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>>150809853

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

>Community & Fanart
http://pastebin.com/vVWz9pJm

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

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

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

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

>BLOODBORNE
http://pastebin.com/WdLBWD8n

>DARK SOULS 3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u8Mak1goSv4g73g16XsWV4sJelDQUatWkP2kcO6GVAA/pub
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http://kadgar.net/live/scottjund/xs_havok
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Happy birthday, Anon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3jAHIuulWE
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reposting this question:
what do you guys think the nameless kings name is? gwynondorf?
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xth for comfy big bro
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>Dark Souls 3
>get rekt by everything
Is it possible to finish the game without levelling your character?


Does levelling do anything at all? I still feel like I'm doing piss damage and every attack removes 90% of my life.
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>>150848885
Have you tried gitting gud?
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>>150848885
Every souls gane is doable at SL1. I don't suggest it if it's your first playthrough. It's better when you know which items to rush for.
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>>150848885
i had 27vig for the final boss and he was doing laughably low damage to me
i was pretty much tanking and outhealing him
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POST CUTE PLEASE
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>>150848986
Because part of bosses damage is %
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>>150849123
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>>150849141
No way, sauce?
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>>150848830
I almost shat myself just seeing this.

What troubled child comes up with these ideas?
Wasn't the wall mimic enough?

>>150848983
But do they do anything at all? Levelling cost an arm and a leg (almost literally) and only gives me +3 dmg.

>>150848986
What armor?

>>150849141
What? Source?
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>>150848986
That;s because the final boss does shit for damage and NG endgame is balanced assuming the player will have anywhere between 20-27 vigor, with 27 being the absolute upward ceiling, the range where someone would go to be a tank.

Nameless King is probably the only boss in the game that does enough damage on NG to be a threat to an embered player with 27 vigor, and even he doesn;t have enough HP to deal with the effective healing of 15 +10 estus flasks or deal with the damage output and poise damage buildup up of a +10 straightsword.
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>>150848371

It's Sen or Faraam, with ''Gwyn'' put in there somewhere.
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>>150848885
yes, it is. it's easier to play with a straight sword in this game. Raw ASS and Barbed Sword carried me all the way to NG+6
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hello?
someone with a female character put on executioner leggings
please
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>>150848885
>Is it possible to finish the game without levelling your character
yes lots of people do SL1 runs

>Does levelling do anything at all
This has to be bait. No shit it does, where are you in the game? And what level? are you dodging attacks or just letting them hit you? Because the only conceivable way this is happening is because you started as deprived and are in settlement with level 1 still
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Does someone have that Artorias lord of cinder picture?
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>>150849446
Faraam apparently just means "the one with the exalted name" so it's likely just the Forossan name for the Nameless King.
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>>150848371

Gwyn-something

>>150849446

Isn't Sen just literally "thousand"? Also DaS2 isn't canon.
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>>150849464
yeah no, straight swords in pve can't stunlock worth shit

poking halberds and hammers are where it's at
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>>150849609

Gwynbert
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>>150849570
>Because the only conceivable way this is happening is because you started as deprived and are in settlement with level 1 still
Well...
I kind of start all my games as deprived. I love that feeling of being happy with any weapon.
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>>150849464
Another neato crutch for pve is the raw DSA+resin or LB
At 60 faith and LB cast with 220 spellbuff you get 682 AR
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How should I start off a Moonlight Greatsword build on DS3? Never done an Int build before, but it looks like fun.
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>>150848885
Someone already beat every boss without rolling at SL1. Obviously you don't have to get that gud but seriously just get gud.
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>Obobobo vs Baobao coming up

Will it top that one video?
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>>150849815
I'm demoralized.
I have the feeling any mob can make me his bitch is I don't roll and move around all the time. Shields are almost useless, and my favorite weapon has a shitty range.
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>>150848830
Gonna be "that guy" and say Faraam.
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>>150849809
Do you want to use offensive sorceries at endgame as well or just use the MLGS?
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>>150850019
Want to try a few. Must admit, whenever I see an invader throw Soul Stream at me, as shit as it may be, I'm a little jealous I can't use it myself.
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What's goin' on guys?
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>>150849609
"Sen" in "Sen's Fortress" isn't written the same way that a thousand (千) is. It could be a pun on thousand a la "fortress of a thousand traps" but that also doesn't necessarily mean the pun doesn't operate on multiple other registers. For example, the most obvious one is Sun, Son, Sen. Sen itself also has means relating to the sun, divinity and royalty in various arabic languages.

Mostly, people are enamoured with the idea of Sen's Fortress being the Nameless King's old fortress because the environment of Sen's appears as though it would have once played host to a God of War. It's practically lined with statues of silver knights, for one.
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>1st time doing pyromancy build
>Beat ODK
>Google tells me his soul is useless
>Eat it for levels
>Just find out I could've made that really cool fireball tornado thing that invaders keep using on me

JUST.
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>>150849485
>>150849485
>>150849485
>>150849485
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>>150849946
Faraam is a title, not a name.
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>>150849749
>Feeling of being happy with any weapon
>start all my games as deprived
I'm sorry, does this mean you've played souls games before? If so, then you should understand what it is you are doing wrong. If you mean you start in other, similar non-souls games as "deprived" class or a class that specifically lets you use any weapon you want, then you don't have to worry about that in souls. As a matter of fact, for most "builds" in souls, deprived isn't even the ideal starting class for minmaxing. Anyway, assuming this is your first souls game and you aren't baiting me, what have you been levelling, what armor do you have, and what weapons are you using?
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>>150850113
Then 60 Int is your goalpost

i have an average as fuck example build for you
https://www.mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/63631
The 17/15 str/dex is for the greatsword of Judgement, another int GS thats fun to use

Spells are just my personal favorites and not optimal i think
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>>150849809
Start the game with RAW ASS, rush for Oceiros then respec.
>>150849917
Learn and adapt, don't feel entitled and think that everything in the game has to go your way.
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so should i use dragon slayer greataxe or profaned greatsword
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>>150850332
>1st time doing something in a souls game
>rather than taking time and figuring things out for yourself, like actually checking what the boss soul does or reading informative tooltips designed to provide you with the necessary information to make decisions, just read some random bullshit from google and swallow it without hesitation
>realize afterwards that you're a gullible idiot who ruined their playthrough by being a guidereading faggot.
>upset at anything but yourself
Kill yourself, fampai.
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>>150848830
im convinced its gwynf- something
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>>150849656
idk, with a straight sword you can attack some bosses in their idle state and recover before they attack you and roll away. you can also punish many openings with more than one hit and some openings give you enough time to recover from rolling and do a regular R1
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>>150850332
Should have gone to Ludleth the Manlet first to see what you can do with it, dummie.
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>>150850380
I think it looks bad
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>>150850491
>>150850507
Cheers anons, will give it a go.
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>>150850332

You're literally retarded

kys
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>>150848830
Gwynnie the Pooh.
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>>150850832
BUT DOES IT HAVE A BULGE?
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>>150850332
Gee, I wonder what could possibly be transposed from the soul of a fire boss that uses fiery attacks and wields a fiery hammer? Certainly nothing that would be useful on a pyromancy build.
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>>150850810
I did. Was under the impression GCF or BFO was still better. I'm still content with them, just a shame I missed on the actual good looking one.

>>150850835
>>150850674
Already on it lads.
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>>150851057
You can see the bulge there
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>>150851078
Ironically, the hammer is useless for a pyro build because it only has like a base of 60 fire damage and abysmal scaling. It;s one of the outright worst split damage weapons in the game, and somehow has a WA even more useless than normal greathammer perseverance
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>>150851078
I knew it would give me a Pyromancy, I just wasn't sure if it would be good or not.
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>oroboro actually managed to get BSed in DaS3
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>>150850419
>I'm sorry, does this mean you've played souls games before?
Kinda, yeah. I started with Dark Souls, it was unplayable on the computer I was using, so I skipped it and started Dark Souls 2. Only finished it once, though. And it was the SotFS version which is easier. And byfinished, I mean "killed Nashandra". Vendrick is still alive, like the Smelter Demon 2.0 and Aldia.
Still started with Deprived.
>deprived isn't even the ideal starting class for minmaxing
I don't exactly want to minmax, I just want to start from the bottom with the shittiest stuff possible and work my way to the top instead of spawning directly with an armor.
Iudex Gundyr murdered me 20 times before I killed him but I was extremely happy when I got my first sword from the hag in Firelink Shrine.
>assuming this is your first souls game and you aren't baiting me, what have you been levelling, what armor do you have, and what weapons are you using?
Not my first Souls game, but I doubt Dark Souls 2 really count, given what I read about it. Anyway.
I levelled Strength and Dexterity to deal more damage (more strength than dexterity, because I use melee weapons more often than bows), attunement to get one pyromancy spell (the flaming weapon one) and the rest in vitality.
And I'm using Solaire's set, with demon fists, a straight sword, and that little blue shield who blocks 100% physical damage.
Everything still kills me in two hits and sucks massive amount of my stamine if I try to block.
I'm probably just bad.

>>150850507
I know, but it's just my morale. I feel like the game doesn't want me to have fun, because each time I start mastering an area, the game throws a new one at my face, with totally different mobs that are even worse than before. I feel like I'm restarting the game each time, getting shitted on by everything.
I find it hard to stay motivated when I feel like I'm regressing constantly. and since I dropped the game a while ago, I probably lost my gudness.
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>>150851187
YES
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>>150851298
>not collecting very pyromancy in the game
I want casuals to leave
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>>150851414
DaS3 actually has a fair bit of backstab tech. You can punish forward rolls with a BS almost every single time, and can reverse-backstep into people to BS them from the front.

The trick is that the angle for initiating a backstab is really forgiving, like DaS1, and you can trigger it even when the person is not in a hittable state, like rolling iframes, to vacuum them into a buggy-looking lagstab.

It works better with the hornet ring since it unironically speeds up your BS confirm.
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>>150850332
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Just returns to the game and it seems dead as fuck at SL80

Did the community settle on an actual fucking sl meta yet?
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>>150851679
>Keeping things you know you won't use
Collecting shit for the sake of collecting is more casual tbqh m8.
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>>150851298
>I am a pyromancer
>I do not know which spells are good for a pyromancer
>I have a soul that transposes a new pyromancy
>rather than collect spells, try them for myself and determine which spells are good for a pyromancer, I will just assume that every spell is bad and lock myself out of being able to acquire them for the rest of the playthrough
>then I will go on the internet and lament my poor decision making skills because I am L I T E R A L L Y unable to think for myself.
I'll bet you probably murdered Karla and Cornyx because some post on gamefaqs told you too.
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>>150850332
vestiges can 4shot NG+ second stage abyss watcher

it's literally the best pve pyromancy for bosses in the entire game
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>>150851926
Chaos orb does more total damage, but only if the lingering lava manages to tick before they move out of it. It's better for static bosses, while vestiges is better for mobile bosses since all of its damage is up-front and it casts faster.
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>>150849571

someone help me pls can't find it anywhere
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>when you and your buddy waste 8 crack orbs in total trying to invade each other in Blighttown

Strong.
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>>150851494
>Demon fists
Sounds like you're pretty far in the game then, on my first playthrough I dropped my shield around irithyll, I haven't played through DaS2, so I'm not sure how to educate you on the difference in mechanics from 3, but what I can say is in DaS, shields are WAY more viable than in 3. also, check out how much stability you have if you're really adamant about using shields. Also, you want to end the game with about 27 vig, which is more than enough to get you through ng, especially if you use embers.
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Remember when Dark Souls 2 was about masket men?
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>>150852563
tell me about the lost sinner, why does she wear the mask?
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>>150851804
please respond
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>>150852613
uh the lost sinner is actually the bug crawling into the prisoners mouth who is wearing the mask :)
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>rtsr in ds3
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>>150852496
Because I reached Irythrill.
Well, Irythrill on one side, and the underground demon lake on another.
In both areas, I get rekt. Except one has the Old Demon King that I don't want to die, and the other has the Pontiff faggot that I want dead.
>"I can say is in DaS, shields are WAY more viable than in 3"
>mfw I love shields
>mfw I went into Dark Souls to use shields without any retarded reflecting mechanism à la Kingdoms of Amalur
Annnnd, naturally, I picked the game in which shields are most useless. Fuck my life.

