Dark Souls II |OT2| Prepare to Vengarl
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Yep... I have saved a bunch of effigies in NG+ for that reason alone. iirc the woods entrance has the easiest phantom set. You can pick which level you replay, to be clear.
After you light the 3 torches, any exit sends you to darklurker.
I wouldn't pick the one that has
havel
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Dragon Rider Bow is the only boss weapon I upgraded (and to full at that). It was the best bow I found in my play through the game as an STR/DEX-focused build.
Playthrough #1 final stats.
Broadsword +10
Drangleic Shield +1
Drangleic Mail +5
Drangleic Gauntlets +2
Drangleic Leggings +1
Ring of Blades (swapped to Dark Quartz Ring +2 for final boss)
Ring of Steel Protection +1
Cloranthy Ring +1
Life Ring +1
I don't understand why people are playing with no attunement slots at all. The 10 more points in ADP give you 4 Agility. Instead you could pick up 2 pyromancy spells.
Using the
castle entrance
You're getting summoned into their world and those guys have the Pharros locks open, which contain traps. I assume they're summoning you themselves, but I don't know exactly how the covenant works, other than there are traps for you and enemies will aggro you and never them.
Also, curious, what changes have you found in NG+? Using an Ascetic I noticed some
red phantoms
fight two Pursuers
Freja
There's the one shortcut you can open in the area but no fast shortcuts to the actual ship.
The secret weapon to drop even the mightiest of foes. Except for bosses of course.
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Safe to say that Drangleic Shield is the Drake Sword of this game.
33-Hit-Combo
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Hai guys, I got my first Fragrant Branch of Yore,
who should I use it on first? The girl next to Majula, or the person in the Bastille?
Thanks
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Does sin carry over to NG+? Is there any counter-indication against murdering all the NPCs for their loot before moving on to NG+? I think I'm ready now.
Not for very long. You can buy a better shield not even halfway through the game.
Yes it carries over and you can get rid of it by paying souls just like in DS1.
Depends. If you are stuck and are looking for another way to progress use it on the girl in Majula. If you know where to head next you can use it on the person in Bastille and get
boss weapons
Do the shaded woods entrance is only 4 enemies and they are all pretty weak.
Yep... I have saved a bunch of effigies in NG+ for that reason alone. iirc the woods entrance has the easiest phantom set. You can pick which level you replay, to be clear.After you light the 3 torches, any exit sends you to darklurker.
I wouldn't pick the one that hashavel
Yeah, that and wasting Effigies is a pain
Havel
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Only when I feel it's necessary. Didn't buy any resin throughout the game, and it rarely if ever seemed to drop. I did use various resins but not often. With the exception of bosses and enemies with crazy physical defence I never felt my damage output was an issue, but mostly because the broadsword swings fast. Easy to get into a handful of shots during windows, and that adds up. Resin did help, but the output as is never seemed to be a burden. Looking at other final stats posted here similar one handed weapon builds are around the ~329 damage mark.
The entire Drangleic set seemed basically perfect for my build. I only used it and the Falconer set for the whole game, moving from the latter to the former once I knew it wouldn't weigh me down.
*shrug* I rolled axe melee pyro in Dark Souls. Decided to go pure sword + shield here. ADP scales alongside END. By the end I was just sticking points wherever, so most probably went in ADP. I'm not going to take this character into NG+ as I'm waiting for the PC build.
I did Straid first, as he has some nice boss soul trades. But the girl (Rosabeth) blocking the gate is going to be mandatory in order for you to get to the Shaded Woods. You will find enough Fragrant Branches of Yore so that you can do both, plus a few others.
What build are you playing? He has a very low poise rating. You can easily stun lock him with a good 2 hander. Emptying your stamina bar twice on him should be enough.
Magic should easily kill him from range.
And if everything fails you can push him off the ledges.
33-Hit-Combo
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Thanks! I think I know where I'm heading next, so will opt for the goodies!
