/dsg/ - Souls General

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I hope I get apple sauce for lunch.

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xth for drake knights

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>>148026614

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldXguUjb2vo

what's the lore behind Witch Beatrice?

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>>148026838
What's this?

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>>148026838

>>148027032
qt but a bit weak against the abyss, probably someone from oolacile.

>>148026981
Is that a girl?

>>148026986
>that voice
Literally badVaati

>>148027180
>but a bit weak against the abyss
isn't everyone?

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>>148027257
maybe

HUMAN

DO NOT PRODUCE LIGHT

>>148027306
Yes, everyone but us since we beat it.

In Dark Souls 2 great bows had explosive arrows and insane tracking that made them viable in close quarters PvP. Why was that removed in 3?

>>148027032
Meant to be a Schierke stand-in.
Basically probably one of Artorias' companions but not a knight.

>>148027464
you had special snowflake protection from Artorias' ring, though, does that really count?

>>148027542
Beating the Abyss = Beating Manus and you don't need a ring for that.

>>148027542

well he had it too and still got made into a little bitch

>>148026986
And then I remember why I gave up on creepypastas. At least it's nicely drawn.

>>148027542
Yes because even fucking Artorias himself lost.

Lady Maria killed herself irl, right? She only exists in the dream?

>>148027389
Is it a trap?

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Explain to me why the Chosen Undead couldn't make pic related happen during the events of DaS1.

I'm sure that the Fair Lady would have appreciated seeing her sister again

>>148027389
post sliders

>>148027891
too busy being a sub for a big black snake

>>148027147
Exactly what I had in mind. I just find it funny that the king of the land who turned into a horrible dragon abomination says something only a senile old man without teeth would say..which oceiros kinda is. I found it so funny that I posted this phrase itself with a picture of Oceiros to go with. hahaha

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I started NG++ not too long ago. I only now realized that Gundyr's got short sleeves and shorts on.

His actual armour when you wear it has full sleeves and leggings. He was just too jacked for regular clothes, one can only guess.

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>chuck GCFO
>it connects
>see him stagger
>0 damage
>runs through the pool
>0 damage
>he does his gotthards rolling L1 from the other side of the universe
>it connects

>>148028007
Nah. It's still short sleeves and shorts when you wear it. Only less noticeable.

>>148028080
gotthards is good specifically because it can take advantage of lag
rolling attack is so fast you can hit someone who, on their screen, is several rolls away

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>>148028007

>>148027891
Maybe because Quelana herself didn't want to go back due to the guilt of running away. She probably only came back after the Chaos flame started fading and demons around her died left and right, in order to see her sister for one last time.

Why did a shitty 15 fps game with 50 second loading screens get the best version of Moonlight Greatsword?

Is SL60 and +6 equipment low enough to invade in pre-Pontiff Irithyll?
Should I compromise and go for SL50 or 55?

>>148028382
>this meme
It's stable 30-35 fps you morons. And they fixed the 50 second loading screens, it's less than 10 seconds now.

Stay mad.

requesting gwyndolin boypucci and firekeeper lewds

>>148028510
Come on now. We all know that ain't true.

>the best version of Moonlight Greatsword?
lmao yeah
show me a video where you hit a competent players with any of its wave slashes or its weapon art, and then i'll maybe take your post at face value

>>148028510
>less than 10 seconds
TWO LOADING SCREENS
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>>148027407
*equips flame butterfly*

>>148028254
that's something you can work past, though, if you weren't an F-tier chaos servant
>yeah I know you don't want to, but it would really mean a lot to her
kind of awkward to put in those "yes/no" dialogue choices but still

>>148028596
Just like every game but DaS.

Post 66Dex Chaos Blade AR

>>148028746
451.

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>>148028746
mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3

>>148028382
I'm really confused as to how to level with Yoel. What do I do? Can anyone help? The wiki was confusing as fuck

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>>148028125
Well I'll be. The player's smaller bodytype threw me off.

>>148028793
nice quote but also
>draw out true strength
>die a couple times
>draw out true strength
>die a couple times more
>repeat until yoel dies and his apprentice shows up to fill you in

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>no black version of maiden set
Fuck this gay earth.

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>>148028382
>reeeeee

>>148028987
where did Ludwig even get that sword?

>>148028883
So just die until he lets me level again? Should I just do that before progressing?

Also what's all this about sigils?

>>148028382
its more like how does a shitty 15 fps game with 50 second loading screens be the best souls game?

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>>148029094
it has the same markings as greatswords wielded by chalice dungeon giants and functions the same as blood dagger of pthumerian queen or fire staff of pthumerian elder so most likely in chalice dungeons

>>148029094
within the chalices

>>148029094
It's the sword of the paleblood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmccPPaRb3w

find a flaw with this boss theme you can't

>>148029185
The first level you can get anytime, the second at 2 hollowing level, third at 6, fourth at 12, last at 16, check your stats page to see your hollowing level after the first level.
Each time you die, you get more hollowing levels, and look more like a strip of bacon.
The rest is for you to find out.

>>148029385

It's not the Deacons' theme.

>>148029413
ok thanks

Is this the ending where you eventually end up as a pepperami?

>>148028987
That framerate looks fine, is the 15 fps thing just a meme?

>>148029478
You can remove hollowing with an item his apprentice sells, but if you remove your sigil's the ending becomes unavailable, so don't do that.

