DarkHeartedKill
Member
Why not play in offline mode silly?Yes, but sometimes jumping of a cliff is worth not having to deal with invaders ¯_(ツ_/¯
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Dark Souls III |OT+2| Why Can't We Poise the Game?
- Thread starter Tarkus
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Dude may want messages and coop.
Tarkus
Member
People have been watching too many YT videos. I imagine they're looking at you with the camera with their back turned and expect to quickly lock on, turn around, and parry your attack with their large weapon and Hornet Ring when you get close. I've seen this a few times as well.How fast people can run when all their summons are dead. Also the thing where you stand with the back to your approaching invader and then completely mess up the surprise attack and get stabbed in the back.
Because, again:
I enjoy invasions, just not in that particular area.
Meccs
Member
Just equip the Aldrich thingy or you know... unkindled.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Yeah, I meant in that area be offline. I'm never online in that area till I beat the Area Bosses, then I just chill a bit with my sign down doing fight clubs.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
I added myself. So 4 pm EST tomorrow? Just quickly looking at the times, but its a 3 hour differences between EST and PST.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Because there are other reasons to play online besides forced PvP.
Obliterator
Member
Good lord grinding for Proof of a Concord Kept is brutal. The drop rates are so terrible
DarkHeartedKill
Member
True...he needs to see the message "butthole! Therefore, use tongue..."
It may be a tad sadistic, but seeing people complain about how much of a grind it is to get Proofs brings a smile to my face. Mainly because I finished long ago and that satisfaction hasn't worn off yet.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Tarkus
Member
People are proud of it too. I see a lot of Darkmoon Blade buffs.True...he needs to see the message "butthole! Therefore, use tongue..."
It may be a tad sadistic, but seeing people complain about how much of a grind it is to get Proofs brings a smile to my face. Mainly because I finished long ago and that satisfaction hasn't worn off yet.
Obliterator
Member
The drop rates is unbelievable. I have Crystal Sage Rapier, Symbol of Avarice, and Covetous Gold Serpent Rings all equipped and am using Rusted Coins and haven't had a single one drop in the past hour
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
No way. Is it really that bad? Please, tell me more of these farming woes!
Meccs
Member
Yep I know your list. Funny stuff!
Nothing substantial to say other than Souls is still the series that most consistently has me saying out loud "Man, that's fuckin cool." The lore, the PvP interactions, the areas and enemies themselves. Having just finished Dark Souls 3, and just come off Bloodborne, FROM Soft seems to have exclusive ownership over "the coolest shit" and they shove it into every inch of their games.
Obliterator
Member
It's that bad. I kind of am in disbelief that the rate is so low. I had heard horror stories about Proofs before but good god
Meccs
Member
Does anyone have numbers how much more effective a Luck build is for bleed? I feel like with no points in Luck and Rouge + Carthus Sword I already do nasty damage and the bleed procs relatively quickly. I did run a bleed build for awhile but never felt it is that much more effective if you use Rouge. If you don't want to use Rouge then you need Luck of course.
Yeah, that's by far the most difficult way to get Proof of Concord Kept, I'm not sure why people insist on doing it that way. I just PVP'd and was able to get enough for Darkmoon Blade in a couple hours.
You got summoned?
What's your secret?
Soul Levels, Weapon Levels, Areas? I WANT ANSWERS
Obliterator
Member
Is there a place to easily get summoned? I've been embered and have the Blue Sentinels Covenant item equipped for the past 2 hours and haven't gotten a single summon
I'm wondering how level sync works in this game because I've been invading the first 2 areas with my lv12 character (I'm still pretty early in the game) and I encountered multiple times people with their friends who are using Havel Shield and other late game weapons that require high stats investment.
Havel shield is impenetrable at my level so I guess since they are using it so effectively, it means that even with the sync they still have their high stats.
Havel shield is impenetrable at my level so I guess since they are using it so effectively, it means that even with the sync they still have their high stats.
Arjen
Member
Just get summoned he said, the change of me getting summoned was lower than the change of me becoming president of the United States.
You get 3 free concords per playthrough, it'd faster to play through NG+10 than it is to wait to get summoned.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yeah, they're likely using a password. So those phantoms are nerfed to the host's level in terms of health and damage output, but not in terms of stats (in that it'd put them below the stat requirements for their gear).
That said I do wonder about the hosts 'cause I'm sure I saw hosts using end-game gear with hefty stat requirements too.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Not all of us are so lucky to get summoned. I got summoned like four times in over 10 hours. The 30 proofs took like 4 or 5.
Morrigan has been trying to be a voice of reason in this thread. Everytime someone talks about how bad proof farming is, Morrigan is there to tell them to just stahp farming if it's so bad. no one listens
. Snarky
Try equipping the Golden Falcon Shield. It helped me get one within 16minutes instead of one every 45 minutes.
Edit: NO ONE SAW THAT FAIL!
Codex Gigas
Banned
It's weird because when I invade I encounter Blues every other invasion, sometimes twice. Obviously someone is getting summoned yet no one is getting summoned.
They needed to just cut out the middleman and combine Way of Blue and Blue Sentinels into one covenant. Make it the quid pro quo covenant.
They needed to just cut out the middleman and combine Way of Blue and Blue Sentinels into one covenant. Make it the quid pro quo covenant.
