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How do i boss invasion? Darksign and homeward bone disable when invasion message pops

reminder that Vordt is a girl
A GIRL

>>165201661
MY WAIFU
find me cute pictures of Vordt

>>165201636
that's the first half of it

use the disabled darksign, then heal aid and use another item - estus works best

if you lose your souls upon drinking estus you will boss invade

if you had no souls, you can tell by no invasion message and enemies aggroing even unseeded

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>>165201661
>>165201760

So this is your delusion to try and justify the fact that you were sniffing his ass, a man's ass, for several minutes (maybe hours if you are that bad)?

dark hand is the best fist weapon

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What music are they playing?

>>165201636
Use disabled darksign, then use a spell (heal aid) then take a sippy.
All the actions have to be right after one another

Upon drinking, you lose all souls.

In the boss-invade world, you're permanently seeded.

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xth for who is still playing this and why?

>>165201636
>invading another world: try to use darksign
>invading a host of ember's world as a dark spirit: heal aid and estus

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CUTE

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>love Garl's armor and shield
>love how it looks with war scythe
>also love how it looks with Demonbrandt
>have pure black character tendency
>I decide to go pure white for Demonbrandt
>no PSN so offline
>have to kill the 5 black phantoms in PBBW in each world
>use soulsucker for 3 of them
>discover later that killing them with soulsucker doesn't change the character tendency
>mfw

I might as well start a new game, I already was in NG+3

Also Xth for BEST HUSBANDO

Get fucked, Vordt

>>165201976
fuck off alex

>>165202067
Me because I just got it.

What do people like about artorias's armor? The helmet is all fucked up and those chicken legs are absolutely disgusting

>>165202158
suck my dick vyro

>>165202215
I love the scarf
We don't have enough scarfs

>>165202148
I remember the emerald herald doing the same some times in Majula.

>>165202215
LE GUTS XD LE WOLF XD

>>165200113
>What reason is there to make rolling shit unless you dump lots of points into agility while also making every enemy in the game have huge tracking?
That's actually a pretty good mechanic. It rewards you for being able to roll well. If you can roll tight, you need no more than 88 agility to get you through the game and for PvP. If you just spam that button like a little bitch - well, you gonna have to pay extra.

I'm trying to set Dark Souls on steam up again, but I can't make the fucking mouse work. I recall having this issue last time, but I don't remember how I fixed it. I got the dinput8dllWrapper dsmfix.dll line in dsfix.ini but it doesn't seem to want to read it cause my cursor is still visible and scroll target switching doesnt work

>>165202271
>>165202158
>discord fellating has begun in thread more than ever

I'm going to finger in Irithyl, but not summon phantoms.
Will I get invasion fun?

>>165202472
>That's actually a pretty good mechanic.
It would be if there was a visual cue that your roll was better. It's a similar situation to poise, but with poise there's no timing involved, just raw numbers.

>>165202067
Me, because I love the Pee Vee Pee

>>165201971
>his
prove it, big boy~~~

>>165202797
Yes

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>>165202896
>acutally enjoying Dark Souls III pvp

>>165202845
>but with poise there's no timing involved, just raw numbers.
I mean, in order to test it as a new player.

>>165202797
No

hey everyone im pretty new to dark souls 3,

What is a very good weapon for a sorc early game i just cant seem to find one (my end game is that pretty cool friede's great scythe)

>>165201549
>It's because they wanted to make fall exploration part of the game more, with the pit and such
Just arbitrarily making you take more damage from falls isn't exploration, it's just a pointless sink on your resources. Even stuff like going down the wooden rafters to get the fire longsword in forest of giants at the first bonfire, makes you take little dints of damage as you make your way down because they just don't have ladders for parts of it. Why do this?

>They also give you silver cat ring right away, and that changes fall damage to about the same as DS1.
Instead of spending lots of souls and a limited ring slot, what reason is there that the game couldn't just be like the first game? Just make getting into the pit slightly higher of a drop so it's still fatal or something. DS1 had plenty of falling exploration in places like sens and the catacombs without just making it so any drop larger than your character made you take a tiny sliver of damage.

>To avoid early game twinks from having godly rolls without some compromise somewhere else.
Except twinks would in theory be punished by soul memory if it worked in the obvious way it should have. And there are other ways they could've balanced ds1 twinks that have amazing rolling besides just forcing a shitty stat dump to again do something ds1 lets you do from the start. balancing the game around a pvp imbalance that makes it so the pve is radically changed is a really stupid and shortsighted decision.

>No bonfire runs.
Again, why make a change that fucks over everyone that plays the game to target a much smaller amount of the playerbase?

>DS2 controls character progression through how many areas you've explored
except you use more big titanite to upgrade than small. It works backwards from how it would make sense that you can easily super upgade weapons but the starting one is limited, and it just punishes you for upgrading a weapon that actually sucks because you didn't realize it.

>>165203232
raw straight sword, INT is shit untill near endgame

>>165202472
I can't imagine being able to do well in PvP with base agility.
The way the netcode works in these games, I would think having minimal ADP makes reliably evading attacks impossible or at least very hard to feel confident in.
Obviously I've never tried this, though, so if other people have gotten it to work it would be neat to see.

>>165203186
It's my favorite PvP in the series. The feel of the weapons is just too damn good, even if the whole thing is rather unbalanced.

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Garl Vinland cosplay y/n

>>165203232
Did you start as Sorcerer or Pyro?

>>165203476
sorcerer
although if i cant find a good sorcerer weapon for early game i will go pyro.

>>165202483
someone has to know the solution here

>>165203561
Use a controller like everyone else

>>165201636

I'm so glad this is getting patched out.

>>165203473
>180

>>165203431
>it's just a pointless sink on your resources.
Isn't Souls games all about managing ressources, though? I find it weird to complain about that since it's the entire point of those games, not the actual combat skills.

>>165203431
>>165202202
> It's like a vendor mimic. The second vender exists in case you kill the first one.
Have you actually played this game? The other boss soul vendor sells completely different stuff from the guy in the cell. If he dies you are just fucked from getting any of those weapons. It's not like a mimic at all because you can see the enemies everywhere in plain sight, you just have to hope you can take them all out fast enough before they wake up every time. It's a cheap move.

>Because invasions were probably the worst part of the game experience for a lot of first time players
Isn't this why way of blue exists? lagstab giantdad is a build that doesn't work in DS2 anyway and when they intentionally made the game full of dick moves like the """vendor mimic""", enemies right next to bonfires or the random wodden plank in the pit that just breaks and kills you, why "casualize" the game in this way by neutering one of the previous games most famous features?

>Because most of those "issues" were things that other people were glad they got rid of from DS1.
Excuse me? People wanted to waste time spending points in adaptability before putting in points to use Cool Big New Weapon? People wanted to fuck themselves out of upgrading their weapon to +3 because they used a small titanite and can only buy big ones? People wanted invasions to be worthless, leveling up to take forever and for it to be impossible to connect with other players if you die a bunch because of soul memory?

