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[Sullichin]

How do I infuse a weapon with lightning? I already have the stone but I must have missed something.

You need to give the giant's coal to andre

 

[LiK]

Been reading up on stats and Luck seems to be a gamechanger in this game.

 

[Veelk]

There's an elevator just to the right of the boss door. You can then rest at the

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Dragonslayer

bonfire and use that elevator instead.

You know, when I was playing bloodborne, I complained all the time in the OT about how far away the lamps were, and people kept telling me "Oh, it's not that far, you just need to find the shortcut."

I did find the shortcuts. The shortcuts were what I was complaining about the length over. Whenever I die to the current boss I'm stuck at, it's about a minute long trek between where I start and the fog wall, with strong enemies inbetween that I can MOSTLY avoid, but can also get snagged on by chance and lose a chunk of health. You can argue a minute isn't long, but it is when your stuck on a boss and have to do it over, and over, and over again. Even twenty seconds can add up if you're stuck on a boss, making it very annoying to have to trek again and again.

5 seconds. That's how far away every bonfire should be away from the boss. You have to give the option to not go to the boss again, or else I'd be advocating to restart in the arena itself. So from spawning, that's the length of time it should take me to get to the boss area again. Anything else is superflously wasting the players time.

 

[J-Skee]

I tried to love it again, but it definitely doesn't hit as hard, and the start up being slower is definitely worse all around in this game. I ended up dropping it after a few hours.

I am genuinely surprised at how good the Brigand Twindaggers are. The L2 dash literally makes it possible for them to be good though. It's got insane iframes and gets you around and back in super quick. The L1 also seems to easily stagger every enemy that's not bigger than an elephant.

Quick question regarding weapon buff spells - Does infusing a weapon with ANY stone make it unable to be buffed with spells (ie Magic Weapon)? So far I've tried with the Dark, Fire, and Crystal infusions, and i'm unable to buff any of them. Kind of a bummer honestly. I'm still hoping that there's a chance that the one that increases DEX scaling will be able to still be buffed, but probably not.

If you happen to find one that increases DEX scaling, please let me know. Having a pretty difficult time finding DEX weapons I like. Although I love Pontiff Curved Sword, I'm not fond of it's skill. Found a greatsword that's for DEX use (forgot the name), but I don't understand how that can be since DEX is meant to be more nimble, not slower.

You can't believe that someone found a Dark Souls boss difficult?

You're right, I shouldn't have said that. I just haven't found a boss so far that has really challenged me, personally. I'm sure with the area I'm in though, I'm going to be in a world of hurt.

 

[lionpants]

That reminds me: What's the best farming spot? I want to farm chunks and souls for chunks.

There's a

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Drakeblood Knight

that is summoned near the second bonfire in

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Archdragon Peak

. If you don't kill the summoner he is summoned repeatedly and gives 5k-ish souls each time. I used the

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Shield of Want

and the

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Silver Serpent Ring

and went to town.

 

[Sullichin]

If you happen to find one that increases DEX scaling, please let me know. Having a pretty difficult time finding DEX weapons I like. Although I love Pontiff Curved Sword, I'm not fond of it's skill. Found a greatsword that's for DEX use (forgot the name), but I don't understand how that can be since DEX is meant to be more nimble, not slower.

The curved greatswords usually scale with DEX.
The gem you're looking for is Sharp. The red eyed dudes in the Catacombs have a rare chance to drop them and there's one from a crystal lizard in Undead Settlement

 

[JetSetRadio]

AW phase two was my first real challenge, damn yo.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

This

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princes

fight is actually retarded.

 

[Sullichin]

That reminds me: What's the best farming spot? I want to farm chunks and souls for chunks.

Which is that?

The three Winged Knights

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on the roof of the castle after Grand Archives/before fighting the Princes. You get like 17k or something with silver serpent+ shield of want, and there's 3 of them. They can drop chunks as well.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

You know, when I was playing bloodborne, I complained all the time in the OT about how far away the lamps were, and people kept telling me "Oh, it's not that far, you just need to find the shortcut."

I did find the shortcuts. The shortcuts were what I was complaining about the length over. Whenever I die to the current boss I'm stuck at, it's about a minute long trek between where I start and the fog wall, with strong enemies inbetween that I can MOSTLY avoid, but can also get snagged on by chance and lose a chunk of health. You can argue a minute isn't long, but it is when your stuck on a boss and have to do it over, and over, and over again. Even twenty seconds can add up if you're stuck on a boss, making it very annoying to have to trek again and again.

5 seconds. That's how far away every bonfire should be away from the boss. You have to give the option to not go to the boss again, or else I'd be advocating to restart in the arena itself. So from spawning, that's the length of time it should take me to get to the boss area again. Anything else is superflously wasting the players time.

