Dark Souls II |OT2| Prepare to Vengarl
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jacksepticeye
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This game feels MUCH longer than the first, am I just imagining that?
Sanctuary
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Only five? No, seriously that fight was one that really showed just how terrible the hitboxes are in this game, and the way you dodge is counter-intuitive. He's readying to do a vertical strike? Common sense would dictate that you roll to the side. Oh sorry, he decided to slightly change direction mid-swing and nail what should have been an obvious miss--or the hitbox is just a character-and-a-half width to either side of the weapon graphic. Most of the time you're better off rolling into the attacks in this game instead of away.
Anyway, that fight isn't actually too bad once you get his patterns down. The main issue is trying to stay away from the wall so that the fight doesn't bug out and you get stuck, spasming inside of the wall, unable to move. You basically just have to
dodge forward through his two horizontal slashes and strafe around to his back, get an attack or two off then wait to see what he does. Most of the time when he does his aerial sword plunge, it's better to just back away instead of guessing if he's going to explode or not (he doesn't always).
Dunno. It's more spread out and feels "larger" in some respects, but it took me around 62 hours for my first Dark Souls completion. It took me 39 for this.
Probably due to the *cough* warping.
Definitely. 43 hours in and i'm not near finished. Part of it is coop is so easy to find (and fun).
Well, it's much much bigger. I fully understand why they went with fast travel this time around.
Hell no you're not. It keeps on going and going. It's absolutely huge.
It's one of the best boss fights in the game and it's obvious why it presents such an obstacle to many players. For most it will likely be the first time
they face a boss in the game, or even an enemy, who has attacks that can go through your shield. With most standard paths through the game, every previous boss has attacks which can be fully negated with a 100% phys def shield.
Smelter also generally hits pretty hard, and if you don't read his AoE blast properly it can take you out or do massive damage. Seen many a co-op host go down to that move.
Some players opt to go hunt for the 100% fire resistance shield and just tank him, but in many cases the fight will condition a player to just become better at stuff like roll-dodging and proper stamina management, and that's why I consider it a good boss.
Smelter also generally hits pretty hard, and if you don't read his AoE blast properly it can take you out or do massive damage. Seen many a co-op host go down to that move.
Some players opt to go hunt for the 100% fire resistance shield and just tank him, but in many cases the fight will condition a player to just become better at stuff like roll-dodging and proper stamina management, and that's why I consider it a good boss.
I don't think his armor looks that good either, though one great characteristic about it is that if you look at the stats, you'll see that
its defense against thrust attacks is much lower than the other defenses. Quite naturally, since your stomach is fully exposed. I found that to be quite amusing.
There's definitely a lot more overall content in it than the first two Souls games, though I'm not sure that's a positive. The level design is pretty hit-and-miss on the whole. I think it would have been better off culling a few of the less memorable areas and putting more focus on others, sprucing them up visually and adding more branching paths.
lol, I'm like lv 160ish and still like 3/4th done, maybe 4/5th done. I'll prob be like 200 before I beat the game at this rate. heh
Might soon actually start putting stats back into my Str/Dex soon, as won't need to put anymore elsewhere for a while.
Sorry to sound like a nub but wtf is sunbroing?
I just followed the advice of the poster who said get the Gyrm shield. Did that, summoned a phantom, never took damage and we took turns ganking him from behind.
Fuck him. Now for freya. I've fought her once but didn't feel as frustrated as I did with SD. Even with those spiders.
Fuck him. Now for freya. I've fought her once but didn't feel as frustrated as I did with SD. Even with those spiders.
Smelter Demon was a fun and challenging fight that took me a while to finish. He's actually pretty easy until he enchants his sword with fire. The one thing that almost sent me into a fury is when he does some of his attacks, I'm able to successfully block but the knockback sends me to the wall where I sometimes get stuck and can't move/roll out of the way until the Smelter Demon hits me. This happened when I was one or two hits away from killing him, and when he got me unstuck I was left with only a sliver of life. Thankfully I was able to pull out the win, but things could have ended very badly for my sanity.
Thanks, didn't even think about that.
Thanks, didn't even think about that.
jacksepticeye
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Just traded a soul for L
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's Sword. It's actually crap due to it's awful move set. Much prefer my greatsword's huge swipes for crowd control
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jacksepticeye
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Have you played Dark Souls 1? There's a guy called Solaire who always says "Praise the sun" and it became a meme, people who join his ways call themselves the "sunbros"
Indrid Cold
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Just about done 1st playthrough, just grinding a few souls to get the last couple
For the ppl in ng+ already are the exclusive(ng+ only) items all
or do they replace the hand placed loot? IE do I have to re-find and re-search every chest/corpse again? Also I know
I dunno I might roll a new char instead. Looking at the wiki seems there's a ton of rare drops from rare mobs. Hope from patch the drop chances up like ds1.
boss armours
from bosses/merchant/vendor stock
the chanceller sells all the covenant exclusive spells(in ng++) but can you get the weapons/armour too? If anyone's that far
I dunno I might roll a new char instead. Looking at the wiki seems there's a ton of rare drops from rare mobs. Hope from patch the drop chances up like ds1.
Gotta start mastering roll-dodging if you want to dual-wield in most encounters. Stat-wise, focus on Endurance and Adaptability.
You can parry while dual-wielding in one of two ways: 1) certain weapons have an L2 attack which will parry, like the Falchion; or 2) you can go 2H with one of the weapons and parry then. When you're in the powerstance specifically however, you can't parry or block till returning to a normal dual-wielding stance. That stance is all about attacking and moving.
Generally-speaking, if you want to focus on dual-wielding you should heavily concentrate on mobility - both stat-wise and skill-wise - because what you gain in attacking power you also lose in defensive potential.
