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lost sinner on NG+ looooool
he summons 2 pyro phantoms
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Dark Souls II |OT| The Dark Souls of Dark Souls
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The next one spawns based off of total damage dealt to them as a whole. 90%, 70%, and 50% I believe. If you split your damage you can get all 5 up at once. If you focus just one at a time, the most you'll ever have up is 3.
Rhazer Fusion
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Oh man........
If you've played Dark Souls more than once the fight will be quite simple though. They are way weaker than the ones in DS1 and they have a similar moveset so they're not hard to beat.
Edit: Added spoiler tags. Sorry about that guys.
AKingNamedPaul
I am Homie
the fact that big weapon str build users are having a much easier time than me in pve makes destroying them in pvp with my rapier so much more satisfying.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Well I guess it's time to peace out of this thread until I beat ng+ if we're gonna talk about things like that untagged.
hokagespit
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how do you respec?
hokagespit
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hit them and
the invisible enemies will come to you. makes dealing with em a bit easier
ScottSullivan
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The channelers trident is a pretty cool weapon, whats the deal with the morale ability it has when you 2 hand it? Is that something you can use in boss fights when you're playing coop to increase damage?
Whoa that sounds crazy. Can't wait!
Cannon Goose
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In response to the second part, yes. And thank you! Made a bunch of progress now.
WheelHoss1
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Is there any better tank weapon than the
?
I loved it in DS I, and I love it again. Do any of the boss weapons compare? From peaking at the wiki, looks like no . . .
Also, the
is so freaking cool! Finally feel like a true tank again.
Black Knight Halberd
I loved it in DS I, and I love it again. Do any of the boss weapons compare? From peaking at the wiki, looks like no . . .
Also, the
Rusted Mastadon Armor/Shield combo
God dammit, the boss of the Iron Keep
Old Iron King has a bullshit LASER BEAM that pierces through concrete, knocks out my stamina, and keeps on going so it can knock me into the lava and die. I suspect this is actually meant to be an anti-camping maneuver, but I moved into that position to fucking watch what he does then act, not just spam arrows or some such shit. And right at the start of the battle too, not when I stayed there forever.
Yeah, it's way better than a lot of games out there still, but DS1 had the Metroid world design that DSII just goes "eh, whatever" too, which I suspect is partially a casualty of the fast travel (more specifically to the extent they did it) and makes it feel more like Demon's Souls II with recycled assets from Dark Souls. With the lack of good Metroid-style design in many 3D games it's a disappointment, albeit a relatively minor one all things considered. I'd think for the next game they need to meet half way between Dark Souls and Dark Souls II: A few select warp points throughout the game, but not making every single bonfire one. Something to encourage weaving the world together better, but not make it unreasonably monotonous traversing the world.
Rhazer Fusion
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Just finished killing my 8th boss in No Man's Warf. Easiest boss I've faced hands down, though I'm definitely over-leveled for this area. Still, it had ridiculously easy to dodge attack patterns. Is there something I missed in the Warf? I only got one bonfire at the start, found a couple good items, and then fought the boss and left.
Also, how do I get the item on the hanging corpse above the bonfire/blacksmith area in Lost Bastille? I would look around more now that I've gotten the Bastille key but I'm kinda sick of that place.
Also, how do I get the item on the hanging corpse above the bonfire/blacksmith area in Lost Bastille? I would look around more now that I've gotten the Bastille key but I'm kinda sick of that place.
Fahrenheit
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To do a funny dance when you appear in someones world.
hokagespit
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bender
What time is it?
I think it would be hard for From to recapture the sense of wonder from the first two Souls games for anyone who has experienced them. You know their bag of tricks and there is a bunch of recycled content. They typical craft wonderful worlds but this doesn't seem up to snuff with the previous two games. It just seems more linear this time around but maybe that has more to do with knowing how From likes to use every nook and cranny.
Rhazer Fusion
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Ok, that's good to know. I think I handled them fairly well in DS, so I think(hope) I will be fine.
Ouch. That's them alright.
Hey_Blinkin
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Finally killed
How pointless is that fight? Didn't lead anywhere new and didn't get any new items to progress.
Rat Authority
There's probably a good reason why it wasn't something most people did. The guys in 300 definitely wouldn't have lasted as long replacing their shield with another weapon. Even a 2h user can press the block button to shave off 50ish% damage. It seems like an impractical weapon setup in general as the offense gained doesn't equal the defense lost.
OneEyeTwoHead
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Seems like everyone really raping PvE is using strength based weapons.
I just finished this game totally blind by basically ignoring everything even tangentially associated with video games on the internet for the past week.
