Aspirations26
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I think you meant
Shrine of Amana.
Edit: My bad I read that wrong lol. Yeah that is a decent way as well.
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I think you meant
Edit: My bad I read that wrong lol. Yeah that is a decent way as well.
Stupid question inbound.
I have the fire sword. I can sometimes do a thrusting attack, not the rolling into a thrust but just a straight up thrust attack but I can't seem to repeat it. How the heck do you do it? Normal r1 and r2 just seem to be sweeping slashing attacks. What am I missing?
I have the fire sword. I can sometimes do a thrusting attack, not the rolling into a thrust but just a straight up thrust attack but I can't seem to repeat it. How the heck do you do it? Normal r1 and r2 just seem to be sweeping slashing attacks. What am I missing?
Orthogonal
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There are lots of attacks and combo's for every weapon.
R1 + R1
R2 + R2
Running + R1
Rolling + R1
Stepback + R1
Repeat for single hand and 2 hand.
There is also dual wield powerstance. Test a new weapon moveset thoroughly.
Garcia
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I'm about to reach 12 Million Soul Memory and the summon signs are becoming a rare sight. They're only common at specific locations: D
rangleic,
ragons
hrine
Iron
eep.
i didn't see any differences in NG++. Enemies just seem a lil more tougher and hit harder. But no changes to the enemies from NG+.
So ditch them and go real fisticuffs!
If you would like to get all the required awestones then yes it's not too time consuming.
revolverjgw
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How do these fuckers with the hammers have infinite fucking stamina? They can keep swinging infinitely!
How do these fuckers with the hammers have infinite fucking stamina? They can keep swinging infinitely!
they do, they never stop swinging. It's pretty much BS.
Iron Keep red stone PvP is hit-and-miss. Sometimes you'll get summoned into some dumb 3v1, other times it'll be a straight 1v1, and in the best times it'll be into some sort of winner-stays impromptu tourney thing set up by the host. The latter are the best moments.
I had to cheese them with lightning spears. It's like they have no recovery on their moves. Their sword wielding buddies on the other hand are the complete opposite.
I have no ideas myself I rolled around the back with my mastodon greatsword and attacked there insteadHow do these fuckers with the hammers have infinite fucking stamina? They can keep swinging infinitely!
i basically poisoned arrow them with my STR/Melee build. Fighting them head on was just trading blows constantly.
GenericBadGuy
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They only take two Great Lightning Bolts. Seriously, I think I'm just going to run through the game as faith for every single character until I have all the items I need for the actual build I want.
Heres a picture I thought was neat, too. You only get one chance to get these right since its at the end (spoilers).
Heres a picture I thought was neat, too. You only get one chance to get these right since its at the end (spoilers).
Since getting cursed during the fight kind of ruins it with all the zombie-ness.
revolverjgw
Member
they were probably blocking which takes much longer to poison them. i just spammed arrows until the poison went into effect.
Yeah, I'm still stuck on the latter one. I know the strats, but all it takes is one move out of pattern or one misstep out of a couple dozen cycles to sent you right back to the bonfire.
So...
First Bonfire isn't worth lighting since the game treats going between the two areas as an "airlock" and can only do it from one side. Pointless bonfire. Get the second one lit for proper "you're in the area" play.
Shaded Woods
How do these fuckers with the hammers have infinite fucking stamina? They can keep swinging infinitely!
What's strange is the smaller sword and shield ones had fewer attacks and a longer recovery time.
Made zero sense.
Orthogonal
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Yeah, they got nothing on Kalameet. Best optional boss fight ever.
Orthogonal
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Need to try that one again as a pure Melee, the fight was over too fast to really enjoy it when throwing Lightning Spears in his face.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
2 Hand R2 attack. I found it quite useful in the early game. Good damage, attack speed, and staggering power, with relatively low stamina consumption.
I love this armor set:
But I had to stop wearing it. I aggro'd an NPC I really didn't want to aggro because I poisoned him by mistake :/
This JUST happened to me >_<
Fucking butterflies.
Admiral Woofington
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Haven't played much PvP with llewelyn. But I am starting to see the pattern of katana guys with the 'running and R1' maneuver. I understand you enjoy always getting a hit if the guy doesn't dodge but I'd like for you to earn that win by hitting me not by hurting me because you cut through air.
This so much. And the host sets up a warmth spell so the winner gets to heal. Downsides are you running out of spells and your shit getting broken when you keep on winning.
You do know that on their screen they just see you standing there taking a hit right? They don't see you rolling away and slashing at air. Most of the running attacks in the game are faster than the lag, it's just particularly obvious with the katanas.
