy shit kinda inspires me to make a build that only uses obscure/rare/extraneous weapons.
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>>146781319
No one does it for an extra edge lol
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>>146776847
does /dsg/ generally agree with this sort of thinking?

how are you ever going to play at the highest levels of competition if you always make these dumb rules and gimp yourself instead of trying to come up with the most efficient builds you can think of and countering other people's best builds and strategies? it's not fucking broken, it's part of the game. i don't get this shit, i hear it all the time when considering any good weapon or strategy in this (or other) games. makes me think of this desu: http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win

i know this anon is a scrub i'm just wondering what /dsg/ thinks about people using the best shit they can think of hoping to fight other people who are playing at their best, compared to gimping yourself and crying when people use good shit. use curved sword running attacks? you're an asshole. use astora gs 2h rolling r1's? you're cancer. actually git gud with dark sword r1's while being able to play around parrying? kill yourself, prick. offhand estoc? you're a piece of shit. etc.

every. fucking. time. like we should all fight each other with bare fists while naked or something, wtf?
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>there are people in this thread RIGHT NOW who have their brightness set to 10
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>>146782821
Pretty sure I've seen some streamers do it. Accommodating other weapons, new gear, extra stats for one handing certain weapons, they're all an extra edge regardless.
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>>146782843
/dsg/ naked fists only FC fucking WHEN
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>>146780051
Feel free to upgrade anything to +10 since large shards are easy to come by eventually.
The longsword is a bit low on the damage but it's a great weapon otherwise. Gather more weapons and try them out though.
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>>146782621
it's the best looking and it's had 2nd highest damage for good weight and stats req
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>>146781319
my 120 PvPer is at 125 only because i fucked up and waited until NG++ to do yuria shit and get her rings

it really doesn't make a big difference
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>>146778898

>Why 2 black flames?

GEE BILL
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>>146782504
They really should have stuck with the ds1 hollow design where they're flailing attacks make them almost immobile. It's annoying when three farvecocks spam that shit when you're using a slow weapon.
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>>146782843
>using the sirloin card in this broken mess of a game
granted, not even the games he used to reference in his blathering bullshit fits the bill but they were at least competitive in some sense. Applying ptw to das3 (or any souls game for that matter) just show how much of a tool you are, specially considering the gigantic amount of exploits you can use in the game to collect your Ws.
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>>146782993
I know, I do use it. It's definitely viable. It's just that the effort to get one is borderline ridiculous considering how well the arbalest or light crossbow work in its stead.
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>>146782843

Is that a real photograph?
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>>146782843
>http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win

QFT, thanks for this. Been looking for this article, saw it a long ass time ago, recognized it right away. Hope more people read it, it's really good for anyone who plays competitive games online like this.
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What weapons would he use?
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>>146783269
fuck off randy
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>>146783138
you sound butthurt, scrub.
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>>146783269
two dark swords
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>>146783187

>it's really good for anyone who plays competitive games online like this.

lmao

dark souls is not a competitive game

pvp is a side feature to waste time in, only autists take it seriously

everyone that "plays to win" plays real competitive games
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>>146783381
And you sound like a fighting game reject that barely got 2kpp on usf4 and can't leave silver in sfv.
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>>146783269
dragonslayer's axe and shield
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>>146783269

Lahey Knight Greatsword
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>>146783138
>A scrub is not just a bad player. Everyone needs time to learn a game and get to a point where they know what they're doing.
>The scrub mentality is to be so shackled by self-imposed handicaps as to never have any hope of being truly good at a game. You can practice forever, but if you can't get over these common hangups, in a sense you've lost before you even started. You've lost before you even picked which game to play.

>A scrub would disagree with this though. They'd say they are trying very hard. The problem is they are only trying hard within a construct of fictitious rules that prevent them from ever truly competing.

Sounds like he's describing you exactly, lol.
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>>146783269
Can we agree on the northern armour set?
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Why isn't there any good DaS3 PvP streams?
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>>146783597
>if you disagree with me ur wrong to be honest mate
sounds like something sirloin would write, yes.
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>>146782843
Hey buddy I think you got the wrong general, /fgg/ is three threads down
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>>146783602
>randy wearing a shirt
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>>146783602
>randy bobandy
>wearing a shirt
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>>146782843
I do, but most of /dsg/ falls into the scrub category by that article's definition, and they have been since DaS1.
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>>146783664
Souls games aren't fun to watch.
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>>146783756

But there are good DaS1 PvP streams.
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>>146783664
>good
>das3
>pvp
Gee, I dunno.
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>>146781580
SL100 is good because less decked out builds are more to battle out with.
>>146781507
Better than 2 and 3.
>>146781362
The stats work differently now so not necessarily. 125 was good because it allowed enough maxing out as well as combinations while being strong enough to take on higher level builds. 135 was mainly havelmom tryhards.
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>>146783430
Like what? DOTA? Counterstrike?

Not that guy but if so, no thanks. I don't have an adderall script and don't feel like dealing with br's.
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>>146783805
>backstab
>backstab
>backstab
>backstab
>backstab
amazing
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>>146783602
Set minus shirt then.
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>>146783861
Try playing 3rd strike on GGPO for a month.
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>>146783892
>scrub mentality
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>>146782437
what?
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>>146783892
B-b-b-but you can backstab in 5 different ways!
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>>146783951
Fightcade, whatever.
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>>146783680
>The problem is they are only trying hard within a construct of fictitious rules that prevent them from ever truly competing.

This is literally you.
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>>146783963
I'm fine with being a scrub if that means I don't have to watch your Backstab Simulator. To each their own, right?
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>>146783996
Dragonslayer swordspear
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>>146782843
Abusive and effective are very different things. Hornet havelmom beat 80-90% of players it encountered with just strafing for backstab. That doesn't make it a good build.
>it's not fucking broken
When it's obviously better than most anything in the game, it is broken. Sure you can use it, just don't expect to be taken seriously when you make a build around it.
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>>146783951
hey m8, you play 3rd strike on Fightcade? so do i and i want to play. You interested in a doing a set?
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>>146784093
Dude I've been over getting irritated by sirloins contrived bullshit 11 years ago. Go play a real competitive game if you want to suck his dick so much.
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Tell me your least favorite weapons and why.
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>>146784273
Dragonslayer Greataxe because overhead slams and no stance weapon art
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>>146784128
Oh okay thanks
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>>146784358
>stance

oh yeah, the boss does that. Fuck, that would have been cool.
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>>146784273
dark sword; terribly unbalanced, doesn't even require half a brain to use, attracts the most boring players to PvP with, etc.
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>>146784358
would have actually made it stand a chance in pvp, i think
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>>146784173
>The character Akuma in Super Turbo Street Fighter is a great example of that rare case. Akuma is a secret character, requiring a long, annoying code to even pick him. He's a boss character that was clearly not intended to be fair at all.

