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Sulyvahn's Slut Edition

Eaten by Aldrich >>163236515

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

>DARK SOULS 3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u8Mak1goSv4g73g16XsWV4sJelDQUatWkP2kcO6GVAA/pub

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

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

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

>BLOODBORNE
http://pastebin.com/WdLBWD8n

>Community & Fanart
http://pastebin.com/vVWz9pJm
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I've been using twin sellswords the entire game and I FUCKING hate them. They have no fucking reach at all, I have to literally be inside the asshole of my target in order to hit it.

I also have a rapier but it does no fucking damage compared to the amount of stamina it sucks out of me.

Are there any non-shit dex weapons that aren't 90% of the way through the game?
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>>163304804
>I have to literally be inside the asshole of my target in order to hit it.

wtf?
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>>163304804
Uchikatana / Crow quills/talons
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MOMMY ROSARIA
MOMMY ROSARIA
MOMMY ROSARIA
MOMMY ROSARIA
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>>163304804
Chaos blade after 4 bosses
Crow quills after 3 bosses
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>Untended Profaned Doors
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Does resetting the world flags for rebirths get you banned? Literally the only thing I want to do since going through another ng + 10 for rebirths is annoying

I'll prob just do it though and remember to back up my save this time since I've been clean thus far
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grJ_6d-y9cU

Is this the best game trailer of all time?
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>>163305206
Can't you just do it on a family share acc?
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WE ARE NUMBER ONE
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>>163305608
Are you REAL invaders?

>Well... uh, technically, ah... na.

Have you ever killed a good guy? Like a... like a real sunfag?

>Na.

Have you ever tried a false white ring?

>Na... na.

Alright! I can see that I will have to teach you how to be invaders!
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>>163305157
>High Things
>No-man's Abyss
>Fishing Firelink Doors
>Frozen Woods of Despair
>King's Clinic of the Giants
>Quelaag's World
>Farron Nightmare Tunnel
>Dream Dungeon
>Painted Abyss of Despair
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>>163305716
We really need an anon to sing that
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>>163305361
bitch please, it's one of the worst ds3 trailers
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>ducking under a scythe's slash with the flamberge's r2 weapon art
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>>163305847
>Farron Nightmare Tunnel
>It's an incredibly long boring stretch of shitty level design
>No branching paths
>No shortcuts
>Poison inducing, speed slowing mud the entire length
>Those high jumping face raping Ghrus all over the place
>NPCs equipped with Farron break dancing sword constantly tryign to stunlock you
>Giant swamp monsters spamming their homing skulls at you while your ability to roll is severely compromised
>Basilisks too for good measure
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So at what point do you know it's time to stop trying to solo and time to summon help?
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>>163305716
Are you REAL darkwraiths?

>Well... uh, technically, ah... na.

Have you ever killed a good guy? Like a... like Artorias?

>Na.

Have you ever stole humanity of somene?

>Na... na.

Alright! I can see that I will have to teach you how to be darkwraiths!
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So I finally finished Dark Souls 2. It has its flaws, but I liked it in the end. Should I play Bloodborne or DS3 next?
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>>163306465
>It has its flaws, but I liked it in the end.

A woman after my own heart
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>>163306465
DS3

Going from BB to DS3 will make you kill yourself
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>>163306465
bloodborne probably, gotta see the progression of souls ganes in order
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>>163305847
>Quelagg's World

Sounds like a shitty spinoff starring spider-tits lady that I'd play the fuck out of
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>>163306375
Here's a little lesson in dickery!
This is going down in our city!
If you want to be a Darkwraith number one,
You have to chase a knightly furfag on the run!
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>>163306589
>Going from BB to DS3 will make you kill yourself
Not really
BB lacks a shitton of quality of life improvements ds3 has and arguably has worse vanilla bosses and level design plus poorly thought out base mechanics like almost full absence of true combos.
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>>163305361
True Colors was better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9NxxZDjNyU
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How in the fuck am I supposed to get the "yeah this isn't Griffith's armor turned into a super ninja bird thing" sword from?
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>>163306926
>bamco trailers
all shit
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>>163306924
So what you're saying is, is that BB should be released on PC and given an overhaul in some ways in order to make it a great game?
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>>163306951
Explore the Covian Settlement a bit. Make sure you've looked at all the back paths, ridges and jumps you can do.
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>tfw the host parry spams so much you decide to just pull out your caestus and spam over and over to mock him
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>>163307070
Where does that post say anything about PC?
There's no reason to turn this shit into retarded platform arguments.
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>>163307070
>>>/v/ is right there, fucktard
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>>163307315
Well, they could certainly wait until the PSultraMKpro4.2 for such an overhaul.
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>>163307260
Laddy... https://youtu.be/n4geCMAO-7k
I fought him 4 times and this is all he has done
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>>163307070
too bad the game is payed for with sonybux, the best we could hope for right now would be bloodborne on PSNow
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>>163307818

>SL289
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>>163308056
I-i like to pvp with this so I can use everything
My other builds I kind of neglect to be honest
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>>163307260

>tfw you just shoot him with your crossbow point-blank
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>>163302217
Being a faggot is my specialty
But yeah I guess if you think it's worth my time I might as well try and make a start. Even if I never post it it'll be fun

>>163302793
Well what I really wanted to make as a comic which I guess I might now writefag was a story about Irithyll during Sulyvahn's rise to power, after he's deposed Gwyndolin and asserted himself as Pontiff. So your pic is pretty appropriate because it'd probably touch on Sulyvahn's treatment of the Dancer and maybe her relationship with Vordt. Though, I wouldn't want to butcher From characters so they probably wouldn't be narrators or anything. Their relationship would be observed by someone on the outside.
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>>163307260
>>163307818

Don't get me started, this was a bit later in the fight.

This is probably the best I can do with summing up DaS3 PvP.
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>>163308159

>level 289
>28 Vigor

Hahaahaha, ok that is actually legit funny. I'm screenshotting that.

How do you even find people in the arena at that level?
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>>163308528
It takes 5-20secs in the arena
Ever since ds1 I thought of people who pumped vigor were giant vagina's so I stray from it and focus on other stats
I recently changed my mind though, after giving my dex build 40vig I had gone past 20vig with this build
You don't understand, I hate having high health it makes me feel like such a loser. I never disparage others for it though, especially not in BB
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I want to cosplay this on my next character, but I've never done much screwing around with outfits. I think the Lothric Knight Sword will be good enough for the sword, any other ideas?
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>Like 10 more themed characters and builds I want to make
>Only 3 character slots left
Fuck
I think I'm going to have to delete my original playthrough character and quite possibly the character I made for the cosplay event we had months ago

Might even have to start making save back ups with different characters and switching them in and out every now and then
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>>163308408
If you write it, post a link here in the general
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>>163308765

Well, more power to you.

I'm just surprised you're not constantly getting shat on in the arena by fast-rolling Havel's with DMB Washing Poles with 1500+ HP.
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>>163308501
jesus christ how horrifying :^)
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>>163304982
Wait, is she just a big girl then? I thought she had slug stuff growing out of her
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>>163310340
She's just a big girl. In game all that fleshy shit is a grub man lying around her with its head in her lap.
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>>163308839
Fire witch chest and gloves. Black leather, Alva, or abyss watcher legs for the red accent. Lothrics hood has black and gold color scheme at least.

Herald breastplate hits the white and gray tones. It's hard to get the whole color scheme in.
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>>163310340
Of course she's a big girl, she's Gwynevere.
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>>163308408
I've always felt like this particular part of the Dark Souls III story would write itself, not to mention that it would be pretty interesting.
Thinking about the Silver Knights fighting a Deep Accursed or the Giant Sentinels trying to hold back a tide of Boreal Knights, it would just be really cool to see it play out. Not to mention the confrontation between Sully and Gwyndolin.
Also, I really like the idea behind Vordt and the Dancer. A little cliche, but the thought of two people growing so close in the face of all the horrors and torture they went through is touching to me.
I'd read it if you make it.
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>>163310460
Such a lucky man grub
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Is it true that Alonne drops pieces from his set if you defeat him as a phantom?
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Dark Arrows should have D/D scaling with Intelligence and Faith.
Moonlight Arrows should have A scaling in Intelligence.
Lightning Bolts should have C scaling wtih Faith.
Lightning Greatarrows should have B scaling with Faith.
Splintering Bolts should gain a minor to moderate boost in bleed buildup with Luck.
Poison Arrows should gain a moderate boost in poison buldup with Luck.
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>>163310568
Yes, to allow people who didn't buy the dlc access to his set
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>>163310490
Forgot about the Herald's, that'll be better than what I was thinking. Thanks mate.
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This thing can get pretty ridiculous, I see.
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>>163311020
I think you expect too much of Fromsoft. Logic isn't really they're strong suit
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>>163310513
I always interpreted Sulyvahn's take over as a series of tricky political manoeuvres and religious falsehoods, rather than a violent clash. The story would be less 'the exciting last stand of Gwyndolin' and more about how life in Irithyll changes as Sulyvahn claims the title of Pontiff and takes more and more power: the discontent of some of Irithyll's inhabitants as Sulyvahn phases out the Darkmoon Knights and a great deal of the Silver Knights and establishes the Pontiff Knights and Fire Witches in their place.
I think it'd have two narrators:
>The anti-Sulyvahn voice, a Darkmoon or Silver Knight, probably not anyone close to Gwyndolin but a loyal subject and worshipper nevertheless.
>The pro-Sulyvahn voice, a recently appointed Pontiff Knight or Fire Witch, someone who idolises his strength and resolve.
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>>163311468

>Ruins ruins

Ruins ruins
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>>163307260
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Remember to come, /dsg/
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>The Archdragon Profaned Shrine
>The Undead World
>The Road
>Undead Capital
>No-Man's Town
>The Doors
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>>163311674
YOU'RE MAKING ME HYPED ANON
FOR SOMETHING WHICH MAY OR MAY NEVER EXIST
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>>163312235
Heysel has a nice stomach
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>>163311674
Now that I think about it, it does make more sense for the takeover to have been nonviolent, considering that there really aren't any signs of struggle evident around the buildings or any other structures. I'll admit that I have a massive hardon for imagining various creatures and characters throughout the series in combat, though.
That does leave the question of what exactly happened to the silver knights/giants (and the blacksmith) if they weren't killed in battle. Maybe they ended up being forced into the ranks of the outrider knights or something Smough = Vordt confirmed, or just got kicked out of the city.
I like the idea of two narrators, especially since we never really get to see a sane voice in favor of Sulyvahn in the game. Surely he had people that respected his strength, at the very least.
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>>163312674
I'm guessing Gotthards?
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>>163308159
It's a shame that they don't let you have multiple characters on the same save file. Also a shame that you can't save or copy save files.

>OH WAIT
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>kill dancer after many attempts, really cool and tough boss
>place bowl
>cool cutscene
>holy shit what is going to happen now, looks like a staircase will open into some huge dungeon
>*a fucking ladder descends two meters*

fucking seriously
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>>163313061
AWAY AWAY~
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Is there a CE table for DaS2 with a 100% drop rate script?
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>>163313061
Schierke
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Fuck the corvian scythe
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anyone want to bully deacons?

pass: dsg
system: PC
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>>163313640
be there in 1 min
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Dragons get the fuck out
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>>163313640
>>163313749
Fuck the deacons
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Do people still do PvP at the chapel threshold bonfire in DS2? Or is it all iron keep now?
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>>163313640
>>163313749
>>163313956

Thanks, Devil's Luck!
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>>163312579
I'm surprised you guys are encouraging me so much
For all you know I'm a fucking awful writer

>>163312728
In my opinion the Silver Knights ranks have been depleted over who knows how many thousands of years:
The best of the best are severely depleted by the wars against the demons and then going to the Kiln with Gwyn.
More might have left Anor Londo after Gwyn linked the Flame as guards of the rest of the Gods, though a good deal stayed behind to guard Gwynevere's illusion and help Gwyndolin's plot. Several of those then gave their lives for the plan, making sure that the Chosen Undead was strong and worthy enough to take the Lordvessel.
Then things probably get a little better for them between Dark Souls 1 and 3, as Anor Londo/Irithyll is reinhabited. Their ranks *might* be replenished with the returning population of divinity (or divine descendents), but its clear by the time of Dark Souls 3 they're in their death throes. Silver Knights are loyal as fuck to the old royla family, so it's quite possible Sulyvahn excommunicated several of them as Outrider Knights. Those remaining might have been turned into 'harrowed spirits' like the rest of Irithyll's inhabitants, killed by Sulyvahn if they found out he was holding Gwyndolin hostage, and eaten by Aldrich when he arrived.
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>>163313012
I don't think you understand
That's okay
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First time Scholar of the First Sin right now.

Good builds to just cruise through the game quick? I'm wanting to do DEX, but I'm not committed to it.
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>>163314530
This, no contest.
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>>163314045
>For all you know I'm a fucking awful writer
I'm a drawfag, tried to draw some Souls futa porn and though it was awfully drawn. I still posted it on the /aco/ thread and got some feedback, some anons said the drawing wasn't awful. I still think it is
If you feel like writing it, just write it ! You'll have feedback from several anons. I believe in you !
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>>163314775
>25 endurance

Why are you in here, you BB-obsessed slut? You NEED at LEAST 40 Endurance in all souls games if you're going to:

Use shields, or use Ultras
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>>163314936
I saw it, it is awful. The proportions are terrible, the picture she's jacking off onto looks terrible and like no one at all. It's like modern cubism.
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>>163314990
Git Gud.
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>>163314530
Dex scaling is 60% of strength scaling. But you get poison and bleed.

So at 40/40:
S strength = +140 damage
S Dex = +85 damage

So if you go pure dex, do it to meet dex requirements for some really good weapons (Katanas, Spears, Scythes, Bows, Rapiers) or for poison infusion later on in the game.

Powerstanced Rapiers is generally considered the best early dex combo, it can take you throughout the whole game, but try more things.
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>>163314841
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isn't battery basically tied with fume ss and og long ss in sotfs?
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why would i wear anything but the xanthous set in ds1
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>>163315278
SOTFS straight sword ranking:

1. Fume Sword / Long Sword
2. Heide Knight Sword
3. Ashen Warrior Sword / Sun Sword
4. All other swords

Long sword is overrated, Ashen Warrior is underrated.
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>>163315710
does the Fume UGS still have the shielding counter attacks in DS3 that it had in DS2?

