That's why I haven't cured my hollowing or defeated the last boss on my second character. Hoping that there is something Londor related and Yuria gives you new items or something.
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Dark Souls III |OT+2| Why Can't We Poise the Game?
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That's why I haven't cured my hollowing or defeated the last boss on my second character. Hoping that there is something Londor related and Yuria gives you new items or something.
That sounds horrible, if you ask me. More like your standard JRPG stuff.
Angelic themes are "idealized" in DS3 IMO, considering we see a Primordial Serpent all "angelized" when we truly know they weren't. Only the feathers everywhere on Lothric are truly angelic.
About 1, the Deep is not an area per se,so I don't know how they would do it. I'ts like the Abyss, in that sense.
Londor seems a safe bet though.
Btw, I don't expect anything to be shown at E3. Considering Fall release (maybe close to when BB DLC released) it makes more sense to announce it at TGS.
Cannon Goose
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That feeling when you absolutely melt a host as their blue is running up to try and save them... beautiful.
Thanks folks! Your tips helped me a lot, I managed to beat the drake a multiple times after a lot of tries.
At one point, probably around hour 10 or 12 of fighting JUST NK, I got to my limit and summoned a couple of players. One of us died right at the end and I ALMOST died (close!) We managed beat him. What a relief!!!
I did NOT enjoy NK at all. Too much above my limits as a gamer. I'm not a great DS player but not a newbie, played all games but Demon Souls, and most of the time have no troubles at all with PVE. If it wasn't for the community and co-op, would never, ever got even close to beat the NK, ever. Not sure if this is great, inclusive design for ALL fans, but get it they did it as a treat for the most skilled players. The fact it was optional says a lot. Besides NK, loved every second of the game, for me best in the series, hands down.
Chaos2Frozen
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You know about the Dancer's swords... more than the nerf to the L2 or the low dmg output, the main thing that eventually turns me off about the weapon is start up swing speed of the L1. Compared to the sellsword/warden Twinblades I've been using before there's like a half second longer on the start up time and that really makes all the difference.
I ended up switching back to my Wardens and I made quick work of the consumed king.
I guess I should switch my plans and get Gotthard first as my endgame weapon.
I ended up switching back to my Wardens and I made quick work of the consumed king.
I guess I should switch my plans and get Gotthard first as my endgame weapon.
Red Liquorice
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Glad you got through it, it was tough for most of us I think. I bet you wouldn't have nearly as much trouble on another playthrough, I've found NK to be far less of a headache on repeated playthroughs.
StoppedInTracks
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Grats man!
Nameless Bastard was the only boss that killed me 10 times in NG+ and 6 times in NG++.
Hardest boss in the game for sure.
Morrigan Stark
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I love it when you have a host on the ropes and an over eager blue just runs into your parry and gets 1 shot.
How did you do that? You must be cheating!
Obviously I used the auto parry cheat on my action replay.
DarkHeartedKill
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He's probably the type of scrub that would hit someone while they're in hyperarmour, get his faced melted, and say he's reporting them for hacking poise in or something.
KittenMaster
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To inspire hope.
Arjen
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Well if you're really dedicated to your Artorias cosplay I guess you could use it. If you don't mind wasting a ring slot.
It does nothing, poise is non existent.
Tarkus
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To help you when From finally turns on poise in a patch
It's on but "poise" isn't poise in the typical sense it's only applied to roll iframes so it's agility from DS2 more or less.
Tarkus
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I want what the enemies have. Specifically, what the knights have.
DarkHeartedKill
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Relaxed Muscle
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Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Weird thing is that certain attacks break their pose and others don't for no apparent reason. For example, when I combo a knight with a non-heavy weapon, usually the third strike and onwards no longer breaks poise and they can attack through it. But if I restart my attacks, or add a pause so it goes back to my first animation, those attacks will break poise again. Shit makes no sense.
DarkHeartedKill
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R.I.P poise
2011-2016
Not sure if Demon's Souls had poise, and Dark Souls II still kinda had poise...
bloodborne doesn't count because it ain't Souls!
That theory's been disproven.
KittenMaster
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Demon's Souls used hyper armor on attacks, from what I heard.
Morrigan Stark
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Correct. Very few attacks though. Only certain specific attacks from the greataxe/Meat Cleaver moveset (two-handed r1 and r2), and maybe certain specific attacks from the greatsword/DBS moveset but I forgot which (1h rolling r1 maybe).
The more I fight UGS users the more I think it's a good thing poise is off. It'd be completely broken otherwise. UGS hit crazy hard, have stunlock, and hyper armour to not just specific attacks but pretty much all of them. Adding poise would be complete overkill.
