/dsg/ - Souls General

>>146947365
I'M GOING TO MAKE QUARTERBREEDS WITH PRICILLA

this Steelbox invader guy has like 700 hp in 120 range lmao

Herald Set is the best set.

Jesus christ, I'm in love. I've been playing a knight type character in full Lothric gear, and the straight sword is a thing of goddamn beauty. That moveset. That range. Those pokes. That speed. That extra critical damage.

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>mfw they recycled so many gestures from previous games, but decided to use the shitty "Welcome" one instead of "Well! What is it?"

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Post weaponfus

>>146947905
>tfw its not even the complete gesture from DS2
that little hang back was the best part

>zweihander R2 just did like 900 damage to host when other attacks did around 250
What the fuck was that

>>146947942
you counter attacked my jump

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>>146947913
They nerfed it too much

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dam

Could i get some opinions on the painted curved sword, the manikin claws, and the twin katanas as a crystal weapon for a sorc?

What's the absolute minimum vigor i can have if i don't want to get one shotted in pvp or by stronger enemies? 27?

Is wearing both the crown of dusk and the magic clutch ring suicidal?

Thanks dsg.

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>>146947913
Since the BKS in this game is the DS1 variation i had to find a new weaponfu

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>>146947913
Old beauty still got it in DS3

>>146948173
Do not use clutch in PvP
Guardian sword is no longer top-tier
For claws, use the regular ones
2Kat is pretty good

>>146947913
She's the best shield in the game as far as I'm concerned. At plus ten i can let someone empty their stamina attacking me, then fuck them with my bkugs before they get a chance to roll away. It trivializes several boss fights too.

>>146948327
Thanks anon. What changed with the painted sword? Why claws over manikins?

Is there an up to date list of weapons that get S or A scaling when infused?

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Holy fuck host, you're one of the best players I've seen in PVP
I would've seppuku'd when I lost all my hp to being retarded but I realized I haven't turned in my shackles for that weapon yet

>>146948536
Best weapon shield is Fume, it's got really solid defenses and high stability for a weapon, it's like an ok medium shield

>>146948578
thanks friend, i'm down for a few more matches if you want

Damn, cooping Abyss Watchers is probably one of the most unfun things to do. The fight just devolves into backstab fest and staggering them into oblivion

>>146948746
>not asking in /dsg/ for everyone to dress up as abysswatchers then actually having fun

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>dark sword have 30 less base damage than fume ultra when both are fully upgraded
Why

>>146948746
It's not much different if you're solo, what I did on NG+7 was literally backstab and charge R2 wake-up the whole time

>>146948716
aight, one more then I'm going to progress on my other character

>Court Sorcerer's Staff +10
>60 INT
>Young Dragon Ring
>Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring
>Scholar's Candlestick equipped
>Crown of Dusk equipped
>Crystal Soul Spear
>S T I L L CANNOT ONE-SHOT PHANTOMS

yeah ok, I'm giving up on magic. This is ridiculous, literally who thought this was ok

>>146948919
>>146948716
And then my computer crashed, restarting now
I guess now's a good time as any to call it, was fun doing some PVP

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>>146947913
Can't see shit, though.

>>146948536
Claws have the same Hyper Armor WA as 2kat
Painting guardian sword has too little range and damage for a curved sword

Is faith relevant in DaS3?

>>146949115
you too friendo, i host plenty of FCs when people actually show up so be sure to join

probably too late for most american players right now

>>146949236
Only for Tears.

any recommended Pure Pyromancer builds?

>>146949063
You shouldn't level past 60 with that setup if you want to oneshot people
And it still won't be guaranteed. Everyone just levels their vig out of the ass. Why level anything else when raw straight swords can beat the game with zero stat investment?

>>146949236
not until 60 faith

even then it's only good for hyper armor trades

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>>146949147
You probably already thought of this but there is a sorcery that makes your weapon invisible if you want to try that.

Is Soul of Cinder the final boss? After the princes?

>>146949625
Oh shit you're right Too late for rerolling for stats now though. Already at NG+3 and maxed out Rosaria's reroll.

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>>146947913

>>146949625
i thought it was unbuffable

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>>146948629
I'm a fucking idiot. I meant to post an image. This is what I was referring to. I didn't realise my mistake until i went to post this, i thought you were talking about the black iron great shield.

I think DSGS has higher stability and overall defense, plus 95 lightning defense. Considering most late game elemental weapons i see are lightning, the only disadvantage of the DSGD is weight. If you don't care about elementals but you want something lighter the best options are the moaning (shit skill) and the glory (-20 stamina regen). There's the stonegs, light, great resistances, mediocre stability. And if you have a particular element you want to block there's the lothric, the black iron, and the cathedral, magic, fire, dark i think. The two wooden ones are worthless, and havel's i don't personally like, it's a great shield with high stability, but it's the heaviest weapon in the game, and the skill is trash. It's useful as an offensive shield as it has the highest base attack and a C scaling at plus ten, but it's missing the shield bash skill which might dissuade some people from using it for offense.

>>146949159
Claws sound good then. I had no idea that move had hyper armor, nice. It crits if it headshots correct?

I've heard that different weapons with a simple infusion regen fp at different rates, is this true?

>>146949756
NG+4? New save?

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Would sorceries be viable on a SL1?

I roughed out that Great Soul Arrow could hit about 210 or so, while heavy should arrow could reach approximately 235ish. With the staff WA they'd be about 30 damage higher each.

Soul Arrow would hit around 150 or so and Farron Dart would hit for maybe 25.

>>146947913
Anime spinsword desu

>>146949987
you'll get like 3 casts for any of those per flask

>>146949147
I had the same problem. That and the weight. I switched to the bkugs.

>>146949625
it most likely won't work

you can't use it on unbuffable weapons, which is retarded I know

you could tumblebuff it though

>>146950034
31 Darts, 13 Regular, 8 Heavy, 9 Great.

Simple is extremely powerful on a SL1.

>>146949887

>>146949756
is right, sadly you can't buff smough's great hammer at all. "possibly breaks anny magic weapon enchant (Tested it, counts as regular buff, not useable on unbuffable/non-physical infused weapons)" from the wiki. Maybe there's another way around this problem? I'll do some research on it.

>>146950179
but anon you can't infuse the scholar candlestick

>>146950230
I don't run around casting sorceries only, obviously I'd be using a simple main or offhand waiting for my FP to regenerate, or run around backstabbing my way to full mana.

>>146950218
Isn't tumblebuffing a thing in Dark Souls 3? Or was that just a fake vid used with the Collector's Edition?

>>146950385
it is but it's a pain

>>146949940
Simple infusion works the same for every weapon: 1 FP every 4 seconds
Each upgrade level reduces that time by 0.25 seconds

>>146950472
So what is that, like 2 FP every 5 seconds with two +10 simple weapons?

