I just dodge under soul greatsword and laugh at them. It's still a matter of roll timing, though it caught me off guard the first few times I saw it.
Edit:
It still limits level. Just not soul memory.
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I just dodge under soul greatsword and laugh at them. It's still a matter of roll timing, though it caught me off guard the first few times I saw it.
Edit:
It still limits level. Just not soul memory.
catashtrophe
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Thanks
I've got this far using only the
Drangleic Sword
Also i've not used any of the boss souls for anything are the Boss weapons any good?
Wait, NG+ has no matchmaking limits? Nice.
Then I'll just run behind a pillar or door and spam it
FYI casters can also clip out of casting animations right before the spell goes off too. Keep an eye out for that.
Jinjo
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I fucking feel ya man. Respecced to strength/int for that moonlight sword, but can't fucking beat him. One shots me with his freaking laserbeam every goddamn time. Thinking to just to go back to my melee build, only need a new soul vessel.
Also, where is this sun sword/sun staff everyone keeps raving about?
Arjen
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sun sword, is the reward for getting rank 2 in the sunbro covenant.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
I did managed to beat it just now. This fight dual wielding caestus is a pain. The trick is: As soon you enter the boss room,
immediatly do a AoE attack (Firestorm, WotG) to kill the spiders, kill any remaining spiders and then focus on the boss. The best strategy i found was to keep switching the attacks between its heads, damage one and as soon its begin its attack animation, run to the other.
EDIT:
A new and more detailed map showing the game's paths and how the areas are connected
As a small error because you can go to the gutter without enter tomb of saints
Does it really matter, im at 20 and feel no difference at all from when it was at 10.
TheSpaceBetween
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Mytha the Baneful Queen
The Lost Sinner
Weird how some bosses give some people problems, while being easy to others.
Mytha
VaultBoy101
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TheSpaceBetween
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No... Obviously that would have made it MUCH easier... Where to do that?
As the poster below me mentioned, I had no idea you could
drain the poison
You have to light the torch at the bonfire and then
burn the windmill
Robot Pants
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Yea I agree
Oooh yeah haha, of course. I can imagine her being pretty hard that way.
Also if I may ask, why are you playing offline? Cause you can't play online? I played DS1 completely offline in fear of cheating invaders and now tthat I got DS2 and played it online right from the start, I realized how much more fun it is online.
TheSpaceBetween
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Haha. I haven't been using my torches at all. It just goes to show you that even the most avid explorers like myself can miss a crapload in these games.
TheSpaceBetween
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I did the same with Demons and Dark, which I just beat for the first time this year. I guess I just don't want any help or anything the first time through. I plan to run through the games again later this year online though.
Edit: Sorry for the double post.
VaultBoy101
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My first playthrough was blind so I didn't do it, either. It's not an obvious thing at all. It was probably the toughest boss fight in the game for that reason. Spent several hours on it.
In NG+ I knew the solution, and combined with the NPC summon
Jester Thomas aka Flaming Whirlwind of Fiery Death
Well, now you a reason to play online
That NPC is brutal. He's like the Tarkus of this game, you don't even need to fight the boss.
Veggy
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This is true, I'm currently rank 2 blood covenant and should be rank 3 soon and that's definitely how it works
TheSpaceBetween
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Haha, but it wouldn't have been as gratifying to beat! I am an avid explorer but there is just so much you can miss in these games even as you explore every nook and cranny. Like with Demons and Dark, it was fun going through and then looking at all the stuff I missed on my first playthrough.
VaultBoy101
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Indeed, I consider myself a very thorough explorer, generally don't even need collectible guides in most games, but in this one I'm currently in NG++ and still finding new stuff. A couple of things I've only just discovered in this playthrough:
- The Castle Drangleic bonfire just before the double Dragonrider fight (down the ladder and in the secret room).
- The small ledge in the Undead Crypt's large chamber where you can drop down and light the statue that ends up lighting up the whole place (and a new treasure chest!).
- The small ledge in the Undead Crypt's large chamber where you can drop down and light the statue that ends up lighting up the whole place (and a new treasure chest!).
