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What happens if a weapon breaks completely? Do you have to bring it to a blacksmith? Do you have to spend souls/items? Do they vanish?
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What happens if a weapon breaks completely? Do you have to bring it to a blacksmith? Do you have to spend souls/items? Do they vanish?
Alcoholikaust
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well, as long as you arent in a specific covenant
blacksmith/repair item
i stupidly broke my scimitar+1 and was sad that it didnt repair at bonfire
haha, I had just summoned a white phantom because there happened to be a sign there, and when I walked away without talking to the npc he stood there gesticulating wildly until I turned around.
If they break you can still use them, but you may as well be punching. They also cost a TON to repair.
HalfBakedProphet
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Are there lightning faith spells in this game? I'm a cleric and its been a struggle with no range attack
luckygodzilla
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Try warping in and out of the area, that should do the trick.
I bought the basic one from the NPC immediately after Dragonrider in Heike Tower. It's way faster than it was in Dark Souls, and comes with 10 casts for 1 attunement slot.
Not far in, exploring through Forest of the Giants now, but damn - the game feels a lot more stitched together than any of the previous ones. The animations are loose, the visuals are loose. Didn't get to see much of the game though, but the small details...
Turning your character 180 degrees while standing in DeS & DkS had a beautiful fluidity & unity, you were seeing a human turning. Contrast this with the roboticness of now. That kind of consistency of the realism of your own character was working miracles for placing you in that world, I believe.
It's funny how in their chase for realism (mo-cap, new engine, new lighthing system) they ended up losing a bit the dreamy foggy charm of before, and looking a bit worse for it.
Also, what the hell with those empty patches of geometry throughout Forest of the Giants? I had to reposition my camera a few times, just to stop seeing that shit. It kind of hurts, coming from the tightness & polish of what-you-walk-and-what-you-see of early-middle Dark Souls.
Anyway, time for less mouthering & more killering.I can smell a boss somewhere around where I am now.
oh. and enemy attention managment just became a thing, bigger than before.
Turning your character 180 degrees while standing in DeS & DkS had a beautiful fluidity & unity, you were seeing a human turning. Contrast this with the roboticness of now. That kind of consistency of the realism of your own character was working miracles for placing you in that world, I believe.
It's funny how in their chase for realism (mo-cap, new engine, new lighthing system) they ended up losing a bit the dreamy foggy charm of before, and looking a bit worse for it.
Also, what the hell with those empty patches of geometry throughout Forest of the Giants? I had to reposition my camera a few times, just to stop seeing that shit. It kind of hurts, coming from the tightness & polish of what-you-walk-and-what-you-see of early-middle Dark Souls.
Anyway, time for less mouthering & more killering.I can smell a boss somewhere around where I am now.
oh. and enemy attention managment just became a thing, bigger than before.
thanks requoted fro those wondering...it an important tidbit!
Worse for me I killed the chest in the haunted house that had three extra,
. DOnt kill chests anymore people ...use lloyds talismans and teeth recognition instead!Blacksmith?, but you have to find his key first in
forest of giants
I found both in the
forest of giants
explorer NPC near the ballista room?
edit: looked it up in my beautiful new guide since i already did that area:
small upstairs at tower bonfire, regular, do the quest from pate.
mindblown: major NPC summoning spoiler it looks like I missed
Pate canbe summoned for giant boss?!?!?!!?
Total non-issue, I use one of the shields on my back for back stab protection and because the bubbles look cool with the explorer set, but all of the stuff had high enough requirements that explorer could not use right out of the gate, which is simlar ot blacksmith weapons regardless. I downloaded my extra weapons and will use them if I feel like it...just adds to the menu of the hundreds to choose from ...they are not OP, nor do they break the early game.
Yeah those stones are annoying...I think i wasted one on the area
below the ballista room.
DONT KILL CHESTS PEOPLE! -> use other methods to avoid mimcs/traps.
Dwight Schrute
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So i found (NPC spoiler)
cartographer and the miracle lady in Heime fire tower I exhausted their dialogue and they don't appear in majula. I killed the boat boss and the ornstein doppelganger. When do they appear ?
Frogfucious
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Good to know. Maybe I'll try them out then.
I think it's time to jump down that hole in mejula ; )
Morrigan Stark
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You could always do that. Even in Demon's you could use shards of archstone any time.
