The bridge at the beginning? Yea it's a common duelling area.
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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin |OT| Your weapons are weak, old man
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The bridge at the beginning? Yea it's a common duelling area.
UpDownLeftRight
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You remember the bonfire with the hag-like merchant? If you head back out the main entrance of that building you should see a pit way down in front of you and some scaffolding leading down there. Follow it to the bottom and you will find a small tunnel to your left. There's a fire breathing salamander down the bottom of it but if you time it you can run down the tunnel into a little alcove on the left with the weapon. Has a great moveset for PvP when 2 handed.
Naw, it's part of one of the DLCs. That place you're talking about is annoying too.
Retrozocker
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Yup, I used to run through those 3 in vanilla but now this will be fun...
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
cpp_is_king
Member
Where should i go after Lost Sinner? Is down the well the only way?
Edit: nvm just found Huntsmans Copse
Edit: nvm just found Huntsmans Copse
Did you already go to huntsman's copse? Go back toward Heide's from Majula(don't warp) and talk to the npc you run into.
Kenzodielocke
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Yes.
MuddyDonut
Member
This is amazing
I've spent about 10 hours in the dlcs areas so far and I haven't cleared them yet. Best areas in the game, too. Really, really good.
Sure. That's what I was trying to convey, really. Dark Souls II emphasizes the "Souls" aspect of Dark/Demon's Souls (i.e. items, mechanics, enemies, world, lore, etc.), while Bloodborne goes more for the "feeling" of a Souls game, but giving its own spin to it. It throws away the classic medieval/high fantasy setting, the connection to the lore of previous games, some of the most deeply rooted combat mechanics (shields and magic), etc. In that sense, Bloodborne is closer to Lords of the Fallen than to Dark Souls II (quality notwithstanding).
I never played Demon's Souls (for the same reason I'll probably never play Bloodborne), so I can't really comment on its merits. And that's why I use Dark Souls (one of my top 5 favorite games of all time) as the starting point of my analogy.
But from what I've seen, Dark Souls is the "natural evolution" of Demon's Souls: a more refined game that uses the same tropes, combat mechanics and story progression. For example, Demon's has a world that is sectioned off into individual chunks (aka "levels"). Dark Souls then takes that concept and stretches it to its logical conclusion: instead of having instanced zones, (close to) every area in the game is interconnect to at least another area, creating the feeling of having one seamless world. So, in that sense, Demon's and Dark Souls are (mostly) the same game... at least in what my analogy is concerned.
cpp_is_king
Member
Is it possible to use fragrant branches of yore in such a way that you screw yourself out of unlocking all of them? I've got one right now and i can think of 3 places of using it (before the no mans wharf bonfire, the sex change coffin, and the castle before majula with the guy sitting down). But if one of these doesn't yield another branch then i might be screwed
Braag
Member
You get as many fragrant branches throughout the game as there are statues. At least I think so cause I've used all my branches I got and I can't recall any statue I haven't gone back to and brought to life.
It's obviously up to you on which statues you use them on first.
Dat edit.
Who didn't love getting eye strain from playing there?
Intheflorsh
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Fume Knight. What a load of shit. Each loss feels like a slap on the face. Fuck.
Intheflorsh
Banned
The Pursuer is fucking nothing compared to the Fume Knight.
Roll toward him, all day every day.
Robot Pants
Member
But they don't.
Just kill the one that comes after you and leave the rest alone. Unless you're doing co-op
cpp_is_king
Member
Weird, I killed him way early and almost didn't even get hit. Lock on and roll to the side, his moves have insanely long charge up time.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Unless you attack them they do nothing at you.
Yep. It was brutal in Vanilla and even worse here. I ended up just farming out about half the Knights.
Best boss in any souls game imo.
LegalEagleMike
Member
Each day that passes that my local independent game store does not have this game in the grumpier I get. Think I will just use my credit there to buy an extra controller and move on ><
I've been meaning to comment on this for a while (since I did a bit of it on my tank aswell) but coop through a zone (as opposed to just a boss) is really fun. People will point out secret walls and shit
I died like 300 times against this mofo,my rage level was beyond off the charts.
Drop your shield,fight naked and use Velstadt´s helmet,that´s the only way imo.
Hardest boss i´ve ever faced in any souls game.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Oh shit, I never went up against the dark souls 2 DLC bosses but I remember the black dragon in the Artorias DLC made me give up entirely. Not looking forward to fighting this dude.
I felt Knight Artorias was the best boss fight personally. He had an interesting move set that kept you on your toes and blocking was never an option.
Use a bow, pull, profit?
Dunno I found shrine more annoying personally, iron keep just felt like a typical one step at a time sloggy type deal. Plus you can skip the first boss.
Pull what though? They spawn in on you. I feel like you can only really slog it out or retreat.
I think those guys are always waiting there, they just have a crazy long agrro range. Just take it slow, it's only the ones straight ahead that come like that. Over the bridge to the right at the top you can see 2 others and snipe them to pull.
Pursuers are really easy imo. You can just walk around him for most of his attacks and he has really wide parry frames on a lot of his attacks. A good trick for people having issues is just to remember to always roll to his right, and when he does his charge and swing move you can circle strafe to his right and never get hit, then waylay him and turtle until he does the move again. Rinse repeat and you can kill him as a naked deprived without much trouble, even though it might take you some time 
SonicXtreme
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the beauty of ds2 is you can totally change your build if you hit a wall or get bored.
i'm gonna stream some more for the rest of the night. my build's about level 90, gotta go find the rotten and go through the gutter (gotta get my butcher's knife), as always with about 75% pvp thrown in between small chunks of progress. i think i'm gonna ascetic the chariot boss now even though murderer's row becomes hell when you do that...i just need dat choloranthy +2 ring, so spoiled by bloodbornes fast recovery
is the battle axe worth leveling up? as a 'strength' build (20 str is my highest attack stat, have lots of agility as well for melee) i always love using the hand axe since its so strong for being so light, how's the battle?
http://www.twitch.tv/sonicxtreme/
If so they disguised them well because it looks to me like spawn in. I've observed as a phantom and sat back just to see where they come from. They almost magically appear it looks like because they're not there and then suddenly they are.
Edit: Holy shit you're right, some aggro from inside the damn keep
Somnium986
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Have those enemies been completely removed from the game now? The only place I've seen them is in a cage in A
ldia's Keep
They changed the zone considerably. The ones that charge you as you enter replace ones that were standing near the entrance in the first place, but are now not there. So they've mostly moved them around and added AI to make your entry into Iron Keep more like an "incursion" that the castle defenders are charging to take on.
I think they're also programmed to fight you one-on-one, even if you retreat far, because they're crazy samurais.