Dr. Benton Quest
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In DS1 you're never told who exactly is Gwyn's first born son. Many players then created the fiction that it was Solaire due to a vague item description.
DS3 makes it clear that it's
Nameless King
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DS3 makes it clear that it's
Which one do you enjoy using more?
Weird. I'd shot one all the way from the door, it'd come to me and then the other two would follow the moment the fight started.
It's much, much easier when you don't have his undivided attention. But more than one summon and he goes back to being harder, on top of the extra health with 3~4 people around you rarely know who the hell he's aiming at.Even with summons it's impossible
The easiest time I had with him so far was when I was summoned by someone using sorceries. I'd keep him busy while he was being nuked to hell by someone that could just stand there and shoot.
Minor lore spoiler:
Solaire is NOT Gwyn's firstborn. You actually fight the firstborn in DS3.
Jawbreaker
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Get the Dark Wood Grain Ring and the Great Scythe. See how you like it then. Regardless, I can understand where you're coming from. No need to be ashamed of feeling that way. :]
Royal_Phalanx
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How do I beat the frost knight that you have to fight before entering the Road of Sacrifices? I get beaten to a pulp if I make 1 mistake and he's so damn fast.
How early can I change my character's appearance? Really regret making my girl swole (she's a warrior, so I thought, hey, it would make more sense for her to be toned, but I ended up hating that choice) and I need to change her hairstyle.
How early can I change my character's appearance? Really regret making my girl swole (she's a warrior, so I thought, hey, it would make more sense for her to be toned, but I ended up hating that choice) and I need to change her hairstyle.
Practise
No, you need to go to the
boreal valley boss bonfire (the ice boss you fight near the beginning) and walk across past the knights.
Pops Maellard
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keep circling him over and over again and take hits when you can, dont get greedy
then when
his shadow form comes out
What is your level?
So I'm tired of how I built myself with having points all over and in strength (which I'm realizing I put way too many in) so I'm deciding to do those Dex/Luck builds since this character started at Thief class. Let me ask, the basics behind it is getting a Dex Weapon with Bleed? Will a Carthus Shotel work?
I never enjoyed that theory. It never made sense to me that Solaire would be a god but still would roam all over his dad's ruined Kingdom as happy go lucky as he was initially.
Pops Maellard
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Circle, git gud at rolls. It's an easy boss IMO, just have to be aggressive and do as much damage as possible really quickly. Stay behind him and mash.
This one. However, not sure how well it'll scale, as it's resource intensive to level up. I'm just wondering if there are any spectacularly good swords I should get for the build.
http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Irithyll+Straight+Sword
OmegaTreeFish
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So there is this lift...... If that frost enemy is coming after you and you time it right.... You go up, he goes down.... You win.
I yelled "dark souls baby" when it happened.
Took me a few tries. It felt more like fighting game mechanics than an enemy tbh.
Even with summons it's impossible
You can do it. It's definitely a fight where playing patiently is a good idea.
I've gotten 24 sunlight medals on him alone. To be honest I can see why people summon for that particular fight.
Jawbreaker
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He's not too bad. Stay on his ass as much as possible, and get behind him. Mash away. Aggressiveness is key. Try a fast weapon if you aren't using one already.
I gave up after a 5 or 6 tries and just started parrying. You can reliably get a parry at the very beginning of the fight when he lunges to you, and it's not that hard to parry on his slow overhead attack. There are a few other attacks that are very long sequences which you can parry as well. Not saying this is easy, but that's how I did it. Once he starts splitting, you need to run up and do as much damage to the clone and him as possible. If you're strong enough you can practically kill the clone before the split even completes.
I have literally no idea how you could solo this boss with a dodge heavy character. All his attacks are so fast, and he barely gives you any time to counter attack. Maybe heavy shield characters do better? I don't know.
The only boss I was forced to parry, honestly felt like I couldn't survive the first phase without parrying.
I think theres just so many people playing that many times you will press summon and they have already been summoned by someone else so it fails if you catch it late. Several times ive put my sign down and i am immediately summoned, like barely enough time for my thumb to get off the button.
Brian_FETO
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Lol!
