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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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emperorspride188
Member
Is there any significance to the monument near the shrine of amana final bonafire? There is a girl over there praying. When I try to pray by pressing x, nothing happens.
If you are hollow with no effigies what so ever it turns you human.
emperorspride188
Member
Yes you do that's how it works.
emperorspride188
Member
Damn! Wasted so many effigies without knowing that. All I need to do is drop the effigies I have and pray. I hope that works..
AgentOtaku
Member
Just did Royal Rat Authority for the first time
Took me like 15-17 tries (mostly within the first 20 seconds as I was figuring out his move set) but I got him. Pretty obvious why the bonfire was right there tho, lol....
Took me like 15-17 tries (mostly within the first 20 seconds as I was figuring out his move set) but I got him. Pretty obvious why the bonfire was right there tho, lol....
No that will not work if you drop them. You have to have absolutely none dropped, in storage or in your inventory.
emperorspride188
Member
Hmm. Not so useful then. But atleast it assures you that when you don't have any effigies there is an alrernative. No need to farm the poor dogs.
Not sure why you would farm the dogs when you can farm 5 a go with ascetics.
emperorspride188
Member
Never tried to farm effigies as I always had plenty of them. I just have a rough idea that dogs, that aquatic animals in amana and spider like guys in brightstone cove.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yep, got some drops, as well as their armour.
Also I got two Berserker blade drops on the NPC invaders Prowlers... but not on the right character. xD
Braag
Member
Happened to me several times because the estus flask doesn't instantly heal you.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Set level.
Plenty of times. Most notably on dual pursuers in NG+, because they have so little downtime. I have even had on this fight a few times where I double chugged and was killed in between health starting to regen and finishing regenning, a few times even as late as over a full second after drinking it.
Orochinagis
Member
Estus healing is not instant like DS1 , it slowly restoring your heal unless you double drink.
It can drop, yes, but dunno if the enemies despawn in that memory
They do.
Laurentius
Member
Beat Alonne Knight last night. He was a pretty cool boss fight, but much easier than Fume Knight (for me at least).
Also, (DLC spoiler)
The Souls games always have such amazing voice acting.
Also, (DLC spoiler)
Vendrick's voice actor is awesome.
Orochinagis
Member
I praise their voice actors because they can voice multiple characters in the same game and you dont even notice is the same person.
I love how they went the extra mile to have Solaire and Seigmeyer sound like they were talking through a tin can, since that is essentially what they were wearing on their heads.
Manscorpion tarks VA is also the milfanito in the castle.
Laurentius
Member
Yeah, that is pretty great! And it doesn't just sound like a cheap effect, either.
I think my favorite Dark Souls voice actor was the Crestfallen Merchant's (the guy at the top of Sen's Fortress).
"But go along if you wish. If only to deepen your despair."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yy2K00oiac
"One, two, through, four, fouuur-fouurrrr-fouuuuive..."
Great example of the hollowing process.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Creighton's voice and accent kinda turns me on. I'm not sure if this is normal, but I'll pretend it is.
Laurentius
Member
No judgment here! Creighton's VA is awesome.
Peter Serafinowicz did a great job as Pate as well, in my opinion.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
I don't mean you drank an estus and got hit and died. I mean you had something like a poison effect, you drank estus but died while your health regened.
that happened to me a while back, but I just remember it. I'm in my death animation(as you can see I'm slightly tilting over and my estus is greyed) yet I have health heh.
Ahh I see, yea I've had that happen as well. Recently happened when getting to the repair tree but I got poisoned on the way there, used an Estus and died basically right as the animation finished, so as my body melted away I got some health back but still died. Also happened in the fire areas in Iron Keep when trying to get to some items there.
So many hours "wasted" just listening to NPCs over and over again...
Orochinagis
Member
Yep, the voice acting is amazing.
And a bit depressing. Especially that one guy in Majula who says I should give up
Laurentius
Member
Yep, the voice acting is amazing.
And a bit depressing. Especially that one guy in Majula who says I should give up
Good old Crestfallen bro.
"His spirit is already broken. Perhaps he is a foreshadowing of your own future?"
