Brolic Gaoler
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Are some items "rare?"
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Are some items "rare?"
Thagomizer
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Yes, although in most cases these are on respawning enemies, and in the case of those that aren't, the items generally aren't very good. For example, one of the first bosses can drop a weapon and/or a piece of armor randomly, but neither are particularly good.
I still don't have that fucking trident
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Nora Kisaragi
Banned
Gwyn's tomb contains three treasure chests at the end, one of them contains the Lordvessel, so yes, O&S can be skipped by killing Gwyndolin, otherwise you'll find that chest to be empty when you do kill him.
Well, I just found a strange bug... Joined Sunbro Covenant, and somehow my character is stuck perpetually kneeling. Can't use items, can't access inventory, can't move at all. I'm afraid to hit the reset button.
No harm will come from resetting.
Well, this isn't a standard RPG with thousands of different types of enemies and hordes of different types of loot. There's a good variety of both, but generally, you know which enemy to kill to get what. Take Tatinite chuck, anyone knows exactly what two, three enemies might drop that.
TheThunder
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How can you reach Anor Lando without beating Iron Golem ? and can you run past Pinwheel to the ladder ?
Thagomizer
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Nora Kisaragi
Banned
There's a glitch to skip pinwheel, yes. But normally, it's impossible to run past him on the ladder.
Also, I forgot about Iron Golem, fiddlesticks. thanks for that lol
I'll check up on this.
Thagomizer
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Actually, I think there's a bug where you can trigger the cutscene before you beat him. Dunno if they fixed it in the patch, though.
I'm finally going to be able to start a new character after Namco was rude enough to release the patch while I had no time to play the game, and I'm pondering my weapon choices. The plan is a no-shield, Faith-oriented character with enough Int to equip some sorcery to use with the Tin Darkmoon Catalyst along with the obligatory Miracles. I want to avoid touching the Strength stat, giving me 12 to work with using Cleric as a starting class. I need 14 Dex for the Parrying Dagger, which puts the Bandit's Knife, Rapier, and Shotel all in the running for my main-hand weapon, but I'm debating whether or not pumping Dex to 20 and opening up Ricard's Rapier and Priscilla's Dagger is worthwhile. I've played around with Priscilla's Dagger and it's pretty fun, but maybe not 6 stat points worth of fun. Never even touched Ricard's Rapier, but I've seen a guy using it in co-op and it seemed pretty neat. Not sure it's 6 stat points neat, though.
TheThunder
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Bugs and glitches should not be counted, only bosses in which you can legitimately go past by using shortcuts like Centipede Demon or the Butterfly.
PvP build? Because PvE, that's a build that's just hard to play with. Shield is important for PvE. But it's an interesting PvP build. I dislike FAI since it robs me of the melee world if I want to use it, since the best talisman kicks in at 50+ FAI. With INT I can crack it up to 40 before there's no further use, so I can also have 40 DEX.
Why Parrying Dagger if you don't have the AR to do any damage? 40 DEX + bandits + Darkmoon blade and parrying dagger with Hornet's ring seem like a one-shot build, but 20 DEX? Why not just grab the biggest shield in the game and wield a talisman in your right hand if you're going so pure magic?
It's pretty much a challenge build, honestly, but the idea is to join the Warriors of Sunlight and do a lot of co-op because I love fighting bosses, so some PvP competence is pretty much mandatory for handling invasions even if it's not really the primary focus of the character. I'd also like to keep my level suppressed a bit to keep my co-op opportunities as broad as possible, hence the focus on just hitting the bare minimum stats to wield a weapon then making it Fire, Lightning, Divine, or Occult. I want to pump Faith just because I've never run a Faith build.
