/dsg/ - Demon's and Dark Souls General

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>>164503708

>>164503860
should rename it "dsg in a nutshell.jpg" in all honesty.

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Xth for best husbando

Repostan

>playing ng+ ds3
>pay attention to the music seeing how I've beaten the game already
>really dig some of the music
>wolnirs is pretty terrifying
>reach dragonslayer armor
>cool first phase
>second phase kicks in
>music gets intense
>atmosphere kicks it in more
>tfw dragonslayer armor is now one of my favorite bosses thanks to the music

What are your favorite musics anons?

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I want a condo in anor londo

>>164504001
Reposting this then, I guess

The musics in Souls games are almost all top tier
My favorite from DaS3 is Pontiff, definitely the best music, and boss, in the game. I even got an erection from this music once
Credits musics are also god tier, from each game.

>>164504001
Gravetenders

>>164504078
I always loved how in anor londo, even the far-away zones that are clearly not playable areas look like wonderfully detailed city districts.

>>164504243
It's insane


if you camehack you can see the WHOLE AREA and rendered and super detailed

Trying to find a build to play a new DaS1 run. Already got the 4 main builds: STR/DEX/INT/FTH so considering one that doesn't need any scaling at all, relying on Toxic/Bleed and fancy footwork.

Bandit's Knife/buckler and 2-H Gravelord Sword.

Biggest issue is after I get 16 STR, I just max VIt/END and I have nothing to increase. I stop at SL 84, the fuck am I gonna do with all them souls?

>>164504352

Just scrapped content things

>ywn play the original Dark Souls

For someone who never passed Dark Souls 2 and didn't buy any of the dlc, is it worth getting Scholar of The First Sin to play through it?

Uh Garbman I think you gave me shit intended for someone else, I got your sign thinking it was a dueling one from someone else here. I can give those items back to you or whoever you want if you place it down again.

>>164504417
Level RES, obviously. Become invincible.

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>>164504001
All soulsborne games with exception of DS2 (which has roughly 3-4 non-shit tracks) have superb soundtracks but BB and DS3 osts are so glorious i can't choose a single track.

First visit to Pontiff's boss room is probably the single hypest moment in DS3. Best character, godly boss fight, superb OST. Though all boss fights that involve some sort of metamorphosis and theme shift are hype as fuck too.

>>164504417
> I stop at SL 84, the fuck am I gonna do with all them souls?
Buy dung pies and some gimmick items to drop for people in invasions.

A favorite dickass-thief thing of mine to do is dropping people an item (useful or not) and then attacking them while they pick it up.

For an added layer of dickassery, drop indictments.

>>164504515
B-But RES is dogshit..

>>164504634
Only because leveling damage stats is so much better, but you apparently don't want to do that.

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>Walk through fog gate
>See this trying to spook you
What do

>>164504619
I guess that's an idea but I don't plan on PVPing.

Is Toxic/Bleed reliable against bosses and is the Gravelord Sword even that good?

>>164504781
Befriend and get gravelord greatsword as a gift.

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>>164503860
>autistically rants and rambles
>deletes his post to hide shame
Hope he comes back. I need a good kek every now and then.

Belfry Luna in Vanilla is the best designed area in the entire series.

A new DS2 player, upon reaching Majula, will soon find themselves heading out, be it to the Tower of Flame to fight Pursuer and Last Giant, or to Heide's Tower to tackle Dragonslayer, Dragonrider and Flexile Sentry.
Either way, they are led to the Lost Bastille. There, with some clever searching, they can find a key to upgrade their weapons to +6 thanks to McDuff. It proceeds as normal until they get to the first Great Soul. The Lost Sinner.
It is a huge difficulty spike, and the troublesome boss run and the darkness makes the boss problematic for some players. A few may get frustrated and quit, but by asking friends or the internet, they find out that there is a way to illuminate the boss and make that really hard boss a lot easier.

So they head to Belfry Luna.

The area is tiny but filled with loot that the player can appreciate, but what they truly seek lies beyond the area. As they struggle to get through, the players are accosted by bellbros and bellbros. The bonfire run is short, death is of little consequence, but the Bellbros are staunch defenders.

The tight, claustrophobic stairwells and chokepoints mean that there's very little camping, very little running and hiding. Unlike the forest, the PvP fucking happens lightning quick. Conflicts are nearly instant. The Player will often summon phantoms, providing covenant items for those who wish to brave the Blue Arena or medals for those who wish to unlock the secrets of Sunlight Spear.

Then the fights turn. It's two on 3, but the bellbros have the NPCs as meatshields. Every fight is a fast-paced blitz to annihilate the foe, since neither side can tarry long without fucking up.

The Bellbros have one more hidden weapon. The Chunks allow them to get stronger weapons, so while outmatched and limited in HP, they have more raw power.

Every dash is exhilarating and a great experience for all involved.

Belfry Luna a best

>>164504557

>with exception of DS2

Fuck off retard, DS2 has a superb soundtrack

>>164504818
Ah, I assumed you'd be doing PvP with the build.
If you don't, why bother stopping at a specific SL? Just a thought, because it's something I really enjoyed in DS1. I made a character and I just kept doing NG+ cycles and kept leveling. I ended up at like level 250 or something, with the sword from the DLC that gets insanely strong at such high levels.
It's sort of a different experience to do this. Things actually get really strong so being so high level doesn't help you THAT much.

The Gravelord Sword is a lot of fun and it's definitely viable btw. I think DS1 has quite a lot of bosses that can either be bled or poisoned or both.

>>164505049
and then the boss is the worst instance of both ds1 pandering and "dude dark souls is so hardcore" bullshit in the entire fucking series.

>>164503982
Based pope

>>164505143
>ds2 has a good soundtrack
lol

>>164503860
>ppl be apologic for moving around in water
Can somebody actually help me decipher this? I keep going back to this sentence and sort of understanding it but I don't.
Being apologetic for moving around in water? Wat?

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>tfw you never cared enough to give rosaria 30 fingers because the rewards is shitty

>>164505262
ey man its dsii

everything good is tinged with a bit of shit

>>164505362
I never cared enough to give anything to any covenant

>>164505262
I kind of enjoyed it. One of the most satisfying bosses to smash the fuck out of with a mace

>>164505143
No it didn't. Majority of DS2 tracks are a horrifyingly shallow abomination that adds no atmosphere or dynamics to the boss fight. Take Fume's theme for example, it's just an incoherent, heavy mess of sounds that adds nothing to the fight and has no crescendo or theme shift during a second stage. Majority of DS2's tracks have the same problem.

DS2 is also the only souls game that has a hub theme that can cause headaches.

