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Dark Souls III |OT2| Welcome to NG+, Unkindled One
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ReignofSparrows
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Estoc is a really solid choice if you like the moveset. You'll see huge, huge gains when you infuse, though. Chaos/dark infusion are absolutely key to making a pyromancer/melee hybrid feel broken in PvE. As for other weapons, Astora Greatsword is nice because of the scaling (A in Faith and Int). Other people swear by the Witch's Locks. I mostly play pretty stock, though, and run a chaos AND dark infused Dark Sword at the same time to take advantage of elemental resistances. It just feels like the best all around weapon at the moment.
That said, any weapon that gives you B scaling in int/faith with infusion (which includes the Estoc) will get you nearly all the utility of a str/dex build on top of the abilities to nuke from a distance and turn most mobs against each other.
thunder_snail
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Fire infused daggers are awesome. Light enough to carry around most of the times, quick step through swamps, stagger those gooey hollow abomination things, stagger lock those disgusting maggot creatures, and destroy those annoying slimes. No need to switch out the main weapon through the menu too.
It works, but not very well. Only time it is useful is when fighting that mob boss. As long as you use a weapon that can hit many enemies at once, you won't even need to estus during that fight if you have the ring on.
OniBarubary
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As someone who rolled Arstor Spear in a Dex/Luck build, poison is traaaaaash. It's actually handy in PvP as most people aren't set up to handle or pay attention to it but it does such negligible damage even over a long time that I don't understand why it's so low.
ecosse_011172
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OniBarubary
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Bleed Proc and Item Drop as well as Hollow Infusion Scaling and a couple specific great weapons.
Luck is actually a surprisingly good and viable build this game.
darkslayer101
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anyone up for vertebrae shackle farming PM me.
PC version btw
PC version btw
Morrigan Stark
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About making a luck/bleed build...
The coal and gem(s) for hollow/bleed are pretty late in the game, yes? I don't want to necessarily use
, and might go with the Warden's Twinblades instead (currently using Sellsword's Twinblades).
Any suggestions for infusions/stats allocation until I get the damn stuff that scales with luck? Just go sharp/dex and use Carthus rouge whenever?
The coal and gem(s) for hollow/bleed are pretty late in the game, yes? I don't want to necessarily use
Anri's Straight Sword
Any suggestions for infusions/stats allocation until I get the damn stuff that scales with luck? Just go sharp/dex and use Carthus rouge whenever?
ecosse_011172
Junior Member
Thanks for the info.
OniBarubary
Banned
Depends. If your final weapon when infused has good Dex scaling beyond Bleed or Hollow, then go a Dex weapon or Sharp a good weapon you like. If your final weapon has D scaling in Dex, just go in raaaaaaw or fire/simple/whatever adds elemental damage without scaling. Those should carry you to your destined weapon
How? I can't even get 1 in like 30 minutes worth of time. Getting Dregs is a lot easier. I got 6 of them in like 10 minutes. Fuck I hate these drop rates.
IrrelevantAlex
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Hey quick questions: What can you drop and have a friend pick up?
Apparently you were able to drop Titanite but not any more? Can you drop boss souls/weapons?
Apparently you were able to drop Titanite but not any more? Can you drop boss souls/weapons?
Nightmare452
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I remember this bastard of a boss. Made me quite DS2 the first time. Came back to DS2 when I was preparing for Bloodborne and I rant through all Souls games. Beat him on my firt try on SotFS. Great boss, but he really is a test of your rolling dominance and understanding of the inv frames.
Morrigan Stark
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GAFmeansLIFE
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GreyOcelot
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the run up to sir alonne was worse
I don't know that I ever beat him because of that.
He and Ancient dragon are the only two bosses in the series i haven't beaten.
Well I was referring to the normal one, but fuck that area as well. In fact, fuck all the co-op areas in the DS2 DLC.
Okay, I
is one of the worst areas in the game if not the Souls series.
But yeah, that area has good design but by god was it frustrating. It's just an amalgamation of all the shit enemies in the game so far.
rithyll dungeons
Those women with the irons are fucking horrible. Literally drains an estus each encounter with them. I don't know what's the trick to stopping them from eating at your HP bar like that. Ridiculous enemy.
Anyway, managed to kill the giant and find a shortcut (finally!). Also came across Siegward but I can't find a way to get to him at all. I found the old cell key. I assume it's for him? I'd like to complete at least his quest on my first playthrough. I must save the onion bro!
I've just hit the profaned capital bonfire so I'll be going through there next
Anyway, managed to kill the giant and find a shortcut (finally!). Also came across Siegward but I can't find a way to get to him at all. I found the old cell key. I assume it's for him? I'd like to complete at least his quest on my first playthrough. I must save the onion bro!
I've just hit the profaned capital bonfire so I'll be going through there next
But yeah, that area has good design but by god was it frustrating. It's just an amalgamation of all the shit enemies in the game so far.
darkslayer101
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ecosse_011172
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Oh yeah this reminded me that I had been meaning to give my code for an e-guide to GAF as well. Enter at primagames.com/code and again quote to reveal. Enjoy![/EMAIL][/QUOTE]
Thanks so much!
Thanks so much!
Is your character a fish!?
