It goes up with both stats, though Quality scaling doesn't seem all that great in DkS2 to be honest. Better off just going mostly dex and using bleed/poison or mostly STR with just enough Dex to wield whatever weapons you want to use. The Quality scaling doesn't go up a whole lot on a traditional 40/40 STR/DEX build.
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It goes up with both stats, though Quality scaling doesn't seem all that great in DkS2 to be honest. Better off just going mostly dex and using bleed/poison or mostly STR with just enough Dex to wield whatever weapons you want to use. The Quality scaling doesn't go up a whole lot on a traditional 40/40 STR/DEX build.
It really is though. I have been dual wielding curved blades for about 55 of my 60 hours and it is just so fucking satisfying.
Ryan Gosling
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whats the best looking armor in the game? I like the ninja armor. #fashionsouls
Personally think Dark Souls 1 had better looking armor..
Personally think Dark Souls 1 had better looking armor..
burntchomsky
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You don't need to kill the Ancient dragon for the last soul, though. You can simply bonfire ascetic either of the bonfires connected to obtaining the other giant souls. That means either the final bonfire in forest of the giants (right next to the final giant memory), or the first one in the gulch.
Alva or Heide Knight. Alva gets bonus points for not looking ridiculous with the engraved gaunlets.
are you sure? I thought you couldn't do that. If you've done it though...
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Liking DSII's sets more by far - a lot more variety.
Yes, I know. But I think I read that that boss actually doesn't drop any Soul Items. Unless he does, but only if you haven't gotten it via the memory? Someone here earlier complained about the boss on how it didn't give him the item and apparently beating him is just for bragging rights.
Game will tell you if you are banned or not. It's perm, but you can use an item to reconnect (it's in your inventory now. says will re-connect to other worlds). Single use item. Also, while it bans you, it will still allow invasions. lol
Just ask test_account. He/she is our local disconnecter around here.
Thanks, you too Lost Fragment.
How does the game tell me though?? I don't think i have seen any message or anything so i must be ok, luckily it only happened twice but it would be really fucked if that's all it takes.
Guess ill use that bone just in case.
I'm so truly awful at this game. Spent 45 minutes last night getting my ass handed to me time and again by The R
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, then another half an hour this morning doing the same thing. Optional boss, so I should just walk away and do something else, but dammit, now it's about my pride.
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on two occasions - once in Black Gulch and once in Shrouded Ruins. I've heard the third place is in the Gutter, but where exactly?
Secondly, do I have to join the covenant to fight
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Secondly, do I have to join the covenant to fight
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robotzombie
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I really want to be a Heide Knight, how do you get the armor? I heard they drop them in NG+ but is it like, you kill one and it has a random chance of dropping one piece?
Can you just use a Bonfire Aescetic to up the difficulty?
Throne Defender and Throne Watcher armours look amazing. Personally I'm using the T.Defender set.
whats the best looking armor in the game? I like the ninja armor. #fashionsouls
Personally think Dark Souls 1 had better looking armor..
is that the one with the square cardboard cape glued to his back?
Fuck you (covenant spoiler)DarklurkerDoesn't help it's quite a pain in the ass to get to it.
He is pretty hard as a melee character, but if you have magic or pyromacies it is really really easy. With flame swathes you can get him in 4 or 5 casts.
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That was silver knight armor.
The regular R2 sucks, but the forward+R2 lunge is a beast. Doing that while wearing the Alonne Knight set makes me look like Kain from Final Fantasy IV - pretty awesome.
I still much prefer my Greatsword or Giant Club over the Mastodon Halberd, but it's good too.
I wonder if, as a Claymore/Zweihander user, I would benefit more on ditching some DEX for STR (right now Im at 40STR 36DEX).
Also, thinking about moving to Mastodon Greatsword. It has A scaling in STR.
Not sure, I got the chest, leggings, and the greathelm without having to reroll via ascetic. NG+/NG++, of course.
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Sounds like you need more VIG. That beam hit me on NG+ and it hit pretty hard but I still had 1/4th of my HP left. Two quick estus and I was fine.
Hahahahaha nice.Just doing my pre-invasion stretches at the Iron Keep...
Haha it's a funny one. I imagine this will be the trolls/scrubs's new favourite gesture, the replacement to "well what is it" and the "point" from Demon's Souls. That and the "that's all me" of course.
I like that you can finally roll-cancel gestures now.
Dat goalpost shifting, eh?
Try playing a dex build and get back to me. I couldn't even use the washing pole for the whole A
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Or, you know, it fucks up coop? Don't be silly. I have no problem with soul memory having an impact on NG invasions, but it should not affect coop, and based on current experience, it does. Which is all kinds of stupid.