Every minute's about 20 FP then, give or take.

Anyone playing das2 wanna help with pursuer? im on ps4

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>>146947913

>>146950287
I feel like you'd lose more damage not using flame weapon in that case

>>146947842
I've been telling people that since launch.

>>146950609
Do the math anon.
+0 : 4 seconds
+4: 3 seconds
+10: 2.5 seconds

2 FP every 2.5 seconds. That's almost 48 per minute.

>>146951097
Jesus christ.

>>146951348
With two simple off-hands you can almost keep a constant warmth going.

>>146951504
>>146951097
yeah but you gimp your damage by a lot. unless you're pure caster and have the other simple out in the offtimes. but if you're a caster you shouldn't need the fp. unless you're twinking or something

>>146951631
Well at SL1 the damage difference is almost negligible with most weapons.

Frankly I'd just use the simple to regenerate my FP constantly. You could also infuse the Handmaid's dagger with simple for the passive FP bonus in addition to the 2 FP to gain every time you hit an enemy while it's in your off hand.

>>146951714
Sadly you cant infuse the Handmaids Dagger

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>>146947913
A mound-maker's best tool.

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>tfw SL1 tank

I'll still probably get one shotted though.

Sigh.

>>146952013
How did you get your def this high?
You wearing havels + steel protection and loyd's?

>>146952073
Winged Knight armor+lloyd's

I really wish there was a greatshield I could wield with one hand at 15 strength. I absolutely love the tank playstyle, but it looks like I just have to stick to Magic Shield on one of the crest shields for now.

>composite bow +10 with dark arrows is actually capable of hitting people thanks to dark arrow tracking
>damage is half that of large arrow shots
fuck bows

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>got invaded by a mound maker
>mfw he couldn't find me and got killed by the mobs

>>146952524
That was probably me :^)

>>146952524
>hiding like a bitch
i bet you pop seeds as soon as you see invaders incoming

>>146952628
I wasn't even hiding you stupid nigger, I was in a completely different part of the map

>>146951960
>tfw made a +10 torch

Why did I do that?

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>get summoned as blueberry
>spawns me into the middle of a pack of Irythil knights and firewitches

did From forget that bluebuddies aren't immune to enemies this time? Every time i get summoned it's into a pack of monsters.

>>146952489
>No sticky infusion that acts as a bow-only sharp
>No compound infusion that acts as a bow-only heavy

How much extra damage does the Hollowslayer greatsword gain against Hollows, and which bosses are even considered Hollow in the first place?

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miyazakiiiiiiii

>>146953430
That'd still make them useless. They need to allow us to elemental infuse them and crossbows again. There's no reason to use lightning greatarrows, but a dark composite bow or lightning knight crossbow would be amazing.

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>>146953409
Why not ?

>>146952697
>stupid nigger
everytime lolol

>>146953409
I always try to get player to have a torch duel with me. I have a +10 torch and a +7 torch just for that.
(and a parry shield with a hidden hornet + yhorm for the second parry lol)

How do I spell snipe? Do people use binoculars in pvp?

Also is soul stream a good pvp spell to use?

I don't care about duels, I wanna be invisible and just nuke people once I get high enough int

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Does the leo ring work with the moonlight greatsword weapon art ?

Ay lads I finally have some money so i'm gonna buy dark souls 3 on ps4. Anyone know where I can buy a cheap digital code for it? Do digital codes even exist for ps4?
Not much of a 'modern' gamer kek

>>146948187
>implying the BKS isn't still the shit anyway

im not crazy about the two hand r2 but it works as great trade bait when you can out HA someone

>>146954181
No. Imagine there's like a crosshair in the center of your screen/your character's chest (maybe even a little higher, like, your head) and try to use that to aim.
Sorta difficult to explain, but try to learn it imagining something like this and keep doing it until you got it.
Soul Stream is good if you want to ambush someone, otherwise too slow in open combat unless you are far away and your opponent is too stupid to dodge to the side. Soul Stream doesn't stunlock. If you know how to free-aim, you can snipe people using this thing if they happen to stand still, fighting enemies or if they are on ladders. desu, I think getting closer and using CSS is more reliable, but some are pretty good with Soul stream. Never got killed by it yet.

>>146954181
You could also use the binoculars, I forgot, if you want to be 100% sure. But if you wanna be quick about it, you gotta learn how to free-aim

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>>146954441
I still like it, but it just isnt the beauty that the DS2 variant was
>That Guard
>That Thrust R2 into Spin

Just name it Syan's GS/GS of Glory ffs
DLC pls deliver

>farming Proof of a Concord Kept
>no invasions
>not one drops from silver knights
how do i even tell how many ive submitted to the covenant?

>>146955051
Everyone shat on DS2 black knight weapons for a reason.
Thankfully DS3 went back to actually unique and cool movesets for them.

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>farm blue lothric knight for 4 hours on my Quality Knight without a single refined gem drop
>casually kill him once as my new Pyromancer
>he drops 2 at once

Do not reply to GKL.
Someone post the image.

>>146953515
>tfw a red eye carthus shotel skeleton does this and I cant figure out where the fuck he went until he hits me with the wombo combo from inside of a pillar

goddamit hackazaki

>>146955381
It's what you get.

>>146955381
That's fucking nothing.
>Have to collect 30 fucking ShekelGrass for jew dog to get sheild.
>Farm the Ghrus in front of the Abyss Watchers boss arena for 3 hours.
>I've only gotten 4 out of them so far therefore I only have 6 right now.

JUST
FUCK
ME
UP
SENPAI!

>>146954181
you could take it old school and free aim a spell and figure out where the invisible reticle is and place a small removable circular sticky to your screen

>>146955381
I'm half certain the game looks at your stats and weapons to determine what drops you want

>>146955558
>optimal way of farming concords is 99 int

>>146955051
I'd be completely okay with this. Also silver knight Long spear when?

Has anyone beat the Taurus Demon in a straight fight? All the videos I see use that cheesy plunge attack tactic.

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So when does thing start to actually work?

Does the dark arrow tracking work on all bows on all attacks? Is it that great?

>>146955693
it never worked in any souls game past first few months after release

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>Bows in 3 cannot be Infused or Buffed
>but they can in 2
God
Damn.
Ds3 just gets more and more disappointing the more I play it.

>>146955623
Yeah, pretty doable.

If you climb the stairs but don't jump, you can fight him up there.

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>>146955726
dang

So how's a DS1 blueberry supposed to get ears then? The ring?

>>146955903
Farm crows, they got a nice drop rate.

>>146955747
>bows cannot be infused
>shields still can be

for what purpose when there are already great options for different elemental absorption shields?

>>146955558
the desire sensor is a hidden japanese game mechanic

>>146955747
Nothing disappointed me more than when I found out I couldn't upgrade my armor now would upgrading my shield increase the defense stats.

Seriously what the literal fuck is the point of upgrading a shield now?

