Robot Pants
Member
Someone want to drop me 15 proofs?
They really need to being back the blue eye orb. I hope a patch or dlc adds it
They really need to being back the blue eye orb. I hope a patch or dlc adds it
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Dark Souls III |OT+2| Why Can't We Poise the Game?
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KittenMaster
Member
You can use a purging stone to heal your hollowing. IIRC going to NG+ will get rid of the Dark Sigil key item but not your hollowing stat (I guess for characters that want to retain the Luck bonuses).
LowlySmokeGuy
Banned
Pretty sure you can't drop/trade those.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
My best guess to what can fix it is to hollow more if you can, then try to heal the Dark Sigil again.
Can't trade em. I've tried with a friend, I can drop em but he doesn't see them.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
I just finished Cathedral of the Deep, but I went back to read up on some NPCs and realized that (Anri spoilers)
I'm doing the Yoel/Yuria questline, and she mentioned something about Anri, so I want to make sure I didn't screw it up.
I finished Catacombs of Carthus before I did the Cathedral. Does that mean I screwed myself out of the Anri questline? Or will I still be able to meet him later?
from what you wrote you didnt screw it up...but I think you cant tell Anri about
seeing/killing her thug in smoldering lake
a silly statue in the church of yorshka
Anor Londo
KittenMaster
Member
So I started a challenge run of the game, where whenever I go to level up, I have a dice roll determine what stat I level up, and the class is chosen at random as well.
The idea behind the challenge is to have a character that must improvise based on getting "weird" level ups.
I decided not to include classes like Knight and similar classes because they are so capable right at base level, and Deprived is too much of a clean slate, I wanted a sense of stat randomization before the game even started. TBH I was hoping to get Herald as an excuse to play as one.
The dice gave me Sorcerer, which is arguably a challenge class on its own.
Right away I start to understand what people mean by this class having a hard time. It needs both types of estuses more than other characters and runs out of regular estus all the time because it needs to heal if it is so much as sneezed on. It doesn't help that during High Wall, nothing dropped any armor except for a Lothric Shield which I didn't have the strength for.
My first level up after Firelink Shrine gave me Endurance, which was actually pretty good because the Sorcerer starts with a knife, so it makes sense. The Sorcerer can also equip the Rapier off the bat once it's found so it ended up being a great first level up. Unfortunately this character stops being lucky right after.
During different level ups, the dice roller RNG decided that I should level up Int, which was very disappointing, as the RNG had decided that as a Sorcerer, I was going to stay within its playstyle for a little while longer (and now I am past 20 Int so Int will be a big part of my character in the long term). I got a couple of Luck points, but that is a dud stat as of right now. And finally, Vitality which is kind of cool, but the most I can do with it is put on Master's gear to fast roll (which I tried but ended up being suicide as the Thralls with the dart shooters rip my poor wizard apart).
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I might continue to adjust the rules of this challenge, like removing the requirement to infuse a weapon because it's too hard to get infusions without a lot of farming.
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Dark Souls 3 random level up challenge
The rules:
- Starting class is chosen at random (I personally excluded Knight, Warrior, Mercenary, and Deprived)
- Starting gift is chosen at random
- Respecs aren't allowed (obviously)
- Leveling up are only allowed after lighting a new bonfire or unlocking a shortcut that leads
back to a previous bonfire
- When leveling up, roll a 1d9 (or a d10 and use the 10 as a reroll)
that number corresponds to the stat screen in descending order (1 = Vig, 2 = Attn, etc...)
Put all of the points possible in that stat
- Once the Fire Keeper is spoken to, leveling up must be done immediately
- Once trips to supply at the Firelink are finished, a death is committed to reset the souls to 0
- Grinding may be done to buy items but not for leveling
[s]- A weapon must be infused before it can be upgraded[/s]
- Once a weapon is infused, it cannot be given a new infusion
- Any infusion that sacrifices stat scaling for base damage is banned
- Hollowing is banned (Hollow infusion to give weapons luck scaling are not)The idea behind the challenge is to have a character that must improvise based on getting "weird" level ups.
I decided not to include classes like Knight and similar classes because they are so capable right at base level, and Deprived is too much of a clean slate, I wanted a sense of stat randomization before the game even started. TBH I was hoping to get Herald as an excuse to play as one.
The dice gave me Sorcerer, which is arguably a challenge class on its own.
Right away I start to understand what people mean by this class having a hard time. It needs both types of estuses more than other characters and runs out of regular estus all the time because it needs to heal if it is so much as sneezed on. It doesn't help that during High Wall, nothing dropped any armor except for a Lothric Shield which I didn't have the strength for.
