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I was really excited for the Return to Drangleic because Souls 2 is one of my favorite games but holy gently caress is switching back between this and Nioh 2 (I was midway through the PC version) just amazingly awkward. But also this might be my chance to finally take out the dual inviso-cats, which is a feat that has so far eluded me.
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GutBomb posted:I just did this twice in a row using a bonfire ascetic and if you have a torch out the whole time you can literally just run past everything. Once you’re on NG+/bonfire intensity 2 you’ve got a couple enemies that the torch doesn’t repel so you’ll have to take care of them but it’s still pretty quick. Make sure you go from the chapel bonfire and not the lower one. The lower one is technically closer but it’s a much more treacherous path. The lower bonfire route really isn't that big of a deal and you end up in the same place almost immediately anyway. Plus you pick up Bashful Ray on the way. There are the handful of hollows down there either way, but yeah I guess I made things harder by forgetting to torch up. But I'm also assuming the summons would get caught up on the million spiders either way? Idk, I just wanted to enjoy the novelty of bringing 3 summons along for the ride. Spoilers, it turns out like a number of other fights they either do amazingly well or immediately eat poo poo and then keep eating poo poo until they die. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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Mar 1, 2021 14:53
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And Tyler Too! posted:I'm trying the double caestus punchmans run and this is pretty baller. like half the people I've run into has been doing this, it's pretty wild
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Mar 1, 2021 17:35
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Franchescanado posted:I bought Scholar on PS4/5 on sale last week. Found out about Return to Drangleic yesterday and made a game immediately. its fun listening along, especially since the original episodes were done before scholar was released
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Mar 1, 2021 17:37
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Sir Tonk posted:like half the people I've run into has been doing this, it's pretty wild Its also far easier than a dex run imo. Most of the people I've been summoned to are named "Sir X" and are wearing drangleic armour and a hatchet.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:42
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Sir Tonk posted:like half the people I've run into has been doing this, it's pretty wild To be fair, Dark Souls 2 is probably the best game in the series for going all in on boxing enemies to death. Dark Souls 3's dual wield mechanics are a poor imitation of the glory of power stancing. Also DS2 lets you wield a single cestus double fisted so you can run around doing the two handed overhead chop on people like Captain Kirk. Dark Souls 3 Cestus is strictly okay, but I think most people use it for 360 noscope parry shenanigans. Demon fists in DS3 are kind of rad though, shame the Boss Weapon upgrade materials dont really start showing up in any appreciable amount until the very end of the game.
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Mar 1, 2021 18:25
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it helps that a poo poo ton of the enemies in 2 are weak/neutral to strike damage
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Mar 1, 2021 19:56
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Speaking of punch-em-ups, I successfully made a dash for Flynn's Ring, which was slightly tricky but not overly so, and the Bone Fist which ugggghhh. The frozen knights have incredibly unfortunate hitboxes that are hard to consistently reach with just caestuses and of course you have to fight like 10 of them, twice, in order to get over to the dang cave and activate kung-fu mode. (And then I didn't have enough Dex to powerstance it, so I had to go fix that, oi.) So...anyone have a quick and dirty guide to how to actually use the bone fist moveset effectively? 
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Mar 1, 2021 20:02
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I've joined the Blue Sentinels to hopefully defend people being invaded. Do I just wear the ring, and I'll get randomly summoned when someone gets invaded?
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Mar 1, 2021 20:41
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I've joined the Blue Sentinels to hopefully defend people being invaded. Do I just wear the ring, and I'll get randomly summoned when someone gets invaded? You have to wear the ring to be able to get summoned. IIRC you don't have to be in the same area that you're getting summoned to though. You jus toodle around with it and you'll get picked up for PVP defenses sooner or later.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:45
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Perfect, that's exactly what I was hoping. Thanks! My first time I played like half the game on Xbox wearing the ring before giving up. I'm hoping that for these couple weeks I'll get summoned
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Mar 1, 2021 20:46
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I've joined the Blue Sentinels to hopefully defend people being invaded. Do I just wear the ring, and I'll get randomly summoned when someone gets invaded? That’s the idea. In practice it doesn’t usually work because the guy getting invaded has to be wearing his own Way of Blue ring to call for Sentinels.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:46
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skasion posted:That’s the idea. In practice it doesn’t usually work because the guy getting invaded has to be wearing his own Way of Blue ring to call for Sentinels. Oh, huh, that seems like it's way way way less likely to pop off, boo. Well I'll keep trying it for a bit and just swap to one of the other PvP covenants then if it's not responsive. Any suggestions? I've had my eye on the bell keepers and brotherhood of blood as possibilities. I def wanna use all the cracked blue eye orbs I have while I can
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Mar 1, 2021 20:49
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Bellkeeping was pretty active (on PC, anyway), though it comes with the caveat that most people who trespass know what they're doing and are anticipating an honorable fight over shenanigans.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:52
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Yeah, blue sentinels has always been kind of a crapshoot, outside of 1 where you could proactively invade anyone who has PVP sin on them to take the fight to them (and also : anyone who killed Gwyndolin and got Dark Anor Londo ). I get frustrated that all the games lock some of the better spells in the games are locked behind the covenants - It can take ages to get Sunlight Spear or Darkmoon blade, doubly so if you don't have PS+ and can't get in on the multiplayer side. You get stuck farming rare mobs with poo poo drop rates for the tokens in PvE. DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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Mar 1, 2021 20:53
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John Murdoch posted:Bellkeeping was pretty active (on PC, anyway), though it comes with the caveat that most people who trespass know what they're doing and are anticipating an honorable fight over shenanigans. The rat covenant is all shenannigans though. Be a dick and use lockstones to make your opponent's life miserable.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:54
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DeathSandwich posted:Yeah, blue sentinels has always been kind of a crapshoot, outside of 1 where you could proactively invade anyone who has PVP sin on them to take the fight to them (and also : anyone who killed Gwyndolin and got Dark Anor Londo ). You can invade sinners in DS2 as well. In fact it used to work a lot better than the autosummon ring
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Mar 1, 2021 20:59
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DeathSandwich posted:Yeah, blue sentinels has always been kind of a crapshoot, outside of 1 where you could proactively invade anyone who has PVP sin on them to take the fight to them (and also : anyone who killed Gwyndolin and got Dark Anor Londo ). In ng+3 you can buy all the spells after you get to drangleic castle. Cheat engine on PC can let you get them sooner, but for covenants that have you rank up on turn in's you need to have 3 of the items to do it.
