DrROBschiz
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Sharp is what you want. Boosts Dex Scaling
Youll need the coal to unlock it though
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Dark Souls III |OT| Thy path has been tested, now fight unkindled ash
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Sharp is what you want. Boosts Dex Scaling
Youll need the coal to unlock it though
Stranger11
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First post so I shall take the opportunity to thank you all for your help and eternal knowledge thus far in my DS3 adventure.
As for killing this guy,
I found that if you lure him towards the shrine entrance, he can't enter. But will in fact try and hit you, wait for the attack and dive in. Easy kill - if a little cowardice.
Benzychenz
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You have to find them. Both in Undead Settlement.
fluffydelusions
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How far along in the game is that? Just beat crystal sage.
bitoriginal
Member
Ahh, I feel like Dark Souls is back. Loved the first, but didn't really enjoy 2 or Bloodborne.
Decided to go Deprived for my first character, and made him really ragged, skinny and old for a bit of change to the usual characters. That crystal lizard thing in the first area took me about an hour to kill, and then the Master posed even more of a challenge. Still haven't found any armour that doesn't slow me right down.
So right now, I'm rocking a knights helmet and the Masters legs and gloves. I actually feel like this dude...
Decided to go Deprived for my first character, and made him really ragged, skinny and old for a bit of change to the usual characters. That crystal lizard thing in the first area took me about an hour to kill, and then the Master posed even more of a challenge. Still haven't found any armour that doesn't slow me right down.
So right now, I'm rocking a knights helmet and the Masters legs and gloves. I actually feel like this dude...
If you two hand the crossbow and press L1, you can still zoom in - I believe you could in DS2 as well.
DrROBschiz
Member
You are close
My friend found some coals somewhere close to that point in the game
I still havent found it yet though
Ah also, according to the wiki:
"You must have been invaded by and defeated Dark Spirit Alva near the Irithyll Dungeon bonfire."
For the new page.
DrROBschiz
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RespectThySole
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I don't like this
area so far.
Road of Sacrifices
He's fucking horrible. He killed me so many times. During the second phase, I used my bow to kill him lol.
Two games and being Blue still doesn't work to me 
It's more or less right now (could be a slight delay)
It's more or less right now (could be a slight delay)
Some weird shit happened to me in a swampy area last night. The place with the
Was wondering if someone could explain wtf happened.
I was exploring for a bit, and started to turn back to the bonfire as enemy encounters had whittled my estus down to nothing and I'd grabbed a lot of loot.
So...what was going on there? How did I get
giant enemy crabs.
I was exploring for a bit, and started to turn back to the bonfire as enemy encounters had whittled my estus down to nothing and I'd grabbed a lot of loot.
Suddenly I get an NPC invade warning message and some dark spirit with what I now know is a Xanthous crown starts chasing me around. I made it back to the bonfire but I pretty much had no chance against this enemy because I had no healing left and he was dodging everything. I think his name was ludwig von wolf?
I revive and go ember again so that I can trigger the salty runback. Eventually it happens and I get invaded by another Xanthous NPC, but this one's name was different. Yellowfinger something or other. I go to seek him out and INVADED BY DARK SPIRIT pops up, this time by a name that was obviously belonging to a player. I headed back up to the hill by the bonfire to try and find them, and off in the distance I can see the red NPC (?) and a blue-ish player dark spirit. It definitely wasn't a blue sentinel but it wasn't a purple guy either. I assumed he was hostile so I observed for a bit. He walks forward and starts fighting the NPC but seems to be losing - I'd fought one before and I knew those NPC invaders could heal to full so I decided to get in there and try to kill it while it was weakened. I get in there and get some stabs in but suddenly one of those fucking crabs crashes the party and kills all of us - however I got the last hit on the NPC which gave me some drops including the Xanthous crown.
I revive and go ember again so that I can trigger the salty runback. Eventually it happens and I get invaded by another Xanthous NPC, but this one's name was different. Yellowfinger something or other. I go to seek him out and INVADED BY DARK SPIRIT pops up, this time by a name that was obviously belonging to a player. I headed back up to the hill by the bonfire to try and find them, and off in the distance I can see the red NPC (?) and a blue-ish player dark spirit. It definitely wasn't a blue sentinel but it wasn't a purple guy either. I assumed he was hostile so I observed for a bit. He walks forward and starts fighting the NPC but seems to be losing - I'd fought one before and I knew those NPC invaders could heal to full so I decided to get in there and try to kill it while it was weakened. I get in there and get some stabs in but suddenly one of those fucking crabs crashes the party and kills all of us - however I got the last hit on the NPC which gave me some drops including the Xanthous crown.
