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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky
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Necromanti
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I learned this the hard way.
Ok thanks I'll start using Fraps. Looks like you have to be registered to save as png though
I hit those as well without even knowing that, ROFL.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I started relaxing on those as they couldn't be broken, making me somehow equate that to being free of mimics. How foolish I was.
That's correct.
No boss
Holy crap, the BG boss is ugly and now dead.
Orthogonal
Member
How could you say that, he is a real sweet heart.
Notice how he lovingly placed the broken statue back together?
However, ENB seemed to hint that the boss has a very sad background, or one that would make you more empathetic but is waiting for his lore vids to go into detail.
Yeah, that brief scene alone tells you that it's not just a killing machine. I'll have to watch ENB's lore videos once I beat the game. I still have a long way to go.
I should be ok using Bonfire Ascetic on some earlier areas like Iron Keep right? I just got the King's Ring.
I'm not too clear on how NG+ and ascetic scales, but I heard that the jump from NG to NG+ is the biggest, and the jump to each + is lesser and caps at NG+7 or something?
I'm not too clear on how NG+ and ascetic scales, but I heard that the jump from NG to NG+ is the biggest, and the jump to each + is lesser and caps at NG+7 or something?
I think I sequence broke. I beat
with two phantoms doing the work since I headed that way instead of the other gate not knowing it was a boss. WHOOPS?
Can't join the conevent over there yet. So... gotta dodge Greatswords (OH BOY) again to get back to the other gate. D:
I'm not even sure this is the direction I should be going from
.
Ornstien/Dragonrider whatever
Can't join the conevent over there yet. So... gotta dodge Greatswords (OH BOY) again to get back to the other gate. D:
I'm not even sure this is the direction I should be going from
Last Giant
MMBosstones86
Member
Damn being a BellBro is serious business. I can't even go to lost bastille with the ring on anymore.
ProTip : don't go back on the bridge to Lost Bastille if you get invaded.
ProTip : don't go back on the bridge to Lost Bastille if you get invaded.
Orthogonal
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When you just want to free for all it is a blast, but invasions/summons happen so fast that sometimes you can't even leave the area. First time I got there I tried to mash though the bell keeper dialogue to join and I was already invaded and told me I couldn't join during multiplayer. It is just nuts.
There's a dude on the mirror side of the stairs who might have some information for you
Go under Black Gulch if you plan on killing Vendrick
After about 40 or so runs I finally got the
Dagger to drop. Amazing crit damage, and it's a STR scaling Dagger somehow, so on my 40 STR build it does bonkers criticals, like 2k+ to everything. Looking forward to one shotting some overleveled douchebags in the near future.
If anyone wants some pieces or an entire set of the
gear, let me know, I have like 5 of each piece of the gear from all the farming. NG+ SM 5 million.
Shadow
If anyone wants some pieces or an entire set of the
Shadow
Orthogonal
Member
You have to pull the lever to find out what the lever does. There's no fun in telling.
Me too, me too. I was thinking "surely they wouldn't put a mimic in a room so densely packed with poison and enemies" and then the mimic ate me.
So, I've finished the below areas and now have 3 choices to what's next and I'm not sure which one to go to.
Cleared:
Heide's Tower of Flame
Forest of the Lost Giants
No Man's Wharf
Lost Bastille
Belfry Luna
Sinner's Rise
Cathedral of Blue
Next 3 choices seem to be:
Shaded Wood,
Gutter and GoS
Huntman's Corpse.
Don't want to go back down the hole for the time being so comes down between Shaded Woods or Huntman's Corpse. I see a lot of google searches saying Shaded Woods but looking at a progression map it seems Huntman's Corpse would probably be the better route first. Any suggestions?
Edit: Did Belfry Luna offline, those midgets were more dangerous than the boss.
Cleared:
Heide's Tower of Flame
Forest of the Lost Giants
No Man's Wharf
Lost Bastille
Belfry Luna
Sinner's Rise
Cathedral of Blue
Next 3 choices seem to be:
Shaded Wood,
Gutter and GoS
Huntman's Corpse.
Don't want to go back down the hole for the time being so comes down between Shaded Woods or Huntman's Corpse. I see a lot of google searches saying Shaded Woods but looking at a progression map it seems Huntman's Corpse would probably be the better route first. Any suggestions?
Edit: Did Belfry Luna offline, those midgets were more dangerous than the boss.
jacksepticeye
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Shaded woods is the more fun option I'd say.
But Huntsman's Copse leads onto some pretty important areas progression wise, just that the Copse itself isn't all that great
Cannon Goose
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Sorry man, I made that post right before I was going to bed so it wasn't very thorough.
If you're going all STR then I think you're fine to leave your Greatsword at +10 and maybe look into buying some resins to give it even more of a boost.
If you're going DEX then due to how poorly DEX scales you might want to look into the Raw upgrade path which lowers the scaling to E but raises the base damage. Considering that A/S scaling DEX weapons nets you ~40-50 bonus damage with 40 DEX (which is insanely low) then the boost in base damage might be better and also allow you to put fewer points into DEX for equal or higher damage. Poison and Bleed damage also scale with DEX, so if you plan to use those then a high DEX can make all the difference.