>Akuma is the best character in the game. That alone means nothing as far as banning; every game with characters has a best character. The problem is that Akuma is miles and miles and miles better than all other characters. He has a 9-1 or 10-0 matchup against every single character. It's very likely he's significantly more powerful (maybe by an order of magnitude) than any character in any game you've played. Just to give an example, he can use his red fireball repeatedly in such a way that you're stuck blocking until you die. You can even hold the joystick towards him and you're still stuck blocking it over and over. If you fixed that, he's still be 9-1 or 10-0 against everyone though.

>This example is so incredibly extreme, that the entire community immediately realized Akuma needed to be banned when the code to pick him was discovered. This isn't because the entire community was scrubs. It was because Akuma is more similar to a game-breaking bug than he is to an overpowered character.

So are you saying Hornet havelmom and likewise in OP's example, bloodring/leo gotthards are equivalent to Akuma?
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What's the best weapon for criticals in this game? Are daggers the best for this sort of thing or would lugging around something like Yhorm's Great Machete be best for super hi-damage backstabs/ripostes?
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>>146784546
How is it unbalanced? Oh. It's a bait.
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>>146783664
what about iSkys?
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>>146784667
Pretty much all ultra weapons with hornet just straight up oneshot anyone
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Cosplayed as Solaire this weekend

r8 me
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>>146784667
pretty sure smaller weapons have a faster BS animation.

for parrying...any ultraclass+hornet
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>>146784837
>no green
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>>146784827
Slow backstabs though? Or is that specific ultra weapons?
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>>146782843
no reason to tryhard
play the game for fun bud
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>>146784742
far too much damage in comparison to other weapons for far less stamina, discourages use of anything other than it because of the stats/reach/ease of use. your reply is very obviously bait but whatever
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>>146784571
The whole point of that is that sirlin was a fucking scrub to begin with, which is hilarious in retrospect. I've seen good players win with gief against akuma, even though it's supposed a 9:1 matchup back in the day. The best part of it all is that he tried to rebalance akuma himself in the HD remix version of ST and failed so horribly everyone made even more fun of him.

Bottomline he's a douchebag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnW_cy8VTAg
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>>146783951

What makes it an acceptable "competitive" game compared to stuff like dark souls?
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>>146784742
too much damage and range for straightsword speed and stamina consumption
>inb4 parry it
by that logic any parriable weapon is trash. this works well against spammers only
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>>146784837

You look 1,60m tall.

Are you a dwarf?
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>>146784927
You do realize that fun is subjective, right?
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>>146784898
Yeah I ordered felt to do the shoulderpads but it didn't arrive in time
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>>146784571
no
no
absolutely not
tanimura rush before monscim was akuma
30 second TWoP was akuma

gotthards are a balanced weapon with one good, though counterable move and a handful of neat tricks, not an ungodly powerful rape machine against which there is no defense
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>>146784917
Mainly just for ripostes, I don't think you should really bother backstabbing with them, only when the opportunity is there.
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>>146784949
>>146784940
I was a little aggressive. What about its moveset? Stomp and the R2's?
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>>146785081
>gotthards are a balanced weapon with one good, though counterable move and a handful of neat tricks, not an ungodly powerful rape machine against which there is no defense

I agree, which is why I think it's silly to get mad about it.
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>>146763541
>>146763562
>>146763667
>>146764209
>>146764662

I made it to Orbit and found the heretic staff but it requires faith. Is it worth using or will I be finding something better than starter staff soon? I don't want to waste upgrade materials.


What are the better spells for pve? I bought greater soul arrow but it cost almost twice as much mana as soul arrow and only does about 10% more damage or something. It doesn't really seem like it's worth it. I can see that it's still much faster than heavy soul arrow and cost same mana but the damage isn't much better than soul arrow.
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>>146784947
Better balance, comprehensive mechanics from the get go, no exterior rules (no healing, fox only, oolacile), no glitches to abuse (waiting on that one fag to point out that street fighter 2 special cancelling was a glitch).
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>>146785106
it's not really to do with the moveset being spectacular. moreso the sheer amount of AR it gets just for existing with base and scaling leagues above most other weapons, including heavier/ultra weapons that should be doing more far more damage per hit than dark sword due to high stamina cost/windup.
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>>146770968
I actually found BoC challenging and intense as shit, only died once to her on my very first playthrough.

As long as you move slow and block her attacks with a shield, theres no trial and error - only intense slow walking, while adapting to the changing boss arena and boss moves.

Not a terrible boss at all. I personally found centipede to be much worse due to the wonky camera (when locked-on due to jumping, without lock-on due to the wall) and it's model being so over the top you could never tell what was happening.
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>>146784927
What if you find try harding to be fun?
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>>146784837
>cloth over chain
betty gud. most poeple forget it's supposed to be armor covered with a shirt, not a straight up shirt
the metal parts however look too plasticy
sword looks wrong
no shield
no green
no plate boots
armguards too long
shitty faether
belt too high
5.5/10
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>>146785461
Tryharding in Dark Souls is equivalent to tryharding in League of Legends, which in turn is the equivalent of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7gby5yqTQ
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>>146784571
No, it's not that extreme. Hornet havelmom's problem is that it's extremely low risk vs very high reward with the only real tradeoff being the rare few players who can actually counter that build.
Gotthard's has exactly one out-of-place move that's far easier to land than pretty much any other move in the game that also has very high damage that is low risk to do. Even estoc pokes are slower and don't do as much damage, but it's still a good weapon thanks to still being in the higher tier speed as well as the obvious advantages of thrust damage.
They rolled at least three advantages to that one attack on an already good weapon. It is not excessively overpowered, but it is poorly balanced, and that's just stupid because it would be very easy to fix while still keeping that build effective and competitive.
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>>146784927
what if I have fun tryinghard, anon? coming up with the most powerful setup i can think of is one of the most fun things for me in pvp in this game, especially in duels where i can try to think of the most effective powerful way to use any given weapon in the game and make it work well and win a lot in any situation.

i mean i'd do that in invasions too if there were more than like 2-3 ways you can effectively gank spank, but there isn't. it's like, straightsword parry fishing with yhorm's machete ripostes, sellsword DMB, and maybe 1-2 other things that one shot people or are at least so broken that you can possibly get away with winning the war of attrition (i'm thinking something like bloodring astora gs 2H rolling r1's for days where it's very hard to get hit even though you don't one shot people).
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>>146785248
it's perfectly understandable to get mad at boring scrubs who only, only use rolling L1
that's not even playing to win
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>>146784546
But the Dark Sword is only effective against retards and generally bad players.

