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Ok, finally killed Seath. So I'm done with Anor Londo and Duke's Archive's ...I guess it's on to Tomb of the Giants (ugh) and/or New Londo? Not much else left, right? Fake edit: I'm still rocking the Lightning Iatio...I don't know what else I can use for a quasi dex build. I have lots of dex and endurance, so I can move fast-ish but have heavy armor. Thank you, Havel's Ring.
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| # ¿ Nov 26, 2011 17:34 |
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| # ¿ May 21, 2013 14:50 |
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So I just saved Rhea from TotG...I have to do something to make sure she doesn't get killed by that guy, right? Can I just go kill him? Anything bad happen if I do that, other than not being able to buy stuff from him (though if I understand things, Rhea will have everything he had for sale.)
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| # ¿ Nov 27, 2011 21:46 |
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Finished Tomb of the Giants and killed Nito. (Spoilers really still needed?) Could have had him in one try, except that you have to drop down and lose a decent chunk of health. Went to drink my Estus flask, and out of nowhere a red sword comes out of the ground and kills me. Seriously, that's a dick move. Not so much the sword, I know that's one of his attacks, but forcing you to fall...though I guess there's that one slow fall sorcery...is it assumed everyone has that? I don't. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at Nov 28, 2011 around 02:58 |
| # ¿ Nov 28, 2011 02:53 |
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God drat, Ceaseless Discharge, WHY?! Half the time, despite having my best fire resist armor and the fire resist ring, I die before I can even get close because he'll just lava blast me two or three times in a row. I barely have time to get up and drink, like, half an Estus flask before he blasts again. And if I do get close enough, then I don't have enough physical resist to not lose ~80% of my health when he slams. "You dumbass!", you say, "just keep moving and he can't hit you with his slam" Bullshit he can't. I am running, sprinting even, and fall down and lose health. I didn't see the arm on my screen at all, I look behind me and see his arm is clearly like ten feet behind me, yet somehow registered as a hit. That happens like 50% of the time he attacks with his slam. Or he just does a double slam and before I have time to get up or drink a flash, I'm dead from the second hit. Or he does those swipes that I can't avoid no matter what I do. Edit: Ok, I didn't want to, but I cheesed him. I tried to do it the non-pussy way, but couldn't...forgive me... 
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| # ¿ Nov 29, 2011 01:47 |
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gently caress me, I'm an idiot... I got to level 2 of Chaos Servents, so I could do the shotcut thingy and not get Solaire hollowed, and what do I do right when I get Chaos Storm? Why, try it out to see what it looks like and how cool it is! Oh, wait, still at the bonfire...so long, egg-sack-guy, and can't-understand-a-word-you-say Spider Queen Sister.  Am I still considered "in" the covenant? All I really care about is if I can get through that shortcut...though not having that bonfire to warp to will be a bitch.
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| # ¿ Nov 30, 2011 00:29 |
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Ok, gently caress Dark Sun Gwyndolin. It shouldn't be this hard...but I suck at dodging that cluster of souls arrows (the one large one...soul spear? Easy to dodge.) I mean...there's like seven of them! I roll under a couple, I stand up and get hit by one or two...then when I stop to use Estus Flask, BAM, that's when the soul spear hits me. Plus, it kicks you back out to the Anor Londo bonfire, not the Darkmoon one. Not a big deal, right? Just rest there and teleport down...oh, wait, already killed the firekeeper here because what did I need this bonfire for? How was I supposed to know I'd respawn here? So now I run back to the bonfire at the bottom of Duke's Archives and teleport from there...since the tower is in the "down" position, I can't get to it without going through the church. AND STOP TELEPORTING!!!!
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2011 00:10 |
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Well, no sooner after I post that then I got him, but only through dumb luck. He went the whole fight just using regular old arrows. Even the ones I didn't dodge barely brought down my stamina with my shield up. But the chest on the left was empty...I feel gyped.
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2011 00:21 |
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Gabby_Jay posted:I can finally put this game to rest after getting the platinum trophy today. My last trophy involved finishing Siegmeyer's storyline to get that titanite slab, such a sad way to end things. Yeah...I thought after all that work I put into it he'd at least have the common decency to live. But, as sad as it is, it's not as sad as killing his daughter right after you get the slab!  Fake edit: Is there anyplace to farm titanite chunks other than the two Royal Sentinels outside O+S's door? I already made Anor Londo dark...