I need to know if this game is trash or not
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>>163315667
Why is battery only 3rd? It's almost 10% more AR than any other SS at a fraction of the length
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>>163314045
>Pontiff and Aldrich rising in ranks of Darkmoon knights/Way of White, eventually granted a high rank and the Greatsword of Judgement as proof
>Pontiff slowly convincing Irithyll that his Profaned Flame and Age of Deep is better than Gwyndolin's false Age of Fire, behind his back and slowly corrupting them
>at his suggestion, Way of White clerics under his command may enter Anor Londo and slowly gain more presence in Gwyndolin's city
>Age of Dark is nearing again
>Gwyndolin in a moment of weakness grows weary and lonely of his duty
>adopts Yorshka because they are both outcast abominations and he desired family
>Pontiff convinces all of Gwyndolin's followers including the Darkmoon and Silver Knights that Gwyndolin is a fraud for having a crossbreed dragon as kin
>Pontiff poisons Gwyndolin without anyone's interference and imprisons the crossbreed
>sends the Darkmoon knights and all opposers as Outriders to rid of them
>Gwyndolin and the last remaining knight Smough is sacrificed to Aldrich
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>>163315667
I never really saw a need to use anything other than the craftsman hammer (trivializes PvE) and the Estoc (trivializes PvP with the RobFlynn + E. Gauntlets).
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>>163315981

Everyone already know you're a fucking faggot, no need to state the obvious
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>>163315061
I know it is awful, but do better then
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>>163316092
The salt is real.
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>>163316131
>if it's so bad do better yourself then!
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>>163316292
Well can you ?
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>>163316392
>invalid arguments
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>>163316392
Yes, but that is beside the point and is not a valid defense. Only children (mental or physical) try to use it as one.
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>>163316470
>greentext
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>>163315887
Range, and scaling requirements. Sun Sword is only better if you're pure quality, long sword will always out-damage it (and out range) when buffed+infused, at lower stat investment.

This makes sun sword only better if the enemy has decent elemental defense, since it's better at pure physical but worse at elemental.
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>>163316674
>
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>>163316674
Invalid argument
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>>163316928
>>163315887
Basically:


10/10/40 Long Sword >>>> 15/15/40 Sun Sword > 40/40 Sun Sword > 40/40 Long Sword
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What level should i be for Micolash?

Im at level 50 and this dude oneshots me with his opening attack
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>>163317181
1
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>>163317056
So your argument is saying that my argument is invalid ? Wow you sure showed me
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>>163317181
There's literally no reason to ever even get hit by Micolash. I'm not even trying to be an ass but he really is that easy. He'll just spam the auger of ebrietas in his first phase which is absurdly easy to dodge. The only trick is in his 2nd phase where he spams call beyond but you can make sure he never uses that if you just always stay close to him.
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>>163317181
Your level is irrelevant, just don't get hit by the augur
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How the fuck do I git gud at this?

I've lost so many matches.
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>>163317693
Use your R2s idiot
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>>163317782
Wait, there's more to this game than R1?
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>>163317693
>two-handed
doing it wrong
>hollow
doing it very wrong, i bet you have 27 STR
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>>163317423
>this is the game people praise for its boss design
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>>163317423
WHY IS BB SO MUCH BETTER THAN DS3 WHY WE DIDN'T GOT BB FOR PC INSTEAD OF DS3 REEE
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>>163317974
>WHY IS BB SO MUCH BETTER THAN DS3
studio japan
>WHY WE DIDN'T GOT BB FOR PC
studio japan
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Fuck studio japan
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>>163317896
>spam at the boss
>he rekts your ass by spamming back at you
>taunts you by continuing to spam over your body

How is this not amazing?
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>>163317896
I've never seen someone praise Micolash for being a well-designed boss.
Bizarrely memorable, sure, but not well-designed.
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>>163317896
BB's boss design is shit though. The DLC has some godtier bosses but the base game outside of maybe 2 bosses is largely shit and forgettable.
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Dark souls noob here, Ive been playing DS2 made a sorc, im in bastille ive killed the boss with the long sword before you find the primal bonfire, ive been playing a sort of battle mage with staff/shield in one hand and an axe/crossbow in other with what im guessing is the medium armor type and im lvl 75, stats are -

9 vigor
20 end
18 atn
6 vit
18 str
13 dex
8 adap
22 int
12 faith

Doing it right or doin it wrong?
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>>163317868
How the fuck am I supposed to use it then?
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>>163318249
yeah you really don't know what you're doing

if you've found a soul vessel you should re-spec at the firekeeper's hut, your stats are all over the place
you don't have equal INT/FAI for dark magic, you have no ADP and no VIG

ADP is hugely important for i-frames, i imagine you get caught during your rolls a lot
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>tfw no sallet in DS3
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>9 vigor
>not a lot of agility
Are you dying a lot?
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>>163318364
Subtle bait, I like it
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>>163318142
I don't know, I thought the only truly shitty bosses in BB are the Hemwick Witches and The One Reborn. The rest were at least alright.
Then again, this is really just going to end up being opinion vs opinion.
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>>163318249
I forgot the link
>>163318594
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>>163318364
You need more clutch rings obviously
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>>163318543
>you don't have equal INT/FAI for dark magic
He said he's playing a Sorc, not a Hexer.
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>>163318543
>>163318594
Learn me some gameplay tips and i wouldnt say im dieing alot, if anything with what ive heard i feel like i should be dieing more.
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So a while ago there was a bit of talk in these threads about invading in the Catacombs, which is great fun, as well as a few fun, half assed ideas thrown out for a Carthus player covenant. I remembered those rules as best I could and put them together into something a little neater.

This thing is pretty fucking wall of texty and needs reformatting/prettying up, but I thought I'd drop what I have so far here. if there's any fucking awful spelling mistakes or weird phrasing it's because it's 4 in the morning here
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>>163318706
>>163318664
Okay now seriously, I don't really know the best way to use it.

Also, I have honestly no idea what ring to put there
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>kill dancer early
>upgrade any weapon to +9 right away

this is pretty nice
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>>163318671
>Hemwick Witches
The are a joke as a boss, but they are the most annoying an deadliest enemies when you meant them in the chalice dungeons. They get their revenge in spades.

>>163318787
Just play str and grab a blunt weapon. It will make life much easier, and you can just respec later.
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>>163318842
>Kukri
>middle-eastern themed build
>using a weapon from India
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>>163318904
b...but... muh'spells
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>>163318671
I mean, they were okay. There were some interesting bosses like Logarius or Amelia but I felt like most of the base game bosses were just lackluster. There wasn't even that one boss we usually get in a Souls game that's fairly difficult and gives you a sense of satisfaction after beating it. The DLC definitely made up for it with Ludwig and Orphan but I really wasn't impressed with the boss lineup in BB.

The game has other things going for it but bosses weren't a strong point imo
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>>163319039
Pointless. The early spells don't do shit, and you don't have the stats to support them yet anyway. Plus, you can just respec back into a spell build later.

>>163319116
HMPH is probably the toughest boss in the any of the Vanilla games in the Soulsborne franchise.
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>>163319116
Orphan sucks in terms of visual design though
>naked Dark Souls Hollow wielding a Dragon Tooth got lost in Bloodborne
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>>163318787
ADP is the most important stat
you should level it immediately until you have 99 / 100 AGL immediately
enough ADP for 105 AGL is ideal, however ATT also slightly raises AGL so if you plan on getting a sizable amount of ATT you won't need so much ADP

VIG and END both have the best gains up to 20, getting those is better than getting more str / dex for a caster

dark magic scales based off equal INT and FAI, so if you plan on going with that, aim for 30/30 int / fai

the magic weapon buffs last the longest

STR / DEX scaling is generally low unless you go all out
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>>163318035
? How did studio japan play an important part of BB's development?
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>>163319246
so what do i want to do stats wise then? every single point in str?
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>>163319246
>HMPH is probably the toughest boss in the any of the Vanilla games in the Soulsborne franchise.
>just use a kneeling gesture in his face and he can't hit you with over half of his attacks, much like Pontiff
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>Telling a new player in a Souls game to go for a cheese build on their first playthrough
/dsg/ sure has become a sad place. Back in the day we used to tell newbies to fuck off out of the thread and have fun.
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>>163319304
BB keeps Memeyizaki in check so he doesn't pull dumb shit
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>>163319274
>i finished sotfs my 1st time without putting a single level in ADP

heh
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>>163318249
>Adaptability increases your invincibility frames while rolling
>the LOWER of the Int/Fth stat determines your dark scaling. No reason to do both stats unless you want to go dark.
>70% equip load is ideal. 50% below that, there's no real reason to go below 50%.
>You won't do heavy damage with melee until you get infusions, since that scales off your Int/Fth instead of str/dex.

Basically, if you're going mage, you need to get to mid-game as fast as possible so that you can get all the powerful buffs later on. If you're doing both Int and Faith, you need to keep them equal so you have good dark damage for the powerful hexes you will get soon.
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>>163318787
>>163319039
>>163319317
Ignore the local tripfag. He is jaded on das2 and will encourage only cold, heartless efficiency.

Spells are the most fun I have had in two, especially sorcery. For the early game though, at least 20 vig and 20 end, then focus on spells and such, then try to get a combination of ATT and ADP that gives you 96-100 agility. Longsword is a solid weapon for most of the game, but if you want to have fun with spells look for the blue flame, which is a straight sword that can cast spells.

From here, dump into INT until 40-50 and ATT until at least 30.
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>>163319246
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncW3EHe7fUs
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>>163319502
That's a irrelevant answer. Try again.
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>>163319252
He's not as good as Ludwig at visual design but he makes up for it with some of the most aggressive movesets in any Souls game. Beating his 2nd phase felt like an accomplishment.
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>>163319116
I thought Father Gascoigne, Ebrietas, Gherman, and the Blood-Starved Beast were all pretty good along with the two you mentioned.
There's also some bosses exclusive to the dungeons that I thought were pretty cool, like the Bloodletting Beast and the Elder.
On the other hand, some bosses like Moon Presence and Wet Nurse weren't truly awful, but were still seriously disappointing.
>There wasn't even that one boss we usually get in a Souls game that's fairly difficult and gives you a sense of satisfaction after beating it
The Abhorrent Beast as a boss is very challenging and actually did fit that category for me.
>>163319348
I've seen that, but I don't know how it helps with the boss since you still need to leave the gesture to deal damage.
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>play des
>soul dupe
>use bbs
>use light weapon
>shit on game


>play das1
>soul dupe
>use moveset swap estoc + BKGS
>shit on game

>play das2
>get to fotfg
>quit das2

>play das 3
>get anri go 40 luck
>shit on game

>play bb
>walk around table
>shit on game with 40/40 LHB

>replay BB
>shit on TOH with 40/40 LHB

Daily reminder not to fall for the "souls game are challenging/hard" meme.

These games are no different than AAA games
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>>163319580
>70% equip load is ideal
Not in Dark Souls 2 it isn't. Huge stamina regen penalties and tiny rolls.
>there's no real reason to go below 50%.
Roll distance.
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>>163319889
>>quit das2
Very true, most important step
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>>163319274
Adaptability isn't the most important stat, but agility is the most important thing to level up first.

Once you hit ~92 agility there isn't a whole lot of benefit. And he's got some attunement, which helps.

A pure mage with 40 attunement can get away with 8 ADP competitively, especially if you're playing ranged and not constantly rolling all the time.
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>>163319889
>Souls games are easy if you cheat :^)

Who knew?


>play das2
>get to fotfg
>quit das2
Alright, I kek'd.
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>>163319782
I forgot about Gasciogne. He was a good boss. Probably one of the best early game bosses in any Souls game. Gherman might've been more fun but after fighting like 10 different NPC hunters in the game, he just felt trivial at end-game.

My opinion on chalice dungeons isn't all that great so I'm a bit jaded on the dungeon bosses. Going through those dungeons were just a slog and incredibly boring with the same copy-pasted bullshit. There were a couple I enjoyed fighting like the headless bloodletting beast or abhorrent beast but a lot of them felt like pure bullshit (like defiled Amygdala or hotdog) than actually fun.
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>>163319889
>says the games are not hard because he can soul dupe

disgusting
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>>163319317
See:

>>163314775
Personally, I would say get the base stats for the fire longsword then use that until you get the craftsmans hammer. The drop points into VGR, END and ADP (around 20 each) before focusing on Str.

>>163319594
>cold, heartless efficiency.
I don't deny this. I just don't see "efficiency" as a dirty word like you do.

>>163319348
Too bad you can't do shit from that gesture either.

>>163319643
And you are fucked if he puts his back up against a wall with those back dashes. Not to mention most people aren't running multiple claw runes.
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>>163319012
They're from Carthus in game.
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>>163320069
Makes me laugh when people think they don't need 105 AGL. Very satisfying to have someone completely incapable of dodging iron king hammer r2s or bandit axe.
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>>163319946
You are correct for PvP. But not for PvE. The extra ~15% roll distance you gain from that huge investment in weight cap (8-12 otherwise wasted points) would be literally better spent on any other stat, until you hit ~SL150 or so and you start seeing diminishing returns on other stats and you're not able to increase your damage/defense more.
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>>163319889
Only Bamco and YT memers pushed this whole SOULS IS LE HARDCORE bullshit. There's nothing inherently hard about Souls games. It's just unlike almost every other AAA game, Souls games punish mistakes harder and force you to be patient. Unfortunately most people these days who plays games seem incapable of doing that which is why all they do is meme about how hard every Souls game is.
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>>163319946
>Roll distance.
I always find longer roll distance to be a detriment instead of a benefit.
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>>163320301
He's playing PvE, not PvP. Nothing in PvE is so hard to dodge you need the extra 3 frames of 105 agility. Especially not at a ~20 stat point cost.
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>>163320367
it made me think of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6c4ZuMg79g
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>>163320367
Souls is just Legend of Zelda except they don't tell you what any of the controls do, or how to use any of the weapons.

And the whole "lots of stats you need to figure out on your own, no tutorials" thing was just borrowed from Armored Core anyway.
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>>163316158
great fun but not particularly useful after that phase
also he curbstomps you into the sidewalk on ng+7 if you use a UGS, no fun allowed
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>>163320367
>Dark/Demons games require a modicum of thought and punish mistakes
>Unwashed masses thinks this makes Dark Souls the hardest game ever because they can't just fuckwit their way through it
>Team who work on Dark Souls 2 think this is meant to be the design philosophy and fill the game with tedious challenges and dumb bullshit to make it "hard"
>Team who work on Dark Souls 3 make it easy as fuck so the retarded masses can beat it and boast about being hardcore gamers
just shoob my woob dudes
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>rat king has given me the best and most satisfying PVP in soulsborne
>nobody comes to the arenas post-200

No justice I tell you
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>>163320821
>keep your distance
>bait his leaping lunge attack
>hit once or twice
>rinse and repeat

You can literally fight NK on any NG and beat him with that strat without ever taking any damage.
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Souls games are good at one thing

Making me rage with the force of a thousand suns
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>>163320968
>tfw 5k hour souls vet and still ragescream during obviously bullshit bullshit that's almost always my fault anyway

spider chime ladies
capra demon
that rare instance where you get ganged up on by 1000 fuckshit enemies
when you fucking panic roll out of pure muscle memory in a situation that kills you for it and you know not to panic roll but do it anyway
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>>163320156
Defiled dungeons in general can get fucked, there's nothing fair or engaging about getting one-shot by every enemy in an area.
Dungeons as a whole probably could have been a lot more tolerable if there were far fewer that were actually "required" for you to go through.
As it stands, you end up going through a dozen of the things before getting anything interesting to happen.
If the game itself had been longer, dungeons would've felt less like padding, too.
Which is a shame, since I did think there were actually a few good bosses in them, they're just stuck behind hours of grinding through the same levels over and over again.
And this is coming from someone who genuinely likes the idea of purely optional, procedurally generated levels as long as they're a fair challenge and have enough enemy/location variety.
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>>163321225
you can pretty much skip all dungeons by going straight to NG+1 can't you?
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>>163321283
go away

>>163320965
are you saying i should go SLOW?
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@163321283

No (You) for your dumbass
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If I forgot to pick up the Exile Greatsword and Giant Club, would I be able to find them somewhere? Or do they spawn in the NPCs' locations?
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>Quelaag's Chasm
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>>163321326
The only thing going to NG+ allows you to do is buy materials for dungeons instead of farming them.
You still need to find every chalice type to progress, and that requires you to make something like 8 or 9 dungeons sequentially before you actually reach depth 5.
Even if you have the glyph for a high-level dungeon, the game won't let you use it unless you've personally made a dungeon at that level and type.
Progress in dungeons also doesn't carry over between characters, so you need to repeat this process if you want to visit high-level dungeons on a different character.
It could've been a cool idea, but holy fuck is it a pain to slog through the same FIXED dungeons over and over again for every new character.
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>>163320865
From Software was better off with Agetec publishing whatever they wanted to make, no matter how hard or complicated.
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>>163321559
Answer: Yes, they spawn in the NPCs' locations.
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So is the Kumo good or am I just against shitters?
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>>163323053
Exile gs is superior. It's only good if you want a curved gs infused with magic
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>>163323251
Even with regards to reach?
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>summoned as Darkmoon Blade
>host black crystals me out

Fucking nigger
>>
Wait, when did Scythes suddenly become not shit?
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>>163321772
can't you just kill ebritas, get her chalice and use souls + insight to get the materials for RCF
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What's the recommended endurance for a 120 quality build?