>It's just not always clear if it worked out or if they could have done it better.
It's extremely clear, you yourself said that most of these things didn't work out all that well and just offered an explanation on what they were going for while most of the time ignoring half of my point. Some of these things are things that either ALREADY HAD SOLUTIONS in the previous games that worked better, or had very obvious fixes that everyone was talking about.

>>165203459
With base - no, you can't. You need at least 88. It gives you the same amount of i-frames as DaS1 fat roll. I've hundreds of hours playing 150 arena with that agility. You know how i deal with chaos blade shitters? I simply stand still and roll through their attacks until they switch weapons.

>>165203547
How much STR/DEX?
If you go 10 STR you can use a longsword and infuse it with crystal. If you go pyro you could get 10 DEX and use raw ASS.
If you plan on using sorcereries Sorcerer is the best class if you don't use any weapons with FTH reqs. If you want to use weapons with FTH reqs, like ASS, Immolation Tinder, and Cleric's Candlestick, Pyro is better.

>>165203648
How else would you do it?

I still get invasions to this day on my SL220 main.

>>165203686
there's a difference between "I need to use this healing item to survive these fights because I fucked up and got hit" and "I need to use this healing item because the developers arbitrarily decided this drop doesn't have a ladder and is too high to land safely"

If you can't see this then you're probably someone that thinks the agape ring is a good "fix" for soul memory

>>165202472
>>165203789
Why are your comments exclusively about PVP when talking about a single player game with some online elements?

>>165203942
>>165203459
>I can't imagine being able to do well in PvP with base agility.

But with this much you can roll through Smelter's downward slam. Or everything else.

How am I supposed to effectively use Black Serpent?

>>165203232
crystal sage raper is pretty good early game, it scales off of int for damag but you need high dex to use it.

>>165203789
Oh, I should've noticed that you said 88, not 85. I never knew until now that there's nearly double the iframes between the two.

Also, I never noticed that agility apparently raises item/estus use speed, it must be a more gradual thing.

>>165202010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0

>>165203789
You need to spend points just so you can get fat rolling, something that was a PENALTY in ds1 as a trade off for having lots of armor.

Spending my hard earned souls to level up and get the equivalent of a penalty, how is that good design?

Agility is a lazy solution to a problem (rolling is too good in pvp) that doesn't actually adress any of the underlying issues (fix the shit netcode and hitboxes) while also not meshing with any of design changes the game introduced with it (like shields being worse and enemies having crazy tracking) because they were lazy and didn't think things through

Just because you CAN roll through stuff at that level doesn't mean it's somehow not a shit mechanic. Ignoring the fact that comparing it to DS1 fatrolling without any of the poise/armor benefits that would be associated with it is dishonest, why exactly should you balance the game where either you're a top player that can perfectly time rolls or you get to spend tons of points? When the last game had a system that didn't have a shitty point sink and the current game is constantly taking elements from that game, you can't argue that comparing it to previous games is unfair.

>tfw they never brought the sack back

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Has anyone ever made something that could be considered a "good" map of any souls game?

Even true overhead of 3 would be interesting. I understand the difficulties.

>>165203942
>there's a difference between "I need to use this healing item to survive these fights because I fucked up and got hit" and "I need to use this healing item because the developers arbitrarily decided this drop doesn't have a ladder and is too high to land safely"
The thing isn't that they're both connected. In the second situation, you sacrifice resources for the sake of exploration even though you know it might lead to not having enough for a surprise boss fight or enemy. You can make a safe choice or a dangerous choice and they both lead to certain rewards. You don't know what's ahead, so it's not pointless. In the first situation, you're talking about skill, but like I said, the games aren't about skill, they're about resource management, because you can easily beat those games just by blocking with a good shield, which takes no skill. For example, you have a limited amount of herb to use before you start farming them or spending cash to get more in DeS, so you have to be careful which tunnels or pits you want to take to succeed or become better. In DaS1, you can spend humanity on defense+item discovery, healing or bonfire kindling, and each choice you make with them is a sacrifice for the other thing. Choosing between normal Estus and Ash Estus in DaS3 is the same thing. Choosing to spend lifegems, estus, poison heal, heal+poison heal, spell restore, heal+spell restore in DaS2 is the same thing.

>>165202010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1g31nPkKoA

>>165202010

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

>>165204867
>The thing isn't
The thing is*

>>165202010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RlSgnpLbro

>>165204492
>something that was a PENALTY in ds1 as a trade off for having lots of armor.
The true penalty in DaS1 was not the iframes, which is just timing, the penalty was the recovery and roll distance, which isn't affected by AGL.

>>165202845
I agree, though doesn't the in-game description of agility explain that it makes your rolls better and use items faster?

>>165204492
>>165203789
I have a better way to sum up how fucking stupid this point is

rolling in DS1 was a trade off (in theory) between good rolling and good armor/poise. you're picking one good thing or another good thing and either is generally instant gratification. This falls apart at a high level meta pvp, but that's a relatively small part of the overall game and something that could've been rather easily fixed in DS2 instead of just removing the system entirely.

in DS2 the trade off is instead skill vs time. You can either be really skilled and just roll through everything with low adaptability, or you can spend time leveling up adaptability (and take more TIME killing stuff because you didn't level up a stat that does something useful). If you spend a LOT of time you can even get the best of both worlds because now your weight doesn't effect iframes unless you get really heavy in DS2 (which is part of the reason why they nerfed poise in this game, I assume, meaning their bad idea effected other parts of the game like a shit design cancer).

Most players can't actually make that initial choice to just be really skilled, so instead you have to be shitty for a while and level up before your character can be fun and good like in a fucking MMO or something. All because the devs felt you needed enough good boy points to "earn" something you could do in the first game

>>165205168
> the penalty was the recovery and roll distance,
this would be a fair point if it wasn't for the fact that every roll in DS2 besidse the 70% roll has the same recovery and the distance doesn't matter given the enemy attacks in this game that have huge range and tracking. If you don't have the timing/iframes you WILL take super armor hits

Any good ways to counter turtles for a pyromancer?
DS3

Invaders get 25% more health and 25% more damage per summoned phantom.
This buff intensifies if the host attempts summons more after they are slain.

>>165204492
>>165205316
But game gives you a lot more levels, specifically so that you could raise more stats. You can raise agility and be as powerful as you were in DaS1, or you could not raise it and be more powerful.

I love getting these couldn't join session messages while trying to invade

DS2 shot itself in a foot with agility on a fundamental level even in pve because devs were forced to confirm that the game is playable even with base agility. So majority of mobs have extremely primitive movesets you can avoid just by strafing back to the sides. Hilariously, it concerns even the majority of bosses with shit like dragonrider or pursuer being most notable example as you can walk around them without a lock and never get hit.

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PCFC?
Demon Bridge?
Pass: dsg

>>165205239
It says that it "increases the ease of evasion" and doesn't mention anything about estus drinking speed. But like I said, it's not something a new player could easily test because it's timing related, not number related, so it would take some skill to just try to compare rolls. In DaS1, you could kind of get an idea of the roll difference because of the animations.

