/dsg/ - Demon's/Dark Souls General

>>168680701
If you hit a guy during their attack animation, you'll deal bonus damage to them. It's indicated by a chunky-sounding thunk sound, as opposed to the regular hit sound.

>tfw no smokey fire weapon buff i can insert onto my FUGS

maybe raime's and fume ss will come back in dlc 2

show me pontiff

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>>168680626
>post fashion
'Kay.

>>168680941
dumb hat

it okay tho. 4.75/10

>tfw Dark Souls 3 will enver have it's own Chalice Dungeon
It would make the game so much better

>>168680987
>not liking the classic witch/wizard hat
Poor taste in magical fashion desu.

>>168681006
i don't know about "better", just gives us more shit to do when we're bored

>>168681006
Whats so good about chalice dungeons? Seems like they would become repetitive pretty quickly.

>>168681116
They are, but enemy type and placement is completely different every time.

It's the same as going through the main game over and over, but every single enemy in the game has equalized damage/HP like NG+, and every single enemy in the game is in a completely mixed up and random place

imagine jailers, snakemen, and dogs in the same area

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>>168680941

>>168681256
it's like going through the main game over and over if the main game had really bad level design
because it's all randomly generated instead of hand-crafted

>>168681319
>implying the hand-crafted levels are any better
Propane Capital and Farron Keep are calling.

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>>168681256

>>168681256
this

>>168681319
There's nothing wrong with more content. Sometimes, it's nice to just going spelunking in a dungeon and fight bosses again, like a boss rush mode

>>168681319
It's not bad level design, it's more like bad enemy placement

Still, it's a very effective way of arbitrary extending hte life of the game through korean MMO mechanics

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>trading blows
>with a UGS
>while you dont have a UGS

Why do people do this

>>168681410
i mean yeah if they have a magic wand to add more content, sure
but if i had the choice between from spending time on programming chalice dungeons in or just adding more content to the main game, i'd pick the latter

does DS2 ever start improving

>>168681383
Farron Keep is a decent level. A better example would've been Demon Ruins or Catacombs of Carthus, both of which seem like they were created of Chalice Dungeon leftovers.

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Guide to souls series

>1 for pve
>2 for invades
>3 for...?
>3 for uuuuuh

>3 for graphics

>>168681704
Imo Majula-Sinner's Rise is the best portion of the game. Some people really like Drangleic Castle but I feel like DaS2 is waiting until you get to the 'good parts' but the good parts never come.

>>168681537
>i dont understand how latency works

unless your weapon's recovery frames are lower in duration than the latency between you and your opponent, there is virtually no way you can avoid an attack occuring at nearly the same time

>>168681728
1 may have the best pve but you'd still have more fun playing through the whole series rather than just repeatedly running through the first one

>>168681728
3 is a Greatest Hits of the Series game. It lacks its own stand out features because of it.

>>168681704
>>168681856
The DLCs are where its at
Persoanlly, I like most of the areas in the base game, not a single area in 2 is as bad as the worst areas of dark souls 1 but none of them are particularly amazing either. The DLC are among the best parts of the series.

>>168681728
Des/DaS1/BB for great solo PvE
DaS2 for co-op and arena
DaS3 for invasions and actual pvp

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>>168681872
hyperarmour

>>168681728

>3 for graphics
What about bosses?

>>168681958
>not a single area in DS2 is as bad as the worst areas of DS1

Funny, I think that most of DaS2 areas are on the level or worse than the Lord Soul areas of DaS1. Lost Izalith was the only one that was truly shit and Iron Keep is roughly on par in shitty level design.

So I'm in the middle of a SL1 run in DS1, are there any good armor builds? I think I'm just playing fashion souls with the sealer robes and hood with black leather pants and gloves.

Also is it worth it to wear the stone armor on the 4kings or should I just yolo it?

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>>168681897
>greatest hits of the souls series

wew

>>168681989
> for invasions and actual pvp
>invasions
>gank squads
>3v1
>infinite phantoms
>actual P E E V E E P E E
>one shot builds
>HYPERARMOURONWEAPONSLMAO
>nopoise
>phantom range

I could go on for days

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>>168681958
I only really didnt like the depths because I thought it was 2spooky. Blightown sucks because of the fps issues but those are really the only areas I didn't like.
I cheat and just glitch into the 4kings fight so who knows what new londo is even like.

Ds2 has a lot of just awful levels. Not to mention, like, 3 poison butt swamps.

>>168682164
BUt you cant yolo it because in souls you dont live only once, you die and come back repeatedly.

>>168682250
>greatest hits of the souls series
>wew
Note that I say that as being a negative thing. Greatest Hits albums aren't "real" albums, after all...

>>168682527
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbMSUQE36us

>>168682512
New Londo is like 2 areas that are mostly wide open, it's quite short.

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In this webm, I predict my opponents attack and "parry" not fucking literally you god damn retards him with my greatclub 2HR1 into another 2HR1 cuz lmao2hit

He doesn't see my attack because it hasn't registered on his screen until he is already caught in his attack animation, whereas he then loses the trade and gets truecombo'd. Because this game is clientside, or operates similarly to it, I can initiate the trade despite his weapon being much faster than mine.

