ambientmystic
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They have to suck, otherwise it'd be a crutch HP regen ring lol.
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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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They have to suck, otherwise it'd be a crutch HP regen ring lol.
I did it with dual maces without the area drained I just stun locked her to death very easy even with it healing her.
Run to one side, hit one or twice, run to other side, hit once or twice, repeat until dead.
J-Roderton
Member
Pillaging the Dragon Aerie. The end is in sight.
My sorcerer/hexer is bringing me success! Managed to beat Old Iron King yesterday (and Smelter was definitely easier with hexes than melee for me) and now I'm debating whether I'll go to Brightstone or Gutter/Black Gulch first.
If I decided the latter - would the Great Club be a good melee weapon for me to fall back? Should I infuse it with Dark or leave it as it is?
(my character's STR is 16 and both my INT and FAI are 31, and my currently "melee fallback" weapon is a standard Mace+2)
If I decided the latter - would the Great Club be a good melee weapon for me to fall back? Should I infuse it with Dark or leave it as it is?
(my character's STR is 16 and both my INT and FAI are 31, and my currently "melee fallback" weapon is a standard Mace+2)
ambientmystic
Member
Club's a great weapon. Keep it plain and uninfused to use against magic/elemental resistant mobs. There are quite a few of them in the game.
J-Roderton
Member
Thinking about infusing lightning on my bastard sword +8. Would that help me out a bit near the end stretch of the game?
ambientmystic
Member
Definitely. Most endgame bosses (hell, all bosses except for maybe
The Looking Glass Knight and The Duke's Dear Freja
As you can two hand the great club with that strength I'd either keep it plain and uninfused for 420 damage with A scaling at max. Or stick lightning on it for 294/294 with B/B scaling which will make use of your faith for some nice scaling. Pick up a large club as well for a light and better scaling great hammer.
J-Roderton
Member
I also want to try out my pryro flame. I have a few scrolls and stuff but I have no idea how to use it. The wiki says pyros do not have any stat requirements, but Idk how to use these things. I'm a straight up STR build and haven't tried spells, pyros, etc, before. And does the strength of the attacks scale with anything?
Sweet. I will try it out.
Sweet. I will try it out.
Orochinagis
Member
It does I think it gave her more speed and more hostile,I was summoned with the poison still on, we had to hit her fast and rotating using estus.
Why the game designers decided to slip up with the invader name and named her "nameless" just for the sake of the plot the same with lucatiel
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neoism
Member
lol 3 GLS's
fo the win... melee is a joke ranged fo lif...Just beat it last night my first souls game I actually beat 75 hours first playthrough Kreygasm looved every second.... NEXT GEN Dark Souls please....
Grandlance as a normal weapon even better if you get a pair of them or have a pair of heide grand lances. The chariot lance has a long reach and inflicts bleed but can't be infused it's also heavy. It's more of a strength weapon than anything.
They could of just called her throne usurper or something like that. Shame it's not explained really like the Faraam Knight who has a ruler's sword and a kings shield.
Thanks so much for the helpful advice! I left that area and went to the Huntsman's Copse area. Dealt with the Lord Skeletons there. Will do the other area across the rope bridge in a while!
So now I have myself the lightning spears. My stats so far: (SL 46)
5 VGR
6 END
5 VIT
22 ATN
6 STR
7 DEX
8 ADP
18 INT
22 FTH
What do you guys think I should be investing my souls into now? Higher faith for more powerful miracles sounds like a good bet. I'm also trying to get my strength up so I can wield a decent shield for some blocks.
Really enjoying this game so far !
lol 3 GLS's
Just beat it last night my first souls game I actually beat 75 hours first playthrough Kreygasm looved every second.... NEXT GEN Dark Souls please....
Ya I had a Cleric with like 30 Great Lightning Spears, a lot of the game's problems are tough to spot when you can just chuck lightning spears from afar and cheese your way through the entire game.
Orochinagis
Member
Dont get hit?
Always attack him to his left toe, when you see it flying, run away wait for the fire attack and run to his left toe, repeat
If you don't have enough stamina to block with a +9/10 Gyrm shield and tank all the damage, or not enough HP and fire defense to tank the damage to your HP bar, then just go naked and run around with your weapon.
Attack its feet and head, then sprint toward its tail when it goes to fly up and blast fire breath. While running away, check behind you so you know when to book it back toward the dragon and get in position to start swinging.
Co op isn't really suggested for the fight imo, it adds so much HP to the boss, and if you were able to survive the flame blast, you won't be able to in co op, because it adds damage too. Also, it becomes far more random with more players, way too unpredictable and messy. It's fun though, but very rare for a co op squad to actually be able to slowly whittle it down.
