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Dark Souls II |OT| The Dark Souls of Dark Souls
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Fuuuuuck... I accidentally killed
I'm 15 hours in and thinking about starting over....
the merchant Gavlan in No-Man's Wharf 
am I screwed? I saw a message on the ground outside that building that implied a good snipe spot or something like that and I saw a big guy with what looked like two huge axes so I shot him with arrows and killed him then it autosaved. I then cleared the building and went up there and saw "merchant ahead" sign on the floor. I looked him up in the guide and I guess he allows you to sell stuff how big is that in this game? Do you get a lot of souls for selling stuff? is there other merchants you can sell too?
am I screwed? I saw a message on the ground outside that building that implied a good snipe spot or something like that and I saw a big guy with what looked like two huge axes so I shot him with arrows and killed him then it autosaved. I then cleared the building and went up there and saw "merchant ahead" sign on the floor. I looked him up in the guide and I guess he allows you to sell stuff how big is that in this game? Do you get a lot of souls for selling stuff? is there other merchants you can sell too?I've been seeing similar complaints about the 360 version, I don't know how to fix it though.
Maybe it could be NAT related? That usually causes problems with other games as well.
ItAintEasy
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1. Yes
2. Sure try it out but the poison throwing knives are way better
3. No. Don't do that.
Raising the lower of the two stats will increase your Dark Bonus. If you have 6 Int and 3 Faith, raising Int won't increase your dark bonus, but raising Faith up to Int's level will(or vice versa). They work together to raise your dark bonus, but the game only uses the lowest of the two stats to calculate the bonus. So it would be better to have 30 Faith and 30 Int, versus 40 Faith and 20 Int.
Does that make sense?
Is
supposed to be a complete pushover? Based on the basic enemies in Heide's Tower, I was assuming it was a higher level area, so I didn't push very far in early on. Then I got frustrated by
, so I decided to try Heide's again. The giant knights still pack quite a punch if I miss a dodge (4 vigor doesn't leave a lot of room for error), but I managed to take them on. But, other than having a decent amount of health,
was actually easier than the basic enemies in this area. He did manage to hit me once, but it did less than 20% of my health, and I have only 800 health (and in light armor no less).
Anyway, I'm playing a Swordsman, almost exclusively dual wielding, almost never using shields, and building DEX. I rushed to get both ADP and END to 20, and to get enough STR and DEX to dual wield Falchions, but I haven't touched any of the other stats. But now I'm not sure what stat I should be focusing on for the time being. I know I'll need to get DEX to 40 eventually, but since stat scaling seems pretty poor so far, I don't see the point in prioritizing that yet. Should I just get ADP up to 38 ASAP?
On that note, has anyone found a video comparison of the effect of equip weight and adaptability on dodge rolls? I have done some testing of my own with taking off and putting on heavy armor, and come up with some basic findings, but it would be nice to see a side by side comparison. And I can't really do much testing of adaptability, other than my rolls feel much better at 20 ADP than they did at 6. But that doesn't do much to tell me if it's worth investing another 18 points in it.
Dragonrider
The Three Sentinels
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Anyway, I'm playing a Swordsman, almost exclusively dual wielding, almost never using shields, and building DEX. I rushed to get both ADP and END to 20, and to get enough STR and DEX to dual wield Falchions, but I haven't touched any of the other stats. But now I'm not sure what stat I should be focusing on for the time being. I know I'll need to get DEX to 40 eventually, but since stat scaling seems pretty poor so far, I don't see the point in prioritizing that yet. Should I just get ADP up to 38 ASAP?
On that note, has anyone found a video comparison of the effect of equip weight and adaptability on dodge rolls? I have done some testing of my own with taking off and putting on heavy armor, and come up with some basic findings, but it would be nice to see a side by side comparison. And I can't really do much testing of adaptability, other than my rolls feel much better at 20 ADP than they did at 6. But that doesn't do much to tell me if it's worth investing another 18 points in it.
AlphaDragoon
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Oh snap, just found out you can get Berserker Blade in NG, not NG+. If I get that thing it will be ON.
Location spoilers, for katana users who are curious:
Location spoilers, for katana users who are curious:
In Belfry Sol there is a chance that a Black Phantom dual wielding them will appear in a room past the bonfire. If you don't get the spawn, go back to the bonfire and run back. This dude drops the weapon, and respawns infinitely (but still randomly) so if you don't get it you can try again. I've heard it can take a few tries or a lot of tries depending on your luck.
The annoying thing about those pyromancers is that they actualy have a decent female body model. Meanwhile, over at player creation...
the nearest bonfire is the one you are talking about but you don't need to see him again. your next objective is to go to the giants in the forest that you couldn't do anything with before
Do you need to increase the bonfire intensity?
Cloud Strife
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Looking Glass Knight
ChrisInCali
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Started a new game, gave up on my level 115 pure sorcerer. I'm about a little more than half-way through the game and still not near getting a new staff. There's like no damn items for sorcerers, it's terrible. I kept dumping all my stat points into INT/ATN and feel like I completely wasted my time.
