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So I got one-shotted by some magical spell that was like black/purple homing clouds of death. I even had the Crest shield up and was blocking and that nonsense tore through me like I was paper. What was it?
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Sep 7, 2012 13:29
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Pursuers. It's like the homing soulmass spell, except with better and longer tracking. And it does physical damage. Lots of it, enough that blocking it probably won't help.
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Sep 7, 2012 13:30
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Yodzilla posted:So I got one-shotted by some magical spell that was like black/purple homing clouds of death. I even had the Crest shield up and was blocking and that nonsense tore through me like I was paper. This was exactly my first and only invasion. +10 Knight's Shield and pretty decent vitality, and it felt like my first crack at the Butterfly again in levels of gently caress MAGIC FOREVER, CANNOT BLOCK AND DODGING IS HARD.
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Sep 7, 2012 14:12
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I finally loving beat ornstein and whatshisname. The key was killing the blue cape guys outside the boss room on my own so Solaire had full health going in. Also recognizing super whatshisname's tells is absolutely vital. The hitbox on his impale move is huge and is probably the only enemy attack I've ever faced that I felt it was kind of bullshit that I got hit by. This giant lady is freaking me out 
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Sep 7, 2012 14:18
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Novasol posted:Pursuers. It's like the homing soulmass spell, except with better and longer tracking. And it does physical damage. Lots of it, enough that blocking it probably won't help. Oh goddamn. Welp, that's a pretty rad spell.
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Sep 7, 2012 14:20
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Heti posted:I finally loving beat ornstein and whatshisname. The key was killing the blue cape guys outside the boss room on my own so Solaire had full health going in. Also recognizing super whatshisname's tells is absolutely vital. The hitbox on his impale move is huge and is probably the only enemy attack I've ever faced that I felt it was kind of bullshit that I got hit by. Try holding with both hands.
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Sep 7, 2012 14:29
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Heti posted:This giant lady is freaking me out Amazing chest ahead!
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Sep 7, 2012 14:30
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That reminds me, I've never seen a single good or funny message and I feel like I'm not getting the full experience. I barely see any at all. Maybe it's just my connection being terrible, I've never had a good connection to GFWL in any game.
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Sep 7, 2012 14:41
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FINALLY. Holy poo poo. I've had at least two of the loving things per character on the PS3 and suddenly it gets a drop rate of .fuckyou%
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Sep 7, 2012 14:49
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Count Bleck posted:Amazing chest ahead! Try pincer attack.
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Sep 7, 2012 14:52
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I'm currently playing a sorceries run and was planning on using a falchion until I got a BSS while going through Parish. I love when that happens, during my first playthrough on the PS3 I got the Channeler's Trident on the very first one in Parish. 
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Sep 7, 2012 15:03
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Where does the thread title come from? I've been really curious and haven't seen it in game.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:07
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Antinumeric posted:Where does the thread title come from? I've been really curious and haven't seen it in game. Go read the nigh incomprehensible description page for the game. Then in NG+ you can search for the Demon Crowns and Shadow Dwarfs.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:08
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Toiwat posted:FINALLY. I got one of these on one of my many trips through the Undead Parish to visit my bro Andrei and I don't even want it 
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Sep 7, 2012 15:13
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I upgraded the hell outta my black iron armor because I kept dying trying to kill Ornstein and Smough solo and now everything else seems really easy. I just ran through the catacombs without a single death and killed the Pinwheel boss without getting hit within about 10 seconds. I was really expecting to die since I was out of estus flasks and almost out of health.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:13
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Barudak posted:Go read the nigh incomprehensible description page for the game. Then in NG+ you can search for the Demon Crowns and Shadow Dwarfs. They are immortal and nameless. I for one, cannot wait to fight Nit, and The First Dead.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:15
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quote:The demons who rule this world gain their extraordinary power from the King’s Crowns. To retrieve the King’s Crowns and reach the flame of the world, you will have to face the White King Gwen and his knights, the witch Izarith and her evil daughters, the first dead, Nit, and the immortal and nameless shadow dwarves. Man I wanna play this game. I think we have the plot to Crown Souls.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:17
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Yeah I Like Girls posted:I upgraded the hell outta my black iron armor because I kept dying trying to kill Ornstein and Smough solo and now everything else seems really easy. I did pretty much the same thing. Ornstein/Smough was by far the toughest fight in the game for me. It was the first time I reinforced my armor and that made a surprisingly big difference. And yeah, depending on the order you do branches in, you can accidentally trivialize some areas.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:20