Also what makes more sense if I plan on occasionally using weapon arts, simple caestus or blessed?
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>>163324906
>What's the recommended endurance for a 120 quality build?

Which game?
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>>163324906
depends on whether or not you use shields or ultra weapons
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does anyone have a guide to a pyromancy build?
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>>163325069
>>163325351

Curved and regular greatswords are probably the heaviest I intend to use and I don't intend to use any shields.

DaS 3
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>>163325434
20 to 25 should be plenty.
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>>163325417
40INT40FTHONYXBLADEPARTINGFLAMEBLACKFLAMEFIRESURGEVESTIGESPYROBOOSTRINGS
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>>163325587
25 for the love of god

20 is not enough
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>>163325605
>40INT40FTHONYXBLADEPARTINGFLAMEBLACKFLAMEFIRESURGEVESTIGESPYROBOOSTRINGS
sasuga
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>>163325635
I would probably lean towards 25 with greatswords too, but I can do fine with 20 if I needed the stats elsewhere.
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>>163325587
>>163325635

I'll still have a quite a lot of stats left over. 40/40 is standard, right? I could pump Vitality but it sort of feels like a waste since most of my preferred armors are light. Should I just get like DMB or some other buff then?

I made my previous character into a whip-wielding pyromancer so I don't really want to use very many pyro spells.
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Is it just me or is the dlc kind of lame? I came back to Souls just to play it, but it's not holding my interest. To be fair, I'm not very far through. The only thing I've liked so far are the weapons and armors, but there's so few of them.

Do you guys think any of those weapons are worth it, though? I got the crow quill on a dex character, and I think its p cool.
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>>163326092
>that pic
Autism
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So I'm trying to download the Random Weapon every 7 seconds mod for DS1 and the link for it is dead.

Anyone have a backup?
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>>163326309
>not having autism

You don't know what you're missing.
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>>163325973
Standard is:

50VIG
40STR
40DEX

Then it comes down to how much ATT and VIT you want in addition to END. 44 VIG is a better stopping point though, so you can pick up a few spare points there too.
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>>163326686
>50VIG
Why the fuck. 40 is as much as anyone will ever fucking need.
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>Can only respec 5 times a run
Why the limit?
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>>163327380
Because use CE
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>>163327380
To make your choices matter. You can get more by going to the next NG.
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>>163327519
>No fucking around allowed
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>>163306227
If you actually had trouble with any part of 3 then you must have severe brain damage
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>>163327548
You can fuck around 4 times per playthrough and still fix it. If you want to duck around again then you have to leave with the consequences of that choice.
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>>163327702
>Having fun is bad
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>>163327756
You're an idiot.
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>SL83
>Pontiff Bonfire
>Porch has zero (0) Red Soap signs

When the fuck did this happen? Where do people duel now?
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>>163328076
Your internet is a big shit
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>>163327756
>>163327935
You're both idiots. I'm going to give you all some free advice here. Get cheat engine and then you can respec without going into an NG. There's problem solved. No need to pay me.
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>>163328076
>play DLC
>kill optional boss at the bottom of the map
>burn his bones
>enjoy 5sec wait for Arena HONORABLE DUELS
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...has anyone else already discovered this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tud-Kmubpfo
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>>163328221
>tfw no DLC

>>163328107
No man, it's just empty. I invaded someone first try, but no one's dueling.
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>>163328291
>>tfw no DLC
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>>163328117
This is why I never buy Souls games on PC, cheating-scum.
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>>163328275
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>>163317321
Not that anon, but me not being able to cook doesn't disqualify me from judging food. There is one case "do better then" applies, when we're pushing the limits of perfection. If then the other dude insists there could be better, you can suggest him to prove it. In which case simply presenting someone else's even better creation is absolutely valid too.
Do you think you're close to making futas as perfect as possible?
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>>163328354
>tripfagging for 4+ years now
why anon
nobody cares who you are
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>>163328354
>I never buy Souls games on PC
That's a good thing. We don't want your tripfaggin kind around here.
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>>163319304
Studio Japan was the development team that created both Demon's Souls and then later them and DaS1 people created BB while C-team was working on dasdreck.

>>163317974
Bigger budget and developmemt time. Most of the Souls games have been developed with a very small budget compared to other AAA series and Sony pumped a lot of money into BB. Also development time, BB was in production pretty much right after DS1 DLC was done so like 3 years instead of the usual 2. That's why it got such God-tier soundtrack and everything in it was tip top quality. It was still a short as fuck game before the Old Hunters expansion which was one of the legit criticisms about the game. If they had aimed at having the scope of DaS1, I think it would've ended incomplete still.
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>>163328589
>get Dark Souls on PC
>have to deal with hackers
>get Dark Souls on console
>have to deal with Lucifer

you just can't win
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dark souls is making me feel alot better about dying soon. night lads
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>>163328889
>>163317974

Not just more time and budget, but far better publisher demands. Sony cared more about 10/10 scores than facebook likes, because they wanted a launch platform. Bandai's idea of marketing was social media memes. Sony needed BB to sell PS4s.
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>>163329057
You're dying?
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>>163329232
i am very sick
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>>163329171
>still lost GOTY to Titcher 3
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>>163327380
I have never ever respecced in a souls game. I'm glad the feature is there for people who want to try out different builds but I've never found use for it since I don't minmax.
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>>163330152
I have used it a few times to swap builds around after big changes to the game. Mostly though, I min-max and plan ahead so I don't need it.
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>>163328589
>nobody cares who you are
>while giving him replies
Bring more (You)s, Slayer of Demons!
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>>163329257
make sure to get a darksign tattoo over your heart. claim to respawn with the final words for extra effect
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>>163330470're waifu a shit
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>>163328901
>not having CE for hack protection
>not anonymizing everyone

you CAN win, if you cheat hard enough
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>>163330554
If videogame tattoos weren't so lame, I'd get the hunter's mark or a darksign pretty much immediately
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>>163320968
Soulsborne games don't really make me upset. The Souls games have a lot of control fidelity, as in, the games don't do shit like auto-face you towards an opponent unless you use a lock-on or swirch up the controls for no reason. You're always able to plan ahead, prepare for encounters and the game rarely forces artificial restrictions on you within the context of the game.
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Is there a open-face helm in this game that shows your hair?
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>>163331975
>this game
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>>163331975
pretty sure all helms hide hair
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DS2: Sorceries or hexes for a fresh character? I've never done either. I figured hexes are more WTF pwn but they require investment in faith too
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>>163332572
Sorc. Hexes got nerfed a very long time ago.
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>>163331975
Aurous helm in ds2 is the only helmet that shows your hair.
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>>163332572
>they require investment in faith
it's fucking nothing, dark orb rapes the entire game. seriously, it's not even fun.
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>>163331975
>DeS
Brushwood Helm
Plate Helm

>DS1
Chain Helm
Hollow Warrior Helm

>DS2
Benhart's Helm
Falconer Helm
Hard Leather Helm
Hollow / Infantry Helm
Pate's Helm
Varangian Helm

>DS3
None; shit fashion
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>>163332572

Both have pros and cons, Sorcery has some very strong stuff but it's later in the game whereas hexes can get a lot of their strongest stuff early on from Felkin at the start of Huntsman's Copse. If you don't want to inflate your SM I recommend getting the Sunset Staff by reaching certain INT/FAI values from Felkin, infusing it with Dark and using Dark Orb so you don't spend souls for Great Resonant Soul, Dark Orb on a Dark Sunset Staff does comparable damage without that cost.
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>>163332658
Just dark orb? Is there a reasn to above minimum requirements for it then?
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>>163332761
I'm doing PVE. I'm just curious in terms of magic since the most I've used was magic in DS1. I've done it with melee. But want a magic run.
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>>163332684
>>163331975

Steel soldier helm I think
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is faraam helm the only helm with a roman feather thing on the back of the head?
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>>163332967

Be forewarned that the DLC content has enemies and bosses with very inflated elemental resistances making casting of all types a chore to get through with them especially with the nerfs of the major spell nukes a very long time ago. I recommend getting a raw offhand of a weapon of your choice as a backup.
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What kind of build would suit this fashion in Demon's Souls?
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>>163333085
I'll most likely respec then for mostly melee. I usually just used a shortsword in DS1.
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>>163333049
Giant Helm in DS1 has that, if this is what you're talking about at least
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>>163328275
https://youtu.be/bxdyNaN8c-Q?t=8m1s
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>>163333101
Anyone? I'm thinking buffed Very Large Sword
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>>163333202
thats what I meant, damnit I want one in DS3
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>>163332772
It depends on your equipment. But the main reason is the amount of casts while having good damage
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>>163332986
What a guy
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>invade as watch dog
>host is clearly a nooblet
>end up guiding him through the swamp to put out the 3 beacon flames, killing red invaders for him

what has become of my life
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>>163333085
>RAW offhand
>not going Enchanted so you can do phys damage with INT scaling
U wot p8?
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>>163333085
You can get through the DLCs just fine with a decently strong elemental weapon. I facerolled them with a magic zwei.
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Does anyone here think DS PvP is greatly overrated? It's boring to watch, and it's boring to do. It's much more fun just playing PvE.
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Rate?
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>>163334857
forgot to go 18 mag/fth
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SCARED

how long until it stops breathing fire
its been like 5 mins
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>>163335085
Run to the sunlight altar to your left. It'll fly away.
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>>163334652
Yes, it's a complete sideshow without much depth or lasting appeal and it's a shame that the covenant system is almost entirely focused on it instead of offering some extra options/content in PvE stuff.
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>>163326415
I do believe the cheat engine data for DS1 has that built in. So try getting that and using it this way.

You can even manipulated how many weapons per second and if it's both hands if I recall correctly. If all else fails try looking for the stuff Lobos Jr, uses.
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>>163335141
Neat. Will it come back so I can kill it at a later time?
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>>163336113
yes
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I finally cracked. The amount of passive running away buffed greatshields soul mass spamming healers made me have to use the washing pole. If you fight me understand its because of them im doing this. I tried using fun normal stuff but I'm tired of people running away the whole fight.
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>>163327380
Probably because they're faggots who want you to inflate game time by forcing you to create new characters rather than change existing ones.

This is why altering appearance consumes respecs, despite the two having fuck all to do with each other. Or why returning Rosaria's soul to her does absolutely fucking nothing when logically any game designer not trying to fuck his players in the ass would give you another 5 or even infinite respecs.
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Is it weird that seeing the Plank Shield makes my dick hard?
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>>163337927
Seek help or a carpenter.
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>>163337927
No. It's aesthetically pleasing, but because of its shit stats, its only use is to add flare to your twink
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>>163333085
>very inflated elemental resistances
if i recall correctly, it's spell specific. elemental weapons are resisted normally. basically a shitty way to mend a broken magic system
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Is it best to do the DaS2 DLC in the order of Sunken>Iron>Ivory? Seems like the order most pushed by the key placement in Sotfs at least
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>>163338697
that's the release order, so seems reasonable
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I just decided to replay Dark Souls 1 tonight and Dark Souls 3 really REALLY SPOILED ME.
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>>163338697
it's accessibility order, release order and difficulty order. it's even the order aldia talks about them. i guess the game is trying to tell you something
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>>163318842
Oh hey, I already have a character that does this.

Only other thing I'd suggest is invading as a Mad Phantom (for shackles) and using an Untrue Dark Ring to better fit into the theme of the level.
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>>163337927
Is it wrong that hearing Shalquoir's voice makes my dick hard?
>first time playing DaS2
>collactan the shiny next to Shaq's shop
>prompt her talking to me through the wall
>get aroused immediately
>rush into the shoppe
>wtf where da waifus at?
>think game must have glitched
>quit and reload
>only the cat is there
>not even a sexy kind of cat
>put down the controller and go on e621
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Anyone on PS4 willing to drop an unupgraded Friede's scythe for me?
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Do DS2 Vanilla mules not exist anymore? I remember using one a while back but i cant find any non-dubious shit anymore
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>>163339341
Once I finish NG+ Undead Settlement, sure. I'm taking my sweet ass time though.
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>>163339289
Is there r34 of Shalquoir?
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>>163339729
:-(
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>>163339914
It'll be probably a half hour or so. I like to go slow, steady, and gentle, like making sweet sweet love to these hollows.
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>>163339963
kk. I'll probably still be lurking. Flisk me a message on psn Rustin-
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>>163340052
With the -?
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>>163339341
save yourself the pain and don't get it

it's aweful.
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>>163340137
Yup.
>>163340213
I planned a build around it :-/ just need the weapon now. I'll give it a go and if I don't like it respec
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>>163340287
I'll give you a ring soon, then. This is going well, other than me being dumb enough to fucking walk off death drops in a hurry.
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r8
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>>163339389
.
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>>163339832

More than of most characters.
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>>163340287
I can't seem to send you a message on PSN, probably your privacy settings. I'm ready though.
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>>163341060
kk whats your psn i'll try you
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Holy shit, I hate Smouldering Lake. It's literally the worst area.
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>>163339832
Not that much and what there is isn't very good.
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>>163341312
EmoDragonZ
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>>163313061
>twindaggers
absolute madman
I just can't use that weapon without the pontiff rings, carthus beacon, old wolf curved sword and a weaponbuff
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is Mytha's bent blade useful as a utility weapon?
like, to poison bosses that can be poisoned?
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>>163341882
if I'm not mistaken mytha's bent blade don't do poison but toxic, which is even better than poison.
So yeah, real good
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>>163341882
Poison throwing knives are excellent in DaS2 also.
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>>163341969
yeah it does toxic, but how much damage is it?
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How do rouge twindaggers stack against bandit's knife in term of bleed output?
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>>163339389
Guess thats a no
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Daily reminder not to invade, it's rude to people who just want to play the game normally.
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>>163342345
Dual fast-hitting weapons are almost always better because bleed builds up per hit.

