It's really this games ice rapier or mastodon/helix pre nerf.
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Dark Souls III |OT+2| Why Can't We Poise the Game?
- Thread starter Tarkus
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I ended up beating the game to finish up my Slab sweep and now I just need to take down the Nameless king.
Who is still a fuck, in case you all forgot.
Edit: beat him. It's amazing how downright trivial some of the hardest bosses can become if you aren't greedy for hits. I usually just rail on the bosses until usual they back off. It means I get hit a lot, but I actually prefer this fighting style. But it just doesn't work with the nameless king. He doesn't give a fuck, you can't out muscle him. But you decide to back off after 1 or 2 hits, sudden you can dance around him.
Who is still a fuck, in case you all forgot.
Edit: beat him. It's amazing how downright trivial some of the hardest bosses can become if you aren't greedy for hits. I usually just rail on the bosses until usual they back off. It means I get hit a lot, but I actually prefer this fighting style. But it just doesn't work with the nameless king. He doesn't give a fuck, you can't out muscle him. But you decide to back off after 1 or 2 hits, sudden you can dance around him.
You can simply block the whole game executable with a firewall. That should do it.
GIANKRATOS
Member
The drop rate for the vertebra shackle it's DISGUSTING. It's like an hour and a half that I'm farming in these f catacombs and i've only got one. ONE! I have 41 luck, the simbol of avarice, the gold serpent ring +2 and i'm using rusted coins. I'm getting sick and tired of this game. Bravo From. /Rant
The drop rate of any covenant item is disgusting.
The perfect Dark
Banned
There aren't many players on Xbox One anymore, right? I'm right before Cathedral of the Deep and I haven't found one single summoning sign. And I don't get invaded at all...and I need invasions to get the Seed of a Giant Tree, right?
GIANKRATOS
Member
Yeah, but this is on another level. In an hour and a half i could probably farm (with my stats and gear) like 7-8 proofs of a concord well kept or 5 sunlight medals, but this is insane. I can't even make a good amount of Souls with those skeletons that I'm killing...
You should try to find someone to farm them with you (you just summon each other and let yourself get killed). It's what I did - I'd never have had the willpower to do it otherwise.
GIANKRATOS
Member
Eh, sadly at the moment i don't have an internet connection... And to be honest i don't like to pay to play online (I play on PS4).
Don't you play PvP? I'm not very good at it but it was still way better to earn them in PvP
The covenants you have to farm because the fucking system is broken are bad enough.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Why would you farm shackles?
Just PvP, invasions or duels.
Just PvP, invasions or duels.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Good question.
They're playing offline, so they can't do that.
Still. Good fucking question.
I don't really play online much either, but it's really worth it for farming shackles since you'll literally save 10 hours of your time. But yeah, not having internet is a bit of an issue. Although, if I were you I'd just wait until I got internet access again haha
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I got all items on PC, by just invading and co-op. The thought of farming all covenant items offline just hurts my head.
But, hey, is a free world.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yup, well except proofs and wolf things 'cause I almost never got summoned as those, but who cares. On my main invader (the guy I PvPed with you guys last night) I have 699 pale tongues, 60+ forked tongues and like 100 shackles, lol
Sure, and I'm free to laugh/SMH at people who spend countless hours doing something so utterly boring.
I farmed for every single damn ear. Probably like 5 hours of killing those 3 silver knights over and over and over and over and over and over
and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
Fuck those fucking ears.
Got everything else the "normal" way.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Sucker!
I feel it follows similar trend to the prior two where it doesn't ramp up until the later NG+'s
I avoided NG+ for all 3 of my characters for no good reason. I was expecting a Bloodborne type increase in difficulty.
CountAntonius
Member
Ashen Ones,
A new regulation version will be deployed for Dark Souls III on November 11th for all platforms, it will include the highly requested nerfs of the Carthus Curved Sword and the Follower Sabre! Please find below the complete patchnotes:
Fixed an issue where bleeding damage could not be inflicted with Eleonora.
Fixed an issue where Faith did not scale correctly for Friede's Great Scythe.
Increased players resistance to physical attacks when equipping Ultra Greatswords, Great Hammers, and Greataxes.
Increased players resistance to physical attacks, and increased damage done to opponents guard when equipping Halberds.
Reduced attack power of the Carthus Curved Sword and the Follower Sabre.
