/dsg/ - Dark Souls General

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Need to move some rings between characters
PS4

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>Stone Greatshield in game
>no Stone Greatsword with TWoP weapon skill
>no TWoP miracle

Considering how heavily DaS3's combat system relies on rollspam, would TWoP single-handedly save Faith builds?

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>>161025850
Hello Lucy how are you feeling today?

>use tears of denial in arena
>some dude procs it
>he's at low HP himself
>he starts playing super defensively
>go behind a pillar and recast the buff

Is this considered dirty or something because they always seem to lose their shit when I do it. You give me the space, so why not?

>>161026090
>Quickstep becomes meta
I kind of want this.

>More than halfway through DS2

It's fucking shit. Level design and art direction in general is terrible compared to DS1.

What the fuck happened?

>>161026216
Lucy why did you ignore my post, you're being very rude.
>>161026093

>>161026090
twop would save everything, including ultras

>>161026060
g-guys ?

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enb and parries
enb and parries
go together like his wife and miscarriage
this, I tell you brot-her
he had one kid but will never have a-nother!

>>161026093
Great. You posted a Prissy pic I didn't have, and made things even better. Thanks.

How does the arena badge thing work? Does it affect matchmaking?

Did a bunc hof matches and now I have a red badge instead of black. What's it do? Can others see this and it's just a bragging thing?

>>161026035

please respond

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>>161026035
I believe it has to be human in nature, but I know it 100% will work on the drakeblood knights in archdragon peek.

I have probably ganked you, and I'm sorry.
Let me preface this by saying I don't consider myself a PvPer. Coming from someone who has a background in competitive multiplayer, the "balance" and mechanics of the PvP aspect of the Souls games has always been a joke to me. When I am competing against other people, I want to play something where the better player always wins. There's nothing here for me.
But I have always loved, and spent hundreds of hours on, the PvE. I like to level as high as possible, and I enjoy multiple playthroughs, trying new things and getting better every time. That's where the game shines for me most.
That said, it can get a bit drab. I like to keep things fresh through jolly cooperation. Here's the part where me ganking you comes into play.
While trying to farm souls, it is common for me to get summoned into the infamous gank squad. In truth, I'd prefer to clear the level and fight the boss, but I cannot control my host's intentions.
So I am left with the choice to BC out, wait another 10-30 minutes for a summon, and hope the next host isn't a ganker. Not exactly a worthwhile time investment, considering you invaders are often worth far more souls than the PvE encounters in the area will yield.
So I stick it out. You get summoned in, my host and I murder you as quickly and efficiently as possible, and I collect my delicious souls from your defiled corpse.
This activity appears to be frowned upon in the community. "I want to invade someone else's game, disrupt their progress and I expect them to be honorable about it." No, lol, fuck you. I'm going to use every opportunity to cheese, annoy, and frustrate you until I make you dead, and quite frankly, you can suck it.
I used to feel differently. I would not participate in the combat if the odds were stacked in our favor, not use Estus before you do, try to play the "right" way as arbitrarily determined by a collective of tryhards who believe that their way to play the game is the only way.

>>161026138
Fire surge can be used with base stats and if enough to kill anyone with ToD. Pyro flames weight nothing as well. There's no excuse to not have one attuned for free

>>161026216
Development hell happened.
Where do these newfags keep coming from that keep asking the same questions? Go through the archives, people have posted the tragic story of DaS2's development cycle dozens of times.

tl;dr the original director, Shibuya, had no idea what the fuck he was doing, and with Bamco breathing down From's neck Tanimura was brought in to cobble together some semblance of a game with what disconnected bits they had ready.
The visuals being weak is a direct result of Bamco pressuring From to target ancient PS3/360 hardware at the end of those consoles' lifecycles instead of the PS4 and Xbone, which resulted in significant visual downgrades from the initial more visually pleasing Network Test version as consoles could not run the game over like 5 fps.

>>161026525
But sometime between DeS/early DS1 and now, you have become too difficult to appease, too entitled, too arrogant. You have also diversified. You have begun to employ every cheap trick in the book yourselves, you prey on the weak, and you often violate your own "rules" when push comes to shove.
The point of no return came, for me, about a week after the release of this game.
My wife had never played a Souls game, but I convinced her to buy this one, because we could play through it together. Then came Halfway Fortress. Where you pieces of shit relentlessly and unforgivingly disrupted our jolly cooperation for the better part of 6 hours.
Two or three of you were "honorable." The rest of you ran away when losing, hid behind the crabs and the NPCs, harassed us with arrows and other projectiles and quite frankly made our time spent in this zone my absolute worst experience in Souls game to date. Where is your honor now?
Sure, you can blame our incompetence. If we could just "git gud" we could easily handle an invader or two, right?
Sure. Problem is that the invasions were nonstop. If we did kill 2 or 3 of you, you were replaced immediately by usually more cancerous versions of yourself. My wife nearly quit the game altogether, because at this point this experience had made up the majority of her total time spent playing. This is what she thought Dark Souls was. Can you imagine if your first experience in this brutal, one-of-a-kind franchise was nonstop gankery?
tl;dr Fuck you, I don't play this game to please you. But as a longtime veteran of the franchise, I do understand and recognize there are a very small minority of players who have remained honorable from the beginning until now. Unfortunately, I have probably ganked you, and I'm sorry. I hope you understand.

>duel against Knight Artorias
>spams combustion and wears the fallen knight armor and gargoyle spear
uh

>>161027257
>Duel against Black K***t
>Unzips CCS when losing

>>161026525
>>161026814
I'm sorry invaders ruined the experience for you, and I'm sorry for everyone else acting like children in the posts. I want to tell you something. /vg/ is a very niche community. We are very small, and the actual ds community is better defined on youtube and twitch. What we say here is not accurate to how actual players invade or act. Many of those invaders probably never even heard of this general.
Invaders aren't honorable, anyone who acts honorable is risking their skin. How many times do you think someone is going to trust a host to not kill them? The answer is not many. And why should hosts trust invaders? They are probably going to kill them, anyway.
Most people who are talking about ganking are simply frustrated, as you are right now. They were blowing it out of there ass, so to speak.
You're playing a gank zone, it's where people gank on both sides. You basically walked into a free-fire zone.
Unfortunately, this is Dark Souls. It's a difficult game, and slightly cancerous. If you don't want to be a dick while ganking, just don't bow or use rude gestures.
You're ganking, but you're not a ganker.
Just a jolly cooperator.
Ignore the asshats.
May the flames guide thee.

>>161026531

Throwing daggers weigh LITERALLY nothing.

Where do I apply the curse status id in the table?

>>161027819
Do you honestly expect help with that? Kys

>>161027723
Shields though. Surge is completly uncounterable if you're nearby. And even a shield will let through more damage than you can regen in time.

>>161025203
I too just bought a ps4 and bloodborne but its not here yet ;_;
1. All stats are worth something. level vitality though, especially on a first run
2. I dunno, i threaded cane is a meme
3. Just get it now
4. Know the difference between Kos and Kosm

Okay, fill me in here. I wanna invade in undead settlement with poisonous stuff. What should I grab throughout the game? Ghru straightsword with poison infusion since it's low level? Ghru spear with poison resin? What class should I start with? I was thinking thief just so I can bleed those early bosses

>>161027891
I'm done with russian cheaters fucking me up. It's payback time.