My first level up after Firelink Shrine gave me Endurance, which was actually pretty good because the Sorcerer starts with a knife, so it makes sense. The Sorcerer can also equip the Rapier off the bat once it's found so it ended up being a great first level up. Unfortunately this character stops being lucky right after.
During different level ups, the dice roller RNG decided that I should level up Int, which was very disappointing, as the RNG had decided that as a Sorcerer, I was going to stay within its playstyle for a little while longer (and now I am past 20 Int so Int will be a big part of my character in the long term). I got a couple of Luck points, but that is a dud stat as of right now. And finally, Vitality which is kind of cool, but the most I can do with it is put on Master's gear to fast roll (which I tried but ended up being suicide as the Thralls with the dart shooters rip my poor wizard apart).
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I might continue to adjust the rules of this challenge, like removing the requirement to infuse a weapon because it's too hard to get infusions without a lot of farming.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
I have a question for people that have beaten Da
. Do you guys
ncer
Fight dancer right after you defeated your third Cinder boss, or do you run out of the room/homeward out, level up, then come back and fight her? My first playthrough I was like "talking to her is gonna end in bad things happening...let's do it anyway!" -cut scene of dancer crawling from ceiling- CRAP! *start* *quit game* lol
I think the fight triggers when you walk towards the statue in the back. I had to use a homeward bone when I did it because I had like 270k souls lol.
Yeah I do and constantly get the "your message was rated" thing show up
According to my xbox my NAT is Open. Not sure if the relates to NAT type 3, as for the UPNP I'll try that out thanks!
lordfuzzybutt
Member
I had like 4 estus left with half health after
Yhorm, got transported, see the door close, thought "oh fuck me", got awed by Dancer's appearance, decided to fight, got her on 1st try.
I was very lucky. I had way more trouble with that boss when helping people than my solo blind run.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Thanks! Went to the Catacombs and managed to move the quest along. Will keep the other things in mind as I go through the game!
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Damn the same happened with a friend of mine. I went to her after and got my ass handed to me. I'm kind of upset at myself, my blind play through I was so eager to just beat the game I summoned for six bosses. However, I made a new character and I've solo'd two of those six so far
Hmmm. If messages show up, and not even password summons work, you might be softbanned :/
My first time I had just finished beating A
ldrich
StoppedInTracks
Member
Can you even win against Estoc R1 spam? Like is the only viable solution to 2H a Greatshield and turtle the fuck away?
Well if netcode gods are happy and got can parry, that is a way.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
I just noticed that I never got the achievement for beating
despite beating him a couple of days ago on PC. Fuck this broken ass game.
The Nameless King
I played a lot of the alpha so I got her first time without warping. I have more problems helping in coop than solo with that fight :/
That happened for me with the
Usurpation of Fire
Shotgun Kiss
Member
That happened for me with theending achievment because Steam was in offline mode at the timeUsurpation of Fire
Why the fuck doesn't it sync back up when next online?
Hell if I know. It seems some games support that and some don't. Now I definitely won't try to get all achievments so it kinda saved me from farming concords.
KittenMaster
Member
finally! I hope they reduce Miracles FP cost to being close to Piromancies.
Also , let's see if the new Bluebro fix does something...
KittenMaster
Member
Hopefully, I started a challenge run to make a randomized character and the dice roller website RNG made me a sorcerer, lol.
Meccs
Member
Not sure why people consider Black Knight Glaive as OP. It's not more OP than all the Long Swords or Washing Pole, Estoc, Gotthard, Black Knight Axe etc. I also hear everyone uses it in PvP but I'm doing nothing but PvP and probably 1 out of 20 uses a Halberd in PvP at Level 60-90. Halberds are the most fun for me.
Pretty mediocre in gank situations if they rush you though. If you can't keep the space, it's lights out. Haven't found a weapon that counters that yet. Any suggestions, something to try out for good fun?
Pretty mediocre in gank situations if they rush you though. If you can't keep the space, it's lights out. Haven't found a weapon that counters that yet. Any suggestions, something to try out for good fun?
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Can you use the "Reattribute Skills" option to level down? I'm wondering if I could continue to level up past 120 for PvE, and then go back to 120 later.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
They are nering my washing pole
Yeah. I imagine it'll be an increase in Stamina usage and/or slow down the swing speed.
Currently, WP does (roughly) 20-50 points more damage (on a Quality build), has greater range, similar swing speed, and uses exactly the same amount of stamina as any other katana. Nerfing it might make the others a bit more attractive, though I imagine everyone will move to the O&U if they haven't already. Those things are an absolute monster. I wouldn't be surprised if they get another nerf down the road.
