/dsg/ - Demon's/Dark Souls General

>Everyone who says TRC is bad seems to have a massive hateboner for the game in general and makes comparisons to DS2 while saying that it retains none of the elements from Bloodborne.

It... really makes me think.

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This thread is now blessed by Gravelord Nito and the Pardoners of Velka.

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In a choice between Sirris, Irina and Karla, which would be the best buttplug for Midir?

pcfcbf

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Reminder that Midir is for hug only, not fug, lay, slay, etc.

Having fun in the group arena just spaming projectile heal and bountiful sunlight

>every DLC weapon is fucking bonkers

Well PvP is ruined for a month

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What the literal fuck.

Why are these DLC bosses so hard?

I gave up trying to beat Midir and now theres this fucking Gael cuck

Please tell me they wont give me as much trouble as Friede? It literally took me 8 hours to beat her

HOW THE FUCK CAN I BEAT ORPHAN OF KOS ON MY SECOND TRY WITH NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE BUT THESE FUCKS GIVE ME SO MUCH TROUBLE

>>172601930
Sirris deserves it most because shes shit and worst waifu and not good for anything else
Irina did nothing wrong dont torment her
Karla would resist the dark so be good at the job, but she doesnt deserve it either
So Sirris

>summoning a pyromancer for Midir
fuck sake I don't have lightning equipped

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>>172601756
>>172601781
Thank you, it's exactly what I wanted. How shit is my fashion?

>>172601984
Orphan fucks with people who are good at the game because his attacks go into the places that are usually good ideas to dodge into.

You obviously are not good at games.

>>172601950

Where?

>>172601930
Why not Yuria?
If she loves the dark so much she should relish the opportunity of getting some anal vore action with a giant Abyss-corrupted dragon.

>>172602181
As a fellow Aquamarine enthusiast, why are you not twohanding that baby?

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Say I was the most absolute of absolute mad men, the most purple of spirits and I wanted to primarily use a Bow to do a playthrough.

What would I be best with?

>Everyone who invades me as a Spear is using absolute cancer builds and the painting guardians act even worse

Fuck this game

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Neigh!

(Preacher mask is pretty much Ludwig's face except for not being elongated. It's quite funny.)

>>172601980

hammer is best.

Seriously, can you improve an anvil on a stick? sure you can, but having it suck up rocks that friggin explode.

Shit's bananas and loving every friggin second, dont give a damn if it's not the new memesword, hyper armor battles are the new hotness

good luck
but hole

>>172602043
Equip all clutch rings. Run straight for Midir and do the Rejoice gesture as you get one shot by a claw/tail. Strike fear into the eyes into the fool of a host that summoned you.

>>172602205
Good point, she deserves it even more than Ciaran.

>>172602234
I figured it doesn't get much out of it considering the dex/int scaling but what do I know?

>>172601930
Irina so she woulf have someone always touching her

>>172601980
it's actually really bad
splitleaf greatsword r1 true combos into the weapon art - the full thing, including last hit, unlike black knight glaive (although the timing is slightly tighter)

ringed knight straightsword is fuckhuge and its weapon art makes it fuckhuger

ringed knight paired greatswords literally does 90% per combo and has hyper armor for 30 years at a time

frayed blade weapon art r1 is the best whiff punish in dark souls history outside of roll bs in das1

I mean damn dude

>lorefags debating over a game that doesn't give a fuck about them

>>172602234
It's E scaling Str, why would you want to two-hand it?

>>172602254
It gets a whopping 3 damage on my setup. Do what you want.

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>>172602043
>summoning a pyromancer for Midir who put his sign down in front of the Spears bossfog

>expecting me to go through the potential 45 minutes of a complete clusterfuck that is a three summon powered Midir

People are fucking desperate about killing this boss. Guess they want the "heh nothing personal" katana they saw on the wiki.

Its pretty ironic because he's 10 times easier when solo'ed.

>>172601857
Dark Souls 3 is bad because many things are entirely useless and the things from BB they kept, such as encouraging fast paced PvP, simply doesn't work.

The DLC is bad because the level design is mediocre at best, the bosses sans Midir are rehashes of old designs done in ways that don't feel as good, everything becomes ludicrously tanky at higher NG+ cycles to the point where it isn't about skill and instead just becomes a slog fest, the angel areas are obnoxious as fuck and serve no real purpose other than extending playtime, and almost all of the lore is nonsensical.

/rant

>>172602237

composite bow

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Can we get a ps4 fc going??

>>172601973
Hows yorkshas compared to fillanore's catalyst? Is there a way to use both

>>172602264
I'm tempted but I need a ring slot open for reversal ring. might fill the other slots and do it though
it's not weird I swear

>second phase of demon buttbuddies
>summons small galaxy above his head and throws it at me
>instantly incinerated
explain this meme

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>>172601857
One retard made some unfavourable comparisons to DaS2, iirc.
This after a half-dozen /v/irgins came in with their objectively tru ranking lists in which every one put DaS2 at the bottom.
My take on all this? Bored kids from /v/ trying to stir shit up. It's entirely possible you're one of them, considering you made sure the very first post in the thread was dedicated to starting it all again, paired with a shitty meme.

>>172602476

Aldia big sun fireball all over again, son.

>>172601984

Stay in front of Midir; his swipes, charge and large one handed bash can be avoided, and you can then hit him in the nose. When he rears up to drop fire on you, just run away from him.

He's literally one of the easier bosses when you figure out his patterns.

