The_Darkest_Red
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Walk into him while blocking and circle strafe to the right, most of his attacks will miss. When he does the jumping attack roll away twice to avoid the AOE attack and use that opportunity to heal if you need to.
Dark Souls II |OT2| Prepare to Vengarl
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Yeah I suck at dodging.
InfiniDragon
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This.
Strafing left works too, no greatshield required. Same tactic also makes Pursuer free.
JRW
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I almost had it but ended up summoning 1 person in to help, The summon sign was yellow instead of white not sure what that was about but we managed to take him down (finally).
The other players ranged magic attacks seem to come in handy, My character's only ranged attack is various +6 Pyromancy spells which wasn't much help for this particular encounter, but I got in some decent slices with my Halberd.
Thanks for the replies everyone.
There are 3 different dungeons, one at each location you met the wheelchair guy. You have to go beat each one once. After that, when exiting it will take you to
darklurkers
Inskipp
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I wish Lloyd's talismans were cheaper... Would be much easier to shut that kind of behaviour down.
EvilKatarn
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I JUST BEAT K V
NOW WHERE DO I PICK UP THAT MOTHERFUCKER'S STUFF?
God damn that felt good. I have never exhaled like that. Now onto that goddamn dragon. The final roadblock between me and NG+
ENDRICK
God damn that felt good. I have never exhaled like that. Now onto that goddamn dragon. The final roadblock between me and NG+
robotzombie
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This is in regards to PvE, if you are going for PvP, I know nothing:
Honestly, I think its actually better to spread your stats out a little bit instead of being super focused. The reason being you get a good enough boost from most stats when only leveling them to 20. Then the diminishing returns kick in, and they become less and less useful. So what I generally advise is:
1. Boost VGR, VIT, END, and ADP to 20 - this gives you a good amount of health, equip load, stamina, and maneuverability
2. Pick two out of these four in terms of what damage/weapons/spells you want to use: STR, DEX, INT, and FTH
3. Boost ATN as needed to unlock the amount of spell slots you are comfortable with (I'm not sure of the exact level breaks for this)
Ultimately the biggest decision is part 2. A common build is focusing on STR and FTH. This allows you to be a good melee fighter as well as having access to some strong and cool miracles and even pyromancies work well. In this case, completely avoid INT and level DEX only as needed to equip what you want to equip. You can even fit in some bows/crossbows that scale with STR.
You can focus on STR & DEX as there are some cool weapons that require a nice chunk out of either, especially if you want to dual wield. This gives you better access to bow type ranged options, but you may need to avoid magic a little bit.
You can also go very magical with INT and FTH, but I'm not sure at all how to build those types of characters.
Ultimately though, it really all depends on where you want to stop your soul level. If you are only playing PvE, this becomes a non factor, and you can just continue to blow up your stats to whatever you want.
I'd say the only time to avoid being a "jack of all trades" is very early on. In the beginning, I think its better to start focusing on one thing (say, STR) to get some good assured damage of one type before moving around. Especially in terms of reaching equip requirements as soon as possible.
Hope that helps
Just beat the game. 36 hours and SL 120. I skipped some of the optional bosses (
).
Probably done with it for a while. I think I'm going to buy the strategy guide to just read through for fun to see what I missed. Will probably buy the PC version once it is on sale down the road and maybe try to see some things I didn't see on this playthrough.
ancient dragon, darklurker, probably others I'm not aware of
Probably done with it for a while. I think I'm going to buy the strategy guide to just read through for fun to see what I missed. Will probably buy the PC version once it is on sale down the road and maybe try to see some things I didn't see on this playthrough.
InfiniDragon
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Folks don't know when to do it right. Happened a lot in DS too. Not that you should be popping Estus in a duel.
Invasions though? Fuck Black Phantoms, they're here specifically to make your in-game life hard. Heal if you get the chance.
And I get caught by his over head swing every time.
Take that invader!
The_Darkest_Red
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Wow, you are efficient to finish that fast on your first run. I think I'm around 44 hours and just over SL 120. I still have a few areas to go.
Your faster then me, I'm lv 200 and 100 hours and just about to complete the game.
But I've also done ever boss and lot's of co-op too as well as just took my time enjoying everything.
