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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky
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Enough strength to wield a mace.
No real way to tell of traps, although mimics can be noticed. I just hit every chest ONCE and then would hold my shield up and prepare to roll away after opening just about every chest.
Usually it is the Wooden chests that are a threat, and I think only them have traps. Metal and Wooden can be Mimics though.
I've never had trouble with mimics in DS I but these new trap treasure chests are a huge pain. Never met mimics yet in DS II, though.
Orthogonal
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Mimics do have a tell, but not as obvious as DS1. If you know it's one, don't risk attacking, just hit it with a Lloyds Talisman and it opens up.
Torches were never useless if it's the same as the console versions, if you've got your brightness set up correctly you will be needing to use them in quite a few places.
Why? Which mace? I'm running a mage build and i'm currently using a Fire longsword that forced me to 10str.
You can see if it is trapped as the opening animation plays out. Just tap on roll or block if you see a crossbow or a gas/fire ball, you always have enough time to get away.
A regular mace. Strike damage is very efficient. Fire longsword is a decent weapon, but a club or a mace will outperform it, especially early on.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I (literally, btw) punched my chair so hard it went rolling 10 feet when I noticed this was the case. Out of curiousity, I destroyed my first one and got rubbish. Second time, I wanted to confirm if that was truly the case... boom, rubbish. Man, the anger.
A quick question about it, can i power stance with more weapons (plus the rapier) if i up str a bit?
Unless its in water you can kinda see the teeth if you look closely enough as well.
The weapons need to be in the same class of weapons and you need 150% of the requirements for the offhand weapon.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
It really does feel like a lot of slash weapons got essentially neutered due to a lot of harder enemies/bosses having more resist to it than strike.
Finally got
down, with Lucatiel, no less, though. Great Club+5 did the job nicely.
Finally got
Smelter demon
Thanks
MikeE21286
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What's the best strategy for the turtle knights in the iron keep? Their overhead smash is unblocking and I'm having a hell of a time roll-evading, even with a < 70% load.
Best way to do it. He was a pain at first for me without that strategy
I would just keep playing the way you are right now. I think that's the most enjoyable way to play these games - just explore at your own whim and see where it leads you.
General rule of thumb with these games is that if an area seems to have exceptionally hard-hitting and durable enemies, it's likely a place that the most straightforward path would have you coming to later, but by no means should you feel the need to if you think you can work your way through it.
Great Club is my favorite weapon in this game, it absolutely wrecks PvE. One shot pretty much every enemy in Iron Keep at +10 reinforcement.
Strike/Thrust is definitely the way to go for PvE in this game, so having an Estoc and Great Club paired together just destroys PvE, and is pretty effective for PvP too. Not sure why, but the Estoc gets a B in STR scaling at +10, as opposed to DkS1 where it was more of a Dex/Quality weapon.
Wait for smash, roll backward.
FrenchMovieTheme
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can you really choose where you go? so far i have more or less been on a set path. i don't see anywhere to go in that main area except towards the forest of giants. then after the forest of giants
that bird comes and takes you to the bastille area
look at your health bar, there should be a little bit of it missing depending on how hollow you are.
Visualante2
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Only thing that breaks it is when the summoned just tears through the boss for the summoner without letting them help. And with the way people farm games, that'll probably happen a lot.
18 hours I have been playing always scare when opening
, always wondering when
, trying to look for distinctive patrons.
After all that time, the one
, I was very lucky to survive that encounter.
I hate them so much, that I love them.
PS: General spoilers, nothing new for anybody veteran to the series.
fucking chests
the mimic is going to attack
After all that time, the one
chest i don't double check, and there you are, into the jaws of that fucking thing
I hate them so much, that I love them.
PS: General spoilers, nothing new for anybody veteran to the series.
MikeE21286
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You need a
branch of yore
That would require me to have the skill to party lol
Wok
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I am playing a sorcerer. So far, I am SL 40 and I have only leveled up INT. Is there any other stat worth levelling up? I am only interested in damage dealing with spells.
I read attunement is good, but I guess it is memory in my game, which (I remember now) I have leveled up once or twice to be able to have two spell slots.
I read attunement is good, but I guess it is memory in my game, which (I remember now) I have leveled up once or twice to be able to have two spell slots.
There's another path you can hit up in Majula.
Orthogonal
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Can farm from the dogs at Bastille. Also, use the Ring of Protection. You can do coop and a success can turn you back to human.
Trade with the crows as random reward.
That's also an issue for sure. I usually try not to attack more than the host player, unless he/she's pretty much dead.
I was talking about breaking the game for myself though: I have an obscene number of souls after just an hour or so of being a summon.
MikeE21286
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Ok thanks for the heads up. I was gonna try that next.
Also...anyone know where to get a good supply of poison moss? I can't find any merchants selling it.
TheCongressman1
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I just hate the way the camera moves overhead when you start swinging at an enemy. I guess it's to make it easier to see both characters, but I never had a problem before, and this way just makes it more distracting.
Yes, there
is another path from Majula that goes through two other areas and a few bosses.
I strongly recommend dropping a small white soapstone instead of the regular one. The reward you get for helping a host kill a boss is far more valuable than souls (the latter of which you still get, though I think it's more limited in that respect).
I'm trying to play this with MS/KB, game is making it really difficult, this game would play perfectly if it adhered to the standard controls most third person games have on pc but whatever.
My question is, is there an option to stop the camera from forcing a direction if i let's say run to the right while trying to move the camera left with the mouse? If that made any sense.
My question is, is there an option to stop the camera from forcing a direction if i let's say run to the right while trying to move the camera left with the mouse? If that made any sense.
The problem is that if you don't try to kill the boss actively, you are actually making a disservice to the host, because I guess the boss it's harder with summons.
I guess?
I am personally trying to not summon anybody, just the npcs when available, because I like the npcs and some probably have "quests". But when being summoned, I just go for the kill, the host ask for help, and I delivered, it's his problem if he doesn't get the "full experience", his choice.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Mother of God, this is crazy but makes the game unplayable (from a gameplay perspective). GREAT looking though!1: Download this: https://mega.co.nz/#!7soHmbYK!Q0-Ogg1uxqjq50fMxwpFC51VQhsPCS1o5INq6-kVoMc
2: Extract it to the Steam\steamapps\common\DarkSoulsII\Game (Where the actual DarkSoulsII.exe is.
3: Done, just load the game and you're ready to go. Just be aware that this is incompatible with Durantes GSTDO and will make you crash on startup.
Note: Don't be alarmed by the 5-10 second white screen on startup, it just does that and if you alt+tab, but it won't crash and it's not freezing or anything.
Also, here's some more pictures.
GenericBadGuy
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I saw a summon named Bish - figured it was a fraud!
Heres a tip: Theres a merchant after the cathedral boss (not
Dragonrider
Attuenement also increases increases casting speed, so you will be firing off spells quicker, so it is worth it for the extra slots as well.
If you are ever confused on what to level up, Endurance and Vigor are always safe bets, more HP and Stamina is always good, especially now since casting now takes up stamina.
Arkanius said:
There is no co op in Rat areas.
MikeE21286
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I went in there a couple times. I feel like if I have enough poison moss I can beat it as the royal rat instantly poisons me....
You can't summon there. Rat Covenant area.
You can kill the ladies in Things Betwixt for some..though you won't be able to respec with them obviously. I beleive they also just give you the ones they have later on in the game.
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