/dsg/ - Souls General

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puffy

>>147215071
CUTE FOR LOSERS

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xth for mushroom caps are CUTE

>>147214915
>40 int
>int """"""build"""""""

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>>147215147

>>147215147
YOUR A LOSER

>>147215239
brown mushroom hat is cuter

>>147215239
LOSER
O-------E
S-------S
E-------O
RESOL

>>147215380
NAME A CUTER HAT

PC FC still going on the demon bridge

>>147215147
No bully

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>>147215338
LOSER
YOU'RE A LOSER
ARE YOU FEELING FASHIONABLE FOR YOURSELF
WELL YOU SHOULDN'T BE, BECAUSE YOU ARE DIRT
YOU MAKE ME SICK YOU BIG MUSHROOM
MUSHROOM WANT A BOTTLE
A BIG DIRT BOTTLE

reminder greatsword of judgement is still trash

>>147213429
What is the heralds kicking a reference to?
And Sifs boss room?
ToL?
Blood Moon?
Sorry, I guess I'm ignorant to stuff like this.

>>147214978
He hates King's Field. He hates Dark Souls 2 as well, and he LOATHES Bloodborne. Like, I've never heard anyone so salty on anything than when he talks about Bloodborne. I'm not sure what he thinks about DS3 but I can't imagine it's too high.

He considers Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 the only worthwhile ones, but I can't recall him giving too many compliments without working in some sort of backhanded one in there as well.

Plague doesn't like many things.

>>147215471
any one

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when will they fix this?

>>147215267
>int builds must have 60 int and no less
>even though you can still use almost all worthwhile spells at 40, minding the damage loss
I bet you think all x builds must have 60 in said main stats, don't you?

>>147215793
everyone is hollow, anon

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>>147215770
>LOATHES Bloodborne
Who ever this man is, he ain't my nigga.

>>147215865
>40 int
>no damage unless you use the duck crown which is never worth it
>instead reliant on investing for GSoJ
I'm sure those occasional farron darts and farron hail count, though.

>decide to use a magic build my first 1st Ds3 play through
>Barely use my magic for any boss fights.

Does anyone ever do this? I was struggling with Nameless King until I realized I an just nuke his ass with soul spears and poke at him when he comes close and I beat his ass.

>>147215770
Isn't PlagueofGripes some degenerate with a furry impregnation fetish that he poorly tried to cover up once he went viral-ish?

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Ashen ones, post latest /fa/. This is a new character and I'm really digging the new edgelord look.

Had to restart windows because of rig upgrade to 1070 gtx and lost my file ;_;

At 108 spell buff, Blessed Weapon regens exactly 90 HP across its full duration.

In other words, it's still fucking worthless.

>>147215267
Not the guy you're replying to, but hybrid physical/magic builds are pretty fun. I find it way more engaging than adorning the dusk crown and casting hcsm every 3 seconds.

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Not a lot of signs around so demon bridge FC is coming to a close. Thanks to everyone for coming and I hope you had fun

>>147216018
>implying that's not all 60 int builds are as well
I guess using the Immolation Tinder and MLGS don't give you an int build either, after all, they require investment in something other than int as well.
>>147215770
>and he LOATHES Bloodborne.
Why? the Lovecraftian references?
why? it

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>>147216135
Not counting the full Knight set I've been digging as of recent, same old same old.

Been fucking around with weaponarts a lot because they make capes go haywire

Is there a point of no return after you collect all the cinders? I don't want o head into Ng+ without collecting my final undead bone shard and some other stuff wherever those things may be.

>>147213429
I can honestly understand where he's coming from with the unending references in DaS3. DaS3 is barely its own game.

>>147215720
>herald
Maiden in Black
>Sif's boss room
Graveyard of swords from Berserk.
>Tower of Latria
Berserk's torture dungeons.

>>147216295
don't think to much about it

there isn't a lot that plague likes, his disdain for the other souls titles isn't unique to the souls series

pike or LKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yQWJMPu0o

reminder to have fun with dark hand while you can

>>147216473
gargoyle flamespear

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>>147216491
Thanks to that anon who shared the idea, I had a much easier time cheesing Dancer very early game with maybe only flynn ring to help. It's definitely gonna be patched.

>>147216726
if it gets patched ill uninstall

>>147216473
>pike
>ever

>>147216757
uninstall now then

>>147216473
LKS is a direct upgrade. The poise buff does nothing, but it has better AR and looks cool.

>>147216118
Yes. It was pretty hot and he's only gotten better at drawing since and you bet he still has a huge secret cache.

>>147216113
I killed Sully exclusively with magic. If I ever get close with my raw poker i was going to get fucking shredded.

>>147216726
I seriously doubt it'll be patched, they buffed it right after fixing the invincible NPC glitch, precisely because they wanted to make it available as a sequence-break tool

The dark hand basically has one role, and that's to steamroll the dancer.

>>147217081
>ds3
>sequence break
heh..... heheh........ heheheheh.......

So why can't I use the Black Eye Orb to save the fire keeper

>>147217058
>that little sidestep he does to dodge your magic
>that completely fails to dodge them 90% of the time
>but he keeps doing it anyways, constantly, instead of attacking or approaching
Magic breaks his AI so badly it's unfair.

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>lure tsorig to the bridge
>he falls
>climbs back up

is the fc ended

>>147216118
He's actually more or less embraced that view of him as the "Creepy Sex Thing" Guy.

>>147216295
He LOATHES Bloodborne because of it's "shitty lore and slap-happy bosses", and he's really into hyper realistic combat, so the fast-paced combat is something he hates. A lot of the things that he suggests that would make the series "better" are making rolling determental, doing away with the super massive weapons, making any sort magic either useless or complicated to the point of not being worth using, putting a heavy emphasis on shields and making combat overall really slow.

>>147216351
He said it in a video he did on TheSw1tcher channel that when it comes to references "I don't care what you like, I want to know what you can come up with."

But yeah, I agree about DS3. Not much originality there.

>>147217258
yes i was too busy dominating the fight club and scared everyone away

>>147217330
u didnt dominate me fag

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>>147217229

Ask for help.

>>147217151
Oh come on, if they didn't want you to sequence break at the Dancer they wouldn't have let you fight her early in the first place

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>>147217229
>Cheese Tsonigger with Luring Skulls
>His shit is now in the lava

>>147217316
>A lot of the things that he suggests that would make the series "better" are making rolling determental, doing away with the super massive weapons, making any sort magic either useless or complicated to the point of not being worth using, putting a heavy emphasis on shields and making combat overall really slow.
So he hates Fantasy? Seriously?
>BB
>Shitty lore
If it were a bit more explained, it would have the best story of the series.

>>147217432
Is Smouldering Lake the only area where you can get enemies to fight on another? Maybe the memory's foggy but I'm drawing a blank.