Man, the Javelin is fun as fuck.

>killing a boss with a hurled spear

I AM A MIGHTY NORSEMAN

>>168682512
ds2 has 0 swamps
the level where you wade through waist-high water and get slowly and very annoyingly killed to death is Amana instead

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>>168682512
>I cheat and just glitch into the 4kings fight so who knows what new londo is even like.

DELET THIS

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>>168682670
>The C**sen One
I hate this game

>>168682936
protip: write names in capslock because the filter is case-sensitive

>>168682767
Yes I thought to myself "gee ghost house was sure fun to die in, but you know what would be better than the 20 minutes of work that would take? The hour spent on getting the first drop juuust right untill i actually go it right then forgeting to equipt my ring and dying instantly"

Although I am missing out on darkwraiths and a good farming spot so I'll probably suck it up and drain it

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>>168683157

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>>168683254

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>>168683314
I feel this redeems it somewhat.

>>168682747
I count black gultch, cave of the dead(?) and harvest valley as poison swamps although they arent slow mollasses lands.

>>168683370
yeah the slow molasses is the worst part
depths/gulch/harvest valley are all poison areas though, yeah
cave of the dead is more about petrification IIRC

what the hell happened to gwynevere

>>168682250
>invasion timers
>no full redeye orb
>damaged while backstabbing/riposting
>no healing as invader
>thousands of healing items for the host
>shit poise system where rapiers can stagger full havels
>every game has oneshot builds, even 2
>shields easily reaching 100% elemental reduction, so fuck casters
>whole game is catering towards duelfags
>soul memory
>twinking still easy as ever
>ganksquads were a thing in every game
>lmao crit gloves
>backstab immunity
>any statboosting/gimmick armor
>uninfused weapons being trash because infused weapons outclassed them without stat investment in int/fai
Jesus christ, it still baffles me how retarded ds2 fags are. Have fun with your shitty event reviving that shit game for a day.

>>168683691
>no healing as invader
>thousands of healing items for the host
and yet healing was 100x easier to punish/interrupt in ds2. if the host stood still long enough to pop one of those lifegems while he was at low health he would just die before the hp came into play
in ds3 he can chug right in your face and get instant heals before your weapon hits him

>>168683783
>ds3 he can chug right in your face and get instant heals before your weapon hits him
You can get two hits in though but I don't disagree that it's bad

>>168683691
>uninfused weapons being trash because infused weapons outclassed them without stat investment in int/fai
Are you sure you are talking about 2 here buddy, because 1 was the game where the Lightning Zwei was king because flat no scaling damage, 2 was where you ware shooting yourself in the foot by going through multiple resistances for less damage if you didn't hit the int/faith softcap

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hey do you guys on playstation or xbox use ONLINE NAME setting or CHARACTER NAME setting to see what names people are using??

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>>168683691
>dark souls 3 apologists

>>168683928
I mean unless you have a fetish for being invaded by XxXcodpro3l1t3h4xorXxX or cooping with sunbro Daniel1999 there is pretty much no reason to use online name.

>>168683883
Yeah but the point is
ds3: guy with 1hp left tries to chug, he ends up at full hp minus 2 hits
ds2: guy with 1hp left tries to chug, he fucking dies
not only did the heal start way later into the animation so you could actually reliably interrupt it in time, but the actual hp-restoration was over 1-2 seconds so even if you hit them shortly AFTER they got the estus off they'd be low enough to kill

>>168683915
buffed infused in 2 was always best, although nonbuffed infused was worse than uninfused

split damage is much worse in 3 than in 2 because of the change to making elemenal resistance use the same mechanics as physical defense

>>168684032
well it's easier to message them after words since PS4 lists all your recent players in a big pile and you can't tell who is who.

>>168684027
>nostalgiafags
Have fun with your dead game, retard.

>>168684070
except one chug doesn't take them to full hp but yeah

>>168684027
>no actual rebuttal to any of his points
>just a deflection insult and a meme reaction image

2fags, everyone.

>>168683691
>invasion timers
30 goddamn minutes.
>damaged while backstabbing/riposting
95% damage resistance, admittedly stupid might as well make you 100% damage immune but trying to hit someone during the part of the animation where they did take damage was still not even a good stamina/damage trade
>no healing as invader
Not even true
>shit poise system where rapiers can stagger full havels
Poise had an explicit reason for existing in that game, it was to give heavy and slow weapons a competing chance, not make rapier wielding havels an unstoppable DPS machine.
>shields easily reaching 100% elemental reduction, so fuck casters
If only there was some kind of spell that ignored shields and did enough damage to 1 shot even the tankiest build, or say left a pool of damage on the ground that fucked over turtles.
>whole game is catering towards duelfags
????? the part of the game where everyone was constantly bitching about only invading into worlds with phantoms or NPCs agroing as groups?
>backstab immunity
Well you have to be pretty fucking blind not to see someone use ghost ring, which breaks and is heavy as fuck, or the jesters chest which is just bad armor.

fucking retards, you don't have to "take teams" and fight for whichever game is your waifu
you are allowed to criticize parts of a game, recognize flaws, and still enjoy it
dont bring this 13yearold tier "myvideogameisbetterthanyourvideogame" shit in here

>>168684397
>newfag

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>>168684259
Youre just wrong, youre using the wrong word, its a dismissal not a deflection, kid.

