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[NaturalHigh]

Just beat the game. I summoned a sunbro that made the last 2 fights cake. Praise the sun! Anyways...I'm OCD and am going to farm my ass off before NG+. But I need some faith to use the Bow that I Want. So....what is the best way to farm souls . Currently SL141.

Also, petrified dragon bones I need more. Can't decide which end game medium shield I want the most.

 

[Just_myles]

So I contacted support. See what they can do about the game. Has to be the disc at this point.

 

[Afrocious]

Just beat the game. I summoned a sunbro that made the last 2 fights cake. Praise the sun! Anyways...I'm OCD and am going to farm my ass off before NG+. But I need some faith to use the Bow that I Want. So....what is the best way to farm souls . Currently SL141.

Also, petrified dragon bones I need more. Can't decide which end game medium shield I want the most.

Co-op. You can hit a million easily if you co-op

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Dragon Shrine

. You could also help people farm the final boss.

If you want to farm petrified dragon bones, use the bonfire ascetic in

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Dragon Aerie

. That place doesn't change much in NG+ and what few enemies there remain easy.

 

[everyday math]

Man, here I am thinking my first death will be by some boosted up enemy in NG+. Nope rolled off the ledge.

 

[Afrocious]

Man, here I am thinking my first death will be by some boosted up enemy in NG+. Nope rolled off the ledge.

Mine in NG+ belonged to those fucking birds.

 

[everyday math]

Mine in NG+ belonged to those fucking birds.

Those guys scared the crap out of me. I want one of those birds.

 

[Spaaaaaaaaace]

Not really, you need only to kill the

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Giant Lord

I didnt kill the giant lord until after I got the achievement. I used him three times to kill the easy boss in brightstone.

 

[everyday math]

This time around I think I'm gonna go for a Battlemage type or whatever it's called. I like being up close and personal. But I also want to try magic.

 

[Afrocious]

This time around I think I'm gonna go for a Battlemage type or whatever it's called. I like being up closer and personal. But I also want to try magic.

Magic in this game is FUN.

Made Ruin Sentinels go a lot differently, but it's fun. I went the hexer route. Great Resonant Soul is too good.

 

[FaintDeftone]

Man the Lost Sinner is destroying me. I had her at a tiny sliver of health left and she cheap shot me and killed me.

Also, is it just me or can no one summon or lay signs down? It keeps giving me error messages.

 

[zma1013]

I think my game must be broken because i am doing exactly what the others are doing on youtube and my health goes down way way way more than anyone elses who are running on the lava rocks. I cant get the last chest with chaos storm.

 

[Robot Pants]

I think my game must be broken because i am doing exactly what the others are doing on youtube and my health goes down way way way more than anyone elses who are running on the lava rocks. I cant get the last chest with chaos storm.

Had this problem too. Use flash sweat first obviously and then make sure you roll through all the water urns up there. There's like 6 of them. Run through all of them.
Not sure how the guy on YouTube only ran through 3. That didn't work for me.

 

[Mentok]

I think my game must be broken because i am doing exactly what the others are doing on youtube and my health goes down way way way more than anyone elses who are running on the lava rocks. I cant get the last chest with chaos storm.

Make sure you rolled through enough water (you'll see your footprints when you move). I thought the same thing as you until I noticed I didn't roll through enough water.
Of course you'll still need flame resistant ring, gear and flash sweat.

 

[FaintDeftone]

WHEW! Finally beat The Last Sinner after about 12 tries. I wasted a lot of effigies on that boss due to summoning the NPC that ended up basically useless. I went in solo and died many times and then my last attempt I went in and killed her almost effortlessly.

Her attack patterns are easy to read and evade, the problem is the speed. If you take a hit and need to heal, sipping that estus flask is essentially a death sentence, so healing is almost a giant no no in this battle. My shield did the trick, but if you absorbed that two or three hit combo, you better hope she doesn't attack soon after or follow up with a lunge.

Feels very good to take out that boss, seeing as many have told me she's one of the, if not the, hardest boss in the game.

