It's just an end game thing, I guess. Those are all the new locations you'll visit until the end of the game.
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It's just an end game thing, I guess. Those are all the new locations you'll visit until the end of the game.
But why would they suddenly appear? I've only just made it partially through
Drangleic Castle. Just killed the two Dragonslayers.
No idea
MMBosstones86
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I ran all around that area and even stood in place hoping he'd come ruin me. Very strange.
ichtyander
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I think the list unlocks when you acquire the
four Old Souls
Drangleic Castle
Shrine of Winter
those souls
EDIT:
Maybe that's what the
primal bonfires
reignite them
full bonfire list
I wish the bonfire menu was a bit more organized. The menu becomes very convoluted and cluttered when you go into the end game areas.
For example, you could probably organize the Grave of Saints, Gutter, and Black Gulch into one sub-menu. They are all in the same vertical hole after all.
Just organize based on geographic proximity. Heide's Tower is the lighthouse that guides ships into No Man's Wharf and Last Bastille, Sinner's Rise, and Belfry Luna are all the same fortress.
For example, you could probably organize the Grave of Saints, Gutter, and Black Gulch into one sub-menu. They are all in the same vertical hole after all.
Just organize based on geographic proximity. Heide's Tower is the lighthouse that guides ships into No Man's Wharf and Last Bastille, Sinner's Rise, and Belfry Luna are all the same fortress.
The full list unlocks once you get to that area. I suppose it's so you know which areas you've missed, if any, so you can go back and fully explore. Since a lot of these areas are fully skippable, you may have missed things.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I'm not sure that's when they appear. I didn't notice them until I was halfway through Drangleic castle. Of course it could just be a failure of attention on my part, but I certainly look at that warp screen pretty frequently.
Vitality, you should probably get some agility too through Adaptability.
Vendrick is actually completely optional. The King's Ring is necessary for further progression though.
Apparently the Queen and the cat both have new dialogue every step of the way.
Cool! I guess I'll talk to them after I beat that boss then
I hope there's a true ending where I marry Shana-chan.
I'm | | this close to buying DS2 as I've been watching a little bit of Kay's let's play. It looks like a lot of fun. I played a ton of Demon's souls, not so much Dark souls. Trying to decide on a character type. I was kind of a heavy hitter str based guy in Demon's souls. Didn't really play enough Dark souls to get a feel for the char types.
I'm torn between maybe a dual wielding dex based fast dagger attacking, rolling, running guy and maybe a straight spell caster. Both viable? I don't really want to handicap myself just for the sake of playing a particular archetype. Trying not to spoil myself too much so I haven't researched them much.
I'm torn between maybe a dual wielding dex based fast dagger attacking, rolling, running guy and maybe a straight spell caster. Both viable? I don't really want to handicap myself just for the sake of playing a particular archetype. Trying not to spoil myself too much so I haven't researched them much.
Man the Defender Greatsword is such a versatile weapon. I think I'm switching from my Lightning Great Club to it permanently. Just finished off the
and it's up there as one of the easiest boss fights. I was kinda expecting an
kinda a deal but nooope.
I'm gonna miss the Club's one hit kills in PvP though lol.
btw, why can't I use the cracked blue eye orbs? Collected about 35 through the blue sentinel arena battles and now I don't know where I'm supposed to use 'em.
Throne Watchers
Ornstein and Smough
I'm gonna miss the Club's one hit kills in PvP though lol.
btw, why can't I use the cracked blue eye orbs? Collected about 35 through the blue sentinel arena battles and now I don't know where I'm supposed to use 'em.
They're both viable. I'm not a fan of spellcasters, but dual wielding is definitely a lot of fun.
Since you're not looking at info, I should probably say that if you go the dual wielding route, you'll want to have 150% the required stats to hold your weapons so you can use the power stance (where you attack with both weapons at the same time).
I believe you neeed to be part of their covenant.
Oh god...I'm getting visions of a Fez-esque map menu now.
Something that orders things geographically would be handy. I was kind of baffled myself as to the overall progression of the areas I had previously been to until I consulted the map.
I probably should have gone back for the additional dialogue. I'm pretty fuzzy on the Queen's nature / background / motives even after finishing the game.
theMrCravens
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omg...
NG+ adds up to your previous bonfire ascetics ??
Thought it would all reset (+2 for NG+), but now I'm stuck with some crazy high ones.
I was testing out stuff in NG and burned up a bunch.
NG+ adds up to your previous bonfire ascetics ??
Thought it would all reset (+2 for NG+), but now I'm stuck with some crazy high ones.
I was testing out stuff in NG and burned up a bunch.
omg...
NG+ adds up to your previous bonfire ascetics ??