Gael is just a dodging and endurance test. Nothing will 1 shot you, and only do more than 1 swing when you stagger him (some hits stagger him for some reason). He's probably the hardest Soulsborne boss, though.

>>172602471
I forgot about calamity

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>>172602237
Pic related

>>172602476
sure

you got fucking dunked kid that's the explanation

>>172602247
>PvE babbies getting assblasted by the Spear fight
just as it should be

>>172602476
it's a meme. not a lot to say about it. When I beat demon nigs he literally never did that attack so that was nice

>>172602386
Sounds like dragons dogma undead dragon fight or what he was called.

>>172602553
can that thing headshot?

>>172602341
>ringed knight paired greatswords
Can they be parried?

>>172602509
>Gael
>Hardest Soulsborne

Not even close. He is fucking easy as sin to dodge, the fight just takes a while because he got the same HP treatment the rest of the DLC did.

>>172602509
>He's probably the hardest Soulsborne boss, though

Gael wasn't a pushover, and i died quite a few times, but calling him the hardest boss is a bit much.

>just wanna protect the princess as a painting guardian who serioused the fuck up
>the covenant never summons me, and even if I hide my red sign somewhere random scrubs keep using it for some reason
>none of them are even fun to fight
What's the strategy/level for fastest summoning?

>>172602476
>That demon sure is taking its time crafting literally a small sun above his head, I wonder if I should do something about it
>nah

>>172602416
>the bosses sans Midir are rehashes of old designs done in ways that don't feel as good
Gael felt better than Arty and Orphan.
Maybe that's just because it wasn't spoiled for me, I only played AotA last year and TOH months after release.

Are Yorshka's Spear and The Eleonora still shit, or did that last patch make them at least usable?

>>172602647
mystery to me, I haven't managed it but I'm ass so that's not saying much.

Why is no one using the banner?

>>172602509
Am i only allowed to hit this gay dragon once? Everytime i go for a 2nd hit he swipes me.

>>172602462
fillanores is one of the weaker chimes, it just has the unique affect of increasing the range of all aoe miracles and the healing art stays even if you switch out but only heals 4 instead of 6, also heals others too.
Generally a co op chime

>>172602549
I don't have that
I could equip skull ring and get naked though

>>172602631
Go fuck yourself I like PvP but I hate these cancer cheese builds.

>>172602785
Welcome to The Ringed City. Dodge a lot and swing very little. Your damage is close to nothing no matter what.

>>172602767
To be honest i completely forgot about it, considering some of the ridiculous dlc weapons

>>172601984
Friede is far more fair than either of those bosses
Gael is a Bloodborne style boss where his HP is inflated under the assumption that you will find abusive blindspots in his attack coverage that allow you to mindlessly mash R1 while his attacks flail and miss entirely. He melts quickly if you have something with a spammable R1 and can find those openings regularly, especially in his second and 3rd phases where he's very weak to being strafed.

>Doing faith build
>Reach Nameless King
>Have to drop all of my miracles and start body buffing the shit out of myself to even compete with NK
Damn his massive lightning resistance

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>>172602710

How the FUCK do you fight people using these fucking doors?

>>172602553
Whats the earliest you can get this?

>>172602912
Shut it.

The doors, i mean.

Just got summoned as a spear boss with a sunbro sign down. Not in the covenant, haven't even killed Midir on this guy. Is that supposed to happen?

>>172602912
Iunno but I lost to it so

>>172602916
One boss into ringed city DLC. So basically, here's the bosses you need to kill minimum:
1. gundyr
2. vordt
3. crystal sage
4. friede
5. dlc demons

>>172602836
Put in in the left hand, use buff. Can even resin the main weapon that way. Got to 900AR with the Exile Curved Sword while one handed.

>>172602509
>just run away from him.
Run under his legs to his tail, you can get a couple hundred damage on it while he breathes, and then if he does the casual turn around animation another few hundred on his head before he starts another attack

>>172602916
>reach CoTD
>beat most of of painted world
>beat some of the ringed city
late

>>172602805
Is there a way to get its larger radius heals while using a higher healing catalyst like yorkshas?

>>172602916
Literally the very farthest point in the game you can possibly go, nigger

>>172601754

Just switched from console to PC and was wondering if someone could do a fashion mock up.

Pyromancer Crown
Follower Armor
Desert Pyromancer Gloves
Cleric Trousers

I'd do it myself but I'm nowhere near any of the DLC.

>>172602912

a bunch of wights

>>172602972
>>172602989
>>172603051
I meant fighting against it

>>172602785

Straight sword will give you 3 and then a roll

GS is probably 1 and a roll, yeah.

>>172602980
Did you have Rosaria's covenant equiped?

It also happened to me when I put a white sign down in the DLC.

What are the viable weapons for a pure Faith build?

>>172602859
Use Dark weapon, Wonirs sword, or GNAW.

This DLC is plagued with enemies with way too much health and defense, before everyone gets all anal and starts saying "Its just difficult gut gud stop being a fag", its just bad from a design standpoint, especially if you're a caster; you already sacfrice a shitload of healing just be able to pump out spells for a fight, when they're doing less damage then an UGS who has all his normal estus usages, it becomes just plain dumb

in addition, for the enemies I do actually do good against, Harald's are still poorly designed; their massive health pool is dumb, because all it does is leave you with an extremely prolonged mob fight against a mob that only has like two attacks

Endurance is not good game design, making shorter fights more difficult and deadly is far more appealing in terms of fun and is far less frustrating/unappealing to the user

If you think tacking on a lot of HP or defense to a boss or mob makes the game ore difficult you'd be correct, but it doesn't make it the fun kind of difficult

>>172602995
I had mixed results when running behind him, sometimes the fire would catch me.