>>146785614
You didn't answer the question.
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>>146785106
they are shit but the r1s are all you need
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>>146785715
If you have fun swimming in shit, it's fine. Just be aware that you are swimming in shit, nothing else.
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>>146785715
okay? doesn't change my mind about being one of my least favorite weapons
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>>146785498
That's okay, it was my first try so hopefully I can perfect it for next time
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>>146785646

That's probably just going to end up getting parried, though. It's like saying it's understandable to get mad at dark sword R1 spammers.
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>>146785461
>>146785641
u do u buds
i play vidya to relieve daily stress
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>>146785910
>tfw no qt quelana cosplayer gf
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>>146785750
Maybe, but it's ar can't be that much higher than other straight swords with better movesets? I think you are pointing to the weaknesses of the ultras rather than specifically the dark swords strength?
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>>146782849
no one has their brightness set to 10 unless they wear sunglasses inside. In that case they are also retarded and who's to judge any action of a retarded person in the privacy of their own home besides their wrangler
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>>146785715
> Dark Sword is only effective against retards and generally bad players.
> Arguably the best SS in the game is only good against bad players
Ya, the 2h darksword is shit, the WA is shit, the R2 shit, everything but the 1h r1 is shit but it's all you need.

ok Lucifer
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>>146785976
so do i, and i have fun winning. especially when i actually run into other competitive players, it can be very thrilling, or someone who pulls off some shit i haven't really run into much and might not know how to counter yet with my current setup.

killing random scrubs is pretty good for stress relief while i wait for actually competitive players, though. it's almost meditative after awhile, you get into a rhythm, which a good player will end up breaking. i like the feeling of the rhythm being broken, too, when you're suddenly like "oh fuck" and realize you actually have to pay attention or you're going to lose.
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>putting sign don for dragonslayer armour because souls and medals for oath
>every host summons at least me and one other, making the fight take much longer
>most hosts and phantoms just get demolished by the butterflies anyway
i thought people would know how to fight him by now
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>>146784546
I dislike the Dark Sword, not because I'd have trouble facing it in battle but because it being there discourages myself from using other straight swords, so I'll never play long enough to figure out effective ways to use anything but R1 and trick parrybaiters into dying in embarrassing ways.

It's the same problem as with Balder Side Sword. The weapon itself is mostly fine, it's just that I really wanted to use broad- and longsword but the damage just isn't good enough and I have an alternative that's always better.

Build variety is one of the biggest draws of this game and this concept shits on it completely. It simply makes the game worth less.
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>>146784531
you keep posting webms where you are fighting invalids. The only thing I'm impressed by is how many legitimate mongoloids you capture on film
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>>146786216
No, because of a simple rule. Every host that summon more than one phantom is braindead
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>>146786020
the most damaging ss normally is broadsword, which is quite short. darksword is more damaging than that while also being really long
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>>146785923
yes, that was my point by "that's not even playing to win"
it is
it is BORING and frustrating to deal with even if you're stomping them

>>146786240
> the damage just isn't good enough
longsword and broadsword infinite 2hr2 stunlock isn't good enough?
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>>146786369
I uh... think you meant to quote someone else
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What's subjectively the best starting class and gift in ds3?
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>>146785784
>Anything you like is shit, but everything I like is awesome so that means I win!

Are you 12?

>>146785842
So stop whining about it. If you don't like it then don't use it. Let other people worry about what they use. Whining about it isn't going to make them stop using it.

If you want them to stop then just start beating their asses when they do. If you absolutely crush them every time they try to use it then they will stop using it. Crying about it online just makes it seem like you are actually getting your ass beat by it instead but are trying to cover that up and save face by just claiming to not like it instead.

>>146785976
Who doesn't? But for some of us, we don't like having our hands held and being patted on the heads telling us how good we are. We actually want a challenge. We want to play to win and play against other people with the same mentality because it is more fun when you are constantly pushing one another to get better rather than holding yourselves back. At the end of the day, it makes you both better players.

>>146786028
I use the Lothric Knight Sword and the AGS. I have never lost to a Dark Sword. The only thing that it has going for it is its R1, and only a retard would get hit by that more than once.
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>invade Crucifixion Woods
>see a watchpuppy get summoned in at the same time
>we wave at each other, then run for the host
>"summoning mad dark spirit..."
>wait, no
>he can't be that stupid
>arrive to see the host
>he is that stupid
>Hodrick spawns in
>watchpuppy and I look at each other
>we both sit down to watch the show
And that's how I saw Grandad Hodrick carefully construct several new arseholes each for a host and his two phantoms.
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>>146786507
>longsword and broadsword infinite 2hr2 stunlock isn't good enough?
Because what is toggling? Any opponent worth anything can do it.
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>>146786369
meant for >>146786004
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>>146786563
>Are you 12?
I'm not the one taking a shitty online game seriously. Given most of league of legends playerbase is around that age, and they do act as pathetic as you do, I'd say you're the candidate to be 12 here.
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>>146786553
Young white branch. It's a special version you can't find in the game.
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>>146785614
>>146785976
see
>>146771165
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>>146786579
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>>146786563
>So stop whining about it. If you don't like it then don't use it.
i gave a reply to answer a post asking me what my least favorite weapon is and why. it was not unsolicited. you should stop sperging out and making it look like you actually use that thing
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>>146786553
Knight. No question. 100% shield, near softcapped absorption armor, reliable straight sword, no wasted points in Luck, high base defense thanks to VIT + STR starting high.

