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>Never said goodbye:
>>169846867

>Ringed City DLC stuff
Announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igomOLwqsV0
Screenshots/art: https://imgur.com/a/83M79
Gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Ke647-xsU
Redacted "Capital Knight" armor set screenshots: http://imgur.com/wIM6rIJ
Vaati's notes, trimmed (MAJOR SPOILERS, read with a grain of salt): http://pastebin.com/Y7MTapKN
Leaked first boss fight (SPOILER): https://my.mixtape.moe/ldkpad.webm

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

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

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

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

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

>BLOODBORNE
http://pastebin.com/WdLBWD8n

>KING'S FIELD
http://pastebin.com/G8zw0sc3

>Community & Fanart
http://pastebin.com/vVWz9pJm
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>humans
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This thread is now blessed by Gravelord Nito and the Pardoners of Velka.
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>>169898467
People complaining about Ciaran being human sized, it makes sense as she was an assassin. A 10-20 ft. tall giant wouldn't make a stealthy person.
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>>169898556
How is Millwood good, anyways? I know it has absurd damage and stupid good Str scaling, but doesn't its shorter range (especially on a greatbow) cancel this out?
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Anyone have any humorous ds comics? If so dump em with me.
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>>169898467
What's a good pure caster build for DkS2 SotFS?
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>>169898821
I don't get it.
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Y'know, I was thinking the demon prince battle link has been in the op for a while now.

You'd think the ds3 community manager would have taken it down by now considering how anal bandai were over even the leaked armour set pics. Is this place really
>secret club
?
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>>169898821
I have some DeS ones
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oh shit what did you do?
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>>169899034
They took it down, that one is a reupload
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>>169898939
On ng+ you're in endgame armour so what might have given you trouble before is smallfry now.
>>169899073
Cheers anon.
>>169899153
>he started with DS2/3
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>>169898916
Try again in the next thread anon.
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What's the least populated area in DS3?
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>>169898902
Am I? Why would it be grasping to assume that old magic added to DaS3 would be unnecessarily terrible like almost all the other old magic added to DaS3? Especially Dark magic.
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champ stahp
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>>169899207
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>>169899263
black serpent is fun in 3 though.
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>>169899207
That optical illusion still amazes me.
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>>169899374
my favorite
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>>169898916
If you're up for hexers I can help.

30/30
Attunement depends on whether you are gonna use northen ritual band to get more slots. Youll need a decent attunement for cast speed regardless.

Caithas Chime and the staff you get from felkin for free are best iirc for miracles/sorceries respectively.

Depending on which you lean towards, dark orb/resonant soul will be your bread and better. Getting your int or faith higher will allow you to use some more powerful hexes. Affinity and climax respectively.
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>>169899498
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>>169898675
The sizes of humanoid bosses in all of the games are exaggerated for effect. Artorias's fight wouldn't change at all if he were human-sized, it's just that people would be less intimidated and maybe underestimate him once they start the fight.

The only ones that wouldn't work with a human-sized boss are Ornstein and Smough (because of Super Ornstein in phase 2), Four Kings (mainly because of the grab attack, but big-sized could be hand-waved away as Abyss corruption), maybe Dragonriders (though they're justified as large because of their lore description), Skeleton Lords (since they split up into smaller skeletons), and Looking Glass Knight (for phantoms to jump through). An argument could also be made that human-sized bosses would actually improve DaS3, given how several bosses (Pontiff, Champ, Homoprinces) can be cheesed with low stances that completely dodge some of their attacks that would otherwise hit if they were level with the player.
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>>169899559
I only like affinity for dark magics. I don't really like dark magic in ds2 because the best ones cost souls and soul memory ruins that
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This is the master one. Needs to be updated when TRC releases.

>>169899908

Dark Orb and the one that casts 8 in a horizontal line are also good though. Personally I used dark weapon with dark orb and that was fun but ymmv.
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>>169899908
Best pair.
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so is Ornstein really dead?
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>>169900426
Time is convoluted.
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>>169899807
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Is flamberge good without a bleed build? Thinking about using it for my faith build, if I can find one.
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DS1>DeS>DS2>DS3
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>>169900426
Hopefully he is gone, never to return, and Ringed City leaves it at that. 3 offers just enough vague information to make something potentially interesting out of his character. If he appears again somehow it would be for the worst.
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>>169900682
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>>169900426
Possibly.

It seems that the CU killed the Ornstein illusion first and Smough second and got Smough's soul. Ornstein had fucked off to the human world and seems to have made an impact on Drang before finally finding Gwyn's lost son and either dying or becoming a dragonfag.
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>>169898603
>non-buffed spotted whip
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>>169900872
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>>169900937
>killed Smough and got his soul

then how come Smough survived until DS3?
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>>169901032
What makes you think that he did?
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>>169901032
>then how come Smough survived until DS3?
What makes you say that?
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>>169901130
>>169901131
http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Smough's+Set
http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Smough's+Great+Hammer

>Twisted great Hammer associated with Smough, the last knight to remain at his post, guarding the ruined cathedral.
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>>169901131
Not him but I'm pretty sure an item mentions that he was the last knight to fall in the explicit sacking of Anal Rodeo by Aldrich & co.
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>>169901286
Yep, he was the last knight, and you killed him in Dark Souls 1.
What's the issue there?
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>>169900945
I miss my poison infused spotted whip and its near instant status procs.
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>>169901345
nice save retard

aldrich killed him
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Back from not playing since release, having a hard time on aldrich, anyone lend me a hand? Pass is dsg at the anor londo bonfire PC SL 56
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>>169901504
Why do you think Aldrich killed Smough?
Where are you taking that information from?
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>>169901345
no, you jackass

he was an executioner in DS1. He wanted to be a knight, but couldn't

and now,after shitloads of time he was the last knight stationed in Anor Londo, until he got fucked by Aldrich
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>>169901661
But Smough was a knight.
>Great hammer from the soul of executioner
>Smough, who guards the cathedral in the >forsaken city of Anor Londo.
>Smough loved his work, and ground the bones
>of his victims into his own feed, ruining his
>hopes of being ranked with the Four Knights.

He just wasn't one of the Four Knights of Gwyn, which is what he wanted to be.
Again, I'm not seeing how any of this points to him being alive by the time 3 happens or Aldrich being the one who kills him.
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>>169901629
>>169901345
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>>169900154
I was looking for a sorcery buuld with maybe some pyro for utility
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>>169901840
>Soul of Executioner
key word being Executioner

his job was executing people. And he loved his work so much it creeped others out.

He wanted to be a knight, but couldn't.

Somehow he became a knight and died defending the palace from Aldrich and his men.

Sure it doesn't say if he was killed by Aldrich, could be Sully for all we know. But its sure as shit known that Smough died before DS3 and after DS1
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>>169902142
nice girl (male)
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>>169902241
If Ornstein was an illusion, wouldn't that make Smough the last knight in the place? Aldrich had already penetrated and eaten Gwyndolin after getting stuck in Pontiff's Amazing Trap.
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>>169902495
what makes you think they weren't both illusions?
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>>169902241
Why can you not be a knight and accumulate the position of city executioner at the same time? Ciaran was a knight but also an assassin.

"Smough was an executioner but also a knight" is a much simpler explanation than "Smough somehow survived through the events of Dark Souls I, was granted knighthood, and then was killed by Sulyvahn or Aldrich".
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r8 me bois
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>>169902673
doesn't the DS1 lore mention that everybody hated him and Gwyn did not what him to be his knight?
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>>169902846
He disgusted the people of Anor Londo by using the bones of the people he killed as seasoning for his food, and that ruined his chances of being ranked amongst the Four Knights of Gwyn.
See >>169901840

It says nothing about lesser knighthood.
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>>169902562
One drops a soul.
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>>169901840
>>Smough, who guards the cathedral in the >forsaken city of Anor Londo.

is that the description of his hammer in the first game?

So why does his hammer in the third game state that he was the last knight to defend Londor before it fell?
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>>169900707
A bleed build is putting Carthus Rouge on your weapon. You literally do not need any stat investment, just clear Carthus and you're good to go.
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>>169902973
>It says nothing about lesser knighthood.

exactly
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>>169903210
Because people have been having the "is Smough a knight" argument for as long as people have been arguing about how to pronounce his name (Smoo) and FROM was trying to clear it up but it just made people act more retarded.

People spamming "DS2 isn't canon" was bad enough, I never thought I'd see the day where dsg said DS1 isn't canon. I'm sure it's the same people who make "Marche was the villain" and other such ironic shitposts.
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>>169903210
>So why does his hammer in the third game state that he was the last knight to defend Londor before it fell?
Because the games constantly contradict each other and people trying to make sense out of details of the lore as a whole might as well be trying to understand a schizophrenic speaking a made up language.
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>>169903210
>So why does his hammer in the third game state that he was the last knight to defend Londor before it fell?
It doesn't say anything about the fall of Anor Londo. Just that Smough was the last one to guard it.

Which, again, is the exact situation that happens in Dark Soul I if you kill Smough last. He's the last knight guarding the cathedral [all the others are illusions crafted by Gwyndolin, including Ornstein].

>>169903317
Exactly, so as a result 3 adding that he was a knight during his time defending it isn't contradicting anything either, is it?
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>>169898467
About a week ago, an anon in here claimed that there were specific points in Darkroot Garden where you could get the "Taken by the abyss" message if you fell to your death.

Can anybody confirm this or post a picture?
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>>169903442
>I'm sure it's the same people who make "Marche was the villain" and other such ironic shitposts.
Hello, /ffg/ here.
Don't.
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>>169899652
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>>169903594
I wouldn't doubt it, there's some weird interconnectivity between the Abyss and Darkroot/Valley of the Drakes in which sometimes you can find the bodies of enemies you kill in one area down in the Abyss.
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>>169903557
Exactly as in there is no information about lesser knighthood

look, I'm just putting the lore together with what ever scraps Fromsoft left. His lore in DS 1 states he was the Royal executioner and a cannibal. In DS 3 his shit states that he was a knight who died defending Anor Londo

him being a lesser knight for Gwyn is mentioned nowhere at all and it sounds more like head canon to me
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>>169899197
>>169899034
what are you refering to?
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>>169903856
>you can find the bodies of enemies you kill in one area down in the Abyss.
You mean in the 4 Kings boss arena? I've played thousands of hours of DaS1 and I've never seen that happen.
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>>169903938
>His shit states he was a knight
>Him being a knight is mentioned nowhere.
...
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>>169902562
That's a good point. I just think that Smough's got little to no ambition beyond becoming a Knight someday, and sticking around Anor Londo would be more up his alley than going on some crazy quest the way Ornstein did. His disregard for Ornstein's body when he smashes it with his hammer could be reflective of his status as the only "real" thing.
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>>169903557
Why do people think ornstien was an illusion?

You get his soul when you kill him
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>>169900281
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>>169903938
>him being a lesser knight for Gwyn is mentioned nowhere at all

Neither is him not being a knight.

Neither is him being an illusion.

Neither is his death at the hands of anyone other than the CU.

The CU can't get the Lordvessel without killing O&S and taking a soul. DS3 has confirmed that the soul that the CU received from that fight was not Ornstein's.
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>>169903938
>>Exactly as in there is no information about lesser knighthood
Anon, what are these enemies called?
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You can change ONE thing about DaS3, what would it be?
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>>169902562
Neither of them were illusions.
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>>169904149
>His shit states he was a knight
in DS III
>Him being a knight is mentioned nowhere.
in DS 1
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>>169904175
You can also learn from Quelana and kill Gwyndolin in DS1. DS3 has made all of those things non-canon.

>>169904269
Add a damn fragrant ring.
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>>169903442
>lucy sucks cock
i like how some things never change
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>>169904175
You also get his shit from killing "him" at Cathedral of Blue. And you get his shit yet again at Archdragon Peak, which specifically states that he left Anor Londo to search for the Nameless King.
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>>169904269
World connectivity, make it non linear
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>>169900838
Ringed City is actually centered around Dark Souls 2 and tells the fate of what happened to the primordial serpents according to Vaati's early access.

>>169904269
Make it so it costs 2 Estus to summon a phantom.
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>>169904269
I change it from being bad to being good.
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>>169904141
Well it's not the most common thing in the world to happen, but it happens.
Look, that's the body of a Darkwraith in the right side of the picture.
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>>169904302
So DaSIII confirms he was a knight.
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>>169904269
Add either lingering flames, ciaran daggers, or blue orbs
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>>169904269

New Game Plus, make it something actually worth playing through besides getting the +1/2 rings and a handful of other weapons/items.
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>>169904292
>implying ds1 was canon
>implying it's not just a feverdream while we're lying in the asylum, rotting
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>>169904302
>>169904292
>>169904269
>>169904263
>>169904209
>>169904175
>>169904149
>>169904152
>>169904050
>>169903938
>>169903856
>>169903701
>>169903557
You know what? Fuck it, I don't know anymore. Trying to piece together the lore in Dark Souls is like trying glue sand together to make a rock.

how the fuck does Vaati even get views for this shit is beyond me

I'm just gonna go force feed Friede my Pyromancy flame or some shit
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>>169904175
The setting has established that souls are detachable to an extent, and can be separated or partitioned from beings who are still living. See Gwyn, Pyromancy Flames, Vendrick and Alsanna.
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>>169904269
iframes
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>>169904469
>[spioler]Ringed City is actually centered around Dark Souls 2[/spoiler]

[/spoiler]Where did Vaati mention that? I know that we pop into Earthen Peak after it's been knocked over, but I don't think that it's *all* centered around DS2[/spoiler]
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>>169904447
No you get items that anyone could have. We don't know how many dragonslayers or dragonslayer spears they were.