>ill try attacking 2 to prove how good 3 is

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>tfw ganked by rats at SL260

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do you guys ever get pissed off by fucking bullshit

>>168682747
The worst part is ds2 has no way to deal with it. 1 has the rusted ring, 3 has quickstep

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>>168680915
Yes, hello. It is me, that guy you like, uh, Plaintiff Sillyman!

>>168684646
I just sigh and try again

>>168683596
desu Miyazaki probably forgot she existed

Haven't played this in a while, but I'm looking to play through it one more time with a friend
He has a PC and PS4, and would prefer it on PC, but last I had heard hackers were able to softban you
Has this been fixed yet?

>>168684672
well DS2 has bows and poison arrows so you can just kill the stage hazards (aka magic missile spammers) before they get on your dick
whereas with a poison swamp you're kind of stuck with it

>>168684768
at the very least it isn't a MAJOR issue. it's rare enough to not be worth worrying about

>>168684814
If there's even a possibility, I'll just stick to the ps4 version

>>168684814
I was more annoyed by the slog, magic artillery was relatively easy to deal with. Only the gank in the end was hard and that was because of the archdrakes, not the priestesses
>>168684725
That's an elongated player, right? Not suly's actually nekid body? Can we get a face closeup?

>>168684725
You can see the real pontiff in the background of course this is just a player move swap, which is actually really cool.

>>168684725
Can this be done with Ancient Wyvern?

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I just got killed by someone called twokatslegion using onikiri and ubadachi...

he pointed down

>>168681728
>2 for invades
You mean pvp, not invades. The actual fighting was good, trying to get a fight was horrible.

>>168685428
>2kat+yukaslegion+point down
One of us?

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>trying to use Valorheart in pvp
>keeps randomly blocking attacks and get guard broken and riposted like a retard

How do I git gud with this wep? Please tell me its not a meme. It looks sick with my fashion.

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>>168684027
>dark souls 2 apologists

>>168685686
literally git gud

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>>168685037
>>168685263
Yeah, I figured out how to (relatively) safely replace the player's model skeleton. Still haven't figured out how to get the actual NPC model while doing so though.

>>168685426
It can be done with pretty much anything. The exception being things with no model skeletons, like Slimes, or extremely different skeletons, like Crabs.

>>168685724
Do a Monstrosity of Sin, I want to see that.

>>168685686
dont attack while low stamina i guess

Level 36 with a magic weapon +3 brigand axe. The abysswalker was a goddamned pushover who lost a fifth of his health bar every time I backstabbed him (and I pretty much exclusively backstabbed him). Am I overleveled, or did they patch him, or what?

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>>168685724
>what has science done

Why would you do this

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>>168685686

>>168686030
Is hitting L2 just as the guy's roll recovery is about to end a fucking guaranteed parry?
Seems like everybody does exactly the same thing when rolling in close proximity.

>>168683365
That fucking bias

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>>168685724
what's that stand's name?

>>168686212
In the webm you can see that after finishing the roll hes about to launch an attack and gets parried

>>168686346
Yeah I see it now. Still seems like you can be pretty assured that they're going to go for a hit after a roll, though. I'm still learning pvp.

So does From ever plan to acknowledge that the hitbox on longswords is at least twice as long as its actual model, or...

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>>168684027
>>168683691
>>168683883
>>168683783

>>168686316
Water Reserve

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>>168685784
Here you are.

>>168685978
Why would I not?

>>168686316
Season of the Witch

>>168686525
That is disgusting, I love it

>>168686479
Not always, a lot of people keeps rolling in panic, other try to surprise by launching an attack thinking you expect them to keep rolling

Its mostly trying to predict.

>>168685686
>randomly blocking
It's not random and you're a shitter for saying that. VH has a bit of a higher skill floor, you need to double check your stamina
>>168686030
Can it be buffed with SMS?

>>168686212
>Is hitting L2 just as the guy's roll recovery is about to end a fucking guaranteed parry?
if your opponent is dumb yes
they can mindgame you though
they see you pull out the parry so they roll at you and then move for a backstab while you're in parry animation, or do an (unparryable) jump attack
but then if you counter-mindgame their mindgame you can wait for them to roll at you and then r1 them instead of parrying which beats their parry-punish strats
but then they counter-counter-mindgame you and just roll attack anyways to beat your r1

>>168686525
HOW FUCKING HORRIFYING
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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>tried to hug my waifu gwyndolin
>see this
W-what does it mean guys? ;~;

Is rolling too good in ds3? It seems like someone who doesn't even want to fight can just keep on dodging indefinitly. But what, if anything, needs to change?

>>168686727
the recovery for non-shoulderidle'd weapons needs to be increased by ~20% so that they're caught in their attack animations for a longer period of time

stamina costs being increased for light weapons would help a lot too in this aspect

>tfw you realize that Fungo made the best lore videos

>>168686727
rolls and stamina in DS3 are designed for fighting the bosses fairly and encouraging 'bloodborne' like pace. It's an absolutely trash decision for PvP, and the rest of the PvP just sort of works around it whenever possible, instead of fixing it.