>>147217525
The Darkwraiths in Farron Keep.

>>147217316
I bet he fucking loves Lords of the Fallen or whatever that shit game is called.

>>147217491
>doing away with the super massive weapons, making any sort magic either useless or complicated to the point of not being worth using
Disgusting

>>147217316
Why does he play FROM games if almost every single one has borrowed ideas

>>147217549
That's true, but they do that by design. I should have specified otherwise.

>>147217330
>>147217418
he dominated me

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>Stake now takes up one slot
Nice.
Are Wolnir GS and Lothric Holy Sword worth it on Faith builds now?

>>147217582
Lords of the Fallen loves its big heavy weapons and unrealistic edgy fantasy armor / weapons, so I doubt it.

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>Wooden Hammer
>Wooden Hammer with GREAT Hammer moveset
>356 AR

What the fuck is From doing?

>>147217770
>wolnir
Yeah, it surpasses Hollowslayer on a STR + FAI build now. The WA does great damage now but you'll still have a horrible time trying to land it even in PvE.
>Lothric Holy Sword
Hahahahahahaha no they gave it 13% fai scaling
13%

and they reduced its STR scaling 3%

>>147217810
Yeah I saw that video too

>>147217810
Infuse with heavy and get 99 str

>>147217883
Does Wolnir's have a stab?

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>>147217906
Nigger, that shit caps out at 40~50 STR. That's a waste of a solid 49 levels.
>muh Quality build

>>147217810
How do you contract blood diseases from dipping your finger in them fuckley

>>147217668
i wish i was dominated

>>147217883
What about Morne's Hammer? All I can see is that didn't messed with the base AR, but I can't tell if either the STR scaling was lowered or if the FAI scalling is worthwhile.
I don't even have either GSoJ or Crescent Moon Sword so I can't see if those got better.
>>147217982
It's the Bastard sword moveset, which is better than Claymore moveset IMO

Where should I be putting my summon sign for coop?

I've been trying to help people with aldrich and twins but nobody has summoned me

>>147218057
>How can a blood-borne illness be transferred via blood
Did you really have to ask?

>>147218061
I'll try next time

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Jesus Christ who though this was a good idea
>int is just boring kiting cancer
>glaives are just boring R1 out of range cancer
>put both together for your best int experience
no wonder this poor guy black crystals, I would too

>>147218092
GSoJ does real damage now for """""int""""" builds

Crescent Moon Sword got fucked because the INT scaling is too weak to compensate for the reduced dex scaling

Morne's has a net increase by almost no AR for worse scaling

>>147218103
How about... Outside Suly's Fog Wall??

>>147218152
>skin = blood

>>147218092
>which is better than Claymore moveset IMO
I dunno m8, being restricted to only slash not only limits its damage potential but also its range. Not that this is always the case, but for greatswords it definitely is.

Where the fuck is Untended Graves? Like, is it just in a cave? Or did I teleport through time and space after I went through that illusory wall? This is really bugging me.

best str weapon?

>>147218152
You have to get it in YOUR blood. Or at least, inside your body.

>>147217982
No, bastard sword. Meaning you don't get the 1k Hollowslayer 2hr2s.
>>147218092
>better than Claymore
You're mad.
>>147218092
1.08 to 1.09 scaling comparisons

Wolnir's Holy Sword
21% STR, 45% DEX

>Wolnir's Holy Sword
>37% STR, 10% DEX, 37% FAI

Lothric Holy Sword
36% STR, 45% DEX

>Lothric Holy Sword
>33% STR, 45% DEX, 13% FAI

Morne's Great Hammer
62% STR

>Morne's Great Hammer
>47% STR, 22% FAI

Heysel Pick
31% STR, 10% DEX, 71% INT

>Heysel Pick
>31% STR, 10% DEX, 86% INT

Greatsword of Judgment
36% STR, 35% DEX, 46% INT

>Greatsword of Judgment
>36% STR, 35% DEX, 56% INT

Anri's Straight Sword
21% STR, 20% DEX, 11% FAI, unknown luck

>Anri's Straight Sword
>15% STR, 14% DEX, 8% FAI, unknown luck

Crescent Moon Sword
6% STR, 79% DEX

>Crescent Moon Sword
>0% STR, 55% DEX, 31% INT

Morne's gains about 25 AR at 34 / 40, about 610 AR

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>>147218265
Slamough's Hammer

>be Lothric knight cosplayer
>full armour set, shield, straightsword
>get invaded at the first bonfire in Lothric Castle
>sit down in Prayer gesture at the altar
>invader arrives, I do By My Sword, he bows
>we fight
>I take nearly no damage, kinda destroy him
>receive message after
>"jesus those knights got upgraded lol"
It's the little things that make you feel like your cosplay is appreciated.

>>147218170
Hey I've seen that guy a few weeks before. I think he plays a lot too.

>>147218103
I'm lvl 85

>>147218229

As far as anyone knows, you've stepped into the past during a "dark" period of the whole light-dark cycle.

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>>147218340
>tfw nobody E V E R comments on your cosplays

>>147217642
Because occasionally Miyazaki can be a competent character writer. Whether or not its intentional or a fluke is anyone's guess. If you watch his lets play of Dark Souls then you'll see that he fucking loves the subtle character traits that some characters have. An example would be Petrus assuming that the player character is just as morally bankrupt as himself because "bad" people tend to view the world and others as reflections of themselves or what not. Its that kind of thing that you can infer from characters that gives Plague a massive hard on.

But every subsequent game does away with those little character moments little by little. Basically all the characters in 2 (aside from my waifu Bashful Ray) have little to no character. In 3 instead of creating new characters Miyazaki literally copies them from Dark Souls 1 (I'm looking at Andre and not-Siegmeyer) with little to no explanation. The only engaging character in the entire fucking game is Orbeck, and only because he has a bit of a character arc and actually helps answer some questions regarding Griggs' motivations back in DS1. Every other npc in the game aside from Sirris (who is a poor man's Solaire) is a copy of a previous character dressed up slightly differently.

t. plague

>>147218201
I just think the 2hR2s are good for catching incoming rolls, I loved it on the Flamberge and MLGS at least.

>>147218382
That's what I thought, I was just curious if I had missed some crucial bit of dialogue or item description

>>147218265
Yhorm's, DSGA I like the regular Gaxe a lot, Vordt's if you can stomach the moveset, Heavy Broadhsword (cannot confirm, been meaning to test firsthand), Heavy Darksword, Gundyr's

How's my Wombo Sorcerer, /dsg/??
https://www.mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/50609

>>147218201
>>147218092
IIRC even back in 1 BSword had higher damage, but everyone loses their minds over the poke for no reason

>>147218424
>griggs' motivations
Can you explain?

