-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
Dark Souls II |OT2| Prepare to Vengarl
- Thread starter Vazra
- Start date
- Status
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
Even pre-nerf, amen. Even as pure melee, by that stage of the game you don't have a shield that can deal with magic? You can't 3- or at worst 4-shot the Archdrakes while you 2- or at worst 3-shot the chicks? It's no harder than any other "tricky" spot in this or the other two games,
edit: shit, almost forgot the reason I was stopping by - Open Question to those who play the message meta-game: let's say I had a message on another build that went pretty crazy, say 165 rating, would you put the same message in the same spot on another build? How does that go? Random? Just wondering. My gut tells me it won't get shit the second time around. Murphy's Law and all.
Don't get hit.
It might sound like I'm fucking around, but if you're gonna go without a shield, you need to base your build around that shortcoming. High END (need stamina for rolling and strong-attacking, can't slack distributing points here), high VIT (no shield demands, in theory, good armor - but hardcore peeps will tell you you don't need armor at all, ymmv), and then just enough STR & DEX for your weapons of choice to power-stance. Dump into VGR & ADP at your leisure. That's your build. Done. It's your world. Go.
Orthogonal
Member
I am finally to Dragon Aerie. Awesome area, might be one of my favorite in the series.
Question, is there any way to get Sunlight Medal's outside of co-op or offline? I know it will be a long time before I am close to getting platinum and I worry the online will dry up when I need to get the Sun Bro covenant up.
Question, is there any way to get Sunlight Medal's outside of co-op or offline? I know it will be a long time before I am close to getting platinum and I worry the online will dry up when I need to get the Sun Bro covenant up.
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Belfry Luna. Jeez do I suck at PvP. Always get owned. Lost a few times to the Gargoyle orgy but they will go down as soon as my wife passes out on the couch. I have that laser focus on beating them that only Dark Souls instills. Glad I kept that Dragonslayer axe with the lightning buff all this time.
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
How many medals do you need anyway? I've found if you're fond of summoning help you can get a fuckton of medals that way too. If you summon a sunbro shade at the beginning of the level, and then summon two sun bros at the boss, hypothetically that's three sunlight medals in like five minutes and you're not even being a sun bro. I guess I'm just saying you can rack those fuckers up just generally speaking in co-op without even really focusing on them.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Welp done with work here and time to patch this on PS3 and get to work on the Idiot Twins (Bern and Luca). Almost got the platinum now.
Finn of Ooo
Member
Preferably without spoilers, are there any zones that inspire awe like anor londo did? I remember just stopping the game and looking around at anor londo in amazement. Will there be moments like that again?
Taskmasters (the big guys that throw dark orbs) like the ones just before the second bonfire in Harvest Valley drop them.
Skellig Gra
Member
Yeah I thought about that. Didn't seem much quicker and it was really just the timesink killing them all and losing to the boss. Didn't like the encounter too much mainly because of the terrible camera angles. I really shouldn't get so upset about losing souls when I die. Ah well I beat those bastards in the end! Onward and upward.
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
Yeah man I'm there with you. Seems everywhere I look people are posting about how OP their build is, how they kick constant ass; man if I beat someone in PVP it basically means they suck, because 80% of the time I'm getting four-shot to death in quick succession by some weapon I've never even seen.
Hi guys.
Been playing tons of Dark Souls II, loving it. I'm currently a Blue Sentinel (just started NG+) and had a question. I've been killing tons of people on PvP invading with a cracked blue orb, although, I get nothing out of it. I don't even get their souls, is that supposed to happen? How am I also supposed to know if I am ranking up?
Been playing tons of Dark Souls II, loving it. I'm currently a Blue Sentinel (just started NG+) and had a question. I've been killing tons of people on PvP invading with a cracked blue orb, although, I get nothing out of it. I don't even get their souls, is that supposed to happen? How am I also supposed to know if I am ranking up?
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
Quick thought on Soul Memory and the lack of summon signs/getting summoned - don't forget if it's your second or third run on NG, you're probably under-leveled, as it were: right now pvp is slow for me, but the people who summon me and the people who I summon in totally blow. This is different from when you see summon signs everywhere and the people who spawn in are way more buffed than you, which is more the case on your first playthrough because you're dying a fuckton more. This is like my fifth playthrough of NG and I'm pretty much shooting par, so to speak - I'm exactly where I should be, give or take 150,000 souls or so. Most other players on NG are going to have lost waaaaaaaaaay more souls than that by this point.
