/dsg/ - Demon's/Dark Souls General

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fuck thralls and faggots wearing their hoods

I wish this game had kobolds.

>>187653028
I'm still confused as to how Vengarl teaches you to do the "Decapitation" gesture

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Cute!!!!

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>>187653848
Post more pls

>>187653848
post more cute

My new boots are making my feet smell kinda rough after a long days work. What should I do? Little dash of Gold Bond in the morning?

reminder that summoning for bosses is for cuck cowards

So is there any way to CE Dark Guys 2 on Xbox 360? I would guess not but I might as well ask the dumb question.
I never play online since I lack internet. (Phone poster)

https://my.mixtape.moe/kpnudj.webm
reminder that invasions are unfair

dlc3 when?

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>>187653441
Why would you use that version?

Whoever made Brume Tower clearly hates people.

>>187654496
This but unironically

>>187654541
Good shit
man rolls are so abhorrent in 3

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>>187653970
>>187654276
Okay!

>>187654521
It isn't sorry anon.

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>tfw doing a no-shield run

>>187655401
>DS2
>Rolling is normal so No shield is the norm
>DS1 and 3
>Rolling makes absolutely no sense so shield is pretty much required
I hate this

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>>187655401
Come back when you do a no-summons run. THE CLUTCH

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>>187654970

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>>187655610

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>>187653638
fuck you you retarded faggot

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>tfw fighting Maldron the Ass
FUCKING CUNT STOP RUNNING AWAY FROM ME GOD FUCKING DAMNIT YOU HAVE A GREATSHIELD AND LANCE YOU HAVE LIKE ONE OF THE BEST COMBOS IN THE GAME AHHHHHHHH

...I fucking love and absolutely fucking despise Brume Tower.

>>187655401
No shield is the best run. Rolling is endlessly superior to blocking.

Jesus fuck /dsg/ is just a bunch of shiteaters these days.

>>187655598
>his first playthrough of every souls game isn't a no-summons playthrough
GIGANTIC SHITEATING CASUAL DETECTED. Seriously though, get less casual. Come back to me when you're doing Dried Finger no summon runs.

Anyone looking for coop? I wanna farm :^)

>>187656001
This feel...I know it.

Why is soul of cinder such a pushover?

>>187656073
>the joke
>a long shot
>your head
I remember when I was new too

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>>187656284
>LOL JUST PRETENDING TO BE RETARDED
Sure.

>>187656378
>falling for old ass b8

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>>187656485

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>dark souls 2 npc invaders
>as a pure caster
>on company of champions

>>187654970
Source please

>>187656597
>Dark Souls 2 NPC invaders
>With a great hammer
>Smack them into the ground,wait till they get up,smack them again
>Repeat 3 times and beat every single invader
Get fucc mageman

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>>187656001
Howdy hey, friendo

>>187656924
Fuck off.
Go get hollowed to hell and back, Maldron.

>>187656597
I literally just beat Blue smelter on NG+ as a pure int caster. Fucking christ I hate Iron passage.

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>>187657089
Hey, come on, we're all friends here, aren't we?

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>>187656682
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=57578822

Artist also does cute BB

>>187655401
I'm a big shieldfag and I feel like no fashion is right without a shield, but at this point I just have them for that, fashion. And Kalameet.

>>187655374
Sok I'll cheat the old-fashioned way by quitting and playing DS1 instead. At least there I don't need to worry about destroying a ring by breaking the chest.
>Cut me some slack it's my first blind play through

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>>187656001

>>187656597
You have a Longsword. Just 2h Longdong them to death.

>>187654541
I wholeheartedly thought that would end with the host summoning more phantoms.

>>187656924
*giant tree seeds you*
>>187657376
FUCK OFF

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>>187657524
>>187657642
You guys need to cool it, maybe say hello to my new friend. He's a little fat, but he loves meeting new people.

>>187655592
shields are useful in DS1 and DS2
they're a complete crutch in DS3.

>>187653471

Hey how do I build Thrall Axe? Refined and quality stats or pure dex?

>>187657965
Either 80 Dex Sharp or 30/30 INT/FAI Dark/Chaos.

Using big picture for a longer name in ds2 won't get me tracked down by fromsoft's ninjas, right ?

>>187658154
Hummm hadn't thought of INT/FAI. Could be bretty good.

Is it pure piss until you get high stats if you go the Dex root?

>>187655592
The fuck are you smoking? Shields, and especially greatshields, are at their absolute strongest in DaS2 because you have the best version of Magic Shield combined with a ring that you can stack on top of that. DaS1 is a relatively close second because of how good greatshields are (86 stability on the fucking Tower Shield, which is the most easily obtainable greatshield in the game). It's Roll Souls 3 where equipping a shield gimps you hard.

>>187658290
It's kind of low AR early on no matter what you do but it has great speed so that makes up for it.

>>187658170
Why should it? Not like you're exploiting something outside of the game.

Whoever designed the Brume Tower and the Iron Passage must either have had the worst day imaginable and wanted to take their anger our on the player, or is simply a re-incarnation of Lucifer.

Also, did they ever buff the crescent axe or is still a big smelly willy?

>>187658507
Brume Tower is fine, but Iron passage is shit, yet I don't see why it's -that- bad. It's a short straight line, I never had any trouble running to the fog gate like a fucktarded moron. Trying to fight and get loot must be one hell of a chore, though.

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What the actual fuck is this place.

>>187654541
Good shit

>>187658901
Ratniggers

>>187659018
Ratniggers? Literally only seen 2 rats down here so far.

>>187658338
I'm not saying shields are bad ,im saying the rolling animation and invincibility frames actually make sense in DS2,which means you dont really need shields as dodging stuff isnt hard
In DS1 and 3 the roll animation is complete bullshit so shields are the only way of proper defense

>>187658901
Rats, Gavlan's contrymen, and the result of Pharros having far too much time on his hands.

