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Looking forward to going home and basking in the joy of the apparent buffs to the Astora Greatsword, which is a beautiful sword with a beautiful moveset.il serpente cosmico posted:Am I crazy, or are none of the levers in the cathedral actually required to be pulled to progress? In fact, I'm still not entirety sure what raisin those bridges accomplished. I don't think any of them are required. They open up a couple alternate paths but I think that's it.
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Yardbomb posted:Every nerf to magic only strengthens my invasion-boner. no its fine, gently caress you, i still have my bluecop backup!! *limply continues casting great deep soul and pyromancies while running towards the nearest cliff* 
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lol nerf sorceries, ignore miracles and pyromancy, noice.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:"people are crashing at bonfires? Well it's working for us, so I don't know what their problem is!" JUST WEAR A FULL FACE HELM UNEQUIP YOUR SHIELD AND TURN LIGHTING DOWN TO LOW! who needs patches!?
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quadrophrenic posted:area 2 spoilers ahead: You missed 2. From the giant run down across the bridge and to the left into a tunnel. This is the back way in to a bonfire. Under the house with firebomb brigade is another one. Try rolling. You must have ran past this one to have missed the other one. E: this means you missed a covenant too probably. Praise the soup
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Sultan Tarquin posted:"people are crashing at bonfires? Well it's working for us, so I don't know what their problem is!" To be fair, they have fixed this!
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Kashuno posted:lol nerf sorceries, ignore miracles and pyromancy, noice. Did pyromancy need an adjustment? I was under the impression it was already plenty strong (assuming you performed the necessary sacrifices of giving up three ring slots to boost it, like with all magic this time). Miracles are supposedly fantastic once you get used to melee-range lightning spears, which is clearly intended, but I can't really confirm or deny that from my own experience. As a former sorcerer, though, I feel bad for anyone who likes sorcery. I don't have any idea why they'd nerf the two magic-sword sorceries given that they both already sucked a whole lot.
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Emalde posted:no its fine, gently caress you, i still have my bluecop backup!! *limply continues casting great deep soul and pyromancies while running towards the nearest cliff* I got a chuckle out of plain old Deep Soul doing a big 30 damage to anything I tried it on. quote:
I was pretty excited about using the soul greatsword magic as actual offensive attacks as a regular thing instead of the five casts you get in DS2, it's a bummer sorcery's so poo poo. I saw someone use the flashsword against me in pvp and it was cool, but also like three hits did almost nothing. Oh well. At least I can still puke rocks. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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Harrow posted:Did pyromancy need an adjustment? I was under the impression it was already plenty strong (assuming you performed the necessary sacrifices of giving up three ring slots to boost it, like with all magic this time). So far pyromancy is bonkers strong, vs literally every enemy and invader I've dealt with.
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TescoBag posted:To be fair, they have fixed this! Where did you see this is fixed?
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Decrepus posted:You missed 2. From the giant run down across the bridge and to the left into a tunnel. This is the back way in to a bonfire. Under the house with firebomb brigade is another one. Try rolling. You must have ran past this one to have missed the other one. do you mean the Giant Rat? Because I drop-stab that motherfucker on the reg I'm pretty sure I know which covenant I missed Mound-makers and I don't mind too much BTW I blame getting so convoluted in that area on starting as Assassin with the Spook spell and being unable to resist a tasty mysterious drop
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Kashuno posted:So far pyromancy is bonkers strong, vs literally every enemy and invader I've dealt with. Obviously mileage may vary, but I've been watching a bunch of random PvP stuff too and boy does pyro hit like a runaway train sometimes, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of.
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Kashuno posted:So far pyromancy is bonkers strong, vs literally every enemy and invader I've dealt with. I hope they don't nerf it. I want to play a pyromancer at some point. The flame effects just look so nice, and pyromancy has always been my favorite magic. Yardbomb posted:Obviously mileage may vary, but I've been watching a bunch of random PvP stuff too and boy does pyro hit like a runaway train sometimes, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. High base damage on spells and the ability to scale with two stats means that it gets off the ground a lot faster than other forms of magic. Sorcery can actually melt poo poo in PvP, but it's entirely reliant on people being stupid enough to actually get hit by your Crystal Soul Spear or Soul Stream. See this video (big location spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-R3-n5p6t0 But take note how people just get nailed by super-slow spells because they don't know what to watch out for or don't know the timing yet. Once they do, this won't work anymore. If you get killed by a sorcerer one-on-one, that sorcerer is either really skilled or you done hosed up. Pyromancy has the advantage of being much more possible to free-aim, given its AoE nature. Harrow fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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quadrophrenic posted:area 2 spoilers ahead: There is a mini-boss which you can reach by going halfway up the tower to a side area. There's also a side path in the shortcut/sewer which you need a key for. Grab the ashes in the graveyard and give them to the shrine maiden then she will sell it to you. There's also the sunbros covenant crest which you might have missed.