>>164505292

It does

Neck yourself memezaki cocksucker, it literally has the same composers as DS1 and 3

>>164504502
Already pasted my backup so it doesn't really matter, enjoy that katana tho kek

>>164504557
Alonne's theme, Sinh and Ivory are among my favorite bgm in the series. Others like Gehrman's theme, Gwyn's, Nameless, Artorias, DSA and etc are all top tier.

>>164505190
It's actually what I generally do so I really understand you. I just have small hand tremors that get progressively worse the higher my adrenaline so I always suck turbodick at PvP or when I get really stressed.

I have to stop cause I cap the only 2 stats that matters at that point (Vit 50, End 40 after getting 16 STR to 2H the Gravelord Sword). I could add RES but jesus I might as well just keep dumping into END if that's my only recourse, heh.

Good to know about the sword. I guess I'm just really anal, as I have these 4 characters at NG+2 already so I don't want to create the same character.

>>164505619
>Alonne's theme, Sinh and Ivory
That's like the only good DS2 themes.
Maybe add Chariot and Skeleton Lords to this list and here you go, there's everything DS2 ost has to offer.

>>164505536
Ah shit, original /r/ here. Oh well, you win some and you lose some I suppose.

>>164505515
Just because it's the same composers that doesn't mean the soundtrack is good. Ds2 has like three good soundtracks in total.

>>164505501
>DS2 is also the only souls game that has a hub theme that can cause headaches.
When I first went to Majula, the song made the place look more desolated and empty then it already is but fills you with feelings of safety and haven. The jingles and light tone in the song fits it perfectly to what it's tries to bring out; a sanctuary people are drawn to with a strong sense of grasped nostalgia.
It's a great theme but I prefer the Things Betwixt one 10x more.
>>164505787
>Maybe add Chariot and Skeleton Lords
Add Velstadt too. When he rings his Bell mace it changes his tactics and overall demeanor.

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>>164504001
Abyss watchers is my favorite boss and the music is a very large part of that.

>>164505501
>DS2 is also the only souls game that has a hub theme that can cause headaches.
That's a wrong opinion if I've ever seen one. The majula theme (and the general feel of the zone) is fantastic.

Why didn't they bring the pools of blood to III?
Watching groups of people eat shit is fun.

>>164505910
I still have like 3 of them my man. sign down at high wall

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>>164505536
>pasted my backup
Pretty good.

>>164506284
I wish the dagger of Farron Meme Sword was just like in that fan art, I hate the actual one.

>>164504001

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9zxXN1rx0

Both of these songs have their own theme of tragic heroism.

>>164506232
>Add Velstadt too
Ew no. Same problem as majority of DS2's OST like Fume, lack of any theme or atmosphere behind it

Honestly i can't understand how Sakuraba and Kitamura managed to do such rush jobs then redeem themselves in later titles.

>>164506364
Damn, I forgot all about that feature. Yeah no shit, why's it gone

>>164506383
Thanks for the shit, The extra soul will come in handy for sure!
Thanks for the uchi too.

>>164506364
ds2 is literally hitler and everything related to it must be erased from history

t. miyazaki

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FIGHT CLUB
HIGH WALL
PASS: dsg

BE THERE OR GET FUCKED

>>164506626
Yet you enjoy the bland bloodstains that almost animate in ds3

Whatever happened to the german dude who hosted FCs in DS1 all the time?
His name started with A I think, I forgot though

>>164506776
fuck off frog reeee

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>>164506797
I wasn't being sarcastic, I meant it as in "Yeah no shit, these were great"

>>164506885
Not everyone who post something France related is me
I'm not even playing DaS3 now
But seeing people getting triggered like that makes me want to go to that FC with my SL 405 char to trigger more<3

>>164506727
But that was a dung pie

>>164506315
Loud chime noises in hub theme is one of the worst mistakes you can ever do while doing the soundtrack for a game.

>>164507197
>SL405
Drake is that you

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Where should I invade with SL75 and +8 weapons?

>>164507336
I haven't heard of anyone ever being anything but enchanted by it, and it certainly didn't bother me.

Are you sure you don't have some sort of disorder that makes you really sensitive to sound?

>>164507443
Castle, DLC, archives and ADP

>>164503860
this guy was on fire
from not making the game to making more ps4 exclusives

>>164507487
>I haven't heard of anyone ever being anything but enchanted by it
Are you for real? You need to change the volume to make every other area much quieter to make them bearable and not annoying.

>>164507750
Just repeating your own opinion doesn't make it more widespread. The majula theme was designed to sound like windchimes, and it's very subtle ingame because it's combined with the ocean and wind sounds.

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>>164507421
No

>>164506315
Somehow it feels louder i think? like someone just set it to play louder than all other music in-game

>Scythe of Want
>A scythe born from the soul of Nashandra.
>The old one of the Abyss was reborn in death, split into miniscule fragments, and spread across the land.
>After regaining their shapes, they crawled forth, yearning for strong souls, in search of greater power.

>Dragon King Greataxe
>This axe, one of the rare dragon weapons, is formed by the tail of the Gaping Dragon, a distant, deformed descendant of the everlasting dragons.
>The axe is imbued with a mystical power, to be released when held with both hands.

>Missionary Axe
>Axe used by the missionaries who endeavored to propagate the Undead Commune, as well as its surrounding lands.
>The only salvation they offer is death, and any who disobey their teachings will be broken in two.

>Blood-stained Short Sword
>Dagger used by citizens of the Undead Commune.
>The inner blade is lined with fish hook-like barbs, maximising fatality when tangled in the target.
>It is rumoured that this weapon had some sort of ritualistic use, but the truth is unknown.

>Dripping Candlestick
>A candlestick once used by the church clergy.
>Hard wax conceals a bladed wick, which is tapered to a sharp point.
>Nastier than it looks.

>Executioner's Straight Sword
>Sword used for executing criminals.
>Its sharp blade has taken the lives of many offenders.
>This lethal weapon is a threat to all living things.

>Temple Knight's Crossbow
>Crossbow wielded by the knights guarding the Abyss Church.
>This crossbow was made to aim true against all those who defy the church's doctrine.
>A fine weapon with both high precision and power.

>Ring of Blind Ghosts
>Grants stealth from cursed ghosts
>This ring belonged to the seal guardian of New Londo. It prevents its wearer's discovery by cursed ghosts.

what could have been

fug

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>>164507840
That's some legit fucking ugly HUD reskin

Looks like it's stylized after that game that Brianna Wu made

>>164508261
It's your opinion

I like it

>>164508147
What's this? Cut Dark Souls 1 content?

Atleast some of the things made it into later games

>>164505359
i think he's mad at people for justify removing the rusted iron ring in 2

so i remember someone saying split damage was really bad in ds3 because of how defense works, so its better not to elementally infuse weapons. is that the same in ds2? i infused my craftsman hammer with lightning and it doesn't seem to do as much damage. i have high faith. also has anyone noticed a possible bug with the hammer? i seem to strike larger enemies twice. Happened multiple times to the old knights in Heide's tower of flame.