It's easier to avoid the fire if you run away from him(the direction he's facing) but of course you won't get the tail damage.

>>172603106
iunno but I lost to it so

I also beat someone using it once but he might've been bad

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>invading at just the right time to watch a dragon fuck up two phantoms
feels good

>>172603136
I got ur viable faith weapon right here
*unzips*

>>172602859
Bleed nigga bleed. Why do you faith autist forget that you jave a spell that causes bleed?

You also have a buff that adds 7.5% bonus ar. Might be shit on a katana but it's massive on an ultra.

Is there anything more satisfying than slowly and steadily dismantling a three-man party on the Spear of the Church fight
Should I feel bad about using Undead Hunter Charms

Anyone else not able to see anyone's names?

Anyone on PC willing to help me transfer a life ring +3? I can offer basically any ring other than the dlc +3 rings and most boss weapons

>>172602702
>>172602705

I died to him the most out of all of them, which is why I figure he's the hardest. ~15 times.

Orphan NG+ was a lot easier for me.

Friede was too easy to stagger.

Nothing from 1 or 2 compares to these.

>Repeating Crossbow
Did I get swindled?

>>172603040
This is almost what I wore for DLC 1, just with Cornyx's Wraps and Ordained Trousers.

It looks fine.

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>started new playthrough after beating DLC
>am now on NG+7
>get to AoA
>reach Lady Alfredo in about 15 minutes
>summon some guy that was there because I'm just there for the slabs
>he's got the new twin grea swords
>I've got the new greatswords
>we bully Freide so hard that the entire fight is done in 4 minutes
>mfw all that and now there's a bonfire to Dreg Heap after her fight in front of the serpent statue

>>172602386
>Make a new SL120 character
>Female sunbro pyro "IKillMidir"
>Equip Calamity ring + Bloodring + 2 Clutch Rings
>Cosplay as Zoey with flame + whip
>Place sign near boss zone
>Rejoice at summon, REJOICE at Midir entrance, die to very first attack in a single hit
It's even better than spears. Increase the dragon of 999999999HP to even higher HP and keep noobs from progressing to weeb blade.

Faith, Int, or Pyro?

>>172603136
Raw weapons with a buff.

Corvian Greatknife and Astora Straight Sword have good base damage, add in DMB or LB.

how come sometimes you get 2 spear ornaments?

>>172603264
Sure
Come put your sign before the Judicator door
Pass dsg
If you've got Gael's crossbow that would be swell

>>172603357
Based on the number of phantoms the host has I believe

>>172603253
no, charms are the only way to keep all of those faggots from sipping, fuck 'em and get those ornaments

>>172603145
I agree that many of the decisions behind spells are dumb in this game but the enemies only have too much health if you're a caster.

>>172603037
no

>>172603275
Orphan kicked my ass a lot. With Gael, i usually got to his 3rd phase in my failed attempts.
The orphan, on the other hand, could fuck me up at any point in the fight.

>>172603357
Killing the host when they have 2 phantoms gives 2 ornaments, killing them with 3 phantoms gives 3 ornaments

>>172603383
dont have crossbow on the character with the ring but I think I have the soul on one of my characters. gonna have to give you the ring on one and then the soul and then go to the character that needs the ring

>>172603039
Not really.

>>172602989
>>172603035
The hardest seems like it would probably be demon twins and friede but at least you can parry and bleed friede pretty easily.

Demon twins have lots of random damage that could kill a low level character and their health bar is massive.

Holy shit, Gael is the easiest shit with paired greatswords. He literally can't do anything.
The L1 spam combo literally stuns him twice in its duration, with the second stun being right at the end, so you have plenty of time to back off and wait to dodge one move from him so you can do it all over again
Easiest fight of my life, I only used 3 estus during the whole thing.

>>172602912
>>172603106
They have like no fire resistance. Try that.

>>172603449
Even as not a caster, you have to admit that stairwell with those like 7 Harald guys is just tedious rather than hard, simply because of their massive healthpool

>>172603145
I completely agree about haralds'. Terribly designed enemy.

>>172602912
Fire, it only blocks 45 for fire, obviously builds using the shield will use the flame stoneplate ring but you should get some damage through.

>>172603504
I got time, that's fine
You'll have to transpose it first, can't drop souls

is gael the closest thing well get to canon giant dad?

>>172603289

Grazie mi Amigo.

>>172603383
also haven't gone through dlc on the character with the extra ring yet, can we go to high wall first bonfire instead?

>>172603135
Nah just sun covenant. I was at the bonfire right before the summon archers.

>>172603135
>>172602980
Happened to me too but i had already found that dragon down there but didn't kill him.

I had my summon sign near the door and darkmoon equiped.

I think i was outside near the monument when i got summoned.

>>172603629
K

>>172603543
Why did you fight them? This is an honest question. I could not think of a single reason, looking down at those chucklefucks, to sit there and actually fight for 30 years and possibly die when I fuck up execution since I have dumb old man hands, so I ran through.

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>>172603349
Hex.

>>172603505
The demon twins weren't that bad imo. If they gang up in the first phase you can get fucked pretty quick, but it's not too hard to focus down the first demon that's aggressive. The prince can get annoying but some of his attacks weren't as damaging as i expected.