You only get his soul once in ds1. The others are just dragonslayer souls
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The higher your rank in the Darkmoon covenant the higher your priority for getting summoned

Is this true or a meme?
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>>169904741
Yes
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>>169904581
>Beat DS1 without dying
>Obtain true ending
>Walk away from the flame as the camera pans out to reveal that Dark Souls was the fever dream of an autistic child staring into a snow globe
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>>169904269
Return to Metroidvania style world design.
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>>169904707
Anon, try Ctrl+S
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>>169904469
>according to Vaati's

That nigga was super wrong about velka in the 1st dlc.

Stop watching his shit videos
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>>169904269
Unique and boss weapons can now be infused or buffed.
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>>169904862
Thanks, never actually bothered trying to spoiler tag something before so I figured I would fuck it up.
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>>169904469
According to Vaati's info the only DS2 thing in ringed city is a fucking earthen peak and it's mostly exists to give waifufaggot set back, all other content is either DS1 or 3 related and you fight the demon prince in ruins of DS1 firelink.
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>>169904597
Kill you are self
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>>169901508
could still use a hand if anyone wants to pop on over, dunno why im having such a hard time
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>>169904996
I'm pretty sure they didn't let him play the entire fuckin DLC anon.
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>>169905069
eh, not until the DLC drops
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>>169905147
I'm pretty sure Ringed City has zero ties to DS2 given the description of the banner.
We're going back to Gwyn's dysfunctional family and that's awesome.
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>parry weapon art is now the launching thrust, activates 50 second fire buff for 80 ar, this is applied to both sword and dagger
>class change to from ultra greatsword to greatsword

What happens?
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>>169905147
no, they did

even let him make a vid about the first part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifhy9pp1pAw
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>>169905072
I'll give you a hand in a minute if you still need it Anon
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>>169904269
Make it a sequel to DaS2 instead of 1, implementing its superior features except SM
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>>169905335
I think anon was saying they only let him play the first part.
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>>169904996
>all other content is either DS1

I fucking hope not, DS3 already has way too much DS1 shoehorned in.
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>>169905256
OK? It's still autism to think that there's going to be 0 DS2 content other than desert slut because you somehow think Vaati was given all the content.
It isn't going to be focused on DS2 like that other guy was memeing about but you can at least expect Felkin's set. We already have one confirmed unused asset in the DLC.
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>>169905263
>get minor fire buff
>lose ugs hyperarmor
>still can get parried
well done
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>>169905445
sure, ill hang around the bonfire and wait for you
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>>169905469
I'm not the biggest fan of ds2 but I've enjoyed coming back to it. Just last night I learned that I could
>jump attack with my shield

WHY WOULD THEY TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF ALL THE THINGS DS2 DID WRONG THE CONTROLS GIVEN TO THE PLAYER CHARACTER ARE FUCKING FANTASTIC REEE
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>>169905658
Competency not at all guaranteed
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>>169905335
I'm not watching a 10 minute Vaati vid so you should probably link to the part where he says they let him play the entire DLC.
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What are my stats supposed to be if I run a dex+str build in ds1? Right now I have
20 vit
20 endurance
25 str
31 dex
And the rest are pretty much close to base.
I started as a cleric.
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>>169904263
>implying that fatass would fit in that armor
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>>169905649
>gain gs speed
>gain hyper armor wa
>keep flippies
I guess really the wa should be a stance to allow parrying though.
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>>169905705
Greatshield jumping attacks were really fucking good too, and they had reasonable AR for their weight
Only game where greatshields were truly good
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>>169905874
>thinking smough was fat
>on top of missing the point
oh, wow
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>>169905874
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so why do you gays hate Vaati so much

is it because he keeps spouting bullshit, or is it because he keeps spouting what you think is bullshit?
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>>169904263
Silver Knights

Anon, what makes you think Smough was a silver knight?
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>>169905649
The l1 dual combo would still shit hyper armor anon, and it would be faster as a greatsword.
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>>169904830
Yes.
>>169905469
No.
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What level are you supposed to be when starting NG+ in DS1?
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>>169906098
All Dark Souls lore is by design bullshit.
I hate him because he gets paid.

I could get paid to spout bullshit, it's one of the few things I'm really good at.
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>>169905860
>I started as a cleric.
lol why?
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>>169906386
so whats stoping you?

Vaati gets paid for talking about a subject that is 10% truth 90% horseshit fanfiction

why didn't you do it?
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>>169906503
But I didn't look up a guide before starting the game for the first time?
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>replaying SotFS
>decide to do something I can't do in 3
>mfw clearing the game with dragonrider twinblade
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>>169906098
Its because he keeps spouting bullshit.
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>>169906595
he cornered the market on poncey soft spoken British accents anon.
I might do a 100% completion walkthrough when the DLC comes out though.
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>>169906248
I don't think he was necessarily a silver knight.
I think he was a knight, and it's been established there were other knights in Anor Londo than just the Silver Knights
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>>169905746
thank you anon, sorry about those terrible mishaps
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>>169906248
It says he was a knight.
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>>169905860
Can someone tell me what to do?
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>>169906098
He spouts bullshit.
He takes credit for other people's bullshit.
He encourages people to give him money for said bullshit.
He's attempting to make a career out of all this bullshit.
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>>169906778
And I think he was just a royal executioner turned knight after DS1 who died defending the palace and Gwyndolin from Aldrich and Sully, but failed

Can we just agree to disagree and go back to shitposting?
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>>169906803
Don't worry Anon, we've all been there. It was fun.
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>>169906912
>Needing your hand held for a quality build
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>>169904269
Change the estus back to the way it was in 2

Fuck this super fast no risk no tension retard enabling healing
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>>169906978
We absolutely can.
Aldrichfags worst covenant, death of Sulyvahn best day of my life
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>>169905860
2handing your weapon multiplies your str by 1.5 and the softcaps are at 40. If you have a weapon with ~equal str and dex scaling, you want to get your str to 27, then your dex to 40 and then, if you want to 1hand your weapon too, get str to 40. but as a first run you shouldn't really bother with stopping leveling. just know that upgrading your weapons/armor is more important
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>>169907217
Okay. The requirement for the stone greatsword is 40 str. If I get my str to 27 will I be able to wield it?
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>>169907195
Aldrichfagging at SL50 or below is awesome though, you get a bunch of guaranteed action.
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>>169907412
yes, provided you also meet any other reqs
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So why was Sully so fleshed out as a character?

other villains barely get anything lore vise

Only other villain I know who got his backstory fleshed even better was The Old Iron King who got a whole DLC for himself
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>have tongue
>Leonhard isn't there
What do I do? I'm of of cracked orbs, too.
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>>169907745
>So why was Sully so fleshed out as a character?

Tell me his motivations for doing anything he did.
If you can't, he wasn't.
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>>169907745
OIK's DLC barely even touched on him at all, all it did was create a location where he got his iron, talk about Alonne a bit and mostly focus on the Child of Dark that tried to subvert him.

Sulyvahn didn't get much fleshing out either, all we know is that he was born in and left the Painted World, discovered the Profaned Flame and used it to his advantage, and led the Church of the Deep in that regard. Gwyn and Vendrick get significantly more fleshing out than him.
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>>169908051
fuck
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>>169904862
hmm
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>>169907195
REMOVE ALDRICH remove aldrich
you are worst invader. you are the invader idiot you are the smell. return to cotd. to our cotd deacon cousins you may come our city. you may live in the water reserve….ahahahaha , thorolund we will never forgeve you. cathedral knight rascal FUck but fuck asshole invader stink cotd sqhipere shqipare..invader genocide best day of my life. take a bath of dead invader..ahahahahahCOTD WE WILL GET YOU!! do not forget ds1 .irithyll we kill the pontiff , irithyll return to your precious profaned capitol….hahahahaha idiot invader and deacon smell so bad..wow i can smell it. REMOVE ALDRICH FROM THE PREMISES. you will get caught. LOrdran+THorolund+drangleI=LOTHrIC
darkmoon greattst covnant
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>>169901393
Thankfully poison resin buffed spotted whip is a worthy contender in 3
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>>169907745
>other villains barely get anything lore vise
Well we got plenty of motivation on Gwyndolin despite Best Boy not being a villain but you get my meaning, Seath, Manus' Cheerleader Squad except for Elana, etc. etc.
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>>169907745
>for himself
the DLC was mostly about Raime, his rotting waifu and a bit about Alonne
The king himself was kinda ignored

Sadly, Sully's arc is kinda dropped because his ambitions failed. We'll never see the age of the deep, and what it actually means
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>>169906760
>British
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>>169908687
Arty wouldn't fug Ciaran anyways.
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>>169908051
Painted World dwellers believe in cycles and natural order, linking the fire is a pointless struggle
Sully took that philosophy to heart and decided to let fire die for good, ushering the age of deep with Aldrich's help
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>>169908051
>Tell me his motivations for doing anything he did.
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>>169908687
>implying that wasn't her fetish
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>>169908867

>that bulge
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>>169908804
Burning the world away is not the same as not letting any fire exist.
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>>169909046
It leads to virtually the same consequences.
Fire destroys painting.
Absence of First Flame does the same to the world outside.
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>>169908051
He wanted to bring about an age of the deep sea and end the fire linking cycle.

We can infer this through his birthplace being the painted world, where their attitude is it's better to let go for the sake of something new than to cling on to the present.

His work linking him everywhere is merely the practicals of achieving his goal.

For instance, the outrider knights are positioned to stop ashen ones from fulfilling their journeys and he himself guards the path to Aldrich.
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>>169908687
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I've just thought, is there any indication whether the Furtive Pygmy is male or female?
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Why did all the knights have to get ruined by either the games or playerbase?
Artorias is plagued by dumb fanboys both in and out of game, and furries too
Ornstien was dragged through every game for little reason other than just being a reference to a good boss, never actually bothering to explore the character of the dragonslayer
And then then GOATeye Gough and the >woman just get forgotten
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>>169909529
>>169908687
stop this discord circlejerk
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>>169909594
>never actually bothering to explore the character of the dragonslayer
What are you talking about? 3 was the only game where we got anything vaguely resembling characterization for Ornstein.
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Figured I owed you a favor.
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>>169909721
>2017
>not being in the discord for discord exclusive tournaments, FCs, DLC info, and ERP
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Redpill me on the Corvian's greatknife
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Is this a good ng+7 build?
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>>169909770
Yeah we learnt he basically went and died to Dragonslayer, maybe I missed something good but I never saw much else, 2 literally just had black ornstien in a church with some unrelated covenant dude
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>>169909962
It's a dagger
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>>169909901
>ERP
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>>169909901
>ERP
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>>169909901
>ERP
no thanks
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>>169909962

>fast
>longest dagger
>decent damage
>fast
>good critical damage
>fast
>benefits from Leo Ring
>fast

Only bad thing about it is the WA. If it was something like Quickstep it'd be a lot better.
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>>169910024
People say he's a wannabe Ornstein.
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>>169910024
Wew, to nameless I mean
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>>169909901
>ERP
That's 6 years on skull island, fag boy
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>>169909962
it's a dagger with range and slightly more damage
blindspot cannot be parried, is pretty fuckin fast, combos into a 2hr1

in comparison to this quickstep is fairly overrated

it's good
for a dagger
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>>169909976
What's your goal with it?
Scimitar can be upgraded to falchion, you should get some armor for poise and there's not reason to stop at that SL for NG+7
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>>169910024
>>169910178
The dark Ornstein, I mean.
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>>169910217
I was sent to skull island for being a straight fag.
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>>169910217
shut up cardboard boy
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>>169909976
no

http://mmdks.com/8jun
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>>169910385
t. fugs + estoc user
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>>169910635
got a problem with my fugs + estoc?
sit on my face.
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wow I fucking hate the gravetender fight, anyone wanna come? SL59 PC
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>>169910334
Ornstein in Anor Londo was confirmed to be an illusion, and he left his old armor on Archdragon Peak (seeing as how there was no corpse that denotes a dead person always, he didn't die there).

That means either Ornstein is still around out there without armor, or he WAS actually the Old Dragonslayer. Considering Smough path is canon, that makes the Leo Ring still on Ornstein's person, which would make him the Old Dragonslayer because he has the Old Leo Ring on him, whereas evidenced in 3, newer Leo Rings are just well, Leo Rings, meaning it had to be the original, or at least as old as it.
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>>169910635
also occasional greataxe user
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>>169904269
remove boss, covenant, and unnecessary bonfires
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>>169910024
Well we at the very least know or can reasonably infer this:
>He was tasked with guarding the Anor Londo cathedral but abandoned his post, which shows he grew disillusioned with Gwyndolin's mandate and deserted.
>He was still hung up on the Firstborn's betrayal, who was his mentor if I recall correctly, and went after him, either to seek answers, to join him, or to fight him
>He cast away his armor and weapon, seeing as there's no corpse around where you find them [although I could be mistaken]. That's the kind of action that shows either disillusion with his lot in life, thus he either cast away the symbols that represented his old allegiances and went off to die somewhere, or he became one of the dragon faggots aroudn the peak.

