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[HeelPower]

I was kind of disappointed when I found this out as well. Fighting a boss on a timer like that was extremely tense and unique in the series.

It was a great fight and I enjoyed it.

I didn't know there was a way around but I fought the snake bitch raw lol

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Anyone else have a document they keep updated to keep track of things? 10 hours in, mine looks like this

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Mansion special floor?
Locked contraption on way to Heides
Hole in centre=instadeath
Pathway with BlueSword Knight blocked by statue

Heide's Ruin -
Boss across drawbridge (Smough-lite)

Tower of Flame -
Illusory wall by bonfire?

Unseen Path to Heide -
Broken door on top pathway?

No Man's Wharf -

Cardinal Tower -
Merchant sells Soul Arrow (S), Heal (M), Caestus
Firefrog below platforms, high health, need range or fire resistance
Firefrog below bridge below bonfire
Door behind and below 4 crossbows opened from other side
Tree near Pate
Locked door in tunnel at bottom of elevator
Story door by elevators
The Pursuer (need help, range or better stats)




Halberd - 20 Str 14 Dex
Old Knight Halberd - 20 Dex

Made the souls back that I lost yesterday by being summoned.

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DragonRider is a joke

 

[Cloud Strife]

Lore question/spoiler in Brightstone Cove,

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Why was the giant spider boss called "The Duke's Dear Freja?"

 

[LordCanti]

Lore question/spoiler in Brightstone Cove,

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Why was the giant spider boss called "The Duke's Dear Freja?"

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"The Duke" is Seath The Scaleless from Dark Souls. One assumes that the spider was his pet.

 

[phierce]

(Iron Keep)

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How are you meant to get the chest on the molten rocks in the room with the platforms you can raise/lower

?

I answered this earlier and was called a liar, but it works...

You have to

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use a lockstone to get water in a small pool. You then have to load up on fire protection gear and soak yourself in the water. Being wet PLUS the fire protection gear will just barely give you enough time to run to chest, estus, grab item and get the fuck out. I'm sure flash sweat would also help, but I don't have that.

Oh, and just for the record, it really sucks when you run through acid and break your rings. F'n expensive shit!

 

[Lucent]

That's the first wall I hit. Had to summon 2 other allies. Dunno how someone could do it solo. Even with 3 it was rough.

I did it solo my first try. Not bragging but I guess I was lucky and stayed calm. I dropped down after the mist and I saw three health bars but only one of them was immediately with me. So I focused on him. I killed him and was like "so I only have to fight one at a time? Not bad" but the other two jumped up so I was like I'll jump down. Rather take my chances on the ground with two.

I basically got them to where they were near eachother a lot and I just kept a lock-on and flick the thumbstick to focus on who I was gonna attack. I just backed up and strafed until I saw an opening and attacked. Usually one would attack and the other would follow quick enough that I could get in some attacks and repeat. When they did the tornado spin attack, they usually did it together, and that leaves a big opening.

I was probably SL 40-50 when I did that. Used a Broadsword+3.

 

[Grinchy]

Well, Belfry Luna fucking sucks. Every invasion is just a laggy mess. The enemy will look like he's standing still for a moment and then my health bar is gone. And it's a place where you just get invaded over and over again. Great. So happy I can spend time here.

 

[Cloud Strife]

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"The Duke" is Seath The Scaleless from Dark Souls. One assumes that the spider was his pet.

Whoaaaa, can't wait to take the time and dig into the lore.

 

[AKingNamedPaul]

I'm loving the rat covenant right now

 

[Shinta]

Would anyone be so kind as to tell me where I can find a good bow for dex? Thanks.

Or like ... any bow.

 

[NeededSleep]

Sl 79 and still yet to be invaded, this is pretty wonky.

 

[AKingNamedPaul]

Would anyone be so kind as to tell me where I can find a good bow for dex? Thanks.

Or like ... any bow.

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Blacksmith in majula, treasure chest in his shop

 

[Shinta]

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Blacksmith in majula, treasure chest in his shop

Hmm, guess I overlooked that!

Thanks.

 

[Zukuu]

Is there ANY point to the pharros locks tones in Doors of Pharros? And if yes, which are the right ones? Already used 7 or so to no avail. 2/3rd of a door are open, which one is the right one for the last bit?

 

[MiamiWesker]

So what are katana users picking to upgrade and how. I see uchigatana is nice but it has a B scale with dex while a crappier katana scales A. In DS1 you just infuse a katana with fire or lightning and you become unstoppable, is that the same here?