>>172603647
Weird. Gael's dead in this game but Midir's still stalking his spot below. Kind of a cool little feature.

>>172603543
Plunging attacks OHKO them.

>>172603543
You can plunging attack them off pretty much any of the ledges in the area

>>172603182

Midir is cool like that. Helps poor reds so they don't get ganked.

>>172603685
I've played through the DLC with my friend, he wants to kill things as we go

He's bro as fuck tier and I dont get to shit with him much sense I started losing my vision, its one of the few things I get to do with him anymore

>>172603129
But i was using a straight sword

>>172603685
It's no biggie if you just exploit the billion damage plunge attack over and over
Gotta get that armor set boyyy

>>172603815
which armor set?

>>172601961
>people think defiled amygdala 2.0 is a good boss

>>172603645
>>172603647
Maybe its a feature?

A very small percentage that they make people who wanted to co-op be the boss for once?

You don't lose anything by it.

>>172603841
Harald, the fat guys
It looks terrible but still

>>172603865

It's a bad fight, but a good Dragon.

I just played DaS2 scholar of the first sin and I liked it far more than what /v/ had me believed I would. The game is pretty long but there were some bullshit parts and the world seemed cool but not as cool as the other games.

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>>172601754
>enjoy playing doing jolly co-operation
>decide to help shitters with the demon prince
>get summoned
>load in
>the host has 3 other phantoms loaded
>ohshit.png
>we go in
>1st phase is a breeze
>2nd phase demon prince becomes a raid boss
>mfw shitters don't understand that the more phantoms there are the tougher the boss is
>everyone dies

>>172603938
I took one look at the chestpiece and almost puked.

>>172603964
>but not as cool as the other games
Bingo.

>>172603895
I just feel bad because of all the spearguys not getting summoned and I'm getting instasummons for coop. It was like 1 in 50 summons maybe, very rare, only seen it that once just now.

>>172603136
Gnaw
Lothric greatsword with lightning blade
Lothric holy sword
Raw astora with lightning blade
Bident with lightning blade
Mornes hammer.

>>172601961
>Hugging a flying crystal lizard
Midir is for titnite.

>>172603938
I didn't even know that armor set existed and I kinda wish I still didn't. Gross.

>>172603975
Literally none of the ringed city bosses are good for jolly coop because of the INSANE health pools even before summoning.

>>172604037
Fun for bro-op, not gank-op

>>172603524
why'd you out yourself as a shitter using a crutch weapon?

>>172601961
I wont agree until someone draws midir as a cute girl with huge knockers

>>172604037
Demon Prince is kinda alright
And Spear of the Church if you're a fag

>>172604007
Were you matched with a lonely host?

>>172604076
Because I like anime
And my character is a cosplay of Ringed Knights

>>172603145
Heralds are fine i just R2 them a few times and they get staggered and i r2 them a few more times while they recover.

I can r2 them like 7times before I'm out of stamina so its all good. I can also 1shot them with plunge attacks so they are balanced

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Fucking. Finally.
You know, I was really down on this boss, but having beaten it, I think I can really appreciate it for being such a great challenge against, let's face it, the only real dragon fight in the entire series.
Just kidding, it's atrocious

>>172603136
Dorothy's Knawing to murder bosses.

>In Skype call with friend
>Doing Church of the Spear
>Get idea
>Put summon sign down at boss door
>Get summoned
>By sheer luck get matched with my friend
>Watch host get raped to death

Who here /devilish/

Is it fair to summon for the spear of the church bossfight when I've solo'd everything leading up to it?

Doesn't seem fair that I go in outnumbered.

>want to make a jousting build with lapp's armor, greatlance and some shield i havent decided on
>greatlance still sucks ass
kill me

>>172604037
it's fine with 2, but 3 just becomes overkill unless you actually enjoy playing against a raid boss

>>172604204
It was actually a good fight if it had maybe 2/3rds the hp

>>172602706
In the past, setting a garbled password worked. I actually got summoned as a spear before beating Midir.

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>>172604037
>Literally none of the ringed city bosses are good for jolly coop because of the INSANE health pools even before summoning.

Gael with just you and a decent host is a lot of fun though. The fight becomes sort of like a dance, it just feels good.

>>172604254
Just nuke the painting guardian before the spear loads in

>>172604254
Would've been a fun fight without the painting guardians.

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Damn these are fast now. Lightning Storm used to take like 3x as long to go off before.

>>172603739
I meant as a low sl. They have a lot of random damage flying around that you can't always see.

Gael, Midir, and Friede are some of my favorite bosses in the series.

>>172601754
I want to have consensual intercourse with Darkeater Midir.

Hollow or bleed for carthus curved greatsword?

>>172604342
So how's that lightning arrow miracle? Please tell me it's not another corona

>>172604208
>he doesnt get summoned as a white while equiping the Painting Guardian Set, the Untrue Dark Ring
>he doesn't heal the bossplayer with Warmth

>>172603543
>>172603685
Yeah i fought them once then after that i just sprinted that entire gauntlet.

>>172602181
How well does the dagger do at high level?
Low level PvP is kinda shit, I just use it to finish someone off in style when they pull out the pocket-caestus.

>>172604464
Brilliant

how easy is spear of the church if you do it offline?

>>172604457

It's great, it actually tracks players so you can use it to put pressure on the enemy, catch them out of rolls, provide cover fire etc. Does as much damage as a regular lightning spear as well.