The only exception is the crow talons where the bleed buildup straight up doesn't work on the WA.

Twindaggers are great, especially when Carthus'd up but have a tiny range.
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They holdin' a meeting or something?
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>>163343820
They're talking about girly things like dresses and bidets.
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>>163342345
A twindagger L1 deals better bleed buildup than a Bandit Knife R1 since it's two ~50 bleed hits vs. one ~80 bleed hit, but the L1 has a much shorter range that makes it harder to land so any damage advantage is practically null.
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>>163343603
Invade all you want but don't point down or I bann you.
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How do you feel about items that softban people online from playing with you? Similar to the indictment in functionality but it makes it so you can't play with that player anymore.
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>>163342097
same as regular poison, about 1050, except it ticks faster

poison and toxic stack together
ideally you want to powerstance them with sanctum soldier gauntlets and rat crest ring

it's useful to carry dung pies
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WHERE IS THE DLC MIYAZAKI

WHERE IS IT?

I BOUGHT YOUR SEASON PASS... NOW WHERE IS THE DLC YOU JEWJAP

DELETE ASHES OF ARIANDEL FROM MY MEMORY, GIVE ME THE REAL DLC

HAND IT OVER
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pcfcbf
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Is there a good heavy weapon for pyromancers that isn't the profaned flame or lorian greatsword?
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>>163345096
onyx blade is pretty decent as the R2 has a very good range
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>>163345145
Isn't that dark damage? But at the same time, it'd probably be good to have a dark backup weapon.
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>>163345096
chaos or dark infused AGS
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>>163344595
dlc2 will be a continuation of Ariandel

we'll get a new shitty location for the arena

story will revolve around Gael's search for the dark soul of man

final boss will be related to the Dark Soul

the serpents won't be mentioned

screencap this post, then
delete it
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Cute!
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>>163331975
>>163332684
>>163332986
Standard Helm
Northern Helm
Nameless Knight Helm
Technically, Catarina Helm and Smough's Helm
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>>163345606
What was the lore behind this anyway?

>Sirris gets invaded
>panics and looks for a summon sign
>tries to act cool
>"Yeah I could have easily fought this guy but uh now that you're here lets gank him."

Sirris is a fucking scrub
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>twink invaders in the undead settlement
Easily the worst part of any souls. At least it's more fair this time around than it was in 1 or 2.
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>>163345846
Sirris has the pvp skills of the average Darkmoon and needs a summon to beat reds
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>>163346123
Rip Darkmoon Knightess.
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>>163346123
>>163346226
Does this means Mound Makers and Vilebloods are the most skilled covenants ever?
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The Black Bow of Pharis is pretty fucking neat in the Friede fight. It makes a fucking joke of the second phase.
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>>163346340
I don't get it.
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>>163346980
because your int is low, baka
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>>163346340
i thought she had a huge bulge at first... i need to lay off 4chan for a while
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>>163346340
you litelarry can't have 3 int tho
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>>163346063

I just wish they'd balance the invasions system already in all honesty, it wouldn't be that hard to balance weapons and invasion mechanics for PvP in general, to make every weapon viable by fitting in it's own niche instead of having weapons that are "strictly better" than everything else in their class, etc. I just wish they'd give a shit for a change, same problem happened in Hearthstone and is why I quit playing that game. Really easy to balance shit but they just don't give a fuck because I guess they're making money so if it ain't broke don't fix it (even though it is broke and the people who actually want to play the game long-term suffer as a result).

I mean you might say it's the worst part but look at it from the invader's point of view when they have to deal with constant ganks with SL420blazeit downscaled phantoms with +10 weapons/shields with huge INT/FAI/END values and summoner class hosts and seed of the giant tree. You literally don't stand a chance unless you're packing heat every time you invade, expecting the worst. Lone newbie hosts pay the price for this imbalance because we invaders have to be prepared for ganks all the time.
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>trying out +2 wolf knight greatshield with 69 stability on my low level invader
>block a downscaled phantom with black knight sword
>literally 2 hit R1 R1 combo guardbreaks me

I mean it was probably a +5 BKS but still, holy shit shields are bad as an invader huh?
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>>163347536
Looks like you're in the wrong series friend.
4 games had very poorly balanced systems, From doesn't care
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>>163347536
The main problem is that it has the "pokemon" syndrome, in that the game touts heavily on the PVP but they focus more on the PVE and the PVP is a jokey horrifically balanced mess. That's more common than it needs to be, unfortunately.
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>>163319304
>boat shitters are actually this stupid
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>>163347797

I know I'm saying it's sad because invasions are a unique mechanic to the souls series and I love it, I just wish they'd balance it. And it would be SO EASY to balance too, that's what really gets me. You could fix most problems by just making small alterations like giving giant seed a drawback or even easier, simply removing it entirely, or setting a limit to resummons or a timer or something, and by simply changing numbers on the stats of weapons (including stuff like reach and stamina consumption per swing and such). A lot of stuff that wouldn't even require coding some new thing, just changing numbers in what already exists.

Mostly was just saying it goes both ways, since the host/phantom system is so unbalanced it forces invaders to twink and become as balanced as they can be too in order to even the odds. I mean, I always find it funny when someone is like "LUL YOU JUST BEAT A BUNCH OF NOOBS THAT'S BORING AND LAME AND DOESN'T COUNT", like... if you seriously think you're going to beat a 1v3 where the 3 people are all at the same level of skill and understanding of the game and how to min/max for PvP, you're fucking insane. You would lose every time theoretically. Of course skill and game knowledge are things you use to your advantage to overcome being ganked, how does that "not count" when you're outnumbered by a large margin and the host can potentially run and roll away forever while chugging and summon back all his buddies?

Basically people who play fair at least to some degree get caught in the crossfire of gankers and gank spankers. Invasions are a no-holds-barred arena where there's an arms race and everyone is trying to out-OP each other on both sides.
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What does /dsg/ think of Butcher's Knife, especially for low-mid level invasions?

I mean I tried Millwood Battle Sxe, I really did. But it's just so damn short and people get away from my WA all the time without me being able to R1 them at least once. It does a lot of damage but it's hard to hit people with, especially with no HA. On the other hand Butcher's Knife is long as fuck, which makes up for being slower than SS's, still gets good damage and even has a built-in buff and healing mechanism. Mostly though it's the reach that sells me on it, compare it to, say, a lothric knight sword and you'll see what I mean. This also makes it a great parry weapon imo because people think they can get you in-between your swings so you can purposefully whiff a swing and then parry then they try to hit you before the 2nd swing pretty consistently.

BKn is just underrated I think, sure MBA does a bit more damage but it's short as fuck and the WA is pretty garbage when people can get away from you before the follow-up R1 most of the time.
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ps4 mules when?
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>>163347230
I'm sorry. Please explain
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>>163348184
This series isn't for you if you think so much about it and you really should look for another game if you honestly care so much for its balance. Like that anon said, PvP isn't the focus of Souls. Online is a big part and From puts a lot of thought on it, but what you guys don't realise is that these thoughts are hardly concerning true balance.
That's not how the system works because it's not how it's supposed to work, all games are about 5 systems which hold back certain parts a player could use to their advantage. Either abuse what From isn't controlling of you or know some people will, there s no fair or balanced alternative, never was and there will never be one in the spiritual sequels and that's how it's meant to be.
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>>163348525
>This series isn't for you

idk why you people keep saying this sort of stuff, obviously I love souls and the vast majority of my time playing the game is PvP.

>Either abuse what From isn't controlling of you or know some people will, there s no fair or balanced alternative

Yeah I know, and that's what I do and what I explained is happening (an arms race of who can out-OP the other side), and actually what I enjoy to some degree (I like discovering new glitches or thinking of how I can make certain weapons or builds work in invasions, like I've been getting into dual wielding a lot recently), but that doesn't stop me from lamenting how much better the game COULD be.

I mean I'd still rather have something than nothing. There really isn't another game out there with medieval invasion mechanics. Maybe the closest would be something like Left 4 Dead where you can play as a zombie.
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>>163348874

Or in short: I love cheese pizza. I think it could be made much better with the correct toppings, but if there's only cheese then I'm still going to eat cheese pizza and enjoy it.

Seems weird to me if you said "WELL THERE ARE NO TOPPINGS AND THERE NEVER WILL BE TOPPINGS SO MAYBE CHEESE PIZZA ISN'T FOR YOU ANON!", like... I still like cheese pizza, man.
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>>163348374

What do you mean?
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>>163348374
Are you talking about PS4 DaS2 like that anon earlier? All I can do is SOTFS, 3, and BB.
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>>163348432
She tried a spell and since her int is so low it backfired.


Baka.
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>>163347378
>litelarry

You sure you can't have 3 int?
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>>163350215
I thought that might have been the case, but I couldn't be sure the blob thingy was a book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wFDWP5JwSM
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>>163350287
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>>163350287
that's how spelt it retart
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>>163350386
>blob thingy
do you mean the breastplate?
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>>163348184
>it would be SO EASY to balance too
>just nerf hosts &/or buff invaders

Every invasionfag ever.

Invaders being cheesy faggots when they weren't at a disadvantage is why the games have moved towards weaker invaders. From didn't decide to implement things like weapon memory out of the blue.
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>>163350546
Oh! It is a breastplate. I thought it was like a book or something she dropped after the spell expoded
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>>163350691
how did you miss the lewd sideboob?
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>>163350487
Japan kun, go to bed.
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>>163350815
I didn't I just thought all she was wearing was that torn shirt.
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>>163349083
>Food analogy

Feels like I'm on /v/.
I'll play along. There are no toppings and there'll never be in the cheese pizza. This pizza isn't for you if, knowing this, you still complain about things that'll never change.

There are many game issues that are more important than, yes, I know it has been 7 fucking years of imbalanced PvP but wouldn't it be great if they finally did something about it?
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uhmm... is anyone else's ds1 updating?
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>>163351352
>update queued

Yes.
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>>163351352
I was just about to ask this.

I have a PtDE update queued but I can't imagine what it's for. I'm looking around for patch notes but the most recent thing I'm finding on the web is from 2014.
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Finallt got the 50 fucking Loyce Souls

This armor better be good
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can someone help me on PC with oceiros?
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>>163351789
It mostly looks like shit
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>>163351858
>help
>oceiros

Fucking how. Easiest boss of the series
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>>163351858
SL?
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R8
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>>163351858
what's the password?
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>>163351452
>>163351435
>>163351352

https://steamdb.info/app/211420/history/
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>>163351915
>>163351939
SL 53. Password is bankai
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>>163351858
You should pick a password and let people know where you're waiting for a sign, anon.
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>>163351789
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>>163351915
>>163351939
place sign at the fog, i'm right there
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>>163349083
>I love cheese pizza

Oh, do you?
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>>163351975
what does this even mean though
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>>163352090
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>>163352090
>>163351887

I'm talking about the Ivory King set
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>>163351975
I still have no idea what's happening.
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>>163352305

There have been updates with the name Jetpack Interactive before. Back then, some Anons looked it up and it seems to be a company that does anti-cheat.
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>>163347671
>69 stability on my low level invader
You didn't have enough stamina to make it worthwhile.
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>>163352296
I also like to play ping pong m8

Now what?
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>>163352464
same thing, recolored. instead of a retarded frogmouth, you get a tinyface. but it's ok if you want to cospoor smough, i guess. at least the rest of the loyce set looks rad and is the closest thing to a silver knight set
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>>163350567
Well yeah... invaders at generally at a HUGE disadvantage whenever hosts take full advantage of all of the benefits miyazaki gave them to abuse. So obviously the way to balance things it to make the hosts and phantoms not so fucking OP.

I mean, you can have your 3 or 4 man gank squad with way of the blue, all I'm asking is I can use mobs to balance things out and you can't just run around rolling and hiding behind a shield resummoning your buttbuddies over and over to fight for you and every time they come back they have another 7 fucking estus to work with. Forces invaders into having to work with only the best and highest damage output weapons/builds/strategies because they'd never win an actual war of attrition.

I mean to be fair, this has its own rewards since if you actually win despite all of the bullshit it feels very satisfying and fulfilling. I have hundreds of hours in DaS3 invasions and continue playing them. It's just that sometimes I wish there were more viable strategies for invading.

Basically: I love invasions in DaS3 but it's obviously not perfect, and it's sad that they'll never put any effort into making it better to give the game more longevity. Otherwise after enough people are done with the single player they'll quit if there's no reason to PvP.

>>163351320
I don't go on /v/ I just come here to discuss souls games specifically, what would be a better choice for analogies next time?

Either way: I can complain about how this cheese pizza would be so much better with toppings, but I still love cheese pizza and will eat it and enjoy it. Even though it isn't perfect it's still great. It's too bad that the pizza place refuses to add toppings to their menu, but they still make the best cheese pizza.

Besides the whole purpose of /dsg/ and /vg/ in general is to complain and shitpost.
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>>163352529
>inb4 it introduces anticheat for some fucking reason and bans people with dsfix, dspw and dscm because "it's not as intended"
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>>163352584

I had 21 END but yeah I figure you're probably right, like it'd probably be better to use a BK Shield +2 since despite having 63 stability instead of 69, it only requires 18 str (which I can get to with just a knight's ring) instead of a whopping 30, meaning I can put more into END which is probably more important than 6 more stability.

How much END do you think is necessary at SL35 for a BK shield? 30? 35? 40, even? Probably gonna just use a Halberd with it since it doesn't require any dex stats like the RH Halberd does and charge is still good if you know how to use it properly.
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ANYBODY ON PS4 NEED HELP OR SOMETHING
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>not using best spear
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>>163352848
You clearly haven't played enough in the PvP of the other games, in all of them invaders had advantages, yet people would twink and stack them further and further breaking the low level system. From is too incompetent to balance it at lower levels, so they do the only thing that makes sense for them, if invaders will be twink no matter what, let's just stack everything against them. Now instead we have a system everyone abuses because people just HAD to twink when winning with subpar setups was perfectly doable.
From realised their fanbase would be assholes no matter which side they were on and do their best to make people not go online, so they tipped the scales in the host's side instead for a change, instead leading to 4 PEOPLE DRESSED THE SAME WAY DOING THE SAME THING TO AN INVADER situations, but low level PvP is cancer in either system not because of the game, but because of the players.
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>>163351928
I want Heysel to force her romance on me
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>>163353638
but i already use the partizan. also, pic unrelated?
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>>163353828
Was going to say exactly this
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>>163353828
I use this too, it's my other favorite spear.

It's too bad the lance sucks in 3, I went grand lance mode in 2 and had a ton of fun using it.
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>>163352848
>invaders at generally at a HUGE disadvantage whenever hosts take full advantage of all of the benefits miyazaki gave them to abuse.

So for the first time in this series invaders *can* be at a real disadvantage, which seems decently balanced to me considering that Souls is a single-player ARPG with online functionality and people who dislike the current system usually have to jump straight to some theoretical seeded max estus gank squad to even attempt to disparage it, to say nothing of the games where invaders were at a distinct advantage.

