DarkHeartedKill
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Dark Souls III |OT+2| Why Can't We Poise the Game?
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Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
You mean helping questers? If you were camping around for invaders then shame on you.
Was he summoned as a mad phantom? If not, then it wasn't an NPC but a player cosplaying him I guess.
Thanks for the advice
I haven't really leveled my DEX at all now that I think about it.Relaxed Muscle
Member
Probably your host thought he was summoning another victim of your ganking spree and he was actually an NPC.
At that point of the game knight Hodrick is vicious, way more stronger than any other foe in the forrest.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
If I remember right, there isn't any spells, armor, weapon or ring there.
I think one item is a poison gem and some other minor stuff.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Frankly don't remember, I think there is a tome on the roof or drop down from the roof.
I just put my white sign and helped the host. we were invaded by another 20 gankers too so it was a fair game
host was probably on NG+4 or more
that Hodrick was as tough as that guy from Sirris quest.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Okay fair enough. It's just your phrasing that made me wonder. I don't consider it ganking to fight off invaders when you are playing normally, only when you are camping around waiting for invaders and try to, well, gank them.I just put my white sign and helped the host. we were invaded by another 20 gankers too so it was a fair game
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
I feel like 2-handed and no shield isn't as rewarding in this game as in previous games. Unless you have around 30 Vitality, enemies will start easily killing you in 1-2 hits at the castle, and the enemies in general are much faster and more aggressive than in the first game, while the player isn't. Also them breaking out of stunlock to use an attack that has hyper armor/ hyper poise/ whatever and dealing massive counterattack damage to you.
zedreamcast
Member
So I've been having trouble with the PC version of DS3 where my keep just freezes for a couple seconds and It's been causing trouble for me, and I just heard that it was a bug? But i've been playing today and I think it wasn't really happening but i dunno if the problem was fixed.
Also I wanted to start a faith build but i heard faith is garbage.
Also I wanted to start a faith build but i heard faith is garbage.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
That's why if you want to 2-hand something might as well use the biggest thing that is like Greatsword or Fume or Greataxe. I've been using them to great effect, especially the latter two. Fume's charged R2 is *realllllly* ace: humongous range, and it knocks out almost everything instantly, making a joke of the knights/red-eyed knights.
The latest patch has been known to cause heavy stutters in PC.
Also, faith is garbage insofar if you expect to use them as an offensive tool. Use it as support mainly and some of the spells can help you (and others playing with you) greatly.
zedreamcast
Member
Thats upsetting, i wanted to shoot lighting out of my hands.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Dark Souls 2 nerfed offensive miracles into the ground, and Dark Souls 3 hit magic pretty hard in general.
They've removed the problem patch, you shouldn't be getting any long freezing stutters. The only ones you should be experiencing are smaller loading stutters when crossing certain loading lines or accessing the menu. This is as it was since launch.
Nah, lightning spears etc were pretty OP in Vanilla DkS2. I literally destroyed all the bosses and enemies with a faith build in NG+. Dunno if Scholars changed that.
zedreamcast
Member
Yeah i think i noticed that today, i dont THINK i was getting a lot today but most of that was me fighting a boss that was giving me a shit load of trouble...yeah i dont think i got any stuttering at all during that fight.
Well it certainly starts off terribly weak but it's rather hilarious how easy it makes I
rithyll
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Well... like, for example, the strongest lighting shooting spell that you can get is from the last boss. Moreover, lightning-shooting spells do greater damage the closer you are to the target, so it's a bit funny that way.
That said there are ways if you want to raise an offensive minded Faith character, but not through spells, but through weapons. Some of the weapons that scale with Faith can be highly devastating, and with if you infuse Lightning gems to certain weapons you can cause massive damage with your high faith--although, important to be noted, you can't find Lightning Gems until much later into the game, and those weapons I mentioned are largely end-game material as well, so yeah.
So, support: there are a good number of support Miracles in this game that will make your life a lot easier than otherwise, such as the various healing spell or buff spells or spell that will save you from death with 1 hp per cast, which can be valuable in many situations.
zedreamcast
Member
I saw a video where the dude is just Joseph Joestar, i wanted to do that.
deletethis123
Banned
Concords are breaking me, but almost halfway there. I got 8 today, will probably try tomorrow for some more. Hopefully I'll be able to start NG+ by the weekend.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Easily the most boring shit I've ever done in this game.
