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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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Hitting the floor, wall and corpses does it. Bracing knuckle ring should help or just buy repair powder from Wellager he sells and infinite amount.
Like the snide insult in it's description a lot: "You have only yourself to blame if you find yourself in crisis with no powder to spare."
What are your stats? There are other big weapons that might work better without having to respec.
Since Crypt Blacksword already has A Dark Scaling by default, it's best to infuse it with Dark and get S Dark scaling. Your Dark attack stat scales with the lower of your INT or FAI, so it's best to level them both together. Dark Black Cryptsword with high INT/FTH buffed with Dark Weapon is a beast in PVE.
Orochinagis
Member
The durability actually goes down worse when I hit enemies than floors etc.
The durability in general feels off ever since I downloaded the DLC and started playing.
I have an STR build. I forgot the exact numbers, but it was something like:
37 vit
42 end
32 item burden thing
48 str
15 agility
12 faith
12 int
The sword already does better damage and has a better move set than my old primary weapon, the greatsword. Seems like I will be keeping this sword.
Oh yeah, what does agility do? Cause adding points doesn't do shit =__=
Oh, you are in for a soul farming treat.
SoldnerKei
Member
invading in the first section of the DLC map is wicked, it feels like you're hunting down someone, so many places to attack from afar, and shortcuts to make into areas where they think they're safe, thou one dude did a pretty smart thing, deactivated the switch to access the second bonfire and waited there for the time to run out lol
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
The trio in the company of champions is a goddamn nightmare. And yes, it's cheap. It's bullshit that water does not slow them down, that they can swap weapon while rolling or knocked down, that they have absurdly high poise and stamina, that they move absurdly fast, etc.
Huh?
Deified Data
Banned
Made my first character for PC, still thinking of Fashion Souls ideas. Concept is "desert assassin".
Started a new game as a Sorcerer this time, it sure is overpowering right from the start.
Cleared the entire tutorial area, even the orge's just by spamming soul arrow's.
Then switched to a rapier on one hand after unlocking the blacksmiths house and darn the R2 Parry is awesome.
Cleared the entire tutorial area, even the orge's just by spamming soul arrow's.
Then switched to a rapier on one hand after unlocking the blacksmiths house and darn the R2 Parry is awesome.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Is it possible to solo (melee, faith)
when she summons
? I have no idea how to get any opening. Either he's on your ass constantly or she spams those fireballs or dark orbs. And she casts absurdly fast, almost no cooldown. Ugh.
Edit: upping ADP for more agility, this seems to help, I don't die quite that fast at least... xD
Elana
Velsdadt
Edit: upping ADP for more agility, this seems to help, I don't die quite that fast at least... xD
hmm color me intrigued
sadly on this playthrough i'm pretty far away from undead crypt so it's gonna be a while till i see what you mean :/
yup, they killed the amount of casts pretty damn hard
i respecc'd my dex/faith build for that
lighting spear is like the one mega fun thing about faith builds
i think you can, tho i haven't been able to defeat her solo yet (tho i'm on ng+++ so it's pretty darned hard)
it's key to always keep both of em on screen at all times, no lock on, just get a weapon with wide swipes and one hit or two whenever you can
you don't have to kill him btw, when she dies all her spawns die too
Auto_aim1
MeisaMcCaffrey
Nooooooo!!
better yet ...do a vid!!!
Seriously, is there a trick to fighting those new Drakeblood Knights in the DLC? By far the hardest regular enemy in the entire game, and I'm soul level 214! Must be doing something seriously wrong
i just blasted them with soul spears and firebombs
they have crazy quick combos that are really hard to predict, i don't like em at all
tho their armor is mega dope
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yeah I won just now. She only summoned skeletons this time, though she summoned twice. I still prefer to kill her spawns if I can because they get really annoying otherwise. The lightning shower spell was mildly useful for once, decent crowd control against the skeleton mobs (well, decent when you have nothing else... maybe Firestorm would have been better even with the nerf but this toon never touched pyros or upgraded his glove).
I almost won when she had
Velstadt
Velstadt
Raising ADP made a huge difference. First time I actually do notice the difference, despite all the claims I had heard. I about 89 agility and raised it to 100 and I could roll without getting clipped far more, and chug Estus faster too. Before I would often try to heal and would have no time to roll or dodge from her next barrage of spells or whatever but this time it worked more often than not.
Kalameet
I'm a pure melee build and not a very avid item user, so that would just wreck me. If I'm extremely lucky, I might get in a backstab, but more often than not any attempt will just end up with me getting fucked. The main problem is I cannot seem to stagger them at all.
yea, the big guy's the problem, skellies are fine. i actually want to try if alluring skulls work for this but i'm on ng+++ and really rusty so just sunbro'd it
and yea,
dragon
imo a much more enjoying fight, much cooler boss in general with more predictable attacks, less spamming, no crowd control, it's a fucking
dragon
edit: btw spoilertagged your quote, might want to do the same with your post as what you're spoiling is a pretty nice (if evil) surprise
i think i staggered them with stone ring with my moonlight greatsword but i'm not sure
you can try poison arrows if they're giving you trouble
you can run to the boss without fighting any so as long as you go through everything once it'll be ok
Thanks for the help. I know the way to the boss and have found the bonfire, but it's still hard to explore the place
Anyway, the boss fucking sucks too. Dear devs, it's no fun getting 3(!) Veldstadts in a row and still not be able to win the fight...