You and people like you might get longevity out of being able to go into someone's world and shit on them with no risk but you and people like you aren't the only people who buy these games or even necessarily the ones that these games are directed at. Quite frankly if you and every other cheesy invader left the community this instant it wouldn't affect most PvEfags in the least.
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need help with nameless king on PC.

password: dsg

place your sign at the great belfry bonfire please.
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>>163353817

I mean yeah, I know all that, the only real problem I have with From and other game companies is that they pretty much just flat-out ignore the problem entirely, they don't even attempt to fix it.

But it's still great, you just gotta accept it for what it is and understand the right mindset to have when going in. It's just that now you also have to know when the situation because obviously too bullshit to be worth your time and just crystal out, which thankfully is pretty rare in the low-mid level range.

Ultimately the only thing that really sticks in my craw is the giant seed. My favorite thing to do in invasions is to ambush a big group of co-opers when they're fighting a bunch of mobs or something big like the crux wood crabs, I run in a hit a phantom once or twice and he's like OH FUCK AN INVADER IS HERE! and as he gets ready to fight he gets curbstomped by the crab, and the host and other phantom(s) start to panic. That's fun. Running into a pro gank squad with seed that already has the area surrounding the bonfire cleared out and they camp out refusing to leave, with no intention of actually trying to get to the boss... that is just lame. They're not even playing the game at that point they just want to pretty much cheat and get as many invader free kills as possible with their infinite summons and host that is built to tank everything and be able to block and roll forever. It's the closest thing to cheat engine without actually using cheat engine, might as well throw on the cursed weapon and infinite iframes if you're really that much of a pussy, obviously I'm just gonna crystal out or go hide and go afk so those guys have no one to play with.
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>>163353004
30-40 stamina is always good. 20 is barely enough even for a dps dex build
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>>163354506
They attempted to fix it. Everything wrong with invasions in 3 is From trying to fix the issues they had.
Here's what they thought: we have an easily abusable system, but on average, invaders abuse it more than hosts, so we'll give hosts more advantages to hosts knowing they're less likely to abuse them all.
It's not the ideal solution, but that's not how they work, they work by overfixing things. I always spoke against the ideas of twinks and gankers as the more cancerous things in these games and they seem to agree, they only realised they couldn't kill one without the other, so they killed low level and high level invasions for the regular invader, which I guess was their desperate measure to fix it
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>introduce my friend to Dark Souls
>two days later
>"hey man I found this super good sword called the drake sword. Found it 100% on my own"
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>>163354143
do you still need help?
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>>163355069
Tell them it's the best sword and they'll never need to upgrade it. Getting crushed in lategame with the Drek Sord will be much worse for them.
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>>163355069
too bad it's only good til quelaag
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>>163355136
yeah..been sitting here forever now
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>>163355069
i dont get that shit. you can't stumble on the drake sword early. you either know how to cut the tail because someone told you or you went later and cut it by accident. noone is going to believe you, so why lie? also this >>163355190. don't forget to tell them to git gud when they can't kill a snakeman
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>>163355237
i put the sign down near the bonfire
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>>163355218
You can use it in anor londo until you get a silver knight straight sword and then call From and tell them to go fuck themselves with it for not including my swordfu in DaS3
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How to make a Shantae build? Pyro/sorc?
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>>163355329
>not going to Anor Londo with +15 baller side sword
come on now
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For a sorceror, how should I build to survive in PVE? I'm think pump INT until softcap, make vigor and attunement half of INT, endurance as needed (do I even need endurance at all?)
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>>163355529
>cast 1 spell
>0 stamina left
>get hit because can't roll
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>>163355475
>not going to anor londo with a chaos zweihander
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>>163354506
Have you ever tried hosting in the other games that don't have seeds? It's just waves of invaders running away refusing to approach unless you're preoccupied. Some form of friendly fire is absolutely necessary, like stunning without doing damage. Should apply to friendly phantoms, too.
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>>163355729
hehe giante dad my favorite maymay :^)
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>>163355863
>he doesn't meme people in DS1
Fun times when they had that "play DS1 again" event
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>>163356026
Yeah man OnlyFuccboi would be so proud of you.
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>>163355463
half pyro/sorc, half hips
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>>163356150
This is me invading you
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>>163356026
Do you have the webm of this year's one?
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>>163356150
>proper bow
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>>163353963

Fair enough, pretty much agree with everything you said, main problem I have is that when you DO get those pro gank squads it's pretty much impossible to win for the most part. It's only saving grace is that those are few and far between, most people are just co-opers trying to get through the level so like 95% of the time I get to have a fun challenging asymmetric PvP experience with chugging and no holds barred and all that on both sides, and 5% of the time I either commit to trolling them in some way (going afk while hidden so they can't get invaded and have no one to fight, use a greatbow or other ranged weapons, etc) or just crystal out, possibly invade in another location if necessary. So luckily even in the worst situations it's so rare at low-mid level that it's really not even a problem.
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>>163356270
too bad I kill memers
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>>163356291
No sorry
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>>163355463
There isn’t much slutware in 3, you’d have to go topless. Brigand trousers is a must
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Fucking dogs m8. What are these cunts made out of that they break all the poise
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>Playing through Ashes of Ariandel for the first time
>NG+
>My character is a level 108 shit build with greatsword of judgement (because I like the cool glow and the meme beam shot, that's why)
>made it through almost all of it just fine
>mfw fighting Friede
>mfw I have no face

I am getting the fucking shit kicked out of me. Managed to kill the second form once in the last 20+ attempts, thought it was over, and then BAM Blackflame Friede when I am down to my last estus. No chance.
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>>163356439
wouldn't an enchanted dagger be better?
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>>163356649
>Managed to kill the second form once in the last 20+ attempts

How, the second phase is the easiest since Friedes moveset is limited as fuck and you have a target the size of the twin towers to hit. Just evade the ice and you'll fine
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>>163356649
I dunno what to tell you. I was level 160 at that point, and she still wrecked my shit.
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>>163356662

Chaos has slightly more AR, but I believe most people have more fire resistance than magic so who knows.
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>>163356662

You have me misinterpreted sir... 90% of those 20+ attempts I actually don't even get past the first form. I could, but I'm refusing to do it unless I waste no more than 2 estus on her. If I'm being honest, my reactions seem to be just too slow to hit roll fast enough once I hear her shadow coming for the invisible attack, lol. Is there a better trick to this?
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>>163356906

meant for >>163356770
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>>163356649
108 seems pretty low for NG+
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are ariandel and vordt canonically neckbeards?
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Any idea what that Dark Souls: PTDE download/patch was all about?
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Just got to Blackflame Friede again, 3 estus left this time.... and I am fucking dead after taking off 1/8 health at best.

Damn man. She means business.
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>>163356327
>main problem I have is that when you DO get those pro gank squads it's pretty much impossible to win for the most part.

I concede that point and I do understand where you're coming from in that regard. I rarely invade (pretty much only occasional covenant stuff) but I have come across a few nightmare scenarios.
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>>163354567

Thoughts?
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>>163357539

Never played BB I reckon?
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>>163357506
anti cheat >>163352529

enjoy being banned for dsfix
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>first playthrough of DaS1
>Sif fight is really fun, no problems
>NG+
>Looking forward to Sif again
>Get Sif down to low health
>Limps
>fuckmylife.jpg
>look it up to make sure it's true
>it is
>see there's an alternate intro to Sif if you do the DLC first
>youtube it
>refuse to ever let that happen in my game, my feels can't handle it already
>Sif will never have to reluctantly fight me.... Just continue to fight for it's purpose
Anyone feel me?
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Fuck that bitch Friede I was only mirin' why did she attack me
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>>163357560

Like I said though, they're incredibly rare. I've even run into a few where I curbstomped them after invading them multiple times in a row and on the 3rd time the guy pulled the plug, felt fucking amazing.

The game will be truly dead when you can't get people who are actually trying to progress through the level anymore, only pro gank squads. Luckily that's not the case atm, especially at low-mid level which is where I stay for invasions. I used to do aldrich invasions at SL130 before and it's pure cancer with loads of cheaters on PC too, so I stopped that.
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>>163358068
anon, i just wanted to say you may have severe autism
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>>163358068
>tfw couldn't summon sif for manus because watching doggo get hurt after i died was too much to handle
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>>163358068
https://youtu.be/WXIewCMep64?t=6m40s
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>>163358307
>tfw always try to leave a message on top of Sif's summon sign so people will be keked out of summoning him
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I want to make a 30/30 hexer build in DS

What's the best early weapon I can get? right now I'm using a Lightning Heide Knight Sword
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>>163358307
I wanted to fight Manus with Sif this time around but that's not happening.
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>>163312493
>gundy kick
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What's a good light shield for a sorceror to use?
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>tfw I fail on 95% of my invasion attempts

If it's 2 against 1 I have no shot in hell because I have parried successfully less than 15 times total in all 3 games combined. Fuck I suck.
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>>163358921
anything buffed with great magic shield
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>>163358985
Well, I was thinking of something I could use in more of an emergency. Something light with decent stability with 100% phys res.
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>>163358921
Spider/Follower/Grass Crest.
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>>163358931

I win 95% of my invasion attempts so at least you know the difference between gitting gud and not gitting gud.
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Jesus fucking christ, arena is fucking terrible, I'm even gold, but

>katanas
>buffed katanas
>carthus
>buffed carthus
>Gundyr halberds
>Friede Scythes
>people spamming that dark geyser and dark short range flaming breath thing

Top that with retarded amounts of phantom range on either side, lag, lag backstabs, lolnoparrybecauselag, eating six hits stunlocks because antiroll lag. It's not even my connection, I'm cabled and not having problems in any other game. I swear oncologists see less cancer in their careers, even fucking Chivalry has more precise hit detection
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My DS1 just updated what the fuck
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>>163359191
Mine too. I'M SCARED
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As someone who gives zero fucks about PvP,

DaS1 > BB > DeS > DaS3 >>>> DaS2
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>>163359191
They updated it so that Japs could play it on Steam.
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>>163359164
This game gives an advantage to people with shit tier internet. I died so many times because of people with said internet.
What really bothers me is that some of them think they're so good, they're winning just because they lag.
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BB holiday stream starting in 10
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>>163359191

I hope it's a namecrash fix.
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>>163359539

Thanks for the notification!
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>>163359262
>capra demon
>whole izalith
>3 asylum demons totally not copy pasted all original character do not steal
>buttload of backtracking
>face tanking bosses with havels
I can go on forever with this
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>tfw liked das2 pve but hated the pvp
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>>163359164
>I'm even gold
What the fuck does this mean?

How can I check my rank?

Are these the icons next to player names now?

Haven't played in a long time
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>>163359164
How about Ivans and BRs pulling the plug?
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>>163327601
The joke was describing a theoretical area that would be a nightmare, it wasn't actually complaining about the difficulty of Farron Keep, you dingus
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>>163304632
delete this, the Dancer is pure and Sulyvahn had only good intentions regarding her employment
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>>163359851

Yes, it goes from iron-something, below bronze, to gold, one medal for duel and one for brawls
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>>163359661
>>face tanking bosses with havels
>My name is Havel and this is "fuck the 4kings"
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>>163359767
I liked DaS2's PVE and PVP.
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>>163359963
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>>163359968
How do I check ranks?
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what bossfight has the best sound design in the series?
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>>163360027
>not budging an inch fighting literal lord of death that lived since the dawn of days and contributed to dragon genocide
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>>163359661
The Tomb of Giants, Blight Town, Ash Lake and Demon Ruin dead ends just ruined the game. So much time wasting.
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>>163359767
I'm the opposite, I thought that the pvp was fun but that the pve was intolerably bad
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>>163352465
just a guess, I'm seeing fromdebug, could be they patching out debugmode? and jetpack interactive is anti-cheat
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>>163360148
Select undead match on firelink bonfire, your rank shows up on top right.
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>>163360148

Top right when you open the arena menu, shows you the badge
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>>163358171
>The game will be truly dead when you can't get people who are actually trying to progress through the level anymore

Don't worry Anon, I (and people like me) will be going through DS3 with novelty builds for years to come. If anything I'd expect the pro ganking to die down, I can't imagine it's much fun to just sit there and wait for people. That said, I do remember people doing that back in DS1. I encountered a lot of forest gankers and people waiting with phantoms in the UB with kirk's armor and the ninja ring for flippy shenanigans.
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If they don't put this helmet in the next fucking DLC I riot
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>>163360104
I thought that Vordt was the Dancer's creepy beta orbiter
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>>163360280
That's what I liked about dark souls though, you could actually feel like a badass
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>>163360716
DeS did it better.
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>>163360780
Not everything is an inane contest
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>>163359661
>capra
nothing wrong with him
>3 asylum demons totally not copy pasted all original character do not steal
1 assylum demon. stray and firesage are the same, but not the same with assylum. still shitty, but every game repeats the tutorial boss
>buttload of backtracking
can you tell me where that is?
>face tanking bosses with havels
you are not required to do that and it's not even possible without a certain stat investment. are you claiming that the bosses of other games cannot be cheesed? also, facetank ceaseless or smough or boc if you count that as a boss
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>>163359661
Every game has retarded bullshit. Dark Souls still has the best world design and is the most fun to play overall.
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>>163360780
not really, everything was insanely ridiculous in DeS. Things like that lose their value when everything is cuhrazy
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>>163360245
Alonne by far.
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>>163359767
>tfw like that image but would like to see more feet focus
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>>163360780
if we're being that technical, the game that made you feel the most badass was BY FAR Bloodborne. It's not even close.
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really fires up the 'ol neurons
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>>163361063
>it's another "DaS2 fan tries to ruin the thread by starting a franchise war" episode
go back to /v/
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dear 163361063

pineal gland has been THOROUGHLY calcified after viewing this image

please think before you post it again

regards

anon
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>>163359963
She isn't pure anymore
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>>163361180
>don't talk about Souls games in the Souls general
go back to /v/
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>>163360579
He is
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>>163359262
>DaS1 > BB

To this day I'm convinced that the only reason the Souls community dickrides DS1 so much is because that was most of the community's first Souls game.
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>>163361249
explain
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I'LL CLEANSE THE BASTARD'S CURSE
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>>163361461
Much of the BB fanbase only dickrides it because it's a PS4 exclusive. What's your point?
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>>163361461
it was the game that most felt like an adventure to me, and I thought that it had the "comfiest" world/pve, though I can't explain it more precisely than that, it's hard to nail down. It also had the best NPCs imo
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post BUTT
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>>163361623
What is the second line they sometimes say?
I can't make it out, but sounds something like:

"Wheo-ere are you? Come to here." or "Come to me" or something.
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>>163361623
OH OH OHOOH

I can't fight these seriously, their kind of laugh always tear me up, why
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>>163361709
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>>163361727
It doesn't help that they can be a legit pain in the ass for a first time player.

They are probably still the scariest enemy i faced in my first playthrough. Like, it unsettled me how powerful they were in contrast to how ridiculous they look/sound.
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>>163361678
>Much of the BB fanbase only dickrides it because it's a PS4 exclusive

Not untrue, but also irrelevant here.

>What's your point?

That the only reason the Souls community dickrides DS1 so much is because that was most of the community's first Souls game.

