/dsg/ - Souls General

>>153265586
First

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>>153265617
>>153265617

reposting for help

I have 40 faith and im mainly only using dragonslayer greataxe, should I drop the faith or will I lose tons of AR?

Can some honestly explain to me why all weapons and armor sets from the previous games weren't in this one?

This game should have 200+ sets and weapons, its not like they bother making unique models and balance them, just put them in as copypasted skins.

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>>153265586
Anyone want to do co-op run of ds3 on ps4?

>>153265586
What is this, an OP for ants?

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In it for the footsies

>>153265870
Just go pure strenght with just the faith requirement, it doesn't add that much damage anyway

>>153265896
weapon arts
They have no excuse for armor though

>>153265932
40 strength? 50?

>>153265870
Pretty sure you lose like 30AR

I need fun builds.
I am tired of doing the same old str/dex builds.
Anyone got suggestions. On ng+, have 2 of each boss soul, and sl 100.

>>153265870
My dude, there is a way to check for yourself.

Mugenmonkey.com

>>153266057
Pure miracle caster

>>153265992
40 Str two handed is 698 AR
66 STr two handed is 730 AR
If you add 40 faith to the 66str one you have 775 AR

Reminder
Pvp at sl120 is shit, sl80 masterrace

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>>153266038
lmao

>>153266121
>Dying is fun
Since when

>>153266270
Elaborate

>stupid faggots meme that build variety is higher at lower

Once you get to 120, you can use faith builds, sorcery builds, pyro builds,in addition to generic quality without sacrificing the health required to stand a chance against a quality shitter.

Every person I faced at lower levels used only quality weapons, whereas I see everything from magic to hammers at 120

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>>153266270
>sl80
Pussy. SL70 is where it's at.

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Since the other anon got it clearly wrong, I'll correct him.

Elite Knight > Knight > Fluted > Firelink > Faraam > Hunter

>>153266489
you can, but you shouldn't, because nothing beats quality

>>153266275
Place down your summon sign and kill it for me then, this boss is fucking retarded.

>>153266489
Wizards aren't supposed to have as much health and armor as a knight or warrior

>>153266606
No, they aren't, but the way the game is set up, they require as much health in order to do anything effectively, as quality builds are overpowered and can r1 lock any mage to death

>>153266578
>EK in first
>Gaudy surcoat
>No cuirass
>Less poise than Knight
Nah.

FC when?

>>153266797
Right now bitchnigga.

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Opinions on this?

>name stat poise
>doesn't determine how strong your poison effects are

I never understood this.

>>153266848

where at, shitfuck?

>>153266883
>Name stat Poise
>Doesn't function as a diaper
It's a mystery.

>>153266927
I dunno. Aqueduct?

>>153266606
actually, wizards aren't supposed to be as frail as a knight or warrior

health is a completely different factor

>>153266606
Pontiff is a sorcerer yet he has an immense amount of health and endurance.

>>153266971

sure, you hosting?

>>153265586
Someone help me come up with a great tank build.

What are the best shields and great shields?
>Tower?

What are the best long range weapons, preferably with hyper armor and light.
>halberds or glaives?

Most cost efficient absorption armor?
>fallen knight?

Best tank rings?
>havel, fap, life, leo?

>washing pole
>doesn't wash pole

>>153265930
ARSE
dumb deaf busty waifu

>>153266971
>aqueduct
>have to kill the dogs at NG+6

I'll skip this time

>>153266470
>at sl120
>40 vig
>40 str
>40 dex, sometimes 40 faith
>fights can take around 5 minutes because even if someone makes a mistake they still have atleast half their hp
>able to wield basically every weapon, don't have to stick to one

>>153265273
>>153265273
Where you talking about the gargoyls?

>>153267031
He started as one and then stopped using faggy spells and wands and got a great sword

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>>153266870
>125

FP/ATT system was a mistake. Ruins the fun for most casters. Likewise, Vit was a mistake.

VIT and ATT should have been removed.

Weight should be tied to STR and END in this game. STR giving 1 units per level, and END giving 0.25 units.

All spells should have a specific number of casts. Leveling up INT/FAI should inherently give attunement slots. This also gives a reason to earn extra spells in NG+ beyond. Ashen Estus gives back spell use based on % of total.

WAs should be based around cooldowns. Things like Morne's and O&U should be 20-30 seconds, while Caesusts and Hammer perseverance be like 5-10.

>>153266270
>>153267180
Show me a Morne's Hammer SL 80 build.

>>153267180
So a literall do everything build

>>153267047
lolno

>>muh wizards shouldn't have as much health as a warrior
>the one consistent signature weapon for magic builds is a fucking greatsword

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>>153266093
>dont mind me just moving this trash cancer tripfag thread
>>153266820
>shit thread is dead now move to new
>>153265586

For all your fucking showboating you could've at least included a backlink to the old thread.
>b-buh I hate Lucy so much, aren't I cool guys ;_: ?

Pls

reminder that only literal reddit cancers push for metas that are not 120 so they can win easy fights with dark sword spam nd stroke their tiny dick egos

>>153267276
>virtually infinite casts using a +10 simple weapon
>not fun

youre weird, anon-kun.

>>153267048
moaning shield
broadsword is the only option
armor means nothing
life+3, cloranthy+2, fap +2

Poise doesn't exist so real tank builds are impossible tho

>>153266270
This
>get on sl120 dueling build
>go to pontiff's
>load up CE to check if my opponent is cheating
>6/10 have 50 or 99 in all stats
>1/10 are visibly speedhacking
>gotthard's, gotthard's, gotthard's, carthus +WP, gotthard's
>try invading
>nothing but 3-4 squads of passworded phantoms, stat-hacking hosts, dedicated ganksquads, trainerbabies and washingpole metafaggots camping the fog gate for "1v1" fights where they just cross the fog if they start losing

>boot up level 80 invader
>go to pontiff's
>pvp for about 2 hours straight
>not a single stat-hacker in the entire 2 hour session
>nor speedhack
>nor trainer
>only fought the same weapon twice a single time, and it was the BKS
>go invading
>lots of solo hosts and 2man groups
>no ganksquads
>no stat-hackers
>no metafags camping fog gates
>only one trainer in about 4 hours of invading

In this case 80 being less populated works in its favour, as you basically avoid 90% of the cancer that's overtaken this community, while still being active enough to get instant summons/invasions in appropriate areas.

>>153267276
Fp regen needs a buff to make casters stronger and some better utility spells in the DLC.

Right now the only ways to naturally recover Fp are slow and seem to be for melee builds

>>153267276
I agree with you 100%

>>153267407
I "push for" a sub-100 meta and I don't use a Dark Sword.

So, there.