>every roll in DS2 besidse the 70% roll has the same recovery and the distance doesn't matter given the enemy attacks in this game that have huge range and tracking
Actually, roll distance is more important than you think in DaS2 because of the lingering hitboxes on attacks. Low equip load also increases stamina regeneration speed, so you "recover" your rolls' stamina to make more at different speeds depending on equip load.

>>165205497
That doesn't somehow make "spend a bunch of level ups on this boring stat instead of something that feels fun and lets you do cool stuff" good design

It also meshes really badly with soul memory, spending a ton of levels on adaptability will at best make you way less effective than other players in co op/pvp and at worse push you out of soul level limit in every area you happen to be in compared to other players that didn't level up adaptability a bunch

All of this when they could've just NOT done this, but that would've meant they had to actually think on how to make roll vs armor fair instead of just slapping them both behind leveling up stats that are otherwise largely useless like an mmo.

>>165205614
i'm in

>>165205813
>>every roll in DS2 besidse the 70% roll has the same recovery and the distance doesn't matter given the enemy attacks in this game that have huge range and tracking
>Actually, roll distance is more important than you think in DaS2 because of the lingering hitboxes on attacks. Low equip load also increases stamina regeneration speed, so you "recover" your rolls' stamina to make more at different speeds depending on equip load.

>>165205316

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>Royal Soldiers in the Forest of Fallen Giants can parry you
holy fucking shit

>>165205813
>>165205962
Ah, that's a fair point.

It still seems like rationalization for a bunch of stuff that just shouldn't have been in the game, like huge nonsensical lingering hitboxes or making stamina regen tie into equip weight on a 1-1 scale (which is again a really lazy and simplistic way to "balance" things)

>>165205342
One option would be dark infused carthus shotel. If you are not against it, tumblebuffing it with dark weapon would make it even more effective. Just two hand and go to town. Innate shield piercing + dark element (which players are often most weak to) should help.

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HAHA MAN THIS GAME SURE IS FUCKING FUN

I SURE AM GLAD THIS A-TEAM MADE THE PVP PERFECT

>>165205342
any dark-infused weapon, black flame and patience
keep healing miracles ready if you see them being too much of passive asshats

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I wanted to make this SL 20. Should I lower VIT and just not roll?

>>165206161
Looks like bad players. You will win.

>>165206161
>shitty weapons
>shields that will get broken from two attacks
>like 700 HP because of downscale
and the problem is

>>165206161
just because miyazaki was around doesn't make it "a-team". game design is not just the one japanese man that gets interviewed you cretin. almost none of the people that made ds1 worked in either 2 OR 3 just going by the credits.

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>>165206483
>he brought back Tanimura for online balance

>>165205614

I'll mess up my sleep schedule again if I join...

>>165206161
>A Team
I can't wait for this to die.
The groups that made I and III have almost no one in common.

>>165206091
It's definitely experimental. I feel like stamina regen speed tied on equip load wouldn't make sense if the rolls were balanced like DaS1 with fast, mid and fat roll. Fast roll was the reason to get low equip load in DaS1 and good armor/poise was the reason to get high equip load. With the DaS2-DaS3 system of 70% for fatroll, there's no real reason to get low equip load in either games if stamina regen speed wasn't a factor. Roll distance somewhat matters if there's lingering hitboxes like in DaS2, but if it's like DaS3, then it's not worth sacrificing all the armor.

>>165206161
PvP shines best when you're duelfagging anyways.

In invasions you're supposed to be a glorified enemy to be fought by the host and his buddies, you're not meant to win every fight. You only do that if you're really good. Setting them back and making them use a lot of estus is already enough according to From.

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>>165206671

Just give this one guy one fight...

>>165206620
if that was true DaS3 would actually be balanced and ultras wouldn't be SHIT

>>165206795
My last 8 invasions have all been 3 man ganksquads, with the 7th having a seed.

I'm not a fucking obstacle since the host gets estus back if I die.

>>165206161
Hollows deserve to be purged

>>165206817
DS2 was unbalanced garbage and ultras were almost as shit as in DS1.
More importantly, Tanimura clearly hates invasions and tried to fuck them over even in DS3 with seeds which are his own innovation for the series.

Literally all ADP did was give you control over your iframes, and then make you have to earn that control.

It would be no different than if they added some system that let you swap movesets, but made you pay souls each time you swapped them. Just like soul vessels or estus flask shards or fire keeper souls. It adds player agency by making you choose how effective your iframes are, that's all.

I'm pretty sure no one thought about it more than "Let's add a mechanic that exerts control over their iframes without being tied to roll distance. That would add more customization."

Which makes sense given that it comes from the AC devs, and literally EVERYTHING like that in AC is controlled by the player's choices.

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>dsp is playing dark souls again

>>165207005
You need to make him lose 2 estus. If you hit 5 r1s you did your job. You shoupd be able to hit 5 even against ganks

Anyone want to help a pure caster sorc kill ng+ freja? I want paledrake soul but my sorceries do diddly damage, and I don't think I have enough pyromancy casts to do it alone. PC, sotfs, 1mil SM, waiting right by the fog door to freja. Don't have a name ring because I forgot and literally only just remembered to get one as I was typing this.

Rose of Ariandel is sleeper high tier
>can get a lightning stake off a riposte and combo into 2 R1s
>reinforced club moveset but bigger hitbox, surprisingly long and thick
>miracle buff increases stamina recovery
>does more bleed damage than other bleed weapons, tumble buffed with Carthus Rouge it is insane
>great for roll catching

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>mfw i just summon gangbanged Pontiff Sulyvahn
>mfw i feel terrible about it

i feel like i cheesed a great boss while only in NG

i guess i could see someone cheesing him in NG+, but i just feel like a dick for doing it in NG

>>165206817
but it is true

>>165205980
>headless, one armed skeletons can parry you with the hand they hold their swords in
Any other enemy is small time compared to parry masters of carthus

>>165207606
Reminds me of when I summoned for Friede in one of my side characters after fighting her normally on my main. When I was fighting her for the first time, I thought "wow this boss will be fun to coop at!" but what ensued was a stunlock fest while the phantoms furiously mashed R1.

>>165207517
>Did my job
I didn't get a fucking ember or tongue/shackle

>>165206243
Add favor +2

>>165206807
Did you just assume Ciaran's gender?

>>165206620
Tanimura is the only other person outside Miyazaki to direct a successful From Soft game, and has been working on more complicated game balance for longer than Miyazaki has been at the company

Tanimura knows his stuff. He's pretty bad at atmosphere and lore but when it comes to straight up number crunching, he knows how to balance good mechanical systems. All of DS3's problems are indicative of things Miyazaki does wrong when he has too much control.

The rolling balance problem in DS3 is the same problem Miyazaki introduced with quickboost in AC4.

