neoism
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Pretty sure it we'll be the 23rd all the other ones released on a Tuesday.
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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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Screaming Meat
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Closer to 200, I think. To be honest it's much of a muchness. Your SM will still increase and you'll eventually end up being matched against folk who haven't stopped levelling.
yeah, I feel pretty underleveled in some ways.
I understand the "git gud" thing but some of these encounters in the old iron king are just brutal.
Gyrm axe or aldia hammer are two good ones.
Cannon Goose
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Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
If you don't want to level up, look at it as a challenge. XD
You expect me to murder Agadyne? He's just doing his job! Grave Wardens are cool (despite from being dumb and putting them on Earthern Peak for no good reason)
You can get them without killing Agadyne, just
summon him for the boss fight and make sure he survives
Haunted
Member
Red Liquorice
Member
Is there a list anywhere of enemy respawn numbers?
Just out of curiosity, since different enemies seem to have different spawn counts, wondered if anyone had compiled a list anywhere, googling isn't helping much.
Just out of curiosity, since different enemies seem to have different spawn counts, wondered if anyone had compiled a list anywhere, googling isn't helping much.
Good points on the irratical enemy movements and the crappiness of the supposedly "coop areas".
Smelter 2.0
Interestingly enough, he doesn't bother me that much. It is lazy, but being it's a super optional area, I don't mind. I can simply ignore it (aside from getting the Pharros Mask after beating him).
September 24, 2014
I was helping people with Smelter Blue last night. Lots of summoning and I learned about the boss.
He is super-resistant to magic. I'm a sorcerer and I was getting the smallest damage numbers of any boss I have fought. So I switched my gear to a more weapony build. I had the most success with a fire weapon and was able to contribute to the summoner in this way.
I think he has one of the simplest move-sets of any boss too. I got very competent at rolling to his left on the first swing, and then rolling again behind him on the second swing. Then you hit him once or twice and prepare to do it again.
By the time I had the nerve to try him myself I was tired. Tonight though.
He is super-resistant to magic. I'm a sorcerer and I was getting the smallest damage numbers of any boss I have fought. So I switched my gear to a more weapony build. I had the most success with a fire weapon and was able to contribute to the summoner in this way.
I think he has one of the simplest move-sets of any boss too. I got very competent at rolling to his left on the first swing, and then rolling again behind him on the second swing. Then you hit him once or twice and prepare to do it again.
By the time I had the nerve to try him myself I was tired. Tonight though.
I agree to some extend. It's just that we got to fight the 3x Ruin Sentinels and then they are added as a standard enemy later in the game. Then we get 5x Bell Gargoyles. Then we get Nashandra 2.0 including Velstadt and the skeletons.Finally that blue bastard also? I enjoy the game but it feels like the developers are running on fumes (no pun) when it comes to boss design.
The difficulty for bosses is fine, but where is the creativity?
Having a muck around with the fashion souls thingy these two look quite nice:
Royal soldier helm goes with lots of stuff.
I don't know of a list myself most seem to stick between 10-15 respawns before they don't spawn.
So I was pretty nervous about fighting
alone in the first DLC because so many people posted here about how hard the fight was (first time I beat her was on NG+ with 2 human phantoms that destroyed her). But when I finally went in and did it, it was.. incredibly easy. Might be my build?
I was on my 50 faith 40 dex character with very low other stats on regular NG, using a 2H lightning Blue Knight Halberd +5 buffed with Sunlight Blade. I mean, I got the boss to around 70% in that little intro bit before the HP bar appeared. She
, but he died in three hits from the halberd and was basically a non factor. She used
, but nothing hit for more than around half my HP, and she had such long pauses between attacks that I could always heal. Took her down well before Sunlight Blade duration ended.
I guess she might just be
, and
? I didn't even have to use any Sunlight Spears. Or might just get much harder on NG+, that will be interesting.
wasn't too bad solo either, but I just ran around like an idiot and jumped down into the water and tossed lightning spears at them in the water abusing wet=lightning destroys you mechanic, so I feel like I cheated a bit there.
Elana
I was on my 50 faith 40 dex character with very low other stats on regular NG, using a 2H lightning Blue Knight Halberd +5 buffed with Sunlight Blade. I mean, I got the boss to around 70% in that little intro bit before the HP bar appeared. She
summoned Velstadt
flame swathe, a dark machine gun attack, and pursuers
I guess she might just be
weak to lightning
Velstadt is too
Lame havel/sword/greatbow trio
No actually it's the opposite she's very resistant to lightning. Velstadt on the other hand is pretty weak to it.
Huh, that's really odd, she literally melted away when using my lightning infused weapon and Sunlight Blade. Maybe she just doesn't have that much HP at all on NG with no phantoms.