Lightning Arrow saved the Faith build.

>>172604396
Gael was good, Freide would've been better if it was less of an endurance match.
Midir was shit until i figured out how to fight it, then it was almost fun.

>>172603629
Thanks for the bow lad

>>172604401
>implying you're the only one
Get in line pal.

>>172604396
gael's fun

I beat friede on my first try and I'm not good at this game so I don't even have an opinion

I felt myself aging against midir

>>172604457
Its good.

Around 300 damage for a measely 19 FP at 60 FTH without any rings or flailing.

More importantly its incredibly fast, even faster than the Composite Bow's rolling R1 and can catch a lot of people offguard.

>>172604457
High DEX and Sage Ring +2 makes it REALLY good. It shoots out almost instantly and people don't really have a chance to dodge it.

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Is uh

Is DS3 running hotter than usual for anyone else?

YFW you realize that every time theres a dragon in dark souls you pretty much run to get between its legs

anyone else suddenly feel gay

>>172603254
I have that issue too

Someone just dumped this fan comic on /co/.
No idea how old it is and if it's been posted here before already, then I apologize.
>>>/co/91178105

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>this general is quickly forming into a Midir fanboy club of people who want have hot sex with a giant dragon, usually in the passive role
Nice.

>>172603975
Yeah i stopped helping there.

I easily and quickly killed him with only summoning the npc.

Every time someone summons me there they bring 3 other phantoms and i can't even hurt the damn boss and it takes forever.

Its triggering the fuck out of me.

>black knight sword does 20% bonus damage against the demon prince
explains why the fight was so easy

>>172604663
midir's dragon dick is upwards of 5 ft long at the least, there's enough for all of us

just beat Gael
so
- Giving painting loli the blood does literally nothing?
- There's nothing of substance in either DLC about the serpents?
- The DLC isn't actually a final ending or alternate closure for the series at all?

It was fun to play through but I'm disappointed at how little it matters compared to AotA or The Old Hunters
i do still need to find and kill Midir though

>>172604738
listen midir is a very cute girl and if you dont like dragon girls you are littterally gay

Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that killing a giant dragon infected with the dark is something a the main character of a fantasy game should be doing (as opposed to killing a bunch of identical rats), Mimir might actually be my least souls boss. Shitty lore, two boring-ass fights, nothing redeemable. He only seems to exist to provide a road-bump to Spears of the Church.

Does collectors editioning upgraded rings to yourself get you ding dong bannu?

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How the fuck do you dodge this dickhead's charge attack? It has like no windup and does almost all of my health.

>Give Painting loli the blood of the dark soul
>She's gonna make a world out of it
>A world born of the blood.

>>172604702

That's why I have trouble fighting Dragon bosses. I have to deal with distractions like that.

>>172604726
man this makes the official comic look like even more of a joke.

>>172604903
There's a wind-up. It's subtle, but it's there.

>>172604885
Why would you do such a thing when they're so easily obtainable?

>>172604968
There's an official comic?

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post yfw
>people who summon you in front of the Spear Fog gate and then point towards the door

>>172604396

DS3 has far too many great bosses.

Please don't nerf the Paired Greatswords, From
You finally made something fun that's also good

Do I need to reinstate King's Decree to get summoned?

>>172605008
because I have a job and a social life so I'd rather not spend 30 years making pvp builds

>>172604837
I'm pretty sure Midir is a male name.

>>172604562
>>172604561
I'm actually thinking about trying to get it on my sl 23. I already have greater lighting spear and I probably won't get around to finishing the game on this character anytime soon.

I just dont know if i can deal with friede and demon prince.

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>Want to go through TRC
>Only about halfway through the game
>Game is fucking boring as fuck; can't bear playing it anymore
>Hear the TRC can be accessed from PWoA final bonfire
>Start through PWoA
>Only 10 Estus +5, no idea how do speed run it
>Already bored to death

Fuck. How do I overcome this?

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I fucking love Shin Godzilla

>>172604903
All of his attacks have windups, the trick is recognizing them when you're knee-deep in his asshole.

If you can't recognize them from far away then that's on you.

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>got a plunging attack on Demon in Pain
>PS4 out of memory to record evidence of my greatest accomplishment in life

>>172605086
as if something such as canon has ever stopped me from partaking in erotic fantasy

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>>172603975
tfw 3 phantoms vs raid boss Midir on ng+7

one tail swipe and its fucking over

>>172604903
He crouches down for a second and a half or so before he charges. Once you know what to look for its really obvious, but I still found the timing kind of hard for some reason.
You can block 90% of the damage with a shield though. It'll probably guardbreak you but he can't follow it up with anything so it doesn't really matter.

>>172604120
Yes, actually. Just some random dude.
Fucker got me after a bit. gg

>>172605094
You could stop playing if the game is boring you that much

>>172605017
Put on a password no one knows about, it'll still work. Also it doesn't have to be a red sign and you can put it down any where in the area. Me and my friends were getting summoned while we were putting our signs down all the way back where Midir's fog is.

>>172604837
>Midir is a girl
>this rules of the possibility of being rammed by a huge dark dragon dick
Get you're headcannon's out of here
Please and thank you.

>>172605171
Oh shit. Is there a special animation?

>>172605094
Stop playing and come back later.

I stopped playing Dks3 for awhile, and only came back for the DLC. i was having fun with it again.

>>172604804
To be completely fair, you get like nothing for beating TOH. I would have liked a simple cutscene like what happened after Orphan, though.