>>187658669
Iron Passage is just a normal area except you also have the option to skip it through a challenge run

the only reason people get pissed is that they blame the game instead of themselves for dying

>>187659185
I take it, that it'd be a bad idea to use my Pharros' Lockstones here?

>>187659083
Its the 2nd Rat Kings base ,if you're part of the rat covenant its pretty fun as you get to spawn in more enemies and activate traps to fuck over other players

>>187659280
You'll want to save them for later.
And start gathering Torches, you'll see why in the next area.

>>187659280
Some of them have items behind them,some have enemies and some activate traps that would fuck you over
It'd kinda be a waste

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Jesus Christ

>>187659387
If you mean the Spider shit, I've done it. I just backtracked because I remembered that I left that cave in the waters without exploring it.
Fuck me this place is big though.

>>187659353
Wait, you get to force people into your world, and force them to deal with your trap layout?

>>187659509
Gotcha.

I just need to get the 4th Lord now, first to find out where the fucker is.

>>187659584
What Lords have you found already?

>>187659640
Lost Sinner, Spoodah (well, claimed the great soul) and Old Iron King.
I rather find out myself where to go though.

>>187659584
>Wait, you get to force people into your world, and force them to deal with your trap layout?
yea,they get summoned into your world and have to deal with your crap
And as a prize you get more pharros lockstones to activate more stuff

>>187659820
>You've killed the intruder
>Reward is more traps
Sounds neat.

>>187659764
The path to the last one is easier to find than you think. It's as obvious as the nose on your face, or a huge hole in the ground.

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What all should I be selling? Literally everything or what? Currently using Estoc and Bastard Sword, occasionally fire sword.

Any tips on dealing with Mr Lonnely as a caster?

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weapons with fun charged R2s?

>>187660198
I like to keep 2 of each weapon, in case I ever want to powerstance two of the same weapon.
Shields, bows and catalysts, I only keep one.

>>187660198
No point selling, I'm doing a playthrough aswell and you get souls forced down your throat.
Keep them, put in item box.

>>187659992
>Spoilers
..M8.

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Imminent heartbreak.

>>187660198
Keep at least 2 copies of each weapon.

Sell any multiple copies of armor you have, unless you plan on giving them to NPCs.

Sell any lower-rank rings (like +1 vs +2) you have if you already have the higher rank, since they don't stack.

Selling isn't really about the souls in DS2, it's more about clearing out inventory/box space.

>>187660356
Sorry, that was too far.
Have you been following the character questlines?

>>187660356
Need the souls now for his poison stuff.
I'm selling all my dex shit since I'm a strength guy.
Is it worth it to drop my other shit shields too?

>>187660494
>Give to NPCs
WHAT
not mad about spoilers but do I need to bust some asshole out of prison and give him a weapon or something?

>>187660494
>selling isn't really about souls
Honestly, the amount of souls you can get from selling is surprisingly high, it's good pocket money for titanite, gems, or equipment upgrades
Sometimes I'm like "oh fuck I need souls but I don't feel like killing a thousand alonne niggers again" and I remember I have twenty copies of their armor to sell to good old Gavlan

>>187660450
FUCK that doggo. He had humanity on himself, therefore he was a murderer.

>>187660595
sell all the shit that you acquire through random drops,especially if they're really common (Alonne Knight sets and Blacksteel katanas as an example) as you can just burn as ascetic and farm it again real quick if you want to

>>187660740
Nah, it's purely a cosmetic thing and only applies to armor pieces.

If you like the fashion of a certain armor set, keep 2 copies. Otherwise, sell all extra copies you have.

>>187660547
Those I've found along the way.
I did get to see Pate and Creighton have a stand-off, both are idiots so I let them fight it out.

A friend however told me I should have chosen to assist one for an item, ohwell.

It doesn't seem like there's a lot NPC questlines so far. I've met Lucatiel a couple of times, but no clue where she's off to now.

>>187660740
Theres a character you can dress up with armor of your choice
>>187660893
Lucatiel and Benhart of Jugo questlines only get completed if you summon them for boss fights and they survive

>>187660740
You meet one character and have to give them something to wear.
It can be anything from the heaviest armour to the clothes you started with.
It has no bearing on the game/story on what you give them but just that you give them some sort of clothing.
They will wear whatever you give them for the rest of the playthrough. So give them something you don't mind seeing them wearing.

>>187660784
Humanity are just bugs. Why couldn't he have a bug?

>>187660990
>Summoning
I've only summoned the big Scorpion man, since it was too cool not to.

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Anyone on PS4 want to do any co-op?

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>>187660893
You might have started Benhart's, the guy sitting on the road to the Shaded Woods with the thick accent. Lucatiel has an encounter coming up, but it's tricky to find.
There aren't many more otherwise, and I think helping one of them gets you the Engraved Gauntlets. Who won?
Also, if you find a sign for a guy called Bradley, summon him. He's the most intelligent summon in the entire series.

>>187661105
How did you learn how to talk to him?

>>187661182
Pate styled on Creighton, it was unbelieveable.

>>187661265
Friend backseat gaming, told me to use a ring. He said it was to spare the scorpion of me attacking him, cause he know I probably would have plunge attacked him on sight.

>>187661367
Tark isn't hostile at all unless you attack him. I'm surprised that Pate won, Creighton is usually very aggressive. You can buy Creighton's Armor from the Merchant Hag now, if you want. Did Pate already give you his gear?

>>187661579
Pate won't give him anything cause he didnt interfere

>>187661579
Pate didn't do more than repeat 2 lines.

>>187661182
>most intelligent phantom
INCLUDING players

>>187661367
Good, DS2 can be to obscure with some things.
He's not hostile and you can't lock on him unless you aggro him, but good luck figuring you need that useless ring.


