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The deal with the knight shield is that it's not bad per se, but that it's really heavy for what you get out of it, so you've got a lot of shield options that are just straight up better, like you saw. It's one of the things you'll look for if you do a lot of lower level invasions, actually, knight shield/drake sword (and maybe a fang boar helm) combo often means that the person you've invaded has no idea what they're doing.
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CuwiKhons posted:Excuse you, it's called Fashion Souls buddy. Boar helm best helm. That's why I said the fang boar helm is a maybe  That said, if they've got all 3 they either have no idea what they're doing or they just want you to think that, and then they parry you and pull out a +15 bandit's knife for the riposte.
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Paracelsus posted:I tend to prefer the kite shields that Andre sells to the other "I plan to actually block a bunch with this" options reasonably available at this point in the game. For just one weight unit more than the heater shield you get 3-4 more stability and the same resists. Yeah, the kite shields are good. I like to try to pick up a balder shield around this point, it's got pretty good stability and looks awesome to boot. Only problem is you have to farm a bit for it, but I usually wind up doing a little of that anyway to buy shards so it winds up not being too big a deal.
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Paracelsus posted:Balder shield starts with much better stability, but doesn't upgrade as well and has worse non-physical resists. Plus you know what happens if you try and farm for one on a non-dex character: 10 Balder Side Swords. According to the wiki it's better stability-wise than the kite shields all the way to +15, for only an extra pound of weight. You're right about the resists though, it's got 10% less magic and fire resist than the kite shields.
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Casting TWoP with that sword probably costs 50 durability, that's the usual durability cost for items with special attacks like that.
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I don't know if you're going to talk about this in later Depths videos, but there are actually 3 different types of rats in the Depths. There are the medium size rats, which you've seen, and which have the AI that you talked about in the video, giant rats, which are very aggressive, and small rats, which will just try to run away from you and don't attack you.
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Vicas posted:I don't think I have ever managed to kill a TinyRat, and I always assumed they kinda weren't killable Yeah, they just kinda scurry off and disappear into the walls but trying to chase them can get you in trouble if you're not careful.
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McKilligan posted:Blighttown is the loving best. Learn to love it, make it your home, and use it's misery as your ally. I did some blighttown invasions as well, mainly using a guy I'd built as a gimmick who had all the Force Miracles, and would try to just knock people off the ledges with them. It was great fun, and I also know my way around upper blighttown pretty well now from doing that.
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Technowolf posted:I thought the "arena" behind the bonfire was where Maneater Mildred showed up. Nope, Mildred shows up in the swamp. The arena is a nice convenient place to fight her, though, so a lot of people will backtrack to there once she's spawned.
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Feb 27, 2016 23:23
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Warren Waters posted:I love that Dark Souls presents challenges that can be completely sidestepped with foreknowledge, like kicking Lautrec off a cliff or getting That One Ring for Blighttown. Eh, you can get a slab out of saving siegmeyer, that's pretty significant imo
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Speedball posted:I always assumed Blighttown became poisonous because of the effluvia pouring out of the nearby sewers but if it's some other form of contamination...hmm. IIRC there's some item descriptions that suggest that Eingyi, who we haven't met yet, is the one who's responsible for blighttown's current state
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Another fun Quelaag fact, that attack you died to on your first attempt does magic damage, not fire damage like the rest of her attacks do. Also, the zweihander r2 overhead smash attack is another weapon that can hit her human body to stagger her. I think the great scythe has an attack that can do it too.
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Jonny Nox posted:Wow Vicas, you weren't kidding about the Drake Sword being easy mode. I have never gotten past the Taurus Demon (turns out Pyromancer is a baaad class for me) before despite having the game since the year it came out on PC. Now I just rang the first bell. The Gargoyles took me like 4 tries (I got lost and went to their location before Andre's bonfire) Just make sure you find something to replace it soon, the drake sword is really good right up until it's not anymore, and then it's practically useless, and the point where it's useless isn't that far into the game
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Vicas posted:Even if you find enough scales, which is annoying as hell, upgrades start at 10000 Souls each and only get more costly. It's an object lesson in diminishing returns IIRC the upgrade cost doesn't increase, but there's only like 10 scales to be found in the game unless you want to farm drakes for them, which is a giant pain in the butt. So yeah, like someone else said, you could do that but it's really not worth it compared to the plethora of other options you get at basically every point in the game. E: where even are all the dragon scales? The only ones I can think of that are guaranteed at the moment are the two hydras and the one in the blighttown arena. And maybe one in the duke's archives? Not sure about that though. Double edit: oh and there's the two undead dragons, I forgot about them TimNeilson fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Mar 8, 2016 |
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Paracelsus posted:There are a bunch in an area we could have gone to already, but haven't. Oh okay. I know the other hydra is there but I wasn't sure about whether there were some just lying around down there or not.
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Siivola posted:You forget the Great Hollow, the Valley of Drakes and the Undead Asylum. Winged spear is pretty sweet. I've always really enjoyed the spear moveset for my mans.
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Mar 13, 2016 04:32
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Vicas posted:I really do like it. I feel like the lava field is pretty much the perfect subtle "you know, maybe I should just go find Sen's" push to the player Yeah, Laurentius' trigger is having any chaos pyromancy, not ascending your pyromancy flame or talking to quelana or whatever.
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Mar 24, 2016 04:42
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Vicas posted:There are 3 possible ways to the boulder room. It is to my knowledge not possible to get through the most direct path without taking a boulder to the face, so I always assumed it was the unintended (but perfectly possible) path, but mostly meant to get the player looking around for other routes If you time it right, it is possible to get up the boulder ramp without taking one to the face. It's very difficult, though.
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One thing you forgot to show off with that final arrow trap is that it actually has two pressure plate triggers, and that if you trigger it going towards the snake mage, the second trigger pops up and you can trigger it again when you go back towards the outside, only this time the arrows are coming from behind you.
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Apr 18, 2016 23:46
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You could have killed smough with fireball from range if you'd just switched to your pyro hand, which you had in your other right-hand slot.
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Aug 12, 2016 02:34
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So, the way you went down is actually supposed to be the way back up, in case you come down here before you get the lordvessel. The intended way down involves sliding on a bunch of those coffins.
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Painted world is easily my favorite area of the game. It's so flavorful and tightly designed. Also, you don't strictly need a fire weapon here for those upcoming enemies, anything with enough reach that you can stay out of their spray will work well too. The rapier or spear work quite well for this, and any of the halberd-type weapons should also do nicely.
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