Also they couldn't have at least tried to at effects to infused weapons? I would have loved it if I infused a weapon with fire and then whenever I use it's blade arts it swings fire.

>>146955623
He dies in five seconds if you apply gold pine to any fast weapon.

>>146955558
>luck build
>CSR off hand
>+2 CGS ring
>sybol of avarice
>gold coins

yeh I'll just go ahead and never farm for anything on another character

>>146956060
cant upgrade armor because From knows armor is worthless.
At first I didnt mind it but after awhile, i can't ignore how much of an actual rushed piece of shit Ds3 really is

>want to make quality dark sword guy with DMB
>have to farm ears

What's a good substitute? Lightning Blade? also, what is the most broken weapon as of late that would definitely get nerfed next patch?

>>146956060
honestly I'm kind of glad they made it so you can't upgrade armor.

Shields on the other hand definitely should be upgraded. Mostly just because it increases stability but I'm a GS or no shield kind of guy. I like to bash shit to interrupt attacks and still take no damage so upgrading also gives more damage to bashes

>>146956332
LB does the same damage as DMB, only lightning instead of magic.
Goddammit i miss that DMB became more powerfull the more devoted you were

Also
>Carthus Curved Sword
Its pretty fucking fast

>>146956332
honestly I'm expecting a halberd nerf of some kind. They're really fucking good in pvp and unless you get parried or just blatantly out played somehow you shouldn't ever lose

>hella range
>hella HA
>great damage
>low stamina consumption

>>146956060
Having more stability is always good. Upgrades are worthless for greatshields though, the only shields I deem worth of upgrading are target if you're a huge homo, iron round, Lothric Knight regular shield and Black Knight Shield.

>>146956595
>Carthus Curved Sword

Pretty much, I guess. Spent a lot of time at pointy doing some fights and there was a LOT of CCS users. There were plenty of Claw users, too. All of them were wearing fatty armor. Is that a new meme?

>>146956679
No reason not to make a simple or blessed shield and upgrade them though.

>>146956596
>tfw just mashing R1 at an appropriate range makes you literally unbeatable with a glaive.

>>146956748
If you're going to make a blessed offhand, always go for caestus. It has meaningless weight and shields loses defenses and stability when infused.

>>146956760
Lost in a competitive fight against someone using the gargoyle lance using that """technique""""

I'm still thanking From that your Thrust resistance decreases when you attack. THANKS FROM. REAL CLEVER OF YOU.

>>146956596
>HA
Do you mean WA? Was there a change of some sort?

>>146956760
>tfw I actually got reaction parried on my first r1 with a WK halberd
>he's wearing hornet ring
>tfw he got lucky and is just a parry spamming idiot and he can't even get close to me for the rest of the fight even though I'm guaranteed one shot

until a ton of people get really confident with their halberd parry timing, halberds/glaives will be some of the strongest weapons in pvp. Even then BKG, glaive, and lucerne have unparriable WA and jumping r2s exist

>>146956942
Yeah, that's why you should space it just outside your actual range. If they move, they get hit. And if they roll towards you, just kick, you get a free R1. If they don't block it, and maybe a riposte if they do.

>>146957068
All glaives have ridiculous hyper armor.

>>146957072
It's really hard to parry them, as hard as parrying katana R1s.

>>146955903
use blue orb in anor londo or forest you'll usually find people

>>146956596
Halberds already got nerf after they allowed you to escape their WA before the last hit. Other than that they are by far the most balanced weapon class and i'd rather see other weaker weapon classes buffed to their level.

>>146957120
>If they move, they get hit, if they don't move, they get shockwaved, if they roll towards, just kick on reaction to get a guaranteed R1 or even a riposte

jesus christ I need to make a coffee.

>>146957068
No I meant Hyper Armor. They do have some good WA as well though with Wk halberd and gundyrs being outliers

Wk halberds WA is shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Quite literally useless, however it shits raw physical damage and looks badass as fuck. Favorite halberd

I only list Gundyrs WA as an outlier because the charge is easily reaction parried, but if you fuck up and catch a partial you're still taking a shit ton of damage and getting laid the fuck out leaving you vulnerable to a wake up punish

At times I really do miss poise and armor/defense stats meaning something, but then I go back onto DS1 and start playing on my guy who has full Havel armor with a Black Knight GreatSword who can mid-roll, one shot anything except for bosses and tank a horde of enemies while still performing a wide sweep swing.

I honestly don't know what's worse, broken as fuck builds with high vitality and health that will tank everything you do to them with no problem or armor that means nothing except for looks.

I still have PTSD flashbacks of being invaded by Havel armors with pyromancy.

>>146957120
>>146957308
Oh, fucking hyper armor. And you're right they do! I fucking hate that running attack.

>demon's fists' parry animation is as quick as caestus

Now I can be a tryhard without looking like a tryhard!

>>146956837
.t scrub

>>146957401
Honestly, I just want armor to either be BB tier or at least teduce damage. Being punished for liking certain looks with no return sucks.

>>146957645
>maximizing your options and getting rid of tradeoffs
>scrub

>>146957401
>ptsd from retards throwing slow spells and giving you free backstabs

sounds like you just suck

>>146957120
true, i think I can count on one hand the amount of times i've been parried using a halberd in around 150 hours of pvp. I think i'm going to practice with a buddy of mine anyway. I'd love to be able to reliably shut down halberd users with a parry

>>146957156
I was under the impression that as long as you hit confirmed the l2 being the first hit that the r2 combo was still guaranteed? You have to admit though the r1l2r2 true combo for 1200 damage was a little absurd for bkg, and the spin slash CGS weapon arts as well. Honestly that would make fights a little too easy and I still hit for 800 damage with a Carthus gs spin slash which is already kind of crazy as a parry punish

regardless I completely agree with you about buffing other weapon classes, but halberds would still out range the shit out of alot of them so I don't know if it would change much

>want to do a faith build
>guess I'll start with raw ASS until I get to the miracles
>few hours later get the second tome
>realize I have only 6 bosses left
Nice game Miyazaki

>>146956060
>couldn't upgrade my armor
this bumblefuck retarded thing was a huge resource sink that gave nothing to you
you're already rocking a +10 armors from the start, i can't fathom the ammount of asshurt people would feel if they needed waste slabs on armor as well given how limited they are in ds3

Any advice for SL1 Pontiff?

>>146958249
>dlc arrives
>you can upgrade armor
>introduction of a completely different upgrade material that can only be farmed in dlc areas
>people that don't buy the dlc are shit out of luck

calling it now

>>146957732
>promoting offhand caestus
>wont use a shield that doesnt have 100 percent defence

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Who /hexer/ here?

