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[Crimsonclaw111]

For all you Bastard Sword lovers have you tried the Zwei?

It seems to have an extremely similar move set, should I upgrade it along a fire path as its stat scaling isn't ideal?

I forget from DS1, can I add Sunlight Weapon to something that is along a fire path? Or does it have to be base?

In DS1 Chaos Zweis were insane. I personally loved myself a lighting Zwei.

 

[Havel]

The only dorky looking thing in that picture is the full Havel's.

Shut up.

 

[rybrad]

Exams are finally over.

Man fuck Ancient Dragon, whoever designed this encounter is absolute garbage.

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I can read his god damn flying breath attack, sprint in a straight fucking line away from him STILL GET HIT WHILE HAVING 15% EQUIP LOAD, other times he'll hit nowhere close to me, sometimes he nails me the same distance away. I'm not giving up just yet, after 3 hours. This boss isn't hard to read, he's just god damn random.

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Follow his tail instead of running away from him. No self respecting Dragon would roast their own tail would they?

 

[Havel]

I challenge anyone to go back and play Dark Souls 1 on PC and say Dark Souls 2 doesn't have input lag. It is honestly atrocious.

 

[daniels]

Exams are finally over.

Man fuck Ancient Dragon, whoever designed this encounter is absolute garbage.

Get the gyrm greatshield upgrade it to max and twohand and it everytime he uses his flying fire breath there i beat the boss for you :3

 

[DJ_Lae]

Old Iron King has been pissing me off for two days now.

Someone help me kill him haha.

Haha, I came in here to see if others were having issues with him, as I think I just died about a dozen times in a row. Half of those were with summons, but they somehow managed to be even more useless than me (I'm not convinced any of them actually beat him in the first place).

It doesn't seem like the fight should be that hard compared to some early ones, but it's so easy to get knocked into the lava.

 

[Jintor]

Old Iron King is pretty easy what with the safe spot near the exit door around the corner to the right (not applicable if he moves, of course). But other than that he telegraphs everything like mad and is vulnerable for ages after he attacks so your main worry is not falling in lava.

 

[Varna]

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Lost sinner

was pretty intense. I couldn't see shit and he hit so damn hard. Two hits and I was done. Surprised it was the

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the old ones

. So far I've only done Last Bastille fairly thoroughly.

 

[Styles]

FUCK

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Licia and her God damn God's Wrath and heals.

That is some BS.

 

[ANDS]

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Lost sinner

was pretty intense. I couldn't see shit and he hit so damn hard. Two hits and I was done. Surprised it was the

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the old ones

. So far I've only done Last Bastille fairly thoroughly.

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Next time light the room on fire. . .though this does require the chance of forced PVP.

Haha, I came in here to see if others were having issues with him, as I think I just died about a dozen times in a row. Half of those were with summons, but they somehow managed to be even more useless than me (I'm not convinced any of them actually beat him in the first place).

It doesn't seem like the fight should be that hard compared to some early ones, but it's so easy to get knocked into the lava.

I regularly put my summon sign down on boss fights I didn't know. I assume people would do the same.

 

[Ludovico]

Slow and steady progress, I've beaten about three bosses and just ran into the trio in B

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astille.

What's a guy gotta do to get some large titanite? Really need to upgrade my scimitar past +3.

Also, in the second area

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Hield's place, all I can get to is the path to the warf, but I heard there's a cling ring somewhere prior to that. Could I get a hint please?

Game looks and plays amazing, core2duo is still serving me well.

 

[Booshka]

Shut up.

Just salty from all the overleveled GMB, Mundane Havelyns running around.

 

[Garcia]

Jesus Christ, the lag during invasions is unbearable. My screen froze for 2 seconds during the fight. I don't like this one bit!

 

[Schweinehund]

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Follow his tail instead of running away from him. No self respecting Dragon would roast their own tail would they?

I beat him.

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Gowan's ring made him a bitch. I guess there's a variation of his breath attack where he jumps forward after leaping into the air, it makes it so running straight away from him is fruitless. The tail strategy works sometimes but it requires you to be toward his back paw. Gowan's ring is so effective I'm pretty sure they designed the encounter around you having it >_>.

edit: Gower's, I think I slaughtered his name with Jowan from dragon age.

 

[Kalnos]

Oh my god, this is the best shit ever. Dual Caestus and people keep unequipping their weapons to fist fight and I just annihilate them.

 

[Aspirations26]

I really miss those Dark Souls 1 dead angles. It's so limited in 2 now lol.

 

[Levyne]

Seems like the next place I need to enter is the

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Gutter...

That can wait for tomorrow...

 

[DJ_Lae]

Old Iron King is pretty easy what with the safe spot near the exit door around the corner to the right (not applicable if he moves, of course). But other than that he telegraphs everything like mad and is vulnerable for ages after he attacks so your main worry is not falling in lava.