>>161026525

I don't mind gankers, actually I prefer them as long as they don't use a seed, since duels became too easy and boring for me. I really enjoy me + mobs vs. a host and 3 phantoms or whatever they want to do.

Just don't get mad when my character is completely twinked out and slaps your shit. If you're a blue like it sounds like, you are probably bad (just based on experience), but if you're one of those SL420 password summons when I'm invading at SL30-60 then go fuck yourself.

>>161028024
Then learn it yourself

>>161028047
Teach me, I know you want to.

>>161028037
>responding to pasta

>>161028164
Yeah that's what you just did.

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>Arena
>Dude starts up with a lol2scythe WA r1 combo
>Jumps directly into my Profaned GS fully charged r2
>1142 damage
>He just curls up

Bandai Namco posted a new video for DaS III for Black Friday...

Check https://youtu.be/EsrxiWKWiuQ?t=23s

Notice anything? Lazy hacks.

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Do you think we'll get proper transformation in DLC2?

>>161028334
let's just hope not

>>161028152
I don't, it's easy and this is the same reason we got a fuckton of posts after the banwave complaining about CE getting them b&. It's really easy and simply if you make a tad bit of effort

>>161028164

Doesn't matter if it's pasta, just gives me a platform to make my point anyways.

>>161028152
>>161028371

Pls.

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>>161024764
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>>161025298
>>161026035
>>161026501

>>161028327
>that music
>"The most erotic experience of my life"
- pewdiepie
>that reused footage
what a painfully soulless trailer
i blame Bamco

>>161028334
arent there two transformations in BB?
Are either of them fun to play with?

>>161028493
The script to protect against the curse isn't working. I want to know how to apply curse effect to a selected weapon

>>161028327
Fuck, and https://youtu.be/EsrxiWKWiuQ?t=50s too.

Both bonfire sacrifice and a Volnir that's not in a pitch black slope. That's a disappointment bingo.

Do you guys think healbuffing/healembering will ever be patched?

I mean, tumblebuffing is still in the game despite meme streamers abusing it, so why not keep this too? It's the only way my waifu twindaggers will ever be viable.

>>161028591
Pls.
>>161024063

>>161028327
>>161028603
0:23 and 1:50

>>161028665
That shit is just a list of the ids, doesn't show how to apply said ID to weapon

>>161028569
Kos parasite is fun and strong and can even be used for twinking. Claws are fun as well but bad and arguably worse than the form without the transformed mode

>>161028743
You shouldn't be trying to hack unless you know what you are doing and how it works.

>>161028825
>>161028591

>>161028936
We don't need more script kiddies that don't know what they are doing and are just cursing people left and right running around.

I always verify that they are hacking and have modified their pointers before I curse them. I'm sorry but I won't tell you how to apply it, only give you the tools to figure it out.

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>>161028569
claws are absolute dogshit which is unfortunately because they look cool

>>161029027
Russian scum

>quakestone hammer weapon art
>can not be interrupted by enemy greathammer 2h r1 attacks because of strong poise, and is in itself an attack

>perserverance
>even with this buff on, enemy greathammer attacks will stagger you
>but it's not even attack, its sole purpose is poise

Why?

If you kill Sirris, will she drop the silvercat ring?
I want to switch get the obscuring ring, but don't want to wait until I help her fight.

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>>161029087
Actually tell you what, I'll tell you exactly how to do it.

P->7FF5A293A620+40 = 33

If you can figure out what I just posted then you can curse people at will.

I just finished Pontiff, what chime/talisman should I be using for chucking lightning and buffing right hand weapon? Any unique ones I can get this far in?

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>>161026425
What do you even get out of this, man?
Sure,he's a lying sellout but do you honestly think making fun of his kids dying is anything but edgy(the word is overused but it deffo applies here) and childish. Are you the rehab anon who used to stalk his youtube and tell people he was recovering from drug addiction? That shit's more autistic than what Darkwraith Kirk was doing but at least actually fooling people he was in rehab was more funny than making jabs at his dead kids which is just entry-tier edge.

Yes, he shilled and lied about Dark Souls 2. Get over it man, it was 2 years ago and us Fromdrones would've bought it anyway.

>>161029163
>spoonefeeding retards and enabling even more script kiddies

>>161029301
Script kiddies don't know what I just posted or even how to use it. I'm 100% confident that what I posted will not be able to be used by anyone except people that already know how to do it.

Is Vordts hammer the meta shitter greathammer or something? I'm doing extremely well with it in the arena atm

>>161029245
sunlight talisman for chucking bolts because with the WA it has the best poise (basically you can cast shit without being interrupted by being attacked), yorshka's chime has the highest spell buff so it's the best for weapon buffs like lightning blade. You can get both at this point in the game, google it.

>>161027629
>Sure, I'll have to do it on my meta level build though. That webm was SL30 +3.

Thanks

>>161029361
Vordt, Morne's, Quakestone and Spiked Mace are the meta hammers

Whats the edgiest armor set in DS2?

>>161029146
If you kill Sirris I kill you.

>>161029448
You're waifu is a slut.

>>161029384
are you asking him to kill the game's only good waifu?

>>161029472
*Your

>>161029407
>no Pickaxe
>no Great Club

What's even so good about Bort's hammer? Greathammers don't really need Perseverence, and Kekstone/Morne have better versions anyway.

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>>161029437

>>161029472
SHE IS AS PURE AS THE MOON AND I WILL SCATTER YOUR ASHES TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF LOTHRIC IF YOU EVER SPEAK RUDELY ABOUT HER AGAIN.

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>all normal frosbite weaponry emits a weak sound which is almost impossible to hear due to game's ambiance
>friede's great scythe emits a constant loud as fuck hissing that sounds like you have a fucking tinnitus
is it possible to somehow remove this shit from the game alongside constant annoying sound from tears of denial? for a headphone user this shit is annoying beyond any reason

>tfw you anally annihilate a true Guts cosplayer and feel kinda bad

>>161029163
type?

>>161029579
Shit that's right I forgot the GC and LC existed for a second. Vordt's is outclassed but generic

>>161029437
Forlorn.

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ridiculous recovery time

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>There are people in this thread that actually like Friede
Trash

Tier list time!
God-tier:
>Lobosjr
>Otzdarva
>Emarrel
>Youtube ENB

Heyguyswhatsgoingon-tier:
>jblackmel

High tier:
>Zulliethewitch
>Crestfallen
>Illusorywall
>SunLightBlade
>lb
>ThePruld
>Menaslg
>Scasblog
>Krekk0v
>PvPskillz
>VaatiVidya

Normie tier:
>PewDiePie
>DSP

Decent-tier:
>Twitch ENB
>Sanadks
>Peeve
>rbFrosty
>Oroboro
>d invader
>Enisle
>Ippiki9
>Iron Pineapple
>OnlyMeme
>Merisdks
>A German Fedora

Low tier:
>Scottjund(earlier he would've been in decent tier but now he's just a memer struggling to stay relevant)

Embarrassment to /dsg/-tier:
>Bigmoose1985
>Darkwraith Kirk

Guttertrash-tier:
>Rest of the Soulbrandt faggots
>Yukaslegion

>>161030373
Serves them right for doing stupid anime attacks

>Successfully outmeme Freide's Scythe with the composite bow and dark sword
I didn't know how much that bow would help until I used it.

