Dark Souls II |OT2| Prepare to Vengarl

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Aldias Keep whats up with the large door with a number of locks, near the caged enemies? And sometimes petrified statues appear there out of nowhere. Creepy...

if you kite one of those big guys to the door they will break down the wall and theres a chest inside
 
Is there anywhere to farm fire seeds?

You'll find more then enough to max out your glove.
I got mine to +10 and my other glove to +3 and im only at the castle

You can buy 3 off of rosabeth.
she also drops one if you slaughter her.

I did just that she is useless to me now.
 
Don´t know if you guys know but the ring of life protection breaks at death but doesn´t disappear.
It cost only 3000 to repair it up after it breaks. So basically you never lose anything if you go and repair it up.
Yep and a lot of people complained about it. It's kind of OP so to speak. Especially since you now have 4 ring slots.
 
I've been leaving my summon sign outside the E
xecutioner's
C
hariot
boss door. But no one has been leaving theirs for me :(

NG+ SL 150 on the PS3, I've stopped for the evening though. Not even sure if SL matters any more for summoning...
 
lol, after beating the game I realized that the reason I thought Dark Souls II might be a Western-developed game when the very first announcement video was released (back during the VGAs) was because that trailer was done by a Western studio.
 
lol, after beating the game I realized that the reason I thought Dark Souls II might be a Western-developed game when the very first announcement video was released (back during the VGAs) was because that trailer was done by a Western studio.
Almost the entire marking campaign for this game screamed "western", right down to the preorder DLC and collector's edition.
 
You'll find more then enough to max out your glove.
I got mine to +10 and my other glove to +3 and im only at the castle

You can buy 3 off of rosabeth.
she also drops one if you slaughter her.

I did just that she is useless to me now.

I upgraded the dark hand because I mistakenly saw the scaling grade and didn't realize the regular hand was superior(in my opinion). So now I'm kinda stuck at +3 on the regular hand
 
Wtf? I just found out that black phantom NPCs only have a small chance to drop their equipment. That's lame.

And what's even worse, they may have multiple items to drop, and they generally drop one of them at a time only, when you get it to drop...plus, they're unique per cycle...
Gotta say it's the only real problem I have with the game so far...it's absolutely garbage to do this, especially since I wanted a 100% save file...but that undermined my will greatly.
 
I upgraded the dark hand because I mistakenly saw the scaling grade and didn't realize the regular hand was superior(in my opinion). So now I'm kinda stuck at +3 on the regular hand

The other hand is better if you suicide play with 50% hp. I'd prob of been better off with that as i can get hit like a champ.
 
And what's even worse, they may have multiple items to drop, and they generally drop one of them at a time only, when you get it to drop...plus, they're unique per cycle...
Gotta say it's the only real problem I have with the game so far...it's absolutely garbage to do this, especially since I wanted a 100% save file...but that undermined my will greatly.

Multiple items? Good lord.
 
any tips for getting lucatiel's inheritance? She's fucking terrible with bosses on NG+. Just keeps running into smelter demon and getting smashed to shit before we've even got his hp down to half.

Thick.
 
I went from having 1 Ring of Life Protection, to now have 3 Ring of Life Protections and an extra Ring of Soul Protection too. I finally don't have to go back and forth between deaths. But man do those costs add up when I do go back.
 
any tips for getting lucatiel's inheritance? She's fucking terrible with bosses on NG+. Just keeps running into smelter demon and getting smashed to shit before we've even got his hp down to half.

Thick.

Isn't there a taunt ring that aggros enemies to attack you? I'm not looking forward to babysitting those noobs in NG+ either, since I had no idea about it my first time through.
 
any tips for getting lucatiel's inheritance? She's fucking terrible with bosses on NG+. Just keeps running into smelter demon and getting smashed to shit before we've even got his hp down to half.

Thick.

I haven't gotten to that boss yet but her AI is definitely dumb from the Sinner fight. I wish her AI was as good as Masterless Glencore.

Isn't there a taunt ring that aggros enemies to attack you? I'm not looking forward to babysitting those noobs in NG+ either, since I had no idea about it my first time through.

I think so. I found a ring like that.
 
the ring prob wouldn't help, she'll still run into his wide swings and sit there whilst he does his 'gasm explosion that knocks off a fifth of her health. If i had more than 1 soul Geyser i'd be laughing at this shit.

i will try it tonight. Maybe summon another scrub into my game to help (they've all been shit LOL). Had one prick push Luca off the platform before we entered the fog gate -_-
 
Phew,
Smelter Demon
is destroying me. Just had him down to about 15% health, but he seems to have an attack that pushes me against the wall and does something to the camera where I'm just trapped 'inside' him and can't move as I'm pincered between him and the wall (very much like the Centipede Demon in DS1 if you stayed near the fog door). Seems pretty resistant to magic too, which sucks for me as a sorcerer! :p


edit - OK, this is dumb. I got push back from his sword and my character model was literally bobbing up and down against the wall in a semi-falling back animation and I couldn't do anything until I locked off. This is going to be one of those classic From Soft borked geometry moments isn't it.
 
Ya, dunno, man. I've got 5+ chars who have hit SL 80+ and my main who is at 150 and I was never invaded once. It's really a shame.

I was invaded quite frequently in the previous games.

How......? I've been using basically all my free time to play Dark Souls 2 and I have one SL102 character and haven't even finished the game yet. I'm constantly amazed how quickly people get through these games.