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TescoBag posted:To be fair, they have fixed this! Huh, I think you're right. I just loaded the game up and my lighting was already on low so I put it to high and I haven't crashed yet.
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Got sick of poo poo frame rates and getting kicked out of online mode during boss fights so I just ordered a 960 GTX. Any goons care to share their experience in this game with this card? I'm too poor to buy a 970 and I heard that also bizarrely suffers from stuttering issues in addition to bonfire crashes, which I have yet to suffer.
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...yeah, you know, I made my second character as an all around magic wielder in mind...buuuut, after getting access to some of the higher ranking pyromancies and swinging an Ultra Greatsword around, I think I'm just going to stick with being a pyromancer, because it's loving radical. I love the fire life.
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Kashuno posted:So far pyromancy is bonkers strong, vs literally every enemy and invader I've dealt with.  pyromancy has allowed me to cruise control every "hard" boss so far Ald 0 death Pont 0 death Aby 0 death Danc 1 death Where will this crazy train of 600 damage + 200 residual great chaos fire orbs end? The only boss I've had a hard time with was Tree because lockons don't work and I had to learn to manually aim my fireballs. And then you get invaders. If I get a single sacred fire hit, they're dead. And it's fantastic. People confused sacred fire for a taunt and did a bow in front of me lmao you idiot
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Mortimer posted:Where will this crazy train of 600 damage + 200 residual great chaos fire orbs end? There is one boss in Lothric who gives zero shits about any form of non-physical damage, but aside from that, never. It's nutso.
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Don't phantoms get half estus as well? I just invaded with 3 estus but I fought a sunbro who used at least 4 during our fight I think. I'll review the video later.
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GreyPowerVan posted:Don't phantoms get half estus as well? I just invaded with 3 estus but I fought a sunbro who used at least 4 during our fight I think. I'll review the video later. You can have up to 15 estus via shards, which means 7 estus when playing as a phantom.
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Lysandus posted:Where do you buy poison arrows at? You have to meet a Trusted Pal who definitely will NOT lock you in the Firelink Bell Tower. After that, he sells them this gimmick owns bones btw
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What's the deal with the huge, plant bear - type things in Farron keep? They do huge damage and send their magic attacks after me, if their physical strength wasn't enough.
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Emalde posted:You can have up to 15 estus via shards, which means 7 estus when playing as a phantom. I thought it was half of the hosts estus, thanks
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Is Blue Sentinels completely borked? I've been wearing the stupid parchment thingy since I got it but I never got summoned once... the symbol in the corner keeps blinking, and other summon/invasion mechanics are working fine.
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Anal Surgery posted:You have to meet a Trusted Pal who definitely will NOT lock you in the Firelink Bell Tower. After that, he sells them Sounds like a good time.
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Mortimer posted:
I don't even have the good spells yet, just fire orb and great combust, and it's hilarious. Connect with one great combust and it's pretty much over.
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Toiwat posted:Is Blue Sentinels completely borked? I've been wearing the stupid parchment thingy since I got it but I never got summoned once... the symbol in the corner keeps blinking, and other summon/invasion mechanics are working fine. You and everyone else have blue sentinels equipped. Bluecops don't get called for like 30 seconds after the invasion, and a lot can happen in 30 seconds. DXH posted:Got sick of poo poo frame rates and getting kicked out of online mode during boss fights so I just ordered a 960 GTX. Any goons care to share their experience in this game with this card? I'm too poor to buy a 970 and I heard that also bizarrely suffers from stuttering issues in addition to bonfire crashes, which I have yet to suffer. 970 no stutter no crashes. You heard wrong  Emalde posted:There is one boss in Lothric who gives zero shits about any form of non-physical damage, but aside from that, never. It's nutso. Huh, which one is this? I'm at the very top, I sure hope it's that boss otherwise I think I'm out of bosses.