>>147217491
>making combat overall really slow

I can agree with that. DS1 was great with its combat pacing, and I wished that they had stayed with that style, but DS3 puts too much importance on being fast and aggressive. That was fun in Bloodborne, but it should stay in Bloodborne.

Everything else is bullshit though, and all his suggestions sound like a totally separate game.

>All these weapons got new scaling and buffs
>Saint Bident is still shit
Now I see why Schmidt or whatever threw it away.

I got DaS3 on the steam sale. Beat it twice already. I'm wondering, what are considered the best weapons for pvp? Especially early game? I'm trying to get all the pyromancies in one playthrough, so I have to be mound maker for a while and I just wanna get it over with as quickly as possible.

>>147218449

Most of the info about Untended has to do with Gundyr and how he was unsuccessful in linking the flame. You meet him at Cemetary of Ash when he's totally hollowed out, full of pus of man (which is ambiguously Abyss-related), rooted in place by a coiled sword and he fights like he's exhausted. In Untended, you fight him when he's in the prime of his hero career.

>>147218424
>not liking 3's characters
the man with NO taste

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>>147218170
>everything I don't like is "cancer"

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>>147218501
Looks alright.
Enjoy being one-shotted in PvP, newfriend.

>>147218635
Okay, thanks for clarifying. I was just clueless about the time and place of untended graves.

>>147218515
Of course it was good, but there are things that make it slightly less good now. Namely the restrictive damage type and less-than-great, both of which I consider Claymore to be superior.

>>147218705
stay mad skilless int babb

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Shoutout to 1.09 buffing this thing.

Making it scale higher off of STR and actually scale off of FAI makes this thing hit like a truck

I always liked it for the looks, but now I can actually use it online

>>147218424
here's grigg's motivation you nigger

>my husbando has gone to lordran
>also I must gain his strength

>>147218871
its still ass

>>147218265
Heavy Broadsword is a great early game weapon with low stamina usage. Really helps when you're leveling STR/VIG and ignoring END early on.
Heavy Great Club has great r2s, the uncharged 2hr2 leads into a very fast 2hr1 and combos in pvp, it's very reliable
Heavy Pickaxe and Warpick got buffed so that they pierce shields with all moves, but I haven't tried that yet, otherwise they're solid Leo ring weapons
Yhorm's is great but doesn't combo 2hr1s, and it consumes fucktons of stamina

Note that STR builds should go to 60 STR because scaling doesn't really stop
Try 66 STR for maximum scaling when 2h
A 40 STR 2h great club has 585 AR
A 60 STR 2h great club has 621
A 66 STR 2h great club has 639

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>>147218719

From the wiki page:

>Iudex Gundyr, who was corrupted by the Abyss, spends an eternity testing new unkindled heroes if they are worthy of fulfilling the phrophecy of rekindling the First Flame. He was once an unkindled himself, but had risen too late to fulfill his duty.

>The Flame had already been extinguished and the bells failed to ring, starting a new Dark Age. As the Ashen One travels through the illusory door, they go straight to that very same Dark Age to face Champion Gundyr at his prime. This is where they defeat him as an unknown warrior which seals his fate.

>A prisoner with an unbreakable halberd hoping that one day an unkindled will rise and relink the flame once more.

It's possible that the whole Untended Graves thing is a bit of a Terminator time loop: defeating Gundyr at Untended Graves fulfills his position as Iudex Gundyr in the beginning of the game, meaning if you defeat him in Untended you're the one who put him in his position as the combat trial permitting your own entry into Firelink Shrine.

>>147218871

Yes Anon, now with a 40 STR and 40 FAI Wolnir's you can have as much AR as a 40/40 Refined Claymore with a worse moveset and range while being unbuffable with a mediocre weaponart that will hit no one in PvP.

>>147219065
>from the wiki page
how naive

>>147218554
So it's heavily implied that Griggs is a Vinheim assassin due to his Black Sorcerer's garb, the fact that he drops the Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring, and that you find his hollowed version in the room at Sen's Fortress with the Spook sorcery in it (I'm just assuming its another "lol time is convoluted" thing). Like Griggs, Orbeck was a Vinheim assassin, but its revealed that assassins are generally restricted from learning sorceries that aren't related to combat and are generally looked down upon by the more upstanding members of the school. I would think that being able to meet the greatest sorcerer in the world as Griggs does with Logan might prompt him to give up (at least temporarily) his duties as an assassin and actually learn sorceries proper. Just like Griggs, Orbeck is in the same situation and his greatest wish is to be an actual sorcerer, rather than the school's thug.

>>147218649
Andre - Copied from DS1 with no explanation
Siegward - Character is copied from DS1 with no explanation. At least give me something like he's Siegmeyer's son/grandson/brother/father, fucking anything
Leonhard - Is basically just a slightly more fanatical Lautrec
Karla - a combination of Yuria from DeS and Quelana from DS1. With some hints that she might be either a descendant of Manus or Zullie who fucking knows
Shrine Handmaid - basically has no character aside from that bit about Dreamchaser and that she looks like a DS2 firekeeper
Cornyx - old master who you find trapped in a cage that teaches you sorc- I mean pyromancies, basically has no character

I could go on about a few other characters but this post has taken me forever to write

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hey, im trying to farm the fire witch's set, but the chest piece refuses to drop, anybody got a spare? ive got plenty of other pieces of the set i can trade for it

>>147219136
I agree. Why not just use the carthus curved sword?

>>147219136
>worse range
dude have you even held Wolnir's? it's huge

>>147219431

Objectively speaking there's no reason not too.

>>147218554
not that guy but
It confirms/connects to griggs being a vinheim assassin trailing logan for some reason or another, he probably had a similar experience to orbeck in that he wanted to be a sorcerer but got stuck doing wetwork

>>147219420
disreguard that i suck cocks

moment i posted it dropped

>>147219517
You can use the washing pole to finish off people who don't use shields.

post faces/sliders

>>147219517
You can also use BKGA for ripostes

>>147219354
>Andre
Lying will get you nowhere
>Siegward
Catarinian, friends with big ol' dude
>Leonhard
And Lautrec is just a more fanatical Yurt. Your point?
>Karla
Zullie
>Shrine Handmaid
And I'm sure the other two vendors from early game are very bright and characteristic
>Cornyx
Some dude in a barrel that teaches you pyromancies and will also go hollow if you tell him where Quelana is

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OKAY, THIS HAPPENED LIKE A WEEK OR SO AGO BUT STILL

WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKERS IS A CHARACTER NAMED "happy merchant" ON PS4?

I FUCKING LOVE YOU FOR YOUR ANTICS AND DROPPING OFF THOSE NG++ RINGS

Seriously, you're a godsend.

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>>147219732
look

>>147218424
Not Siegmeyer is literally a foil to Siegmeyer tho.

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>inb4 >fire

>>147219769

Yhorm's or the basic Greataxe would be more efficient for weight for about the same crit damage if you're using Hornet's desu.