Either way just from the hints you find about him that's already a lot more character than honestly either Artorias or Ciaran get.
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>>169910773
>trying to bring ds2 "lore" in discussion
It always ends up being a convoluted clusterfuck with asspulls and fanfiction.
Just stick with 1/3 lore.
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>>169910960
all ds lore is asspulls and fanfiction. Why do people keep forgetting that part
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Is Demon's Souls dead? How do people do the Old Monk fight now?
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>>169910960
The Ringed City makes it canon.

>>169910927
The Dragon Faggots are snakemen, like in Sen's Fortress (honestly lending credence to the theory that Sen is NK).

Ornstein would have to be either the naked rapier guy or the Drakeblood Knight then, as the only kind of dragon a human has been seen becoming is always immensely fucked up
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>>169911159
You just fight the AI.
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>>169910813
how dare you show my drunk duels?
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>>169911116
Lore progression from 1 to 3 is natural.
Trying to connect either of them with 2 is such a pain in the ass you end up in a massive clusterfuck of questions like "why Seath has his own soul" or "What the fuck Gwyn's soul forgot in a middle of bumblefuck nowhere in volcano"?
Really not worth the effort.
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>>169910773
>Ornstein in Anor Londo was confirmed to be an illusion
>Confirmed.
...
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>>169911345
the natural lore progression from 1 to 3 is because Memezaki put almost nothing but nostalgia and fanservice from 1 to 3.

I just really don't like how he Shafted the B-team
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>>169910927
What item descriptions talk about that?
Artorias has cults devoted to him both in and out of game
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>>169911328
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>>169911518
>nothing but nostalgia and fanservice from 1 to 3
Well, now i know how to call Empire Strikes Back.
You drones and your understanding of how sequels work is really retardeded.
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>>169911345
>he doesn't understand what soul fragments are when this is a massive plot point in DS1
Being able to craft the MLGS from Ocerios makes less sense than being able to craft it from a fragment of Seathe's soul.
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>>169911259
Ornstien is King of the Storm
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>>169910767
>can't beat gravetender
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>>169911345
>Why Seath has his own soul
Gwyn gave him it
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>>169911805
>fragment
>Seathe's soul
which he never had like all dragons?
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>>169911868
well, a shard of his own soul.

But who is to say Seath didn't have his own soul.
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>>169910960
>Just stick with 1/3 lore
You mean the shit vaati and friends had to make up?
Souls games have no lore.
Only fanservice.
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>>169911868
Gwyn gave him a fragment of his own soul. It's not Seath's soul (he doesn't have it at all) and it was burned in Lordvessel.
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>>169911751
I will kill you.
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>>169911852
>can't beat a guy while a giant wolf with retarded hitboxes jumps on him constantly
yeah sounds about right to me
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>>169911345
Seath has a chunk of Lord Soul, and also he's a science dragon who perfected immortality, I don't know why resurrection is suddenly just too far out there.

Besides, he was always said to be different than the rest of the dragons, and not an undying stone monstrosity, he could likely have his own soul.
>>169911841
This is the world's dumbest theory. All the item descriptions for NKs's boss weapons and miracle state that he met the Stormdrake when he betrayed Gwyn and then spent a lifetime of battle with it,
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>>169911259
Aren't the snakemen of Sen's Fortress stated as being the result of one of Seath's experiments? I thought that was the case but I honestly cannot quite recall.

Meanwhile the serpent men of Archdragon Peak are the final descendants of the Everlasting Dragons, after evolution screwed them enough.

>>169911539

>Golden lion armor associated with Dragonslayer Ornstein, from the age of gods, and imbued with the strength of lightning.
>In the dragonless age, this knight, who long guarded the ruined cathedral, left the land in search of the nameless king.

>Miracle of those chosen by the Sunlight covenant.
>Temporarily boosts attack and damage absorption for self and those in the vicinity.
>This is the tale of the Sun's firstborn, his faithful first knight, and the brave dragonslayer who served them both.

Also Artorias gets a lot of attention in-universe but you cannot honestly say much about what he was like other than he and Sif were close friends.
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>>169912235
>Seath has a chunk of Lord Soul
Which is not his own soul.
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>>169911805
>Being able to craft the MLGS from Ocerios
Is absolutely logical because MLGS is an artifact and Oceiros was connected to a cult worshipping Seath.
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>>169912235
he can't be resurrected because his skinny gem gets destroyed
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>>169912245
There is nearly no lore on the snake men at all, as the only weapon they drop is man-serpent greatsword, which just says they guard Sen's

Although the phrase man-serpent is shared with the Hatchet in 3, making it fairly clear that they're both part of the same man-serpent species
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>>169911967
>An albino dragon without scales, granted the title of Duke by Lord Gwyn for his assistance in defeating the Everlasting Dragons and given a fragment of a Lord Soul
Is it really so much of a stretch that the faggot who invented sorcery might know something about manipulating a soul?
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>>169912116
>Gwyn gave him a fragment of his own soul.
So its Seath's soul that he got off Gwyn.

>It's not Seath's soul (he doesn't have it at all)

'Soul of the albino Seath the Scaleless.
A fragment of a Lord Soul discovered
at the dawn of the Age of Fire.'

>it was burned in Lordvessel.
It was placed in the Lordvessel. With the other three.
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I don't know why you guys bother with the lore

Fromsoft gave us a bare scrap of shit as flavor text. And left us all with our imaginations to fill the blanks.

Problem is, that info gets interpreted in a diffrent way almost every time. Like the 2 anons from before who started shitslinging at each other because they had a diffrent head canon about Smough

Unless Memezaki releases a book of sorts after the last DLC that gives us a connected lore, it will be nothing but Flavor text Fanfiction
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>>169903310
Yeah, I got the flamberge and pushed a guys shit in with it and Dorhy's. Good stuff. I'll try playing with rouge.
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is there one of these for dark souls 3?
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>>169912330
Yes it is.
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>>169912116
A "soul" is the combined total of the souls you have in the first place. Hence why big guys with big souls give more and are bigger in the first place. It's the same as your bloodstain basically.

The Lord Soul Shard IS his soul now because he has it.
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>>169912653
This Tbh
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>>169912245
True enough, but that's why I was complaining about it, he gets attention, but only in fanboys
Gough deserved better
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Why is it called a quality build if weapons that require both dex and str fucking suck
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>>169910445
Didn't know you could go dragon while in another covenant.
>sanctus
I'm losing about 3 hp per second from power within and regenerating 1 hp per second from sanctus.
Rtsr activates at 60 hp. That means I have 30 seconds of power within + rtsr.
Doesn't feel like it's worth the hassle.
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>>169911345
>What the fuck Gwyn's soul forgot in a middle of bumblefuck nowhere in volcano
That one's easy.
Wellager tells you that the previous holders of the greatsouls were vanquished by Vendrick when he conquered that land and built his kingdom. The Sinner was locked away and the other 3 ended up buried and forgotten in various corners of Drangleic.

Seath's "soul" in DaS2 is just NG+ extra shit. In reality, Freja is the only boss that doesn't have a great soul to put in your inventory; it's just some esoteric power you absorb, which is compliant to canon.

Your nitpick is on the level of "Why does it say "Lord of Cinder Fallen" if Lothric never linked the fire?"
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>>169904269
fucking
>>169904673
this. I'm fine with rolls having insanely fast recovery, just reduce the iframes down to dks 1 fatroll iframes so you actually have to time your rolls instead of just mashing circle the moment you see an enemy swing and have a guaranteed dodge.
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>>169912653
We all know the shit is there because the MLGS needs to be in every Souls game.
I'm just saying it doesn't rustle my jimmies to think that the fucker WHO INVENTED SORCERY could fragment a soul we already fucking know is a fragment.

>>169912468
Meanwhile apparently "sensible lore" logic dictates that worshipping Seathe/studying his magic is all it takes to get a soul worthy of the MLGS, so I mean at this point Benhart's bluemoon greatsword is both the better and rarer weapon.
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>>169908867
>>169908969
owo, what's this?
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>>169913232
>Meanwhile apparently "sensible lore" logic dictates that worshipping Seathe/studying his magic is all it takes to get a soul worthy of the MLGS

Also going batshit insane and turning yourself into a crystal dragon, that's the important part.
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>invade into a world where there's already a darkmoon
>kill him

I sometimes feel bad about this, especially when the host stands aside to let him fight me 1 on 1.
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>>169904269
Make better bonfire placement
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>>169913486
Well you do get a special tongue for it.
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>>169912653
This is hardly something unique to Souls fandom.
We Megaman fags, for example, have been filling thread after thread with this sort of pointless worldbuilding and lorecrafting for years.

It's a franchise about goddamn robots themed after animals and random power tools, and in one case WOOD and SHEEP, who fight each other constantly in a setting where having a doctorate gives you a pretty fair shot at conquering the world, and yet we commonly have threads autosaging with rabid discussion about wether or not the Sigma Virus is a derivate of Evil Energy and wether or not the final boss of a goddamn NES game is a conceptual ancestral of Mega Man X.

It's just an interesting side activity to soothe the fanbase's autism which you can feel free to ignore if you want. People who see blanks are more often than not naturally inclined to want to fill them.
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>>169913187
Seath's soul isn't extra shit. It's probably one of the more important plot elements actually, as the Writhing Ruin (what Seathe's soul is referred to as) was continuing his experiments and creating shit like the Manscorpions, also taking control of the Duke to unearth everything below Brightstone Cove, and later taking over Freja too, implying that he can...

1)Transfer his soul between beings
2)Retain memories dating back to his Lordran experiments
3)Constantly resurrect while being able to do all that

2's lore makes him by far the most powerful creature in Souls.
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Just how big was Havel anyway

What about Tarkus?

who would win a 1v1, Prime Havel or Tarkus?
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>>169910151
the WA is actually its second best move(after R1)
The running attack and all others are so shit that WA will be your only choice if you need to mix up some moves
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>>169913161
>he doesn't know
sanctus+pw+duck crown builds are always cursed.
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>>169913979

I was actually reading some other posts about the WA and I found out that it can't actually be parried, so I can see why someone would value that over Quickstep.
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>>169912330
it is his soul as much as ornstein's soul is his
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>>169913860
Old Paledrake soul is literally extra shit from NG+

And its referred to as the Old Paledrake Soul.
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>>169913860
>as the Writhing Ruin (what Seathe's soul is referred to as
I don't think the Writhing Ruin was ever mentioned as being Seath's soul. You can make the case that it is, but you can just as easily make the case that it's Seath's consciousness preserved through different magical means.
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>>169913860
Except that consciousness of his isn't a soul.
Dragons don't normally have souls, this is a plot-point in DaS1 that kind of got lost with time. They had their tailcuts in place of boss souls so that players could still get weapons from them, but they don't have souls because souls are tied to the flame and the dragons predate flame.

DaS2 contravened this in 3 places: with the Ancient Dragon's Soul, Old Paledrake Soul and Soul of Sinh, though in Seath's case it's just NG+ extra shit since the power controlling the Ruin is that red thing on ground that you pick up, and that's clearly the remnant of Seath's consciousness.

Sinh and the AD soul are just plain oversights, though. It's clear they weren't concerned enough with canon to circumvent DaS2's rigidly systematized gameplay mechanics.

DaS3 has thus far preserved the idea of dragons not having souls, but only insomuch as it has utterly lacked any living dragon to offer a soul and has not involved dragons in any way directly enough for the question to be relevant. Maybe the DLC will show something conclusive about this
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>>169913845
>final boss ancestor of Mega Man X

Who is this? I don't remember.
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>enter DaS2 arena
>every player uses a unique build
I only saw two cookie-cutter WP faggots in like 30 duels, the others were interesting as fuck
Hell, I was killed by a fucking sanctum shield
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>>169913161
power within's HP drain is a % of your max HP
at 300 HP or below, you do not lose any HP or gain any

i think you might have to be cursed though
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>>169913932
Havel was normal sized, just stupidly strong if DaS1 is anything to go by.

Tarkus is the size of a Berenike, just with better armor.

Prime Havel would have probably won since it's implied he was on par with the gods in terms of strength and skill.
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>>169911969
the intro
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>>169914530
Gamma, final boss of Mega Man III, if I recall correctly.
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>try carthus curved sword for the first time
>mfw i'm actually having fun with it
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>>169914560

>sanctum shield

I genuinely miss that thing. I'm hoping we get something similar from TRC.
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>>169914979
It's a great fucking weapon, I used it in my first playthrough before it became meta, had a towel headed guy. Good sword, just because people bitch and complain about doesn't mean it's bad, it's just easy to cheese.
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>>169914138
>>169914567
At 150~ hp power within takes 3 hp per 2 seconds and sanctus heals for 2 hp per 2 seconds.
Looks like I'll just heal myself out of rtsr.
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>>169914476
To be fair, maybe this wasn't the case in the original release of Dark Souls 2, but the Ancient Dragon is not really a dragon.

