IIRC You can't summon for that fight.
The rats are the worst part about it though.
Once you've killed the rats just stay directly underneath him and attack his rear legs.
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The rats are the worst part about it though.
Orthogonal
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Coop restricted area due to the local covenant.
Dr_Boris_Goltz
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I'm thinking about doing a respec to go from sorcery to dark hexes. Any reason I shouldn't?
Orthogonal
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No reason not too, you an still cast sorcery.
phoenix296
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Beat the game on my second character. The last boss is so stupid easy as a mage. Just spamming lances and soul arrows all day.
Chance Hale
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Yeah, the "final" boss and really the entire end game is kind of odd in that there's no indication that you're nearing a conclusion. I soul geysered the boss and was done in 10 seconds, lol.
Crimsonclaw111
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Mastadon Greatsword is an even better Bastard Sword!
demosthenes
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Do you have to be a human to summon?
Schweinehund
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Yeah even gwyn is tougher imo, should go back and play Dark Souls again after acquiring more dodging skills. I think S&O and Manus are still harder than any boss in Ds2. Ancient Dragon is a bitch but he's not mechanically complicated.
Orthogonal
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Tortaly agree, Nashandra is the most disappointing final boss in the series. Ancient Dragon is tough, but mostly because of a gimmick OHKO aoe spell. It is hard and not fun. He's got nothing on Kalameet. Now that was a difficult but very fun fight.
phoenix296
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You have to be a human to:
- summon white/gold soap stones
- use red/blue eye orb
- use red soap stone
- be summoned as a blue arbiter with the covenant ring
Do not have to be human to:
- place your white soap stone sign
- place your dragon eye sign
- to be invaded by others using red/blue eye
I remember spending hours trying to get his tail sword. Probably the hardest weapon to get in ds1.
So, uh...
Should I be there? I moved the path with the numerous souls I got from the boss I struggled with (and filled my spells out instead of leveling up. Doh?) but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be here yet or not.
Huntsman's Copse
Orthogonal
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You sure can be, but might want to push the other available paths a bit more first if you haven't already.
phoenix296
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What areas have you completed? Huntsman's copse isn't particularly hard but do not go up the path with the executioner like guys with halberds. That leads to an area completely optional and is much harder than the rest of the area.
killertofu
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Sunlight Spear isn't that strong or is it just me? Maybe I shouldn't have used all those skeptics spice
phoenix296
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Attunement for spell cast speed and more spell slots. Int for dmg and meeting requirements for spells. Get as much endurance and vigor as you feel you need. The rest you can forget about.
Intelligence, the highest level spell has an int requirement of 64 but you can lower that with spice (which must flow!). After that Attunement, you can probably leave that in the mid 20s-30 as you get gear that adds attunement slot. After that just get your other stats up to meet whatever requirements you need for the backup weapons/gear you want to use
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HungOverOnATues
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I don't imagine many people are playing with kb/m, but on a controller you press Y in the gesture menu to switch it out. The Y button 2-hand's a weapon in-game, so you might want to look up the keybind for that and try it out.
phoenix296
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True. The only places that gave me trouble were
Shrine of Amana (fuck those homing soul arrows near the 3rd bonfire) and Executioner's Chariot. Just getting to that lever was a pain in the ass. Couldn't do it without summons.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Using Skeptics spice will ultimately lower the damage of a spell since its lower than its original requirements
demosthenes
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Garcia
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Yep. Place was insane almost 2 months ago.
Haunted
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I was so caught up in the individual lore of the areas and the history of Drangleic that I didn't really get what happened at the end, actually.
The ending was once again pretty shitty and abrupt, but I didn't really get the cycle and how the whole business with the first flame was suddenly sprung on us (at least it felt that way). It felt like a distraction from the initial goal and didn't provide proper closure to the whole setup of the game which consisted of trying to get rid of the player's undead curse. Which sitting on the throne of want might or might not have done, I don't even know.
So as I was trying to get summoned in the Belltower I kept getting invaded so I decided to sit behind the ladder and destroy anyone who dared postpone my sorceries achievement. I used to be honorable in DS1, but I have a no fucks given attitude in this game with how many terrible gimmick builds there are and how bad the hitboxes are. No remorse.
man restarting was an awesome idea. Just soloed the Ruined Sentinels on my first try . Couple of qs:
1) I've been upgrading the fire sword you get early on, is that gonna backfire on me?
