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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky
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JoeyJungle
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Ugh, I JUST edited my post in an attempt to not get called out.
JoeyJungle
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That's like saying there's no need to put points into VIG as long as you don't get hit.
edit: whoops double post, sorry
Psycho_Mantis
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That makes no sense at all.
ADP just increases your window (slightly) of invincibility. You still have a window of invincibility at 3 ADP and its enough.
Admiral Woofington
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So after researching how to farm petrified dragon bones with little to no risk, I found a way that works perfectly, unfortunately it also requires a lot of bonfire ascetics and I fucked myself over from the best farming spot by killing the covenant spokesperson.
Any good ideas on how to farm bonfire ascetics? I hear that if you invade in
and kill the host you can get them but I'd need confirmation.
Any good ideas on how to farm bonfire ascetics? I hear that if you invade in
black gulch
The blue phantom npc´s in the abyss drop them pretty often.
Admiral Woofington
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Lol that's the place I fucked myself over by killing the covenant leader. He didn't want to let me join and I really wanted
dragon chime
One more thing.
Titanite Chunks:
They'll also occasionally drop from the Dwarves in the Doors of Pharros area.
Go back to him. You should be able to pay some souls at his grave to bring him back. You can with other NPCs.
Most likely some rejected enemy or boss design or they just didn't have time to actually do anything with it and so they just stuck it in a cave because they felt bad that someone spent all that time modeling such a scary looking creature for it to not be in the game.
Schweinehund
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I used to play shield souls, but I just hated how battles dragged on and you only had enough stamina to swing once or twice. Its better to get good at dodging/pump points into adaption and keeping your vigor high enough for under 70% equip load and then just two hand or power stance souls. Shields really are only beneficial for multi boss encounters like
and going through levels. Also stock up on dem resins because besides pumping points into strength, thats the best source of extra damage. I find infused weapons for non magic users a waste of time because they take such a big chunk out of scaling and physical that you're doing way less total damage than you would with a resin. I wish you could infuse weapons to change their attack type though, or like demon's souls where you could pump up the dex or strength scaling and sacrifice the other scaling.
Ruined sentinels
Admiral Woofington
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I had no idea I could do this. Then again I haven't really killed anybody else. Thanks man, I'll be going back to see if there is anything.
Well, waddya waiting for? Look for the ember!
finalflame
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The ember he wants is somewhere in the game, but probably further ahead than where you are. Or you missed it, I did until I finished the game and looked it up.
But how not effective to the point that should I care about it?
Like my current chest piece has a 0 poise, but one that has slightly weaker stats has 16. Is it worth eating the weaker stats for an increase of 16 poise? I can't wrap my head around how much is needed vs keeping a higher defense rating.
Yeah, you'll find an ember later in the game you can give to him that'll make him pay attention to you.
SeventhSon
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Admiral Woofington
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blacksmith senpai wouldn't notice me
My little ember can't be this cute.
The only kohai he notices is the ember.
Sure you can it will increase your soul memory though bare that in mind.
This will make it harder to co op?
Eh? Why not just get all the boss weapons? Since you can change your character's stats, you may want to try different kinds of weapons. If you don't think you're going to do that, then might as well use them up.
I just traded all their souls for the weapons and spells because leveling up in this game is quick and you can get more souls from anywhere, whereas you can only get the boss souls specifically from the bosses.
I do believe I'll be all over that. My blue skin will be nice contrast too
If you happen to know offhand, what are the hood and gauntlets you're using?
This isn't exactly "wrong" but a terrible attitude.
ADP may be useless to you but that doesn't make it a useless stat. I will always have low armor and no shield, and one frame too few can mean the difference between getting hit or not, which especially hollow is often the difference between life or death. I rely heavily on the invincibility from rolling, even chaining rolls toward an enemy to stay in the fight, and I need ADP even just to get my character back to the fluidity with which I could do so in Dark Souls. AGL also affects your speed drinking estus, which I frequently do between rolls, and parrying, which is a huge part of my gameplay even if it's an afterthought for you.
You can be successful many different ways in these games which is like 75% of the charm to me. What's wasteful to you is crucial to others, that's just the way it goes.
The Jackdog
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so at the end o
, how the hell do you kill this guy? I finally get through the gauntlet of dudes previous by inching my way through and this guy decimates me.
Ive ran
but then because i guess maybe i have nothing but bad arrow skill (what?) it barely hurts him so i run out and he kills me. Should i just go farm souls but 1000 arrows and wait him out?
f huntsmans corpse with the red phantom
Ive ran
across the bridge and he doesnt follow and gets stuck in a sort of loop chasing me
sotodefonk
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Does anyone know why all those ENB or sweet fx presets make black appear as grey? is a filter or something? I hate seeing black as gray
Omegasquash
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If you have any type of magic at all, it's helpful. If not, try circling around.