>>163361701
Was it your first Souls game?
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>>163361715
>Oh, child.. COME TO ME
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>>163361938
No, I played DeS first but I couldn't get into it, but DaS1 clicked for some reason. Went back and played DeS a while ago and it was ok, I guess

>hurr durr durr everyone with a different opinion than me is just a nostalgiafag
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>>163361709
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>>163361461
DeS was my first, but admittedly, DaS1 was the first one I actually finished. The reason I love it so much, though, is because of how interconnected the areas are. It's the most fun to revisit because there are so many different routes and shortcuts you never discovered on your first playthrough. It feels the most like you're journeying through an actual place and not being shepherded through a series of linear areas. DeS had great areas, too, but the way DaS1 connected its areas was just more organic and satisfying.
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BB>>>DaS1>>DeS>DaS3>>>DaS2
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>>163362145
>>163361893
>>163361709

>these lightweights
>not posting the best ass
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>>163361623
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>>163361921
>They are probably still the scariest enemy i faced in my first playthrough
what are faceraping Ghru for 500, Alex
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>>163361709
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>>163362384
THICKER
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>>163360528

That's good. I at least want it to survive until february when For Honor comes out and eventually Absolver, but I'll likely keep invading regularly at low-mid levels (mainly SL36 +4 and SL56 +6-8) as long as the wait times aren't unreasonable.
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What the fuck is with all the backstab fishing lately? For most of the time I've been playing DaS3 people have just fought each other head on, but in the last month or so almost every little faggot in the arena is running right at me and constantly trying to roll or side step behind me in a desperate attempt to get backstabs

Also holy shit captcha that's a fucking fajita not sushi
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>>163362442
well damn
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how will Sulyvahn be involved in the 2nd DLC?
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>>163362550
Also Astraea
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Anyone here tried the PS4 controller with the official steam support playing dark souls?
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>>163362469
is this supposed to be somehow different than>>163361709? because i'm not seeing it
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>>163362539
>Select all the images with outdoor seating areas
>click two pictures of the sea and one of a hamburger
>it works
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>>163362717
tear/raindrop right to her head
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>>163361520
Sulyvahn took the pure away from her
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>>163361180
>still being mad that DaS2 is better than half of the miyasucky games
lol dasdreck
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Quelana of Izalith is the best souls girl.

prove me wrong.
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>not using legacy captcha
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>>163362869
>someone with hardcapped DEX/INT like Sillyman fingering a restrained girl to completion over and over and over again
wew lad
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>>163362469
yo I got u senpai-o
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What even is this fucker?

Is he related to witchtrees somehow?
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>>163362761
im fucking blind
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>>163363125
he's the most pure and gentle man in the whole series who definitely never did anything wrong
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>>163363125
We have no idea. All we know for certain is that he came from the Painted World and cut dialogue strongly suggests he's somehow associated with witchtrees.
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>>163362913
Nothing can beat Yuria in my heart
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>>163363086
How does the Dancer's vagina juice taste like?
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>>163363125
>>163363237
what is a witchtree
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So.... what's the trick to play Demon Souls on ps4?
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>>163363125
He's /our guy/
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>>163363024
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>>163362913
I believe that honor goes to Sewer Centipede.
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>>163362013
>hurr durr durr everyone with a different opinion than me is just a nostalgiafag

That's a pretty blatant oversimplification, BB beats DS1 by just about every metric. Not to mention DeS only has about 1/3 the sales that DS1 has and that's only because people have been going back and buying it now that Souls is in vogue, by my estimation DeS has sold about 200k copies this year alone and that still puts it under BB. It's safe to assume that most of the Souls community started with Dark Souls 1.

I could sit here and talk all day about how combat was improved in DS1 and how estus was way the hell better than grass but if you can't explain your reasoning beyond "for some reason" then honestly I think it's laughable that you'd deride me for saying that plenty of DS1fags don't have particularly good reasons for saying that DS1 is the best Soulsborne game.


>>163362278
>The reason I love it so much, though, is because of how interconnected the areas are.

That's just one facet of the game though, and while I'll admit that it was cool as hell for a 3D game's world to be interconnected and also not be a giant clusterfuck I think that it's overrated. I really liked that DeS let you tackle different areas without dicking around in an overworld between transitions.
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>>163363125
I really like the idea that he's a tree from Ariandel. Maybe one of the Millwood Knights was missing the Ethereal Oak and stuck his dick in some icy wood vagina and Sulyvahn was the result.

>>163363323
The tree ladies in Ariandel. They might be related to the nasty centipede things you find there and in Irithyll and the Profaned Capital.
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>>163363410
Sully broke her by keeping her edged 24/7 with magic, and only allowing her to cum as a reward for renouncing the Gods
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>>163363024
>over and over and over again
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>>163363125
Literally Soul's Hitler
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>invade at dragon peak
>bunch of fags just sit at the mausoleum bonfire, waiting for me to come into the rape ledge
>bait one of them outside a little by purposedly getting to low HP
>snakewoman summons someone

>HAVEL HAS LOGGED IN.EXE
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>>163363323
Living trees that are descendants/sprouts/relatives of the primordial archtrees. They sometimes come to life in the form of enemies in AoA, simple undead frozen halfway into tree transformations like you see everywhere, and are the sources of witchtree branches.

Some people theorize Sulyvahn may be a personified Archtree himself.
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>>163363609
>Living trees that are descendants/sprouts/relatives of the primordial archtrees
source

>some theorie that Sully was a personified Archtree
but why
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Wouldn't it have been easier to just kill Gwyndolin quick and easy instead? Why let Aldrich slowly eat her?
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>>163363764
>her
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>>163363764
Sulyvahn wants to end the Age of Fire. Instigating an Age of the Deep would do the job, and to do that he needs to make Aldrich more powerful, so he fed Gwyndolin to him.
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i need cute ciaran fanart
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>>163363764
Because Pontiff "Be a trap, fall into a trap" Sullyvahn shows no mercy
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>>163363905
>Sulyvahn wants to end the Age of Fire. Instigating an Age of the Deep would do the job

So why the fuck aren't we helping him then?
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>>163363764
>her
Xe prefers the pronoun xer
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>>163363734
>but why
Because "some" who "theorize" make their living with dark souls "theories".
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>>163363947
Your character had no way of knowing that you might eventually become allies at the time when you fight Sully. You can only visit the Untended Graves and become redpilled after you kill him.
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>>163363905
>Sulyvahn wants to end the Age of Fire.
[citation needed]
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I just finished my first run of Dark Souls 1. Killed all NPCs including DLC, Oswald, and Dusk and played complete edgelord but linked the fire by accident.

What's the level meta for Dark Souls 1? Are there still fight clubs or something, or is it dead game?
Current stats are:
>Level 100
>Vit 40
>End 40
>Str 40
>Dex 18
>Int 11
>Fai 10

I'm planning on running NG+es with this character, but going to make a magic-oriented one now.
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So the Grandma in Firelink is the 4th firekeeper sister from DaS2, right?
Milibeth (the ladle girl) dialogue:
>The old women are sisters. I am told there was a fourth.
>They have looked like that for as long as I have known them.
>Long ago, Fire Keepers were commonplace.
>But now they are lost, scattered to the winds.
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>>163364054
sounds like the same """some""" who say Kosm

>>163364065
he allied with Aldrich, who wanted to end the Age of Fire, introduced Dark Magic everywhere in Irythyll, and made his living curbstomping the allies of Fire. What more do you want?
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Gameplay wise, who would win in a fight between sully, dancer and the twin fags?
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who would win in a 1v1 between Lord Gwyn and Gehrman, the First Hunter?
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>>163364181
>he allied with Aldrich
He's using Aldrich for his own means, which AFAIK are not explicitly stated anywhere. If Sulyvahn wants to end the age of fire why does the Londor Pale Shade help us kill him?
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>>163364189
Dancer is already Sully's bitch and the twin fags are too slow for Sully
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>>163364325
>If Sulyvahn wants to end the age of fire why does the Londor Pale Shade help us kill him?

Because those londor fags want an age of dark which is the other side of the coin when stacked against an age of fire

Now the deep is out there and worth pursuing
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>>163363947
Because your character's job is to prolong the Age of Fire. That's literally why they were brought back to life. Presumably item descriptions are purely 'out of character' information, not stuff you character magically finds out upon picking up an item, so while we can piece together the story of Sulyvahn, to the Ashen One he's just some random dual wielding asshole who attacked you for walking in his chuch.

>>163364065
>Overthrew Gwyndolin, probably the biggest Age of Fire advocate around
>Heretical as fuck
>Ruined Irithyll, last stronghold of the Gods
>Wields the Profaned Flame, which has the Abyss in it
>Allied with the Cathedral of the Deep and Aldrich, who are tied to the Dark and want to bring about an Age of the Deep
>Feeds Gwyndolin to Aldrich in order to get that shit under way
>Comes from a world without Fire, probably thinks the First Flame and the cycle are stupid

>>163364325
Because nothing points to him being allied with Londor. The job of the Pale Shade and other people from Londor is to ensure the Chosen Undead can wrest the flame from its mantle or whatever the fuck the phrasing is, stopping anyone else from linking it and giving its power to their new 'Lord.' Sulyvahn is in the way and pursuing his own goals.
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>>163364325
>Aldrich's motivations aren't stated anywhere

The holy symbol of the Cathedral of the Deep, and crest of those who see beyond fire to the age of deep waters. Equip to pledge onself to the Aldrich Faithful covenant.

The faithful ensure that Aldrich, Devourer of Gods, remains undisturbed -- crest of the Aldrich Faithful

Aldrich wants the Age of Fire to end, that's why he's abandoned his duty as a Lord of Cinder and has set up an army of dudes to stop any pesky Unkindled from forcing him back.

>Why does Londor try to stop us
Londor and Aldrich have different goals. That's why there's 2 different endings: Londor end (Usurpation of Fire aka weird shit) and End of Fire (aka Age of Dark/Deep Water, the end of the Age of Fire). Londor wants the first, Aldrich wants the 2nd.
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>>163363513
TAKE THAT BACK, OR ELSE
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>tfw sully will never encase the ashen one in sealed armor and force the ashen one to become his beast like slut
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>>163364176
>tfw Sirris is a descendant of firekeeper
best girl
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>>163364525
Backwards. Aldrich and co want the flip side of the coin, the age of dark, the Londor bros are the guys aiming for the maximum heretical experimental stuff
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>>163363458
>estus was way the hell better than grass
Eh, with the abundance of grass, they made enemies actually a threat with their ability to wombo combo you to death.
With limited estus they couldn't do that. It was about slowly wearing you down unless you stumbled upon the rite of kindling or some good armor set. Then it became a walk in the park.
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>>163364817
>age of fire/dark are 2 sides of the coin
>londor hollows want to eat that coin
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>>163364787
>fantasizing about being mindbroken into a willing sex slave
what new meme fetish is this?
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>>163364525
>>163364817
Neither Londor nor Aldrich want standard Age of Dark. They both want something completely new: Londor wants an Age of Dark where they're the ruling force, backed by a Lord of Hollows who has absorbed the First Flame; Aldrich wants an 'Age of the Deep,' and while we don't know loads about the Deep it is somehow different to standard Dark/Abyss.

Twin Princes want a standard Age of Dark, and the player character if you choose to put out the fire.
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>>163364831
>Eh, with the abundance of grass, they made enemies actually a threat with their ability to wombo combo you to death.
Wombo combo enemies are cancer and extremely unfun to fight, stunlock as a fundamental component of enemy movesets is not good design. This is one of the reasons why DaS3 has bad pve, everyone has it but they don't give you the tools to counter it like they did in BB.
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>>163365051
So, as always, Pontiff is the good guy and everyone else is a villian working towards their greedy goals
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>>163365051
>backed by a Lord of Hollows who has absorbed the First Flame

Ah right I forgot about that. So it's not standard dark where fire disappears completely..
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>>163364721
Pale pine resin on mace into proper bow into perseverance into double hit into roll-catching third r1, god bless the added momentum into point down and throw shit.

Nothin personnel kid.
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>>163364721
Or else what, anon ?
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>>163365051
The Deep is the normal age of Dark, the Princes, Aldrich, and the player character (in the waifu end) all want the same thing. Aldrich just based a religion around it and dressed up the concept in religious metaphor. The Abyss is the unnatural perversion of Dark that only exists due to sorcerer's fuckery, not the Deep.
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>>163365093
What's the difference between an enemy doing 1 attack and killing you in 1 hit or stunlocking you to death, assuming the first attack of the stunlock is of the same speed as the one hit kill?
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>>163364721
>someone actually paid an artist to draw their FK edgelord
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>>163363914
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>>163363932
Pontiff "if you're a trap, you'll be aldritch's crap" Sulyvahn
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>>163365389

How else are art school majors suppose to pay off tuition?
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>>163365093
Maybe you should git gud.
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>>163364590
>Wields the Profaned Flame, which has the Abyss in it

>Read this
>Assume that you're wrong because I'd assumed that the profaned flame was the chaos flame
>Double check by reading some item descriptions
>Chaos flame is stated to be dying while profaned flame is still going strong
>Profaned flame seems like it could be connected to Aldia's 3rd way because it seems to be completely out of the cycle

Well shit, now I'm starting to think that Aldia somehow influenced Sulyvahn and that Sulyvahn influenced the Super Lothric Bros. That statue of Sully in the high wall is making a little more sense now.
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>>163365467
I'm not mocking the artist, I'm mocking the guy who had a FK + Farron and thought paying someone to draw that generic combination would be good
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What was Sister Friede's end goal? She clearly wasn't doing her job as an ashen one
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>>163357802
You can annoy people in a 1v1 but multiple opponents will still overwhelm your turtling. Are you trying to annoy them with turtling long enough so they're prone to spamming r1 and then go for parry riposte?
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>>163365634
She wanted the painting to rot entirely, with everything inside it. Including her. Maybe she was just suicidal.
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>>163365149
Pontiff is down for whatever the fuck as long as he gets a good deal out of it, it seems. He goes with the Deep because he knows McDonnel and Aldrich and decides Aldrich is an easy method of getting what he wants.

>>163365229
>The Deep is normal dark
>Aldrich just based a religion around it
No, the Deep is some sort of magical place that the Way of White decided was worth protecting. Aldrich was a member of the Way of White who was part of the Cathedral of the Deep, not its founder. McDonnel was probably the one who rused everyone into worshipping the Deep, and was completely on board when Aldrich came back to life and started having prophetic visions of having an entire Age of the Deep, instead of just one little Cathedral and some nearby peasants.
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Do we still hate Vaati Vidya?
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>>163365598
It could've just been a request in a drawthread, on my old HD I have a pic of Solaire drinking estus from one of those beer hats that I got for free.

Some artists use drawthreads to showcase their talents to get commissions, you see a lot of that on /co/.
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>>163365448
cute! but sad
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>>163365813
>Some artists use drawthreads to showcase their talents to get commissions, you see a lot of that on /co/.