Wow that is confusing now...
My bad, it appears Oswald sells 'em up to 10. I have to say I never needed that much, and I actually broke quite a few in some playthroughs, sloppily/hurriedly (sometimes suicidally!) trying to retrieve high-humanity bloodstains. To me, there's hardly a difference between 10 per playthrough and infinite, really. I never ever ran out of those rings and used them quite liberally.
Do tell? Spoiler-tag if necessary.
SlasherJPC
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Interesting. I've played for 2 hours and some change and already found four shards for my flask. Guessing they just get harder to find then?
I tried and died. How do you survive it?
You need the silvercat ring from the cat in the house by the hole. You should also have a decent amount of hp.
I just fought a boss in another players world. He died and I waited for it to take me home, and it reversed my hollowing. Can anyone explain the rules around this?
I've beaten bosses in another persons world and it didn't reverse my hollowing, why would it happen when we lost?
I've beaten bosses in another persons world and it didn't reverse my hollowing, why would it happen when we lost?
Huw_Dawson
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Trying to get DS1 finished for Friday, but man, screw Crystal Cave and Tomb of Giants. Just don't want to deal with level gimmicks.
Not-in-crappy -release-date-GAF, how viable is a low HP dex/adapt build? I'm thinking of just being speedy and use high dex scaling weapons for damage. In DS1 I'm rolling with GiantDad (for the lulz) so I want a change of pace. And if you don't get hit, you don't need HP. I'm thinking of running adapt to 20 as a first priority, then spending the next blob of souls getting whatever A or B scaling dex weapon I find as high as it can go, then just pouring SL levels into dex.
Not-in-crappy -release-date-GAF, how viable is a low HP dex/adapt build? I'm thinking of just being speedy and use high dex scaling weapons for damage. In DS1 I'm rolling with GiantDad (for the lulz) so I want a change of pace. And if you don't get hit, you don't need HP.
I'm thinking of running adapt to 20 as a first priority, then spending the next blob of souls getting whatever A or B scaling dex weapon I find as high as it can go, then just pouring SL levels into dex.vas_a_morir
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Finally got my first pyromancy flame in a post-boss chest! Could I have gotten in earlier?
Jimmyfenix
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Trying to get DS1 finished for Friday, but man, screw Crystal Cave and Tomb of Giants. Just don't want to deal with level gimmicks.
Hang in there ! it will be worth it by the end.
i squandered my first cracked red as well. any place to get them other than killing the piggies early on? abysmal drop rate
Grinchy
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ooooh, then that would explain why every single time I asked the blacksmith to repair my stuff the game told me that nothing needed repairs. I kept wondering why my stuff was indestructible with everyone talking about how often they have to repair.
Morrigan Stark
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Why is the quick-quoting tool stripping out spoiler-tagged stuff? Weird.
Anyway, it's weird how you need more HP to survive falls now? I'm pretty sure in previous games it was a percentage of your health, not a fixed amount.
luckygodzilla
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Come on people, Invade more!
I'm sitting on 12 blue eye orbs, and no matter where I go I haven't found a sinner yet.
I'm sitting on 12 blue eye orbs, and no matter where I go I haven't found a sinner yet.
would love to, but scared the piggies will go extinct
Grinchy
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I still haven't been invaded yet. Though that's probably because I made the stupid mistake of burning an effigy instead of using it. That was in my first few hours of playing, though. I don't know how long that's supposed to last.
Sorry, you are just flat out wrong. You could not buy infinite amount of these rings, period. You could find a few during your play-through and also buy a few. Additionally, you had only two ring slots. You would have to almost cripple your character by giving up Havel's ring or RFAP to wear this one. In DS2, you have 4 ring slots AND your character has a fast roll up to 70% equip burden. Now, you also don't need to worry about dying -- 3k souls is almost nothing later in the game.
Morrigan Stark
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I don't know if this is the only source but I saw a twitch streamer find a vendor/blacksmith that had it for sale. didnt notice the cost and didnt recognize the name of the area but they had about 18 boss souls in their inventory
So you don't die more than 10 times during a playthrough, got it. (NG+ too right?) You are in the extreme minority because of your skills and don't have to worry about this discussion
Losing all souls and humanity is a pretty big deal and a big punishment for dying. Especially if you were using Chaos weapons that deal damage based on the humanity you hold.
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