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Toiwat posted:Is Blue Sentinels completely borked? I've been wearing the stupid parchment thingy since I got it but I never got summoned once... the symbol in the corner keeps blinking, and other summon/invasion mechanics are working fine. Super inconsistent, not sure what the problem was. Tried messing with port forwarding even. If I put down my soapstone I get summoned instantly, if I try to invade I find some world to invade after like 12 seconds, but I spend literally hours with wolfbro or bluecop badge on and blinking and no summons. I've gotten 2 wolf summons and 0 bluecop summons in my entire life. Not sure what the problem is, hopefully the patch that dropped today addresses it somewhat? GreyPowerVan posted:Don't phantoms get half estus as well? I just invaded with 3 estus but I fought a sunbro who used at least 4 during our fight I think. I'll review the video later. Yes everybody gets half estus except the host. Rounded down. If he had 4 then he just has more estus total than you do. (8 vs 6)
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Public service announcement: The bloodborne-mechanic ring really came to it's own in that fight.
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Zaphod42 posted:I've gotten 2 wolf summons and 0 bluecop summons in my entire life. Not sure what the problem is, hopefully the patch that dropped today addresses it somewhat? 1 and 1 for me, and the host died before I saw them in the wolf summon case.
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Harrow posted:So apparently every greatsword and the two weaker ultra greatswords got buffs, which makes me happy, given that one of my favorite weapons is one of the buffed ones. Hooray! As someone whose first run is Miracle only 'they're great late-game' is not very helpful. At this point all I'm getting for Miracles is some extra out-of-combat healing and free weapon buffs (although you don't get Lightning Blade until halfway through the game and I haven't noticed a single boss being weak to Dark). Not that I'm gonna claim to be worse off than the poor Sorcerers.Also I hear Lightning Spears get good at high Faith but I'll just step in and say that at level 60 with 30 Faith, they literally hit for less at point-blank range than a single hit from my buffed weapon. Against Pontiff I was Spearing for ~240 while each of my one-handed hits did ~280 - 90 with Dark Blade. And at medium range, Standard Arrows from my +5 Longbow almost matches the damage at ~140 vs ~160 for Lightning Spear. There's just never been a time where I felt like casting Lightning Spear was the best option.
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Kashuno posted:I don't even have the good spells yet, just fire orb and great combust, and it's hilarious. Connect with one great combust and it's pretty much over. Really looking forward to my planned pyro playthrough, then. It's my favorite magic. Too bad you can't do Chaos infusions until fairly late but raw should be enough until then.
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I started a sorcerer in this game because I'd always been a heavy weapons smash-man in all of the other souls but it looks like I picked a pretty bad time to jump over? I kind of expected to poo poo damage but be made of paper and fold completely if somebody got up on me, but so far I'm only seeing the latter with none of the former. Is that just how it is in this game to make up for how powerful sorcery was the last few times around?
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Insurrectionist posted:As someone whose first run is Miracle only 'they're great late-game' is not very helpful. Take my advice, as someone who was running a Dex/Faith build...don't do a faith only build. You're going to be lacking for a long time, and in my opinion things don't start improving (damage wise, utility wise miracles are great) until the point where you can get Great Lightning Spear from the max rank Sunbro Altar. EDIT: Another point in pyromancies' favor is that you can throw fire Destructo Discs and cast Kaioken. You can BE Goku. Gologle fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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Azazell0 posted:What's the deal with the huge, plant bear - type things in Farron keep? They do huge damage and send their magic attacks after me, if their physical strength wasn't enough. Speaking of, as someone whose makes a lot of use of Sorcery in pvp, I barely notice the great/flashsword nerf at all. With 22 Dex and the Sage's Ring I can tell there's like an extremely tiny delay increase on Flashsword, which will probably be gone by the time I hit 30-35 Dex wherever I decide to keep it, and I can't tell the difference on Greatsword at all. And if not, there's always the Witchtree branch, that was my staff in DaS2 and the damage hit was absolutely worth the speed then. Seriously though, Affinity and Flashsword are both actually very good pvp spells, if you mix it up with actual melee every now and then. Affinity will either hit them or drive them into your other spells(Great Deep Soul, even Soul Spear and Dark Edge I've had some success with)/attacks and Flashsword is an excellent finisher since it's magic damage and can't be parried. Overall the thing I noticed from this patch the most was the Dancer's Twinswords, which I was starting to regret upgrading, got buffed. 
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Insurrectionist posted:As someone whose first run is Miracle only 'they're great late-game' is not very helpful. Do you have the miracle boosting rings? Magic of all kinds is really reliant on damage-boosting rings this time, which is a weird choice. I think miracles are fully intended to support a melee style, even when you're at very high Faith, but they apparently own at that. And it's worth noting that "high Faith" this time means 60, not 40.
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