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Dark Souls |OT3| This thread moves faster than the Blighttown framerate
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toastyToast
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Ok cool the stats do look higher. At first glance though it looks like she takes it back to level 0, hence my concern.
Haunted
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Haha, that's awesome. I felt like a wimp getting knocked around by those huge arrows. Fell off twice before I just said fuck it and charged right through.Mindlog said:
scy said:
Heh, you inadvertently used the perfect counter, I think. She uncloaks immediately when hit with any fire attack. With regular attacks it depends on the damage you do.
Muchi Muchi Pink
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elohel said:
No.
Gunmonkey36
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elohel said:
No, I definitely found Demon Soul's to be more difficult.
Try using fire orbs or projectiles with aoe and try to hit somewhere near her.You will bound hit her.I got lucky on my first throw and went to town on her.Aeana said:
edit:I find dark souls bosses are harder because they relied on cheap tricks. Demon souls actually has bosses who are challenging and puts up a good fight.Not to mention some of them has interesting concpeta such the old monk and storm king.
Haunted said:
Well, I actually knew she
uncloaked from Fire damage; was noting that it's an easy way to pop her. Otherwise, yeah, she takes a pounding before she can uncloak.
Aeana said:
I had practiced a lot vs the Assassin in Darkroot Garden so I was pretty used to hitting an unlocked target. The issue was not getting knocked out of casting animation. Great Chaos Fireball is the ideal choice since she'll just waltz right into the lava spread :/ I just didn't have it on that character so I just lobbed Orbs at my feet and hoped for the best.
zerokoolpsx
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Gonna take on Havel with a sl 6 thief. Long sword + wooden shield and starting equipment. Just can't let him hit me.
MomoPufflet
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elohel said:
Parts in each are harder than the other; on average I think they are about the same. The beginning of Dark Souls is harder by virtue of the open world-- as little as Demon's held your hand at the start, Dark Souls does even less. I felt like there were more "fuck I can't do this" moments in Demon's. I overcame problem areas more quickly in Dark Souls. Etc, etc
Sullichin said:
Yeah, I think it's gotten worse. When I started trying to co-op that boss at SL60 I would get takers every 10-20 minutes. The last couple days I would put down my sign and leave the game for 30+ minutes with no summonings. Just gave up and decided to start increasing my levels again and hope that the patch does something to fix online.
Chinpoko_Master
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I feel that there are a lot more cheap deaths in this game, but otherwise, they're about the same. The difficulty in Demon's Souls was perfect, where as in this game there's a lot more bullshit.elohel said:
corrosivefrost
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Wow, holy shit, that was easy.
We have a new champ. Iaito (lightning, +3) took off that bitch's tail like butter. It also made it the easiest melee only bossfight I've had in almost 2 full play throughs. :lol
Invisibility? Fuck you, I'm a samurai. Iaito R2 vindicated again.
We have a new champ. Iaito (lightning, +3) took off that bitch's tail like butter. It also made it the easiest melee only bossfight I've had in almost 2 full play throughs. :lol
Invisibility? Fuck you, I'm a samurai. Iaito R2 vindicated again.
DualShadow
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Defuser said:
As a warrior where can I get some Pyromancy spells?
Being melee only at the moment (apart from my bow) is a bit limiting.
Screwing around in the Forest on NG+++ and got invaded a few times after about 15 mins of waiting/clearing out NPC's. I killed two of them very easily, started using the Crystal Ring Shield to block magic, Holy shit why didn't I think of this earlier. I was sitting on the staircase just chilling, waiting for the dude to spawn right to left and below it. Once I saw him start spawning, I went two-handed and did a plunging attack, one-hit kill for 600 damage before he even saw me lol.
I don't mind doing this kind of cheese because it is the Forest Covenant, anything goes anyway. Since I don't use TWoP or Fog Ring, I'm just gonna camp their spawn and rush 2H with my BK Great Axe. Most of them were way under my level anyway.
I don't mind doing this kind of cheese because it is the Forest Covenant, anything goes anyway. Since I don't use TWoP or Fog Ring, I'm just gonna camp their spawn and rush 2H with my BK Great Axe. Most of them were way under my level anyway.
I need some help saving
. I'm standing right outside of the fog gate to the Firesage Demon, and I need to know what to do after I fight him. The guide and wiki are kind of confusing.
It says Solaire is in an area following the Centipede Demon, but that area seems really close to Lost Izalith, which it makes very clear I'm not supposed to enter the regular way.
Solaire
It says Solaire is in an area following the Centipede Demon, but that area seems really close to Lost Izalith, which it makes very clear I'm not supposed to enter the regular way.
