Orthogonal
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If you are a sinner and in the Way of Blue. You will get invaded by blue's due to sin, but if you also get a random red invasion, a blue should be summoned to help.
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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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If you are a sinner and in the Way of Blue. You will get invaded by blue's due to sin, but if you also get a random red invasion, a blue should be summoned to help.
Woah, so cool. Jeez, there goes my day now... I'll try getting this ending.
The main issue with that fight is u have to go all the way fighting abt 25 alonnes to reach him.
That's weird. It must be one of the only bonfires that lets you burn an ascetic without saying "You must defeat the lord of this quarter" or whatever. I still prefer the Giant Memory though because you get the replacement ascetic and the Giant Lord is easy.
TranceKuja
Member
I'm having a lot of trouble right now with the F
K
boss, jeez. I keep dying after he powers up. What is his
even made of? Seems like fire, but my 100% fire resistance shield does nothing. As soon as he gets this form, I'm done. Nowhere to hide, nowhere to block. Argh.
ume
night
sword
You're not supposed to block those, get rolling!
You can roll through all of his fire attacks, even the aoe one, just roll into them when those balls are close.
It took me a while too but it's possible.
D
Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
I'm not a fan of the bombard the player with enemies style in the two DLC chapters. It's not creative or entertaining.
From just wants to make you feel like all those bosses who get zerged to death with a host and 2 phantoms.
Expect more of the same in the 3rd DLC.. I really hope not, I just want a more story/lore-oriented DLC next, instead of these time-travel Zelda dungeons. Which are fine, but still.
CountAntonius
Member
For Ivory King I was hoping for some Anor Londo style architecture though from the teaser it appears to be snow. Will probably be ice caves and Sasquatches.
Haunted
Member
For being a fire-themed area, there was a surprising amount of snow in the Iron King DLC. :lol
The only thing I was disappointed by in the second DLC
(aside from the familiar nature of the bosses)
Cannon Goose
Member
There will have to be a big pay-off event once you get all the crowns, right? Hopefully the dialogue from Vendrick's memory isn't the only main game addition alongside the DLC.
Dual mundane or dual raw powerstance requirements would be alright.
At this point all I know without sitting and thinking about it's that he upped sticks and left.
It can work in PvE as most things a pretty weak to lightning so you can do that. You probably feel like that as DEX is pretty weak really, you'd probably get better results with one of the DEX greatswords.
Haunted
Member
That'd be nice. But there was nothing like that for the Prepare to Die DLC, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
Cool fight, bad lore: He came, propped up a king, got bored and buggered off. Even
Raime
Vendrick's 3rd in command, got into a fight with Velstadt, ran off to Iron King, fell madly in love with Nadalia.
Ash. I want to say that's all ash.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I dunno, it's quite an evocative and mysterious image:
the lone samurai wandering the earth "fixing" problems. Reminds me of Cain from Kung Fu
the "land yet unknown" he leaves for is the afterlife; after all, the player does kill him.
I thought it was.
N
Noray
Unconfirmed Member
It for sure was. I'm surprised how many people think it's snow. Snow on a hot forge? Yeah, no. Also Nadalia, Bride of Ash.
But is the Ashen Mist time-travel, or just tapping into memories? Tangible memories, from which you can take stuff with you, but still memories.
The description of the Ashen Mist Heart's description goes: The magic of the ancient dragon allows one to delve into the memories of the withered.
I'm of the opinion that you're not actually time-traveling, but that's up for a debate.
Sir Alonso does kind of remind me of Yojimbo, except bigger and less manly.
The description of the Ashen Mist Heart's description goes: The magic of the ancient dragon allows one to delve into the memories of the withered.
I'm of the opinion that you're not actually time-traveling, but that's up for a debate.
Sir Alonso does kind of remind me of Yojimbo, except bigger and less manly.
So I had a hacker invade me and drop a giant bag full of rings and gear, all hacked in. None of them are "fake" items like +15 weapons or anything but they're definitely ill gotten. I dropped what I think is all of it but if I forgot or missed an item in my giant inventory will my game run the risk of being screwed?
As we entered a memory that probably means something in the whole grand scheme of things.
Nah they're fine. How'd you know they're ill gotten?
Mt Heart Attack
Member
Wooo I did it, awesome boss fight. I had to completely change my way of fighting, ditched my Mastodon Greatsword and switched to a newly upgraded thrusting sword (I went for a Raw Scorpion Sting +5, I figured it would be the best choice since I have lowish dexterity), poor guy could barely touch me in my winning run, who's the ninja now?
Would have really hurt to just put a bonfire before the boss room to make the whole process less time wasting though?:/
On another note, has any youtuber or something published a lore video on this DLC yet? I have no idea what was going on, the enemies barely drop anything, and apart from there being some wannabe queen splitting her soul into a bunch of idols scattered all over the place I really don't know what to make of this.
Nobody drops a legit set of +5 Mad Warrior and +5 solid Aurous Armor who earned it fair and square.
HungOverOnATues
Member
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you probably haven't tried to farm for either of those, lol. They take an absurb amount of time to get.
I hope so. Would be cool if
we get a fight against pre-hollow King Vendrick.
We get a lot of interesting armors, rings, and weapons this time.
Haunted
Member
I'm an idiot. :lol Maybe I conflated it with the Ivory King screenshots in my mind and just leaped from there. Of course it's supposed to be ash.
That's probably 10 hours of farming, 15-30 bonfire ascetics, and 120 twinkling titanite. That would be make this invader a PRETTY nice guy.
Anyway good to know it probably won't bone my save so I'll keep the Aurous and Mad Warrior stuff.
I have and know how long it takes to get them just giving them the benefit of doubt that's all.