 

[MG310]

That wasn't working for me either - I ended up clearing out all of the enemies between the first Pharros Stone pool and the Chaos Storm chest so I could just do a straight run and it worked - no other buffs needed, just that and chugging Estus along the way.

 

[WheelHoss1]

I'm in the Dragon Remnants Covenant. I know people talk about a 150 SL cap for dueling, but I could be fighting guys with a SL of 1000, right? Or not?

 

[RyanDG]

I'm in the Dragon Remnants Covenant. I know people talk about a 150 SL cap for dueling, but I could be fighting guys with a SL of 1000, right? Or not?

From my understanding, yes, you could potentially be fighting someone over your level as long as their soul memory is about the same as yours. From what I've heard in NG+, they check for either soul level or soul memory being with range, and as long as either one is, the checks will pass.

 

[mattp]

so...when does the black steel katana get a big boost?
mine is at +8 and it still only does 171+122 damage vs my falchion+10 that does 240+81
do i need to pump more points into dex in order to have the katana pass the falchion?
i think my dex is 33 right now

 

[ipitydatfu]

whats the best place to gank invaders with Seed of a Tree of Giants

 

[nailbombxx]

whats the best place to gank invaders with Seed of a Tree of Giants

I'm thinking Shrine of Amana would be hilarious.

 

[MG310]

The run up to the Huntsman Copse boss..especially on NG+

 

[Gr1mLock]

Holy shit I've seen more gimmicky shit in PvP tonight more than the whole previous times I've played this game combined.

 

[Dresden]

So you can snipe the AD to death. Fond memories.

 

[Ghazi]

So, after the patch, will Moonlight Greatsword still be a great weapon? Do we know the degree to which they're nerfing it? I assume the patch is out for PS3 players, which is why I ask.

So you can snipe the AD to death. Fond memories.

What? Haha that's so crazy.

 

[Augemitbutter]

So you can snipe the AD to death. Fond memories.

from, fix your shit.

 

[Jaeger]

Holy shit I've seen more gimmicky shit in PvP tonight more than the whole previous times I've played this game combined.

Like what?

 

[ipitydatfu]

So you can snipe the AD to death. Fond memories.

will it kill me if i dont kill it fast enough?

 

[Wuthering_Heights]

Oh god im watching Bisnaps let's play of this game and he thinks every wooden chest is a trap chest so he's breaking every single wooden chest and looting rubble and it's taking everything I have not to rage so hard and wow this was a terrible run on sentence.

Argh.

 

[Jaeger]

Oh god im watching Bisnaps let's play of this game and he thinks every wooden chest is a trap chest so he's breaking every single wooden chest and looting rubble and it's taking everything I have not to rage so hard and wow this was a terrible run on sentence.

Argh.

Let's Play Dark Souls vids makes me rage so hard.

 

[nailbombxx]

Oh god im watching Bisnaps let's play of this game and he thinks every wooden chest is a trap chest so he's breaking every single wooden chest and looting rubble and it's taking everything I have not to rage so hard and wow this was a terrible run on sentence.

Argh.

I don't know why but it really irks me watching people play this game in an oblivious fashion.

 

[Afrocious]

Oh god im watching Bisnaps let's play of this game and he thinks every wooden chest is a trap chest so he's breaking every single wooden chest and looting rubble and it's taking everything I have not to rage so hard and wow this was a terrible run on sentence.

Argh.

Everything about that pisses me off.

 

[GulAtiCa]

That feeling you get when you successfully hit an invader with your Sunlight Spear and does zero damage and doesn't even act like he was hit..

That feeling when you are lagbackstabbed while you were 10+ feet away and facing them..

So you can snipe the AD to death. Fond memories.

lol! You can actually do something similar with the 2nd

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Pursuer

boss fight. Using a Flame Swathe, you can kill him off from outside the chamber on 1st floor. You can literally kill him before he rises from the ground, because he is literally in the ground.

You know you played this game too long when your main is at 165+ hours and 33,000,000 Soul Memory and level 313. :lol

 

[Jaeger]

Time for some Blood Brotherhood dueling, so I can invade people and steal more souls!