The Ancient Dragon Soul you get in the Dragon Memories though, is the most lorebreaking thing I have seen in this franchise so far, referencing something completely different to the circumstances you find it in, and the placement and nature of the item itself is another ball of yarn all by itself. It's the only case in the franchise where I just actively disregard an item descriptions.
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>>169915053
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>>169898467
How far is everyone in there RtD play through?
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>>169915096
I just never tried any curved swords at all before. If the reason why people bitch about it is how easy it is to spam r1 then why don't they just parry it?
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>>169914314
>>169914476
Okay, okay fair.

Whether it's a soul or not, 2 makes it clear that he's at least some kind of fucky magic ghost thing that can control people and creatures.

Although regarding dragons and souls, NK's dragon is explicitly stated to have a soul that NK absorbed when it died in the item description for Storm CS, so who knows
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>>169915249
Parrying is not an efficient or reliable answer to a strong and spammable R1
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>>169915205
Just finished Dragon Shrine, about to delve into Shulva
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>>169915106
you can't lose 1.5 hp. it gets rounded. and since you are lower than 150 hp, 1% of that is less than 1.5, which means it gets rounded down to 1 per sec
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>>169915342
>parrying
>unefficient against an r1 spamming mongo with the CCS
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>>169915284
I think at this point the games just keep the original plot point of true Everlasting Dragons not having souls, but has conceded that their distant ancestors do have them, to accomodate situations like the King of Storms and Sinh.
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>>169915172
shame it lost healing qualities
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>>169915249
It has longer reach than other CS I think, with Carthus Rouge it has great bleed potential and if I remember right, refined it does very good damage for a weapon with bleed.
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>>169915550
Yes, that's exactly what I said.
The CCS wouldn't have been top-tier for 11 consecutive months and then nerfed if "lol just parry it bro" was an answer
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>>169915205
I got to Sinner.

I'd wanted to get to Mirror knight and help mirror knight out. But so far the game seems as dead as usual, I've only encountered 1 other person.

It might just be soul memory separation though.
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>>169915761
My game is lively as fuck with phantoms and invasions.
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>>169915716
Not that anon but in the past the buckler is a pretty efficient way to counter it in my experience

Maybe latency has something to do with how some people struggle with the weapon's hitbox and its parry window, I guess.
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>>169915342
>Parrying is not an efficient or reliable answer to a strong and spammable R1
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>>169915205
I made it to Drangleic Castle and got bored.
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>>169915205
I'm at Demon of Song trying to get summoned but no one seems to be online

PS4/SOTFS/SM 1.2M

been wearing agape for awhile but i think my sm is too high
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You don't r1 spam with the CCS
You wait, and use its stupidly fast 2hr1 to punish startup or recovery, then rollcatch them, then you win
Parrying it is a joke because you don't just 2hr1 the second you get in range
Parrying in general is a joke since you can prediction backstab, especially idiots with a buckler out
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>>169915284
>>169915554
>Be dragon
>Don't have a soul
>Go get one off some dude
>Now have soul
>Trigger autists.
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Is the Dark Wood Grain ring really that good?

I got a 2-handed no shield build and I'm torn between which two rings to use between: RoFap, Havels and DWG
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>when you fight someone as skilled as you
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>>169916125
i'm down to co-op any of the DLCs if anyone else is at this SM/platform
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>>169916294
>implying anyone is as skilled as I am
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>>169915172
holy shit what

what does this even mean for the context of DS3?
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>>169916550
That the Way of White likes to bless their shields with magical fire.
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>>169916237
reeee someone answer me reeee
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>invade High Wall
>SL9, no upgrades
>bleeding sun in the sky
ebin
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>>169916737
Look at the frames it grants you and decide yourself, fagtron
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>>169916915
its tempting

i dont fucking know

im thinking of not using it since ill probably develop bad habits that wont have carry over to DaS2 and DaS3

hlep
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>>169917095
If you're worried about consistency, then you probably shouldn't use it.

It's not like you NEED the extra frames.
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>>169915554
sinh's soul is weird. the item it makes is not descriptive of sinh, it's descriptive of yorgh. it might be what that anon had suggested, that dragons can somehow absorb the souls of their victims
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>>169916237

It's so good you'll feel bad for using it.
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what happens if the durability of a weapon runs out in ds1?
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>>169917229
i guess i wont then

i got a str/dex build, was claymore + shield but now made the transition to 2handing without shield after hearing how much fun it is and havent really had a problem

im thinking ill just use havel + rofap and kick ass looking cool and shiet.

>>169917368
im going to play a bit without it and then ill see if it really made a difference i guess
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>>169898467
So I'm playing Dark Souls 3 for the first time and I experienced some fucking retarded shit.

Basically, I made peace with the piece of shit giant, died to moldy tree 3 times and now the fucking giant retard shoots his arrows at me.

fucking cherry on top is the bullshit tracking missile bullshit it does on you . WHAT THE FUCK am I supposed to do?
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Is Carthus Bloodring best used under 30% carry weight?
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>>169917923
SOMEONE FUCKING HELP ME GOD DAMN IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

WHAT AM I GONNA DO NOW REEEEEEE
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>>169917923
Did you use the White Branch he gives you?
I'm not quire sure but I think that might break the piece.

>what am I supposed to do?
You're just asking for it now aren't you?
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>>169917923
>>169918057

>using the piece of wood he gave you

You literally took his token of friendship and crushed it with your bare hands. I'd shoot you, too, if I were him.
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>>169918124
eh, I have 3 branches on me.

The guy literally only started shooting me after my 3rd death to moldy tree boss.

Thanks for the reply m8
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>DS3's parrying dagger has a block instead of a stab in the left hand and has no parry in the right hand
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>>169916378
kek
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>>169918215
So the other 3 branches don't work? I have to take the long way to the church now? fuck...

Also, he never shot me when I used the branch. only after I died... weird.
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>>169918221
Only the one individual branch guarantees that he won't fire at you. The one whose description reads "good friend, no hit"
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>>169918268
>has a block instead of a stab in the left hand
So it's a shitty buckler?
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>>169898467
>scriped invasion right after you aggro samurais in fire castle

>Anothet scripted invasion in the same place

Bravo from
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>>169912758
im bored right now, rolling
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I have candy.
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>>169918350
The "long way" to the Greatwood becomes the "short way" when you find the bonfire.

And you can go get another branch from him, just don't be a fucking retard and use it again.
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>>169918484
>crossbows
fuck
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>>169898467
Allright fuck this.

Whats the lightest and quickest parry tool in ds2?
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>>169918358
So newgame is the only solution for this ? LMAO shittiest game ever.

Uninstall is the only thing you can do to this shit game pfft. DeS best game confirmed. Fuck FROM they suck.
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>>169917550
please reply
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>>169918673
>mon scim flashbacks
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>>169918697
talk to him again retard he gives you another one
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>>169916294
>have long exciting fight with someone where neither of us heals
>eventually he kills me
>points down
Why man, why?
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>>169918697
Or, you know.
Dodging the shots like a normal, non-garbage person.
Or maybe if you talk to the giant again he'll give you a new branch.
Or maybe you can kill him.
Just a thought.
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>>169918673
Buckler and/or Target Shield.
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>>169918483
SotFS iron keep is shit
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>>169898467
Why does Great Soul Arrow deal more damage than Heavy Soul Arrow?
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>>169918614
Thanks for the info!

By the way, was all the talk about the double elevator actually shitposting? The one to the giant.

I remembre when DaS3 came out a lot of people said "how was I supposed to know there's 2 elevators" ? Has someone actually gotten stuck there?
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>>169916294
>both of us use fugs
>slowest and longest battle ever
>both get a killing blow from rolling R1s
The honorable death feels.
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>>169918962
On every game's new release there's a lot of "how do I do basic shit" spam, most of which I assume is just shitposting.
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>>169918886
>>169918794
Is the caestus shit in ds2 for parrying?
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>>169918440
Pretty much. It may as well not be a knife at all.
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>>169918950
Heavy Soul Arrow has a lower INT requirement and is available earlier. Great Soul Arrow is a complete upgrade but isn't available until later and takes more INT.
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>>169919109
Yes. Cestus and fist have the worst parry frames by far.
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>>169917550
>>169918782
Why not try google?

Anyway, the weapon breaks and does incredibly low damage until you get it fixed again
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>>169918483
thats why you dont open the doors until the first invader is dead, then go back and rest at the bonfire to get the second invader to come, kill her, then go into the keep
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>>169919216
oh I thought I would lose it forever.
Thanks
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>>169918962
>Has someone actually gotten stuck there?
I have, actually. Mostly because on first approach I didn't see the platform going up when the elevator activates and lifts Siegward from the bottom. Or maybe I did and just thought it was a particularly thick knot of rope or something.
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>>169917924
Pretty much.

sub30 rolls do not give you any extra iframes, but they allow you to physically get out of the way of phantom range attacks, coupled with the extra iframes it's pretty nifty
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>>169919353
Just a heads up, if you have a blacksmith turn one of your weapons into a Crystal weapon, it can't be repaired

So don't do that
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What's somethings that get you off in DS3?

Someone is parry spamming you and you're right in their face not moving and just looking at them dead in the face.
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>>169919742
>not kicking them when they parry spam for a free r1
>or using some other attack that can't be parried
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>>169919742
I hate people who spam block in your face. Started using crossbows or surge just to fuck with those faggots
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>>169919742
>use R1 a lot
>just as they think they've got the timing you use an R2 instead which takes a fraction of a second longer to connect, splattering them right in the recovery frame
Thank you BKS
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>>169919742
Helping people with bosses
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>>169919742
Landing the BK great weapons' R1-> R2 launcher combo
Alternative: Landing the BK great weapons' R1-> R2 launcher combo on 2 people simultaneously
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>>169917924
Under 30% rolls can be handy because you're physically almost impossible to catch.
IIRC, under 30% rolls are faster for getting places than just sprinting so most rollcatch timings and tactics just plain fail and you're essentially unpressurable.

It;s most helpful when paired with weapons that have shitty rolling attacks, since the excessive distance on 30% rolls make them hard to control and essentially ruin aggressive rolling, since there's no way to roll when you're close to someone that won't either take you too far away or stick you up against their body and beg to eat shit. It's best used for running away, avoiding pressure and resetting fights, and so best mixes with weapons that want to stay at neutral and force the other guy to get in on you: spears/halberds/katanas, etc.

Bloodring makes you even harder to catch, but desu the main benefit of bloodring is that it lets you roll more aggressively since the extra iframes basically let you bruteforce roll forward through R1 spam and violate someone's ability to control their own space. Bloodring mixes best with weapons that do have good rolling attacks and benefit from aggressive rolling.

The two mix to make your rolls even harder to catch, but if you're under 30% with a weapon that plays to the strength of 30% rolls then the only time the bloodring iframes will matter is when you fuck up your spacing or make what would otherwise be a bad panic roll. The distance on 30% rolls make them harder to use aggressively.
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>>169918886
>try to practice parry
>almost never seem to get it
>equip caestus
>literally cannot miss a parry
what is this?
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>>169918886
>that ragdoll effect
Oh DS2, you cod.
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>>169919161
I found like 3 or 2 great soul arrows before even finding one heavy soul arrow
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how do you beat the two giants below gulch in melee without cheese?
I cant seem to seperate them and their attacks are almost always staggered leaving me no window to attack.
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>>169920536
Oh, you're talking about DaS2.
Who knows?
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>>169919340
Why would i think that a second invader will show up in the same exact spot?
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In Dark 3, what is more effective in terms of AR - infusing a weapon to Crystal to take advantage of my high INT, or infusing it to Raw and having a lower overall AR but with pure damage and having it buffable?
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>>169916550
>>169916713
That the way of white got bad at blessing shields as time went on.
>>
aye siwmae
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>>169920575
Throw loads of shit at them and just roll. Don't attack with your weapons at all as it will massacre your stamina.
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>>169918543
WOOAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOoooowwwWWWWW!!! EEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!
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>>169918543
You've found yourself a hunter...
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>>169920775
and good day to you
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>>169920672
raw + buff is generally the way to go

after buffing you'll end up with much higher split AR than you would've with the crystal infused one
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>>169921289
Ta. Maybe I'll test ingame seems like the best way. On the other hand, Crystal would allow me to always have a consistent AR and also put another sorcery in the slot that CMW would take.

But sorceries mostly suck dick in this game... so it's a bit of a moot point.
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>>169918886
>>169920472
I don't understand what your big deal is with it.
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Lets say I were to make an edgy 4kat build. What would be an appropriate name? I am not that well-versed in anime to pick one from any.
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>>169918543
Orphan's yoyo placenta is so silly looking.
>>
In DaS1, can I parry with a buckler if I don't have the required dex to wield it properly?
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>>169921561
A lot of BB's art design is actually really silly-looking out of context. I think that's what makes it work so well.
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>>169921543

Bushido Bob
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>>169921543
Then watch more anime?
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>>169921543
Coldsteel the Edgehog
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>>169920775
how horrifying
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>>169921543
gattsu
>>169921576
you can parry and i don't think it fucks up your frames but it should cost more stamina and if you get a partial you'll probably get insta-guardbroken. not that it matters in 1
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>>169921543
Dark Alonne.
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>>169921543
Guts
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>>169921543
Go back to getting railed by Artorias, fag.
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>>169921543
Black God Reaper
>>
Please ignore and report any off-topic posts.
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>>169922515
Like yours?
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>>169921543
Ken-sama
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>>169900426

Nah.