TheSpaceBetween
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Question about the consistency of the world:
It makes no sense to me unless I am missing something...
Shouldn't you be able to see the Iron Keep from the Harvest Valley? All you can see is the Earthen Peak tower, yet with nothing but clouds above and beyond, yet you take an elevator from the top of the Earthen Peak up to Iron Keep.
A couple of bell pvp wins to start the day, great! Soon I'll have all my armor +10 too and with the current levels and equipment I'm staying at under 50% load too.
Sun Sword +10, Poison Falchion +10 and random medium armor, all hopefully soon +10, this should carry me through the rest of the game.
Sun Sword +10, Poison Falchion +10 and random medium armor, all hopefully soon +10, this should carry me through the rest of the game.
AuthenticM
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Yeah, told myself the same thing. It's also weird that we can't see Huntsman's Copse from Majula. I guess From couldn't truly built an "open-world" and had to resort to masked loading areas.
TheSpaceBetween
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Ahhh. Yeah that is disappointing. Hardly a huge deal or anything, but it does make the World less believable.
Just upgrading your bow or getting a better bow will probably be better.
Facism
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i'm looking forward to the 3d map of the world whenever the pc version comes out. It was class for DS1
Cannon Goose
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Just doing my pre-invasion stretches at the Iron Keep...
Shards are found all over the place, later on.
Large shards are infinite supply once you unlock the second blacksmith and as for chunks get and join the bellkeepers covenant.
You can buy an infinite number of them once you find some merchants/progress in the story.
Just doing my pre-invasion stretches at the Iron Keep...
Every gesture in this game sucks besides "mock"
I miss the "Well, what is it?" into "Well, what is it?" cancelling.
YianGaruga
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While we are talking about titanite, is anyone else disappointed that they simplified the weapon upgrading so much? The different upgrade paths, different blacksmiths, embers and different items you'd need to farm really added some interesting complexity to DkS that's missing in the sequel.
Arjen
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Decapitate is the best one.
it does fasten your item usage / estus chunk speed and also supposedly gives up to 2 i-frames additionally to your roll. I don't know the break points tho. Also, don't look at adp, look at agility.
"Righty-Ho" is the best one.
Is the shrug still in there somewhere? That and 'Well, what is it?' are god tier.
That and the animation for when you go to use something that you can't/don't have.
Definitely do not miss this at all. It added 'complexity' I guess, but it was in no way interesting.
Haha it's okay, but too long I think.
'Mock' is like shrug so it's there. Well that is it isn't.
33-Hit-Combo
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What are the upgrade paths for non unique weapons?? I thought I just hadn't found embers or special titanite yet!
Ah yeah, probably. Maybe I should use a bonfire ascetic and try to get another dragonrider soul.
Not too optimistic about that though lol
Arjen
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What i miss most is the fact that you have so little options available from the start.
You can do Heide's and Forest of Giants.
In Dark Souls you could do.
Undead Burg.
Undead Parish
Blighttown
Catacombs
New londo.
Drake Valley
Dark Root.
And maybe i missed some, but there's not a lot of weapons you can grab like the Zwei or Nito's sword, you know things like that. Makes starting a new character a lot less fun.
You can do Heide's and Forest of Giants.
In Dark Souls you could do.
Undead Burg.
Undead Parish
Blighttown
Catacombs
New londo.
Drake Valley
Dark Root.
And maybe i missed some, but there's not a lot of weapons you can grab like the Zwei or Nito's sword, you know things like that. Makes starting a new character a lot less fun.
Cannon Goose
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I'm a big fan of welcome, warmup, the finger wag and the fonzie one.
YianGaruga
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There are no upgrade paths. You can get a weapon to +10 with normal titanite and then "infuse" an element to it by using a stone. That's it.
Separating burg and parish? Counting Valley of the Drakes as an actual area which you could do stuff in? Come on now.
The finger wag is okay. The self point is okay just because of how short it is. I think most take too long.
Re: finger wag lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUoxeAqjq70&t=1h31m45s
That map came out long before the pc version was released.
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