>>153267423
LOL you seriously think waiting 20+ seconds just to cast a single Fire Orb is a good idea? While at the same time gimping HP/END stats just to wield said Fire Orb?

>>153267447
Broadsword doesn't have hyper armor I'm pretty sure.

>>153267467
This Tbh, 50% of the 120 fags have hacked stats

>>153267524
oh sorry estoc or any katana then same shit

>>153267634
Doesn't matter. The fucking thing hits like a meteor roughly the diameter of Texas.

>>153267467
Idk why you faggots insist on playing with hackers on pc

>>153267276
I love the FP system. I avoided magic and faith builds in all Souls games except DeS and BB because I hated how your magic was essentially just consumables and you could end up powerless entirely if you were doing pure magic and ran out of your pitiful 5 lightning spears.

>>153267634
but it does have stunlocks and high dps
just remember to delay every third swing to fuck with non-retards as well as retards, you fucking retard

>>153267682
>>153267467
PCucks, everyone.
>fuck 120 it has cheaters!!,11
uh no faggots your entire platform is riddled with cheaters including yourselves

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>>153266578
Knight > EK > Fluted/DS1 Knight > Faraam > Didn'tplayBByetsodon'tknowhowgoodthearmoris >>>>>Firelink on a player character

However, in a separate Cold Weather ranking :
Faraam > Fallen Knight > Elite Knight > Knight > Fluted/DS1 Knight

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What did Oceiros even try to do? Lorian got crippled and Lothric was a frail faggot. He was obsessed with finding a worthy heir, so he studied Seathe's crystal magic and somehow turned himself into a dragon? Who the fuck is Ocelotte? His 3rd child? Who did he think he was hiding it from? Did his wife take it away from him and did this turn him completely insane? What does "harness his royal blood for greater purpose" (his soul description) mean?

If the meta was under 80, str weapons could be removed from the game. They require so much stat investment from a useless stat (vit) just to be wielded, while having no HP because there would be no spare points.

80 meta is Straight Swords, Halberds, Katanas and Curved Swords. There's no room for high investment builds like Vit+GH, Full Faith or Glass Cannon Sorcerer, because they have to compete with light investment builds that do just as much damage as them, but with spare points to invest in Vig and End.

Like I said >>153267284
Show me one viable build SL 80 with Morne's Hammer. Or Smough's Hammer. Or any heavy slow weapon that depends on VIG+VIT to survive trades and stay on top.

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>>153267686
MLGS, akchully.

>>153267841
But I only use my CE against ganking faggots so it doesn't really count

>>153267770
fp system is trash and makes it so you always use what's strongest for pve and what's the most effective for pvp because bleach estus exists. It detracts from the caster experience as you always will go back to that one bnb spell

>great chaos fire orb
>great heavy soul arrow
>miracles lol
>dorhys gnaw

>>153267284
>knight
>45 str
>35 faith
>knights ring
>priestess ring
>sl72, pump the rest into vig/end
>get havel ring and rof
>:<)

>>153267730
If you can avoid them all by simply not playing at an overleveled meme meta forced by reddit, then it's hardly a problem. DaS2's staggered release proved that the platform doesn't really matter as much as the people playing. Russians, the subhumans that they are, will find a way to cheat no matter what platform the game is on. PS3 DaS2 was absolutely filled inundated with them prior to the pc release. Fortunately, it's easy to avoid them because they can't into critical thinking or other basic human virtues, and so just follow the 120 herd

>>153267048

Tanking and turtling are distinct things.

For poising through enemy attacks, you want a halberd or a greatsword, they have the best poise frames. Aside from that, just pile on the armor and poise, then hit R1 at the same time your opponent does.

>>153267730
>play on ps4
>lots of summons, lots of invasions, fun hack free 120 PvP
>nicer community, lots of silly shit and dumb looking characters
>barely any ganksquadding

Why do people fucking play this on pc

>>153267874
Everyone at 120 is using those same weapons already

>>153267980
can go 34 str and 30 faith easily.

>>153268037
MUGH FPS YOU FUCKING PLEB

4K ALL DAY AND NO LOADING TIMES

>>153267954
You're still cheating you stupid faggot.
>lacks the skill to beat ganksquads
>hmm that host has no phantoms hes ganking better turn on ce
PCucks, everyone

>>153267602
pure casters are a meme

they give things like chaos and crystal infusions so you don't have to rely on just your spells

blessed and simple really should increased in effectiveness with higher int/fai though, imo

>>153267770
You get like 10-11 shitty sub-200 damage lightning spears cast at 40 ATT in this game before having to chug blue dew. How is this any better?

>>153268003
What is the build I'm asking for? A tank or turtle?

I want knight tier armor, with a good shield, long poking weapon with HA, and defensive rings that focus on keeping me alive longer

>>153268085
And I stomp them on a daily basis with my vit+GH build, that it's only possible at SL 125. The same build, at SL 80, dies in a single 2kat combo.

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>>153267860
>Who the fuck is Ocelotte?
They call him "Shalashaska"
and that's Major Ocelotte to you

>>153267284
>>153267874
>>153268091
Morne's can also be fully used without the faith requirement, the damage wont be that high but at that sl it wouldn't matter much

>>153268283
Because I can chug the dew and cast more instead of getting 5 shitty lighting spears and then having literally no more and no way to replenish

Has anyone got a spare Mirrah set? I fucked the quest up., I'm on PC.

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>trying to make an outfit based on the guy in the black in this painting
>all i have is drakeblood helm and black leggings, can't decide on a torso

i just wanna be motherfucking edward of woodstock

>>153268037
It looks better and maybe poor to afford ps4 online

>>153268163
I did a pure caster on ds2 and win most duels. Like I win 95% of duels

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how to beat katana run attack? Im not good.

>>153268342
Turtle. Tanks don't exist in ds3, unless you're prepared to use iron flesh.
Turtles are cancer though so you might as well go the whole way and use a straight/curved/paired sword.

Why do people use Morne's instead of Wolnir's?

They have the same WA except Wolnir's is actually good with a good moveset

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>>153267284

>>153268342

There's not really a point to piling on methods of mitigating damage if your plan is to avoid it by blocking.

>>153268460
In ds2 there was a helmet that recovered your spells every couple mins

>>153268460
DS2, at least SOTFS had replenishment. Also if you bothered reading the post you originally responded to it kept the ashen estus.

>>153268556
you roll?

>>153268556
Parry or don't roll away

>>153267467
you're right
until yesterday i realized that i was wasting too much time playing the game over and over to test builds, so i resorted to give me enough souls to get to 120 via ce, and upgrade my equiptment

sorry anon, but its better than wasting hours, playing a game that i already know to death when i only want the pvp content

>>153268573
nobody uses it
/dsg/ only suggests it to invalidate SL80 meta because of its bloated stat requirements, but the weapon is shit and nobody in here dares to use it in pvp

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>>153268504
Use Fallen Knights or Farron's Legion for chest.

