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Dark Souls III |OT| Thy path has been tested, now fight unkindled ash
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LordGorchnik
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For those of you who have finished the Cathedral of the Deep. Where in the world do I find the lever to raise this platform so I can cross? I've looked everywhere. I've raised the other two in the large areas with the giants but I cannot find the lever for this one.
http://i.imgur.com/31VMG8B.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/31VMG8B.jpg
MisterShine
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Something is seriously messed up with summoning on PC. I've done 3 bosses now where as a phantom the boss doesn't even attack me or do damage at all if I run into them. I also cant see anyone else's moves/gestures. Very weird... anyone else seeing this?
On the other side :3
It's on the other side, the only way to get there is by dropping down on the otherside from the rafters at the top of the cathedral.
You can drop to a little platform from the top.
You can drop to a little platform from the top.
His soul is more valuable and can make a cool pyromancy or a ring that's a good choice for many builds.
ChrisInCali
Member
Well, I beat the game and can say that I am a bit disappointed overall. I think, for the time, I enjoyed Dark Souls 2 more for some reason. I hated the overall aesthetic of the game. Way too many Bloodborne assets reused, and not even some of the better ones (grey/boulders everywhere). I feel as if FROM took the look of Bloodborne, watered it down by removing the gothic/cosmic horror theme, and pasted some Souls stuff through-out.
I found a good portion of the bosses to be a let-down. The story to be as poorly executed as ever(story, not lore). Many of the areas just bored me, and for my taste, felt uninspired. In Dark Souls 2, there were some really cool and varied looking areas that I really enjoyed. In 3, I felt it was all too samey.
Magic is the worst it has ever been, it's almost broken. I think they didn't really put work into speeding it up as they did with the melee from Bloodborne's engine. With all of that said, the game is still very good, but I hoped for much more from the final Dark Souls game.
I think I'd put the Soulsbonre games that I have played in this order, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 2=Dark Souls 3.
I found a good portion of the bosses to be a let-down. The story to be as poorly executed as ever(story, not lore). Many of the areas just bored me, and for my taste, felt uninspired. In Dark Souls 2, there were some really cool and varied looking areas that I really enjoyed. In 3, I felt it was all too samey.
Magic is the worst it has ever been, it's almost broken. I think they didn't really put work into speeding it up as they did with the melee from Bloodborne's engine. With all of that said, the game is still very good, but I hoped for much more from the final Dark Souls game.
I think I'd put the Soulsbonre games that I have played in this order, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 2=Dark Souls 3.
Firebombs helped me a lot in that fight when I didn't want to get close to the second stage. Don't try to counter every move of his, hang back and wait for him to use a move that leaves him exposed for a while (I think there's at least one).
Funnily enough yesterday I couldn't get summoned for that boss. When I removed my summon sign there were like 10 other signs right in front of the fog gate.
And then you get to waste your 5000 souls on Havel's ring... which seems pretty useless to me compared to the Dark Souls Havel's ring.
Uno Venova
Banned
Is there a ghost academy like souls farming section yet.
Incendiary
Banned
Finally got to play this some today - been busy all week and this morning I had some actual down time to play and enjoy the game. Been fun so far, but I don't know if I'm just used to the Souls combat or not by now but it seems a lot easier - beat the first boss on my first try and the second boss (real first boss?) after three tries no problem. Had a lot more problems with their equivalents in Dark Souls/Dark Souls 2 than here.
Of course, the one thing that got me - early area spoilers:
Fucking From!
I've managed to keep myself mostly spoiler free for this game, so I probably won't be jumping into the topic that often, but I'm just curious - the new weapon skills or whatever, will we be able to easily tell if a weapon/shield has a special ability? Or should I be paying attention to every weapon I pick up and going through all their descriptions?
Of course, the one thing that got me - early area spoilers:
First chest I found, I decided to hit it just because of mimics, but totally did not expect the chest to ACTUALLY BE A MIMIC THAT EARLY IN THE GAME.
I've managed to keep myself mostly spoiler free for this game, so I probably won't be jumping into the topic that often, but I'm just curious - the new weapon skills or whatever, will we be able to easily tell if a weapon/shield has a special ability? Or should I be paying attention to every weapon I pick up and going through all their descriptions?