Young white branch is nice because it counts as the Giant's peace treaty.
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>>146786240
>It's the same problem as with Balder Side Sword.
Wut? The Lothric Knight Sword is basically the BSS of DaS3. Stop being a sheep and only using the Dark Sword because you were told it was the best.

>>146786553
Knight + fire gem

>>146786727
>continues to use logical fallacies as if to make a point
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>>146786869
>continues to greentext because can't cope with facts
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your top 3 badass bosses

1. Nameless King
2. Champ Gundyr
3. Yhorm
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>>146786563
>whining about it
They were asked what their least favorite weapon was and they answered with it, dingus.
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>yfw playing the game and using all the means available to you is tryharding, meaning you aren't having real FUN
>people are still using the "I'm using an inferior weapon, that means I'm having FUN and if I lose that's only because of my weapon and if I win it means I'm a billion times better than you because my weapon is BAD"

I don't even know why they call it tryharding-- it's literally just playing the game. You create the strongest possible build, fight others, come up with counters to builds that defeat yours, switch weapons based on what you're fighting, ect.

I don't get how it's more fun to simply do the same thing over and over with no goal in mind; most weapons within a class have the same moveset anyway. How is it more fun to use shitty weapons and use non-optimal attacks for certain situations?

Isn't it more fun to perfect your play? Defeat people without getting hit because you did everything right, learn counters to certain weapons, ect

It seems like people who say they're "playing for fun" are just defending their ego. You don't like the idea that other people have fun in a different manner from you and you also don't like losing. If you didn't mind losing, you wouldn't bitch about tryhards.

I don't even play DS3 anymore as the game is stale to me now(done practically everything, used every weapon, fought against every weapon, killed every boss a billion times), but yeah. Souls PvP has shit balance, but you can still tell who's "good" and who isn't at a certain point.

Then there's people like this guy >>146785614
who try to bait every LoL/DotA 2/Starcraft thread
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>tfw no option to see people's platform username AND their character name
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>>146786790
Why would you even swing a second time with a sword that slow?

>>146786861
>>146787039
I don't mind that you dislike it. That is fine. I am talking about your "justifications" for not liking.
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>>146786004
meant for >>146785405
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>caster playthrough with no upgraded weapons yet in crucifixion words
>get invaded by some edge lord try hard mound maker.
>I'm poisoned so he can easily find me, it's clear that I'm out of estus since I'm under half health, and to top it off I'm out of mana
>guy is literally mashing r1 at me and I can't do any thing really since I'm at half health, with low vigor since caster, and no melee stats or upgraded melee weapon yet
>faggot has the nerve to spam clap over my body


OK this character is becoming a dedicated gank squad captain now.
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>>146782194
It's not the most optimized but I've had a lot of fun with this build. Swap the leo to hornets and grab a parry tool if you want to do some parries. Alternative weapons are a crystal Washing Pole and the MLGS. The falchion is simple infused and works surprisingly well with the handmaid's dagger in the left hand, both of which can pretty much negate the cost of the great farron dart, which hits hard for what it is and is geat in 1 on 1 fights. You could also jsut pump some stats to hit 120 if you're not into sl99 like me.
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Could I still turn into a dragon If hawkwood is gone?
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>>146782843
I find more amusement in inconveniencing other people than in treating netplay in a poorly balanced rpg like it's some highly competitive fighting game.

Duels are just an aberrant cyst growing off of the core pvp mechanic of invading, and the core concept behind invading is disrupting someone's gameplay and deriving joy from it. It just sop happens that duelfags have become so autistic and so obsessive over petty things like meta and competition that they've become the easiest demographic of players to inconvenience and make upset. The marks of a tryhard are the marks of a manchild, because it seriously takes some developmental deficiency to take dueling seriously enough to bother with it.

afking in someone's world while I enjoy playing a better game in another window, have a nice long fap, go outside and get some fresh air, or watch an episode of something or some movie is literally the least effort I can possibly put in, and it's miraculous how incredibly upset it makes you smashfags.
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what is a good spot to invade from in upper blighttown? from the bonfire i spawn in the pit with the moving bridge
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>>146787109
that it's boring? and it attracts boring players? i don't see why you take issue with this unless you think it's fun to fight these braindead idiots.
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>>146787140
Do whatever you want senpai, Hawkwood ain't the boss of you
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>>146787130
don't give in to the cancer just because someone decided to be a raging faggot
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>>146787070
>using weapons you read in a guide/tier list is not tryharding

I s-swear I'm no tryharding g-guys.
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>>146786747
>>146786863
Thanks, will do
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>summoned for dragon armour
>host, a sorcerer, tries to shoot at armour through the fog as if it were the maneaters fog gate
this has gotten me curious, are there any bosses that you can attack through or around their fog gate?
i know you can do it for a few with the teardrop glitch
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>>146787278
I never mentioned a guide/tier list anywhere, though. And anyway, I'd assume most people don't find "OP weapons" from a guide/tier list, but they find it because they duel and they switch to what they lost to. "Oh fuck, that guy just fucked me in the ass. I wonder what weapon that is? Okay, it's a halberd. It's black. Let's go on the wiki and look at which halberds are black. You have the BKG. Then you use said weapon that shit on you until something else defeats you and you switch.
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>>146787070
I like gimping myself with sub-optimal weapons to improve.
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Is this any good?
https://www.mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/49139
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>>146782348
like this?
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>>146787541
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXbAuORSxQ you sound exactly like this faggot.
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Why can't I just force feed Horace or Anri a purging stone?
Why can't I just give Hawkwood the dragon stones?
Why can't I just toss the Profaned Flame into the First Flame?
What was the point of killing the potential Lords of Cinder, really, when you can't burn?
Why would Yhorm, a nice guy who fought for his friends, refuse to sacrifice himself to save everyone?
What was the purpose of shoving the dying First Flame into yourself?
How does the First Flame even have that much of an effect on the entire world if merely picking it up off the bonfire causes it to die?
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>>146787070
>It seems like people who say they're "playing for fun" are just defending their ego.

Bingo.

>>146787221
>dark sword; terribly unbalanced, doesn't even require half a brain to use
^this just makes it sound like you are getting your asses kicked by it. It only works against retards so if you are losing to it when it is being wielded by someone with only half a brain . . .