Right after typing this I realize, is it a reference to DS1 Old Witch's Ring?

>>187661616
>>187661667
No, from Earthen Peak. You get his stuff if he was summoned for the Last Giant, and survived.

>>187661783
Probably, I'd never think that Ring would let me hear him.
Literally says allow me to hear enemies, so I just thought my friend was playing a trick on me.

>>187661875
Didn't summon him, no gear for me I guess. Was it good?

>>187661929
His Set is decent, along with the Greatshield.
The Spear on the other hand, is an absolute monster on the right build. I used it for Dex, and it was all I needed for half of NG, NG+, and +2.

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>>187662085
Not him, but how does his spear differ from others ?

>>187662194
The R2s are pike/lance attacks. It's also absurdly long and technically in the pike class rather than a true spear, with S scaling in dex.

Great weapon. Basically a lighter, longer, dex-scaling and more nimble lance at the cost of a lower counter modifier.

>>187662194
IIRC it has a hitbox thats twice its size

>>187662194
Strongest Spear on Dex right behind Yorgh's, which is more of a Lance than anything.

>>187661929
>Didn't summon him, no gear for me I guess. Was it good?
You can kill him and the old lady in Majula will sell his gear.

>>187662314
>>187662327
>>187662359
Well shit, I was either considering making some kind of paladin character or a spearman soldier kind of thing, guess I'll be getting this baby quick, I'll kill him in the forest after getting the soapstone, I usually side with Creighton anyway.
I wish the base spear wasn't bad,
I really like the fact that it has the small red piece of cloth thingy

>>187662668
>I wish the base spear wasn't bad,
pst

the R2s deal strike damage, doing extra against heavy armor dudes like the ironclad soldiers or alonne knights

>>187663064
well fuck me, winged spear, partizan and pike can go sit on an XL dragon dildo and this baby will get to shine
is there any reason to use it in ds1 and 3, though ? Even more so in 1 where you can get the winged spear even earlier

>>187663335
in 1 sure, thrust damage is good and it has a good crit modifier
in 3, no since all spears are trash

When should you look into going for the DLC in DaS2? SL109 and literally just 1 Lord to go, but I don't want to end up going into NG+ by mistake before getting a chance to play the DLC.

>>187663485
>in 3, no since all spears are trash

>Plow
>BIDENT
>Ringed Knight Spear
>>>>trash

>>187663601
I'd say get a couple more levels, make sure your weapon is +10 and you've got a decent amount of hp and armor. You're still pretty far from the end of the game, make sure to power up, the DLCs are quite tough, especially the bosses.

>>187663601
The second you beat the 4 lords you're pretty much set
Also you can't accidentally go into NG+ in DaS2 as it lets you play after finishing the main story and you have to select the NG+ option in Majulas bonfire to do it

>>187663601
>SL109 and literally just 1 Lord to go
Do the DLC when you're near the end or ready to fight the final boss, they're considerably harder than the base game and meant as post-game content.

From start to finish:
>40% = Getting 4 Lord Souls
>20% = End Game
>10% = Optional Areas in base game
>30% = 3 DLCs

If you take it slow, DS2 is a 200 hour long game with DLC included.

>>187659520
Rickert always does this.

>>187663601
IMO you should leave the DLCs until right before the final bosses. Stay away from the Throne and go do the DLC before that, so you'll get the extra boss at the end.

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>>187663601
>When should you look into going for the DLC in DaS2?
Start the DLCs after Giant Lord, but before fighting Nashandra.
>I don't want to end up going into NG+ by mistake before getting a chance to play the DLC.
You can't enter NG+ by mistake. You need to manually enter NG+ at the Majula bonfire after an ending.

>>187663991
Thats not what triggers the extra boss tho

>>187661176
Just started ng+ and I'm past Vordt, where are you?

>>187663991
Killing Zombie King is what triggers the Scholar bossfight, not the crowns which is retarded. The second ending shouldn't even be available without Vendrick's Blessing.

>>187664136
Oh? For some reason I thought you needed to have all the crowns for him to appear.

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>/v/ is shitting on das2 again

>>187664393
nah the crows are optional for that curse resistance
In order to get the extra boss to appear you simply need to defeat Vendrick before facing Nashandra

>>187664453
>caring what /v/ thinks
As far as I'm concerned, anything those casuals consider to be bad is good, and vice versa.

>It's a 'host leaves the blue to fight by himself, blue rolls twenty million times and doesn't swing his weapon once before dying of poison' episode

I love these episodes

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>>187664453
>/b/ with videogames
>a board with the barest semblance of taste
Pick one and exactly one.

Is there anything I should absolutely do before moving onto a new game cycle? Killing NPCs? Buying certain limited items?

>>187665561
Collect all the slabs

Heavy Crossbow with explosive bolts is my new weaponfu

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So I finally played and finished the DaS3 dlc. It was kinda underwhelming honestly. Ringed city started off extremely strong but the area actually ended up being pretty shit. Ariandel was more enjoyable imo even if it was short. Friede was best dlc boss for sure. DaS2 dlc was way better overall.

Is the Bloodborne dlc better than the DaS3 dlc? I haven't played it yet

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>>187665882
BB dlc is really good, I would recommend it

>>187665882
The Old Hunters is pretty widely regarded as the best SoulsBorne DLC.
Much like how the Basegame is regarded as the best (PvE) experience

>>187664268
I've beaten the game, where you want to meet senpai?

>>187667448
Undead Settlement bonfire, password is dsg as usual.

>>187654496
>Not summoning for Midir and Gael to make them more challenging

>AFK host with way of blue on
>Spend half an hour cucking blues before dropping them a bunch of souls and blacking out

>>187667658
I assumed you needed to join mound makers so I BCd out.

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>>187668129
>Summoning 3 phantoms for NG+6 Gael

DS1, if you're a darkwraith and you die in an invasion, what do you lose?