Thought it would all reset (+2 for NG+), but now I'm stuck with some crazy high ones.
I was testing out stuff in NG and burned up a bunch.
Haha. This is why I avoided ascetics D:
omg...
NG+ adds up to your previous bonfire ascetics ??
Thought it would all reset (+2 for NG+), but now I'm stuck with some crazy high ones.
I was testing out stuff in NG and burned up a bunch.
What is done cannot be undone and all that.
kittoo
Cretinously credulous
Thanks mate.
Crab Milk Mickey
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That's Ornstein and Lummox for you!
I think the instant travel from the beginning and cluttered fast travel menu causes some confusion and general disconnects with the game world.
I forgot Earthen Peak was directly connected to the Iron Keep for a long time. I thought the boss of the former lusted after Vendrick, not the Old Iron King.
It would also help if you could see part of Iron Keep from Earthen Peak, but I suppose that would run into performance issues. In Dark Souls 1, you would get huge frame drops in Blighttown partially due to rendering all the way to Firelink Shrine if you look upward.
MMBosstones86
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Well I haven't abandoned the covenant, but i still can't figure out where to use these damned blue orbs :\
please halp
Haunted
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Lost Bastille already has like 5 bonfires, almost silly that Sinner's Rise is supposed to be its own area with only one bonfire and the boss.
One thing about the sometimes slightly weird bonfire placements that made me understand From's logic a bit better is that there's supposed to be one bonfire close to each covenenant agent.
Haunted
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I've made a post about the game's internal geographical errors in the lore thread and
Earthen Peak leading upwards into the (apparently invisible, apparently floating) Iron Keep
In my mind I always assumed that elevator went down.
Would make a lot of sense if they are mining below the mountain of Earthen Peak for iron.
EDIT: Just verified and you are right, the elevator goes upwards. What, are they mining ore from the sky? Where did the lava come from?
You need to be Human form and try to invade in an area that has an Area boss. So, it has to be an active online zone, can't invade from Majula or other places like that where there is no player interaction.
Also, make sure you are in the right blue covenant, one is for PvE scrubs to get help, and the other is for overleveled jackholes to invade Reds and NPC killers.
What I am trying to say, is that you should just join Brotherhood of Blood, and invade as a Red like a real Souls Invader.
Buy some weapons, and along with some other weapons you already have, go and try them out on the trash mobs in Forest of Fallen Giants, experiment with them. See how they interact with your stats, your equip load, roll speed, playstyle, etc. Mess around with different attack types, Strike, Thrust, Slash. When you find a weapon you like, pay attention to its weapon class, and look for weapons in its same class, try those out too.
Find a good one? Upgrade it.
EDIT: @Sullichin, I don't think so, pretty sure NG+ resets everything, so I doubt it, but it's worth checking out anyway.
Gareth Bale
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I feel that the Fire Longsword you get from the forest of the giants can carry you all the way through the game.
If you feel you ain't doing too much damage there are lots of options. One is to dual wield long swords; if you are already invested in the fire longsword, you can use the heide sword with I think....16 str and 15 dex, which isn't that much.
Orthogonal
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I doubt you can get it without beating him again. NG+ resets everything.
The menu certainly does become cluttered and could have been done more elegantly (UI-wise the Souls games always feel a bit ropey). But "very convoluted" seems a stretch, I mean, its a grid layot with limited sub-options, convoluted is about the last thing it is.
Reposting cause I'm considering a new respec to go back to the dual katanas, but I really want to give the Washing Pole a chance before I do it, I love the weapon, and it looks really good with that black set that drops from the horses (forgot the name).
They would have a hard time reconciling the fact that it's raining near Drangleic, bright and sunny at Belfry Sol, and nighttime at Lost Bastille.
Katanas are probably one of the worst group of weapons for PvE.
Drangleic is supposed to be bigger than the area of Lordran we visited in DS1. The weather / time changes we see make more sense than, say, going down two (three?) staircases from undead parish to the forest and have it suddenly be nighttime.
The skyboxes showing the surrounding areas would have helped more than it hurt.
I was happy with the Blacksteel Katana + Fire Uchigatana though
Their main problems lie in the fact that they are low in damage, dex scaled, and do slash damage.
eot
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The way they put the world together makes me question why they insist on continuous level transitions. I think stuff like the ways in which you travel to the Lost Bastille make more sense. I love that Dark Souls basically didn't need a loading screen if you never died, but that went hand in hand with how they designed the world. Walking from (lategame)
Shaded Woods, through a relatively short Aldia's Keep and getting a glimpse of the Dragon Aerie before the Guardian Dragon fight takes me out of the world a bit
But they have S Rank swag.
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