>>147219863

is this supposed to be an invasion build?

and yes >fire

raw flamberge does 397 pure phys which is much higher than that split damage shit

and put the hornet ring on

>>147219865
>He isn't 40/40 at SL142
explain yourself

Where is the best place to grind for souls? I'm trying to get ready for NG+

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Are these stats good enough for a faith build?

>>147219624
>trailing logan for one reason for another
>literally says logan's his bro that he's looking for

>nameless knight, herald, and elite knight are all the exact same helmet but with the visor in different positions

why is this allowed

>>147220017
3 golden fatties

>>147219970
jesus I thought I was overleveled at 130

https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/51198

reminder to shit on 120 redditors

too bad they nerfed the ags though you could do 1k damage rolling attacks with this before

>>147220017
mini smoughs

>>147220114
Herald is a different helmet than NK and EK
NK is supposed to be a step down from EK, it was originally just dubbed 'Knight'

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>>147220053
FTH isnt viable in the superman meta
you need to go lower if you want it to actually do damage.

>>147219965
I'm using >fire because I intent to have it at +5-6, which a flamburger and normal playmore will be roughly the same: less damage than a fire playmore. What do you propose I do, then, considering I want to use minimal str/dexso I can gouge vig?

>>147219863
>life +2 instead of life +3
ok

>>147220326
Forgot the +3 was a thing

>>147220083
I wouldn't take the words of an assassin at face value

>>147220273
>le reddit boooooogeyman
It's nothing new though, 150 was my stopping point for /dsg/ 125 FCs

>>147220286
What level do you recommend?

>>147219791
Please, elucidate me on why Andre is in DS3. What does he add to the story? Does he say or do anything even slightly interesting aside from commenting on the giant blacksmith and warning you about the profaned coal because its apparently dangerous for some reason.

Why does a clone of Siegmeyer have to be Yhrom's osananajimi then? Why couldn't Miyazaki make some other slightly endearing comic relief/hidden badass character without resorting to a carbon copy of a previous character from the franchise.

>And Lautrec is just a more fanatical Yurt. Your point?
That doesn't justify having a reskinned character in 3/4 games. I'm criticizing Miyazaki's shoddy character writing skills here. I know the nips love character archetypes and what not, but christ give them slightly different motivations every now and then

The only way Cornyx is even remotely similar to Laurentius is that they are both a bit affable. Laurentius actually has character development, his own reasons for being where he is, and a conclusion to his arc. Cornyx is just in Lothric for some reason, the most characterization you get from his is from is ashes, which basically just state that he wanted to teach someone because he's an old man (who can die? fuck if I know) but there is basically nothing going on with him.

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Daily reminder that Sulyvahn is the devil and he did everything wrong.

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>>147220479
50-65 works pretty well for me.

>>147220418
Why didn't he kill Logan when he was sitting no less than 1 foot away from him in Firelink?

If he's a Vinheim assassassino that's fine, but his target clearly isn't Logan.

Yo, why are NPC triggers so cryptic?

Took me hours to figure out how to reach patches after he tricked me. Because of a stray ladder around a random corner eluded me. Messages weren't there to show me the ladder yesterday, but they were there today, thankfully.

Patches hasn't left the cathedral of the deep for some reason.

Got Siegward out of the well, thanks to messages leading me there. Probably would have missed it otherwise. Now that he's gone, I have no idea where he is.

Found Horace all the way inside Izalith, even though there was no reason to suspect he would be there. Looked for hours.

The pilgrim offering free levels died randomly.

Killed a random pilgrim in a corner, because messages told me to attack a random statue.

Messages are telling me to kill the darkmoon girl, I suppose after completing her covenant?

Just helped beat Aldrich with Anri, and then nothing happened. I'm guessing this will trigger something. But no clue what. Afraid I'm missing something.

>>147220687
time is convoluted
I don't know, perhaps he was sent there to do so and had second thoughts when he discovered he could be a real life wizard instead of some lackey

>>147219848
Sieglinde is Siegmeyer's foil. Siegmeyer is an incompetent moron who has to either be rescued or assisted throughout the course of the game. Sieglinde, aside from your first encounter with her, is an actual badass and more of a knight than her bumbling father could ever be. She's implied to not be undead so she doesn't have the benefit of being essentially immortal like Siegmeyer is (until he dies, which, according to the whole hollowing thing shouldn't be possible).

What are the min/max-est possible pyro stats at SL120?

>Flakpanzer Gepard is not a commerical truck
Fuck off

>>147220557
Ludleth points out that the reason no one can die when you kill them in Firelink Shrine (at least the original ensemble from the start of the game) is because they're linked to the place and trapped.

>INB4 THAT'S NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR
It's an explanation, what you asked for.

>Siegmeyer
He's not a clone though. They're both big doofs but they've got different character development and different ending arcs. Ironically you use this as your main chip for Laurentius.

>Lautrec and Yurt and Leonhard
Yurt's motivation was dolla dolla bills, Lautrec's motivation was Fine, Leonhard's motivation delusional love and selfishness. There's not a difference in their characteristics, but still.

>Cornyx
Cornyx and Laurentius are two dudes in a tight spot that you send to Firelink for Pyromancies after agreeing to help them out. Laurentius is literally "thank god you saved me bro. We're friends now. Now I'm hollow because I went to blighttown."

Cornyx doesn't have an 'arc' in the sense that he has no part three to his journey but Laurentius is literally the same fucker without development.

>>147220769
I was stuck on finding the third lever too, I didn't expect the stairs to be behind the wall.

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>>147220674
Cool I'll try keep around there for a while and see how it goes, thanks for the help Anon.

DaS3's kiln makes me miss DaS1's kiln, it's way too short and it has lost that ominous atmosphere

>>147220769
Instead of giving NPCs interesting quest lines they decided to make their triggers overly difficult to hit so that 70% of people who play the game wouldn't be able to see most of them without a guide

>>147220985
Fina*

>>147220273
>Duck hat
Always keep a stack of pale aromatic ooze on hand, kids.

>>147221049
I'm pretty certain that's because they cut out an entire level that was supposed to build up to it.

is there an fc right now

>rapier has 130 critical rating now
wow that's fucking retarded

>>147221178

What makes you think that?

>>147220674
a 40 faith miracle hitting 450 on a naked target...

this is the power of faith...

>>147221049
I don't know. Seeing Lodran compacted like trash, a giant bleeding sun overhead and being on a giant archtree is pretty ominous to me desu

>>147221049
>DaS1's kiln
literally just a longer walk with a couple d00ds thrown in there

Want to do a pyro run

What's a good weapon to make dark or chaos or use straight with pyro stats?

>>147221386

estoc
longsword

>>147221386
LKSw and/or AGS

>>147221386

Chaos Thrall Axe is what I'm using and it's doing fantastic.