>>168686727
Does DS3 still have negative stamina? It doesn't seem like it.
If not, bring that back.

>>168684725
>>168685263
>pontiff has THREE clones now
CAN ANYONE STOP THIS MADMAN?!

>>168686918
It does

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>>168684725
While messing with Pontiff's skeleton, I realized that the visual effects used by NPCs would be properly mapped while using an NPC skeleton, meaning that this is finally possible.

>>168686723
she's wet for you anon

YOU, YOU
STOP NOW
CHECK THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irCCizVFq3A
>>168687037
B A S E D

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>>168687037
You best post some tutorials like dgrayed and twools used to

>>168685724
What would happen if you used this against someone online?

>>168687114
already seen it, but question:
can you buff unbuffable weapons?

>>168687037
Can you slap Gael's beard on top of that and dress in archdeacon set for maximum deaconage?

>not even a week in
>duel mode is nothing but PKs, Roachies and Wardens

That was fast.

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>>168687164
I've got reliable pointers established, so I may just end up releasing this as part of a big modelswap table kind of thing.

>>168687114
rly gives me conniptions......
>>168687251
>can you buff unbuffable weapons?
They removed that recently.

>>168687241
Probably nothing. Modelswaps don't typically affect online.

>>168687514

Wrong general?

>>168687718
forhonor is the darksouls of "knight hitting guys with a sword" games

>>168688014
Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of "knight hitting guys with a sword" games

>>168684725

It's Ruin Suhltinal.

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>>168687580
I'll look forward to it anon. I miss making bosses fight eachother in DS1.

You're doing this all with CE right? Is there a way you're going to dodge bans or are you just going to take them?

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>>168686525
>Season of the Witch

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>>168687037

>>168688429

Heard you were Linking Fires like I wouldn't find out.

>>168688429
>i showed you my darksign answer me

>>168688429

>Danziginasombrero.png

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>>168687114
>even without the long animation and the stamina cost its still barely viable
Inb4 they patch this too. Do they even play there fucking games?

>>168688709
>fire fades
>depending of the interpretation, that means
>either age of dark approaches
>or age of ancients returns
>pyromancers are stronger than even
>hexers and dragons are weaker than even
WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEEEAAAAAN?

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>>168688178
>You're doing this all with CE right? Is there a way you're going to dodge bans or are you just going to take them?

Bans actually have expiration dates this time around. I've been banned and unbanned a couple of times now, so I stopped even caring about it at this point.

>>168687114
what the fuck this is nearly the same glitch as dartcasting
how did they not fix it at the same time

>>168686807
>>168686909
>>168686918
I think a small decrease in i-frames+increased stamina cost might be the best. However, are there any areas in the game that would be fucked by it? And how hard would it be to escape from a ganksquad?

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>>168688836
What happens if you import nana cage movesets on the player character?

>>168688836
Stick Of Cinder.

>invade as mound maker
>"Kill host or one phantom"
>kill one of his summoned phantoms
>doesn't count

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW

>>168688902
That's one of the ones that falls under the exceptions listed in >>168685724
>extremely different skeletons, like Crabs.

>>168688836
PLEASE DO ONE WITH CHAMPION GUNDYR
HOW HARD ARE ATTACKS TO PULL OFF?

>>168688891
They should have made the hitbox tolerances for bosses subsequent attacks narrower so that the later attacks in a boss combo were easier to dodge without rolling if you rolled through the first few (or vice versa, making the first attacks easy to dodge and 'saving' your roll for the later attacks). But that would focus more on boss gameplay than on flashy animations, which DS3 is all about.

Then, just make it so subsequent rolls consume more and more stamina, so you could only get 4 rolls in a row if you had HUGE stamina since rolls 2 and 3 would consume a huge amount of the bar.

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>>168689243
Attacks are actually kinda hard to land, since the majority of them move you a significant distance. Additionally, it seems like many of the NPCs use the same kind of system for determining the hitbox as the player does, so it's based on the size of their weapon, and any weapon the player has equipped won't be entirely mapped properly for it. I actually turned up the hitbox size quite a bit for this.

>>168688920
if torch actually had a fucking r1 r1 combo it would be one of the best maces in the game with a single best weapon art and r2

Iam thinking about doing a SL 1 run of DS 3.
Is it fun?

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>>168690749
as any other sl1 run, not really
you will basically abuse raw broadsword/ass the entire game, or maybe some bleed weapon
better make a low-level twink build and go through the entire game with low upgrade level

>>168690843
SL1 can't rawass though?
or does missing the faith requirement do literally nothing

>>168690976
>SL1 can't rawass though?
dark hand your way to priestess ring

Why are you still playing Duckso?

How much dmg do you think would be okay to add to Irithyll SS to make it more viable, because Frostbite is shit. I'd say make the dmg like 400-410 at 40/40. Less than LKS, LS & BS due to Frostbite, but still not complete shit.

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Hmmmm.

>>168691324
if it can't inflict frostbite in a reasonable number of hits there's no reason to use it over a more damaging straightsword
maybe the damage amplification could be good vs bosses?
but in pvp it will always be unviable until we get a way to significantly increase the frostbite buildup

>>168691281
To fill the void.