>>148029257
>greatswords wielded by chalice dungeon giants
?

>>148029639
there's tall pthumerian warriors wielding UGS with decorations on lower levels of chalice dungeons

>>148029553
What do you think?

>>148029257
>>148028987
why do Hunters cover their weapons with bandages?

>>148029798
To soak up blood

>>148029621
Do you mean take the sigils out of inventory? I don't even know if I have any

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>>148029798
big fans of nomura

>>148028987
I just realized how awkwardly hunters carry the HMGS.

>>148029952
but, the bandages are getting in the way of the blade's cutting edge?

Should I send ratbro to lothric castle
I like having him around but the loot is enticing

>>148030032
It's also far too big for anyone to carry and there's no way the handle would bear its weight. Why are you sweating the small stuff?

What are some good weapons to use on a pyro build to go with the fire powers?

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>tfw my +10 broadsword does jack shit damage again O+S

Is it worth grabbing the very large ember to +15 it, or should I invest in a new +10 weapon since shards and chucks are sold in Anor Londo.

I can probably will the fight, it just takes so fucking long to wittle Ornstein down.

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>>148029943
If the Fire Keeper offers to cure your sigils, don't.
They'll be automatically removed after a new game.
>>148030032
putting bandages on your weapon is so edgy, it actually becomes sharper, so it balances out

>>148030116
you should be doing 200 damage per hit. That's good.

>>148029952
Holy shit this looks retarded

>>148030101
because bullshit huge swords make sense, barring the suspension of disbelief that lets you excuse how they're impossible.

adding things to the weapon that actively hurt it's functionality does not make sense

>start new char
>Get npc invaded
>warp back to firelink, already got seed
>start another new char.
>same shit
Did From raised the odds of seed of giants spawning? I don't remember reading this in the last 2 patches

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>>148030187
are you saying that perhaps nomura doesn't understand practicality

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>>148030107

>>148028007
>mush cap
LOSER detected in vicinity

Okay so about the timeline: the Crystal Sages are the pupils of Logan, and one of them worked with the Abyss Watchers while the other remained in the Grand Archives. So that means either the events between DS1 and DS3 are actually not that distant or those wizards could live forever and the Grand Archives is fucking old, older than the Lothric kingdom itself.

>>148030437
Fuck off Vaati

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>>148030314
no idea what you're implying

>>148030381
this is not a good weapon
do not believe their lies
all you will do is L2 and people have learned how to deal with it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV16ROaHVfo

Anyone watched the whole thing?

>>148030535
rolling r1 is good

>>148030314
One the one hand you talk of suspension of disbelief, then you speak of hurting the weapons functionality. They're there because its a videogame and the artist thought it looked cool

>>148030502
Shhh don't mention him, he might come and steal my ideas.

>>148030437
it never says that the Sages studied directly under Logan

>>148030524
>zipped up shoes
what

>>148030535
It's good enough if it's not your main weapon. Mixing that shit up with other weapons and spells is amazing

>>148030553
>6.5 hours long
holy shit.

no thanks

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>>148030694
My friend had these growing up

Just got DS3. How the hell did they make the character creation even worse?

>>148030793
It's basically plague's playthrough with less bitching.

>>148030849
It's just super obtuse
you can actually make attractive characters now

>>148030850
>with less bitching.
you mean you DIDN'T like hearing about how individual squares of terrain in hard-to-reach spots weren't ideal, or how weapon movesets don't match how they were used IRL?

>>148030989
I actually liked that.

>>148030670
But at the same time we have one sage who stayed with the Lothrics and one who went on to make friends with the Abyss Watchers, so at the very least the Watchers' timeline is fairly close to the current events of the game.

>>148030829
was your friend a nigger?

>at level 802 phys defenses reaches 513
>even 99/99/99 hollow infused ccs only deals 548 damage

Does that mean at those levels players only do 10 damage to each other per hit?

>>148031159
no, just not white trash either

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which one?

>>148031568
BB no context

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>>148031568
>via 9gag.com

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So let me get this straight:

Pic related was just the Hunters trying to recreate Ludwig's actual weapon, right?

>>148031841
Yes. Chinese knockoff sword

How stable is the coop in DS2 and 3 as compared to 1? I got my friend into DS on the 360 and, unfortunately, after beating S&O, we could no longer find each other's soapstone markings.

>>148031568
The one on the right.

>>148031568
DaS1 > DaS2

there aren't any others

a moonlight sword without explosions is not a moonlight sword, fuck off

>>148032062
You can always summon your friend in DS3 now using passwords, I think.

>>148032062
>we could no longer find each other's soapstone markings.
Are you aware of the level ranges?

But DS2 and DS3 co-op systems are better, you can use a name engraved ring in DS2 to connect easier to players who choose the same god and in DS3 there's straight up passworded co-op.

>>148032239
Bloodborne one had the best explosions

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How accurate is this drawing?

Why aren't you watching jund tryharding with a hollow Pole

Is there a better Refined greatsword that the Astora Greatsword?

DaS=BB=Des>>Ds3>>>>Ds2

Any other opinion is the result of shit taste

>>148032062
Some of the Lord Soul areas don't support co-op until you reach the second bonfire in the area, or in the case of New Londo, lower the water.

In Duke's Archive, you can't co-op until you have done a special sequence. You will know what it is when you get there.