Platinum get!
Man that ring trophy is real dumb.
Overall spent 125 hours. I'm going to probably play through NG+4 just to try out sorcery but other than that I think I'm done with it until the DLC.
Man that ring trophy is real dumb.
After killing the 3rd lord of cinder I never got a cut scene, figured it was a change in the new patch. Went down to find Dancer and Emma was still there. So I just killed her and moved on. Got to the Grand Archives and the key wasn't there. Was so close to flipping my shit, seeing as there was 1 ring behind the door. But I ended up getting the cut scene by travelling back to the Aldrich bonfire. Thank god.
Overall spent 125 hours. I'm going to probably play through NG+4 just to try out sorcery but other than that I think I'm done with it until the DLC.
cm osi
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key is back in the dungeon so wait and find it before going for the boss
There'll be an enemy npc in a side area, before the boss.
Jump into the window next to where you fight him
Chilli_Axe
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enemy NPC? I've ran the area unkindled. Darn it, must've missed them. Is there a boss in the
dungeon?
Thats how you fuck him up in general, lol.
Morrigan Stark
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Nah, not even close. Just a few Alonne knights. Not annoying archers and mages that slow you down and even silence you so you can't even use magic back on them.
Never had a problem with Iron Keep tbh. The alonne knights are quite manageable.
It's not an invader, it's a guy on top of a building past the Capital bonfire
Sometimes enemy NPCs are just there, surprised the fuck out of me when I went down the
Demon Ruins
Good thing he and the
BK
Jesus! Thanks for that. I'll have to try it.
I'm gonna need to git gud at parrying first though
I've only ever tried fighting him honestly, which is a complete bitch at sl1.
Didn't even know you could make him do his first attack more than once. Fuck me, that would've made him so much easier for me.
Practice on the Lothric Knights and the Blue Knight, he has very similar wind ups to Pontiff.
I think the nipple shield description implys that it's better for parrying than the others
other than that you only know by experimenting.
darkwing-buck
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Black Blade a good weapon?
GAFmeansLIFE
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Oh yeah I had been meaning to give my code for an e-guide to GAF. Posting one more time for the new page in case anyone is interested. Enter at primagames.com/code and quote to reveal. Enjoy!
I've been trying some Mound-Maker PvP... Yeah, it's definitely not for me. I really, really despise competitive multiplayer interactions.
I'll farm them on my own at Carthus while watching a movie or something. I've already completed the W
and F
covenants this way 
I'll farm them on my own at Carthus while watching a movie or something. I've already completed the W
atchdogs of Farron
inger's of Rosaria
AlphaDragoon
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Yes. It's a strong quality weapon in it's base form and in it's Sharp form it outdoes every other katana short of a Chaos Blade for a pure DEX build without the disadvantage of an HP drain (and it's only weaker than Chaos Blade by like, 15-20 AR).
Empty Space
Member
Right now at almost 300 AR (+1) even with Fire Clutch Ring, just meeting the stat requirements, it does less damage than my sellsword twinblades +3 that have 158 AR (20 dex) on normal enemies in places like the Road of Sacrifice or Crucifixion Woods.
God fucking dammit.
Gonna re-spec I guess. Might have to settle for luck/bleed build and farm the Cathedral for the Warden's twinblades. Still, hollow/bleed infusions are super late in the game right?
Goddamn this game's coal system. Whyyyy
Meh that was in Demon's Souls too.
Yeah that isn't Anri, that's Sirris. Anri re-appears for the second time in the Catacombs but sometimes they're not there; they weren't there in my first playthrough and just disappeared. Sorry.
My friend uses the great club and enjoys it so far. Try that maybe.
Really? Has that thing finally been buffed in a patch? At 35 faith with the firstborn ring it was still crap... think I used the cleric's sacred chime as it had the best spell buff I had so far.
I'm super late responding to this, but Faith scales all the way up 60 points really well. Its also important to do spears at melee range get the second attack to proc. At range a spear does like 900 damage.
Its also a great candidate for raw and then applying a buff. Not as good the Astora Straight sword, but still great.
The parry animation looks fancier on good parrying shields. A regular shield just does a boring horizontal swing while a parry shield will do a fancy upward twirl. The fancy parry has more parry frames.
AlphaDragoon
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Make Corvian Greatknife a Raw weapon and go to town. I used it for an entire playthrough on one of my characters.
masterkajo
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I am trying to level up the following covenant
Watchdogs of Farron. But I hardly get any invasions going. I am about SL50 with a +6 weapon. I just found out that the weapon level does play a part in matchmaking. So my high level and my +6 weapon basically prevent me from being summoned in the low level woods. Is there a way for me to get the needed covenant items to level it up? Preferably by invasions? Are there some other woods where I get summoned later on where I can do this? I hate to have missed out on a cool covenant and some PvP action.
You've been banished to the grass mines friend
Keep Ruins bonfire (or Perimeter if you want to farm
BK
There's another covenant in a later area that's more or less the same idea but it uses different items so no grass until you start getting into ng+ levels and people are bothering to reequip the watchdogs again
The other one works way more reliably though (like not having enough time to rip the covenant ring off between summonings fast in some cases) so that's probably a better PvP option in the long run
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