Wow you are incredibly low level for someone who's made it all the way to Bob. Some people say the arena doesn't make use of SM matchmaking but I honestly doubt it. But otherwise, yeah it's governed by SM.
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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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Toxic lasts longer that poison does and is somewhat stronger depending on what inflicts it in Dark Souls.
I managed to get to Scorpioness Najka before doing Heide's Tower, Huntsman Copse/Earthen Peak etc. That is to say, earlier than I probably should have gotten there. Her toxic made her impossible to beat solo ;(
Shrine of Amana.
I also read that it negates ripostes. what? That's broken as hell.
Have a source for that? Backstabs are the only thing that it blocks not ripostes.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
You leveled DEX a lot neglecting all the others stats, that's great if you manage to land a blow, but with the low AGI and HP, you might have a hard time evading magic attacks and long range weapons, so you'll die pretty easily.
no I just tried to search on google and I read that somewhere, reddit or gamefaqs maybe? I don't remember but they could have been wrong I guess.
it'd be nice though to have that, I mean to counter a broken weapon like the monastery scimitar they made a broken armor. simple )=D
Violentine
Banned
Profound Still is such a broken spell need a huge nerf, a Tranquil Walk of Peace treatment. Or make the user unable to cast anything for the duration as well.
Beat the final boss for the first time. That was... anticlimactic.
The entire game takes such a downhill turn once you reach
and everything becomes a linear slog that pushes you through some truly awful zones like
. At least the
was a cool enough looking locale even though the dragons were easily exploited.
Very disappointing.
The entire game takes such a downhill turn once you reach
Drangleic Castle
Shrine of Amana and Aldia's Keep
Dragon Aerie
Very disappointing.
Well i think (though this is a problem i have with the game in general, rather than the last areas themselves) is that they just threw to much shit at the wall, without taking the time to fine tune what they had.
There are a billion different areas, but a lot of them are like 3 rooms and 2 corridors.
Aldia's Keep or, even worse, Heide's Tower, are super short and simple (in terms of level design, not talking about difficulty) to the point where i'm wondering if they're even necessary, or if they should've spent that time expanding other areas, like Drangleic Castle.
I wouldn't say the monastery scimitar is broken just merely exploitable that's all. As far as I have seen the source for blocking ripostes is incorrect.
LurkerPrime
Member
A neat trick I discovered: roll while opening a door away from your character to skip the rest of the animation. Note that it will only work on standard doors, and only if you're about half-way through the animation to begin with.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Some tasty duels last night. Manslayer and Spotted whip is a truly devilish combo.
Violentine
Banned
Poison Channelers trident, dual Avelyn poison bolts, bat staff are all better than your combo
LurkerPrime
Member
I think the style points alone make the Manslayer/Spotted Whip combo superior.
I certainly had no problems with it in my first run.
Orochinagis
Member
Totally agree, most areas are too short or forced to fully understand what happened there even with Dark Souls lore standard.
Also the lore itselt is messed up when you reach the milfanito area.
There are no poison bolts.
Bat staff with dark fog you mean?
yea i remember having a bunch of weapons maxed out and actually twinkling titanite was a lot easier to farm
still felt a lot less carefree than now. now i'm kinda wasteful with upgrades specially in ng+ since those cheat-rings make it so you always have a billion souls
Cannon Goose
Member
I was craving PVP after a ~20 hour break on my new character so I went off to the Iron Keep bridge to leave my red sign. So far out of four fights I've had two disconnect just as I killed them and another ran and leaped off the bridge when I got him to a sliver of HP. And two of them fired hexes at me as I was waving to them!
Goddamn does it feel good to not be fighting endless havelyns and havelmages though.
Goddamn does it feel good to not be fighting endless havelyns and havelmages though.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Dual Casul...? You want full Havel's to go, too? XD
I didn't say it was the best, I said it was "devilish".
Try either a curved twin blade or a flamberge with the crest of blood for a +50 bonus. Infuse them so they inflict bleed faster.
You and your facinorous ways...
do you have to be a bloodbro to get the bleed bonus effect?
i just want the swooshh sound back from lifehunt scythe when you got like the fourth hit off and you saw them bleed for massive damage
it was delicious
No the bonus bleed effect is just from the crest of blood itself.
Rolled a new guy and actually got a few Blue Sentinel calls today. One was odd though, the red phantom vanished while we were fighting and I was returned to my game, yet I got no message of any kind. I wonder if that was a disconnection on his end.
Playing around with spears, gonna beeline for Pharros (fast! before the soul memory catches me!) and try that Santier's Spear. Kinda hate how Strike seems to be the superior damage type most of the time though.
Playing around with spears, gonna beeline for Pharros (fast! before the soul memory catches me!) and try that Santier's Spear. Kinda hate how Strike seems to be the superior damage type most of the time though.
demosthenes
Member
Just got
to a sliver.
Feelssofuckingbad.
Vendrick
Feelssofuckingbad.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
You got greedy, didn't you?
demosthenes
Member
NO!
Haha, I even said to myself: Don't be greedy this will be over in a second. He had broken my stance a few times during the fight but I was always able to get back behind him, this time the attack came faster and I wasn't able to dodge.
If you were two handing your weapon you could of blocked the attack. I mean you would of lived slightly longer.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Currently 56 / 186K.
That's older than I am.
Bleed damage will reduce the targets stamina to 75% for ten seconds whilst inflicting percentile based damage to HP.
demosthenes
Member
I did block, he broke my stance and I was stunned. It happened a few times during the fight and each time I was able to get away and behind him to heal. This time he was just faster with a different attack, or I, slower.
That's not too odd a set of numbers to have. Maybe other players just focused their stats into certain areas.
When playing super overpowered builds I don't recall running into other players who were obviously much much weaker.
But of course that's just anecdotal evidence.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
NO
STAHP
King Gilga
Member
There's a stone bridge if above you, you jump off it to get that item.
You jump down the bridge by jumping down the hole after the Rat swarm boss fight there.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
You gotta jump from the stone bridge above. It's not worth it IMO, a
weak chime that can also be used as a shield, but it's mediocre at both. It's a fun novelty I guess, might be OK on some faith builds but I prefer using stronger chimes and a proper shield.