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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky
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Go in completely blind. The only way to experience Souls.
Holy fuck there's an entire set? I, oh god. I might just do a fresh run instead of NG+ and call my dude Skeletor and dedicate my life to invading people. Much original, very innovative.
Well, beat
and am not sure where to do. The
is still no go since summoning people = time
and making it impossible to get to the boss. Which I still don't know if I will do pitiful damage now that I've raised my stats a little from the last boss.
So... where to go? I'm 1/4 but dunno where the other three are.
Sinner's Rise
Belltower
for invasions
So... where to go? I'm 1/4 but dunno where the other three are.
demosthenes
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WTF.
I got summoned as a grey spirit??
I got summoned as a grey spirit??
sotodefonk
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Instead of more like, how about actual DS4 buttons?
Try this.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/4v6mm8ua1zqqbxi/PS4buttons.zip
damn I forgot to upload those to the nexus... gonna do it now
Just keep exploring outward from Majula, you will find a place to go.
One thing that is easy to miss, go back towards Heide's Tower of Flame from Majula. Something has changed since you explored that area.
Time for rats.
my weapons aren't doing as much damage as I want, but they're all fully upgraded. Damn you NG+
grave of saints or doors of pharros?
grave of saints or doors of pharros?
Check out the Gyrm Great Hammer. I just started using it today and I love the moveset.
The rolling R1 and 2-hand R2 are amazing for PVP and PVE. They both have this horizontal sweep that is perfect for dead angling. The 2-hand R2 is two spins back to back, most people assume you missed your first attack, and the second spin catches them off guard, then punish them with the follow up R2 to flatten their puny, hallowed bodies.
On top of the awesome moveset, it's a strike weapon, A scaling at +10, and really high base damage.
My build SL160 with 42 Faith/40 Str/20 ADP/20 VIt/~25 VIG/~22 End I hit bosses for around 700 in NG+ Sunlight Blade.
demosthenes
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Rats.
I just used a Pharaos Lockstone down here and didn't realize there are like 10 of them, did I just waste it?
Holy shit that was an intense boss fight.
Go as blind as possible.
As in, start playing the game, and then only look up things if figuring them out on your own isn't fun. Like if you get stuck, or aren't sure what an item does, things like that. You'll logically figure out what you do and don't need to read about from there.
The whole point is to have fun.
bloodreign
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Whats your soul memory at 160 and are you still leveling or stopping . I'm 140 and 2.2m soul memory...which I think is high.
Thanks
My Soul Memory is probably around 2.5 or 3m I would guess.
I beat NG at ~SL100, then leveled to 160 at the beginning of NG+ to flesh out my build. I don't plan on ever leveling up again on this particular character. I am totally maxed out on all crafting materials you can buy right now lol.
I wish SM wasn't a thing, would like to participate with people around my level more consistently. +/- 30-40 SL isn't a big deal, but the SL 300+ guys are out of control.
petethepanda
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You screwed me, non-hostile torch-bearing zombie. 
If you are a rat covenant member you can get them from defeating grey spirits.
demosthenes
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Ah, still doing my Heir to the Sun :3, guess I'll try that later.
edit: Is there a reason I can't drop my summon sign?
bloodreign
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Thanks, just trying to determine what SL I should be for my soul memory for pvp brackets. I feel like I am up against much higher lvl people.....or of course, I just suck is a possibility.
Seems like if I level up more, I increase my soul memory...or if I farm for material to upgrade equipment same thing and I am screwing myself lol.
Thanks, just trying to determine what SL I should be for my soul memory for pvp brackets. I feel like I am up against much higher lvl people.....or of course, I just suck is a possibility.
Seems like if I level up more, I increase my soul memory...or if I farm for material to upgrade equipment same thing and I am screwing myself lol.
Soul Memory is such a fucked up system, I just don't understand the justification behind it.
Theoretically it effects brand new players from getting exploited by a low level twink, but that is only a very small segment of the population. After that point, it is an utterly broken mechanic for the rest of the player base and gets worse going into NG+.
Let's compromise, SM only effects those in NG. Once you take your character into NG+ it's based only on SL.
bloodreign
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Ya, seems like it punishes experimenting with equipment. Or if your like me and died a ton and lost soul after soul in a few zones. But eh, loving the game either way..really do wish it was SL based tho.
Orthogonal
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I am not at home to test. Anyone know if you can cast Sacred Oath and use a weapon buff (spell or resin) to stack damage?
Garcia
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Do go blind if you are sure you will be revisiting this game for a NG+ run (which you probably are going to do).
I will share with you a huge tip (which I just learned about today, after almost 80 hours of gameplay): Don't neglect Adaptability (ADP). It will be the difference between life and death. I built a tank (Max Faith, 50 Strength, even numbers in every other stat, but no ADP) and I was getting crushed in PvP. Raising ADP will give you precious time in advance to make important actions like drinking Estus flasks, running and rolling.