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>>165208061
Then put down a sign or farm darkwraiths nigga. Jesus are you that much of a dense tryhard that you are seriously complaining that invading is difficult? If you are getting buttflustered by gank squads there are plenty of ways to do pvp that circumvent them entirely.

>>165207005
Seeds are such bad design... taking the one advantage invaders have against ganks, the regular enemies, is so bad... didn't they think it through?

I can see their reason to exist, to punish invaders that endlessly run back into the level, but i feel like that would only be a "problem" against lone hosts. A host and his phantom/s should man up and be able to pursue the invader through the level, they get it easy enough already.

>>165206243
Does it help to pick a class with a lower amount of luck? Doesn't Knight have less?

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Hey DSG could I get some help with the Pontiff? He's wrecking me a lil bit and my bumhole is sore

>>165208061
according to neo-/dsg/ you should be happy to still be able to invade and that you were never supposed to be able to take down hosts etc ...

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>>165208456
No, I'm trying to have fun with the game like I did in DaS and DaSII


And oh look
another ganksquad

>>165208480
Knight has 4 less LCK but 4 more ATT, 3 more DEX, and 1 more INT.
I'd lose 3 points.

>>165208543
>neo-/dsg/
>ganksquads have been a thing since DS1
>shitters have been complaining about them since then

Your new is showing anon.

>>165208758
I wasn't aware DS1 prioritized ganksquads

>>165206817
Tanimura was "co-director", meaning that he took over whenever Miyazaki got bored.

The infusion system, password summons, weapon memory, and changes to how armor and poise works in DS3? That has Tanimura written all over it.

The easy rolling, summon ranges, covenants, invasion mechanics, etc. look very much like the product of Miyazki's work.

I think most of DS3's problems are caused by the developers trying to change stuff that was honestly fine as-is in DS2 or DS1 to fit what Miyazaki wanted the game to feel like, aka, more like bloodborne.

>>165208623
I am lost here mate what about invading gank squads is something new to DS3? I played those games two man and this is something that has been in every single game. If you are looking for a fair fight then don't invade, if you are looking to fuck with people don't be surprised when people don't play along.

>>165207526
Nevermind I did it myself, she had way less health than I thought.
Now what do i do with the soul, dsg? MLGS or Crystal Soul Spear?
Keep in mind I've only got like 12 str and 10 dex. I'd be dumping a lot of levels just to use MLGS, so it better be damn good.

>>165208439
Now imagine DaS2 but with Tanimura being the director from the start. That fucker Shibuya had no clue what he was doing and Tanimura had to step in to salvage whatever was worth keeping.

>>165208468
Personally, I'd like seed to be implemented as a CoC like covenant. No item, everyone in that covenant is perma seeded but can't use WSS

>>165208468
Seeds should make enemies go after the invaders, but enemies should always prioritize summons regardless of whether seeds are used or not.

There, problem fixed. Use a seed and it turns into 1v1 between the invader and the host until the summons BC out or clear the stage.

>>165208758
and in DS1 you had tools to counter them, people gave advices, then DS2 and DS3 happened

>>165208623
Don't invade in irityhll. The only fun I get in this game anymore is invading in farron keep with a greatbow and obscuring + slumbering dragoncrest ring.

>>165209036
>and in DS1 you had tools to counter them
What tools did you have that aren't in the other games?

Ashes of Ariandel is the worst Souls DLC by a wide margin.

First, it's pathetically short. You can easily jog through the entire thing in ten minutes and only kill one enemy. Playing through it honestly and struggling, it shouldn't take much more than an hour.

From tried to inflate it by putting a very difficult boss at the end of it so players will struggle for a long time, but, when they tried to make Friede hard, they really fucked up her design.. She has three phases, and her third one is much harder than the ones before it. It's boring and frustrating to fight through the same phases repeatedly so you can practice correctly dodging her third form combos and anime blasts. They try to force an epic atmosphere by giving her long attack strings and massive damage, but this only makes her another boss in Dark Souls 3 where you mash roll until you're punished by a pseudocombo. The worst part about it is that she has almost no recovery on many of her animations. If you roll through her delayed scythe swing and go for a backstab, she'll whiz off before the backstab animation connects. She has very few true openings, and killing her is an issue of her AI being bolder than it should be, having a weapon long enough to catch her dashes, having the hyper armor to mash through her sequences, or being a parry king. Stunlocking makes her a joke to summoners, and it's possible to get her in a corner and mash 9000 of her health off when she's in her third form. She's not only hard, she's frustrating and she wastes a lot of your time. People like her because they conflate difficulty with quality in Souls games, but she really is a downgrade from Lady Maria in every form other than her second.

>>165205614
I'd complain about you hosting embered but that's the only reason I get to fight anything.

>>165209126
Not him but lloyd's was actually useful in DaS

>>165208975
People speculated that Shibuya was working on a different project, but during it's development they decided to scrap it and make DaS2 instead.

>>165209015
no, seed should activate friendly fire between host and his phantoms, that way it would have a counterpart, fucking dedicated ganksquads over while still being useful to lone hosts

>>165209126
Backstab chains with one hit kills and safe mobs to run towards for healing

>>165208975
I don't think that would have changed a lot, but it would have changed just a few things:
>the regular bosses would be on-par with DLC because they would have more time to tweak AI and movesets
>it would have released in 2013, instead of being delayed
>Iron Keep would actually be Brume Tower
>release version would otherwise be identical to SOTFS, maybe with fewer branches.
>the shitty repeated graphics and texture warping would have been replaced

They would have probably not done DLC, either. DLC wasn't originally planned. We would have missed out on Shulva and Eleum Loyce, but the rest of the areas would be on-par with them.

>>165209343
backstab chains were BS and we both know it

>>165209126
lloyds lasting more than 10 seconds, instant BSs, being able to riposte immediately after a successful parry, vow of silence lasting more than 10 seconds, no seed so the environment was on your side, no instant resummons

and finally once you got rid of the phantoms, the host couldn't just rush to the fog door and enter the boss fight with fucking iframes, I'm still mad about that

>>165209210
Let's 1 + 1 is get a kick out of it.

>>165209208
The NPC boss is surprisingly bad for something so unambitious. It's easy to kill the NPC before the wolf shows up, but if you don't the fight is a mess. The wolf dashes all over the place, and you need to keep your camera on it if you don't want to get run through or thrown into the air, while the Champion jogs towards you and can do a lot of damage if you don't pay attention to him. Fighting multiple enemies requires some ability to keep your camera on both of them, and that just isn't feasible here. Also, you fight a copypaste of the wolf two times before.

The areas are good. Millwood Knights, Wolves, and Crow Nights are all memorable enemies, and the Corvian Settlement is surprisingly memorable for its length.

The weapon drops are above average for a Souls DLC. Crow Quills, Friede's Scythe, and the Rose of Ariandel are all fun and unique weapons. The Millwood Weapons are lazy but they still have some original stuff in them.

In any case, it's a 3/10. First Souls DLC that isn't worth buying if you care about money.

>>165207309
>Which makes sense given that it comes from the AC devs, and literally EVERYTHING like that in AC is controlled by the player's choices.