>>161030373

It would be could if you could keep doing the attack until your stamina runs out, like Artorias

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Can all weapons do a headshot because I just poked someone in the head with a charged attack from ASG and did 1,1k dmg(with Leo) or is that normal dmg?

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>>161030802
it would be awesome
imagine animu flipping someones face three times in a row

>>161029862
You know, I kinda realized this on my Guts build today :

Even though Dark Souls is Berserk as fuck, it's still very hard to get in the proper mood cosplaying as Guts since the game doesn't flow like a game befitting a Berserk story should, nor does it really have character interaction. So it's kind of hard to keep trying to find justification for as to why Guts would be in a setting like say Lordran. I think Dark Souls feels the more 'Berserk' the less you're trying to roleplay it as 'Berserk' and focus on playing your own character that might resemble Berserk characters but fitted within the framework of the Soulsborne settings.

Just beat DaS 2. Bretty gud but not as good as DaS 1. Still not sure what Aldia wanted in the end. I take it the Throne of Want is somehow directly connected to the Kiln of the First Flame which is why Drangleic can be all super special?

Anyway, gonna start DaS 3 soon. What am I in for? Any particular things I should know up front (like how in DaS 1 you should never ever ever level Resistance)?

>>161031038

Souls is also too slow, even Dark Souls 3. Guts is crazy fast and it doesn't take him half an hour to swing his word. Musou is actually the correct speed but the game probably sucks.

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Why are most invaders shit ? Like, blackcrystal out of 1v1 when losing shit

I give up. I can't beat the princes, nameless king or friede .

>>161029437
Tied between Forlorn, Dark set, and Raime's set.

>>161030439

Obligatory:

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

>>161031170
well I don't think I need to tell you not to level up Luck. the npc questlines are also more complicated this time around. like solaire in ds1, but much worse. worry about doing them "right" on your second playthrough instead of reading the wiki nonstop, but if you want to go faith/miracles for your first run, don't give any dark tomes or buy dark miracles from Irina.

What does /dsg/ think of the Man Serpent Hatchet?

>>161031170
>What am I in for?
A more direct sequel to DS1.
Demon's/BB style combat
Game speed is significantly faster
Rolls and heals are kinda overpowered
Level design is good except for the number of bonfires, there are too much
More linear game but better presentation
Very good bosses

>>161031473
Thanks Anon.

>>161031514
>A more direct sequel to DS1.
Mixed feelings there.

>Demon's/BB style combat
I've played neither. What does this mean?

>Game speed is significantly faster
>Rolls and heals are kinda overpowered
Don't think I like the sound of these. But if the level design and bosses are at least as good as DaS 1's I'm sure I'll still love it.

>>161025941
don't forget that silver knights also have small heads and long necks

How can you make a MUSCLE WIZARD face?

>>161032090
So they're all descended from that aspect of Gwyn maybe?

>No 1v2 duel mode
1v1 is too easy honestly

>>161031718

DaS3 has the best PvP in the series, for whatever that's worth. It's not perfect of course but I've been playing for over 500 hours and still love doing invasions regularly at various SL's, mostly SL60 +6 and below with plans to try out SL70 +8 to see if it's still in the okay fun zone or if it bleeds into "people are assholes and cheating is rampant" territory like SL120+ invasions (especially aldrich). This is PC I'm talking about here though so if you're on PS4 or whatever then you don't have to worry about cheating at all.

Arena is great because it's just incredibly fast and things are actually limited by design. What I mean is before the DLC I spent hundreds of hours doing SL120 meta level 1v1 duels at pontiff, and people could sometimes be shitters and someone who summons you could start chugging estus on you or gank you with phantoms and there wasn't much you could do about it but simply deal with it or leave. You can't pull that sorta shit (excluding cheat engine shit of course) in the Arena. The Arena also allows for a variety of different PvP modes, from 1v1's to FFA's to team battles with limited or no healing.

That said I and a lot of other people prefer low-mid level invasions, just more fun and challenging that way. Ideally I like me and mobs vs. a host and his phantoms, at least for SL60 +6 and below you almost never run into seed of the giant tree (makes mobs attack you instead of ignore you).

I'll be honest and tell you I haven't played the old souls games yet, just DaS3, but I've played it since release (taking a break for a few months before the DLC came out) and I still love it, it's my main game that I dump a lot of time in. So there's that.

>>161032318
It's called the "Red Eye Orb" mode. You have to do a secret mission and beat a miniboss to be able to unlock it.

>>161031170
Shit invasions, hope you never bothered with those. Invaders are free Estus refills in this one, be happy if you get one.

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What the fuck is going on. Never seen this before.

>>161032194
Strong jaw, aged look, bald, maybe some mystic-y tats and a lot of tweaking

>>161032550
Happens sometimes, just warp to and from

>faggot in arena does nothing but rollattacking my UGS swings
>can't punish it because it staggers me even with 50 poise, so I have to roll out of it
>take him up to the pillar
>he tries doing it because it's literally all he knows how to do
>falls off
>plunge attack his spastic ass
>ded

works everytime. Why are people in the arena so scared of attacking, yet they will do that kind of thing without thinking?

>>161032550
A-Team

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>>161032358
>DaS3 has the best PvP in the series
>I haven't played the old souls games yet

>>161031170
The worst invasions in the series, but pretty good duels. I guess Reddit won.

An extremely linear world but decent stage design. You might like it if you ever played Demon's Souls, or dislike it if you were really into DaS1.

Shit weapon variety, most weapons have 1-2 "best" ones within a class, and the DLCs seem to be barely helping. There's also literally no reason to go for any build other than Quality (40/40 Str/Dex) due to From being shit at balancing infusions.

Okay but ultimately forgettable music.

Lots of enemies that go REEEEEEEEEEEEEE because dude Bloodborne lmao.

>>161032550
>He doesn't have DLC2

>>161032734
>DLC is described as being 'horror themed'
>it's just a bunch of birds screeching when you walk past them
sasuga memeazaki

>We will never get Banish miracle again

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>>161032358
>I'll be honest and tell you I haven't played the old souls games yet, just DaS3
>DaS3 has the best PvP in the series

>>161031718
>What does this mean?
The "fast" roll is now the default and has a very generous equip weight. The game is also balanced for that mechanic in mind so enemies will be more aggressive.

Dark Souls 3 also has "visceral" attacks from Bloodborne which means that when a boss or a big enemy gets staggered, you can do a riposte-like critical attack on them. Bosses also change phases more than they did in the older games.

>level design
Eh, individual levels can be kinda good, but the level network is a significant step down from DaS1 and even 2 was better in some regards. They shit out too many bonfires at the player like there was a problem in DaS2.

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>>161032358
>DaS3 has the best PvP in the series, for whatever that's worth
>I'll be honest and tell you I haven't played the old souls games yet, just DaS3

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so i realise that it's a 40 second webm at 480p but irithyll always looks like shit in webms
why? is there a way to fix the colors?

