Shmeagatory94
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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin |OT| Your weapons are weak, old man
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He is one of the six super bosses, there only for extra challenge. Even as an Int build you have access to one of his weaknesses.
who are the six super bosses and what is his weekness as a caster then? just curious, ill probably not be arsed with it, but would like to know
Don't use a walk through unless you're insanely stuck, although it just sounds like you've not explored Majula properly and you're in the wrong area. Go back and check the town out properly!
Honestly I find him WAYYYYY harder with summons.
Ancient Dragon, Dark Lurker, Blue Smelter, Gank Squad, Double Cat, and to a lesser extent V, and now A as well. Each can be really hard for certain builds and easier for others, and that is okay for optional bosses, IMO.
Blue Smelter is weak against poison pyromancy, and dark element in general.
I'm not sure why I never bothered with them before, but I'm finding the small white soapstone loop to be an intriguing way to break up monotony in difficult areas. My Shrine of Amana progression has been chopped up into these discrete sequences:
1. progress as far as I can
2. die
3. place down soapstone
4. progress as far as I can
5. get summoned
6. fulfill duty, regain humanity
7. place down soapstone
8. progress as far as I can
...ad infinitum
It's a lot of fun and very gratifying from both a personal and altruistic perspective.
1. progress as far as I can
2. die
3. place down soapstone
4. progress as far as I can
5. get summoned
6. fulfill duty, regain humanity
7. place down soapstone
8. progress as far as I can
...ad infinitum
It's a lot of fun and very gratifying from both a personal and altruistic perspective.
M0nochromatic
Member
Hey Dks2 GAF! Me and a friend coop-ed through Dark Souls 2 when it first came out, and are about to do it again with the ps4 version.
I'm probably going to run a faith build, and I was curious if their was a list of everything that was changed from DKS 2 vanilla to now. Is it worth worrying about, or should we go in blind?
I'm probably going to run a faith build, and I was curious if their was a list of everything that was changed from DKS 2 vanilla to now. Is it worth worrying about, or should we go in blind?
cpp_is_king
Member
I think I got it from the shaded woods area where you can't see because of the mist/fog. A treasure chest or corpse in that area somewhere.
Does NG+2 add more of those red phantoms or did they tone it down a lot? I just blitzed through everything in NG+ and it was pretty easy, but I remember doing the DLC on PS3 and nearly rage quitting a couple times because of the added red phantoms on top of the regular mobs. I was on NG+3 if I recall, though.
jacob armitage
Banned
This seems odd, a bunch of fireplaces just appeared on my list but are blacked out w/ question marks. Any reason this happened?
After a certain point all areas are revealed by the travel map to point out where you haven't been yet before you finish the game.
AWizardDidIt
Member
The Blue Smelter Demon is highly resistant to magic. However he is vulnerable to Dark. Get some hexes and he should fall quickly to them.
You have access to multiple elements, and likely some great melee elemental damage. Even as a pure Faith build, I do a hell of a lot damage with a Club. Just because you're an Int build doesn't mean you are limited, no more than being a Strength build is limited to Blunt attacks or Dex limited to slashes. As Int, you have access to Sorcery, Fire, Poison, and some Dark, as well as whatever physical weapon you want to use-- there are some great weapons to enchant with low/negligible requirements.
I disagree with this in multiple ways.
- There are no bosses you need to respec against. There might be extra difficulty, but any build gives you access to multiple damage types (physical or elemental). If anything, bosses tend to punish over-reliance on different defensive aspects (roll invuln, roll distance, poise, armor, blocking, stamina for dodging multiple rolls etc.) more than they punish builds over elemental resistances.
- This is the one "Souls" game where there aren't stats that are super-niche or outright worthless. I never used a Soul Vessel until my fourth full playthrough, including CoC/all-boss/plat runs.