I dunno if you know this but AC and souls are not the same game.

Mechanics like ADP work in AC because it's a game about building your mech from the ground up and tweaking it for every mission. A game like dark souls inherently doesn't have that kind of customization focused gameplay, it's biggest inspirations from a design/gameplay sense are castlevania and OOT

tanimura made AC and like all jp developers can only make one type of game, so putting him in charge of a completely different style of game like dark souls was just inherantly a bad idea

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/fashionsouls/ ?

>>165208916
In DS3, you automatically get summoned to worlds with more hosts, and if they finger to get more phantoms for the ganksquad, you are set to invade there.

Each host has a massive HP bonus compared to you as well as double (More than double in practice due to halving) the estus. No humanity healing, which was amazing in DaS because you could use it as a healing resource that you got back

The Host can summon phantoms instantly and due to roll mechanics there's essentially no way to punish summon spamming and Estus Spamming Lloyds are slow, have a super limited carry amount and due to roll mechanics no player will ever get hit by them. Due to the above, you have to use a rollcatching build and a certain set of weapons (Either roll-catch or oneshot builds, nothing else works), severely limiting the amount of viable builds

The host has access to an item which makes your only discernible advantage (Mobs) work against you.
The host gets free summons from Dorkmoons, which happens all the fucking time since there are so many blues.
If you get cornered you just die since you get stunlocked by R1 spam
The amount of souls you get is basically nothing
Invaders also lose souls where they die in the invasion, just to rub salt in the wound.


So 90% of invasions are the following:

People immediately running back to the bonfire and rolling any attacks you do to try and stop them. They spam summon phantoms and you're screwed.
Ganksquads
People going through the level who just pop a seed and continue going through the level
Groups of friends who just summon the phantoms you do manage to kill endlessly.

>>165209503
I think connectivity between levels would be better, I mean no way earthen peak and iron keep were supposed to be connected in initial design.

>>165209343
don't act like one hit kills weren't the only way to win against ganksquads in das2/das3

>>165209208
I found Ashes of Ariandel to be a really good DLC. The only part I didn't like is the visual design of the Gravetender boss fight, which was lazy. The rest was all 9/10 to 10/10 to me, especially Friede. She was like a better Lady Maria and one of the best bosses in the Soulsborne series.

>>165209503
The areas would be in the fucking correct order to.
>doors of pharros would obviously be part of the rotten pathline, with the second part of heides that leads to wharf and wharf itself being optional areas that still lead to bastille
>huntsmans copse would instead lead to shaded woods and then brightstone cove
>brightstone cove might not have been so fucking disgusting looking to
>brume tower and iron keep would be it's own path now
>heides is a one off later game area and given actual level design
>earthen peak and harvest valley are removed from the game entirely
imagine

>>165209637
>Also, you fight a copypaste of the wolf two times before.

It's the same enemy you mong. You don't kill him the first two times, but defeat him as he retreats when his HP is low. I also heard that defeating him the first two times makes him have less HP during the boss fight.

>>165208975
>>165209250

I looked up credits information for Shibuya.

He was a designer for Monster Hunter, then From Soft bought him up for Another Century's Episode, which he worked with alongside Tanimura.

Then he isn't credited until Dark Souls 2. He literally has no successful games (at least Tanimura has several of the best AC games to his name) until he was handed DS2. It sounds to me like your theory about him working on his own project sounds accurate, since there's little reason why they would give him such control early on.

Then again, who the fuck knows what goes on at that company. For all we know they decide who directs the games by who gives the best blowjob to whatever Bandai Namco exec happens to be in the office that day.

>>165208916
Invading into ganks is more frequent in III than it was in other games.
It's also much harder to punish certain action as an invader, heals especially. Estus is the fastest it's ever been, but Lloyds is slow, comparitively.
Depending on who's doing the invading, they're either going to get sick of not typically being able to win head-on and routinely being pitted against a host that hides behind multiple phantoms and rolls forever, or they're going to try to figure out whatever few abilities or cheap tricks you can use to get a few kills.
I'm of the opinion that 99 humanity, fully-upgraded invaders in the first game was stupid, but I'd also say that the shit in III is stupid and tedious as well.

>>165209815
Sounds to me like you don't like invasions. If only there was a way to PVP without dealing with all that. Like the white soapstone, but for invaders. Or even better a specific PVP area that you can choose to have limited or even eliminated use of estus.

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>host dies
This is why you don't host embered.

>it's a "people complain about DS3 invasions instead of just playing DS1 where they actually work" episode

What's a good sl to stay at for a SIr Vilhelm boss invasion build?

>>165209639
Oh yeah, I'm not saying that it works in one game so it works in the other, I'm just saying that's probably why they -thought- it would work well.

Souls progression is, and has been since Demon's Souls, a struggle between AC-like customization and OOT-like RPG mechanics.

Like, if you restricted turning speed in Dark Souls it would fucking ruin the game. Likewise, if you had backstabs in AC it would ruin it too.

But ADP is one area where I think the change wasn't so drastically wrong. If anything it's an "Awareness check" to see if you're paying attention to your own stats and what they do, since you only need to level it up about 5-10 levels to have enough ADP to play through the game. Anything beyond 15 ADP or so is not noticeable to the average player since their rolls aren't going to be subject to such tight timing that 10% more frames will make that big of a difference.

>>165210129
I get that invading sucks in this game, and that between SM and sending invaders directly into the jaws of Gank Squads was a poor and overzealous choice to solve the relatively small problem of twinking. But I don't get why people talk about invading being fucked and then say that because its been sullied that PVP in general is now bad when in reality the PVP in a 1v1 is as shit as its always been.

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>>165201949
>>165202027
>>165202086
>mfw try this out on a whim
>killed host during boss

whats the most efficient way to store souls not including sacrifice ring. i know im going to lose out on some no matter what, but what unlimited item can i buy that has the closest buy sell ratio of 1:1. im on ng++ right now and have no need for souls to level up or really buy anything besides titanite but i havent gotten the ashes on archdragon peak yet.

>>165210265
>it's a "DS2 is a flawless masterpiece that did everything better and you're just a nostalgiafag" episode

>>165210146
>The counter to DaS1 ganksquads were clever use of environment(Sens), abusing backstab mechanics and tactical use of tools like Lloyds

>The counter to DaS2 Ganksquads was to take off the Agape ring so you stop seeing the Ganksquad in a few more invasions

>The counter to DaS3 ganksquads is the Arena

I had a good 90 hours of DaS1 invasions and 150 hours of DaS2 invasions

They are not nearly as shit as the DaS3 ones.

>>165209761
Change the helm to one of these:

Dragonrider Helm
Heide Knight Iron Mask
Royal Swordsman Helm
Alonne Knight Helm

>>165210351
I don't think it's reasonable for any player to figure out that every couple points of agility means their roll is invincible for another 1/60th of a second, especially when the animation and length are not tied into that but a completely different stat and DS2 launched with some pretty bad hitboxes that makes it hard to tell exactly what went wrong that lead to you being hit.

