I was basically just looking for the best place to get Dragon Scales. I've been farming that warriors on the long staircase and have yet to get a dragon scale. Probably close to reaching no-spawn territory.
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I was basically just looking for the best place to get Dragon Scales. I've been farming that warriors on the long staircase and have yet to get a dragon scale. Probably close to reaching no-spawn territory.
I think I was able to get 3 scales on average per ascetic while I was farming the Black Dragon weapons and wearing farming gear:
jester hat / merchant hat
prisoner tatters
gold covetous serpent ring
Hey Lucatiel, thanks for taking the opportunity to spontaneously walk off the pier to your death while I was standing still, talking to an NPC. I know standing in one damn spot for 20 seconds is real hard, and I appreciate having to do No Man's Wharf all over again.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Need to have gold covetous serpent +2, dragon parma and use rusted coins to get the full benefit.
Just do another on of her bosses instead?
With Prisoner's hat and top + Covetous +2, Rusted Coins don't seem to do anything. The item-find buff-effect doesn't activate, so that might be the Item Discovery cap for the game.
Red Liquorice
Member
Those dragon warriors have a super low drop rate for scales in my experience. You can ascetic the area without having to kill the AD though.
Have you got another stat boosting effect active like Cloranthy ring etc? The effects don't overlay similar to DS1. So the coins I assume still take effect but you don't get the animation as you use it.
While I had the Rusted Coin supposedly active, I changed out of my Prisoner's Top and it played the buff-effect. The effect does play if you have Cloranthy on though, so it's not that.
Grain of salt etc., I wasn't especially testing for item discovery stacking, just noticed it when I was farming.
Laurentius
Member
Is it just me, or does it seem like the summoned NPC AI/pathfinding is even worse in this game?
MMBosstones86
Member
Personally, I've used just the hat + ring and notice a ton of difference.
Laurentius
Member
Speaking of, does this game not show your current item discovery stat? In DS1 it was listed on your stat screen, so you could see specifically how much you were raising it. But I can't find it anywhere here.
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Ah, that's it. I had that on me. Thanks.
It doesn't I believe.
It was sacrificed for the equip weight indicator. There wasn't enough room in the UI for both.
For the more OP equipment sure. But for forcing people to do so with non OP equipment so they can get under a 50% weight cap? That seems backwards to me.
Laurentius
Member
I feel like they could have still fit it somewhere...the UI isn't exactly well organized, and I'm sure they could have rearranged things if they wanted it there. Seems more like a design decision to me (i.e., for whatever reason they didn't want the player to know their exact item discovery). Either that or an oversight.
Laurentius
Member
Apparently people are using it to get off crazy backstabs...
It's cool for speedruns, though. They'd better set some awesome records with it before From patches it out.
I attempted to be flippant there, didn't work out. It's one of the many strange design decision they took with the sequel, not up there with Soul Memory, but still odd. I hope they patch it in, since it would only amount to a small visual change in the stats -menu.
Just watched a guy do 1:41 all bosses on twitch. Pretty cool. It's amazing how fast these guys are.
Laurentius
Member
Oh, gotcha, haha. Sarcasm is sometimes lost on me on the internet. Yeah, hopefully they do patch it in.
I'm kind of losing hope at this point that From has much interest in doing much patching on this game at all, though...at the very least they need to patch the obvious bugs, like the binoboosting and weapon durability problems on PC. I'd be really surprised if they do anything about the Soul Memory problems, but I guess we'll see.
Geez, that's crazy. I want to beat the game before I start watching speedruns, but it'll be fun watching them once I do. (Although for entertainment purposes, I've always enjoyed the wacky challenge runs that people like Lobos do more than speedruns. But both are enjoyable.)
I agree. What I've been doing is just tabbing away for the parts I haven't seen yet. It's fascinating watching them kill the bosses I struggled with in seconds.
Laurentius
Member
What speedrunners have you been watching? I want to make a list of good ones to watch once I finish the game. For challenge runs, I like to watch Lobos, Miltrivd, and Vageta, since I've watched a lot of their stuff since DS1. I never really watched speedrunners stream too much, though, so I'm not sure who the best ones are.