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>>187668289
>Encouraging moralfag behavior.

>>187668650
everything

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So i just began playing 3 after half a year. Have they at all fixed the auto summon covenants yet? Is the only fix still making a family share account?

>>187669527
Darkmoon summons are fairly common now - waaaay moreso than at launch - Aldrich Faithfuls and Wolves of Farron are a bit more frequent but they're more dependent on SL/WL

>>187655035
That hurts to read and I only made it about 5 words into the first sentence

>>187669527
>Is the only fix still making a family share account?
This was literally never a thing. Shitters were just finding excuses for why they weren't getting summoned, when the only real reason was because of the long-ass queue of Blueberries waiting to get in on the action.

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>tfw launching mother fuckers with the Greatsword in Dark Souls 2

This shit is too much fun, why have I never used this before?

What determines how good of scaling a weapon gets if it's infused in DS3? i.e. the Lothric Knight Sword gets S faith scaling with lightning but not everything does

>>187671474
It's different for each individual weapon. It's just up to you to find out which ones are the best ones to infuse.

>Phantoms are dead
>The host runs back to the bonfire and just rolls forever
>Unzip rollcatch dagger and then applause over his poisoned corpse

This is so fucking satisfying, jesus christ.

>>187672473
>Unzip rollcatch dagger
Elaborate.

>>187672473
>fighting dudes who just roll forever
Blandest shit in the world, imo

>>187671056
Juggling motherfuckers is the best form of crowd control.

>>187671631
What are some good weapons to infuse with chaos?

>>187672629
Poison Corvian Greatknife

It's nearly impossible to perfectly roll through sequential running R1s because it comes out very quickly and has a wide arc plus a lot of forward momentum. If they try to roll to the side, the regular R1 comes out fast enough to catch them that way, too, which is the katana running R1's main weakness, and the rolling R1 is also a very good option because it's a thrust attack with a fair amount of active damage frames. Poison is just generally good as an invader because it adds pressure, which can do pretty well to throw people off.

I've seen maybe one in a hundred players who can reliably escape damage from it, and the people who are good enough to do that are rarely rollfags.

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FUCK

>>187673060
LKS
Astora's
Corvian Scythe

>>187673118
Is that a twink build or a full fledged one? I feel like poison gets less effective the higher level you are.

>>187673230
>Jester Thomas in the background

>>187673529
>This one's me!

>>187673519
SL35 Cathedral invader.

Poison only gets marginally less effective, actually, since the infusion scales. Normally you'd use a rotten ghru dagger for this, but at low levels I can afford to lose 10 poison buildup.

It's almost always a good tool for an invader if you can reliably inflict it. Co-op phantoms are mostly idiots who don't carry moss, so it means that they need to move, which is what you want.

>>187673489
Astora's straight or great?

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>>187673230
At least you've killed Jester Thomas, so you're just an Imperfect or two from getting there again.

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>>187673230
>>187673529
>>187673853
Oh fuck, nevermind. Need some help?

>>187673825
ASS is completely worthless in every way now, after the nerf to the Raw infusion. It isn't even good as a shitter's crutch weapon.

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>>187673230
Fight him

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>>187653638
>Someone saved my Microshaft Taint ""Art""
I-I feel honoured...

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Anyone on PS4 assist me in transferring some stuff to a new file?

Why is chaos infusion better than dark?

>>187673230
>>187673529
>>187673656
>>187673853
>>187673989
I've never understood why people have that much trouble with Jester Thomas, you get a puddle of water right next to his spawn-in point that takes the edge off of all his attacks, and you can also steal his Warmth for easy victory.

>>187676101
It isn't. If I remember right you get flat defense against Fire damage just by leveling Endurance and Vigor, but the only defense against Dark damage is by leveling Faith, which you only do on two builds in the game.

>>187675028
Sure man, you looking to do a run through on that character?

>>187676181
The Sanctum Knights right on your tail, if you didn't deal with them before. Also the Imperfect, if you take the fight there.

>>187676309
What about for PvE?

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>>187676476
Neato.
And yeah, I am. This is my 7th character, so anything to make the game go by faster.
We wouldn't already have each other added, do we?
High Wall.
Pass:
dex
I'll be right over.

Filthy first time casual here.
Today I was having a PvP duel in Darkroot Garden when I got invaded. After some seconds a blue spirit appeared, backstabbed me but instead of damaging me, it applied Gold Pine Resin on my weapon.
How is this possible? Is this a piromancy? Miracle? Does it have a name?

>>187677549
they're cheating and I'm loling

>>187677629
Wew. This has been my biggest surprise so far.
What a lovely game.

Can you parry every player weapon in DS2?

>>187678010
You can parry every attack except 2HR1/R2s of Ultra Greatswords, Greataxes, Great Hammers, every Whip attack, and jumping attacks save for scythes for some reason.

>>187678010
According to wikidot

Parriable Attacks

Physical

Most physical attacks can be parried, except jumping attacks.

All attacks can't be parried
Whips
Standing two-handed light attacks can't be parried
Halberds
Standing two-handed light and heavy attacks can't be parried
Greataxes
Great Hammers
Ultra Greatswords
Curved Greatswords
Jumping attacks can be parried
Reapers
Pickaxe
Quirks

Reapers must be parried at the "sweet spot" (tip of the weapon).
Some weapons have the moveset of a different class:
The broken Santier's Spear behaves like a Halberd, but the two-handed light attack is the same as a Twinblade, and thus can be parried.
The Syan's Halberd's two-handed heavy attack can't be parried.
The Crescent Axe is a Greataxe, but all of its attacks except the jumping attack can be parried.
Both the Drakekeeper's Warpick and the Archdrake Mace are Great Hammers but behave like a Halberd, thus their two-handed heavy attack can be parried.