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I fucking love this post. So, so much.
RyanardoDaVinci
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Enemy question for an optional area:
Does H
drop anything -- not the one that is summoned, but the one standing by the dead dragon and titanite slab?
He got a little too zealous with his jump attack and went over the cliff. lol
I've been back since and there's nothing laying around anywhere.
Does H
avel
He got a little too zealous with his jump attack and went over the cliff. lol
I've been back since and there's nothing laying around anywhere.
Spine_Ripper
Member
Is there a guide for cooping with friends? Been trying for half an hour, no luck :/
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Drops another slab I think.
Empty Space
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I went a ridiculously long time waiting around to get summoned there and eventually logged in and out. I got connected pretty quickly after that. I'm wondering if there was something going where the game thought I was already connected to another player.
Great axe hit box is absurd in pvp. Getting killed from multiple feet away on swings that don't come close to hitting me. And it seems to stun me long enough to guarantee two hits at a time. Not sure how to approach it; parrying is too finicky compared to how brutal the hitbox is.
Looks like I skipped a lot of stuff if the Watcher dudes were my third boss. I feel almost bad for winning that fight on my first attempt after reading through some of the thread. I can't even offer any. advice because I was co-oping with some Dark Souls bad ass that just rolled under his attacks and punished him while I basically hid back and got a few cheap backstabs in.
Git (someone) gud?
Git (someone) gud?
If you use a router, do you have UPNP enabled? If not, enable it and restart your router and try again.
redflamingolingo
Banned
But you get the spell that let's you
shoot fucking boulders out of your mouth
AmethystEnd
Member
Just finished Dark Souls 1, so I'm finally caught up on the whole series...
Time to go buy Dark Souls 3
WHAT, WHERE'S THE LTTP. I love reading those
.EDIT: Oh, you LTTP'ed Demon's. Good shit, good shit. Reading it now.
he drops his shield and something else but definitely not a slab
SneakyStephan
Banned
Question: I've been ignoring weapon infusion completely , is it worth bothering with? (am halfway through the game atm)
It seems like a really obtuse system to me and I'm not sure how much lowering/removing scaling does compared to adding an element or something, nor how the elements affect enemies.
Question 2: have you guys found any particularly fun /good weapons to use? So far Ive mainly used straight swords (currently using the thorns sword at +5) and the farron's greatsword (fun but it doesn't scale very well past midgame and those transpose weapon upgrade items seem insanely rare)
I have 2 scythes from early game and they seemed fun to use, but their damage is low at +3 compared to my other +3 weapons.
Question 3: is it worth looking into magic as a melee character? like if I put some points into wisdom or w/e and equip a magic offhand are there spells I can be effective with?
I learned pursuer's pattern after 2 tries and would have killed him on the third had I not tried to side step his broken hitbox slow stab. It missed me by 2 character widths but my guy got teleported onto the end of his weapon anyhow. He was like 2 hits away from death.
Had I rolled I would have thought he was easy too
I failed him like 8 more times after that (frustrated by the hitbox insult)
That and having to roll into his side swing (iframing it) instead of away from it to the left (also counter intuitive and the animation never suggested it would hit you if you rolled left
His pattern was super easy but like everything in ds2 it was made harder by the game being janky. (every boss and enemy spinning in place mid animation to try your movement basically removed sidestepping from the game)
So yeah, pursuer was the wrong kind of "hard" (broken, counter intuitive because of the game failing to provide feedback)
It seems like a really obtuse system to me and I'm not sure how much lowering/removing scaling does compared to adding an element or something, nor how the elements affect enemies.
Question 2: have you guys found any particularly fun /good weapons to use? So far Ive mainly used straight swords (currently using the thorns sword at +5) and the farron's greatsword (fun but it doesn't scale very well past midgame and those transpose weapon upgrade items seem insanely rare)
I have 2 scythes from early game and they seemed fun to use, but their damage is low at +3 compared to my other +3 weapons.
Question 3: is it worth looking into magic as a melee character? like if I put some points into wisdom or w/e and equip a magic offhand are there spells I can be effective with?