>>146787541
This. Me personally though, I tend to just find a new weapon, equip it, try out all the attacks, then upgrade it and try it out if I think the moveset would be particularly effective in PvP.
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>>146786969
1. nameless king
2. nameless king
3. nameless king
i fucking love this guy
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What's a good raw weapon to throw crystal magic weapon on?
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If only Wolnir wasn't such a pushover that such a cheese was valuable
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>>146787717
He's right, though.
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>>146787739
i never said i lost to it. the unbalanced and ease of use bit is lending itself to idiots gravitating towards it because of that, making for extremely unengaging fights. the way you try to insist i lose to it just because i don't like it is pretty embarrassing.
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>>146787892
Fuck off, Jund.
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>>146787846
explain
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>>146787997
It's Mr.Jund to you, faggot.
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>>146787717
Why don't these people play an actual competitive game or fighting game
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>>146787685
Everyone I have seen do that just uses that as an excuse to shield their pride. Like the other person pointed out, whenever they lose, they just say shit like, "well, that doesn't really count as a lose. I totally would have won if I have been using a good weapon."

>>146787895
That you insist that it is incredibly unbalance and get so defense about it is a pretty good indicator that you do lose to it. Considering how easy it is to beat if you don't run into the R1s, no one that has no problems beating it would consider it unbalanced.
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>>146787775
Scimitar is a good choice, its minimum requirements are very close to the sorcerers beginning str and dex. And its pretty fast which is the point of applying buffs.
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>>146787730
Yhorm forsakes his duty as a Lord of Cinder because when he linked the fire the first time, everyone died but him. He didn't want to do it again.
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>get up to 9 souvenirs of reprisal in tomb of the giants with almost no problem
>suddenly can't find any more invasions
>try sen's fortress, find one invasion and accidentally fall to my death immediately after spawning in
>can't find another invasion in either area for 30 minutes now
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>>146787070
It just so happens that most of the weapons I actually like do shit damage. I keep using them because they're fun and maybe one day I'll git gud enough to actually kill someone. I don't mind losing at all, it's just a little silly when someone uses buffs/grass against you when you're barehanded.
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>>146788205
Because Dark Souls is the only game they can thrive because the dark souls community isn't that much about trying hard, very different from fighting game communities. If they ever delve into fighting games competitively, they would pick the top tier character and never leave the mid tier rankings (happened with oroboro in MK10 and so on).
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>>146787717

I wonder how he doesn't get bored fighting these retards all day. You don't need a meta weapon to beat most people in this game. He should play a fighting game or play against some of the DaS1 masters.
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>>146788164
Give him mercury poisoning before he turns on the lights.
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>>146773520
Any reason he has the same chestplate as soul of cinder?
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>>146788205
1. They suck at fighting games/competitive games(though "competitive" is subjective, nearly any game with good balance can be considered competitive. A lot of people consider League of Legends competitive, a lot don't. Many people say simple mobas in general aren't competitive, only higher apm games like Starcraft are)
2. They enjoy Dark Souls and want to utilize everything in the game.
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>>146788448
He didn't even show up to the fisto tourney, right? Didn't see him in the end brackets.
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>>146788516
Hes a Lord, think about it.
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>>146786869
If lothric had more range it would be as good as BSS. But it doesn't have quite the range.

Dark sword bigger, just as fast, and better wa. Dark sword stronk
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>>146788257
>incredibly unbalance
>get so defense

look at you. you can hardly even type. all i've been doing is defending my right to dislike it while also not losing to it. but this is seemingly impossible for you to grasp.

while you're going to ignore that above bit because you have nothing to add other than "b-but you lose to it!", i'll add that the unbalanced bit is in reference to other weapons and SS, hence, a balance. there's little reason to use other SS than it. anyways, it's tiring having to talk to a child like you. pretty ridiculous how invested you are in my dislike of the dark sword.
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>>146788556

I can't say for sure, didn't watch all the fights. Didn't see him there anyway.
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>>146788516
Yhorm gave him a part of himself when he linked the fire. He's also probably the strongest Lord we meet in the game so his essence influenced Soul pretty hard.
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I WANT ANOTHER EVENT LIKE THE GLADIATOR ONE

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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ITT: /dsg/ has a "tryhard" event

What would happen? I'm thinking everybody is going to run greatshield regen builds
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>>146787717
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXbAuORSxQ

That guy makes a lot of good points though.

>>146788706
I prefer the LKSw WA, plus you can just beat out the Dark Sword R1s with its pokes.
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>>146788257
It's not about Dark Sword being too hard, it's the innate power of it drawing a shitter crowd and making for fights that are painfully easy. How are you so dense? Oh, right, you're a tripfag.
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Guys, I have a question about Dark Souls 2.

The Throne of Want : does "want" here means "desire" or "willpower"? In French, it's translated as Trône du Désir, but I always believed it was Trône de Volonté.
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>>146787468
I guess so. Some guy in solaire cos summon me once for dragon slayer and when I spawn in the host was outside the fog gate but somehow dragons layer was aggro and swinging at us.

I just went through the gate and basically solo him and the host didn't even come in until I had him under 35% health
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>>146788828
Pope has actually been most fun so far.
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>>146788916
SL120
dark sword only
finial destination
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>>146788916
A bunch of retards will show up with estoc turtle builds. Smart players will show up with dark infused weapons with regen miracles. Also a lot of hollow onidachis.
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>>146789035
lucy would show up by himself
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>game with almost 200 weapons
>~5 of them are so good, so incredibly imbalanced and dominate, that nothing outside that 5 is usable against someone using one of the 5
>faggots would rather play in a meta where the only thing anyone uses is those 5 and there's no variety or diversity, over a meta where those 5 are systematically excluded and almost 200 weapons are all used instead
I don't understand the thought process behind this.
Are these the same people that play MMOs and grind the same thing for 19 hours a day, or play fighting games and repeat the same button sequence in training mode hundreds of thousands of times a sitting?

How can a minority of mentally-ill players that obsessively, compulsively perform repeating actions be permitted to influence the actions and policies of the mentally healthy majority that enjoy different, changing and varied experiences?

Is this some paradigm borrowed from games like super smashbros, where pandering to the autistic is glorified as the pinnacle of competition? Why would someone seek out a game, the very selling point of which is its varied and diverse array of weapons, builds and playstyles, if they just wanted safe and mindless task repetition? Hell, why would you seek out a game explicitly not balanced for competitive play, and which forces all player-to-player interactions to be mediated by netplay and thus subject to the extreme random variance and outcome-deciding inconsistency of netcode and latency.