>>147221289
>Seeing Lodran compacted like trash
what's up with that? is the end of fire a sort of big crunch?

>>147221285

Since it's a phantom that's probably just the phantom's max HP.

>>147221386
Got you senpai

https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4ii8lj/heres_a_list_of_all_weapons_that_gain_an_sa/

My personal recommendations are:

Falchion/Carthus Curved Sword
Thrall Axe/Hand Axe
Longsword/Broadsword

>>147221386
any weapon you see jap pyro bro using
thrall axe, estoc, longsword, witch's locks

>>147221280
the bizarre way you spawn at a bonfire only to go to another bonfire that teleports you to ANOTHER bonfire. It's never done before this point in any of the other games. Also if you look behind the kiln bonfire the crumbled building almost looks like something you dropped out of to reach the kiln proper.

>>147221181
wording this post

What SL can I get summoned for Watchdogs at?

>Horace is clearly a very obvious reference to Zabuso
>Uses a Lucerne instead of a Crescent Axe
Why

>>147221514
>>147221507
>>147221480
>>147221475
>>147221437
Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to test everything out on my main save and go from there

>>147221761
Any level. What worked best for me was 30 +4 though

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>>147221801
>Being that obvious ever

that's not miyazaki-ryu

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>>147221875
1/2

>>147221801
He uses a halberd.
Strike two, bitchnuts. One more and you're out

>>147220985
Ok, how about answering my other questions regarding Andre? What is he adding to the story? If they needed another burly dude that occasionally says words and is a blacksmith, it could have just as easily been that deranged fuck from the Lost Bastille, or that green bloke from Majula. What is Andre contributing to DS3's story other than just being another callback?

Why does it have to be somebody who looks, talks, and acts exactly like Siegmeyer that is Yhorm's redeemer? Does Siegward actually develop as a character? All he does in his last two encounters before Yhrom is say he has a promise to keep and thats it. Does he undergo some great change? He isn't even phased by the fact that he just killed his best friend and watched you chop off his head.

See, at least Yurt has a distinct reason for what he does. Lautrec and Leonhard do what they do for the same exact reason. How about giving Leonhard a somewhat different reason for killing another NPC rather than just a mad devotion to an implied deity as was Lautrec's motivation.

Laurentius goes hollow because he loses his sense of purpose. He wants to hone his abilities as a pyromancer and when the opportunity to learn from the mother of pyromancy reveals itself he finds out that he's utterly lacking in both skill and talent due to the fact that he can't find her. Cornyx just chills at Firelink and tells you to fear the flame as if that even means anything anymore.

>>147219354
>Shrine Handmaid - basically has no character aside from that bit about Dreamchaser and that she looks like a DS2 firekeeper
strongly have to disagree with that one

handmaiden has a consistently ominous and disturbing tone that is used to great affect, e.g. when you kill her, when you meet her in untended graves, when you turn in ash from slain NPCs...she has a lot of dialogue that both foreshadows the shrine's curse and establishes her as an obvious Atropos figure contrasting the fire keeper

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>>147221916
2/2

>>147221801
>Zabuso
Who the fuck is that?
You didn't mean BAZUSO, THE THIRTY MAN SLAYER, did you?

Comfiest area in Ds1?

>>147218649
Random anon here to chime in w/ my own thoughts.

I actually think that Demon's Souls has the best characters and lore in the series. There are so many cool things that make you feel like the NPC's all know and interact with each other in the world.

For example, Ed and Boldwin are brothers. Biorr and Vallarfax are brothers too. They talk about each other.

There's the whole lore about how Sage Freke says that Saint Urbain and his followers are basically romanticizing the Old One (evil) by praying to a god-- because the Old One is essentially god.

Sage Freke is cool because he's making the best of a bad situation by using Demon's Souls to create the Soul Arts, whereas Yuria the Witch on the other hand is simply channeling the raw power of the Demons through her 'detestable dark arts'.

Yurt is the O.G. Lautrec and like 20x better. If you don't kill him, he chimps out fucking hard and kills everyone with knowledge of the Soul Arts in the Nexus .

On top of this, you have fucking Mephistopheles who wants everyone who knows Soul Arts DEAD, including you, the player-- she wishes for them to remain a secret. Her motives are basically unknown, but her name is shared with the character from the German story of Faust, which essentially means she's the Devil's worker-- and speculatively, it could be interpreted that she works for the Old One.

Dark Souls on the other hand, just has characters with motives. You see them progress, but they basically ignore the presence of other NPC's in the game other than the interaction between Lautrec and the Firekeeper.

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>>147221916
Huh, this is actually pretty good. Very customizable too. I'm not sure the extra point in vig is worth it. Isn't one of the vig caps 44? You're better off putting that point into str to use more weapons

>>147222141
What's with the fucking spaces?

>>147222115
Firelink Shrine before everyone goes mad and dies somewhere. And before that shithead Frampt shows up.

>>147221484
the fire(?) seemed to be pulling lords of cinder and their domains together in lothric so that could be the final result

the fuck is up with this swamp area in Dark Souls 3.

I get turned around, the swamp sometimes slows me down, and I can't seem to find that last damn fire I need to put out.

Did somehow find that old wolf on accident

>>147222145
Yeah, I just dropped it in Vig as a dump stat. I went with the Knight ring so I can swap it out and not waste points in str when I don't feel like using the AGS.

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>katana fags

>>147221278
>"Bullshit, that can't be right"
>it actually is
>it's even higher than the bandit's knife

>>147221984
>What is he adding to the story?
The shit about Firelink.

>Siegward
Because people from Catarina are allowed to be similar? Siegward and Siegmeyer are two different people.

>Siegmeyer gets increasingly depressed because he's a mediocre knight who ends up needing your help all the time. His endings are kill myself, needlessly jump into a pit of chaos eaters and almost die then kill myself because Undead saved me, or go hollow and get killed by my daughter
>Siegward is a determined undead who is positive and only gets more determined as he runs into the Unkindled one and receives help, letting on about Yhorm and his duties a couple of times but remaining headstrong. Actually accomplishes his goals and stays a bro to the end, killing himself because his purpose is served.
Also, you don't chop off Yhorm's head literally or figuratively

>Le shotel men
Semantically it's different. Lautrec kills Anastacia either because Fina said so or because he's a huge dicklord. Leonhard kills Rosaria for her soul because she's the ultimate waifu and he knows she doesn't need it for the covenant to function, Rosaria took him in and he has this weird complex about her afterwards.

>Laurentius
Stop adding in extra steps and then ignoring the post. Laurentius' arc and 'character development' are "Thanks for saving me, new best friend. Where'd you get a chaos pyromancy? From Quelana? Okay. Now I'm hollow."

He is never ONCE that complex in nature in-game and people just lovingly fill in the gaps between him in Firelink and him in Blighttown. You also ignore the part where he's the same as Cornyx but with an ending.