>>153267187
no, i meant the goat. you'll know if you see him. the guide is the most detailed you can get without many spoilers and is accurate.

>>153268558
Yeah but I prefer a pokey weapon to play keep away.

And I'd rather have hyper armor attacks and absorption

>>153268614
So do you think I should aim for fast rolling too?

>>153268585
>27 Vig beyond SL 60
>at SL 80 where CCS still has 400+ AR

Please jump off a bridge

>>153268716
Why don't you just get a char to 120 and use respec to try out new builds
>only 5 respecs
but that's wrong, just copy your save file over

>>153268506
okay, but das2 wasn't a very good game so that point is moot

I don't have a dog in this fight, but to the people praising the FP system while playing a caster, I have to question your thinking.

If you think about it, both the FP system and the number-casts system are inherently the same. Both draw casts from a depleting resource, and both have a consumable to replenish that resource.

However, the FP system uses far more inputs. You need to level Attunement, you need to sacrifice Estus for Ashen, and you need to sacrifice Infusions if you use Simple.

Whereas number-of-casts, no matter how shitty they were in Dark Shit 2 after all the patching, could be replenished with a consumable that didn't interfere with your level or your healing items.

I'd say that for casting, the FP system is actually a lot worse.

>>153268573
They don't. Morne's is a shitty meme thrown around to bait people who prefer SL80.

Wolnir's on the other hand is objectively the best weapon for a faith build and essentially the faith equivalent of the MLGS only way better because it's all physical.

>>153268851
there's another obstacles like only 8 slabs
and the class selection since i like to make the most out of my stats, right now im using a strenght and int build and i havent made a pyromancy class character before

>/dsg/ is now anti-FP

holy shit this general literally will argue about anything

>>153267091
he wasn't in the depths now was he?

>>153268585
>27 vig
>under 15% abs
>with a weapon that depends on trading
>dies to single 2kat combo

>>153268743

There's no SL meta where a greathammer with bad R2s, a bad weaponart and that weight/those stat requirements would be good.

>>153269123
that's 4chan for you

>>153268789
Just different flavours of shit.
And rolling is actually viable compared to shields, unless you come up against a curve sword user.

>>153268885
Am I the only one that remembers that their was a dlc crown that replenished casts every few minutes?

>>153268885
DaS 2 had the herbs that restored spells, but only in limited fucking quantity or as rare drops.

No thanks, I don't want to have to restart the entire fucking game or spend 40 hours farming mobs just to be mildly viable in PvP and not run out of spells.

I'll sacrifice Estus for that.

>>153268885
>could be replenished with a consumable that didn't interfere with your level or your healing items.
That you had grind for, dupe or cheat in, which is another thing that favored people who autistically grinded a lot of shit or duped things.

>that didn't interfere with your level
Yeah, but you had to level ATT so you could put two of the same spell if you wanted more casts.

>>153268556
parry
block (this even works with a small shield, and you can parry the R1 following the running attack)
dodge
HA trade

>>153268748
except the metal on those 2 doesn't match the metal of black leggings and drakeblood
i was gonna use a tattered chest like cornyx's, but the arms are exposed
I might just have to stick with leonhard's chest

>>153268657
>>153269305
None of that works against washing pole

>>153269296
>>153269298
The fucking ass bird all you homos masturbated over sold infinite Amber Herbs.

>>153268573
>Wolnir's is actually good
If by this you mean the GS moveset is better than the GH moveset then yes, but the WA is actual shit and if you disagree you have either never used it, or are trying to elicit (You)s

You know when you play DeS offline and get that NPC fight for the Old Monk?
What gear is he using?
Like, weapon, armor, spells.

I want to do an Old Monk cosplay in DaS3 since they changed the Xanthous helm to look just like it

>>153268573
Morne's WA is instant, it's faster than WoG

>>153269210
>under 15% abs

But everyone says absorption sucks

reminder that a raw DSA at +10 with 60 fai lightning blade is 700 AR

>>153269210
>abs
Does not matter, as long as he has atleast
something in the slots the damage difference is negliable

>>153269539
No. Heavy armor sucks because while shit like knight sets gives 20-25% absorption, Havel's and Smoughs only give 30-35% while weighing 2-3 times as much.

Reposting this since i didnt get replies last thread

Hey there /dsg/ i'm thinking of making a fresh character for the DLC on PC
Now the slot i'm going to delete has some slabbed stuff and some rings i'd rather have on my SL100 FC guy for more variety in his arsenal.
Now i'm asking you guys if anyone is willing to help me with this transfer and in return i'll use my 2 remaining slabs to slab 2 weapons for you

respond if interested

>>153269296
See
>>153269291

>>153269418
Yeah but we didn't have unlimited souls in ds2

>>153268885

Seems to me like it was quite deliberately and consciously made worse. You're not even considering that number-cast doesn't force there to be an opportunity cost for casting one spell over another; using one of your WoG casts will never make it impossible to use more of your Force casts, but that's precisely what can happen when all spells draw from the same resource like with FP.

DS3 clearly hates magic and doesn't want you using it when you could be using melee weapons instead. I think if this game wanted to foster mages, Ashen Estus would just be a completely separate resource, or FP would replenish on its own like stamina.

>>153269418
Ornifex only sold infinite in vanilla Dark Souls 2. In SOTFS, they were limited.

>>153269457
It's not great but it DOES have poise now at least. There are worse WAs out there, even if it does suck.

The weapon is insane on its own though. Completely fucking nuts.

>>153269539
>>153269651
It sucks for most weapons but for GH and GA it's a necessity. It's what makes you survive a trade with CSS and 2kats, supplied by over 170 flat.

Defenses in general suck but when you stack them they actually work. Also >>153269680.

The trick is 2 pieces of heavy and 2 of light.

>>153269680
but if you make havel's and smough's anymore effective, their weight:absorption ratio will beat out everything else in the game by a magnificent margin, leading to builds that revolve around a pseudo-vit "softcap", for the sole purpose of min/maxing smoughvel's

>>153269375
>None of that works against washing pole
wrong

>>153268585
>wear literal shit to stay under 70%, have under 600 damage with a great hammer AND have just a sliver over 1k health
So what's the plan here, just to die to four swings from an unbuffed CCS, which is doing its optimal damage at SL 80? Or maybe die in one combo because someone walked up to you while in animation and used Onislayer.
Perhaps it's just about getting oneshot by glaives.

>>153269680
So then I'm correct in wanting knight tier armor for my tank build here

>>153268342

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FUCK IM LATE

waddup!

>>153269776
>In SOTFS, they were limited.
lol God that game is shit.