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Heti posted:That reminds me, I've never seen a single good or funny message and I feel like I'm not getting the full experience. I barely see any at all. Maybe it's just my connection being terrible, I've never had a good connection to GFWL in any game. Sometimes I see tons of messages, sometimes there's none. It seems to take the game a while to "warm up" and show online stuff occasionally. My favorite message so far is "Weakness: Rolling" in front of a vase in Anor Londo. I've always liked "Try thrust" in front of the dead guy bent over the well at Firelink too.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:33
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Heti posted:I finally loving beat ornstein and whatshisname. The key was killing the blue cape guys outside the boss room on my own so Solaire had full health going in. Also recognizing super whatshisname's tells is absolutely vital. The hitbox on his impale move is huge and is probably the only enemy attack I've ever faced that I felt it was kind of bullshit that I got hit by. Ornstein&Smough is probably the most iconic fight of the game. There's probably around 30 pages of posts in the original thread just commenting on it. There's just such increasing levels of epicness in that fight, especially if you didn't know anything about it. It's one of the best fights too since there's really no gimmick to winning it. You just have to be *this* good at Dark Souls.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:37
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Beat the painted world just now, moving on to DOUKS archives. Priscilla was really easy and I felt bad for killing her.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:48
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Cowcaster posted:I got one of these on one of my many trips through the Undead Parish to visit my bro Andrei and I don't even want it Sunbro/Invade and give it to the first guy you see with a non-BSS dex weapon!
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Sep 7, 2012 15:49
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Also I guess the red soapstone only works if you haven't beaten an area boss, right?
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Sep 7, 2012 15:50
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Shanty posted:Sunbro/Invade and give it to the first guy you see with a non-BSS dex weapon! I ain't got no human juice and no luck with the summon stones 
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Sep 7, 2012 15:53
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FrickenMoron posted:Beat the painted world just now, moving on to DOUKS archives. Priscilla was really easy and I felt bad for killing her. Me too, man I just wanted to give her a hug and her doll back. She gets such a raw deal.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:54
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So I have a semi-complicated question about how the elemental enchantments and weapon scaling work. So I'm rocking the gravelord sword one-handed right now, and someone recommended to me that later on a +15 murakumo might be a good end-game replacement. Now, on the tables there, the +15 murakumo winds up having only a slightly higher base damage than an un-upgraded gravelord sword (Mine's already at +2. I am weak). Obviously, this is where the weapon scaling comes in, but here's the conundrum: the murakumo scales best with Dexterity, something I was hoping to keep at 18 basically for the rest of the game while I crank up my vitality/endurance/strength. Now, on the other hand, the +5 lightning murakumo does more base damage than the +15, in addition to the same amount of damage as lightning. If I'm reading that table correctly. So my question is this: If I was to avoid getting dexterity, would it be better to go for the +5 lightning version to "make up" for the weapon scaling I wouldn't be getting anyway? Or is the nerf lightning got enough to make it not worth going for even then?
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Sep 7, 2012 16:13
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Cowcaster posted:So I have a semi-complicated question about how the elemental enchantments and weapon scaling work. Maybe the simple answer is to build a weapon that scales off strength, something you said you'd pump.
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Sep 7, 2012 16:15
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Cowcaster posted:So I have a semi-complicated question about how the elemental enchantments and weapon scaling work. gently caress all that bullshit. Get a Golem Axe.
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Sep 7, 2012 16:17
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So i freed Big Hat Logan at Sen's, but i never found him at Firelink. Where the hell is he? Did he leave again? I thnk i read somewhere that he takes off again? Didn't even get the chance to talk to him.
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Sep 7, 2012 16:18
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Gazaar posted:Maybe the simple answer is to build a weapon that scales off strength, something you said you'd pump. OH WELL YOU'D THINK THAT WOULDN'T YOU 
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Sep 7, 2012 16:18
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HenryEx posted:So i freed Big Hat Logan at Sen's, but i never found him at Firelink. Where the hell is he? Did he leave again? I thnk i read somewhere that he takes off again? Are you sure he's not there? He's kind of hard to spot. He's right near the other sorcerer guy. Cowcaster posted:OH WELL YOU'D THINK THAT WOULDN'T YOU I'm serious about the golem axe, it is amazing.
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Sep 7, 2012 16:21
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Heti posted:I'm serious about the golem axe, it is amazing. It's worse than the weapon he's currently using, and significantly worse than the scaling weapons he should consider replacing it with. It's actually just not a great weapon to begin with with its mediocre damage, high strength requirement, high weight and inability to be enchanted.