Obliterator
Member
How so? That Shield doesn't say it raises Item Discovery at all
The description hints at it and a lot of people, including me, have had more success with it equipped.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Boss spoiler (D
):
Dem hitboxes.
ancer
Dem hitboxes.
DamagedInc
Member
How many do you need,I've had 6 without really trying?!
Tarkus
Member
I'd love to take them, but you can't drop upgrade materials.
3 Proofs in 25 minutes just goofing around. Golden
Obliterator
Member
I've had that Shield equipped for the past hour and I've gotten 2 drops. Idk I'm pretty sure it's either placebo or there is more than one thing that makes that Shield work. Like maybe you have to have a certain stat at a certain level or something
So, I tried it the way that everyone does by equipping several items that increase your luck and going to Anor Londo and killing silver knights, I did that for like 2 hours and I think I received two Concords for that. I also had the item on that makes you eligible to be summoned and for whatever reason I was hardly ever summoned at Anor Londo.
So what I did was went to Grand Archives and ArchDragon Peak and I was getting summoned constantly. My soul level was around 110 I think, I don't recall my weapon levels, don't think that mattered at all.
I believe it is a placebo as it's unlikely to be that complex to work and it's a based on a item description which is rather vague and correlating just "good fortune" to item discovery.
I actually played a lot of my second character thru with that shield equipped and didn't notice that the drop rate for anything was out of the ordinary really.
The only way I even got 10 proofs was just getting summoned randomly. Farmed about 8 wolf swordgrass because the summons are few. Vertebra shackles are probably the worst unless you are good at PvP and participate in fight clubs instead of gank spanks.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
But...45 minutes to 16minutes on the dot D:. Plus like three others had it work for em
. Maybe the Majestic Golden Falcon is pickyStarted NG++ last night, and I died to W
about half a dozen times before finally getting by him. He seems to hit with that dark cloud a lot more cheaply now than he was doing before, or maybe I just got unlucky.
Anyway, before I started this run, I respeced from a pyromancer to a strength build. I'm now maining the dragonslayers greataxe, and goddamn is this a fun change of pace. As terrible as I am at PvP, I'm suddenly now beating most invaders without too much trouble just because of how hard this thing hits. I'll have to figure out something before I get to NK, since I know he's strong against lightning. Butcher knife?
olnir
Anyway, before I started this run, I respeced from a pyromancer to a strength build. I'm now maining the dragonslayers greataxe, and goddamn is this a fun change of pace. As terrible as I am at PvP, I'm suddenly now beating most invaders without too much trouble just because of how hard this thing hits. I'll have to figure out something before I get to NK, since I know he's strong against lightning. Butcher knife?
Silent Chief
Member
I've helped 3 more people get proofs yesterday. Instead of hiding, I've been playing tag.
Yeah, they're likely using a password. So those phantoms are nerfed to the host's level in terms of health and damage output, but not in terms of stats (in that it'd put them below the stat requirements for their gear).
That said I do wonder about the hosts 'cause I'm sure I saw hosts using end-game gear with hefty stat requirements too.
This is becoming a thing where 80% of players I invade right now as lv12 in the first areas have end game gear. It's really annoying.
From Soft should disable weapons trading like they did in Bloodborne.
Just dropping by to say that we're excited to start our offline, blind (as much as possible) playthrough, and we're also making it into a Let's Play series in case anyone's interested in watching it. I'll be posting our thoughts every now and then, but otherwise I'll be skipping around the thread since I know a lot of you will have finished the game many times over at this point!
I also wanted to ask - how good/strong is a Dex build in this game? It looks like it plays similar to Bloodborne, and I want fast staggering strikes rather than wait and hit counter-strikes.
I also wanted to ask - how good/strong is a Dex build in this game? It looks like it plays similar to Bloodborne, and I want fast staggering strikes rather than wait and hit counter-strikes.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
It's annoying but I don't know if it'd be a solution. When making specific builds it's fun to play with your targeted weapon for most of the game and some of those are really late-game.
At least they can't trade +10 weapons (or you'd be locked out of matchmaking anyway) or upgrade materials.
Very good. Katanas, curved swords and rapiers are all excellent weapons and longbows are also incredibly useful.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Hmmm...I'm curious. If a persons highest weapon is a +2 and you drop them a +4 weapon, can you now drop them a +6 weapon since they have a +4 weapon?
~ 5 people don't make a data set if it was 100 to 200 I'd take your word for it but considering it stems just from a post within the thread with no traction outside of the thread plus the RNG and all seems rather hopeful instead of something concrete.But...45 minutes to 16minutes on the dot D:. Plus like three others had it work for em
It should do don't see what would stop it.
jacob armitage
Banned
So if someone else drops their ring and lets me pick it up briefly, only to return it will that count for the trophy? If so hopefully i can find someone to help me do that for the Wolf and Obscuring ring, and i can skip doing the covenant stuff as i'm just really not enjoying it and their a bit tedious to farm and can focus going through NG+ and NG++ to get the +1's and 2's, and the few spells and gestures i'm missing.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
I know 5 isn't a large enough sample size. I'm just hoping more people try it, the more people try it the better. Like I said when I originally suggested it, it could be very anecdotal, but I hope it actually has influence.
Hehe I might make a super OP early game build