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Just beat the pirate ship boss in No Man's Wharf with this nice lady. I'm using the Elite Knight Set with a Bastard Sword +2 and Estoc +1, don't know which I like more yet. Add a 3lb medium shield and I'm midrolling/ normal rolling, which I'm cool with. Apparently there's going to be some unhappy gents who want to alahu akbar me in the Lost Bastille ahead, any advice for what I should do/ prepare for to make my life less frustrating?
>It's Dark souls 2 scholar of the first sin edition for Xbox 360, offline only because I'm a fag
>Doing this game mostly blind

>>187678909
Kill them before they explode. Rush them or take them out from range if you have any weapons of that nature.
Did you find a sign for someone named Bradley in No Man's?

>>187678595
>reapers

Like, Scythes or Rapiers?

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>>187678909

>>187679164
Scythes

>>187679114
Literally just stepped off the boat. Haven't seen any summon signs yet.

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>>187679298
No, the sign should have been on the docks for someone named Bradley back in the Wharf.

>>187678909
>It's Dark souls 2 scholar of the first sin edition for Xbox 360
>SOTFS
>Xbox 360

>>187679196
IDK about you but she was kind of useful as a distraction for the guy with two torsos. Kind of disappointed with two torsos guy's AI and moveset though, he should be able to attack both players at the same time, or at least defend against one while chasing the other.

>>187679445
I know it's weird. SotFS is on the cover and everything. It also has elements of both the original and the new edition.

>>187679382
O shit
I did not see that at all to be honest.

>>187679638
You just have the Scholar update for Xbox 360. PS3, 360 and vanilla copies of 2 on PC received the free update which added some things from Scholar like Aldia and some minor changes but not the enemy spawn and other major changes in the separate Scholar release for PS4/Xbone/PC.

>>187679772
His sign will drop in one or two areas later. He's probably the smartest NPC summon in the series, even better than some players.

>>187680248
Is it possible he's an OC of one of the higher ups? Like Maneater Mildred was originally a joke that the employees threw around before she was in the actual game. Could that be why he's so good?

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why the fuck is save file capped at ten characters

>>187680696
One mage dude, one fight man, one thiefy guy, and one female for each of the seven deadly sins. That's how I play.

>>187680939
>one female for each of the seven deadly sins
Care to share?

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>>187680939
I want to see your Sin Builds.

>>187680939
Can I see gluttony?

>>187681215
>>187681109

Just make a montage

>>187681215
The one thing I don't like about DS3 is that you can't get the cover-art/"canonical" armor for a regular NG playthrough. I liked having the official protagonist look in Dark Souls with the elite knight set

>>187681649
I see what ya mean.
What infuriates me the most however, is how the armour you wear molds your proportions to itself, not the other way around with your proportions affecting the armour.
Wolf K***ht Greaves and Vilhelm's Set are good examples of this shit.
My char's legs ain't that tiny.

>>187681109
>>187681215
>>187681273
It's a lot more basic than you'd think.
>Lust
A hot Maneater Mildred.
>Gluttony
Fat fuck. Use Smough's armor for best effect
>Greed
Dress up like a jester from DaS2 because all the cunts do that
>Sloth
Catarina Set, don't put any points into stamina
>Wrath
Quelaag's furysword, large weapons or a katana. Don't block.
>Envy
Change build to mimic the last thing that killed you (mostly just copy Invaders,), better yet change build to best fit the last person you met every time you meet someone. Ultimate quality build after a few million souls.
>Pride
Wear the shiniest shit you can find. Ornstien's armor works well. As well as Domhall of Zena's

>>187681649
I thought that was just Oscar desu.

>>187682224
And this is how you can tell I'm a massive newfag.

>>187682224
Oscar is my fucking baby

>>187682482
I'd report you to children services by now if he was your kid.
What kind of a fucking casual gets his shit kicked in by the asylum demon? Not only are you a bad parent for getting him killed, but also failed to train him.

>>187682090
Have you tried this in 2 or 3?

>>187682347
How do you know his name if you're a newfag

>>187682801
I just got 2 and I don't own 3. I made a wrath character on 3 at a friend's house with the uchi but I couldn't find a fedora to go with my katana.
As for 2 I'm enjoying fight man too much to make me-mes.

>>187682976
With fight man, have you considered power-stancing Bone Fists?

>>187682930
I replied to my own shit. I originally put T B H and it came out as D E S U.
Spacing because I don't know what other word filters there are here.

>>187683052
I'm a bastard sword whore, but I'll give it a shot.

>>187683207
It's the closest you'll get to being a karate master, which seems fitting for fight man.

>>187683340
Ah, I see. You have a different take on fight man than I. I meant a fighter in the sense of classical dungeons and dragons or elder scrolls. Basic melee weapon guy.

Why doesn't TechnoJacker's cheat engine table work anymore? It just freezes

>>187683457
Then if you happen to be going in the direction of Strength, try the Orma and Reeve's powerstance. Twin greatshields that can be powerstanced, but only when you have them both.

So I just upgraded my Astora Greatsword to +6 and all the "Host of Embers presence" markers on the warp menu vanished did I just fuck myself out of range from weapon matchmaking?

I'm in Irithyll Boreal Valley SL58

>first playthough, melee in DS3, pretty easy
>second playthrough, faith in DS3, even easier
>third playthrough, int in DS3, FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE

how do I do early game sorcery in DS3? I'm trying to get to vordt but I'm not even getting halfway to the bonfire before dying due to running out of estus.

>farron dart is literally useless
>great heavy soul arrow is useful, but so slow that It can't hit anything I couldn't just kill with R1 spam
>no str/dex so R1 spam isn't even that good
>sorceror's robes are shit, but just heavy enough I can't even get under 30% without taking one of the pieces off, giving me the worst possible absorption
>23 int and GHSA is just barely strong enough to 2 shot some enemies

should I have gone with Knight and waited to invest in INT until only after the first few bosses?

