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Do you have the coal needed and a sharp gem?
BizzyBum
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LOL! I was just thinking the same thing. Maybe they decay slower if the blacksmith repairs? I mean, everything barely decays anyway. I'm just gonna go with it being completely useless.
It's not that it's perfect, it's that it behaves in a near identical way to previous games. It does possibly feel like it's a shorter range, though.
There is also a sort of dead zone at the sides, say for example, you are locked on to one enemy, but there are other enemies nearby and you want to flick the stick so the lock will switch to another enemy. If they are too far to the side it won't change. That dead zone I don't remember from previous games.
But really, it's simply about knowing the system. It behaves very systematically if you simply know what its limits are. There are some situations where the enemy will be in a 'dead zone' so it won't lock on. You just have to adjust your character and view point so they are more in the center of the screen.
Yea i have had that happen once.. i think it was from a failed invader.
Anyone found a good reason NOT to use the Prisoner's Chain? I'm not sure the damage penalty even matters.
I wanted to grab the PS4 version later on to platinum it, I figured it'd at worse it'd be as bad as DS2's. Then I saw the covenants. Nope, I'm out.
FWIW, the only covenant which gave me any trouble at all was the
Blues.
Silver Knights.
From needs to rethink the
Blues
OniBarubary
Banned
Alright, yo, real talk.
I think my favorite boss fight/design of the game is
.
Got that fight and goddam was it a surprise. I had a blast doing the actual fight as it's super challenging but I also enjoy
That was quite a nice surprise. I think I might drop my sign outside his door because I liked that fight a whole heck of a lot.
I think my favorite boss fight/design of the game is
Aldrich
Got that fight and goddam was it a surprise. I had a blast doing the actual fight as it's super challenging but I also enjoy
the fakeout you get thinking what Aldrich is going to look like. In the opening cutscene you see the sludge pouring out like some gross mass of tentacles, in the game all the lore and characters point to him just nonstop devouring everything, a lot of his cardinals are really fat dudes, there's slime and sludge all over Anor Londo...and then you fight him and he's this skinny-ass four-limbed gross snake-ass dude and it's nothing at all like I thought he would look. I thought he'd be some huge roiling mass of grossness and ooze and tentacles and shit.
That was quite a nice surprise. I think I might drop my sign outside his door because I liked that fight a whole heck of a lot.
Yea, it also affects the ability to use a bonfire to reset stuff. Pretty annoying bug.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Damn played for 6 hours straight tonight with 3 friends, 1 we beat bloodborne together and 2 newbies. It was invasion central, due to the Dried Fingers, but we won all the fights. I do admit the invaders prob felt we "ganked" them but that was not the intention. Just trying to do some coop PvE stuff together.
Regardless coop does make the game extremely easy and I do feel partially to blame for ruining their experiences since I did the majority of the heavy lifting.
Nonetheless they had a more funnier time doing coop.
Regardless coop does make the game extremely easy and I do feel partially to blame for ruining their experiences since I did the majority of the heavy lifting.
Nonetheless they had a more funnier time doing coop.
He is one of my favourites as well. It helps that his theme is damn-amazing.
DS3's OST may have just snatched BB's throne as my favourite Soulsbourne soundtrack. <3
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Well, completed the game twice now. Once with a Strength build, and the other with a Dexterity build. Here's what I ended up with without looking up wiki's to find optimal gear or any of that nonsense...
STRENGTH BUILD
Fashion Souls: Executioner's Helm, Executioner's Gauntlets. Executioner's Leggings, Knight Armour.
Weapons: Heavy Infused Drang Hammers +10, Butcher's Knife +10, Heavy Infused Zweihander +10, Sniper Crossbow +10, Lothric Knight Greatsheild
Roll speed: Medium (Below 70% weight load)
DEX BUILD
Fashion Souls: Billed Mask, Dancer's Armour, Pontiff Knight Gauntlets, Sunless Leggings
Weapons: Estoc +10, Onkiri And Ubudachi +10, Refined Astora's Greatsword +10, Black Bow Of Pharis +10, Pierce Sheild
Roll Speed: Medium (Below 70% weight load)
STRENGTH BUILD
Fashion Souls: Executioner's Helm, Executioner's Gauntlets. Executioner's Leggings, Knight Armour.
Weapons: Heavy Infused Drang Hammers +10, Butcher's Knife +10, Heavy Infused Zweihander +10, Sniper Crossbow +10, Lothric Knight Greatsheild
Roll speed: Medium (Below 70% weight load)
DEX BUILD
Fashion Souls: Billed Mask, Dancer's Armour, Pontiff Knight Gauntlets, Sunless Leggings
Weapons: Estoc +10, Onkiri And Ubudachi +10, Refined Astora's Greatsword +10, Black Bow Of Pharis +10, Pierce Sheild
Roll Speed: Medium (Below 70% weight load)
LurkerPrime
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Yhorm is bananas. I don't like this at all.
iRAWRasaurus
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check by his throne
nephilimdj
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Beat the boss then went straight into
with no ethers, and nearly beat him. Noidea how, since then died so many times to him.
Dancer
OniBarubary
Banned
Hey! You stop that! I haven't even completed it once yet!
Cloud Strife
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Just made it to
, is this the final boss?
Love their design. Love all the bosses in this game tbh. I think it's beating out Dark Souls 1 and BB.