 

[ElFly]

Goddamnit, upgraded a blacksteel katana and enchated it with fire, but turns out it still does less damage than my old trusty Fire Longsword. I am a mage with tons of int.

I wish the Heide Lightning Longsword that you get from that heide dude in FotG had the moveset of the Fire Longsword.

Any good weapon ideas for a mage with 18 STR, 25 Dex and 34 Int?

 

[GulAtiCa]

I honestly dont care anymore. Dex Katana builds >>>>>>>> shitty ass hex mages. I will never ever, ever play as a mage, ever again. I'mm a warrior, a badass warrior who likes to get naked and run into enemies with my sword. I hate the overtly cautious nature of mages, I hate it.

Hex Mages aren't even fun to play, it's just boring. I honestly think all mages are just crazy or cowards afraid of real blood. I don't care how "OP" mages are, I don't give a fuck. Warriors are true bros, we don't rely on magic to get shit done. What we have is pure fucking skill.

I love your thought process for every post with this game. They go to such extremes in both directions. Really entertaining for me.

 

[Brandon F]

Great post, I have a few specific things to add.

• The Ring of Life Protection makes the game too easy and essentially removes all tension and fear of death. I found myself YOLOing a lot in the late game and not caring.
• The immediate access to bonfire teleports also removes a lot of the tension of going through dangerous areas on foot. (I would have liked to receive this power later in the game a la DS.)
• While I really like the ability to re-spec, I feel that this killed some of the "hardcore" aspect of this game. There is no need to "commit" to a specific playstyle as you can easily re-spec.

Agreed with the first two points immensely(only halfway through my first play still, so unsure how I feel about respec yet), BUT....

I really wish they would patch in a change to the ring of life protection. It really does remove the core tension and threat, almost unraveling the entire basis of death and sacrifice from the game. The meager 3k death tax completely imbalances the game and while it can be argued that the ring need not be equipped, the principle behind its existence is a real shame. A scaling repair cost, or a change to keeping souls at the cost of humanity, or vice versa but not both, would help me feel a bit better about its existence.

Otherwise it is a bummer how close bonfires are, especially given how tiny most of the areas in this game are. A shame since I haven't felt the same tension and fear of progression loss as I did regularly when blind playing the first two games. I still have a good chunk of the second half left to see, but my interest has waned quite a bit given these two above issues mainly.

 

[Jaeger]

No. All of those things are things you choose to use (sans the early Bonfire teleportation). All I'm seeing is "take the drugs off the street so I can stop buying and using".

 

[myco666]

Does the invisible weapon spell hide all the weapons in your right hand, even if you swap between the slots? Because I just dueled a dude who was swapping between three different weapons and they were all invisible.

I would say no but not sure. There is a ring though that hides all your right hand weapons so it is possible that he was using that.

 

[nailbombxx]

I would say no but not sure. There is a ring though that hides all your right hand weapons so it is possible that he was using that.

Thanks. I was so damn confused.

 

[theSlacker]

On the off chance I get

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invaded in Belfry Luna/Sol

, everything is a laggy mess, I'm getting hit when my foe is a floor above me. Or, well, I get an "invasion failed...etc" message. My net isn't even that bad, it's a little better then the standard Australian connection and the online is set up to connect locally.

Anyone have any solutions to my problem? Essentially I need to get

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Sunlight Medals (29 more... geezus) for the Sunlight Spear

and to reach

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rank 3 in the Bell Covenant for the Hidden Weapon spell.

I've read I can farm what I need offline, but the drop rate or spawn rate is abhorrently low. What's the best way to stack my luck, does the

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Gold Serpent Ring stack with the Jester's Hat etc?

Don't have an easy solution for the sunbro tokens, but there is one for the bellbros. The red katana phantom that spawns randomly in the second belfry counts as a kill towards the covenant when you kill him. Can get tedious running back and forth from the fire to inside to check for him, but it works.

No. All of those things are things you choose to use (sans the early Bonfire teleportation). All I'm seeing is "take the drugs off the street so I can stop buying and using".