 

[MiamiWesker]

Is there ANY point to the pharros locks tones in Doors of Pharros? And if yes, which are the right ones? Already used 7 or so to no avail. 2/3rd of a door are open, which one is the right one for the last bit?

For the most part all you are doing is activating traps for invaders for when you enter the covenant.

 

[Cloud Strife]

So what are katana users picking to upgrade and how. I see uchigatana is nice but it has a B scale with dex while a crappier katana scales A. In DS1 you just infuse a katana with fire or lightning and you become unstoppable, is that the same here?

My Uchigatana at +10 has A scale, not sure about other weps.

 

[MiamiWesker]

My Uchigatana at +10 has A scale, not sure about other weps.

Did you buy it or find it?

 

[SargerusBR]

Holy fuck Lobosjr is good, he already killed

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Lost Sinner

and

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Old King

in less than 80 minutes

 

[MiamiWesker]

So in the infusion screen I see that making a weapon poison or bleed gives you more damage than making it the other kinds like lightning. So is it better to go with poison?

 

[Jackben]

What you farmed there doesn't really matter. Don't worry about it, if you ever did.

I don't get it. Weren't you the one posting about how soul history affects your ability to summon and tiers of invasion? It really sucks we have no official source to understand how this works, I guess we'll have to wait until someone data mines the game when the PC version is released.

 

[Somnium986]

Iron Keep cleared! Finally, a reliable source of Titanite. :3

 

[Soyongdori]

Do I get anything special if I give

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Rosabeh

a piece of decent armor instead of crappy armor?

 

[AKingNamedPaul]

For the most part all you are doing is activating traps for invaders for when you enter the covenant.

speaking of which, the acid sucks as much for invaders as it does for you..what a lame trap

 

[LordCanti]

Holy fuck Lobosjr is good, he already killed

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Lost Sinner

and

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Old King

in less than 80 minutes

Once you realize that roll dodging and DPS'ing is the way to go, there's no stopping you.

 

[The Xtortionist]

Hella spoilers

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The credits lists a voice actor for young Shanalotte (the Emerald Herald). Does she appear in the game as a child?

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Found a really tired-looking lobster/scorpion man who won't talk to me. Any hints on what to do to get him to respond?

Also, there is a white knight who kinda looks like Solaire sitting towards the beginning of the Bastille. I almost want to strike him to see what happens. Without spoiling too much, will I regret killing him in the long run?

 

[MiamiWesker]

Found a really tired-looking lobster/scorpion man who won't talk to me. Any hints on what to do to get him to respond?

Also, there is a white knight who kinda looks like Solaire sitting towards the beginning of the Bastille. I almost want to strike him to see what happens. Without spoiling too much, will I regret killing him in the long run?

Need a ring that lets you speak to enemies, the cat has it.

 

[ElFly]

Found a really tired-looking lobster/scorpion man who won't talk to me. Any hints on what to do to get him to respond?

Also, there is a white knight who kinda looks like Solaire sitting towards the beginning of the Bastille. I almost want to strike him to see what happens. Without spoiling too much, will I regret killing him in the long run?

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Majula's Cat sells an appropiate ring.

 

[dimb]

Still early on but not really getting into the game at all. Something about exploring just really isn't very fun. The Lost Bastille/Sinners Rise is just like the most boring Souls content I've ever experienced. So far most of the level design just really hasn't felt very creative at all.

 

[Mana Sin]

What's the deal with the

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Shrine of Winter

?

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Need a ring that lets you speak to enemies, the cat has it.

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Majula's Cat sells an appropiate ring.

Excellent, I've already got what I need then. Thanks.

 

[Dresden]

I don't get it. Weren't you the one posting about how soul history affects your ability to summon and tiers of invasion?

Well, the guy had grinded about 50k souls, and the soul range is 50k . . .

 

[Cloud Strife]

Did you buy it or find it?

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Bought

it from

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McDuff

and ascended it from there.

 

[Ferrio]

So far duel wielding seems pretty shitty. Only weapons so far it looks like it's good on is falcions and maybe the dagger weapons.... anything larger and the moves just suck.

 

[Cloud Strife]

So far duel wielding seems pretty shitty. Only weapons so far it looks like it's good on is falcions and maybe the dagger weapons.... anything larger and the moves just suck.

It is later in the game but I'm using dual Uchigatana's and wrecking shit.

 

[Zeliard]

So far duel wielding seems pretty shitty. Only weapons so far it looks like it's good on is falcions and maybe the dagger weapons.... anything larger and the moves just suck.

You using the regular dual wielding stance, or power stance?

 

[TeddyShardik]

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"The Duke" is Seath The Scaleless from Dark Souls. One assumes that the spider was his pet.

