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Thanks for the answers, guys. I guess I'm just nervous about not having my go-to stash of 50 herbs at any given moment. Then again, maybe the developers balanced the game around the fact that now we don't have that crutch to rely on. Then again, again, this is From Software, makers of Demon's Souls, so they probably didn't. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Oct 5, 2011 |
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I have the AMAZING Futurepress guide(buy this, we need to support this kind of guide-making, the Deus Ex:HR guide was incredible too), so if anyone has any specific questions feel free to ask me. Everyone complaining about the Drake Sword being "easy mode" needs to realize that you can pump 3000 souls into a loving generic longsword and make it stronger than the Drake Sword. This is Dark Souls, the game is hard, but it's designed so that if you know the systems you can mitigate a lot of that difficulty. Getting the Drake Sword is knowing one of the systems (tails=loot). Upgrading a regular sword is knowing the systems (strait +physical upgrades are cheap and a great way to mitigate the difficulty early on). The reason the Drake Sword is good isn't because it has 200 attack, it's because its upgrade potential is much higher than a generic weapon. Of course, it is REALLY expensive to upgrade. Believe me, that 200 attack is not going to cut it in NG+ or even later on in your first run through.
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Vanguard Warden posted:I never even used the drake sword when I got it. It has the same strength requirement as a claymore and they're found in the same general area. By the time I met the strength requirement my claymore was +5, did enough damage to be worth using and had a hell of a lot more reach. If I may ask, how did you get a Claymore to +5 so fast? I'm a few areas past the Berg now and I think I have a grand total of one Titanite Shard.
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Oct 5, 2011 17:50
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Vanguard Warden posted:I never even used the drake sword when I got it. It has the same strength requirement as a claymore and they're found in the same general area. By the time I met the strength requirement my claymore was +5, did enough damage to be worth using and had a hell of a lot more reach. You can 2-hand it just fine, though. I rolled Deprived and am still at the default 11 strength, and there are no stamina/speed repercussions -- it probably requires something like 10 STR to 2-hand. It even blocks half decently, but you can still take low/sweeping hits. The biggest cheese is its 2-handed R2 attack... Storm Ruler 2.0
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If you run around in undead mode collecting humanity but not actually un-hollowing yourself, do you still drop humanity when you die as well?
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Oct 5, 2011 17:52
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YorexTheMad posted:If I may ask, how did you get a Claymore to +5 so fast? I'm a few areas past the Berg now and I think I have a grand total of one Titanite Shard. There's an npc in Undead Parish who sells them. GaistHeidegger posted:If you run around in undead mode collecting humanity but not actually un-hollowing yourself, do you still drop humanity when you die as well? yes
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Man, me and a summoned pyromancer along with Soltaire destroyed the gargoyle's. I don't even think we got hit more than one time each. First time fighting it too. 
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Oct 5, 2011 17:54
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GreatGreen posted:Thanks for the answers, guys. I guess I'm just nervous about not having my go-to stash of 50 herbs at any given moment. It forces you to play a lot more cautiously, though if you're kindling the bonfires, you shouldn't have too much of an issue. I get through most areas with about 4-6 Estus Flasks left, and that's me being an idiot most of the time. "Oh hay this view is awesome I can't believe I can see this fa-" stabbed in the back by a dregling. 
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AttackBacon posted:Upgrading a regular sword is knowing the systems (strait +physical upgrades are cheap and a great way to mitigate the difficulty early on). Going to emphasize this - I had so much trouble with the drat gargoyles, and of course AFTER I finally killed them I had the bright idea of "hey I have a bunch of shards maybe I should upgrade my weapon" which made a world of difference and certainly would have helped me a bunch on the gargs. Been using a halberd+4 for a while now and loving it.
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Oct 5, 2011 17:56
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Talran posted:Works pretty well if you know how to use it, even using light armor and popping it damage to me turns into chips Thanks for the response. Any idea if it scales with an upgraded catalyst? How bad was the mobility hit to you?
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Professor Latency posted:
There's a blacksmith? in the ruins of londo? There wasn't a room or demon there so I still don't know where the forest is
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I keep hearing from people about how the big jerk up on the ramparts was supposed to drop a weapon when he died. Does this happen 100% of the time? All he gave me was a thousand souls and a headache 
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I can hear the smithy in the catacombs hammering away. How do I get to him?