>>146958420
>dlc provides a ring that gives you a functioning poise system (ala agape ring for soul memory)

>>146958420
You're wrong. New material and game mechanics are too much work for the dlc
They'll just add in overpowered things like DS1 hexes and tracers, or ds2 flynn ring etc, to ensure everyone buys it

>>146958129
>want to do a faith build
>rush things until bordt
>start yoel quest, get 5 free levels and buy dark hand from yuria
>kill dancer
>buy 40 firebombs
>kill both pus of man in lothric castle
>get first tome
>rush to crucifixion woods, get the second tome

Your fault.

>>146958528
And promoting a good parrying tool, even though its nerfed and avoiding a below than 100% defense shield is scrub how?

>>146958686
is dark hand that good for dancer?

>>146958745
You deal 180 damage per hit. More than anything you can ever have at the time, and more than a ton of things you can have +6.

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i did it! i finally did it!
this guy is such a struggle every time - i can't dodge a lot of his attacks on reaction and you can't make him do exactly what you want by positioning yourself correctly (like Gundyr and Dancer, for example) and Bloodring doesn't allow for super mistimed rolls like with NK
unfortunately, i couldn't test the Alluring Skull strat - i wanted to be done with him and catalyst phase is when you can do a lot of damage and there weren't any more soulmass/melee phase combinations in any of my attempts

this run was pretty fun - i recommend everyone doing it, if not on sl1 then at least at base health for any class you choose
besides health drain, visibility can also be a problem - i often had to tilt the camera a bit during AW fight and strafe during Pontiff and SoC fights to properly see what they're doing

>>146958331
do you want to kill him with or without parrying?

D L C
W H E N

>>146957072
You can't parry 2Hglaives at their max range.
You have to be nearly point blank range and parry the shaft.

Even the npc enemies with autoparry stances can't parry it. That's part of why R1-ing at max range with a glaive is virtually unbeatable. People can't parry it unless you swing late and let them walk up to your face, almost no weapon can outrange it save for a few pikes, and they can't do that passive-reactive thing where they stand outside your range and punish the whiff because the shockwave forces them to stand too far back and they can't step into range to punish until you're able to safely roll out.

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>>146958602
>TFW your name is Hexy Hexington
Shame there are so little dark spells

>>146958420
They decided not to do armor upgrades because they thought the absorption system was a better idea.

Bloodborne didn't add DLC armor upgrades and neither will 3.

So who do you think will be the final DLC boss?
Serpents?
Original Pygmy to mirror Orphan of Kos?

>>146958978
What were you doing anyway? sl1 with mimic head?

>>146959215
That's what he was doing.

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>the only fun DS2 hexes eat souls, increasing your soul memory
Why do i even bother with this shit game
It's like they deliberately chose the worst ways of fucking it up and making it as unfun as possible.

>>146959193
Probably something really fanservicey to mirror Soul of Cinder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_M2r4gIfTk

So is dex x faith viable in dark souls 3?
How would one go about building such a build as fast as possible and what are the good weapons as of now?
Trying to mirror my dark souls one build in which I used silver knight armour, estoc and paladin helm.

>>146959346
You can savescum to use them in pvp with no penalty.

>>146959413
Please don't advertise your shitty videos here.
Buy a banner if you're that desperate for views

>>146959193
DLC 1: LONDOR, Yuria and her sisters mid-boss, Kaathe's true form end-boss
DLC 2: Bearer of the Curse (there's no indication of him ever linking the flame), and Aldia

>>146959481
I'm not neptunu and I hate that mentality. I'm just sharing it here to remind people what has become of the dark souls community.

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>invade
>level up at a bonfire while searching for a world to invade
>confirm level up when the invasion starts
>invade lower level people as a max level

twitch
.tv/
sfcspadesrpg

>>146959494
>allowing any ds2 trash into dlc
Nope.

>>146959494
Gwyn's Firstborn used a greatsword attached to the end of a spear, Soul of Cinder used a transforming bonfire sword with 5 different forms and associated spells, what weapons would the Bearer of the Curse use?

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>>146959448
Oh so i need to abuse the saves to circumvent the retarded balance decisions, what next, use CE to freeze soul count?

>>146959693
>use CE to freeze soul count?
No, that'll get you softbanned

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>>146959585
ds2 is currently the better game, both gameplay and plot wise
Kill yourself

>>146959428
DS spear or swordspear.

>>146959534
What is the video even about? Or is there a script? Don't want to watch.

>>146958686
So the tome at pus of man gives you blessed weapon right? Big fucking deal. Chances are if you're going heavy faith you'll want to be using raw ass and +7.5% more damage buff on it is shitty.

And the 2nd tome is tears of denial? Woo hoo.

Clerics should fucking start with lightning spear and make it not so shitty unless you're on someones dick. As of right now faith is a waste of time until ng+ when you have faith at 60, enough attunement for 5 slots, enough hp to tank talisman trades and soul of cinder for sun spear.

>>146959746
The fact it's the least played souls game right now tells otherwise.
Nobody wants to spend their time in that broken excuse of a game.
Thankfully DS3 made 95% of DS2's "lore" absolutely irrelevant and i don't see how DLC will change it.

>>146959172
Play DS2 SotFS instead pham.

what's the best upgrade for Zweihander in DaS1?

Anyone want to trade me their Concords?

>>146959657
Power-stanced Smelters, Red Rust Twinblade, Curved Nil, Yorgh's Spear, in no particular order

>>146959937

Standard.

>>146959937
What are you, casul?

>>146959923
>Implying i dont have a Hexy Hexington in DS2&Scholar

I know the glory of the old OP pre-patch GRS

>>146959891
>sales numbers indicate quality
>being contrarian

>>146959879
It's a long pvp video with subtitles explaining the "psychological" aspects of pontiff duels while the perspective player dumps on randoms with washing pole and other top-tier weapons.

The whole thing is basicallyt a pretentious wank glorifying only using the top 5 weaspons in the game and tryharding against people that are clearly fucking around, openly insults people who aren't taking dark souls pvp as seriously as him, and giving vague and vacuous advice like "don't make punishable mistakes and attack your opponent's punishable mistakes" like it's some kind of divine revelation about the deep psychological truths of competitive videogaming.

It's a pretty unhelpful video, in all honesty. It seems like the whole point is to just presented a slanted rant about how morally superior he is for tryharding with washing poles and gotthard's in as roundabout a way as possible.

>>146959980
Cant drop covenant items man

>>146960141
oh..
....................
fuck

>>146960074
I'm talking about activity numbers which are far more important.
DS1 is still more active than DS2 despite being much older.
DS2 was abandoned by majority of playerbase two weeks after last DLC release, even before they shat on fans even more by introducing a new version.
So please, just go and play in your shit game, community already made its choice.

>>146955693
when you move on to DaS2, since it lets you invade anyone, anywhere in the world.