Hopefully, they'll beast up the Darkdrift. Seems a bit useless compared to the others at the moment.
KittenMaster
Member
O&U are fantastic in PVE but I find its moveset kind of terrible in PVP, it's a weapon that depends on a high damage output to make up for the moveset.
Nope.
Meccs
Member
5 out of 10 people are lagging like crazy today for some reason. Those people probably think they are good when they kill me from a mile away ...
How do you know? Did I miss something?
Ah found it!
"6. Improved the matching of the Blade of the Darkmoon and the Blue Sentinels covenants."
Lets hope that works! This completely ignores the "Steam family share" thing though....
They are nering my washing pole
How do you know? Did I miss something?
Ah found it!
"6. Improved the matching of the Blade of the Darkmoon and the Blue Sentinels covenants."
Lets hope that works! This completely ignores the "Steam family share" thing though....
Audioboxer
Member
When you know you've opened the wrong door - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxaCcnsjR3o
lol. Hate those guys.
Mild spoilers for P. Capital.
lol. Hate those guys.
Mild spoilers for P. Capital.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Thanks. Shame; now I'm more inclined to just keep levelling for PvE as I'd ultimately like to get all the achievements, and since that requires multiple playthroughs, staying at 120 could eventually make things difficult.
Orthogonal
Member
Wait, what?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I've had pretty good results with them recently with my 40/40 split (+10, no buffs) samurai build in PvP. I love the moveset. L1 tears people to pieces! It's third combo (I think) throws the U out and catches back rolls nicely. Weapon Art is superb for punishing them too.
neoism
Member
Yes you need 30 for those, but not for Aldritch and Rosaria's, which is what he asked
Edit: Looks like it's time to stop farming the knights until tomorrow's patch comes out! Although at almost SL 180, I don't think I'll be cooping much anyway :'(
Goddamn at this pyro guy, his free aim is scary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmvS96B2_xg
Seriously, its like the dude always knows where his rival will go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmvS96B2_xg
Seriously, its like the dude always knows where his rival will go
neoism
Member
awww yisssss.... 😲
No. If your class starts with 11 in something, you'll have at least 11 after respec.
Red Liquorice
Member
Wolfgrass has been the highest yield for me, I run through between Keep Perimeter bonfire and Abyss Watchers door and usually get at least 1 every 2 runs, I got 3 on a single run yesterday. Already got enough Pale Tongues.
I know it's probably just my brain seeing patterns that don't exist, but it seems like the spear or bow SIlver Knights drop concords more than the sword ones. Probably bullshit.
KittenMaster
Member
Playing as a sorcerer for the first time and trying to free aim at stationary targets (which is a lot harder than you would think especially since the way your character faces is such a huge factor in your aim) gave me so much more respect for that player and I already held him in very high regard.
I am bad at this game.
I am slow at this game.
I did however beat the Curse Rotted Greatwood on my 10th (11th?) try and felt good. Thus I don't mind that after 9 hours play I've only just reached the Road of Sacrifice, I'm really enjoying myself.
I think my technique for Dark Souls (and Bloodborne) is basically like taking off stickers, pick away at the corners until you find one where progress seems more likely and then very slowly start to make your move.
I will say though, after taking a break to finish Uncharted 4, holy shit DS3 feels janky in comparison. I've adjusted now, but blimey.
I am slow at this game.
I did however beat the Curse Rotted Greatwood on my 10th (11th?) try and felt good. Thus I don't mind that after 9 hours play I've only just reached the Road of Sacrifice, I'm really enjoying myself.
I think my technique for Dark Souls (and Bloodborne) is basically like taking off stickers, pick away at the corners until you find one where progress seems more likely and then very slowly start to make your move.
I will say though, after taking a break to finish Uncharted 4, holy shit DS3 feels janky in comparison. I've adjusted now, but blimey.
Meccs
Member
Since we now know the exact summoning range, fight clubs are pretty ridiculous in my opinion. If the Host ist Level 80 for example he can summon Level 62 to 98. That is a huge difference! You might have a level 65 against a level 90 or even higher. Factor in the lag and that leaves you with what exactly? A lottery at best.
As far as I know, if you use a password, your level gets scaled to the level of the host? Why don't they use the same for normal summons?
As far as I know, if you use a password, your level gets scaled to the level of the host? Why don't they use the same for normal summons?
StoppedInTracks
Member
Yeah it is amazing. Reminds me of shooting RL in Quake 3 at people's feet. Very skill based.
KittenMaster
Member
I suppose that's true, but in any game playing with randoms never quite stacks up to organized play, so I would just consider it a for fun activity if you're not organizing a fight club with a password.
Plus that's about the level range you'd get in Bloodborne anyway.