As for invasions, I only got invaded a few times in Dark Souls that I can remember. I did a lot more co-op than anything else.
 
Guys, where do I need to go next?
I've defeated the Lost Sinner, the Rotten, Duke's Dear Freja and the Old Iron King. The people in Majula keep talking about the king (probably meaning I need to open those 'symbol of the king' doors, but I have no idea how to do that.
What's next on the to-do list? Also, could I get an estimate of how far I am? About 75% through?
 
Guys, where do I need to go next?
I've defeated the Lost Sinner, the Rotten, Duke's Dear Freja and the Old Iron King. The people in Majula keep talking about the king (probably meaning I need to open those 'symbol of the king' doors, but I have no idea how to do that.
What's next on the to-do list?

Forked path bonfire in shaded woods, take the left door
 
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Guys, where do I need to go next?
I've defeated the Lost Sinner, the Rotten, Duke's Dear Freja and the Old Iron King. The people in Majula keep talking about the king (probably meaning I need to open those 'symbol of the king' doors, but I have no idea how to do that.
What's next on the to-do list?

Broken Fork Crossroads bonfire > Shrine of Winter > Drangleic Castle.
 
Guys, where do I need to go next?
I've defeated the Lost Sinner, the Rotten, Duke's Dear Freja and the Old Iron King. The people in Majula keep talking about the king (probably meaning I need to open those 'symbol of the king' doors, but I have no idea how to do that.
What's next on the to-do list?

Go to the 4-way forked path in Shaded Woods and go left. There will be a Flexile Sentry at the end, but it's not actually the end, there's a narrow path on the left which leads to the Shrine of Winter. You should be able to get in if you have all 4 lord souls.
 
Has anyone else (especially sorcerers) experienced these camera problems with
Smelter Demon
, I feel like this is really poor game design.


edit - Fuck, did it! I had to really stick to him like glue so he did the delayed smash, if I got any distance at all he did the running thrust which seems to flip you around if blocked and that is what was causing the camera spaz-out. Had to really stay central in the area and not get too close to the walls. Bad form on From's part since it happened repeatedly, not just a one-off fuck up.
 
Beat
Freja
on my first try this morning by upgrading my Warped Sword enough to one-hit the adds consistently. Do weapons do varying damage in this game? It seems the spread is enough that I'm regularly unable to predict if I'll one-shot an enemy.

Also, did anyone go down the Mujala hole early with the cat ring? I dropped down before I ever went to
Shady Woods
and activated the two bonfires, but I figured it would be difficult since it came later in the bonfire list and haven't gone back since.
 
Forked path bonfire in shaded woods, take the left door

Broken Fork Crossroads bonfire > Shrine of Winter > Drangleic Castle.

Go to the 4-way forked path in Shaded Woods and go left. There will be a Flexile Sentry at the end, but it's not actually the end, there's a narrow path on the left which leads to the Shrine of Winter. You should be able to get in if you have all 4 lord souls.

Oh, that's right, thanks! I ran into that door earlier, but my memory had it filed away as another king door instead of a 'get these souls' door.
 
Has anyone else (especially sorcerers) experienced these camera problems with
Smelter Demon
, I feel like this is really poor game design.

I've gotten stuck between him and the statues jutting off the two sides of the arena before. Really annoying. If you're relying on your ability to dodge you're basically screwed in that situation.
 
Phew,
Smelter Demon
edit - OK, this is dumb. I got push back from his sword and my character model was literally bobbing up and down against the wall in a semi-falling back animation and I couldn't do anything until I locked off. This is going to be one of those classic From Soft borked geometry moments isn't it.

That exact thing happened to me twice (even though I was in roll invincibility and didn't get hurt either time). Made me really mad.

I'm surprised that boss is giving everyone so much trouble. It took me lots of tries, but didn't really stand out. The basic boss strategy worked pretty well there (circle boss -> roll when they telegraph attack). The only big wrinkle was
knowing when to back away from the explosion thing.
I thought that boss was relaxing after
Poison Medusa (without draining the poison 'cause I'm dumb)
though.
 
Shrine of Amana
without a bow is a nightmare.

It's nightmare even with bow. Worst location ever.

It's definitely kinda frustrating to get through, but I still kinda liked it. I thought the area was beautiful. The only annoying thing (minus needing a bow to kill those caster enemies) is what you have to constantly watch where you walk to make sure you don't walk off the edge. I never fell off, but that's because I was really careful about looking where I was walking.
 
Really had trouble doing co-op yesterday.

Took a while for someone to summon me, and a few failed. I had one co-op where the host decided to take a swim in the lake of lava. And another where a guy summoned me and another and then banished us. lol. Did have one good one where we beat the 1st Iron Keep boss though.
 
PS3 - Lower framerate but no screen tearing
Xbox 360 - Higher framerate with screen tearing.

On 360, I will add that the tearing isn't horrendous and that the frame rate is very good, sometimes reaching 60fps or close to it in less intensive areas. I thought the uncapped fps would be jarring but it worked out fine.
 
My complainnt about the Warf are growing. Maybe I shouldn't say complaints, it wasn't bad in anyway just a bit disapointing. In the end the level was very easy, which is why it doesn't need a second bonfire. The boss although he looked nice was way to easy with the pole in the middle of the area. Not sure if there will be any reason to go back to it.
 
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