Someone should try to lure Midir over to where you drop down into the arena and try to get a phantom to plunge attack him.

>>172605240
Bruh that's because you don't need a sign at all

>>172605017
Join them and then BC out when in Midirs bossroom.

>>172605217
Same for me.
Could be they give solo's more chance to be fighting a random, unprepared white for balancing issues.
e.g. die enough times and the game gives you a break by summoning someone who hasn't killed Midir yet

>>172605330
So i guess giving her the blood really does nothing? That's a shame if it's true.

>>172605171
You realize there was just a patch for ps4 that allows external hard drives, right?

Is Demon's Scar the hard counter for doors?

>Invade
>Kill host
>Die half a second later to butt buddies
>Still lose my souls and have to get my bloodstain back in the middle of a crowd of enemies
You think they wouldve fixed this shit by now

>>172605261
Well, she could be a futa girl I suppose
Would fit with the whole corruption theme
She's being driven mad by all these new urges and its up to you to help her deal with them
Willingly or not

>>172605317
Nope, you don't even get an animation. Just fell through it and dealt it damage.

>>172605409
You do if you don't have the icon. And not everyone does because of Midir's dragon dildo cockblock.

>>172605485
Fire in general counters doors >>172603548

>>172605089
if you can get lesser Gnaw and the branch chime you could probably cheese them both.

>>172605509
Why are you even invading with souls in your pocket if you care about keeping them?

>>172601984
Gael is weak to poison and bleed. I solo'd him on NG+4 with the Storyteller's Staff and Dorhy's Gnawing. He melted like ice-cream on the Sun, don't fear the gay cowboy.

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don't mind me, just an easily forgotten and furtive pygmy coming through. pay no mind

>>172604698
Actually yeah, I thought maybe I just needed to clean my system (I do) but it's been rather sudden since the DLC dropped. Not by much, mind you, but yeah.

>>172605330
orphan and manus are both way more story-relevant endbosses than some homeless guy that stumbled upon the remnants of the dark soul

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>best looking part of the game is an hour in

>>172605509
it's literally based on how long it takes you to die after killing the host, but seriously if you're invading who gives a fuck about souls

>>172605429
Yeah it was neat, I just kind of pvp on the side because I blow. I think I expected a ganksquad at first but it was just the one guy. It probably is intentional and that's really cool and the spear summon spell was fun.
I shouldn't have let him fight the guardian 1v1...

>>172605617
Ringed City looks better in my opinion. Has some great vistas.

>>172605613
I mean, he didn't just stumble upon it. I would say an undead on a quest taking out the pygmy kings is very thematically fitting for the Souls games, so that felt incredibly climactic to me.

>>172602912
Status through them. Bleed, Poison Mist, whatever it takes to force them to break off their L2R2 and move, then they become much easier targets.

>>172603527
They block literally all damage once they're in hunker-down mode, even fire. Only hope at that point is to status them or break down their stamina and then try to catch them as they retreat.

What's the point of armor even having stats in DS3? They might as well just make it completely cosmetic at this point.

So what's with that angel that spawns back at the start of the Dreg Heap when you beat the DLC? Any way to kill it?

>>172605613
I think I mentioned this a few threads ago, but gael's irrelevance is sort of the point. The pygmy is canonically a nobody before he embraces the dark soul. The protagonists of each dark souls game are pathetic undead who basically succeed on the back of perseverance and consuming the hugest souls they can find. Gael's an antagonistic reflection of the player character; almost like an evil solaire.

Anyone got the links to those graph visualisations of how much each point in a stat gives? Trying to decide where I should stop VIG and END. Previously I usually stopped at 39 and 38, respectively, but I wanna check.

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>>172605591
I literally missed every single NPC except Pall-or whatever-the-fuck's first dialog, and the several locust-men

>>172605675
The lighting is fucking weird though and you never get a good look at your character. But yeah there are some really nice areas.

>>172605768
You can kill it with a bow but it will respawn when you rest at a bonfire. It might actually be the stone-humped hag after she ascended into an angel, which might be why the angel isn't hostile to you.

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>>172605768
>he didn't talk to the old lady at the start

You monster

wew the splitleaf greatsword is so good

>>172605867
I did. I never went back to talk to her, if that's what you mean. I didn't see the point.

>>172605873
Every DLC weapon is bonkers, except for the fucking Aquamarine and the Banner

>>172605759
The stats don't make a huge difference, similar to BB, unfortunately.

I wish equip burden/armor worked the same as the previous souls game.

>>172605873
oh fuck I forgot I wanted to play with that thing
thanks anon

>>172606026
R1 combos into a WA
It's dumb

>>172605873
>BKG is still better

Meh. At least that new katana is fun to play with.

>>172606026
>>172605971
it's nice to have a halberd that isn't dogshit, and the fact that it has S strength scaling doesn't hurt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU

required listening while using

>>172604903
1. Generally he only performs that attack if you're not in his face. If you're just close enough for him not to use a breath attack, but too far for immediate melee, he's probably going to use the charge.

2. He only does it if he's been pacing for a second or two. Keep in mind that this is a boss that's always performing some kind of attack, so if he's not attacking then he's most likely readying a charge.

3. The tell is that you see water splash around his legs right before he does the dash.

Combine those three for success. If he's just pacing and not performing some attack or other, that most likely means that he's about to charge, so have a hair trigger on your roll. Then when you see the water splashes, immediately dodge and you should avoid it.

