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Genocyber posted:Then the person was an idiot. Anyone worth their salt is just gonna dodge through it and roll bs you. Really? I have not had anyone BS me. I cast pursuers before I find the person and wait to use crystal soul spear as they dodge so it hits them when the dodge animation ends.
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Continuing my playthrough I went from only two deaths panicking through Sen's Fortress to, uh, some... in Anor Londo. God drat archers, god drat camera trying to avoid colliding with level geometry which means my character suddenly turns and dies from a fall. God bless the zweihander! Having read about Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls threads and already having some trouble with the respawning big dudes in the hallway before the fog gate, and Lautrec for that matter, I decided to cheat and take a looksie on youtube on how to beat O&S because they must be waaay harder than all that other stuff. Seemed simple enough. Use this, do that, don't get buttrocuted. Went through the fog gate with that strategy in mind and... First try, victory! Almost killed myself trying to catch that corkscrew elevator though, because I assume you'll fall down and die if you miss it.
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Ein posted:Continuing my playthrough I went from only two deaths panicking through Sen's Fortress to, uh, some... in Anor Londo. God drat archers, god drat camera trying to avoid colliding with level geometry which means my character suddenly turns and dies from a fall. God bless the zweihander! It's kind of an invisible wall if you miss the elevator.
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Mar 21, 2014 22:49
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ChaosArgate posted:It's kind of an invisible wall if you miss the elevator. That's a bit of a surprise. There's no other invisible walls in the game right?
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Ein posted:Continuing my playthrough I went from only two deaths panicking through Sen's Fortress to, uh, some... in Anor Londo. God drat archers, god drat camera trying to avoid colliding with level geometry which means my character suddenly turns and dies from a fall. You can turn this off in the menu. I did. Ein posted:That's a bit of a surprise. There's no other invisible walls in the game right? Its more that corkscrew has a blocking model that doesn't have room for you to slide down it. If you miss it from the upper floor you'll fall, but you should be able to survive it if at full health. I tend to just jump down to O&S room from gwyn's bonfire rather than missing the stupid elevator and having to wait. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Mar 21, 2014 |
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Zaphod42 posted:You can turn this off in the menu. Huh, I'll have to do that then, thanks! Whoever it was that said the zweihander was good, thank you! I thought it was too slow at first, but when you learn the reach and when to hit it's really, really good. Two handing it with the grass shield and
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I'll be streaming in an hour (7:15 EST) Watch as I blitz through Anor Londo, then get cockblocked by O&S.
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Would a divine claymore with a high faith build be a decent plan? I don't really have my head around damage types in this game yet so I'm not sure how good divine weapons are in general.
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Ein posted:Huh, I'll have to do that then, thanks! If you want a faster zwei get the claymore, best sword in the whole game. InfiniteNoodles posted:Would a divine claymore with a high faith build be a decent plan? I don't really have my head around damage types in this game yet so I'm not sure how good divine weapons are in general. Sure. Although A +15 Claymore with SLB and high faith would probably be even better, (especially if you put a few points in fth and str both) but you only get 1 cast so whatever. (although even then +15 may outdamage +10 divine, not sure) You could do both except you only get one clay per run, but the bastard sword is extremely similar, and you can grab a second on NG+. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Mar 21, 2014 |
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Mar 21, 2014 23:38
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Divine weapons are alright. They're kinda like Magic weapons (physical damage scaling goes down the toilet, magic damage scales with casting stat) but with less disparity. Physical scaling is a bit better, magic scaling is a bit lower, damage output overall is a little less. There are some fantabulous weapon buff miracles later on, though, and you can't put those on naturally magical/elemental weapons. I say go +5 divine as soon as possible, fight through the early-middle game with it and revert it into a normal +5 when you can lather your sword with lightning so you can have your +15 cake and eat it too.
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Zaphod42 posted:If you want a faster zwei get the claymore, best sword in the whole game. Where do you get that, I haven't found one or seen anyone selling it yet I think?
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It's sitting under the red drake's nose on the bridge.
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scamtank posted:Divine weapons are alright. They're kinda like Magic weapons (physical damage scaling goes down the toilet, magic damage scales with casting stat) but with less disparity. Physical scaling is a bit better, magic scaling is a bit lower, damage output overall is a little less.
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scamtank posted:It's sitting under the red drake's nose on the bridge. Dangit. I've avoided that one, is there any way to fight him without cheesing it? I'm not that into flaming infernos.
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scamtank posted:There are some fantabulous weapon buff miracles later on, though, and you can't put those on naturally magical/elemental weapons. I say go +5 divine as soon as possible, fight through the early-middle game with it and revert it into a normal +5 when you can lather your sword with lightning so you can have your +15 cake and eat it too. That sounds like an excellent suggestion, thanks. Didn't even know I could revert weapons. Ein posted:Dangit. I've avoided that one, is there any way to fight him without cheesing it? I'm not that into flaming infernos. I baited him into jumping down onto the bridge and then rolled past him and sprinted to the bonfire, grabbing it on my way.
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Stream is up for anyone bored enough to watch! up in here!Sorry for the abrupt end, but my head has been pounding since my eye exam earlier and it just wont quit it. Thanks for watching again folks. Stringbean fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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InfiniteNoodles posted:
That seems like a sound strategy, I just now went and arrowed him and then clobbered him and discovered that my character is much more flame retardant than he was at level 12-ish in leather gear. Had to sprint down the stairs and use Estus a couple of times, but it was zweihander supremacy other than that.