>>146959982
>fight him in an arena with tonnes of weapons ticking out of the ground, like Sif's old boss arena
>all the weapons he actually uses throughout the fight are also sticking out of the ground, spread throughout the arena
>he jumps to one at random when the fight starts and uses it
>each phase transition, he drops his current weapon and leaps to the closest one to him to pull out that instead
>when phase 2 begins, he drops his last weapon and doesn't pull out a new one
>just fights you with his fists instead
>boss soul makes the Vanquisher's Seal, with built-in bonefist moveset.

>>146958686
>>146959889
Its also worth mentioning that killing the dancer gives you access to the sunbro altar, meaning if you feeling like grinding out those medals you can get greater sunlight spear

>>146936470
I see lots of signs at 80 +10 and get summoned instantly for nameless king and dragon slayer

>>146960283
not him but i like DS2
it's fun.
that's it

>be playing sl1
>make a goal to get as powerful as possible and use the most amount of weapons possible
>extremely rough start, definitely not used to the damage spike
>decide to try out crossbow
>literally cant stop using them

my arbalest is my rifle (can only use 2h) and my light crossbow is my sidearm.

God I really fucking wish there was a crossbow with a quickstep weaponart or something.

>>146960131
You put it way better than I would have been able to.

>>146960468
Well it's not going anywhere, right? You and 3 other anons can clop on it as long as you want.

>>146960469
Why is tackle so damn slow? What happens if you hit it?

>>146960636
but i pvp with lot of people on my xbone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-O-046FWE
even this fat fuck that literally survives on dark souls stream is giving up, lmao
dark souls 3 is such trash

>>146960712
It's basically just a kick with much longer active frames so you can almost always get someone with it.

You can combo with a leo ring for uber damage though. tackle > fire = big daumaj

>>146960712
It staggers them slightly. The stagger lasts about as long as the recovery and it doesn't knock back like the description says it does. It's basically a less-effective kick.

>>146960469
what melee weapons were you using if you say damage wasn't good?

>>146960636
>implying only 4 ppl in this gen like this game

>>146960795
>making a 12 minute video just to try and justify to your audience why you don't want to play a videogame anymore.
Twitchfags are really pathetic.

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How do I build Sorcerer in DaS2?

>>146961010
choose sorcer class at the start

>>146960864
A shortsword.

But it's all gucci now, been using a +4 broadsword and am aiming for the estoc once I get the carthus dexring

>>146961010
infuse longsword with magic, equip robflynn, buff it with great magic weapon
r1r1r1r1r1r1r1r1

>>146961010
That depends, do you want to go pure sorcery, or sorcerer + melee?
Do you want to use Sorcery-only, or mix in other magic schools, too?

Are you doing this for a pve-playthrough or trying to create a pvp build?

>>146961010
You pick [spoilers]soul geyser from aldia's keep corrosive pool[/spoilers] and spam the shit out of it

>>146961130
>>146961076
I've already done a spellblade Dark run, I wanna go pure sorcery this time around, mainly focusing on PvE for now.

>>146961010
Go talk to the big nigra in the jail.

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>>146947905
>they brought back a metric fuckton of gestures but not a single one is Shrug or Mock

best game only has 1k less players than ds1
why arent you playing

>>146959657
>faraam armor
>quick 2h swordplay
Loyce greatsword

>>146953515
I remember getting invaded by a speedhacker in DS2 called Radical Larry. Good times.

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>>146961334
forgot pic

>>146961327
Proper bow is back, that's all I care.

>>146958686
What the hell does dark hand do for a faith build?

>>146961758
>Actually using bow

lol what a faggot, too bad you can roll out of gestures in this one I miss backstabbing you bowing dweebs

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>>146961334
because I finished my playthrough
i may start another after relearning how much worse ds3 is in comparison

>>146961758
>all those good emotes they removed from ds2
>b-but this one makes up for it
yea no

>>146961758
they also added slav squat which is the best gesture in series, hey and stretch out
i miss a few bb gestures though but ds3 ones are way better than cringy, edgy shit from ds2 like no way or decapitate

>>146961839
Nothing, just enables easy dancer kill.

>>146961186
you use the spoiler tag without the 's' anon

>>146962181
>hating on based no Way

>>146961205
Start sorcerer, obviously.
The first sorcery vendor is in Wharf but the Old Knights in Heide's are extremely magic resistant. You can sprint through, but without killing them and raising the platforms in the Dragonrider fight, killing him with spells is nigh-impossible (though you can still cheese him)
Heavy Soul Arrow is in FotFG in the ballista ambush room.

My recommended route would be:
Go through FotFG, get Heavy Soul Arrow, kill Last Giant
Use Last Giant souls to buy cat ring and a few points in vigor
use cat ring to enter the Gutter and seek out the dark pyromancy flame and fragrant branch of yore down there
Use the branch to unlock Rosabeth
pick up some pyromancies and use them to help clear the Old Knights in Heide's
Unlock the old sorcerer guy in Wharf to give yourself a bigger array of spells
Go into Huntsman's Copse and pick up Soul Spear
Use your fancy array of spells to work through Bastille and unlock Straid
Progress through Shaded Ruins (homing soulmass, soul shower from Najka's soul) and Tseldora, then ascetic Tseldora and re-kill Freja for the Paledrake soul, to make either Crystal Soul Spear or MLGS.

Early on you want to put a basic amount of vigor, just for the Gutter dive. Afterwards, focus purely on int and attunement. Gouging attunement is very valuable because it not only boosts the number of casts each slot gives you, but also gives you tonnes of slots to work with.

You'll find the basic cast speed ring from the sorcery trainer, and the +1 cast speed and attunement slot rings both in the Tseldora path. You can ascetic Skellie Lords for the +2 attunement ring (very useful, gives you 3 slots) and ascetic Najka for the +2 casting speed ring (caps casting speed in most cases).

Be wary that both Najka and Freja are magic-resistant, which is why you want advanced spells before taking them on.

In terms of staff progression, you find the ultimate staff in a mimic in Tseldora and it upgrades with twinkling titanite.

>>146961010
Choose sorcerer. Upgrade Pyro gloves.
Keep sorcery catalyst in main hand and pyromancy glove in off hand.

Wear dessert sorceress outfit

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyRJ5u-L8qw

Remember how excited you were, /dsg/?

>>146961061
i haven't seen people use Estoc and Arbalest on sl1, but it's always nice to see someone using new things
if you like crossbows so much, you can actually use the Avelyn, but you'll need another ring for it - you can just wear it instead of Milkring and it'll allow you to use the Estoc too

>>146962301
Wouldn't the uchi out damage it? Especially with bleed procs?

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>>146962546
I got my money's worth

>>146962620
Not really. Uchi consumes way too much stamina. You can do 10 punches with a darkhand at base endurance and 4 uchi swings at the same end. Also without carthus rouge, bleed procs are very rare. 180 damage per R1 is pretty good for less stamina than a roll.