>>153269752
>DS3 clearly hates magic and doesn't want you using it when you could be using melee weapons instead. I think if this game wanted to foster mages, Ashen Estus would just be a completely separate resource, or FP would replenish on its own like stamina.
I'm not sure if that's true. I think it's a good analogy of FROM's typical balancing style: "Well in theory this is good so let's make sure to make it hard to use". The problem is that magic actually sucks dick.

If it were good, all the inputs you need to have and use it would be justified.

>>153269819
I'm not asking 60% ABS, 40 would suit them. Also why would it matter if people made builds around heavy armor? They would give up attack stats for defense, you know actual balance.

You know what would be cool?
Contextual casting for certain spells.
Like backstep soul arrows or sprinting lightning spears or something.

>>153269752
>>153269976
I've been always one of those guys that never made a mage and always hated magic users but even I agree that magic, specially sorcery, is underpowered.

Like I see a CSS I don't even bother dodging it, I just perseverance and outrade a single combo that kills the mage on the spot.

>>153270014
Because you fags would just want to raise the meta level so every build could have high absorption

Just like you did in ds2 with agility

>>153269684
Too bad you're on PC mate or I'd help.

The reason no one's answering is because all the other PCucks just cheat.

>>153265896
Why would you want the game to be bloated with tons of shit? Would much rather they only selected the best.

>>153270014
40% is too high my dude

even at 35%, smoughs gauntlets and chest pops up in all kinds of builds. that's not good balance

armor needs to have diminishing returns on effectiveness, otherwise people will just min/mix and abuse it

>>153270069
this is already a thing for gfd

>>153270115
i think its just a matter of time, soon burgerland will show up.
>tfw euro
ALL THESE EVENTS/FC's AT 1 IN THE MORNING

>>153269819
>but if you make havel's and smough's anymore effective, their weight:absorption ratio will beat out everything else
or you could just buff them without giving them a better weight/absorption ratio than midweight armor? As it stands there's no reason to wear more than 25~30 units of armor weight when you could level vigor instead. Heavy armor just needs to compete with that, not light armor.

>>153270262
Just buff Vit Equip Load gain. At 40 Vit I should be able to wear full havels, dragon tooth and fast roll.

>>153270171
>armor needs to have diminishing returns on effectiveness, otherwise people will just min/mix and abuse it
You can minmax with or without diminishing returns on armor

>>153270451
No, you can't.

Is heavy bastard sword underrated? If you two hand it with 27/10 str/dex you get 436 AR for barely any stat investment. Also it has low stamina usage and the hyper armor and stagger is the same as a non fun-size greatsword

I've been doing a 40 vit havelfap heavy playthrough for fun and it's been surprisingly satisfying, I bet it would be a decent twink weapon

>>153270493
raw flamberge is 400 AR with 15 str/dex

>>153270446
>Just buff Vit Equip Load gain.
That wouldn't work since I can already carry good weapons and full armor at minimum vit. All that you'd do is make mid level armor useless since there'd be no reason to wear anything that light due ot empty equipload space. Either that or people would go for lightrolls.

>>153270479
Go google "DS3 armor minmaxer". Remove all of the heavy armors from your selection pool. Run the minmaxer. Be amazed as it still works, you retard.

>>153270670
I don't think you understand what I meant when I wrote it buddy.

If the WT:ABS ratio of an armor piece is too high, there is *literally* no reason not to use it. It becomes objectively better than any other armor. Period.

That's the problem with ultra-heavy armor being so ineffectual. If the weight isn't a problem for you (see: SL200+), it doesn't even matter and the point is moot.

>tfw have enough kill streak on a FC you play recklessly so you can leave the host's world

i-is this what gitting gud feels like?

>>153270867
>If the WT:ABS ratio of an armor piece is too high
We went over this. You can raise it without making it pass over midweight armor. There's plenty of room inbetween.

>>153270965
I've literally had to bc out of pontiff fightclubs before because I've been on winstreaks so long I got bored of playing or my fingers started getting sore. I don't feel likle it's being gud so much as it is the average pontiff player just being so goddamned bad. It feels like you're just waiting and waiting for the host to finally summon one of the dozen people who actually know how to play the game so you can graciously lose to a washingpole, but instead they just keep resummoning the same people over and over

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>>153269418
>that didn't interfere with your level
I was never really a fan of Ornifex. The voice acting for her is strange. I think they should've done full animal voices and layed the subtitles there or just given her normal voice acting, instead it just comes off as "person trying to do a bird impression" instead of sounding natural. This isn't to knock down the voice actress for that part, but I think there was a failure in the Voice Acting direction since Alvina for example sounds great, she doesn't sound like a "person doing a cat impression", she sounds like a normal human whose voice just happens to fit a talking cat very well to the point where you don't really question the cat talking or having the voice that it does.

Shalquoir is kind of in the middle. She manages to sound very playful, but I think that she seems a bit too "genre aware" in a sense with some of the lines, for example, with the "it's even enough to keep a cat amused!" and instead of playing into the intended purpose, it drops you back to "This person is trying to play the role of a talking cat" instead of it coming off naturally. It's really hard to explain but yeah.

And I understand that it comes off as rather nitpicky, but the series set a really high standard for Voice Acting and Voice Acting direction in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls that I can't help but notice that something's a little "off" in Dark Souls 2 and a little in Dark Souls 3 as well. Although I get what they were trying to do with 3's "let's make every character end their dialog with a nervous, depressed chuckle", there are some things that make me rub my head like Rosabeth of Milfia in 2 saying "I nearly died, TEE HEE!" which makes Dark Souls 2's atmosphere feel like a happy summer camp atmosphere, but all the shit they showed in the previews made it seem like the atmosphere was going to be a lot darker this time around. I don't dislike Dark Souls 2 overall, but I kinda feel like there was a mismatch in atmosphere.

>>153269684
2 free slabbed weapons boys
Would appreciate the help

Why do standard enemies have DS1 poise on DS3?

>>153271514
because enemies that can be easily staggered are piss easy

>>153271514
because poise was a mechanic that was detrimental to the game in das1

npcs with poise is just a difficulty thing. they dont actually need it to kill us

>>153269684
>>153271406
Sure I can help.
Where do you want to meet up?

>>153269776
The poise only starts at the end of the animation tho right? and I wouldn't say it's "completely fucking nuts" as it can easily be outdamaged by any other GS with a buff on it

>>153271406
I'll help you for free

location, pass?

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>want to make a hexer in das3
>it's basically just a gimped pyromancer

>>153271676
Tower on the High Wall
Pass; dsgtrade
So the best way i see is
1. you give me your 2 items
2. i slab them
3. i return and drop them + my transfer gear
4. you give me the transferred gear on my other character

I'll even throw in some blessings
Drop a red sign btw

How many of you won't buy the DLC because of the lack of poise?

