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[DXLelouch153]

anyone rocking

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Lorians

greatsword?
the skill on this thing is insane
cant wait till i get the other sword and

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fuse em

 

[LegendofLex]

Time to disengage lock on then.

Why not just make a better lock-on camera?

 

[SunBroDave]

So I've just beaten the boss in

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Anor Londo. Yhorm is dead too.

.

How far am I through the game? I'm soul level 60 right now.

You're about to come up on the last major area of the game.

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

That feel when you're a pyromancer and find the

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Witch's Ring

.

 

[zewone]

Man,

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Aldrich devour of gods

is such a shit boss. Cheap ass spells that last way too long, too strong.

This game has some shit design that has carried over from 2. Enemies with unlimited poise and stamina and cheap bosses with lazy design.

I'll take cheap bosses over shitty bosses like the mini-popes and Lord Wolnir.

 

[Sullichin]

Man,

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Aldrich devour of gods

is such a shit boss. Cheap ass spells that last way too long, too strong.

This game has some shit design that has carried over from 2. Enemies with unlimited poise and stamina and cheap bosses with lazy design.

What's lazy about the boss design? There's no blue smelter demon repeats here. And there's a good variety of types of fights I think.

 

[Manu]

Fighting

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Lorian

is the kind of thing that makes me think that some FROM designers are just fucking shit. It's not a bossfight against this enemy, it's a bossfight against the fucking garbage camera that all of these games have ever suffered from.

I didn't have any issues with the camera on this fight specifically. If you're locked into him, the lock-on follows him when he teleports, unless he teleports to do a long range attack, in which case he gives you enough time to rotate the camera and look for him before actually attacking.

EDIT: lol

Time to disengage lock on then.

 

[Newtype-001]

Im actually scratching my head at people finding aldritch hard let alone thinking hes lazy.

Biggest thing you gotta watch out for is his arrows which already have like a 3second start up then all you gotta do is roll in a pattern. His body is super long which makes it easy to attack. His other moves are standard attacks.

 

[Dahbomb]

Why not just make a better lock-on camera?

Because it's not that easy. Anytime you introduce fast moving, large or teleporting enemies/bosses... the lock on camera is going to spaz out. I's especially true if the lock on camera centers behind the player all the time. This is not a Souls game exclusive problem.

 

[Dresden]

The camera zooms out occasionally, and I wish it did that more on the bigger boss fights. Would help out quite a bit.

 

[ApharmdX]

Man,

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Aldrich devour of gods

is such a shit boss. Cheap ass spells that last way too long, too strong.

This game has some shit design that has carried over from 2. Enemies with unlimited poise and stamina and cheap bosses with lazy design.

There are some crappy enemies in this game with too much poise, hard to argue with that. I've liked the bosses so far, however. Most of them are pretty fair. I had some trouble with

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Aldrich

myself. He didn't take that much damage and his spells are pretty cheap.

 

[kagamin]

Untended Graves is probably my favorite area and has my favorite boss so far, too bad it's optional.

 

[Obliterator]

The gap in bonfires in I

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rithyl

D

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ungeon

is pretty ridiculous

 

[jett]

Time to disengage lock on then.

Yes, time for him to teleport god knows where the fuck then.

 

[The perfect Dark]

The gap in bonfires in I

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rithyl

D

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ungeon

is pretty ridiculous

Look for shortcuts
You can run past almost every enemy.

 

[KorrZ]

The gap in bonfires in I

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rithyl

D

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ungeon

is pretty ridiculous

I stopped there last night, I was in "I'll just play until the next bonfire" mode and yeah that didn't end up happening. I was just sprinting right past the whole first area at the end.

 

[MegaSackman]

I'll take cheap bosses over shitty bosses like the mini-popes and Lord Wolnir.

And

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The Demon King

, and

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The Crystal Sage

, and Ludex, and if you push me maybe

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Greatwood and Vordt

aswell.

 

[ApharmdX]

The gap in bonfires in I

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rithyl

D

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ungeon

is pretty ridiculous

Yes. Horrible, horrible level.

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

Christ, I'm playing on XB1, and during a certain point in

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Catacombs of Carthus

the framerate of some skeletons I was fighting dipped so low, it was like watching Jason and the fucking Argonauts. The framerate of everything else was fine, but it only affected the skeletons. It happens sometimes in Bloodborne too.

 

[KingKong]

The gap in bonfires in I

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rithyl

D

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ungeon

is pretty ridiculous

Shortcuts

 

[Dahbomb]

My only problem with the bosses in Dark Souls 3 is that

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too many of them follow the "dude with weapon" archetype. And usually that weapon is a flaming sword. Granted this is my favorite archetype of boss fights in the Souls games but still not enough variety in body types of bosses. Like there's hardly any legit giant dragon boss fight in the game.