>>147222314
If you have any weapon with the weapon art "Quickstep", use it in the parts where the swamp slows you down

>>147222141
>random unrelated thoughts that are biased and occasionally wrong
Thanks shitlord.

>>147222324
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ
Play that while watching it. Makes it so much better.

What's with the pool of players? I can't find anyone online. Just an hour ago, I was getting summoned as blue like crazy, and getting invaded like crazy. Now everyone is gone.

>>147221916
That looks good. I was waffling between the AGS or Murakumo. I didn't want to use AGS again because I used it my last run, but fuck if I don't love that bastard something fierce

>>147222435
no idea, I would need to check.

I am trying to do this shit as blindly as possible (started as a Pyro) and part of me feels like this swamp is supposed to be for later

>>147222393
Yhorm's cinders of a lord, like the other cinders, is his head
so presumably you do knock it off in some manner
not that guy though

>>147222506
I know that feel, especially when fighting the jailers.

>>147222536
It could be. Did you go into the cathedral of the deep yet? On my first playthrough I missed that area and had to backtrack for a long time

>>147221875

Keep in mind that due to the demands of Pyro reqs the lightest and least stat-demanding weapons with high scaling will likely be the most viable. This is why Hand/Thrall Axe are often picked: they require no further stat investment.

>>147221984

Siegward's storyline runs somewhat parallel to the Stormruler's stated purpose as a way of killing Yhorm if he gets out of hand. It adds some depth to Yhorm, not necessarily Siegward, who just plays the same role Siegmeyer did as the bumbling counterpoint to the player character.

As for bringing back Andre, I guess it's just that they wanted to call back to the first game and they could save time on assets by just porting him in from the first.

>>147222630
True but AGS is light when it comes to stats relative to the other large weapons. And after playing with large weapons I can't go back to tiny dinky stuff

>>147222630
I thought about that too, but 18 dex is required for the Witchlocks anyway, that's what you need for the LKSw too, and NG sage ring + 18 dex pretty much equals max cast speed. It's basically a perfect match imo.

That's also why I am using the Knight ring in the build I posted. It means nothing is wasted on str. Just ring swap as needed.

>>147222610
I have the first bonfire for that area and went "maybe I missed something in the area with all the crabs"

Also, is the giant tree boss supposed to be a dead end?

>>147222314
Yurt, who remains cold and calm to the end, an assassin on a mission, is not "chimping out".

Sage Freke is flat out evil. He pursues soul arts for making humans into gods and would have you damn the world to the fog to keep his power.

>it could be interpreted that she works for the Old One.
That's just stupid. The Old One craves strong souls, like those of humans empowered by soul arts. Killing them before their time is counter productive.
A far more believable theory is just that she and her secret society want to be the only ones in power.

>>147222947
>Also, is the giant tree boss supposed to be a dead end?
Yeah.

>>147223019
okay. I am at least at 3 paths:
1. The elevator with Sieg with the bigass demon that pretty much wrecks me in one hit
2. The swamp with the Wolf in the tower
3. The cathedral of the deep

>>147223208

Sieg can tank the demon while you whomp it in the ass. Go help a brother out.

>>147223208
Do 1 first. You'll advance his quest to go to the deep and Seigward can help you fight him as well

>>147222780

Murakamo seems like it'd be a really cool option for chaos. Spin Slash is a strong weapon art, S scaling is beastly, and it would look stylish too.

>>147223383
I was going to try the thing where I can use an item, turn into a tree, and the giant will snipe it.

Nope, giant will not snipe it

so what exactly did they do to the hornet ring

it still looks like a 30% damage increase

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>>147217432
>Black Knight kills him
>goes a step ahead and offs himself
>"My thanks!"
10/10

>40/40 hornet chaos rapier riposte damage

oh fuck

i can't believe you've done this

>>147223606
they increased the modifier based on the weapon
daggers and rapiers have a higher mod, ultras stayed the same

>>147223476
chaos kumo is A, not S
and the base is mediocre so the scaling doesn't help much

>>147223483

There's no birch tree around, so he won't snipe it.

If you really want to just kill it with no shame, stand on the little roof below where Sieg is sitting and pull it with an arrow. It can't reach you from there, so you can just arrow it to death while its AI is bumbling back and forth between him and you.

>>147223634
so they buffed it?

>>147223483
If you can't kill this thing, you're going to have an awful time with the game.

>>147223684
>>147223606

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN7hwp6iY2M

>>147223684

Ultimately, yes, depending on the weapon. Dark Sword does something like 40 less damage on a riposte with Hornet than it used to.

>>147223606
>you still need ~45vig WITH FAP PLUS 2 AND LIFE PLUS 3 in order survive ultra parries as a phantom

>What is he adding to the story?
>The shit about Firelink.

Again, that could have easily just been a new character that was trapped in the nex- I mean Firelink Shrine. The reason he's in the game is most likely >>147222640 anon's reason. Also, it just adds further questions. Like why was he trapped by the Shrine. What made him so special in DS1 that warranted some freaky magic temple to trap him within its walls for the rest of eternity. Why doesn't he tell you that linking the flame is fucking pointless? I'm sure if you were trapped by some jank ass magic bullshit you would at least make it known that you've seen some shit in your time.

>people just lovingly fill in the gaps between him in Firelink and him in Blighttown

Laurentius literally asks you where you learned Quelana's pyromancy. You give him the information and he goes looking for her. Quelana can only be seen by promising pyromancers (which is why the +10 pyromancy flame is required for you as the player character to be able to see her). Unable to find her, Laurentius must have given up his hope of being anything other than mediocre and went hollow. When you say that there is no information regarding why he ends up there, all that shows is that you either don't remember his dialogue, or just don't give a damn.

>Because people from Catarina are allowed to be similar? Siegward and Siegmeyer are two different people.

So the lore on Catarina is that a significant number of its men are voiced by the same dude then? Also, why do people assume Siegward is dead after you and him DP Yhrom? Its not as if you find his gear on a corpse or anything. I'll give you that he served his purpose, but that doesn't mean he killed himself. And again, how did Siegward change throughout the story? Its never implied that he wanted to give up the life of a gallant knight.

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>>147218324
>Lothric Holy Sword
>13% FAI
Hahaha what the fuck. Goodbye future pew-pew blade build.

>>147223702
It's more like I make one mistake and I am dead

>>147223657
Arrows can reach that far?

Also, did I fuck up if I upgraded my handax with the Fine Stone that upped the scaling?

>>147223776

The only bone that invaders have been thrown since the game came out.

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>leaves lewd meme messages everywhere
>literal infinite health

Thanks, memers.

>>147223795
Whoops, forgot to quote >>147222393

>>147223879

With the free Longbow you picked up in High Wall? Yeah, just aim high to compensate for the arrow drop. It won't damage the Fire Demon but it'll draw it over to you both.