The old lady at the start is the same voice actress who was the narrator for 1&3 right? Great performance.

>>172605171
I got that once too.
The host died like a chump immediately afterwards

>>172605590
Hes weak to bleed? Why isnt he taking any extra damage when I slash him 5 times with carthus rouge?

>>172602416
>the angel areas are obnoxious as fuck and serve no real pupose than extending playtime

What the fuck is the point of ANY level in ANY video game

>and almost all of the lore is nonsensical

Welcome to Dark Souls pal, pretty much 80% of what you and everyone else believes is just speculation of the entire series' nonsensical lore.

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Can I play this game with my AMD Radeon HD 6450?

I don't care if I have to use the lowest possible video settings.

is there a way to use cheatengine so I can fight gael again? I want to master him!

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So is the new chime any good on a proper 60 fai faith build?

How is lightning arrow on a proper faith build? Could someone test 60 faith + best chime maxed out + both rings + flail please?

I'm using it on my pyro and I fucking love it.

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>Had some Webms queued up that were actually going to be interesting for once
>Good old retarded me was hitting one key away from my actual "capture" hotkey

JUST

>>172606150
No, they're different people. The VA for the Hag is actually Emma's VA.

>>172605991

I just went and compared damage between being ass naked and having the best armor for slash defense and the difference in damage taken was so small it might as well be zero, since I still die in the same number of hits.

>>172605825
>Pall-or whatever-the-fuck
Lapp.
It means Patch in various Nordic languages

>>172605825

don't worry, the pygmy is easy to miss on purpose and straight up disappears after a while. he blends completely into the grass colouring.

Why does every DLC weapon have some absurd fucking combo

>>172606276
new chime is for co-op, increase healing and buf aoe range

Is 60/20 or 40/40 better overall for the most weapons?

>>172606260
or you can just do ng+ or get summoned or make a new character

>>172606276

That chime is only really used for heals since it affects others and you can also put it away and keep the healing buff. It has lower Spell Buff than Yorshka's.

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>>172606307
>It means Patch in various Nordic languages
Oh, that's actually cool; I just figured Patch's voice actor was used out of convenience.

I guess that might even be true anyway, but at least they poked fun at it.

>>172606276
I don't know about 60 Faith, but I'm using it at 40 and it has 1 less spellbuff than the Sunlight Talisman. Take from that what you will.

Does dropping red sign make Church summons more likely? I see all these signs for no reason.

>>172606150
No, the old lady is clearly Welsh. The narrator for 1 and 3 is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pik-Sen_Lim

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On a level between "Nameless King is Gwyn's lost firstborn" and "When the Ashes are Two, a Flame Alighteth", how does Filianore and her egg rank in the What the Flying Fuck Just Happened scale?

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>tfw just ended a 4 man ganksquad with the Herald Greatsword
This is it isn't it
this is what it feels like to win even against the odds
I like this
I like this a lot

>>172606370
>>172606417
Cool, thanks guys. So Yorshka's is still the best.

I would respec and test it myself but I don't have a flail.

>>172606453
Dude

Lapp is literally Patches. Finish his quest line.

>>172605572
I could get both of those right now.

Hmm i can't think of any real trouble i would have on my way to friede really except maybe the corvian knights.

Should be able to run to demon prince too. Only the angels should cause any problems from what i remember.

>>172605773
it'd work better if he had a questline in vanilla DaS3 or if he was more relevant during Ariandel

Characters like Solaire and Siegmeyer work because you meet them several times along the way to your goals
You help Siegmeyer out and he gives you stuff
Solaire chats nonchalantly and acts as your way into the sunlight covenant
These are tangible things in the game that get you slightly invested in the characters even if they're irrelevant adventurers just like you are

By comparison you've barely seen or heard Gael at all by the time he becomes a boss

>sit waiting for church summons for half an hour and nothing
>try a red eye orb in the same area
>instant invasions 5 times in a row, they just immediately enter the fog but still
There are obviously a ton of people doing the fight. Most of them have 2-3 phantoms summoned. Are there really that many people in the covenant that the queue is this long?

>>172606520
It's just another 'Cool reference Miyazaki' tier thing

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Are we now in the age of frost?

>>172606481
Yes. Don't be an idiot like them though and put on a password so assholes don't summon you.

>>172605009
Hoo boy.
You don't want to know.

>>172606359
From likes fun

>>172606526
s-sauce..?

How do you even make a faith build? I feel like nothing is available until fucking endgame. Is it just Raw Ass Vit gouge until midgame and then dump everything into Faith?

>>172606359
So everyone can fly high for a little while before they get nerfed to the fucking ground

>>172606730
PvP is not fun right now.

Especially as someone trying to use the Aquamarine Dagger

>>172606779
it's called play a real build until the endgame then respec

>>172606814
>using the Aquamarine dagger and expecting to have fun
lol

>Everyone says to parry Champion Gundyr
>Reposting him does less damage than spamming him with Chaos Bed

gr8 advice

>>172602247

Just summon a gank squad and they can't do shit

1V1 it's easy

1v a host and his phantom is doable

but 1 vs 2 phants and a host? Forget it

So what's the best way to farm souls with the DLC considered? I used to kill those golden knights for like 28k a pop, but I'm sure there's a better route by now

>>172606779

Pretty much. For this new Faith run I'm doing, I just item swapped in Lightning Arrow and Darkmoon Blade at the start. Much more fun.