Orochinagis
Member
He cant. FROM is watching him.
She's very vulnerable to physical. The blue knight halberd still does a lot more physical damage than elemental once infused a 343/146 split a max. That vulnerability is probably what did it.
Orochinagis
Member
The trick with DLC bosses is not using phantoms or using only one but tanky
Resonant Weapon is more powerful. Go with that.
I tried resonant on giant lord got 890 damage, then tried dark weapon and got 845.
cant buff already infused weapons with resin.
No it is not both of them are calculated in the same way via (weapons original dark damage+50) X 1.3. Dark weapon last longer has more casts and takes up less slots. Pre patch you would of been right at it being superior.
you are wrong. resonant does more damage. It's been tested and all.
Red Liquorice
Member
Yeah, there's definately a few exceptions - I lost count but I'm almost certain the dogs in Aldia's Keep are something like 20 and some of the bigger enemies like the hippos seem more 8 (or maybe 10 yeah).
Wish I'd decided on total world depopulation earlier in this run and kept a list myself actually since there doesn't seem to be one elsewhere.
Orthogonal
Member
I can understand the need to nerf Resonant from the 50% bonus, but to make them the same makes zero sense. Why even have Resonant weapon at all when it costs so much more to use and lasts less time. From is losing it here.
Orochinagis
Member
Drakekeeper armor for tanky gameplay, Alva is super light and have good defense but bad at elemental damage, Havels is still the king with great element resistance and high defense but super tanly as hell.
Sir Alonnes armor is the new super light armor with great defense and make less noise than alva, great for dex builds
Beats me it could be the duality between staff and charm hexes but the black witch staff and sanctum shield kinda nixes that. I've got nothing really.
Probably Llewellyn or Alva maybe a mix between the two. Just by themselves at 49 VIT dark set is 24.7%, Alva is 20.2%, and Llewellyn is 12.7%. With equip load boosting rings you can get them even lower than that.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
I think they did it as a drastic measure until they find a more suitable percent it should be. They will probably buff it later, or make it one slot or something.
No they're not.
Dark weapon (Adds 50 damage to weapon and increases overall dark damage by 30%)
ex. Weapon has 250 dark damage. Dark weapon adds 50 dark damage (300) then increases all dark damage by 30% for a grand total of 390 dark damage.
Resonant Weapon (adds 50 dark damage and inceases overall dark damage by 50%)
ex. Weapon deals 250 dark damage. Resonant weapon increases by 50 dmg (300) then increases overall dark damage by 50%, for a grand total of 450 dark damage.
if you need video proof I can happily upload to youtube.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
It used to be 50%, it got nerfed to 30%. Unless you didn't download the patch, it should be a 30% increase.
Orthogonal
Member
Either way, I think this is embarrassing for From. They have always done a great job of presenting a spectrum of cost/benefit options in weapons, gear and spells where there isn't always a best, but maybe something that is great in one aspect, but has a drawback or high cost in another area.
Hopefully they correct this soon. Either buff the scaling or raise the stat requirements. Maybe do something a little different and keep the stats the same but make it do something extra like make a Normal damage type weapon act like a Dark infused weapon for its buff duration.
I didn't touch the game since the first DLC* but when I launched it it downloaded a huge patch which is the 2nd DLC I guess.
Also there is a message that tells me that the current character isn't compatible with any previous version of the game.
Did they make some big game changes lately to justify that?
* I was completely out of the loop of the recent events...
Also there is a message that tells me that the current character isn't compatible with any previous version of the game.
Did they make some big game changes lately to justify that?
* I was completely out of the loop of the recent events...
Resonant Weapon has not been nerfed. I just today tested this by killing giant lord. I have the latest patch and DLC.
why dont you guys believe me?
Orochinagis
Member
or make the duration and power directly based on the stats so you have to invest more points in those stats to get an optimal output of damage.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
The wikis say otherwise, and I think there was a patch that stated it got lowered. You could take a video I guess. Plus doesn't weapon damage change based on what part of the weapon hits?
Can't stack self buffs along with other spell based changes that were pretty major that might be it.
Patch 1.06 was the one that changed how it worked.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
O ty. Also, If I remember correctly there was mention relating to that issue when they fixed either the Airwalking issue or the binocular backstab thing.
it might be lowered, but it is still more powerful than dark weapon. They're not equal
Orochinagis
Member
In what weapon are you testing it anyway?
dark chaos blade
That was patch 1.05.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
You don't need to murder Agdayne to get his armour. Just talk to him after defeating Velsdadt.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
You're better than the Dark Souls wiki. I really hate how they made binoculars a weapon. would have been nice if it remained where it was.