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I've calmed down a bit and am going back to the Tomb of Giants! https://hitbox.tv/Turtlicious
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I just got summoned around six times to fight Gaping Dragon at SL40. (Anor Londo's infamous archer duo are doing a good job of keeping me out and I wanted to grind up some humanities) I thought for sure 40 would be too high, but apparently not! I'd like to think they liked me accessorizing my pyromancer outfit with an onion helmet and Elite Knight legs.
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So I took my essentially completed pvp char on a run through the Oolacile Township with Pursuers and CMW for the first time and proceeded to go on my longest winstreak ever. It does exactly what I was hoping for, even people who can dodge it effectively are emptying their stamina bar rolling away from it and leaving themselves wide open for some deep hurting. Several people who opt for the tanking strat just got their stability punched through immediately followed by more deep hurting. I almost feel bad.
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I'm looking to pick this up again and am looking for character advice. Ideally I'd like to try some combination of sword/shield and cleric abilities. I'd love to focus on parrying, but my timing sucks so I can't rely on it. I can only play offline, so I know some covenant unlocked abilities aren't going to be available to me. Any suggestions for build/equipment and/or general advice?
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Loving some jolly cooperation when it comes to OS but i'm getting a bit tired of it. Anywhere else to go to as a level 46 that would get me some summons?
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bef posted:Loving some jolly cooperation when it comes to OS but i'm getting a bit tired of it. Anywhere else to go to as a level 46 that would get me some summons? Bed of Chaos. 
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Turtlicious posted:Bed of Chaos. do that poo poo yourself
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Viperix posted:I'm looking to pick this up again and am looking for character advice. Ideally I'd like to try some combination of sword/shield and cleric abilities. I'd love to focus on parrying, but my timing sucks so I can't rely on it. I can only play offline, so I know some covenant unlocked abilities aren't going to be available to me. Any suggestions for build/equipment and/or general advice? Most of the Cleric weapons are the big smashy types (maces and that crazy club Leeroy has), so you'd want lots of strength to go along with your faith anyway. If you feel like really min/maxing take the Master Key and go nab Astora's Straight Sword right as you get to Firelink, then use it to proceed directly to the Catacombs and gank Patches' axe, it's a fantastic Faith weapon. Also push through to Tomb of the Giants and rescue Rhea right after Capra, she's got some pretty sweet miracles for sale after you pull her out of there. If you're stuck offline I don't know if you can get the lightning miracles from the SunBro's covenant, that would be too bad as they're quite nice for Faith builds. Speaking of TotG, it only took me 2 tries to run down there and grab the Silver Ring. I was messing around just trying to find the best path between the 2nd bonfire and the boss door, and ended up dodging some bonewheels and making it there first try. I had intended to go human and summon Leeroy just for fun, but figured I had nothing to lose so might as well go suicide on Pinwheel to get back up to the bonfire. Surely even Pinwheel can take out a naked lv14 dude, right? Sigh, no, I just locked on to the real one and walked around behind him, R2 smashing with my +2 zwei whenever stamina permitted. I took a single hit from one of his clones, during his death animation. What a chump. He got me back tho by dropping Mother, easily the least useful mask. I was hoping for Father because I'm really hurting for equip load right now, but faster stamina is always nice. But no, I'm stuck with +50 HP until after the bloody Lordvessel and taking out Nito... Pinwheel  Oh something else cool, the knight in the bonewheel pit actually dropped his axe for me, I've never got one in any of my other playthroughs. Base damage looks nice but I wasn't anticipating having to pump dex to 16... oh well, they tried to give Guts a magic battleaxe in the manga at one point, I'm calling this canon and rolling with it.
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gently caress sen's fortress holy poo poo.
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VelociBacon posted:gently caress sen's fortress holy poo poo. But it's soooo easy...
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Every area in Dark Souls can be a really bad day for someone. I know Sen's inside and out and think it's a fairly trivial thing once you're in the know, but just the other month I spent a solid hour beating my head against it without making any progress. Getting knocked out by blades, repeatedly being owned by the first two snakemen, dying to a lightning bolt stopping my heart through my shield, everything that could've gone wrong did.
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I am still constantly surprised by Dark Beads because I've not played much. They are WRECKING MY INVASIONS. If anybody wants to watch I'm streaming them, since others seem to post it here too. http://hitbox.tv/jeckl. With adventures in the Giant's Tomb Fingerless Gloves fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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I think I spend half the time in character creation, because look at this god drat face.
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VelociBacon posted:gently caress sen's fortress holy poo poo. Try running through
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Holy gently caress I hate the Giant's Tomb so much gently caress IT. Died at Nito, then tried to get my poo poo back and got killed by a sneaky Pinwheel. I'm going back to Dickwraithing in Londo. 75 wins, 35 losses. Time to get to 100. Fingerless Gloves fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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If you keep getting obliterated by the giant dog skeletons just run like a madman all the way down.
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The path to the Silver Serpent Ring also deposits you right past the darkness.
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bef posted:do that poo poo yourself No, you do it while I stand under the slide and chug 20 estus.
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Kay uploaded a death montage after she finished her play through. Its actually remarkably short, I didn't bother counting how many total deaths she had but the video's only like half an hour with 5-15 sec per death, which would put her around edit: I can't math today Vorpal Cat fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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If I left Anor Londo after fleeing from lance-launching archers, will I have to do the catwalk portion against the Painting Guardians again to hit the stair switch when I return?
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No, but you should push on because you'll get a useful item for travel very soon. Saves another trip through Sens.
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Potsticker posted:If I left Anor Londo after fleeing from lance-launching archers, will I have to do the catwalk portion against the Painting Guardians again to hit the stair switch when I return? Yeah, just suck it up and get past the archers ASAP. There's a Bonfire right after them and neat items all about up there. Keep on keepin' on duders, don't give up.
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