- Soul Vessels are in for a lot of reasons, and I strongly, vastly, immensely disagree with the lack of respecs in any game like this where weapons & gear have very high stat requirements. That too often tells players, "Yeah, you aren't using this during thing playthrough because you didn't know what your build was going to be when you entered the starting hub. Sorry!"
Crap stats and unforeseeable requirements have been a significant problem in the entire "series", and respecs are the best way to handle multiple issues with the stat system. I mean, how many players of BB divined that the only major Arcane/Bloodtinge weapons wouldn't show up until way later, or that the best Gun also had the highest Strength requirement? Anybody?
That works with bell covenant too.
TheSpoiler
Member
IIRC, Arcane buffs item damage, increases item drops, and scales with the cane/saw cleaver. Bloodtinge is usable right from the get-go, and you get access to the flamethrower right before BSB. Neither of those stats are gimped from the beginning either.
The effects are pretty modest for consumables, the "letter" it shows on weapons is (on most) only for when the weapon is enchanted, bloodtinge is still a fringe use that almost no new players are going to use to any meaningful effect, scaling on the flamethrower is shit (it is an awesome weapon, but all you need is the minimum, and the utility falls off rapidly, even if you are pumping arcane), and the item drop rate is a joke as the things that drop are already around ~100% drop rate anyways, and it doesn't increase the # dropped. Any new player is VASTLY better off treating the game as only having Vit, their main damage stat, and sometimes Endurance.
They aren't near-worthless stats like Resistance or Luck were, but they are very niche, super subtle, and genuinely bad ideas for anyone playing the game the first time or aiming to kill some of the harder bosses.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
Is there any way to use my mkx profile at a friend's house on his ps4?
Finished the whole game plus the 3 DLC on to new game plus soon. I have played all souls games (still at the start of Bloodborne though) and I have to say this one is my favourite I think. The game is just so huge with so many different areas compared to the other souls games there is just so much to do in this game. The 3 DLC are just so good and different from each other. I really think this game is criminally underrated and hated from so many souls fans unfairly while they ignore the issues of Dark Souls (later half game way worse than the first half mainly).
GayForMaster
Banned
Holy fuck why is this 69.99?
Yeah, I was excited to finally be able to play with my handedness in vanilla until realizing that half of the verb set was restricted.
Alcoholikaust
Member
theres more than one bonfire there
Sure.
How far am I from the next one from that enemy? I kind of don't want to die this far in.
Thank you!
Because it's worth it.
The 2nd bonfire is somewhat hidden, you'll probably only find it if you're searching really hard. Without spoiling too much you're super close if you are near the gas spewing bug though.
Fought and beat the Darklurker yesterday for the first time. I never did it on my PS3 copy. Pretty fun fight, get's hectic. Starting the DLC areas now, i forgot how awesome Sunken King was, except for those cunt ghost knights.
If I seemingly made it to the ground floor, did I miss it?
edit: nvm this is not the bottom
edit2: found it! just gotta figure out how to get to it now
got it! Woo
Omega Ultimus
Member
Yeah. It's the furthest platform, I think.
VaultBoy101
Member
NG++ is identical to NG+ as far as enemy placements, unless I missed something.
neoism
Member
I'm loving BB but this is still my fav game in the series... the only thing I like better was the faster fighting in BB..
This game has more of everything....
MORE
Armor
Weapons
items
locations
CO-OP and PVP are waaaaaaaaaaayyy better.. the bell system is NOT good at all.
the story and lore is better..
this game gives the player WAAY more power/control the way the game is played
YOU can respec <3 one of my favorite things in the game, I'm a one character player.. I've beat it 4 times on one character on PC with over 250 hours LVL280 SM55mil
you can control enemy spawns <3
you can fight boss as much as you want in one play-through <3
BB for me is the easiest in the series... this game is a little harder but not that hard.
