TheExplodingHead
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Question, how do I get the Dingy set? The firekeeper at the shrine has never vanished for me, that or I didn't bother looking after a certain point. Where and when does she leave the armor?
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Question, how do I get the Dingy set? The firekeeper at the shrine has never vanished for me, that or I didn't bother looking after a certain point. Where and when does she leave the armor?
cj_iwakura
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She has to vanish. (Or maybe a scavenger sells it later, dunno.)
Lautrec's the key to that.
TheExplodingHead
Banned
Ahh, just hit the Wiki and I guess Lautrec has to
kill her
boredofcanada
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question.
Is a raw greatsword plus five the same thing as a greatsword plus ten, and if not, how do you get a sword to plus ten.
thanks
Is a raw greatsword plus five the same thing as a greatsword plus ten, and if not, how do you get a sword to plus ten.
thanks
For + 10, you need the Large Ember from the Depths.
In a chest in the kitchen where the butcher was with the dogs.
For +15, New Londo Ruins.
Not sure how Raw measures up with +10 but +15 is definitely better than Raw.
You need the Large Ember to upgrade weapons to +10. You also need large titanite shards. The ember is in the Depths. You can farm the slimes there, or the leeches in Blighttown, to get large shards early on, or buy them from merchants later in the game.
boredofcanada
Member
i gave the blacksmith large ember and now im stuck with raw weapons. i must have done something else and not realized. which sucks cause im trying to make a cursed weapon so I can traverse New Londo ruins. ARGH this game.
To make +10, you need to get +5, then speak to Andre and ask him to ascend it to +6. From there, go back to the normal Reinforcement option to continue and bump it up to +10.
I suggest you use Transient Curse items rather than going for a cursed weapon. If I recall correctly you can buy a couple from the Undead Female Merchant.
From an article on vg247.com:
Yes!
I thought console players had to wait until winter, but it seems that's just for the new disc version.
Yes!
I thought console players had to wait until winter, but it seems that's just for the new disc version.Niccccce.From an article on vg247.com:
Yes!
ihearthawthats
Banned
raw is generally for new characters that can't afford to upgrade to a better path yet. its very easy to max out a raw weapon which will put its base damage higher than a normal+10. however, it has a lower scaler so if you have high strength (maybe around 40+), the normal+10 will be better for you. the greatsword already has a high str req, so you may as well just do the normal upgrade path, especially if you plan on getting it to +14/+15 in the end anyways.
http://darksouls.wikidot.com/greatsword
PetriP-TNT
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...ing-dark-souls-to-pc-frame-rate-issues-remain
PC/DLC news, good and bad.
PC/DLC news, good and bad.
It sounds to me like they're just not doing any specific optimizations for the framerate. I would be really surprised if a good gaming PC couldn't provide better performance in these areas. Not really worried about it. It will be an improvement from consoles and I'm getting it day 1.
My gravelorded Anor Londo is insane. It's been like this for a few days. SL132, NG++ or NG+++, AL is dark. Thought I'd do some O&S co-op but getting to the inner bonfire from the chamber of the princess is really difficult. The two npc enemies that appear outside the boss chamber in dark londo are really strong now, but the real problem are the black phantom silver knights. Holy crap. I think I have to go through 5 of these badasses to get to the bonfire. It's quite a bit easier to go by way of the two infamous archers, in the dark (I thought wrongly that maybe they wouldn't appear in dark londo), than it is to get past the black phantoms. Is being gravelorded more common at higher levels? This is the only character i've leveled this high, and it's the only one whose been getting gravelorded this much. Some of the BP enemy placements are dastardly. I love it.
Another E3 interview http://www.at7addak.com/en/Articles/225899/Features/PC/E3-2012-Interview-Daisuke-Uchiyama
Not much information, but this is bizarre. Perhaps the addition of voice chat is not what we think at all.
Not much information, but this is bizarre. Perhaps the addition of voice chat is not what we think at all.