>27 vig
Okay, I'll check how much I have once the game is reinstalled. I believe I must have 20 vigor, I'll probably need to boost it a bit.
I don't remember if the rolling buff stat (adaptability, I think) is still in Dark Souls 3.
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>>150852735
so the bird on top of the adjudicator IS the adjudicator?
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>>150852872
adp is not present in ds3
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>>150848885
>I still feel like I'm doing piss damage
That's because :
1. Weapons scale less in DS3 if you haven't infused them. Infuse a weapon to be Heavy / Sharp early on or Refined at high levels.
2. In Dark Souls 3 you shouldn't be taking hits if you're not gud enough to dodge. Get a shield with high stability.

>>150849749
If you're too ungud for even PvE, you shouldn't be starting deprived. Start as Knight since it's the go-to noob class that gets equipment than can carry you through the entire game.
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>>150852872
If I may, how come you don't want Demon King dead? Also, personally Irithyll is my least favorite part to go through on new characters. The pontiff knights never stop attacking, and the stretch from the fountain to the church bonfire is absolutely ATROCIOUS with those motherfucking firet witches. If you are having trouble with the pontiff knights, try doing them one at a time, and just observe their moves. It took me a while to figure them out my first time bc of the whole infinite stamina thing, but once you understand their moveset (which is really only 4 different sets of attacks) they are really easy to backstab and dodge. If you are having trouble with the pontiff himself, that is probably just the "git gud" filter boss doing his job. I really don't think you can use shields on pontiff save parrying him as he has many sequences of attacks that WILL guardbreak you. His fight is really something you have to grind and grind until you understand all of his attack sequences. He shouldn't be too bad with demon fists/ a SS, just don't get too greedy, even if the fight lasts for a million years, and learn to roll through his attacks.
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explain to me how grabbing some Dark Sigils allows me to steal the First Flame?
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leaked boss names:

>Gertrude, the Heavenly Daughter
>Darkstalker Kaathe
>The Dark Soul
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>>150854194
They act like a black hole for the first flame. You become even more hollow and the first flame fits in there. trust me.
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>>150854362
Isn't kaathe dead?
Also, second DLC names, go
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Why does the fire keeper follow you as if she can see even though she's blind. All the other blind npc act blind.

An oversight or something more?
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>>150854508

Kaathe is literally the one in charge of Londor. Not just speculation but pretty much confirmed by yuria
>Kaathe, I have failed you
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>>150854479
but the Dark Sigils are filled to the brim with Humanity? How can the first flame fit in their if the hole is already full?

>>150854362
>the Dark Soul
ENGAGING MAXIMUM FANSERVICE
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>invade people at Shaded Woods
>show them the way out of the fog
>kill them after they light the bonfire

I-I used to kill these nerds on sight, what's happening to me?
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>>150854194
the weirder question is this:

Undead go hollow when they lose their humanity, right? Then why is it that having a hole in your flesh permanently filled with Humanity INDUCES hollowing, instead of permanently PREVENTING hollowing?
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>>150853047
Oh. Well, that simplifies things.

>>150853803
Haven't infused anything yet. I don't have enough Strength to compensate for the loss of Dex scaling.

And I think I'm far enough so that the cons of starting as a knight faded. I'm at Irythrill. I should have got whatever stuff I spawn with as a knight.
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>>150853108
thank you
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>>150854612
when you are a true hollow president of the united Londor, your hollowness knows no bound.
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>>150854848
but how can you be hollow if you're stuffed to the brim with excess humanity in the first place? It's oozing out of the hole
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anyone have a spare zweihander for a guy on PC who started greirat's questline with all bosses already dead?
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>>150854612

Humanity is The Dark, by shoving the flame into the darkest of anusses, the dark has overcome the flame and is now in charge.
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>>150855023
>started greirat's questline with all bosses already dead
wow good job nerd
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>>150855023
sure. it would be nice if you could give me the Dark Hand for it
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The flying fuck is the Tournament, fucking christ.
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>>150854362
>The Dark Soul
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>>150855336
i regrettably don't have one
anything else you're after?
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>>150855407
no, i'll give it to you anyway. what's the password/ where do i put my sign?
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>>150855504
let's meet at highwall, pass dsg
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>>150855358
Baobao thinks it's too easy, so he goes to losers brackets
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Is there any word on a Demons Souls remastered or backwards compatibility for the PS4?
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>>150855358
bao is a warrior of justice fighting for the lesser man
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>>150855358
>tournament
>DaS3
fucking dark souls 1 has better mechanics for a tourney
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>>150855650
Nope
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>>150855747
Well that sucks
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>>150855358
Dark souls was never meant to be competitive
I've been a PvPfag for years and even I think this is dumb
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>>150854754
>>150854927
it's because the Dark Sigil is LITERALLY drawing out your humanity -- it's no longer within you, it's sitting in the hole in your body.

It's analogous to the difference between having Souls in your "wallet" and Souls being infused in you as you level up.

That's how you can have a Dark Sigil and still hollow

/dsg/, does this make sense?
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Murakumo or Claymore for DaS2 PvP?
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>>150855358
are you serious
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>>150855925
I'm drunk and couldn't understand a single thing
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>>150855925
Yeah!
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how about a 'fight club' fight club in the undead settlements basement bonfire with no headgear, chest armor, gauntlets or weapons
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>>150854608
Someone said in the JP release she says
I've failed your dying wish Kaathe
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It's a Soulslike so I'll ask here: how important is online for Salt & Sanctuary?
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>>150856103
But there is only english dialogue`even in japan, why make her say the wrong thing?
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>>150854362
The name "The Pain of Ages" has a boss sized healthbar in the game.

Maybe it's a DLC boss
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>>150855504
thank you very much, anon
apologies for the wait; i placed my sign down in anticipation for you and only realized you had placed yours down when i went to re-place mine
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>>150856080
it's getting hot in here huh
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>>150855925
but then why do you retain the Dark Sigil upon death? If it's a hole filled with Humanity, why doesn't it disappear like humanity normal does after you revive at a bonfire?
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Sorceries, pyromancies, miracles or hexes for PvE in DaSII?
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>>150851679
>collecting shit

Why bother getting something if you're never gonna use it?
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>>150852613
>>150852563

BANE?
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what the fuck is that ear-killing spell they cast to start matches
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>>150856531
soul stream
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>>150856325
no problem
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>>150856476
why don't you lose your humanity upon reviving at a Bonfire in the first place? Unkindled don't hollow when they die normally. This is probably piggybacking or at least perverting the same magic (it has to be installed by a Sorcerer, after all)
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why do people like the pvp in souls games
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Does anyone on PC have a Cathedral Knight Greatsword they are willing to trade?
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>>150856479
sorceries miracles and hexes with black witch's staff
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>>150856482
Because fuck you, that's why.
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>>150856746
upgraded?
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>>150856745
>not entering someone's game to fuck with them
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>>150856745
it's the most unique thing about the game how do you not like it
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>>150856876

Any is fine. My max upgrade level is +4 on that char

I've made 33,000 souls killing that one right before the Deacons and no drop yet
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>>150857176
its an unbalanced shitfest of trash metas. not much skill is actually required to be good at it
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>siegward is stuck in his cell and isn't appearing at yhorm

Is it bugged?
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>>150857204
give me a sec to find a toon with one
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>>150857521
did you, you know, free him from his cell and talk to him?
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>twin prince dialogue
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>>150857204
>>150856876

Nevermind, finally got one
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>>150857697
Of course.
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>>150857801
oh alright
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>>150857858
Are you sure?
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>>150857858
>>150857917
>>150857521
if you didn't talk to him at irithyll kitchen he won't go to yhorm
still get the slab tho
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Whats a good spot for lvl 44 to grind sunlight medals? I'm standing at abysswatchers but ain't getting summoned.
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>>150858034
>>150857858
also keep in mind he doesn't appear as a phantom at yhorm, he walks through the fog gate after you during the boss intro
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>>150858053
whats your soul memory
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>>150858053
pontiff is this game's O&S for summons
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>>150856745
It's like the final stage of Souls.
There's basically these levels of players :
>DSP tier
(Play it because it's the new meme game on the market, get BTFO'd by the game and instead of trying to learn the game or asking for help, throws a tantrum and quits)


>Memester tier
(Played Dark Souls for ebin Praise the Sun :DD memes, got carried by summons through the game and read a guide or two but still had fun and overall had a positive experience)

>Eben nerd cred/backlog clearer tier
(Played it because he heard from Gamespot / /v/ that it's "hardcurr", cleared it once without summons or reading. Most likely to be a fucking tryhard to others about the "difficulty" about the series.

>Souls veteran
(Played most or all of the games, possibly several times each, plays PvP casually, knows all the meta PvE techniques either through experience or talking to others, has done some co-op or PvP but is focused on having fun rather than being as efficient as possible. Does challenge runs occasionally, watches Youtubers doing PvE. Most likely to come to /dsg/ to discuss lore and general chat about the series.)

>PvP focused veteran
(Name says it on the tin : Played most or all of the Souls games, PvPs regularly, uses Mugenmonkey / other tools to make efficient and watches videos by people who PvP souls in order to become more efficient. Most likely comes to /dsg/ to talk about builds and the new metas.

>The tryhard
(The above but follows PvP Youtubers religiously, is the first to try and make builds to exploit the new metas. Always minmaxing, loses his shit whenever a new patch comes and changes the balance even slightly. Motto : "Fun is for losers!". Wants Souls to be an esport.
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>>150850587
anyone?
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>>150854754
>Undead go hollow when they lose their humanity, right?
What makes you think this?
In DaS1, you reversed hollowing by offering humanity to a bonfire and burning it. You could walk around with 99 soft humanity and still hollow.
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>>150857773

Gay.
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>>150856745
In no other games are there Invasions
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>>150854194
The dark sigil is a hole full of dark to stick fire in. Have enough of them and you can even fit the first flame in there.

Bear in mind that the original lords all literally walked up to the first flame and tore out a piece of it to use as their own power. You're doing the same thing, only you've become so powerful that you can take the whole flame. The sigils are just where you put it so it doesn't consume you like firewood when you do. It's like using dark as insulation.
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>>150858470
>You could walk around with 99 soft humanity and still hollow.
That's game mechanics > lore.
The game mechanics for Hollowing are different for every game, that's why the only thing that matters in regards to the lore are what NPCs say, and what happens to them.
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>>150858594
watch dogs :^)
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>>150858470
In DaS2, humanity has nothing to do with hollowing, you instead hollow by giving up and forgetting who you were.
By remembering who you are, you became human again.
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>>150821964
Awake.
Claymore with miracles is just trite to me.
I'm using the DMB for its looks.
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Are they Hollow?
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>>150858470
>>150858646
having soft humanity in yourself is the Dark Soul equivalent of crushing white souls (soul of a lost undead, etc.) and adding them to your "wallet." They don't become a part of you unless you offer said souls to a bonfire, you're just carrying them around like loose change until you do. Burning a humanity at a bonfire is the exact same as burning souls to level up -- you're imbibing those souls as opposed to merely carrying them

>>150858739
>das2 "lore"
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>>150858594
nothing is wrong with invading players and fucking their shit up but pvp for the sake of pvp is gay
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>>150858892
I thought they were hollows infected by the filth of Blighttown
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>>150858920
>baaaw miyazaki-kun didn't makde dark souls Ii therefore it doesn't cunt
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>>150858690
Watch_Dogs was a totally underrated game, though.
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>no fake death gesture
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>>150858739
>In DaS2, humanity has nothing to do with hollowing
It did. There was just no free-radical humanity available because you were essentially walking into an abyss 2.0 where all the dark was emanating from and controlled by 1/4th of Manus.