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| # ¿ Dec 7, 2011 15:04 |
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Man, I hope I didn't out-level the end-game. Been sitting with a combined time of ~25 minutes with my summon sign up in front of Gwyn, only got summoned once. Said "eh, I'll go finish the game I guess" and waited ~15 minutes to see someone else's sign, but no dice. Got invaded twice...kicked the blue invader's rear end (just kept hitting him even though he had his shield up, because the bleed still built up, heh.) and got killed by the red invader for laggy/explotation BS. Seriously, he swung, missed, I was right behind him, swung...yet it counts as blocked, even though I am staring at his back, I get my shield up, he swings, it hits. The Hell? Faked edit: So is SL 95 too high to reliably get help with Gwyn?
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 01:05 |
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Gaggins posted:Your level affects summoning stuff? In what way? And what does SL mean? There's a range of levels that you can summon/be summoned to based on your level...it's +/- 10 levels, right? Or is it 10%? A combination? I can't recall. And SL is short for Soul Level, which is just what some of us call 'level' for shorthand. A holdover from Demon Souls, which called 'level' Soul Level. Edit: Does strength effect how fast you swing really heavy poo poo like greatswords? Everyone in PvP swings their Zweihander like twice as fast as me, so I stopped using it and went back to my Lightning Iatio. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at Dec 13, 2011 around 02:32 |
| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 02:17 |
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Wow...that ending... I did the "Link the Fire" ending, and Jesus, seriously? That's all we get? Is the other ending any better? I'd like to do a NG+, but I really hosed up my character build with this guy...tried too hard at the start to level up all the stats (yes, even resistance... I'm sorry, I didn't know!) and screwed the pooch later, since I couldn't get any stat high enough to really be a contender for "str build" or "Dex build" or whatever and not be, like, SL 150.
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 02:48 |
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On my second playthtough (not NG+, new character,) and doing so much better than the first time around...it's amazing how much of this game is just "don't be retarded" and not "hey, now I have more strength and can kick rear end!" Already rung the first bell, less than two hours in, and that's with taking things slow. But no one is summoning me for their Gargoyle fight.  I'm level 12...that should be perfect for that fight.
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 23:52 |
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So earlier, while trying to get summoned to help people with Capra Demon, I invaded as a red phantom...how did the other guy do this? I thought that red eye stones and red soapstones required ME to find their sign and have them invade me...how does someone, without my consent, turn me into a red phantom?
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2011 01:45 |
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Schwartzcough posted:Alternately, go human and summon a phantom or two. As long as you can survive the first couple seconds, it's nearly impossible to die with a decent phantom for backup. And yet a couple people managed to do just that today when they summoned me.  One was a complete moron, though. He went through the fog door while I was still being summoned...I barely got into the room with Capra and he died. Just wait! The second guy just got unlucky...the demon would not attack me, kept on him the whole time, and eventually his stamina, then his life, gave out before I could kill the drat thing. Now I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to get summoned to help with Gargoyles. Lvl 21 should be spot on. Am I putting my summon sign in the wrong spot? I put it right outside the fog door, but I recall seeing some people have theirs in the first level of the church...so maybe people get to mine, already have someone else summoned, and then summon the Sunbro as their second?
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| # ¿ Dec 15, 2011 02:17 |
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Do Occult weapons actually build up curse on anyone? Either in PvP or PvE? I tried using the occult club you get in Anor Londo in PvP, even upgraded it to +3, just to see if I could kill someone but cursing them rather than straight up damage, figuring even if they blocked all my attacks it wouldn't matter, but it didn't seem to ever do anything. So on this character right now, I'm going for a sort of Dex build...I'm really liking the halberd...already got it to +5, just got the large ember, so pretty soon I'll be grinding to get some large titanite to get it to +10. I don't think I'll give it any "special" properties...just get it to +15. So far casting Magic Weapon on it is working out pretty well for tough enemies/boss fights. And for the occasional boss who is magic resistance, I've got lots of resins!  my other 'go to' weapon is a +5 bandit knife for enemies that are too fast for the halberd...not that the halberd is slow (well, not the R1 attack, R2 is,) but the knife is so much faster than anything. Plus, you know...the blood thing. So I switch between those two, and keep the pyromancy hand as my second weapon, because the occasional fireball is too good to pass up (PvE, too slow for PvP.) Right now rocking the RoFaP, and will start using ninja flip ring once I can get to it...my other ring is Evil Eye (pfft, basilisks don't scare me. I've only ever been cursed by them a couple times, and those were from the Great Hollow ones, not the Depths.) What's the best armor for a Dex build? I've got the black thief set now just because I don't have anything else that's light and decent...got the breastpiece and leggins to +5, helmet and gloves at +1 or +2...I'd like to try and eventually keep <25% encumbrance, since with literally ZERO poise I need to be as fast as possible. I'm at like 35% now (when using halberd, the knife gets me to 27%...if I unequip the catalyst in my shield hand i can be <25% with the knife) so my next few levels will all be in endurance.
