They weren't too bad but you need to take them out asap. They're pretty weak defensively. Just circle around the pillar with your shield up when you first enter.
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They weren't too bad but you need to take them out asap. They're pretty weak defensively. Just circle around the pillar with your shield up when you first enter.
Ignore Sentry until his friends are dead
Maybe I should actually respec. I'm pretty weak and I'm not strong enough to kill them with 1 hit. It takes a few and then I'm already dead. Blocking using my shield doesn't help at all (despite it being a 100% block shield). Their attacks just knock me over. I leveled up DEX to 20, because I thought that a weapon, which required that, would be awesome. It wasn't
Red Liquorice
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They might have got them from farming the
giant memories
Maybe I should actually respec. I'm pretty weak and I'm not strong enough to kill them with 1 hit. It takes a few and then I'm already dead. Blocking using my shield doesn't help at all (despite it being a 100% block shield). Their attacks just knock me over. I leveled up DEX to 20, because I thought that a weapon, which required that, would be awesome. It wasn't
Oh, got some heavy armor or Ring of Giants? Use that to raise your poise up.
Ring of Giants is very useful. Definitely makes a difference.
AmethystEnd
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Peace through strength!
Speak softly, and carry two big, sharp sticks and enchant one with lightning. - Theodore Roosevelt
I tried so hard and just got a bunch of Stone Parmas and gloves :-/
70 is a lot, it was probably a megamule. Plus if you went through the trouble why wouldn't you keep them? But yeah, the
memories
Red Liquorice
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I think I've been living under a rock, I had no idea there was a DS2 megamule - reading about it now. So soon really? :|
Orthogonal
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Have you tried using alluring skulls?
darkjedi187
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Made a hell of a lot of progress this weekend and I am at the end of the game. I have not killed the AD, anything else I should try to do before wrapping it up?
Forgot which one (there might be more than one), but ascetic(s) are one of the items, so it's an infinite farm with some good loot. Not sure they'd patch it out really, it's not breaking anything. And using ascetics to farm is pretty much the whole point.
Yeah people were cheating before the game even came out.
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Red Liquorice
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Just had my first taste of Mirror Knight evilness. I finally got summoned and the poor host did a great job of holding there own, but they were alone and it was all just a case of running away to heal before getting pummelled again.
Kind of felt bad for throwing everything I had at them - G. Light Spear, Flame Swathe, used Sacred Oath (does it buff the Mirror Knight?) and poison arrows. It was only a matter of time till the inevitable conclusion.
So bad, yet so good! .... Next time, Acid Surge and Toxic Mist!
Kind of felt bad for throwing everything I had at them - G. Light Spear, Flame Swathe, used Sacred Oath (does it buff the Mirror Knight?) and poison arrows. It was only a matter of time till the inevitable conclusion.
So bad, yet so good!
.... Next time, Acid Surge and Toxic Mist!Orthogonal
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So bad, yet so good!
That is pure evil. That fight is stressful enough as it is and then add insult to injury. From was particularly devious with this boss fight and then players take it to another level.
TheJollyCorner
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spent a good hour or so putting my white summon sign down at the Dragon Shrine. Pulled a ton of souls helping people, but didn't have a single good run at AD.
I was on some good teams, too... at least I thought.
I think the best team I was on took the son of a bitch down maybe only a quarter of his health before either the host or myself got killed by the one-shot flame spread.
I really hate that boss and I haven't even attempted it on my own yet.
Judging from my own skill level (which can be described only as decent and not great), I honestly think this is the one DaS boss I won't be able to beat solo. I don't even think a team can help me due to the insta-kill moves. :/
I was on some good teams, too... at least I thought.
I think the best team I was on took the son of a bitch down maybe only a quarter of his health before either the host or myself got killed by the one-shot flame spread.
I really hate that boss and I haven't even attempted it on my own yet.
Judging from my own skill level (which can be described only as decent and not great), I honestly think this is the one DaS boss I won't be able to beat solo. I don't even think a team can help me due to the insta-kill moves. :/
Red Liquorice
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I've only defeated it solo and I would think that is the easier way to do it. Well not easier per se, but safer. Summons can send AI a bit crazy sometimes and it makes fights unpredictable. If there's one fight in the game you want some stability in AI, it's that one.
you can buy unlimited shards from
the blacksmith in majula after you beat the old iron king
Just had my first taste of Mirror Knight evilness. I finally got summoned and the poor host did a great job of holding there own, but they were alone and it was all just a case of running away to heal before getting pummelled again.
Kind of felt bad for throwing everything I had at them - G. Light Spear, Flame Swathe, used Sacred Oath (does it buff the Mirror Knight?) and poison arrows. It was only a matter of time till the inevitable conclusion.
So bad, yet so good!
You can cast warmth as soon as you spawn and it heals the boss.
I'm also a fan of immediately killing Benhart if he's there. So mean.
horse
Any message with horse = automatic rating
Except, obviously, inside or around the Undead Purgatory.
TheJollyCorner
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yeah, I just broke down and watched a YouTube of a guy soloing it.
Four things I took from it:
-a lot of stamina is good (all the running)
-a lot of HP is good (in the event his flame vomit hits you on the outside of the range. Actually saw this guy barely survive the blast because he had so much HP.)
-no need for armor and a shield.
-you can kind of control the dragon's pattern;
i.e. get a few hits in on his foot, run out a bit away from his head, trigger his standing flame breath, run back for some hits, haul ass to the northeast of his shadow when you start seeing the wings flap, rinse-repeat
Then again, I also saw some guy beat the AD with only his fists on like NG++++ or something, so I guess a good enough player can make any boss fight look easy.
AmethystEnd
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My messages helpfully labeling wheels as "Wheel" have received rave reviews.
Palette Swap
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I ran across my first yesterday in gates of Pharos, it said something like "Drop ahead, therefore Horse".
I felt oddly compelled to rate it.
Is there anything remotely resembling a horse in the game?
Why?
Oh I know that. It's from the stone trader it's just been the bane of my existence on my co-op character. It's weird how the resources are in this one.
TheJollyCorner
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Two things:
Llewellyn horse head guys before the mirror knight in
Horse boss in
Both were in the original trailer reveal too!
SeventhSon
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Cleared out because you've been trying to defeat AD?
Nope. Because I died so many fuckin times against the boss.
Palette Swap
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Oh, I haven't reached these places yet. This explains that.
I'll be honest, the Black Gulch is super boring/annoying so I've kind of stopped progressing. It's probably the weakest part of the game so far. I wasn't a huge fan of its equivalents in previous games but they had interesting stuff at least.
Just book it through Black Gulch. Run, do not mind the poison or enemies at all, you won't die. You really don't need to stop for anything except maaaaybe the giant worms. At the end of it, just before the left turn towards the boss room
there is a small walkway on the right side, just next to the chasm. It leds to a second bonfire which is much closer to the boss.
Um is it voiced in spanish too?
SeventhSon
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That's what I mean.
I think my plan is to pre-emptively cause extinction so I can make my boss runs stress free for AD. I did that for Old Iron King, because I didn't find the third bonfire until afterword.
Gozer the Gozerian
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Thats how I felt when I kept dying at that black phantom before the chariot boss, all those undead whip dudes got wiped out eventually and I was like damn I suck
No, only the text is in spanish.
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