>>161032734
>The worst invasions in the series
That's DS2.

>>161032934
>>161032617

I enjoy it and I've heard a lot of """"pillars of the community"""" saying the same thing. That's all I'm saying.

Give me credit, a lot of other anons would have left that part out. At least I was honest. I'm just giving my opinion and explanation, just saying I've heard a lot of other people who have played all of the games extensively say the same thing.

Is achieving gold medal in the arena in DS3 as hard as achieving glowy red in DS2?

Because while I never bothered with arena in DS2, I just got gold within like 2 hours of doing arena in DS3. I was under the impression that the glowy wraith in DS2 was actually a feat of some skill, so I'm confused now.

How do the two achievements compare?

>>161033152
WHY are you spouting nonsense about shit you have no knowledge about? Fuck off this board.
I hope the rest of you anons aren't as moronic as this one.

>>161033152
Just say you like its PvP a lot and why you think it's good anon, you shouldn't claim something is best if you didn't try the other games.
I don't even follow any pillars but every time they were linked they were whinning about it, like enb

I'm making a caestus build, what should I level up first? Vig, end, str/dex? I guess the best infusion is refined.

>>161033096
Nah, DaS2 doesn't stack the odds against you like crazy. Seeds and 4-man ganksquads were nowhere near as common, and the slower combat pace plus actual action commitment (rolls cost stamina and are catchable, Estus isn't instant) combined with multiplayer-specific mechanics (disabling Estus for phantoms when an invader is in the world) evened the playfield quite a bit. Also, no R1 blenders due to harsher stamina.

>>161033157
It's only how much time you waste on it.
3 is like 35 wins and 2 is like 500 wins. But since the matchmaking is shit for both, it's all about being persistant enough to bang your head against a wall if you're bad

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>>161029347
lol I actually figured out
turns out your 7FF5A293A620 pointer was just a weapon you had changed to effect 33, took me a while to realize that

>>161031196
I'm slightly hype for that game.
Anyway, what I think is that the Souls games are really Berserk as fuck when you're not trying to be "Guts" but rather a regular kind of guy trying to make it within the unforgiving world using your skills.

Dark Souls 1 probably had the best combat mechanics for this vecause even the big weapons like the TSVAIHANDER felt like there was a lot of weight behind that swing and if you missed with a halberd or an Axe, your character would stagger realistically. Wearing armor protected, but made noise and slowed you down.

In Dark Souls/Demon's Souls you aren't a badass because you're destined to be Gattsu, the 100 man slayer, you yourself are only as special as you prove capable of being. You feel badass for achieving badass feats by mastering your weapons and the combat system, defusing ambushes with quick with and thinking and winning combat by tactical moves rather than frantic mashing.

>>161033157
Nope, the arena in 2 was way harder because there were WAY more broken "builds" due to soul memory matchmaking. Also maintaining the highest red glow there was harder too.
You can easily get gold in a hour in solo duel if you know the basics of the pvp mechanics of the game. It seems the k/d ratio are really forgiving and they don't take into consideration percentages.

Anyone willing to give me an obscuring ring or silver cat ring?
PS4.

>>161033070
Same reason the arena webms looks like shit I think.
Base colors in the ground textures fuck it all up

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>>161033471
I don't know in what games you've played but it sure as hell ain't DS2. It stacks so much shit against you the DS3 looks like a balanced game in comparison. Slower speed of combat and especially rolling only means it's harder for you to escape r1 spamming coopers. Disabled estus hurts invader much more than phantoms as they can just group together and heal inside the warmth while having much more casts of it and good luck doing anything to them. It also has garbage like 900 seconds invasion limit, not allowing you to go through pve enemies, lack of full orb, hilarious amount of healing power for the host (what it was, flasks, 3 types of life gems, blessings, mushrooms, charms and some other shit all of which goes to 99 item limit cap?), complete lack of any world interactivity for invader and many other questionable design decisions. Invasions in DS2 were fucking dead in a month after release, in DS3 i can't leave the bosses alive while doing invasions in the area as after each second invasion i'm getting invaded myself.

DS2 somehow manages to be worse in terms of invasions even than bloodborne with its lame-ass bell maiden system.

>>161033803
But hold on, wasn't the DS2 thing just a "losing -1, winning +1" too?

So technically it's just a matter of time isn't it?

I understand your point that the skill ceiling in DS2 is higher, but I don't get why the actual mechanics would matter if what >>161033489 this anon said is true

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So, buy dlc or wait for DaS3: rearranged enemies edition?

>>161032358
>DaS3 has the best PvP in the series, for whatever that's worth.

>I'll be honest and tell you I haven't played the old souls games yet, just DaS3,
Uh huh.

What If :
>unlocking the final tier of Watxhdogs of Farron marks you as a champion of the covenant
>when you're a champion you can be summoned into the first phase of the Abyss Watchers fight as a random Abyss Watcher
>reaching a god medal on the arena allows you to get summoned into the Champion Gravetender fight as a red campion.

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>when you get stuck in facial slider autism for an hour
help, I'm trying to make look like Raiden from Revengeance for an edgy katana character. I have the hair off so I can see the face easier

>>161033983
Guy that just finished DaS 2. I got invaded plenty, especially in Huntsman's copse and Eleum Loyce, and that was with me being at weird soul memory levels. And it was great fun. That Anon was right. I think the PVP in DaS 2 is better than in DaS 1 desu.

What if
>Thing that'll never happen.
>Thing that is never ever going to happen.
>Stupid shit everyone knows will absolutely never happen.
please upvote my post guys so from can see this :)

>>161034189
That would require some a day of coding and testing

anon you ask too much of what Demon's Souls did the first time on a string budget

There's a running theory that Micolash from Bloodborne was supposed to be an Old Monk type deal as well and it was cut.

Pretty fucking gay, especially when interviewed Miyazaki said Old Monk is his favorite boss.
god dammit why

>>161034189
Only if you're forced to wear the undead legion set

>>161033278
>I hope the rest of you anons aren't as moronic as this one.
They are they're just smart enough not to admit it.

>>161034023
Wait for Dark Souls 3: Academic of the Dank Meme. The DLC is hugely overpriced for what you get.

>>161034279
I don't believe you. I did my last DS2 SOTFS run right before DS3 release when it was actually at least somehow populated. Never got invaded outside of one random in belfry luna. Now it's fucking barren.

Going for a pure strength build in DS2. What weapons should I be using early on and working towards? Just killed the Last Giant. Also, how much ADP should I put?

>>161034539
It has about as many current players as 1

>do duel
>get hti by something stupid and obvious because I mistime my roll
>take 50% of my HP as damage
>other dude does a gesture as if to laugh at me
>other dude ends up losing
I wonder how they feel

>>161034584
Yes, barren, just like i said.
1,766 is like one third of what it was when the game was actually at least somehow alive.

>>161034687
One isn't barren either. You can easily get invaded in either game. It takes a bit of waiting but it's not a wasteland.

>>161034687
I just killed a guy in Duke's, I assume the time you'd need to play in 2 would be the same

>>161034583
Any strike weapon is OP in the early game.