Basically if you're light on pvp, don't discount the idea you're actually ahead of the main pack, especially if it's not your first playthrough.
Basically if you're light on pvp, don't discount the idea you're actually ahead of the main pack, especially if it's not your first playthrough.
One thing that kind of irks me a bit about some of the levels is that there are often times where you can invade and end up being unable to get to the player due to them putting you into a level in at a place that is inaccessible without a shortcut being tripped. It's a shame too, because at that stage there is nothing you can do except for hoping that the player isn't a dick and actually tries to progress in the level.
Robot Pants
Member
Yea you can get more sunlight medals from not being a sun bro. Still fun
Ahahaha.
I just had to do it in NG+ for the Lucatiel storyline.
Somehow Lucatiel managed to stay alive all the fight and tanked Flexile while I was spamming all my spells from afar.
It was super easy!
Use a Redeye Ring with Sinner. She'll never go after Luca. It was pretty painless.
AlimNassor
Banned
The Ruin Sentinels theme is so cool. I hate that boss, but, it's kinda fun in it's own cheap sadistic way. Once that theme gets pumping and you see 3 bars, you know you're going to get your ass rearranged. Then they all spin2win, fucking cheap ass. I'll spin them all the way to the fucking moon.
Robot Pants
Member
Heard a few people people had trouble with this boss on NG+ I breezed through it in about 30 seconds. But I was using a sunlight spear with 55 faith and a +5 lightning dragon chime
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yes.
Orthogonal
Member
I do a fair amount of co-op and I try to summon SunBro's when available, but despite all this I only seem to have 7 Sun Medal's and I'm nearly done with the game. I guess I'll just have to devote a night to it or something.
Sweet, good to know!
Kind of wish there was a pyromancy that allowed you to degrade equipment. But i guess that would just be asking for everyone to roll with it online and then the first part of every encounter would be seeing who can fuck up the other person's equipment first lol.
Ahahaha let me try that next time encounter one of them.
Fake edit: lmao just encountered him again. Almost had him, but he fled and used an estus flask and proceeded to own me.
There is. Acid mist.
Yeah, you are probably right; I didn't complete Lost Bastille immediately and instead went for Hunter's Copse and found way less people around.
Then came back, did some bellbroing and wtf pwned some foos, which had never happened to me. In DS1 I won like...thrice.
Oops. Completely forgot about that one.
Wow, BP
is a bitch of a fight in NG+. She has an absolute shiton of HP and WOTG is a one shot kill. Wound up using profound still + GRS after several failed attempts at pyro (toxic/poison mist, flame swath)/melee.
Is it feasible to start Lucatiel's questline in NG++?
Licia
Is it feasible to start Lucatiel's questline in NG++?
Augemitbutter
Member
i think the biggest scum ive encountered was in iron keep pvp area. two of them actually. whenever they got low, they ran as far as the ladder to the turtle guys. i had to chase those assholes all around. that's not how you duel.
I wish all PvP disabled estus.
Kill everything, grab the stuff not nailed down, get to the end of the stage before the dream goes away.
I just used a Great Club and kept crushing her over and over as she started to get up.
Augemitbutter
Member
that would be great. especially in arenas.
do i actually have to kill everything? :/
nope
well lets say i ran through and grabbed everything but that was 2 weeks ago and i forgot what i got >_>
what did i get?
Stratosphere
Member
I'm currently running through D
C
and I just ran into D
G
.
As a paladin build still rocking the Preist's Chime +6, I really want to upgrade to the
. Is there much to gain by earning the chime the old fashioned way, or should I just kill
? I tried the
once in the castle and got wrecked by
. I scurred....
rangleic
astle
arkDiver
randahl
As a paladin build still rocking the Preist's Chime +6, I really want to upgrade to the
Dragon Chime
Grandahl
Dark Chasm of Old
Havel
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
heh ironically one of the best things about being a shade or phantom is dying in really dramatic ways - like with 25% to go on a boss fight that has been really long and tough ... lol i dunno i get a kick out of it.
- Status