DarkHeartedKill
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Always have that on so I forgot it even gave a health boost, I just got used to wearing it heh. Any other items? Like headgear?
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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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Always have that on so I forgot it even gave a health boost, I just got used to wearing it heh. Any other items? Like headgear?
The Blue Seal offers a whopping 3% HP boost.
Life ring +3 is a 15% boost of health. That coupled with third dragon crest is 22.5% extra health
CyberPunked
Member
Seriously though, where the fuck is out Pursuer armor From? The most badass boss in the game, and you can't get his shit.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Do enemies despawn in Memories?
Braag
Member
So a guy called Oberyn Martell just invaded me and killed me with some crazy spear skills.
I wasn't even mad.
Not even after losing all of my souls since I died at a stupid spot.
yes
I wasn't even mad.
Not even after losing all of my souls since I died at a stupid spot.
yes
Laurentius
Member
Starting my first playthrough of Crown of the Sunken King. Really loving it so far. The Mayan architecture is great. I love the feeling of exploring some giant pyramid. Also, it's really the first time in Dark Souls 2 where I've said "you know, it's been a really long time since I've seen a bonfire...". A welcome change to the base game where it seemed like there was a bonfire every 50 feet.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Awesome. I hope he coated that spear with poison resin.
Cannon Goose
Member
Let it be known that the Ruin Sentinel set doesn't look very good and probably isn't worth the time to farm it 
Edit: Speaking of luck...
http://a.pomf.se/wstzjq.webm
I was lucky enough to have a random invader drop the Ruin set AND Catarina set for me and then black crystal out.
Edit: Speaking of luck...
http://a.pomf.se/wstzjq.webm
Mt Heart Attack
Member
I was just trying to help out people against him, but the host would ALWAYS die, it happened like ten times in a row, in the end I just gave up. And I thought I was bad
That's an awesome idea for a new playthrough. Any Dark Souls connoisseur has any suggestion for a suitable weapon and armor?
edit: lol turns out there's already plenty of youtube videos about it
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I made an Oberyn toon in Dark Souls 1 years ago (would need to be tweaked since this was pre-DWGR nerf)I was just trying to help out people against him, but the host would ALWAYS die, it happened like ten times in a row, in the end I just gave up. And I thought I was bad
That's an awesome idea for a new playthrough. Any Dark Souls connoisseur has any suggestion for a suitable weapon and armor?
http://forums.demonssouls.info/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=15596
It was perfect with the sunlight shield. In DkS2, not sure how it'd work. But you'd need, to be as canon as possible
, the following:- A spear, preferably poisoned (with resin or infusion). A poisoned sword as backup is good too, he's known to have fought with that.
- A round shield, with a sun symbol on it if possible
- A golden helm
- Red gloves
- Light armour made of mail, scales, and leather
Let it be known that the Ruin Sentinel set doesn't look very good and probably isn't worth the time to farm it
I'll take it off your hand if you don't want it >.>
Mt Heart Attack
Member
I'm guessing the Sunlight Parma would be as close as it gets here. Or I'm just going shieldless.I made an Oberyn toon in Dark Souls 1 years ago (would need to be tweaked since this was pre-DWGR nerf)
http://forums.demonssouls.info/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=15596
It was perfect with the sunlight shield. In DkS2, not sure how it'd work. But you'd need, to be as canon as possible
- A spear, preferably poisoned (with resin or infusion). A poisoned sword as backup is good too, he's known to have fought with that.
- A round shield, with a sun symbol on it if possible
- A golden helm
- Red gloves
- Light armour made of mail, scales, and leather
Ar for the spear, I guess any would do, I've read the Santier's Spear and Pete's Spear are among the best the best, so I might go with one of them and infuse it with poison.
Of course I would go for a high adaptability-dexterity build. No spells I guess?
Orochinagis
Member
Did anyone have trouble summoning people or getting summoned today? Anyway.
So I tried coop to help the smelter demon 2.0.....got a bunch of messages saying "FINALLY, THANK YOU" and some audio messages. Theirs voices .....you could felt their pain and frustration.
So I tried coop to help the smelter demon 2.0.....got a bunch of messages saying "FINALLY, THANK YOU" and some audio messages. Theirs voices .....you could felt their pain and frustration.
Iva Demilcol
Member
Fought the last boss of the DLC yesterday:
. A fun fight, and a fun area before even reaching the fog door. I liked the place where you fight him (Like a dream!). I was expecting as someone said "Artorias 2.0" but it wasn't exactly like that. Also, Artorias has that annoying buff that can destroy you in seconds if you are not careful. This Boss cause bleeding though, which was never a problem to me in DS 2 until this area. The DLC is clearly a taste of how the level design of next games in the series is going to be. First one include all those small puzzles, second one made me search for the ashen idols through a huge area... pretty much like a TLoZ game. I really liked it and I'm looking forward to playing the last chapter.