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Derp, totally forgot to try that. Yeah that's a good idea. It probably won't work on the big guy but surely on the skeletons yes, it works in the Chariot fight after all.
imo a much more enjoying fight, much cooler boss in general with more predictable attacks, less spamming, no crowd control, it's a fucking , it's much better. and it's still challenging, at least with all melee (which is how i beat it)
Oh good point. I'm normally careful but I was too excited about winning (that and it's 5 AM lol) and I just started typing furiously lol. Thanks for the reminder.
i actually think final dlc boss might be harder with summons.
i don't think we ever got him when i tried to help people and his health seems to go up by a lot
one on one it took a lot of tries but since the bonfire is right there and it rarely felt cheap i think it was pretty ok
and yea, about alluring skulls, i've been watching enb's playthrough and i see he uses a lot more items than i do. i always end the game with like all my consumables hardly ever touched. i tried a bunch of things against her but in the end it was too much
i don't mind summoning people for boss fights i find annoying and she took so many tries i was a bit tired. got the other two solo so i feel pretty alright for myself
i don't think we ever got him when i tried to help people and his health seems to go up by a lot
one on one it took a lot of tries but since the bonfire is right there and it rarely felt cheap i think it was pretty ok
and yea, about alluring skulls, i've been watching enb's playthrough and i see he uses a lot more items than i do. i always end the game with like all my consumables hardly ever touched. i tried a bunch of things against her but in the end it was too much
i don't mind summoning people for boss fights i find annoying and she took so many tries i was a bit tired. got the other two solo so i feel pretty alright for myself
TranceKuja
Member
The mage NPC you can summon for the final boss of the DLC is strangely competent. She keeps healing herself and stays alive way longer than I thought she would, sometimes also outlasting myself. She's great bait.
Defeated the boss with a human ally and the NPC. Pretty crazy and exciting fight. Liked it better than the other two bosses.
Defeated the boss with a human ally and the NPC. Pretty crazy and exciting fight. Liked it better than the other two bosses.
Facism
Member
i went through 5 Veldstalts -_- fucking NG++++
Yep just ignore him and get behind her then you can kill Elana whilst he's there. Or you could just kill him.
Your greatsword is at max upgrade level? At that point it's got S STR scaling.
It is at S scaling, but the combined damage of the crypt black sword is higher than the greatsword. On top of that, it has a much better move set.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Maybe you should've killed him after you got that stuff...? Just a thought.
Just asking if his Tombstone is still supposed to appear after you've killed the Scorpion boss? It used to back during the PS3 release...
And yeah, that's kinda obvious, hindsight is 20/20, but I had no idea if they patched this or if it's a bug?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I was only teasing.
I've not killed him so I have no idea about the tombstone I'm afraid. Bonfire in/out? That might help.
I was only teasing.
I've not killed him so I have no idea about the tombstone I'm afraid. Bonfire in/out? That might help.
I've traveled all around, plus reloaded the game several times. Still no Scorpion/Man Tombstone anymore... Guessing they either patch it to make Yore more finite, or it's a bug. =(
mickcenary
Member
Woah, man. It's like I'm reading an autobiography here.
It took me 3 Souls games to cast my first bit of magic; and in those 500 odd hours, I reckon I've chomped down on about 12 Green Blossoms.
It's strange because even now, being completely in the know about the benefits and effects of everything, I'm still as stubborn as ever and barely turn my mind to items, spells, etc. I guess that speaks to my habits as a gamer.
And yep, I'm SL250 and those fuckers put up more of a fight than anything in the vanilla game. They're pretty foolhardy, though, so they'll happily run into a lunge attack or a big wind-up R2.
EDIT: NG+, by the way. Yet to experience the DLC in NG.
Beautiful. Reminds me of one of my crushes from back in the day, Meagan Good.
Gravestones take roughly 3 hours of in game time Tark's will appear after that. He will cost 2500 souls to resurrect.
That's cool I've never seen that before.
So, only thing left right now is to finish the final boss in the DLC; he's wrecking the crap out of me since I don't seem to do very much damage against him (granted, I'm using the 2 summons against him which makes him tougher). I do around 170 dmg on my first attack before going down to ~120/hit.
The optional boss in the DLC is quite fun, very nerve-wrecking fight for sure.
The optional boss in the DLC is quite fun, very nerve-wrecking fight for sure.
Ok, So I was in love with the DLC until i figured out how short it was.
really? talk about recycling and her weapon is shit. And then, you get another Seath only he fights like Kalameet but super easy. Even on NG+ I was really hoping for some great items, turns out the only one worth anything is the one from the final boss. That
is cool and all but now everyone wears it like havels. Oh well, I think its time for me to step away from it for awhile.
Elana
Drakeblood Armor