Like look at this list:

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Gundyr: Dude with giant axe type weapon. Gimmick is he transforms midway into a blob monster. Same for Champion Gundyr.
Farron's Undead Legion: Dude with flaming sword, has another buddy that helps him and then a 3rd buddy that attacks him.
Nameless King: Dude with Lightning spear. Probably the most different from the others due to starting on a dragon and uses lightning on his attacks.
Dancer: Girl with flaming sword(s).
Pontiff: Dude with flame sword and dark sword that creates a doppelganger of himself as his gimmick.
Yhorm: Giant dude with flame axe like weapon. Gimmick is that he dies in 4 hits with a special weapon.
Old Demon King: Dude with flaming mace.
Soul of Cinder: Dude with flaming "sword". This is a pretty cool boss fight though and worthy of being the final boss of the series IMO.
Lorian: Dude with flaming sword with a gimmick of having an sorcerer as support.
Aldrich: Dude with flame halberd that also has dark enchant. More of a spellcaster though.

 

[ironcreed]

Untended Graves is probably my favorite area and has my favorite boss so far, too bad it's optional.

Where the hell is that at?

 

[SunBroDave]

My only problem with the bosses in Dark Souls 3 is that

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too many of them follow the "dude with weapon" archetype. And usually that weapon is a flaming sword. Granted this is my favorite archetype of boss fights in the Souls games but still not enough variety in body types of bosses. Like there's hardly any legit giant dragon boss fight in the game.

The game's got two of the coolest dragon fights in the entire series.

Where the hell is that at?

You get there from

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Lothric Castle

 

[Ferr986]

Man I don't see how I'm gonna be able to win the P

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rince fight

.

I don't have enough stamina for all dem balls and swings and shit. Also, FROM hasn't learn that bosses

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teleporting

is a no go cause it breaks your lock and simply makes you unable to see where the hit will come.

 

[Cmerrill]

What's lazy about the boss design? There's no blue smelter demon repeats here. And there's a good variety of types of fights I think.

I prefer the smelter to this.

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Aldrich

just keeps casting huge damage spells, nothing to it other than that. He does nothing else. Even his second phase is more of the same. Spells that last until they hit you by chasing. It's fucking ridiculous.

This isn't just the anger talking, but I'm appreciating dark Souls 2 the more I play 3.

 

[Nameless]

There are some crappy enemies in this game with too much poise, hard to argue with that. I've liked the bosses so far, however. Most of them are pretty fair. I had some trouble with

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Aldrich

myself. He didn't take that much damage and his spells are pretty cheap.

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Aldrich

is really easy if you smother him. He only has 2-3 highly telegraphed melee moves which are easy to avoid. When he disappears just run to the center of the room and immediately hop on his ass when you see him start to reappear. If you don't get there before the

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arrow rain

just roll or run backwards and you should avoid most of it.

He killed me twice when I was trying to avoid his spells but I pretty nearly got a flawless victory with this method.

 

[jett]

BTW I love wasting 60 seconds of my life getting on an elevator and running through a corridor of enemies every time I die at a boss. Such good design. The best ever.

 

[irfaanator]

man every time in a souls game I try a spear faith build and they always fall flat. It seems in ds3 faith is terrible, and spears dont seem to be very good. Anybody got anything different?

 

[Parmenide]

Hey let's make a new char-
>

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Irithyll Dungeon

Yeah maybe later

 

[Sullichin]

I prefer the smelter to this.

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Aldrich

just keeps casting huge damage spells, nothing to it other than that. He does nothing else. Even his second phase is more of the same. Spells that last until they hit you by chasing. It's fucking ridiculous.

This isn't just the anger talking, but I'm appreciating dark Souls 2 the more I play 3.

I mean, most of the guys with swords just swing a sword at you the whole time. Nothing to it other than that. Don't see what's so ridiculous about that

 

[kagamin]

Where the hell is that at?

A hidden path after you beat

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Oceiros

in the Consumed King's Garden.

 

[Brakke]

Im actually scratching my head at people finding aldritch hard let alone thinking hes lazy.

Biggest thing you gotta watch out for is his arrows which already have like a 3second start up then all you gotta do is roll in a pattern. His body is super long which makes it easy to attack. His other moves are standard attacks.

Yeah both his tracker souls and his arrows you can dodge just by running even, as long as you don't pick a dumb route. And then his melee has super long wind-up. He's a classic case of "take it slow", since he hits like a truck but is pretty easy to read.

