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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky
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Orthogonal
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I was just going to post that. Although, that is something that feels a bit off for a Souls game. That being said, since she's there, might as well play dress up. I am planning to give her Desert Sorc set, but dammit if that shit won't drop for me.
eot
Banned
Pretty much.
It actually took me out of the game a little, it's like they're pandering to all the people leaving "try attacking, but hole" messages.
You can light a torch at any bonfire, do the swap option thing instead of resting at it.
Be sure to use your White Soapstone, basically you are summoned to other people's worlds and help them defeat enemies with no penalty on your end for failing, and you get rewards and learn the area to do it yourself. Help them beat a boss and you become human, and then you can summon other players with their signs and they can help you beat a boss and you have yourself progress. You can also use human effigy to become human at any time but these are limited. Summon spots are usually at a bonfire or outside the boss door. Don't do it TOO much for 1 area, even try to limit it to one time placing your sign and winning, then doing it yourself or you mess up your matchmaking abilities in the long run.
Light a torch at a bonfire You have to press Y/Triangle to flip the menu until it comes up.
Every time I get to a new boss battle, I throw down my sign a few times to help other people out as I learn the attack pattern of the boss. If you succeed you return to full health, human form, weapons repaired, and have your spell/estus charges restored.
The experience isn't all that indicative of what you will experience when you face the boss yourself. I have never seen someone summon just one person, they tend to summon two and just zerg the boss fight. This will give you a general idea on how to proceed and the layout of the area.
MMBosstones86
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Fantastic. Time to get those chunks.
Backstabbing is unrelated to parrying, you mean riposte?
I actually find the backstabbing animations relatively generous in this game once you get the hang of it, and the counter multiplier on daggers seems outstanding.
Just wanted to disagree, as someone very riposte-centric since about halfway through Demon's Souls, I am really enjoying this. It's different and takes getting used to but I find all the animations I've seen so far very satisfying and the new way parrying/riposte works makes it possible to use parry to deal with multiple enemies in ways I never would have considered before. Want my parrying dagger badly.
Haunted
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missable content in videogames continues to be the bane of my existence!
I mean, I know From's character creation tools get a bad rep, but that's just uncalled for.Sooo this was my summon picture yesterday.
Orthogonal
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I must just suck at parrying. I had a hard enough time in DeS and DS1 pulling it off that I just gave up on them, DS2 is even less forgiving so I don't even bother. I wish I could since it is really fun and cool when you pull it off. I probably just suck at it though and don't have the patience to practice it.
MMBosstones86
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So i used the stone on the naked chick and pulled the switch
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How are you supposed to survive what happens next? Between being swarmed and then poisoned and then swarmed again I can only get off a few swings before death approaches. Tips?
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How are you supposed to survive what happens next? Between being swarmed and then poisoned and then swarmed again I can only get off a few swings before death approaches. Tips?
I prefer ripostes in Demon's and DkS1. Hate the way they did it in DkS2
FalsettoVibe
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Do you spend your souls often in fear of loosing them? Should I?
yeah you're not really supposed to
i just caught a message saying ambush and just looked around and saw the doors
you can shoot one of the doors down with a bow and trigger the mutated dick monsters to pop out and you can maybe beat them one at a time as they go through the entrance
i personally just had a rush moment and somehow killed them all and there's a bonfire close on the other side so never had to come across giant mutated dick dudes ever again
fortunately
they're gross
It's intentional, not a bug.
I've never learnt to parry properly either. I don't do much PvP, so I've never really needed to.
I prefer backstabbing.
Haunted
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Really depends on your weapons and what kind of build you have, but some general tips for one-handed melee characters when the game tries to overwhelm you with numbers:
Keep your distance, don't let them surround you, circle around the outer confines of the room, take single shots at enemies that have just finished their animation or are slightly away from the group, don't overcommit or get greedy.
Alternatively, and if it's that exact situation I'm thinking of,
run into one of the cells and get them stuck in one of the opened doorways so you can hold them off one at a time there.
If you get yourself an Alluring Skull, you can throw it in the center of the room right after you pull the lever. It'll distract them from aggroing you, and they will bunch up. This should give you time to swing (weapons with wide attack patterns) it or fling it (spells - a single Lightning Spear can be enough to kill one), whichever way you play the game.
Outright Villainy
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Pretty sure it only works in the surrounding areas. As in you have to be in the
Bastille
Old Iron keep.
Anyway, you can tell if you're summonable when your covenant sign in the top left corner will pulse.
Haunted
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Spend your souls early and often. No sense in hoarding them, except if there's something really specific you're aiming for.