Lore speculation:

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I'm sure they don't mean Seath, despite the title. I don't quite remember what item it was but one of them says the Ruler of the area Brightstone Cove belongs to(the duke, in my opinion) had a fondness of Spiders. I believe he is the hollow you kill after the boss fight with Freja.

 

[Saganator]

So do weapons degrade faster the higher they are leveled? My falchions seem to be made out of aluminum foil all of a sudden.

I think it depends on the armor of your enemies. Curved weapons seem to degrade faster vs heavy armored enemies. A weapon with piercing attack will fair much better vs heavy armor. I started carrying around sword with my halberd for this reason.

 

[Alucrid]

My Uchigatana at +10 has A scale, not sure about other weps.

Blacksteel katana gets S at like...+1 I think.

Just found the armor set from the demos, pretty good looking.

 

[Ferrio]

You using the regular dual wielding stance, or power stance?

Power.

Power stanced Ultra Greatswords... Attacks sucked
Power stanced Greatswords had the same animation
Power stanced rapiers, shitty
Power stanced whips, REALLY shitty

Katanas were last on my list, but I haven't found one yet.

Power stanced claws were pretty neat though, so when I respecc back to dex I might give them a whirl.

 

[Dresden]

Grabbed the ng+ ring that increases casting speed by 50% or so, and now I'm machine gunning 900 damage lightning bolts. Feels good.

 

[SargerusBR]

Lore speculation:

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I'm sure they don't mean Seath, despite the title. I don't quite remember what item it was but one of them says the Ruler of the area Brightstone Cove belongs to(the duke, in my opinion) had a fondness of Spiders. I believe he is the hollow you kill after the boss fight with Freja.

Maybe

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the Duke found Seath's soul and used to create the spiders in the cove

BTW feel free to post in the Lore thread to add more speculation

 

[ElFly]

I just beat the boss in Shaded Woods, and

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there is an item on a corpse on top of a tree. How do I get that?

 

[LordCanti]

Lore speculation:

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I'm sure they don't mean Seath, despite the title. I don't quite remember what item it was but one of them says the Ruler of the area Brightstone Cove belongs to(the duke, in my opinion) had a fondness of Spiders. I believe he is the hollow you kill after the boss fight with Freja.

Lore:

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Freja drops his soul in NG+ doesn't he? Time being as in flux as it is, it's hard to say whether The Duke was a reincarnation or what.

 

[skynidas]

I just beat the boss in Shaded Woods, and

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there is an item on a corpse on top of a tree. How do I get that?

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i also saw that and couldn't get it. i think that during the fight with the girl you have to make her hit the branch so it falls down

 

[dubq]

Power.

Power stanced Ultra Greatswords... Attacks sucked
Power stanced Greatswords had the same animation
Power stanced rapiers, shitty
Power stanced whips, REALLY shitty

Katanas were last on my list, but I haven't found one yet.

Power stanced claws were pretty neat though, so when I respecc back to dex I might give them a whirl.

How do you get something to power stance?

 

[Zeliard]

Power.

Power stanced Ultra Greatswords... Attacks sucked
Power stanced Greatswords had the same animation
Power stanced rapiers, shitty
Power stanced whips, REALLY shitty

Katanas were last on my list, but I haven't found one yet.

Power stanced claws were pretty neat though, so when I respecc back to dex I might give them a whirl.

I wonder if there's anyone maining whips.

I mean, I'm sure there is, but I wonder how well they're doing.

How do you get something to power stance?

You need two weapons of the same class and 1.5x the stat requirements, rounded down. Then you hold triangle, or Y on 360, and you'll visually see the stance change.

Then you hit L1 and L2 to use the specific power stance moves.

 

[MiamiWesker]

OMG I had no idea the scaling stats are in the equip screen and dont get added into the base damage. I was kind of wondering why my weapons all seemed to have basic stats even though I am all dex. Well in the damn inventory screen or in the reinforce screen you dont see your scaling stats, wtf.

The only way to see it is to equip it and on the equip screen there is a +whatever in blue, so I assume that is the bonus you get. That changes everything. The way its sorted is useless.

 

[AKingNamedPaul]

Power.

Power stanced Ultra Greatswords... Attacks sucked
Power stanced Greatswords had the same animation
Power stanced rapiers, shitty
Power stanced whips, REALLY shitty

Katanas were last on my list, but I haven't found one yet.

Power stanced claws were pretty neat though, so when I respecc back to dex I might give them a whirl.

you don't have to use weps with the same type btw

rapier + curve sword was beast for me