I think you've just got to be wearing something for each 4 armour slots - but other than that, it does not seem to make much difference
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I think you've just got to be wearing something for each 4 armour slots - but other than that, it does not seem to make much difference
EVA UNIT 01
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Just got to
How many areas are left?
This feels like the longest souls yet.
castle Lothric
This feels like the longest souls yet.
Jack Remington
Banned
Cathedral of the Deep... I'm so sick of the ambushes. It's not good game design, it's just not.
This is a brilliant game overall, but the ambushes are a blemish.
This is a brilliant game overall, but the ambushes are a blemish.
There is a hidden area near the base of the area if you wanna do some optional fights, but after a couple of boss fights on the path you're on currently you'll be at the final boss pretty much.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
That's where I'm headed next, yo. I didn't much that much problems at
Farron Keep.
Yep, that area is god awful, especially with all the ambushes. The whole theme of the level seems to be mobs of enemies and ambushes. Sometimes both!
SRTtoZ
Member
Ehhh. If you read the notes on the ground you will almost always know when an ambush happens. Plus look at the ceilings, you see those dudes chilling up there.
Ambushes are more like the theme of the game.
How much does luck/item discovery actually affect drop chances?
I tried farming items for one of the covenants and the drop rate with 55 luck, and all the item discovery gear I could muster (rapier offhand, rusty coin, gold covetous ring, symbol of avarice), and it made no noticeable difference to me.
Hell, I got more drops in 25 or so runs after helping someone beat a boss with 11 luck than I did when I had did several runs after I had respec'ed to have my luck at 55... I'm already losing my sanity and I need 20 more of these things.
I felt that it affected their droprate atleast a little. I was barely getting them at first with 250 item discovery but after respeccing to 99 Luck and got a Symbol of Avarice from gaffer they started to drop more often. Still very shitty droprate though.
SpartanForce
Member
Wtf? Cathedral of the Deep was fantastic.
Meccs
Member
I really think the N
Phase 2 should have been the first boss in DS3. It is a good representation of the later encounters that are for the most part even deadlier than the bosses. I hated the P
fight and love the N
one. P
did feel a bit too much like a Devil May Cry arcade twitch based encounter. I'm too old for that...
ameless King
ontiff Sulyvahn
ameless King
ontiff
LMAO @ that boss being first boss for DS3... many consider it the hardest in the game.
Plus it's too cool to be first boss. Should've been third last boss fight. Technically you can still do that.
You'll love the spear throwing silver knights later on.
Empty Space
Member
If that was the first boss there would be a ton of people who never get past it.
There's a path through there that trivializes them assuming you don't have issues with silver knights under normal circumstances.
Anyone know? :/
nephilimdj
Member
Fuck
. Probably died against her 25 times by now, and I've gotten to the second phase 90% of those times. What bullshit, it's like they were wondering how to make an easy boss more infuriating and somebody said,
Doesn't help that the one time I got her down to a sliver of health, I got booted from the game due to framerate and put in offline mode. When I continue my game, I'm outside the boss room and she has all her health back. Fuck that.
I know I vent in this thread a lot and probably seem ill-equipped to handle this game, but the bosses have kinda always been my least favorite part of the series.
Aldrich
"Give her fire and let her attack three times as much! Instead of a volley of arrows focused on one location, make it rain arrows and follow the player around the room ten seconds! Even if the player is standing directly next to the boss, she'll still nonsensically shoot those arrows and be absolutely fine! Force the arrows to come at such a speed that the player needs to break targeting and sprint away, leaving themselves open for a beam attack!"
I know I vent in this thread a lot and probably seem ill-equipped to handle this game, but the bosses have kinda always been my least favorite part of the series.
ultrazilla
Gold Member
So I've never played a Dark Souls game at all NeoGAF. Dead serious. If I buy part 3, will I miss out on any of the previous lore or will it do a good job of getting me up to speed?
This is basically a hack and slash like the old school "Golden Axe" and such right? Where you just run down a bunch of baddies, fight a boss and progress?
Seems like it'd be fun.
This is basically a hack and slash like the old school "Golden Axe" and such right? Where you just run down a bunch of baddies, fight a boss and progress?
Seems like it'd be fun.
ManUnkindH
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Oh my God, just did Farron Keep last night, holly molly!!! I think it was a tad too much with
It looks very cool, but I just wanted to get out of there. I don't know if I missed something important like NPCs or items, I did my best to look everywhere. Did you guys like this first area of the Keep?
I played all of them for hundreds of hours and still have no fuckin clue what's goin' on. I'm in for the amazing gameplay and atmosphere.
the swamp, walking like you're burdened with mount Olympus on your back, poisoned all the time, those fucking frogs with the curses and the cherry on top, those huge fucking trees.
I played all of them for hundreds of hours and still have no fuckin clue what's goin' on. I'm in for the amazing gameplay and atmosphere.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
What you gain in magic defense you lose it on physical.
That boss uses both. I think there's a lot of armor which probably falls in the category medium and some heavy armor that definetly makes some difference.
You got probably summoned to NG+ when you got more souls.
M0nochromatic
Member
go equip an estoc and parrying shield and get every covenant item you need.
Also protip, weapon arts only need 1 FP, so just carry around a simple broken straight sword and spam whatever weapon arts you want with zero ashen estus.
spellcasters just can't catch a break
Dr.Sanchez
Neo Member
it's no hack and slash. You won't realize some references by not playing the first 2 games. I recommend trying Dark Souls 1, just to see if you like the way the game plays.