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>>146962667
me too but i feel like they tried to introduce a bit more with ds2

>>146962620
Uchi does fuck all for damage that early and kills the dancer entirely through bleed procs, which it builds incredibly slowly due to high stamina costs, low stamina pool and slow swings that can't afford to punish some openings safely.

Dark hand takes virtually no stamina, can punish every opening safely because it's fast and spammable, and does relatively high damage because the dancer takes a massive amount of bonus damage fro dark.

>>146962374
that was the point

>>146962759
>>146962781
What should I buff the dark hand with? And do I need to upgrade it?

I'm thinking of starting a pure faith caster

>>146962547
I like the Avelynn but I don't get it until Grand Archives.

It's also extremely ammo inefficient compared to the Arbalest, which I only use to pick off targets from a distance. I use the Light Crossbow in actual combat. I'm going to pick up the Dragonrider bow to replace the fuctionality of the Arbalest since it has a much farther range and similar damage.

I'm going to use all kinds of weapons. I found out that the profaned greatsword only needs 22 strength which is the exact amount I have when two-handing with the Knight ring. Same deal with the Firelink Greatsword, which I'm fairly certain is the best SL1 weapon aside from the Raw astora SS and the drakeblood greatsword.

I can also use Gotthard's too.

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>>146962765
You got that right

>>146962546
>those swords at gundyrs arena
>dark ass high wall
>sacrificial ritual
>sentinels in front of the cathedral basically spoiling analrodeo

>>146962898
Can't buff and can't upgrade. Just remember to not upgrade your weapons past +2 and grind for the 30 sunlight medals at vordt.

>>146962898
Use your fucking brain and figure it out retard how helpless can you be

>>146962898
You can't buff or upgrade the dark hand.
Part of the reason it works so well is because it has the AR of a +4 cestus out of the box and half of that AR is dark, which does like double-damage to the dancer.

>deep protection
>20 fai req

well i really liked the idea of being able to buff on a SL1. o well

>>146963241
Blessed Weapon+Tears?
Carthus Beacon?
Power Within if you fancy yourself a Godrick

>>146963241
You can just use tears of denial instead

>test some shit with friends online
>editing stats, items, item stats, special values, doing shit like infinite HP or super speed
>revert it before disconnecting where you get "uploading save to servers" message
>still not warned
>still not banned

Is that really all there is to it? How are people getting caught for this?

>>146958614
Honestly I like the complete change of mechanical function of poise. There is absolutely no reason you should just be able to walk through hits

>>146958642
>>146959187
I won't pretend to know shit about what from is going to bring with dlc, and both of you are probably right. I've just seen it implemented in other rpgs so I wan't putting it outside the realm of possibility. That's just my opinion though and i'll almost assuredly be mistaken with the points you've made

>>146959120
how hard would it be to roll up in someones gut through 2 r1s with an almost guaranteed third r1 on the way. If I could get that parry setup down reliably i'd get some jollies of it

>>146959585
Anon why do you hate fun? there are so many things, well mostly weapons and gear, that i'd really like to come back with dlc

>>146963383
nobody gets caught cause nobody plays shitty ds3 anymore lol!

>>146963419
>how hard would it be to roll up in someones gut through 2 r1s with an almost guaranteed third r1 on the way.
If you roll through the first R1 of a glaive, you can actually parry the 2nd right out of your roll. It's a consistently reliable setup parry with small shield and fist parries. Roll slightly to their left or right to ensure they can't mix up with their WA.

But, if a glaive user is stupid enough to just stand there and mash R1, you won't need parry gimmicks to beat them anyways. The ones that know what they're doing will just roll backwards safely after every whiff.

>>146955528
>that little amount of grass in that amount of time
you have the worst luck, i managed to get all 30 within 2 hours with sage rapier, base gold serpent ring and avarice
though maybe being able to oneshot all three within 10 seconds helps inflate the chances

>>146963383
You can force-crash someone's game with CE, which will trigger the invalid gamedata message if they were using CE themselves when you crashed them since they don't get the chance to revert their changes

>tfw you die to the nameless king on NG++ trying to get the covetous gold serpent ring, beat him second try feeling like a dipshit for dying to him, check your status screen, and notice you have five hollowing
>tfw you notice have five dark sigils in inventory from getting the free levels from yoel from last playthrough's hollowing and realize you fucked up and only reversed hollowing instead of healing the sigil
>tfw you realized that Nameless King was your first death on NG++

>>146963729
You lose your 5 sigils whenever you enter a new NG cycle. If you have sigils, it means you took levels in your current playthrough.

>>146963419
nothing about ds2 is fun, especially clusterfuck of a lore and ESPECIALLY Aldia spouting pretentious, generic garbage

>>146963419
>there is absolutely no reason you should just be able to walk through hits

Are you aware of what heavy-ass medieval armour was historically for? Why do you think a shriveled zombie poking at you with a dagger should somehow interrupt a guy wearing a hundred pounds of metal all over his body from smashing it in the face?

>>146958614
I called this forever ago. No sharing.

>>146963419
>There is absolutely no reason you should just be able to walk through hits
There's also no reason you should be limited to 2 hit combos.

>>146955528
>>146963693
Can confirm they nerfed the rate. I farmed 10 in 30 minutes or so way back when, figured I could come back to it, and then after faming for 3 fucking hours and only getting 2 grass, I gave up and put the shitty covenant badge on.

>>146962901
from what i remember from bow-only run, ranged weapons absolutely shit on SoC and he's the hardest thing ever on sl1 melee (at least for me), unless you have something to help you against oneshots (Shield Ring probably works, but not in higher NG cycles)
Firelink Sword and Gargoyle Flame Hammer allow for easy kill with double dogs on any NG cycle and Flame Hammer is good against Yhorm, if you want to fight him without the Storm Ruler
Profaned helps with second wyvern in Archdragon Peak if you want to kill it for some reason
Grave Warden's kill Dancer under 2 minutes

>>146963786
I just said that silly. You lose the sigils from last playthrough but you keep the hollowing. I started NG++ with fucktons of hollowing from NG+, I got all the sigils for free without dying from Yoel since I met the minimum hollowing requirements, then only reversed the hollowing instead of removing the sigils, so when I died I went from zero hollowing to five hollowing from five sigils.

>>146964025
>Flame Hammer is good against Yhorm
wat
You realize Yhorm is literally immune to fire damage, right?
At least half of your weapon's damage is being completely nullified

>>146963652
>setup
>mixup

Can you fighting game wannabes fuck off

I straight up cannot wrap my mind around you fucking retards trying to apply a tech approach to a game where the netcode is so bad weapons hit at 3x their range and at other times don't register at all

>>146947905
>>146961327
Can't be letting people hurt each other's feelings~

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>poiseshitters STILL believe ds3 will degrade back to batshit fucking retarded ds1 poise system DESPITE From officially saying "fuck you" to them

>>146964109
setup parry is a DaS1 term you mong

>>146964171
If you turn on poise manually, it actually works astonishingly well until someone brings a +2 wolf ring and yhorm's greatshield to the party and skips every breakpoint.