Increased power of the Way of White Corona.
Increased the area of effect for Bursting Fireball.
Increased length of effect for Charcoal Pine Bundle and Gold Pine Bundle.
May the Flame guide your way!
A new regulation version will be deployed for Dark Souls III on November 11th for all platforms, it will include the highly requested nerfs of the Carthus Curved Sword and the Follower Sabre! Please find below the complete patchnotes:
Fixed an issue where bleeding damage could not be inflicted with Eleonora.
Fixed an issue where Faith did not scale correctly for Friede's Great Scythe.
Increased players resistance to physical attacks when equipping Ultra Greatswords, Great Hammers, and Greataxes.
Increased players resistance to physical attacks, and increased damage done to opponents guard when equipping Halberds.
Reduced attack power of the Carthus Curved Sword and the Follower Sabre.
Increased power of the Way of White Corona.
Increased the area of effect for Bursting Fireball.
Increased length of effect for Charcoal Pine Bundle and Gold Pine Bundle.
May the Flame guide your way!
Just to clarify that means Poise.
I know.
Pandora012
Member
I don't even see the point of having a faith requirement. It's just a waste.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
That's really BS, they already have tons of hyperarmour with it, especially with the lag. It's almost impossible to interrupt GS attacks with smaller weapons. No wonder everyone in the arena uses UGS... -_-
dat ODK skip https://clips.twitch.tv/distortion2/CrowdedCodHassanChop
any point in faith above the minimum requirement gave you 0 bonus damage, even at 99 faith.
any point in faith above the minimum requirement gave you 0 bonus damage, even at 99 faith.
I always wonder how people even discover this stuff.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Meh, I think that UGS are still to slow. With some weapons, you can get hit on hyperarmor/poise and the other player will have enough frames to roll out to safety. That's bullshit.
There's also the high stamina cost vs how easily is to roll out their attacks.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I almost literally never escape stunlock from UGS. If I get hit once, the next hit will connect 95% of the time (when it doesn't it's when, by sheer luck, I'm juuuust outside of the hitbox and the first hit got me through lag/phantom range to begin with). And two hits from an UGS melts your health bar even at high VIG.
I also never manage to interrupt an UGS attack. Often, I attack well first, but they still poise through and we trade hits, but of course the stunlock gets me and not them and then I eat the second hit.
I also never manage to interrupt an UGS attack. Often, I attack well first, but they still poise through and we trade hits, but of course the stunlock gets me and not them and then I eat the second hit.
Wow, crazy!
Tarkus
Member
Yup, unless you're out of reach or at a weird angle, two R1s from an ultra are always a true combo.
Even then I wouldn't count out weird angles in pvp only out of reach / sheer luck are the only options unless you get someone who relies a bit to heavily on the weapon arts.
afternoon delight
Member
While I'm waiting for the GOTY edition to play this, I was wondering as I die endlessly in DS1's Great Hollow- does DS3 retain DS2's loss of health in increments upon death? I liked it in theory but in practice I usually ended up at the bottom of its limit pretty quickly.
RyanardoDaVinci
Member
Nope. You get an additional % of health whenever you burn an Ember or defeat a boss and you'll lose that % if you die, needing another Ember/boss kill to regain it.
afternoon delight
Member
Awesome, thank you!
Tarkus
Member
It's a quality weapon, with both dex and str. I would wait and see what the patch does to it before investing a slab. You know it was nerfed. It looks like it was not affected that much. Still, keep that in mind.
Should I +9 it?
Tarkus
Member
Yup. It melted bosses before. I'm sure it still does the same with Carthus Rouge.
Red Liquorice
Member
Wow, they're really lenient with NPC summons in DS3, I just took Eygon all the way into Farron Keep to fight Heysel. I assumed like earlier games he would've leashed at a natural area barrier but he followed me right through. Kind of makes me want to see how far you can take an NPC in the world!
Pimmsy tried taking him into Farron Keep the front way - he died trying to follow her down the ladder.
Technically, if you cleared out everything in the way the barrier would canonically be Irithyll.
Zera_Bloodwinter
Member
Need this 4k ps4 pro patch From, need it soon! Hopefully the same can be done for Bloodborne, that would be a real site to see.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Huh? No, there'd be a fog at the boss doors (Abyss Watchers, Wolnir) blocking long before that.