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>no Profaned Pyromancy
>no Angelic Miracles
>no Draconic Magic
You had one job From. I'm tired of the same crystal arrows, lightning spears and chaos fireballs every game.

>>148032864
Fuck you this is dark souls 3 you don't deserve to have fun

>>148032864
>no Angelic Miracles
Divine Pillars of Light?

How far is the detection range on obscuring ring now?

>>148032864
>no Profaned Pyromancy
Profaned Flame
>no Angelic Miracles
Divine Pillars of Light
>no Draconic Magic
White Dragon Breath

>>148032864
Maybe in the DLC :^).

Anyway, I have a question :
Did Dark Souls 2 have any Berserk references that weren't in Dark Souls 1 or DS3?

If it's a different thing that that's a reference to the same thing in Berserk that counts too.

>>148032864
there's all 3 of them n the game actually

>>148032775
That's not actually a GS.

>>148032864
but that's wrong dummy

>>148033271
>>148033245
>>148033142

But just a single spell for each school. Where is my teleportation and hexes as separate kind of magic.

Is there any attack in game that can't be rolled on reaction besides running katanas?

>people tell me that the disadvantages AGS has for it's little weight is that it has less AR than the bigger UGSs
>it's literally 40 AR short of propaned, the strongest UGS
>also it has the godly rolling R1

>>148033432
>teleportation
>in a From game

Not even BB's magic system you guys love to praise would have such great form of magic.

>>148028746
>66
you go to 60 not 66

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>>148033432
don't worry, the next soulslike is going to be a king's field game, so the magic will be great and varied

>>148033432
>teleportation

Do I need to do anything involving Yuria for the assassin statue to appear in Yorshka's Church?
I need Chameleon but I'd rather avoid going hollow.

>>148031568
I want the ds1 shape with the bb design on the ds2 handle. Is that too much to ask for?

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>>148031568
EZ

Can someone help me transfer some items to a new character?

pc ds3

>>148033608
Actually FUGs has the highest AR with 66 STR 2handed + resin/buff

Of course that AR is only 20 or so higher than Profaned, which is also nearly half of FUGs weight.

>>148034198
No, it'll appear there regardless of your status with Yuria. If you leave it, it'll capture Anri and that's the end of his/her questline; the next time you'll see him/her, they'll be lying with the marriage sword through their face.

>>148034293
I thought BB didn't have shields.

>>148032342
>Are you aware of the level ranges?
Yeah, I stayed well-within his range, spending most of my extra souls on weapon upgrades.

>>148032246
>>148032342
>DS3 passwords
Nice!

>>148032854
>Some of the Lord Soul areas don't support co-op until you reach the second bonfire in the area
That would explain why coop became such a pain immediately after acquiring the lordvessel. Perhaps I can convince him to go back and play it again.

Thanks for the help, /dsg/.

>>148034293
How do I Ludwig cosplay?
>HMLS
>Ludwig's Rifle
>Executioner set (no helmet)
but do I go quality with minimum ARC, or STR/ARC?

>>148034451
It has two.

How to make the camera feel less zoomed in and claustrophobic in ds3? I've been playing a lot of 3rd person games that let you zoom out far so it feels really weird to be close up again.

>>148034560
For what purpose?

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>>148034451
You can even turtle in BB. Shield+reiter

>>148034606
One for blocking bullets, one for blocking spells.

>>148034451
Not only does it have shields, it has its own brand of estoc turtling that was literally unstoppable until the dlc introduced some counters.

>>148034451
BB has shield but their are all really crappy. They are just there for blocking projectiles and daggers. It you try to block melee weapons with them then you are in for a bad time.

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>fighting Pontiff
>get the dodge timing for one attack down
>he does the windup for it
>dodge
>lol psych bro I'll actually do a different attack with the exact same windup
>get whacked
>it's pretty much entirely random which attacks you can parry and which you can't because of this
Holy shit I hate this guy

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>Just found out that time holding the spell switch button switches to the first spell
Thats pretty cool.

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I suck at sliders. Anyone have any good brownfu sliders?

>>148034963
git a shield

>>148034293
That 1H poke has such an insane damage multiplier it makes balder side sword look like a fucking joke. Pretty sure i did like 1200 damage with it on 50/50 quality.

>>148034956
You can block saws, spin2win and BoM.

>>148035209
same for consumables
really neat thing

"high level" dark souls 2 pvp is still the funniest shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxZhpe6e094

>Dark Souls 3 is now crashing on startup
T-thanks!

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>invade a guy for a duel
>for some reason my attacks do barley any damage even though hes only wearing lighter armor, about half the damage of what i do against everyone else prolly about 250PHY DEF
>has enough stamina to do 5 rolling R1's with the DSGA consecutively

this guy was hacking right? how much stamina would you need to do that many rolling R1's with an ultra weapon?

pc fc?

>>148035659
Is this pasta?

>>148035328
Still waiting on that guy from yesterday.

>>148035328
Still waiting for >>147845576 to deliver.

>>148035718
i posted it last night but didn't get an answer because i went to bed.

Has anyone here tried Inferno Climber? I though it was some sort of joke, but i played it and it actually looks pretty cool. Doesn't even tries to hide it's source of inspiration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-B4kqi2Yic

>>148035659
>invade a guy for a duel
>invade
>duel

Stopped reading.

>>148035659
You posted this yesterday.
Yes, he was cheating. Even at 99 END with FAP2, you can't do more than 3 consecutive rolling attacks with any ultra.