The spells are all so generic and generally not affective compared to weapons users. When I play co-op I see so many people with awesome looking weapons/armor and they WRECK dudes in 1-2 hits. My character just stands back a PEWPEWs 5-6 soul arrows to kill regular enemies, and that's with very high INT/+5 staff. The only cool stuff I have is pyromancy, but you don't need anywhere near the intelligence I have to use it.
The spells you find, which take about half the game before you get anything decent, all look the same. You get about 5 variations of soul arrow, only 2 of which noticeably do any decent damage compared to the last.
It was just very unfulfilling. I can't understand why From changed magic so much from the beta.
The spells are all so generic and generally not affective compared to weapons users. When I play co-op I see so many people with awesome looking weapons/armor and they WRECK dudes in 1-2 hits. My character just stands back a PEWPEWs 5-6 soul arrows to kill regular enemies, and that's with very high INT/+5 staff. The only cool stuff I have is pyromancy, but you don't need anywhere near the intelligence I have to use it.
The spells you find, which take about half the game before you get anything decent, all look the same. You get about 5 variations of soul arrow, only 2 of which noticeably do any decent damage compared to the last.
It was just very unfulfilling. I can't understand why From changed magic so much from the beta.
cheezcake
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You could've jsut found a soul vessel and respecc-ed, if you were halfway through the game you probably should've had one anyway
AKingNamedPaul
I am Homie
you didn't bash?
Sounds about the same as Dark Souls 1. The starting staff in Dark Souls 1 was better than almost every staff in the game. Armor wasnt much better either.
DarknessTear
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Nope. However, I recommend abandoning your covenant by talking to the cat npc for safe measures. I can confirm.
you can leave and rejoin whenever you want and it retains progress. I probably left sunbros 4 or 5 times before maxing it.
Yeah smelter demon is aggravating..especially the asshole samurais before him consistently track you and never let you run straight to his chambers. :v
You should check the wiki to see if you missed any good spells or staves. Sorcerers can be super fucking strong in PvP and PvE from my experience. You just need to balance your character out with some melee ability. Right now I'm Level 150 with 2x Soul Spear, Homing Crystal Soulmass, Crystal Magic Weapon, Soul Geyser, and Soul Greatsword, and I've been absolutely crushing PvP on the Iron Keep bridge. I went like 16 duels in a row without losing the other day. Most of the fights are over in like 15 seconds.
Magic is really, really, strong if you stick with it. My stats at level 115 were probably something like:
16 VIG
16 END
5 VIT
7 STR
20 ATN
20 DEX
40 INT
20 ADP
What areas have you completed so far?
nailbombxx
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I must say that the
in the
are absolutely badass, some of the coolest enemies in the Souls series. Their animations and their lightning blades are hype as fuck.
Samurai Knights
Iron Keep
Nose Master
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Fuuuuuck... I accidentally killedI'm 15 hours in and thinking about starting over....the merchant Gavlan in No-Man's Wharf
He disappears after you sell to him once, anyways. So you're missing out on like 10k souls probably, big whoop.
Filth
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He doesn't disappear. He just moves.
I was wondering where he went.I thought the he died because of the trapped chest next to him
yeah, you have to find some giants that are lying dead on the ground and get their souls. most of them are at the end of each stage
I burned an Ascetic to get it on my first cycle because I didn't want to wait. I'm mostly fiddling around and doing jolly cooperation before moving on to either NG+ or a new character.
I'm still pretty vague on the finer points of Pyromancy in this game. Both Intelligence and Faith improve your fire damage bonus, but I don't really know which is preferable on that front. The Pyromancy Flame also has a rather high base power at +10, which might well make Pyromancy viable even on characters with bupkis for Intelligence and Faith. I haven't done any sort of real testing on that front though, so that's all theorizing on my part. The base listed power for my maxed-out Pyromancy Flame is higher than my maxed-out Witchtree Branch that I use as my main catalyst, though.
My initial impression is that the Pyro line is kind of in between being a full-blown stat investment spell set like sorcery, miracles, and hexes and the no-stat beast mode that it was in Dark Souls. It's useful with no stat investment but caster builds of any stripe get an edge when they use it.
If you go through, the normal way to the boss, past the elevator is the opposite side of that door and it's basically a shortcut to the elevator.
dryuriev7777
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Nvm, I figured it out.
aw yeah I'm swag as fuck
I'm super jealous. Using the ascetic wouldn't bring the boss back, would it?
AmethystEnd
Member
No, the game is mostly humorless, you should like it.
Haha, I'll love it regardless from what I've seen.
dryuriev7777
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That's exactly what it does, but puts the area and boss in ng+ mode. It's useful, I found it also respawns items that you can find.
my timing with bashing has been off for awhile, so no, but I might finally try to get it down
AmethystEnd
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Ahahaha. That house. So many messages outside it saying "Good luck", and "I can't take this."
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