My basic plan, stat-wise, starting from a Cleric:
Vitality 11 -> Whatever (everything goes here after hitting the other stats)
Attunement 11 -> 19 (5 spell slots)
Endurance 9 -> 24 (should get my equip burden under 25% with no rings)
Strength 12 -> 12 (don't see any real need to pump this)
Dexterity 8 -> 14 (the big question mark, 14 is the minimum for Parrying Dagger)
Resistance 11 -> 11 (ha ha ha resistance)
Intelligence 8 -> 18 (for Homing Soulmass, also gives access to Dusk's utility spells)
Faith 14 -> 50 (because yay Faith, I've never really used it)
That puts me at Soul Level 77 without counting any Vitality increases. Pretty much any other stats are going to come out of my Vitality allotment, so I'm mostly debating whether Ricard's Rapier and Priscilla's Dagger are worth more to me than 6 points of Vitality.
Thagomizer
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Little bit ago, helped a guy out against the Gaping Dragon on a ++...run.
It took half a fucking hour. Hit it for like 500 damage each time, which equated to like 3 pixels off his bar. I was all
It took half a fucking hour. Hit it for like 500 damage each time, which equated to like 3 pixels off his bar. I was all
Thagomizer
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What's the point of the warp bonfire in the abyss? Can you get back into new londo from it?
Even worse is the one in front of
Nito' sarcophagus, because it doesn't appear until you kill him, and there's no other way to get out of that room. Absolutely worthless.
The Abyss warp SUPER SPOILER
allows you to return to Darkstalker Kaathe, the leader of the Darkwraiths, should you kill the Four Kings before obtaining the Lordvessel.
What's the point of the warp bonfire in the abyss? Can you get back into new londo from it?
If you join the Darkwraith covenant you need to go back there to level up your allegiance.
Chaos Rapier +5 with Hornet's Ring will one-shot most non-tank players on riposte. Only 12 DEX needed.
ah. makes sense. missed out on the darkwaiths again this playthrough.
I only have nito and gwyn left in NG+. last section of the catacombs + Tomb of Giants suck. I didn't enjoy New Londo much (again) either, but at least post-patch you get souls for killing the ghosts.
Also have one more pyromancy to get, in the painted world...
Is Chaos better than Fire in 1.05? I was leaning towards an upgraded Rapier anyhow since it would fit with the off-brand Oswald look I was aiming for.
ZackieChan
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Hmm. 1.05 crashed on me when I was fighting Queelag. Picture froze, but I could heat the audio continue. Hopefully quitting didn't mess up my game...
Edit: Good, it started me right back before the fight, and I beat her!
Edit: Good, it started me right back before the fight, and I beat her!
+5 is unchanged. Chaos is still marginally better at 10 humanity, so I see little reason in making it over fire
Chaos +5 does about 3-5% more damage when backstabbing the black knights in the Kiln compared to Fire +10. That may translate to 50-75 more damage on riposte. A subtle advantage, but significant for that type of play style.
For someone who is doing PvE, it's probably not worth the hassle of maintaining 10 humanity, but once your character goes dedicated PvP, maintaining humanity is not a big deal.
Yeah, at closer inspection, I see that Chaos does a 55/45 split of its damage, whereas fire does 50/50. That'll translate to more than the 4 AR difference in damage, so good catch!
Nora Kisaragi
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Speaking of Kiln PVP, i'm in Nito's covenant, and cursing Kiln people, it's so amusing. I hear that the cursed black knights are extremely strong.
Jinfash
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I've been using my Demon Spear +5 ever since I completed Anor Londo, and I really like it. Or to be more precise, I really like strong spears, preferably with an elemental effect. So is there a better choice out there?
Something that probably scales better or has better stats when upgraded?
Something that probably scales better or has better stats when upgraded?
Cloudius12
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Demon's Spear has STR and DEX C scaling, it is a very nice ranged weapon, but depends on your stats. Not sure if you want damage more that range, but a Lightning Pike +5 has greater damage output, but with no stat scaling and range is not as far..
The delay Strong attack for the Demon Spear for me is turn off, which most of the time you will only be using the normal attack.
Dragonslayer Spear is weaker than Demon Spear but has decent range, but has a projectile as strong attack (one or two handed I forget).