Sad
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>>163364965
being a sub isn't new
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>>163365751
Yes.
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>>163365634
>>163365709
Elfriede died at some point then got brought back as an ashen one. She no longer felt at home in Londor and fucked off, and somehow got drawn into the Painted World, which she loved and wanted to live in. When she found out that the painting was routinely burnt away and remade, she couldn't bear the thought of losing her new home, so she convinced Ariandel to suppress the ritual flames and rejuvenate the Painting with his blood. Prolonging the existence of the Painted World caused the rot to start setting in, but Friede pretended everything was fine. Gael hires you to kill her and Ariandel so that the flames can flourish and the painter girl can make a replacement.
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>>163365813
The first time that was posted, anon said it had been paid for(think on tumblr or something). It's just so dumb someone will pay for their character to be drawn when you can mistake the very same character for dozens of others.

>>163365856
That's how you know when they open/close comissions and if they're good or not
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>>163365212
YOU BETTER HOPE I NEVER SEE YOUR SIGN ANON!
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>>163365813
a long long time ago some friendly drawfag in /dsg/ made this cute drawing of solaire painting the sun symbol on his chest armor. Truly a shame I've lost the pic.
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>>163366007
>anon said it had been paid for

Well then nevermind, there's no excuse for that. Fallen knight set with the Farron greatsword is literally the most generic thing I can think of for a DS3 character.
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>>163366035
Come at me, ash.
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>>163365817
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>>163365964
>Gael hires you to kill her and Ariandel so that the flames can flourish and the painter girl can make a replacement.

What stops sister friede from respawning like you since she can see bonfires and shit? She even tells you to leave and go back to your subjects when you die in the second/third phase
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>>163366310
*parries and ripostes*
*spams R1 with anri's straight sword + cancer rouge*
nothing personnel kid
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>>163366657
I always wondered why she died forever.
She comes back to life twice, but why does she die the third time ?

>>163366792
Pssh... See you in the next DLC, kiddo.
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>>163366310
Got me nostalgic over Portal, you win :-( NEXT TIME I WONT GO SO EASY ON YOU
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>>163366657
>What stops sister friede from respawning like you

The same thing that stops Oscar from respawning.

Plot holes.
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>>163365715
the Deep may or may not be a physical place in Lothric, but it's also a component of a man's soul, it's a part of their humanity. You call upon the Deep within you to cast spells like Deep Soul and Gnaw, and the Human Dregs that fuel these spells can be found in each and every human -- it's the heaviest, most "fundamental" part of the Humanity they carry within them.

This is a parallel situation to how the Abyss is a physical place in Lordran, but it also has the potential to sprout up from all humans in the world, as it's merely a manifestation of the humanity they carry within them.
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>>163366310
AAAAAAAAUUURRRGGHHHH
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What's the point of punishing people for not wearing armor so severely? Does being naked really give you such a significant advantage that it requires you take +50 damage from all attacks? The only thing I can think of is they thought that it would make Flynn ring overpowered somehow.
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>>163365634
She's from Londor you dongus -- they don't believe in fire, and would rather see the world rot away than burn it to make space for a fresh one. See: Usurpation of Fire.
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>>163366931
Psh, I will laugh when this doesn't happen, dead man.
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>>163366657
>>163366931
Above all else, gameplay. Throughout all the games only the player character has consistently respawned. In most cases, presumably Undead bosses and NPCs respawn 'elsewhere' as random Hollows when you've killed them. Though, this doesn't work for Friede and a few NPCs in DaS3 now that I think about it seeing as she's Ashen and apparently they don't go Hollow.

Maybe the flames that burn away Ariandel consume her, like linking the First Flame does, which stops her from coming back.
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>>163366983
>>163366931

Well I figured she lost the fight and the world was burning so she just left but we got her soul and shit

Would have been nice if she appeared at the bonfire all mad and shit before snobbishly going away
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>>163367098
To look good
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>>163366931
who's making these? i need more! i know there's at least one more
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>>163366931
1. She comes back to life because she got embered, all Unkindled can do this

2. Her 2nd revival was some weird soul-merging fuckery with Ariandel, you see him cast the spell just as he dies. Her lack of respawning after this probably has to do with this. Ariandel can't respawn and so neither can she if their souls bond?
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>>163367396
>2. Her 2nd revival was some weird soul-merging fuckery with Ariandel, you see him cast the spell just as he dies. Her lack of respawning after this probably has to do with this. Ariandel can't respawn and so neither can she if their souls bond?

So basically she couldn't protect Ariandel from you and her last resort was trying to combine with him as a last ditch effort to save the painted world while losing ashen one privileges. Makes sense I guess.
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>>163366657
>What stops sister friede from respawning like you since she can see bonfires and shit?
Ariandel is dead and this seems to leave her unable to respawn.
Maybe she loses her purpose which means death for undead.
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>>163366986
>may or may not be
It literally is. Item descriptions explicitly say it is a place, and the whole point of the Cathedral of the Deep is that it's a fully staffed location set up to guard it. It's probably that huge black pool you can see from the Cathedral.

>You call upon the Deep within you to cast spells like Deep Soul and Gnaw
These spells just draw their projectiles 'from the Deep.' Because the Deep is explicitly stated to be a place, it's more likely that they come from there, not just your own human dregs, though I suppose it's possible.

I'm kind of inclined to agree with you that it's like the Abyss, and is both a physical location and something that can stem from people, but I'm not really sure what the supporting evidence is. I don't think there's any mention of the Abyss spontaneously appearing from somewhere/someone. The Pus of Man, perhaps, but I think the cleric cover implies that you become one by getting infected by an external source.
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>>163367396

Yea but the ashen one player can still respawn after he usurps the flame which is the same fire combining concept. It's literally canon since Friede's dialogue changes if you beat the game and actually become the lord of hollows.
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Does anyone else unironically use Caestus for PvP?
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>>163367732

I use it because it looks cool on my offhand with it's blessed infusion for hp regeneration
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>>163367732
I've used it for PvP but for its intended purpose: punching. I've never used an offhand caestus for parrying.
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>>163367076
>>163366949
UUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGHHHHH
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>>163367732
I use it to punch stupid sorcerers that only do backstep soulmass or something equally retarded.
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>>163366310
Reminder that Pontiff summons his own phantom from alternative dimension.
Reminder that he can potentially exist in all alternative dimensions at once which makes him effectively immortal.
Reminder that he's going to be a final DLC 2 boss.
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>>163367732

Yes, I like punching.
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>>163367707
You guys are fucking dumb, the dialogue change is whether you are doing Yuria's quest or not in the current playthrough. NG+ isn't canon
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>>163367732
yes
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>>163367664
>Ariandel
>dead
this nigga doesn't drop any soul and you hear his voice after he disappears, he's definitely alive or maybe bound to the painting itself
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>>163368060
Pretty sure he was simply consumed by fire from his lordvessel which left no traces of him.
The fact Friede's soul makes his flail kinda implies that their souls were merged during the second phase.
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>>163367906
HRROOOOAAAAGHHHH

>>163368060
>this nigga doesn't drop any soul and you hear his voice after he disappears
Because Friede absorbs his soul, which is probably why you can make his flail from hers.

>maybe bound to the painting itself
Quite likely. It's probably painted with his blood, after all.
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>>163368000
>Player is a Lord of Londor

Dialogue, first phase, player dies

(Friede):Return from whence thou cam'st
Yuria surely awaits thee.

Dialogue, second/third phase, player dies

(Friede): Leave us be, Ashen One.
Thou art the Lord of Londor and have thine own subjects to guide.

>Player completed Lord of Hollow ending, but not started next NG Cycle

Dialogue, player dies

(Friede): Return Lord of Londor. You have your own subjects to attain to"
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>>163367679
>you teleport pieces of the Deep to you from the big Deep pool outside the cathedral to your location wherever you are in Lothric
Please take a step back and realize how silly this sounds. There's no precedent for magic working this way. When you cast Pursuers or Dark Orb in DaS1, are you filing an express mail order to Manus for one (1) order of Abyssal Souls, signature on delivery? No you aren't, you're channeling the Humanity inside of you to cast spells, like how all Sorceries use the power of YOUR OWN soul to work. Even though the Abyss in DaS1 (and presumably DaS3 though we never visit it -- yet) exists as a geographic location in the world, you're still using the power of your own soul to cast it.

Regarding the Pus of Man, the Follower Torch in the DLC explicitly confirms it to be the result of the Abyss appearing within a person. And we know from Manus' example in DaS1 that the Abyss can and will appear inside of a man without any external Abyss "infecting" it -- it's all a matter of driving the humanity within you nuts.

Basically: Even though the Clerics of the CotD managed to collect a giant pool of Human Dregs outside their cathedral, the Deep is a component of a human's Humanity, as this is just the name Aldrich gave to the Human Dregs he and McDonnell discovered. These Dregs represent the non-wild components of your Humanity that dominate when the Abyss isn't raising hell everywhere. When Aldrich talks about "Age of the Deep" he's talking about the gentle, peaceful, perfectly still Dark that exists in the absence of Abyss monsters showing up and ruining everything aka a "natural," or "unspoiled" Age of Dark. You saw this also referenced in DaS2.
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>>163367824
>>163367886
>make a fuckery character for shit's and giggles
>loincloth, master's attire, flynn's ring
>heavy caestus and fire caestus on right and left, respectively
>enjoying punching the shit out of things
>perseverance through invader attacks and chain into L1 spam
FUN
U
N
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So has there been a consensus on where Friede is harder or easier than NK?
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>>163368147
You can make havel's ring out of stray demon's soul, does that mean he has havel's soul?
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>>163367921
what is the name of Pontiff's Stand?

>>163368060
Ariandel's Soul was consumed by Friede
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>>163368394
Who fucking knows how far the poor Stray Demon travelled around the world and if he encountered any havel warriors. It's certainly possible that he killed one of them and absorbed his soul.
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>>163368387
>where

*whether
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>>163368496
Thx Vaati for your insight.
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>>163368387
>So has there been a consensus on where Friede is harder or easier than NK?

Both are easy and manageable once you learn the mechanics on solo. With phantoms, Friede is a joke with the way she can be staggered

I'd say NK is easier solo. Friede has 3 stages that can wear you down and cause you to make mistakes by 3. The second is a snore fest or running around waiting for an opening. The third is easy once you learn the right positioning for a backstab but for me on ng maxed, she can nearly one shot me with that decapitation attack which is annoying.

Needless to say I will summon for her next time since I need to beat bosses solo at least once to not feel like a scrub. NK is still easy solo.
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>>163367906
>there's no move in his moveset that turns him into an upside helicopter of death
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>>163367679
I thought Abyss referred to when the Dark is spreading throughout physical locations and mutating it, while Deep is a reference to the Dark that resides within and is a part of all humanity.

Basically abyss is darkness surrounding places, while deep is darkness surrounding people.
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>>163368252
>husbando'ing an abusive egomaniac
D A M A G E D
A
M
A
G
E
D

MOM'S GONNA FREAK
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>>163367921
if Sully is the Heirophant, who is the Lovers?
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>>163368663
He doesn't need it when he has the power of PHANTOM HITBOX
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>>163367921
Yeah, just like Velka was the boss of the first dlc
you guys are dumb if you think you can accurately predict the bosses
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>>163368720
the Abyss is simply Humanity run wild and mutated. Spreading around like a virus and infecting things is a symptom of this. Think of it as analogous to the Chaos Flame vs normal fire, with "normal" fire in this analogy being represented by Human Dregs/the Deep/normal Humanity.
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>>163368252
this is fucking great, please tell me it's a series
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>>163368897

Jeeze I can't wait to fight yuria's other misbehaved sister in another painting
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>>163368859
>implying his elbow doesn't just emanate absolute strength
Git gud anon, gosh
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>>163369009
>implying that Yuria's other sister wasn't the Oracle who cast the Profaned Flame
>implying that we aren't going back to the Profaned Capital for DLC 2
what an underutilized area, I want to see more of it
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>>163368992


I'm literally drawing them on the fly
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How much will I suffer attempting bow only pvp?
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R8 Swole-aire

Thinking I should change to lightning Zwei
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>>163368479
>what is the name of Pontiff's Stand?
Deep Purple.
Summons a phantom of the user from across the multiverse.
Number of phantoms is limitless and all their actions are pre-determined by actions of Pontiff himself and cannot be altered or stopped in any shape or form except for physical destruction of the phantom.
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>>163368196
SMALL LOAN OF A MILLION KEKS

IIAAAAAAAHH
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>>163369146
Depends. What area, what bow?
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>>163369009
Sadly Liliane is present in the ending cutscene for usurpation of fire so no luck there anon.
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>>163368956
So everything that is referred to as Deep is elemental, but stable darkness/humanity, while Abyss is like a cancerous tumor version of it?
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>>163369079
>going through the dungeon
>look down off the edge and see the wondrous profaned capitol
>it ends up being 10min area
Very disappointed
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>>163368992
I don't know, I found these 2 pictures but never found more
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>>163369152
fuck me
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>>163369249
Arena with any of the small bows.
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>>163368394
he definitely has some connection. you also find his armor there
>havel's set
>[piece] as if hewn from a giant boulder
>boulder heave
>Spews a boulder from one's mouth.

>The boulder is heavy, but shatters easily.
is this an allegory for poise?
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>>163369308
yes

see also: the exact parallel between Fire/Deep gems and Chaos/Dark (Abyss) gems. Apply the basic assumption that similar things are similar, and the analogy falls right in line.
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>>163368841
lothric bros
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>invade a ganker
>expect fun
>get a host with perma-HA flipped on, who doesn't get stunned by the quakestone hammer WA while chugging, enough stamina to swing a great club 8 times in a row, and a phantom friend of his dealing ~800 damage per shot with a small bow

why do people do this though?
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>>163369342
Prepare to roll R1
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>>163369548
>invade a ganker
>expect fun
why would you do this
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>>163369127
i love you
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>>163368859
That stab has to be the most broken thing in all of Soulsborne, I've already seen more webms of that than I have of the Iron Golem.

>>163369079
I think it's almost guaranteed that the Profaned Capital will at the very least be the area where we access the next DLC, there's an entire room that has nothing in it but which screams "there's going to be an NPC here."

If they don't do anything with the PC I'll be really disappointed, that was one of the areas hyped by the concept art and it really came up short.
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>>163369127
Do one of the Dancer telling Pontiff that Vordt was acting creepy again and Pontiff deciding to "relocate" him to protect his property/girl
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>>163369321
maybe get a claymore instead, keep it physical and buff with slb, with maybe the zwei as backup
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>>163368361
Sorceries are soul magic, yes, but nothing explicitly says that they can only draw from your soul, as opposed to using the power of your soul to manipulate the world in other ways. If that was the case, would you care to explain how snap freeze, frozen weapon and pestilent mercury work? Or maybe elaborate on the difference between regular, crystal and light sorceries?

The follower torch confirms that Pus of Man is a form of the Abyss, yes. It does not say anything about how the Pus of Man got into its victims to begin with. The cleric chest says that the back cover is to stop people from being infected by Dark, implying that Pus of Man usually results from an external infection: it doesn't happen to people at random. Manus' humanity was driven wild by the Oolacile sorcerers experimenting on his corpse, it didn't suddenly happen without provocation. Manus is probably the Furtive Pygmy, so its no wonder that when his soul is fucked with the Abyss was the result. Given the Pus of Man's proximity to Lothric Castle then the cases we encounter may have been a result of sorcerous experiments done by Oceiros and the Grand Archives.

