Bloodporne
Member
I don't even know what's going on in this video haha...tiny amount of health, hype rmode, weird body!? I have no clue what this all means sadly!
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Dark Souls III |OT+2| Why Can't We Poise the Game?
- Thread starter Tarkus
- Start date
I don't even know what's going on in this video haha...tiny amount of health, hype rmode, weird body!? I have no clue what this all means sadly!
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I'm not exactly sure why, but I kind of despise players who do this. It's incredibly eye-rolling.
Elysium-777
Member
It lasts until you either die, or bonfire out of the area. Outside of that, there isn't a way to stop the effects.
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4qkznz/regulation_version_109_july_1st/
Are Dark Sword and Anri's Straight sword gonna be dead on July 1st?
Are Dark Sword and Anri's Straight sword gonna be dead on July 1st?
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Dank Sword nerf, Hornet Ring nerf, and more Faith build buffs? Praise it!
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Elysium-777
Member
I like that Greatsword of Judgement is getting buffed. Assuming it's any good, I might switch to it from the MLGS.
Edit: eh, just checked and the movesets are exactly the same. Even both weapon arts on the GoJ are the same as the L2 and R2 on the MLGS. Might only switch if the AR difference is significant.
Edit: eh, just checked and the movesets are exactly the same. Even both weapon arts on the GoJ are the same as the L2 and R2 on the MLGS. Might only switch if the AR difference is significant.
neoism
Member
Boobahzone
Member
Is Lucerne considered a "shield-piercing weapon?" R2's seem to go through shields.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
It is a shield piercing weapon with the R2.
Boobahzone
Member
So with this patch will R1s do shield pierce?
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Noooo not Anri's Sword nerf 
Any curved sword/greatsword that do guard-breaking arts, by any chance?
Any curved sword/greatsword that do guard-breaking arts, by any chance?
Tarkus
Member
Did you kill with just the combo?
Claymore, Mirrah...There's quite a few I believe.Noooo not Anri's Sword nerf
Any curved sword/greatsword that do guard-breaking arts, by any chance?
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I should have emphasized the "curved" part, I suppose...
Tarkus
Member
In that case, no.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
No, I got a couple of hits before that, but it would have killed him I think, or very close.
Tarkus
Member
I want to try it really bad. Unfortunately I'm out of slabs on one build and the other build couldn't use this weapon because of stats and weight. Maybe I can find a nice person with a save backup who would drop me one at +5.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Wat? That shit already hurts
Hmm I wonder if they'll fix the auto-summoning
Nope, never gonna happen </3
neoism
Member
dat name 😎
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Played some more with my cancer build:
Man, the Gotthard's Twinswords are so good. I already knew it from fighting against them, but now I'm actually getting to use them. I'm doing way better in PvP. Add a greatshield (I'm still using Yhorm's) and you can handle pretty much anything, even Dark Sword spam. The greatshield allows you to safely circle people and punish them for mistakes. I killed 2 invaders with backstabs after they tried to parry me. The Estoc is definitely really good too; the weapon skill is fantastic at finishing people off, especially since people expect you to R1 spam with it. I mainly use the Estoc for finishing people off. The Gotthard's just have a way more fun moveset.
Man, the Gotthard's Twinswords are so good. I already knew it from fighting against them, but now I'm actually getting to use them. I'm doing way better in PvP. Add a greatshield (I'm still using Yhorm's) and you can handle pretty much anything, even Dark Sword spam. The greatshield allows you to safely circle people and punish them for mistakes. I killed 2 invaders with backstabs after they tried to parry me. The Estoc is definitely really good too; the weapon skill is fantastic at finishing people off, especially since people expect you to R1 spam with it. I mainly use the Estoc for finishing people off. The Gotthard's just have a way more fun moveset.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Wat? That shit already hurts
Wat?
Is does like 300 dmg on my 60FTH build, is totally shit considering how long is the animation (your enemy can drink a cup of tea and still have enough time for a backstab), I don't care it cost that little FP. Is garbage as now.
Luckily one of my characters on PC had a +5. TBH took me a few tries, my brain always goes R1 after getting a R1 hit, so I had to adjust for a bit lol.
UGS Revengeance, I'm gonna use it until it gets nerfed.
IKR
Felt good owning him, stay losing DKS2!!!
Elysium-777
Member
Hope they don't nerf Obscuring Ring too much. I like smacking people with CSS, when they can't see me.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Cannon Goose
Member
Sounds like an excellent patch!
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Unno someone used it on me once and shit melted my face. MOVING ON!
At first when I read they were increasing the distance for obscuring ring I was like "o ffs! That shit already is ann-o wait...that means they have to be further AWAY which is a good thing! WOOHOO!"
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I'm not sure what poise does, but I feel it helps a lot. If you gonna use heavy weapons you need wolf ring. Period.