Meant to bundle, sorry about the chug

>>165210462
Just keep a single soul of a great champion and dupe it with tumblebuff when needed

The Boss Invasion glitch fixes most of the flaws regarding invasions.
The Host can't spam estus (Boss punishes)
Host can't resummon
Limited arena to hide in
Invader at a disadvantage but a fair one
Going into worlds with many invaders is balanced since it increases the HP of your environmental buddy.

>>165210531
You misunderstood me I meant invasions in 3. Shit dude the arena is pretty versatile I might just be easy to please but I don't see why you would invade if all you are looking for is a fight. If its about fucking with the host then you don't have much room to complain but in Dark Souls 3 there are many ways to get fair PVP.

>>165210792
This. People always masturbated the Old Demon Monk and Mirror Knight for this mechanic I don't see why people are suddenly so very up in arms against it. I mostly co-op and I do lose a lot more hosts but it makes the fights a lot more interesting.

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oh look
another 3 man group

>>165210531
The reason why people invade at Iron Keep is because the lava and bridge switches let you kill gank squads pretty effectively.

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assuming i have 30 int+fai which pyro tool should i max and use?
also does the white hair glitch still work?

>>165211549
Please stop showing window mode screenshots

>>165210408
When people talk about PvP, I think some people are referring to every situation where you're fighting another player and other people are talking exclusively about 1v1s. That's probably the confusion.
I would probably agree about 1v1 being pretty bad since I've never thought it was that great in any of the games on a fundamental level. Invasions were always a fun aspect though, but they obviously have a good chance of being heavily stacked against you in III.

>>165211631
>that damage
Does the BKGA have something to do with that?

Rose of Ariandel is sleeper high tier
>can get a lightning stake off a parry and combo into 2 R1s
>reinforced club moveset but bigger hitbox, surprisingly long and thick
>miracle buff increases stamina recovery
>great for rollcatching
>does more bleed damage than other bleed weapons, becomes absurd tumblebuffed with carthus rouge

>>165211631
>assuming i have 30 int+fai which pyro tool should i max and use?
normal pyro hand, DLC pyro hand if all you want is to spam black flame/great combustion
>also does the white hair glitch still work?
no

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pls r8

>>165211631
No, that glitch was gone months ago.
>>165211725
There was a glitch with sacred flame, the white hair talisman, and a multi-hit riposte weapon (so yes, the BKGA does have something to do with it) that allowed for that level of damage.

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>>165211782
>surprisingly long and thick
>bleed

>>165211782
I want you to show me something long and thick anon

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>>165211549
>windowed mode
>still fills up 90% of your screen

>>165211631
Default has greater spell values but the DLC does its damage value for making contact while casting an offensive spell. Also the DLC one gives you a flask every 12 kills.

>>165211782
>sleeper high tier
alright scott I know you're lurking this thread

you know what to do

>>165210792
>>165211112

I think people are up in arms against it because:
>people fighting a boss with co-op phantoms are not trying to gank invaders, they legitimately need help beating a boss
>it was not an intended feature of the boss, and the boss isn't made easier to compensate for the invasion mechanic
>the bosses are the best part of DS3, not the pvp mechanics

>>165212034
What do you like about long and thick things?

>>165211549
Yes, you're more likely to end up in a world with phantoms than without in 3.
This has been the case since release.
Do you just feel like bitching?

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>>165212208
They make me bleed

>>165211707
>>165210408
This is how I use the terms:

PvP = Anything that is in ALL forms of multiplayer against other players (duels and invasions and arena)
duels = anything exclusive to 1v1s
invasions = anything exclusive to invasions

So talking about rolling and weapon balance is a PvP thing. Talking about host summon advantages is an invasion thing. Talking about matchmaking in the arena or estus chugging is a duel thing.

>>165212295
I've been on nofap too long and it's making me respond to you

>>165210265
>DS1 where they actually work
>Searching for world to invade.
>Searching for world to invade.
>Searching for world to invade.
>Failed to invade

>>165212150
The enjoyment of the invasions does heavily rely on the person invading as usual. I have been helping at Freide and friend and when the invader is some edgelord spamming soul stream its not that interesting. I had one guy come in named discount lady maria who hid in a corner until phase 3 then pop out and I couldn't stop laughing.

I have a 20 END/VIT/STR and I really want to start working on improving Faith and Attunement, most of the way on out. Is there a paticular weapon I should look out for that is STR/FAI, FAI/STR without too much DEX needed?

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>>165212405

>>165212423
DSCM son

>tfw you end up dying against the bed of chaos at least once no matter how many times you've played through DaS1

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I think this little combo looks pretty decent

>playing SOTFS
>standing completely still while targeting enemy that is moving at me in a straight line
>greatsword misses 30 degrees to the right

???????????????????

>>165212675
I almost always die because of it's bullshit tree arm swipes and the tiles that fall out of the floor, and it's easier to just kill it in 3 suicide runs than to try and spend more time figuring it out

>>165212675
>not doing the speedrun strat

>>165211549
>invades in popular coop area
>cries when ganked by phantoms
???


Still, I feel for you. Itd be a different story if lost souls arent dropped where a red is killed.

>>165212962
Yeah, that's what always gets me, the swipes seem to be perfectly timed to come out when you try to make that final jump.

>>165213051

With the bombs?

>invaded by the same cunt using a glaive that only pushes r1 five times in a row
how the fuck do i counter this its so annoying

>>165213216
y

>>165212716
That mask goes with almost everything as long as it's a darker shade of some sort. Which is great because so many otherwise nice armor sets have really shitty helmets

>>165213249
>Invaded
Seed
4 phantoms
way of the blue

>>165213337
id rather kill him myself for the satisfaction

>>165213403
If you're a shitter use crutches
That's how DaS3 is.

>using dragon bone smasher 2 handed
>accidentally press R1 twice
>get up and make tea while I await my certain death

>>165213249
just use carthus lmao

>>165213517
Why encourage shitter tactics towards someone that doesn't want to use them?
Aside from being bitter, anyways.

>>165213249
Parry?

>>165213906
When From realizes 0 people are invading they might fix it.

anyone have the poise calculator spreadsheet

>>165213991
>0 people are invading
every time i embered on this character i got invaded, all the way from high wall to archdragon

>when you have wardens twinblades with carthus rouge and catch both Friede and Ariandel and do 7000 damage before depleting your stamina bar

You have 10 seconds to think of an area in the whole series worse than Earthen Peek.

>>165214895

The Gutter.

Real talk here. Are hounds ever fun to fight? They are shit in every single Soulsborne game and demon's souls. What the fuck is From thinking?

I especially hate how they're knocked away in III, so it's harder to kill the shits in one swoop.

But that's nothing compared to the flagrant teleporting in of dogs in that game. It's obvious and obnoxious, and lazy.

>>165214895
Smouldering Lake

>>165214895
The Great Hollow

>>165214895
Lost Izalith

>>165212940
Your controller is borked and is twitching your attacks to one side or something.