Help please. Level 67, irithyll dungeon PC.

>>147223795
>
It's most likely the other anon's reason, but he just like everyone else in the default Shrine insists greatly for you to relink the flame.

>
Pay attention, ultra dickhead. Laurentius has no character development, but I never said the reason that he appears in Blighttown is never stated. I even say that you tell him where to go for Chaos Pyromancies you fucking retard.

You don't actually fucking need a +10 flame to see her, hell, you don't need to even have a flame in your inventory for her to appear as long as Quelaag is killed.

>
Sit at the bonfire and watch him where he's sitting. He suddenly jerks up and does the death animation while doing the sounds of someone who is dying. His corpse drops his gear, just with the little orb.

If you get teleported out by Emma or just leave, by the time you come back the orb with his gear is there, the same one that appears when he kills himself.

If you bothered to read my posts, which I'm beginning to suspect you haven't been fully, he gets more and more friendly and determined. He's also a good cook.

>>147224174

Nuffin betta to do. Gimme a pass

Any tips to make DS3 get more FPS on Nvidia?

Friend has one of those 1200 budget gayman laptops so It doesn't run to bad with everything on low

That is, I'm pretty sure Nvidia is fucking the settings up on its own like for the new DOOM so I'm just asking for tips

>>147223934
>didn't know you had a messages limit
>overwrote all my high rates ones with meme messages
;_;

>>147218324
wolnir's because useable
judgement became decent
anri's is still good
lothric sword got a big fuck you to faith users
morne's hammer is basically unchanged except now you need more faith to reach max damage (thanks for nothing)
crescent sword is probably worse honestly, 33% int on that shithouse base damage is nothing

>>147223879
>It's more like I make one mistake and I am dead
It's so easy. You're making me cringe so hard

>>147222324
Should've blasted him to punish a quick chug.

>>147224320
"retard" because I'm retarded.

>>147222324
>that zero tracking on the thrust
and to think, i was gonna use this

>>147223208
Demon first. It's for Sieg's quest line, and there is a bunch of good items over there, but it just loops back around to the tree boss, so do that first. The Cathedral. If you do the swamp and shit first, you will screw up some encounters and have to backtrack to the cathedral anyway.

>>147224174
>tfw no anime combos in ds3

>>147224424
with what? i hope you don't mean the weapon art r2

canvas or sunlight?

>>147224440

Well look at me, I'm retarded too!

I'll put my sign back down at the entrance. Go back down to the rat pit (carefully) and there's a shortcut you can use to get there.

>>147225206
ok. It might take my slow ass a minute to get there. so far, it was fun fighting invaders with you. One invader I actually defeated shortly before summoning you. and he invaded again after you arrived. Poor guy.

>>147225097
Sunlight

>>147225303
>>147225206
one sec, getting summoned as a blue.

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So wouldn't a blessed-infused Twin Dragon Greatshield (at +10) offer identical health regen to the Ancient Dragon greatshield while still having a higher damage reduction?

(Also what's the recommended level for Kiln invasions? SL90?)

>>147225303

I have the game itself down pretty good after so many runs, but I'm really bad at PvP still due to a lack of experience. If you hadn't come through after I tanked his WA with Pers I'd probably have gotten nutted on.

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Wow, I thought my Pyro was stat heavy but this guy will prolly force me to go to lvl 95 atleast and thus bring all my other character up by 15 levels aswell.

As it stands it is at its bare minimum but I'd still need to use Havels ring, knight and hunters. Pyro and Fth spellsword are really the only builds that cannot be played at SL80 properly.

Sorcerer on the other hand was totally possible, not sure why you guy cry so much about weak sorceries. I have a high win rate in pvp at 80 with him

>get summoned as blueberry
>host dee fucking see'd

I resent everybody who isn't some variation of red or purple now.

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do you ever JUST someone so bad you feel kinda bad for them?

>>147225510
phew, close call successful blue mission. Going to shortcut now

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>>147225626
Once.

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>>147225794
fucking gold

>>147225794
>losing badly
>keeps trying to parry without swinging once
>throws a lloyd's

oh wow

>>147225794
I hope you at least sent him a message to let him know that whips can't be parried.

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>>147225626

>>147225919
Shit, that positioning looked unfortunate as hell.

>>147225918
>white knighting
>with a name like Lucifer

As bad as they say

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Holy shit, auto-summon covenants are the fucking worst, even the ganking ones like dogs and Aldrich.

These covenants force you to be aggressive as shit, because they leave you so thirsty for a long time. In addition, they also summon you at the worst times possible, never when you're just waiting to be summoned, which leave you unprepared mentally.

still on my first playthrough of DS2. is it worth using a bonfire ascetic to get some NG+ stuff early?

>>147226305
Yes

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>>147225626

>>147226305
depends. I highly regretted NG+ ing my NG game early since once I did a regular NG+ it was a clusterfuck of NG levels that I went though.

One level would have been +1 others +2 or 3 or even higher if you farmed them a lot.
In the end you really kill the fun and ask yourself why you did not just bonfire ascetic the rest from out of NG aswell

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>>147226305
Only if you can handle the burn

>>147226440
I only really want to do it for one area, so I feel like that's not TOO much, yeah?

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>>147225494

>>147226492
aha giant farming? yea I did that aswell. especially if its such a dream side area thingy it prolly wont matter.

>>147226506
Yes. You don't want to invade the Kiln

>>147226672
hm? no I was gonna do an area in sinner's rise so I could get the old witch soul

>>147225494
>invading kiln
Most of the time the host will just run for the fog when they're losing

>>147226506
Why the fuck would you invade Kiln? All you're gonna get is a bunch of "Host has initiated the final battle" or the occasional gang of phantoms about to carry the host through the conclusion to his character's journey, rendering his efforts meaningless.

>>147225510
Thanks, dude. you were very helpful. We probably missed a lot of stuff though, so I'll have to go back for some looting. That one invader almost got me. But no one can stand up to the great axe

>>147224248
>I never said the reason that he appears in Blighttown is never stated. I even say that you tell him where to go for Chaos Pyromancies you fucking retard.

Ah, I missed that. Sorry my mistake.

>Sit at the bonfire and watch him where he's sitting. He suddenly jerks up and does the death animation while doing the sounds of someone who is dying. His corpse drops his gear, just with the little orb.

Never noticed that, I always save Yhorm for last so I guess I either never noticed Siegward dying or I get teleported before it happens.

>Laurentius has no character development
He states that he came to Lordran because he's heard that pyromancy is an acceptable pursuit in Lordran and wants to get better at pyromancy. Here, I'll give you a direct quote

>"So, the day I became Undead, I was ecstatic."
>"I felt as if I'd been chosen to attune myself to the ancient arts."