>>172606892
Parry him then attack him in the critical state with anything but not riposting will do massive damage

>>172606917
>he hasn't fought 3 phantoms and the host
it's suffering.

>>172606870
It's honestly a lot of fun. Got it up to 390 damage and it's doing work.

Just kinda frustrating being overshadowed by almost every other DLC weapon.

>>172602416
>obnoxious as fuck and extends aytime
>extends playtime
Wow its like you dont want to get your 15 dollars worth

Can someone recommend me a couple of fun/good builds for PvE/PvP in SotFS? I'm trying to convince a friend to give the game another try,

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I really want to like the war banner, but it only get around 350Ar with Heavy infs. and almost the same with refined/sharp.

that being said, the WA is fucking stylish and will use it with leo ring.

Any advice on what to pair it with? a 5 minute buff ain't bad either

>beat NG+ Abyss Watchers in four (!!!!!!!!!) full L1 combos of the Paired Greatswords that stunlocked him throughout the whole duration
This weapon is fucking bonkers

>>172607039
powerstanced greatswords

>>172606230

I have a R7 370 and it runs over 30 on 1280x720 on high

No idea about the 6450, but you can compare the R7 370 to it

>>172607039
powerstanced great clubs (drop him one)

Coop is fun

fuk u gaius

>>172606583
Demon's bleed in 2 hits with Dory's Gnaw and since it doesn't scale with anything you shouldn't need to upgrade your branch chime.

Friede is probably gonna be the harder of the two since she's super fast but since she's weak to bleed I'd recommend regular gnaw.

>>172606230
i run it on a 6670 there are a lot of places it will drop to like 20 fps but most places stay above 40

>>172606169
Does your weapon have innate bleed?

>>172605745
>>172603527
Knight slayer ring?

>>172606983

I'd rather not even bother. Parrying in DS3 sucks a fat one, I get nothing but constant fucking partials.

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lets try again

Coop is fun

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gaius or as i call him faggus u r teh gay and ur mother will die in her sleep tonight

>>172606892
Parry him, them throw a spell, then riposte
While he's in the critical state you do like twice as much damage, and can still take the riposte afterwards

You can add oen area from each game into dreg heap which 3 do you choose

>>172607283
>Using Bossgael gear instead of Humangael gear
Disgusting

>>172607329
Blighttown
The Gutter
Undead Settlement

>>172607054
it completely trivializes the base game

>>172607283
Jesus fucking christ Ive never seen anyone get hit by that attack
He just ragdolls you like Artorias and flings you so far

>>172605591
Yo holy shit, where is he and what does he say?

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>>172607054
>>172607381
>this kind of power creep
>in a single-player game

>when you're summoned for Darkeater Midir and you're all completely in the zone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72a7F1SF8Vk

>>172607263
Yep. You test latency with throwing daggers but its still a gamble.

>>172607243
>Does your weapon have innate bleed?

Nah, black blade. Using rotten pine resin to poison him is working though.

>>172607329
Undead Asylum
The Majula Hole. Not The Gutter, just the Hole.

>>172607263
>i suck at the game, so the mechanic is bad

>>172606370
>>172606417
Yeah but doesnt yorkshas heal more?

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I regret doing the DLC on NG+
Even, at lvl 140, Gael is artificial difficulty.
>HURR I'LL JUST RANDOMLY HAVE AN EXTRA ATTACK I NEVER USE WHEN YOU HAVE HIGH HEALTH
>HURR DURR, I'M A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE, THIS ISNT EVEN MY FINAL FORM
>HURR DURDY DURR FUCK SHIELDS AND FUCK FATROLLERS

>>172607263
>parrying sucks
>I constantly get the result of mistiming my parries
>but no it's definitely parrying's fault

>>172607283
>dont talk to me or my son ever egain

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>tfw over 30 attempts and I've never even seen Midir's second phase

>>172607389
The throw distance is honestly hilarious. I ate it once on like my second try and he launched me, and of course it follows along the ground so I just went soaring over this hill towards the Ringed Knight that drops the slab.

Can we talk about how the timeline doesnt make sense in this dlc?

Whatever the fuck happens after you touch the egg? It cant be the future since the dreg heap destroyed anor londo and lothric and they both are fairly intact in the background.
It cant be the present since there is no eclipse.

So it sends you to the past? How was that protecting the dark soul?

>New DLC weapons have combos that can take at least 50 or more %
>Old weapons don't
Not that I know of

Reminder that DSP has beaten Midir

>>172607609
Literally how

Just stand in front of him and smack him in the face between attacks

Are you actually so shit that you can't dodge, like, 4 combos? His moveset isn't huge.

>>172607468
The DLC kinda trivialized the base game on a difficulty level
You from Midir and Gael then you go back to SoC and the difference is night and day
Kinda makes me wish the base game harder

>>172607596
Did it at SL120 NG+2
Took a few tries but it wasn't that bad
You'll be fine

>>172606814
>Aquamarine Dagger

They should have let it go full light saber without needing to hold down the WA

Just press it once, and you have it out until you press it again, and you can move around normally when it's out too.

>>172607690
I'm in NG+ so his health pool is massive.

Someone on PC make a high FPS webm of gael doing his anime flip/crossbow attack arigatou

>>172607673
>DLC weapons all hit like trucks and combo
>Oh except for the cool glowstick dagger and the kickass banner
>No those do no damage and don't have any combos to speak of

Bravo, FROM

Does anything happen when the crawling pygmy dude makes it up to Filianore?