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Finally finished grinding out all the Covenant items offline, the longest by far was the Proofs of Concordance followed closely by the Vertebrae Shackles. Got all the achievements so far except for collecting all the rings.
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IronicDongz posted:maybe he's born with it That's gross.
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Aug 21, 2017 16:42
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It's good that DS3 lets you save avatars for future use. It's bad that every avatar in DS3 has a long-rear end nose and a giraffe-like neck.
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Aug 21, 2017 17:24
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Happy sun-looks-like-the-darksign day, US players.
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Aug 21, 2017 17:30
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Ah, yes... Kentucky, where transient lands converge...
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Aug 21, 2017 17:35
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Praise the Dark Sun! (Seeing the eclipse totality was a complete trip!)
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Aug 21, 2017 18:26
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Friede sucks, she's an entire boss of binary gimmicks where if you don't do one very specific thing she'll just randomly take off half your health but once you learn it she's easy. She's like if you listened to a bad stereotype of what Dark Souls is like from someone who hates the game and made it real. Honestly, the thing I hate the most about Friede out of anything else is the random hop she sometimes does when you go to swing. If I wanted a game with RNG evasion, I'd go play goddamn Draque!
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Aug 21, 2017 19:58
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My "#eclipse" Instagram post that's just a screenshotted Darksign is getting a lot of likes.
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Aug 22, 2017 03:34
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Bogart posted:The Throne duo isn't too bad. They're just a twist on Ornstein and Smough -- in lieu of whittling one down, you need to chew them both to low or else they'll heal their opposite. Soloing them isn't strictly impossible, but it sure is tedious. Friede is bad for the same reason, it's just an absurd slog. Particularly since it takes two full boss fights before she gets "hard" which is even more obnoxious. The only other boss I genuinely dislike is Twin Princes -- it's a fine enough gimmick and all that, but having an enemy who can teleport spam, break your lock-on whenever he wants, appear at you from any direction, and even warp across the room...all of that wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also have a big instant-draw fire wave blast that staggers and knocks you around unless you dodge towards him at precisely the right angle... Like, there's a certain way you can cheese him, by sort of trying to keep him at the stairs and bashing him until he is staggered, but he's too mobile to do that consistently and his second phase maintains all the same moves and adds several rather annoying magic attacks on top of it. Overall, I just feel like most of DS3's best bosses are done better in Bloodborne. Lady Maria is a vastly, vastly superior fight to Friede, for instance.
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Aug 22, 2017 05:19
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The good bosses in Dark Souls 3 are the purest ones. Champion Gundyr is easily the single best fight in the game, and he's literally just "the tutorial boss, but you have to react faster and watch for feints."
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Aug 22, 2017 05:35
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8-Bit Scholar posted:The only other boss I genuinely dislike is Twin Princes -- it's a fine enough gimmick and all that, but having an enemy who can teleport spam, break your lock-on whenever he wants, appear at you from any direction, and even warp across the room...all of that wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also have a big instant-draw fire wave blast that staggers and knocks you around unless you dodge towards him at precisely the right angle...
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Aug 22, 2017 05:38
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I think the only two big bullshit things about Twin Princes are the air teleport (which has an absurdly short telegraph) and the fact that Sacred Lothric Light has almost no recovery frames if you run up next to Lorian and do a swing as he's finishing casting it. They're one of the game's better fights.
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Aug 22, 2017 05:45
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I loved murdering prince lorian with like 4 shots of crystal soul spear repeatedly this last game of mine sorceries are really good at PvE but such hotass trash at PvP. except for like 3 spells everything is either way(way) too slow to use against players or weak as poo poo. and one of those spells is homing soul mass, which is honestly just really annoying to use properly. (another is farron flash sword, which is good just because it's a slightly worse straight sword r1) you can make spells fast from. it's ok.