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Cute, lonely, ovulating nun looking for a gallant knight or two to spitro- I mean, escort her on her quest to cleanse Irithyll of the false Pontiff and the abomination known as Aldrich.

PC
Pass is dsg
SL 46

>>164508570
I can come there in 5 minutes.

>>164508419
Cut content fron dark souls 1, 2, and 3.

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>>164508570
>Cleaning Irithyll of my husbando

>>164508419
cut dark souls 3 content

you can see it with the item swap script

>>164508693
I can wait

>>164508695
But many of these are clearly in the games though. Most of them are, even.

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>>164506364
>No one would fall for such an obvious troll message
>
They were great, indeed

>>164508746
But DS3 clearly has the candlestick and Templar Knight crossbow.

And there's no way the scythe of want was supposed to be in DS3 with that item description.

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>>164503708
>Cathedral Knight UGS 2h R1 -> 2h R2

What other little talked about true combos are there?

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>>164508931

>>164509083
greatknife's L2-R1

>>164508570
Gone or still looking for a summon?

>that cutscene after you kill friede
Damn, thats heavy. Also, how does smashing the bowl revive her? And why is he whipping himself?

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>>164509131

>>164508797
I might be wrong, maybe >>164508746 is right.

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>tfw I really want to use the executioner's sword because I really really like the idea of an executioner going out to kill shit and I really like the swords design
>tfw I can't bring myself to play with a greatsword because they're so strong and boring
>tfw it doesn't even have unique moves, it only has some recycled WA that makes zero sense to have on a weapon of that theme
help

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>>164509224
Could use one more for Aldrich. Just put your sign here

>>164509870
Will do.

>>164509492
Keep it on your back through off-handing while 2-handing a greataxe?

>>164509870
Remember to finger yourself

>>164509993
yeah I remembered this time

To those of you that liked Salt and Sanctuary, why?
I played through the entire game, and it seemed to me that literally every boss had 2 moves and half the time they would only spam one of them. It got pretty boring after awhile

>>164509492
Just use it.

>>164510105
Good healslut

>>164510129

I liked the build diversity and level design of it, I approached it as less of a Soulslike game however and more a Castlevania game.

The bosses were the weakest part however.

>>164509970
Yeah I was considering doing that but still, I'd love to actually use something like that.

>>164510157
What's the point if it's not fun and boring

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>>164510129
It has an extremely good world design arguably on par with some better metroidvanias out there, some weapon classes have pretty fun movesets and combos and it fees like a genuine adventure.

Bosses are mostly low-tier, there's like 3-4 more or less cool ones like witch of the lake or tree of man. But honestly compared to pure fun of exploration it's not even that much of a downside.

>>164510240
Not him but why not play an actual good Castlevania game instead of a poorly made 2d souls ripoff that can't decide what it actually is and looks terrible ontop of that?

>>164510397
Just try and vary between moves, throw out something else than a 2H R1 regularly or something
And besides, isnt the EGS one of the weaker GS's?

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>>164507197
Yes. You need all the handicap you can muster.

>>164510545

I got it cheap and was bored. It was fun for what it was worth and the art style wasn't bad aside from the player characters.

>>164510571
>throw out something else than a 2H R1 regularly or something
Honestly I've tried that and it still feels very unsatisfying to use. They made that feel so terrible in DS3. In DS1 you could chain moves smoothly with greatswords and it made them very enjoyable to play with, and even DS2 had some combos.
In DS3 there's just no combos. You do a 2hr1 followed by a 2hr2, your character does a weird ugly jarring reset animation before throwing out the R2. In DS1 he they're often chained together smoothly.

>And besides, isnt the EGS one of the weaker GS's?
It's not really that far behind, insane damage and fast attacks like all the others

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>>164509492
Try a Samson cosplay build.

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how can ppl stomach playing so fucking passively/reactionary? i get sick of it after 5seconds when i try it out.

Is vitality worth anything in terms of defenses in DS3? Especially if I'm already wearing sort of decent armor.

I came up with a quality build but it ends up with 18 vit at SL120.

Is that a bad thing? I noticed it affects mostly only flat defenses aswell as resistances.

>>164511221
Get a weapon with really good chase-down. I got tired of people playing extremely passively whenever I had my greathammer out, so I put a Mace in my offhand slot and started just chasing them down and rollcatching the shit out of them with it when they do that.

They're kind of fucking themselves that way. They don't even TRY to hit back, they'll just try to panic roll all your shit and get rollcatched 5 times immediately.

>>164511171
this looks way closer to astora ugs

>>164511302
Flat defene is alright against spammy weapons. Its also alright if you want to use the 30% by sacrificing an armor slot, as vitality can help negate the defense penalty.

>>164511829
Nah, Astora literally has a point. That's figuratively the point of the weapon

>>164512083
Carlos I swear I will deport you

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Anyone need co-op in any game?

>>164511492
>go in and attack
>lose your whole life bar

It's the only way.

>>164512532
Joining this anon on his offer for jolly co-op.

>>164512573
To what?
People who play passive-reactively will absolutely not get to hit you when you use a mace. You'll either just swing again and nail them in the face or you'll be able to roll out.

For powerstancing, do you have to exceed all the requirements of a weapon or only Str/Dex?

>>164512662
I'm not making any characters atm, just wondering if anyone else is that want a partner.

>Died to Aldritch
God dammit, I knew I spent too many sippies fighting off those invaders.

What's the best place in DaS1 to use the Dragon Eye

>>164512771
rip in pasta yhorm wielding bro

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>>164512771
It's ok, the gods were on our side

>>164511492
chasing ppl down is no problem it just gets boring after a while when 8/10 fights are passivefags no matter the weapon they are using

Tell me ONE reason why we shouldn't be able to combo 2h and 1h moves together. Would it really be so gamebreaking if after using the right to left 1hr1 of a GS, you could immediately use the overhead 2hr1 instead of having to wait for the character to 2hand and THEN attack?

>just beat Gravetender Greatwolf & co.
Where do I go from here?

>>164513076
Welcome to Dark Souls 3 PvP, sadly

>>164512835
Undead Burg or Townshit orKiln

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PC FC at Lothric Castle bonfire
Sl 120 pass is dsg

>>164512695
Greathammer.

>>164513072
>>164512973
Thank god you guys succeeded. Congratulations.

>>164513084
because from are technologically retarded and have been using the same engine since demon's souls

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>>164512771
>mfw i got invaded by a purple and a faithful that made me use all my estus running to aldritch from pontiff and killed him first try

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>>164513187
>another DS3 """FC"""

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>>164513206
I was out of estus for half of the fight and somehow survived

>>164512716
need 1.5× str/dex int/fth don't matter

>>164513142
home

>>164513142
back to cathedral to slap Friede's ass

>>164510545
The art was stylized but I wouldn't call it "bad", it fit the game well.