Faith and Intelligence are a different story, they both scale fire, lightning, magic and dark. All of those elements, when combined with a buff like Sunlight Blade, Crystal Magic Weapon or Resonant Weapon, will outperform any pure STR or DEX weapon. I have a Magic Chaos Blade +5 which has a ~380 damage rating. When I combined that with Crystal Magic Weapon I hit a guy wearing full Havel's armour for 830 damage with a single heavy attack. That is a LOT more than I ever got with my pure STR weapons.
Even if my post is a bit late, I hope this helps.
That's fucked.
You can keep going down!? I'll have to search, then. So first iron keep boss is extremely fun, didn't notice any funky hitbox stuff going on.
jacksepticeye
Member
Holy Shit that's broken
Thanks dude, guess I'll leave it at +10, it has a A scaling with STR. I'll check if other weapons are worth upgrading but I'm out if chunks, is there a place to farm those?
Orthogonal
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Join the Bellbro's and you will be swimming in them.
MMBosstones86
Member
I suck as well. Luckily, there are plenty of people who suck worse. I think I went 5 for 6 today and that loss was because it ended up 2v1.
Try it and see how it works. so many chunks
Orthogonal
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It is not my cup of tea either, but you will be surprised at how many matches you win. It is risk free the way it is setup, so only chunks are to be gained.
Thanks guys, I guess I'll try it, i like to upgrade different weapons for variety, was one of my favorite things in the first.
What about twinkling, is there a way to farm that? Still haven't used any because I'm afraid it's limited
What about twinkling, is there a way to farm that? Still haven't used any because I'm afraid it's limited
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
wrong thread :lol
Hero_of_the_Day
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It is done.
I've pretty much spent every waking moment playing this the last couple of days. Don't even know what I'll do tomorrow.
I've pretty much spent every waking moment playing this the last couple of days. Don't even know what I'll do tomorrow.
jacksepticeye
Member
A later area in the game has a lot of crystal lizards to get some but you can't farm it continuously from my experience
Admiral Woofington
Member
So I've killed my first NPC/covenant dude.
Any idea where to farm twinkling titanite that isn't very late game? I want to upgrade my chime.
On another note some comments on the shit I beat:
1. Fuck
. It was too fucking dark and I couldn't see shit and I kept falling to my death.
2. Fuck the place right after this. Too many poison spitting motherfuckers.
3. Fuck rat bros. I only got summoned once in
. He wanted me to come out. Fuck that guy. If he was gonna waste my time I wasted his as well lol I just stayed back. He ended up beating me because I was testing out the running attack of my claymore, but in the time it took him to beat me he could've done other shit, so I'm glad I also wasted his time.
4. Fuck the
. I must've gone through like 10 life recovering shit because I kept getting poisoned. Too many enemies in a little area. What the fuck.
fucking guy for the darkness brotherhood wouldn't let me join and I wanted to fight the boss so I could get dragon chime. I fucking raged on his ass and killed him... he dropped dragon chime lol
Any idea where to farm twinkling titanite that isn't very late game? I want to upgrade my chime.
On another note some comments on the shit I beat:
1. Fuck
the gutter
2. Fuck the place right after this. Too many poison spitting motherfuckers.
3. Fuck rat bros. I only got summoned once in
Grave of Saints
4. Fuck the
rat vanguard boss fight
NG+ of course!
Hero_of_the_Day
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I can never kill those fucking lizards
I always used bow and arrows. Just rapid fire on them.
Haha. I don't know about that, but looking online looks like I missed some side stuff. So, I'll have a bit more to do. Working on
King Vendrick
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I was saying the same thing just recently, then today I won every invasion, usually with the help of another invader, but I could have handled several on my own. It seemed like the people I invaded were just as ill-prepared for PvP as I was. I just fought them cautiously, taking advantage of my Claymore's range and strength. I had my chunks in no time and was able to leave those poor souls alone.
I dread when this day comes.
I"m also trying to savor it and play it a bit slowly and that's also why I played as Deprived to make it a harder road that will last long (and boy has it done that--I"m way behind my non-Deprived friends).
I'm about 30 hours in and I can safely say I adore this game, far more than the first, actually, which was my favorite game of the last generation previously. The people who think this game were designed by the "B" team or that it is far worse than the first just don't even speak the same language as me. Yeah there might be some minor hit box glitches/issues and what not but the expansiveness and the feel of the game is just phenomenal.
It feels like a mix of Dark Souls and Kings Field and I loved the old Kings Field games so that's definitely a plus as far as I'm concerned. The world feels sprawling and expensive with lots of off the beaten path nooks and crannies. The first game was a master class in geographic economy. I loved that and the way it looped back on itself. But I love the more expansive feel of this world even more. Dark Souls never really felt like a fully realized world to me. It felt like a metaphor for a world. This feels closer to a an actual place with lots of mysterious locations.
decoyplatypus
Member
Best spot is S
hrine
mana
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
I liked the first more, but I still really like this one. The most I've been addicted to a game in a long time. Need a spoiler thread or something to get all my thoughts out. Not that they're really spoilery, but don't want to bog this thread down with my complaints.
It barely changes as a meleer also
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