More so if the swing is horizontal! Still rather tricky with a vertical one. Also I really wish they had put as much effort into designing the great hammers as they did for the ultra greatswords.
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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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Red Liquorice
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The Chariot boss is tied to Titchy Grin's bonfire if I want to use a bonfire ascetic for that boss?
Yep! I'm starting to get good at aiming my vertical slashes in PvP. It's a mind game and you need to anticipate your opponent movement. And when it works, it's so satisfying to stomp someone who thought he was getting to dodge the vertical hit (they often don't roll against pokes and vertical attacks but just dodge).
I had something strange happen to me last night. I invaded someone and saw an IA red phantom trying to fight something I couldn't see. A few seconds later I was hit by 3 successive bolts fired from an Avelyn. Nobody was there I could see but there was definitely someone because I was hearing his footsteps and weapon.
I ended up being killed by an invisible player and had no chance to even land a hit on him.
Is there a ring of some sort that makes you invisible? Something like the ring of fog in DkS1. Unlike the ring of fog, in my case my opponent was completely invisible.
SeventhSon
Member
I don't like it. If I want to 'free attack' I won't lock on.
SeventhSon
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There's evidently an "invisible phantom" bug. You can see it in this montage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shaf7KQoE98
Holy crap. Some of these bugs are hilarious O_O
That bounce on the dragon was pretty epic.
I like the 'free attack' and lock-on combination.
SeventhSon
Member
Yeah, Sunlight Blade compiles some great "Top 10" lists for Dark Souls and now Dark Souls II.
I loved the "pro gamer" who didn't know about Seed of Tree of Giants.
I wish there was a menu option to toggle how it worked. I prefer Dark Souls style. Because of it, I don't use weapons with vertical attacks, I use horizontal only.
I think gwyn was a perfect ending to ds1 though.
and the false king is kind of the real last boss in demon's.
Good job it's a great feeling
One hour later and still can't replicate that feeling. =(
I don't understand how I've seen some videos of players blocking 2 hits then parrying the third. I have a max upgraded defender's shield and the blocks push me too far back and I'm stuck in the blocking animation during the recoil.
SeventhSon
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Red Liquorice
Member
lol, the legs straggling is the best part!
Have you guys seen this cute video? xD
http://kotaku.com/playing-dark-soul..._source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow
http://kotaku.com/playing-dark-soul..._source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow
Interrobang
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I went HAM last night.
- Killed Ancient Dragon on first try using Big Toe method (STR class w/ Mastodon +10). Didn't do anything special, just stuck to the feet. He did use his flying flame move once, but I easily avoided it by running to the edge of the arena (thought this would've killed me for sure, the way people have been talking about it.)
- With 5 Giant Souls in my possession, I went after Vendrick. I took him down easily too. I had a brief scare when he jumped to the other side of the arena and hit me with a lunge, but I hid behind him and got an estus in.
- Went to Shrine of Amana and got the King's set and his soul. This set is amazing looking. I'm using it for sure. I didn't really like the crown, so I'm using a Drakekeeper's helm with it. I think I look really awesome.
One question: now that I've done all this, I know I have to go for
in Throne of Want, but how are you supposed to figure that out? I accidentally dropped my summon sign down to help people with the Throne duo and got summoned for
instead, essentially spoiling that for me (I was pissed at the time).
- Killed Ancient Dragon on first try using Big Toe method (STR class w/ Mastodon +10). Didn't do anything special, just stuck to the feet. He did use his flying flame move once, but I easily avoided it by running to the edge of the arena (thought this would've killed me for sure, the way people have been talking about it.)
- With 5 Giant Souls in my possession, I went after Vendrick. I took him down easily too. I had a brief scare when he jumped to the other side of the arena and hit me with a lunge, but I hid behind him and got an estus in.
- Went to Shrine of Amana and got the King's set and his soul. This set is amazing looking. I'm using it for sure. I didn't really like the crown, so I'm using a Drakekeeper's helm with it. I think I look really awesome.
One question: now that I've done all this, I know I have to go for
Nashandra
Nashandra
SeventhSon
Member
When you have the Giant's Kinship, the Emerald Herald will be inside the door to the Throne of Want and tell you.
The exact same thing happened to me.
Finally got the Spotted Whip and got it fully upgraded and infused with poison to +5. Does a lot of poison damage. I've been poisoning people pretty fast. I'll have to get my Dex up to like 38 to power stance it. Should increase poison a lot due to increase Poison bonus. I'll be heading back for a 2nd spotted whip today or whenever I next I play this character again.
Poisoning people is fun. Only bad side is people will try to heal themselves. I need to be sure not to deplete my stamina so I can stop them from healing. Oh well, I just poison them right afterwards. lol
Poisoning people is fun. Only bad side is people will try to heal themselves. I need to be sure not to deplete my stamina so I can stop them from healing. Oh well, I just poison them right afterwards. lol
Interrobang
Member
Yeah, I have that. The description says, "Opens the door below the castle" or something right? So I guess I'm supposed to head there after reading the description and then see Emerald Herald and know I'm going the right way?