THE DLC is fucking insanely AWESOME.
now it does have ify hit boxes sometimes.. BB did a great job with this.. and even though the level design didnt bother be at all it doesn't really do the short-cut thang like in BB and DS1 and DemS. but it has wonderful variety in locals.
I'm biased though my favs go as follow
DS2>>BB>Ds1>>>>DemS.
with out a doubt my GOTY 2014.. I will definitely get this on PS4 later down the road.. but without being about to use my save from my DX9 version plus no mods... I'll skip getting it on steam.
WheelHoss1
Member
Is there anyone who can help with Velstadt? PVP build feeling a little squishy. SM 1.4 million.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
You can redo them with an asthetic.
Take them to a certain king.
ah I thought about that. what if he was already dead (as he probably would be in vanilla when the dlc came out)? unless you dont mean
vendrick
edit: nvm hes dead lol. he IS easy, just stayed on his back/left side the whole time and he couldnt hit me, used my sword isntead of trying to use spells
Just strolled through Shrine of Amana like I owned the place.
I can barely move and dodge the spells there now. Not the auto lock on hell of vanilla. I was worried they'd turn the difficulty up a notch.
Overall I think except for early-game, most areas are much easier. I prefer the new placements more though, they seem to flow better and make the world feel more alive (love certain doors being guarded and the trees of giants being attacked, etc)
I can barely move and dodge the spells there now. Not the auto lock on hell of vanilla. I was worried they'd turn the difficulty up a notch.
Overall I think except for early-game, most areas are much easier. I prefer the new placements more though, they seem to flow better and make the world feel more alive (love certain doors being guarded and the trees of giants being attacked, etc)
Augemitbutter
Member
i finished so much today.
did 20 kills for the bell cov.
20 for sunbros.
cleared iron keep. i don't think it's harder than vanilla. i died when i suddenly got 3 katana guys beside me. the other death was thanks to a turtle guy who knocked me into the lava, lol. oh yea some invader spirit totally cheesed me too. smelter is still fun.
got all nps in majula now.
did 20 kills for the bell cov.
20 for sunbros.
cleared iron keep. i don't think it's harder than vanilla. i died when i suddenly got 3 katana guys beside me. the other death was thanks to a turtle guy who knocked me into the lava, lol. oh yea some invader spirit totally cheesed me too. smelter is still fun.
got all nps in majula now.
and finished! guess I didnt give rage quit this afternoon afterall lol. oh souls games...
Game is BY FAR the hardest in the series imo, and I have no problem admiting that I would never kill many of these bosses without coop, especially as a mage.
Im not sure what I missed, I know there is a
, I didnt do that. And I didnt do
. Or
. But those are all so removed from the narrative that I struggle to care tbh. I did kill the
Like
theres no reason at all to attack him, dude is a bro >_>
Anyway, game probably stands as my favorite in the series (what can I say), and this new version is better imo. The DLC areas are amazing but way too hard, but I guess thats what actual good souls players want so I wont bitch about it
oh and hey From, you can take your unskipable credits and you can shove them >_>
Game is BY FAR the hardest in the series imo, and I have no problem admiting that I would never kill many of these bosses without coop, especially as a mage.
Im not sure what I missed, I know there is a
2 tiger boss in the snow place
Darklurker
Ancient Dragon
blue smelter, sir alonne, fime knight, those 3 fuckers in the cave, vendrick and the new last boss
Like
Ancient Dragon,
Anyway, game probably stands as my favorite in the series (what can I say), and this new version is better imo. The DLC areas are amazing but way too hard, but I guess thats what actual good souls players want so I wont bitch about it
oh and hey From, you can take your unskipable credits and you can shove them >_>
D
Deleted member 752119
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http://kotaku.com/long-ignored-dark-souls-2-glitch-is-finally-getting-fix-1698512244
They're patching the weapon durability glitch. I just started. Will dick around some more but probably mostly wait for it to release.
They're patching the weapon durability glitch. I just started. Will dick around some more but probably mostly wait for it to release.