That said BK Greatsword marvelous combo is not as awesome, second hit range is VERY SHORT, unlike the infamous glaive combo in which every hit had excellent range, to get the second hit with the UGS, oponents needs to be very near.
Basically it's quite limited, but yeah, if it hits is devastating.
That said BK Greatsword marvelous combo is not as awesome, second hit range is VERY SHORT, unlike the infamous glaive combo in which every hit had excellent range, to get the second hit with the UGS, oponents needs to be very near.
Basically it's quite limited, but yeah, if it hits is devastating.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
The obscuring ring nerf makes me really sad, actually. It was completely unnecessary.
VexMythoclast
Banned
Welp, time to disable automatic patch download. I never even got a chance to get the hornet ring and its getting nerfed.
Should do barring unforeseeable issues.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Getting hit by magic by invisible people made me buttmad
Dude hornets ring ruined people. It pretty much one-shot anyone. Hopefully they nerf it enough to still be viable though, I wouldn't want it to be super useless, just not powerful enough to be a crutch.
Tarkus
Member
Yeah, totally agree. I'm not sure how people have fun by ending a duel in 10 seconds.
VexMythoclast
Banned
I'm sure its warranted for PVP, i'm a PVE only player and just got the game one week ago so I wanted to see what the buzz was about.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
I only have fun doing that when I do my reverse hacker play lol.
Ah, fair enough. The buss is mainly around PvP because people are upset it at one-shotting em. Not sure if it's used often in PvE and I don't think it affects bosses.
Cannon Goose
Member
I agree that it's not great for duels but it's a valuable tool for invaders when facing multiple opponents. Maybe the increased critical damage on daggers will make up for it.
neoism
Member
lol nah ds2 is my fav one Kappa
Haha good one.
sotodefonk
Member
well i think my game just bugged....
I reached Anor londo, and killed the boss Aldrich, but just as she casted the arrow rain skill, and it killed me after killing the boss, but a cutscene kicked in, saying that Lothric was on my hands or some shit, but then I just spawned dying in front of a dying woman.
Spawned on my last bonfire, went back to the boss room, and there is no path to reach there, and i dont see any new spot to teleport to... where is that woman? can i only reach there when the game teleported me? what can i do?
Spawned on my last bonfire, went back to the boss room, and there is no path to reach there, and i dont see any new spot to teleport to... where is that woman? can i only reach there when the game teleported me? what can i do?
Elysium-777
Member
She's in the building opposite the
Vordt
sotodefonk
Member
nice! thanks a lot, gonna check it out right now
kaos.
Member
LOL. Hyper mode is a callback to Demon's souls where you start multiplying attack buffs and yet decrease your defense. You become a "glass cannon" i.e. you do incredible damage but are vulnerable as hell. Its a fun way to play for experienced players who enjoy the challenge of getting in quick before the enemy can get a shot in on you.
Things "going on" in the video:
Luck Build using anri's sword with 42 luck and in that video iirc 25 dex.
Morion blade in off hand gives 20% buff to attack power at lower than 20% health, hence the low HP in the video.
Same for REd tearstone ring
Fully hollow adds 5 points of luck for free
Flynn's ring adds what works out to ~10% more attack power at low equip load, hence no armour, (and you will be two shot with low health and denial on regardless so why worry about armour anyway.)
Dragon head stone gives 10% attack buff when charged (also gives a force effect which can repel knives in PVP) and raises some resistances while decreasing lightning resist
(dragons are weak to lightning in this game) - hence the dragon skin.
Denial miracle allows a second chance on life if you lose all your health which is particularly useful for low health hyper mode
Bleed gets more build up faster in enemies when you have a high luck stat so the carthus rouge is a good buff to use...you can see it helps destroy Aldrich quickly in the video.
wait...after re-watching did pontiffs eye actually help me with the successive attack damage?!?!? It looks like I did a strike there that was much higher damage toward the end despite at least one earlier bleed providing less....always thought pontiffs was useless so took it off.
The issue isn't the ring itself, it's the fact that it's used with UGS, Great Axes and such for a great effect.
Make hornet ring only work with small weapons.
Problem solved.
Red Liquorice
Member
This has been a request I've seen (probably by your goodself!) since DS1, and I agree - make it work similar to the Leo Ring.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I disagree, Heavy slow weapons, like UGS needs a defense against faster weapons, and that is the parry. Maybe hornet is too stronk, but also is a goodamn Goddard Twinswords that can take of you like 1/3 HP with a fucking roll into L1, with buffs and leo's ring and then you are like «why I have an UGS at all when I can have that at much less weight, faster, less stamina consumption and deceiving long reach» and the answer is «because If I can get a parry or a hit on that fucker he's done».
Parry are easy to punish, parries are unreliable and they aren't that useful against a smart player, but also is a deterrent for shitty spamming tactics and battle arts.
Maybe it shouldn't be a one hit kill, but the whole point of heavy weapons is hitting hard, so if get a parry on a stupid dork sword user I expect that he's gonna receive a lot of damage.