Why is Laurence such a shitty reskin of a boss with a fuck ton of HP?

>>187684359

>says he has Great Heavy Soul Arrow
>hasn't got past Vordt when you can only get GHSA from Orbeck

What?

>>187684693
>third playthrough
maybe NG+2?

>>187684693
>>187684825
Oh, I meant the regular heavy soul arrow I guess. I forgot that great and heavy are separate things.

>>187683052
Bone Fists don't feel strong enough to be meta, but they're hilarious against people who don't know the moveset.
>fighting on the bridge arena
>powerstanced R2
>foe blocks the leg sweep
>attempts to counterattack
>eats Part 2 and goes flying into oblivion

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Why can't I hold all these Balder Side Swords.

>>187684896
>>187684359
That makes sense, Heavy Soul Arrow is pretty shit, don't bother with it. Anyway on to advice, High Wall is going to be the worst part of your playthrough, I recommend just skipping through it to maybe free Greirat and kill Vordt. After that is when the build takes off. Skip settlement by just running to where Siegward is and go into Crucifixion Woods.

Get Orbeck, buy Great Heavy Soul Arrow and Soul Greatsword off him. Also get the scrolls from Farron Keep so he doesn't go away and so you can get Flashsword, Great Farron Dart and Pestilent Mercury, three other useful spells. Farron Keep also has the Sage's Coal which lets you elemental infuse a weapon with Crystal earlier than any other caster build can infuse a weapon with their primary stats so you can get a Crystal Longsword/Lothric Knight Sword right away. Finally Farron Keep also has the Crown of Dusk which will give you a nice damage boost until you get the Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring and you can take it off at your leisure if you want.

Against most enemies if you want to cast just use Flashsword or Soul Greatsword, but for bosses Great Heavy Soul Arrow will be your bread and butter as it will melt them, don't even bother with Soul Spear and Crystal Soul Spear since those are way less efficient and come way too late. You definitely want to keep up with Greirat's quest up to Irithyll since his hunt there gets you the Scholar's Candlestick which is another nice 12.5% boost to sorceries, but your main goal for the mid game is getting the Bellowing Dragon Ring for your biggest damage boost.

If you want, you can also do Yoel's quest to get the Dark Hand from Yuria to kill Dancer with. This lets you fight Oceiros, and if you have a Bleed weapon and 100% physical shield you can kill him without much issue and get the Moonlight Greatsword from his soul which can serve you the whole run.

>>187684118
Being SL58 already put you out of range of anything in Irithyll, at that level you'll get activity at post-Pontiff's and Irithyll Dungeon, where most people are at +6 anyways.

>>187684680
I wouldn't exactly call him a reskin, his second phase is sort of like a cross between broken Stray Demon and Quelaag.

>>187685412
Yeah, I had a plan for what to do once I got to undead settlement (Yoel sells some pretty good spells)

I'm thinking of Dex/Int with the crystal sage rapier. How is it? Or should I go Str/Int with Heysel Pick?

>>187685515
Crystal Sage Rapier is great but it's dex scaling is shit despite having a higher dex requirement than most rapier. Heysel Pick is also great but same with its STR scaling, they both work best as 60 INT weapons with or without physical stats.

>>187676309
Chaos has more crit damage than Dark iirc, so there's that

Anyone on PC want to drop me some of patches' gear? I want to do a cosplay run and also play around with some low level players.

>>187685787
>27/12/60: Heysel Pick, then MLGS
>12/40/60: Simple Rapier, then Crystal Sage Rapier
>27/40/40: Cleric's Candlestick, then GSoJ

Which one of these would you recommend? I'm thinking either the second or third, particularly because I've wanted to try out both the candlestick and GSoJ. The former because it looks a lot like the Rune Sword, which I love. I know it's not a very good weapon though.

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Somebody has jerked off to this.

>>187687174
The third if you want a unique build, the latter two will let you use cool weapons like Aquamarine and Crystal Scimitar optimally as well.

>>187687359
I don't believe it

>>187687359
>somebody
oh I think we all know someone who has

you, before posting it, and me, right now

>>187687435
Third it is, then. Unique/fun is definitely what I am going for.

>>187687359
What would a blowjob from a Primordial Serpent feel like?

>>187686685
Sure, let me start up my PS3 emulator and boot up Demon's Souls real quick.

>>187687950
they have no lips
theyre all teeth
so awful

>>187688491
Yeah but think about how big their tongues are

>Ruin Sentinels have a high-jumping slam attack that's exclusive to the boss fight
I've beaten them at least three times before now, and I've never seen them perform that move; just now, they spammed it at me non-stop. Do they only do it after they've tossed their shield at you?

>>187688654
They mostly do it if you try to run away and heal, both as a punish and a gap closer

>>187688853
I don't think any bosses except Raime, Alonne and Champ have a heal-punish mechanic where they deliberately stop what they're doing to attack a player who's healing. I had both the Ruin Sentinels just performing sick anime flips whenever I was trying to space them out for safe attacks, so maybe it is a gap closer attack.

I've just never actually seen them perform that attack, ever, so it came as a surprise that it even existed.

Just started invading, it's so fun. If DoS is in here, you whooped my ass a lot, sir.