It's the beam that usually gets me, everything else is insanely easy to predict (and I can get in several hits with the zweihander when his arm is down). But that beam goes right through the wall and if it doesn't knock me into the lava immediately it'll still be active when I stand back up again to get pushed off a second time.

 

[impact]

PvP seems less laggy than PS3 version for sure. I'm actually enjoying myself!

 

[rybrad]

I beat him.

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Gowan's ring made him a bitch. I guess there's a variation of his breath attack where he jumps forward after leaping into the air, it makes it so running straight away from him is fruitless. The tail strategy works sometimes but it requires you to be toward his back paw. Gowan's ring is so effective I'm pretty sure they designed the encounter around you having it >_>.

edit: Gower's, I think I slaughtered his name with Jowan from dragon age.

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I never had a problem doing it with his tail. I just stayed on his back leg, when he would lift up to stomp I would just roll toward the other leg. Definitely a tough fight but it doesn't have shit on that double mace asshole as a pure melee build...

 

[Jintor]

It's the beam that usually gets me, everything else is insanely easy to predict (and I can get in several hits with the zweihander when his arm is down). But that beam goes right through the wall and if it doesn't knock me into the lava immediately it'll still be active when I stand back up again to get pushed off a second time.

I think the beam is his only one handed move that isn't a wind-up overhead, so it's pretty easy to see coming. in fact, he leaves his stupid hand out for so long you can get 4-5 solid hits in easy.

 

[Garcia]

Lmao! One of those hammer dudes killed 2 of us sunbros in one single hit. It looked hilarious

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and painful

 

[Robobandit]

Woohoo! I think SLI is working flawlessly now!

SLI bits 0x02400405 (Payday: The Heist, Grand Ages: Rome, Aion, Grand Ages: Rome(Demo), Warframe)

Then you need to change undefined profile 0x0095DEF9 (111 Profiles) to 0x00000002 (Half-Life 2: Episode One, Alien Swarm... etc)

I am getting no slowdowns like before when looking down at the well in Majula or looking at the poison room in Earthen Peak. Also the flickering on the Majula mountain is gone. I think I'll stick with this for now.

I still get the performance loss with this profile on my GTX 780s with the nvidia 337.50 beta drivers. The flickering is gone, though..

 

[Garcia]

He's down!! Got rid of the

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Ancient Dragon

!! Finally!!!

 

[Vazra]

Someone wants to help me with

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Ancient Dragon

? I'm getting wrecked and some people who actually cooperate would be nice. Soul Level 140.

 

[impact]

So fire infusion weapons, does INT help these at all? Need a backup weapon for my magic MLGS but my damage stats outside of INT are pretty shit

 

[Chairmanchuck]

Just a question. What stats will raise the magic damage? I raised about 20 INT-levels yesterday and somehow... it just does like 10 more damage.

 

[Feltrol]

Well, I just finished my first playthrough. It was a hell of a ride!

 

[daniels]

Someone wants to help me with

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Ancient Dragon

? I'm getting wrecked and some people who actually cooperate would be nice. Soul Level 140.

gyrm greatshield two handed can block his flying fire breath

 

[thunker 9000]

This game kicked my ass so bad. I've been saving every death from my stream. 300+ deaths in my first run-through.

I hope you guys can get some enjoyment out of my suffering. To those of you who are thinking about giving up, DONT! It's super rewarding to get through the game, no matter how hard the journey was.

 

[Grief.exe]

I've been Sun Broing all day, and people have no shame.

They always summon two helpers and fat rolling everywhere.

Embarrassing.

 

[About to go HAM]

What do most people do after The Lost Sinner? I went into the Shaded ruins and was getting slaughtered in two hits from those axe dudes.

Also I kinda used up a few boss souls before I knew about the boss weapon traders. Am I screwed or is it not such a big deal?

 

[Arulan]

I challenge anyone to go back and play Dark Souls 1 on PC and say Dark Souls 2 doesn't have input lag. It is honestly atrocious.

Do you mean with left click and right click? It's due to the game apparently "waiting" for an additional input, specifically if you're going to double click or not.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/236430/discussions/0/558754259701364973/

There is this fix but it causes some other issues. I hope they fix this soon.

 

[impact]

I've been Sun Broing all day, and people have no shame.

They always summon two helpers and fat rolling everywhere.

Embarrassing.

My biggest annoyance is seeing people co-op these bosses first time, cutscene and everything. Come on people, it's a mechanic that's supposed to be used if you're stuck, not just so you can have people carry you through the game while you put in no effort.

You mean with left click and right click? It's due to the game apparently "waiting" for an additional input, specifically if you're going to double click or not.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/236430/discussions/0/558754259701364973/

There is this fix but it causes some other issues. I hope they fix this soon.