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Aug 22, 2017 06:09
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I have been seeing way fewer summon signs since the Dancer of the Boreal Valley. There were constantly at least five outside of her room but then I only saw a handful outside of Oceiros' room and I finished Untended Graves only ever seeing one outside of Gundyr's arena and all of Archdragon Peak except beating the boss without seeing any at all. Did I drift out of the level everyone else is at for these areas somehow? I'm level 71 and my highest weapon is +8.
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Aug 22, 2017 06:14
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I think people are just not doing random coop that much anymore right now outside of common pvp areas I saw basically no signs through basically all my last game, even for bosses people normally would summon for a bit back granted I also might have been a bit high but I doubt it, no summon signs even for darkeater midir at level ~105
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Aug 22, 2017 06:17
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Going to start a new game to check out the last DLC. Do faith builds get some especially cool toys there? Just wondering if I want to make a beeline to the DLC area in the early game (if it's even possible... I've no idea).
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Aug 22, 2017 07:39
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Smol posted:Going to start a new game to check out the last DLC. Do faith builds get some especially cool toys there? Just wondering if I want to make a beeline to the DLC area in the early game (if it's even possible... I've no idea). You get a good long range damage miracle by the latter part of the DLC. There's also a weird looking halberd that seems to be tailored for faith builds but I haven't tried it out yet. The fastest way to get to the last DLC would be to complete the first DLC I think. on another note: I got paired against someone with a Gael's greatsword who could R1 6 or 7 times in a row. Each time I got caught by a hit it was a 3 hit combo because the stagger did not allow me to dodge away. Is it at all possible to dodge away once staggered? I thought it was a pretty lame way to lose. torsoboy fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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IronicDongz posted:I think people are just not doing random coop that much anymore right now outside of common pvp areas Honestly I feel like 105 is low for Midir if anything. I've done him at SL90, SL100, SL125 and SL160 (NG+) recently, and probably saw the most signs at 160. 90 was a loving slog, tbh I ended up pestilent mercury cheesing him as I couldn't always get even one phantom, and even 3 would often die on me.
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Aug 22, 2017 12:52
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rip the days when you could put down a summon sign and get summoned before the animation even finished those days are gone and we will never get them back 
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Aug 22, 2017 13:26
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Sapozhnik posted:rip the days when you could put down a summon sign and get summoned before the animation even finished I've been desperate for bloodborne coop since I'm late to the party and haven't been summoned once.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:29
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Intresting, if you never learn the darkmoon loyalty gesture, Yorshka tells you to gently caress off and doesent allow you to join her covenant. This failed experiment run is suprisingly punishing since it cauesed me to never meet Sirris. Its kind of funny how the devs put all these weird things into the game that would never happen unless you were intentionally trying to break the game. Its pretty hard to not get the gesture since itd require you to somehow join the reds before gaining the gesture.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:30
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Smol posted:Going to start a new game to check out the last DLC. Do faith builds get some especially cool toys there? Just wondering if I want to make a beeline to the DLC area in the early game (if it's even possible... I've no idea). and also way of white corona is in the dlc and manages to be the single most useless miracle of all time?? 
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Aug 22, 2017 15:37
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just killed soul of cinder, nameless king, slave knight gael and sister friede all in a row without dying once sorceries at 60 int with stacked sorcery boosters and court sorcerer staff are... kind of nuts. all these guys you can just back up from and cast crystal soul spear until they die. friede was the only kinda dangerous one but you can just use crystal homing soul mass repeatedly and she can't really do anything about it
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Aug 22, 2017 18:31
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yeah but otoh you have to wear a stupid hat with bat ears on it
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Aug 22, 2017 18:53
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yeah... armor with special effects was a mistake
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Aug 22, 2017 19:18
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Sapozhnik posted:yeah but otoh you have to wear a stupid hat with bat ears on it They're angel wings, for your pretty little video game princess, and there is no shame in dark souls
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Aug 22, 2017 22:27
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if one of the five different armor sets you continually swap between in the dress-up portion of the game isnt a pretty princess theme with some combination of dancer's, fire witch, and pontiff knight then 
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Aug 22, 2017 22:44
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you can have a better princess headgear than a crown with asymmetrical wings on the sides and nothing on top
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Aug 23, 2017 00:17
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Dark Souls 2 is unequivocally an improvement on 1 in almost every way.