>>168691324
>SS
>not viable
can't you WA swap with the scythe?

>>168691463
when is march 28 again

>>168691419
Would say that if the Frostbite build up was fixed, it would be better without the dmg increase, or should both the dmg and build up be increased. Currently at 40/40, ISS is 388 compared to a Refined LS at 428

>>168691543
ten years

>>168690976
>or does missing the faith requirement do literally nothing
kinda, you lose next to no damage and only stagger when hitting bigger enemies but also >>168691024

>>168691563
I'm not sure. Frostbite isn't an amazing status in pvp, so even if it could trigger in 3-4 hits or so I don't know if it would be worth the loss of AR.

>>168691379
woooooooooow you figured out something we've known for days. you truly are a genius

>>168691379
where did you get that image with Crimson Bat?

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>>168688014
Fedora honor isnt even souls like, its trash and trash goes in the bin.

>>168687037
Could you do red glowing eyes in dragon form with King of the Storm's skeleton?

>dickwraith in Anor Londo
>all these salty indictments
I get a kick every time someone rages when they fall to their deaths while I watch from rafters or archers.

>>168692094
it's from a currently taken down video with a full fight where host gets wrecked 10 seconds after crimson bat transforming into demon prince

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>>168692279
based gravity

>>168691865
Imo, if Frostbite did what they say it does, which is lower stamina regen and defenses, it'd be a great status effect. It just irks me that such a legit looking sword is dog shit.

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I have seeded this thread.

>>168692336
has anyone this video uploaded wherever else?

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>>168692450
there's a single webm floating around

>>168692450
I'm searching for the mixtape link.
if i can't find it I'll upload it again

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Found it
1st Boss of the DLC
https://my.mixtape.moe/skopje.mp4

>>168692446
ur not the host you cant do that

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>>168692663
>that screen shaking when he powers up
>that music going apeshit when he transforms

How is the Follower's Javelin? Going to do a spear build and I've never used it, was going to rock the Partizan, but if Javelin is good, may do that instead.

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>>168692745
I could still use it as an invader if the butt scratch bug was still in the game.

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>>168683596
Guess.

>>168693017
>her face changed
>he hair changed
>he power changed
>her covenant changed
>her ring changed
>but the tiddy is the same, so it must be her

>>168692935
r1s are as slow as the pike
r2s are generic
it's short
pretty good AR for heavy / sharp single stat
you can headshot counter-hit trade people with the throw for massive damage and that's all it's good for
useless at range except for being a cunt and throwing a javelin right at the start of an arena match to fuck with buffers

>>168692943
nuh uh 4chan is updated to the latest edition

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>>168692935
it's the most damaging STR spear that works better for chasing people on low hp and doing HA headshots for shitton of damage
laughable reach for a spear tho

So guys this might be a retarded question, but theres something lorewise Im kinda confused about.

So The Kiln of the First Flame that we light in each game - is that the same Kiln in every game, or is there multiply kilns spread across the world that are linked to the first flame? Im quite confused about this.


Also why was there no "first flame entity" like Gwyn and the Soul of Cinder guarding the kiln in the second game? Is Throne watcher and defender implied to be "lords of cinder" then?

>>168693126
DS1 and DS3 kilns are the same, it's an archtree stump with structures built on top of them - Coliseum-like building in DS1 and entirety of Lothric Castle in DS3.

Who cares about DS2's garbage lore though.

>>168693126
You don't really need Kiln to become LoC though: see Aldrich, they just stuffed him in his coffin at the cathedral.

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>>168693115

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great soul dregs?

>>168693102
The fact that you fight Edgelord in Gwynevere's bedchamber is pretty fucking suggestive.

>>168693442
>that casting speed
Jesus christ no, please from.
At least tell me you're not using the sage ring andcasting it with the slowest talisman possible, fuck.
I assume gnaw effects are just a placeholder?

>>168693442
That's the thing pontiff knights do.
>>168693549
I doubt that's how it will cast.

>>168693535
And the fact gwynevere had left anor londo before 1 had even begun doesn't?

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>we will never get pursuers grenades

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>not only Gwyn was stubborn enough for his older son to fuck off, too stupid to see that his older daughter became a whore, he also left his younger daughter in hands of the most vile creatures of the setting
10/10 parenting skills there

>>168693535
But we don't really know why he stole her soul in the first place. In fact, his dialogue reveals him for delusional.

>>168693442

Faggy said it's a black blob

Was Pontiff corrupted by Profaned Flame or he's simply an asshole and bully?

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Holy fuckin shit pvp is so bad in dark souls 3. gangfest every where!

>>168693839
I kinda figured he was trying to save Gwynevere's soul for himself because he was disgusted by her role as goddess of rebirth, but that's just me interpreting what he said to suit my needs.

>>168693805
>forgetting how he raised his younger son as a daughter because of an affinity to magic instead of lightning
>how he caused him to have serious psychological issues and how he inadvertently created the most cancerous part of the community: gwyndolinfags
>>168693442
>vomits
>cleans mouth
these dregs truly come from the lowest depths imaginable

>>168694060
given how he never rebirthed despite his burned face, i'd say your argument holds some merit. but still, does explain the other points i made

>>168693126
No one is in the kiln in Dark Souls II. Vendrick walked away and made elaborate traps to stop his wife getting in while he was fucking about naked in the crypt with his right hand.

