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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky
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Intheflorsh
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I probably had four katanas by the time I was done with the Iron Keep, no worries.
i didnt mean to come off as a jerk, just you were panicking for no reason, online games go down all the time
Strike damage is friend they are really weak to it.
right. that spot. I made 16 or so shiny stones just co-oping raids of that area, but I learned if you taunt them, they all rush the door, and you can close it on them, leaving them sitting ducks for a mage with binocs. I would try doing this one some summons, and the host would just reopen the door and we'd all get slaughtered by a mob of greatsword wielding hollows. Or they run in, we manage to kill everyone in the front room, and they rush back to where the powder kegs are, get careless and boom, we're all dead again. It's hilarious..
eot
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If you have the ring of binding then don't worry about curse, it doesn't kill you. It's rare that I need more than 75% of my health.
iRAWRasaurus
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What's the best straight sword? I have been using the Heide knight sword and trying to get the sunlight sword.
I joined the
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Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
play offline?
Curse in this one just takes you down a Hollow level as if you died, but you don't croak. You just suffer the effect of it (less HP & no summoning).
Bleed is a burst of damage.
Being cursed is the same penalty as dying (max health loss) but you don't die or turn hollow.
If you're petrified you die and become full hollow (50% health reduction).
Well yeah but I want play online
I'm in the EU - anybody experiencing a similar problem?
Estoc is a pretty solid replacement, you can purchase it from the first blacksmith. Scales pretty decently with STR I believe.
Community Page is full of complaints. No one (?) can connect to the server atm.
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Source: http://steamcommunity.com/app/236430/discussions/0/558754899264690614/#p23
Here is your problem
http://www.issteamdown.com/
Valve has been having issues keeping up with the rapid growth of Steam the past ~6 months. Between November and January they gained around 10 million active users, it's really insane.
I looked at the concurrent numbers yesterday, and the top 5 games on Steam were averaging around 1 million concurrent users. All five were using Steamworks servers for multiplayer.
Lion dudes have huge magic resistance, so use a melee weapon. Just wait for them to do their regular slash, go in for one hit, and then just walk backwards. They swing so slow you can just keep walking backwards and go in to punish their whiffed attack with one hit.
The things we do for chunks. It's dirty.
Same... well, I haven't run into the sunbros yet, but other than that.
Anybody spend a significant amount of time as a Blue Sentinel? The sparring seems fun, at least.
MMBosstones86
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Found the first mimic of the game in
. That got out of hand pretty quickly. My sweep attack managed to hit him, all the poison pots, and piss off the other guys in the room.
And then he ate me.
Nothing wrong with that, I'm golfing on sunday hah.
Earthen Peak
And then he ate me.
Nothing wrong with that, I'm golfing on sunday hah.
This is why the Estoc is so fucking awesome.
I struggled a fair bit with the group of 5+ guys in the Bastille when using the fire longsword because of the lack of a good long ranged poke in that sword's moveset (why did they change it from the DkS1 moveset!?). With the Estoc, it was a piece of cake.
Managed to do it with a
Great Shield.
Of course, after dying more than 20 times, heh.
If you got the tools, use 'em!
MMBosstones86
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One of Us.
Made a Cleric as my second character. Can't wait to wreck shit.
Thank you for this! I will probably pick up one tonight.
chaobreaker
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i didnt mean to come off as a jerk, just you were panicking for no reason, online games go down all the time
How did my post exude any form of panicking?
eot
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Are miracles better than sorceries this time around? I haven't really touched magic in either game.
Alright guys, hoping for a little advice on my first DS2 playthrough/build:
My ideal play-style would be strength/tanky melee with some Lightning Spear for range. Im about to go up against
, so Im still pretty early in the game and Ive mostly been dumping points into STR and DEX (for certain weps), with some additional points in VIG, END, and ADP. Ive been holding off on building up FTH because I have no clue around when in the game Ill be able to pick up Lightning Spear and other spells Ill find useful for a predominantly melee build.
Any advice on progression, where I should be focusing? I spend more time staring at the Level Up screen worrying about where to invest my souls than Id like to.
My ideal play-style would be strength/tanky melee with some Lightning Spear for range. Im about to go up against
The Pursuer
Any advice on progression, where I should be focusing? I spend more time staring at the Level Up screen worrying about where to invest my souls than Id like to.
I'm sure it's been said a million times, but after playing through the ps3 disc version a couple of times, it has been so much more enjoyable playing the PC version. Before I had to consider if I really wanted to sit through all the loading to go cash in the flask shard I just found, or lay my summon sign down to help someone. Now it loads so fast, I'm there and back in 15 seconds.
This is mindboggling to me to even imagine. I truly can't wrap my mind out how it must feel on console in comparison. The fluidity of moving about the world rapidly and popping to Majula and back on finding a new bonfire is a trademark of the game from my perspective.
The first lightning spear spell requires 22FTH. It's found early in the game at
Heide's Tower of Flame
Dragonrider
Getting STR/DEX up for weapon requirements and VIG/END/ADP are safe upgrades for now.
Schweinehund
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Easiest builds through the game imo:
1. Faith Knight with a (lightning) mace and shield. (Just easy and safe, and good damage)
2. Hexer Sorc (has a rough start but performs better end game than number one)
3. Double Club powerstance. (Need to know boss patterns pretty well and have good dodging skills, holds the world speedrunner record currently).
1. Faith Knight with a (lightning) mace and shield. (Just easy and safe, and good damage)
2. Hexer Sorc (has a rough start but performs better end game than number one)
3. Double Club powerstance. (Need to know boss patterns pretty well and have good dodging skills, holds the world speedrunner record currently).
What spell / catalyst are you using? Starting sorcerer's soul arrow is decent enough against the mobs there.. as long as you're not hitting their shields every time.
Equip the beginning dagger and backstab trash mobs yourself. They die in 1 stab. Sucks using magic against them since they seem to have very high magic resist. For the boss, I summon a player and npc. One shot it. I am only Int magic user used vortex, spear and great heavy soul spells.
Bone staff. I do 34 dmg against the mobs witht he giant axe and shield even from behind and using dark magic. =_=
Bone staff... giant axe.. dark magic... first boss? What?
Think, he's talking about the first boss in Shaded Forest.
Rudelord
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No, since the hits don't really do much damage and they scatter all over the place, not to mention you have to get ungodly close which is asking to either die to trash mobs or get backstabbed by an invader
It is good in certain niche situations like shrine of amana, where the lightning strikes AoE all over the water, but even then you're better off with just lightning spears
They're better in the sense that most bosses and regular enemies have little to no resistance to lightning damage.
As far as PVP goes, the only miracles that standout for that are great magic barrier, emit force, wrath of god and sunlight blade. Sorceries and hexes definitely have a distinct edge in PVP when it comes to range and overall flexibility
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