Dark Souls II |OT2| Prepare to Vengarl
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Platinum already!
Christ you must of been booking it.
Im 40 hours on playthrough one and only just on my way to the castle.
maxed out 2 covenants and pretty sure i still havent found every secret before the castle.
In fact i know ive missed a boss.
Many of those are actually the reason I like DaS2 better than 1. To me it's comparable to Demons in a way that if I don't like to explore an area, I can just warp to another one, from the beginning and without too much pointless walking around. Dark 1 just felt annoying to me because of it, nor did I like its design choices very much. DaS had huge areas, but they just went on for too long. DaS2 areas may be too short, but it's better than Anor Londo. It was great when I first got there, but it really grew stale on me pretty fast.
Other than that there's the difficulty before you find that one ring (and maybe this games
cling ring
As far as bosses go, I never thought most of the souls bosses were brilliant other than in graphical design, just good. These are no exception (even though there's nothing close in design like the Sif fight, I'll give you that).
Heh, I managed that with a brute force pyromancy tactic.
He split in the midst of a fire storm and thus died.
how did you do the miracles / spells? Don't you need to get thousands of pvp kills?
Yah, that guy. That would be fine advice if I wasn't melee only. The boss absolutely destroys me and I have barely anytime to attack due to the speed of my weapon. I mean the first half is fine but he becomes nearly impossible to damage once he splits. I'm gonna try to tank the spells with either Havel's shield or the mirror shield (which says it deflects spells?). The fight is incredibly difficult as melee only and I could tell it would be a much easier fight as a caster but I won't fall to that level.
So Yah if anyone has suggestions for where to farm effigies that would be great.
Im trying to kill
Anyway, since all his attacks kill me in one shot I might as well use the red tearstone ring.
Problem is I don't have any item that drains my health. You guys come across any I could safely/easily use to get myself down to 20% hp?
Ancient Dragon, which is a bitch in itself. It really seems like its luck which way he breathes fire when he goes up in the air.
Anyway, since all his attacks kill me in one shot I might as well use the red tearstone ring.
Problem is I don't have any item that drains my health. You guys come across any I could safely/easily use to get myself down to 20% hp?
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yup, same haha.
I have a question about the Bonfire Aesthetic. When you use it, what exactly does it effect? The whole zone, or the area of the bonfire where there were fog gates? I was curious to ask because I might want to refight some bosses, but I want to make sure I don't waste it.
If someone can help explain to me its range, that would be swell.
If someone can help explain to me its range, that would be swell.
Defender's Shield. Fully upgraded, it's 5 lbs with a stability of 68.
You can get all of those covenant reward spells in single player during NG+/NG++
About 60h in (had to restart due to the "no MP" bug that has yet to be patched), and I'm on the last of the four Old Ones. But I'm a real sightseer and grinder. I hate missing things.
Dave1988
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It works only for the Bonfire area. If you want to respawn a boss, you have to use an ascetic on a bonfire that's closest to the boss. Also, do keep in mind that using an ascetic is permament and carries through to NG+ (setting the difficulty for that area to NG++).
All the covenenat specific spells can be bought from the Councillor Wellager in Drangleic Castle in NG+.
Apparently you can buy them from Wellager on NG++.
Alcoholikaust
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so are servers down now?
Farm the dogs in Lost Bastille, I believe it's called. The area before the three sentry bosses.
Make sure you put on a gold serpent ring and merchant cap if you have them. They drop pretty frequently.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
The
water creatures in Shrine of Amana
Augemitbutter
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lol, i was doing sunbro runs when i joined a player in the c
hariot fight. i was taking out the first necromancer when this guy who summoned me sneaked behind me in my hiding place --> killing me right there. what a fatty.
What bug is that?
Im dreading getting to the castle and then getting that bug that can happen there.
Baloonatic
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Best tactic I've seen is to stay a fair distance in front of him so he does the forward fire breath attack, run in and hit his foot a few times then get back in front of him. Takes forever but his flying attack can be unavoidable if he is too close to the edge so not worth the risk of triggering it.
Are you in the champions covenent?
Baloonatic
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Can you even block the flying attack with that if you are facing the right way?
Yea I died to this a few times yesterday and thought to myself there's no way to dodge that. Also is there a bonfire nearer the boss, the run up to him is kinda risky when skipping the mobs.
The one where he goes in the air and breathe fire all over the place? Yeah. The shield needs to be upgraded and you need about 20 endurance (which is what I had when I beat him).
It's the only attack I ever had to block though, I'm not sure you can block his head on fire breathing attack but it's so easy to avoid (just run towards him) that it shouldn't be a problem.
Heh, yeah,
he'll be hard to miss. That isn't one of the things that you'd only find out via a wiki or whatever.
The bug in his brain that compelled him to join the hardcore covenant at the start, probably. I just went "no thanks" and turned away, though I guess I should've joined then immediately abandoned. Eh, it can be done whenever.
I'm sure that you can get
Wrath of the Gods, and Chaos Fireball from Chancellor Wellager on NG++.
Hidden Weapon and Sunlight Spear, as I got those through ranking up.
