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Adventures in Lordran - or tales of brave Sir Onion
Platy
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In the beginning, there were dragons
The dragons sat under huge trees and didn't know death because death was a weakness they didn't possess
Then there appeared fire and introduced the arrow of time and entropy into the world
The flame drew creatures to it, creatures which came from the Dark
They found souls in the fire and used those souls to challenge the dragons
Among them were Gwyn who became head honcho of a whole pantheon of gods, the Witch of Izalith who sought to bend fire to her will, and Nito, a skeleton wearing smaller skeletons
They triumphed over the dragons but somewhere along the way things went really, really wrong
It seems like fire is fading but I guess we'll do something about it?
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The dragons sat under huge trees and didn't know death because death was a weakness they didn't possess
Then there appeared fire and introduced the arrow of time and entropy into the world
The flame drew creatures to it, creatures which came from the Dark
They found souls in the fire and used those souls to challenge the dragons
Among them were Gwyn who became head honcho of a whole pantheon of gods, the Witch of Izalith who sought to bend fire to her will, and Nito, a skeleton wearing smaller skeletons
They triumphed over the dragons but somewhere along the way things went really, really wrong
It seems like fire is fading but I guess we'll do something about it?
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Steam ID - VeldrinD | SS Post | Wishlist
They also let a highly unethical dragon do his thing
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Steam ID - VeldrinD | SS Post | Wishlist
you can use them to create certain weapons, some of which are varying degrees of good to amazing, but mostly very bad
if you don't care about any of the weapons, you can just crunch em for souls
EDIT: oh you're in 3, I forgot
have you encountered the rotted greatwood boss? he drops the transposing urn you give to ludland in flink shrine to trade in boss souls for weapons/spells/rings
Ahh, so they’re a similar deal to the umbral ash you give to the old lady?
I haven’t encountered the greatwood boss yet, no.
Steam ID - VeldrinD | SS Post | Wishlist
greatwood is optional and is near where the giant shoots enemies by the white tree, real early on
I understand this! I was just there!
I bought Dark Souls Remastered on PS4 because of you nerds
during this extended quarantine I could read books or learn an instrument or better myself in any way
but nope! time to play through the dumb hard skeleton game again!!!
PRAISE THE SUN!!!!!!!!
Resumed my DS2 ng+ run as well. Back when I started this run, I respecced into a hex build from my ng quality build. Anyone have thoughts on fun spells to use in DS2? I went from having no spells to having all the spells, so I could probably use some help finding my footing.
Turns out the dragons were dicks even before the gods and they bullied this one dragon without scales so much that he made a deal with the gods to get all the other dragons hyper murdered so they could take over the age with fire
-Ornstein and Smough were strong but not outlandishly so. at one point I was one attack away from beating them on my first attempt, but ultimately it took...3 tries, I think, or 4.
-Anor Londo is a neat place, design-wise. People often talk about how good this game looks but I think virtually every area up to this point is an ugly, muddy mess, or so dark that what it looks like doesn't matter (lookin' at you, Sen's Fortress). Anor Londo is like...style by scale. It's a neat execution of decay, with these buildings that are generally in pretty good shape, but they're huge and empty and everything's dead quiet. The implication is that there used to be a ton of people around here. Super well-executed idea, imo. This does mean you spend a lot of time running your tiny ass around, which sucks.
-Fuck all these silver knights. Especially those two. You know the ones.
-Merked Lautrec. Get some fire defense, nerd.
-Frampt, buddy. Is this really the most efficient way to take me somewhere?
In one end and out the other, can't get simpler than that
You missed someone, but easily done I suppose.
Some of my difficulty was just never having fought them with a weapon nearly as slow as the zweihander. Lots of whiffs, lots of getting staggered out of my attacks. But, eventually I cottoned onto the fact that I could stagger the boss with a single RT, and that was all I needed. That was definitely peak zweihander so far; staggering a boss in a single hit.
Steam ID - VeldrinD | SS Post | Wishlist
Yeah but it's a bit far in, in Rosaria's Bed Chambers in the Cathedral of the Deep. Gotta use a Pale Tongue to do so though.
"Uh, your majesty, one of your vassals is conducting unholy experiments on humans and turning them into nightmarish hellbeasts, should we not do something?"
"He's a dragon."
"Very good, m'lord."
Also, obligatory.
Strength. Dexterity. Stamina.
Everything you need.
The best build in DS1 is to put enough points in strength where you can single hand wield Zeihander, always put on the heaviest armor and get tower shields, and just smush everything in your way. It doesn't take a ton of time to get the stats for it, and then you wear the ring that halves your weight carry or whatever and you can even fast roll.
It rulllles
One of us!
One of us!
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
As an aside, if you're only going to learn to parry one thing in Dark Souls, learn to parry Black and Silver Knights. They're hands down the easiest enemies in the game to parry and it turns them from major threats to easy souls.
...if you can reliably parry them, btw, you also have the skills to reliably parry Havel's super telegraphed attacks and drop him with, like, an unupgraded reinforced club (you'll proc bleed eventually) first thing in the game. Though you'll instantly die if you mess up.
that fucker is hard!!!!
i'm getting more consistent about beating his first phase but once he changes his movest he's just a nightmare
http://www.audioentropy.com/
come back with 3 more levels and you'll find you mysteriously survive his attacks more easily now, even if you put the points into arcane or something
You do not, one of the directions you can approach him from is unlocked. Can't remember which one but I assume the darkroot side.
I only found him after getting the lordvessel though so he went down like a chump
The trick to that bastard is watching for his tells. You'll get them after a LOT of practice, and then you'll know when it's safe to go in and when not to. He has one swinging attack that you can easily get in during. Watch videos of people who took him out, it helps.
I am intrigued but it needs to come out for PC
that game has a real neat vibe