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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
- Thread starter Vazra
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Hopefully it does get fixed at some point the sooner the better.
Arjen
Member
Yep, they really need to buff scaling. Getting past a weapons requirements is absolutely useless now. Which sucks because you can't really make different builds now.
SoldnerKei
Member
so, are you saying that my 40 str and 35 dex are useless using my drangleic sword? :c
how about spells?
KoreanBarbecue
Member
You just answered your question. On NG I'm rolling a Large and Giant. On my NG+++ character, running with two Giants.
Is this a glitch? I beat the Smelter Demon and after I beat him I went back to town to level up and when I went back to the area i noticed the door to the Smelter Demon had fog again , So I enter and the Pursuer boss shows up but with no boss music and no boss health bar. The game treated him like a regular enemy , I just let him follow me outside the room and jumped over that gap and he just fell to his death. I thought it was pretty weird.
KoreanBarbecue
Member
Not a glitch.
Now i'm kind of worried because I let him fall to his death. Did he drop anything important?
SoldnerKei
Member
well, he didn't have a boss fog for me but the persuer appears there as a miniboss
KoreanBarbecue
Member
Pretty sure all he drops is a Ring of Blades+1.
Bah that sucks , i'm a melee heavy guy so i could of used that.
I'm on PS3 thats where it happened.
Arjen
Member
Spells are insanely powerful, especially hexes and lighting spears. If you go 25/20 on your drangleic sword, infuse it with lightning and pump the rest in faith, you do a little bit less melee damage but you get to use a lot of useful spells.
I did a quality build first and a hex build second, it's not even funny how much easier the hex build was, even in NG++ great lightning spear pretty much one shots every enemy except the black phantoms.
Violentine
Banned
It's ok you gonna get ring of blades plus 2 in Ng+. But you have to fight 2 pursuers at the same time, different area, very late game though
KoreanBarbecue
Member
Get both up to +10 and bask in the sunlight of smashing every enemy into the ground like a pancake.
I had one. As soulhouf said it's pretty pointless. Protip: the weapon with the poorer scaling gives better damage even at 50 STR.
A while back I was invaded by a dude with two clubs who's gt was clubber.
KoreanBarbecue
Member
Haha, nice. 'Twas not me, however. I'm a gentleman and never invade.
SoldnerKei
Member
but the thrill of invading is awesome! plus I am a bloodbro soo that's how I roll
imo clubs look ugly, I want my character with fancy weapons and stylish armors, clubs are not welcome
SeventhSon
Member
I saw a tip that if you let one of them impale you with the curse attack, the other will go away, leaving you to fight one on one. Then when you return, you can fight the other one.
If I want the Ring of Blades +2, does it matter which one I let curse me? Can I summon for this fight?
Red Liquorice
Member
I was in the Black Gulch and got flung completely across the map by one of those big penis monsters. I was thrusting into its side two handed with a rapier and locked on out of habit, my character then faces towards the head (lock on point) and it does a sideswipe and I went flying right across the chasm to about where the first bonfire is before I descended into the void!
This brings me to the funky lock-on stuff with rapiers, I think some of it is due to the new ability to lock on but face in other directions (still hate it), but also it seems now that if you attack with your shield up, even if you stop holding block, as long as you keep attacking you won't drop your shield - I also hate this. You have to remember to let the shield down animation complete before pressing attack again, not great and not practical in the heat of the moment. Other than that - I still <3 rapiers. Love, love, love the Espada Ropera.
I just did it solo again just now and I basically danced around dodging until you see the blue sword, jump on it, mop the other one up and then enjoy your ring!
This brings me to the funky lock-on stuff with rapiers, I think some of it is due to the new ability to lock on but face in other directions (still hate it), but also it seems now that if you attack with your shield up, even if you stop holding block, as long as you keep attacking you won't drop your shield - I also hate this. You have to remember to let the shield down animation complete before pressing attack again, not great and not practical in the heat of the moment. Other than that - I still <3 rapiers. Love, love, love the Espada Ropera.
Doesn't matter and yes you can summon but it's not a "proper" boss fight so if that's all you want summons for you'll have to send them home (they might think it's a bit dickish since they were probably expecting to be summoned for Throne of Want area).
I just did it solo again just now and I basically danced around dodging until you see the blue sword, jump on it, mop the other one up and then enjoy your ring!
Astral/H3X
Member
I don't think I died enough.
NG+, meet company of champions.
EDIT: Also, cheeks, meet tears.
NG+, meet company of champions.
EDIT: Also, cheeks, meet tears.
Violentine
Banned
tried it, I intentionally getting impaled, still fighting 2 pursurers at the same time. That trick might have been patched.
you can summon real players. do it at that bonfire in the castle, then take the phantoms up the ladder to the chamber.
Metalingus5150
Member
Just fought a ninja turtle.
lol
lol
You destroyed too many eggs man.
Yeah, I know that now. Would have been nice to have died that way ANY of the other times I crossed the bridge when it didn't matter. I didn't even know it was possible to get attacked there since I've walked across it safely many many times before. It's just too evil.
Orthogonal
Member
Got any pics?
Metalingus5150
Member
sorry I don't have any.
ComaPrison
Banned
I've killed tons of eggs but that has never happened to me.
Is there any .gif for when you get too cocky on DS? I had to fight the horse boss a couple dozen times, and two of them I died an attack away from killing him... Heck, I even cleared the path leading to him.
Also, good placement of the great sword red knight just before the boss door, I had to run for my life after using the "bail out" (save and quit) trick upon trespassing the fog for the first time.
Regarding the Undead purgatory... that's it? Isn't there any more to this area?
Also, good placement of the great sword red knight just before the boss door, I had to run for my life after using the "bail out" (save and quit) trick upon trespassing the fog for the first time.
Regarding the Undead purgatory... that's it? Isn't there any more to this area?
ComaPrison
Banned
Nope. Just the blood covenant npc at the end. And the statues for entering the dueling arena.
I'm playing offline, so it's no use to join a covenant, right? All those NPC basically tell me to go away.
ComaPrison
Banned
kill the sentinel npc and blood npc to get some of their loot (and buy the rest of their loot from the old hag merchant). You can get the covenant rank rewards for sentinel and blood from chancellor wellager in NG++ (real NG++, not bonfire asceticed bonfire intensity 3)
Red Liquorice
Member
You can still do it, I did it last night. It's only the cursed blue sword attack that counts.
There are a couple of PVE covenants.
Which ones? Is there any bonus / advantage for joining them?
Champion's covenant and the Pilgrims of the Dark. You can fight an exclusive optional boss in the Dark covenant, and get access to some spells/items. You also get access to some short bonus dungeons.
Champion's covenant is the hardcore covenant that makes the game harder.
ComaPrison
Banned
There are a number of awestone-dropping phantoms that spawn like 15 times per NG+ or something, so anyone who's just in it for the rank rewards can farm it pretty easy.
I suppose champion's is that rock in Majula, right?
I just beat the horse boss and I don't even know how covenants work, not even what ranking up is abou. I'll keep on playing solo so does that have any advantage?
Correct.
You can get some nice equipment from the covenant you just need to offer sunlight medals which you can farm in the area.
Red Liquorice
Member
Has anyone used ascetics on bosses such as Old Dragonslayer and Executioner's Chariot? I was wondering if you can enter the boss fog through the back entrance or you have to warp out and go the proper way? (Just wondered)
ComaPrison
Banned
You must enter through the front again. Back door is gated by black fog that cannot be entered.