Effigies, and their exact relation to hollowing is never really explained, but a couple NPCs outright state that you hollow in 2 because you don't have enough souls -because you lose souls every time you die. You seek out souls to prevent yourself from going hollow, because all undead instinctively wish to cling to their human state. That's why, even after completely hollowing and losing themselves, that instinct to seek souls still remains. Life is the power of fire and it's endued by souls, which are, literally, pieces of flame. Undead cling to life -to being human- because, despite being creatures of dark, they are unwilling to relinquish all the benefits that the power of fire has given them. Becoming hollow isn't a curse, it's just human returning to their natural state as beings of dark, beings without the power of life, death and light granted by fire. It's seen as a curse because the loss of those things is seen as bad by humans -dark beings that have had a chance to experience the benefits of fire.
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>>150859539
>Effigies, and their exact relation to hollowing is never really explained, but a couple NPCs outright state that you hollow in 2 because you don't have enough souls -because you lose souls every time you die. You seek out souls to prevent yourself from going hollow, because all undead instinctively wish to cling to their human state. That's why, even after completely hollowing and losing themselves, that instinct to seek souls still remains. Life is the power of fire and it's endued by souls, which are, literally, pieces of flame. Undead cling to life -to being human- because, despite being creatures of dark, they are unwilling to relinquish all the benefits that the power of fire has given them. Becoming hollow isn't a curse, it's just human returning to their natural state as beings of dark, beings without the power of life, death and light granted by fire. It's seen as a curse because the loss of those things is seen as bad by humans -dark beings that have had a chance to experience the benefits of fire.
I wish there was more undead like that, instead of the "I'm a skellington and I kill people for the lol" or "I'm a zombie and I eat people, raawr~"
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>Aye, siwmae

What did he mean by this?
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>>150858920
but yes, the humanity in the Dark Sigil could be similar to how soft humanity is handled a la >>150858920
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>>150859725
He's a ethnic person
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>>150859725
It's welsh.
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>takes twice as long to get 30 sunlight medals than 30 tongues and vertebrae combined
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Does anyone remember the patch that made the game stutter?
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>>150859886
Just invade as a sunbro, you get medals when you win.
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>>150859949
I'm glad they hotfixed that quickly.
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>>150859949
All of them?
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>>150859969
nice, thanks bud
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>>150859949
No, my memory was purged of this one event. What the fuck kind of post is this?
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>>150860008
>quickly
Not enough to save me from losing 7 years of my youth

>>150860012
There was a worse one.
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>>150859949
Does anyone remember that Skyrim patch that made Dragons fly backwards and never land?
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>>150860012
One of the patches (done on a friday, of all things) introduced game stability issues that caused the game to freeze every few seconds anywhere in the world, regardless of system specs. It was patched after the weekend, but for that entire time the game was virtually unplayable.
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Assuming Queen lothric is gwynyvere, do you think she's banging dragons and making crossbreed children for a reason? Both times she gave birth to one of these things and then peaced out immediately after
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>>150859719
Because they're long past that state. They've reached a point where they cling so badly to it they lose their mind.
Skellies are literally tools animated by necromancy or other means though, they are attacking because that's what they are ordered to do
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>>150860076
I want to make people remember so I don't suffer alone, dumbass.
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>>150860206
I just want more original undeads. I really like Dark Souls' hollows.
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>>150859949
'stutter' is putting it mildly.
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>>150860096
>SkyREEEEE
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>>150860425
ARGH MY FUCKING BRAIN
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>>150859886
>when you rank them all and realize all the rewards are ass
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>>150860189
>virtually unplayable
>tfw I did an entire NG+,farmed ears and participated in a /dsg/ fc while the game was suffering from the stutters
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What if the game had no killboxes bar bottomless pits and the cat ring worked for any height?
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>>150860680
Then I'd literally never have to do Irithyll Dungeon again and I would be able to skip all of smouldering lake by jumping out of bounds in irithyll.
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>>150860471
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>>150860615
>obscuring
>warmth
>oath in coop
>OWCS
>ass

Get more blue tongues before talking nigga
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>>150860774
Care to explain?
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why was dark souls 3 so dissapointing
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>>150860837
god damn whenever I see it my brain feels a sting
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>20 firebombs
>10 rope firebombs
ok that makes sense

>10 black firebombs
>10 black rope firebombs
???
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>>150860945
Because half of it is DUDE DaS1 LMAO and there's little build variety.
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>>150860885
You can drop from one of the ledges at the beginning of irithyll dungeon right down to the entrance to the profaned capital, skipping almost the entire zone. Except there's a deathbox in the way so you can't actually make the drop without abusing the fall control quit-out bug.

Similarly, a piece of irithyll overlaps with ODK's bossroom and you can jump off to fall through the world and end up in the ODK fight, except that there's a deathbox in the way.
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>>150860425
>DSA is still like this for me
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man, has there been a time where you guys were more embarrassed for this community than today.
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>>150861089
vid?
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>>150861142
I'm not watching the e-celeb circlejerk, what's the drama this time?
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>>150860945
It was fun on my first playthrough when I went in blind and on offline mode.
As soon as I started my second and started to try pvp I realised how fucking bad it was.
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>>150861039
More like DUDE DeS LMAO if anything
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>>150860945
because the newest game in the series is always the worst rite :^)

dark souls 2 was just misunderstood
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>>150861234
More like DUDE BERSERK LMAO if anything
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>>150860870
>nerfed to uselessness
>slow over-time heal, even post buff, inferior to estus which everybody has access to
>shitty 10% buff taking 2 slots that can't even be used in pvp
>mediocre weapon
you sure told me
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>>150861209
just the fact that it's happening
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>>150861282
dark souls 3 relied on a lot of spectacle bosses and moments that only work on your first playthrough and then feel bland and boring the next playthrough
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>>150859409

What would that even be? Like collapse?
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>>150860945
Because you hyped yourself after Dark Souls 2.
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>>150861516
In that webm you're probably invisible to them
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>>150861516
I dunno, make it random, there are many death animations
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>>150861458
you need to add modifiers so that we know that this is your own minority opinion and not some objective truth that is accepted by everyone
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>>150861574
I was expecting a PvE experience at least somewhat better than DS2 but it ended up being worse than DS2
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>>150861745
hey man do you mind if I get your contact info right quick
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>>150861346
Care to name any Berserk references? Because I all I can think of is the Pontiff knight beasts, while there are entire levels, weapons and NPCs straight from DeS
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>>150861606

Probably, they could fight other invaders just not me. The host's movement and the phantom's gesture are just nicely timed.
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>>150861745
PvE is pretty solid in DaS2. Maybe even more than in DaS1. You can't backstab everyone anymore.
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>>150861707
[MO]- Minority opinion
[OT]- Objective truth.
Dark Souls 3 relied on a lot of spectacle bosses [OT]. These moments only really work on your first playthrough and feel bland and boring the next playthough [MO].
That better?
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>>150861953
this. Dark Souls 2's PvE is a lot better than it ever gets credit for
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>just accidentally discovered you can chain backsteps together and change direction without any interruption

it's like a frame perfect timing
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>>150861458
To be fair, so did DaS1.
I'd say if anything, the pacing of DaS3 was its biggest flaw. The buildup to abysswatchers was abrupt and anticlimactic, Yhorm's mechanics didn't suit his position in the game, and the transition to Irithyll was so sudden and abrupt it makes my head spin.

If Yhorm had been the first LoC you fought, and the position of the Profaned Capital had been roughly where Farron Keep is now, it would have made a lot more sense. His whole fight is basically a "HOW TO: WEAPON ARTS" tutorial and as a tutorial it's great, but for a boss that basically offers nothing beyond being a visually interesting way to teach the player how to use L2, it has no business being 2/3 of the way into the game after they've traversed the lost city of the ancient gods.

In fact, if Abysswatchers had been deeper into the game, and thus had been allowed to have ,ore health and damage, it would have been a better fight, too. Most of what makes their fight bad are the ways that they're balanced to be forgiving to earlygame players that reach that point, likely still only level 20-30 with a +2 or 3 weapon and little grasp of advanced combat mechanics. They would've been a much better realized experience had they been encountered around the point you meet Yhorm, instead of potentially as the 3rd boss you encounter.
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>>150860202
Nobody here wants real discussion. Just memes and gay shit
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>>150862070
You mean ravioli stepping?
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>>150861953

Yeah, DaS2 PvE was good. The PvP was bad. The PvP only revolves around the combat, which was ruined by the movement in DaS2...
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>>150848621
Anyone have a good faith/dex build?
i started herald and i have no idea what i am doing. I am too ahead to start a new game now.
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>>150862127
Nobody wants to retread ENB's stupid "seath raped gwynevere" fanfiction for the nth time, faggot.
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>>150860202
She probably fucked anything that found her with a large enough dick tbqh.
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>>150860945
content is great but it's organized in an overly linear fashion. perhaps the DLCs will help.
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>>150862048
I just love that the DaS2 backpedaling herehas reached its final form. Oh wow
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If I were to create a co-op character named BOSS REMOVAL SERVICE purpose built to kill bosses as quickly as possible with every hypermode buff, which bosses should I aim to co-op and what level range would be most ideal?
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>>150862308
Mmm...So I shouldn't bother with the Demon Ruins and focus my efforts on Irithryll?
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>>150862257
Then don't you fucking idiot
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>>150862356
What are you talking about?
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>>150862418
If you want to deprive yourself of content, sure, you should ignore an entire area.
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>>150848830
Gwynton
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>>150862494
I just want to progress and reach NG+ quickly.
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>>150862119
I'd say that the biggest flaw of DS3 is the NG+. From had 2 entire games to learn that changing enemy locations and adding enemies to areas in NG+ is really cool and adds a lot of replay value but instead of doing something that took minuscule amounts of effort the A Team decided to just add some upgraded rings
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I have the Ring of Favor and Protection, Havel's ring, and the Prisoner's chain.
So when I show up in Smough armor and i'm not even fatrolling, that's why
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>>150862204
I don't know? But the change in direction is instant with no animation. Looks stupid.
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>>150862308
demon ruins>profaned capital shortcut would really help with the linearity

maybe removing the archives key too so we can do that part of the game first rather than just the start
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>>150862418
Demon Ruins are more difficult than Irithyll so if you're stuck at both you'd be better off focusing on Irithyll and coming back to Smouldering Lake when you've made some progress and feel stronger. The loot in there is definitely worthwhile, including 2 bone shards, an estus flask, most of the best pyromancy in the game (including chaos fireball with 0 requirements), lightning stake and one of the only 2 titanite chunks available before Lothric Castle.
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>>150862257
>ENB's stupid "seath raped gwynevere" fanfiction
Wut?

>>150860202

>Assuming Queen lothric is gwynyvere
I doubt this is the case.

>Both times she gave birth to one of these things
We don't know if Ocelotte was a dragon, and the cut content suggests that Revolver Ocelotte was,in fact, a human instead of a dragon.
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>>150857521
I know this post was like 100 posts back, but I think (mind you not 100% sure) that siegward does NOT do his cutscene on any ng after you have already done his quest to completion. I've done like 8 ng+'s when siegward straight up doesn't appear at Yhorm's, even after doing his questline. Although It might have something to do with the fact that I skipped his undead settlement fire demon encounter on those
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>>150862765
I thought I wasn't supposed to upgrade my weapon until the endgame?
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>>150862490
>before DaS3
>this is LITERALLY one of the worst games I've ever played, and the DLCs are just polishing a turd. based Miyazaki best creator ever

>after DaS3
>suddenly I realize that DaS2 is a great game, probably the best game in the series. the PvE was great, the PvP was completely balanced from start to finish. I'm sorry I ever doubted you Tanimura-senpai please forgive me

it's just fucking hilarious
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>>150862854
kek where the fuck did you read that or even think that
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>>150861350
>still invaluable in fights with multiple people, also prevents hists from being able to time seeds, set up traps or hide and regen
>can heal strong mobs like sage, worm or winged knights
>specifically said coop, where it's a great pre fight tool
>boost is given even if you're not using it, maling it an useful unique off hand, R1-WA

I mean, you clearly stopped as soon as you got the rewards, so you wouldn't use these to their maximun.
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>>150862961
so people cant have opinions that differ from yours without being labelled as backpedaling
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>>150862961
>one poster says something so the whole board must think it's true
Also I never said DaS2 was the best in the series. The PvP is still absolute shit compared to DaS1 but the PvE is definitely not bad. I find myself playing through it a lot more than DaS1 because you have so many paths available to you at the start.
>>150862667
ye that's ravioli stepping, it's a pretty prominent PvP tech in DaS1
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>>150862961
>the entire internet and all of creation is one person, and any contrary opinion is just that one person backpedalling
Did you forget your meds today?
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So lore-wise, excluding PCs, what is the strongest boss?
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>>150863053
I've been told it affected who I could summon or invade.

