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RBA Starblade posted:Joined a host's world, the host isn't actually the host it says it is (or is even in the game), kill the actual host, got nothing for it. Wait what? Can you explain this? The human ring makes the phantom read "Host of Embers". It's how they trick you.
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Harrow posted:Yes, but it's available much later and requires you to not have anything to do with Rosaria, the respec lady, so you don't piss off Sirris. I'm still a ways behind, but -- fighting the tree but NOT defeating it does NOT lock you out of the Mound-Makers! Even if you get to stage 2 of the fight. I unlocked the covenant *after* I hit stage 2 and died. Fortunately for me, my phantom buddies were kinda poo poo.
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Capsaicin posted:Any tips for a Dex build for beginners? I've never done the more Dex based weapons in any of the other games, opting instead for the Giant Club and such. Any good weapons or armor I should be on the lookout for? I am currently about to beat Vordt. Almost any kind of sword or spear that doesn't require 25-50 Str to wield is theoretically a Dex weapon now because of the Sharp infusion, which massively increases a weapon's Dex scaling at the cost of a little base damage and Str scaling. Katanas, thrusting swords, curved swords, and knives are where the "traditional" Dex weapons are tho. The Lothric Knight sword has more Dex than Str scaling by default if you want a good solid straight sword with a decent moveset. Uchigatana, Bandit Knife, and Rapier/Estoc can all be acquired pretty early and are reliable, well-regarded weapons. Sharp Estoc has been awesome, because the Estoc's only problem for Dex builds in Dark Souls 2 was that it had terrible Dex scaling so its damage was pretty milquetoast.
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Dog Fat Man Chaser posted:The camera for a lot of that area is super bad and I don't know why it's so much worse there than anywhere else. I can't figure out any way to avoid the airborne fire attack. It just literally seems impossible. He flies up, the camera immediately loses its lock, and no matter which direction I sprint in, roll in, block towards, whatever, it always hits me, every single time. At least it's not a one-shot kill, but it's still a huge estus drain. Edit: Oh, it's not a one-shot kill except when it decides to be and stun you completely in the fire. Ughhhhhhhhhhh BobTheJanitor fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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Tallgeese posted:Wait what? Can you explain this? I know what it does, it's not that. It straight up said someone else's name. Neither phantom, nor him, were in the game. Thinking about it a bit, I think it told me the name of the LAST host. No luck with the sentinels port forwarding either. 
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Sakurazuka posted:No area in any souls game has made me feel more like I'm just not up to the challenge than the start of Irylith, I literally haven't made it past the fire dude with his three sword zombie entourage yet and it seems like pure luck if I even make it past the three frosty sword maidens right at the start. Make sure your weapon is upgraded to +6 and pull things one at a time. The only enemies you can't pull solo are the fire guys (their zombie entourage will come with them, but you can pull the zombies without alerting the fire guys). Go in unkindled because that's the worst spot in the game for cowardly invaders who don't want to fight and just want to hide behind groups of enemies.
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Sakurazuka posted:No area in any souls game has made me feel more like I'm just not up to the challenge than the start of Irylith, I literally haven't made it past the fire dude with his three sword zombie entourage yet and it seems like pure luck if I even make it past the three frosty sword maidens right at the start. The arch vile guys go down a lot easier than they look. Just aggro his small friends and withdraw back quickly so you can pick them off. Then just head to the arch vile and melee away. If you're keeping your weapon reinforced and infused, you'll kill them with light attacks before you run out of stamina. They just have the intimidation factor, that's all. Just like their Doom counterparts.
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Sakurazuka posted:No area in any souls game has made me feel more like I'm just not up to the challenge than the start of Irylith, I literally haven't made it past the fire dude with his three sword zombie entourage yet and it seems like pure luck if I even make it past the three frosty sword maidens right at the start. You can bait the sword people pretty easily, you never have to fight two sword people at once until most of the way through the zone.
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Oh also re: Dex tips (or anybody new tips) carry a bow and keep a bunch of cheapo normal arrows for it, there's a lot of places where you can pull enemies and get some free damage or just straight up cheese them from high ground or something by shooting them in the head a lot, which is especially relevant to a Dex build bc most bows have good Dex scaling
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Man I suck at invading. Every time they're either amazing or there's a sunbro and multiple phantoms helping them. The one person I've actually killed was at like 4% health and was trying to ambush me so I waited around for ages before having the poo poo scared out of me. This is why I've never bothered with PvP.  This is loving annoying btw.
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Two hours of mostly terrible invading was immediately undone by how incredibly great the Abyss Watcher fight is. The music is awesome there too. I just wish multiplayer worked better. I still am only able to summon one person too, so I'm pretty sure that's a hollow thing at this point.
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^^ Some zones have a limit of one, some have a limit of two. You can increase them up to two and three by using the Dried Finger that the merchant at firelink sells.Tabletops posted:is there anyway to change your character cosmetically? Rosaria will let you change your appearance for the cost of a finger, though it counts toward the limit of 5 respecs per playthrough for some bizarre reason. Steve2911 posted:This is loving annoying btw. I suspect they were trying to point out that all three Dark Souls games are in the top 10 right now
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Well I just got Married 
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Where are the greatsword, polearms, and straight swords that scale with faith? There were a lot in DS2, and I'm not seeing any this time with the research I have done so far. I'm trying to get my paladin/Sunbro on.