He was taking very little damage because he had 99 in every stat, which gives him an enormous amount of flat damage reduction compared to an appropriately leveled character. He probably hacked his stats and turned on infinite stamina because he was literally so bad at videogames he needed those crutches to compete.

People hacking their stats to have 99 across the board but still be level 120 for matchmaking purposes are astoundingly common. People discovered that it doesn't give you invalid data and now everybody is doing it. Pontiff's, and every other sl120 dueling hotspot, is infested with them now, they make up the majority of players at that level range.

You can use CE yourself to check if a player you've summoned has legitimate stats or not. If they don't, just refuse to fight them and walk off the edge.

>>148035789
brownfu anon pls deliver

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>>148035632
>look into the profile of that retard
>weeb with bad taste in anime
>43 hours in ds3 but almost 1000 in ds2
>typical cookie cutter sl150 "build" with jesters and katana in the screenshots
sounds like ds2 pvp fags alright

pc?
fc?

>>148035632
is that title a LOLYOU reference

>>148036253
legu is a legend, he's the definition of play to win and is still a salty loser

>>148036162
Do tables have ways for me to kill the boss? Since I only invade this would solve my issues with this cancer

>>148027891
>Fair Lady would have appreciated seeing her sister again
>Fair Lady
>seeing

dohohoho

>>148036413
Yes.
Do the Lord's work, anon

>>148036487
hearing

>>148036253
>prefers playing the best game in the series over trash like dark souls 3
nothing wrong here

>>148035841
Looks like an edgy Zelda clone with graphics that belong on the N64. It doesn't look Souls like at all besides the basic fantasy theme.

>>148036115
it has nothing to do with "honor"

>go to bed after a long saturday night home alone spamming EFF SEE WEN in /dsg/
>wake up fresh and refreshed sunday morning
>jump on /dsg/ first thing
>resume spamming EFF SEE WEN
God, I love my life.

>>148036564
please spin back to ds2 and stay there

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>>148036162
thx anon.

i fell asleep before i could get my answer.

>>148035632
>exact same armor on both
what armor are they using?

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How mad do you even have to be to leave a comment on someone's profile after you die?

Perfecting this game is such fucking effort I swear to god

>>148035632
why the fuck are these guys using Dark weapons
that's anti-tryhard, they do no damage against easy to set up element defense

>>148036724
hoers face black witch robe and havel gauntlets and leggings

>>148036561
she can't tell the difference between you and her sister
she can't hear shit
she's senile, she's gone, there's nothing there but sadness to pity

>>148036754
I don't let people contact me at all, when someone tries to add me to talk shit I just invite them to a group called "kill yourself please"

>>148036884
n-no!

the Humanities are helping!

>>148036487
don't be an ass. with the chaos incident and whatnot she's seen some shit

>>148036970
>win low lvl duel
>get invited to "ur terrible, pls git gud"
?

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>>148035632

Please never post DaS2 PvP videos here ever again.

>>148037164
Fuck you, little bitch.
https://youtu.be/qvs_5EOAW6U?t=535

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>>148036970
thanks for that anon

>>148036998
they're keeping her alive. but they're not helping.

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>>148036821
typical current ds2 twitchspinner setup is elemental weapons on base stats with robflynn slapped on top of them which allows them to reach almost full damage output of quality builds without any heavy stat investment because ds2 scaling SUCKS FUCKING ASS
no idea why he only has dark ones, usually they have all types of elemental damage to switch to during their majestic passive spins

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It has been three days, my dudes

>>148036821
It's the final evolution of the meta
First people gravitated to dark infusion because it's objectively superior to pure physical in every single case
Then people started ringswapping to hardcounter dark-infusions
Then people started keeping a backup copy of each of their weapons as pure physical and every other elemental infusion, and swapping to counter ringsawaps
Ringswappers realized that swapping elemental rings took more effort than swapping weapons and gave up
And so everyone went back to using dark infusions all the time.

Basically the only time you don't use dark is when someobody is wearing obvious anti-dark armor, using an obvious buff, or when hitting them once indicates that they've ringswapped to counter dark, then you just quickly swap to a different variant of the same weapon and continue tryharding.

Every serious DaS2 arenafag used CE to build their characters so they always had all the weapons and infusions they needed.

>>148037283
Dark has the least amount of resist possible to get, unless you use very specific setups. I still remember that one time skor was streaming and he was using Navlaan's robes and that shit required 16/16 int faith to equip. Several high level players ragequit on him because just the chaos robes and 16/16 cut their damage in half.

I've lost all motivation to play the game for the sake of the game, so for the past few days I've been trying to set up a PS4 fight club to at least have something semi-social to do. Every time I've asked if there's any interest, though, there's been a maximum of one or two half-hearted responses, so I guess I'm done.

See you when the DLC hits.

What is the best Greatsword for PvP?

What is the best UGS for PvP? Astora UGS?

>>148037542
See you tomorrow

>>148031568
DeS, because it goes through shields and is a faith weapon.

>>148037403
there is absolutely no reason to do any of that when pure physical is so superior to every element type
merely having 15/15 and wearing one piece of good light clothing neuters element weapons
swapping weapons to different element types won't help you when dispelling+1 exists
they aren't even using buffs and buffs don't care about your weapon's element type

>>148037682
>pure physical is so superior to every element type
Lol.
Anon, you don't know shit about current ds2 meta.