DarkHeartedKill
Member
I love the way they laugh more. DaS1 had such creepy laughs, I would listen to NPCs over and over again just to hear their laugh
. I hate getting to those items. For the longest time I was like "there has to be a ring that lets us get that easy, From is not going to be assholes, right? Right?! Little did I know how wrong I was.
I like this crestfallen attitude more. The other was so condescending and an ass. This one.."may you find peace on your journey..." "I'll always be here, watching over you." What a bro. Same voice actor though which is neat.
Coriolanus
Banned
That's the problem, it was a design shift. In previous cases, you'd find a set that had, say, high poison resistance, or a lever that would remove the threat. The problem would be solved through proper exploration.
In DS2, they just went "lol minmax".
Laurentius
Member
I love the way they laugh more. DaS1 had such creepy laughs, I would listen to NPCs over and over again just to hear their laugh
Yeah, the laughs are perfect. Oswald has my all time favorite laugh.
"It is only human to commit a sin...keh heh heh heh!"
The contrast between his calm demeanor and then that demonic laughter is so good.
Yeah, I agree.
I think the only voice actor I didn't like too much in DaS1 was Frampt/Kaathe's. He was a good voice actor, but it just didn't seem to quite fit the character for me. He did a good job voicing Straid in DaS2, though. (That was the same guy, right?) "Feeble cursed one!"
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Yeah, Straid is voiced by the same voice actor as Frampt. I didn't notice it as first, but everyone that met Straid was like "FRAMPT IS THAT YOU?!".
Yeah true. That area you just need to roll in those Minotaur faced vases. You take very, very minimal fire damage when you soak yourself with the liquid inside. So that's one way. also using a Pharros Lockstone makes those contraptions pump out the same liquid.
I think they suited the primordial serpents more so Kaathe though. Lautrec's voice actor really suited his character though perfectly if I can be so bold.
Eh, problem is though the vases weren't enough. Like, even when soaked in water if you didn't wear any other fire resist gear or rings or use flash sweat/orange bur, you would still die while opening a chest. I really wish that being soaked in water was enough to let you get the items by itself.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Really? That's super lame. What if you're VIT isn't very high because you relay on light armour, and you have 0 attunment slots? Seems like they made it so you HAVE to build a certain way. How about consuming the Small Orange Burr, does that help?
Fire damage was handled rather poorly. If I recall correct, small orange burr/water/flash sweat don't even stack.
First time through I left all the items figuring I'd get a Charred Orange Ring or something.
Small orange burr has the exact same effect as flash sweat and they don't stack, so that is nice for people with no attunement at least. You can kind of get by with being wet and using an orange burr, but it is still frustrating, especially given the long exaggerated chest opening animation in DkS 2. Another option to offset is to take a tick of damage and back out, then use a lifegem and it will continue to heal you as you are taking damage.
I just thought it was a really lame way to gate items, even using full alonne items with pharos mask (makes you wet) and fire resist ring +3 from DLC with flash sweat, the lava still doesn't do absolutely no damage. Poorly designed area, should've been a lever to dump water on the rocks and make them not do damage anymore or something.
Coriolanus
Banned
Ideally, the Pharros Contraption at the top of the tower, the one that creates the small healing lake near those 3 archers, would allow you to take that spell without stacking fireresist.
Alas.
Also, what the heck was the point of the pharros contraption in the earthen peak that created the little poison lake?
Laurentius
Member
I had no idea! That's awesome.
Marvelous Chester is indeed Marvelous. Number one reason to be hyped for Bloodborne? The fact that it's basically Marvelous Chester: The Game.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Yup I figured I'd get a ring too. I spent a long time searching every area of Iron Keep and Earthen(I called it Everest heh) Peak thinking I missed it. I eventually caved and googled it, wish I had done that sooner would have save a buttload of time.
Are they? I liked Marvelous Chester, but I didn't realize they were voiced by the same voice actor. Chester was pretty awesome though, would be nice to learn more of his backstory rather than just he got pulled back too.
If you burn the windmill before using it, it will instead create a pool of healing water that quickly heals you back up.
They're not the voice actor is not credited for Vendrick. Vengarl and the bell keeper are the same person.
No one is credited for Vendrick as far as I can tell. He's literally just patched in so there's no credits for him.
They sure do sound the damn same, though.
That doesn't make them the same voice actor.
I can pretend ):