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Mar 1, 2021 21:04
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I started a powerstance build yesterday, not far yet. Will continue after work tonight. What are cool weapons to powerstance?
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Mar 1, 2021 21:05
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Sir Tonk posted:like half the people I've run into has been doing this, it's pretty wild I got my Work Hook and I'll be infusing it with Mundane tonight 
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MonsieurChoc posted:I started a powerstance build yesterday, not far yet. Will continue after work tonight. My first playthrough I powerstanced Washing Pole (L) + Warped Sword (R). It loving ruled, good damage + good reach + awesome and versatile moveset Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Mar 1, 2021 21:07
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power stance two zweihanders all day every day
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:My first playthrough I powerstanced Warped Sword (L) + Washing Pole (R). It loving ruled, good damage + good reach + awesome and versatile moveset Sounds dope. I'm putting every point so far into Str or Dex to play around with weapon combos. That does mean I have no stam.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I started a powerstance build yesterday, not far yet. Will continue after work tonight. Tryhard answer is clubs or maces, they are available ridiculously early, have low stat requirements and can do WORK because of how effective blunt damage is in the game. Upgrade materials are so common and readily available though you can play around with a lot of things. The comedy option being to just upgrade to bigger and gently caress-off-Huger clubs and maces as the game goes on.
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Smelter demon sword and aged smelter demon sword. Taste america! or other countries with red and blue!
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Tenzarin posted:Smelter demon sword and aged smelter demon sword. Taste america! or other countries with red and blue! Get white armor and cosplay as the French flag.
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Mar 1, 2021 21:58
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Not at all a surprise, but Shrine of Amana still loving sucks. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOWNVdDSw2s it was once the domain of King Big Sad Guy, who did the flame thing
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John Murdoch posted:Speaking of punch-em-ups, I successfully made a dash for Flynn's Ring, which was slightly tricky but not overly so, and the Bone Fist which ugggghhh. The frozen knights have incredibly unfortunate hitboxes that are hard to consistently reach with just caestuses and of course you have to fight like 10 of them, twice, in order to get over to the dang cave and activate kung-fu mode. (And then I didn't have enough Dex to powerstance it, so I had to go fix that, oi.) - it has about half useful moves, half that are only flashy and don't do much - the turn around in place one gives you a lot of hyper armor but doesn't do much damage, might knock over dudes? Probably not worth it - running attack knocks anything over that can be knocked over, but beware that you don't launch yourself off a cliff - do use the hadokens, they deal a good amount of damage - L1 is your bread and butter (unsurprisingly) - switch to two-handing the fist often, don't just lock in the powerstance. It has a different and also quite fun moveset Son of Thunderbeast posted:My first playthrough I powerstanced Warped Sword (L) + Washing Pole (R). It loving ruled, good damage + good reach + awesome and versatile moveset
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MonsieurChoc posted:I started a powerstance build yesterday, not far yet. Will continue after work tonight. Craftsman's hammer and the crescent sickle 
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So this community event has interested me! Anyone recommend a fairly easy to moderate cool build to play through on it? I played through this one a bajillion years ago by halberding it up
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Simply Simon posted:Are you sure it wasn't the other way around? I was confused for a while trying to get the spin to activate when I first tried Warped Sword and I think it needs to be in the right hand to convey the spin thing. Whoops, you're right--warped sword in the RIGHT hand
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Feldegast42 posted:So this community event has interested me! Anyone recommend a fairly easy to moderate cool build to play through on it? I played through this one a bajillion years ago by halberding it up
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I defeated the Flexile Sentry so I'm almost at Straid for boss weapons.
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Simply Simon posted:It's been a while, so grain of salt I wrapped up for the night, but I think I started to get the hang of it. The main thing that made it click was being able to choose between the full R2 combo or cutting into the L1 combo after the first punch. I do miss the wild speed of the double caestus L1 but otherwise it seems like the overall bread and butter attacks are similar in spirit, just flashier and with more commitment to the full animations. It's all very rhythmic and punishes mashing, which I've gotten bad about because the caestuses love that poo poo.
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Reality Protester posted:I got my Work Hook and I'll be infusing it with Mundane tonight update: wtf this sucks
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Trying to get the hidden weapon spell from bell keeper cov is going to make me go hollow irl
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Perfect, that's exactly what I was hoping. Thanks! Like probably a lot of people I was in Way of Blue in the first half or so of the game and was the other way around thinking blue phantoms basically never showed up in invasions before remembering I forgot to wear the blue ring most of the time. It didn't help that I thought you only got invaded in human form like in DS1 (or at least were most likely to be) instead of the other way around.
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Reality Protester posted:update: wtf this sucks I remember mundane getting nerfed?
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