There are few games more poorly suited to serious, competitive attitudes than dark souls pvp, yet it's somehow fostered an infestation of these developmentally challenged competitors and, what's worse, they're somehow taken seriously.
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>>146788930
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>>146788992
i had a lot of fun with it but the majority of the community seemed to hate it... or is just dead because it only lasted a few hours, while the gladiator event lasted the majority of those 2 days.
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>>146788930
It draws sheep because people hear that it is the best and believe it without ever questioning it. If you really cared about changing that perception then you would welcome fighting them and just beat their ass into the dirt in such a one-sided fashion every time that you fought that they would eventually abandon the weapon for good.

>>146789169
That's not even my trip code.
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>>146789121
>I don't understand the thought process behind this.
PLAY TO WIN MUH SIRLIN SAID SO STOP BEING A SCRUB SCRUB TAKE THE GAME SERIOUSLY
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>>146789220
the problem was people assumed it would suck so only a handful showed up. they missed out.
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>>146787730
>Why can't I just force feed Horace or Anri a purging stone?
Because they never ask for it.
>Why can't I just give Hawkwood the dragon stones?
He wants to settle this through a duel and you can lose and he will take the second stone for himself.
>Why can't I just toss the Profaned Flame into the First Flame?
Because they are one and the same.
>What was the point of killing the potential Lords of Cinder, really, when you can't burn?
To make you a vessel for their cinders allowing you to link the flame.
>Why would Yhorm, a nice guy who fought for his friends, refuse to sacrifice himself to save everyone?
All of lords of cinders are going mad after revival and trying to return back to the lands most precious to them or to their duties.
>What was the purpose of shoving the dying First Flame into yourself?
Even if it's dying it has incredible power making you probably stronger than any god.
>How does the First Flame even have that much of an effect on the entire world if merely picking it up off the bonfire causes it to die?
Because it needs fuel to burn, duh.
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>>146762356
>these bullies picking on the unkindled one for his religious beliefs
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>>146789265
:^)
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>>146788828
Why not just make a second round of gladiator even then?
You still have the characters, you can organize it right now if there's enough people for at least one host.
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>>146788205
They aren't good enough to thrive in a properly competitive environment, so they stick to being the big fish in a little pond by approaching casual competition with the attitude that one would approach a fighting game tournament with.

It's like the people who play mario party "competitively" and masturbate over their ability to beat children at a children's game.
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>>146789265
Who's to say people don't already do that? Why is that mutually exclusive with wanting a more interesting fight? It fucking isn't.
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>>146789121
>200 weapons
Except' the vast majority of these weapons are copies of other weapons in the same class. Same moveset, but different damage/reach. So instead of saying "almost 200" weapons, you should be saying 20ish~ weapon classes.

Let's there is.... 5 weapon classes that are completely unviable/are sidearms. Then you simply pick the best for YOU in each weapon class for a variety of 15 weapons.
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>Iudex Gundyr gives less souls than the crystal lizard before him
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Every day we are reminded of how easily Lucy's idiocy surfaces. Amen.
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>>146764041
What about tits McGee
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>mfw das3 teardrop speedruns
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>>146789538
he doesn't even have a soul anymore after you've raped him in the past
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>>146789279
People didn't show up because the general is, by and large, against ganking, and all that even was was an organized gank.

>>146789452
Because those same people tend to complain about every "meta" weapon, not just dark swords. After awhile you just come to realize that they are just bitching about things that they lose to.
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>>146789538
You took all of Gundyr's souls when you killed him in the past. As Iudex (eg. as a corpse being animated and controlled by the Pus of Man that was placed inside of him) he gives the same number of souls as the Pus of Man enemies on the high wall.

Gundyr is just an empty shell at that point; there's no soul or power left in it, just a dark parasite using the husk as a puppet.
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>>146786969
Sully and NK are defintiely top three but it's too close between SoC and Champ gundyr

I know that SoC is pretty fucking easy even on + cycles especially solo, but the first time he parried me... I was dodging his curved sword stage perfectly and just absolutely working his ass over. He was stunned and I knew I could beat the rest of his hp out of him while he was down and out of fucking nowhere he parried me.

Next thing I knew i was ten feet off the ground, dead body hanging from his sword and THAT was fucking badass
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>>146789735
"b-but you lose to it! because i said so!"

fucking called it
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Do people not invade Settlement anymore?
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>>146789681
Are you playing on LAN or something.... Is this a perfect bizzaro world?
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>>146789743
> he gives the same number of souls as the Pus of Man enemies on the high wall
Huh, neat, never noticed that before
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>>146789279
It was just a weak concept.

Making builds in DaS3 isn't as enjoyable as previous games so making a character specifically for an event with a weak concept that doesn't seem very interesting just sounds like too much effort.

Plus this whole policy of forcing an event through every 2 weeks via proxypolls kills interest. When an event isn't a /dsg/ discussion and just one autist forcing his shit through, it generates less hype, and when he's been doing it on a constant, frequent schedule since launch, events lose their novelty and just becomes more noise in the general.
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>>146785264
Heretic staff it's the second best staff in DS3. The best one is Court Sorcerer that you get at Profaned Capital, on a mimic iirc. PvE spells basically Great Heavy Soul Arrow. You can use hidden body to pass zones fast, farron flashsword is p good, soul Greatsword is okay. Deep Soul and Great Deep Soul are better than I expected (fast cast, okay damage and decent tracking + dark damage I think). I don't really use more than that atm
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>>146789743
>>146789960
Bullshit, gundy gives 3k
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>>146789638
Das 2 still owns the title of off the walls nuts
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>Dark Souls 1 PVP areas
Undead Burg
Oolacile
Undead Parish

>Dark Souls II PVP areas
Iron Keep Bridge
Arena
Snow DLC bridge thing I cannot remember the name of