Red Liquorice
Member
That voice item sounds like what I thought it might be, basically a voice version of the message stone maybe?
I would much prefer that to voice chat stuff, DS isn't that game for me, and I really don't need to know the mother mask/giant armour/well what is it gesturing twerp that just chain backstabbed me in Undead Parish @ lvl5 is a screeching 13 year old boy!
I would much prefer that to voice chat stuff, DS isn't that game for me, and I really don't need to know the mother mask/giant armour/well what is it gesturing twerp that just chain backstabbed me in Undead Parish @ lvl5 is a screeching 13 year old boy!
TheExplodingHead
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For doing New Londo, you have three choices. You can stock up on as many Transient Curses as the merchant near the Depths will sell you (ghosts will also drop these), become cursed by the lizards and tackle it Demon's-style (what I did my first playthrough
), or beat Sif and create the cursed Greatsword. The ghosts will also occasionally drop two different daggers that can hurt them.But be aware that unless you are "cursed" you can't block the ghost attacks, only hurt them.
weekend_warrior
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Don't even need that. You can find 2 right before the bridge to the ghosts, and a few more around the level. More then enough.
boredofcanada
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Why do the cursed weapons suck exactly????
TheDrizzlerJ11
Member
What's your guys opinion on mask of the father?
They're generally weak compared to other weapons, have short range, crummy movesets, absurd stat requirements, or some combination thereof.
The biggest drawback of using cursed weapons is that you can't block the ghosts if you're not under the effect of a curse yourself. You also can't use spells to kill them if you're using a cursed weapon.
Trying to clear New Londo using just a cursed weapon is an exercise in pure frustration, essentially. If you've got a hankering for pain then go for it, otherwise just use Transient Curses.
Like all the masks, it's tragically useful.
I realized today I wouldn't hate them so much if they didn't look so awful.
Really want to try gravelording at the parish, if only to get other people to do it. I want black phantom enemies, dammit.
Red Liquorice
Member
hahaha!
I feel so dirty but as soon as I get invaded I switch out my headgear for child or mother, depending on if I'm playing cat and mouse or going straight for the kill. The mother mask has saved me a few times from getting one-hit killed from a backstab.
That's why you hold it in both hands so you can block with it.
I never block the ghosts anymore seeing as how I've done New Londo approximately infinity times, but for someone who's never done it before I think the whole "No curse means no shield" rule is good to know. Not entirely understanding how the curse mechanics worked was a source of great consternation my first time through the game, and is part of what led to me adopting the Zombie Streaker approach to New Londo the first time I completed it. A method which, while amusing, is far from effective. Better to spare new players that, I think.
GOod points...i always put the coventous serpent ring on in order to try to get more jagged blades*, and more slabs for the Darkwraiths...but I still just "run through" the area under the gate keeper....and die like a noob on occasion using this method.......the ghosts are by far the most annoying creatures in the game and dare I say it is "unfair" when you stand right in front of the beggers, with full curse ON, and yet occasionally your attacks whiff conmpletely? I have tried chaos storm and WOG and these never wrok consistently in that area as some are still in the walls and reaching through to get you, while you can not penetrate the walls more than a couple inches to get them. Yes. I said it...there is poor design in that area.... Illike challenges that make sense but that area IS the one area in the entire series I think is too tough for all the wrong reasons.
* jagged blades are cursed but don't work on ghosts that well owing to the reasons above....and they can not be buffed.....Notwithstanding I just love the idea of hitting some enemy with a combo that hits them 6 times for two R2 presses....I have yet to use the full combo and have all 4 secondary stabs hit (either the angle is wrong, they have enough poise ot get out of stun lock, or they simply dies on the first flurry...but I am going to try harder to find the right enemy or the right situation to do this....I couldn't hink of a better way for a ganker to die...hope it is possible if not probable.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Watching my friend play this game for the first time :lol
So hilarious!
edit: first he spent 1 hour on the skeletons in the graveyard. And now he went to Londo Ruins and spent another hour there, hahahhaa
So hilarious!
edit: first he spent 1 hour on the skeletons in the graveyard. And now he went to Londo Ruins and spent another hour there, hahahhaa
@Yoshichan: lol that's exactly what I did when I started the game the first time.