The treasure is the same, some drops are unique and there are unique NPC invaders with unique (rare) drops per NG+ cycle as well.
So long as you got that chest armor w/ glorious cloak, it's all good.
Yep got that and gauntlets. Paired it up with the judgement set, matches nicely.
Cloudius12
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Darklurker
I swear I spent most of my Effigy dying to fucking
Dark Spirit Ricard
SargerusBR
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Use it with Mask of Judgement and dual wielding Caestus. You are now Batman.
Funny enough that's exactly what i have equipped...
jacksepticeye
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If you play offline the stone in Majula tells you just how many deaths your player has, which is cool.
I have 127
I have 127
Sanctuary
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Why do people keep suggesting ADP? All it does is:
1. Affects flask use speed (need a lot of points before it's noticeable)
2. Slightly affects movement speed by mitigating encumberance somewhat
3. Raises poise as long as it's equal to Endurance (and you need a TON of poise to not get interrupted in this game, unlike the previous)
It does not:
1. Affect dodging in any way.
It's basically as shitty as Resistance was in the previous game. I feel bad for everyone who's been wasting points in this filler stat because of the placebo effect it has on some. I mean really, its main benefit is the poise boost, but you're essentially doubling points spent in Endurance (the one stat of the two that actually benefits you) and reaping half of the reward. More health would be better than a single point into ADP.
Yep, it does nothing you'd notice really. Drinking estus faster is nice but not worth putting the 30 points in it to see the difference.
Metalingus5150
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What was the deal with the
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Giant bug in the gutter
Try disabling camera auto-correct in the options
It clearly seems to have an effect on recovery time after roll-dodging. I first started the game with a Swordsman who only has a stat of 6 in ADP, and roll-dodging was just obnoxious, especially as I'd just gone through the first Dark Souls again on PC right before release. After several points into Agility it started to resemble what it was in the previous games. I can't imagine how that is placebo; the difference was blatant.
I'll test out with a soul vessel respec, but I'd be really surprised if the difference is non-existent.
Cloudius12
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Pursuer boss fight is located in the Forest of the Fallen Giants.
From Cardinal Tower bonfire, go down the ladder, head towards the boss direction, but continue past the elevator, continue that direction toward and you'll see the 2 spear enemies, At this point, turn right and you should see a door which can be unlocked with a Soldier key. Continue up this past to fight him.
There is another way to get the key, but this sounds easier.
From Cardinal Tower bonfire, go down the ladder, head towards the boss direction, but continue past the elevator, continue that direction toward and you'll see the 2 spear enemies, At this point, turn right and you should see a door which can be unlocked with a Soldier key. Continue up this past to fight him.
There is another way to get the key, but this sounds easier.
DXLelouch153
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Stefan;105451478 said:
the frogs or the spore spewing things?
niether of them are the difficult mobs of that area
Sanctuary
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Anyone else think Smelter looks like an enemy from Ghouls 'n Ghosts?
It's not even ADP per se, it's the agility component. Casters get to raise agility through ATT. My casters always sit at around 93 agility, and they dodge just as shitty at end game as they did at the start. ADP raises agility faster, but I'm sitting at 40 ATT. You'd need to go at least 30 into ADP to see a similar, if not slightly higher gain in agility.
It's not even ADP per se, it's the agility component. Casters get to raise agility through ATT. My casters always sit at around 93 agility, and they dodge just as shitty at end game as they did at the start. ADP raises agility faster, but I'm sitting at 40 ATT. You'd need to go at least 30 into ADP to see a similar, if not slightly higher gain in agility.
Cloudius12
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I think he is talking about the Ogre, etc.
DXLelouch153
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he said enemies which implys more than one
Cloudius12
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I meant Ogres and that tail enemy.
OneEyeTwoHead
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This is not what I experienced...at all.
To me, adaptability seems to grant additional invincibility frames when dodging--making you dramatically less likely to hit when rolling.
People testing it says it doesn't really have any effect on rolling.
You get an additional frame at like 38 or something.
Beat the game as full melee knight and now i'm halfway through with a sorcerer.
Gotta say...hexes + soul magic + pyromancies with high INT and ATN is so good.
INT 51, ATN 55 and FTH 30 atm. I can cast everything I find. Only problem is that I'm a glass cannon. Gotta roll a ton.
Gotta say...hexes + soul magic + pyromancies with high INT and ATN is so good.
INT 51, ATN 55 and FTH 30 atm. I can cast everything I find. Only problem is that I'm a glass cannon. Gotta roll a ton.
greatestjediever
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Doing a bit of sunbro'ing at the
and it's been real fun. Sunbros really got their shit together. Already got about 15 medals in about an hour or so of playing.
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I'll try out a respec and face some bosses again, and see if it really is just placebo. I went through most of the game dual-wielding and roll-dodging so I'll be able to tell if the difference came from the stat or just getting used to how rolling functions in DaS2.
It would be a shame if it is in fact another dump stat. It may also screw up the PvP community for a bit since a lot of people are leveling to ~150 due to raising ADP.
Sanctuary
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It's been completely disproven that you get any additional i-frames.
You simply got better at dodging.
END being split in half and requiring VIT to get the same benefit is also another reason.
Cannon Goose
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After finishing the game with 38 ADP I started a new game with a Warrior who had 5 ADP and I felt like the difference was definitely at the tail-end of the roll. I found myself getting hit as the roll animation was finishing VERY often and after I went back to my 38 ADP character that wasn't happening anymore.
It definitely does do something to the i-frames or the speed of the recovery, I don't think it's a placebo or a "fake" stat.
It definitely does do something to the i-frames or the speed of the recovery, I don't think it's a placebo or a "fake" stat.
How much endurance is good? I think mine's at 23 now.
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