>>168693126
>Also why was there no "first flame entity" like Gwyn and the Soul of Cinder guarding the kiln in the second game?
Because the second game isn't canon. All the shit that shows up in 3 that's from 2 is just fanservice.

>>168693126
there is no kiln in ds2. the throne of want is a bigass gundam-golem. what you go in is the head, from where you pilot it to wreak havok in drangleic

>>168694421
>tfw this anon sees the second dlc

>>168694060
>>168693017
That's Rosaria anon.

Rosaria.

>>168694421
>Because the second game isn't canon

Stop this meme

>>168693126
Vendrick presumably beat whoever was guarding the kiln in DaS2's cycle, but then couldn't claim it for himself.

>>168694508
I have seen it. Its just fanservice. Why the fuck would you go through the trouble to tie shit from 2 to the other two games when the devs didn't bother to themselves?

Just forget that trash.

>>168694421
DS2 is canon, but it's irrelevant to 1/3. It's hilarious that they brought back pats of earthen peak but instead of any substantial DS2 throwbacks you get to play in hide and seek against Angel there.

>>168694421
>>168694641
Source: your ass

>>168694641
>Literally revisiting areas from 2
>Uh-uh its just fanservice... Its not canon guys. The game called 2 is not canon to the game called 3.

>>168694421
>I don't like it so it's non canon and just fanservice

These mental gymnastics

>>168694698
Anon, earthen peak in TRC only serves as a part of literal garbage pile of souls world. It has no deep meaning, it only has some fanservice (desert sorceress gear fans wanted so much), while all the real lore is tied to DS1/3 as you fight a demon prince in ruins of DS1 firelink.

>>168694809
Give me a source where it says 2 is non-canon and all the stuff from 3 is just "fanservice"

>>168694809
>pile of souls worlds
Which makes it a confirmed canon souls world.

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>Angels in Dreg Heap can curse you with laser
So who is ready to invade there with 2shields and block passages so host gets fucked?

>>168694698
>>168694764
>>168694778
And? It saves me brain cells trying to tie the shit together. Even in the next dlc Miyazaki literally put all the ds2 in a huge trash heap. Right where it fucking belongs.
>>168694657
Okay fine, its canon but irrelevant. Might as well be the same thing.

>>168694869
>>168694892
I'm not the anon who said that it's non-canon. In fact, i consider it canon, but irrelevant and mostly ignored by 3. Even by the info we already have about DLC it barely has any DS2 throwbacks aside from a part of Dreg Heap with a few fanservice items.

>>168694897
Sorry to shit on your parade anon but
>seeds
>weapons that go through shields like shotels.

>>168695058
I'm pretty sure there will be choke points that will allow you to stand in complete safety from lasers while blocking the passage for host.
And shotel-like weapons in DS3 are pretty shit.

>>168694957
You're a fucking retard then, alright

>>168694957
Along with Dark Souls 3 at the top and 1 near the bottom.

>>168694991
So why are you arguing with us?

I think thats it. Never going to do anymore pvp in fact if anyone invades i just alt+f4 this shit away. Fuckin horrible...

>>168695058
you never used a shotel have you?

>>168694897
>not using the Millwood Greatbow on the safespots
what's the matter with you?

How do I get out of bounds in irithyll? not talking about getting to the old demon kings bossroom.

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>>168695108
Shit, count me in.

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>>168695197
was that you, anon

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Is it possible to save Greirat from Lothric Castle?

I think I've made a huge mistake

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>tfw you kind of want to get Outcry but don't want to come within a 100 mile radius of any ashen idols ever again

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>>168694809
>desert sorceress gear
I never actually played DaS2 so I didn't know that was where that gear came from. I'm hype now.

>>168695151
>defending trash
>I'm the retard
Go enjoy your SM and your diaper king lore.
>>168695160
ds1 firelink got turned into a boss arena and ds2 got a hallway.

>>168695314
yes, as long as you haven't spoken to Andre yet

>>168695502
>>I'm the retard

Yep you are

>>168695058
>weapons that go through shields like shotels.

they only do that on incredibly easily dodged moves not their standard r1s, the pass through damage on anything fast is miserable.

Unless they're in dragon form there is absolutely nothing to fear, especially in the short timeframe it'll take for the angel to BTFO them.

>>168694897
I'm making a faithbuild so I can stand around in the safespots and spam poisecast divine pillars for area denial

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>Aldia's fight
was that really it?
practically the most hyped up villain throughout SotFS and what I get is a glorified turret fight?
what the fuck were From thinking

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>>168695730
>villain

>>168695730
Aldia was added for free with an update as a good will gesture for people who bought the game before its rerelease

His boss fight is just a minimum effort copout to facilitate a second ending (release DaS2 only had 1 ending and no choice). You can think of him as just being a boss fight in order for them to be able to say that the utter trash that is Nashandra isn't the real final boss. He's also not a villain, guy.

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>5 weeks and 3 days until TRC

>>168695108
Time to make the wall

>>168695340
what the fuck does any of that mean

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Post fashion.