So...what was going on there? How did I get
double invaded? Was the blue guy part of a covenant?
I've killed so many bosses throughout the series by using Iron Flesh and mashing attack. It's kind of ridiculous how many times you can get away with that.
Zombie James
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Bloodborne must have really stuck with me because I'm finding it hard to shake the muscle memory. I'm trying to dodge around attacks and quick counter but I roll instead, I'm hitting enemies immediately after I get hit for no reason, I keep forgetting to hold my shield up... I knew going back to traditional Souls combat would be an adjustment and no doubt it'll come back to me, but I can't help but feel like this is a step backwards. I'm also finding the new meter completely pointless.
You beat the AW boss, didn't you?
If you haven't done the thing with him 5 times you've missed out on another NPC and an ending.
DrROBschiz
Member
Thats a shame because its an amazing mechanical addition
You have to give the new systems in this game time and practice
I think Vaatividya said that:
if you let him draw your true strength 5 times, he will die of excitement and a new npc will spawn nearby. Don't know what has happened if you didn't let him do that.
prodystopian
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Pretty sure you missed it (like I did).
I have the coal and sharp gem, but I'm afraid to use it on my uchi because it looks like sharp gems are rare and I might prefer to use it on another sword. Anyone have a recommendation? Trying not to look up all the katanas on the wiki yet.
Audioboxer
Member
Is there any point in
? Just stops further
healing the hollow
hollowing I guess?
KittenMaster
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PvP in this game can be hilarious. I deliberately summoned two purple phantoms just to make things chaotic and then a red phantom invaded me on top of that. It was a free for all brawl
DrROBschiz
Member
Oh man
So many great Dex options
I would grab the Great Scythe, Estoc, and a few others and play around with the move sets and specials
I put a few points into Vigor because rings have weight and I'd like to have enough equip load to carry a bow around just in case. But I also like my Lothric Knight cosplay and that's so heavy I can't wear rings anyways. Equip load ring pls game.
I stopped myself at 19 because in every Souls game I always put way too many points in that stat and end up gimping my other stats. Poise doesn't seem to do shit anyways so I might as well start using lighter armor. Need to find a set I like the look of though.
RespectThySole
Member
Does that
that you let out in Undead Settlement go back to Firelink?
pyromancer dude
Basically it's cosmetic. Yuria will abandon you if you do it though. If you haven't met her don't worry about it.
xamidoxhua
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So, for someone who's first 'souls' experience was Bloodborne, which I tried to like but ultimately couldn't deal with - would people recommend I try Souls III? I'm interested in the concept of these games, but I ended up finding Bloodborne immensely frustrating and tiresome.
prodystopian
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ha, that's what I was worried about.
Thanks for the tip and welcome to Neogaf
I was trying to parry him yesterday but I am so bad at parrying , I managed to parry him one time and it only removed a sliver of his life bar .
So I think I'm gonna try your trick tonight or I heard you can make him fall to his death near the cliff
modernlifeisANDY
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Are there any particularly good weapons for a quality build? I have been thinking about just pumping either STR or DEX but I don't know yet.
Parrying is very difficult and the penalty for screwing up is dire. If you have a decent weapon art just use it.
Audioboxer
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I have but she seems sketchy and I had it spoilered for me by a friend
she triggers one ending
that ending
I need to plow in 90k souls to do it so it's a big investment for me mid-game.
Well fuck... I didn't trust his shenanigans, but now I'm bummed out.
Looks like
being hollow/having the dark sign or whatever it was in your inventory that you got from the free level up dude unlocks a new possible ending too
Souls is slower paced and less forgiving (despite being a bit easier than Bloodborne) so I probably wouldn't recommened it.
Toughest boss besides one, imo.
Audioboxer
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It does but I don't know exactly how it works.
Does anyone know what the soft caps for stats are?
err
I literally call them NPC invaders in my post
the things I'm confused about
are the possibly randomized NPC names and the weird blue human invader who definitely was not a blue sentinel but was able to fight with the NPC.
DS3 is way harder than Bloodborne, I feel. So much more punishing right from the jump.
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