Lothric Bros
Love their design. Love all the bosses in this game tbh. I think it's beating out Dark Souls 1 and BB.
G
A
was a pretty shitty dungeon. The same stupid worker enemies and that sage plus those lame guys. I dunno, the overall layout and reused enemies made it felt extremely lazy and rushed. Also, those
were awful traps and looked pretty goofy. I dunno, can't believe this is near the end and that's what they came up with.
rand
rchives
grabby curse hands
Just respeced to dex and got my OnU to +10Well, completed the game twice now. Once with a Strength build, and the other with a Dexterity build. Here's what I ended up with without looking up wiki's to find optimal gear or any of that nonsense...
STRENGTH BUILD
Fashion Souls: Executioner's Helm, Executioner's Gauntlets. Executioner's Leggings, Knight Armour.
Weapons: Heavy Infused Drang Hammers +10, Butcher's Knife +10, Heavy Infused Zweihander +10, Sniper Crossbow +10, Lothric Knight Greatsheild
Roll speed: Medium (Below 70% weight load)
DEX BUILD
Fashion Souls: Billed Mask, Dancer's Armour, Pontiff Knight Gauntlets, Sunless Leggings
Weapons: Estoc +10, Onkiri And Ubudachi +10, Refined Astora's Greatsword +10, Black Bow Of Pharis +10, Pierce Sheild
Roll Speed: Medium (Below 70% weight load)
Gonna try the rest of this and see how it goes but OnU was kicking ass
Empty Space
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Just respeced to dex and got my OnU to +10
Gonna try the rest of this and see how it goes but OnU was kicking ass
Gotthard's swords are also really great, so are the Drang hammers. The rest seem to lack oomph I should probably give the Dancer's swords again after the buff.
That skinny-ass dude isn't Aldrich, it's Gwyndolin being devoured by Aldrich. Aldrich is the sludge at the bottom that Gwyndolin is attached to.
That whole fight/area was HOLY SHIT FEELS for me. I was expecting Ornstein when walking into that boss chamber, no kidding. And then it's fucking Gwyndolin no wait it's Gwyndolin being eaten by a fucking sludge monster in a room full of sludge and corpses. So good.
That whole fight/area was HOLY SHIT FEELS for me. I was expecting Ornstein when walking into that boss chamber, no kidding. And then it's fucking Gwyndolin no wait it's Gwyndolin being eaten by a fucking sludge monster in a room full of sludge and corpses. So good.
I fear I'm coming up on the endgame and I need some advice:
Is there anything I should do before I
? I'm not asking for an ending guide, just whether or not this is a point of no return.
Also, any tips on those awful gator enemies?
Is there anything I should do before I
place the basin on the beheading knight's altar
Also, any tips on those awful gator enemies?
Not only that but being able to teleport everywhere from the start cuts down on play time considerably. A lot of my time in Dark Souls 1 was spent running around back and forth through different areas.
OniBarubary
Banned
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?! That's even more fucked up!
Empty Space
Member
Reading between the lines with npc dialogue seems to indicate she's really weak. So it seems to be in fiction. Its also totally possible to get stun locked to death on that boss with two of its abilities if the first hit get you.
Neat fact about that boss
his weapon is totally the gravelord sword.
I guess. Feels like a lot more room for error. As in, you make a bad roll and you go from max HP to death. The bosses seem really hit or miss in that respect.
Like,
Dancer
Twin Princes
Prince
Abyss Watchers
Aldrich
Just my two cents. Haven't finished the game yet.
Thankfully I saved the clip so I could look back. She tanked the arrows until she had a sliver of life left, then instead of healing, she got farted on and died. A little bit hilarious, actually.
The game design for
is completely stupid. If you die, how do you know where the hell
I only met that girl(Which is the only hint of where to go if you dont one shot the boss) in the cathedral once and she was never mentioned again, so why did From think that I'd remember such a character and her location? I had to use a wiki to find out how to find the boss, because I just ended up searching
the dancer
the dancer is?
ithryll dungeon.
Obliterator
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Wait so is there a trick to beating Y
I thought I heard something about a weapon. I picked it up and it does like no damage to him
horm?
Fancy Clown
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Use its weapon art for massive damage
Could someone who's cleared the game answer this?
Obliterator
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So like just hold it down? Next to him?
You can be summoned for anybody in the game world, and it flashes white when the game is looking for a host. But the covenant is basically broken right now, because the covenant is built around a flawed premise.
Nobody sticks to the covenant required to summon a blue phantom for long (there is no reward for being in that covenant), and there are many, many more people trying to be summoned than get summons.
Its just plain bad game design, don't expect very many summons, unfortunately. I think I got around 10 my entire game, and I seem to be a high outlier.
such a gimmick fight with that weapon. it was a nice callback tho.
It just means that its active.
Obliterator
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OK so this sword is glowing and has a howling wind sound and I still do 49 damage per hit to him.
I don't get it
I don't get it
I've been summoned 10-15 times in this playthrough in
Lothric Castle and Grand Archives
I do wish they could have made less restrictions, but it works if you find the right areas.
npc wise or boss wise.
Empty Space
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I think I'm going to have to come to terms with the idea that I can't beat the N
K
solo at level 50. I've spent probably 20 embers trying. I just can't trigger the stagger.
ameless
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DorkLord54
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