The_Darkest_Red
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That's a good thing, though! I'm trying to take my time with this one more than I do in most games, you only get that first run of a Souls game once, and you only get one of those every few years! I need to slowly bask in the glory.Your faster then me, I'm lv 200 and 100 hours and just about to complete the game.
But I've also done ever boss and lot's of co-op too as well as just took my time enjoying everything.
If you are SL 200 you must be doing a ton of co-op, haha.
That's always hilarious.
S
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mana
Need to be human to open it!
I understand in invasions because your moving in out of nowhere on them and it's all fair game. Yea but in arena fights I kind of roll my eyes when I see it.
Dude ran off into a corner to pop one during a arena fight, and I ran after him and just wrecked him with the lancer. It was hilarious
Inskipp
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Was it in Aldia's keep by any chance?
I beat Dark Souls 1 for the first time a few months before this so I think having that fresh on my mind helped. I also didn't really do any multiplayer stuff beyond summoning for a couple tough bosses. Never really been much into that stuff in the souls games.
I may try and lay down my sign in a few places now that I have beat it but probably not. Too much other stuff to play.
Right now I'm at 40/40 INT/FTH (41/41 with the hexer's hood) and that's working really well. I'll likely keep increasing both of them... probably 50/50, I'm not sure. Maybe more if skeptic's spices aren't enough for some spells. I wouldn't worry about being SL140 or over leveling in general.
A Sentient Keyboard
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Aaaaaand done. The credits are rolling (really nice theme), after almost 100 hours (I spend a lot of time faffing about in coop and farming for a few obscure items), at SL 150 on my STR/FTH character.
I'll have to sleep on this game a bit and formulate my thoughts, but I can say I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I will probably return for some NG+ action in the near future.
I'll have to sleep on this game a bit and formulate my thoughts, but I can say I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I will probably return for some NG+ action in the near future.
Flame swathe is amazing if you time it right when they're about to drink estus. Mostly because the casting animation looks like a backhand slap.
Interrobang
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What's up with the Red Rust Sword you get from Vengarl? A-scaling in STR. Anyone use this?
Just try to hug his
sweet juicy rotting
Buff your left hand weapon, and then use resin on the right one I guess?
Resins only apply on right too I think. Not to mention you can't resin imbued weapons.
I think it is the best str weapon of in its class. That or the sun sword.
He also sells one of if not the best curved sword for str. (Curved red rust sword I think?)
I didn't use either though because they both use twinkling titanite to upgrade.
AuthenticM
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Would it be wise to have a weapon deal elemental damage of two types ? I have a Black Knight Greatsword that deals innate fire damage. I was thinking of infusing it with lightning, so it would deal that type of damage alongside fire.
Not at all.
Other than him being a true bro,
or if you want to sell stuff/buy poison stuff
Are you in
Doors of Pharros?
Because there's an enemy type that looks very similar but is not him. That said, he IS here in a later section but it's in a room by himself.
I don't think it would help out too much since it would be splitting the damage through 3 defenses rather than just 2. Going fire route would be pretty good though unless high fire defense.
no I am in
no mans wharf
thanks guys, doesn't sound too bad given I am doing a melee focussed first playthrough. A little reading also suggests I can
resurrect him after a little time has passed
AuthenticM
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Ah, I see. I didn't think of that. So it would be better to infuse another weapon with lightning, such as the Drangleic Sword ?
Interrobang
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Just helped about 10 people defeat Freja but haven't regained my humanity. Did they patch it out?
Servbot #42
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I beat
guys i didn't know each place in the world where those portals are was a different dungeon. I guess i did almost everything i wanted to do but i have question do i lose boss souls when i start ng+? I may just pop them and level up if thats the case.
darklurker
No it just don't work consistently, seems they're fixing it in the patch so it is.
"Successful Online coop with white / small sigh stone will now revive you back to human"
I don't think so I've definitely reset to human after helping people a few times with bosses in the last few hours, I don't understand it yet but it doesn't happen every time and seemed to take a few goes to make mine work - admittedly it was nowhere near 10 more like 2 or 3.
SoldnerKei
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same here
silly question, do the Royal Soldier's Ring & Second/Third Dragon Ring stack with each other? the equipment weight is what interest me the most
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