>Meet Gwyn Jr
>Find his discarded armor
>His spear next to the exit

He just got the fuck out and never looked back.
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>>169922515
not only is your post off-topic, calling people to report certain posts is bannable
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>>169922212
>>169922385
>>169922872
Why bother posting stuff from a discord chat anyway?

Literally every group chat ever goes off topic sometimes, fuck off
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>>169922872
Why are you posting this you fucking melt? Anyone who cares about the Discord is in it.
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>>169923341
this
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>Wreaking havoc with a rotten resin spotted whip

Thanks, poisonposter
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>>169916915
this image is inccorect
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>>169921561

I'll always be disappointed that it's not a trick weapon.
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>>169924002
What does poisonposter think about storyteller's staff?
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>>169924216

It's so good! Just put poison resin on it! haha!
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>>169922872
>guy asks to stop
>post it anyway
just poison resin yourself
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>>169924286
>can't scratch my ass any more
>no prepatch staff
>>
I just realize the wolves in the DLC don't aggro you unless you get close to them or attack them. They just slowly encircle you and growl. Once they fan out enough to leave a gap, you can literally walk past them without them attacking.
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>>169924448
and by prepatch staff i mean prepatch bat staff obviously
>>169924546
*circles around*
*growls @ u*
*pounces on ur chest*
*notices bulge*
OwO what's this
>>
Why the fuck hasn't Aldia popped up any fucking where in Das3? The guys life essence is litterally tied to the fucking first flame.
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>>169924216
I have been summoned.
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>>169924782
>>169924216
On a more serious note, I suggest hitting your foe a couple times with your favourite poison resin buffed whip, then proceed to spam the staff's weapon art.

Such a shame the cloud is so hard to direct.
>>
can I get a basic gestalt, a quick rundown, and a big enchilada about great dexterity weapons in ds2? I know about the rapier, and the espada ropera. But I want to push this to the limit. What are other great dex weapons?
>>
>playing Dark Souls for the first time
>get to Gaping Dragon
>keep getting my shit wrecked
>get frustrated
>drink some rum (in real life)
>pretty drunk
>wreck Gaping Dragon's shit on the first try

Is this a normal occurrence? Does alcohol make you git gud?
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>>169925085
nah it usually makes me shit
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>>169923083
t. nazi mod
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How the fuck is it march and weve still go no new fucking information on the DLC.
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I want to meet new friends to play with and have fun
come join my discord :3
https://discord.gg/JQ3yb8V
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>>169925282
Vaati and those two literal whos were the only people to leak us info
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>>169925401
>cancer_containment
>foolz
hm
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>>169925250
if I was a real nazi mod I wouldn't sleep so much
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>>169925401
You sure got me
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>>169924921

There's Eleum Loyce I suppose. Stone Soldier Spear, Puzzling Stone Sword...I don't remember a ton of good pure dex weapons.
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"She" has a point
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>>169925994

dev privileges right there
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>>169925994
Yeah no, screw everything about that.
The character limit in these games is utterly horrible and there's no reason for it to be like that.
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>>169918543
Jesus fucking Christ, didn't I kill you two days ago?
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>>169925994
>>169926283
>>169926175

I think it's intentional so people can't dress up as NPCs and try to fool players into thinking they're the NPC.
Which is anti-fun in my opinion.
>>
How high should I level ADP in DaS2? I haven't played in years, so I forget.
>>
Can you drop covenant items for people in ds3?
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>>169926542
as long as your agility is acceptable

see : >>169924038
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>>169926524

Aren't there still some NPCs/summons you can fit their names in with though?
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>>169926524
That's nonsense and I ABSOLUTELY believe it
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>>169926524
Then explain Anri of Astora, Eygon of Carim, and Yuria of Londor having summons.
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>>169898467
Can't you farm pale tongues by getting a friend to just keep dying to you?
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>>169926683
why post the shittier WIP
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>>169926568
Covenant items cannot be dropped. Only some rewards like wolf ring, bloodlust etc
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>>169924782
See I'm not going to bitch at you for this one because the storytellers staff has actual working poison. The only working poison comes from it and the toxic from toxic mist.

That show be how poison works on all poison infused weapons. Its fucking bullshit.
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>>169924192
>can't make a female hunter named Miss Carriage and wield the placenta as a weapon while wearing Yharnam's set

Wasted potential desu
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>>169925994
Vincent, stop it.
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>>169925994
>>169926916
Wait a second...
That card
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>>169926524
I think your position is anti-fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywyll7GUG5Q
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>>169925085
I killed my Gaping Dragon first try so idk.
Dark Souls is just really inconsistent. Sometimes you just get into the zone and other times you keep succing.
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>>169927112
>that n
>no times
Nice shop.
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>>169927112
Jfc and here I thought that my discord was circlejerky at times.
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>>169926857
I know, friend.
I may incessantly post about the virtues of the poison resin, but deep inside I very well know Poison is a shadow of its former self.

Here. Take this. As a token of peace.

In memory of better times.
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>>169927319
that's shopped tho
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Anyone need old whip in sotfs? I have an extra one
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Can't you farm pale tongues by getting a friend to just keep dying to you?
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>>169927458
>>169927283
>>169927319
But I'm completely and totally innocent
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>>169927578
Yes, you can do that with shackles and sunlight medals too.
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>>169927617
>>169927098
You are fooling nobody
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>>169927707
Gosh golly gee, you're so rude for no reason
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>>169927660
There's literally no reason to do it for shekels though, you get the amount you need so fast.
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>>169927960
Warmth can be useful at times.
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Anyone on PC available to help me get 19 pale tongues? Just need to summon me via red soapstone and kill you 19 times. Will help you with something too
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>>169928290
I can drop you both rewards if you really want.
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>>169928421
I was told you cant drop pale tongues?
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>>169898467
Wtf how did i just get invaded near majula in the noob area
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>>169928462
I was talking about the things you get in exchange for tongues. That is, the ring and the staff. Tongues can't be dropped.
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>>169928551
Return to Drangleic

>mfw some fags are trying to start a Return to Yharnam even overlapping RtD.
>can't participate in RtY because no PS+
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>>169928551
Forest of Fallen giants? So far as I know, you can start invading as soon as you get past the cave.

If you mean the tutorial area, enjoy your bun.
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>>169928771
A RtY would never work precisely because + exists. No sane person keeps a + account running unless they unironically play normalfag MP games regularly, and nobody with any sense is going to waste money on a month of + just for BB to be slightly less dead for 2 days
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>>169928629
I need the spells
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>>169928902
>talk about pale tongues
>I need the spells
You only use tongues to level up rosaria's fingers, not other covenants.
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>>169928902
>>169928629
Oh wait a minute, for this faction I dont need to farm 30 for the plat trophy???
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I'm playing through DaS for the first time and I had a really tough time in Anor Londo, I've now left and am mopping up a few bits and pieces, I'm just wondering, at level 70 am I crazy overlevelled? I mean, I guess it makes up for not having a clue what I'm doing, but I feel like I'm shitting on everything without even trying now.
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>>169928898
There was free multiplayer weekend like a week ago.
I got invaded once. Once. Never invaded or summoned anyone. Shit's dead yo.
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>>169898467
Damn i pre ordered ds2 and I'm just now noticing that your character has an out of breath animation when you deplete your entire stamina bar.

Damn does ds3 have these animations like this for low health or stamina?
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>>169929006
You need to max out sunbros, mound makers and darkmoons/sentinels. Then you need aldrich fags at first rank. Rest is optional and not required for anything.
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>>169928771
>>169928789

No near the sex change coffin before majula in the land betwixt

1st time playing sotfs thats not a 360/ps3 version
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>>169929347
There's an NPC invader there in NG+
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>>169929160
Nope, the cool little details ds2 had are mostly gone
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>>169929032
There's no such thing as "overleveling" on your first playthrough but Anor Londo is generally like SL50 zone.
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>>169929437
Well it didnt show the invasion message but there was a red shade there.

Is it from lighting all of the torches? Im in ng
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>>169929160
No
You hunch over when you're low on health and when you're over 120% equip load
Combine all three and you look really pitiful
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I spent 4 hours farming souls to double my level from 30 to 60 at the darkroot garden. The rest of the 4 hours I killed 3 black knights and the stray demon at the asylum. Did I waste my time today?
Ds1 here
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>>169929160
That kind of thing as well as the stance chance in your character when you target an enemy are the sort of little things that make me like DS2 a lot more than I probably should.
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Someone on playstation play with me I'm at the first bonfire for smouldering lake
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>>169929032
Depends where you are on the scale of going to Anor Londo the earliest you possibly can, or left it to the latest you can.
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>>169929617
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>>169929160
Nope, pretty much all the nice little details and cool stuff that DS2 added got forgotten about in 3

>no out of breath/encumbered animation
>no stance change when actively targetting a foe
>No subtle momentum shifting when changing directions while walking/running
>although getting covered in water/muck makes you visibly wet/muddy it no longer has an actual effect on you (water lowering your lightining resists dramatically but raising your flame resist very high), poison pools and oil no longer present
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>>169929593
Yeah, I think I finished sen's fortress around 40/45, so that makes sense, I was having a shit time of it so I just dicked around in Painted World for a while.
Also, is there some trick to the skelly's in the catacombs or do I just tough it out?
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>>169930360
>pools of blood gone
>orange outline for active multiplayer zones also gone
fuck you miyazaki
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>>169930943
>orange outline for active multiplayer zones also gone
>>169930360
Damn i really do miss this one. Too bad SM ruined how awesome ds2 could have been
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>>169929826
*bows respectfully*
I will never get bored of this
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>>169931134
SM deserves some sort of trophy for how majestically it ruined an entire game.
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>switch from B jumping to L3 jumping
>suddenly jumping 500x further
>always overshooting

also, what camera speed do you guys use?
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>>169931248
I fucking hate L3 jump. O/B button for life
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>>169931248

I feel pretty comfortable at 8.
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If Dark Souls 2 didnt have SM everyone would be the same boring ass SL150 flynn light weapon build
Tanks wouldnt exist
Spellcasters practically wouldnt exist
Heavy weapon users wouldn't exist
Powerstancers wouldn't exist
etc

Fuck SL meta
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>>169930598
Either kill the necromancers reviving the skellies or use a Divine weapon.

>>169930943
The orange outline was useful but too gamey and since ds3 thankfully doesn't have a soul memery there is no use for it.
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>>169931231
desu for those of us that actually played it, SM was just a minor hoop to circumvent and never had a real impact on the game.

It ruins autism more than anything else.
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>>169931867
>>169931248
>From changes jump from O to L3
>arguably so it doesn't overlaps with the dodge command if you try rolling while running
>rolling while running still only works if you tap the button, not if you press and hold
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>>169932000
>have weapon memory at x
>be soul level x
Where should I invade or co-op for bosses? Yeah I don't fucking know since there's no outline.
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>>169931996

what

how does SM affect builds?

it only affects how easy it is to connect to others

I mean, sure, it's a little generous and there's Agape Ring now, but it's such an unnecessary mechanic that didn't even prevent the very thing they wanted to: twinking

it's also redundant due to the Blue Sentinels; they're all the game really needed when it came to twinking
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>>169929325
you forgot watchdogs.
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>>169932604
That guy was hunting for spells and I only mentioned the ones that have them as rewards, but you're right you have to level doggies too if you want to get all achievements.
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>>169932416
Sm is the one deciding factor in matchmaking, which obviates the need for a build. There is no reason not to level as high as you can past a certain tier (read, most populated tier) of soul memory.
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>>169927319
Who would the bartender be in this comic?
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>spend some time creating my character in DaS1
>DARK SOULS PREPARE TO DIE.exe stopped working

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Why are invaders allowed to use this
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>>169932803
Because gankers deserve nothing.
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was there some yhorm's meta I missed?

2/3 of the invaders I played against today were using it
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REEEEE MAKE THE DISCORD FAGS LEAVE
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>>169932416
Without SM the community goes full retard and tries to put together a SL matchmaking meta
Since the community is retarded, they tried 150
Surprise, 150 isn't high enough for anything but Flynn meta
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>>169932161
Pretty sure that the outline showed activity, not activity within your range
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>>169932786

Did you check someone's summon sign?
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>>169932161
DS3 does an excellent job of naturally guiding you to be at the correct Soul/weapon memery level for bosses.

>>169932781
Memezacki and Tanimura
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>>169931996
>>169932416
If anything it would allow more hex builds and archer buildd since you have to spend a finite amout of souls to actually attack with soul memory in place
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>>169932928
>gankers
I never really understood the ganker hate meme
they're the reason the majority of the pvp exists

a pve player has no reason to pop a dried finger as he's progressing through the level
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https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/149774
Is this is shit any good?
I wanna roll a pyromancer, but I'd like to know if I'm gonna be hitting people with a noodle and snowballs.
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>>169932767

Yeah, that's another reason why I don't think it's a good mechanic.