They are design choices that effect the entire game. The fact that they are optional doesn't matter. More options aren't always a good thing if their existence weakens the experience.

WALL OF TEXT

I agree with everything you said, especially the stuff about the level design and story. Still a great game, but hope they don't phone it in as much in the next one. The story in particular felt this way, it ending with them just tossing out a bunch of buzz words and terms from DS1 like "linking the fire" with no relevance to anything that has happened or the game has been about up till that point.

 

[Cloudius12]

So you can snipe the AD to death. Fond memories.

Maneater 2.0

 

[Vitten]

Goddamnit, upgraded a blacksteel katana and enchated it with fire, but turns out it still does less damage than my old trusty Fire Longsword. I am a mage with tons of int.

I wish the Heide Lightning Longsword that you get from that heide dude in FotG had the moveset of the Fire Longsword.

Any good weapon ideas for a mage with 18 STR, 25 Dex and 34 Int?

Yeah, pop a soul vessel and lose the str and the dex. The longsword is all you need as a mage for melee backup, use the rest for more attunement, higher int and faith for hexes. If you're going to be a mage, be a good one.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

No. All of those things are things you choose to use (sans the early Bonfire teleportation). All I'm seeing is "take the drugs off the street so I can stop buying and using".

Silliness. If the game gives you a tool that makes it easier and removes tension, it's a flaw in the game design, the onus is on the game designer to not give those OP tools, not on the players to not use them.

 

[Jaeger]

They are design choices that effect the entire game. The fact that they are optional doesn't matter. More options aren't always a good thing if their existence weakens the experience.

Silliness. If the game gives you a tool that makes it easier and removes tension, it's a flaw in the game design, the onus is on the game designer to not give those OP tools, not on the players to not use them.

Crazy talk. Just don't use them. Invisible patch already loaded.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Crazy talk. Just don't use them. Invisible patch already loaded.

We already explained why "just don't use them" is a bogus argument. Repeating it doesn't suddenly make it valid.

 

[Cannon Goose]

I absolutely love the inclusion of soul vessels in the game. It's made me try a lot more builds than I did in the first Dark Souls just because you can collect all the weapons, armour and magic that you need on one character and then freely try them to see what you like.

I wasted many hours in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls getting a build to near completion and then realising that it was actually shit. I definitely prefer being able to respec over wasting a bunch of time on builds that don't work.

 

[Jaeger]

We already explained why "just don't use them" is a bogus argument. Repeating it doesn't suddenly make it valid.

No, you argument is flawed to begin with. There are plenty of tools in lots of games that make it far easier than it could be.

Weapons, armor, farming items and powerups, etc etc.

No one is forcing you to gain these. There's nothing about the game that forces you to use the Ring of Restoration in order to progress through the game. "It's there, and therefore it's flawed" is not a decent argument.

 

[Arjen]

I absolutely love the inclusion of soul vessels in the game. It's made me try a lot more builds than I did in the first Dark Souls just because you can collect all the weapons, armour and magic that you need on one character and then freely try them to see what you like.

I wasted many hours in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls getting a build to near completion and then realising that it was actually shit. I definitely prefer being able to respec over wasting a bunch of time on builds that don't work.

I agree, love how you can mess around with soul vessels, nice to toy around with. On my hex build i used one to get to 20 int 20 faith early to get sunstaf and then another to get back to the old build.

 

[daniels]

aww i just got guts sword why does it have such a shitty moveset? :X
I think i stick to the giant warrior club and greatsword :/

 

[Augemitbutter]

No, you argument is flawed to begin with. There are plenty of tools in lots of games that make it far easier than it could be.

Weapons, armor, farming items and powerups, etc etc.

No one is forcing you to gain these. There's nothing about the game that forces you to use the Ring of Restoration in order to progress through the game. "It's there, and therefore it's flawed" is not a decent argument.

if there are no benefits, it's pointless not to use core game mechanics. you can make rules for yourself, but that's outside of this games ruleset. what's in is supposed to be used, always. they didn't include this stuff for you to look at. it's useful.