I think I hate the same bonfire as you do. It's fucking ridiculous that you have to go through that many enemies without getting hit to get to the worst boss in the game.

 

[lionpants]

You know, when I was playing bloodborne, I complained all the time in the OT about how far away the lamps were, and people kept telling me "Oh, it's not that far, you just need to find the shortcut."

I totally agree. That's one of the reasons I try and keep going without returning to

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Firelink

(and usually lose my souls), because of the loading time (drives my wife crazy when she is watching).

In this case though, there are 0 enemies on the run back. Are we talking about the same bonfire? I'm not talking about the elevator before the

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Archives

. Its the one before the

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Dragonslayer

fight. You respawn at the bonfire and run backwards.

 

[Guevara]

It's basically just a

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red chalice dungeon

ala Bloodborne.

That's a good way to think of it. But why's it got to be so bland and ugly :-(

 

[taybul]

This

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princes

fight is actually retarded.

I actually loved this fight. What are you having trouble with?

 

[KittenMaster]

I finally got around to upgrading a Scimitar and I can already feel the game becoming easier with it. Usually it gets replaced by better Dex options later on but it seems to be one of the more viable weapons for Dex in PvE this time.

 

[TheFlow]

Fuck summoning is not working. keeps saying unable to summon. this is the first this has happened for me. wasted about 7 embers trying to get it to work.

Also spoilers for greatest boss in this game

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Nameless is kicking my ass on the second phase

 

[Lakitu]

L

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othric

C

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astle

is an awesome area. So many little secrets and areas. Fun as hell.

 

[lionpants]

Fuck summoning is not working. keeps saying unable to summon. this is the first this has happened for me. wasted about 7 embers trying to get it to work.

Also spoilers for greatest boss in this game

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Nameless is kicking my ass on the second phase

You got your NAT open?

 

[LiK]

L

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othric

C

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astle

is an awesome area. So many little secrets and areas. Fun as hell.

The enemies are fucking brutal. Probably one of the hardest areas in Souls series. There's one other area I can think of in Dark Souls 2 where the regular enemies kicked my ass.

 

[Hystzen]

Walk out of the Catacombs to next area


What the fuck is going on this in this game deja vu doesn't even get close to describing it .

Pretty cool playing a Souls game blind for once only thing I saw was the announcement video ages ago.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

I actually loved this fight. What are you having trouble with?

Getting there and getting hit, so then I have to use a Flask already, then his

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first form

hits too hard, and then the

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second

I can't even get a hit on him.

 

[Skatterd]

The people saying they're still having summoning issues still is blowing my mind.
I've had no issues since day 1..it's worked better than it ever has for me. Maybe I'm just lucky.

 

[prodystopian]

The three Winged Knights

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on the roof of the castle after Grand Archives/before fighting the Princes. You get like 17k or something with silver serpent+ shield of want, and there's 3 of them. They can drop chunks as well.

Good call! I just killed them last night and they were pretty easy.

 

[SunBroDave]

Getting there and getting hit, so then I have to use a Flask already, then his

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first form

hits too hard, and then the

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second

I can't even get a bit on him.

Have you opened the shortcut

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elevator next to the boss room leading to the Dragonslayer Armor bonfire?

edit: misread that, thought that first part said you were getting hit on your run back to the boss room.

 

[deoee]

Boss helping with the build I stole from Speedrunners is so good

 

[Mogwai]

Been reading up on stats and Luck seems to be a gamechanger in this game.

Hence why everybody talks about it?

 

[taybul]

Getting there and getting hit, so then I have to use a Flask already, then his

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first form

hits too hard, and then the

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second

I can't even get a bit on him.

Yeah if you walk in and go straight to pick up your souls you will almost certainly get hit. A lot of his regular attacks should be easily avoidable, but when he looks like he's about to hit but teleports, you need to give a slight delay to your dodge for when he comes back in. The second form is largely the same except for the additional attacks obviously. I only go in for a hit when

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the smaller prince

isn't doing anything.

As for actually going there, I run straight up the left side and just roll through the smaller enemies, then cut across to avoid the archers then roll by the knights.

 

[Zophar]

You know, when I was playing bloodborne, I complained all the time in the OT about how far away the lamps were, and people kept telling me "Oh, it's not that far, you just need to find the shortcut."

I did find the shortcuts. The shortcuts were what I was complaining about the length over. Whenever I die to the current boss I'm stuck at, it's about a minute long trek between where I start and the fog wall, with strong enemies inbetween that I can MOSTLY avoid, but can also get snagged on by chance and lose a chunk of health. You can argue a minute isn't long, but it is when your stuck on a boss and have to do it over, and over, and over again. Even twenty seconds can add up if you're stuck on a boss, making it very annoying to have to trek again and again.