Right there is his motivation for being where he is. You're supposed to infer that because he can't find Quelana that he lost his motivation which is what causes you to turn into a mindless hollow as he eventually does. He is fundamentally changed from affable outcast to someone who most likely realized his own lack of either talent or skill which is his implied character arc. He is not a static character as you say he is. Sure, its not stated in writing why he became hollow, but that's what inference is for.

1/2

So what's Eileen's deal? If you aren't there to help her kill Henryk she gets all blood-lusty from killing him and goes crazy like Gascoigne, but with a futa hardon for slaying Hoontahs?

>>147227092
2/2

>>147224248
>he gets more and more friendly and determined. He's also a good cook.

I dunno man, your first encounter with him is him assisting you with killing a reskinned DS1 boss. That’s pretty fucking friendly off the bat. How exactly does he get more friendly or determined? Does he start off as some semi-standoffish dude? Does he start off the game telling you about his doubts regarding his mission and slowly becoming more sure of himself and determined? He doesn’t undergo anything special aside from, as you said, dying after the Yhrom fight.

And finally, DS1’s characters are interesting and special because of what you can infer from them as I said in my original post >>147218424. Sure, you might be able to say that Kirk’s body and gear ending up five feet away from the fair lady is a coincidence, and that the fact that you fight him in Lost Izalith has no meaning, but the things you can infer from the hints that the game gives you is what makes the idea that he is invading people so that he can give humanity to the Fair Lady is what makes DS1’s story and characters good when compared to DS3. Most of DS3’s characters don’t undergo any sort of development either outright or inferred which is what makes them so utterly lackluster.

Fucking christ I had to retype these entire posts from memory twice

>>147225794
I remember when Eygon, Knight of Carim used a flaming gauntlet formed from a soul of a demon to swat insects out from in front of him
I liked that episode

fight club

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>>147227079

Hyperarmor really helps in PvP, I can see that. A lot of those guys tried to trade with you and ended up getting shut down in two hits.

We didn't get the torso stone, the cursebite ring, or the onislayer bow. Didn't free Karla and there's a simple gem back in Dungeon you can go get now that you have the old cell key. I wasn't sure how to communicate to you about a few of those (for example, did you even want cursebite? I had no clue). And I figured you'd go get the stone when you were ready for Dragondildo Peak.

>>147227414
I'm just trying to loot everything I can find. I'm only vaguely aware of my surroundings since I could resist watching a let's play before getting the game myself. But ultimately, I'm new to all this, so I don't know what I want or don't want. I just want to collect everything.

I'm aware we left the witch behind and more, but I didn't want to hold you up, and besides if we got into too many enemy encounters, then our estus would have ran out before the end.

>>147227092
>>147227184
>
Cleared up then

>
True, most people do Yhorm last but I've gotten into the habit of doing Aldrich last so I never get teleported after killing Yhorm. Siegward does in fact kill himself sadly.

>
Why would he lose his motivation if he was strong enough to reach her? He's fairly static because he doesn't change at all. His characteristics are the exact same until his death, the only difference between him and Cornyx is that he was drawn to Lordran and has a third part of his arc.

Cornyx and Laurentius are both static in the fact that their starting parts are "Get me out of this situation and I'll make you a real pyromancer."

They both show up at Firelink, unchanged, but the key difference is that Cornyx ends here, whereas you can still kill off Laurentius without much character development inbetween.

>>147227184
>
As he gets more and more familiar he acts nicer with you. When you meet him in his two elevator scenes, he greets you as a friendly acquaintance, toasts you for killing the demon with him, and that's all. The second time you meet and you give him his armor he thanks you, and in Irithyll he's very grateful to you for his rescue.

He also straight up diggidy dog hands you a titanite slab because he's at the end of his road, and the anxiety in his voice is much more noticeable than when he quickly changes the subject in the kitchen.

Also, when he dies to Yhorm he lets out a remorseful line of dialogue before dying.

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Guys pls. Posted yesterday, totally ignored.

Recommend me some buffs or weapons.

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>>147227414

>>147227748
I'll help you if you bend over like a little teapot.

>>147227748
Try the necromancy, dark celestial fire. It scales high with mind

>fed Aldrich a literal deity
>enabled the corruption of Anor Londo
>led a cult dedicated to Aldrich
>enslaved a demigod and made her his bitch
>transformed her, Vordt and the others into monsters
>is a pain in the ass to kill
Is Sulyvahn the most evil character in Souls?

>>147227968
You say that like you think the gods were good people.

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>>147228129
Feminine penis.

>>147228236
Her having a penis doesn't make her a good guy.

>>147228281
>her

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Hey, do you guys like cosplays? Because I sure do love cosplays

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>>147228236
>posting worst girl penis

>Tfw no summons at Heide.
Sad. Dark Souls 3 got me hype to go back and replay Dark Souls 2. Majula is really pretty and I love how they do water in this game. I don't really remember a whole lot of the sea being in Dark Souls 3. I wish I could enjoy co-op again, but in DaS3 I'm like, 117 so I hardly get summoned, and I just started a new character in 2 so my Soul Memory is piss low. Oh well.

>>147214950
Is that Sihn?

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>>147228281
Right, but it distracts from the bad things done.

>>147228317
sex != gender

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>>147228347
Did someone say... cosplays?

>>147228389
wow... and with this post you are officially not only on my ignore list but on my kill on sight one aswell.

Sex = gender you fucking faggot.
If you have a dick you are a male, if you dont you are a woman. Is it that hard to understand?

Jesus christ, the amount of hosts who try to block Dancer's spin2win.

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>>147228508
Do you really care anyways? It's not like you're gonna fuck Gwyndolin's dead corpse's pixels, so it doesn't matter what's in those pants.

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Wild West Bloodborne-esque souls game when

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>>147228481
>Wolnir's Crown

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>>147228481
I've really only got one cosplay, and it's kind of shitty.

>select at least three store fronts
>one is the entrance to a parking garage

>>147228347
Why does the second guy look like a Shade from DS2?

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Well, King Healsnbuffs is ready to go. Armed only with support miracles and an off-hand torch to make it even easier for invaders to spot me out. As if the fucking cape wasn't enough.

It's time to see how far I can get without damaging a single enemy or invader, relying only on un-passworded co-op.

This is going to be horrible.

>>147228684
A combination of weird lighting and playing at lowest settings

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FC WHEN

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>>147228718
Wow, good luck man, that seems like a fun run, kinda makes me wanna try another set of 10.

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>>147227862
I don't bend over, but you can have my teapot if you can handle it.

>>147228603
What the fuck armor is that

>>147227968
I dunno but he's definitely my favorite.

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>>147229112
It was undead legion, I don't use it anymore.

>>147228508
gender's a mental thing these days.

>>147228603
oh yes it does

>>147229112
undead legion