I haven't played it too much, but it's like Dark Souls to be fun but certainly not to be equal. I liked being able to do character builds and such which I don't know if Castlevania has since I never played since the SNES days.

I'm not much of a side scroll person, but Salt and Sanctuary was enough like Souls I was willing to give it a try.

>>164513396
>low quality FC complaint post
I miss kekyoin

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>>164512056
>>164511302
Actually I just looked it up and found pic related (it's just the picture, the calculations were present too and datapoints are consistent)

What I take from this is this.
Keeping in mind that 15 vitality at SL120 leaves you at roughly 145 phys def, while 40 vitality at SL120 leaves you at roughly 173, and that absorption applies AFTER defense here's what can be said straight away:

>your flat defense level does not matter for shit unless you're fighting someone with sub-300 weapon AR, so pretty much only non-quality whips and daggers will be significantly affected by it... read: it's always irrelevant at SL120
>wether you have 145 or 173 flat def moves the enemy minimum AR number required to not do shit damage to you approximately from 290 to 346 respectively

Assuming you take a hit from a 400 AR longsword (which I believe is almost exactly the damage it does at 27/40, so not uncommon), the difference between having 15 and 40 vitality at SL120 ends up being about one or two % of damage reduction.

TL;DR the only scenario in which I can actually see higher defense being useful is if somebody uses an unoptimized rapier without counterhits, a dagger, or a whip.

What's up with the blue knight who is hanging out next to Dancer's fog gate? Does he drop something special? I got two smithing rocks from him but nothing special since. He is good XP for farming, he just seems oddly out of place.

FC off
Only one person came.

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>>164514360

>>164514360
I would've showed up if my connection wasnt buggered for some reason today
And if it wasnt 01.30 ffs

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>want to do a dancer cosplay playthrough
>learn that you can fight dancer immediately by killing emma
>mfw trying to fight dancer at SL 21

I really want that fucking armor but jesus christ i have a hard time fighting her at regular levels

>>164514796
Have you tried bleed?

>>164514796
I could drop you the whole thing for you but I think you should acquire proficiency first

>>164514360
Choose a better game

>>164514847
not too many good bleed weapons at that SL

only decent one that comes to mind is the Bandit's knife, which does pitiful damage outside of procs

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>>164514183
Oh also keep in mind that this is SL120. So that doesn't mean flat defense is useless, period.

A good rule of thumb seems to be that aslong as weapons have less than twice the AR of your defense stat, it's worth increasing.

For an example, if you invade at the undead settlement and assume the other guy uses a +2 longsword, you're looking at about 132 AR.
At SL25 with a prisoner's chain you can easily achieve like 125 phys defense on a RAW ASS build, which means you'd be taking close to 40% less damage BEFORE absorption (which you'd still have ~20% across the block wearing some heavy armor)

So you'd end up taking like 60 damage per hit, meaning at 1000 HP which is easily achievable on such a build, you'd take like 6% HP per hit from a normal +2 straight sword, which is more or less what most people have at that point. In other words, 17 hits to kill you.

Pretty decent. It seems like tank souls could be pretty fun at such a low level.

>>164514847
I'm using the raw astora sword because i heard its retardedly strong early game

>>164514796
What system are you on? If you're PS4 then we could co-op her.

>>164515265
punch her with dark hand

>>164514183
So you think it's better putting into Vigor?

>>164515317
For most other things your level yes
Dancer however has a weakness to bleed/bleeds easily

>>164504467
There's absolutely no indication that you were supposed to actually go there. It's just good level design and attention to detail. And well, we get to explore the town in DS3.

>>164514796
Dark hand her ass.

>>164515415
If your goal is surviving more attacks, I'd say so.
Vit is still far from useless because it enables you to get some poise which is great on many weapons, but outside of that you want vigor for survivability

>>164514796
I managed to do exactly this for exactly same reasons at sl 20. I used uchigatana upgraded to +3 and managed to kill her after hundreds of attempts and 3 hours later

>>164515403
Sorry, PC

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>Just want to dress as a Jailer and invade people in the Dungeon.
>Every single invadable person has their sun baby-sitter with them.
>Half the time a Blue Sentinel appears as well.
>Can't 2v1 or 3v1 with a soldering iron.

>>164514796
I might be able to help if you're accepting summonings

>>164514796
I can help you with her but she tends to bug out and not let any summons into the fight.

>>164516064
>>Can't 2v1 or 3v1 with a soldering iron.
Mate, you're invading in the dungeon.

Your weapon needs exactly 1 AR to be viable.

>>164516153
As long as you're on pc
Just remember that im shitty and i might die

>>164516064
Soldering Iron is shit anyway, and doesn't prevent estus like it fucking says it does. Might as well be using an unupgraded fire spear.

>>164515545

It's probably just scrapped content, like, 50% of the game

from

>reddit

For starters, I wanted to focus on rings, and this are the effects I've already done :

Merging the Ashen Estus Ring and Estus Ring into one ring : Just a simple QoL change that helps caster in PvE AND leaves an unused ring that could be given a custom effect in the future (We don't have a ring that regenerate FP right now, for example).

Make the 12% and 25% magic rings unstackable, but have the second ring give both effects instead : liberate one ring for casters.

Dusk Crown Ring : Removed HP reduction. FP consumption reduced to 10%.

Ring of the Evil Eye / Aldrich Ruby / Pontiff Left Eye : Have the healing effect based on % maximum HP instead.

Add a visual effect to signal that somebody is using the Carthus Bloodring.

MORE rings change that I want to do but I'm not sure yet if they are possible :

Remove the hidden PvP nerfs on Clutch rings, Ring of Steel Protection, Stoneplate Rings, Blue Tearstone Ring.

Of course this patch wouldn't be limited to rings. I have succesfully made changes to some weapons :

Turning the Cleric's Candlesticks into a hexer weapon by adding FTH scaling, tuning the INT scaling, changing the magic damage into dark damage and having it's WA cast Deep Protection in addition to Seek Guidance (I kept it as flavor).

Giving the Crescent Axe the axe moveset when 1-handed and the halberd moveset when two-handed (Only moveset I've been able to succesfully change since I only had to copy the specialmoveset from the Dragonslayer Swordspear)

Made the left blade on the Dancer's Sword deal Dark damage instead of Magic and increased the weapon's AR as a whole.

Changing all poison from obtainable items to be the same as the Storyteller Staff.

