I’d say I’m pretty far into it. I just defeated the Fire Giant which was a pain in the ass. I’m sure I could’ve completed it a lot sooner but I’ve been going back to earlier locations, doing side quests/exploring areas I missed and that’s taking the most time. I still haven’t entirely explored the area where “that elevator” takes you, but I did defeat the optional boss there for a side quest. I’m just enjoying this at a leisurely pace, I don’t want it to end. I’ve also started helping other people with bosses in multiplayer which is a lot of fun and great for getting a bunch of runes.
But that includes figuring most side quests without looking things up, which is why I failed some.... tons of fucking around, getting lost, dying a lot... trying to beat this one boss underlevelled and failing for almost one whole night... getting summoned, some farming... and killing every optional boss in every dungeon and every field boss according to the Wiki that I started using by the very very end.
Just beat Radahn and slept in a coffin. Had to change my build to faith to beat Radahn, not sure how you do it as a melee character. The game is incredible, but it feels like I am playing a really good jrpg with fantastic world and combat, but shit story. Still think just a little more exposition would do wonders for the game.
Also I found a secret boss fight last night that changed my concept of what a boss fight should be. Both rewards so good I immediately used a walking bell to replicate it.
Just beat Radahn and slept in a coffin. Had to change my build to faith to beat Radahn, not sure how you do it as a melee character. The game is incredible, but it feels like I am playing a really good jrpg with fantastic world and combat, but shit story. Still think just a little more exposition would do wonders for the game.
Did all mausoleums work for you as they should? Those in Liurnia were missing options from my list and the last one you encounter up north bugged out completely, no prompt for duplicating when I got in first time.
I’d say I’m pretty far into it. I just defeated the Fire Giant which was a pain in the ass. I’m sure I could’ve completed it a lot sooner but I’ve been going back to earlier locations, doing side quests/exploring areas I missed and that’s taking the most time. I still haven’t entirely explored the area where “that elevator” takes you, but I did defeat the optional boss there for a side quest. I’m just enjoying this at a leisurely pace, I don’t want it to end. I’ve also started helping other people with bosses in multiplayer which is a lot of fun and great for getting a bunch of runes.
I am a quality build level 55 running bloodhound fang+5 but I really want to use spells now.. Perhaps do a hybrid build. Perhaps I can respec after i beat the boss in the academy(where I am now)
Did all mausoleums work for you as they should? Those in Liurnia were missing options from my list and the last one you encounter up north bugged out completely, no prompt for duplicating when I got in first time.
I am a quality build level 55 running bloodhound fang+5 but I really want to use spells now.. Perhaps do a hybrid build. Perhaps I can respec after i beat the boss in the academy(where I am now)
I'm a samurai with uchigatana +5 and I also want to use magic.. a hybrid . Idk how to go about it. If anyone responds to Paulxo87's, please guide me too. I don't want to waste runes.
Exactly. Also, getting summoned there in the nearby castle and dying makes the mausoleum come back alive when you respawn in your world, but dropping it again changes nothing to its bugged-out function. Hope they have it on the patch to-do list.
on the subject of bugs, there seem to be many occasions where performing certain actions during fights make enemy AI "crash" and stop attacking. I've seen it twice, I thought it's the ash of war I'm using but now those things get uncovered and made part of cheese strats... like you can just walk up to this one spot during the final boss fight and he completely switches off. Wild.
Really didn't see myself beating Godrick and I took him down last night. Spent an hour or two exploring Liurnia.
Made it to the Academy entrance and see I need a keystone. Message said to head west and came upon a dragon. Assuming need to kill it. Made 1 attempt last night before calling it. Don't think it will be too hard.
I'm a samurai with uchigatana +5 and I also want to use magic.. a hybrid . Idk how to go about it. If anyone responds to Paulxo87's, please guide me too. I don't want to waste runes.
took me a lot of level investment, but finally i can summon something powerful to take some aggro away from me vs bosses...hopefully it's gonna be worth it..otherwise more action points for sword arts
Really didn't see myself beating Godrick and I took him down last night. Spent an hour or two exploring Liurnia.
Made it to the Academy entrance and see I need a keystone. Message said to head west and came upon a dragon. Assuming need to kill it. Made 1 attempt last night before calling it. Don't think it will be too hard.
