Dark-Cloudz
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Any early game tips on being a thief? not much on t'internet.
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Dark Souls III |OT2| Welcome to NG+, Unkindled One
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DustyVonEric
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Just quit out and reload. The items will reappear on the ledge or their spawn point. I pushed the first uchi Swordmaster off the ledge. His gear appeared where you first find him. Works for escaping lizards too.
Every game since demons souls has a trick where if you quit and reload exactly where the enemy or item fell off it should appear on the reload exactly where the enemy or item was before it fell.
I kicked master off the ledge at the start of the game and uchi popped up after I used a homeward bone, but I've heard conflicting things from others regarding this so idk.
Lodric Castle.
Outrider Boreal Knight in the basement at the twin dragons + in the hidden room in Grand Archives.
I took down my second Crystal Sage plus TWO freaking dragons plus the Dragonrider Armor.
But those Outrider Boreal Knights...just cant get them - must have died to each at least
Outrider Boreal Knight in the basement at the twin dragons + in the hidden room in Grand Archives.
I took down my second Crystal Sage plus TWO freaking dragons plus the Dragonrider Armor.
But those Outrider Boreal Knights...just cant get them - must have died to each at least
Any weakness or suggestions
for either or both?
Ah damn,I thought it was the other place later in the game,whith the fat priest in a corner...oh well.
Normal enemies will die and their loot with them. Some special enemies like the one dropping the Uchigatana are different. There you can reload the game and the drop will be where he started. Though most of the enemies that drop unique drops, like NPC invaders and lizards, will have you get the loot straight to your inventory now.
Get that fearmongering shit out of here. Using in-game mechanics is not against TOS. If they didn't like people doing this then they would have patched it out a month ago.
ISee
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Stab, stab, stab, roll, stab, roll, roll, stab, die, repeat.
Starting calsses are not that important and play similar in most cases. But if you want to roleplay as a 'thief'. Get light armor and/or the spook spell and you'll be able to sneak efficiently, untill you run into a large group.
hydrophilic attack
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Why are you so defensive? I'm just forwarding what is in the user agreement. The covenants are there to increase the number of players partaking in multiplayer, which is good for the multiplayer community of the game. Grinding and boosting them should be discouraged, and banning some boosters could be a ways for them to set an example.
What? There has to be something I'm missing here? Nothing is gained by doing or encouraging this.
Because it's fearmongering. This method isn't new. The game has been out since end of March and they've had no problem with it. Dueling for items is how it is. From doesn't care if the other guy lets you win.
Sanctuary
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You might be right, however the game has been out since the end of March and poise still does nothing for the player, yet works perfectly fine for enemies. FROM apparently doesn't have an issue with that either.
Very hard to stumble on without help from wiki/spoilers.My first two characters totally missed it.
Use your surroundings to peck away at tough enemies with your knife and bow. Here is the first boss using the bandit knife.
Right, there are some things still not working as intended but even if this was unintended then From aren't going to ban anybody for taking advantage of it before it's patched.
Nobody has been banned for doing it this way.
Jormunaattori
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Whats wrong with grinding now?
Dark-Cloudz
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I would like to.
Any good early daggers to get? I Know there are the dual wielders once I get to the Road.
hydrophilic attack
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They ARE discouraging grinding for the covenants by making the drop rate infinitesimally small.
Ooops. Really doubt that they would ban from that though. If they didn't put stupid rewards behind covenants then no one would be boosting so it is kinda Froms fault people are boosting.
Thats cool, but blue and darkmoon dont really work. All the other convenants are extremly easy to max out via duels and invasions.
People are forced to grind because implementation is piss poor.
Benzychenz
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Princes
Archives
Still need to go back and do the
Consumed King's Garden
Jormunaattori
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Yeah and its still faster to farm them from enemies than PVPing with the covenants.
Edit: Or WAS, Im done with that stuff
From Software don't want you to grind covenant items so they have certain enemies drop said covenant items?
How does your logic work?
Grinding is in place for users who cannot play online. Without it, the covenant rewards and platinum trophy would be unobtainable for anyone without an internet connection.