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Sakurazuka posted:No area in any souls game has made me feel more like I'm just not up to the challenge than the start of Irylith, I literally haven't made it past the fire dude with his three sword zombie entourage yet and it seems like pure luck if I even make it past the three frosty sword maidens right at the start. Irithyll is tough as nails. I'm just at the end of it myself. The tall, agile sword dudes are really tough for me, way harder than they probably should be. Maybe I should try to parry them or something. Anyway, point is, I made it through! You can, too!
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Shoehead posted:Well I just got Married I'm happy for you
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Darkness5780 posted:Where are the greatsword, polearms, and straight swords that scale with faith? There were a lot in DS2, and I'm not seeing any this time with the research I have done so far. They largely do not exist. You sort of have to make your own by infusing a weapon you like with Lightning. There are a couple of Faith-scaling weapons at the tail end of the game that are really great--a spear and a halberd-like weapon--and the halberd-like one has an incredible lightning-strike weapon art. Aside from that, there aren't really any natively Faith-scaling weapons that I can think of. There are a few Int/Faith ones that have fire damage on them, but they're not pure Faith.
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 Pontiff Sullivan was such a perfect fight. Music was great, scenery was great, runback is unobnoxious, difficulty was just right, he's basically Fume Knight with a few extra tricks but you can still shieldtank a lot of his poo poo just fine and it's got that Bloodborne thing where you're rewarded for being aggressive by staggering him and the fact that you'll probably kill his shadow clone as a side effect and and The start of Irihyll was very frustrating though. I swear I must have been missing something because everything gangs up on you and is utterly relentless.
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Sakurazuka posted:No area in any souls game has made me feel more like I'm just not up to the challenge than the start of Irylith, I literally haven't made it past the fire dude with his three sword zombie entourage yet and it seems like pure luck if I even make it past the three frosty sword maidens right at the start. try backstab. also the shield ladies you can kick back and then land a crit
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Greirat questions: has anyone figured out a way to keep him alive on his third scavenger hunt?
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Straight sword probably need a nerf of some kind. It's absurd how much damage they can do combined with how fast they swing and how little stamina they use. It's so easy to chain stun people with like 8-hit combos and the only thing you can do is roll away and try to hit them before they close the gap and do it again, because the wind-up on any other weapon is too slow. You can literally do nothing but spam R1 and it shreds basically everyone in PvP. It's fun and all, but using them feels very unfair and I think it's kinda completely taken over PvP. In the last 20 or so invasions, I don't think I fought a single person that wasn't using one.
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OK I need some help here. I know that some enemies, when you deal enough poise damage do them in a short time, will go into a riposte-able state, where when you hit them it sounds like you're hitting a stone or something. I know you can do a "visceral attack" type thing on them in this state, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it. I've tried standing behind them, in front of them, repositioning slightly and trying to hit them, but I can never get the riposte to happen. Can someone offer guidance on how to do this?
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Andrast posted:I'm happy for you The romance options in this game are GREAT
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Started a new run, trying out daggers ... Holy poo poo quickstep is amazing. It's probably the best skill I've seen so far and it makes the game a lot faster. Can't wait to try out the twin daggers though, damage is poop so far.
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El Golden Goose posted:OK I need some help here. I know that some enemies, when you deal enough poise damage do them in a short time, will go into a riposte-able state, where when you hit them it sounds like you're hitting a stone or something. I know you can do a "visceral attack" type thing on them in this state, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it. I've tried standing behind them, in front of them, repositioning slightly and trying to hit them, but I can never get the riposte to happen. Can someone offer guidance on how to do this? You need to be standing in front of them, and make sure the left stick is in a neutral position. If it's tilted at all you'll just to a regular slash. The window for ripostes is kinda small, and some enemies have janky hitboxes for both ripostes and backstabs.
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El Golden Goose posted:OK I need some help here. I know that some enemies, when you deal enough poise damage do them in a short time, will go into a riposte-able state, where when you hit them it sounds like you're hitting a stone or something. I know you can do a "visceral attack" type thing on them in this state, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it. I've tried standing behind them, in front of them, repositioning slightly and trying to hit them, but I can never get the riposte to happen. Can someone offer guidance on how to do this? walk up rly close to them at their front, like touching them and press rb
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Thanks for the tips guys, I'm taking a break today and watching chill stuff instead, I'll try again tomorrow.
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actionjackson posted:Is yhorms machete any good? It's one of the more popular Strength weapons I've seen around so I gotta imagine it's pretty good.
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actionjackson posted:Is yhorms machete any good? It's basically a straight upgrade from the regular machete, which is already a beast. If you can handle the weight, it's a great strength weapon and a lot of fun to use.
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Don't know if this thread allows for technical chat, but my game crashes in the exact same place in high wall of lothric near the dragon. Anyone else experience this issue? I tried putting every setting at low and it still crashes.
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Found Yorshka- what happens if you tell her you can fly?
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Dark Souls Newbie Question: I'm using an Estoc+4, I'm around level 30 right now. Going Dex build, so I use that along with Black Bow of Pharis. Is there anything else I should do to improve my Estoc's Dex scaling? Am I right that upgrading to Sharp is what needs to happen next? Also, am I complete dingus for using my beginner Assassin gear for anything that doesn't require a specific kind of resist? I like the way it looks, and don't really know how to min-max this game yet and if any other set of armor is comparable... I only switch it out for magic/bleed/etc resists when a zone or boss calls for it.
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I finally did it! I managed to get a normal roll while using Fume Ultra Greatsword, Grass Crest Shield, and full Havel Set. So much Vitality...
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DontMindMe posted:I finally did it! what the gently caress...
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