I'm going to list everything from memory here, NG+ changes in the world I've noted:
- New Falcon enemies right off the bat in the first seconds
- Black phantoms in a lot of places. Most annoying in Heide's, and 2 get added in the Sinner bossfight.
- 2 big scythe giants near the lights for the lost sinner fight
- A firekeeper Anastacia phantom in the grave of saints that gives you the dingy set +5. Biggest surprise so far. Another addtion to the DkS phantom list (already included Havel and Ricard, Oscar too I think)
- The flexile sentry in the wharf has a new enemy type guarding him.
- Freja showed up right when I entered the brightstone cove proper (in the area with torch wielders) I ran away and she disappears eventually. I wonder if you can beat her there, because she gets a lifebar...
- giant boars in brightstone encapment! These behave exactly like the armored boars in DkS.
- Black phantoms in a lot of places. Most annoying in Heide's, and 2 get added in the Sinner bossfight.
- 2 big scythe giants near the lights for the lost sinner fight
- A firekeeper Anastacia phantom in the grave of saints that gives you the dingy set +5. Biggest surprise so far. Another addtion to the DkS phantom list (already included Havel and Ricard, Oscar too I think)
- The flexile sentry in the wharf has a new enemy type guarding him.
- Freja showed up right when I entered the brightstone cove proper (in the area with torch wielders) I ran away and she disappears eventually. I wonder if you can beat her there, because she gets a lifebar...
- giant boars in brightstone encapment! These behave exactly like the armored boars in DkS.
PuppetMaster
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I was pretty disappointed there literally was no good treasure in that area considering how dangerous it is. Just some souls and red eye orbs.
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lol, haven't heard that one.
AlphaDragoon
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Noob question: Is there a vendor somewhere that has unlimited poison arrows?
They are insanely handy, but I cannot find anyone to sell me more. I found that Gavlan (sp?) sells some but only in limited quantities, something like 20 from memory.
Make sure you exhaust Gavlan's dialogue in No Man's Wharf. Then he will move to Harvest Valley, where you should do the same. From there you will find him in Doors of Pharros, where he will stay and will have an unlimited supply.
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I used that the WHOLE game and still used it. Stone sheild is OP for high str users.
Higher stability than dragleics. I think it has the highest stability and best overall stats of any sheild you can still parry with.
Only issue is low durability. But my shield has only broken like twice in some 80hours. And only in drawn out pvp fights. Usually it is not an issue. And I have battled hundreds of pvp at this point.
100% shields suck anyway Throne Watcher's shield for life~
Well I got the hang out of him by 2-handing my claymore, but as a meele with 0 magic user, the boss brutally rapes me lol
shattyboombatty
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Has anyone else been having problems summoning/being summoned on ps3 since the 1.02 patch? Every time I try to place a summon sign I 100% get the error "failed to create summon sign", and I don't see summon signs anywhere whether I'm alive or dead. I tried looking around and there's not much I can find about it.
It happens in every area of the world I can get to and is supper frustrating. I'm probably around 50%ish complete if that makes any difference.
All other games and services work fine on my ps3.
It happens in every area of the world I can get to and is supper frustrating. I'm probably around 50%ish complete if that makes any difference.
All other games and services work fine on my ps3.
I did him as a meele only user aswell. Given - I had flame weapon to buff my halberd
Basically two things: Go all out on him. His laser shouldn't damage you. You roll/stay behind his sword attack. If you feel that you have to switch for a shield against his fire/dark magic attack do so. You should have him below 50% once he splits - and that's the most important part of the fight. For a few seconds you can hit him and the clone at the same time. I've got him down to ~30% and then insta killed him.
Having a smaller model for him would have made the fight better. I don't have anything against his one shot mechanic if his model wouldn't be so fucking massive.
If you get unlucky and he moves to the far edge it simply comes down to luck. You can't tell if he flies to the left or right.