>>150862961
>strawmanning this hard
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>>150863198
that has pretty much nothing to do with what I said
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>>150863280
Gehrman
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>>150863309
>I've been told it affected who I could summon or invade.
oh boy
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>>150863280
Gwyn.
He took down the everlasting dragons and basically liberated the world, allowing humans to build kindgdoms all over the planet, for crying out loud. Drangleic wouldn't have existed without him.
And even with his soul fragmented in four, he's still powerful enough to kick your ass.
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>>150863309
>I've been told it affected who I could summon or invade
It does, but only at low levels. It's an anti twinking measure so you can't be SL1 and invade with anything about +3 I think.
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>>150863273
also completely nothing to do with what I said
if you think people doing a complete 180 on their opinions of a previous game in a series when the newest game comes out isn't a common problem on this site, then youre delusional
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>>150863318
then what is your opinion on the series? is miyazaki the only one who can make good games? are people not allowed to dislike ds3?
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>>150856482
because you have never used it and don't know if you'd want to?
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>>150863589
>It does, but only at low levels
HaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA.
ANDRE, HERE I COME
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>>150863309
1 - 6 upgrades is +/-2 weapon upgrade
7 - 10 is -2 +3
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>>150863601
there is a thing called comparison and in comparison to ds3 ds2 has great pve
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>>150863309
>I've been told it affected who I could summon or invade
It does, but if you are level 50 and haven't upgraded any of your weapons at least once, You're actually making it even worse for summoning/invading bc nobody goes to that level w/ no upgrades. The game pretty much gives you only enough materials to get your weapon to a certain point at each area, so you don't need to worry about not upgrading anything. For example, as the anon stated earlier up in the thread, you don't really start getting chunks 'til lothric castle
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>>150862771
>we'll never have armor like this in the souls series
>>
>>
>meta try hard tournament stream
>BaoBao drops like a bitch because of a crash
>host cant keep a 4 minute fucking timer and people complain about it rightfully
>brokensword DQd because he started fucking around

HOLY SHIT THE DARK SOULS PVP COMMUNITY IS AUTISTIC AS SHIT
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>>150863280
Relative to what?
If you put them all in a moshpit, Aldrich would probably be the one to come out on top, canonically, because he's a mass of godkilling occult goo from a realm of pure dark beyond mankind's ken that has a taste for the divine and can copy powers in a fight where 90% of the heavy-hitters are gods explicitly weak to his attributes.

But that's not so much a powerlevel thing as it is a matchup thing. Aldrich is basically the worst-case-scenario that Anor Londo committed a comical amount of resources towards preventing when it was still a relevant power.
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>>150863827
>we'll never have a Dark Souls RTS
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>>150863836
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>>150863892
not like watching r1 spam was interesting anyway
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>>150863935
>wanting it to be turned into literal garbage
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>>150863935
How would that even work?
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>>150864064
>he doesn't want to have an army of silver knights to fight against Drangleic' abominations
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what's a fun weapon to infuse with chaos?
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>>150864154
>abominations
>implying Syan knights wouldn't mop the floor with gwyn's shiny cucks.
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>>150856492
you don't get to bring any whote phantoms
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>hosts who just wait near the bonfire because you invaded
I went to take a piss and they're still waiting.
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>>150863827
Good thing CE exists so you can fuck around with things
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How does PvP change when going into ng+? Is it even worth going into ng+?
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>>150864302
This is literally the reason that fromsoft gave us the obscuring ring.

Pull out a greatbow and get sniping.
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does ds3 continue after the last boss or does it start NG+ automatically?
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>>150864252
... shit, now I really want that game.
Maybe Crusader Kings 2 was modded. Or Civilizations.
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>>150863827
alonne knight helm with alva chest?
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How often will people black crystal out of my world if I use this?
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>>150864513
>ds2
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>>150864419
How do I get the obscuring ring?
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>>150864252
Syan Knights a shit. They could probably hold a good frontline, but they have nothing to back them up. Theyre just walking shields.
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>>150864549
1/100 invasions
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>>150864551
>souls series
even if you consider ds2 as canon as des for ds1/ds3, it's still souls
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>>150863625
I don't care what you think about DaS3 or any of the games, it's not an argument about the quality of DaS2 or DaS3. I just want people to be consistent about their opinions. If you spent months tearing down a game that you've played thoroughly for being shit, why should a new game in the series change that.

Both DaS2 and DaS3 should be shit if you didn't like DaS2 when it came out and you didn't like DaS3 when it came out.

and don't trot out the dsg is one person argument, because it's been a pretty consistent problem since DaS3 came out.
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>tfw wasted money on ds3 season pass
Anyone here want to help justify my decision
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>>150864747
>implying everyone agreed on this
I'm going to teach you something : /dsg/ isn't a monolithic block.
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>>150864747
Then why assume that everyone you reply to thinks DS2 is shit in every way, when a sequel come out there will always be weak points that you can compare to other games and appreciate how they were done before and start to appreciate the previous games after seeing how things shouldnt be done
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>>150864890
10 days it will be announced (the dlc)
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>>150864608
Donate 10 pale tongues to rosie.
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>>150864945
I'm pretty sure you're somewhat illiterate, dude
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>>150864890
you fucked up, never ever buy season passes. always wait for the content to come out to see if it is good or not. never get hyped for anything
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>>150865063
Ha shit. Doesn't it trigger a NPC to fuck off?
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>>150865116
then why the fuck do you use it in your argument
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What's with people in here suddenly moaning about halberds?
>Wow nice glaive/lucerne R1 spin sweep stunlock abuse you fucking faggot kys
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>>150865319
because toggling doesn't exist in this game

landing a single R1 = 1100+ damage
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>>150865132
Worst of all... I pre-ordered the season pass when the game wasn't even out

Now I have a game with 0 replay value and 2 3 hour long dlcs
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>>150865132
I bought the game + season pass for 25 bucks. I can't complain.
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>>150865319
What's with people saying it's sudden when glaives have been complained about since day 1?

They have the best HA, range and spinsweep has a 3 hit combo now.
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:^)
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>>150865263
If you had actually read my post, you would see that I invalidated the exact argument that you brought up on the basis that it's been a common problem over several months.

Also, nowhere did I say that every single person in dsg shared this viewpoint, I know that everyone doesn't share it because all it takes is for one person to post 'ds3 is bad' or 'dsg is good' to attract like-minded people to those posts. I'm only saying that the aforementioned problem is enough of an issue (not just in here, but on the site as a whole) to be pointed out.
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>>150865406
It's almost like combos are a thing

>PvPing with anri's/sorcery luck build
>Opponent using MLGS barely on a third of his health
>Rollcatch him with stance R2 poke
>Still alive, turns around and R1s
>2 hit stunlock means I lose 70% HP and die

I guess souls pvp is just shit then
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>>150865628
Wow how original
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>>150865793
Yes, DaS2 and DaS3 are extremely shit for pvp because of this
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In DaS2 if I use any resin while I'm powerstancing, BOTH weapons get buffed, right? But you can't buff infused weapons with resins, right?
I'm trying to decide between dual Caestus or Vanquisher's Seal here.
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>>150865793
Just play DaS1 if you want PvP.
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>>150865854
sry next time I'll go whack them three times with a DMB carthus
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What boss did you guys struggle from the most first playthrough?

The game was nearly a breeze to me until the princes.
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>>150865406
Toggling?
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>>150866021
>
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>>150866127
Cool arrow
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>>150866096
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EVdvduhI6E
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>>150865784
So you are just saying "hey guys i think you have this opinion so please stop thinking that". Why were you complaining before and now you say you are just pointing it out
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>>150865974
only the right unless you 2hand the left first
yes
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>>150864890
the DLC has been the best part of every Souls game and BB
you'll get your moneys worth
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>>150866021
>just play a shitty game infested with hackers if you want PvP
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What are the softcaps for STR and DEX in Dark Souls 2? 40 or 50?
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>>150866021
Last time I played the game I had a SL125 dex/faith build and townshit was dead, and I find parish twinking boring. What should I do?
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>>150864407
>How does PvP change when going into ng+
It doesn't. The only thing that changes is maybe you pay more attention to mobs when getting invaded cos they hurt more or if you're a faggot and seed then it hurts the invader more too.

>Is it even worth going into ng+
There are a couple of reasons why going into ng+ is good. More souls if you aren't finished levelling, +1 rings, It's nice to runthrough the game with a finished build sometimes, and most importantly, you can do dried finger runs and experience PvP the way it was meant to be experienced
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>>150866213
ds1 dlc was pretty lame in comparison to the rest of the game tbqh
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>>150866238
>what is google
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>>150866230
What? There are like 2 regular cheaters in Township that use anything you can't avoid with watchdog.
>>150866240
Township is pretty alive for me. Download Wulf's connectivity mod.
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>>150866371
Getting conflicting information from the wikis.
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>>150866240
pick your poison

http://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/1047/?
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>>150864890
You're going to buy both DLC's anyway if you even remotely enjoy the souls experience because so will everyone else, and the game will be alive for at least a week if its bad DLC just to try things out, or (hopefully) the game will be alive for a longer time because souls DLC is generally gr8
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Why are the winged fatties such bullshit
>jumps into the air
>spins while flying and tracks me while I run away
>delays attacks specifically until I roll or try to do anything at all
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>>150864890
The DLC will likely be good. I've yet to see DLC that was worse than the base game for the Souls series.
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>best dex weapon in ds2 is the rapier
>I hate the poking moveset
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They shouldn't have merged BB with DS. They should've kept DS slow and steady and give us BB2 instead of the abomination we got.
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>>150865628
I like your style.
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>>150866773
>give us BB2
pls no
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>>150851414
what's the significance of this? I recall he was just some annoying faggot
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>>150866594
Good news bud. Enemies in souls gam,es don;t vary their timing based on player actions. Their timings are fixed, so if you;re getting hit because an enemy is delaying an attack, it's a fixed delay time the devs put in to anticipate the behaviour of a predictable, mindless player and you're just falling for it hook, line & sinker. Get better and you'll stop falling for it.
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>>150866621
What Priscilla's feet smell like?
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>>150866820
You.
Go fuck yourself.

>>150866773
True.
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>>150866723
>
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>>150866885
Backstabs are notoriously terrible and easy to avoid in 3. Some faggot who literally makes a living by claiming he's the best dark souls player got himself backstabbed by a better player taunting him for being shit.
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Best midgame bow in DaS2?
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Why does Havel hate mages?
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>>150866820
stats? 20/22 with enough end to midroll with havelfap and the rest in vit?
>>150866773
from is shit at sequels. they need to make a separate soulslike
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Anyone else have a problem with the message gesture where it shows different clothes than what you're wearing? It shows my character wearing the Pope hat instead of Wolnir's Crown. The same thing happened in Bloodborne, where Gerhman's garb was replaced by the church garb in the message gesture thing
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>>150867026
Who's this faggot? I wanna see him pvp
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>>150867068
duel bow
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>>150867089
why don't YOU hate mages?
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>>150866909
>Go fuck yourself.
Already did 5 times and I'm pretty exhausted, m8.

>>150866903
Salty rusted coins.
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Do summoned reds give ears? Thinking of getting invaded with WoB then spawning them into a pseudo FC to give them ears
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>>150867126
that's intentional
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>>150867026
link? when did this happen
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>>150867026
Got a webm?
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what is the best starting class armor set and why is it Wanderer?
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>>150867253
How so?
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>>150866621
god damn it solaire you cockblock
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>>150867089
Because magic was literally invented by seath and Havel hates seath for being a dragon, a race-traitor and a book-reading nerd.
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Sooo, what game is more linear? Dark Soul 3 or Bloodborne?
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>>150867089
Havel hates fuccbois.
No one hates pyros because they're the best
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>>150867389
not to mention all of the evil experiments

>>150867419
DaS3
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>>150867160
because i have a weakness for cute witches
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>>150867419
They're about the same
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>>150867123
>stats? 20/22 with enough end to midroll with havelfap and the rest in vit?
I wish I fucking remembered. I lost my save I had that cosplay in but I remember being SL40 (and still getting regular invades in Sen's, Blighttown and Catacombs of obvious new players). It was a pretty fun and flexible invader, I could do Patches cosplay as well as SK and Balder Knight cosplay and Darkwraith cosplay.
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>>150867419
DaS3 is more linear.