Playtime was 116 hrs, lvl 174. NG++. Total deaths 586, which I'm ok with for three playthroughs. Beat every boss except one on my second and third playthrough.
Overall, really enjoyed the game, and won't be putting it down soon.
Jimmyfenix
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Gyrm greatshield = life
So due to my life of protection I managed to rake over 750000 souls due to making certain area's new game plus. It was fun to level up with that many souls.
I think I will grind out some other areas by making them new game plus before I finish the game.
Also any tips for a new weapon? I have 34 strength and have been rolling with the heide knight sword + 10 for a while and it has out stayed it's welcome.
So due to my life of protection I managed to rake over 750000 souls due to making certain area's new game plus. It was fun to level up with that many souls.
I think I will grind out some other areas by making them new game plus before I finish the game.
Also any tips for a new weapon? I have 34 strength and have been rolling with the heide knight sword + 10 for a while and it has out stayed it's welcome.
About the boss soul weapons: Some of them can be deceiving simply judging them on stats alone. For example, the Warped Sword is a bit weak at first but after a few upgrades it does good damage and scales A with Dex. Not only that but it seems to do more poise damage than other weapons of it's class and size. Also, the R1 swing is pretty fast and I can get a quick draw on the
in Iron Keep, where as using a Long Sword, which is also a very fast weapon, if I attacked at the same time as the knight I would also take damage. The R2 attack of this weapon is also really cool.
katana weilding knights
OneEyeTwoHead
Banned
Bonfire Ascetic +2 looking for the Black Dragon Shield. At this point I might as well beg someone to drop it for me in game :/
OMFG FINALLY GOT IT!
OMFG FINALLY GOT IT!
I'm disappointed, too :-/
See here:
So, finally here
My first post in this thread and.... well.... I'm totally disappointed.
I was under media blackout, so please (if you can and want) answer my questions, if possible:
1. What the hell happened with the animations of the character and the monsters?
First time they have used motion cap and it sucks ass.
Sometimes, it looks like the main character and the monsters are gliding on rails or ice. Absolutely horrible!
The animations in DS1 were great. Why ruining it with this crappy mo-cap work?
I already saw it in the first trailers (and talked about it, here, on Neogaf) and somebody here said "they know about it and they're gonna fix it in the end". Welp.... didn't happen
2. Why in the hell would you remove the "kick"?
In DS1, I could kick the enemies away from me, etc. Now you can only "push" them, which sucks. WTF is this shit? Why removing it?
3. What happened with the combat errrr..... hit detection in DS2?
Hitting an enemy with my sword feels and looks like I'm hitting him with a small/thin iron stick. There is absolutely no weight behind it. I don't "feel" it anymore.
It was perfect in DS1.
4. Main issue: WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE RUMBLE?
I mean.... where is it? Played for 20 hours now and my controller rumbled twice! Two times, in 20 hours!!! What happened here? Checked the options/settings, etc. --> Rumble should be there, but it isn't. What's going on here?
Am I the only one here?
Playing it for some time now and I'm getting used to it (to all the downgraded/removed stuff, which was better in DS1), but... what the hell?!?! ;_;
It's weird :-(
That's what I was thinking, lol.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Just killed the O
I
K
. My god what an easy boss fight, likely due to my build. Faith/Pyro/Dex (with STR 20 so I can equip any armor). Just toxic mist him twice to poison, then just waited for the breath attack, went to blind spot spammed AOE lightning attack each cast doing nearly a quarter of HP bar. Thought it would be much more difficult.
Hardest boss thus far for me I think is the S
D
. Just due to fact that you need to figure out how to raise your fire res high enough, luckily i had the hex set, slapped that on with the +1 fire def ring along with ring of restoration, and barely lost any health when I got close.
Question, been trying to get the black steel katana and have had no luck even with the jester hat, and rusted coins. I've gotten tons of the armor pieces that drop, but not the katana
Any suggestions?
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Hardest boss thus far for me I think is the S
melter
emon
Question, been trying to get the black steel katana and have had no luck even with the jester hat, and rusted coins. I've gotten tons of the armor pieces that drop, but not the katana
Any suggestions?If it was my choice I would make it so it drops a bunch of huge enemies who immediately start pummeling NPCs
Yup, that is what I have been trying. (8 tries so far) but he eventually does the fly up into the air and most of the time I can run away but then like you said if he is too close to the edge its a done deal.
My question still stands: are there any items that drain my health steadily so I can get myself to under 20% HP easily to trigger the red tearstone ring?
Baloonatic
Member
That's interesting, I'll give that a go when the PC version comes out as I think I'm done on consoles for now with other stuff starting to come out. Already put around 150 hours in so I'm going to try and hold off until then.
Alcoholikaust
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cool thanks-
anyone who hasn't beaten the gargoyles yet should take advantage. the AI invader in that area is easier to dispatch than randoms impeding your progress.
it sounds precarious but I had more trouble getting to the gargoyles than the actual fight
(they are weak against any magic and lightning)
super-famicom
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Are servers down for anyone else?
Baloonatic
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I know there's at least a few weapons that hurt you when you attack. One is a katana but I don't recall the name.
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