 

[Orochinagis]

My only problem with the bosses in Dark Souls 3 is that

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too many of them follow the "dude with weapon" archetype. And usually that weapon is a flaming sword. Granted this is my favorite archetype of boss fights in the Souls games but still not enough variety in body types of bosses. Like there's hardly any legit giant dragon boss fight in the game.

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Giants

were screwed so hard in DS2, oh I forgot DS2 didnt happen...so much

 

[Ghostmaster]

I prefer the smelter to this.

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Aldrich

just keeps casting huge damage spells, nothing to it other than that. He does nothing else. Even his second phase is more of the same. Spells that last until they hit you by chasing. It's fucking ridiculous.

This isn't just the anger talking, but I'm appreciating dark Souls 2 the more I play 3.

If you're having more trouble with Aldrich than Smelter then your weapon isn't good enough, the dude melts under swings. The only problem are the arrows but just run like crazy.

BTW I love wasting 60 seconds of my life getting on an elevator and running through a corridor of enemies every time I die at a boss. Such good design. The best ever.

L&L? You've probably missed a shortcut, you can get to him without encountering any enemies.

 

[KittenMaster]

Wait what, I became hollow.. how do I unhollow? Thought Ember was the new humanity..

It's a separate mechanic

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it's tied to the dark sigil that's been added to your inventory

 

[LiK]

i feel like even tho the O

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ld Demon King

boss wasn't that hard, he was a fucking pain in the ass to see what he was doing through the whole fight.

 

[Obliterator]

Also the giant in here is annoying as FUCK

 

[Soulflarz]

i feel like even tho the O

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ld Demon King

boss wasn't that hard, he was a fucking pain in the ass to see what he was doing through the whole fight.

I learned the tells based off his arms

Was stupid, yeah.

 

[jett]

man every time in a souls game I try a spear faith build and they always fall flat. It seems in ds3 faith is terrible, and spears dont seem to be very good. Anybody got anything different?

I think weapons are balanced horribly in this game. My starting weapon shouldn't still be the most viable weapon I have in the game.

 

[pringles]

That's what helms are for

Go figure, the very first thing I did was happen upon how to reverse the hollowing lol. Praise the sun.

 

[Timeaisis]

OK, so I'm on

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Aldritch.

Would be a normally-hard boss for me but phase two he's got

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hominig arrows

that I cannot outrun and die to just about every time. I can get him to 1/4th life every fight, but then I die to that same attack. I have no idea how to doge it. Any tips?

 

[III-V]

Also the giant in here is annoying as FUCK

Use weapon arts.

 

[Onemic]

Is it better to infuse an uchigatana with a fire gem or use a pyro spell to add fire damage to it?

 

[Dahbomb]

OK, so I'm on

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Aldritch.

Would be a normally-hard boss for me but phase two he's got

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hominig arrows

that I cannot outrun and die to just about every time. I can get him to 1/4th life every fight, but then I die to that same attack. I have no idea how to doge it. Any tips?

Dodge/run in a circle to throw off the straight path of the attack. It's kinda like the Rom meteor shower attack in Bloodborne if you have experience with that.

 

[Reverend Funk]

It feels like there are too many bonfires, I keep running in to some that just feel redundant I would rather open shortcuts

 

[DXLelouch153]

OK, so I'm on

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Aldritch.

Would be a normally-hard boss for me but phase two he's got

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hominig arrows

that I cannot outrun and die to just about every time. I can get him to 1/4th life every fight, but then I die to that same attack. I have no idea how to doge it. Any tips?

dodge em when they go after you they travel in one direction

 

[Ghostmaster]

i feel like even tho the O

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ld Demon King

boss wasn't that hard, he was a fucking pain in the ass to see what he was doing through the whole fight.

Eh, he's not hard because the arena is way too big, you don't even have to look for tells, just stay away until he does a easily punishable attack.

 

[KHlover]

i feel like even tho the O

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ld Demon King

boss wasn't that hard, he was a fucking pain in the ass to see what he was doing through the whole fight.

Yeah, camera is way more of a threat than the actual attacks in this fight. Have fun with

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King of the Storm

later

For some bosses it's just better to drop the target cam alltogether.

 

[ironcreed]

You get there from

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Lothric Castle

Ah, good. I just started on there last night before crashing.

 

[Newtype-001]

OK, so I'm on

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Aldritch.

Would be a normally-hard boss for me but phase two he's got

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hominig arrows

that I cannot outrun and die to just about every time. I can get him to 1/4th life every fight, but then I die to that same attack. I have no idea how to doge it. Any tips?

As long as you're not fat rolling you can p much dodge roll in circles and be fine, its what i did