Look I understand the sentiment behind this and all, but at the end of the day you gotta understand that some people just care waaaaay too much about those little chevo images on their tag and they'll do resort to questionable methods to get them. Just forget about them. They're always going to do it, and there's no real way of stopping them, so if they want to cheese out some stuff for an imaginary pat on the back instead of pvp'ing for a few hours per cov then let them. They're only really cheating themselves out of a good time at the end of the day.
Grinding is a little different though. Even if the game was working as intended (and it's not), if someone's crazy enough to kill something for 12 hours straight then I say let them have it. At the end of the day though, most people are grinding out concords because sents/darkmoon is busted. Personally, I'm just not going to do it because there's nothing worth wasting 10 hours grinding--especially not a virtual pat on the back--but if people want to, eh, who cares? No one's getting hurt by it because sents/darkmoon is busted anyways. It's not like there's a shitton of newbs crying around because they're getting rofl-stomped by a shitton of invaders, especially in this god-forsaken game >.>
Indeed. Been playing the game for 50 hours now and I'm still yet to summoned as a blue despite trying to do all the 'right' things. Grinding out Concords is literally my only option to level up that covenant.
test_account
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KOTS/NK boss is so much luck. Really depends on which attack that is being pulled. Some are near impossible to dodge, feels like i'm flipping a coin and have a 50/50 chance if getting hit or not, while the ground fire attack is so easy to dodge (and also means that you can get most hits on it).
Why even bother enforcing this? Who cares? I'm all for shutting down cheaters and hackers, they ruin other people's games, or worse, but someone who finds a little exploit to rank up faster? Whatever.
It's like punishing people farming Souls with some ingame trick or another.
It's not like they're disconnecting from legit fights anyway, they do it between friends.
Jormunaattori
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test_account
XP-39C²
I've had no luck with Watchdogs of Farron or Aldrich Faithful either, so i basically have to do 3x grind.
The first phase has kinda luck factor with is the camera shit or not but otherwise I don't think there is any luck involved.
Jormunaattori
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Because the totes legit leaderboards get ruined.
test_account
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Yeah, sorry, i was only referring to the first phase. I've never really gotten to the 2nd phase enough times to really try to learn the moves/timing.
Also, while i agree that the camera is bad, i wonder if they really could do much about it to make it better.
Jormunaattori
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Well the camera could be placed a bit lower and be pointed a bit upwards so you could actually see the dude too and what hes doing.
Sanctuary
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Other than shackles being annoying to farm in PvE due to the distance the enemies that can drop them are from a bonfire, what other items actually have such a small drop rate that you would get them faster from PvP? Becuase you sure as hell aren't going to reliably get them through invading. Grinding is boring, but I'd argue that for most covenants, it's way faster than PvP right now, aside from the password option. Well, Sunbro co-op is probably the fastest besides that, but for the rest, I don't see why the drop rate is considered that small, especially when you're actually wearing the appropriate item finding gear. If you want the covenant stuff that badly, just use Hidden Body + Slumbering Dragoncrest + Hornet's Ring to kill most enemies that can't be nuked down quickly enough.
I don't blame them. The covenant system is broken and farming for covenant-related items is obscenely difficult.
Jormunaattori
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Shackles and Tongues are easy to get PVPing. Although the tongues have pretty good drop rate from the enemies too.
Sanctuary
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If all you're doing is being summoned for a 1v1 duel, maybe...
Tongues are extremely easy to get though. You can get around one every two minutes. Shackles are the only covenant item that I can see being truly annoying to grind.
Hey dunno if anyone's seen this yet, but Errant Signal just put out a video on Dark Souls 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55dc8DGAM1s
He does good work, so check it out if you can. Tackles a most controversial topic in the gaming world: Souls and difficulty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55dc8DGAM1s
He does good work, so check it out if you can. Tackles a most controversial topic in the gaming world: Souls and difficulty.
Jormunaattori
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You could play unemembered, or just backup your save.
I killed ~1000 knights to get 30 concords with all the item discovery gear.
It's fucked.
Humm but you can be offline and embered =p
MrCompletely
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I guess you can just avoid using embers, die right after beating bosses?
Jormunaattori
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The fight club area after Pointiff gets you 99% legit 1v1's.
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