Buffing the absorption of many heavy armors

>>164516287
That's fine. My preparations are complete.
Should I put the sign outside Dancer's fight? PC, password DSG

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>>164514796
>tfw just defeated dancer at SL23
haven't felt this sense of achievement since my first DS1 playthrough

what infusion should i put on a Lucerne

>>164516469
It reduces the healing of them, but it's something stupidly low like 10-20%. Their flasks are upgraded more than enough to heal them to full by the time they get to the dungeon usually. It allegedly increased their equip load on hit as well, though I've never noticed a big difference.

>>164516663
Go ahead

>>164516783
one that fits your stats the best

>>164516809
Sign's up right outside Dancer's room

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>>164516686
ridiculously overbuffed dark hand takes a lot of challenge from that encounter on low levels

Why did covenants get worse instead of better over time? DS1 had good ideas for covenants that were executed badly and instead of fixing it they just mucked them up more.

I'm still completely shocked that we have blue sentinel, way of blue AND darkmoon all as different covenants when "why aren't the two blue's just one single covenant" was already a big question people had about DS2

>>164517143
Im embered but i cant seem to find it

>>164517461
Do you have the password as dsg? Is it the Dancer room, not the Vordt room?

>>164517426
>no pve covenants in DaS3
thx miyasucky
>>164517461
Are you both using password tho?

>>164517426
>Why did covenants get worse instead of better over time
because from realized that they will never properly balance them so they dropped gimmick covenants for basic covenant interactions
they are just too scared to give player ability to really influence the game world of other players like it was with gravelording or hell, even scrapped mound-maker mechanic that allowed them to enter boss fights and get an ember for defeating a boss

>>164517539
I was using caps

>>164517461
Oh shit, right. Being dropped down to low levels.

>>164517426
DaS2 massively improved upon covenants. No completely useless Way of the White or Princess Guard or Chaos Servant.
It's DaS3 that fucked it up with the garbage rewards, half-second allegiance shifting, dead covenant leaders, everything about the auto-summoning

16 str/10dex/30 faith

best upgrade for a zwei? is it just +15 with one of the miracle buffs, or do my low stats make divine/chaos work better?

>>164517709
Well im waiting if you want to try again

>>164517805
divine is only for 50 faith, below that chaos is better
though enchanted will always be better anyway

go chaos and keep it for when you don't have a buff, +15 with buff just works better with faster weapons

>>164517747
>DaS2 massively improved upon covenants
DS2 massively dropped the ball with covenants
There's no covenant that can influence the world of other player as gravelords did it.
instead it gave like two area defender covenants and made ALL OF THEM in optional areas with shit rewards meaning that traffic they are going to get is much lower than in a single DS1 forest.

It also fucked up reds by not giving full red eye orb and tying everything to garbage arena and fucked up blues even worse as for them to work you need to stack 10 sin which most players won't do because how awful it is to invade in ds2.
I won't even mention shit like CoC because it's just a patchwork for a half-assed mob extinction mechanic they added to cater to casuals.

The only somewhat good DS2 covenant is Pilgrims of Dark thanks to unique invasion mechanic, but sadly because of how shit the covenant areas are, this place never saw any activity.

>>164517747
>DaS2 massively improved upon covenants. No completely useless Way of the White or Princess Guard or Chaos Servant.
I agree, but I don't. DS1 had covenants that were mostly/entirely useless but they were good ideas that could've been tweaked really easily.

Meanwhile DS2 made invasions outside of 1v1 duels basically worthless (and also really rare outside of NG+ players), made gravelord even rarer to pull off because it's limited to a single area that everyone just joins the covenant for when they're passing through and way of blue is even more worthless than the useless DS1 covenants because at least those get you some spells and are more likely to connect with similar minded players while way of blue requires such overly specific situation to actually work that it won't ever happen.

The only covenants in DS2 that actually work as intended are the ones that are directly taken from the first game, the ~two~ copies of the hunter covenant that should've just been one and dragon covenant. CoC is also a really bad idea for a covenant because it's something you have no real reason to turn off ever and it does things the game should've always done (like respawn enemies) so you have even less of a reason to join covenants even if they weren't all overly specific and with shit rewards

ds2 superficially improved on covenants in the small details while going far back on what the idea is supposed to be.

>>164518408
Gravelords were completely ineffectual at influencing the world in the first place. If this is your criteria for good covenants, no game has them.
>shit rewards
Santier's Spear, Acid Surge / Toxic Mist, Black Knight Greatsword, an infinite source of high quality titanite from bellbongs / pharros stones from ratfags, some other shit, they weren't bad.
>DS1 forest
Oh yeah. Gimme those pendants, rubbish and green titanite shards after ganking a DB chugging SL387. Good shit.

>this place never saw any activity.
I'm guessing you didn't play on PS3 / release PC.

>>164518408
>fucked up blues even worse as for them to work you need to stack 10 sin which most players won't do because how awful it is to invade in ds2.
Not only that, there's THREE blue eye orbs in the WHOLE game until NG+ outside of grinding the enemy that drops them

except enemies only respawn if you're in a different covenant =))))))

>>164519017
The blue eye orbs have the most generous drop rate in the game

>>164519017
you can duel for them

>>164519134
Oh yes, here's the thing about bluefag dueling: unlike red arena where you need one token of spite to use it how much you want, blue arena requires one token of fidelity FOR EACH ARENA MATCH. This was the reason why despite having much better arenas, bluefag arena was empty even when game was still kinda active.

>>164519000
gravelords are bad at effecting the world, rat covenant doesn't effect it at all because it's limited to a single area that you just activate the covenant for if you ever need to go there

even if you somehow get someone as a rat you aren't really effecting they're world, you just force them into a gangbang that's comically stacked against them and then they die with no real penalty and you get some shit reward. that's not spawning dick enemies in whatever area of the game you happen to be in and making people try and track you down.

gravelord needed to be tweaked, instead it was removed entirely. that's a load of horseshit and so are you.

>>164519127
>>164519134
these are excuses for something that should not exist. what reason is there for the removal of full orbs and limiting being able to quickly get large numbers of cracked orbs to NG+? literally all it does is make invasions less frequent, which is a comically retarded and self defeating idea when two whole covenants are entirely about invasions

>>164517314
>but you can cheese her though!

Or you know you could not cheese her.

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>Playing Armored Core
>New mission
>"Hey, remember that super-mech we had you testing a few times during the game that were never very difficult because it was 1:1 and you could overpower them pretty easily? Well...fight six of them."

There's the FROM I know.

>>164519339
i'm not saying it's the best way but it's still a way to get them

>>164519000
>Gravelords were completely ineffectual at influencing the world in the first place
If they worked on NG, they would be extremely hated by all newfaggots who decided to take a stroll around parish and got molested by BP mace knight. It was a good idea that should've been improved on, not discarded and thrown into a garbage bin in favor of shittier ideas.
>Acid Surge / Toxic Mist, Black Knight Greatsword
As i said, shit awards. Santier is the only good thing in both rat areas and it's so close to the beginning you can get it without being sucked into other world.
>Gimme those pendants, rubbish and green titanite shards
I would take a big, open area made for group pvp in exchange for two small as shit and ugly areas any day without any rewards at all.