>Also, how much ADP should I put?
Until your agility is at least 92. 95 is another breakpoint if you want to put in more.

>>161034735
For a game that maintained a stable playerbase of around 5-7k for nearly two years after pc release, it is fucking barren. Even when it was on GFWL i could invade extremely fast anywhere, if it takes "a bit of waiting" even with connection fix it speaks a lot about the state of a game.

>not playing the best pvp game in the series
The mind games in 1 are unreal now.
https://youtu.be/iRoHE7MnEWM

>>161034880
I literally have ADHD and I can handle it. What's your excuse?

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>>161034981
>1 best

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What do you think? I think he actually came out okay. he does look kinda like Raiden

Is there even a point to using Sage Ring in miracles? It seems to make such a tiny difference.

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>>161035174

>>161034981
Why are people PvPing in that area? Faster to connect since no one goes there?

>>161033983
>not allowing you to go through pve enemies
Why do people keep bringing this up? You can just push enemies out of the way. You can't run through enemies in 3 either.
>hilarious amount of healing power
All of which is very easily punishable, unlike anything in 3.
>It also has garbage like 900 seconds invasion limit
It also has a summon time limit which goes down faster as the summon kills enemies.
>blessing, mushrooms
Might as well bring up Siegbräus.
>complete lack of any world interactivity for invader
So same as DaS3 then? You can get kicked into the room with two big vomit corvians in the DLC and you can't open the door, leaving you no option other than to black crystal. inb4 muh bridge cutting

Winning an invasion was far easier for a skilled player in 2 than in 3.

>>161034981
My favorite thing about it is how faster it is compared to 2 and 3.

>>161033983
>Invasions in DS2 were fucking dead in a month after release, in DS3 i can't leave the bosses alive while doing invasions in the area as after each second invasion i'm getting invaded myself.
So you haven't done a no summon challenge run yet, then? Because solo players get invaded maybe once per playthrough at most.
Meanwhile 2 let you get invaded even when hollow or with the boss dead, resulting in many more invasions than you'd get in 3 without deliberately putting yourself up in priority by summoning 3 sunbros.

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>>161034981
>shitty awful music
>this one incredibly autistic person who keeps fucking posting shit like this

>>161035549
Yes, I agree. Also love the exploits and tricks you can do, 3 has none of that that I know of. Maybe only tumblebuffing but that's patched now right?

>>161035684
You can now miraclebuff instead, same thing but needs some FP.
Still, tumblebuffing doesn't add much to the game.
I think giving backsteps HA would be a good start

>>161035683
>shitty music
You're objectively wrong. Also it's rude as fuck. You like what you like, there's not much more to it than that. But I'm guessing you're still in high school where it matters what you listen to or something.

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>>161035825
>this post

Anyone still play DaS? Which plataforms are you guys on?

>>161035110
>t. DaS2 kiddie aka Claire

>ran into 3 attempted miraclebuffers in arena today
Alright, which eceleb faggot spoiled it

>>161033983
>Invasions in DS2 were fucking dead in a month after release,
Freindly reminder that both Dark Souls 1: Preapre to Die edition and Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin have been sitting at a playerbase of around 2,800 players; as recorded on the steam charts.
In both games, there is still plenty of PvP activity.

>>161035883
Please post music you like to the thread, anon.

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post your waifus

>>161035884
I play mostly on PS3 since there are a lot more players (no evidence for that but, purely anecdotal, but I get tons of activity on PS3 still).
PC once in awhile for organised fights.

What's the most active arena thing that'll net you the group badge in DS3?

I want two golds

>>161035174
>>161035246
Animu faces just don't look good in that engine, sorry.

>>161036159
Try out the queue times yourself autismo, this ain't google

>>161033983
>>complete lack of any world interactivity for invader
>>161035526
The Rat King covenant was about nothing but this.

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>DaS1 had good invasions

>>161036207
>this ain't google
Hence why I ask here, Google can't answer it, but experience may. You know you're supposed to ask this when it's something that can be googled easily?

I've tried to stick to each one for about 3 minutes and none of them moved past just me

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rate my recent bad life choice /10

actually still ike it

>>161036459
What the fuck you have tiny hands you fat fuck

>>161036546
It's his foot you retard

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>fell for the 140 SL meme
So where's a decent place to invade in DaS3?

>>161036138
I think the populations are comparable but the PC's connectivity is way worse even with the mod.

>>161036582
>it's his foot
>you retard
No you're the retard here friendo, you can clearly see his thumb is off frame. The hell kind of feet do you have you literal ape

>>161036459
That's not a human hand, what the fuck are you.

>>161036650
It's clearly the back of his foot

>>161036459
0/10 what the fuck are you doing

>>161036459
Looks like shit. And holy crap your hand is fat. Jog, fatty.

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>>161036682
Oh, I'm being trolled

>>161036793
Let's be honest though, it's definitely not a hand either. Atleast not a human hand

>>161036459
lose some fucking weight

>>161036659
It's a deathfat hand not a human hand.

>>161036627
I had a lot of fun invading at SL 250+, it was always the same people, but it was fun in a way.
You can try SL 30 with +3 weapon in early zones, SL 50 +5 pre Pontiff, SL 80 +7/+6.

>invading as SL15 +2 in high wall
>no invasions
what is this joke of a game

>>161036853
>>161036753
>>161036546
>people think this is just a fat persons hand

I want you to trace where you think the finger and wrist bones are. This will be an exercise in anatomy.

This is some kind of cripple or miscreant hand, friends

>>161036952
>I want you to trace where you think the finger and wrist bones are.
I can't. There's too much fat in the way.

>>161036546
>>161036582
>>161036753
not fat, just big fingers i guess ;)

>>161037024
this

>>161037037
>not fat, just big fingers i guess ;)
Your fingers are fucking tiny in comparison to your had proper and that log of a wrist. Go take a run or do some situps or something christ.

>>161037053
>>161037024
You've never seen a really fat persons hand. just google "fat person hand", they dont have actual altered bone structure you retards.

>>161036627
I'm 140 on PC and get constant invasions / soap signs at pontiff / DLC / Irythill dungeon.

>>161037037
forgot photo

>>161037127
Neither does he, he just is so ashamed of his fatness that he contorted his hand and did some weird version of a fatgirl angle shot to make his hand look less like a catcher's mitt.

>>161037127
Whatever you say Doc

>>161037206
How the fuck

>>161037260
how the fuck what?

>>161037206
Pull up your fucking pants you fucking nigger!

>>161037206
>angled
>covering the jawline with beard and obscuring the extra chins with the camera
>ultra sucked in
Fatty fat fat.

>>161037312
oi m8 its 2 am over here ait`? i ain getting dressed for no fictional data photo jah dongleberry

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MEMBER SIF?
OOOH I MEMEBER
MEMBER ANOR LONDO?
YEAH I MEMBER, IT WAS SOO COOL, MEMBER?
YEAH I MEMBER

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>>161037310
You have orangutan hands

Anyone run with a 30% weight build?

What is it for? I can't figure it out. It doesn't seem to add any aditional iframes since you get hit by phantom range just as much, the only difference looks to be you roll a little farther. How do I work this into a build? Is it even worth not going close to 70?