>>168695502
>Waaaa I didn't like soul memory.
No one liked soul memory anon, stop whining.

We'll enjoy our canon lore. Okay.

>>168695791
i mean most of the shit he says is pretty morally ambiguous
plus he looks like a villain

>>168695916
Ashen Idols are a stage hazard in one of the DaS2 dlc areas. A boss soul is split among 12 of them, and reforms when you find and destroy them all.

Outcry is one of the things made by its soul, it's a pyromancy and essentially an upgrade to Firestorm that behaves differently (smaller, tighter radius, pillars erupt much faster and recover almost right away) and deals a mix of fire and dark damage. It was the best pvp wakeup option in the game.

>>168695916
google is your friend

>>168682670
no, you just outspaced him, and you would have HA traded anyway

>>168695852
>release DaS2 only had 1 ending and no choice
hahahaha you have got to be fucking kidding me
i wonder what this game would be like if I hadn't bought SotFS

Well, I traded the Sword Fragment for a Slab

Lorian's Greatsword +5
Lorian's armor

2bats will face the cripple one more

>>168695852
>>168696313
I honestly like the first ending more with 3 in mind.

Otherwise I'd be wondering what the Bearer is fucking doing with the crowns

>>168696313
It was pretty fucking bad, sofs piled a mountain of improvements on a really rough game.

>>168696326
>fire ugs
>versus fire resistant enemies
good luck

>>168696313
Mostly the same with some item location changes and less shitty enemy spawns, but an almost dead online

>>168696372
The Bearer of the Curse is waiting for us in the Ringed City, anon.
He's sealed in the Purging Monument

>>168693240
I do, thats why im asking. Ds2 lore might be messed up, but it still had some significance.

>>168693338
I thought they forced him to link the fire, and the put his remains in a coffin.
>>168694625
But who is throne defender and watcher then?

why sometimes when I get staggered in 2 it takes 3 years as if I had been guardbroken? does it happen when I have no stamina?
>>168696326
do it for the memes. i believe in you, meme magic will help you. record it

>>168696441
>feelio when Aldia probably won't show up

Shame, really

>>168696383

It's only NG, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Lorian's does ~500 physical or so, which is enough.

>>168696451
>But who is throne defender and watcher then?
Guards Vendrick put in place.
Defender's armor matches the design motifs of the Syan Knights and has the same crest on his cloak.

Those two are just a pair of elite drangleic knights put to guard the kiln

>>168692365
It absolutely reduces stamina regeneration in PvP, not sure how significant the defense reduction is, though

Karla and Cornyx are so lame, they don't evolve or something, they just sell pyromancies and shit.
Karla is implied to be a child of dark, she could have had a questline related to that, maybe a callback of the children of dark in ds2.
Cornyx has Cuculus, maybe he was his pupil before, he betrayed him and we have to kill him or he shall kill cornyx, but he sells good shit.
Idk the whole firleink gang had good stories but those two didn't

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>>168696026
Aldia is cute.
CUTE

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very niceu, desu. can't wait for giant lord. im at 40/10/30/30. That's the optimal allocation, right? should I get 40/40 int fai?

>>168696761
I think Carla was could enough, considering she's pretty endgame.

Cornyx was pretty boring though, I want my nigger Laurent or the qt drom Dark Souls 2 back

>>168696842
What's your build my dude, mind posting it?

Was thinking about playing 2 again

>>168696847
*good enough

>>168692450
my.mixtape.moe/skopje.mp4

Can someone help me with Twin Princes? Put your sign near the boss fog, platform is pc, password dsg

>>168696550
>other red just pops in with a spin to kill the host
10/10

Anygood good lore pepo on youtube?

inb4 vooti

>>168696989
Awesome, thanks

>>168697039
If that faggot posts that timeline video again, don't waste your time. Its even worse than Vaati.

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>>168674682
I just upscaled it with waifux2

>>168697039
Vaati

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MOTHER
FUCKER

>>168696906
as i said, 40/10/30/30. Apply healthy dosages of hp and stamina to your judgement

>>168697124
gear?

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>>168695935
still wearing drakeblood

>>168697124
You got what you deserve dirty hexer scum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00g2ZbI3ung

>>168696847
>good enough

Lets check what we know about her.
>she was a prisoner in irithyll dungeon
>heavily guarded
>tainted by the abyss
>child of dark
>refuses to learn miracles, even the dark ones
>loves pyromancies
Idk, hawkwood had his questline started until lategame too, that's a shitty excuse.

>>168697216
Sans the most aesthetic piece

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>>168697169
I haven't settled down to a fashion so I mostly wear what I find. For most bosses I go buttnaked

>>168697124
Ancient Dragon is for some reason a defense tutorial located at the end of the fucking game.

You can stack enough passive fire defense to make yourself almost immune to his breath, which turns the fight into a 5 minute sandbag.