>>148036512
Now I need to learn how to check their stats. This feels kinda shitty so I'll guess using it only for pontiff would be ideal.

>>148037369
since what

>>148037682
Nice to see that dsg still talks shit out of their ass. 7 years now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LG5AAKzmkU
so...... this...... this is....... the beauty...... the etiquette...... the skill testing........ peeve......... pvp....... experience....... of........ dark souls.......... three......

>>148034851
The good thing that you don't meet those shitters very often. Because e-celebs abandon BB and no there is no arena. So cancer liek this >>148035632 is rare

>>148037772
no, I don't, and I wouldn't need to because robflynnso shits on everything else
anyone using a dark weapon without a buff is just going to do half of my damage against me while not being able to resist my 500 AR longsword cock

if being stupid is meta then gg m8

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>>148037403
Except you could easily reduce magic and dark damage to basically nothing. There really isn't a point in using anything other than a physical infusion in DaS2, which is even worse for build variety since you aren't matched by soul level in DaS2.

>>148037558

Black Knight Sword or Hollowslayer.

Profaned or Astora GS.

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>>148037772
Dispelling +1, black witch robes + that horned helmet and 20 int 20 fai will make opponent do less damage with elemental than with physical. Add magic barrier if opponent doesn't spite kite buffs.

>>148037558
Best Greatsword is the Hollowslayer Spear. Play passively and fish for 2HR2 counterhit pokes with leoring, basically using the weapon as a DaS2 lance. Only use R1s to shut down bad advances with HA trades.

Claymore can do the same thing, but its R1s are much worse so it's less good at being a passive little shit.

Best UGS is either Astora or Profaned. Profaned has highest in-class AR (yes, higher than FUGS. great game balance, from) and so does the most damage on normal hits and combos of all kinds. It's the only UGS that will consistently see 400 damage a hit with R1s, and also has the best moveset with R2 thrusts and rolling pokes. Astora is weaker overall, but has the gimmicky rolling attack that hits as hard as a fully charged R2 despite being much, much faster, and has no interruptible point in its animation. Astora is gimmicky and weaker against people who don't fall for your rolling attack shit, but nothing in the game can out-trade its rolling attack, which makes it great against bad players and against slow weapons that don't really have any safe option that doesn't end in them losing 2/3 of their HP to a rolling attack.

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It is now acceptable to use the phrase "now that the dust has settled".

Living Failures:

Good boss, or bad boss?

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I've looked at the Poise calculation formula and it's kinda embarrassing how rigged the formula is, for what it is, given that it's disabled anyway.

>[−(currentPoise×addedPoise)/100]+currentPoise+addedPoise

Even Havel's armor doesn't give you more than 20 poise per set piece, but this formula is rigged in such a way as to make equipping many different set pieces at once that all pitch into the Poise pool entirely worthless.

So what you'd want to do, if you wanted to max out Poise the easy and cheap way, would be to equip Yhorm's Greatshield and nothing else that adds to poise. You'd end up at flat 45, more than enough to tank any weapon in the game, and then be free to equip yourself in such a way as to make fastrolling possible.

IF poise was turned on, which it isn't.

I think I understand why they disabled it. They wanted to avoid poisetanks, but this is the best they could come up with on the quick, but since this is utter shit and as I just said, utterly broken since a single shield could break the meta forever, they decided that turning poise off entirely is a better idea than putting in the work and recalculating this shit to make it viable again. That's fucking amazing, in so many painful ways.

What are some good raw weapons? l read the raw astora straight sword got nerfed, raw drakeblood greatsword does 506, not bad at all

>>148038037
If you spite kite buffs people won't be able to make elemental unviable at 150 without dedicating their whole build to it. In which case you can beat them with raw.

>>148038081
Dust will only settle after 2nd DLC.

>>148038152
ASS, DSA, possibly the Flambourghini
It's the same every time

>>148038256
>if
everyone who tryhards in the arena WILL spite kite you. It's a rule, not an exception.

>>148034395
>mfw yhorm has even more AR with warcry active

>>148038020
This clearly took effort

I chuckled at the greatmace bit.

>>148038272
I thought there were 3

>>148038272
Is there and ETA for the DLCs?

>>148038256
Old iron crown makes it impossible to run out of buffs.

>>148038346
I have never run into anyone that did, and I've got 2000+ hours in.

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>tfw no Puzzling Stone Sword

>>148038441
Then you've never run into good players. Simple as that.

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>>148038020

Pretty good.

>>148038141
Poise isn't disabled, bud.

>>148037164
>people are upset that armor is useless in DaS3
>these same people vomit at the sight of DaS2 builds because armor choice actually mattered there beyond cosmetics
?

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do you guys just summon anyone for fights or do you avoid certain people?

when i was a scrub i avoided halberd/spearfags
now i summon anyone... except ultrafags because the fights are too easy for me.

>>148038256
>at 150
KEK

Plus, even without buffs, I seem to recall getting ridiculously high dark defense just with rings and armor.

>>148038346
Not in my experience. There are plenty of passive faggots, but i haven't seen anyone actually spite kiting in a long time.
>>148038441
Casting buffs takes a long time. Spite kiting in das2 is done very simply by holding a good shield up and backpedaling. Don't backpedal too far and you won't have trouble interrupting it, unless opponent goes full retard with falling buffs.