>>169933096

That's organized PvP, though. An afterthought. I don't think that's a big deal.
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>>169933471
The sad thing is bows were really powerful with pretty good tracking in ds2 too now that i think about it
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>>169932967
It has a huge staggering shock wave when swung even if it misses. People like to off-hand it with a broad sword or cgk.
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>>169932764
Well he said plat, what are all the ones you need for plat?
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>>169933137
Pretty sure it was range. I never saw activity in places where people my sm wouldnt be.
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Can't wait for the next tournament
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>>169930360
Most of those are casualties of getting rid of DS2's overall horrible animations, and not bothering to replace any of DS1's stiff ones.
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>>169933686

Warmth, Darkmoon Blade, and Great Deep Soul are the only three covenant spells in the game.
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>>169933974
You forgot Sacred Oath and Great Lightning Spear
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>>169933974

Oh, wait, I'm retarded, there's also Sacred Oath and Great Lightning Spear,
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>>169933585
>30/30
>only one pyro damage ring
No wonder you hit like a wet noodle.
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Question.
In DS2 vanilla does getting all 3 crowns and combining them unlock the fight against Aldia and the second ending, or is that only present in SotFS?
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>>169933476
You're so wrong it's barely worth a reply. Even if we removed the finger people would be invaded anywhere they were embered if invading didn't prioritize worlds with phantoms. I don't know where you got the idea that the finger was needed for the equation, finger only draws invaders to you. You're always open to it happening.
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>>169930360
Getting rid of oil was pretty anoying seeing BB had it and made it better.
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>>169933868
Don't hold your tongue, they're still stuck on the poster
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>>169933868
>next

?
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Do you think we'll get another video about new pvp arena content?
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>>169934146
It does unlock it assuming you're on the final patch version of DS2.
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>>169934107
30/30 is good for an invader at lower levels.
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Is heavy armour and shields best in ds1?
I should go for the heaviest that I can wear right?
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>>169934265
So me buying and playing through the Ringed City DLC will unlock the inevitable final ending?
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>>169933974
Im talking about rings too
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>>169934312
The build he posted was SL125.
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>>169934342
Wear whatever lets you fast roll
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>>169934342
>I should go for the heaviest that I can wear right?

Yes, heavy armour is there to make the game easier for new players.
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>>169934342
Getting 50-60 end and being able to fast roll in huge armor is great in ds1. Get the grratshield of Artorias and you can block Manus's whole combo unupgraded. Which is ludicrous.
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>>169934423

The only covenant rings I can recall are the Wolf's Ring, Darkmoon Ring, and the Obscuring Ring.
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>>169934356
No
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>>169934576

Stamina hard caps at 40 END.
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>>169934589
Fuck's sake, so I'll have to get the definitive edition when it comes out in April. Fuck.
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>>169934235
The Discord had one for Discord members, better join fast unless you want to be left out

https://discord.gg/UxdYT4f
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>>169934637
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>>169934663
The second tourney is going to be thread wide

t.tourneyboy
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>>169934652
Not even that, it's just a bundle edition with both DLC included. Not the same situation as what they did with DS2 at all.
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>>169934663
Why are you posting it here then?
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>>169934637
Yeah but equip load does not.
End is amazing in ds1 because it's both vit and stamina.
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>>169934753
Dark Souls 3 truly is just a shitty cashgrab. Fuck Miyazaki, Dark Souls 2 was better.
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>>169934637
Equip load continues to increase linearly though.

Going past 40 is still inadvisable anyways, since the Ring of Favor should let you carry around whatever you want at that point.
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>>169934772
>thinking containment is a thing
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>>169934751
Wouldn't count on it

>>169934772
Join the Discord to be eligible for the "next" one
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>>169934663
Okay this was kinda funny LUL.
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>>169934973
>Says they're doing 1v1 so people like HERETIC KNIGHT and Queerlemma don't butt fuck whatever poor soul they're with
>This means thread isn't involved
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>>169934663
The first one was just a test, Vinnie. We planned on having later ones open to the rest of the general. You missed that detail because you left after being banished to skull island for lagswitching and attempting to rig the tournament.
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>>169935462
If I included that part the shitpost wouldn't have been as potent and you know it
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>>169934905
Only if you plan on using Elite Knight forever. Nothing wrong with that of course.
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>>169911424
In all fairness, Most of Anor Londo is an illusion (Gwynevere, the giants, the sunlight, walls etc.).
Why, then, is Ornstein being an illusion so difficult to accept? Because you get his soul from it? The illusion was crafted using Ornstein's soul.
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>tfw no fc
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>>169935589
Have you tried not shitposting so hard?
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>>169911424
It was confirmed though, as retarded as I always thought the theory was. Dark Souls 3 flat states that Smough was the only guy left defending Anor Londo, and that Ornstein left forever ago to find his master at Archdragon Peak, and died there.
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>>169934107
Well, shit. Do I really need to lower my vit that much? I'll be the noodle then.
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>>169935742
What's the point in shitposting with any less force? A shitpost is a shitpost and it should always be done as forcefully as possible, even if the replies are only to point out how forced it is
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>>169935758
>and died there.
Well THAT part isn't. No one rightly knows what happened to him afterwards.
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>>169935768
You won't notice the difference in defenses from 11 VIT to 8. It takes a double-digit stat investment to be noticeable. If you're worried about being squishy, take off the clutch ring and use RoF instead.
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>>169935881
Have you tried not trying to start drama at every given opportunity?
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Is dual wielding in dark souls 3 not worth it if its not a paired weapon? Most weapons are just block/attack in the offhand.
I wanted to do a swordsman character with two different sword movesets in each hand but that doesnt seem to work too well.
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>>169934845

they only did what they did in DS2 because the game was a broken mess of hot garbage.
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>>169934845
By that logic, Bloodborne was a cashgrab then.
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>>169935940
His armour and weapon are found apart from each other.
Not everyone in Dark Souls leaves behind a body when they die.
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>>169936070
Doing so is shitposting, I ask again what the point in not constantly doing so is
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>>169936131
An offhand rapier works pretty well
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>>169935758
I fail to find whats so difficult about accepting that Ornstein was an illusion in DaS I.
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>>169936231
One of us isn't constantly damaging our reputation. Guess which one of us that is.
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>>169936401
>reputation
Where do you think you are?
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>>169936458
/dsg/. We have an obnoxious tripfag and an obnoxious jojoposter. These two both have reputations.
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>>169936401
Reputation? I've gotten as many shitposts as I can from you freaks, there's no point about caring about a "reputation" anyway. /dsg/ is done, I'm going back to anon if I need a really specific game mechanic question answered but there are plenty of other generals on the horizon to go shitpost in.
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>>169933476
I hate fingers. I don't wanna fight people who want to pvp. I just wanna be a piece of shit, god.
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>>169936580

>/dsg/ is done

But people actually talk about the game.

I think it's you who is done.
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>>169936131
I had great success with dark hand main hand, off hand greatsword. I'm sure there are some good combos.
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What happens if you mix vodka and estus?
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>>169936890
More estus
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>>169936786
I think you misunderstand my sentence when I say it's done, there's plenty of other generals to go to and this one is no longer of shitposting worth since my million disposable emails can't get in anymore. And trust me, they all have plenty of autistic engineers and power hungry server owners that can be abused all the same.
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>>169936580
>I've gotten as many shitposts as I can from you freaks
Oh, is there some reason you can't take any more screenshots?
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>>169936953

Whatever, man.
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>>169936953
That's because we shut down the link to stop it for now.

For someone who goes on and on about "Master Plans", they sure don't do much, unless your intent was to get banned.

Shitposting about and trying to fuck with people who considered you a friend largely is also not a great means of play multidimensional chess.
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>>169936360
Because at the time it was basically hare brained bullshit with nothing to support it. That slowly changed as further material was released.
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>>169934845
>>169936132

Every thread, without fail.
You retards realize they released a version with the dlc boxed in for every single soulsborne game that had dlc including ds1 and bloodborne and not just ds3 / 3 ?

The reason for this are creditcardless / internetless roody-poos who want to get a copy with all the shit packed in on the disk.
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>play the first dark souls game for a bit to see what the fuzz is about
>spend 20 hours and get to 1/2 of the game
>apparently it only gets worse from here
>finally drop the game

my only regret is not doing it sooner
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>>169935598
>using the armor from BLACKED land
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>>169937171
>Because at the time it was basically hare brained bullshit with nothing to support it.

>Illusionary Sunlight
>Illusionary Gwynevere
>Illusionary Giants
>Illusionary Walls
>Ornestein is totally the real deal.
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>>169937491
>exposed neck
h*ck no
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Heres a fucking stupid question I hope one of you can awnser

How the FUCK do I initate attacks with dex weapons? Im used to use UGS which have fucking long reach + cannot be parried.

Im currently using the Crow Quills/uchigatana, and while i love them, I cannot find a way sometimes to open up the fight and get some stabs in, im too afraid of getting parried if I do a running r1 or rolling one. Its either that, or they roll catch me, when I roll as I have to get in close as fuck.

Pls help I want to git gud
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>>169935946
Dagnnabbit, I meant to write vigor. Fucking lapses of retardation...
VIT's at eleven for fashion, can't go around in tattered clothes, can we?
But yeah, I've ditched the clutch ring, swapped it for swamp. I guess it's somewhat better now.
And since you're the only person that bothered to reply, aside from that guy who answered to you, could say if the pyromancies are any good?
I honestly don't trust making good use of black serpent, I myself have always dogded it no problem.
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>>169937491
Big words for a knight from For "cucked out of my own kingdom" ossa
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>>169937598
That's not the armors fault it's the fucking shitbird modelers that still haven't fixed Black Knight helm.

Try Cathedral helm.
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>>169936360
>>169937171

If you kill Gwyndolin or attack him the illusory knights disappear from Anor Londo but O&S are still there so neither of them was an illusion in DS1.

I bet that they rewrote Ornstein because of his cameo in DS2 so that they could pretend that his appearance in ds2 was sorta canon or at least could be. I also think that Archdragon Peak and the Dragon Shrine are the same overall area, or DS3 took the concept for ADP from DaS2 and made it actually cool.
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>>169937789
Pyromancies are really good. CBV and GCFO are nukes. GCFO and Profaned Flame are good for free-aiming. Great Combustion and Black Flame are extremely fast and do tons of damage. Bursting Fireball is great for rollcatching. Black serpent is overrated.
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>>169937865
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>>169937946
The knights don't go away for fucking with Gwyndolin, they're tied to the dark AL state-change, which can only be triggered by killing Gwynevere.
It's not possible to trigger dark AL legitimately without killing O&S, so the fact that the state change doesn't include them is just obvious development practicality.

Being an epic CE wizard doesn't make you a loremaster, dork.
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>>169937793
>Forossa fights wars 24/7 and goes out in a multi-front conflict
>produced Vengarl, a dude that got his head cut off but his body kept killing
>produced Ivory King, who went on to start his own kingdom, tame a bunch of arctic sabre tooth tigers, and deep dick the physical manifestation of human fear
>comparable to ASSstora which was Aldrich's brunch

Face it the best knight out of Astora is Solaire and his heraldry is drawn with fucking crayola finger paint.
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>>169937491
Fuck your shit Faraam knight. Farossa is nothing but a bunch of fuzzy goblins holding world-championship level pissing tournaments. Nobody bothers trying to conqyer you because you're all killing yourselves like an angry swarm of cuttlefish. You're the forever beta with nothing elite about him. I bet you don't even have a single armet you fucker.
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>>169937946
>but O&S are still there so neither of them was an illusion in DS1
Smough is real, but Ornstein's illusion could have been crafted by using his soul. Hence, why that illusion exists independently of Gwyndolin.

>I bet that they rewrote Ornstein because of his cameo in DS2 so that they could pretend that his appearance in ds2 was sorta canon or at least could be.
Your probable right. Honestly, did Ornstein have any reason for appearing in 2 aside from blatant fanservice?
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>>169938047
This webm actually causes me physical pain because From will likely never really care about it and theres no way to tell them.
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>>169938264
>crayola fucking finger paint?
But is his shield made out of crayola fucking model magic?
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Any predictions for the ringed city dlc?
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>>169938671
All of the weapons will be game breakingly op and the spells will be utter garbage.
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>>169938671
it will be DLC
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>>169937986
Alright man, thanks for the help. I'm gonna settle for this and see how it goes.
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>>169938364
Well he was looking for Gwyn's firstborn who had apparently gone dragonfag so it makes sense that he'd go go a kingdom that was dabbling in dragon faggotry. I'm sure the connection would've made more sense if DS2 hadn't experienced dev troubles, especially considering that the dragonrider actually rode a bigass lizard in his concept art.
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>>169899207
I had a similar experience in the Ariandel DLC, with that area that has the tower of greatbow knights.
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>>169938671
These Insect enemies are Pygmies/humans/whatever that have been mutated by corrupted humanity similar to demons/chaos flame and Corvians/bloodflies/rot of the painted world.

Also this is somehow related to the deep.
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>>169938738
>implying
We'll get 1 or 2 solid weapons to enter high-tier and maybe make some fringe builds better like the parting flame and onyx blade did for pyro, but most will be generic and mediocre and make no impact whatsoever on what builds or playstyles are good.