>Even though the Clerics of the CotD managed to collect a giant pool of Human Dregs outside their cathedra
You have pulled this completely out of your ass. What on earth would their motivation to do this be? Nothing says that the Cathedral preceeds the Deep. The Cathedral was founded to safeguard the Deep, but it failed in that and came to worship it. Why would the Way of White, a pro-Dark anti-Fire religion, start hoarding humanity?

Furthermore, the Deep gem says that the Deep is a darkness that lurks beyond humankind, implying it's something more than humanity under another name. Aldrich counts as an Abyssal creature, so he's not exactly an embodiment of calm, undisturbed Dark.

And why the fuck would they spend the whole game talking about the Deep and introducing all this new lore for it, when they could just call it 'Dark?'
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>>163369779
>Pontiff deciding to "relocate" him
>Right next to where he sent the dancer
>Like literally 100 meters away
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>Chosen Undead becomes king of Anor Londo and surrogate father to Gwyndolin
>CU breaks Priscilla out of the Painting and they have a child, Yhorshka, step-sister to Gwyndolin
>Gwyndolin overthrows CU
>Pontiff overthrows Gwyndolin

Did I get that right
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>>163369263

I'd give anything to see more of Yuria's slut qt sisters
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>>163369635
Because it usually is fun, when they don't hack

What are you, a shitter? Can only win 1v1 no estus?
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Anybody want to run through half of the grand archives with me on ps4?
NGMax
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>>163370146
>NGMax

HAHAHAHAHAHA

No.
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>>163370048
Liliane is pure, that's why she wears the same clothes as Yuria
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>>163370217
I'll be honest with you, I was expecting a "yes" beneath the spoiler
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I just got the invalid data message. I replaced the save with a backed up one. How many chances is there for me to get banned ?
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>>163370146
>NGmax grand archives
I don't feel like getting twoshot while on a ladder, thank you
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>>163370146
>"Oh hey someone wants a co-op bu-"
>Different platform
Every goddamn time
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>>163370002
>Did I get that right
No.
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>>163368897
>>163369009
>>163367921

I like the Pontiff but I think people jerk off over him all too much.

Sometimes a good one-off boss is a good one-off boss.
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>>163370397

Forget about that shit with an invader. More like just fuck my day up fampai. He couldn't even offer up a seed or some shit. How fucking fickle
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>>163370396
You can get the invalid data message 3 times on any given infraction. I don't know if it's 3 times on any character but I'm fairly certain that it's not. Some infractions are an instaban with no warning, like spawning stuff in your inventory.
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>>163370469
Pontiff is probably the best character Miyazaki introduced in DS3, killing him off halfway through left people wanting more of him (though we got some with DLC lore) so i can certainly see why people want a Sulyvahn Requiem fight.
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>use greathammer
>fight some passive reactive faggot with really fast weapon who does nothing but wait out my attacks so he can roll them

>onehand greathammer
>mash l1 with my trusty rose of ariandel
>they take 600-1700 damage because they're too retarded to realize I won't stop mashing l1 to let them hit me

best offhand
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>>163370591
I sometimes use CE to know people stats and steam profiles, I also used the effect to be immune to curse for a night.
Another day I changed an invader phantom type and used VAC monsters on him. That's all I ever done with CE. It doesn't even "let" anything in the save, like item spawning.
Considering how lucky I am at life I'll probably get banned. Oh well, these 1200 hours were fun. Kill me.
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>>163370397
FINE
how about dlc on ng+? Haven't even started it on this build
I just want to coop
>>163370412
I'm sorry friend
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>>163369938
>if that was the case, would you care to explain you snap freeze, frozen weapon, etc. work?
Are you trying to imply that you're teleporting Mercury or frost from somewhere else? They're transfiguration spells that use your soul as a fuel source.

>elaborate on the difference between regular, crystal, light sorceries
In DaS1, Dusk implies that Oolacile sorceries use the environment as a power source in addition to the user's soul, hence calling her sorceries an "approximation" of standard sorceries, noting that the difference being that standard sorceries "negate all but the self."

Crystal sorceries are essentially giga-sorceries that take advantage of the fact that the power of the Soul can be stored within a crystal like a battery -- transfigure crystals onto a surface/medium, stuff crystals with extra soul juice and fire away the nuke. Get enough INT and its' easy.

NONE of these sorceries imply the teleportation of material from one place to another, as opposed to transfiguration magic.

Regarding the Cleric Set, the description states that they were wearing their robes to "ensure that they would not become seedbeds for spreading darkness." The passive voice of this description makes it inconclusive about whether or not the clerics are being infected by existing darkness, or they are the origin of this spreading darkness. My opinion is that the latter is more accurate, as the Abyss Watcher item descriptions state that the Abyss would randomly pop up from time to time in various kingdoms and need to be dealt with, which is a disorganized mode of spreading consistent with the idea that the Abyss can originate from humans who experiment on themselves without any "external" provocation.
>Manus' Soul was fucked with the Abyss to start with.
No. Manus was a normal-ass man who had nothing extraordinary about him until his (ordinary) humanity went wild. Go re-read DaS1 descriptions.
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>>163370782
>they take 600-1700 damage because they're too retarded to realize I won't stop mashing l1 to let them hit me

I recently killed someone like this with my Lothric knight build but with some good ol' R1 spam. I even got fan mail afterwards, which I think is always hilarious coming from invaders.

Dude just stood there and took it like I wasn't going to expend my entire stamina bar on someone who didn't have a parry tool and wasn't moving.
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>>163371084
The thing about greathammer mainhand + rose offhand is that people get it into their head that your attacks cost lots of stamina when they fight you. In the heat of the moment they'll think that you're out of stamina after 3 attacks, even if it was 3 attacks with a 15 stamina consumption weapon.
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>>163371026
>>163369938
>the Cathedral was founded to safeguard the Deep, but failing that, came to worship it instead
Wrong. The Cathedral was ALWAYS founded to worship the Deep, what they were trying to contain were the unnatural monsters that moved in and made themselves at home in it. Why would an organization dedicated to worshiping the Deep collect a big-ass pool of Deep right outside their house of worship? The world may never know.

>Furthermore, the Deep is a Darkness that resides beyond humankind.
End this meme. "Ken" and "Kin" are two different words, that mean two different things. "Ken" means "understanding," not "kinship." The Deep Gem merely states that Humans have no idea how dark the Darkness truly gets, which is a rather non-controversial statement in the larger context of this series that proves nothing.

>why the fuck would they spend the whole game talking about the Deep when they could have just call it "Dark"
because in DaS3 the word "Dark," used as a title, means SPECIFICALLY "the Abyss," not darkness in general. Hence why they changed the name of "Age of Dark" to "World Without Fire," to make this consistent.
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>>163371026
>Manus was a normal-ass man who had nothing extraordinary about him until his (ordinary) humanity went wild.

I take issue with this statement.

Manus was referred to as the/a Primeval Man, which obviously makes him of man which means he can die. Manus was dead when the people of Oolacile dug him up for whatever reason and then he went nuts. Considering that the dark soul is what causes humans to die I think it's safe to say that someone who can just ignore death when someone steals their bling is extraordinary. It's not like he even came back in the manner in which undead usually do, he was in a grave and they dug him up.
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>>163371551
He was in a grave, dead, and they dug him up and used unholy evil necromancy bullshit to revive him. Is it so surprising that in doing so they produced a horrible abomination? That in itself isn't really proof that Manus had extraordinary powers
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>>163371286
>people get it into their head that your attacks cost lots of stamina when they fight you

Most definitely. People also tend not to try to parry offhand weapons like short swords for whatever reason.
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>Final boss of DLC2 is Aldia fighting sneks and you choose which ones to aggro
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>>163371879
>final boss of the whole damn series is whack-a-mole adds bullshit
please no
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Could a souls protag beat Ridley?
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>>163369938
>>163371026
>>163371347
In addition to everything I've posted, the fact that you can fire off Abyss sorceries without any external "infection" by the Abyss indicates that it is possible to create and channel an Abyss within yourself for your own ends.

In fact, across all 3 games, the only time that the player character gets "infected" with the Abyss is if they choose to wield the Dark Hand, which is almost certainly a fragment of the Abyss that Kaathe handed out to his followers.
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>>163371740
>Most definitely. People also tend not to try to parry offhand weapons like short swords for whatever reason.
That reminds me. With a caestus, can you actually parry offhand straightsword r1 spam between the stunlock?

People try this with the rose of ariandel often, but it doesn't work. It's too fast.
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>>163371683
>they dug him up and used unholy evil necromancy bullshit to revive him

According to what?

All I remember is them digging him up and then him going crazy because muh amulet.
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>>163372203
It's part of DLC2 for DS3. To unlock DLC2 in DS3, you have to start up DS1 and then go down to Blighttown and completely clear the area while running the game at exactly 5 fps
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>>163372203
preparing for jap release apparently
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>>163372345
Gough and Chester state that the Oolacile Sorcerers were the ones who drove Manus mad, not that Manus spontaneously went mad. Whatever magic Kaathe showed them to get that resurrection and resulting experimentation to work is at fault.
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>Raw Astora GS +4 has 234 AR, requires 16/18
>Raw Flamberge +4 has 280 AR, requires 15/14

Why is this allowed?
>>
>>163371912
>>163371879
Most likely final boss is going to be Manus/Artorias/Gwyn or some copy/variation throwback to DS1. Or maybe they'll have you fight an actual immortal dragon, which the series has lacked so far (ancient dragon was a fake copy). Whatever it is, it's going to be some big nostalgia capstone.

Or they could pull an Armored Core and have you fight the chosen undead / player character from DS1, now very powerful.
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>>163372621
Because the Astora GS is paying for a vastly superior moveset.
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>>163372621
Flamberge sucks cock tho
>>
>>163372621

Because the astora GS is a refined weapon at heart
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>>163372621
From doesn't balance for PvP, they balance for PvE. Flamberge is a rare drop, Astora GS is a guaranteed loot. They assume that if you are using flamberge, it's because you got lucky and it dropped during your normal gameplay, so they reward that. But everyone gets Astora GS. If you're farming for flamberge, you're not playing the game as intended.
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>>163372621

I've seen worse shit, like Raw ASS+6 having higher AR than a Lothric Knight Sword+9
>>
>tfw astora gs nerfed

literally no reason not to use Lothric Knight Greatsword instead now
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>>163373009
>weight: 8.0
>weight: 16.5

The AGS was always intended to be a greatsword moveset on an extremely light weapon.
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>>163372882
>rewarding luck

Do you realize how flawed that is?
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>>163372882
>From doesn't balance for PvP

This is known, but then why did they nerf CCS/Follower's after a lot of people were crying about them?
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>>163373009
>not propaned greatsword
come on now
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>>163373476
>975
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I'm planning on buying Dark Souls 3 any tips or info that help me get started?
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How much am I supposed to be hitting with a GCS?
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>>163373749
git gud
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>>163373682
You don't go 25 vig with fap ring on SL120 arena?
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>>163373253
Because they want people to quit bitching at them.

That's why heavy armor and offensive miracles were nerfed to shit in DS2.
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>>163373749
Buy the game

Play the game

Have fun

Don't read a guide on your first play through

Tell us how long it takes to beat the first boss
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>>163373749
Yeah. Buy something else.
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>>163373167
>>163372882

It's an extremely flawed way of thinking, but that's how the company has always approached their games. I imagine if you told most of the people at From that NA players actually like to play multiplayer on a single character with all parts already unlocked, they would think you're dumb as fuck. "Wait, why even play the game, then?" This type of stuff that

>>163373253
Because while they balance for PvE, they also want to sell games without causing problems/uproar/completely broken PvP.

It goes like this:

They create "choose your own difficulty" by putting powerful weapons in certain places in the game, and then rewarding players for using those weapons in certain areas of the game, and then make dropped weapons rare 'rewards' to your gameplay to balance out someone who is having trouble and has to fight enemies multiple times. They don't expect you to farm or collect until end game.

Then, bandai releases the game and prowls social media for complains about the PvP while From playtests AFTER release. If people are complaining about something a lot, they tell From to 'fix' it, a la poise in DS2 and DS3. If Bandai didn't care about social media so much, they wouldn't release patches at all except for bugs or glitches. You'll notice those are the patches that get released within days instead of months. Things like power creep from the DLC are deliberate, since those areas are harder/later/cost money to reach, so they reward the single player effort.

This is how you end up with so many weapons that trivialize other weapons in their class.

This is how they've done things for ages, all the way back to the Armored Core days (especially starting with Armored Core 4, which had 4-5 weapons that made the entire game a cakewalk, and TWO HUNDRED weapons that were objectively worse than them. But you would get the 'easy' weapons quickly if you picked the 'easy' starting equipment. Otherwise you had to wait until later in the game.
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>>163373749
Kill the old lady who gives you the banner, you'll be able to get some good equipment really early in the game.
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>>163374087
>>163373167

*this is the type of stuff that keeps them calling their games "role playing games" even though they're closer to customizable platform/fighters. The DS2 team at least understood this a bit better, since they were the only ones who have ever made a decently balanced multiplayer game at that company (Armored Core Verdict Day) where they made 30% of the weapons extremely well balanced for PvP (all unlocked near end game), and the other 70% extremely well balanced for PvE (unlocked across the game) with at least a few PvP viable weapons in every class or playstyle. Dark Souls likes to keep the two mixed though, so there's no weapons that are obviously intended for PvP and work better for that than PvE.

Armored Core was better for this because it didn't have random drops and >90% of the equipment could be bought at a shop. It was much more tuning-heavy. In Dark Souls, swapping a single weapon completely changes your gameplay, but in AC it's a continuum and all changes you make to your character are shit unless you optimize everything else with each change. Dark Souls doesn't have that, some weapons are just shit and they don't become good because you modified your stats around them.
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>>163374087
Things like this makes me extremely mad, yet I can't stop sucking From's dick by generally liking their games.

Help.
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>>163374748
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>>163374587
Souls has nothing to do with RPG mechanics at all, except what some miss-associate with RPGS, being stats/attributes.

Every single Souls game is a metroidvania at its core. The "RPG" part is simply levelling mechanics and damage calculation. Its a common thing for people to immediately assume a game is an RPG as soon as it has a medieval fantasy setting and changeable stats.
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>>163374846
And the fact that you can roleplay with different playstyles and equipment and autistic character stories.
You know, like a RolePlaying Game.
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>>163304978
>>163304632

What SL is roughly appropriate for starting ashes of andariel?
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>>163376057
~70
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Any tips on a low level bleed build for DS3?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4J5BlwJ58

>tfw farming POCKs and you get one
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>>163304632

Is there a decent weapon tier list anywhere? I can't seem to find anything I like. I keep getting halfway 20 hours and in and not having my weapon/playstyle "click" like in Souls 1 and 2. I liked the crescent axe a lot but it's damage is shit.

I'm thinking maybe Partizan since it's a fun moveset. Any suggestions?
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>>163377234

Moreover, is Int/Fai viable at all?
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>>163377350
>int/faith
so pyro? yes
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>>163377489
I was thinking more a mix of Int and Faith spells, would that just be retarded?
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>>163377564
The only viable faith spells are heals so take a guess.
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