>>148038506
Good players wouldn't be afraid of a buff, good players would use a buff and press the advantage

>>148038594
Nice, epic, I like this meme

>>148038418
Sauce me on this? That'd be cool but I heard 2

>>148038430
September and next year.

>>148038485
I really miss that sword, the only fun thing in the borefest that is DaS2.

>>148038625
You get up to 550 with armor and rings. The cap is 1000.

Arena has soul level matchmaking. We're talking about arena.

>>148038678
>Not in my experience. There are plenty of passive faggots, but i haven't seen anyone actually spite kiting in a long time.
I do it all the time. Just set up a warmth. Fuck everything.

>>148038614
The problem with armor is DaS3 is that it doesn't have poise, but it is still governed by weight. They should have gone full DaS1 OR full BB. Either give the armor poise so that putting points into Vit is worth it, or leave out poise, but make armor weightless so you can dress based on fashion alone.

>>148038028
Physical scaling in ds2 is ass and elemental adds a huge base damage bonus which is more than what you will gain from physical scaling.

For example chaos blade gains like 25 AR at 40 dex compared to 25 on phys builds. And robflynn works even when applied to elemental setup so you are right that robflynn dominates everything, just not on a builds relying on physical scaling.

And even when you fully minmax your armor to protect yourself against dark (which happens rarely as fuck) they will just hardswap to a physical version using the fact you hurt your physical defenses.

As i said, learn the meta before opening your mouth.

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I can host an FC, was thinking Dragon Barracks bridge. PC, of course. PW: dsg
Any interest?

>>148038615
When I discovered that cestus can L2 on reaction to any attack from any ultra and score a guaranteed punish because they take too long to recover to escape, I lost what little faith I had left in this game.

It'd be one thing if you had to make a callout and activate Perseverance early, but you can literally stand in front of someone, wait until they attack, wait until their attack animation is half done, tap L2 and still have enough time to connect your L1 before they've recovered enough to roll away. It's a free and guaranteed 700 damage every time they swing their weapon and they can't do anything about it.

It's even funnier because all of the meta weapons like carthus and washingpole don't give a fuck about perseverance, but it hardcounters some of the outright worst weapons in the game.

>>148038840
But it does have poise. :^)

t. Bamco

>>148038095
Pretty effects.
Bad boss.

>>148038869
no
meme
places

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Quick question.

Is pic related worth using at all?
I remember that in DaS you got like 200% stamina regen bonus but in 2 it was absolutely useless.

What about 3? I've seen some people use it but for the life of me i can't notice any difference when i use it.

>>148038828
>warmth
Is countered by AOE spells.

if the Storm Ruler didn't exist, would Yhorm be considered a good boss, or would he be Ceaseless Discharge tier?

>>148039050
Who uses spells?

>>148037242
I don't understand why he doesn't use elemental weapons.
Anyways I miss how stamina management and animation cancelling used to be a thing. Miyazaki is a mistake.

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>>148038020
amazing

>>148038869
My toaster can't handle that area. It takes about twice as long per loading screen and I get random hitches moving around there.

Is it true the poise stat activates as soon as you do an attack?

>>148039024
I thought people were tired of the usual High Wall/Demon bridge

>>148039045
>but in 2 it was absolutely useless.
It was meta in 2. People used it as a chloranthy replacement.
>>148039096
I do. Though i have only seen 2 competent casters on the arena in about 600 hours i spent PvPing besides me.

>>148039109
Elemental would be fucked by skor's setup. That was when ringswapping through elemental rings was a thing, you can see legu doing it quite a bit in the same video.

>>148039129
I can do Settlement, Smouldering Lake, Castle and Anor Londo.

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>Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1, Bloodborne, even fucking Dark Souls 2 of all things
>People in PvP, both duels and invasions, use various different attacks and maneuvers to keep the opponent guessing and exploit openings

>Dark Souls 3
>Everyone just mashes R1

Truly the high point of the series.

>>148038020
It's a damn shame the third example would only last twenty seconds ingame.
Good fucking video though.

>>148039057
It's really fucking boring killing him without Stormruler.
His moveset is really limited, slow, telegraphed and has no interesting quirks to it. You just stand around his feet, roll his 3 hit combo and then smack his arm, or roll his slam and tap his head, over and over and over. The worst part is that his recovery animations don't actually leave his weakpoints low enough to reach without something that has overhead swings, so shit like spears and rapiers and daggers and whatnot are just fucked.

I get the impression that Yhorm is a half-finished boss, and Stormruler was thrown in last second in order to just let the player essentially skip him so Fromosft wouldn't have to spend any more time designing him.

>>148039268
If you host one, I'll show up. I might be the only person that shows up, though.

FCs have been really damn dead lately.

What boss is the best "visual spectacle" boss in the Series?

>>148039268
And Dungeon/Profaned Capital.

>>148039249
The only spell I ever used in pvp was Climax / GRS on a poison build because FUCK everyone. That can't really be considered a caster, though, it's just a punish for moss eating.

>>148039045
>in 2 it was absolutely useless.
I get that 2 was a bad game, but do we really need to make up lies about it?

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>>148038020
that...was...AMAZING

>>148039386
Ludwig.
Only dark souls?
Probobly artorias.
>those shadows
>that lighting
>that animation

>>148039320
IMO there is a prime opportunity to fight Yhorm, or a giant relative of Yhorm, in the dlc and see how to do the fight for reals

>>148038828
The item adds like another 150 dark defense, right? That basically cuts their damage by like 70% total.