If you want strong spear Lightning pike is awesome for the damage
I have such a fucked up day-rhythm that I've decided to pull a 30 hour stunt to start getting it back to normal. I'm nearly falling asleep, but then I realized that I never get tired from the excitement of PvP, so Dark Souls, here I come! You're a big reason I have this silly day-rhythm, time you fix it!
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Thanks!
Started my third character today, the first time I'll be playing 1.05. The forest convenant PVP is wayyyy more serious than it was back in October. People hang out and wait for invaders! I really like that area just because of the 2-on-2 fights that happen pretty often. At such a low level, the best thing I can do is run at the host and spam force (you get 21 casts). More often than not, the other dude I'm with will catch on and backstab them while they're stunned.
Oh and fuck all of the +5 lightning weapon people with ridiculously high vitality. Is there some armor that is specifically anti-lightning?
Oh and fuck all of the +5 lightning weapon people with ridiculously high vitality. Is there some armor that is specifically anti-lightning?
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Up to this point, I was sure that I didn't break any Covenants by killing any of its members, yet when I visited the Absolution guy, I found that I have to be a heft fee to be absolved. Are there any other ways to sin other breaking covenants, and probably invading, but I thought I haven't done either.
I also would love to be linked to a page explaining all the possible ways to break the various Covenants.
I also would love to be linked to a page explaining all the possible ways to break the various Covenants.
ZackieChan
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Where should I go after beating Queelag and Ceaseless Discharge? Continue through the Ruins? Or head somewhere else? I'd like to upgrade my +10 halberd to lightning, if possible.
evil_ash_xero
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So, have people figured out if the patch helped some of the framerate, or are people seeing things? I'm really curious about this, but I get mixed reports.
Sir Ilpalazzo
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Is there a way to get rid of this curse in Blighttown (specifically, in the Ash Lake area) or does the game just expect me to restart my file?
As the post above says - Purge stone. It can be bought from the pardoner, but it also drops from the clam enemies.
This is supposedly part 1 of a 1.05 speed run:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16209559
But I can't find the rest of the videos. Anyone fluent in Japanese here (you need an account to view the videos, but registration is all in English)?
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16209559
But I can't find the rest of the videos. Anyone fluent in Japanese here (you need an account to view the videos, but registration is all in English)?
Thagomizer
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The Gravelord sword gets pretty powerful after upgrading, and it has Toxic, which is a pretty brutal status effect at low levels and is still a decent distraction at high level play. It can also stagger like a boss. The Gravelord Sword Dance miracles are basically just a reskinned Firestorm and are pretty useless for anything but fooling around; the windup takes FOREVER and pretty much any enemy strong enough to justify its use will just beat the shit out of you before you can even fire it off, and it's even worse in PvP.
Mortrialus
Banned
This is the most accurate description. While the Gravelord sword is pretty powerful at low levels and I really like the move set, the covenant isn't all that great. The miracles gained through the covenant suck and the PVP items are the worst in the game.
Thagomizer
Member
It should at least let you enter the world you cursed as a non-interactable phantom so you can see what your efforts are causing, and finding the Eye of Death just makes you interactable. Placing an Eye and going about your own business with no feedback sucks.
Dragon Covenant's still the worst.
If your question is "how can watch this?" the answer is "by using mmcafe's magical url".
If your question is "where can I find the rest of the videos?", then I don't have the answer but would love to know it as well! ^^
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Rushing past these skeletons to kill the sorcerer that brings them back to life in The Catacombs is a bit tedious.
Cool area, though.
Cool area, though.
TheThunder
Member
Man, the Dragonslayer Greatbow might be the greatest, most satisfying weapon to ever exist.
Watching someone fly off after getting hit once is amazing, I went back to the spot where the 2 archers in Anor Lando and killed them just because...
Watching someone fly off after getting hit once is amazing, I went back to the spot where the 2 archers in Anor Lando and killed them just because...
Thagomizer
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I ALWAYS get lost in the Catacombs. I HATE having to go back to Vamos because it always takes me like ten minutes to find the fucker.
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