>>153270982
-and to add to this, compare the knight helm to Smoug's.

Smough's abs/wgt is 0.5, while the knight's is 0.9. Buffing Smoug's ratio to around 0.6 or 0.7 would be perfectly fair.

If you actually look at the poise values armors have, it's clear that they were balanced with poise in mind only for poise to be knocked out, hence why things like the Alva set have almost universally lower absorption values than lighter armors and nothing to show for it but poise (compare the Alva gauntlets to the nameless knight gauntlets for instance).

>>153271847
I don't really need the slabs so just drop your transfer items.

>>153271204
I need you to know that I'm not reading any of that. No NPC in DaS2 is worth that much text.

>>153272089
Okay then, at least take the damn blessings

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>>153265930
Priscilla is queen in that aspect

>>153271838
Well yeah, but dont you want to be cool?

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>>153270493
>If you two hand it with 27/10 str/dex
>I bet it would be a decent twink weapon
>twink weapon
Haha, no.

The only real twink weapons are ones that you can use on base SL stats+the stat rings.

Good earlygame weapon?
Yea. Twink weapon? No.

>>153271958
>it's clear that they were balanced with poise in mind only for poise to be knocked out
I've been thinking about this since day one and it's got to be DaS3's greatest atrocity.

It makes me wonder if weapons too weren't adjusted for their hidden Poise damage values.

>>153272146
That it?

>>153271958
>compare the Alva gauntlets to the nameless knight gauntlets for instance
>Don't believe this
>Go and check
>the only absorption advantage it has is dark absorption of all things
>and the description even says that it's been trimmed to save weight
It has more bleed resistance, I guess.

are int + strenght builds ignored?

i invested 40 points in strenght and 60 on int
im buffing heavy infused weapons with the crystal magic buff with the court sorcerer staff and the ar goes up like this

all of them 2 handed
h great club+10 585 with buff 846
h great machete +10 551 with buff 812
h greataxe+10 633 with buff 894
h exile greatsword+10 511 with buff 771

thoughts?

>>153272452
split damage

>>153272441
>and the description even says that it's been trimmed to save weight
90% sure the description is a straight copypasta from DS2. In DaS2 Aalva was one of the lightest "medium" armors.

WOW DANCER'S ENCHANTED SWORD IS fun

>>153271958
It doesn't even work with poise because Wolf-ring, Yhorm's greatshield, or even off-hand lothric knight spear are better for min/maxing poise

This game had no thought put into it

>>153272296
I never really considered that, but is past games are an indication of anything, that would affect entire weapon classes rather than individual weapons. It might be why ultra weapons are considered underpowered. On the other hand, that could simply be a result of no-poise making light weapons significantly more effective.

>>153272441
Yeah, Alva is a scaled-down heavy armor set. If you look at heavy armor, you'll see bleed resistance etc skyrocket alongside poise. Alva makes that tradeoff early, which makes it look really bad in comparison to things like the fallen, elite, and nameless knight sets. The gauntlets are the only truly terrible piece. Fallen is basically the reverse, and has really low poise and bleed resistance in exchange for great abs/wgt ratios, though it keeps poison resistance for whatever reason.

>>153272789
I still think poise doesn't work. I tried Wolf Ring+2 + off-hand lothric Knight spear and didn't notice any difference.

>>153272789
They might have been okay if you were juggling between boosting poise and absorption and/or wanted to stack even more poise on top of the aforementioned items.

>>153272984
I think he means that "if you were to minmax poise" that using poise items rather than heavy armor would still be a better option.

Alright what the fuck is this ABS shit? The goes by strike slash and pierce.

>>153270670
>>153270446
>>153270479


Which armor have the highest wt/abs ratio for each slot?

>>153273153
I can't believe it's been this long and the average dsg poster has no idea how poise, hyper armor, or abortion works.

>>153272530
>>153272452
60 int buff is still a sizable chunk of AR, translates pretty well into damage compared to the pitiful AR buff of resin.

Better on weapons with innate split though.

>>153273153
No idea what the base physical abs is, allegedly the slugs in the keep do pure physical.

strike/slash/thrust are just based off of the three attack types weapons can have. Overheads and smashing attacks from hammers are generally strikes, slashes are side to side cuts, thrusts are pokes and any of the lucerne's attacks. Thrusts also can get counter damage.

>>153273301
Is that what ABS is short for, Absorption? Why the fuck are people capitalizing all three letters? Shit's an abbreviation not an acronym.

While I'm here then what the fuck is the difference between Absorption and defense?

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>spell buff rating on chimes, talismans and staves in DaS3 are expressed as a flat number in all cases
>instead of a base number plus the increase from scaling, or minus if minimum requirements aren't met, like with the weapons
>after it showed as base number plus scaling in DaS2

Seriously what the fuck Miyazaki, this is why I was confused as to how caster items scaled in this game. I didn't understand what was going on until I actually put my Faith up some more and saw that the talismans that I couldn't use before actually had the same base spell buff as the stock Talisman, and not the flat 60 that showed up.

>>153273503
>Seriously what the fuck Miyazaki
MagAdj is from DS1.

>>153273185
It's tied with quite a few pieces

generally speaking, alva, knight, and firewitch show up a lot, with Gundyr's being the heaviest armor set that shows up

Sorry if the question is dumb, but I didn't play Demon's Souls

How did great weapons worked back there? Everyone says they were great but everyone also says armor was useless and poise didn't exist. So... wasn't the same as DaS3? Just HA? What's the difference?

>>153272972
What has the best poise and absorption /wgt ratio

>>153266275

What is this, NG -1?

>>153273436
No I was asking what the fuck people are talking about when they say "ABS%".

>>153273684
Hyper Armor ""like DS3"", but no retarded two-hit system. Plus many of the Ultra weapons caused knockback.

>>153273185
depends on which absorption value your concerned with or how important you consider some in comparison to others. Things like the ragged mask have almost twice as much physical absorption than their weight (and around three times the elemental absorption), while things like Smoug's have half. That doen't mean you should always use the mask though, since you might have room to spare with bare minimum vit. There's a minmaxer app:

https://3dots.github.io/ds3optimizer/#/optimizer

>>153273746
He's weak as fuck to magic. With 40 Int you only have to hit him like four times with an MLGS, in NG.

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The spaces physically hurt me.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>153273758
>ABS%
armor absorption removes a fraction of the incoming attack damage. If you take an attack that deals 100 fire damage and have 30 fire absorption, you'll receive 70 damage. Static defenses are just flat subtractions. I don't know which one comes first in the calculation, you might subtract then divide or divide then subtract.

>>153273964
It's none of that.