FWIW, I depopulated most of the early Iron Keep (pre-Smelter, from dying so often) and got exactly 1 blacksteel kat on my dex. I wasn't farming for it (using coins or item discovery boosting or anything), though. So I don't get those who say it drops like candy, all I ever get are leggings and gauntlets, but I did get 1, so I was happy. That said, now that I dual wield, I hardly ever use it anymore since I don't have enough STR. There are other very good katanas. The blacksteel is the strongest one at 40 dex, but it does not have the very useful R2 thrust. I find the Uchi, Manslayer, Washing Pole to be more useful. Haven't used Darkdrift much yet, I imagine it can be funny in PvP.
Nah, Washing Pole is the Sephiroth weapon.
Uhh what? My experience differs from that. Before moving to NG+, I had apparently sinned, because Cromwell asked for 134k souls for pardoning. I am not sure what my sin is as I had never aggro'd NPCs nor did I use any cracked red eye orb, the only possibility that came to mind was invading the NPC
Licia
I refused to pay, moved to NG+. When I got to Cromwell again, he said I had no sin. So uh... whatever it was, it went away by moving to NG+. :S
This has been my experience as well. Greatswords and curved greatswords have ridiculous phantom range, especially. In my limited experience it made the poles and claymores from Demon's Souls seem reasonable in comparison. XD
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Would it be wise to infuse my Drangleic Sword with Lightning ? I now have 40 Str and 40 Dex, and I'll be dumping points into Faith from now on. What's the soft cap on Faith ?
Also, I have 20 Vigor. Should I have more ? I'm a melee guy.
Also, I have 20 Vigor. Should I have more ? I'm a melee guy.
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Yep, I agree. It's a bit more involved but a thrust is a thrust.
About 40 maybe? I'm probably wrong.
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Dual wielding giant clubs in power stance = sogood.gif
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What should I infuse my blacksteel katana with?
Misterinenja
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Standard + 40 point in DEX.
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Ohhh damn. I always meant to test that, and often kept it in my inventory, but always forgot. I thought maybe it had some sort of hyper mode thing. But I'm guessing it's just flavour text now, otherwise someone would have found something by then.
What ninja armour? Black leather?
So far I really, really like [late game spoilers]
the King's armour. Classy as fuck and the black cape is really nice. My dex wears that along with a wanderer hood and lighter gauntlets and leggings for less weight.
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Too bad these sets require twinkling titanite. Goddamn From, why didn't you have a vendor sell them? At least in NG+, or have Chloanne sell unlimited post-
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AuthenticM
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To what are you referring: Vigor or Faith ?
Also, what's the difference between Magic and Enchanted infusions ?
I would drop 10 points of Dex and put STR to 50. Although Zwei has better Dex than Str scaling I think, so if the gains are worth it then maybe keep those levels. I just think that a 50 STR 20 DEX build is far superior to a 40/40 quality in Dark Souls 2 if you are going to lean toward the bigger weapons and Straight sword/Greatsword class weapons.
Don't imbue with Lightning unless you have high Faith for the scaling. Rely on pure physical scaling with your STR and DEX. Also, I would rethink leveling Faith and just grind up some more Vigor. If you are mainly Melee, then you are gonna want more HP. Try to get it toward 40-50.
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Never infused with those but based on the preview in the infusion menu, it appears that Magic adds magic damage to your weapon (and drops str/dex scaling), whereas Enchanted keeps the weapon's damage completely physical but drops str/dex scaling and adds int scaling...? Not 100% sure though.
Whoa, how do you get those? Or do I have them in my inventory without ever realizing it?
Misterinenja
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You can buy both after beating them
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So, is there any weapon that will be good to infuse?
The shopkeeper in majula sells boss armor if you spend enough souls on him.
Thanks! Zwei is C/C (B/C at +10), although To be fair Im not feeling the new moveset as much as in DS1, and I end up using the Claymore more. Ill probably switch to the Mastodon Greatsword, so Im considering going to 50 STR like you said.
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Don't remind me of that. The wounds of no Silver Knight gear (including the amazing Silver Knight Straight Sword) are still healing. Sun Sword is good but...that moveset on SKSS.
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If so I feel like I wasted my skeptic's spices on lowering Sunlight Spear to a 45 faith requirement when I would have needed 50 faith anyway. Oh well.
2 times flame swathe, bunch of lightning arrows, one claymore r2 combo and then a single fire storm to finish her of.
Never beat gwyn without parrying him.
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Eesh, guess my SL150 build is about to become a SL160-170 build. Whatever, it's worth it. I've been very lucky with co-op at every point thus far.
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Why is Freya's great soul weird?
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Got pulled into another world as a grey spirit and was getting my ass kicked until my OSR exploded 
But worth investing in because it's... better? When you choose not to dual wield? I find shields quite handy, still. I find armor heavy, still, and when I choose a better armor my rolling is shit. So dual wielding... I'm still not sure.
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