Now that I am looking at the internet again I can see that I missed a lot of things. A lot of a lot of things. On the flipside I do not feel the least bit embarrassed about never finding the
, 'cause man alive I ain't never woulda thought of doing that all by my lonesome.
It's pretty swell. Kinda fond of it.
Now that I am looking at the internet again I can see that I missed a lot of things. A lot of a lot of things. On the flipside I do not feel the least bit embarrassed about never finding the
Moonlight Greatsword
It's pretty swell. Kinda fond of it.
MrCookiepants
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Throwback? Even the the environment in which you fight them was a shameless copy/paste job. Mechanically, they didn't bother to change anything either. Is this what I paid full RRP for?
I've heard of recycled boss battles within one game before, but across two games!?
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Lobos is almost at the final boss in just under 3 hours.
The game has a shitton of bosses and enemies (more than Dark Souls 1 did) and you're going to cry over 2 bosses? Come on.
Not sure why he's laughing... but he's the one you trade boss souls to...
Think you need 3 int or something to talk to him?
Think you need 3 int or something to talk to him?
Soyongdori
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How do you get to
?
huntsmans cope
Alright, he says something like that now you mention it.
There's another guy at the wharf
Spears suck this time around. The one with the longest reach (
) has a crap move set. The one with the best move set, lacks the range, tho it's still usable. No all-rounder like Silver Knight Spear this time At least not a pure Dex scaling one. Lances are flat out TERRIBLE.
I do like the Black Knight Hellbarde tho. The damage is just ridiculous.
Best medium Shield and best armor seems to be
. The sword might be the best Quality weapon along with the BKH.
However, Twinkle Titanite. Twinkle Titanite requirements EVERYWHERE. I'm close to finishing the game and have so far seen 4(!) Twinkle Titanetes, including all Crystal Lizards. Just a bad pacing imo.
What are other good Dex (with ~20ish strength) weapons? Katana's seem so fotm. I'm upgrading a Shotel tho, for the lols in PvP.
Is there any sign of agreed pvp level yet?
Pate's Spear
At least not a pure Dex scaling one. Lances are flat out TERRIBLE.I do like the Black Knight Hellbarde tho. The damage is just ridiculous.
Best medium Shield and best armor seems to be
Drangleic
However, Twinkle Titanite. Twinkle Titanite requirements EVERYWHERE. I'm close to finishing the game and have so far seen 4(!) Twinkle Titanetes, including all Crystal Lizards. Just a bad pacing imo.
What are other good Dex (with ~20ish strength) weapons? Katana's seem so fotm. I'm upgrading a Shotel tho, for the lols in PvP.
Is there any sign of agreed pvp level yet?
He's a magic vendor. You probably just need a couple of points more in INT. I had 3 and he talked to me. He even gives you an armor set.
OneEyeTwoHead
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Lobos just beat the game in sub 3 hours....:/ Fucking Club having A rank scaling for STR so early on...
need 10 int to talk to him and learn his spells and shit
I had 6 Int but 10+ Faith. He sells miracles as well so that is probably an alternate requirement.
cheezcake
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Personally I prefer the uchi because I find the 1H heavy attack really useful. Whereas i'm not a fan of either the 1 or 2h heavy attacks on the BSK.
With 40 DEX/14 STR blacksteel has 392dmg, uchi has 332 dmg
But Uchi has better counter strength and weighs quite a bit less, 5 instead of 8.
Personally I prefer the Uchis heavy attacks as well
K, have an interesting question about Skeptic's Spice.
So the item description says that it lowers the faith requirement for a miracle by 1.
I already had 4, and used a bonfire asectic in an area and ended up getting 2 more, which got me to thinking.... how far can you lower the cost of a spell? Could I lower the cost of spell enough that I wouldn't need to put any stats in Faith at all?
I already had 4, and used a bonfire asectic in an area and ended up getting 2 more, which got me to thinking.... how far can you lower the cost of a spell? Could I lower the cost of spell enough that I wouldn't need to put any stats in Faith at all?
How's that bad? I find it pretty cool to see people speedrun games. Especially with all the route planning that goes into speedrunning Dark Souls. I wonder how fast people will manage to finish the game in a years time.
I agree 100%. Sometimes I think people just want to use this --> :/
I used that shield for about 90% of the game, but there's basically a straight improvement across the board made with the soul of a late-game boss:
the shield made from the soul of the Throne Defender.
Drangleic Shield
I actually felt a bit bad when I traded up in the shield department. That bad boy had been taking hits for me for practically the entire game when I dropped him in the run-up to the penultimate boss.
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