Here's a prediction: the new DLC will not include a UGS, GH or GA. It will have more than one greatsword but none of them will be as good as existing ones. The pyro CS will have low-AR split damage like the cleric's candlestick and be unusable in pvp due to split defense reducing it to double-digit damage. Instead we'll get stupid shit like a new best mace (with a generic moveset) that still won't be as good as top-tiers, a new glaive that will be top-tier, and a bunch of stupid random gimmick shit with cool movesets that won't ever hit another player.
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>>169939152

the answer to all this shit is actually in your picture

I'll give you a hint:

soul crystals
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>>169900426
>>169922645
Holy fuck just imagine.

>you meet an unarmoured old boss for once
>he's just given up on everything/chosen a new path
>don't even recognise it's Ornstein, have to piece together stuff he says
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>>169937946
>>169938212
This. Please actually play the game before opining on lore.
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>>169939853
>soul crystals
Seath? Whats he got to do with the ringed city?
>>169939886
That would have been a better way to have handled Ornstein in DaS II than the way it was.
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>start a new char to grind up in time for Ringed City
>Can't even parry a starting hollow let alone more complicated attacks

Holy fuck I forgot how much dick I suck parrying in 3. Please help. I watched a guide but still can't get it to click in my brain.
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>>169939993
>Lorefags
>Playing the games
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>>169939886
>everyone with any shred of common sense complains at what a copout anticlimax it is
>faggots like you praise it as some post-structuralist deepshit
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>>169940206
Parrying doesn't even feel worthwhile in DS3, outside of a couple of bosses.
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>>169940237
Lorefag here.
Your opinions are adorable.
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>>169940249
>post-structuralist deepshit
Way to ruin it. Just saying, everyone's always armoured to the gills and raring to fight all the time, wouldn't it be cool to get a different perspective on a character? Actually see what someone looks like under the helmet and all...
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>>169940480
>wouldn't it be cool to get a different perspective on a character?
Yeah. Play DaS2.
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>>169940358
PvEfag here.
Your opinions are adorable.
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I never feel like I have enough stamina, even with 40 Stam and Ring of Favour +2

what do
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>>169933268
No it was after the intro video, but now I did check a sign and it crashed
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>>169940556
I'm sorry, I'm not a fan of steaming piles of diarrhea.
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>fighting Capra demon
>trying to get to the stairs
>dogs and Capra form a wall of bodies that keeps me from getting there
>die repeatedly when the dogs stunlock me or Capra just decides to do full damage through my shield

The rest of this game better be fucking great or I'm just gonna fucking quit here.
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>>169939853
You mind elaborating?
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>>169940480
That's what item descriptions are for, dummy. Half the fun of those is giving you new insight on the things that the characters themselves are going through or what they are like. It's a far more unintrusive system than you meeting an NPC and him telling you how sad he was feeling today.

>>169940608
If you look up I think you'll still be able to see the point, boss
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>>169938671

1. it will focus heavily on the way of white
2. lloyd will be featured in some form
3. it will flat out explain why the dark soul exists and why the pygmy's soul is actually pic related, and how this affects the story and characters.
4. it will explain why gwyn was a villain and a fool and how the primordial serpents are connected to him, not the pygmy, and how they shaped the age of fire
5. humanity will move forward not towards an age of fire, nor an age of dark, nor even an age of gray, but towards their own age, an age where they shall mold and shape their own destiny. An age... of MAN.
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>>169940714
Yeah, I'm not a fan of your idea either.
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>>169940787
Your opinions are still adorable.
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>>169940790
>5
That would be by far the most boring and uninspired thing I could possibly think of. Which naturally means it's exactly what's going to happen.
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>>169940685
Stop using an ultra, I dunno.

>>169940756
Are you midrolling? Try getting you equipment weight down to 25% and spam that shit 'till you get there. Also, try a straight sword or something quick to deal with the dogs, not something like the halberd.
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>>169940790
>the pygmy's soul is actually pic related,
You lost me.
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>>169940790
I am somewhat expecting to enter the final boss room without a fucking clue who it will be, and then just see
Allfather Lloyd

next to a massive fucking health bar and a new theme
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>>169940206
I learned to parry by just watching the enemies' arms, and hitting the trigger the second I see it move for an attack animation
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>>169941182
Adorablefag here.
Your opinions are optional.
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>>169940206
>parrying in DaS3
Why bother?
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>>169940756

Whenever I fought him I always dodge his opening attack to the right and continue past him up the stairs.
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>>169940157

it's not seath

>>169940764

dark soul crystals and the curse status effect causes black crystallization for a reason because the status effect and the curse of the undead are the same thing because humanity is linked to a primordial dark crystal deep within the earth. and seath was studying humans so he could duplicate it for himself which is why seath was called a true undead by many people including big hat Logan

CRYSTAL DARK MAGIC GET READY
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>>169938671
You save Gwyndolin's soul, attach it to Anri's body, and begin an age of moonlight

We'll finally get to see Aldrich's Deep

Vagrants will be explained
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>>169941609
>>169941457
>>169940331
I don't even parry usually, but it makes me feel inadequate if I can't...

In Dark 1 I could parry almost every attack that could be parried with complete confidence. In 3 it's just impossible to get it going. I feel lucky to get a successful partial off, let alone a full parry.
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>>169941135

it's happening anon, get ready for it

WE DIVINE BEINGS NOW
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>>169941741

>get to the deep
>it's literally just ash lake

how happy/disappointed would you be?
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>>169941774

Parrying in DaS3 is just not worth it outside of bosses. There's delay added on parries like in DaS2. Even if you land the parry, you sometimes take damage for no reason. The riposte doesn't even do that much damage compared to R1s.
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>>169941984
I'd want something significantly more lovecraftian
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>>169941635
>>169940987
>finally make it past Capra onto stairs
>get in position to fight the dogs
>Capra leaps off the stairs about halfway up and does 3/4 of my health through my shield


AAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH
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>>169941984
I'd be entirely okay if we got to DS1 Ash Lake, then there was a big sinkhole in it or something of the sort, then we jumped in and it allowed us to get to the bottom of Ash Lake. The actual deepest possible reaches of the world.
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>>169941984
Not at all. Thats what I expected the deep to be, more or less.

Humanity is heavy and sinks to the lowest depths imaginable. Over the course of centuries, undead have been dying and losing their humanity, resulting in more and more of it accumulating at the bottom and raising the water table. Like rocks in a bathtub so to speak.
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>>169941774
OG DaS had much more structured combos and attacks, and a much greater reward in damage for a riposte.

DaS3 is an absolute mess, where enemies and bosses will start, pause and stop combos as they see fit. Some enemies are horribly unreliable and unpredictable, like the Cathedral Knights, and this is where Pontiff gets his difficulty from. Makes it harder to parry in general, as well as a lot of enemies having delayed attacks from the start of their animation and shorter strike/shove attacks, and to cap it all off ripostes don't even do -that- much more damage to make it worthwhile.
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>>169942226
After Bloodborne I'd expect something a bit freakier
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>>169942069
What shitty shield are you using?
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>>169942360
Yeah, I really notice this a lot. Enemy attack patterns seem fucked to hell and back.

>>169942026
Well I've been spamming r1 with bandit's knife and it's been working wonders, so I guess I'll just keep doing that.
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>>169942378
>Bloodborne
Well, there's your problem. Not a lot of lovecraftian horror in dark souls except for maybe oolacile in aota.
Humanity is more or less harmless until its triggered by powerful emotions (Manus, Oolacile, the abyss etc.) or it rots (the painted world, insects, the deep).
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>>169942456
Knight Shield

>finally beat Capra
This is probably the most satisfied I've felt in a long time
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>>169941135

humans are the only beings who have white souls anon

boss souls are always on fire

abyss is just fire because the pygmy's soul burns black, and by destroying it you are destroying light itself

gwyn is the god of dark, the pygmy was actually the god of light. gwyn fucked up the pygmy and burned his soul, either through jealousy or because he was spreading his soul around like an STD. As the pygmy's soul burns away the world turns to dark, because the literal source of light is dying. Gwyn, in a greed-fueled panic, sets himself ablaze, turning the sun into a giant bonfire and a source of golden false sunlight. Gwyn is posthumously given the title of "lord of sunlight" for bringing the light back to the world.

this is why all light is pure white in the dark souls intro, and in the dragon memory. the pygmy wasn't gone yet.
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>>169942719
Well the knight shield is fucking stylish
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>>169942813
While we're there, do you have any other parts of the Dark Souls intro that you want to contradict with your ridiculously swerving theories?
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>>169942719
the knight shield sucks major dick, it's a noob trap. Find another
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>>169943042

what part did I contradict, faggot?

explain to me why humans have white souls, and where these said white souls came from.
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>>169942719
Good job, skeleton. Now ditch that shield, for the love of god. Like, buy the heater shield from the merchant or farm balder knights for theirs.
And good luck in the depths, you may wanna watch out for weird brown clouds.
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>soul of a firekeeper
>is said to be so full of squirming, living humanity that they can feel it moving inside of them
>their soul is pure white

???????

>>169943213

>telling people to minmax in their first run of a souls game
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>>169942719

One step closer to Blighttown senpai.
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>>169943147
And the snakes tie into all of this how?
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>>169943147
>From the Dark they came, and found the Souls of Lords within the Flame.
>Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight
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>>169943332
>literally semen
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>>169943092

It's not a bad shield, there are just better shields. It's like the Scimitar, not a bad weapon but there are better ones.
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>>169943332

it's sperm trying to get into an egg

you will never unsee this
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>>169943332
Ey, I'm not telling him to two-hand a black knight halberd, I'm telling him to get a better shield. He may even come across the spider shield, it'd seriously help him.
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>>169943092
Anon the design on the knight shield is more than worth that extra weight. It's one of the most stylish shields in the series and I want it back.
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>>169942813
I'm surprised that you didn't bring up the firekeeper's soul >>169943332

Its one of the few stronger pieces of evidence for your theory.
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>>169943502
Fuck, the halberd's a bad example. But you get my point.
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>>169942686
Sure, but everywhere in the game associated with Aldrich has that HP Lovecraft vibe, so I'd really expect it from the Deep
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>tfw you know there's something off about your character face
>but at the same time you don't actually know how to make it better

I don't even know why I care about this shit, I wear a full face helmet almost all the time on any character I have in any of these games anyway.
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>>169943332
Want something that will really scratch your head?
Look at his chest, notice something?
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>>169943718
>everywhere in the game associated with Aldrich has that HP Lovecraft vibe
Not really. In fact, not even remotely.
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Should i wait until endgame for the DLC areas in ds2? I know they are hard, SL 108 rn, but i want to play them as soon as possible
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>>169943805
Yeah its gross
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>>169943858
No reason not to go into them right now if you want to, just be aware that you can come back later if you hit a wall for some reason.
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>>169943858
sl100 is enough. They make the DLCs accessible early on for a reason and the gear is well worth braving a slightly earlier dive
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>>169943381

the snakes were connected to gwyn

frampt agreed with gwyn's decision to maintain the age of fire, he considers it a good thing and a good source of power and stability, and stayed by gwyn's side

kaathe hates fire and hates gwyn for clinging to it, he just wants to revel in the dark, so he spends all his time in his self-made abyss looking for somebody to replace gwyn and make a real age of dark.

the point of it all is that the dark soul is actually part of gwyn's soul, but not burning. basically a cold lump. kaathe has been using it to corrupt humanity like some sort of great satan, tearing society down.
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>>169943578
>>169943092
Pic related
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>>169943805
That sort of brings to question if there are multiple species of hollow.

In DaS1, you turn zombie and get roots growing out of your heart.

In DaS2, you turn green-ish and zombie-looking and get a black swirl on your left shoulder blade.

In DaS3, you don't go hollow unless you deliberately curse yourself.
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>>169943718
>Deep
Its the accumulation of centuries worth of lost humanity that has begun to rot/stagnate, causing individuals to mutate into locusts/flies and other horrid nasties.

What else do you want from it? What lovecraft vibes are you expecting? Dark Souls was never bloodborne.

>>169943913
That thing on his chest looks like a firekeeper's soul.
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>>169943147
>>169943389
Also, because souls are white. In immensely powerful creatures, they tend to look more like flames. Unless my memory fails me, they only tend to be of other colors when they're either infested by some unnatural influence like the Abyss, or have some other unnatural origin like the Curse-Rotted Greatwood, which is of a sickly yellow color.

But by all means, continue to spread baseless nonsense that makes Gwyn look more like a villain than even the story KAATHE came up with, and THAT was a jewsnake with every reason in the world to want to paint Gwyn in as bad a light as possible.
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>>169944114
Don't forget the hollows of Lothric turn white
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>>169944107
What the fuck are those legs mate
Are you an amputee or something?
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>>169943389

the intro was past-tense, man. read a book or something.
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>>169944114
>In DaS3, you don't go hollow unless you deliberately curse yourself.
That's an exception that only applies to ashen ones. Presumably because they are literally prisoners in service to the first flame.

I was always under the impression that hollowing was the process by which living beings turned back into their original, natural state. Since we have seen giants turn into trees in DaS II and hollows on the highwall in DaS III, I assumed that the archtrees were the source of all non-dragon life in the world.
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>>169944240
Not my fashion. Just a stock pic.
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>>169944359
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>>169944647
I'm quite curious now, I'm gonna look it up
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>>169944557

actually the game does imply that taking the curse is technically permanent. you can remove it because a firekeeper went into the abyss and discovered something unexplained that can remove the curse of the undead. in DaS3 you respawn because your soul is linked into the first flame, having nothing to do with the undead curse or humanity, which ends up making the fact you can remove the curse in DaS3, which was the entire thing aldia was searching for, surprisingly irrelevant.
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>>169944086
>kaathe has been using it to corrupt humanity like some sort of great satan, tearing society down.
How does Londor fit into all of this?
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>>169944114
The greenishness is just a design choice. The roots and the swirl are the same concept displayed in different ways as a consequence of the above.