>Dark Souls III PVP areas
Pontiff's


Why does DaS III have one pvp area
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>>146788828
we might as well since every other possible idea is going to be shit
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>>146790062
Soniculars were the best
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>>146790074
because people are idiots, there are 3 perfectly fine areas. Highwall, Anor Londo and Pontiffs. Hell, even settlement before the gate is pretty neat.
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>>146790074
No DLC yet
we should name some good areas for pvp.
For one profaned capitol bonfire is great.
The bonfire before undead legion was good and had active pvp in the first week or two.
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>>146790114
Maybe we could just give events a rest for a little while. Rather than doing one just for the sake of doing one, and recycling old concepts for lack of a better one, we could just wait until a good idea crops up and there's definite interest outside of just the same group of fc regulars.
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>>146789538
>makuwauri's Doremy
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>>146790074
>Tfw can't use boss areas for pvp
I wish we could have a fightclub in Yhorms arena.
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>>146790074
you forgot high wall
and right after release a room before rosaria's chamber was pretty popular as well, shame there's a lot of enemies there, i loved that comfy place
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>>146789898

I do, always.
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>>146790074
literally only needs one unless you want to fracture the community and slow down connectivity.
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ds1 question
can I turn a dragon weapon into a divine weapon?
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>>146762554
If you PvP stop at 98 (I guess).
Arcane is fun mode.
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>>146790779
no
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hehe
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>>146790781
>stopping at another retarded meta that will still force you to play with sl140
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>>146790908
it will usually end with blueberry being raped by reds and dogs
and this ain't even the best hiding spot
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>>146790908

if only i could do this at ng10 and level 25 and watch people get one shot by the exiles
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Trying to beat King of the Storm/Nameless King with Dex, was using an estoc but it's seriously painful trying to score a hit on that fucking dragon (or maybe I am in need of some gitgud).

What's a good dex weapon I can try instead of a thrusting sword? I have 18 STR 32 DEX.
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>>146791096
Lucerne
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>>146791062
>ng10
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>>146791150
Hmm, that certainly has a good reach. Should I 10+ it?
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>>146791096
get carthus curved sword and some carthus rouge
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>>146791096
a katana
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>>146762554
Shooting dogs sends them flying back and knocks them down.
Don't dodge backwards; many enemies are set up to punish it. Instead try to get to their side or behind them instead.
Guns are used to parry.
Bloodtinge or Arcane builds should be avoided on your first playthrough. Str or Str-leaning Quality (50/25) is the ideal build for a first playthrough.
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>>146791229
Do you want to do damage or are you just extremely patient?
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>>146791229
+9 it, save the slab.
Dragon is the easy part of the fight, it doesn't have much health and can be riposted when you git the head enough. You can swap back to your estoc for phase 2.
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>>146790030
OK thanks guess I'll level faith and use this staff until i find better
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i'm a pyro/knight. i have a refined claymore. should i make it raw to get the most of my buffs and respec my str/dex to its requirements? or stick with what i got.
just got this game, only played das2 before.
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>>146791323
Okay I get your point. I might leave it at +9 because slabs are rare as fuck.
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>>146791096
I beat the living fuck out of him fist phase katana second phase bandit knife.
no joke like 1:30 min fight
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>>146790386
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>DS2 Scholar edition
>Be Sunbro
>In the Grave of the Saints
>Suddenly get summoned as a gray spirit
The fuck?
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>>146791365
I'm sure it's better quality with those stats then it is raw. Flamberge or ASS is the weapons you want Raw

>>146791460
Rat Cov my man
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>>146791335
Heretics staff doesn't require faith.
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>>146791401
You can get 8 per ng, 7 as treasure and because siegwards's quest can be done with every character 1 from him.
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>>146791491
I am not a member.

I didn't even beat the vanguard yet.
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>>146791365
I would say switch it out for an Astora Great Sword and and make the AGS chaos.
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>>146791430
The timing on the 2nd phase fucks me up. I have beaten the dragon before, but it's like that faggot Drake Knight in DS2 who has endless stamina and just keeps hammering with his stupid fucking mace.

>>146791460
You are the one being 'invaded' (as a guest, not host)
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>tfw love the farron meme sword
>it's shit against non retards

thanks for the fun, A-Team.
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>>146791572
I meant members of that covenant are summoning you my man
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>>146791572
Such innocence.
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>>146791572
Rat covenant members summon you into their world to run their gauntlet.
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>>146791634
unlock and just slip and slide all over the place
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>>146791574
can you buff chaos weapons? even then i can't even use chaos gems yet for some reason
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>>146791494
Oh I think my strength is what I need
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>>146791586
I get it now.
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>the black knight staring at gwynevere's painting
kek
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>>146791774
Their placement of gems and coals and the fact that you can't buy gems even at end game is terrible.
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>>146791815
That's sad man. No kek
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>>146791815
>See message in front of painting
>Beating to a pulp
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>>146791062
You can with CE

I got summoned at SL25 as a grapist to help a host out with his two phantoms in what seemed like NG+7. Dogs had 1k hp and one stray swipe from a farmer killed half my hp
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>>146791815
>Kill that Silver K***ht
>Stare at the painting for amazing chest
>Get shot in my ass

Fuck you Big M
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>>146791774
>can you buff chaos weapons?
No, but they scale very well with int and faith, which pyromancy scales from as well.
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>>146791783
Strength doesn't influence the spellbuff. If you don't meet its strength requirements, it only means you can't bash people with it. Bashing with a staff is worthless anyway.
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>>146791774
You can't buff chaos weapons
You find your first chaos gem about halfway through the game and the other at the very end. There are only 2 guaranteed as loot per playthrough, and any more have to be farmed from enemies.

You can use chaos gems after acquiring one of the Coals, relatively deep into the game. You can't miss it, but you won't find it for a while.
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is there a fc up right now?
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>>146792189
No. Go make one.
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I'm trying to PvP in Townshit but people keep disconnecting outta nowhere. I also get the message 'sent home by summoner' even if I'm an invader.

any idea what's going on? connection issues or a hack I'm not aware of?
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Any advice on how to get fan mail on PC/steam? What do I need to do to get people friend requesting me to cuss me out or otherwise send me messages somehow?
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>>146792097
American I missing something? Wiki says that arch deacon and izalith have higher spell buff than court sorcerer.

Doesn't spell buff determine the damage of my spells?
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>>146792074
>>146792097
thanks yall this game is weird as fuck
think ill stick to my claymore till i can find the coal
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>>146792675
You must be the biggest faggot alive
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>>146793018
Holy shit.
I don't even know where to start making fun of you. This is like when an elite hitter gets a fat BP fastball and he panics because he doesn't expect it.
Did you even read the post? Is your reading comprehension the lowest level possible? Clinically Retarded? Autistic? Drunk? Vision Impaired? Trolling? TDK? Distracted by your own small penis?
I am at a loss. It's like you read the first word of my post, made up your own idea of what the post was going to be, and then just posted what ever shit came out of your ass first. HURR. HURR. DURR.