I felt I had little gains leveling high. I ended at 155. Had 85 dex and 55 vigor. Anything after 80 does almost nothing. After that I just put it all into endurance until I stopped leveling.
I think, for the future, if they're going to continue with the idea of multi-enemy bosses, they should find out a way to have a camera system that accounts for this.
I think, for the future, if they're going to continue with the idea of multi-enemy bosses, they should find out a way to have a camera system that accounts for this.
I was thinking something like this or maybe putting them in an outside-type of location instead of in tiny rooms at the end of a dungeon.
I've rarely, if ever, seen anyone say their favorite souls bosses are the 3-for-1 bosses. It's usually the really well made 1v1 setups that get the most praise out of players.
Rennala down. That was an easy fight. Toughest part was the summons in phase 2 but those go away after a little while. Aside from one or two minor bosses, this was the one fight I managed to do without dying. The Radagon Wolf was tougher. Took me a few deaths to learn how to avoid his three slash combo.
That feeling when you're exploring a castle, fighting okay, surviving, and then you turn a corner and a random Yusuke Urameshi mage hits you with a shotgun blast of magic.
Just finished the game. The last boss and its second fase can go to hell. Took me almost 30 tries to finish.
I got all of the bosses trophies. The item trophies I won’t touch, will take me way too long I think.. I’m definitely doing new game+ for a different ending path.
Amazing game. I don’t rate games 10/10 quick, but this one is definitely that. There’s so much nice content. The world is huge, but also dense with stuff to see. I’ve never played an open world like this.
So I may have just fucked my build up from what I had, we'll see, but decided to change to a Dex/Mage build, I wasn't benefitting much from Strength outside of Equip load as I use a Uchi anyway so having some magic is gonna be nice
Thank my struggles with Demons Souls for that, magic is so OP there
So I may have just fucked my build up from what I had, we'll see, but decided to change to a Dex/Mage build, I wasn't benefitting much from Strength outside of Equip load as I use a Uchi anyway so having some magic is gonna be nice
Thank my struggles with Demons Souls for that, magic is so OP there
I would like to know for sure too, how it works. Have you read this by the way? Some folks in the comments contradicting each other saying it does scale with Arcane, and some saying it doesnt.
The only thing I can see, is that you if I choose Blood affinity when using the Bloody Slash ash of war, the rate of haemorrhage application goes up by 40-50 % from (45) to (65). Which means that you will get more blood losses over time on a boss fight, but unless your Arcane stat is equal or higher to your Dex it doesnt seem to be worth it. Then its better with a Keen affinity, and keep the (45) application rate. At least on my uchi the drop in normal damage seems too steep at 21 Arcane / 30 Dexterity. Thing is Im pretty sure the damage from the Bloody Slash skill has gone up with the Arcane skill, but that may also be because its governed by Dex which Ive been raising.
Regarding the Arcane stat, there is a Dragon Communion incantation seal stashed away in the Fringefolk Hero´s Grave dungeon, right at the start of the game. Which lets you use the Arcane stat instead of Faith stat to cast incantations. You still need to have the right Faith stat to use a particular spell but the cast scales from your Arcane stat - so if you have say 25 Faith and learned a spell that requires that, using this dragon seal will instead use your Arcane stat which can be much higher. It also scales to an S in Arcane.
Just to say there is this (possible) synergy between the Arcane stat and Hemorrhaege/Bleed affinity , and also leveraging the Arcane to boost the Dragon Communion spells. I thought it was peculiar how its placed in the first dungeon you can enter. Or at least if you have the two keys for the imp stone.
Nice, I did feel it needed to be tweaked or at least capped (or the game at least making it more obvious as I saw players pump up Vig in DS2 a lot and wondering why their HP was still bad)
I'm a samurai with uchigatana +5 and I also want to use magic.. a hybrid . Idk how to go about it. If anyone responds to Paulxo87's, please guide me too. I don't want to waste runes.
Ranni is Schierke, she had a mentor who is a witch in the woods.Obviously the wolf guy is Guts, ranni goes missing during the Radhan festival, maybe she fights in the spirit realm with the wolf guy like Schierke and Guts . There's a mercenary group, the band of the hawk in Nokron, all that is left of them are zombie husks.