>>161037321
>Sucked in
you you wish

>>161037560
>fat fingers can't type

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>>161036459
>>161037206

>>161037206
Did you do that haircut yourself? lmfao

>in the arena, fight a guy I've fought before, won by only a little
>wear sun princess ring
>use tear of denial
>some dude in the arena IMMEDIATELY throws firebombs at me while I'm casting the buff
>don't really care when people do it, it's fair game, he's a faggot though cause he himself buffed up too
>hits me a bunch of time, tears of denial procs, he tries to get me with throwing knivesb ut by the time he hits me they don't kill me anymore
>he ends up rolling off the big pillar thing and and doing the little exploding knees animation while I plunge attack him, dead
>call him a cuck on steam
>he calls me a hacker
lel

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>>161037464
im okay wiith that :)

>>161037642
rude as fuck

>>161037221
>>161037236
lel proven wrong >>161037206


eat a dick retards

>>161037897
fat hands ;)
its a thing

Is SotS worth it for $7.50?

>>161037206

So /dsg/ does have some good bfs...

>>161037206
>file deleted

fuck, what did i miss?

>>161038207
yes

>>161038207
Meh. I paid 20bux and felt ripped off. Very frustrating experience and the only game of the five that I did not platinum.

>>161037895
yuck

>>161038280
you wanna be my bf? dm on steam then

>>161035526
>Why do people keep bringing this up
Because it hurts the invasions?
I can remember a lot of spots where it seriously hurts movement across the location thanks to this retarded shit.
>All of which is very easily punishable
You're delusional if you think it's impossible to successfully pull of a heal in ds2 easily, especially with lifegems which are nearly ds3 estus in terms of consumption speed and allowing you to move while using them.
>It also has a summon time limit
Irrelevant as summon time limit is usually larger than invasion time.
>Might as well bring up Siegbräus.
Or not, because siegbraus are super rare unless you cheat unlike DS2 where every single healing consumable can be farmed easily.
>So same as DaS3 then
Oh no. In DS3 i can destroy bridges, use all elevators and open almost every door as an invader. In DS2 the world is almost completely static for invader, shit places like entirety of Shulva are straight impossible to invade because host can just lock you from reaching him.

Actually, a comparison between Shulva and Ariamis is very good if you want to see how games handle invasion restrictions. Shulva is hilariously restricted for the invader virtually everywhere while Ariamis allows you to activate all snow ledges so host will get hurt or potentially killed if he will try to use them afterwards, ruin the bridge and doesn't have a single fog wall all the way to Friede with the exception of ruined Priscilla's boss room.

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You guys want to know how I got gold in both Duels as well as Brawl?

I played at 5 am local time and only used the Washing Pole or one of the better spears

i got so much hatemail from americunts i feel like im on some Homeland Security list now

any fun builds for ds3? that subreddit is megadead, no fun builds found.

>>161036459
fucking disgusting

obnoxious and black and fat, should've been detailed thin strokes and not filled in


Also lose some fucking weight

>>161038207
Easily.

>>161038406
Post hatemail

>>161037895
>finger tattoos

tacky as fuck tbqh
get your shit together

>>161038394
>especially with lifegems which are nearly ds3 estus in terms of consumption speed and allowing you to move while using them.
And heal very slowly.

>Or not, because siegbraus are super rare unless you cheat unlike DS2 where every single healing consumable can be farmed easily.
Most of which are slow as shit and have obvious animations.

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>set max filesize
>webm looks like shit
>set a bitrate
>webm is too big
>set both
>webm cuts off like 10 seconds from the end

Maybe I'm worse than a retard. Is 20 seconds really that long?

>>161038394
>open almost every door as an invade
I really hate 2's invasion system, but don't spread lies.
You also forgot to mention you can end up unable to reach a host in Ariamis if they go to gravetender and you happen to be on the wrong side of the bridge.
Even returning to the start of the area is impossible and a host can easily make himself unreachable and wait for you to get tired.

>>161038441
Pure strenght with Yhorms is a blast.
Pure dex with the Crow Quills and an offhand Painting Guardian sword catches a lot of people off guard.
Doing a Designated Healer run where you summon and are only allowed to heal is pretty fun.

>>161038635

You have to lower the resolution and framerate.

>>161038634
>And heal very slowly.
Irrelevant. Just turtle up for a few seconds after using it and you're fine.
>>161038661
>you can end up unable to reach a host in Ariamis
If you're a retard, sure. Provided that you invade at Snowfield, in 99% cases you have enough time to ruin the bridge before they can even reach it.

What weapon upgrade for sl90 ?

>>161038394
>Actually, a comparison between Shulva and Ariamis is very good if you want to see how games handle invasion restrictions.
You literally ignored my counterexample where hosts can trap you because you can't open doors. You also can't activate any shortcuts like kicking down the trees.

And I totally called you bringing up >muh bridge which literally existed in one zone until being shamelessly reused in the DLC.

>doesn't have a single fog wall all the way to Friede
Gigantic invasion zones are a bad thing for the invader because it makes the host harder to find, especially as the content isn't new anymore so a lot of people straight up run past enemies and skip shortcuts. Plus, DaS3 does that retarded thing where your invasion spot is randomized and will often be far behind the host's progress. Often I'll invade in Corvian Settlement, spawn in the village proper, and see the cutscene of the host activating the crank to open up the Friede bossfight 20 seconds later. That's impossible to catch up to unless the host decides to jerk off for a while.

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>>161038635
puu. sh (SLASH) stwtJ(SLASH) 1f2953518b. rar

There you go. Easy way to make the best webms for 4chan

>>161038787
I already lowered it to 720p but I guess I can go lower.
I can't find an option to lower the framerate though, and I swear I've seen nice-looking 60fps webms posted in this general before.

>>161038967
+10

>>161038810
As soon as I found that out I was dried fingering in front of the bridge before running and leaving them in a seeded world.
Point is, if something is abusable, as are systems in all 5 games, you can't ignore these scenarios.
You also can't ignore the invader's interactions with the world are very weak in 3.
Compare to BB or DaS where they can reset your level progress even

>>161039036
Thanks for the keylogger

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>>161038982
>hosts can trap you because you can't open doors
Good thing that there's only a single mandatory door in the entire DLC you can't open and if you let the host get to it you've effectively lost the invasion already.
> it makes the host harder to find
In Ariandel you ALWAYS spawn in close proximity to the host. If you know how chameleon looks in this area it's virtually impossible to just effectively hide unless host specifically cleared out the entire area for obscuring ring shenanigans. Big invasion area gives you a fuckload of chances for jumping on host and his butt buddies which is the only thing that matters.

Anyone know why I cant put my sign in the Grand Archives? I just cant do anything online related there, but I can summon people.

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>>161039210
No problem brah.

Seriously though, it's just a bat file to use the ffmpeg through console without the bulk visuals. Every webm maker uses some form of it, this just has the bulk stripped away and specifically set for 3 MB maximum memory for 4chan. It does all the bitrate math for you based on your given length and resolution.

>>161039135
>you can't ignore these scenarios
I can totally ignore them because i leave the world the moment i see a seed icon.
And may i remind you that seed is a garbage idea directly from DS2.
>invader's interactions with the world are very weak in 3
They are weak only in comparison to DS1 where you could activate the fucking Vamos cutscene as an invader. Compared to DS2, DS3 gives you a whole lot of freedom for traversing the area as an invader.