Big time.
I just managed to beat the game SL2 cleric.
My challenge was to get everything and beat every boss at that level:
The most difficult challenge was the Red Dragon. I took me like 10 tries before I beat it.
Now I can finally move to another game... or not
Big time.
I just managed to beat the game SL2 cleric.
My challenge was to get everything and beat every boss at that level:
The most difficult challenge was the Red Dragon. I took me like 10 tries before I beat it.
Now I can finally move to another game... or not
ihearthawthats
Banned
it only stumbles on whiff i thought? i like it as a 1hand weapon, but i mostly tend to stick with 2h weapons and its 2h heavy swing does no damage at all. its got good range, but i can never really find a situation where i'd need that wide of an arc. you should try the great scythe.MAAAAN, I used to love the halberd in Demon's Souls but the stumbling animation ruins it.
TheExplodingHead
Banned
MAAAAN, I used to love the halberd in Demon's Souls but the stumbling animation ruins it.
Yeah, I miss the stock Halberd animations from Demon's, going from the one-handed to two-handed always felt great.
They also ruined the Scimitar moves and animations, I loved rocking a Scimitar (especially Large Sword of Searching) in Demon's...now I've abandoned the weapon altogether.
Don't forget its superior sibling, the Mirdan Hammer! Besides the same clunky moveset as the Halberd, its DaS equivalent, the Lucerne, has a weird stamina bug when one-handing it: the third and fifth strikes of a combo drain double stamina. With stamina maxed, you can attack seven times with a Halberd, but only five with a Lucerne, despite the weapons one-handed attacks costing the same amount of stamina. Two-handing the weapons, you can do five attacks with both.
I think since pyromancy only scales with the flame. I don't think it really matters. High dexterity does make the spell cast faster though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfPcu_B0nQ
I just started playing this and I am kind of lost. Just a few questions.
1. Is it a huge deal if you lose your souls? I lost about 4000 and I don't know if that's a big deal or not.
2. How do you figure out how to kill some of the harder enemies? I found one somewhere underground and it just destroyed me.
3. What is the purpose of invading another world?
1. Is it a huge deal if you lose your souls? I lost about 4000 and I don't know if that's a big deal or not.
2. How do you figure out how to kill some of the harder enemies? I found one somewhere underground and it just destroyed me.
3. What is the purpose of invading another world?
CountAntonius
Member
1. Feels like a big deal at first but you will replace them easy enough(and lose much more in the process)
2. If you are in an area where enemies are decimating you odds are you should go in another direction. You may have stumbled into something you were meant to go through at a higher level.
3. Successfully invading nets you humanity. But most of the point is just getting some pvp action. Also depending on your covenant you get rewards.
I don't know the name of it. It is very early in the game. I walked down some stairs and it was facing away from me at the end of a hall way. It was some sort of knight in black armor. I'm not sure if that helps or not.
Any tips for the Taurus Demon? It killed me twice and I didn't even get its health half way down.
That's a non respawning Knight. There's a bleh ring behind it. You can always come back but Knights are usually slow. You can lead it up the steps to the more open spot, and just block & get behind it for back stabs.
Taurus Demon - Climb the tower behind where you enter, and drop down on it like you did the demon during the tutorial. The lightning resin you get earlier can help too.
Losing the humanity in your bloodstain is a bigger deal than losing the souls, those are harder to come by for newer players. You can farm souls later on, and you don't really need to now that soul payouts are higher than they were pre-patch. Don't worry about it too much though. Learn the mechanics and progress, even if you die your way forward, you'll get better and start to lose your bloodstain less often.
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