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IronicDongz posted:I think people are just not doing random coop that much anymore right now outside of common pvp areas I forgot to reply to your post but that's a big bummer if true. I just played 1 and 2 earlier this year and was looking forward to a game where I could have a high population of other players. Invading has been pretty decently populated, with only a handful of times where I invaded 5 or so times in a row then couldn't do it any more for a while because I'd assumedly reset everyone's timers in the area. Haven't had a team invasion outside of Aldrich sunmoning though.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:14
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Rysithusiku posted:Dark Souls 2 is unequivocally an improvement on 1 in almost every way. Poise_circlejerk.exe
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Aug 23, 2017 01:15
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I don't know what platform that dude is on but I finished a playthrough on PS4 last week that had plenty of signs for most bosses and a poo poo ton for the DLC bosses.
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Rysithusiku posted:Dark Souls 2 is unequivocally an improvement on 1 in almost every way. But it still has way more bosses that I really enjoy fighting so I replay it more than ds1. like if I'm gonna split bosses into dislike/like ok/really like(based on my personal opinions of what it's like to fight them, especially as someone who has played all the ds games multiple times), ds1 looks something like dislike: asylum demon taurus demon capra demon moonlight butterfly iron golem ceaseless discharge demon firesage stray demon centipede demon gwyndolin seath bed of chaos pinwheel like ok: bell gargoyles gaping dragon sif quelaag nito sanctuary guardian kalameet really like: ornstein & smough artorias(superfav) manus gwyn and then dark souls 2 looks something like dislike: the last giant flexile sentry royal rat vanguard old dragonslayer covetous demon magus and congregation giant lord ancient dragon nashandra aldia cave of the dead gank squad smelter demon blue edition king's pet 2x edition like ok: the pursuer executioner's chariot looking glass knight skeleton lords lost sinner belfry gargoyles royal rat authority scorpion lady duke's dear freja mytha the rotten smelter demon old iron king guardian dragon demon of song darklurker dragonrider twin dragonrider king's pet aava really like: ruin sentinels velstadt throne watcher and defender elana sinh fume knight(superfav) sir allone burnt ivory king(superfav) there's just a lot more bosses, and a lower proportion that I dislike. the dlcs each have 1 bad boss with recycled assets and then 2 good or great ones, which gives it a big edge. skasion posted:I don't know what platform that dude is on but I finished a playthrough on PS4 last week that had plenty of signs for most bosses and a poo poo ton for the DLC bosses.
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Throne Watcher and Defender suck, you either stomp them with summons or you have the most longest most tedious solo fight ever. The biggest problem with DS2 isn't its bosses (though so many guys in armor doesn't help) but it's really the lacking level design and bad plot that make the game so subpar. Also the tracking. And the hit boxes. And basically everything else. Even the Undead curse looks worse.
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nah, that's midir without pestilent mercury. throne watcher and defender fight is only a little long. what's wrong with ds2 tracking? I've seen several people make this complaint, usually about the big guys in heide's tower and I don't really get it. I don't like the plot too much but I don't play dark souls for the plot and I don't think most people do
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Also the tracking. And the hit boxes. And basically everything else. Even the Undead curse looks worse. Just lol if you think DS2 hitboxes are worse than DS1
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fool_of_sound posted:Just lol if you think DS2 hitboxes are worse than DS1 They very much are. teleporting_into_pursuer_grab.gif.webm.gifv
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I think they're worse but not actually by much. mostly it's just mimics getting up which is bad. the pursuer thing I have not seen happen to anyone in a long time and I have a sneaking suspicion they touched that one up at some point(maybe at SotFS, when they put more pursuer encounters in?)
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The dogs in the Gutter are crazy broken. Their attack hitbox doesn't even correspond to the animation starting and ending, let alone the actual part of the dog that attacks you.
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The dying attack of the spider men in Tseldora is also complete rubbish.
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