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| # ¿ Dec 15, 2011 15:20 |
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Gaggins posted:Speaking of this, a certain helpful serpent has fallen asleep and I can't wake him up. Is there a way to do this or does he wake up naturally at a certain point? Hit him once, JUST ONCE, with your weapon. He will wake up and be all "What's all this about? Gramps was just resting his eyes, you little punk." Edit: Someone summon me for Gaping Dragon, already!  I'm sick of helping out on Capra!
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| # ¿ Dec 15, 2011 20:48 |
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Zizzyx posted:You never "have" to roll, but rolling is the best technique in the game. It's the fastest way to kill anything without taking damage and is practically free. But it's much more risky than blocking. There aren't many things you come across that will one shot you while blocking with a 100% physical resist shield. Sif's 720 spin, Havel's two handed attack, Capra's two handed attack...a few others...even these might not one shot you if you're high enough level and put points into endurance and/or vitality. Yeah, rolling, if done right, will be less stamina spent, and you don't have to worry if your poise is high enough to not stagger, but for some attacks, if you roll even a half second early or late, you'll get hit...especially for attacks that have really good tracking.
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| # ¿ Dec 16, 2011 03:19 |
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Welp, just had my biggest soul loss ever, and it was 100% retard loss...and not even a "I was being too aggressive against a mini-boss" retard, I mean full-on "hurf, durf"  tard.I killed the silver knight in Darkroot Basin, got the Grass Crest shield, then went into that cave, lit and rested at the bonfire, and went to Valley of the Drakes to kill one or two for fun. Well, due to being stupid, I died to the first one. Eh, no big loss, I was hollow, I died right next to the elevator so I'll get all my souls and humanity back easily. That is, of course, assuming I don't space out and just run right into the giant hole in the ground left by the elevator being at the bottom of the shaft. I actually had enough time to go "hey, I don't remember the drop being this big...oh poo poo, it was an elevator! gently caress it's so long I'm dead, goodbye souls...wait, I'm still falling, poo poo! Hit power button, it won't have saved yet, I can salvage this! BAM, power button hit while still in the air! gently caress YEAH, I thought. Reloaded, my guy appeared right at the top of the elevator, good as new...then immediately went "ugh" and fell over dead... God drat it...~50,000 souls and 9 humanity... Guess it's back to helping out with Gaping Dragon! 12,500 souls per time is pretty good.
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| # ¿ Dec 16, 2011 04:22 |
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PorkFat posted:How many different kinds of phantoms can you summon/be invaded by? I saw what looked like a pile of ash that was a dragon something or other guy that invaded and fought me when I activated his sign. Depending on what kind of PvP it is, it might not take level into account at all (Forest Covenant is the big offender here, though I think certain kinds of red phantoming also ignore level.) SO you could be up against someone late in the game, or even on NG+/NG++
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| # ¿ Dec 16, 2011 20:52 |
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Best backstab animation? Battle axe. Nothing like taking a golf swing to the back of someone's head to make you feel awesome. 
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| # ¿ Dec 17, 2011 04:33 |
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Kongming posted:I've resorted to just playing offline until Anor Londo when things start to even out. Not like I need help or feel like assisting before that point anyway. Why not just do everything Hollowed? That's what I do...I go through the area Hollow, get all the items, kill the non-respawning mini-bosses/tough enemies, then go to the nearest bonfire to the boss before finally un-Hollowing and taking them on. And usually there are summon signs right at whatever bonfire that is, so I can get help against high-powered invaders. And you can still assist without ever getting invaded...you don't need to be human to lay down a white summon sign. Bobnumerotres posted:Every fire-keeper demon leaves a bonfire behind after they die, so yeah. But you still can't warp to it...only certain bonfires you can warp to...they are the ones that are right next to a covenant (Stone Dragon, Chamber of Chaos, Nito (though he's dead by the time it shows up...so?), Chamber of the Princess, Darkmoon... Only a few "non-covenant" fires are warpable...Firelink, Anor Londo...that it? DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at Dec 17, 2011 around 19:32 |
| # ¿ Dec 17, 2011 19:29 |
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Category Fun! posted:e: What's the best way to get humanity? I'm at O&S and I want to SunBro this fight (Almost had it last time until Smough absorbed Orstein and did that lightning AoE, now I'm out of humanity). Put down a summon sign and help someone else with the fight. Hell, if you're lucky, the other person will summon Solaire, too, and you'll get a Sunbro medal! Edit: Best place fro a summon sign to help with Quelaag is that bonfire right near her entrance, right?
