LorDjidane
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Why do I see so many people using the dragonslayer greatbow rather than the long bow? Is it only to be able to use great arrows? Because it seems the long bow deals more damage with a strong DEX build but I don't know.
Dark Souls II |OT2| Prepare to Vengarl
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It's a bit here and there sometimes PvP is ridiculous with some of the phantom ranges for weapons.
The Alonne greatbow is the other greatbow.
Currently fighting the pursuer and his hit detection is horseshit. I warp right into his sword attack.
I messed up, guys.
I got the game the other day, and started playing. Got to Majula, and never actually saw the pathway
. Instead, I went to
. Died, a TON of times (though I did take out that first big guy enough times to make him stop respawning), and now I'm down to 50% health. A friend came on the chat, laughed at me, and directed me to the "right' place.
Should I use an effigy at this point? I hear there are only several in the game. Also, if I DO use it, and then I die again, does HP start trickling down incrementally again, or does it bring me all the way back down to 50%, since I'd been there before??
I got the game the other day, and started playing. Got to Majula, and never actually saw the pathway
near the bonfire to get to the Forest of the Giants
Heidel Tower
Should I use an effigy at this point? I hear there are only several in the game. Also, if I DO use it, and then I die again, does HP start trickling down incrementally again, or does it bring me all the way back down to 50%, since I'd been there before??
Kevin Shields
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What route is that? How do you get past the snake guys fast, don't they pop out and kill you??
is absolutely destroying meDuke's Freja
When I keep my distance, the beam kills me, when I get close, the stamps and trash mob kill me
No shortcut, correct?
edit: Did a little better just there, keep getting delayed on the way to theby running intoinactive headlegs and spiders
I think beam is always from left to right, or atleast thats what she did with me, so I just forced her to do the beam then sprint to her right till the inactive head. Rinse and repeat.
Dont worry, you will get enough effigies. Also, the HP will go down incrementally again.
Theres a ring in Heide that makes
minimum health be 75% instead of 50%.
Stay at Heidi then you can get the ring of binding that limits reduction of health when you die.
Is the pursuer ultra greatsword any good moveset and scaling wise?
It's incremental, and it's probably a good idea to use one now. The beginning of the game can be pretty tough since you don't have a lot of Estus yet, so being crippled at 50% health is only going to make things worse. You come across quite a few effigies through the game, I finished my first run with over 70 (although I only used a couple).
Theres a ring in Heide that makesCant remember exactly where it was though, sorryminimum health be 75% instead of 50%.
If you turn left at the big room with the sword knight and two shield knights, it's up the drawbridge in front of the cathedral (but before the boss door).
I may invest in that. I got summoned into a game where the host was using that and he was hitting super hard on the Old Knights. I was wondering why he even need to summon anyone lol
YianGaruga
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Cannon Goose
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Now dual wielding two +5 Poison Manslayers... The game is now Poison Souls. It only takes two power stance L1's to inflict poison on any enemy I've encountered so far.
Unfortunately that doesn't stop the hallway before Velstadt from being a big piece of shit, though.
Unfortunately that doesn't stop the hallway before Velstadt from being a big piece of shit, though.
Should have pulled back.
HighJumpBoots
Banned
Nearly finished with Shaded Woods. Took a look at Drangleic Castle to grab the
, well worth the pain that those
were bringing upon me.
I friggen love this game.
Faraam set
Ruin Sentinels
I friggen love this game.
So I beat the
But I had great fun !
Covetous Demon yesterday , bastard ate my equipment (I was so not expecting that) and then I was like WTF do I do and then I beated him naked and bare handed took me a while but his pattern was easy enough and got him first try and then I realized that my equipment was actually sent back to my inventory so I could have requiped my stuff while fightning him -_-
But I had great fun !
I prefer the washing pole by a fair margin - the blacksteel katana is actually my off-hand weapon on that hand since the washing pole has fairly weak durability. I'm trying to get far enough into my NG+ so I can get a second one already
I went the same way my first time too and while it was tough it was still managable. You will get a decent amount of effigies as the game goes on so don't worry too much about using one, just play patiently and you should be fine.
Fuck that dude. Out of all the NPCs and enemy characters, I hate him the most. Too over powered in my opinion. Too close? He can one shot you. Too far, he releases that hex cloud or whatever it is and if it hits you once, all the subsequent hits are going to land as well. I pretty much had to cheese him every fight, because straight up wasn't working.
The scaling is good, but the moveset is not enjoyable for me. Don't like how it starts with an overhead.
The way he was talking I was afraid he would start killing NPCs so I kilked him lol. The only unprovoked kill I've done so far, he just seemed like bad news.
I never found his cell. Must be one of those locked doors.
Dont worry, you will get enough effigies. Also, the HP will go down incrementally again.
Theres a ring in Heide that makesCant remember exactly where it was though, sorryminimum health be 75% instead of 50%.