In DaS3 your nature as undead is suppressed artificially and needs to be 'drawn out.' You arenlt cursing yourself, you're just awakening the curse that's already buried within you.

Ash are functionally just undead that have been enslaved by the power of the flame. Your dark inner-nature is just pushed down by that power.
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>Lightning Stake does barely any more damage to Dragonslayer Armor than just normally hitting it with a Lightning-buffed Morning Star
Well that's disappointing. That was a fun trend while it lasted.
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>>169944707

the intro is past-tense

ie someone is telling you a story

it is going to use the names and titles given to these people, even when they didn't have the title.

we don't call Jesus Christ "Jesus of Nazareth" when we talk about his time as carpenter, nor do we ignore Alexander the great's title when talking about his childhood years.
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Do daggers and rapiers do more riposte damage ?
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>>169945021
>why does my lightning spell do low damage to the lightning boss
gee
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>>169944956

kaathe literally founded the sable church
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>>169944969
>You arenlt cursing yourself, you're just awakening the curse that's already buried within you.
Pretty much. You still have a dark sign at the start of the game, if I'm not mistakened.

Once you link the fire, your fate is pretty much shit. Either you burn up entirely and serve as the fire guardian (Soul of Cinder), Burn up partially and brought back to add more fuel to the fire (Lords of Cinder), or you fail to amount to much and are made a prisoner to the fire as a backup of a backup plan (unkindled).
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Whats her story? Why is she an unkindled like the pc instead of a undead like her sisters?
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>>169945102
This is just insanity. Complete insanity.
If you're going to address Gwyn by his current title, then he's to be called the Lord of Cinder, which is what he is at the time the narration takes place. UNLESS you want to argue that the narration actually takes place at some randomy time during the glory days of the Age of Fire and then FAST FORWARDS to the future when your character actually enters the fold.

If he's to be addressed by the title he had at the time the events were taking place, the theory falls apart completely because he was Lord of Sunlight around the time the Pygmy found his own Lord Soul.

Sunlight. Lightning. The sun. Cinders of a dying fire. All these things are strongly associated with Gwyn and his knights. ONE OF HIS FOUR KNIGHTS is explicitly mentioned as having nary a touch of Dark within him. Not once is Gwyn's association with Light and Fire taken as fraudulent. And yet here comes this completely insane theory that Gwyn is the lord of Darkness? Based on WHAT?! The fact that his soul is a flame? ALL SOULS ARE FLAMES, they come from THE FIRST FLAME.
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>>169912758
Fug it, rolling.
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>>169944771
No need. Those are artorias legs.
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>>169945679
Being an Unkindled means you lack the strength of will/conviction to stand amongst other Undead. The Unkindled being summoned from their graves to bring the Lords of Cinder to their thrones is a last resort since everyone else has failed.

If you read her backstory, Elfriede abandoned the Sable Church, which could be interpreted as her lacking the same strength of conviction as her sisters. Thus, Unkindled instead of Undead.
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>>169945727

you are just jumping back and forth from extremes with no real concept of good story telling.

just calling him the lord of cinder all game would have completely deflated any sense of suspense, interest, or emotion in the ending, and would have reduced what was meant to be an awe-inspiring mysterious character who drew your imagination.

"lord of cinder" was meant to be for the player, not the story, as part of their framing of the fall of gwyn, a grand character shown to have become a husk.

it only makes sense, from a story perspective, to describe him in his grandest terms in the game. remember, the story is for YOU, they omit or change details when it makes for a better story.
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>>169946220
>Being an Unkindled means [a bunch of shit I just made up]
k
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>began a new playthrough
>1 hour so far
>get invaded in undead parish
>the guy has all of his gear upgraded to the max
>2 shots me

Is this the only way they get to win
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>>169946287
>>169945727

also in response to the rest of your post, all of humanity was dark in the age preceding the fire, and gwyn was their lord. he was, literally, the lord of darkness. He preferred the flame, and clung to it, and became the lord of sunlight when he ensured the existence of his age.
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a guy invaded and was pretty friendly, so the other phantom and me decided to let him fight the host on a 1 vs 1. I know it's nothing special but it was pretty nice to see that happen.
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Where did the idea that Pyromancy is broken come from? It's not an instant win and still requires stat investment even in Dark 1.
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>>169946315
Source: Miyazaki in an interview.
https gnn gamer com tw/2/130902.html
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>>169946951
Very rarely do you find chill hosts/invaders.
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>>169946315
Hes not entirely wrong. I think the developer said those exact words to describe the unkindled, more or less.

>>169946220
>Being an Unkindled means you lack the strength of will/conviction to stand amongst other Undead. The Unkindled being summoned from their graves to bring the Lords of Cinder to their thrones is a last resort since everyone else has failed.
But the other thing that separates the unkindled from the undead is the unkindle's relationship with the first flame. That lack of will/convicition comes from a failure to link the first flame.

In other words, Friede had to have tried to link the fire in order to become an unkindle. Why did she do this?
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>>169946287
The intro calls Gwyn the Lord of Sunlight.
The intro has always been a reliable source of information about the setting. I cannot recall a single instance in which it has been proven wrong.

This theory is centered around the idea that Gwyn was NEVER the Lord of Sunlight until after it set itself on fire to create a giant fake sun because reasons, after which point it was granted the title posthumously. And instead he was the god of darkness, despite here being all the associations of Gwyn with darkness as well as the Pygmy's associations with sunlight across the franchise: There aren't any.

This thing >>169942813 just contradicts so many item descriptions across the games as well as requiring multiple NPCs to be deliberately lying to you about things they have literally no reason to lie about for a purpose that even if you take the theory as true would make no sense, as well as some very specific interpretation of the narrator's meaning and intent when she could JUST as easily have called him just "Lord Gwyn and his faithful knights".

It's the worst type of lorecrafting, rather than simple extrapolation of what would be plausible based on known information like at least Ornsteinfags try to do it has no base on anything other than you saying "well there's no instance where the game explicitly says this DIDN'T happen!" and then uses it as excuse to turn entire parts of the story up on its head.
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>>169947358
>The intro has always been a reliable source of information about the setting. I cannot recall a single instance in which it has been proven wrong.

ringed city DLC has a character say there was multiple furtive pygmies and multiple dark souls
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What the fuck is up with DaS3 and enemies blocking you into corners with their collision boxes?
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>>169947891
>ringed city DLC has a character say there was multiple furtive pygmies and multiple dark souls
First, source?
Second, the furtive pygmy is the pygmy that found the original dark soul and split it up into multiple fragments/copies to the other pygmies.
It sounds like this is a misunderstanding of the lore, not a contradiction of the intro.
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>>169947891
Ringed City apparently has a lot to answer for, it seems.
We'll see about it in four or so weeks, I guess.
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>>169948114

>source?

it's in the OP, vaati made a transcript of the entirety of what he was allowed to play of the dreg heap. theres a character named rapp who talks about it

>the pygmy that found the original dark soul and split it up into multiple fragments/copies to the other pygmies.

rapp seems to completely retcon this.
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>>169947891
>multiple furtive pygmies
It says there are multiple pygmies. Pygmy is an english noun, anon. It actually has a meaning outside of just being a title in a videogame.

I know this tends to be difficult for ESL players to wrap their heads around, but you can't go developing sweeping interpretations about a game's storyline based on your inability to understand the language that it's presented in.
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>>169948314

>http://pastebin.com/Y7MTapKN
>That's why i've come here, searching - for the purging monument, said to be in the ringed city. Where the pygmies who found the dark souls at the dawn of fire reside.
>the pygmies who found the dark souls at the dawn of fire.
>the dark souls

plural.
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>>169932967
It's been a thing forever, Yhorm can't true combo so it's better to offhand it so you can use a fast weapon like Dark Sword to hit once and then swing off hand Yhorm's for a combo
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>>169948704
It can true-combo 1H, but the main reason for OHing it is because it literally doubles the number of active poiseframes
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>>169948675
>>169948302
>rapp seems to completely retcon this.
Unreliable narrator much?
From what I'm reading, Rapp is misunderstanding the lore/history of the world.
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>>169948806

>lore is only reliable when it lines up with what I already believe
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>>169948920
Again, Unreliable narrator much?
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>>169949036

when did kaathe lie?
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>>169948675
Gwyn, the witch, Nito, and the furtive were all pygmies whose nature was fundamentally altered by the discovery of the lord souls inside the first flame.
All of the lords souls are actually dark souls. The Furtive pygmie's "dark soul" is the only one that hasn't been permanently set on fire.
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First time playing DeS. Going for a dex Uchigatana build. Y/N
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>>169947340
One interpretation (read, headcanoning/fanwanking past this point): Elfriede helped found the Sable Church alongside Yuria and Liliane, which served Kaathe and which is dedicated to usurping or ending the First Flame on the behalf of the hollows of Londor. At some point or other, Elfriede changes her mind, abandons the Sable Church and attempts to Link the Fire (Yuria mentioned that kindness can wear against one's principles when you talk to her, so presumably Elfriede was aiming to protect something that would otherwise be destroyed by the end of the Age of Fire), but fails and becomes Unkindled.

Now, as Friede the Unkindled, having lost her home (abandoning the Sable Church in an attempt to Link the Fire) she drifted into the Painted World, where she found the Corvians and decided that she wanted to protect them. So somehow this translates to convincing Ariandel not to let flame burn down the Painted World so that the Painter can re-birth it through another painting.

Then again, Miyazaki has explicitly stated that he pulls shit out of his ass to make "lore" fit the game after the levels and gameplay are done. This could just be another case of self-contradiction.
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>>169948920
>NPCs are incapable of relaying false information or being mistaken about something
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>>169949283
>Yuria's ashes all but smugly proclaim that even with Yuria dead her two sisters will still keep the work of Londor going smoothly
>now you can kill the second one
I'M COMING FOR YOU NEXT, LILIANE YOU SNAKE-WORSHIPPING HARLOT.
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>>169949283
>One interpretation (read, headcanoning/fanwanking past this point): Elfriede helped found the Sable Church alongside Yuria and Liliane, which served Kaathe and which is dedicated to usurping or ending the First Flame on the behalf of the hollows of Londor. At some point or other, Elfriede changes her mind, abandons the Sable Church and attempts to Link the Fire (Yuria mentioned that kindness can wear against one's principles when you talk to her, so presumably Elfriede was aiming to protect something that would otherwise be destroyed by the end of the Age of Fire), but fails and becomes Unkindled.
My headcanon was that Friede tried to usrup the flame herself, but failed because she didn't have enough dark sigils.
This partially explains why the marriage with anri is necessary for the Londor ending.
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>>169949530
Didn't realize until now that Liliane is present in Londor ending.
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>>169949872

did you also notice that the usurpation sun is actually the way of white circlet?

kinda gives a different meaning to the sword of avowal using a circlet design, doesn't it?
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>>169949558
The stickler here is that Yuria's dialogue implies that Elfriede willingly abandoned her principles as a sister of the Sable Church, out of kindness towards something else. If she had tried to Link the Fire on the behalf of Londor, then she would have returned to working for the Sable Church after being resurrected. She wouldn't have somehow ended up in the Painted World to find the Corvians and convince herself to protect them.

Who knows, we might get more explanation of this in TRC, but I doubt it.
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>>169949872
There was a faction in AC4A (another fromsoft game directed by Miyazaki) with an insurgent faction named "For Liliana"

How deep does this rabbit hole go?
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What do you do when you get tired of this game?
It feels like I've done everything I could, I've made like 7 characters and got them to SL125, enjoyed the PVP for some time while I was at it aswell.

Should I just play other stuff until the DLC arrives?
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>>169950003
For Elfriede to even be ash means that she had to survive to the end of a fire cycle and its linking. For Elfriede to be ash but her sisters not means that they are "sisters" only in title and not actually relatives, and that they didn't all 3 live as undead in the same fire cycle.

Elfriede's item descriptions and the few bits of relevant NPC dialogue imply that she abandoned the church after coming back as Unkindled. Becoming Unkindled isn't an undead's choice; the fact that the founder of a church dedicated to ending the age of fire ended up being enslaved to preserve it is ironic. Elfriede chose self-exile as opposed to continuing that paradoxical existence. Either the method to usurp the fire wasn't known at the time, or else she simply declined being the one to take that responsibility.

Bear in mind that the very fact she became unkindled implies that she failed to prevent the linking of the fire in the cycle she was a part of. Her self-imposed exile could simply be her taking responsibility for that failure --which is a really japanese-y thing.
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>>169949278
Have fun farming pure bladestone for 12 hours.
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>>169950746
Is that better or worse than Proofs?
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>>169950861
Much worse imo, the only benefit is that you only need 1 pure bladestone, then you can dupe it infinitely.
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>>169904269
P O I S E
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>>169947158
>a source for a lore claim in /dsg/

What's happening? I'm scared.
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