>>164518408

Gravelord didn't do shit for people in NG

Literally pointless covenant, though not as pointless as Way of the White, Princess Guard and Chaos Servants, fuck off cocksucker DS2 has the best covenants in the series

>>164519872
>not as pointless as Way of the White, Princess Guard and Chaos Servants
And all of these are not as pointless as way of blue and much easier to fix, while the only way to salvage way of blue is to merge it with regular blue covenant or just make it something blues can do to anyone

>Invasions don't happen often in DSII
Shit, I get invaded often enough where burning an effigy is viable.

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>>164519872
>farm 30 humanity to open the shortcut and save Solaire
>he whines like a bitch the rest of the game

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>>164520147

>>164520147
I don't know in what universe you're playing in DS2 but when i did a playthrough roughly 3 weeks ago i didn't see a single red invader despite always maintaining human form all the way to 4m SM. You're probably confusing live players with npc invaders.

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>>164520291
>b2b NPC invasions in Scholar

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>>164520475
>it's an "npc invader cancels his animations mid-actions into a roll" episode
God i hate DS2 npc design.

>>164519679
>As i said, shit awards
Acid Surge in DaS2 is the best grief tool in the game. It quickly breaks meta rings like TDR / Flynn's and in a prolonged battle (healing) makes them suffer.
Toxic Mist really helps pyromancers with fire resistant enemies. Both it and the above deny Warmth.
Black Knight Greatsword is really fucking strong, very capable of two-shotting people with its 2hr2 combo and melts through shields.

Compare to pure garbage like Man Grub staff, arch deacon staff, wolf ring, etc.

>it's so close to the beginning you can get it without being sucked into other world.
Sure, if there's no one there. When the rat areas were active I'd always get vacuumed in trying to get it.

> small as shit
The rat areas are hardly small
>without any rewards at all
That's the forest. Go bellbong and you swim in chunks, slabs, bones, etc.

>>164520635
>maldron the assassin just straight up can't be staggered and has 4k hp on NG

>>164520753
the reward of the forest covenant is the pvp that can turn into a clusterfuck of 3 different sides over an area that's both very wide and yet very gank friendly

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Best way to speed run to Drangleic castle in ng++?

>>164520753
I would compare all DS2 covenant awards to a single obscuring ring in DS3 and DS2 will fucking lose automatically.
>Sure, if there's no one there
All covenants take time to actually suck you into a world, especially now when the game is barely populated.
>The rat areas are hardly small
They are insanely small and empty. Both of them together are like half of Darkroot and half as fun to invade.
>Go bellbong and you swim in chunks, slabs, bones, etc.
Go to the forest and you will swim in fun pvp instead which is much more important.

>>164520995
>rapier
>leo ring
>robflynn

>>164521098

Now you're just being a faggot

Stop, DS2 covenants are better

>>164521098
None of those are covenant rewards, they're rewards for clearing those optional areas

>post-nerf obscuring ring
Please.

>All covenants take time to actually suck you into a world
Nah, you forget how fast DaS2's connections were.

>you will swim in fun pvp
>you will swim in fun pvp
>you will swim in fun pvp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeelE43Dtns

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Will the Abyss Dragon be able to top Sinh as the best dragon in the series?

>>164521250
See, this is why people don't like you braindead DS2 fanboys. When faced with other opinions and facts you just plug your ears, close your eyes and start screaming "D-DS2 IS BETTER! DS2 IS THE SUPERIOR ONE! FUCKING MIYAKEKS!".
This looks equally adorable and pathetic, really.

>>164521409
>Sinh

best dragon is Priscilla

DS3 really lacked a comfy area.

1 had Firelink Shrine and the bonfire over Andre

2 had Majula

The Shrine in 3 is depressing, and the only places close to being comfy you only visit once.

>>164521331
>post-nerf
this was barely a nerf
the only thing it did is preventing disappearance on lock-on distance
obscuring ring is still the single best invasion ring in ds3

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>>164521471
all this shitposting just because some anon mentioned that covenants in das2 are well done compared to das3. neck yourself or worse yet go back to /v/

>>164521471

You're the one defending the undefendable, retard. I don't have to come up with any arguments to rebate your "arguments" because they're just stupid

>>164520291
>You're probably confusing live players with npc invaders.
Yeah. Cause network names and non-player names are very similar.
And that's ignoring From's shitty name censoring policies.

>>164521586
I like DaS3's Firelink. It's not overly big and every important character can live there.

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>>164520291
>despite always maintaining human form
You can be invaded while maximum hollow in DaS2. We're talking 5% hollow.

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>>164521471

>The covenant that only works on NG+ and beyond, these 3 covenants that are literally useless, and this covenant that rewards me with literal rubish and pendants (rubish) are better! you're pathetic!

>people using gfs/ccs/follower sabre
they do realize they're the epitome of shitter, right?

>>164521586
corvian settlement is pretty comfy desu

>>164522271
probably germans

>>164522271

1H Follower Sabre with a WA shield is super fun desu.

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Just defeated Gaping Dragon boys. Im loving this game so far

I'm using PvP Watchdog in DS1 and there's a player that's not showing up on the little in-window display. It's just blank. Other summons show up, but not this player.

They had this weird red eye over them (calamity ring?) and I backstabbed them and they survived and then oneshotted me. DSCM says their level is 50.

Is this a hacker? Has anyone else seen someone able to block themselves from showing up on PvP Watchdog?

>>164521576

Best full dragon then

>>164521586
untended graves shrine is comfy, that sweet silence

>>164521409
>This bait again

Best dragon is Kalameet. Sinh is a 1:1 copy except he spends more time in the air with you following him around.

>>164522465
Are you the lad who dropped the game before?

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>>164522271
Are you upset they aren't all using great wooden hammer?

You just wanted to win without effort with your nonmeta weapon didnt you

>>164522465
Have fun.

You are about to enter the worst area in the game, so don't let the frustration get to you.

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>>164522359
*parries your WA downward slash*
pshhhh nothin-

jk it was a partial parry

>>164522516
>>164522319
While I somewhat disagree, both of those areas are ones you barely stay in. Comfy areas have no point unless they are hubs of some sort.

>>164522545

Go and fight them both again, then come back and say Sinh is a 1:1 copy

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>>164522709

>the downward slash of the WA has HA
>tfw baiting people into it every time

>>164522561
I have dropped the game before, but I'm probably not the same guy

>>164522758
Don't you understand that facts are only facts when they support the idea that DS2 is shit? If they make DS2 look good they're not facts.