Both games have a 100% linear critical path, but Bloodborne tends to have two optional areas available at most different stages of progression while DaS3 has fewer optional areas overall and branches less often.
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I miss the Kakyuin poster :(
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>>150867419
BB is slightly more linear, but makes up for it woth more and better optional areas. Talking actual areas and not chalices.
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>>150867512
bruh everyone hates pyros, Laurentius says so, they're regarded as backwoods redneck barbarians

THAT BEING SAID
quelana of izalith is objectively the best girl of DaS1
>b-but muh Gwyndolin
>b-but muh tittymonster
>b-but muh Priscilla
all trash compared to her
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>>150867619
fuck off kukyoin
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why do so many nerds play video games
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>>150867356
who knows, certain weapons also change model
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Why is it so hard to find good male sliders.
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>>150867419
Dork Souls 3, in Bloodborne, you could just follow the path straight to the end no problem, but only a retard would do that. Even before the time of day changes, you can explore Old Yarnham, cathedral ward, central Yarnham, Hemwick, and the Hypogean Gaol, which leads back to Old Yarnham.

Once it's night, you can explore the forbidden woods which leads back to central Yarnham, Castle Cainhurst, The Nightmare Frontier, and the lecture hall. Once the red moon drops,

you have Ya'har ghul to explore, Nightmare of Mensis, and the Upper Cathedral Ward, which is a spooktacular area and has the best gesture in the game
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>>150867773
Use an NPC face
http://imgur.com/a/HkrMw
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Was it ever explained why were these faggots all the way down there?
or why one of them even wears havels armor?
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>>150866773
>yfw the fags that made Lords of the Fallen make a better souls game than DS3
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>>150867202
I don't know if summoned reds activate WoB, I would think that would be a pretty big oversight on From's part (intentionally griefing by summoning ppl into a gank). Just keep pontiff open and do dried finger runs attempting to get to Anal Landor. Alternatively you could summon reds for your "FC" while fingered with WoB, however keep in mind that certain reds (myself included) will not deal with your bullshit FC if they are invading since they get less health than summoned reds, and it is much more fun to fuck FC's up than to participate in them
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how's DS3 compared to the first and second games?
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>>150868095
you're in a graveyard

they were graverobbers, it's right in their name
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>>150867123
> midroll with havelfap?
From what I remember, yeah, I at least used Havel's.
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>>150868210
It's a game.
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>>150867126
>>150867253
>>150867356
>>150867767
So basically what the deal is here is that to make the wandering/message/bloodstain phantoms, they made individual "ghost" armor sets with no associated texture and lower polycount to them in order to make it easier for the game to load a bunch of them. They didn't feel like making them for every single armor set, so instead things are sort of grouped together. A bunch of different robes all show up as the same robe, a bunch of helmets all show up as one helmet, etc. It's kind of an optimization thing.
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>>150868210
As cryptic as the first, and hard as fuck.
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>>150868095
they were scavengers
he stole it/was one of Havel's warriors
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>>150868095
therenwere multiple copies of havel's set, mostly worn by his soldiers and other copycats. there real question why there are alva and lucatiel's pieces there, supposedly unique armor
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>>150868331
>and hard as fuck.
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>>150868073
>leonhard
a e s t h e t i c
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>>150868331
>hard

I'm almost unkillabe with my Claymore. Six swings is more than enough to kill anything that moves
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>>150868331
>DS3
>hard as fuck
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>>150866081
>What boss did you guys struggle from the most first playthrough?
DSA / Pontiff.
Pontiff is legit hard but DSA kept kicking my ass because the game stutters so fucking hard.

>tfw didn't have time to play Souls today myself
>watched some Souls vids on Youtube so I hunger for Souls
>took a massive dump so I'm both figuratively and literally asshurt right now
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>>150868095
Presumably a team of graverobbers that went into shulva looking for treasure and found some.

In reality, they're just the obligatory triple-NPC ganksquad that fromsoft shoehorns into every game. Their loadouts are ironically inspired by players, hence the misnamed Havel "cosplay", the weeb faggot wearing the generic knight armor with dual katanas and the tryhard metafag with flynn armor and an estoc.
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>>150867718

>'kak' LITERALLY means shit/poop in my language

Pottery.
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>>150868625
Knight Ocelot pls go
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>>150866081
I died to Nameless King 27 times on my first playthrough. Boss that had the most amount of attempts up until that point was Dancer with 3.
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>>150848830
Gwynson
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>>150860425
https://youtu.be/s571EFuxINE?t=1m31s
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Complete stab in the dark, has anyone got Greirats Ashes they could drop me? I fucked up his quest.
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>>150868861
>master all the bosses movesets
>except pope because I always get the clone desynced
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>>150868210
Faster, generally harder bosses as a result of their speed, More linear (at least than DaS, haven't played 2), awesome visuals bc muh graphics, less original areas and less "platforming" in levels (for lack of a better term- I mean all the areas are pretty much the same elevation and there aren't many places where you have to be careful walking around save for like a rafter or two in cathedral of the deep)

Still a great game tho, worth the money if you are trying to decide on it
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>>150868861
>being THIS bad

Go play Skyrim or Bloodborne.
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Big sister Priscilla!
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>Trash
>3rd attempt on Abyss Watchers
ok
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>>150866081
Dragonslayer Armour.
I 1st-tried Pontiff, Dancer and Princes, and got Nameless King on my second try. The only 2 bosses that gave me trouble were champ and DSA, and champ only took me 3 tries because I spent the first 2 relearning how to parry.

DSA was also the most fun boss by far.
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>>150868997
nice meme arrow usage
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>>150868659
>they're just the obligatory triple-NPC ganksquad that fromsoft shoehorns into every game

Demon's Souls
>BP Trio

Dark Souls
>???

Dark Souls 2
>Graverobber gangfuck

Dark Souls 3
>Kamui and buddies
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It's pretty clear at this point that the further away from DaS / DeS From try to steer, the better the game is.

Compare Bloodborne and DaS3.
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>>150868974
>Mfw beat him in 1 attempt on my second playthrough
The path to git gud wasn't all that bad tbqh.
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>>150869060
You know it
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>>150869067
Dark Souls had Lautrec's entourage in Anor Londo.
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>>150869067
Dark Souls would be Lautrec and his butt buddy squad
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>>150869067
And even Bloodborne had the Yahar'gul Hunters.
>>
God it feels so impotent to use an ultra weapon against any even semi competent player, why did they give them such shitty movesets and ridiculous stamina consumption when everything else is fast as fuck
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>start killing FC hosts at pontiff
>stop getting summoed at FCs

fucking FINALLY
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>>150869459
because miyazucchini (i sure showed him with that name) is fat
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>>150869459
Try fighting this guy

dude's a fucking god with his weapon.
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>>150869493
why dont you summon instead?
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>>150869691
Because I fucking hate resetting my save all the fucking time for some embers
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So, for some reason I'm coming back to DS3 after a long time away and I have no idea what changes have been made. I want to make a tank paladin who can use some miracles. Best starting class for this? Knight or Cleric?
>>
Stone Ring or Ring of Giants for DaS2 dual Caestus?
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>>150869786
Why would you do that? Just invade for embers
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>>150869786
lol haha what
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>>150870018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYbhOVDAkw
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>>150869802
>tank paladin
Not really possible in ds3
>>
what setting was it again to not have the lighting wash everything out?
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>>150870018
>>150870142
wut
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>>150870195
What's the closest approximation?
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>>150870332
A quality build with a refined estoc and havel's greatshield.
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>>150869648

OMG I REMEMBER THAT PLAYER
i mean same name but different gear
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>>150870332
probably Berke's build, despite everyone whining about it
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>>150870018
That's so fucking sexy.
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>>150868985
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>>150870018

Why is it so hard to parry that shit
When it should totally work it's always a partial
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Just started DeS for the first time, any tips?
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>>150870653
What is that a parody of?
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>>150869802
Here dude.

Keep in mind that this is a PvE-only build. I kept it at 120 in the event you wanted to convert it to an actual PvP-viable build afterwards.

Best I could do with your vague description, and you can choose whatever weapon you'd like, being that there are virtually no good faith weapons in-game that fit the "tank paladin" archetype
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>>150870981
what the fuck dude
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>>150870981
>26 vig
>40 end
>weapon in the left hand
dude
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>>150870797
Power level to 97, it's what the best souls player did, so you should to
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>>150856492
A lot of loyalty for a sellsword
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>>150870981
>26 vigor
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>>150870810
level up lady priscilla
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>>150870981
Good place to start, thank you
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>>150871098
That's a greatshield, bud.

>>150871224
Do you really think you need more than that for PvE? Do you honestly, truly believe that, especially with all of the armor?
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>>150870981
>PvE at 120
Hurrrrrrr
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>>150870810

Prissy was planned to be the level up waifu in DaS.
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>>150870981
>SL120
>PvE
dude nice NG++ build
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>>150871138
Kek, I still remember that stream. Fucker leveled to 97 before Shrine of Storms.
/dsg/ trolling him was a shitshow before some guy caused him to aggro Filthy Man and broke his shit with the Scraping Spear. IIRC Nora Invaded him too and somebody deleveled him. Then Bigmoose1985 moosed it up.
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>>150870797
Don't use magic or health regen items if you don't wanna trivialize the game
Upgrade paths are convoluted as fuck and material farming is a pain in the ass, the standard upgrade is good enough for a first playthrough
Don't level up Luck, it's only useful for a specific sword that secretly scales with it
There is no absolution, so if you aggro an NPC they'll be hostile until the next NG cycle
Armor doesn't matter much after the early game, stay below 50% equip load to fast roll
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>>150871485
Try this

https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/63697
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>>150871491
You said it could be converted to PvP and a lot of people used to use 26 vigor for some reason last I remember
>>
Someone redpill me on Combustion. I wanted to make a DaS2 hex+pyro build in which Combustion was gonna be my only melee "weapon", but it seems too slow and takes almost all my fucking stamina.
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>>150871814
DS2 combustion is shit, don't bother. Go with dark orbs.
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>>150868193
They do not. However, an invading spirit triggers a blue. I could simply start the FC after the guy showed up and stop him from dying.
My idea was to get the "WoBed red" (someone I know who'd I'd get to invade me) to hide or something, while the blue did nothing and three reds killed themselves. The question is whether those reds drop ears
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>>150871795
Thank you anon
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>>150870797
>any tips?
Travel light to make room foritems you'll find because the game has item burden. Don't keep shit on you if you don't use it.
Sheathe your weapons before going to talk to Stockpile Thomas.
Keep a bow handy.
Fists are actually useful against skeletons.
World 1 is good for farming healing items.
Level up END a lot in the beginning since it increases the amount of items you can carry.
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>>150871802
26 is the softcap. 27 gives a nice rounded 1000 hp unembered. Nice but nowhere near enough for sl120
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>>150871802
Yes, by "converting it" to PvP, I literally mean that he should walk down to Rosaria and redistribute his points into something more viable, like a 60 faith or strength/faith build.

Tanking with a medium shield isn't really that effective and 40 end is needed to block some of the higher-damage attacks, like Pontiff's combos, or Aldritch soul spear.

You could say "Oh just dodge it!" and I agree wholeheartedly, but you could also do this on a quality build that doesn't have some sort of meme theme to it, such as a paladin tank.
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>>150872363
Silver/Black Knight Shield doesn't need any End investment to block boss combos
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Is the Dark Sword still worth using over other longswords ever since the nerf?
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>Mirrah vest found in Undead Settlement
>Homoslayer sword you can transpose from Curse greatwood is Lucatiel's
>Hodrick uses Mirrah shield
I-is Lucatiel dead :_;?
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>>150871670
>tfw he disconnected from the Old Monk

I forget, what did Moose do?
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>>150872596
no she's a mindless hollow now, like every other hero/adventurer from the past
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>>150872596
Just sleeping.
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>>150871696
>>150872225
Thanks, just beat the tower knight
>Sheathe your weapons before going to talk to Stockpile Thomas.
Does it make him aggressive or something?
>>
>trying to get a character with 50 in every stat
fuck
I wish they hadn't patched the boss soul duplication
>>
Best rings for a Farron Greatsword build?