Equipping Golden Covetous Ring+2, Helm of Avarice, left-hand with Crystal Sage and right-hand with my preferred weapon. Crushing coins every two runs killing two Silver Knights.
It's bad, although admittedly not that bad.
Meccs
Member
Yeah, I'm a panic roller sometimes. Especially in PvP. If you have just a tiny bit of health, it's really hard to get away. I've never figured it out. They just hold on to the sprint button and catch you. I also often times think "I didn't press that button two times, why did I swing two times?" or same with roll. I must be button mashing without noticing... it's really annoying.Here's a perfect example of panic rolling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrYjGhb8pvY
It's the NKameless. So if you fought that boss, watch awaying fight
thefragrance
Member
I just put my white sign and helped the host. we were invaded by another 20 gankers too so it was a fair game
I've been doing the same recently! For a while I was the one invading, now I wanted to have the real fun by helping the host. The peak is definitely the best spot for this with invaders coming in every second. A lot of times each summon has to solo every incoming invader, making it a 1v1 type of deal. I was on a roll until some dude with twin blades, buffed with lightning one-shotted me. Wish I knew what he was equipped with.
I'm gonna try it out. I went with the Astora sword after switching to a quality build and haven't looked back.
KittenMaster
Member
Watch the last 5 minutes of the latest Ep. Then you'll understand.
They got nerfed hard a couple of months after release (before SOTFS).
Piromancy turns good relatively early, when you reach the Lake and get the Chaos Fireball.
Red Liquorice
Member
I've been farming covenant rewards in NG, is it worth waiting until NG++ for the +2 ring? I'm already using Crystal Rapier, Symbol of Avarice and regular Gold ring.
DS2 had some asshole-ish grinding for covenants, but the drops rates in DS3 seem, just mean tbh. Like every item is sub-Channeler's Trident in terms of drop rate. Urgh.
KittenMaster
Member
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Spent a long night of PvP with my new sword & board character in the Crucifixtion Woods. It can get absolutely insane in there. Much fun was had. Heavy Dark Sword is pretty beastly.
Some host was hiding in my last invasion and red phantom and I killed like 5 darkmoon members and the host never showed up to help them
this is sad because the poor guys were probably waiting for ages for this to get covenant items
I returned to my world after another 10mins of searching for him/her.
this is sad because the poor guys were probably waiting for ages for this to get covenant items
I returned to my world after another 10mins of searching for him/her.
Arjen
Member
An elevator in the late game. It goes up and down.
Some reason thought they were talking about cathedral of the deep heh.
Tarkus
Member
No host would participate
Meccs
Member
How much Endurance do you guys have at lower levels for melee builds? My new character is currently SL65 and I think I try to finish the game at SL69. I don't really see the need for going over 20 at the moment (with Ring of Favor). I usually use the BKG and the Carthus Curved sword but even with a UGS I can do two 2H swings and dodge which seem to be enough for PvP. My other characters at that level had like 25 or something which works of course a bit better for PvE but you shouldn't unload in PvP anyway. What do you think?
Relaxed Muscle
Member
IMO for UGS and other heavy weapons, you really need a lot of endurance. Having 20 limits your gameplay greatly and makes you more vulnerable. You probably can't do 2 R2 thow handed attacks and still have enough stamina (dependind on which UGS, but I'd say is highly likely), on in other similar scenarios.
That said, if you don't plan to go that high and want to stay in low range for PVP (75 or so), is not worth it and better stay around 20. Because a few more points won't make a real diference. I'm talking about getting like 35+ endurance or so.
Meccs
Member
So people do the ring gifting grey area thing? Seems more common than I thought. Still hesitant a bit... anyone on PC that would do "the thing"?
Yeah, I'll leave it at 20 and see how it goes. 20 is enough for the BKG and Carthus Curved combo.
For the Carthus 20 feels enough for me too. My SL 50 and 80 have 18 and 20 end.
Meccs
Member
Yeah, even for the Black Knight Glaive it's enough to do the R2, R1, L2, R2 combo if you have the Ring of Favor equipped. I could always respec. Might even stay at SL65 now.