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>>164521409

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

Truly best dragon

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Holy fucking shit I just wrecked a guy who probably had a password summon (as the phantom was a guy on his friend's list) he kept resummoning after I kept killing him and fucking holy shit when I finally got him

I pointed down

T H R E E T I M E S
H
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T
I
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E
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i no rite im so bad

>Check to see if I got hatemail
>He's not playing DaS3 anymore

His friend is set to offline so I can't tell what he's doing

All I know is, I'm autistic as fuck for getting off like this over it

>>164523059
Sinh isn't shit, it's a pretty good boss, but it's one of the bosses that does deserve to be called a rehash as it doesn't deviate from Kalameet in any meaningful way outside being airborne for more time.

>>164522820
can sabre combo from a r1 into WA?

How does the Arena ranking work exactly? I'm pretty sure I've accrued more than 35 wins so where's muh gold badge

>>164523068

That was actually pretty cool, nice cosplay

>that wombo combo at 2:36

I had never seen that movement

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Ok, How shitty is my build right now? I originally picked thief for my class

>>164523337
Most souls bosses were ripped from Legend of Zelda or King's field. At least stealing from itself is less egregious.

>>164523383
no fucking idea, sometimes you win 10 matches in a row and no change then you lose two times in a row and it de-ranks you. ranking was a mistake if you ask me.

>>164523342

No, but from my experience you can do a follow-up R1 after landing the WA but that may be latency. After doing a basic R1>R1 combo on someone however if you time the WA right you can roll-catch a good number of players with good aiming.

Is the hellkite dragon possible to fight melee? All he does is jump from one side of the bridge to another and cover the whole thing with fire. I can get 2-3 hits the first time he jumps down but from then on he's impossible to get within 200 feet of.

I can't kill him with a bow either, as soon as I hit him he jumps down and starts using flame breath.

>>164523383

losing deducts point

>>164523512
Everything about it says "I should've picked Warrior"

Thief sucks

>>164523978
You can try to do so if you use Strong Magic Shield and a Greatshield, but it's better to just bait it down, hit it once or twice in red tearstone hyper mode, run back down, repeat. Or throw lightning spears.

>>164523512
>>164524220
it really doesn't matter for pve
it's not shitty, just play and have fun

>>164523932
Gold rank should give you free respecs and covenant awards upon wins.

>>164522582
meta faggot detected
take your tryhard shit back to oro

bf fc

>>164524603

If they don't add a fucking infinite respec item in the next DLC I swear I will never buy another one of their fucking games in release

>>164524792
I tried hosting not long ago. Only one person came.
Feel free to try hosting though. I'd show up if you did.

>>164524365
I don't really have a problem with damage, it's just that he's always way too far away to even hit. I don't think I could use projectiles because I can't lock on to him, he never gets close enough.

>>164524810
Am I the only one who wishes there weren't respecs at all?

we /assassin/ now

>>164525010
Yes. Why would you want that?
If there weren't, people would just CE different stats anyways.

>>164525010

Yes you fucking egg

>>164525010
Probably not, but I don't see how that's a plus. Easy respecs like in Dark Souls 2 were a bit silly, but the limited respecs of Dark Souls 3 hit the right mark in my opnion, enough cost so they're still worth something but enough availability to fix mistakes in your build or try to improve them later. I'm a PvPfag though.

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>>164525057

>>164525106
>people would just CE different stats anyways

are people going to say this about anything? honestly weirdest community ever, you don't see CE being such a big deal anywhere else. hmm i wonder why maybe online games have basic fucking anticheat these days, which from easily could have implemented with steam and the literally free steam servers.

New to the Dark Souls and friend keeps telling me not to play 2 it is shit. Why is there so much hate for ds2? Can someone explain it to me.

>going through shrine of amana
>got memed on over and over last run but not today
>unzip spell parry shield, actually found the spell quartz ring +2 after LGK this time, running int so i have strong magic shield and can also shoot back at the bullet hell faggots
>find out homing soul arrow doesn't actually home if you aren't locked on
>have to be within melee range of the casters to lock on to them
What's the fucking point of this spell then? It's just worse than Great Heavy Soul Arrow in every way. Why does it have so few casts, so little damage, such slow projectiles, and still requires so much Int?

>>164525350
your friends are stupid
ds2 sotfs is a good game, just not like ds1 or ds3

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>>164525350
"DS2 is shit" is a complete meme.

>>164525321
They would if they cared about PC

>>164525350
It is really difficult to get into if you're used to DaS1/3 for a number of reasons

Comes down to mechanics being somehow clunkier, animations being somehow stiffer and how the game itself is basically only 70% done

It can be fun once you've wrapped your head around how "different" everything is

>>164525010

There was talk about this when DaS2 introduced respec. Surprisingly many did not like it, because it lowered the PvE traffic, less invasions and less co-op. Then there was the roleplaying aspect, it's kind of silly you can respec a 66str character to full mage. I don't use respec myself, so it don't really care if it exists or not in DaS3.

>>164525350
2 is the most different from the rest of the series, it has the highest amount of things (good and bad) exclusive to it, so it's very polarising.
I think everyone should play it once to form an opinion though
I agree with your friend

>>164525434
You can get some silly combos in with it against other players.

>>164524998
>>164524998
you pretty much have to cheese him to beat him it's annoying

>cut off tail even if you have the DS it's what lets it regen health
>stand at the top of the stairs in the middle of the bridge
>shoot head with arrow
>it'll fly down and land, hit 1-2 times
>run down stairs while he does fire attacks
>he'll fly back to his perch

repeat ad nauseam

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>>164525350
It's a polarising game
It brings lots of improvements to the series but it doesn't feel the same, it's slower and riskier

Many people were let down by how the advertised game was vastly different from the released product, and that's because of its ridiculously troubled development where it was originally an open world game with time travel and near-PS4 level graphics under a different director who was incompetent

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>>164525867

Aside from Hollow infused Anri's Sword, what's some dank shit for a Quality Hollow/Luck build? Hollow or Bleed infused shit?

>>164525350
It's not as good as the other games but it's still fun, and since there's so much content, it can be nice. The PvP is also very good but I don't know how thriving the community is these days.

There are some glaring issues that damn the game like some questionable hitboxes (they get exaggerated by whiners, but they exist) a few area connections that are hilariously bad (which people hate even more because of how good the world design of Dark Souls 1 was) the movement and animations are stiffer, and Soul Memory is a complete disgrace.

From reading this you probably think it's worse than it is though, it has its pros too like I said a lot of content, not all of it is of the same quality but there aren't that many unfun areas, the sucky ones tend to be bearable.

>>164525661
I think the issues are two: some weapons demand very specialised builds, no one wants to play the game again to use only 2-3 weapons and how easy it is to screw up some builds, there is nothing explaining fully what luck/adaptability/resistance does in game

>>164525350
It's a better game than DS1, just feels very different and has a quantity > quality approach to weapons, bosses, and areas. It had a lot of issues at launch but most of them were patched out or fixed with SOTFS.