It's a system that makes a 690 AR GA hits for 350 but a full 2kat combo hit for 900

>>153273964
Oh, hm. So filling every armor slot for that extra 8 defense or whatever it is for helmets isn't a huge deal?

Any FC's on PC? Getting pretty sick of Pontiff area...

I'll host one if anybody is interested

>>153273895
>worst knight
>worst girl
>worst ring description
Like poetry

>>153274098
There's a significant bonus on your flat defense for having a slot filled with anything. Basically you can think of it like all helmets etc giving you an identical amount of flat defense regardless of weight. It's meaningful but you won't be totally fucked if you go without a helmet or something. The only other way to increase flat defense is to increase your SL in general or level vit in particular.

>>153273895
i dont care what you say hornet rings are great when it comes to dealing with ganksquads

Getting good at 'no scoping' pyromances is fun as fuck.
Leading targets, learning the arcs and range.
S'fun.

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I feel like a terrible person every time I anally annihilate great lance users. Poor guys with their shit tracking while literally every other weapon tracks like a heat seeking missile.

>>153274412
Reminder that 40 points invested in vit gives you whooping 26 extra flat defense.

>>153274412
Guess I'll keep wearing the Pyro Crown, then.

>>153274642
That weapon is so shit.

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>>153274574
I don't give a fuck about the ring. LOOK AT THOSE UNECESSARTY RETURNS

THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

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>>153273684
>everyone also says armor was useless
They're wrong, but fatrolling wasn't a good idea. People wore the shit that gave the best protection while still allowing them to fastroll (like DS3) which more often than not meant Burger King's set which gave good protection while being fairly light. You got the fastest possible roll at under 50% equip load.

>How did great weapons worked back there?
There were only 2 that mattered anyway as far as Ultras go :
Greataxe and Dragon Bone Smasher

Greatswords were dominated by Northern Regalia / Claymore.

HAHAHAHA WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THE GREAT CLUB R2 WOULD PUNISH PEOPLE ROLLING LIKE THAT

HAHAHA LIKE ROLL TWICE NIGGA
HAHAHA LIKE CHECK THAT TRACKING BRO

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>>153273964
Actually no, the real defense calculation is a lot more convoluted than that.

Here's a chart some ledditor made that I cropped up

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>>153274826
You think that's bad?

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>>153274961
I do not know the context, but that seems like some crazy person's rantings, so it kind of seems excusable?

>>153274946
I can't make any sense of that shit.

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I apologize for my absence. A busy weekend.

>>153275105
>{i} {/i}

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>Could use light and heavy attacks with your offhand weapon in DaS2 on top of powerstancing
>From decides to dump powerstancing and go back to blocking with your offhand like in DaS1

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>>153275105
>"[i] [/i]"

Wow
ultra great weapons are ez win ez game

I miss Demon's Souls. I miss the game not feeling like Monster Hunter.

>>153275273
>>153275351
Oh, I didn't see that. Damn, i guess this shit is as bad as textbook proofreading anymore.

>>153275298
Powerstancing, shield bashing, and super parrying were the only redeemable things about that shit heap. It is a bummer that none of those features returned.

>>153274307
C A N O N I C A L L Y
_
B
A
L
D

>>153275298
Is it possible to change this in an update? This is one of my main gripes with the game.

>>153275360
>Ultras are ezwins
Oh my sweet summer child, wait until you get to pontiff crazybus

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Holy shit I just watched the ""secret ending"".

What kind of sadistic fuck gives you the perfect Firekeeper waifu just so you can watch the Ashen one stomp her face like that?

You can't even use your attunement slots to get more uses of your spells or reduce their FP cost. Checkmate.

On another subject, remember when everyone at release thought DaS3 was put at NG-1 for the press? The game still ended up stupid easy compared to the others.

>>153275105
>but that seems like some crazy person's rantings
You're not wrong.

>>153275608

The same people that gave you the Maiden in Black?

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Working PS4 Emulator when?

>>153275608
>perfect Firekeeper waifu
MiB is in DaS3?

>>153275757

Working PS3 Emulator when?

ftfy

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>>153275757
DeS, DaS and Dragon's Dogma on PS4 when?

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r8

>washing pole babbies shit themselves when you hug them

This is glorious. I hate myself for not knowing this sooner.

>>153275530
That's where I've been all day.

>>153275615
It was though. If you watched playthroughs of the press/media/YouTube versions before release, a bunch of the enemies and bosses were a lot easier, people who had played little/none of the Souls series were doing stuff like first-try killing Vordt and the Sword Master. Pretty sure there was a press release or note sent to the people who had the press version that explicitly said the difficulty was set to NG-1.

It's just that if you're an actual Souls veteran, all this stuff posed no challenge to you anyways once they returned the difficulty to normal.

>Dusk Crown Ring reduces FP cost of spells by 25%, but reduces your hp by 20%
>Farron Ring reduces FP cost of WAs by 30% with no health lost

Who thought this was a good idea?

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Quickstep cost 5fp, with farron ring and +10 simple offhand can you have infinite free quickstep every seconds ?

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>>153275952
Probably SL150 Muslim/10

>>153275518
You could probably bring back offhand heavies and right hands shield parries pretty easily. Don't think they can bring back powerstancing though.

>>153275608
If you wear Dusk's set or you stomp on her with high heels

>>153275360
they're ezwins when you're fighting against someone using ultras alright

>AW second phase has a greatsword on fire
>farron greatsword can't be buffed

>>153276085
im 115, anon...

>>153276170
Muh Gwintorias

It's really a shitty boss 2bqh.

Can you change your appearance without Sirris getting pissy with you?

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>>153275952
Would throat fuck

>>153275924
Wait till bandai needs more souls money and port dks1 to the next gen consoles

>>153275108
I can sort of explain it:

Basically, abs% works as it should, except, it's calculated after base defense

if take 100 damage, after base defense, with 35% absorption, you will take 65 damage.

Nobody really knows how base defense works, but there are some good rough estimates. Basically, it's somewhat similar to how damage threshold worked in Fallout NV, but much more complicated.

>If damage you receive is far greater than a certain threshold, you take an enormous amount of additional damage
>if damage you take is greater than a certain threshold, you take slightly higher damage.
>If damage you recieve is greater than a certain threshold, you take normal damage.
>If the damage you take is similar or equal to the threshold of your base defense, you get a slight increase in effectiveness to your absorption
>If the damage you receive is far less than your base defense, you gain an enormous amount of damage reduction

something like that. Nobody actually knows what the thresholds are, but people can figure it out using maths and what not.

so I need that +5 luck from 15 hollowing

is it possible to get it without using yoel's free five levels or am i doomed forever

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>>153276085
>Muslim/10
I'd let her blow me

>>153276275
would've been better if there were more than 3 abyss watchers.