5 seconds. That's how far away every bonfire should be away from the boss. You have to give the option to not go to the boss again, or else I'd be advocating to restart in the arena itself. So from spawning, that's the length of time it should take me to get to the boss area again. Anything else is superflously wasting the players time.

This is part of the series, fwiw. I'd say the runbacks in DS3 are the most generous yet. Nearly every runback in DS1 was much more miserable.

 

[Sullichin]

Boss helping with the build I stole from Speedrunners is so good

Anri's Straight Sword + Luck?

 

[LiK]

Hence why everybody talks about it?

It's so weird cuz it used to be so useless lol

 

[prodystopian]

Is

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Flynn's

ring useless in this game? I can't imagine

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what equipment to use to make it worthwhile

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

Have you opened the shortcut

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elevator next to the boss room leading to the Dragonslayer Armor bonfire?

The one to the right of the bonfire?

Where you have to run up the steps past everyone and their mothers, and then 4(!) Black Knights?

 

[deoee]

Anri's Straight Sword + Luck?

+ Bleed.

I feel like this is kind of broken.
When the bleed kicks in some bosses just melt...

Good thing you can

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respec

.

Also can someone help me and explain how Covenants work?
Some tell you will be summoned but I never ever have been...

 

[Aurongel]

Illusory walls can sometimes screw you over in ways you don't expect :lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSqPV_rilik&t=1m45s

 

[kagamin]

Is

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Flynn's

ring useless in this game? I can't imagine

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what equipment to use to make it worthwhile

It's useless if your load (that you're wearing currently) is above 30 units, so I dunno, go all light armor and low weight weapons?

 

[SunBroDave]

The one to the right of the bonfire?

Where you have to run up the steps past everyone and their mothers, and then 4(!) Black Knights?

No, the one that literally goes from one of the rooms right before the

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Dragonslayer Armor boss

to literally right in front of the

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Princes boss room.

 

[Perfo]

I'm moving a bit slow and just got to the Borean Valley. How of curiosity how far in % I'm into the game?

 

[KittenMaster]

It's so weird cuz it used to be so useless lol

The problem with Luck as a stat in this game is that you aren't able to infuse a weapon with Hollow for a large chunk of the game. I know this because I am trying to make a Dex/Luck character but haven't actually been able to use the actual Luck scaling part yet.

 

[deoee]

I'm moving a bit slow and just got to the Borean Valley. How of curiosity how far in % I'm into the game?

1/3

 

[prodystopian]

It's useless if your load (that you're wearing currently) is above 30 units, so I dunno, go all light armor and low weight weapons?

I guess what I'm asking is does anyone use it, and if so, with what armor?

 

[SunBroDave]

I'm moving a bit slow and just got to the Borean Valley. How of curiosity how far in % I'm into the game?

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Between 1/2 and 2/3

of the way through, give or take.

 

[LiK]

Is

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Flynn's

ring useless in this game? I can't imagine

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what equipment to use to make it worthwhile

Worked fine, I guess but only worth it if you can keep your weight ratio below 70%.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

No, the one that literally goes from one of the rooms right before the

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Dragonslayer Armor boss

to literally right in front of the

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Princes boss room.

Sweet mother of Christ. How.

Oh fuck yes.

 

[KHlover]

This is part of the series, fwiw. I'd say the runbacks in DS3 are the most generous yet. Nearly every runback in DS1 was much more miserable.

Seath
Bed of Chaos
Artorias
Ornstein and Smough
Taurus Demon

Personal Top5. Such BS. Long way from bonfire. Strong enemies in the way. Dark Souls 3 feels like a light breeze compared to that.

 

[Sullichin]

I guess what I'm asking is does anyone use it, and if so, with what armor?

I was using it for a while since I didn't find any better rings early game, got like a free +20ATK. So not as good as it was in DS2 but probably better balanced.

 

[ExVicis]

I guess what I'm asking is does anyone use it, and if so, with what armor?

Mirrah Armor is what I'm using, it's pretty damn lightweight.

 

[kagamin]

I guess what I'm asking is does anyone use it, and if so, with what armor?

I use it with a shotel and the Fire Keeper set.

 

[Manu]

Boss helping with the build I stole from Speedrunners is so good

 

[taybul]

Sweet mother of Christ. How.

Oh fuck yes.

Ah damn sounds like this would've saved me a lot of pain running back as well

 

[SunBroDave]

Sweet mother of Christ. How.

Spoiler

Look to the right of the Princes boss room, right after crossing the bridge from Demon's Souls.

 

[daninthemix]

Just a heads up for someone looking for statless weapons - the Raw Astora Straight Sword is viable throughout the whole game, topping out at 320 AR at +10.