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| # ¿ Dec 17, 2011 20:10 |
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Man, I hate having to waste souls and levels on stats I don't really care for (Int and Faith) but need to go up because I just really want to use certain spells. Like Slow Fall and Homeward...less so Homeward, but man, no way am I doing the Great Hollow again without Slow Fall. Fake edit: Speaking of Homeward, how is it that even after a couple patches, there is still the mistake in one of the loading screens showing the description for Force, but is titled 'Homeward'?
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| # ¿ Dec 19, 2011 17:46 |
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Lork posted:Have you ever used slowfall before? I ask this because you might not know that it only works for falls that wouldn't have killed you in the first place. If you're expecting to jump straight down the middle, or even protect yourself from slipping off a branch into an instadeath fall, you're going to be very disappointed. Oh...well, crap. So it will prevent fall damage, but only if the fall would do less than your total hit points anyway?
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| # ¿ Dec 19, 2011 22:45 |
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^^^ Yup, exactly that...I'm lazy enough to spend 8,000 souls.^^^JP Money posted:I really wouldn't say it's hard to get souls. Especially anymore. It's not like you use homeward bones often either. Stashing away a bunch is way better than wasting an attunement spot also. Well, I only used Homeward on my last playthrough at certain times...like farming for humanity/eyes of death for covenants. I'd do a run through the depths, killing the rats and basilisks, then use it to go back to the bonfire and start over...I'm just lazy and wanted to save ~30 seconds. After getting enough, I'd put a more useful spell in that atonement slot.
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| # ¿ Dec 19, 2011 23:10 |
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You know what? I feel really bad for the Giant Blacksmith. He's pretty much the last of his kind, isn't he? I mean...one area is called Tomb of the Giants, for gently caress's sack, and it's all giant skeletons...no other very large, very alive, people are to be found...  And since we're on general NPC discussion, I don't understand Knight Solaire. By which I mean this: When you're playing, people are either in your world as NPC's you can talk to, interact with, kill, etc...they can be human (meaning they die and that's it, like some merchants and blacksmiths,) or Undead like you (they can go Hollow after they die, usually resulting in them going crazy and attacking you (Crestfallen Knight.)) Or, people are in their world, and can invade/get summoned to help you (Man Eater Mildred, Paladin Leroy, every other person playing the game) as a phantom. Yet, somehow, Knight Solaire is both...he's in your world when you meet him in in The Burg, or at his bonfire/covenant shrine later in the game, yet he can also get summoned to help you as a phantom. Actually, know that I think about it, it's the same deal with Knight Lautrec. He's mostly in your world, as a person, not phantom, but if you finish his storyline, it's you invading his world to kill him...
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| # ¿ Dec 20, 2011 14:56 |
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Shanty posted:The item descriptions of the soap stones go into this as well. "The flow of time in Lordan is distorted". I guess that makes sort of sense? Eh...whatever. And no, IIRC they are basically empty suits of armor inhabited by spirits of the former knights.
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| # ¿ Dec 20, 2011 15:58 |
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^^^If your connection isn't good, you can do the play offline option. And don't get too worried about people loving you up...you can only get invaded if you're in "human" form, which you never have to be in.^^^ Best place for Iron Golem summons...near the bonfire, or right outside his door? Level 36, should be spot on they money for Sen's, yes?
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2011 02:15 |
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neetz posted:That's always firmly been Queelag territory in my experience. Hell, post-patch you can even get Depths summons around that. Yeah, I figured it might be a tad low, since it's only like ~4 levels higher than what I averaged in Blighttown... I was still getting Depths summons at 34, but decided I should finish up Sen's my myself so I can get to Anor Londo. And since both I get more souls from the Golem than Gaping, and he typically goes down faster, I can get more souls per minute! At least I could if it took less than five minutes of waiting to get summoned...and I didn't have a couple stupid deaths from the Golem grabbing me and throwing me off.