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Chachi posted:I keep hearing from people about how the big jerk up on the ramparts was supposed to drop a weapon when he died. Does this happen 100% of the time? All he gave me was a thousand souls and a headache taurus demon? I got jack loving poo poo from him. no souls no nothing. one humanity that I lost to a dragon
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Oct 5, 2011 18:01
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Is there a bonfire in the sewers? I'm in the area with the merchant and the locked door but I can't find any way out or a bonfire. The only way to go is the fog gate and seriously if I have to run all the way back from Firelink every time gently caress that. edit: of course I find it right after I post this. This area is way too dark. Phoix fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Oct 5, 2011 |
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Smelly posted:
I got it on my playthourgh, I never saw the ladder for the tower with the archers, so I said gently caress it, buffed my sword with lightning, and meleed that fucker down  . I got the hammer, and that thing is really slow so I haven't used it yet
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enojy posted:My friend told me about the Drake Sword and I hate it. After spending 3 hours on Moonlight Butterfly with 5 flasks, no ranged weapon, no magic, just a halberd I'm too weak to use doing 15 damage a hit, I sold out and used the sword. I feel really dirty. I'm not letting myself use this sword again. I should drop it somewhere in Undead Burg; maybe it will turn into a gamebreaking phantom for some unlucky gently caress. I see the ladder in the bon fire room, but no clue how to get up there.
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Oct 5, 2011 18:05
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GaistHeidegger posted:If you run around in undead mode collecting humanity but not actually un-hollowing yourself, do you still drop humanity when you die as well? No. Humanity stores itself as an item. Only the humanity that you've consumed and thus applied to your number in the upper left corner can be lost if you die. But if you recover your souls you recover those as well and your number count will go back up.
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Oct 5, 2011 18:06
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Does anyone know where the estus flask upgrade vendor is in Darktown?
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Chachi posted:I keep hearing from people about how the big jerk up on the ramparts was supposed to drop a weapon when he died. Does this happen 100% of the time? All he gave me was a thousand souls and a headache You can get his axe but there's no foolproof way to get it just yet. I got it the first time and then restarted, fought him the exact same way, and didn't get it. It may just be a random drop.
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Pandanaut posted:You can get his axe but there's no foolproof way to get it just yet. I got it the first time and then restarted, fought him the exact same way, and didn't get it. It may just be a random drop. It really doesn't seem worth it, as cool looking as it is. It's extremely slow.
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Oct 5, 2011 18:07
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ireladd posted:No. Humanity stores itself as an item. Only the humanity that you've consumed and thus applied to your number in the upper left corner can be lost if you die. But if you recover your souls you recover those as well and your number count will go back up.
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Chachi posted:I keep hearing from people about how the big jerk up on the ramparts was supposed to drop a weapon when he died. Does this happen 100% of the time? All he gave me was a thousand souls and a headache The Black Knights have a chance to drop several things: A low chance to drop their weapon, a medium chance to drop their shield, and a pretty high chance to drop a Titanite Chunk. I'm not sure if they can drop multiple things, I think they can. I recommend getting your Humanity up and equipping one of those item find rings before fighting them, because the weapons are awesome. One thing I'm going to post is about spell scaling. Intelligence DOES affect both Sorceries and Pyromancies. However, Sorceries get a double dip because Intelligence also affects the Magic Adjust stat on Wands (Faith does this for Talismans), which makes them provide more magic damage. The Pyromancy Flame's Magic Adjust is tied to it's UPGRADE LEVEL not your Int. Wands and Talismans CANNOT be upgraded, but the Pyromancy Flame CAN, and this is what affects its Magic Adjust (it's starting Magic Adjust is really high as well). So while Intelligence DOES affect Pyromancies, it does not have nearly as large an effect for Pyromancers as it has for Sorcerors. To add to that, Pyromancies generally have much fewer charges than Sorceries. So as a Pyromancer you are encouraged to get some Str/Dex and go beat people up, since it doesn't affect your spell damage that much to sacrifice Int. It is also interesting that the Pyromancy Flame has REALLY HIGH attack, so you can actually FIREPUNCH people really hard with it! This is awesome. Certain Wands also get really high Attack so a Wand/Shield Battle-Sorceror is a definite build.
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AttackBacon posted:The Black Knights have a chance to drop several things: A low chance to drop their weapon, a medium chance to drop their shield, and a pretty high chance to drop a Titanite Chunk. I'm not sure if they can drop multiple things, I think they can. I recommend getting your Humanity up and equipping one of those item find rings before fighting them, because the weapons are awesome. They can indeed drop multiple things. The knight I killed dropped a Shard and his sword.
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quote:I'm talking about the Taurus Demon, not the black knight.