Currently using Carthus Milkring, Hornet, Knight Slayer, and Ring of Favor.
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>>150872746
He made a big fucking stink about getting Scraping Spears ready if people get the chance to invade DSP before he invaded himself, dropped his fucking spaghetti and just killed DSP without scraping him, effectively destroying other people's chances of messing with him until he killed another boss.
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>>150872881
>doing a challenge to get every stat to 50
>let me just use the soul exploit
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>>150872524
Yes, but they don't fit the meme theme. They're just plain medium shields and only the Silver Knight shield looks even remotely something like a paladin would use.

>>150870981
Since I keep getting all these >26 vig maymay arrows, I'll adjust this to a much lower level.

All the gear listed here can be obtained before pontiff. Ideal upgrades and stat investments are replicated above in the original 120 picture, of course, there is no way in hell you could ever end up at 120 playing through the game with prior experience normally. 32 Strength and 26 vig do not need to be increased. Vitality, endurance, and Attunement for extra spells/mana are really the only stat investments that are worth anything when going through the game normally.
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>>150873027
I'm not doing a challenge, really
I just want a character who can utilize every playstyle for dicking around on
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>>150872842
If you accidentally hit him, you can't store items with him on that playthrough. You can't make NPCs deaggro in Demon's Souls.
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>>150872946
>Milkring
Swap to Bloodring and you're set.
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How do you fucking kill those dragons in World 1? Not the same anon, I am just pissed off at the blue dragon blocking my path to the King.
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>>150873343
Same way you deal with dragons in every other souls game
Shoot them with arrows
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>>150873343
Shitload of arrows and Hyper mode.
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>>150873343
Poison arrows and a lot of patience
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I feel dumb for liking this shield but since I first saw it in DS2 I've liked it
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>>150873089
dude, just fucking stop
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>>150873679
Holy christ kid, will you just fucking kill yourself.
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damn it what the hell fashion looks good in DaS2 on a female without going full meme ninja. I'd rather do sorcerer
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>>150873726
Straid's. It's very good indeed.
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>>150873627
It's austere, and austerity is beauty in practical things like weapons and tools. I also have a boner for it
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>>150873726
>>150873726
>female

kill you're self, your a lateral diamand oven.
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>>150872363
>pure faith
>str/fai
>viable
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>>150873952
nice reddit insult
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>>150873952
I think I love you, anon
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>>150874028
It's not like he can't convert to quality.
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>>150874130
put your trap back on lucyfur
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>>150873839
maybe but I hate hoods

>>150873952
I've played as a male dozens of times I'm allowed to change it up suck my ass
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>>150873942
except it's a shield made out of stone which is incredibly impractical
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I really don't like this whole meme DaS3 has where red = normal and player-acquirable and blue = elite but you can't have it because fuck you.
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>>150874248
>wearing traps like cocksocks
hawt
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>>150874383
not in a universe where everyone has superhuman strength
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>>150874285
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjMqT9UT7fI
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>>150848830
Gwynsen

as in Gwynsen's fortress
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>>150848830
John
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>>150848830
David
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>>150874536
Which means it's more likely to break when it takes a hard hit rather than bend.
Meanwhile metal and wooden shields are easier to make and repair, lighter and just as useful.
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>>150874536
you drop it once and it will just shatter
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Is the Estoc the longest thrusting sword?
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>>150875051
no but this is *unzips*
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>>150875009
>>150874993
then why is havel's stuff so strong in the souls universe?
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>>150875141
God damnit, you beat me to it. Fuckin' spam filter
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>>150874681
that makes no sens. nk admires combat prowess and weapon mastery, why would he test people's observational skills in a huge architectural boobytrap?
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>>150875051
Yes.
I believe Irithyll is the shortest, but there's actually not much different between them except for the estoc, which is almost twice as long as the next longest.
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>>150875190
I thought it was made out of a mineral-like metal
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>>150875190
*staggers from a gentle push*
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>>150875272
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>>150875190
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>>150875279
*grabs you by the throat* I said back the fuck off!?
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>>150875190
The people who wear havel's armor are strong. The armor itself is more or less just a status symbol, a proof of strength and fortitude.

The original havel probably could've slain dragons naked. He chose to wear stone to show that he could, because he was a human that had the strength to kill immortal superbeings with their own teeth and fought alongside literal gods.
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>>150875590
>it's not the armor, but the wearer underneath

so the chosen undead is canonically the most powerful protagonist?
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>>150875259
>Gwyn's firstborn in charge of Army
>Sen's fortress is full of stored armor, snake head people, and a gauntlet of traps
>NK is in Archdragon Peak, a place full of snake head people
Swinging blades are for training soldiers
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>>150875775
well yeah since you can beat everything naked with your bare hands
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>forgot to kill Vendrick before fighting Nashandra

Well, it could be worse.
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>the character creation bug still hasn't been fixed
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>>150873343

Sticky Compound Long Bow.
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>>150876157
Why did you take a screenshot?
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>>150875259
Reason A:
It was a proving ground, meaning it was made to test the mettle of warriors who sought to pledge themselves to the God of War. It was very deliberately designed to unconventionally challenge heroes and push their abilities to the limit, as sacrament for their deity.

Reason B:
It was retrofitted into a testing ground some time after NK's exile because the powers that be, eg. Frampt and Gwyndolin, decided that it would be put to use as part of the prolonged artificial questline meant to ween out undead pursuing the false prophecy. Originally, Sen's Fortress was the border fort that defended the only entrance into Anor Londo, but the main gate, located behind the Iron Golem, has been deliberately caved in to block the path and close off the city from the outside world, indicating that there was a rather deliberate change in the purpose of the Fortress at some point.
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Want to make a pure pyromancer in DaS2. Do I full faith or 30/30? Not planning to use hexes, so I don't see any point in getting 30 int.
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What do you guys think the giants here mean/represent?

I've never understood why the hell they're here, or why two of them are still alive but very weak compared to their brethren in the Cathedral and Irithyll dungeon.

Were they laborers/slaves or did they come here in great numbers of their own accord to take down Aldritch? Why would they be in Irithyll in the first place if not to "take care" of Aldritch, or at least die trying?
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>>150875826
I don't remember any piece of armor in sen's, only some statues. If you notice the texture, it's all granite. The snake men being there are a bit of a connection, but it seems more likely they are seath's minions and the place served as a prison of some sorts. I'll give you that part of sen's was used as proving grounds for mighty warriors. But there is no connection to nk's identity as the patron saint of the warriors of the sun. Not a stored medal, not an engraving or even a reference. All there are are references to seath and the dragon school.
>completely ignoring my pun
I don't like you
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>>150876416
There's not really any reason to go that high with either of them.
Pyromancy scaling isn't great and the actual damage returns per point isn't typically worth the investment. I wouldn't recommend going above 15/15 or 20/20 at most.

Attunement and endurance are much more important for a pyromancer. You'll need lots of attunement since most of your spells have limited casts, and packing more spells is the best way to get around that. Most of your strongest spells take huge amounts of stamina, but everything casts quickly and combos smoothly so having a tonne of stamina will allow you to bury enemy encounters under walls of fire. Most importantly, great combustion takes so much stamina to cast that 40 endurance will give you JUST enough stamina to cast it twice and roll away. Incidentally, 40 is the amount you want.
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Who'd win in a fight between

>Slayer of Demons
>Chosen Undead
>Bearer of the Curse
>The Hunter
>The Ashen One

Provided they've all maxed their stats and attained the endings that give them the most power?
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>>150876593
>why are giants in Anor Londo, the kingdom that kept giants as slaves
Gee, I wonder.

They're dead/weakened because they all got fucked up by a pair of Drang Knights. Y'know, those knights from that kingdom whose entire claim to fame was launching a literal genocide against giants.
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>>150876824
Pre- or -post-nerfs?

Probably either Slayer of Demons because of memegrass, or Chosen Undead because of poise.
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Did we kill the original Havel in DaS1?
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>>150876824
t. fanfic author who's out of ideas
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>>150876593
They were the denizens of the Anal Rodeo. The same reason the giant blacksmith was there in DaS, think of them as the mycanoids in Farron Keep: the original population dying out
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>>150876824
The one with poise and instant backstabs
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>>150876824
Ashen one with the dark ending seems pretty strong desu.
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>>150876824
Bearer
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>>150876281
I'm not sure
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hey /dsg/, I beat Dark Souls 1 for the first time! I was using a faith/dex build.

I'm going to be starting Dark Souls 2 soon, what should I go for this game?
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>>150876936
>>150876956
>>150876990
>>150877010
>>150877013
Pre-nerfs, and they're using the armor/weapons that they wear on all the promotional art
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>>150876936
>>150876990
but what dictates what rules they follow?
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>>150876824
I'd bet money on the Hunter, he has speed, strength, can parry without being close, and is much more skilled with his weapons.
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>>150876824
SoD, stuff in DeS is completely OP. He/she would be completely immortal with regen alone.
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>>150876930
> kingdom whose entire claim to fame was launching a literal genocide against giants.

Source?
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>>150877184
>Source?
Dark Souls 2
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>Back to farming souls on that other character I want to bring in 100+ rangem meh
>Has almost 700k unused souls
When the everloving fuck did I even get those... I could have sworn that character was broke as shit... did someone hack souls onto me!? YOU??
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>>150877168
>they're using the armor/weapons that they wear on all the promotional art
So they're all downgraded?
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>>150877168
>ds1 astora straight
Well, I know who's NOT going to win
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r8 my bald angry albino
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>>150877275
Well it'd be boring if they all had the armor with the highest physical damage resistance from their respectable titles
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>>150877426
ARRRIIEEESSSSSSS/10
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>>150877426
What weapons you going with?
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>>150877426
Bretty gud. Needs greyer skin
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>>150877549
>>150877426
TWIN AXES OR NO SACK
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>>150877426
>Albino
>Colored brows and beard
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>>150877426
>still no chain axes

what the FUCK fromsoft

>>150877549
I'm not that anon but I vaguely remember a cutscene with him using a standard issue Xiphos
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>>150877603
It's hard to make grey, it ends up too blue or too bright.
>>150877549
I'd alternate between twin prince's GS and dual thrall axes. I hope the DLC adds dual axe weapons.
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>>150877446
You're implying
>everyone using a bland weapon
>no spells(likely no hunter tools)
>none are abusing the broken stuff in any of the games
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>>150877168
>DeS: fluted(?) set, sword and a shield (I didn't play DeS)
>DS1: some non existent armor, some kind of sword and a shield, only in the wrong hands OR elite knight with ASS
>DS2: faraam set, a longsword, nothing else
>DS3: firelink set, a broadsword, nothing else

DS2 wins
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>>150877751
There is a duel axe weapon.
http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Winged+Knight+Twinaxes
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>>150877660
Why do people say xiphos? It's literally just the word for sword. I find it silly every time.
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>>150877894
they're too big though, I meant around the same size as the blades of chaos
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>>150877952
Same reason people refer to japanese swords as katanas, even though that's just a word for sword.
Because every culture refers to their super specific variation of the concept of sword with their super general word for sword, and the best way to distinguish them is to simply pair design with language of origin.
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Is there any viable SL 120 Eygon cosplay? His stuff weights too fucking much it feels impossible to pull it off without having no vig/end
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>>150878285
shit
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>>150877952
I'm largely ignorant of ancient Greek sword terminology.

When I say Xiphos, I use it to refer to the swords used by ancient Grecian hoplites.

>>150878246
If you go 34 strength/30 faith it's very possible, but you couldn't use the shield.

Otherwise no, it has similar problems to a full havel's cosplay at SL125, alebeit to a lesser degree. I hope you like fatrolling.
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>>150878285
>bloodtinge
it's shit m8. Why don't you be a real squid and go pure arc?
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>>150878246

There isn't, thank From for the vitality stat.
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Is there any way to make the Dancer's Swords do any damage? Do they get better at +4/+5? I'm at +3 and holy shit they are bad, they do less damage than a buffed sellsword twinblades and not even NPCs get hit by that WA.
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>>150878212
I guess you're right. Japs probably find it silly that we call eastern swords katanas too. It just seems out of place
>>150878391
Xiphos isn't a specific sword, at least not in Greek. Hoplites (literally "armed men", this is getting funnier and funnier) used mainly short swords if I'm not mistaken
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Hey guys hows my build?
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Is your character's neck too long too? Looks weird but I don't think there was a slider for that
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>>150878823
Yes
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>>150878246
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/63722

;v}
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>>150877660
>>still no chain axes
>what the FUCK fromsoft

>players with the access to man serpent chain powers.