Well, I got the drake sword but I never used it for anything but the weak zombies. I'm a sorcerer, so I pretty much just use magic. Magic in Dark Souls, though, works so differently between the charge system and the bonfire system that it just feels so much easier and freer to use and manage. In Demon's Souls, MP management was a hassle for me. Farming for MP restoratives, waiting for MP to regenerate sometimes because I don't want to waste one, etc. etc. None of that exists in Dark Souls - I set out from a bonfire knowing exactly how many times I can cast something, and usually I'm fairly confident I won't run out before I hit a bonfire. And honestly, at the end of the game, I've never even come close to running out thanks to the bonfire system that lets me venture out, get to know the level, and then usually open up a shortcut to the bonfire, which lets me refresh and essentially pick up where I left off.Grinchy said:
For that matter, I also love the way flask works for a similar reason. You set out knowing exactly how many times you can heal, and it just doesn't feel the same as using grass that you have stocked up. You know that if you go to a bonfire, you get your flask stock refilled for free.
Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I admire the way things are implemented in Dark Souls.
Had the worst night of playing this game tonight...
For some reason I cannot beat
. The
boss fight seems so impossible to me for some reason, he is incredibly unpredictable so I can never understand his pattern, and everytime I get underneath him to avoid his attacks, he some how pulls me out with one of his swings and hits me.
For some reason I cannot beat
Sif or Seath, but I have beaten S&O
Sif
linko9
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psykomyko said:
You just need to make sure you've got a shield with good stability. An upgraded Eagle shield has a low strength req, and low weight. Try that out (you find it in blighttown on a buttress). Then just shield constantly, while running towards him. Then just attack, he really can't hit you if you stay just behind his front legs.
Edit: And for Seath, just run up to the front of him and hack away, then run away, wait for him to do his crystal breath, and for the crystals to go away, and then run in again. Alternately, just lock only him and fire arrows at him while backing away, leading him in a circle around the arena. It's impossible for him to hit you.
Aeana said:
Agreed. I wasn't sure how I'd like the idea of "lol always got potions!!" and the Magic charge system but they both work so well with the way the areas were laid out and the bonfire system in general. Grass was so abundant in Demon's Souls anyway so this setup is actually a limiting factor to a point; rationing how much you have per attempt out but you'll always have that available. And I don't sit around with HP Regen equipment to be swapped in at all times, which is nice.
On the other hand, Magic as a set of charges means I'm free to know exactly what I'm going to have at my disposal rather than hoping for regen ticks to get that extra spell cast off. It makes a lot of progression feel a lot more natural and controlled and I'm using my spells a lot more than before where it was basically, "I can go wild, I farmed some spice before hand!"
Now, I just wish they can do some more with the equipment system (more Uniques worth a damn, namely) and they'll have basically those done as well as I'd want them.
linko9
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I Push Fat Kids said:
Apparently if you climb up the tower just before where the first armored boar was (with the black knight up top), you can sometimes see the dragon and shoot him, which will cause him to fall through the level and die. But he's never been there when I climb the tower.
Grinchy
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I love the flask system for this reason, too. I really felt like it encouraged me to keep re-trying areas. I didn't have to worry about buying healing items. If I got really far in and ran out of flasks, then I knew I was just doing a shitty job at getting through the area. If I died, I'd just restart it right away. It made me better at the game.Aeana said:
Despite being near the end of the game, I still haven't used a single spell. My character is all melee. I think I'm going to make a sorcerer next and your comments about the magic are making me really excited to do so. Magic made DeS a bit easy at times, but only if you farmed some MP items. I really like the fact that in DkS you are magically limited until you build your character up. That's how it should be, imo. And I like that it's similar to flasks in that I can screw up in an area by using magic up too quickly so I have to restart it and play more efficiently the next time through.
kingschiebi
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I Push Fat Kids said:
It does work. I shot him from under the bridge (first right side - tail, then left side - head) with a short bow + something and it took about 200-300 arrows to take him down.
Never saw him healing himself, but he was constantly flying back and forth so maybe it depends on you not letting him sit idle for too long.
I'm going to add my voice to the choir of
haters. No fun at all and the boss for that area totally blew. Great concept though.
Time to wrap up getting all the treasures and work on some final upgrades before beating the game. I have 40 endurance but need 3 more to equip the Black Knight Shield and still roll fast. So annoying ><
Lost Izelath
Time to wrap up getting all the treasures and work on some final upgrades before beating the game. I have 40 endurance but need 3 more to equip the Black Knight Shield and still roll fast. So annoying ><
ClovingWestbrook
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Ugh I am frustrated. How do you beat the knight to get havals ring? Dude kills me with one hit. I am level 34, vitality 19.
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Ugh I am frustrated. How do you beat the knight to get havals ring? Dude kills me with one hit. I am level 34, vitality 19.
Ugh I am frustrated. How do you beat the knight to get havals ring? Dude kills me with one hit. I am level 34, vitality 19.
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