Summoned people and attacked it's left toe. Surprisingly it was too easy. It didn't use fire breath and just was slashing it's leg once in a while. But damn it took way too long coz of the added HP.
Red Liquorice
Member
Yeah, I would drop some points into strength so you can get one that blocks physical 100%.What do you guys think I should be investing my souls into now? Higher faith for more powerful miracles sounds like a good bet. I'm also trying to get my strength up so I can wield a decent shield for some blocks.
Really enjoying this game so far !
It looks like you're going for a hex build since you're increasing both INT and FTH - I still haven't used hexes, so I don't know what the stat investments are for decent spells, but I would definately drop some points into getting more HP and Stamina since they're always helpful, and will let you take more hits and deal more damage, never a bad thing!
DoktorEvil
Banned
Anyone up for helping me at 9 PM Eastern with
Iron Keep and the Old Iron king?
What is your Platform, Soul Memory and Playthrough (NG or NG+)
Soul memory?
DoktorEvil
Banned
Soul Memory: Little more than 700K-750K
Level: mid 80s
Platform:360
I'm not home so I don't know off the top, but these are the ranges I'm by.
Level: mid 80s
Platform:360
I'm not home so I don't know off the top, but these are the ranges I'm by.
Soul Memory is the total amount of Souls you have accrued through gameplay, doesn't matter if you spent them or lost them.
It is used to match you with other players.
Btw small doubt: Soul memory is the total souls used to level up or total souls collected (lost due to death + used for level up + for purchases).
Also does it include boss souls value too.
Edit: Answered above. Woah I didn't know that. I was still thinking that summoning is done with +-10 lvl as in dark souls.
For clarity, soul items in your inventory that have not been used do not count toward your Soul Memory. Only after you use them do they add to the total.
Orochinagis
Member
Most of the bosses have the same IA so be prepared
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I've been helping out people with Ancient Dragon (white summon soapstone). This guy/gal summoned me 5 times, every single time he/she stays in front of the dragon and fire soul spears at it. And die before u put a single dent on the dragon's body. Must have lost a lot of effigies.
Edit: I just found out that u can get killed by the fire breath from outside the fog gate.
Edit: I just found out that u can get killed by the fire breath from outside the fog gate.
demosthenes
Member
Shaded Woods, Lion guys. What are they weak to? I'm in NG+ and do so little damage to them.
Red Liquorice
Member
Weak to physical, great defense against all magic, lightning etc, etc.
DoktorEvil
Banned
So anyone up to helping me pls send a friend request(no chat) 360 only.
9PM Eastern/6PM Pacific
9PM Eastern/6PM Pacific
Back stabs and bleed damage I've had most success with. They cannot be parried at all so don't try.
Also they have an incomprehensible poise that comes out of nowhere. Even 2H R2 attack with a heavy weapon doesn't break their poise which is ludicrous.
Yeah. It seems impossible to not eat a hit when fighting them with a heavy weapon.
Not to mention how the ones you use fragrant branches on seem not allow you to guard break them. Not that I tried on the others mind you.
Yes, you can.
Fuck I'm having trouble with Vendrick now..
Edit: He was easy. I stripped and started dodging all his attacks.
Edit2: Now gotta finish Darklurker boss and then to NG+. Anything else to do?
You could kill all the NPC's for their gear. Save the merchant hag melentia for last, as she'll sell you everyones gear after you kill them.
If you do kill them it'll up your sin and there will be a ton of invasions for NG+ which can be either really great, or a total nuisance. Burning Human Effigy's will prevent them from invading you if you want that.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
They have infinite poise, apparently. I spammed Santier on them in NG+ (pre-nerf in NG they died before I could see if they got staggered but post-nerf in NG+ I could spam a lot) and they never once got stunned. That along with the infinite stamina maul knights in Dragon Shrine shows that some variable or calculation is missing somewhere. I can't believe that was intentional...
Oh well, I'm 1/3 of the way through NG+ and I bought the butterfly set, forgot that it poisons NPCs and spoke to the old woman who sells infinite life-gems.. and she attacked me.
She then accidently fell on my +10 bastard sword and killed herself.
It's going to be a difficult slog for the rest of the play through.
She then accidently fell on my +10 bastard sword and killed herself.
It's going to be a difficult slog for the rest of the play through.
After a few hours a grave stone will spawn in her place and you can pay souls to temporarily revive her and purchase items.
Seriously? Does that happen with all NPCs or just that one?