>it's three phantoms catching your roll with CCS R1 spam
>RIP 1100HP

Is there anyone here who plays on PS4 at all?

Which souls game has the best crows?

I say demons because she sounds like Clementine

>>148039403
Profaned capital would be awesome

>>148039603
I have the PS4 version. It's been 3 weeks since I last logged in there.

>>148038856
elemental scaling is far, far worse than physical scaling, especially on infused normal weapons
30% dark scaling, that's +60 at 99/99, compared to 50% + 25%
and again since you aren't using buffs in this " meta " you are not truly taking advantage of the higher base damage of elemental weapons

rob's bonus is halved on elemental weapons, and flynn's does not affect criticals or projectiles like rob
>when you fully minmax your armor to protect yourself against dark
you don't have to
where did I say that
the good light clothing sets like black witch, chaos / hexer's etc protect against all elements near equally
wearing one of these you'll have about 50% immunity to elements

physical defense is nowhere near as powerful as elemental defense, it only makes meaningful difference when you're wearing extreme heavy armor
the sets mentioned already have decent enough physical defense anyway, 300+ is fine

a pure physical character cannot be resisted like an elemental one

merely watch the video posted up above to see how effective those dark weapons are, they're pathetic, hitting for merely 150, and that guy's only wearing black witch robe + heavy armor with minimal element resistance

>>148039386
The problem with visual spectacles is that they depend heavily on the player controlling the camera

Yhorm is one of the most visually amazing bosses int he franchise, and his presentation is 10/10, except 99% of players just stand between his legs staring at the ground and charging stormruler while he flails in the wrong direction.

I'd probably put my vote to the Ivory King.

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>>148039603
I do.
Why?

>>148039649
Bloodborne was crows: the game

>>148038037
>>148038065
>what are 100% physical defence shields
You guys need to get off it. Focusing on one damage type not encouraged in DaS2.

>>148039603
Yep. It's pretty dead compared to PC

>>148039386
Dancer comes into mind. the fact that everything went progressively into flames kinda made me panic at first

>>148039720
>Bloodborne was crows: the game
were actually dogs the whole time

Doing an SL60 INT build for invasions.
What weapon should I go with?

>>148039273
>use various different attacks and maneuvers to keep the opponent guessing and exploit openings
>DeS
>DS2

>>148039383
>>148039668
Yeah I think it's off. Not a lot of interest at the moment, it seems.

>>148038828
The hardcap is 750
You can only reduce elemental damage by a maximum of 75%

Previously, you could gain near-100% resistance, but this was because player characters had innate 25% damage reduction to all elements even when at 0 elemental defense. This meant that 750 gave them 100% mitigation. Fromosft removed that innate elemental defense in the game's final patch, hardcapping mitigation at 75% and making elemental weapons meta.

>>148039731
Not really

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>>148039720
And it has best crow.

>>148039884
I don't think there will be a lot of interest until another major patch lands or until the dlc. We're into that dead post-release period where people have burnt out and the quality of game balance still isn't to the point where it'd attract enough regulars to keep frequent FCs alive.

>>148039884
That's a shame

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Someone pls explain to me the lore behind the Orphan of Kos

why is he so old? didn't he just get born?

>>148039526
Yeah. With optimal armor you'll get 529+150 on the troches. It's still better to use an infused weapon against this much resist, unless your weapon has over 400 physical damage.

>>148039886
I had completely forgotten about that.

>>148039603
I play on PS4, but I let PS+ expire.

>>148039730
Shields can be lowered or guard broken.

>>148040028
Maybe he is like Merlin.

>>148039683
>elemental scaling is far, far worse than physical scaling
That's the thing: YOU DON'T RELY ON ANY SCALING AT ALL
You rely on base damage + robflynn and viggouge like motherfucker because scaling in ds2 is fundamentally broken.
>rob's bonus is halved on elemental weapons, and flynn's does not affect criticals or projectiles like rob
And you still get 75 AR which is 3 times more than the damage you get from scaling on top of a huge base elemental damage bonus.
Everyone and their mothers are swapping for crits anyway.
>wearing one of these you'll have about 50% immunity to elements
Only when you also use elemental protection rings which means you're wasting your valuable ring slots for defense instead of offense while your opponent will still have good damage output and far better vigor and endurance.
>merely watch the video posted up above
If you mean that one webm it only shows that his opponent was running an unoptimized setup, no elemental weapon on properly minmaxed build will hit for that low even against that armor.

>>148040028
How the fuck should we know?

One theory is some fisherman fucked Kos(m) and that thing happened.
The fact that it has orphan in his name makes me think he was just a parasite.
>why does he look old
Old one :^)

>>148040125
Personally, I just used a pure physical Estoc + Robflynn setup, but I also didn't specifically seek out PvP.

>>148039791
Google "best weapons guide in DS3"

>>148039117
anyone got the original of this? can't find it

>>148039267
His shield let's like 50% of elemental damage through, making chip damage a serious threat.
Even against infused havels shield cycling through different weapon infusions is better than doing no damage with pure physical.

>>148040280
Pure Physical estoc is a monster because it just does everything automatically. Giving it 20 poise damage was the biggest mistake they made in das2, however, if the estoc wasn't broken, it wouldn't be a souls game.

>>148040028
Great Ones seek a surrogate because they always lose their children.
It implies the "orphan" was a human turned-great one by Kos, and literally rebirthed through its womb.