Doing coop in DS 2 has a very bad effect on me: it makes me want to destroy the boss in the first attempt. It never happened to me in DS one where I went solo against all bosses (except Lord Gwyn, but that's another story); but I do enjoy doing coop all the time against bosses too (again I mean in DS2), even against very easy ones; in the end that makes me a victim of Soul Memory but I don't bitch about it because I think that even with all its flaws, SM worked against griefers (at least on consoles), which is clearly a win.
DS one was a pretty tiring game. I think it somehow affected me to the point that even though I was excited for Artorias of the Abyss, I never went back to the game to play the DLC, until just recently. I played a lot of PVP as part of the Guardians of the Forest... suffered a lot of defeats while facing gank squads but I destroyed lots of players too and received many hate messages saying I didn't play fair or that I was cheating because I invested lots of souls in upgrades to precisely avoid bleeding (... particularly bleeding).
To me DS 2 is the game that makes me interact the most with other players in the whole series, I often find myself laughing while playing this game, I dunno why. I know supposedly we are after the end of the world (or at least after the end of Drangleic), that there are many twisted characters and whole areas and yet I laugh while fighting a boss or doing PVP... maybe I'm like Smough D:
Sir Alonne
Doing coop in DS 2 has a very bad effect on me: it makes me want to destroy the boss in the first attempt. It never happened to me in DS one where I went solo against all bosses (except Lord Gwyn, but that's another story); but I do enjoy doing coop all the time against bosses too (again I mean in DS2), even against very easy ones; in the end that makes me a victim of Soul Memory but I don't bitch about it because I think that even with all its flaws, SM worked against griefers (at least on consoles), which is clearly a win.
DS one was a pretty tiring game. I think it somehow affected me to the point that even though I was excited for Artorias of the Abyss, I never went back to the game to play the DLC, until just recently. I played a lot of PVP as part of the Guardians of the Forest... suffered a lot of defeats while facing gank squads but I destroyed lots of players too and received many hate messages saying I didn't play fair or that I was cheating because I invested lots of souls in upgrades to precisely avoid bleeding (... particularly bleeding).
To me DS 2 is the game that makes me interact the most with other players in the whole series, I often find myself laughing while playing this game, I dunno why. I know supposedly we are after the end of the world (or at least after the end of Drangleic), that there are many twisted characters and whole areas and yet I laugh while fighting a boss or doing PVP... maybe I'm like Smough D:
Well, I reached the third bonefire in the new DLC, and I have to say it is probably the best area in the game.
How far in this DLC am I if I reached the third bonefire,? Also, since I am playing NG+, will the bosses be a huge pain?
Please don't tell me the bosses are dark again, lol. I need my dark blank cryptsword to work vs the bosses with the dark buff dammit!
How far in this DLC am I if I reached the third bonefire,? Also, since I am playing NG+, will the bosses be a huge pain?
Please don't tell me the bosses are dark again, lol. I need my dark blank cryptsword to work vs the bosses with the dark buff dammit!
SoldnerKei
Member
finished the dlc a couple of days ago, I loved the level, and bosses were pretty cool, except smelly
, fuck that thing, it was the harder for me, stupid delayed swings,
fight was awesome, that room was just too pretty, and
was quite fun to fight
equipment drops are pretty meh, got Fume Sorcerer's set and some weapons from the knights, dissapointed that I didn't find anymore pieces like the Flower Skirt, I thought that was going to be a set
smelter demon
Sir Alonne
Fume Knight
equipment drops are pretty meh, got Fume Sorcerer's set and some weapons from the knights, dissapointed that I didn't find anymore pieces like the Flower Skirt, I thought that was going to be a set
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
He forged several links at the Citadel before "getting bored", maybe he forged a valyrian steel link...
Or a silver link, enabling him to use healing (lol). I'd be okay with him using the mists, anyway.Orochinagis
Member
ding ding ding !!
Looks like FROM is adding new mechanics each dlc without actually moving their core design thats makes the illusion of improvement but the game core mechanic still needs some tweaks not add more mobs in corridors or super high resistance mobs.
Pure classes can no longer enjoy the DLC without chaging some aspects of their playstyle.
Haunted
Member
I...
why didn't I make that connection. These DLC areas feel like Zelda temples. It's so obvious in hindsight.
About halfway there.
One of the bosses has high dark resistance, another has high elemental resistance across the board.
Make it rust brown then it can be kinda like the Peterbilt in Duel. It's like the Pursuer but it does a better job at it.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
It's really lame how the BP invader
(the Assassin) can use Estus to heal when it's clear that invaders generally can't. Once again the game breaks its own rule just to be cheap.