Heavy armor is a blessing for NPCs.
The issue is that it's completely pointless to wear heavy armor, the difference in damage absorption is minimal between heavy and light armor, from decided to make it so that wearing anything provides flat defense, wearing master's attire provides the exact same defense as Havel's Set.
There is a difference in absorption though, but the soft cap is so low that light armor gets very close to it.
If you tie poise to armor it means that fast weapons can benefit from it which isn't a good idea TBH.
If they put poise into armors, they need to do something to counter balance it like give fast weapons negative poise or/and make it impossible to roll while having a certain amount of poise.
rbFrosty did an excellent video where he explains why the current situation isn't bad balance-wise.
The thing that bothers me the most in DS3 is Yaol's quest. Why the hell force players to gains 5 levels to do it? This is the dumbest decision From did since soul memory.
If it was me, I would do the exact opposite, make Yaol level you down instead of up. Leveling down is reversible whereas leveling up isn't. That way not only it keeps the same flavor but also gives you a way to decrease your level if you want.
Leveling down can be abused though (like it was in Demon's Souls with King Allant).
Not really since you're limited to 5/playthrough.
DarkHeartedKill
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They should just remove the five levels from you if you heal the dark sign. Simple solution. If you want to be beef jerky you keep the five levels. If you want your waifu back, you lose those five levels. Helps if you screw up the quest line like I did, I wanted to stay at 125 but now I'm 135.
Anyways I got bored and decided to do "reverse hacking" basically you wear rings that decrease your damage absorption and you go naked(I use loin cloth because it looks better than those white underwear thing they give you). I have -173 absorption and pretty much instadie from any hit. Some people's reactions are hilarious they just stand there like...da fuq? Or they add me and say what just happened?
Anyways I got bored and decided to do "reverse hacking" basically you wear rings that decrease your damage absorption and you go naked(I use loin cloth because it looks better than those white underwear thing they give you). I have -173 absorption and pretty much instadie from any hit. Some people's reactions are hilarious they just stand there like...da fuq? Or they add me and say what just happened?
Morrigan Stark
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DarkHeartedKill
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DAMN GONKERS! Dey ruined my reverse hacking shannagins 
Gankers that black crystal their friends then resummon them are so fucking annoying. I'm crystaling out as soon as I see that their friends are scaled down.
At SL35 no less holy shit how desperate do you have to be to win.
Edit: WOW I managed to beat them with the help of 2 others after invading again.
At SL35 no less holy shit how desperate do you have to be to win.
Edit: WOW I managed to beat them with the help of 2 others after invading again.
Morrigan Stark
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Why do they do that? To refill Estus or something?
Exactly that. Imagine fighting a host with 2 summons, 1 with full Gundyrs at probably SL120 so I do like 80 damage to him, and they have infinite estus. Also every time I whittled one down enough to kill them another invader would die giving them 1 more flask.
From really needs to fix this bullshit.
So 10-15 estus on the host, 7+7 on the summons that keep being resummoned. Oh and the world was seeded. How on earth are you supposed to win if you don't parry with the hornet ring or do a 1000 damage combo?
KittenMaster
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Randomized stat playthrough small update... I'm exhausted of dying to Dancer and getting worse at fighting her as I continue. I'm gonna make progress elsewhere and come back later.
Morrigan Stark
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Meh. If I keep running into that kind of group repeatedly, I just invade somewhere else.
I feel like this video sums up the problems with invasions right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDUnwfx0LNA
Or anything else with quickstep but it is good though got to give it that.The answer to all your poise, hyper armor, and UGS problems is a weapon that rhymes with crawl lax
Tarkus
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Yes, I think the weapon has the highest AR of the quickstep weapons. Attacks are faster than claws as well.
No From Soft games thus far at E3
DarkHeartedKill
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I haven't been keeping up with E3 :/. I saw the trailer for the new South Park game though, the humor is amazing.
This video is so spot on, Random Invading in this game is such a bummer.
Morrigan Stark
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Oh I've seen that. Everything he says is correct, but as I said in the other thread, I still find it far more fun than in the other games. For one thing, invaders had 0 estus in DS1 and DS2 so at least now we can heal. For another thing, it's just really satisfying to take out squads, whether it's by using terrain, enemies, or just exploiting the fact that most players are terrible at PvP.
And then the fact that you can have 2v2 or more in areas other than specific covenants is really cool.I mean hell, I'm gonna link to my video again, just because it highlights why I fell in love with invading. Moments like that are just so. much. fun. xD