Just make sure you play the DLC, burn some bonfire ascetics and go into PvP.

Your friend doesn't know what he's talking about, he's fallen for the memes and bait.

>>164526095
>>164525867
Thanks Microsoft and Shitbox

>>164525350
gamefeel

shit animations, massive delay between attacks, how many boss fights are "roll for 30 seconds and then attack once when you get an opening" and how long it takes to level up make the game inherantly a chore to play

some people have a tolerance for it and can overlook these things, but it just feels off and many parts of the game are things where they went backwards from DS1 for seemingly no valid reason at all beyond "we had to make things different because this is a sequel and not an expansion"

the fact that it's probably the "biggest' souls game is either the games biggest strength or weakness, it's either more of the game to enjoy or it's more shit to get through

>>164525661
Those exact reasons are why I don't like respecs.

>>164526318
>shit animations, massive delay between attacks, how many boss fights are "roll for 30 seconds and then attack once when you get an opening" and how long it takes to level up make the game inherantly a chore to play
Sounds a lot like III really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVROA_ef-ng

>>164526487
>delay between attacks
>lll

>>164525867
I wouldn't say Tanimura is 'incompetent', he's just outdated. He was 'Miyazaki' before Miyazaki and put out the company's most successful products on the PS2 generation.

It wasn't until Dark Souls 1 came out that From Soft had anything selling close to the popularity that Armored Core 2, another Tanimura directed project, had.

It's just that he hasn't done any good work in a decade and hasn't kept up with modern game trends.

He's still stuck in the PS2 mindset that cramming a lot of stuff to do into a game is what impresses people the most, more than atmosphere or graphics or story. And a lot of RPGs (Final Fantasy, Tales, etc.) follow the same idea. A lot of the issues people have with DS2's graphics, content, etc. wouldn't have been an issue 10 years ago when people didn't care about those things as much.

>>164526648
I didn't mean Tanimura, I meant Shibuya, the guy originally in charge, the guy who apparently was so incompetent that From didn't feel like the game was even Dark Souls anymore.

>>164525867
>>164526648

I mean, Tanimura was basically the guy who shocked everyone by making a PS2 launch title with "over 400 unique weapons and parts, and over 50 enemy bosses." but had missions in the game that ran at <20 FPS -on stock exclusive PS2 hardware-.

>>164526741
OH THAT GUY

Yeah fuck Shibuya.

>Max out Fingers
>Luck based staff and something else I already forgot about
Yeah, that wasn't worth it.

>>164505359
He might be talking about how the controls feel? Compared to 3 or bloodborne maybe? Havent played 2 yet but i have heard people say the movements feel weird

>Get to anor londo in DS3

>it's lame

why

Is there a good essay or infograph or something on armour in DS3?

Finding the right set of armor has always been a bit fiddly in Dark Souls but the bonus-to-weight ratios in DS3 seem not so favorable.

Since I'm A Bad I try to stack armor, but doesn't seem to help much so far in the game

>>164527606
https://3dots.github.io/ds3optimizer/#/optimizer

>>164527606
Armor literally doesn't matter.

>>164527387
At first I was disappointed, but it makes sense. It's beyond all repair, with only a few knights remaining and Aldritch having taken over with his slime buddies and some of Sully's.

>>164525661
Respec didn't reduce online activity, it just shifted it away from the single player and separated the two out.

Most people did not like dark soul's integration of multiplayer into the single player game because the poor matchmaking and twinking ruined the atmosphere and experience of the campaign. It completely breaks immersion when you're deep in the forest and suddenly a naked twink with a chaos great club one shots you from the back.

Anybody need a transfer? I need to throw some shit to my new character.

>>164527387
because Anor Londo is just the name for one large building

>>164527950
On ps4 btw

>>164528051
>>164527387
>>164527729

Because when they were making the concept drawings it was probably for an entirely different area, and then halfway through development they slapped the title 'anor londo' on it and then tried to do some fanservice.

Is there any benefit to using the parrying dagger over the target shield/buckler?

Why is 2's lore so bad? In 1 and 3 most bosses are important to it, but 2 is full of bosses that just don't connect well.

>>164528653
Some of the lore is fine, but there's things like the Covetous Demon that are outright laughable.

And let's not forget the fanservice bits

>"The name of the clan has been lost to time, but the gross incandescence of our magnificent father shall never wane."

>>164506557
Velstadt sucks on its own, but is amazing ingame because of how every attack resonates church bells through the theme

it can only be appreciated ingame

>>164527651
I'm not quite sure how this works, it doesn't seem to spit out any armor selections for me that I can see.

>>164527686
Really, just run around nekkid?

>>164528814
The thing about bosses is that you only fight important characters near the end of the game, and the 4 demons are just random shit. 1 and 3 are more carefully crafted, with most bosses making sense lorewise before being bosses.

>>164527686

Have fun with zero poise.

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>"Whatcha thinkin' about?"
>"Oh I dunno, hollow stuff I guess..."

>>164529286
So DSIII as normal.

>>164527686
Medium armor to heavy armor doesn't matter very much, but the difference between a good armored player and someone in light armor is very noticeable.

>>164527220
>something else I already forgot about
Obscuring is among the best rings and Luck based staff makes luck sorcery builds possible.

Am I reading this wiki wrong, or do the changes to rolling and equip weight limits mean that in DS2 you can wear medium or even heavy armor and still have a roll with more iframes than the other games?

>>164530814
>luck sorcery builds
Or I could pump the points into something else.

>>164530949
Yes. However, the higher your equip load, the lower your stamina regeneration and roll distance. Staying at 70% is a bad idea without chloranthy+2.

>>164528814

What's so wrong about the covetous demon?

I wish more of the Covenant leaders/gives actually talked. So many of them are like Rosaria or the Archdeacon and don't have any lines.

Can I reliably achieve pure white world tendency while online? I've gotten into a situation with it in world 4 where I've cleared all the bosses but due to some clumsy deaths outside of soul form I've ended up at a world tendency one off of pure white.

From what I understand there's no way for me to bring that up any more without potential online intervention, but then there's all sorts of stuff that says getting a pure tendency either way is a lot harder while online.

>>164531610
They really dropped the ball with not making Rosaria a gentle voiced motherly figure urging you with sweet words of encouragement to go out and obtain tongues

>>164531610
archdeacon is a bloated up dead dude, how the heck should he talk

>>164526176
>It's a better game than DS1
this is bait

>>164531853
I mean make the leaders people who can talk in the first place. Only the Darkmoons really have a leader you can talk with, everyone else has an altar, a mute, a corpse, or an animal.

anyone have that frampt edit of the jew?