Bad luck. Respawn them and put on the item find items. Honestly that shouldn't be necessary tho. The drop rate really isn't that low. You sure you got the right mobs?
darkjedi187
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Where is everyone getting their dark steel katanas. I killed a ton of the guys that drop them until they disappeared now I'm concerned I cannot get one.
I killed enough guys leading up to the first boss in the iron keep that they are all done respawning. I'm guessing there are more later in the level and I do have the merchant hat that ups drop percentage.
I killed enough guys leading up to the first boss in the iron keep that they are all done respawning. I'm guessing there are more later in the level and I do have the merchant hat that ups drop percentage.
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Make one. I switch between enchanted and magic long swords, I got so used to the fire long sword and didn't want to put any more points into STR/DEX, so I just stuck with the long sword. Was tempted by the magic mace you find around though.
Iron something or other. It's the fire place and the guys right at the start drop them.
The people who invaded me were laughably bad.
Facism
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i was crying at his fatrolling around afterwards.
Fight is 2 ez as a caster. 30 seconds it took me to down him.
Te gankers have arrived in belfry luna! I was totally right...there was only a small window of time when chunks would rain down...gotta earn them now boys. I am devising some new strategies to get around the ganking as we speak! Tougheer than I thought, they know the spawn points now and you get blasted right out of the gate. Good thing there is small reward or would be a lot more common.
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Playthrough #1 final stats.
Broadsword +10
Drangleic Shield +1
Drangleic Mail +5
Drangleic Gauntlets +2
Drangleic Leggings +1
Ring of Blades (swapped to Dark Quartz Ring +2 for final boss)
Ring of Steel Protection +1
Cloranthy Ring +1
Life Ring +1
Damn, pretty much my exact character from my first playthrough! The broadsword was a beast, it's only now, halfway through my NG+, that I've decided to retire it for a bastard sword.
KoreanBarbecue
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Had one guy swinging around a greatsword using the same 3-hit combo. Over and over and over again. Wasn't sure he was serous. But bashed him with my Lightning Great Club+9 all the same.
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Playthrough #1 final stats.
How does upping Endurance & Adaptability past 20 affect you?
Any noticeable improvements?
total shot in the dark here but you guys seem like cool people so I'm hoping you'll be able to help me out.
ever since the patch last week I haven't been able to connect to the game servers and have been stuck playing in offline mode. not a huge deal as I typically enjoy solo-ing boss fights - however I think I've hit a roadblock with the ruin sentinels.
it's really strange, the ps3 is online, I'm able to connect to the playstation store just fine but the game for whatever reason simply will not connect. I did the network test and I'm on nat type 2 and everything else says that it's connected. so what gives???
ever since the patch last week I haven't been able to connect to the game servers and have been stuck playing in offline mode. not a huge deal as I typically enjoy solo-ing boss fights - however I think I've hit a roadblock with the ruin sentinels.
it's really strange, the ps3 is online, I'm able to connect to the playstation store just fine but the game for whatever reason simply will not connect. I did the network test and I'm on nat type 2 and everything else says that it's connected. so what gives???
Endurance and ADP from 20-30 get you:
30 hp, 10 stamina, 12.5 physical defence, 7.5 agility, 3 poise(not exactly sure) and some very minor resistance.
Like I've said before I don't think that this is remotely worth it. You are better of putting those points into VIT/ATN in my opinion.
Like most people you are mixxing up ADP and Agility. The "breakpoints" of ADP are exactly known.
edit: For the record my stats when I fnished ng last week:
Blue Knight/Mastodon Halberd, a bow,
Havel's
endurance is definitely really helpful depending on your weapon. with 3rd ring of the dragon even more. at 25 end you have 140 stamina with the ring.
adpt is still a mystery. it has its uses, but the breakpoints aren't known yet. Agility caps at 110 (around 38-39 adpt) but the difference between 100 agility and 110 may me almost unnoticeable If you get an addition i-frame for rolls during those 10 points, it's worth it. otherwise, I dunno.
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