...doh. That's it. I feel stupid now.
ultrazilla
Gold Member
Ok. I mean, I've watched some youtube videos to try to get a feel for the game. I know it's supposed to be hard and what not but I like the look of the action and atmosphere like you said. I'm also not sure about the multiplayer component? I guess people can either raid your game or help you? That sounds cool.
Empty Space
Member
Yeah if you're pvping a small shield is a must the hornet ring is super broken again.
super-famicom
Member
Farming for Warden Twinblades and no luck. Complaining on GAF on hopes that the next run will drop it for me.
Edit- 3 runs later and they finally drop!
Edit- 3 runs later and they finally drop!
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
It seems like by going through what was being said in the community, poise is exactly useless in PVP, since even if you're wearing big armor with huge poise you *can* and *will* get stunlocked by someone using, say, fast-stabbing knife or rapier, when it shouldn't work that way at all.
Empty Space
Member
Whelp if level 50ish people are looking to do some invading the first half of Irithyll is the right place it seems. Most people seem to know what they are getting into, but no real gang s roaming for kills or silly pvp arenas. Occasionally I do get people on the bridge though and then I feel bad.
In regards to poise all I know is that I'll use stomp with an UGS and still get knocked out of the attack. That doesn't seem okay.
That's cool and all but I did just that. Parrying is fine, but even with hornet+leo I only did 600 damage with the parry and the guy got up and UGS'd me anyway. The estoc is a good annoying weapon but the range and damage + lag of the UGS are hard to deal with when they kill me in 3 swings and I need upwards of 15. I was annoyed that I probably had to respec so I stopped trying to pvp tonight but my mostly pyro (faith/int) build got no progress. Raw estoc + 10 with fire enchant still nada.
Was gonna look into forging a OHK parry build just so I can get easy wins out of the way and parry fish my way to victory. Suppose it's something like an UGS + hornet
edit: I'm aware my main issue is that most of my points are in faith/int and thus my damage output is lol but what I'm getting at is that the end-game pvp "meta" is silly and just brews min-max'd garbage that I don't care for. You know what I liked? Doing farron invasions around SL 30. That shit was fun. It was 1v2 or 2v2 most of the time and was hectic and maniacal and great. And most of all there wasn't much in the way of min-max'd builds and it was better for it.
Fair/dueling pvp was a mistake. It's nothing but trash.
finally playing it.
I think they exaggerated a bit with the shield punishment. At least with knights: 2 attacks out of 3 always bash my shield away. I have weapon arts but it's a finite resource, while they can to that forever.
The "darkness" undeads are tricky too. They're already hard to read, and with their height (and the sloped terrain, for the one on the roof), the camera goes crazy and it's very hard to understand what's going on. They indeed look cool but sometimes it's like fighting inside a geometry glitch. Thankfully you can
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I think they exaggerated a bit with the shield punishment. At least with knights: 2 attacks out of 3 always bash my shield away. I have weapon arts but it's a finite resource, while they can to that forever.
The "darkness" undeads are tricky too. They're already hard to read, and with their height (and the sloped terrain, for the one on the roof), the camera goes crazy and it's very hard to understand what's going on. They indeed look cool but sometimes it's like fighting inside a geometry glitch. Thankfully you can
kill them before they transform
Empty Space
Member
The shield bash knights are few and far between enough that you can freely use weapon skills to kill them.
That's been a thing since Demon's Souls so I'm gonna guess no.
Alternatively, play without lock on. If the target is larger than three times your size you probably shouldn't be locking on.
Aldrich
Pontiff
Like DSII, armour is balanced almost purely for fashion souls.
I agree. Best times are with 3v3 where everyone is running around the map and 'friendly fire' makes it even more interesting.
One point in luck equals one point in item discovery so you really need to get it to 99 if you want it to benefit farming.
M0nochromatic
Member
Pyromancy is the one school of magic worth while. Check this out
STR users want to trade with you, so part of playing a caster/ dex build is preventing that. Alternatively, respec and pick up Morne's great hammer and cast Wrath of Gods with infinite poise for insane damge with fast cast speed. That'll beat the lag and you'll win in trades.
Also that weapon art is better then the actual spell in literally every way.
Step 1: Lure them close
Step 2: L2
burntchomsky
Member
Yeah, it's one of the most poorly designed bosses IMO. Someone just a bit earlier hit the nail on the head when they said its an easy boss that they contrived to make difficult through a few artificial solutions.
Also, think I'm officially done with this game. It's actually held my attention much longer than I thought it would. I've started half a dozen characters and finished the game (all bosses) on two of them, but there's little build variation in terms of how one actually plays the game, and after the first time through most of the bosses are very easy, both of which really limit this game's replayability compared to previous entries. That, combined with the fact that this is the worst (most boring, shallow) PVP experience I've had in any souls game thus far, just makes me not want to continue any longer.
I don't want to sound completely negative, because overall, I think that this is the most polished, and artistically inspired entry in the series so far.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Meh. Whoever summons at level 20 or so for the
Dancer
Yeah that happened to me a few times. They use dried fingers to get more summons too. I faced a few 5v1. Assholes.
Joelstinton14
Member
CotD saved the early game for me.
I'd been a little bit disappointed with the game, or rather i couldn't settle into it, I was fed up with FK, and those stupid ram trees.
So i went up there and it's where i started to feel at ease so to speak. Post AW the game as been fantastic.
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