>>165214895
The Abyss

>>165214998
The wolves in the DLC are pretty fun.

>>165214895
archdragon peak
especially after the wyvern and the run to the twinkling body stone

>>165215185
The first time maybe

>>165214895
easily doors of pharos, it's like a microcosm of everything wrong with ds2

>>165214895
Horsedick Valley. No amount of summons changes the fact that the area is a middle finger the whole way through.
Though I feel like it was made with the "fuck you" mentality in mind, so I doubt it was on accident that it ended up the way it is.

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>Dragons are fucking long gone
>except for one, oh just kidding, he's fucking dead now
>everyone over the course of thousands upon thousands of years still knows about the dragons, and keeps trying to recreate them
>no one ever seems to remember that it never works

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Would it be possible to get some help with Fume Knight? I am in the 800000s sm wise. My PSN is BlakwaltzBigBoss if anyone would be willing. Thank you.

>>165214895
Do you really hate earthen peak that much? It's definitely fairly mediocre but I don't see how you could truly hate it. It's not even in a top 10 of bad areas.

>>165215690
in sotfs its hilariously bad
with adp being a thing even if you roll out of the claw manikins attack youll still get bled and most likely die in one combo

>>165215692
Help please :)

>>165215690
The ridiculously fast poison buildup and damage combined with stunlock enemies who also bleed you is super obnoxious. Plus it's the only area I've had to google the solution to a boss for because I had no idea how to get rid of the poison after running around for like an hour.

>>165214895
Literally half the areas in DS2.

Earthen Peak is actually pretty good. Great co-op level, lots of traps and tricky jumps, enemies that are actually threatening and require planning ahead to fight, tons of hidden areas, etc.

I don't get why people hate it. Even Harvest Valley is worse than it, and it's right before the level. Wouldn't that make Earthen Peak seem good by comparison?

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Calling it. Thanks for joining.

that's what you get for using MY main weapon, host.

>>165215931
Plan on leveling faith? God's Wrath from Urbain.
Plan on leveling int? Fireball from Freke is more useful in general, firestorm from Yuria is far more damaging and can be glitched for absurd results if you're a shitter.
Plan on leveling neither? You can consume it for souls.

>>165215931
Firestorm is the best spell for dumb shit

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>>165214895
ez

>>165208456
The fact that nobody still playing this game can manage the pve wothout 2 fucking summons is pathetic.

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So anyway way to improve this?

Basically I have no idea what I'm doing almost

>>165214895
Farron Keep. Boring area full of poison.

>>165216314
Keep forgetting that UGS swings right behind you.

STRAIGHT SWORD PHANTOM RANGE

Can someone give me a proper stat distribution for the lothic holy sword? never tried it before, and I want to give it a whirl with the ethereal oak shield on.

Who here just likes wasting the host's time and forcing them to use estus?

>>165216506
It's because the only time you'll ever invade someone without 2 summons is if everyone with 2 summons already has invaders.

What DS3 needs is a huge influx of white phantoms who sit by and refuse to help their hosts. That way hosts get invasion priority without the help.

That, or some item that gets you invasion priority even if you don't have summons.

>>165214895

Farron Keep

anyone looking for a sunlight medalian?
place your sign near the Anor londo bonfire. i need help with Aldrich
(getting to him, more like)

>>165216437
>Love the way the Flamberge and Forlorn GS look in DS2
>bleed is total and utter shit and all other infusions make them weaker

life is hard

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do i get anything for killing the not-boss giant wyvern at the dragon keep besides regret?

>>165216893
tfw i am the useless phantom
im sick of purps and reds getting fucked so i do nothing unless attacked

>Dark Souls 3 Patch Notes
Estus animation speed increased
Fixed a glitch where stamina incorrectly regenerated slower while drinking estus
Increased active frames on Running thrust attacks
Increased invincibility frames towards the end of rolls to prevent roll catching
Reduced damage on Lightning Stake
Reduced damage on Lightning Spear
Increased scaling given by Refined, Heavy and Sharp infusions
Undead Hunter Charm duration reduced
A glitch involving the Red-Eye Orb to invade into boss rooms has been fixed; the Red-Eye orb is removed.
You now gain 1 Pale Tongue for each red phantom destroyed.
Increased number of base summons from 3 to 4
Fixed a glitch where members of the Watchdogs of Farron covenant were summoned.
Added a number of NPC phantoms to assist with the following bosses: Soul of Cinder, Pontiff Sullyvahn, Friede.
Additionally, added several new NPC phantoms around every bonfire. These NPC phantoms can be summoned immediately after death rather than after a reload of the area.
Added a new sound clip to Oceiros, The Consumed King
Increased number of covenant items needed to reach max rank to 100.
Being summoned by a Red Soapstone reduces your stamina by 50%

>>165217007
Sure, let me just grab my NX, be there in 2 mins

>>165216893
If only there was an item that increased the priority of your world and number of maximum invaders

>>165217067
I don't even play DS3 and this is giving me nightmares

>>165217117
forgot to mention, im on PC

>>165217007
is there a pw?

>>165217176
Ok, I'm coming

Pass: dsg

>>165216506
I have this feeling that there's an amount of people that just play game with their friends since they can and are completely oblivious to whether or not they're being obnoxious.
I know I've been in several invasions that feel that way.
>>165216893
>some item that gets you invasion priority even if you don't have summons
This already exists in 3, it has since day one.

>>165217007

Sign is down by bonfire, pass is dsg.

>>165216405
I have 20 int and only 13 faith :S

Better start leveling int?

>have to go to NG++ for ring of favor+2
hate

>>165217240
>>165217253
you FlameFrozen?

>>165217305

Swap it bud.

>>165217305
NG+ is fun

>>165217356

No but summon us both anyway

>>165217356
Close but no

>>165217276
Level what you want, you certainly don't have to try and do everything on your first character unless that's your intention.
Just know that higher level magic makes Demon's Souls very, very easy.

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>tfw anon never summoned you

>>165217834
Hahaha, get fucked pyro nigger

>undead match suddenly disappears from bonfire, didn't do anything, not even kill a boss

uh

?

>that old hag call out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_324291215&feature=iv&src_vid=gJVpxu0EFuE&v=7DMjyEk0Lwc

I have an idea to really fuck over moundmakers. When they invade a gank squad, make them kill all 3 phantoms!

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Sometimes I feel bad about invading boss fights and being an overall massive asshole invader, but then I remember this.
I now realize boss invaders are doing a great service to the souls "community".

Sister Friede, you deserve better.

>>165217973
Had the same issue, and it never came back.

No clue as to why.

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>>165217067
>Added a new sound clip to Oceiros, The Consumed King

>>165217452
>>165217496
what is you UN anyway?

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>>165218287
A really fucking shitty one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl2wTno1YRg

>>165218130
I wonder what the perception of the game is for people like that. Do they think the game is fun? Hard? Easy? Shit?