>>153276302
I'm not proud, but I'd fucking buy the fuck out of it. Preorder, midnight release...

What should I build for a spear based PVP build? I want to SHOVE my spear in some faggots face

>>153276334
Huh.
Whatever they are, they're too fucking low. Or straightswords do way too much damage.

>>153276470
Quality with a Greatshield preferably.

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>>153275924
This
They could literally not change a thing and I'd be fine with it, I just want an active community again.

>>153276470
dunno but make sure to use the drang spears
shits are annoying as fuck to fight agaisnt

>>153276470

Quality.

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>Finally start playing Bloodborne
>It's literally Dark Souls: Penny Dreadful Edition

Tell me again why it isn't frequently discussed here?

Also, am I retarded for being able to rip Rom the Vacuous Spider and The One Reborn to shreds without much trouble but struggling to beat the Amygdala?

Granted, he was a joke when I found out his weak spot, but it took me a few too many tries to figure it out

>doing Elana as pure caster
Fuck, I didn't realize she was so resistant to everything
Even my sorceries are barely doing shit, and she's weakest to those

>>153276657
>Tell me again why it isn't frequently discussed here?
It's two years old and has its own general?

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>>153275924
>yfw they add in the sixth archstone in the remaster

>>153275924
>no Dragon's Dogma on PS4
>Monster Hunter online on PS4 is Japan Exclusive
>Dragon's Dogma online is Japan Exclusive

>>153275980
Do it with a shield, even better

>>153275952
succ/10

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NG+ fight clubs are the best

>>153272160

We know that in Ariamis' Painted World we can find everything that is forbidden

We also knwo that Priscilla is a kind being

So the question is: did she lock herself in Ariamis by her own decision, or did Seath locked her in?

Let me explain: Priscilla's soul share the same description of Moonlight Butterfly, both are Seath's creations, so could it be that Seath locked her in Ariamis becuase he doesn't want that anyone will find that he created a kind being??

>>153276767
It fucking hurts, man.

>>153276758
I dare not dream such a lofty dream, for the crash back to reality might kill me.

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>>153276126
>If you wear Dusk's set or you stomp on her with high heels
Fetish list updated.

List of fetishes that From directly or indirectly is pandering to :
>Vore
>Feet
>Monstergirls
>Scat
>trap fetish
>scalies
>giantesses
>transformation (both into a dragon and between genders)
>trampling
>bondage
>rape
>tentacles

>>153276068
The boss not the bonfire

>>153276857
What has NG+ got to do with it?
Why is zwei uninfused?
Why are you encouraging duel faggotry?

>>153276745
Why does it warrant its own general? It's a -Souls spinoff, to the point where it's a Dark Souls Victorian reskin

>>153276904
I'm pretty sure Miyazaki visits 2ch and /b/ from time to time.

>DaS3 DLC DESTRUCTO DISKS
>magazine description says they have the same shape as the symbol of the Way of White
>spell probably found inside the Painted World
>Way of White in DaS3 is associated with the Deacons
>bearded NPC found in the Cathedral of the Deep

Is it implying that Aldrich has been searching for something in the new Painted World? Perhaps a pale looking girl in hiding if it's not Yorshka or Priscilla?

>>153276904
I don't know about all this gay shit but I'll tell you what fetish From gave me:

Fucking witch hats, man. Goddamn I never knew how much I loved witch hats until Yuria.

>>153276998
PCuck drama and spoiler aversion.

>>153276991
>Infuses zwei
>Calls me a faggot

animereactiongirl.png

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>>153276904
Don't forget TG
The instability frames while running suck but this glitch has me turned on foremost

>>153274716
and to add to your point, some of those 26 flat defense additions come from increasing your base SL. you'll get around half of those 26 points by leveling any other stat, so you're really only adding 13. That's why people fill their armor slots.

>>153274946
That's weird, but they're using things like RoSP and the bloodring which don't show accurate values in PvP.

>>153276470
https://youtu.be/UPEvhZeDc6w

>>153276334
The threshold thing is just reddit's screwy math not really understand what they're seeing.

Attacks have a minimum damage they cannot be mitigated beneath. No matter what, if you take a proper hit, you'll never take 0 damage from it, no matter how high your defense is. This minimum damage is a % of the weapon's raw damage, so if you have a weapon that deals 100 damage and you have 115 "defense" (the stat to the left of ABS), you'll take the minimum damage. This is the same defense system Fromsoft use in Armored Core 5 and its sequel. As far as we know, "defense" is a straight up flat reduction to incoming damage. If you take 1000 damage in a single hit and have 100 defense/0ABS, you'll take 900 damage. Numbers only get funky when raw damage is low enough to hit minimum damage post-mitigation.

In previous games that used this defense system, minimum damage was a completely case-by-case basis and unique both to each and every weapon, and following general patterns along damage types. We don't know if that's the case in DaS3 because as far as I know there's been no real substantial testing, but the general rule of thumb has been that minimum damage is roughly 10% of raw damage. This is why when you have something like the drakeblood greatsword that doesn't actually have enough elemental AR to overcome a player's flat defenses, it still does some elemental damage anyways. It's just floored to the minimum damage threshold, whatever that actually is.

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>>153276857
There's not much better in a video game than a comfy FC

>>153277080
>PCuck

Fair enough, though I will never understand the fanboy-faggotry that prevents people from buying a console with games they want on it when they have the financial means. It's confused the hell out of me since the days of the Genesis

>>153276423
It would've been better if the didn't get stunlocked so easily.

>>153276559
Spec heavily into Vit.

60 vit and havels will pretty much halve any phyiscal damage you take

Is Ludleth just really short or are his legs cut off at the knee?

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>>153275608
It would've been better if she stomped you.

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>>153276998
>Why does it warrant its own general?
Because the PS4 players wanted their own exclusive club. Anyone saying it was due to PCucks clearly hasn't been here long enough to remember Sony fanatics wanting to establish their own secret treehouse away from "filthy pcucks and xniggers" even before Bloodborne was out.

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>>153276904
Don't forget femdom and snuff since these can literally kill you with a kiss

>>153277282
You can see it right in this thread, man. Or the last one.

>>153262795

>>153277392
Why there isn't more art of her beautiful stomping tools?

>>153276657
bb is alright but i prefer souls desu famygdala

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>>153277267
I'm the type of faggot that will reward the overall winner with a juicy payday of souls by letting him kill me

>>153276998
Because when it was actually in this general the threads were spammed by so much consolewar shitposting that actually discussing either series was completely impossible. And I mean serious spam, threads would cap in under an hour because of how many extra posters there were, all from /v/, that didn't even play either game but just wanted to force an artificial shitstorm.