>>161039224
>In Ariandel you ALWAYS spawn in close proximity to the host.
You keep ignoring the parts of my posts that don't fit your narrative. Are you that desperate to not admit you're wrong?

>>161038810
>Irrelevant. Just turtle up for a few seconds after using it and you're fine.
How shit are you?

>>161039446
High quality post, my friend. Keep being ass shattered, because being ass shattered and wrong is a burden all DS2 fans will always be forced to carry.

>>161039569
Go back to /v/.

>>161039569
>I'll just shitpost until I win this internet argument!
I wonder if this is Lucifer in disguise again.

>>161038982
>invasion spot is randomized
it's only randomized if some small zone has multiple invasion spots, you always spawn near the host unless he's lagging like shit and caused an invasion delay

>>161039652
Remember how in DaS1 you never spawned BEHIND the host, always either in front of them or at the furthest possible point if the host was already by the fog door? I miss that.

Any of y'all know how figure what exactly is causing a invalid game data flag?

>>161039752
>Remember how in DaS1 you never spawned BEHIND the host,
You spawn behind all the time in Oolacile

60+6 invasions in Irythill are really good
I'm surprised how many people are just actually going through the level instead of running into hosts+2 phantoms

>>161039779
Being a hacker without knowing what you are doing.

>>161039398
The thing I'm telling you is just because 2's invasions are bad, it doesn't make 3's good.
You can just leave any world in 2 as well, that's no argument. Seed is present in both games and thus an argument shitting on both systems. Anything shit that happened in 2 and was bought over is also part of 3 now.

In 3 you can't open any doors except that one in settlement, or operate non elevator levers. In DeS you can kill enemies by default and BB has those popular areas in cathedral ward full of gates.

>>161039752
in ds1 you spawned at 2-3 static invasion points you could choose by yourself which was awesome in some cases but completely retarded in others like ability to invade a host in the beginning of oolacile while being near the chained giant with a non-active elevator

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How do I make a cool dunmer build? Doesn't have to mimic the Ordinator armor but bonemold is cool too, as long as it's Morrowind-like

>>161039779
Nobody knows what the flag is after the most recent ban wave. Just delete all of your characters, start a new game, beat Gundy, and then stop playing for a few weeks. Penalty should disappear.

What are some good ideas for healbuffing? Weapons you can't normally put resin on that would benefit greatly if you could put resin on them, like elemental infused weapons, bleed/poison gem, etc?

Been trying to play with the brigand twindaggers but holy fucking shit is their reach bad.

Is it just me or do claw l1 sprint attacks have huge poise damage?

I just kept getting staggered out of perserverance-greathammer r1 attacks (twohanded) by some dude with the regular old claws

>>161039893
Probably Xanthous armor, not sure about headgear.

>>161039962
Dark human carthus curved sword

>>161039870
Entire argument started with DS2 vs DS3 invasions and DS3 ones are vastly superior. It gave invaders consumable heals on top of a lot of regen gear, it gave full freedom of movement around the location, it severely nerfed the amount of healing power host has compared to DS2, it made the game faster thus making it easier to get away from a horde of coopers, it added shit like obscuring ring which makes DS3 invasions extremely fun by itself.
>You can just leave any world in 2 as well
You don't lose anything by leaving the world in DS3 because invasion item is infinite.
In DS2 you always lose a cracked orb and you need to waste your time or inflate SM to get them.

bfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbfbf WHEN!

>>161039838

I've been having so much fun at SL30 +3 I've forgotten how shitty meta level is. Doing watchdog invasions or invading crux woods in general is just too fun, and I get pretty much instant invasions constantly.

What I'd really like to know is what SL70 +8 is like. I've heard it's popular at least for streamers because they feel like it's the lowest level you can have "complete" build. I haven't tried it out myself since I've been enjoying the low level stuff so much, slowly progressing through the game at SL30 trying to collect more shards when I can.

Is it still good there, or is it where you cross the threshold from SL60 +6 into "the meta" and everyone's a faggot popping seeds every other invasion with professional gank squads not progressing through the level, instead just sitting their waiting while using every abuse in the book? And of course since I'm on PC, lots of cheaters? I used to do SL130 aldrich invasions a lot but those problems were pretty egregious up there, especially the CE abuser problem. The sad thing is it's just people being douchebags too, it isn't even like an invader runs into one of those asshole 1v5 ganks with a red soapstone summon and decides to fuck their shit up and curse them all, it's literally just some douche going invasion to invasion one-shotting everyone and giving 0 fucks.

All I know is, at least SL60 +6 and below are safe and fun, next to no giant seeds. I love it.

>>161040152
>DS3 invasions are vastly superior
What level of down syndrome is going on in this thread?

>>161034981
wow backstab fishing so much fun such hollow soldier waistcloth

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>>161039036
I guess it's better?

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>>161039464
i loved making invaders assmad by healing right in their faces with strongest lifegems while rocking jester turtle, they were powerless to do anything, it was amusing to look at

>>161040291
I'd heard once you get to +8 regardless of SL is when you get meta shit

>>161040360
*whipes out forbidden sun*

>dude literally just does gestures and panic rolls all match
>adds me to steam after it turns into a draw
>"learn to play" "rat" "u suck"

I mean ok play how you want but why get mad about it

>>161040360
*climaxes ur face*
psssh...

>>161040306
ask your family doctor, he should know

>>161040306
He's not wrong. I'm just saying he's defending a piece of shit by comparing it with a bigger one that is 2.
But if the better games aren't allowed in the discussion, might as well drop it

Anyone else get booted from PS4 online?

It says and update is available but it clearly is not, not yet anyway as that is scheduled for the 25th.

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>he isn't doing greatbow invasions

>>161040467
But 2 had better invasions. Soul memory and lack of full orb were retarded, sure, but once you're actually -in- the host's world the experience was vastly superior to DaS3.

>>161040112

Why tho? It already has bleed with carthus rouge on top. Healbuffing helps out twindaggers a lot, for example, because it doesn't have natural bleed, so with healbuffing you can actually put it on the same level as 2kat and carthus and the like, except with super fast (albeit short) daggers.

I'm mostly looking for weapons that weren't good before that might become at least viable if not OP if you could just add resin to them. Even meta stuff though, like DSS and Gargoyle FS you can put resin on now if you want, lightning and fire respectively.

>>161040349
>1.86 MB
wot? You used the bat file thing right? That doesn't seem to make sense. It should have made it to be as close to 2.8 MB as it could. Very curious as to your settings when you made the webm, but it looks like it came out properly.

I'm not sure what is going on.

>>161040469

It already is the 25th, anon. Updates usually go live at around 3:00 at night, which is in 20 minutes.

>>161040536
This.

>>161040387

Yeah but I mean how bad is it compared to +10 with SL100 and up? Like, how frequently do you get professional gank squads and cheaters and giant seeds and such?

If it's just "a few, but not many" then that might be the threshold. If it's "OH FUCK ALL THE TIME NIGGA SHIIIET" then it's past the threshold and worth avoiding. That's what I'm trying to figure out.