Admiral Woofington
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So this fucking sucks. I went to check if
grave was there and it was. I paid the souls and prayed. But if you haven't joined the covenant you're apparently fucked and he doesn't resume duties. The one fucking dude I killed is the one that doesn't want to do shit if you kill him. Freaking beautiful. This means I gotta wait till new game plus or use a bonfire ascetic, but I hear those dungeons are hard as it is.
Darkdiver Grandhal's
As I was edging my way through one of the later levels, sniping enemies from far away and twatting every chest I came across before trying to open it, I wondered how much time the people complaining the game is easier have put into the franchise at large? I know I wasnt surprised that I found Dark Souls easier than Demon Souls, because I'd put well over a hundred hours into the former. The same thing applies to Dark Souls 2. While all the sequels have been different the same general approach and skills are largely and easily transferable from one to the other so it would have been next to impossible for FROM to make the game a challenge to people who have put so much time into the previous games without making it inaccessible to new players. Though at least they seem to made some allowance for that by adding the "Hardmode" covenant. I also think people are somewhat buying into the myth of the Souls series difficulty, theyve never been as hard as marketing/internet hype portray them to be.
lol with this games funky hitboxes you definitely need at least 20ADP unless you're one of those weirdos who tries to block everything
Possible outcome yes it depends on the other players to so it's hard to say.
Please stop spreading nonsense.
It's actually a little funny how annoying I found that, it's like I took umbrage on behalf of my necessarily-quite-agile character
Laurentius
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It took awhile, but the Majula song has really grown on me. I love the dissonance, and I think it captures the feel of the area perfectly.
I don't think bonfire ascetics bring NPCs back to life do they? Tis the price for getting greedy about his weapon, which he gives you anyways when you reach rank 3.
His point of view is completely nonsensical. "It adds i-frames but you don't need them."
Buh?
You can say this sort of thing about literally any stat in the game.
You don't technically need any stat - hence the SL1 run - but they're all useful in their own way. There's no Resistance dump stat this time around.
Admiral Woofington
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Regardless I haven't put any points in ADP and I'm doing just fine with dodging, even if I don't have much invincibility out of it.
Also as to my conundrum I found that NPC's revive in New Game Plus. So that's that I guess. Guess I'll have to wait for new game plus before attempting those dungeons and that covenant.
Also as to my conundrum I found that NPC's revive in New Game Plus. So that's that I guess. Guess I'll have to wait for new game plus before attempting those dungeons and that covenant.
nah just researched they don't. And yes greed took the best of me. But this whole game is about greed anyways I can't be looked down upon haha
Whatever gets you to 95-100 agility. I lean more toward to 100 agility, a little closer to the feel of Demon's and Dark 1 roll i-frames, but 95 is perfectly serviceable if you get used to the timing on your rolls and enemy attacks.
CountAntonius
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I do believe I'll be all over that. My blue skin will be nice contrast too
If you happen to know offhand, what are the hood and gauntlets you're using?
Hood is Black Leather Armor(Only the male version has the hood)
Gauntlets are Engraved Gaunlets. They are kinda heavy and have bad stats but they have rare chance to make a normal attack become a critical. happens enough for me to make them worth it.
I linked the wiki pages but there may be some light spoilers about how you get these items.
AlphaDragoon
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For real.
I personally don't mess around on my no shield ninja-style character, 110 AGL or bust. If I'm not gonna block it I want to make damn sure my main damage mitigation tool is as good as it can be.
Psycho_Mantis
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How so?
I honestly think ADP is the most useless stat in the game. I've seen many people disregard it entirely as well.
Your most likely right. Theres nothing wrong with blocking though. I get into extreme turtle mode as soon as I see anyone with a resonant/SB weapon. I did the same in DkS against DMB.
I do believe I'll be all over that. My blue skin will be nice contrast too
If you happen to know offhand, what are the hood and gauntlets you're using?
This isn't exactly "wrong" but a terrible attitude.
ADP may be useless to you but that doesn't make it a useless stat. I will always have low armor and no shield, and one frame too few can mean the difference between getting hit or not, which especially hollow is often the difference between life or death. I rely heavily on the invincibility from rolling, even chaining rolls toward an enemy to stay in the fight, and I need ADP even just to get my character back to the fluidity with which I could do so in Dark Souls. AGL also affects your speed drinking estus, which I frequently do between rolls, and parrying, which is a huge part of my gameplay even if it's an afterthought for you.
You can be successful many different ways in these games which is like 75% of the charm to me. What's wasteful to you is crucial to others, that's just the way it goes.
I can understand what your saying. People are mistaking me, thinking that you have to be some pro player to dodge roll at low ADP -___- The window between high and base ADP is not much at all and so I would recommend greatly to at least try low ADP. If you keep getting hit and feel its off then thats fine.
Whatever suits you best.
You can do everything a 40 ADP character can do with base ADP with the exception of fast Estus chugging.
That cannot be said with any other stat can it? So unless you want fast estus chugging I think you should at least try base ADP. If you get used to it, you will save yourself a lot of points.
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