The general split let both series get discussion without being used as a toilet for bored underaged

>>153277392
HHHHNNNNNNNGGGG

>>153277260
I don't know if bosses in DaS3 have absorption, but I used CE to have my weapon deal a raw 10 000 damage to bosses and most of them could reduce my damage by 3-4k.

>>153273456
They stack

>>153277260
If the defense is similar to ac5 then heavy armor might be the best. Because high defense was the best by a long shot in a very. To throw point everyone was using the same exact build.

And if you tried using fast light weapons it just plinked off dealing extremely little damage.

There's probably some breakpoint in this game as well where once you get enough defense and absorption smaller weapons become useless

>>153277260

>In previous games that used this defense system, minimum damage was a completely case-by-case basis and unique both to each and every weapon, and following general patterns along damage types.

That's because the attacks of weapons or at least classes of weapons had attack modifiers for each attack that varied depending on what they were. It's why the hits of twinblades in 2, especially Santier's 2HR1 post-nerf, hit for much lower then what the AR explicitly says they are along with the BKGA post-nerf in 1. Testing in 3 shows however that there are no attack modifiers in place so all raw damage is calculated the same, it's why a 500 AR Carthus CS is the same as a 500 AR halberd for basic R1s.

>>153276657
Its way more Lovecraft then whatever your on about.

>>153273456
>While I'm here then what the fuck is the difference between Absorption and defense?
Defense reduces damage taken by a certain amount, then absorption reduces the remaining damage by the percentage shown.

>>153277431
I'll admit, I was a hardened veteran of the Console Wars during the PS3/X360 era. Then I got a job and remembered it was all stupid bullshit, like the elementary school version of me thought back in yester-decade

>>153277584
I'm not sure if boss and enemy defenses work the same as player's. There's always a very significant damage variance (and weapon-to-weapon inconsistencies) when testing vs the drakeblood guy in ADP and enemies that don't use player stats.

They probably cheat a little bit with pve enemies.

>>153276904
Mind break
Incest
NTR (implied, people are degenerates)
Corruption
Necrophilia

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>>153265586
how much att should i go on a 60 int sorc build?
what about a 30/30 pyro build?
i'm one of those autists that likes to make a purist build for each archetype and am having trouble managing the stat spread for the casters because of mana being a factor
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>>153277841
>They probably cheat a little bit with pve enemies.
Absolutely. I mean you can see that instantly by trying the Caestus combo or such a thing. At the very least the way they deal with hitstun is different.

Can anybody help me with Grand Archives? I need to get there from Dragon Barracks, but the thought of going solo bores the hell out of me.

PC. NG+. SL 120. Password: dsg

I MAY BE BUT SMALL, BUT I WILL DIE A COLOSSUS

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>>153277282
>I will never understand the fanboy-faggotry that prevents people from buying a console with gameS they want on it

Emphasized the important part.
The PS4 has only one game for me which is Bloodborne. Everything else is either crud, multiplat or doesn't interest me. A Demon's Souls remake would make me more willing to shell out the cash for it.

>when they have the financial means
A PS4 is pretty expensive when you're paying your own bills. I have a PC because I would've had to have one to do school / work stuff on anyway and it can play everything decently without exclusives. I'm going to get a PS4 because I'm a Soulsborne fanatic, but I don't enjoy the prospect of getting it since it doesn't have DeS or any other games worth buying(unless NiOh is an exclusive). And I've heard bad things about Bloodborne's replay value and PS+ is raising prices again. And Playstation 4.5 on the way(I'll fucking riot if they'll have PS4.5 games incompatible with the PS4 and get From to make an exclusive for it).

>>153277710
Side note, I am rather hype for the new Call of Cthulu game. It looks very Bloodborne-y, at least at first glance.

I dig gothic horror, it's not done enough now. It's got a certain campiness to it that is lacking in more contemporary stuff.

Reminder that Gwyn fucked Nito that's why the Nameless King has a skelly face.

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So which was better, /dsg/?

http://www.strawpoll.me/11109506

>>153278046
I really want to see a picture of the CU or whatever dangling his crown over his head, with him shouting "fuck you I'm a colossus!"

>>153274832
Meat Cleaver isn't an ultra?

I love Old King's set, reminds me of a greek bronze armor. I feel like an Iliad's hero wearing it.
Even the name Doran reminds me of the greeks.

>>153278046
>DLC boss
>Ludleth, the colossus

>>153277674
DaS1 and 2 didn't use this defense system. I was referring specifically to the AC games that used this system.

>>153277625
If you recall, part of the reason that build worked was because of those overpowered gatling guns whose minimum damage was like 90% of their normal damage

Aside from the fact that I suspect minimum damage is a bit more fair this time around, I'm fairly certain it's not actually possible to stack enough defense to make something like a pure physical straightsword reach its minimum damage. The minimum damage bit is more or less just relevant to the flawed testing that has been done in the past, which deliberately lowered AR relative to defense in order to find thresholds that simply didn't exist, and recorded the anomalies. Under normal circumstances, it only really becomes relevant with low-AR split damage weapons, like the cleric's candlestick.

>>153278078
If you have the financial means to afford a ps4 then a ps4 is not too expensive.

Also no one wants to read your long ass post. Either get one or don't faggot

>>153278078
You're not the only one who works and pays bills here. I'm just saying that if you can, why not? What's the point of making money if you're not going to use it? Sure, squirrel away cash, but there's a point where it's silly to do so, especially if you're living comfortably.

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>>153278161
Gwyn's theme since MLGS is practically a meme made by FROM

>>153278153
>NK is his son with Nito
>Gwynevere with Witch
>Gwyndolin with Seath

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>>153278078
>inb4 mad and jelly Pcuck
I am mad and jelly about Bloodborne, I'll readily admit that.
And it's not like playing Souls on the PC doesn't have downsides : DS3 is an atrociously poorly done port and the online has a lot of hackers. If you happen to have a PS4, it's definitely the best platform for Soulsborne games (although Dark Souls 1 / 2 were better on the pc with the dsfix because despite the shitty port, the framerate issues were shit on the PS3 as well)

Overall the games are made for the Sony consoles and it shows, just wishing they ported the first games into the PS4 to better justify the paid online for Souls players who got it for Bloodborne.

>>153278014
>This fucking guy

Apparently there's a way to go into Old Yarnham without aggroing him, but I didn't find it

Gwyn's theme playing during Soul of Cinder's second phase was fucking gay. That whole fight is retarded.

>>153278280
The gats were strong but they were the only effective light and fast firing weapon. No other Gattling gun was viable.

Also I didn't specifically mean the gats were a problem. But the rest of the armored build. The reverse joint legs. The ke core and everyone using a battle rifle or sniper rifle because it was one of the few weapons strong enough to punch through the defense of most builds