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Samurai Sanders posted:Is there an in-world explanation for why most of the bonfires don't need firekeepers, that I missed? Maybe your dude owns so much that bonfires don't go out because they're the best firekeeper ever. So ballin' that going hollow does absolutely nothing to you at all. (also why your character is the best candidate for being the chosen one)
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Storywise you aren't actually going hollow, you're just getting really close.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:10
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I just finished up my first foray into jolly cooperation and it was great. It was in the depths. We were invaded by someone I think took me out last night, but with two people he was easy. The gaping dragon fight was really cool but Solaire bit it. Time to upgrade my stuff a bit more and keep doing this for a while because of how fun it is.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:31
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I thought I understood how to glitch Ceaseless Discharge, but all he did was open up his flame tube and melt me at the fog door. I eventually solo'd him by hulking out with iron flesh and just standing inside his tentacles. And bummer that the Catarina pair don't use the Catarina models under their helmets (though having not met Sieglinde yet, I'm amused to learn she wears one too!)
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Nov 9, 2011 00:33
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Lessail posted:I just finished up my first foray into jolly cooperation and it was great. It was in the depths. We were invaded by someone I think took me out last night, but with two people he was easy. The gaping dragon fight was really cool but Solaire bit it. Time to upgrade my stuff a bit more and keep doing this for a while because of how fun it is. Was his name Kirk? Because if so, that's a scripted NPC invasion that always takes place in the Depths, at one specific point.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:33
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Lotish posted:And bummer that the Catarina pair don't use the Catarina models under their helmets (though having not met Sieglinde yet, I'm amused to learn she wears one too!) Speaking of Dusk, it's kind of annoying that her armor buffs magic. I'm so sick of wearing it. I'm wearing other stuff now, just so I can stop wearing that stupid dress.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:35
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Lotish posted:I thought I understood how to glitch Ceaseless Discharge, but all he did was open up his flame tube and melt me at the fog door. I eventually solo'd him by hulking out with iron flesh and just standing inside his tentacles. You mean the thing where he leaps and falls? That's not a glitch but you have to do it on the first time you fight him, it doesn't work if he's already hostile since you would obviously just have to stand there.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:36
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Elysiume posted:Speaking of Dusk, it's kind of annoying that her armor buffs magic. I'm so sick of wearing it. I'm wearing other stuff now, just so I can stop wearing that stupid dress. It's only the headpiece that buffs magic.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:45
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Lotish posted:And bummer that the Catarina pair don't use the Catarina models under their helmets (though having not met Sieglinde yet, I'm amused to learn she wears one too!) They do, they've just changed the skin tone to white for some dumb reason. You can see Siegmeyer has that jubilant smile. I finally got around to talking to him at Sen's and his dismissal of rolling as a method of movement made me laugh.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:50
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Elysiume posted:Storywise you aren't actually going hollow, you're just getting really close. You could say that the characters of people who rage quit and return the game before finishing it do fully go hollow.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:51
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Volitaire posted:It's only the headpiece that buffs magic. What about the sun crown?
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Nov 9, 2011 00:52
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Volitaire posted:It's only the headpiece that buffs magic. edit: Nope, I was lied to. I'm free 
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Nov 9, 2011 00:54
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Elysiume posted:Sif is boring and annoying. How is he good? Half the time he's jumping across the zone and I just need to plod around after him. If you come across Sif the first time as low SL with a Drake sword as your best weapon it is some epic poo poo. Those time he jumps away are breather moments for anyone not way overpowered for the encounter.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:54
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Elysiume posted:Storywise you aren't actually going hollow, you're just getting really close. This is probably true. Almost all of the player's actions could be explained as 'he went hollow.' You are, after all, just randomly murdering things at the behest of creatures no one else ever interacts with. The only time you do anything with purpose other than random violence is when you burn a Humanity to co-op or invade.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:54
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Emron posted:Was his name Kirk? Because if so, that's a scripted NPC invasion that always takes place in the Depths, at one specific point. Yeah it was. Maybe after a while I'll take him down on my own to see what happens. I got my pyromancy flame to +6 so I am ready to cooperate so hard.
