Dark Souls II |OT2| Prepare to Vengarl
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NEOPARADIGM
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How to farm twinkling and soul vessels. Late-game, though.
You need 1.5 the weapons' requirements to power-stance (holding Y/Triangle activates it) which is the "new moveset" you're talking about.
You do it for the powerstance attacks, and for the flexibility that having two 1hand movesets gives you. I don't think it's great personally.
No, infusing is good, but not for the weapons that scale really well with say dex. If you got S scaling and got a lot of dex you're better off keeping it non-infused. If you don't have a lot of dex you will do more damage infused. The scaling for faith on lightning is not very good.
Swag.
And some powerstance movesets are better than others. See: cestus, clubs, rapiers, etc.
AlimNassor
Banned
Then, was there any point for me to have faith? Someone said infusing was really good, but, apparently I'm mistaken, i dunno. What's the point of the infusion system if it severely cripples me?
Probably not for the Blacksteel katana. If you want to cast miracles or pyromancy, faith will still help. You might get better damage on your infused weapon if you use the Sunlight Blade miracle as well. If you want to primarily use the blacksteel katana as a physical weapon and not use much magic then yeah, probably not much point.
Just because it doesn't work in every situation doesn't mean it's pointless. If you have a lot of points in STR or DEX and a weapon that scales well with either of those, it's not a good idea. If you have a weapon with little or no scaling, they can be pretty decent.
On the topic of infusing, I read that infusing with, say, fire isn't necessarily as good as it sounds.
On my strength build I had a halberd +10 with something like
350+100 dmg
and fire infusion gave me about
275+40
275+20
So obviously I thought that against any enemies that don't have insane fire resistance that's way better. 610 vs 450. But then I read that the enemy's defense stat would be applied twice because I do 2 separate types of damage. Is this the way it is? I didn't really compare how much damage I did before and after so I don't know if it was worth it or not.
On my strength build I had a halberd +10 with something like
350+100 dmg
and fire infusion gave me about
275+40
275+20
So obviously I thought that against any enemies that don't have insane fire resistance that's way better. 610 vs 450. But then I read that the enemy's defense stat would be applied twice because I do 2 separate types of damage. Is this the way it is? I didn't really compare how much damage I did before and after so I don't know if it was worth it or not.
Red Liquorice
Member
4 or 5 times now I've been summoned as a phantom and as the host walks through the boss fog it's I've been disconnected - as has any other phantom, as they couldn't walk through the fog either. Is this a common bug?
Aren't you the guy that's been telling everyone to let him loose? I don't think it's a big deal if you're just going for trophies since you'll have all the items right away in NG+ and he's pretty fun to keep fighting.
Where did that come from?
That happens if the hot has already beaten the boss. Troll hosts do that.
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
It's not a bug the host is walking through a fog gate where he's already killed the boss. I did it a couple times myself in the beginning. Summon-signs show up even when the boss is dead and it confuses people, apparently myself included.
its the last enemy before you get to the ancient dragon. i think its the only one who has the sword equipped. really wanted the armor so i killed him a few times and he dropped it. has around 190 dmg at +2
Red Liquorice
Member
I'm aghast. From actually put this in the game where a host can walk through an area fog door of a boss they've already killed? Why? That seems like From are in on the trolling.... of their own customers? I've had it happen about 4 times outside the Chariot boss alone and then just now outside Smelter.
smh. More bullshit, as if the loading times weren't long enough, now we have extra ones for nothing at all.
I know that's a problem in the Iron Keep
where The Pursuer appears after you defeat the Smelter Demon
Yeah, that's exactly how it works.
Ah, I thought that was gated off to co-op as well, but I wasn't too sure. Cheers!
Indeed it is. The host can only
place a summon sign there outside of the Velstadt arena, so naturally when they try to go through there with summons to get to Vendrick, the others are kicked out.
I had no issue with
Drangleic Castle
Plus, you could always just go into NG+. You'd get better results.
AlimNassor
Banned
Constantly getting invaded and 1 shot by people. This is getting annoying. Every single invader is using those OP buffs and spells to basically 1 shot me...
NegroNinja
Member
I still haven't been able to log onto to the servers in this game. I'm logged into psn but it won't let me go online for Dark Souls. Any ideas?
Red Liquorice
Member
I guess I can see that in some circumstances. The blame really is on From, if they wanted online play in areas even after bosses are defeated, they should've implimented it differently. Just another fuck-up to add to the list of DS2.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Ran into a dude in the arena with a full Havel fist build. 90% of fist dudes just walk up to you and start punching, so I parried him immediately. Did the flame swathe/riposte combo and it didn't even do half his life. What in the motherfuck.
Dude just continued to walk/roll up super predictable like. Got a few more parries off but still lost since mistake for him = 5-10% life loss, while a mistake for me is 1/3 of my life. Brute force Havel build OP.
Dude just continued to walk/roll up super predictable like. Got a few more parries off but still lost since mistake for him = 5-10% life loss, while a mistake for me is 1/3 of my life. Brute force Havel build OP.
Nope, jump around all you want!
this dark souls 2.
where you can warp from the start, dont get invaded, can respec and so on.
of course you dont lose your rank, when you switch your covenant.
Skellig Gra
Member
Game is kicking my ass but I'm venturing onwards. Any tips on when I should try to reverse hollowing?
Keep that seperation crystal, and some seeds of the giant handy.
Doesn't too much usage of Seperation Crystal count as sin or ends up banning you from online play for too much usage?
Nevermind. It only works for co-op, doesn't bannish invaders.
Pretty sure separation crystal does nothing to invaders.
Its kinda fun, and the biggest benefit, over just better choice of moveset is being able to hit with two swords at the same time/close to the same time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAS9X_hmURk
I later tried two rapiers...get significant damage incease, but the stamina cost is not the same as one obviously.
Until you start amassing effigies, only if you have enough subsequent deaths that you're nearing 50% health.
Skellig Gra
Member
Should I do it even then? I'm not very good yet so I'm dying a ton. I've heard some people save them for right before bosses.
How many do you have. And yes, I would save them before bosses. At least until you get a Ring of Life Protection.
That's a good idea if you're dying that much. It'll also make you a better player in the long run since you'll have to concentrate more on minimizing the amount of times you get hit.
You can get a ring like right now that only makes the penalty 25% instead of 50% called Ring of Binding. You just have to be able to kill one knight.
With that, I just save Effigies for bosses.
Skellig Gra
Member
Thanks for the tips guys. I have 4 right now. Where is that ring?
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
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In Majula, towards the water, on the left is a path leading to Heide's Tower of Flame. You want to run past all the knights (though killing the second one with a hammer gets you a Sublime Bone Dust which you can burn at a bonfire to upgrade your flask's healing) and take a left in the circular area with the three knights. Run past the next two knights, then kill the knight at the end. A lever will come up. Just pull it and a drawbridge will come down. At the end of the bridge is the ring.
Here's a video to help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XwbygNMtFQ
It might take you a few tries, but fighting at 50% health is a much bigger drag.
It's near the Cathedral of Blue, not No Man's Wharf.
Skellig Gra
Member
Thanks Soriku. I know what you are talking about. I got to the set of knights past the circle and figured I wasn't strong enough yet to tackle that area.
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