Cannon Goose
Member
I'll happily give it to you. I'm on PC and my soul memory is ~6.2 million. If that lines up with your character(s) then I'll hop on after work tonight.
Orochinagis
Member
Wait till you find
8 red phantoms summoning at once
One is on the very bottom part of the tower, other is on a tunnel detour from the middle tower and another one is available after you get the ashes mist in the top of the tower.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Already did, I beat the DLC. But I didn't know
he healed via Estus, because I normally didn't really follow him, I thought it was a spell. But I tried this time just to see what happened and yup he chugs. Lame.
Orochinagis
Member
It is, they can completely heal themselves now and instant recover ignoring incoming attack if you dont interruptem via execution or poise.
I believe I'm going to have to actually work on this myself, as a mod. Especially considering true modding is becoming a reality on the PC versions.
Haunted
Member
Yes. The main area has two bosses, the other area is optional with an optional boss.
Braag
Member
DLC2 spoilers
Edit: added a spoiler warning just in case :s
Ugh this is driving me nuts. I've beat all the bosses from DLC2 and I'm only missing one soul of nadalia fragment which is the one at the remote tower where that annoying Assassin invades you... The problem is that as soon as his health is at 50% he runs like a little cunt all the way down into the tower which is filled with bomb tossing assholes, immortal archers and curse. The curse isn't a problem since I can just use the Hollow Skin.
But I can't fight the him there with all the other respawning enemies... and I can't stab the Ashen Idol to get the soul since they all keep attacking me.
I can't believe this cowardly Assassin is giving me more trouble than the Fume Knight ever did.
But I can't fight the him there with all the other respawning enemies... and I can't stab the Ashen Idol to get the soul since they all keep attacking me.
I can't believe this cowardly Assassin is giving me more trouble than the Fume Knight ever did.
Edit: added a spoiler warning just in case :s
Orthogonal
Member
Don't fight the invader,
just blow past him and run down there. That's what I did. Even though it brought a posse in tow, I had enough time to get the Wedge in the idol and get the fragment. Kind of a suicide run, but you've been dying anyway so whatever.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Fume Knight
It's super easy, especially if you ignore the curse.
Drop on the circular platform after he runs, and then pelt him with poison arrows or poison knives, and keep kiting him with ranged attacks, he won't be able to do shit. If your build has no ranged attacks, poison knives and firebombs can still work, he'll be totally helpless.
Orthogonal
Member
I ended up using a seed from the giant tree and let the enemies down there fuck him up.
It was pretty easy after that.
I had been holding on to the seed all this time and I couldn't think of a better time to use it
Good idea, I never thought to use one on an NPC.
Orthogonal
Member
Had a productive night Sunbroing on Sir Alonne. That is a lot more fun fight than Fume or Smelter. Mainly because hosts tend to survive that one better and the run up isn't as much of a slog as Iron Passage either. One cool fight I gave the fatal blow to Sir Alonne just a second after the host got killed. I got the souls from the kill, I wonder if the host got the boss soul. I imagine they did, but now they'll have to run back to get the Smelter Wedge without help
Haunted
Member
Haha that's pretty funny. He actually lost to the enemies?I ended up using a seed from the giant tree and let the enemies down there fuck him up.
It was pretty easy after that.
I had been holding on to the seed all this time and I couldn't think of a better time to use it
I'd be interested in seeing more red phantom NPCs fight the regular enemies in the levels. I love watching AI vs AI. Those seeds are one item I wish were easier to get in bulk. Make it available at a merchant, but expensive like brightbugs.
edit: tell me someone has already set up a YT video series with AI fighting each other, I'd watch the shit out of that.
edit2: or just a mod/cheat that turns all enemies hostile to each other!
You can do that with the Collector's Edition, among other craziness.
There are also things in it that can break your save. But there are also things in it that can fix your save. Use with caution.
Why not Spider's Silk? It has more reach and same weight.
Aside from shield piercing, Mail Breaker ripostes / backstabs are higher than dagger or bandit's knife!
Wait what that's what?! I need to test that crap out, posthaste.
Go go go. At 40/40 it outdamages both.
Normally I wouldn't care about having a dedicated bs / riposte weapon but Fume Sword crit damage is laughable.
Cannon Goose
Member
Wow, just had a guy turn on invincibility just as I parried and riposted him. I had landed a couple of hits on him before the parry and it looked like he wasn't cheating but then right as I riposte his HP goes down and then immediately shoots back up. Then of course he gives me the finger wag afterwards -_-
That happened to me last night in the Belfry. Dude was invincible at start when I combo'd him, then he turned that off and I got him halfway, then he was back at full HP. Managed to duck and jive past him and got to the fogdoor. Ain't no-one got time for that bull.
His name was "Innocent", to boot.
Edit: By the by, I haven't been keeping an eye on it, but did the latest patch fix MonScim parries?