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Nov 9, 2011 00:56
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Drox posted:What about the sun crown? The dusk crown buffs sorceries, miracles and pyromancy by about 25%. The sun crown I remember buffing sorcery, probably miracles and pyromancy as well at 12.5% or so. The sorcery ring buffs sorceries and pyromancy by about 25%. The miracle ring buffs only miracles at I think it was 25%. The buffs multiply rather than add iirc.
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Nov 9, 2011 01:03
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When you start a NG+, are you still in any covenants you ended your game in?
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Requested_Username posted:When you start a NG+, are you still in any covenants you ended your game in? Yep.
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Cuchulain posted:Easier method for beating him. I repeated steps 1-3 once, man bandit knife+hornet ring is something broken.
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Nov 9, 2011 01:10
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aaaaaaargj the worst boss in this game is that loving elevator at the end of blighttown
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Captain Beans posted:aaaaaaargj the worst boss in this game is that loving elevator at the end of blighttown
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I've come to really like the iron round shield from Shiva. Its defenses and stability are so-so, but its deflection is the same as a tower shield at a low weight of 5. It misses out on some stability compared to the eagle shield, but it retains the medium shield parry rather than bash (which as far as I know is a bad ability). Also, on my fairly dexy character, I've been fitting in combustions during the stagger off the shield so that it'll do more damage (1.4x normal). I tried doing this on my strengthy character as well, but without the dexterity speeding up the combustion cast, it wasn't reliable.
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Captain Beans posted:aaaaaaargj the worst boss in this game is that loving elevator at the end of blighttown lmao yeah I agree. If you walk to the edge of it and turn around, when you get to the drop point you can hit dodge and he'll jump back on the platform. Seemed to work best for me. Samurai Sanders posted:Really? What's causing the problem? There's a gap when going up that you have to jump over to get onto the stationary part. If you try to walk (or even roll it seems) it's like your character weighs 600lbs and just falls down instantly and dies.
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darkhand posted:lmao yeah I agree. If you walk to the edge of it and turn around, when you get to the drop point you can hit dodge and he'll jump back on the platform. Seemed to work best for me.
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Nov 9, 2011 01:17
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I was always so smug about that thing.  Heh, scrubs, I get it every time. Until I died three times to it the other night.
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Nov 9, 2011 01:18
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darkhand posted:There's a gap when going up that you have to jump over to get onto the stationary part. If you try to walk (or even roll it seems) it's like your character weighs 600lbs and just falls down instantly and dies. That log beside it that goes over the water sluice thing, THAT is what always kills me.
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Elysiume posted:What? On the waterwheel there's a plank you have to stand on to go up. If you walk near the part of the plank closest to where you have to jump from, then face the opposite direction, you can dodge backwards onto the stationary part really easily. Basically you want to position yourself so when you push dodge he'll hop backwards over the gap. Worked for me  IDK maybe I was trying it wrong and you have to ride it and get completely on top of it, then it's easier? Blighttown is about the only place in any video game I was scared of heights in, so I tried doing that part as fast as possible. darkhand fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Nov 9, 2011 |
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darkhand posted:lmao yeah I agree. If you walk to the edge of it and turn around, when you get to the drop point you can hit dodge and he'll jump back on the platform. Seemed to work best for me.
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Lost Izalith......just.....so many dinosaur asses......
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darkhand posted:On the waterwheel there's a plank you have to stand on to go up. If you walk near the part of the plank closest to where you have to jump from, then face the opposite direction, you can dodge backwards onto the stationary part really easily. Basically you want to position yourself so when you push dodge he'll hop backwards over the gap. Worked for me I haven't died since the second time I took the elevator. Just fall onto the platform when you're getting on, fall off on the way down, and just start walking early off on the way up. edit: Getting shafted and invading someone in NG+ is a load of crap. Elysiume fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Nov 9, 2011 |
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Penny_Dreadful posted:If you come across Sif the first time as low SL with a Drake sword as your best weapon it is some epic poo poo. Those time he jumps away are breather moments for anyone not way overpowered for the encounter. It seems like the game kind of expects you to be pretty high level for Sif though, seeing as it costs 20k to buy the Crest of Artorias. You can use the back path, but it doesn't seem like the intended direction for players to go, considering that it's miles away from a bonfire and forces you to fight the hydra. Sif is also guarded by the forest covenant members and the rolling cats, which are fairly upper tier enemies. Lastly, you don't even have a reason to go there until you want to fight the four kings. If you're level 14 with a wooden shield +0, I'm sure Sif is a massive pain in the rear end. But I really don't think you're supposed to be level 14 with a wooden shield +0 at that point, and once you get some half decent equipment the fight is a trivially boring joke.