>>187689845
>700/1500/8000 players in the game
>only 50 posters max in this thread
he's not here unless you're running around DS3 with the /dsg/ password on

>>187689940
nah, DS1. Oh well

>DS3 clerics: Sacrifice some healing for better healing
>DS3 sorcerers: Sacrifice some healing for worse damage

>>187690647
Actually, Miracles are quite stronger than Estus healing, it only takes a longer to use
Sorcery is also a ranged option

>>187656073
kys

>>187690647
>DaS1 clerics: pretty meh overall, but some pretty broken Miracles that are completely worth it
>DaS2 clerics: pretty overpowered on release, got subsequently nerfed hard but are still pretty decent defenses-wise and become good again late-game, while also being capable of sub-classing into Pyromancies at any time
>DaS3 clerics: absolutely dogshit for at least 70% of the game, with one of the better base game Miracles locked behind a broken covenant and the rest locked behind a late-game area, and requiring a completely broken weapon and completely broken Miracle that are DLC-exclusive in order to become "okay"

>>187691328
DS3 clerics are literally the strongest pve option after quality builds

>>187691328
>completely broken Miracle
I hope you're not talking about lightning arrow
that miracle seems super overrated

>>187691149
>only
You're completely immobile and for the better heals you have to kneel down for approximately half a century. Meanwhile walking while chugging is so fast you can't even get backstabbed. Maybe buttpoked with some of the longer stabby weapons

>>187691612
>>187691149
for PvE, replenishment is pretty much the best miracle in the game. It trivializes the point of estus at the cost of setting down your controller and doing something productive while you heal.

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Updated the tier list to include spells finally, since the last patch is likely the last one we'll ever have this is going to be the final version barring possible corrections or the unlikely case of another patch.

>>187691686
If you're just going wait out the damage, you can just equip 2 blessed items and maybe a couple of chime WAs and SPR if you have it.

>>187691612
Yes, that's the trade-off. Find a safe opportunity where you aren't being bum-rushed by enemies, cast a heal, and suddenly you're back to full health without expending one of your sippies. And you can do this several more times, and for your allies, before having to take one sip of Ashen Estus.

Properly used, a single cast of Great Heal will heal 1.4k HP, a full heal for any phantom and a massive chunk of health for almost any host, and which you can cast roughly 4 times on a single FP bar before having to take a single sip of Ashen Estus. So you're expending 25% of an Ashen Estus, for two orange Estus' worth of sippies, multiplied by the number of teammates affected by the heal.

Forgot: what happens after Aldrich?

>invade
>host and a phantom + a blue
>kill one with difficulty
>die
>points down
everytime

>>187692350
Nothing. You reach a dead end and have to turn back to go kill Yhorm, after which you reach another dead end.

>>187692489
Gotcha. Then dancer, correct?

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>>187692079
Noice.

>>187692726
I like his dick nipple

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>>187692079
looks perfect.
NOW PUT POI/TOXIC MIST IN THE TRASH

>>187692796
I'm most proud of the face.

>>187692079
Good work.

>>187692079
too bad 20% of it is wrong

>>187693835
Ok

>want to make a new character in DS3
>ugh I forgot how much of a slog the tutorial is
>at least it picks up-
>wait no, high wall takes forever too. No good shit either. It gets better at-
>ugh undead settlement is full of bullshit. I can't wait for-
>road of sacrifices is so boring...
>fuck farron swamp
>oh! Cathedral of the Deep! Yeah starting a new character will be fun...! I can just rush to cathedral and then..
>...go to keep, catacombs, smouldering lake ithryll...
>at least the dungeon is fun...
>...but then I have to slog through anor londo and lothric castle..
>faced with the reality that I have to invest 20+ hours of gameplay in shitty levels just to get to the 3 fun areas in this entire game
>fuck it
>decide not to play DS3

happens every time

>>187694104
>Only Cathedral is the fun part of the early game of DaS3
Jesus fuck, how did they fuck up so hard?

>>187694104
>tfw I find almost every area in the game except Carthus and Propane Hallway to be fun
At least it means I'll never get tired of making new builds.

>>187694104
HIghwall to Cathus is really boring, i personally cant stand Cathedral.
But I love Demon ruins.
then its shit again until Dancer
Lothric is castle is tedious and grand Archives is annoying.
I love archdragon peak though

>>187693835
FUCK YOU, I spent days doing this shit

>>187694694
why are you pretending to be me

unless you're me and I don't know it

>>187694694
you are not me, stop pretending

>>187694694
>>187694736
>>187694807
Are you me

>>187694876
Literally Me

>>187693835
kys

>>187693835
It's not wrong at all.
I conducted extensive research to make this.

>>187693835
wrong
only 10%

Mornes Greathammer

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>>187693835

>>187695162
is shit

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Mornes set 2bh

>>187695238
But muh wog

>>187695162
Your mum Moaned on my greathammer last night lad

>>187695304
is shit

>>187694220
Cathedral, Ithryll Dungeon, Grand Archives, Ariandel, and Archdragon Peak are the only levels in DS3 that I even remotely enjoy

>one is literally an inferior version of a DeS level
>one is a late game DLC and has awful bosses
>one is late game optional and requires going through 2 more shitty levels to get to it
>only two are actually part of the game

it wouldn't be so bad if going through all the shitty levels weren't mandatory to reach them

>>187695162
are you SL200 on NG+?

no?

then it's shit.

>>187695335
R>>187695339
>>187695543
But its fun

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>Vietnam_Flashbacks.jpg

>>187695956
That's what your mum said

BUT THE VOLCANOES

>>187695543
Honestly wish games in the series other than 2 had a "fuck it your SL500 have a weapon that scales with everything" gear option in them. Going to NG+ always feels kinda lame knowing that you already hit the peak since scaling is usually locked to half of your max on any given stat.
DS1 had extra casts of crystal soul spear that made magic scale slightly into NG+
DS2 has mundane but that got nerfed and the curved nil greatsword bonus damage is nice but no elemental scaling
DS3 sharp infusion that actually makes it worth going above 40

Like what are they afraid of, matchmaking is SL based in most of these and you can completely break the game anyway, just give me my badass anime sword of death that has S scaling on every stat but only if those stats are above 60

>>187696194
IT AIN'T ME

>>187695956
then go play DS1 or DS2

>>187696194
I hope this is NG+ because you are grossly overleveled for the gutter

>>187696560
Sadly just NG, I didn't find my way down here before now.