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Sep 7, 2012 16:44
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TastyAvocado posted:It's worse than the weapon he's currently using, and significantly worse than the scaling weapons he should consider replacing it with. It's actually just not a great weapon to begin with with its mediocre damage, high strength requirement, high weight and inability to be enchanted. That R2 is pretty loving sweet though.
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Sep 7, 2012 16:49
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Cowcaster posted:So my question is this: If I was to avoid getting dexterity, would it be better to go for the +5 lightning version to "make up" for the weapon scaling I wouldn't be getting anyway? Or is the nerf lightning got enough to make it not worth going for even then? Ok, picking a weapon that scales with Strength being the right answer aside. If the numbers are higher, they're higher. If the damage numbers for the +5 lightning version are higher than the numbers you get out of the +15 version at your current stats, then the +5 lightning will do more damage. I know there is the issue of splitting the damage across multiple resistances which actually lowers the final numbers that pop out of the guy you hit, but that's the trade off of getting to attack two resistances at once with no investment in damage stats. For your example, according to the wiki, +15 Murakumo is 282 physical damage. The +5 lightning Murakumo is 310 physical damage and 316 lightning. This means that if you have low enough dex that the 282+whatever is less than 310+316 then the lightning will do more damage (before resistances). The nerf to lightning was, as far as I am aware, a nerf to the raw numbers and nothing else. Apparently the Claymore +5 lightning was 283+288 where as now it is 257+257. +15 Claymore is 257 physical damage with C scaling, so unless you have enough Strength and Dex to make up 257 lightning damage then the lightning Claymore does more damage than the +15 (before resistances). Obviously if you have good enough scaling and access to enchantments (and resins?) then the +15 will come out ahead.
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Sep 7, 2012 16:59
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EthanSteele posted:For your example, according to the wiki, +15 Murakumo is 282 physical damage. The +5 lightning Murakumo is 310 physical damage and 316 lightning. This means that if you have low enough dex that the 282+whatever is less than 310+316 then the lightning will do more damage (before resistances). EthanSteele posted:The nerf to lightning was, as far as I am aware, a nerf to the raw numbers and nothing else. Apparently the Claymore +5 lightning was 283+288 where as now it is 257+257. +15 Claymore is 257 physical damage with C scaling, so unless you have enough Strength and Dex to make up 257 lightning damage then the lightning Claymore does more damage than the +15 (before resistances). You say this as if it matters, but how much damage something does before resistances doesn't matter at all. You can't look at just the numbers, pure damage type weapons will outdamage elemental weapons even if they have lower damage totals. For example, against a royal giant in AL, a 535 damage lightning claymore hit for 176, and a murakamo with a just slightly lower 532 damage hit for a significantly higher 256. Even a 598 damage fire gargoyle halberd hits for less at 239. A BSS with only 377 damage hit for almost as much as the 535 damage claymore at 162.
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Sep 7, 2012 17:27
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Alright, part 2 of my gimmick run, in which I die to havel over and over again and wander around in the lower burg ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zFOJeKFP38
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Sep 7, 2012 17:35
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Welp, killed Seath the Scaleless on the first try, not a very hard bossfight really. (after the unbeatable encounter!)
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Sep 7, 2012 17:39
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What is the incentive for ng? Is it mainly leveling for pvp? I don't mind running through the game on a more challenging difficulty for fun, but pvp is a lag fest and it's disheartening to watch a guy approach you only to warp into a backstab (not a hack as far as i can tell, pvp was fine for the longest time but now it seems everyone is running on 56k) Aside from increasing damage and soul output, is there anything different about the game? Also, how does one go about changing their gfwl name? Goddamn Hippy fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Sep 7, 2012 |
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Sep 7, 2012 17:42
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FrickenMoron posted:Welp, killed Seath the Scaleless on the first try, not a very hard bossfight really. (after the unbeatable encounter!) Yeah the harder thing about him is trying to cut off his tail for the sword. He can spin around really quickly and the attack he does if you're caught back there can be devastating. If you don't care about the sword he's loving cake.
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The easiest way to get Seath's tail is to let him break the crystal and stun himself, gives you enough time to get back there and get a few solid hits in before there's any danger of you getting hit. I've always had the most trouble with Priscilla's tail, when she's not invisible she spins around constantly and is pretty easy to kill without getting it. You only get one chance to sneak attack her too and I always gently caress it up and don't get it there. The two DLC ones were tough only because there's few opportunities to actually attack the tails.
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