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Penny_Dreadful posted:If you come across Sif the first time as low SL with a Drake sword as your best weapon it is some epic poo poo. Those time he jumps away are breather moments for anyone not way overpowered for the encounter. One of the small handful of failures on the games part imo is that if you play it in a "natural" progression you will be way over-leveled for Sif, catacombs, and to a lesser extent the first half of New Londo Ruins. In NG+ I realized the catacombs are really tough and it's a pretty intense level. I just didn't know that on my first run because I could one shot literally everything in there. The other failure is of course broken multi-player. GRRRRRR, why can't it just be like Demon's Souls  .
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I've just been blundering through the game on a first playthrough and none of the bosses so far have been particularly hard (I just killed Sif at SL30 or something) but I have been pumping every crafting material into my shield and boosting end/vit over every other stat and just tanking stuff. I kind of wanted to try and be a bit more finessed but I seem to be absurdly awful at ripostes (it doesn't help that I don't really fine the shoulder/trigger buttons on the 360 very comfortable) I did waste about 3 or 4 hours trying to run around that loving deathtrap full of ghosts while cursed because I didn't know where the vendor that sells the items to remove curses was
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I think I hate PvP. It seems like every single fight is against: 1. Someone from NG+ with completely stacked gear 2. Someone who has absolutely trash gear and I stomp It sucks fighting people from the first group, and I straight up feel bad killing people from the second group. Also parrying in PvP is impossible and dumb.
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Adrian Owlsley posted:You mean the thing where he leaps and falls? That's not a glitch but you have to do it on the first time you fight him, it doesn't work if he's already hostile since you would obviously just have to stand there. If you screw it up the first time you can do it again but you have to lead him back to where he was standing originally, which I did by running to where I picked up the armour then running back to the fog door. Can be sort of risky since he'll be trying to set you on fire the whole time.
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Elysiume posted:I think I hate PvP. It seems like every single fight is against: Use parryings weapon like whips, parrying dagger, pricilla's tail, rapier ormail breaker. They are ultra fast and dont have long recovery times like sheilds. Actually I'm sure the rapier and mail breaker parries can be used more than twice a second, so if you miss you still have a chance to screw over a slow attack or the second attack if its a weak weapon. Sheilds are for parrying mobs, give dual wielding a go.
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RADmadness posted:Use parryings weapon like whips, parrying dagger, pricilla's tail, rapier ormail breaker. They are ultra fast and dont have long recovery times like sheilds. Actually I'm sure the rapier and mail breaker parries can be used more than twice a second, so if you miss you still have a chance to screw over a slow attack or the second attack if its a weak weapon. Sheilds are for parrying mobs, give dual wielding a go.
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Captain Beans posted:aaaaaaargj the worst boss in this game is that loving elevator at the end of blighttown I can't believe people are having problems with this. It's just an elevtor. I must have gone up and down that thing 30 times without ever coming close to dying. what is the issue?
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NESguerilla posted:One of the small handful of failures on the games part imo is that if you play it in a "natural" progression you will be way over-leveled for Sif, catacombs, and to a lesser extent the first half of New Londo Ruins. I blundered around randomly as I went through, and I made trips into New Londo and the Forest earlier than I needed to for any good reason. If you don't know ahead of time what order to hit stuff, having more than one area that is survivable at once encourages exploration. If they had scaled the forest or all of New Londo to be a full on challenge for high level characters that are on their way to the end game, the whole game becomes a lot more linear and the correct path becomes glaringly obvious.
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Elysiume posted:Nah, it just goes through their weapon. Any amount of lag makes it impossible. I also just completely destroyed two people in a row, and I'm sick of this. I want fights, not one-sided stomps. Even when you get an even fight someone will inevitable pull out a +20 pyro hand, lag-combustion through their shield somehow and 2-shot the other person
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