>>146964109
There's no reason not to use fightan game terminology if it means the same thing

>>146964107
i don't know, charged R2 on his head while he's staggered takes a huge chunk of his health off and i'm in NG+3
i can also often get a double stagger because it's so easy to hit his head with it
you have a point though, i'll try it with Dragonslayer's Axe in next NG, thanks

>>146964109
>don't use established videogame terminology that describes the exact same thing in a different videogame

???

>>146963652
word good to know I'll work on that

>>146963868
but some of the weapons were fun. I'm not trying to say das2 was good but I miss some of my favorite gear

>>146963872
honestly that does bother me to a degree, but at the same time I like the more active fast paced feel of it comparatively and I might catch shit for this but I really like the HA mechanic

>actively dodge incoming hits to set up kills
>nonchalantly stroll through the game one handing a weapon and reading the sunday paper with the other while you press r1 when anything comes your way

which sounds more fun?

>>146963419
There was literally nothing wrong with poise. Giant armored behemoths could tank through shit and dexterous builds had to play with dexterity and finesse weaving in between stunlocking ultra weapons to do their damage

And spare me that oh well poise benefitted dex weapons more shit, unless you were lvl 100+ you don't have the equip load to be fast rolling with more than ~10-20 poise on your armor max so you could get around 50 with wolf ring and guess what that gets broken in 1 or 2 hits so that r1 spam is gonna get broken and stunlocked in 1 or 2 hits

>>146964349
If you "turn on poise manually" you just enable Iron Flesh's stagger immunity. It's not poise, it just renders you completely unable to be staggered by normal means, regardless of your armor or stats. Only certain attacks, scripted to ignore HA, Ironflesh and Perseverance will stagger you.

"poise was disabled and can be turned on with CE" is a long-debunked myth. Poise is on and functionally in game, working as intended, it just sucks.

>>146964349
yeah i really want to see ganks getting immune to the only weapons good at group combat like carthus curved

>>146963993
but you aren't limited to two hit combos

>>146964610
Yes you are, the things that arent limited are not the rule, they're the exception. Some weapons can't even combo 2HR1s.

>>146964548
>literally nothing wrong with poise

t.poisebabbyshitter

>>146964743
I prefer flippy dippy dex and kill everyone just fine with 14 poise suck my dick

Anyone got a basic faith build for dark souls 3 I can use to build upon?

>>146964495
You do realize that hitstun still works after your poise has been broken, right? Which happens very easily. The game hits you with diminishing returns for each poise-increasing piece of equipment you don, and doesn't regenerate it immediately. Once you HAVE been hitstunned, you still get fucked into a combo, except you've already taken 1-2 hits of damage for being a cocky dipshit and figuring you could stay in and keep mashing R1, making being hit repeatedly in a short space of time actually more dangerous. In addition, the removal of poise actually removed some heavier hitstuns as well. Putting on knight armour, turning on poise, and then getting slapped around by a couple of hollows fast enough will put you into a very heavy stagger rather than just a flinch.

The system has already been adjusted from Dark Souls 1 and is very functional. It makes the game legitimately more fun to play.

Source: someone who actually played the game start to finish twice without poise and twice with it on.

>>146964495
The problem is that we aren't actively dodging anymore. Medium rolls are as strong as ninja flips in 1, that is without bloodring, and did you ever try using heavy armor in 3? Fat rolls are so awful that you have to invest into a useless stat and still lose non-stop at PvP should you use them because absorption sucks.

>>146964682
>I can't spam r1 and get more than two hits on someone abloobloobloo

you need to broaden your horizons son. There are true, 3, 4, and 5 hit combos on a ton of weapons in the game, and just because you can't use anything other than a ss doesn't mean the same rules apply to all weapons

git gud

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>>146964548
>unless you were lvl 100+ you don't have the equip load to be fast rolling with more than ~10-20 poise
how about you eat those words trash
small weapon always benefited from poisestacking more than large ones

>>146964569
Are you actually retarded? Have you even tried it? Like for real?

I put 30 hours into the game with poise on and it works exactly as you'd expect. I don't know where you're getting that fake-ass garbage info, but you can literally try it yourself.

Download poise table
Start Dark Souls 3
Attach CE table to Dark Souls 3 process
Turn poise variable to 1
Done

>>146964608
That's honestly more of a problem with ganking being fucking absurd in this game than the system itself, though on the other hand, not being caught in a staggerlock rape train or unable to even get off a single poke whenever two guys gravitate together is a plus for the invader.

>>146964936
>There are true, 3, 4, and 5 hit combos on a ton of weapons in the game
The only "5 hit combos" are just 3-input combos with multihit attacks, like twinblade L1->L2-R2.

There's no combo in the game that lasts more than 3 inputs anymore, and all 3-input combos are just R1/2 into WA.

>>146964936
>There are true, 3, 4, and 5 hit combos
show them
>inb4 multihit trash counting as 2 or 3 hits per button press
>git gud
oh you're just a memer

>>146956596
Halberds are actually pretty BAD at pvp outside of no healing 1v1s
It's especially apparent with red hilted halberd which has shit for range and low damage

Glaives are okay though but they're no carthus curved sword

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>>146964850
Something like this?

>>146965150
People are always commenting only on duels because they think things should be balanced for that sort of playstyle. Same people who complain magic is weak when it's an amazing tool for invasions outside miracles.

>>146964963
Wow one minmaxed build just totally discredits the reality that 95% of the people you run into won't be minmaxed around breakpoints

>>146965250
Thanks is PVP level 100?
I want to go dex x faith, what are the soft caps for each stat?

>>146965381
>one minmaxed build
i can shit out an entire ton of minmaxed builds that i encountered even prior to sl100 regularly
get more than 50 hours of playtime retard

>>146964817
I'm not attacking poise, I'm attacking people who stacked literally as much as they possibly could and couldn't play any other way

>>146964851
yes, I've had it happen to me.several times on bad reads. I'm assuming you are still talking about das3? I've put about 300 hours in, and while the way you worded is slightly unclear to me, if we are talking about das3 I'm saying that I agree with you. I was referring to how poise worked in das1 not 3

>>146964919
yes I have a character that needs 30 vit for just the armor set +ugs without havels and fap. It was an aesthetic choice.

>lose non stop in pvp
>implying implications

why would your armor set make you constantly lose in pvp if you maintain an equip load below 70%?

>>146964963
You realize that HA and poise can exist at the same time, right? The light weapon guy can minmax like a motherfucker and barely hit the breakpoint to not get comboed by a heavy weapon, and the heavy weapon guy can slap on a couple of pieces of light armour to not get comboed by a light weapon. He can trade with HA all he wants and exchange estoc pokes for ultra greatsword swings and still come out on top if he's using it correctly. Otherwise, if he gets caught and poked, he can roll out instantly and only take a sliver of damage, but if the poise stacking estoc user gets caught and hit, even though he can roll out instantly, he's taken much more damage from that hit.