>>168693805
>Gwynevere
>a whore
she was faithful to flan

>>168697347
>was

>>168697406
she's dead I thought

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>>168695935
being a dragon is the height of dragon

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>>168697269
weight is usually an issue

>>168697269
>tfw they ruined the neckpiece of the drakeblood helm and now the helmet that goes with everything goes with nothing
Still hurts

there is literally nothing wrong with embracing the Deep

>>168697439
It would be weird if it wasn't

>>168697439
dragon

>>168697484
I imagine gwyndolin has this tattooed on his asscheeks

hexer or sorcerer if I'm planning on going to NG+8

>>168697439
https://youtu.be/M9x_koRZ2bA?t=15

>>168697406
Well she fucked Oceiros and pumped out some kids so either Flann is dead or she isn't faithful.

>>168697216
Drakeblood chestpiece might be one of the only bits of chest armor in this game that has a built in neckguard.

>>168697510
please stop bullying Gwyndolin, his life is hard enough already

>>168697039
Plague of Gripes lets play is decent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0X6Y19Qcks&index=1&list=PLPBmbs-JPhHeG6O1CbPn8TqFAZmZvpGT8

>>168697216
I hate how that hood sits so high on the head, what the fuck is wrong with this company.

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>>168697483
ds2 drakeblood is slightly better
also finding tex codes is easier in ds2

>>168697546
get some dexies and get fucking crunked bruh

>>168697447
I prefer to swap the boots and gloves to various dark leather ones
I wonder how hard it is to remove the cape too

>>168697483
Damn them to fucking hell

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>>168695935

>>168697546
Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Aspergers Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Doctor's Office Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha

>>168697608
>his life is hard enough already

Anon plz, being dead is the easy part.

>>168697621
>lets play

Eh, I'll give a try thanks

>>168697217
is that frampt in the nest in the very beginning? there's something else there jutting out to the right. what is it?

>>168697621
I appreciate this for all the times he stands in a room for like 10-15 minutes talking about bricks and architecture.

>>168697621
>plague's LP
dude let's spend 20 minutes complaining about the texture of single individual wall tiles in out-of-the-way locations in the map and then bitch about how this ruins the lore and also about how weapon movesets aren't historically accurate lmao

>>168697621
What ever happened to just quietly playing the game and letting it speak for itself? Why does everything nowadays have to be about the player and their opinion and the endess deluge of meaningless drivel pouring from their mouth and their 'oh so quirky' personality and their special snowflake identity and "me, me, me, all eyes on me" attitude?

Just close your mouth and play the damn vidya. Fuck.

Greatswords and glaives should not have hyperarmor.

>>168697631
Gotta link for that there my man?

>>168697631
I remember seeing this a long time ago sometime after DaS2's last DLC released and got really excited thinking that there was armor that actually looked like that in the game now.

>>168697797
Your mom should not have hyperarmor

>>168697621
>"ugh, this blacksmith has no forge! even I, knowing only a modest amount of metallurgy and smithing, knows that a blacksmith needs a forge!

>>168697858
look up drakeblood on ds2 nexusmods

if you can figure out how to port it to ds3 TELL EVERYONE

>>168697868
yes unfortunately its a bit misleading, drakeblood is still a great looking armorset

>>168697797
Only certain weapons in each class should have hyper armor, excluding ultra weapons which should all have hyper armor.
Ultras should have more forward momentum or some thin HA on their startup and recovery frames.

>>168697779
You could just play the game for that.

And anon asked, faggot.

>>168697797
Disagree, heavier weapons should require poise to swing by the very nature of their size and weight.
If you dont like it, use a shield or get better at parrying and stop trying to trade like a subhuman.

I want Great Swamp Cuculus's stuff, how the fuck can I get him to survive Old Demon King though??

He just dies to the swinging combos that are slow as fuck

SL cap should be 100 and everything balanced around that.

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>>168697217
but muh damage

>>168698160
How aggressive are you with the boss? I've never have Cuculus die on that fight, even in NG+ but she always comes really close because she refuses to heal until she's one hit away from death.

Best solution is to just be relentless with your attack on him, go for highest damage output possible.

>>168698203
Why? "I'm an idiot whose build is optimal at 100 and don't want to play against higher SLs" isn't a valid answer

>>168698160
If you can use the storyteller's staff then poison the demon king before Cuculus can. If you can use toxic mist then do that. If you can do both then do so. Be very aggressive and you might be able to keep the demon king's attention on yourself. You might want to try summoning Tsorig as well.

>>168698062
>You could just play the game for that.
Watching other people play videogames is at its most useful when it's for a game you don't have or one you have no intention of buying.

I ended up needing to shell out for a goddamn Bloodbornebox because there's literally no playthrough that doesn't have some blithely ignorant american barking, whining and making "goofy" wisecracks while skipping all the dialogue, staring at the ground when there's things happening in the environment around them, faux-raging as they let easy encounters kill them and missing every lorenote while constantly keening "what is even going on? where is the story? where do I go next? what is that? why is that here? I don't understand this is all too complicated. This is a really weird game guise xd"

Just show me the fucking game, I don't care about your internet personality or what kind of amateur performance you're trying to put on for an audience. I just want to know if this shit is worth 400 bucks.

>>168698160
>>168698434
Like this anon said, keep him focused on you, use the skull ring so he aggro you more

>>168697972
If I can I will, though ive got some serious doubts about it

>>168698203
ok
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/146878

>>168698467
>watching people play games you haven't played yourself
what the fuck?