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Dark Souls |OT3| This thread moves faster than the Blighttown framerate
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KoreanBarbecue
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Sullichin said:
Sigh, OK, I'm going in. Not very confident in my parry/riposte abilities...
...and dead. That didn't go well. I feel like my parry animations are just too slow.
Iron Skin + Pyromancy did the trick for me.KoreanBarbecue said:
Getting the good ending for Solaire, and summoning him for the fight makes it much easier as well. He will take a ton of the heat off, since Gwyn won't be in your face the entire fight.
How did he do it? It seems like it would be up to luck at that low a level. It would be doable if they did nothing but their melee attacks, but if they start using any of their magic attacks or the grab too often, there's literally nothing you can do about it as even if you dodge them every single time it will end up wasting too much time, and you'll be stuck fighting 2-3 kings.purg3 said:
Mortrialus
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ixix said:
Btw reading through item descriptions when I stumbled upon this:
Does this mean Gwyn was the one who made the Four Kings, well, Kings?
KoreanBarbecue
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sixghost said:
You talking first playthrough or NG+? I'm on NG+ and it seems like his hits do WAY more damage this time around, maybe even more than Iron Flesh can legitimately handle.
Question about the end of Big Hat Logan's path:
Edit: Never mind, just had to reload my game apparently.
I bought all of his spells off him in Duke's Archive so that he would go hollow. I warped out and on my way back in I went to where he is in Seath's room and killed him. I read though that there should be a treasure chest where he used to be in the Archives, but I went there after killing him and there was nothing. Did I screw things up by killing him before grabbing the chest?
Edit: Never mind, just had to reload my game apparently.
Ha ha ha, I just realized something really obvious that I completely overlooked when I made the NPC Phantom Bonus Round. You know how I speculated that Xanthous King Jeremiah was an homage to The King in Yellow?
Xanthous means yellow. His name is Yellow King Jeremiah.
Why yes, indeed it does. I'll add that to the next revision, whenever I get done with it. It's kind of taking me a while since I've been sort of using most of my Dark Souls playing time getting a last hurrah of cheesy pre-patch PvP in and half-assedly taking a stab at the Platinum.
Good eye. Thanks for pointing that out.
Xanthous means yellow. His name is Yellow King Jeremiah.
Mortrialus said:
Why yes, indeed it does. I'll add that to the next revision, whenever I get done with it. It's kind of taking me a while since I've been sort of using most of my Dark Souls playing time getting a last hurrah of cheesy pre-patch PvP in and half-assedly taking a stab at the Platinum.
Good eye. Thanks for pointing that out.
He used the starting pyro hand axe that was upgraded to lightening. Got pretty lucky because it probably took an hour for him to finally beat them. Dude was pretty good at reading their attacks and dodging, it becomes an issue if you take too long on one and the other gets in range.sixghost said:
Phat Michael
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ugh..in blighttown again..you forget how much this stage sucks ass.
RadicalRad
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Blighttown... Blehhh i made it down to the bottom multiple times. Each time i would die shortly after i got back down recovering the previous bloodstain. What used to be a bloodstain of a paltry 6k souls became a bloodstain of 30k+ souls.. game is brutal, lost that stain... Still love the game...
Am I a masochist?
Am I a masochist?
MarshMellow96
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Just beat Bed of Chaos thinking I had the last lord soul. Turns out, I totally forgot about the Four Kings.
FUUU
TommyT said:
Level-suppressed character relying on non-scaling weapons and Pyromancy. I was thinking of going super minimalist, with my equipment consisting entirely of the Xanthous Robes, a Shotel, and a Pyromancer's Flame.
Barely even counts as a "build," really.
tokkun said:
This is also an option, but I've already got a character like that.
johntown said:
There was a bit of discussion about that very subject after I first made that post, actually.
Basically: Kirk -> Yurt's a bit of a stretch, but I was playing pretty fast and loose with that post, I don't think it's impossible for them to both be Yurt homages, and I suspect Lautrec's similarities are mostly there to fool you into locking yourself out of a sidequest.
Mortrialus
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vilmer_ said:
I don't know but it would be nice if you sauced such things even if it was mentioned.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-02-dark-souls-worldwide-sales-1-5-million-shipped
Mortrialus said:
You're right. This was my sauce.
http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/corporate/press/pdf/20111102.pdf
Sullichin said:
Great Magic Shield is busted 100%. It's intended to bestow 100% block value to your shield across all damage types, but you have to BLOCK to do it. Not blocking and still gaining 100% defense would never be intended in Dark Souls.
You need to parry Gwyn. That's how you're supposed to beat him. Of course there are other ways to do it, but parrying is the most effective.
Saw some people hating on the Jagged Ghost Blade and I just wanted to mention it's my favorite weapon in the game (not having acquired my true favorite, claws, due to my overzealous desire for the ninja flip ring). Obviously it is outpaced for damage by lightning weapons and so forth but I love its moveset and the way it looks when you dual-wield them. I've upgraded one to +4 and find it really satisfying to use well.
KoreanBarbecue
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Ok, this Gwyn NG+ fight is driving me crazy. Tried Iron Flesh, and it just made me easier for him to grab for his big attack. His attacks deal me damage through my Hollow Soldier Shield+10 and he just constantly chases me around, whittling at my health, reducing my Stamina to nothing. Sigh.
See You Next Wednesday
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Did anyone else run into the problem of Big Hat Logan not selling you any spells?
What do I need to do?
The official strategy guides tells me nothing.
What do I need to do?
The official strategy guides tells me nothing.
Mortrialus
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KoreanBarbecue said:
Parry. Parry until he is dead.
StMeph said:
No need to apologize, I understand why you would think I was talking about that shield from the context.
KoreanBarbecue said:
A couple of points from someone who was stuck on this boss for three hours:
I didn't parry/riposte much in my playthrough, but the black knights before the boss are an excellent place to practice. I found the timing pretty similar to Gwynn's attacks too. The knights also drop a shield which is great for this battle: 95% fire resistance and you can parry with it. Snatch that up and up the stability by upgrading it as much as you can (takes twinkling titanite iirc). I was using an eagle shield for most of the game and had to switch to the black knight shield for this battle.
if you have it, cast iron flesh in the beginning. this will allow you to get the timing of the parrying while giving you some room for error. I wouldn't use it more than once actually though, you don't want it to run out when you're right on top of this guy as his throw attack will seriously fuck you up.
Also, don't even try to heal unless he's recovering from his throw or kick animation or he's 100% stuck behind a pillar...if you dont need to heal you can get an attack in during his throw recovery.
Iron flesh or not, block his initial attack, and then you can parry his very next horiztonal swing. Definitely took me a lot of practice. Good luck!
indigo-cyclops
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NG+ Four Kings tips? Not sure why, but I'm nervous to tackle them. Though I breezed through them in NG.
bob_arctor
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Same thing happened to me more or less except I tried to save him by attacking the skeletons and the very tip of my Zweihander caught the blacksmith as well. He got pissed and came after me so I had to put him down. Sucks.deim0s said:
See You Next Wednesday
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sixghost said:
They're jealous of all the attention Dark Souls is getting
I think it has to do when threads get too big after the initial release & the rest of the conversation is just social stuff & not about the game (or something, there is a sticky for this).
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