Great, thanks everyone! Cool, I'll use an effigy for sure. I will eventually go back for the ring, but I think I need a bit more practice first. It's weird that I was able to kill the big guard with the sword fairly easily, but just kept getting my ass handed to me by the one with the mace.
Cannon Goose
Member
I didn't know about being able to invade L
in my first run. I picked up the C
in the U
and then promptly forgot about it, so NG+ was my time to shine...
Holy fuck,
icia the Miracle lady
rushed Eye Orb
ndead Crypt
Holy fuck,
Wrath of the Gods is insanely powerful! And can hit you from across the room... That fight reminded me a lot of PVP with all the goddamn magic spamming, and such a tiny arena too. Thankfully poison prevailed in the end.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Many questions!
How did you get two Manslayers, was it via NG+? Did you infuse them with poison or do you use their natural abilities? If the former, how are they holding up with the damage reduction?
My favourite weapon from the first game. Great Club + Darkmoon Blade was the shit.
Dunno but it sounds to me that the Defender Greatsword might become my new favourite weapon in this one. I just need to get my hands on it first.
Get her health low, she heals. Get close to her, Wrath of the Gods. Get her health low, she heals...
How is it against all the bosses that require Lucatiel? I just wanna run through NG+ as quickly as possible.
Kevin Shields
Member
so a little confused on infusing... So if I have a Claymore +6 with C C scaling, should I infuse it with fire (I have no stats in faith)? My base goes down but the fire damage make it slightly better I believe and it still stays at C C scaling. Is there any reason I shouldn't do this? I'm afraid to mess up my prime weapon.
I didn't realize this until I defeated some of the earlier bosses. I was thinking to myself "Man, this has got to be the hardest entry in the Souls series...". Then I read in this thread that it increased the difficulty of the game so I abandoned the covenant. Now I'm feeling the urge to rejoin since I was starting to get used to that level of challenge.
According to the wiki, enemies deal double the normal damage and have 1.5 the normal defense. I don't know if that's accurate though.
I wanted to go for the added challenge so I took it right from the start. I made it past a few bosses, but I just gave up at no man's wharf. It was making some fights impossibly difficult with my current build.
ughhhhhhhhhhh the fucking "oh you pressed a button? that's cute. i'm going to ignore it" thing dark souls likes to do occasionally just fucked me so bad
been slowly getting better at the smelter demon. i had him down to TWO more hits. maaaybe 3. so i'm like, fuck yes this is it! im finally gonna beat him. i walk in so he can do one of his usual combos, dodge roll out of the way and...wait. WHY DIDNT I ROLL. OH NO. fucking hits me. and that stun locks me so i can't roll out of the 2nd attack in his combo. fucking dead. RAGE
Was thinking about making a new character and doing champions covenant and fist weapons only and then just barehanded after I Lvl 3 them.
It's great for
Flexile
Smelter
Rotten
Sinner
And protip for just about anyone - abuse the heck out of the R2+forward lunge. If you only have time for one hit, it does way more damage than a normal attack, and covers a huge amount of distance so you don't have to be as close. I use that almost exclusively against a lot of bosses. Staggers most normal enemies as well, perfect for a Great Club overhead swing follow-up.
I haven't run into this problem actually. Aside from running out of stamina, my button inputs always seem to be registered. The thing that gets me is how big of a buffer there is. It seems like I can input an attack or roll while I'm on the ground or something and then my character will still eventually do it. I have a bad habit of mashing until the character does what I want, so I end up with repeated stuff all the time. Don't know how many times it's killed me because it remembered an extra press of the attack button, from before the first attack even came out.
There are 5.
it happened in ds1 occasionally too. it would just totally ignore an input. but in ds1 it actually would queue it up and whatever button you hit would trigger like 2 seconds late
in ds2 it just totally ignores it as if you never pressed the button
i'm not sure which is more annoying haha
Also, you can power stance that action. is a lot of fun.
My new short term goal in this game is to guard-break stagger a player with power stance great clubs, switch to a dagger and crit to the face. Having goals is important.
Nice, gonna do some clean up before starting NG+
Interrobang
Member
I did both Heide and the area after it (
No Man's Wharf)
Yu Narukami
Member
Is it possible to summon someone for that fight?
There's one in Black Gulch, I think.
Waiting for a summons in front of the
boss, I entertained myself with the many, many, MANY bloodstains in the area. Ghosts trying to take a swig of estus and suddenly feeling very very tired (poison), taking a dive off the ledges to get to the lower level and failing to stick the landing...
My favorite was a death from the grabby black creatures who hide in the oil pools - suddenly the ghost gets picked up and dangles in the air for a couple of seconds before falling over. Hilarity.
Black Gulch
My favorite was a death from the grabby black creatures who hide in the oil pools - suddenly the ghost gets picked up and dangles in the air for a couple of seconds before falling over. Hilarity.
Haha, I feel your pain. I was a pure Str build and eventually respeced to Faith for Lightning Spears. Went down in about the same and all I could think was "god dammit".
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