>>187696194
I honestly find the Gutter to be a pretty interesting area. Lack of shit filter means it's a lot easier to navigate than Blighttown, and lighting the torches lets you place your own markers as to where you've already been.

>some people don't clear EVERY place before doing NG+

>>187696560
Given how the paths work out in DaS2, you're bound to be overleveled for at least two of the four Old Ones unless you lock down with the Agape Ring after your second one.

>>187692079
How does hidden body work in PvP?
It is goddamn useful in PvE when I want to skip those annoying enemies while looting.

>>187696286
>S scaling on every stat but only if those stats are above 60
That's literally not how the game works though. If it has S scaling, it has S scaling regardless of what stats you have.

DeS had the Meat Cleaver, with very low base damage but S+S+A scaling.

DS1 had the greatsword of artorias, but split damage was so bad in that game that it ended up being weaker than the version that only scales with str/dex.

DS2 has the Ruler's Sword, which can only really be used in NG+ due to the insane soul requirement to get max damage out of it. Also, a power stance and 40+ cost hexes give plenty of versatility and purpose to higher leveling. 40/40/40/40 is useful because any melee weapon can be supported with hexes. Crypt Blacksword is basically that, it requires 40/10/25/25 at least to be used decently, and is optimal on 50/10/30/30

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>>187696885
>How does hidden body work in PvP?
It literally doesn't.

>>187696965
>Magic in DaS3
Boy, what a great game.

I sincerely believe that the DkS2 DLCs beat everything else in the souls series including DeS and the first half of DkS1

>>187697138
Prepare yourself for disappointment

>>187696946
>That's literally not how the game works though
I know and it's a shame, the devs are so resistant to the idea of having something that's just good at everything but only at high levels, but always end up having batshit broken things anyway.
What's the point of having a level cap of 800 and a stat cap of 99 on each stat when you already hit your peak power at 40/50 and level 200, I'm fine with softcaps for NG playthroughs but going from level 200 to 800 shouldn't feel like a 20% increase in power at most especially with the way leveling up costs scale in these games.

>>187654970
Who are these two characters

>>187696965
That Hidden Body attempt seems so sad I almost feel bad for the Red

>>187697346
alva and zullie

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>>187694104
I like High Wall, Cathedral, Irithyll, Dungeon, ADP, Lothric Castle and Grand Archives. Catacombs is tolerable and Farron Keep has a great bossfight in it to make it more tolerable. Settlemen is also decent aside from the bonfire spam.

>>187694220
Well for me the only actually good levels of base game DaS2 were Forest of Fallen Giants and Lost Bastille so...

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>let's put items in the swamp
>then once the player goes in immediately plague them then blockade them with a swarm of fetuses which are under the surface so the player has no way of knowing where they all are and they all block the player even while submerged
Shit game design here.

I NEED A FUN BUILD FOR MY DS1 REPLAY

>>187697495
Dusk crown, power within, ring of fog sorcerer

Is there a guide for savegame editing in DS3 without getting softbanned?

>>187697651
what do you want to edit?

>>187678909
Fatroll only starts in 70% but your rolling distance gets gradually shorter the more equipment you have on.

>>187697195
>What's the point of having a level cap of 800 and a stat cap of 99 on each stat when you already hit your peak power at 40/50 and level 200
It's a carryover from DeS, where most stats would scale linearly from 0 to 50, then softcap again at 99. The idea is that your first playthrough you would bring your stat to 50, then second playthrough you would stick with the same character but go to 99.

But then they realized that most players didn't ever reach 99 so they made the softcaps lower and more aggressive, with DS1. Except then they found out that scaling was -too- strong so they changed the way scaling works in DS2 to have multiple softcaps, including higher ones, plus a whole bunch of other ideas that generally worked best but needed tweaking. Then in DS3 they scrapped that system and just went back to DS1 style except with more softcaps.

From has always allowed wild levels of min maxing in their games though, usually with heavy punishments due to diminishing returns or massive tradeoffs. The whole point of AC is that you can spend tons of money building a mech that literally cannot fucking walk because you've min-maxed so hard, and the game will let you do this.

Souls allows that kind of min-maxing too, but your net result (whole character) is crippled if you try it. I think they were trying to apply the same mentality to balance from AC as Souls, but the fundamental problem that souls has a static level up system where you can just pick one thing to make it stronger, whereas AC is purely customization-based. Increasing one thing ALWAYS decreases something else. That means that souls needs some awkward softcap system on top of the leveling up to provide those limits.

Instead of it being a "Aha! I've discovered how the stats work! I have mastered this game!" sort of moment like it is with AC, it feels like a frustrating, arbitrary limit the developers put on the player. Same idea, but the execution in souls is much sloppier.

>>187697608
GAY

>>187697718
I'd like the Firelink armor set and the Warmth pyromancy.

>>187697651
nigger just collector edition that shit, bans are a myth.

I even changed the starting class and nothing happened

>>187697807
I don't have collector edition

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>host and invader die at the same time

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>>187697901
>host dies to mobs while trying to take a sippy a few seconds after the invader was killed

>>187697798
there's a quick guide on how to itemswap in the OP under
>useful pvp data

>>187697495
100% equip load greatshield using poise tank

Use the master key to rush to the stone armor right away. If you want, farm stone knights and do a stone knight cosplay run

>>187698034
That guide's hard to use because all the images are broken

>>187698093
sounds lame

I think I'll just do a faith build, as I never used faith in any games

>>187698214
Faiths really bad in 1, if you want to do a faith build then do it in 2 or 3, 2 gives you good buffs and good damage scaling, 3 gives you a lightning bow for style

>>187698254
>>187698214
faith is only bad in 1 because you need to do several hours of co-op to unlock any decent offensive miracles, but once you have them it's pretty great.