Fuck no.
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You need 15 Twinkling Titanite to +4 a weapon in DaS3 right?
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>>150878246
>greathammer
>viable
https://www.mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/63723
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>>150878916
Yes.
Normal Path:
12 shards, 12 large shards, 12 chunks, 1 slab
Twinkling:
15 (1,2,4,8) +1 slab
Scale:
15 (1,2,4,8) + 1 slab.
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>>150876716
That was a good pun, anon.
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>>150878927
>30 end

you would literally only be able to swing twice, have your opponent roll away, then turtle for 10 seconds while your stamina is regenerating from -25
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Comically large weapons were a mistake
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>>150879221
>viable
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>>150879119
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING?
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What's the best resin to stock up on for when someone buffs their own shit? Human? Lightning?
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>>150879406
Me on the left
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>>150878670
Last off topic, these are the first results for ξιφος. If you search xiphos though you just get greek leaf-bladed swords
>>150878915
Players with axes to F U N you mean
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>>150879514

Human Pine is the strongest resin.
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>>150879598
>axes to fun

fuck offfff

>>150879721
Thanks senpai.
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>>150876593
>were they slaves?
They're literally wearing shackles.
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>>150876824
Lore-wise Hunter annihilates everyone though Ashen One who absorbed First Flame might be nearby in terms of power level.
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>>150879287
I'd agree, DS2 went too far, but I think DS3 scaled it back a bit.
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>>150874392
I could care less about the Blue Lothric Knight shit but we really got short-changed by not getting the blue Catheter Knights' stuff. Fuck, put that in as a NG+ drop or something or in the DLC.

This made me appreciate when DaS2 went through the effort to put in 2 versions of 4 different sets.
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I don't understand

Why are ash people suddenly a thing
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>>150880496
watch the intro over and over again till you get it
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>>150879287
I don't mind them as long as they don't look shitty like the Crypt Blacksword. Dragonslayer is fine.
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>>150880367
Royal soldier, mastodon, ironclad what else
>could care less
So you do care?
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Okay, I finally reinstalled Dark Souls 3.
I'm going to upgrade all my weapons, and slaughter everything in Irythrill.
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>>150880294
They shouldn't have boyght fume or guts sword for 3
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>Host starts parry spamming
>roll and stab them with my Claymore
>parry spam as they're fading away

Do you think that's a better taunt than dung pie?
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>>150880728
>boyght
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>>150877952
So that people understand which specific sword people are talking about. If I say "Gladius", people will immediately understand what I'm talking about.
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>>150880773
always
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>>150880773
Why not both
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>>150880783
Sorry for the typo, meant bought.
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>When fastrolling, your backstep animation is changed to a back handspring
>Less iframes than regular rolling; quicker recovery, less stamina consumption.

It's Dark Wood Grain Ring
Would you lads be okay with this? Please don't bully me.
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>>150880650
Infantry.
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>>150880728
>boyght
Nice.
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>>150880773
point down always gets them
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>>150881002
I'd just combine it with Bloodring to get I frames back, and then I'm an unhitable Nina flipping God
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>>150881002
>less stamina consumption
no
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>>150881002
Should just give backsteps HA. I-frames like 2 wouldn't work, but they suck now
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>>150880496
When the fire is fading, undead appear because both life and death are properties of fire. Without themm things return towards a middle-ground state that's neither alive nor dead -undead.
When the fire is linked, the undead go back to being dead because the strength of fire, and thus their ability to die, is restored.

Unkindled are undead from a previous cycle. They're "ash" because they're the leftovers from a previous cycle of fire. People who could have been kindling for the first flame, but failed to even make it that far, and so are just used up husks of life. If life is a property of fire, then one whose life has been expended is most certainly ash.

The only reason the unkindled are returning to life is because the situation in 3 is so dire that the powers at be deemed it necessary to draw upon the strength of previous cycles in order to save their world this time. Basically, their own era produced no champion or hero both capable and willing to link the fire, so they needed to go back and revive undead failures from previous eras in the hopes of finding someone capable.
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>Dragonslayer Swordspear is just a quality weapon with a faith requirement
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>>150881002
how about

reduce the iframes on rolling to 8 from 13
double the stamina cost
give backsteps 5 iframes + full hyperarmor
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>>150877184
Vendrick built his power on assaulting the lands of the Giants, then created Golems with his research into souls and Drangleic is in ruins because the Giants came back to take revenge.
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>>150881269
Thanks friend.
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>>150881269
So the Ashen one is basically Dark Souls' chosen undead if he failed his quest and gave up?
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>>150881298
look at who it's from
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>>150880773
>slav squat on corpse
>clapping
>"HEY!" emote over and over
>point down
>dung pie
>chugging
>arrowing corpse
>parry spam
What else really gets your goat when killed?
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>>150881552
Or all the other "chosen undead" who were still stuck on O&S when you parried gwyn to death.
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>>150881137
>>150881262
>>150881267

In the second line I was just describing backstep while wearing the ring.

>It has less iframes than regular rolling
>Backstep has quicker recovery than regular rolling
>Less stamina consumption than regular rolling (10 vs 15)

The only thing that's changed is that it has iFrames, otherwise it's the exact same, mechanically, as the current backstep and it has a cool new visual effect.
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>>150880773
>>150881632
>emoting at all
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>>150881269
>original good material is failing them so they have to resort to rehashing old shit in both game development AND lore

IRONY
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>>150880773
I don't mind when people dung pie. It just seems salty more than insulting.
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>>150881659
Or that one Chosen Undead who got stuck on Kelloggs.
Ha ha ha ha ha...

I just reminded myself of how quickly I gave up on Dark Souls.
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>>150880773
Definitely

Dung pies are 13-year old boy tier.

I prefer parry spam, "Hey!", and *clap*clap*clap*.
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>>150881552
That makes me curious, do you think the Ashen One has his memories?
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>>150881298

Yeah, it's dumb as shit. Same with Lothric's Holy Sword.
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>>150880728
Killjoy. Guts sword is a necessity for Dark Souls.
Fume is a good DBS replacement.
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>>150881905
My Ashen One is deprived, so I like to think he remembers his former life and is pretty pissed that his grave got robbed.
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>>150881693
I fought two guys and gave them a hell of a go, but ended up dying after probably ten minutes. One of the two did Hawkwood's collapse gesture when I died. I've rarely felt more honored in a videogame.
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>>150881298
>Flame spear is a quality weapon with pyro requirements
>Lothric's hole sword is a quality weapon with faith requirements
>greatsword of judgement is a quality weapon with in requirements
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>>150882125
>literally every weapon in the game with split damage is a quality weapon with an int and/or faith requirement, except for the MLGS.
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>>150882068
Yeah but people really dislike the fume in DaS3 because of the moveset and the weapon art being too slow on top of comically low damage relative to the stat investment, weight, and size of the weapon.

It makes me really sad to see ultra weapons be so underpowered in DaS3. I just can't think of any solutions for balancing them to make 'em a bit better, but not outright ridiculous.
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Do you guys think that having the soul of cinder as box art kinda cheapened the reveal?
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>>150882246
Wolnir is cool too. Slightly better with faith.
Anyone tried Leonhard's weapon?
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>>150882256
Isn't the cover art the ashen one?
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Do you guys think the downgrade from the cool ass special effects in bloodborne to ds3 was because of the Xbone? I mean it underperforms the ps4 slightly, or do you think its just because it was a multiplat and couldn't "optimize" as much.
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The hell, is this one of From's funny bugs?
Was anyone else (including that guy hismelf) aware that he is invisible?
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>>150882368
Might be him, but he's certainly dressed in firelink set
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>>150882125
>>150882246
>NO VARIETY
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>>150881298
This is the point where I remember that dark souls 1 literally had only 2 usable int weapons, and the only 1 weapon that scaled naturally with faith. Everything else was "just infuse it bro" or "just buff it bro"

DaS2 was the only game where there was actually a variety of weapons for all different sorts of builds.
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>>150880650
Royal Soldier is a bitchin' set. It's paladin set 2.0

what kills me more is that there's no clean version of the Hollow shield the royal soldiers use
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>>150882068
They look ugly as fuck. I'd always rather fight someone with a non-retarded looking UGS
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>>150882483
I see the obscuring ring is working as intended.
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>>150882256
I think it's just the ashen one wearing the firelink set, because they are holding a bastard sword, right?
>>
In the DS3 gameplay reveal they have the player character plant the coiled sword into a random hollow. Anybody knows what's up with that?
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>>150882543
I have very fond memories of Dark Souls 2. I remember that, each time I got a new weapon, I would go to the Forest of Fallen Giants and kill everyone to try it.
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>>150881905
It's entirely player-dependent. If they have no experience with Dark Souls games, they don't have any "memories".

The player character is completely "you", aside from the endings, you are the one who dictates how your player character feels because your own Ashen One or Chosen Undead isn't necessarily the canonical one, you're a ghost who appears in other people's worlds and may help/hinder them.

It's a very interesting idea that you can be background fluff in someone else's game and I'm sad they removed shit like the curse statues caused by other players.
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>>150878690
Bloodborne/10
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Who here /pc fc/?

Taking location suggestions now.

Bear in mind that this playthrough is almost complete, so most areas will require NG+39.
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If the Dark Sign only appears when an Age of Fire is coming to an end, does that mean all undead stop being undead when the fire is linked?

Can you actually kill an undead? Certainly, there are many characters that seem to actually die in the games, despite being undead.
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I didn't watch the tournament, how was it?
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>>150882957
THE BIG CATACOMBS BRIDGE RIGHT AFTER WATCHERS BONFIRE

NO MORE CIRCLE STRAFE TAP DANCING
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have you ever forgotten how embers work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_8lPHncfv0
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>>150881269
more than that, theyve revived the previous lords of cinder, undead who linked the fire, so they could do it again. but they dont want to, and so yet another unkindled rises to seek them out.

"ash seeketh ember" and all that
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>>150882662
There is one in the start of brume tower but you can't pick it up
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>>150882983
The general idea is that the mob you meet respawn just like you, while the boss die for the last time or disappear different. Like Wolnir who get sucked in the abyss.
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>>150882749
Well it's a shorter one. Like a straight sword. When you teleport to high wall it's in the tiny room you spawn in. Possible dlc entrance key maybe.
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>>150883068
I like this suggestion.

Does anybody have any other ideas? I'm probably going to host at the location this anon suggested if I don't get anything else.
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>Clicking through mugenmonkey's AR calculator
>For most quality weapons the difference between a weapon being refined or just ordinary is 11-13 AR
>For almost all of them the difference is less than 20
>Only exceptions seem to be UGSs

Well, I guess I'll feel alright not farming up refined gems then.
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>>150882957
>>150883173

I dunno, somewhere on Archdragon peak? is there any good location there? its a nice place for a sunny FC
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>>150883170
I googled it and apparently you were supposed to create bonfires by killing people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyRJ5u-L8qw
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>>150883107
>there's literally the same kind of Axe that Bazuso uses in DS3
>it's a background prop at the High Wall
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>>150883238
>tfw no PS4 fc

You could probably fight where Havel is, next to the dead Wyvern
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>>150882957
I'll fight.

I suggest the Cathedral, either in the water or up by the pews.
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>Patches disguised as Onionbro
THE RUSEMAN
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>>150883357

Huh. Maybe that's why they insisted on a bonfire for every boss.

Maybe those were going to be the only bonfires originally.
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>>150883414
the pews should really good
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>>150883173
>>150882957
what about the ground floor of not-Latria? where the patrolling wardens are? thats a pretty interesting location, and you could even have 2 FC's if memory of the area serves right
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>>150883238
I can host there without going to NG+.

Anybody have any qualms about this? I was thinking about hosting it at the very first bonfire, so that nobody has any framerate issues.

This alright with you, lads?

