Nothing1016
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Some of the design decisions drive me crazy especially when it comes to enemy placement. I feel like this game has more soul crushing points then the previous two. Drives me crazy and NG+ is gonna be a pain. -.-
Dark Souls II |OT2| Prepare to Vengarl
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bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Praise the Sun!
Get a weapon with a wide swing arc. Keep your shield up. And try to carefully watch the fog for movement. The only way to really get through that part if you want to fully explore it would be to take it slow.
With that said - there is one trick...
If you hit the trees with faces, it will draw the enemies to those locations allowing you an opportunity to bring the to you rather than them hitting you at shitty times.
Not that I've seen, which is one of my biggest disappointments, if not the biggest, from the pre-release hype. Well, maybe they were
replaced by astronauts
rogerroger22
Member
How that zone progresses into what comes next is pretty awesome, loved it.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
[very late game spoilers] What the fuck is with the M
of J
? I get
... 
From be trollin'.
emory
eigh
burnt to death by those fiery catapult projectile long before I can even get one hit on that giant. :S Am I missing a trick? They hint at a time limit, too, which annoys me.
You know, the Herald does give you that
feather
A hero soul.
I figured it out on my own because I like to revisit areas after a while to see if anything new popped. And that contraption was something I noticed being locked early on, so...
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Smelter Demon
third phase where the sword is pure fire damage
It's dead now though. Onward to more adventure!
rogerroger22
Member
What's been a 'soul crushing' point for you? haven't run into anything that bad yet.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
DownLikeBCPowder
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I just dashed past the first two smaller things and fought the large thing. Though it gave me an option to examine another thing after and I'm wondering if I missed something there as my time did in fact run up as I hit X.
Lost sinner
Also question for any mages. The spells get better right? The ones I have now are kind of elementary. The only one I have that's interesting is
soul spear barrage
No-Mans wharf
Edit: This
ring of life proection
DownLikeBCPowder
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You should have gotten a thing that will help you with the first problem you mention.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
How were you not
burnt to a crisp, though? Do the fireballs stop spamming on you if you run far enough on the bridge?
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
I'm not sure. I think they only hit in two spots. I waited for it to hit near me and off I went. I took the advice of a message.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Ha! I brought Lucatiel into the Flexile Sentry fight with me, and all she did was shield up in a corner while it hammered on her and I stood across the room and spammed it with various soul arrows.
He did not stand a chance at all.
Now that's team work. Chump.
He did not stand a chance at all.
Now that's team work. Chump.
Something that has been confusing me on the menus, when it has Strength(or whatever) labeled as C, but other weapons make it blue/red. Why do some weapons have a blue C or a red C compared to my current Heide Knight Sword? Does that just mean a very marginal change considering it's the same letter grade?
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Well, nevermind. A message said
"dashing through!"
The fire indeed does stop at the area near the fog. After that he was cake. Firestorm utterly annihilates it. 
LOL, as I was typing this
that asshole Navlaan invaded me on my way back. Took me by surprise haha. He invades friggin' everywhere. Regretting having freed him now... xD
Do you mean the
branch thing
DownLikeBCPowder
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That's right, go see the obstacle now.
Well, nevermind. A message saidand so that's what I did."dashing through!"The fire indeed does stop at the area near the fog. After that he was cake. Firestorm utterly annihilates it.
LOL, as I was typing thisthat asshole Navlaan invaded me on my way back. Took me by surprise haha. He invades friggin' everywhere. Regretting having freed him now... xD
Exactly what I did and exactly what happened to me after. I got killed because I wasn't paying attention when I was done.
DownLikeBCPowder
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Stefan;105092816 said:
I still can't figure out how to get there.
Pharros Lockstone
Asides from two boss encounters, NG+ is easier and much more forgiving due to how powerful your character is. I wouldn't worry about it.
I've got some good news for you - you're not even close to the end of the game.
TwistedFate
Member
Which Pyro did you use?
Class?
I'm a melee character. The goal is to stick to the middle of her abdomen as much as possible. Kill as many of the little spiders as you can without letting one of her heads get a lock on you. Once most of the little spiders are dead you can work on her. The goal is to keep circling her at point blank range. Bait out an attack and wreck the other head. Then bait out an attack there and bash the other head. It's probably even just as effective for range/mage classes to use a similar strategy. Just point blank blasts to the face.
That water heals you. Bathe yourself in it as part of a resistance package to do stuff you normally can't. Like walk on the hardened lava.
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
Try to agitate one head by giving it a good whack, then run over to the other undefended head to do some real damage. Also, when it spends the better half of a minute rearing up, its telegraphing it's beam of death attack.
Nose Master
Member
How do you light all of Cale's fires? I have 6 atm.
More important than that
coating yourself it in provides additional fire resistance that makes getting the items on the damaging lava platforms easier
dr3upmushroom
Banned
So only two optional bosses left (the hardest ones):
and wondering if it's even worth fighting them at this point, I keep dying with them and I kinda just want to go over and explore new game+.
The King and Ancient Dragon
Looking at the comments on this thread I'd say
the smelter demon
Vendrick is pretty easy. Grab the biggest shield you can find, always circle strafe him, block the few of his attacks that can hit you from behind and then hit him once or twice with a good weapon.
The Xtortionist
Member
Two different ones I think.
1. Ruin Sentinels. Can be encountered very early in the game. You first have to fight one of them on a small elevated platform, and then two of them at the same time in a more open area. They wield long spears with great reach and can stun lock you easily. One of the latter two is very aggressive and will quickly chase you down. Long reach, combo attacks, etc... Two of them also have shields which can be a problem.
2. Smelter Demon. Extremely high defense and all of his attacks are considered to be pure-fire attacks when he gets to 50%, so blocking with the vast majority of shields is useless. Has a delay on a few of his attacks that make rolling tricky to time. Plenty of multi hit combos you have to precisely roll through, since blocking won't prevent much damage. Now this boss is actually skippable, but it's ill-advised since you'll miss the bonfire that unlocks after killing him.
2. Smelter Demon. Extremely high defense and all of his attacks are considered to be pure-fire attacks when he gets to 50%, so blocking with the vast majority of shields is useless. Has a delay on a few of his attacks that make rolling tricky to time. Plenty of multi hit combos you have to precisely roll through, since blocking won't prevent much damage. Now this boss is actually skippable, but it's ill-advised since you'll miss the bonfire that unlocks after killing him.
ScottSullivan
Member
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you The
ROTTEN! Oh man I spent like 45 minutes being super careful, avoiding being poisoned, lighting sconces trying to avoid ambushes, and I summon some people for this boss seeing how tough he was, and I get myself killed when he has 1/10 health left and now I get to do it ALLLLLL again! Is there a bonfire I missed in that second area with all the poison statues?
The Xtortionist
Member
Deified Data
Banned
Did co-op recon on the
before attempting it alone...Jesus. This will not be fun. How many bonfires are in that area? The last one I had was the one immediately after the
bossfight. That's a loooot of catching up to do when I inevitably die dozens of times.
if I recall.
Spider
undead clerics
Shaded Woods
The Xtortionist
Member
Freja is cake, just stand mid-range to bait the laser, then run around behind it (on its right side) and hack away while its pew-pewing. Then back up and repeat.
Incendiary
Banned
Aw, that sucks. Well maybe-
-what. Ugh that mask sucks and looks terrible compared to the reveal. Dammit. Fuck that's disappointing.
Augemitbutter
Member
can anybody help with the above, please?
Sounds good. I'm waiting for the PC version. Wasn't hyped at first, but now I'm feeling the Dark Souls itch! DS1 is probably my Game of the Generation.
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