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GreatGreen posted:Is there any way to replenish your health and mana pools mid-field, away from campfires, not using estus flasks or whatever they're called? Are there any mechanisms in the game that allow some form of auto-regen of your resource pools like the Fragrant Ring or Regenerator's Ring in Demon's Souls? There is the tiny beings ring that you can get, and take as a gift in the beginning that regenerates health. I can't comprehend there not being a mana regen ring as well. But I started a thief, so I'm not the one to ask. E: Whoop apparently there is no mana in this game and you get spell points not unlike the old memorize spell system of D&D. E2: Well gently caress.. Super glad I took the plot pendant instead then. vvvv Drowning Rabbit fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Oct 5, 2011 |
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KGBAgent185 posted:There is the tiny beings ring that you can get, and take as a gift in the beginning that regenerates health. I can't comprehend there not being a mana regen ring as well. But I started a thief, so I'm not the one to ask. Tiny Being ring is a translation error. It doesn't regen your health, it gives you a small health boost. Edit: The error for the ring should go in the OP, it's a pretty significant gently caress up for people looking for a regen ring. VVV  VVV
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I am also going to post the best thing. This is a big 'ol spoiler to do with the Covenant's (a specific one) so do not read if you want to have a real WHAT THE gently caress moment in MP. The Darkwraith Covenant gets a fist weapon called the Dark Hand (yes there are fist weapons) that has a unique strong attack and a unique parry(left hand only). The strong attack is strait up Soul Suck. You grab a motherfucker and suck Humanity out of them, only works on players. The parry creates a God drat Energy Shield that lets you block. Yup. The Dark Hand has 200 Attack (same as baseline Drake Sword), no Parameter bonus, the energy shield has 80% resist to ALL types of damage and 30 Stability (that's low). Pretty much the best thing. EDIT: Chachi posted:I'm talking about the Taurus Demon, not the black knight. Sorry, my mistake. That guy has a medium chance to drop a Demon's Greataxe, which takes 46 Strength to wield. Don't worry, there's two more ways to get the axe, and 46 Str is balls high so you wouldn't be able to use it for a while anyways. AttackBacon fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Oct 5, 2011 |
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It seems like Rats are a good source of humanity (hardened). In the Depths I got two of them in a row from two different rats.
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Krinkle posted:taurus demon? I got jack loving poo poo from him. no souls no nothing. one humanity that I lost to a dragon He knocked me off the edge, and as I was falling and dying, he decided to jump after me. "YOU DEFEATED" and "YOU DIED" showed up almost simultaneously.
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I guess I should restart. I'm stuck in Blight Town, all my equipment is broken, and I have no repair kit. No way up, no way down.
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ireladd posted:No. Humanity stores itself as an item. Only the humanity that you've consumed and thus applied to your number in the upper left corner can be lost if you die. But if you recover your souls you recover those as well and your number count will go back up. Sometimes you get humanity added straight to your total from a kill, rather than as an item. The smoke that rises from the dieing enemy looks black instead of white. There's no way to hang on to humanity you got that way other then not dieing.
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Yeah, I bought the repair kit off the vendor as soon as I possibly could. It just seemed like a really bad idea to let myself get into a situation where my weapon broke and there aren't any blacksmiths in sight.The Moon Monster posted:Sometimes you get humanity added straight to your total from a kill, rather than as an item. The smoke that rises from the dieing enemy looks black instead of white. There's no way to hang on to humanity you got that way other then not dieing. I think the sewer vendor might sell infinite rings of sacrifice that completely negate the penalty of dying, then disappear. You could always stock up on those.
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AttackBacon posted:Sorry, my mistake. That guy has a medium chance to drop a Demon's Greataxe, which takes 46 Strength to wield. Don't worry, there's two more ways to get the axe, and 46 Str is balls high so you wouldn't be able to use it for a while anyways. Good to know I didn't suffer some sort of glitch, then. Thanks for the info. Tonight I cross the bridge.
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2 favorite deaths so far: Taurus Demon, he's down to 2 hits, he gets a sweeping hit on me takes me down to one hit on me left probably, but then I'll never know because the hit FLINGS ME OFF THE RAMPART.  Second death: I get my body back, immediately kindle the Undead Burg Bonfire, then proceed to walk directly off the left side of the bridge. I realized then that I was using my old Sixaxis controller and not my newer dual shock. For those who do not know, the original Sixaxis controllers developed this odd behavior where they would disconnect and reconnect, which causes the game to keep the same input while it's going through this process. So you end up running in a direction while you're not giving any inputs. AMAZING for playing Dark Souls and Demon's Souls.
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Darth Windu posted:I guess I should restart. I'm stuck in Blight Town, all my equipment is broken, and I have no repair kit. No way up, no way down. 
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Darth Windu posted:I guess I should restart. I'm stuck in Blight Town, all my equipment is broken, and I have no repair kit. No way up, no way down.
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Is it just me on the 360 or is the lock-on ai worse than Demons souls? I have trouble locking on and switching enemies sometimes (thank you game for locking me onto a dude 20 yards away and not the big motherfucker with a sword right in front of me. I totally would rather dodge arrows than a giant cleaver of doom). I also swear that your hitbox is larger than in demons souls, especially in the back when using a shield.
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What's the button on the 360 to switch targets? Right now I have to mash right stick and hope it locks me on to the right guy, and the manual doesn't mention target switching at all.
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