Despair ahead... I cannot beat the Ruin Sentinels for the life of me, I summon two other people and still haven't been able to beat them, I've been grinding a bit to see if that helps but I'm just hitting a road block with this boss.
Kill the first one on the top platform, then when you drop make sure one person is on one of the sents while you and another person are on the other. Keep circling around them and just attack like twice in a row after they attack
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Best tip? Dont get overconfident.
On that note, where can you buy a trinket to use miracles?
Kill the first one on the top platform, then when you drop make sure one person is on one of the sents while you and another person are on the other. Keep circling around them and just attack like twice in a row after they attack
.
Best tip? Dont get overconfident.
On that note, where can you buy a trinket to use miracles?
Basically all those long-armed monsters that jump at you and cause bleeding will stay indoors so you can pretty much run around and only have to deal with those ripoff-vikings.
I think they really reduced the window whereas in Dark Souls 1 it was relatively easy to get. I think another thing you could do is just stagger them with a huge fuckoff 2-hander and do a "frontal" backstab.
Basically all those long-armed monsters that jump at you and cause bleeding will stay indoors so you can pretty much run around and only have to deal with those ripoff-vikings.
Maybe that explains it. I'm a shield and "HO-SHIT *roll roll roll*" person. Though Dark Souls 2's enemies seem to REALLY telegraph their attacks so far but when I try to strafe around (while giving them a berth to avoid their attack) they recover before I can attempt to back stab. Same for sneaking up on them. It's annoying.
I haven't been up to date or looking up stuff on wiki's so I could be wrong but dunno if they decided to make more Lockbox holes than lockboxes exist. As far as video gamey stuff like this goes that might be true as well as them ranging in effect from what you've seen to big wet onscreen farts.
But I'm glad you found
the Belltower convenant. Prepare to drown in titanite chunks!
Wait til you are in the
Rat tombs, there are way too many lockbox holes for them to be really worth anything
I know a lot of people found it frustrating, but I had a lot of fun with it. The theme was really cool, and as long as you pack two weapons durability shouldn't be much of a problem. Lame boss though.
And now I've got enough Dex to rock a Halberd, so I'm rolling full Alva set with Halberd, Bastard Sword, and magic for backup. Yeah!
Nice playing a Dark Souls game with ridiculously active multiplayer.
Now looks like there's only one place I can go to next.
I did just get the Bastille key and found some black goo that I tested with a torch to see if it was flammable. I haven't checked back with mcduff yet to see if that fired up his forge.
corrosive or something? My weapon durability just seems to go down super-fast there. Demons Great Hammer is nice in this area, the 2H attack flattens those green long-armed things, and they can't get back up before the second one finished them off.
I did just get the Bastille key and found some black goo that I tested with a torch to see if it was flammable. I haven't checked back with mcduff yet to see if that fired up his forge.
And yet, I'm really tempted to restart with a new build. It only took me about
6 or 7 hours
to get to this point and I'm really not loving my build and the investments I've put into weapon upgrading. My Leveling has been good, but I feel stuck and not thrilled about moving on with my current character.
In Dark Souls I just loved the Halberd. I don't love it in DS2. The strikes are far less effective.
Problem is, I'm not sure what I would start over with.
Thus far I have to say I agree that Dark Souls 1 is a better game than this but this is still a really great game. The DS1 World is a better design and I think they made a mistake of
putting leveling up back at one bonfire but allowing you to warp from wherever you want.
It just makes you jump back and forth constantly and it really disrupts my flow.
Managed to hookup for co-op with my friend tonight. Had a total blast, not sure how much the name-engraved ring helped our chances but it worked nonetheless.