You should stop posting. Forever. Turn off your computer, unplug it forever, and just walk away. Just walk away.

Dumbest post I've read all year. By far. I honestly believe you don't deserve to breathe anymore. You should be locked in a room, and hooked up to an oxygen machine. Except this machine hold out, giving you no oxygen until the last possible second and you wail and gasp in pain, and gives you a tiny amount, before starting the torturous process all over again. Don't worry, it won't effect your brain like it would normal people who aren't fucking retarded.

Please do us all a favor and take a knife or pen, whatever you can find with a point, and push it up into your jugular vein. You need to stick that so far into your neck that it comes out the top of your head. You are the stupidest fucking moronic retard I've ever seen post on here and the world would be a better place if you weren't in it. I wish I could go back in time and abort you by finding your mother and kicking her down the stairs, stomping on her stomach and making her drink bleach. Never, ever post here again you stupid cunt muscle.
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>>146792675
After collecting 600 tongues with a carthus curved sword + rouge, I am at a loss.
I don't think I could have been a bigger faggot even if I tried, but I received not a single bit of fanmail. The one friend request I got was a host asking me to help him with a boss after the invasion.

Maybe if you went to pontiff's and started chugging in duels or running into the level to hide or something.
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>>146793125
>getting played at your own game this badly
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>>146793125
what pasta is this
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I miss frenzy
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>>146793224
>one night with onidachi in lothric castle getting buffed by clerics and oneshotting cunts trying to win medals for muh 420 praise le sun covenant
>only 4 fanmails
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>>146793550
it's still in the game
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>>146792675
I play on PS4, where it's infinitely more easy to rage at someone after they clown on you, and I've still never gotten hatemail after 300+ invasion kills.

Gotten a few nice messages after helping people though,
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Is the Bloodlust katana good? just offered 10 vertebra shackels and got this weapon.

The weapon art is quite the oddball and the buff doesnt seems to last for long.
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>>146793972
No it's bad
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>>146793972
It's usable by virtue of being a katana, but is among the worst in its class.
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>>146794005
>>146794078
what a waste, i really liked the design. I guess ill throw it on my "fun pvp" list
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>>146794078
nothing can be worse than darkdrift
nothing
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>>146794315
b-but NOTHING CAN DEFEND
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>>146789121
I'm surprised nobody has seriously responded to you yet; it's pretty good bait on the opposite end of the spectrum.
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>>146794375
darkdrift actually got it's shield poke damage nerfed
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>>146794423
you're kidding.
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>>146792675
>>146793224
>>146793745
I think most of the community has just figured out that there's no way to send hatemail and not come across like a giant crybaby bitch.
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>>146794505
i was wrong it didn't get nerfed but it deals pathetic damage for a shield bypass on greatshields
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>>146794505
Its WA used to pierce shields for 100% damage.
Now it pierces for 30%, making it weaker than the standard shield-splitter WA and the single worst shield-piercer in the game.
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>Invaded the world of Gattsu
>Actually has cosplay on
>We trade a bit
>Switches to a straight sword when he's in trouble
this is the most nofun game i've ever played. what is with this community?
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40 int with a Court Sorcerer Staff +7, Crown of Dusk, and Young Dragon Ring
>Great Heavy Soul Arrow vs skeleton
395 dmg
>Soul Spear vs skeleton
>411 dmg
Why does soul spear cost twice as much to cast?
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>>146793745

OP here, best I've gotten is being invited to two groups: one titled "you are so bad,please git gud" and the other one which the guy made himself which has no other members to this very day over a month later, "Estocs got nerfed idiot. LOL" (p.s. they didn't get nerfed in the offhand lol).

At least it's good to know I'm not the only one not receiving fanmail no matter what.
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>>146794696
holy god
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>>146794790
Probably just for the piercing properties
I believe soul spear casts faster and flies quicker than GHSA, too
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also katana balance overall in ds3 is just fucked
the only downside washing pole has is that it can't combo regular r1s but doesn't matter when phantom range running r1 with no recovery that is longer than any spear
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>>146794671

But that's why I want fanmail, because the people who send it are giant crybaby bitches. I mean I'm sure plenty of people out there are getting mad, I just want the actual text representation of that to keep and revel in. Like pic related.
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>>146794696
It was a nerf.
Prior to that patch the WA did unmitigated damage through shields.
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>>146794696
NOTHING
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NEW THREAD

>>146795012
>>146795012
>>146795012
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>>146794696

Thanks FROMbama.
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>>146794751
>Its WA used to pierce shields for 100% damage.
in ds2 you mean. in ds3 it was always shit
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>>146794790
I don't think you have enough INT to take advantage of the Court staff but the FP/damage ratio is pretty fucked up on spells. Someone made a list on reddit
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>>146795139
No, it was tested, the WA ignored shields completely and did 100% of its damage through them.

Then they nerfed it down to 30%.
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>>146772147
How many of these can we expect as DLC locations? I want to protect the fair lady in the Garden.
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>>146795237
Got a link to the whole table or orginal post?
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>>146795237
and yet it's still better to use spells like css and soul stream in pvp since one shotting people is about the best hope you have of a win if you play pure sorc
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>>146795512
That is the whole table he made
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4ne3wh/sorcery_damagefp_ratios/
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>Invade
>One of the opponents has Vestiges
FUCK THE FUCK OFF
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>>146795547
Well yeah you want the most damage you can but it's shit that crystal soul spear isn't even 1.5 damage of great heavy soul arrow at 3 times the cost of FP. It was even worse pre-patch since I think they only reduced FP cost and not increased damage so before I think it was 50 or 60 FP for CSS
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How does playing Dark Souls at 60fps work in relation to parrying and rolling iframes? does it cut the windows in half, or was "fames" just a perfunctory way to measure time? I'm not finding parrying any more difficult.
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>>146786869
The point is that BSS is the best out of the three regular straight swords with its reach, damage and requirements. LKS has nothing to do with this.
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>CSS sniping an entire ganksquad

I actually came
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I'm progressively getting bored by pvp. What can I do?
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>>146798224
progressively fix your contrast
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