>>161040573
I just dragged the thing in, put in the vertical resolution (tried lower than 720 this time) and the appropriate time cutoff. It didn't ask me anything else.

>Undead Matches end in a draw, no matter how much HP either party has left
>people just mash rolls through the entire area once they're low on HP now
but why?

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>>161040446
>they think their climax can put a dent in dark havel shield

>>161040536
Except the part where the act of actually playing dark souls 2 is viscerally revolting.

like, engaging with the basic mechanics of the game itself actually induces vomiting in those not touched by down's syndrome

>>161040461

R O A S T E D

>>161040676
At SL60 with a +7 weapon, literally every single invasion in the aldrich zone is gankers, giant seeders and meta duels.

At +6 in comparison, 1/20 invasions was gankers. The rest was just hosts going through the game, with or without phantoms.

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>>161040502

Literally a shooting gallery.

>>161040502
level and upgrade?
I'm fucking sick of 120 aka everyone is a fucking scum cheater metafucker

>>161040693
>he thinks he has blockframes while slowly munching a lifegem

>>161040681
The 1.86 MB is extremely strange. It seems to have ran properly though. I verified that the bat file was exactly the same as the one I use and they are. According to my math the bitrate on your video should have been 1,146 and the file should have been 2.83 MB. I'd retry it anyways and let it completely run through again and see if it comes out closer to 3 MB.

Right after you finish typing in your settings, it should print out "Bitrate: X" Let me know what that number is.

>>161040693
>you can somehow guard with your shield while in the lifegem animation
??

>>161040846

Catacombs is usually in the SL40-45 or so range, +4. Generally speaking anything SL60 +6 or below is good times, just depends where you want to invade.

>>161040502
I actually just picked up a greatbow for invading. I got to work on my timing and aiming though.

I'm using the Millwood Greatbow.

>>161040710
You were already told to go back to /v/ with your stale meme. DaS2 has a lot of issues but if you find it "revolting" or "vomit inducing" you're either shitposting or have legit mental issues. Probably both, being a /v/ faggot.

>>161040461
>no invasions after boss clear
>no invasions while unembered
>enemy can swap to way of blue while invaded
>infinite roll spam and quick sippies cancer in general
>enemy phantoms can sip while invaded, auto lose battle of attrition so only viable build is hornet meme one shot
>just kill yourself if you need blue estus
>can't kill host through fog wall
>90% gank squad 10% some poor pleb just trying to clear the game for the first time
>you're butt hurt about seeds which can be a boon to invaders and 100x less oppressive than the above

Shit, even DS1 boasts better invasions because the map was open.
Genuinely neck yourself.

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>>161040676
I've gotten nothing but hosts going through the levels either alone or with a phantom, although I'm pre-pontiff irythill
naturally pontiff is going to have people ganking, but all other areas including dungeon are actual players
also I should probably get all the estus/bone shards to balance out my need for all this ashen
I think the problem is having+7 since you get people that have already been getting chunks so they've been doing more lategame shit

>>161040812

Fair enough. Also fyi there's literally no difference in invasion calculations between +7 and +8, anyone who stays at +7 is retarded or at best ignorant. Makes sense anyways since special weapons only count as even numbers (the ones that max out at +5, so +1 = +2, +2 = +4, etc)

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>>161039893
help me be an n'wah, guys

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>>161040924

>>161041016
Also forgot about removal of the sin system and blue eye orb, so in addition to the dead invasion pool the blue bros covenant is utter ass for no reason.

>I bc'ed out so i didn't lose !
Are you this kind of invader dsg ?

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Guys I nearly beat DaS3 and never finished it, got to just after the big dragon boss

What are some fun builds for a new game?

>>161041152
Yeah that sounds right.

Let it run through and don't close it. It will close on it's own. Hopefully it will do as it should. This is the only instance that I've ever seen it less than the 2.8 minimum size.

REMEMBER NOT TO CLOSE THE CONSOLE WINDOW. IT WILL CLOSE ON IT'S OWN WHEN IT IS DONE IN ROUGHTLY 3 MINUTES

>>161041213
Don't you mean "covenants"? You know, because they got split into two identical covenants for no reason rather than have one autosummon covenant and one sinvader covenant.

>>161041247
what was your first build like?

>>161040710
But DaS 2 had the best base mechanics except for soul memory.

>>161041239
As an invader, I black crystal all the time. Can't really go into a friction war with hosts + phantoms with double the estus I have, once I'm out of chugs, I bc out. Consirer it your win I guess? I don't want to go back whatever the fuck it is to get a fucking bloodpool.
I pull the ethernet cable if I know that the other guy is cheating or there is too much lag though

How can you beat hyper armor weapons with another none hyper armor weapon?
They can trade forever and pretty much just click R1 forever without any possibility of counterattack, since the trade will always be unfavourable. Is this all there is to this game?

>>161041008
Dark Souls 2 is not a fun video game to play. The simple act of moving your character around is unpleasant. Any other considerations are essentially irrelevant. It could, structurally, have the best PVP systems in the series, and it wouldn't matter because it feels like shit.

>>161041239
Black Crystaling out as an invader in DaS3 is legit because it's the only game in the series that drops your bloodstain where you died in the world, and not where you invaded from. Because apparently both DaS1 and DaS2 got that wrong in Miyazaki's opinion.

>>161041239
Yes, gives them less estus and helps a more capable invader

>>161041446
your weapon probably has 2x the speed of that other hyper armor weapon
hit and roll away

I fought the twin princes with sirris and orbeck and holy shit it was harder to keep them alive then fighting the boss regularly.

>>161041393

Well I started as Herald, and I had the Heal or Great Heal spell equipped for pretty much the entire game.
I used the regular Halberd for most of the game, I loved it and a somewhat tankier shield if I could manage, and towards the end of the game I switched to the fucking giant (the boss giant) UGS and somewhat regretted it.

But it felt like I had outgrown the Halberd, a bit. I had a hard time with a few of the later bosses, I'm not proud of having summoned for the Princes.

But yeah for most of the game the Halberd, with a tanky shield, and the heaviest armour I could fast roll with

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>>161041102
Faith/dex, where Leeroy's stuff + catarina helmet for the weird bulbous look Morrowind is so fond of.

>>161041239
I only BC out when I sense things are not in my favor and doesn't look like it's going to turn in my favor any time soon.

>>161041472
>fun
>unpleasant
>feels
Subjective. I think it's fun and feels fine to play, even with flaws like soul memory. Moving my character around doesn't feel significantly different in any Souls game, aside from jogging feeling faster in 2 than 1 (weight affected jog/sprint speed in 1) and being unable to instantly turn 180 degrees mid-swing (which I considered a good feature).

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>>161040846

SL35/+4.

>>161041472
This is some next level autism right here. Are you also an audiofag?

>>161041247
>fun builds
>DaS3

Shitposting aside, you could go for a pyromancy run or something.

>>161041393

Oh and I picked the Fire Gem and made it a Fire Halberd for a long time too.

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>>161041614
>>161041503
>>161041434
I BC out the moment a blue invades.

Go farm some silver knights faggot git fucked

ds2 has the best sorcery and if you disagree you should neck yourself