I have a question:
Ive raised my INT to 53 but I have doubts about this. I dont find the Soul Arrouw very affactive. It seems Lighting (FTH build) is much more powerful.
Is this true, should I use a Soule Vessel?
What catalyst are you using? At 53 int you can use the best sorcery staff in the game, the
found in the
. Maxed out, it's a monster, but it does require twinkling (as does everything worthwhile on a mage -_-). I wear the Ring of Knowledge and the King's Crown (before that, the Desert Sorceress Hood, both have the +3 int bonus) which brings up my int to like 58, and Great Heavy Soul Arrow is pretty strong. In PvP, Soul Greatsword and a fully-connecting Homing Crystal Soulmass OHKO most players, haha.
Zero poise would defeat heavy weapons. Get a dagger and stun lock everyone. It wouldn't work at all.
There was zero poise in Demon's Souls... and it has the best PvP of all three games.
Of course, despite the lack of poise, there wasn't that much stunlocking in Demon's. Every hit would stagger you a bit, but the hitstun was moderate and you could usually roll away or hold up your shield after one hit. The attacks that did stunlock, could be escaped with the weapon toggle switch trick. So despite all its glitches and flaws, it was still the most balanced (and fun) PvP. Not to mention, you had
Second Chance, which meant that you could survive any hit that OHKOs (and few things did at high level, except backstabs from certain weapons, and ripostes).
Man, I miss Demon's Souls PvP...
I am really dumbfounded as to why there is no Red Eye Orb in this game. Making invasions a scarce commodity merely kills invasions. I think I've been invaded once. It's completely stupid.
My opinion is that they remove red eye Orb so people wont get annoyed by invasion in NG.
I get why they did it, to prevent low-level griefing, but it should have been available in NG+ at least.
Solaire and Tarkus would like a word those two don't even compare.
Tarkus I'll grant you but Solaire died quite frequently. Especially against Gaping and S&O, and even Centipede Demon. He was good as a distraction, little else.
I recently bought the Alva set and was disappointed to find that only the chest had a really good protection/weight ratio due to the scaling. Otherwise, my Drangleic armor is better and not that much heavier. I've been playing with my weight burden between 60% and 69%. Is there any benefit to going all Alva to reduce weight or does it not really matter as long as I'm under 70%?
The Alva armour looks better though.
I never go with the full sets myself, because they're too heavy. I wear the chest piece, and lighter pieces for leggings and gloves, such as wanderer or rogue boots or gloves, since they still look good without overburdening me. No helmet except perhaps a hood, I like to see my character's faces. Though if I'm hollow I might wear a helmet temporarily, I hate seeing the zombie face.
Strip it all off. That's the only way, armor does you no help here.
yup, it's a one hit kill anyway so armor of any kind is useless.
I wish people would stop saying that. Do you people get to end-game with only 15 VIG or what? With about 40 VIG, if you stack decent fire defense you WILL survive the fire breath. Moreover, the best elemental-resisting armour is often the lighter ones, so you don't need to sacrifice mobility or stamina regen or anything. If you cast Flash Sweat or use Small Orange Burrs, you need even less VIG than that, though of course there's the danger that it expires.
I beat a coop-buffed Ancient Dragon solo with my mage. I was with my friend, who died almost instantly at the beginning of the fight. I had about 40 VIG, and wore the Flame Quartz Ring+1 and decent cloth armour: Witch Robe (+0, stupid twinkling...), Desert Sorceress Hood+9 and Skirt+9, Lion Cuffs+9. With Flash Sweat active, if I got hit, I lost about 45% of my health, and needed 1 estus + 1 lifegem to fully recover. I even got hit once after it expired and survived with a sliver (needed 2 estus and 1 lifegem to fully recover, IIRC). It was a long fight due to its defense buff, and I had to use 1 or 2 amber herbs to refill my stronger sorceries (and get an extra Flash Sweat), but I won without too much trouble otherwise. I know it's better to
not get it at all, but the fight is far more manageable and forgiving if you can survive the fire, since that thing can be unreliable. I got hit by the fire maybe 3 or 4 times.
On my STR I can do it without getting hit with the Gyrm Greatshield, but even then I'd prefer to be able to survive the fire, just in case I mess up. It's a long fight and having to redo it all over for one small mistake is just not fun.
So, to anyone who needs advice against the Ancient Dragon, I say, don't listen to the "go naked" fools; stack that VIG and fire defense.
It's totally worth it, and plenty of light armour sets have good fire resistance.
Decided I'd burn the bonfire in the holding cells to farm that heide knight once or twice, ended up getting the whole armour set and only 1 dupe! Now I want to do a fashion souls soul vessel and go full on lightning lol.
Does using an Ascetic on that bonfire buff up a boss? I wonder which bonfire respawns the Sentinels... McDuff's? Or Tower Apart? Also, does that knight drop another weapon than the spear? I know the one in the Shrine of Winter drops first a Lance, then a Greatlance in NG+, so I was wondering...
gankers are the worst. I got summoned into a 2-party that tried to ambush me. So I quickly WotG on the host. hehehe
When dealing with gankers, I now tend to leave quickly.
Haha yeah. Yesterday I was PvPing in the Iron Keep, and died as a host to an invader. I decided to drop a Small White Soapstone for a quick coop session to regain my body instead of using an Effigy, but, as expected, I got summoned by a ganker instead who hanged around the bridge. I ignored him and ran off to kill some enemies. He summons a red and ran after me. I killed the last knight before the Smelter fog before Duty Fulfilled appeared, and I saw a red phantom run after the host with some buff on his weapon, lol. I don't know the outcome of their fight but the host sent me a message, "WTF is wrong with you".
Funny to get hatemail for using a game feature as intended by the developers, haha.
