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Dark Souls III |OT| Thy path has been tested, now fight unkindled ash
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redflamingolingo
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I got it before advancing to the second "real" area and didn't regret it. I farmed co-op boss souls to get enough for it, though.
There is an
illusory wall
the tower key
Faith spells do way more damage the closer you are now. I saw videos with
lightning spears
poise weapon art
The damage is totally fine as far as I went with it (about half way through the game). Some bosses are tricky due to the casting time but if you learn their patterns and when to attack it's doable. I didn't find it particularly enjoyable though but I'm not sure if pure caster is really my kind of thing.
It sucks about the damage, although I'm not surprised after the hard nerf those miracles got in Dark Souls 2, hopefully the patch cycle works inverse of that game. Fortunately that Lightning Spear looks astonishing visually, I'm in love with the aesthetic.
Yeah, bunch of cool and useful stuff, even more so if you don't abuse a certain glitch. I purchased the key after beating the
Crystal Sage
Some items you can find there:
Estus piece
Serpent ring (more Souls)
Estus ring (more HP restored from Estus)
Necromanti
Member
Which version? The Steam version unlocks at 3 PM PST.
I really like the mana system like Demon's Souls had instead of the limited spell uses and having to stack multiple copies of spells in different slots to get more. And the new flask system is cool because it gives you another strategic choice to make. Its just risk versus reward whether you want to cast or heal more. I hated the spell use system honestly. Can't you increase spell casting speed with some stat?
About the more aggressive and fast enemies, it just seems FROM is in a damned if they do or damned if they don't situation. If they don't make changes like that a bunch of people just complain that the game is easy mode compared to other games, but it will make certain builds even more difficult overall.
I don't know, to me spellcasters should be a class where you start off super weak and by the end you are crazy powerful. Hopefully scaling is really good. If it was easy mode all the way through and you never had to use your weapon at all that doesn't seem right to me, and would seem to be a nightmare to balance.
Yeah I've tried to enter a couple of times and no dice
Sounds good to me.this is dark souls...the harder the better
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Around 40h, main difference is that I did a considerably amount of PvP. But DS3 is also bigger.
Soyongdori
Member
Spells are nerfed? About fucking time...
robotzombie
Member
I'd like to know this as well. Anything as important as master key?
I played Sorcery my second play-through, I found it pretty OP. I have read that it is weak at the beginning of the game though.
Once you get CSS though, you can 1-2 shot everything. There's 3-4 bosses that are resistant to magic which can be a royal PITA. Usually the easy bosses as melee are then difficult with a spell build.
Nah, starting items are bunk this time.
For PS4, it always unlock at 9pm PST.
IMO, ye olde Life Ring. I wore it pretty much the entire game, swapping out only sometimes.
That's great to hear, BB took me around the same time
Fire gem is pretty good. Allows you to make a fire weapon quickly, so you can focus on upping vigor/end first. Then later you can use a different infusion. But yeah, nothing like the master key.
God fucking lord Amazon didn't ship my friggin game yet.
Asked them and they told me I'll receive the game tomorrow even if it's not shipped yet because they have their own transport service to deliver the package to the local transport or dunno what bullshit they told me.
I had the day off, so they better deliver...
Asked them and they told me I'll receive the game tomorrow even if it's not shipped yet because they have their own transport service to deliver the package to the local transport or dunno what bullshit they told me.
I had the day off, so they better deliver...
Adry9
Member
Amazing.
Not going faith/magic for my first run but sure bamco are aware of those scaling problems by now? I mean even with the slightest attention on forums around, surely they know about it at least?
Really happy to play this tomorrow and to get over this hypefever, it's been killing me
Really happy to play this tomorrow and to get over this hypefever, it's been killing me
Sanctuary
Member
Time to connect an elastic band from your keys to your shoes.
Slick Butter
Member
Cdkeys is "currently updating" their website, i.e. it is down. Perhaps they are uploading a ton of scanned key-codes...
Also the Yoshichan story was very entertaining, thank you for keeping us updated, Yoshi.
Also the Yoshichan story was very entertaining, thank you for keeping us updated, Yoshi.
The OST in this game simply destroys the past OSTs.
Got tingles in my spine all the way to my balls during some of the fights.
Got tingles in my spine all the way to my balls during some of the fights.
Nothing beats Demon's Souls intro cinematic OST though.
Dat eyes remix... ungngnghghg
DEX, and there are also rings that speed it up.
Whiskey, You're gonna need it
I'm underage, what do?
Soyongdori
Member
You should've changed the shipping time. Last time it was showing arriving Thursday, then I re-did the whole shipping method and it changed back to release day shipping.
D
Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Yay, got my key from GMG for the Deluxe Edition.
Beat it once doing mostly sword and board on PS4, so I think I'll start as a deprived and either try a magic using build or a pure STR / 2-hander build.
Beat it once doing mostly sword and board on PS4, so I think I'll start as a deprived and either try a magic using build or a pure STR / 2-hander build.
checkeredknight
Member
Hey guys. What time does DSIII unlock on the UK PSN, BST? Thinking of getting it there and returning my boxed copy (which should arrive tomorrow afternoon) if it unlocks tonight. Is it the same as EDT?
BaraSailey
Member
Mine said that but I fixed it a while ago by editing my shipping speed. I didn't actually change the speed, just clicked on two day again and it updated to release date delivery. I don't know if it's too late for you to try this, but it could be worth a shot.
U wot mate?
Sanctuary
Member
You know how sometimes kids have gloves connected to their winter coats that way? Where else would you be able to connect keys that would be considered universal? Unless he wears the same pants every day, or always has some kind of light jacket on.
Still, seems kind of pointless to even care about the damaging FTH spells if you have to use them up close. Defeats the purpose since you can just swing your weapon 2-3 times for the same overall damage within the same time frame.
That sounds good. I always thought of faith being more a utility type of magic playstyle and if it's not some crazy DPS magic that is OK.
sssstententen
Member
If anything, spells are better than ever for PvP, but awful for early/midgame PvE, where as in other games they pretty much broke the challenge for the main game
DieNgamers
Member
...What's the problem? All part of the game, dude! Tradition, almost.
I wonder how much weaker they are now. Before I felt spells were so brain-dead, too safe and too rewarding. As long as you keep a good distance between you and your enemy you could always land full damage spells without getting touched.
Oh yeah hahaha, makes sense
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