2) Should I be upgrading my armor/shield? I'm using the stuff you find after the Pursuer and I do have some twinkling titanite
3) I'm basically dumping all my points into strength and endurance - is this viable? I do have that respec item in case I mess up, but my thinking is I want to hit hard and have a lot of stamina
. Couple of qs:1) I've been upgrading the fire sword you get early on, is that gonna backfire on me?
2) Should I be upgrading my armor/shield? I'm using the stuff you find after the Pursuer and I do have some twinkling titanite
3) I'm basically dumping all my points into strength and endurance - is this viable? I do have that respec item in case I mess up, but my thinking is I want to hit hard and have a lot of stamina
You should have figured this out yourself by looking carefully at the available key bindings or by simply pressing keys. The game lets you rebind the function to two-hand your weapon and the function to organize gestures to either the same OR completely different buttons. The button to toggle menus when prompted is the button you bound to two-hand. The button to revert settings to default / view more gestures is the button you bound to Function 2.
Controls for keyboard and mouse are excellent (once the mouse buttons are remapped to keyboard buttons, removing the delay). W, A, S, D keys are good enough for general movement, but become absolutely perfect during strafe mode when locked-on to an enemy. I love the quick responsiveness and precision of camera movement with the mouse.
phoenix296
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What control method is GAF using? I'm using DS3 controller with xinput wrapper. I have a DS4 but I'm too lazy to set it up on my PC.
DS4 and loving it. You're too lazy to run a single program?
Haunted
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phoenix296
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I think it's more I'm one of the crazy people who prefers DS3 to DS4.
Yeah, they could have done a better job there, a lot better.
Hahaha, what the fuck? Even harder? It was plenty hard the first time through with all those homing soul arrows and a torch taking your shield slot because you can't see shit in the water to see if you can step there without falling to your death.
Orthogonal
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Aldia's Keep is part of the ground zero for the downgradeton. I hope someone posts an ENB of the entrance of the mansion for comparison. Would love to see it return to its former glory.
Orthogonal
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Oh yeah, it was rough. I couldn't make it through without using the npc summon as a distraction. However, I came back later with poison arrows and a bow, then it was a stroll in the park.
demosthenes
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If I drop a summon sign and I rest at a bonfire or travel via bonfire does it remove it?
edit: haha nvm. it just told me it was removed when i arrived.
edit: haha nvm. it just told me it was removed when i arrived.
Any loading screen will remove it.
But you can rest at the bonfire and then leave it to resupply and your mark won't go.
Though the mark will resupply you if you successfully help someone anyway...
phoenix296 said:
Lost Bastille
FINALLY BEAT
. Took me like 3-4 tries, and some of those were INCREDIBLY frustrating because I managed to get the damn thing to the last sliver of health and then I'd die
. In short,
Feels good man.
FREJA
swarmed by the little spiders or stomped or death-ray'd
FUCK YOU SPIDER. I'M AN ARACHNOPHOBE AND I STILL BEAT YOU.
Feels good man.
Haha, congratulations. Most frustrating moment of my playthrough so far is when I ascetic'd that boss and spent like four hours trying to beat it. Did it finally! So satisfying, even though I lost over 140,000 souls.
In other news, I've got the missions from
the dude in Aldia's Keep, and I need Cale's helm. So I go to the map room and, er, Cale is gone? I never attacked him or anything, does he move at some point or has he just mysteriously vanished? Anything I can do or am I screwed?
phoenix296
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You should be OK. The copse isn't particularly hard except that option area I mentioned previously.
I'm not sure about him disappearing but to
get his helm you need to beat the game if you don't want to kill him. I believe the required bosses you need for him to give it to you are the four bosses with primal bonfires and the final boss.
What in the world, I am in grave of the of the saints and I got summoned as a phantom. So this guy keeps waving at me and I'm staying back ready to attack him, not wanting to get lured in to enemies. He kept waving and waving and turned his back and let me get right next to him. I follow him reluctantly and dispatch random rats here and there. He led me to a fog gate, wat. Objective complete. I am so confused.
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