MMBosstones86
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Yeah. I had that happen. It sucked.
BellBro > RatBro
With soul memory, you're basically punished if you aren't SL'ing as much as you can.
demosthenes
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I'm seeing red summon signs now, what are these? Are they other players?
Relaxed Muscle
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Bought this today.
Just got trought the tutorial zone (killing all the ogres and dying like 10x times trying lol) and starting The Forest of Fallen Giants. I went duelist and it's the first time since one of my playtroughs in Demon Souls since I'm not using a build with shield.
Yay!
Just got trought the tutorial zone (killing all the ogres and dying like 10x times trying lol) and starting The Forest of Fallen Giants. I went duelist and it's the first time since one of my playtroughs in Demon Souls since I'm not using a build with shield.
Yay!
Summon them in, see what happens.
Relaxed Muscle
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If is like DS1, you summon other players to duel with them, instead of helping you. Just a "friendly" way of invasion.
Orthogonal
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Garcia
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Man, these numbers are crazy:
Disappeared Souls (PC version): 14,016,613,707,918
Disappeared Souls (PS3 version): 10,134,899,649,777
The game has been out for 2 weeks. Wow.
Disappeared Souls (PC version): 14,016,613,707,918
Disappeared Souls (PS3 version): 10,134,899,649,777
The game has been out for 2 weeks. Wow.
I'd infuse lightning myself.
Orthogonal
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It looks like some numbers are all-time while others are on some sort of rolling window. For example, coop stats used to show well over 1M coops in Bastille and the Forest each, but now they are well below 1M.
Disappeared souls is probably rolling window because death counter is much lower on PC than PS3. Probably a good measure on the relative size of active communities right now.
MMBosstones86
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oh you.
spindoctor
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No co-op in the rat areas.
More disappeared souls, fewer deaths. PC gamers proving to be hoarders in-game as well as on Steam.
Orthogonal
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There should be a cool down of no invasions after one happens. Win or lose, you should have enough time to get a free run at the boss door afterwards.
Regular +10 scales very well with STR.
Dark +10 will scale well with STR/Int (assuming that is the higher stat for your hexes). Will also work well in conjunction with your Dark weapon hex.
Blind.
Such a rewarding experience, and ds2 is definitely as built for it as the others.
Oooh I can see a lot of pvp beyond SL 210.
I'm having a tough time deciding what kind of weapons to invest into upgrading. Right now I'm dual wielding fire sword and heides sword but frankly its not going too great. They are stamina hogs when used in power stance. I kind of envision daggers or something being more effective? Dunno. I've read about whips too. That sounds interesting.
Beat my first boss. The dragonrider. Pretty cool. Lost a few corpses along the way Lol.
Beat my first boss. The dragonrider. Pretty cool. Lost a few corpses along the way Lol.
Okay, so I'm not that far into the game (only just beat B
) but I'm already thinking about future builds.
Right now I'm doing a real middle of the road, sword / shield knight character, just using a leveled longsword and various medium shields. Want to get a feel for the game.
Thinking for future builds:
*Sorcerer. Hopefully the early-game spells are a bit more varied than in Dark Souls 1, where I had to put in my 20 hours of SOUL ARROW until cool stuff started to open up.
*Fast / Agile Parrying character. Tons of points pumping my agility stat. Still haven't gotten parrying down, but are there shields in DS2, like in the first one, that expand the parrying window? Also, can you parry post enemies in DS2? I know in the first one there were some that you could not, and I never figured out how to navigate those well as a super agile / lightweight character.
Also, would it be viable to have my parry character also power stance when I switch out the left hand, if I pump my DEX?
elltower Gargoyles
Right now I'm doing a real middle of the road, sword / shield knight character, just using a leveled longsword and various medium shields. Want to get a feel for the game.
Thinking for future builds:
*Sorcerer. Hopefully the early-game spells are a bit more varied than in Dark Souls 1, where I had to put in my 20 hours of SOUL ARROW until cool stuff started to open up.
*Fast / Agile Parrying character. Tons of points pumping my agility stat. Still haven't gotten parrying down, but are there shields in DS2, like in the first one, that expand the parrying window? Also, can you parry post enemies in DS2? I know in the first one there were some that you could not, and I never figured out how to navigate those well as a super agile / lightweight character.
Also, would it be viable to have my parry character also power stance when I switch out the left hand, if I pump my DEX?
Garcia
Member
LOL !
No, don't do this. Dex scaling is terrible.
mrchampipi
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Ha! Same thing happened to me today :^(You screwed me, non-hostile torch-bearing zombie.
Orthogonal
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