Was getting absolutely steamrolled by P
, unable to ever drop him below like a 10th of his health. Had a hard time getting any hits in. Finally equipped a shield and uchigatana and learned to parry him. Fucking destroyed him and beat him my first try ever getting to phase two. Get fucked
I need to parry more often, I got too used to two handing. Loved it in Bloodborne but could never get a grasp on it in Souls games (to be fair though I never tried much after failing initially)
Was getting absolutely steamrolled by P
ontiff
I need to parry more often, I got too used to two handing. Loved it in Bloodborne but could never get a grasp on it in Souls games (to be fair though I never tried much after failing initially)
I can't think of any other early game dex weapons that use use twinkling titanite so you should be fine to level it up for now.
Portugeezer
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Just be aggressive, the bonfire is right next to it. I had trouble, but once I stopped trying to block and dodge everything and started focussing on doing damage, I beat him.
I don't know, I assumed I couldn't parry any boss so I just dodged everything and I beat him my first try, probably one of the easier bosses in the game for me. Most of his attacks just whiff anyway.
I feel you bro.
I just got bodied by his
astral clones once I got him down to 1/3rd of his life
;_;
Gouty
Bloodborne is shit
This really depends on how much dex and str the character has. It takes very little additional dex for the regular dark sword to outperform the heavy version.
Oh man the
GreatSword is fucking BEAAAAST. Thanks for the gaffer who revealed you could couple them, because it's just....man what a weapon.
Doesn't have the best scaling but does substantial base physical + fire damage, and it's moveset is just out of this world. With stance, R1 is a long range stinger, R2 is a big frontal fire swipe with hyperarmor.
This sword in pvp is just incredibly fun to use
Twin Prince
Doesn't have the best scaling but does substantial base physical + fire damage, and it's moveset is just out of this world. With stance, R1 is a long range stinger, R2 is a big frontal fire swipe with hyperarmor.
This sword in pvp is just incredibly fun to use
I sunbro'ed a few times to help other people while getting a better feel for the fight. Then tried him again solo and kicked his ass.
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
Yup. Phase you you can just hold shield up amd circle strafe him at point blank range. He will hit with 1 attack then wiff on follow up. Once phase 2 starts, beat down the clone then go back to starting tactic.
Or just parry the shit out of him if your good at that.
valentine71
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I am currently at Archdragon Peak' s boss. Can' t beat it, can' t summon people either. It always gives error as i try to summon people though i had no problem with summoning people in other areas. Is there anyone on PS4 who can help me beat him? (I think we can meet up regardless of the level requirements via password option)
Edit: My PSN is abysswalker71 if anyone wants to add.
Edit: My PSN is abysswalker71 if anyone wants to add.
I'm currently at 79. For a while I was running around with a +8 weapon but I've recently gotten it to plus +10.
EDIT: I'm gonna do some tests to see which areas I get summons and how frequently.
bobawesome
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Beat him NG+ after dying once. I didn't find him that difficult.
This is the weirdest thing to hear. I tried to play behind him on the first couple attempts, and he just kept doing this quick turn around attack, followed up by his normal onslaught.
if you stay to help enough people after you beat a boss you will find out that some get lucky enough to never see some of the attacks.
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I would stay at SL 100, it's early enough in this game that the meta hasn't been sorted out. Also, unless you are a hybrid build using pyro, magic or faith, SL 100 is plenty.
I also suggest optimizing a build for SL 50-70 for random invasions. You will get plenty of action and practice in random invasions. With the activity as high as it is, it's a great time to be a mid level invader.
Admiral Snackbar
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Practice, parry and always roll TOWARDS him. His combos are pretty pattern based, always roll under the long windup chop.
His second phase makes it a lot easier to tell what he's about to do. Good luck, man!
Yeah I have a feeling that the SL will be less than 120 for pvp like it was in Dark Souls. Right now staying lower is probably better because the game is still new.
EDIT: There's going to be a bigger focus on weapon level as well, as it is now tied to PvP as well. We will see.
I'm at 100, so not too much further away. Maybe it will creep up eventually.
No summon signs or unable to summon message?
Unable to summon x200
Yeah, you might be leveled over most people. I think I just outleveled a lot of PvP stuff because I upgraded my weapon to a +10.
The area between
Pontiff and Anor Londo
KittenMaster
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Lol. I just tried to get a 2v2/2v3 going by trying to deliberately get a Blue Sentinel around as a Way of Blue, but it just ended up being a 1v3 against red phantoms with the covenant not working.
1v3 against red phantoms actually seems really doable compared to fighting a team of coop players though, because red phantoms have team damage.
1v3 against red phantoms actually seems really doable compared to fighting a team of coop players though, because red phantoms have team damage.
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