Another question: When are you supposed to kill the Throne Duo? I killed them immediately after getting the King's Ring since that was the closest door. Was that too early? What happens if you go to the Throne of Want to fight
Nashandra
It was horrible! I was like, "oh no... what have I done."
SeventhSon
Member
If you have the Giant's Kinship when you first go there, you have to fight Throne Duo and Nashandra back to back, like an endurance run.
Yeah the host let the intro play out and I thought, "who the fuck is this?"
Strangely king Vendrick is kicking my melee ass. I lock on behind his legs but at some point he jumps/rotates his hits to take me out.
I have 4 giant souls, does 5 make it considerably easier?
Sorta dreading my last 20 tries at ancient dragon but really want his shield.
Also- no apparent way to summon for the king fight huh?
I have 4 giant souls, does 5 make it considerably easier?
Sorta dreading my last 20 tries at ancient dragon but really want his shield.
Also- no apparent way to summon for the king fight huh?
Interrobang
Member
Holy crap... Throne Duo gave me some trouble, wouldn't want to do that.
As soon as I saw her name above the health bar I knew it was the queen and I was like, "goddammit."
I didn't try him with 4 souls, but I beat him first try with 5 after I beat Ancient Dragon. I'm currently using Throne Defender shield (or is it Throne Watcher? Whatever is a mid-size shield with 100 block). Is Vendrick's shield better than that?
Each Giant Soul cuts his defense in half. So right now he has 2x defense. With all 5, he will have 1x defense. Makes it more manageable.
Arjen
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As far as i know you can't summon for Vendrick. 4 is totally doable, you have to be sort of lucky he doesn't do his jump.
I beat him with 2 Giant Souls (I had no idea that they were important) pure melee, so definitely you should be able to beat him much faster with 4.
Exactly XD
Orochinagis
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Hahahaha the same happened to me it really spoiled me the final boss.
Actually after the Ancient dragon tells you what to do there is no clear indication of where to go ingame after the memories.
Interrobang
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I managed to avoid guide/wikis/spoilers for so long, even with being active in this thread. Ironic that the person to finally spoil something for me (the final boss, nonetheless) was myself.
Skellig Gra
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Put Prowling Magus in the worthless boss column. That might have been worse than the skeleton lords, at least that had the wheelie skeletons...lol.
Yup. I wasted an ascetic at the bridge for no reason.
Under the bridge bonfire will get you an extra cast of soul spear!
Red Liquorice
Member
Yeah it's not even a fun fight, over before you even get a look at the enemies. One of the fights I wish had a cutscene just so you could get a look at what they're doing before you interupt, seeing them all turn around as you walk in would've been funny.
I like the Skeleton Lord boss even though it's easy, it seems Souls-y and logical. I like to do it as early as possible since it opens up Cloanne and the loot in Harvest Valley onwards, I think maybe that's why it's easy?
SoldnerKei
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I always assumed Skeleton Lord was a hard fight, since in this game is usually you vs mob = not good, but using a ultra great sword the fight was pretty easy, thou I summoned one dude... yeah Prowling Magus was a joke, I thought he was a miniboss
I was wondering where i got that
Orochinagis
Member
Ewwww....
I think I killed the whole congregation in about a minute flat.
That parry...
Old dragonslayer reaction pretty much sums up my DS2 experience.
Interrobang
Member
I'm so desperate for DS2 talk at work right now that I'm just looking at random items in the wiki and refreshing this thread like mad. I'm going home to beat the game tonight (just have to kill
) and then I'm going to wrap up the assassination quest line and I guess go to NG+.
Nashandra
The_Hitcher89
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Think I'm done. Beat every boss except for Ancient Dragon who I can barely put a dent in
100 hours is decent enough value I guess
100 hours is decent enough value I guess
Wait what? How did they do that?
SoldnerKei
Member
is there any point of killing Ancient Dragon in NG+ since you have 4 souls of giants already... or you don't get souls from the memories? I didn't kill it because he was an npc, I assume most npcs are good fellas lol
Nearly 300 hours in across like 4+ characters, still can't get enough of this game. Can't wait for some DLC. :lol
You get the 5th soul from defeating him.
You get the 5th soul from defeating him.
SoldnerKei
Member
yeah, but in NG+ I have 4 souls just as I begin the game, so should I expect to get other 4 souls again in this run or they are unique items and I have to kill AD if I want the 5th?
Orochinagis
Member
Not sure. Likely you won't get a 5th Giant Soul from anyone but the A.D. But I am unsure
Just key items. And really "anything" that acts like a key too. Items that open paths or unblock NPCs/etc are not with you. So any "key" disappears.
300 hours are nothing.
I guess I'm spoiled after spending so much time on the previous games, but still I will feel that this game has failed horribly if I quit before the 1000 hours milestone.
Orochinagis
Member
So I will lose the branch thing to unpetrifie people, what about the amber to make the blacksmith talk, the pharros keys in your inventory and the pharros keys used
Violentine
Banned
Ops wrong thread
Fair point.
Anyone got some numbers on the name engraved ring? I'm interested to see how the thing affects what phantoms a host can summon.