Red Liquorice
Member
Hmm maybe it was another stat effect that it clashes with. I was using the other day and it didn't show, can't remember what I had equipped. I assumed it was similar to how if you had grass crest shield and wolf ring, only the wolf ring effect would show.
I still say the RNG is funky in DS2 especially, it feels like sometimes it switches on and off. It makes me paranoid!
I just checked it: Using a Coin and switching Cloranthy on and off always activates the effect when taking it off, and full item-hunt gear (Covetous +2, Prisoner's hat and top, Watchdragon Parma) doesn't affect the Coin effect at all. So it might not be the cap at all. Or it might be. How about that numeric value in the stat -screen, From?
Has anyone ever gotten multiple drops from a single enemy? I can't remember that ever happening to me.
I was watching Elajjaz today. He's incredible. Chatting the whole entire time with the viewers while laying down his personal best.
Red Liquorice
Member
I have got multiple drops, usually off regular enemies but got some multiples off 'Seigmeyer' and Rhoy when I was farming them. And yeah, I miss the numerical value too :/
holy shit @ binoboosting. Watching Ela speedrun with this trick now and it should make for some insane times
I don't know how these guys do this. Offer an entertaining stream, while moderating/maintaining your community at the same time.
I don't know how these guys do this. Offer an entertaining stream, while moderating/maintaining your community at the same time.
With bino boosting? Link if so please
Laurentius
Member
Thanks, I'll sub to him.
With bino boosting? Link if so please
http://www.twitch.tv/elajjaz
Edit: That's his current, ongoing run. Here's the finished binoboosting run: http://www.twitch.tv/elajjaz/c/4291798
Dragon1893
Member
Fuck
FUCK IT!
ancient dragon!
Red Liquorice
Member
I've often wondered how they interact with the chat stream, do they just read it like everybody else I guess on a second screen, or do they have some sort of speech software to read it to them?
Yes, I'm that stupid.
Thanks, downloading now
Uhh, is the
at the end of the Keep bugged to hell or something? The first time I fought him, he never landed for more than (no joke) 2 seconds at a time as I ran around his arena for 15 minutes trying to figure out the puzzle to get him to land. He ended up killing me with a AOE attack that hit me four times in a row. On my second attempt, I ran up to him and wailed on his left leg for about 80 seconds and killed him without being hit once and he never left the ground.
Did I cheese this guy on accident or something? lol
Guardian Dragon
Did I cheese this guy on accident or something? lol
sunbro'd through the gargoyles to get the ring
i don't like this fight at all, i hate this kind of bosses
also blue banana whoever you are, you're a true gentleman. we had a honorable duel and you patiently waited for me to kill the first scumbag bellbro that was trying to be cheeky and lagstab me. you let me clear our little arena and heal. you worked for your titanite chunk and you deserved it, you're a rolemodel to us all.
i don't like this fight at all, i hate this kind of bosses
also blue banana whoever you are, you're a true gentleman. we had a honorable duel and you patiently waited for me to kill the first scumbag bellbro that was trying to be cheeky and lagstab me. you let me clear our little arena and heal. you worked for your titanite chunk and you deserved it, you're a rolemodel to us all.
Orthogonal
Member
Lol, WTF is this shit. Speedrunner's never cease to amaze me at their ability to push every glitch and broken mechanic to their limit.
Riposte
Member
Haha, she did that in Iron Keep in front of the Smelter Demon... I was like "noooooo!", then I realized she landed on a platform below and had to walk her all the way back, pissing myself. Wasn't even worth it in the end, since I didn't get the resolution of her storyline for one reason or another. Not sure actually.
eot
Banned
Easymode strategy
Run to his hind legs and jam yourself between the toes. That will trigger a stomp attack, when he moves his foot immediately run to the other side and do the same thing. If you keep holding forward you can stay between the toes even as he adjusts them a bit.
Skip to 1:30:45
MMBosstones86
Member
Does anyone have a link to that completionist checklist? Trying to see what spells I have left to pick up.