I learned pursuer's pattern after 2 tries and would have killed him on the third had I not tried to side step his broken hitbox slow stab. It missed me by 2 character widths but my guy got teleported onto the end of his weapon anyhow. He was like 2 hits away from death.
Had I rolled I would have thought he was easy too
I failed him like 8 more times after that (frustrated by the hitbox insult)
That and having to roll into his side swing (iframing it) instead of away from it to the left (also counter intuitive and the animation never suggested it would hit you if you rolled left
His pattern was super easy but like everything in ds2 it was made harder by the game being janky. (every boss and enemy spinning in place mid animation to try your movement basically removed sidestepping from the game)
So yeah, pursuer was the wrong kind of "hard" (broken, counter intuitive because of the game failing to provide feedback)
One thing to keep in mind is that if your weapon does both physical and elemental damage, it's going through two separate defenses before it calculates the damage total. Just because the number on your profile sheet is higher doesn't necessarily mean it's doing more damage to every enemy. Why fire is so good especially early game is because a lot of enemies are naked and vulnerable to it, and DEX scaling isn't making up for the difference yet.
Eventually you may want to upgrade it to Sharp and then use various buffs to enhance it, including fire, since those will only add to its existing physical damage and keep scaling intact.
question about late game boss...
I have to fight Aldrich and that Dancer boss back-to-back?...Aldrich was tough for me and I used up all my health...I didn't want to fight the Dancer at that time so I used a Homeward Bone...I went back to the Aldrich bonfire and the Dancer is gone...where do I find her?
generic_username
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Quick question for
Is there any poison resistance ring I can buy or find anywhere? Right now I can only buy the poison moss but that is in limited quantity.
Farron's keep.
walk up to the altar in the church
SoraanTribal
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I feel dumb, but sometimes I can't tell when I'm being invaded by NPCs or when it's a real player, lol. Sometimes the name makes it obvious or how they act when battling. Other times, I'm just not sure.
So (covenants spoiler) there's no difference
I think I'm gonna be
between being a Darkmoon and a Blue Sentinel other than rewards , right?
I think I'm gonna be
a Darkmoon. I kind of liked being a Blue bro and I don't give a shit about that ass that was Gwyndolin, but felt bad for the Darkmoon waifu being all alone (she says her company has no knights now).
Killer Queen
Banned
Just made it to U
and C
And holy mindfuck Batman.
This combined with
ID say this is definitely the best souls game.
ntended Graves
hampion Gundyr
This combined with
Eclipse
It's been much more useful to me than it was in previous games. There's basically no reason I see not to infuse now, since you have gems that boost str and dex scaling and even a gem that boosts both. If you're mainly levelling str, go with a heavy infusion, if you're levelling dex go with sharp, if you're levelling both equally go with refined.
WadiumArcadium
Member
I remember picking one up in that area. Unfortunately I can't remember where.
Poison does absolutely nothing in this game, even Toxic only does slightly worse. I was running round the swamp yesterday like it was nothing.
Yep, great pic. I was gonna post the
combo earlier this week but I thought it was too
Armor spoilers
+Dancer crown+wolf knight armorloran's leggings
unless the DLC has some dope looking armor, I will never change out of this. Lorian's leggings look liek they are made for wolf knight (arotrias) chest, it looks much better than the actual artorias legs
edit: sorry for the horrible steam compression
Yep, great pic. I was gonna post the
Dancer Crown, Artorias Armor
spoily.
LostMyNarbles
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Did they happen to buff magic recently or something? I just decided to try out a new character running sorcery and beat the first boss with little effort. It was even easier than melee since each Soul Arrow took like 10% of his health away.
It's early on in
Cathedral of the Deep
Crystal Sage
AmethystEnd
Member
The first boss is a terrible measuring stick for the strength of ANY build type.
generic_username
I switched to an alt account to ditch my embarrassing tag so I could be an embarrassing Naughty Dog fanboy in peace. Ask me anything!
Thank you!
I've restarted the game 3 times and am now on my 3rd character and final character. You know how after you kill the first boss your outfit glows and looks like it's slightly on fire? That didn't happen to my current character for some reason, it still looks the same as in the beginning
The solution:
don't lock on to him.
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