SeventhSon
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The trading birds in souls games are never seen, only heard.
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The trading birds in souls games are never seen, only heard.
I just beat the game, feels so good! Killed
in two tries after banging my head against him for two hours yesterday. The
were kind of a dick move, from software! I still have the
left but he will live another day. I must savour that high I feel for today
Vendrick
last two bosses in a row
Ancient Dragon
The Red Wizard
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Are the servers down for anyone else?
Original Famous Ray
Member
ah..guess I'm not the only one who can't connect. (US) <sigh>
You do get a steam key in retail copies, yep.
Got tricked myself with that, but know that you can
kill the first one before fetching the Kinship from the Giant Lord
The Red Wizard
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Hopefully it'll be back up soon. I don't know what to do with myself while I wait. It's pretty warm outside so I might praise the IRL Sun until the servers are back.
legacyzero
Banned
Why am I unable to get though treasure chests at
Am I missing the trick?
Iron Keep?
Those pools that you fill are not working for me.
Yep, down for me too (EU)
She looks similar to the character I created for my brother.
Actually posting pics:
For my own character though, i've gone for a different... flavor (i wanted to do someone who looked like a villain you could've seen in an Highlander movies):
There's several different methods for getting it are you using flash sweat, smelter demon armor and dropping from above.
I tried something of the sort, though i didn't know about
the necromancers, and i got ganged up in an alcove by the skeletons,
Those, plus
the wheel skeletons in the prior boss fights
You mean
cheesing at the boss with the bow, or killing the necros with the bow?
I have to say, small white soapstone is probably my favorite improvement over DS1. It makes co-op much more fluid to me, since I like to take my time exploring levels and whatnot. I often feel I need to rush to the boss with normal phantoms, but with shades I can take my time.
Overall, even with SM (which doesn't matter in NG+ from what I read), the whole multi player aspect seems much better than DS1.
Overall, even with SM (which doesn't matter in NG+ from what I read), the whole multi player aspect seems much better than DS1.
I enjoyed it as well, basically the good parts of Blighttown without the bullshit insects and swamp, nice change from the other areas as well.
It depends a bit on what spells you use I think, pure sorcery is balanced relatively well, certainly not incredibly easy. Faith and Hex spells on the other hand do seem as powerful as sorceries were in the other game (its sort of funny how much better Lightning Spear for example is compared to the sorceries you'd have with similar stat investments).
Looking for a little direction: I just killed the boss in the
and got a
which opens a door above the bonfire there. Problem is I don't know where to head next, because the door I opened leads to a dead end. Also, the merchant has moved somewhere. A little nudge in the right direction would be appreciated.
Forest of Giants
Soldier Key
yeah, I said the same thing out loud. It's an easy-to-miss ladder, especially because you're trying to NOT GET KILLED BY THE FIRE.
Nabs
Member
go find more doors
Connectivity mechanics are so fucking good.
The absolute best part though is the chances of a connection drop are so slim these days. Used to be a 80% chance of summoning not working in DS1. No longer!
YianGaruga
Banned
The Soldier key opens a few more doors in the Forest. Go back along the path that took you to the elevator to the giant.
Stack tons of fire resistance on gear + flame quartz ring + orange burr. Roll through the water or the barrels/pots with water in them. Pop a mushroom and as soon as you step on the lava rocks use 1-2 gems. Heal up before opening the chests and you might survive if you have enough HP.
Also: login servers make me cry
There is another locked door around (same key) and also another path you can take from Majula.
yep DS2 servers seem to be down
which makes it official that the network status on the game's website is entirely bullshit
Oracle Dragon
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Merchant:
Moved to Majula. If you were at the Majula bonfire looking at the ocean, she would be to your right against the wall. Once you exhaust their dialogue in whatever area you find them, many of the first NPC's will move to Majula the next time you use a bonfire.
Next steps:
You can either go back to Majula and do Tower of Heid. Again looking at the ocean from the Majula bonfire do a 180. You should see what looks like a stone entranceway inside one of the mountains. Go through that tunnel. Or option B, you can fight the next boss. To go to him, go to Cardinal Tower bonfire. Down the ladder, turn right. Go straight through until the end (this would be overlooking the water, where you get the Halberd if you did that part). Turn right, straight to the end again, there is a door. It opens with the Soldier key. Go in and up the stairs.
General Directions:
Talk to the depressed warrior at the monument in Majula. Listen to each thing he says. He doesn't tell you where to go, but he describes most of the starter zones in an order and gives vague directions to them. Just do them in the order he talks about them.
Only need to kill the first one then just use poison arrows on the chariot.
Oracle Dragon
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So... Iron Keep as a melee/str build.
How do you deal with the knight captain archers? I try running and rolling but especially near the middle where you have to go down the stairs and pull levers, they always seem to hit me. My ranged ability is not very good, I can hit for around 50 damage with my bow + wooden arrows. Is there an alternative? Traps? Tricks? Just learn to run and dodge/roll better?
Facism
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Nabs
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I dont think theres a cap, but you probably hit diminishing returns, came across this which has some cast speed tests - http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/22nst7/cast_speed_testings/ Also why would you want to switch away from the glorious cast speed uber alles Lions Mage set, dont you like looking look a hobo?
Oracle Dragon
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Key: IIRC it is
the Iron Key.
Contents:
Also IIRC, it doesn't lead anywhere super special, it is the "proper" entrance to the pit where the salamanders are. I don't know why it is so late game. Some minor treasure and a decent shield.
Run and kill the one at the back of the area (ie at the opposite of the entrance).
It should only leave the one near the entrance, and you should
have the time to pull the lever between two arrows
Personally. I just timed my movement. Get behind something which blocks their line of sight to you, wait until the arrow hits that object, and make a run for it to somewhere else which blocks it.
Also as the above poster said, you can kill the one across from the entrance by dropping down the hole and climbing up the ladder.
Cannon Goose
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This will make you feel better. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hfo_sbhI5oYnot
That video was all I could think of every time I died or whiffed a dodge. Wound up cheesing the fight after about my tenth try but at least it's over now.
Sinners are really starting to come out of the woodwork! Almost every time I used a Cracked Blue Orb I got an invasion going, and goddamn there are some dirty sinners out there. I have never seen so many spawn kill attempts and magic spammers in one session as I did tonight. 95 down, 55 to go till WoG
Technically you don't even need the key you can just jump in from several different points.
I just realized that if you don't
in the
the boss fight there will be like 10 times harder, I remember people bitching about
at that point. (from console players) And now after finishing the game I never noticed where that was. How did they miss those
use the levers
firetower
falling off
levers..
YianGaruga
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Only NG is locked to NG, NG+ can play with NG++ or NG+++ for example.
are u using geosato tool? if so that shit pushes gpu hard.
those are cool looking characters, i like emActually posting pics:
For my own character though, i've gone for a different... flavor (i wanted to do someone who looked like a villain you could've seen in an Highlander movies):
ended up making a red eye evil woman too to kill everyone at majula and see what they dropped
eot
Banned
I liked it too, the game looks great when it's only being lit by your torch. The four legged things that look like karkians from Deus Ex are annoying though.
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