Admiral Woofington
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I'm a bit cynical so I doubt that all of these people use katana and that a grand majority of them don't know its advantage. Same reason with bat staff and dark fog. Though one is due to code and the other is due to farts.
edit: i'd like to clarify that I am not complaining because I'm losing a lot against katanas, quite the contrary. I just particularly notice that the guys I fight with katanas love that dash R1 move moreso than others, with exception maybe to halberd bros
Look at it from their perspective. "Every time I do dash + R1 these people are too slow to respond to my swift speed!" While on your screen you're thinking "I fuckin dodged it stupid shit garbage". It's totally reasonable to get frustrated when on your screen you clearly dodged it, but I don't think you can just assume that everyone using Kitanas is doing so because they're trying to exploit the system. On their screen they're just hitting you. To them, it just seems like a really effective weapon that people have a hard time dodging.
Yeah the stagger is amazing, you can just pow pow pow pow dead everything.
I plan to add poison to them at +10 and then wear the butterfly cuffs which do proxy poison.
Nothing wrong with being Wolverine at all.
Man was Sunbro-ing at the Mirror knight for a couple hours. Too much damn fun!
Also some asshole summoned me in Drangleic Castle at the Golem doors and proceded to activate every single one the statue guys on purpose. Must have been NG+10 or something because they destroyed me in one hit. lol
Also some asshole summoned me in Drangleic Castle at the Golem doors and proceded to activate every single one the statue guys on purpose. Must have been NG+10 or something because they destroyed me in one hit. lol
Admiral Woofington
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Maybe I'm just overthinking it too much but if I were a katana user I'd seriously start thinking "why is it that every other thrust move by most weapons are easily dodged, yet with my weapon it's the opposite?" But eh I guess some people just don't think it too much. Also I'm not looking forward to helping people out 25 times with co-op or so so I can get more tokens of fidelity. I don't want to beat the game all overa gain just for wrath of the gods, screw that. I only need to be successful with blue sentinel ventures about 49 more times vs beating a whole game. Much better.
edit: wait a HUNDRED AND FIFTY VICTORIES?! Welp time to move on. Wrath of gods is not worth it. Going back to Blood Bros.
edit: wait a HUNDRED AND FIFTY VICTORIES?! Welp time to move on. Wrath of gods is not worth it. Going back to Blood Bros.
That's a pretty common soul farming spot. You summon some buds, then just tear through everyone and rake in the souls.
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TrueMenace
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Thinking about re-rolling my completed NG faith build character for NG+.
Tired of spamming lightning spears...honestly that's the only OP shit about faith builds is most monsters are weak against lightning, but all we get is lightning spears...the rest of the offensive miracles are a joke and not fun to use and are sparse. And since it takes 55 faith to use a measley 3 sunlight spears...it's not worth it. I can't even do melee because 55 faith takes so many points out of vigor/end and I can only use a limited amount of weapons. Currently using my new throne defender+5.
I want to do a intelligence+hex build. Utilize all the spells from both schools of magic to the max.
What stats should I be investing in?
Edit: I just forgot that I never infused my throne defender +5 with lightning...
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Can't play Dark Souls 2 for 3 weeks because vacation...NOOOOOO!
Tired of spamming lightning spears...honestly that's the only OP shit about faith builds is most monsters are weak against lightning, but all we get is lightning spears...the rest of the offensive miracles are a joke and not fun to use and are sparse. And since it takes 55 faith to use a measley 3 sunlight spears...it's not worth it. I can't even do melee because 55 faith takes so many points out of vigor/end and I can only use a limited amount of weapons. Currently using my new throne defender+5.
I want to do a intelligence+hex build. Utilize all the spells from both schools of magic to the max.
What stats should I be investing in?
Edit: I just forgot that I never infused my throne defender +5 with lightning...
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Can't play Dark Souls 2 for 3 weeks because vacation...NOOOOOO!
I'm pretty sure he was messing around. He was running around like crazy naked and just took off after activating them.
Aha okay then that's way better anyway!
I have done like 300 BoB and I'd say about 200 of them involved someone with a Katana + Dark/Lightning Weapon. It's pretty boring.
Admiral Woofington
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Unfortunately I'm a lightning weapon guy, but I pumped too many points into faith I had to. Though you won't be disappointed that the next character I'm making, which'll probably be soonish, will be Darth Maul. If anybody has any advice on which skills/armor to use for the authentic jedi experience I'm listening
Atraveller
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How do these fuckers with the hammers have infinite fucking stamina? They can keep swinging infinitely!
I hated them soo, sooo much! Dodging with my Dex build like there's no tomorrow, only to be hit once, get stunned for 10 Minutes and then die feeling like a noob.
Hex'ed the shit out of them in NG+, though.
Only missing Hidden Weapon from the Bell Keepers and the stuff from Chancellor Wellager to finish my achievements.
Kinda dumb, that you must pvp (or cheese your way) to get all spells.
Not trying to shit on lightning, just what I have noticed.
Any and all of the Great Hammers with high base damage and A or higher scaling. Drakekeeper's Greataxe, Greatsword, Estoc, Mace, Shadow Dagger if you have one. There are plenty of good STR weapons, as long as the base damage is good, and the scaling is decent, you will be good with using it.
That's when I crystal out.
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