>>165218149
>>165217973
Same here anons. I had to forcibly re-enable it with CE.

Switching my covenants around was the only thing I did, and the option suddenly disappeared.

Pontiff Sulyvahn and the Dragonslayer Armor are the best fights in DS3

>>165218436
>I had to forcibly re-enable it with CE.
Wait, so potentially people without DLC could do it?

>>165209210
What's wrong with hosting embered?

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>doing summons in castle
>host has 2 downscaled phantoms+me
>fallen knight+farron memesword, somehow fatrolling
>get invaded
>host immediately swaps to a greatshield+dark sword
>phantoms fuck off to look for invader, i stay with host
>invader shows up, i stretch out and watch
>host gets guard broken in a single kick, riposte windup starts
>a connection error has occured

>>165218435
>base game is boring
>might as well call friends and have fun kicking shit around

I invade but I hate the idea of invaders calling other's way to play wrong ways to have fun. If they get their enjoyment out of ganking, or helping each other or just hvaing company, let them. People really overstate how much gamer creed Souls gives anyway and most of these guys aren't summoning so they can brag later.

>>165218602
Unembered FCs mean no invaders.

Can I warp from the bonfire in the Tomb of Giants? It's the one right after you slide down those stone ramps with the giant skeletons. I kinda want to warp out but I also kinda don't want to have to trudge back right now.

>>165218770
There is something incredibly gay about being fucking carried through a souls game.

>>165214895
lower swamp in ds3

>low mobility
>poison
>mobs that spam grab attacks
>flat with almost zero verticality

>>165218984
Invaders are fun

>>165218993
Yes, you can warp back to that one. It's the demon ruins/izalith area where you can't warp back to it at all

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>>165218130

Amen

>>165218514
i like dsa because he's one of the few bosses that feels like a ds1 boss
he doesn't flail and have 50 hit combos

>>165218993
That bonfire can be warped back to, yes. The later one in the area can't, but you can just warp out, do whatever you want without resting at another bonfire, then use a homeward bone to go back. Only exception might be if you go to Painted World, since leaving there seems to set your bonfire to the first one in Anor Londo.

>>165217834
>mfw i cant find anon's sign and every phantom i do spawn dies within seconds

>>165218130
maria in BB had this EXACT problem and they fucked up all over again

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ok

>>165219254
Wait are you still there? I could go

am I the only person who enables infinite i frames when they run into a laggy BR monkey in arena?

>>165219380
yeah. im at the bonfire right now

>>165219423

You're homosexual, yes

>>165219264
XDDD
epic bro!

>>165219423
no.

fuck if i'm going to hand over a loss to some third world 400 ping retard that teleports everywhere

fugg

>>165219423

Why would you do that? There's no leaderboards or extensive ranking system.

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>>165219505
I'm there again

Password still dsg

>>165219606
exactly.

>>165219626
because they shouldnt be on dial up. fuck them.

>>165219728
found you

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>>165217067
God don't joke like that

>>165219049
Souls games aren't the end-all of hard games and people don't go after them for difficulty. They might be after the coop or whatever else, as long as they got their enjoyment out of it, I see nothing wrong. Sure, my fun is trying to ruin theirs and try and point down to get fan mail and similar things, but I'm not going to go on some crusade on how they're not allowed to play a certain way

>>165219079
Invading FCs isn't fan at all

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>Just started playing Dark Souls III for the first time
>In the swamp
>Get invaded by a Bloodshade as a solo host
>Get him down to a sliver and he kills me with an unzipped parrying tool

I am livid, but I need to know something.

What are the best weapons for catching people out of rolls, and

Armor variety is so shit in DaS3.

>>165219981
R I P

Run, swords don't care about your rolls nigga

>>165220252
lol. i didnt have the stamina to run away

>>165220074
I like any weapon with charge WA but watch out for parry spammers

>>165220074
>and
AND WHAT ANON

AND FUCKING WAT

>>165219264
wait

you lost to this guy

fucking kek, I've fought him like three times today. he just runs at you with caestus

and you have onyx blade

fucking ebin

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>>165220241

>tfw no sallet

>>165218770
I have no qualm against people summoning or playing the game their way, it's only when they do so to such a degree that they trivialize the game. The meme that Souls games are hard or what have you is not the underlying reason why I feel this way. It's more about retaining at least some sense of conflict and struggle within video games, in general. This is my idea anyways, I know other people have different opinions. Let's agree to disagree.

Is there a game of the year version that has all the dlc on it or something?
Something like, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, and Bloodborne: Old Hunters

I really want to buy this game and play it, but I want the full experience.

>>165220410
I just stood there dumbfounded, then got overwhelmed, sorry

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>if heavy armor did shit people would invest in VIT meaning less investment in STR/DEX at SL120 meaning quality would no longer be king
This is such an easy fix.

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What's a good high int build?

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Guys how the fuck do I do good at invasions? How the fuck do I actually be a threat?

I do no damage and everybody takes no damage. The only time I've ever been able to hurt people is my stupid ass pyromancer build.

Thank you "******* of Izalith" for helping me. i was getting tired of those bullshit oneshots

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>>165220767
is my name seriously censored

>>165220507
not yet, the second DLC isn't even out

redpill me on onlyafro

>>165220876
no. i just couldnt remember what it was

>>165220876
That fucking build, jesus fuck. What the fuck are you aiming for?

>>165220927
squat mud person with delusions of becoming a girl

>>165221014
strength pyro
i do good damage and can take a hit but my weapons are slow as shit

>>165221086
>I do good damage
>25str
>20/25 int/fth
>20vit

I mean this is just a mess man, it hurts my autism with how unoptimized it is

>>165221192
thanks for sharing that

>>165220927
one of our pillars

whatever happened to that guy who hacked freide's great scythe into the game and then showed up at a settlement bridge FC a few days before the dlc even came out?

does he still show up? or did he get banned for hacking?

>>165221086
>that build
>i do good damage

Yeah......................right.

dlc when

>guy pulls WA in duel

What do you do?

>>165218770
I don't like the fact that nips and casuls who do this for 'lulz' have higher voting power to change something via mass complaint through patches and fuck the game up. Then again it's up to the developer if they want the casualize the shit out of this game which they did.

>>165222072
I believe he still shows up. Using the same weapon and same gear every time. He's awfully annoying though, avoid.

>>165222072
People who spawned DLC weapons got banned, I think.

>>165221086
Dont bother responding to all the autists, build is fine

Which life ring are you wearing to end up with 1.4k HP tho

>>165222402
I don't think that's the case. That only happened if they didn't buy the DLC, if they bought it then they were safe.

Is it only noobs who invade at Eleum loyce? im not a great pvper by any margin, infact this is the most ive been invaded/pvped since i started playing, but ive killed everyone whos invaded me while farming loyce souls.

>>165222386
Disconnect from duel

Fuck that shit, it's just an annoyance to play against someone doing that garbage

>parry
Missed because it's a niggerfaggot from Brazil

>>165222552
just favor, no life ring