>Dragonslayer's Axe
>Dragonslayer Greataxe
>Dragonslayer Greatbow
>Dragonslayer Spear
>Dragonslayer Swordspear
>Dragonslayer Greatshield
It stops being cool after a while, Miyazaki.

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>>146961130
Whats the best way to build a melee sorcerer in DaS2? I want to go full battlemage

>>146964963
Even with that build you gotta do the work to kill people. Shields are actually strong in ds1 and at 77 poise yeah you can tank a big hit but r1 spam isn't gonna get the job done you're still gonna lose trades with big boys

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Anyone know any good farming locations or soul dupes? I want to make multiple cosplay characters, but leveling up to SL 80, 100, or 120 would be incredibly time consuming.

Here's two of my builds
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/49805
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/49250

>>146965650
Blue Flame.
While buffed it becomes the 2nd strongest catalyst in the game, on top of being the single strongest natural int-scaling weapon.

>>146965650
MLGS, CSR, or Tinder

>>146965058
>5 hit combos
true but they are still five hit combos

>all three input combos
not true. BKGS has a true three hit r1r2r2 combo and any weapon that shares its moveset shares that combo

>>146965082
see above. three input true combo that doesnt involve a WA

>>146965150
agreed but they are excellent at 1v1 and that was really all I was addressing

>>146965554
Sort of. I'm talking about how poise is already built to work in Dark Souls 3 but currently doesn't. A ton of adjustments went into it before it was funneled into the HA system and disabled by default. Switching it back on actually works far better than Dark Souls 1's janky-ass poise system.

The HA system is workable, but it's just aggravating to play with and makes the game feel more frustrating than it really is. It's up for debate as to whether the balance really improves, but I can tell you that it does make the game less constantly annoying when mis-estimating a swing by one frame doesn't result in losing 75% of your HP to being nipped in the ass by a rat at a bad time.

>>146965603
>HA and poise can exist at the same time
oh yeah i surely want estoc users to not ever let you activate HA frames even if it means tanking a hit
you poisebabbies and your theorycrafting is so laughable i'm glad From showed middle finger to you

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>>146965709
Anyone know what the SL 'meta' is on PS4?
80, 100, 120, or 150?

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>tfw playing pirated souls 2
>no online phantom bros to leave me messages or play with me
I feel so lonely

>>146965435
Dex is 40, Faith is 60
But i dont think its a good idea to go 40/60 even at SL120 or SL125, you'll stretch yourself a bit thin and end up with low HP
Personally i made my Fth/Dex at 40/40

>>146965541
Your minmaxed build is still no problem to deal with, shit I switch to a spear and you can r1 spam and poise minmax all you want it aint gonna help

And thats why ds1 is better, even with your calculated build a good player with a lesser setup can still stomp your minmaxed shit

>>146965858
>not true
>proceeds to post a 3 input combo
retarded isn't enough to describe

>>146965858
>BKGS has a true three hit r1r2r2 combo and any weapon that shares its moveset shares that combo
Black Knight weapons all have unique R2s, so no weapon "shares its moveset"

The BKGA is the only BK weapon that can combo R1 into R2 and it can't follow up that R2 with anything.

>>146965650
anything magic infused buffed with CMW

>>146965932

I heard DaS3 pirate version has online.

>>146965912
>>146965709
these images are beutiful

>>146965554
>lose non-stop in PvP
>then says under 70%

That's my point, fat rolling has no chance to win while most things putting you in that condition are useless. In 1, using havel, giants or smough gave you a significant benefit to survivability one way or another so that you had something going even when fat rolling. In 3, should I make a character just like yours but equip them with a lighter set like Legion or Knight's, putting the vit points into vig, my build is objectively better and someone even dares make something ober 70% loses almost automatically.

>>146965939
Yeah I was thinking 40/40 as well. What's the meta on PS4?

>>146965880
>not ever let you activate

Are you literally retarded? It does the exact opposite. The amount of time before starting the swing and getting HA frames isn't long enough to get poked twice in. It straight up allows you to swing with greater impunity because you can take a hit before your HA activates without losing the entire attack and eating a second poke. Can you use your brain please?

>>146965954
>shit I switch to a spear
you do understand that the best counter to spears is an aggressive cb user with a good poise right
oh wait, you don't because you don't have any experience in ds1 to begin with

>>146966009
I feel like pirating das3 just to play with the pirates.

>>146966048
same as it's always been

>>146964548
But everyone was 100 or higher

>>146966071
good luck landing a hit

>>146966079
120? I've played every souls game except for demon souls but my memory is shite and I didn't really pvp on dark souls 2

>>146965939
>end up with low HP

This should be fine if you know what you're doing. Is not having low HP really that beneficial?

>Vordt's 2nd phase bgm is longer than both phases of Yhorm combined
I wonder what the exact point they started phoning this game in was. Seems like it must have been pretty early.

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>>146966031
Right? They're so relaxing to look at.

>>146966159
Ask the people who bough into the 27VIG meme

>>146966159
>Is not having low HP really that beneficial?
Gee I fucking wonder.

>>146959729
This is false, I have a few hundred hours of frozen SM pvp in dks2 and I'm not bunned. As far as I can tell you will only get bunned in 2 if you have illegal items or illegal stats.

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>>146966281
>posting the one with the face scribbled out

Come on anon, that's mean.

>>146966301
Nigga, SM editing is the oldest and most certain softban trigger. Any influence to SM through CE will trigger a bun.

>>146966445
I have hundreds of hours of pvp that disproves you.

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What should I level? I have a +10 claymore, also I never upgraded any armors or shields, should I up them? Or maybe a different weapon? Claymores kinda slow.

>>146963723
Then can't you just start Steam in offline mode and delete the save? I'm pretty sure the server doesn't check your save on a game crash, only when you go through the menu.

>>146966290
No, seriously. If you're good at dodging and countering with powerful attacks that could potentially OHKO your opponents or melt their HP in seconds, not having a shit ton of HP is balanced and would be seen as fine, right?

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After doing a few modded battles in TW:WH, I want more fucking colorful knight armor.

>>146966250
they even nerfed Vordt for some reason, so now you're even less likely to hear it

>Daigo Umehara is playing Dark Souls 3 tomorrow
Time to make a twink build.

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Who is your favorite waifu, anon?

>inb4 sample image

>>146966592
That would be true. But you overestimate how strong your attacks actually are.

>>146966540
Are you not doing enough damage?
Are you dying too quickly?
Are you often running out of stamina?
>>146966592
Sure dude, don't level vig past 14 and tell me how high-SL pvp goes for you. I'm intensely curious.