A few of the new weapons are pretty good. There's a DEX oriented greatbow for example along with several other weapons with high DEX or STR scaling. There's a few curiosities that only really work with certain things but far fewer this time.
Some of my favorite in Souls period, is in this DLC.
Cannon Goose
Member
Goddamn, the Partizan's 2hR2 is deadly in PVP! It hits for strike damage and has what seems to be a 350 degree hitbox around the user. It reminds me of dead angles in the first Dark Souls.
mickcenary
Member
GAF, is the adjusted infusion scaling for the Bewitched Alonne Sword and Black Steel Katana bogus?
i.e. they still yield an S in DEX when infused with Dark, albeit a red S, indicating dropped scaling. I think I've read that the actual DEX scaling of the Black Steel when infused is more in line with a B.
i.e. they still yield an S in DEX when infused with Dark, albeit a red S, indicating dropped scaling. I think I've read that the actual DEX scaling of the Black Steel when infused is more in line with a B.
It is a common bug where after being infused the letter of the scaling doesn't change but the amount of scaling does. Black Steel Katana is closer to a B or C in dex scaling when infused even though it says S for example.
Similar things happen with weapons that had their scaling fixed in a patch. Like Flamberge still shows an A scaling in dex at +10 even though it was changed to S.
Orochinagis
Member
something something ronin guy helped a honest king, something something makes the kingdom be one of the most precious lands in its time, something something ronin was ready to look for stronger enemies something something scumbag players kill him before going to his journey, something something the iron king met someone on the black iron mines, something something Sir alonnes guy died before helping the king to not fall into lust power after that meeting.
I find the second room easier.. Try running on the left side in that room, keeping the two early aggroing Alonne's on the other side of the big hole. They won't follow you down the stairs.
mickcenary
Member
Coriolanus
Banned
Anything you do in the ashen mist is you retracing Vendrick's steps. So, y'know.
Is
I'm on NG++ there are more enemies there blocking the way right before it too, so it's a bit harder.
I just tried it and all 4 arches shot at me and followed me down the stairs as well.
Edit: Ah well beat him anyway, awesome fight!
Sir ALonne's lifesteal attack bugged? I rolled through it on time clearly multiple times but it keeps hitting me. I only rolled through it once the first time, after that he hit it every time.
I'm on NG++ there are more enemies there blocking the way right before it too, so it's a bit harder.
I just tried it and all 4 arches shot at me and followed me down the stairs as well.
Edit: Ah well beat him anyway, awesome fight!
Orochinagis
Member
Techically you are going to the memories of living beings in this case you enter the last memory of each NPC's memories. They remember someone being there before dying.
Its still unclear if you take the place of that person, if you are a different person in each memory or doing a paradox travel being you the same person which makes no sense at all.
Is clear in the giant memories is the same "hero" and the npc reacts saying you were great for doing that feat.
Only in Vendrick memory he puts you the title of seeker of the throne out of the blue.
Its still unclear if you take the place of that person, if you are a different person in each memory or doing a paradox travel being you the same person which makes no sense at all.
Is clear in the giant memories is the same "hero" and the npc reacts saying you were great for doing that feat.
Only in Vendrick memory he puts you the title of seeker of the throne out of the blue.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Where's it say that?
No. Just walk to the pile of armor in his room and use the ashen mist heart to enter it. You can then talk to pre-hollow Vendrick and get a it of lore from him.
Just go to his armor with the ashen heart mist and you can talk to him. No need to kill him again.
It doesn't anywhere the only one that's Vendrick's is his memories.
Braag
Member
So I finally got around to finish Dark Souls 2. I bought it at launch but after defeating the
I kinda just phased out and started playing other games.
Now I'm doing the post game stuff, I've all ready killed the
, I got all 5 of the Giant Souls and also killed Vendrick.
Someone said there's some
still left somewhere? I've tried to look around but I have no idea where to go.
Am I missing something else?
And in Dark Souls I used to just go around and kill every friendly NPC to get their stuff right before I moved to NG+ but I've heard that sins in DS2 carry on to NG+... sooo I guess I shouldn't do that anymore? And you get their stuff by doing their quest lines anyway.
Also how do I access the DLC? I got some keys but dunno where to use them... I'm a noob
Last Giant
Now I'm doing the post game stuff, I've all ready killed the
Ancient Dragon
Someone said there's some
angel looking boss (?)
Am I missing something else?
And in Dark Souls I used to just go around and kill every friendly NPC to get their stuff right before I moved to NG+ but I've heard that sins in DS2 carry on to NG+... sooo I guess I shouldn't do that anymore? And you get their stuff by doing their quest lines anyway.
Also how do I access the DLC? I got some keys but dunno where to use them... I'm a noob
To access the dlc for the first it's the rotten's primal bonfire for the seconds its the iron kings. You just interact with the portals and get taken to the dlc areas. For the final boss you need to clear all three abyss chasms whilst in the darkdivers.So I finally got around to finish Dark Souls 2. I bought it at launch but after defeating theI kinda just phased out and started playing other games.Last Giant
Now I'm doing the post game stuff, I've all ready killed the, I got all 5 of the Giant Souls and also killed Vendrick.Ancient Dragon
Someone said there's somestill left somewhere? I've tried to look around but I have no idea where to go.angel looking boss (?)
Am I missing something else?
And in Dark Souls I used to just go around and kill every friendly NPC to get their stuff right before I moved to NG+ but I've heard that sins in DS2 carry on to NG+... sooo I guess I shouldn't do that anymore? And you get their stuff by doing their quest lines anyway.
Also how do I access the DLC? I got some keys but dunno where to use them... I'm a noob
Braag
Member
Ooh so those portal at the end of the bosses were for that. I completely forgot those.
Oh yeah the wheelchair guys portal.
Well I got some stuff to do.
Thanks.
Laurentius
Member
Greatsword is so much fun.