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2011 03:29 |
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buzzsaw.gif posted:SluttyJane hits PSN Dec. 23, 2011. Ball Stink posted:You can join NathanPubelord in PvP. A match made in heaven. 
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2011 22:54 |
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Huh...just had the game freeze on me...in Anor Londo, on the bridge, fighting the gargoyle. He jumped into the air, then freeze...my PS3 worked fine, I could use the PS button to get to the dashboard, just the game was froze...let's hope it was a one-time thing.
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2011 01:14 |
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MZ posted:I understand I can't return if I enter the Painted World without reaching the end, anything particulary nasty I should prepare for? The crow-people. They have a really nasty, un-blockable, grab attack that does a lot of damage. The bloated zombies are a pain, and have the potential to toxic you when they die/explode, so use something with reach, or a ranged weapon/magic if you don't have some good poison resist stuff.
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2011 16:14 |
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Ball Stink posted:Does anyone know a similar punishment-less way to PvP outside of darkwraith orb? I want to have Darkmoon Blade Miracle +2(3 wayyyy later) and I need to be in that covenant but the blue orb sucks I hear. What I mean by no punishment is no humanity lost and no souls that you can't go pick up etc... You could wear the Darkmoon ring! 
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2011 19:00 |
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Ball Stink posted:I forgot to specify it cannot take a ring slot. Well, my suggestion was mostly in jest, since it functions about as well as the Blue Orb...but why not? From your previous post, one of your ring slots is a RoFaP, so that ones out, but just use the other slot. Then, as soon as it says "getting summoned to another world" on your screen, go into your inventory and switch it back to a useful ring, like flip, Havel's, etc...you don't need the ring while you're invading, just to get the initial summons.
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2011 19:21 |
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artism posted:Is there any way to get the Dark Grain Ring without having to kill the ninja guy and then attone for your sins (to make the forest unhostile again?) I am not sure if I would ever swamp Havels/RoFAP for it but it would be nice if I ever decide to PVP. No...but just do it after killing Sif, and then it doesn't matter if the forest guys are hostile because when are you ever going to go back? Or do it before, because if you can kill Sif, you can kill all the forest NPC's without the "fall off cliff" method anyway.
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| # ¿ Dec 23, 2011 04:42 |
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That reminds of me the weirdest invasion I've ever had, just a couple nights ago: I just got to Anor Londo, and just before I was going to start walking on the rafters, I get invaded. I go outside and see him on the bridge, but he's not moving...I shoot an arrow at him, more as a "hey, I'm up here" move than trying to actually snipe him, and he still doesn't come up. I shoot him a few more times, gave the "shrug" gesture, hoping he understands that I can't come down to meet him (well, unless I did the rafters thing, but I didn't want to do that since he could come up behind me.) He eventually comes up, and I go inside to wait...he walks in...does nothing. I attack, and he just blocks...I try to go around for backstab, he just moves with me and blocks..that's it. Eventually he runs up the ladder to the rafters, and I'm like "crap, I don't want to have to fight up there, but I will." But he just runs across them to the other side then gets down..o...k... I do the same, and again, when I get to him, he just blocks, then runs away again, jumping down onto that ledge at the end of the church...I get down, and finally manage to be behind him, backstab, then a couple more hits and he dies. I have no idea what his game was...
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| # ¿ Dec 23, 2011 23:24 |
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God drat, I hate the Stray Demon fight. He's not hard to kill...but I keep dieing because I fall down the hole, I'm stunned, then get smashed on the head. How is that loving fair?! Is there any way to not get stunned when you fall down that hole?
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| # ¿ Dec 25, 2011 02:25 |
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ivantod posted:They are super weak to fire. A fully upgraded pyromancy glove+Great Combustion spell will kill either one (before the upgrade happens) in 6-7 casts. That reminds me...how do I get Quelaana to upgrade my regular +15 Hand to the better one? I thought all I had to do was have my regular one at +15 (it is.) But right now...nothing.
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| # ¿ Dec 26, 2011 16:55 |
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Schwartzcough posted:She has a Modify Equipment option like the blacksmiths. Use that. Yeah, nothing there other than the option to take my +15 back down to normal.
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| # ¿ Dec 26, 2011 17:11 |
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Ok...just saw a message that I've never seen before. It appeared on my screen and said "Disasters are gone after the [something] of the Gravelord Servant." Bwa?
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