Dualshock 4 master race wins again.

 

[Orthogonal]

So fire infusion weapons, does INT help these at all? Need a backup weapon for my magic MLGS but my damage stats outside of INT are pretty shit

I believe it does, but the scaling is weapon dependant.

 

[Booshka]

I've been Sun Broing all day, and people have no shame.

They always summon two helpers and fat rolling everywhere.

Embarrassing.

My biggest annoyance is seeing people co-op these bosses first time, cutscene and everything. Come on people, it's a mechanic that's supposed to be used if you're stuck, not just so you can have people carry you through the game while you put in no effort.

Which is why it shouldn't be such a pain in the ass to invade on NG, players get to summon help with almost zero risk of being invaded. The push pull of human/hollow form, summoning helping, risking invasion is gone on NG.

 

[Mufausa The 3rd]

Well for anyone that wants mods for the game or is currently using one. I'd suggest that you remove it for now. The game now uses VAC for it's anti-cheat system. PS: Delete if old.

 

[finalflame]

Someone wants to help me with

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Ancient Dragon

? I'm getting wrecked and some people who actually cooperate would be nice. Soul Level 140.

Sure, I'm ~SL140 too, about 2m soul memory. Add me on steam,

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in_between/VictorM

 

[Shinjica]

Which is why it shouldn't be such a pain in the ass to invade on NG, players get to summon help with almost zero risk of being invaded. The push pull of human/hollow form, summoning helping, risking invasion is gone on NG.

I invaded a few times in NG and 30% people were AFK so it was easy kill, another 50% were with 2 white phantom so it was 3 vs 1 and 20% were an honest 1 vs 1.

 

[Orthogonal]

I invaded a few times in NG and 30% people were AFK so it was easy kill, another 50% were with 2 white phantom so it was 3 vs 1 and 20% were an honest 1 vs 1.

AFKers deserve a nice acid surge bath before dispatching.

 

[killertofu]

I just learned to lightning spear.

As a person who mostly tanked in DS1, this is fucking sweeeet. I feel like Zeus. How many points am I suppose to put into what to use more spells?

 

[Orthogonal]

I just learned to lightning spear.

As a person who mostly tanked in DS1, this is fucking sweeeet. I feel like Zeus. How many points am I suppose to put into what to use more spells?

Attunement gives more slots. There is also the Southern Ritual Band ring.

 

[AmyS]

I noticed that Twitch streams that play in source quality, look better and convey a better sense of framerate than Youtube which are so compressed and limited to 30fps.

Not sure if Twitch source streams can be 60fps or not, but at least with source quality they look pretty good in motion.


http://www.twitch.tv/lobosjr
http://www.twitch.tv/destiny
http://www.twitch.tv/noobest


Of course, with some of these streams people are using various graphic mods.

 

[Zom]

So this are my stats, I thinks is a mess, any ideas for relocate?

 

[John Harker]

My biggest annoyance is seeing people co-op these bosses first time, cutscene and everything. Come on people, it's a mechanic that's supposed to be used if you're stuck, not just so you can have people carry you through the game while you put in no effort.



Dualshock 4 master race wins again.

I think its there to be used however you want to use it.

Its a game mechanic like any other

 

[Cannon Goose]

Damn, I had forgotten how mean some of the extra enemies and phantoms are in NG+. I'm trotting along happily through a familiar area and then next thing I know I'm sandwiched between two red phantoms D:

 

[Sullichin]

The first clever and not completely immature message I have seen here.

Great PVP shield.

Between that and 39 ADP (39 gets me to the 110AGL breakpoint on my build) I don't have much of a problem dealing with hexes. The shield's usually on my back. I'm still mopping up NG though. Wiped out all the archers in No Man's Wharf and still no Sea Bow. Thinking of using an ascetic.

 

[Booshka]

So this are my stats, I thinks is a mess, any ideas for relocate?

Drop your dex to 25-30, Endurance to 20, increase STR to 28, put 10 into ADP, then the rest left over into VGR

 

[impact]

I think its there to be used however you want to use it.

Its a game mechanic like any other

I guess, but it makes the game too easy. It's embarrassing to co-op bosses your first time imo.

Now that everyone can heal themselves they should add some Monster Hunter-like scaling for boss fights.


Btw what are your guys favorite endgame spells? I'm new to this whole being a magic spamming scrub thing. I need to get CSS but I used the ascetic to get MLGS so it'll have to wait

 

[Zom]

Drop your dex to 25-30, Endurance to 20, increase STR to 28, put 10 into ADP, then the rest left over into VGR

So just 10 on ADP or 20 lol?

Edit: dang better put some in VIT, is going to mess up my weight