>>150883414
This would require NG+, but I'll do it if you guys offer co-op assistance to speed up the process.
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>>150883357
That was just speculation. Someone probably leaked out putting the coiled sword in the shrine bonfire, and people assumed you just made bonfires.
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>>150883397
SL100 PS4FC at the Water Reserve
PSN : EmoDragonZ
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>>150883540

i like archdragon peak

seems a proper warrior hangout
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>>150883576
Watch this trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HIxuGi_2TQ
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>>150883540
Homoprinces and SoC are still alive.

Everything else is alive.

>>150883628
ADP it is then.

Pass: dsg

See you lads at the first bonfire
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I fucking loathe the Gutter and the Gulch.
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>>150883475
I have heard of the bonfire thing before, but never seen any actual evidence that it was in the game.

It would certainly make sense. You'd probably get a limited number of bonfire items (mini-pokers? Like at the start of the game) and you'd have to make the choice about where to place them?

Could have been good.
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>>150883540
what about water reserves?

pretty huge area
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>>150883657
Ive seen it, again that doesnt mean we ever gonna make bonfires.
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>>150883714
people are too shit to kill 2doggers
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>>150883714
Is that wise?
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>>150883760
its clear that it was a planned feature, when half the marketing is all about using a body to create a bonfire.

one of the E3's even had a huge statue of it that had the impaled corpse gushing blood
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>>150883714
We've tried hosting here but a few problems arose

1. An extraordinary amount of people are extremely hesitant to bother dealing with Sullyvahn's Beasts.
2. The spawns are excrutiatingly painful, requiring a minimum 30 second travel time to the actual water reserve itself after pretending to be a fireman down the ladder.
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>>150883863
maybe dsg should take it's own advice and gitgud?

was just an idea. archdragon is fine. better, really.
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>>150883714
people dont go to the own zone because itsn ot that pretty
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>Your equipload affects what enemies you can stun by rolling into them

You learn something new everyday.

>>150883853
Again, I dont think stabbing a corpse really means "hey guys you can make bonfires on your own now" If anything it would have been an alternative animation to lighting bonefires.
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>>150883628
It could be good for a themed FC
Host dressed up as NK
Participants can cospvp as :
>Ornstein
>Drakeblood
>Serpentman
>Dragonman
>Hawkwood
>Solaire
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>2Kat user can stunlock my 50 VIG character in decent armour for 2/3 of my health

What are the odds that From never fixes this shit?
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>>150883056
Baobao defends the weak and victims of injustice!
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>>150884187
>baobao literally rocking my setup from yesterday
what a madman, GSoG is not worth it
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Has Earthen Peak to Iron Keep ever been explained?
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>>150884378
Cut transition level.
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>>150884126
are you just in denial, because there's no way this can be interpreted any differently. and considering bosses drop bonfires like in DeS now, it makes sense for it to be a planned feature
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Alright guys, I'm here and ready, put your signs down and we'll get this FC started.

pass: dsg
system: pc
Hornet ring, CSS, Passive glaive, and other meta weapons are frowned upon.
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So hey, were bonfires ever explained in how they're made?
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>>150858312
>(Name says it on the tin : Played most or all of the Souls games, PvPs regularly, uses Mugenmonkey / other tools to make efficient and watches videos by people who PvP souls in order to become more efficient. Most likely comes to /dsg/ to talk about builds and the new metas.
D-does that make me a loser?!
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>>150884378
there's a missing mountain in Earthen Peak's skybox.

this is the bonfire icon.

DaS2 does not portray acurate distances and shortens them. Iron keep is supposed to be on that mountain/volcano
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>>150884580
Some guy lights a fire
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>>150884565
>CSS frowed upon

Sorcererfags BTFO
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>>150883714
It's beautiful!
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>>150884185
Never. From is to lazy and/or scared to make balance changes to core game mechanics. Also pve comes first pvp seconds, poise changes or heavy armor buffs in general would change how pve goes alot.


>We will never get good DS1 Heavy armor in 3
>We will never get good DS2 poison and split damage/infusions
>We will never get good BB special effects(unless they jew us with another SOTFS)
>DS3 could have been a 10/10 but muh Miyazaki vison
>>150884470
No, What would creating youre own bonefire even mean? If they allowed you to place them wherever even if limited that would be a clusterfuck to balance and work around with some mechanics. And if they restricted it to certain places it would be pointless. The only thing I could see it being is an alternative animation where instead of finding a bonfire and lighting it you find a corpse and stab it, maybe even have to kill a strongish enemy for it. But chances are itll be used as some dlc cutscene.
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>>150884637
It's not meant to be an insult.
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>>150884920
At least they fixed DaS2's bullshit in which having an armor made little difference.
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>>150849269
Where can I buy these?
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>>150884920
>If they allowed you to place them wherever even if limited that would be a clusterfuck to balance and work around with some mechanics.
now you see why it was cut. but everything points to that having been something they toyed with.

there would only be a starting bonfire, and the boss bonfire like DeS. but they ended up cutting it, because like you said, its be a clusterfuck to balance
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>>150884759
NO BULLY PLS
DELET TIS
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ALRIGHT LISTEN UP YOU DUMB SHITDICKS

IT'S TIME FOR THE OFFICIAL /dsg/ ARCHDRAGON PEAK PC FC, GET THE FUCK OVER HERE AND PUT YOUR SIGNS DOWN RIGHT HERE.
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>>150885308
why should i
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>>150885308
How do fight clubs even work anyway? Doesn't the host get all the souls?
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>>150885189
What? 2 had the bullshit bonus armor effects and would be cool if they affected PvE like drops or aggro, but then they actually thought jester's was a good idea
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>>150884920
>DS2 Poison
It was overkill.
DS3 Toxic is fine but there should be a Toxic infusion in place of the Poison one.
As it is, Poison in DS3 is kinda shit since bleed is so much more effective for PvE and it's an absolute joke for PvP. It was fun to poison people in DS1 Blighttown and make them run out of poison cures without actually intendimg to kill them.
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>>150885382
Yes I do, but it's a very meager amount, only 1-3k.

You do it to duel dsg and have fun doing so. On my 120, I've upgraded several weapons using nothing but the souls I earn from PvP and also continually buy resins, grass, and other consumables.
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>>150885382
so do you as a red.
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>>150885382
>FC
>Souls
No one cares. Souls from PvP are shitty anyway.

Anyone, we're off to a rip-roaring start of two people, one who died and is not back yet.
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>>150885270
>need certain conditions in order for an area to be suitable
There!
>>
Dark Souls 2 on 360 anyone? Down for some duels.
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>>150885435
Yeah, but having an armor only gave you a minor damage reduction. I remember a guy making a gif where he let a hollow hit him naked, and then with Havel's set. Barely any difference.

>>150885510
>playing game to have fun
Disgusting pleb.
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>>150885189
I don't think they would go out of their way to make animations and a cutscene and THEN go "Oh fuck how are we supposed to moderate this, who thought this was a good idea."

>>150885189
What do you mean? DS2 armor was actually decent, ds3 armor is shit, as long as you have 4 pieces equiped youre good to go.

>>150885445
poison in ds2 did 1000~ damage or so, toxis in ds3 if not cured does like 4000~ Id say poison in 3 could be buffed to something like 5hp/s instead of 2/s
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>>150884920
>we will never have broken ds2 infusions and scaling in any other souls game ever again
Feels extremely good.
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>>150885554
Will be there soon
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>>150885650
>360
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>>150885445
I find poison a good passive way to pressure players since it's always a constant drain on hp no matter where you go and most people don't have moss on hand or equipped. Moreover if hosts run, it's easy to track them with the HP always ticking away. I kill people who underestimate poison especially the ones with ToD and just proc it and switch to bleed.
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>>150885804
Instead we get ones that are worse than not infusing it at all.

Great. Thanks From
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>>150885937
Yo but dat quality tho, aint it nice
>>
>>150885382
The point of FCs is fun and /dsg/s shitty memes
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>>150885937
the fuck you're talking about retard, almost all ds3 infusions are viable with the exception of poison/bleed
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>>150885786
Was it strike damage he was receiving?
Because strike damage is fairly potent against armor.
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>>150885891
leave the poorfag alone
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>>150886008
Sure is, makes me question why any other infusion exists.

>>150886062
I think you mean poison/bleed/simple/blessed/deep
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>>150886189
>simple/blessed
extremely good for offhands
>deep
good for low level invasions as dark is usually the lowest defense both for players and their shields
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>>150886071
It was a hollow punching him. So probably strike, yeah.
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>>150885786
I don't like armor being too good, makes everyone dress in stupid ways. Havelmoms look ugly and if armor didn't matter in 1, nobody would dress like it.
I'd ratger have BB's system where, outside specfic scenarios like running through a frenzy area, armor matrers so little you dress like you want with little penalty
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>>150886391
Urgh. I don't like that idea at all. Armor is supposed to protect you first, not look cool.
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>>150886189
>deep
Deep is great for poor scaling weapons. If it's good raw and gas no split damage, I make it deep for shield pierce.
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>>150886062
>heavy is shit
>sharp is shit
>raw is always shit, but in das2 it was good for crossbows at least
>fire is shit, doesnt scale, split damage is ass
>deep is shit, see above
>simple is shit, see above
>blessed is shit, see above
>chaos is shit, fire resistance is stronger with high strength
>bleed, poison even having a reason to exist when hollow already does a better job

>>150886339
simple is shit for offhand, its only use was for weapon arts, now that shit was removed. Blessed is okay for offhand, but it's still the worst offhand infusion as hollow gives 5 free levels.
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>>150886339
Very niche senarios of being somewhat usefull isnt what I would call "viable" Any infusion should have atleast some build that can use it effectively as their main weapon compared to another build with a different infusion.
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>>150886562
>everything is shit
Fist for life.
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>>150886691
Only Refined, Hollow and Dark infusions are good.
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>>150886535
Yes, and then the best "protection" comes from minmaxed shit with specific vit where soneone uses a funny hat, fully armored leggings, wraps on their arms and a leathered chest.
Then everyone catches on that and sudently a lot of players dress the exact same way.
It's awful if armor matters too much
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>>150886768
>>150886768
>>150886768
New Thread
>>150886768
>>150886768
>>150886768
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>>150886771
why would you care about how other poeple dress, thats some advanced autism
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>>150886926
He rolle plays as the medieval fashion police.
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>>150883714

/dsg/ PC players are LITERALLY too shit to kill Sulyvahn's pet dogs.
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>>150886562
both heavy and sharp have their uses for specific weapons and builds like 66STR or 60DEX
raw is extremely good for caster builds
all non-scaling elemental infusions are great for twinking or exploiting specific mob weaknesses
simple is great for mages or FC hosting to accumulate warmth
blessed is a godly for an offhand
chaos has one of the highest damage outputs of all elemental infusions and is ridiculous in pve
the only shit thing here is your opinion
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>>150886926
My point is that armor mattering reduces variety, instead of increasing it.
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>>150887670
>60DEX
THERE'S NOT A SINGLE DEX WEAPON AT 60 DEX AND 14 STR THAT'S NOT BETTER WITH QUALITY BESIDES THE DAGGER. THE SCIMITAR, THE OTHER S SCALING DEX WEAPON GETS 2 (TWO) TWO MORE AR THAN QUALITY 14 STR 60 DEX SHARP SCIMITAR

SPELLSWORD BUILDS ARE SHIT, AND THERE'S ONLY 2 WEAPONS WORTH OF BUFFING AND THEY'RE BOTH FAITH BASED.

IF YOU'RE HOSTING YOU CAN HAVE 15 FUCKING BLEACH ESTUS WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU NEED SIMPLE.

BLESSED IS OVERRATED AS FUCK AND ONLY WORTH IT IF YOU HAVE THE FORTITUDE TO KEEP DODGING ATTACKS FOR 1 MINUTE TO RESTORE 300 HP IF YOU HAVE THE RING TOO. (LESS THAN A CARD CAPTORS R1 LMAO)

CHAOS IS SHIT FOR PVP, DARK IS SUPERIOR IN EVERY SINGLE WAY. ANYTHING IS RIDICULOUS IN PVE, THE PVE IN THIS GAME IS TRASH.

STOP SUCKING MIYAZAKI'S COCK, THERE'S ONLY REFINED, HOLLOW AND DARK IN THIS GAME.
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>>150888115
Thank you.
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>>150888115
>anon goes full retard with broken caps lock button
As expected from DS2 drone.
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>>150888429
>ds2 drone
is that the best you can do?
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