>>148040028
Hunters come in and raid village

Hunters find Kos' body

Hunters rip body to pieces for eyes

Hunters kill Orphan's irl body

Orphan is sustained in the Nightmare

Orphan grows old in the Nightmare, never leaving his mom's body

>>148040139
>And you still get 75 AR which is 3 times more than the damage you get from scaling
ah, okay, this is bait

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>>148040139
> YOU DON'T RELY ON ANY SCALING AT ALL
You do rely on scaling. It adds about 50-100 AR. As much as the rings you mentioned.
>If you mean that one webm it only shows that his opponent was running an unoptimized setup, no elemental weapon on properly minmaxed build will hit for that low even against that armor.
You see, the thing about defences in das2, split damage, just like in other souls games, has to go through both, elemental and physical defense. So if you stack both (which no one ever does because people are stupid) you can actually make infused weapons do pitiful damage.

>>148040396
It's 96.2/66.2/58.7/73.7/55 on the shield and he has over 400 on every elemental defense too. It would chip him for 40 damage and that's not counting the counterpick ring.

>>148026614
>invade somebody
>he beckons me to the dueling arena (after pontiff)
>comply with it, do a bow and start the fight
>he uses an estus halfway through the fight when we're both around 20% hp
>I keep fighting
>he pulls out a straight sword and spams r1 and i die
>he uses point down 3 times

why?
>

>>148040553
Look at the scaling data for most of the top tier weapons like chaos blade and say that again.

>>148040719
Because you lost and he's the superior player.

>>148040719
Don't get hit.

>play passively in das1 and rely on punishes
>so do most people
>occasionally get commendations for good fights

>play passively in das3 and rely on punishes
>not that many people do
>often get called an asshole and told i'm no fun to fight

It's not even just scrubs talking shit as they do, even people from fight clubs here dislike me.
I don't understand. I don't minmax my shit, I don't use overpowered weapons, I don't act like a twat, I just play passively; why am I making people upset?

>>148040807
Only str weapons get good scaling and guess what, they're mostly shit. The good dex scaling weapons are LoyceGS, Ricards, CB and BSK. They all get around 140 damage at 40 dex. But that's >40 dex. You get 140 elemental damage by just infusing these weapons, except BSK.

>>148040719
He was clearly better than you in every way

>killing RSS phantoms or invaders don't yield embers
why

>>148039917
>90SL NG+ dried finger run
>2 invasions per hour
It's dead

>>148040978
Do you use Carthus Curved Sword? Do you use Astora Greatsword? Do you use Gotthards? Do you use washing pole? Do you use Lucerne?

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Drawing a day

Tried to stay as a true to DaS1 EKS as possible but kind of painted myself in a corner with the proportions.

>>148040451
>if the estoc wasn't broken, it wouldn't be a souls game
Guess DaS1 isn't a souls game.

What does das3 look for when it reads invalid data? IF I just want to swap items and give myself weapons and souls for a build, can it read that?

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>>148041193
>90SL
who the fuck makes dried finger runs so low

>>148041223
LMAO

>>148041185
What's worse is killing farron watchdogs dosen't give you sword grass.
What's even the point of sticking around crucifixion woods?

>>148040705
40 damage > 6 damage

>>148038020
10/10

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>>148041223
>estoc wasn't broken to any degree in 1

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>tfw there's no unarmed tackle option for a running unarmed charge attack
>no ability to rush a hollow, barrel them over, and just R1-L1 on their face for a bit

>>148040719
>get invaded while trying to progress through the game
>lure idiot invader back to the only safe place where I have room to fight without pulling aggro from the infinite range homing fireball faggots
>he unironically bows lmao what a faggot. he realizes this is an invasion right?
>he's down low and not healing, what an idiot
>chug up
>he still doesn't heal lmao honorfags everywhere
>pull out a fast weapon to finish off his last bit of hp
>the living embarrassment just lets me do it to him
>point down to show him what an utter failure of an invader he is
Duelfag cuckolds get what they deserve, desu

>>148041210
>I don't use overpowered weapons

>>148040978
Because passive is unfun? It makes fights long and filled with nothing.
Unfortunately it's the most effective playstyle in all souls games.

>>148039109
You want to know why?
It's because he does 500+ damage with two r1s. Unlike some bitchass elemental weapon that will do 250.

>>148040978
Because finally, after 5 of these games people are starting to realize that the losers who treat dark souls like a competitive fighting game are idiots, and that winning every fight no matter what all the time at all costs isn't fun

>>148041556
hes the one who led me to the dueling spot, I was attacking him but he putitng away his weapons basically begging me to follow him, and he did the literal duel bow which I dont even have

What are the downsides to the dragonslayer axe?
I keep killing everyone in two hits it feels like I'm cheating.

>>148041727
It's an axe

>Doing pure Pyro build in DS1 to get the pyro bond thing
>Get Ascended Flame +4
>Get all the Pyromancies
>Go back to upgrade flame to max level
>Quelana is gone
Does that bitch disappear after getting all her spells or something? Am I just stuck never getting a maxed flame until NG+ now?

>>148040978

Well, there's 'passive' and then there's 'I run around like a little bitch for 40 minutes until my opponent makes a slight error, then I rush in and attack for 0.01 seconds before returning to running around like a retard'.

There's not a huge difference between the two though