Also, bank your souls items and use them as a boost if you're just missing a little bit for a specific purchase.
oh I didn't know that. Interesting.
decoyplatypus
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There are other areas where the ring will work.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
This is a good tip. Also anywhere you can bottle-neck the enemy and use a thrust weapon is a good strategy as well.
It's really different than either of the others. The goons in the
Forest of Fallen Giants
Well DkS1 seemed really forgiving to me so I liked it the most so far, but I find this way very satisfying too. The dagger stab looks like it aptly deserves to be a one-hit kill.
Dick Justice
Banned
Re-posting from the Steam thread:
Orthogonal
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It isn't the riposte I have trouble with. I understand you have to wait till they fall on their ass to attack, I can't land an L2 parry to save my life in this game.
I got mine from Nuuvem. This was my first purchase from their store, and it was breeze. Made an account, paid with PayPal and the CD-key was available in an instant. I didn't have to do any of that identity confirmation stuff a lot of sites use when you're a first time customer.
I would definitely buy games from their site in the future. Only site where I've found to be this quick, aside from the obvious GMG is cdkeyhouse.com.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
I'm really happy with the damage I'm getting out of my Mastodon Halberd, if I was to apply a status effect to it, which is the best way to go? I was reading that the Dark Mastodon Halberd is badass, but I was worried about how it would do against characters that do dark damage, such as
Nashandra.
Gotcha. Apparently this becomes easier the more ADP you have in this game, so that's something to consider I guess- if you have a bunch more points into it later on, could revisit it.
MMBosstones86
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Great, thanks guys. Some good shit to try when I get home. I like the skull idea, didn't even consider that.
I think that it in addition to the fact that Strike seems to be a lot better than slash in this game in PvE was part of attempting to make more of the mechanics relevant directly to playstyle (in particular, armored enemies are very weak to strike damage which is trying to relate that a "Striking" weapon crushes armor... or at least that seems to be the line of thought). The reducing durability on weapons sort of requires considering a secondary or tertiary weapon but they also worked out a nice way of handling it in that as long as the weapon doesn't break it repairs automatically at bonfires.
Also yeah, not all weapons function in terribly similar manners. There seems to be a LOT more specificity with weapon function in various situations. Thrust weapons degrade super quickly if they're blocked by a shield, as an example.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Yeah throwing knives are godlyk in this game. I don't remember them being great in Dark Souls 1 so I never bothered, but on new runs before I have a plethora of ranged options I always carry around a stack of them along with some firebombs (for the AOE). They do great damage in this one and are good for dangerous enemies like the ones in your spoiler text.
Aspirations26
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Depends on your build. Magic is so good for int builds it does like 150+ more dmg then regular +10. Got two of them maxed one magic and one regular for magic resistant enemies.
You can take a hudless screenshot with Gedosato. Check the keys configuration file.
Most people say ~SL150
Aspirations26
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I'm pretty sure most people are agreeing on 150 now and it seems pretty reasonable.
Edit: beaten
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
My Str is 50 and my Dex is 25. I've put nothing into Int or Faith.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Did you actually get the barrel armor or did you just hack the files to make it appear?
Orthogonal
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I have the parrying dagger and I think it has a larger parry window so I think I will try to practice with that.
Chameleon turns you into a barrel... or well, an "object" in the game world. I said my first char was a Sorc after all... and there are reasons behind that.
Aspirations26
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Well most of the infusing like magic, fire, and lightning stack with faith and int. So if you go with any of those you won't get as much dmg out of those. It could still be stronger than regular +10 but not sure. If your going a str/dex build I would recommend some other weapons that scale well with both stats since you have 25 dex.
Robobandit
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Perhaps they mean for you to use a weapon better suited for tight spaces. The whole point of durability is to force you to use more than one weapon.
cm osi
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i think that counts as a sin, so you can probably fix it by paying souls
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Oh lul, my bad. That's cool. There is also a barrel armor item that isn't in the game yet, which is what I confused it for.Chameleon turns you into a barrel... or well, an "object" in the game world. I said my first char was a Sorc after all... and there are reasons behind that.
Yep, edited.
Well again, weapons in this game are much more unique than in the past games. It kinda seems like almost every weapon has some kind quirk associated with it now, and that even weapons of the same type don't all function similarly. Even some of the Katana's various movesets are slower or faster with certain Katanas, despite all still being of the same weapon type and even animation type. Durability loss also functions differently for all of them.
So yeah, I don't actually think it's that bad of a thing. It does force the player to be more considerate of their weapons, for better or worse.
Cast Time and AGL are the biggest black boxes in this game that haven't really been figured out nearly so much as "generally understood."
ADP/Agility has no effect on parrying whatsoever. That's going to be dependent on the parrying window of the particular shield/weapon you're trying to parry with.
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