Scaling matters the more you upgrade a weapon, because the scaling on the weapon gets better, depending on the weapon of course. Soft cap for offensive stats is fifty I believe.
For leveling yourself up, you cannot go wrong with vigor in this game. It scales way better than other souls games early on. It soft caps at forty. I would say racing it up to at least 20 asap is very very helpful.
I've seen lots of comments (not on here) about how if you use summons and/or Ashes then you're not playing the game right but I don't care.
that's a lot of nonsense. summoning npc/other players and using ashes are how you adjust the difficulty of encounters to your own preferences, and nothing more
Scaling matters the more you upgrade a weapon, because the scaling on the weapon gets better, depending on the weapon of course. Soft cap for offensive stats is fifty I believe.
For leveling yourself up, you cannot go wrong with vigor in this game. It scales way better than other souls games early on. It soft caps at forty. I would say racing it up to at least 20 asap is very very helpful.
I should clarify, what I've read is more in terms of "if you are going to put the time into directly getting a level, or directly getting a weapon upgrade, go for the upgrade, it's a lot more impactful than that 25->26 STR"
Also fuck anybody who tells you how to have fun in a damn vidya game. If you want to run marios face into that first goomba you just shine on you crazy diamond.
I ended up doing Mt. Gelmir and Altus Plateau after Liurnia because it felt like natural progess. Ended up in Caelid finally and certainly I am over leveled, but the TRex Dogs and these fucking Birds, man.
The buff to colossal weapons is especially felt with guard counters. They whip out so quickly you can actually interrupt enemy combos for the stagger end it's great. Before you could only get one if you ate the whole string of attacks.
Course if you miss on a regular attack your still eating that animation for approximately nine years.
Which reminds me, I should probably learn a spell...
now i wish I could find that dumb little comic where the "wizard" is shouting stuff like color spray and whatever but it's just weapons he uses to bludgeon people with instead of actual spells
I ended up doing Mt. Gelmir and Altus Plateau after Liurnia because it felt like natural progess. Ended up in Caelid finally and certainly I am over leveled, but the TRex Dogs and these fucking Birds, man.
The buff to colossal weapons is especially felt with guard counters. They whip out so quickly you can actually interrupt enemy combos for the stagger end it's great. Before you could only get one if you ate the whole string of attacks.
Course if you miss on a regular attack your still eating that animation for approximately nine years.
That, and I don't know if they played with the aggro and tether range on all enemies or just bosses, but I don't seem to get pelted by spells constantly from a billion miles aways while riding around.
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I played 98% of the game immediately summoning spirit ashes and npcs until something broke in my head and decided I had to try fighting the last few bosses solo. I gave up after an hour or so.
Rather than triggering this horrible frenzied flame ending that I'm now locked into, I've been helping people fight Malenia.
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I played 98% of the game immediately summoning spirit ashes and npcs until something broke in my head and decided I had to try fighting the last few bosses solo. I gave up after an hour or so.
Rather than triggering this horrible frenzied flame ending that I'm now locked into, I've been helping people fight Malenia.
You didn't manage to pick up the golden parachute that lets you bail out of that ending?
I've use my Mimic Tear for every possible fight since I got it and don't feel guilty in the least. Figure I've unintentionally cranked up the difficulty in enough other bizarre ways that the challenge all kinda balances out:
-Didn't realize I could attack from the left side of my horse for about forty hours
-Didn't use Spirit Ashes/Ashes of War at all until sixty hours
- Didn't use consumables until after Mountaintops of the Giants
- Didn't use my L2 skills at all until the Commander Niall fight (I'd been walking around with "Bloody Slash" for most of the game and didn't use it because "what if I need that FP for later", and now I don't know how I ever lived without it, especially for Banished/Crucible Knights/Any Invader fights)
Which reminds me, I should probably learn a spell...
now i wish I could find that dumb little comic where the "wizard" is shouting stuff like color spray and whatever but it's just weapons he uses to bludgeon people with instead of actual spells
The greatest magical element of all: Incredible Violence
Which reminds me, I should probably learn a spell...
now i wish I could find that dumb little comic where the "wizard" is shouting stuff like color spray and whatever but it's just weapons he uses to bludgeon people with instead of actual spells
You want to see my Magic Missile? Well do you, Punk?
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Made the discovery that a lot of the hair styles are gender-neutral, and that the bob is in fact absolute fire.
Which reminds me, I should probably learn a spell...
now i wish I could find that dumb little comic where the "wizard" is shouting stuff like color spray and whatever but it's just weapons he uses to bludgeon people with instead of actual spells
You want to see my Magic Missile? Well do you, Punk?
I played 98% of the game immediately summoning spirit ashes and npcs until something broke in my head and decided I had to try fighting the last few bosses solo. I gave up after an hour or so.
Rather than triggering this horrible frenzied flame ending that I'm now locked into, I've been helping people fight Malenia.
You didn't manage to pick up the golden parachute that lets you bail out of that ending?
I have the item, but I couldn't use it because I got locked out of the one place you are able to use it. I died while killing the boss of that place and couldn't activate the grace to get back there, and the method to reach said place doesn't work after you kill the boss.
Apparently they fixed that problem in 1.04, so I might go there after work, but I'm having too much fun fighting Malenia as a summon, despite the relatively low success rate. I think I'm getting close to being able to solo her. Hell, it would probably be easier than keeping some of these hosts alive.
Yeah I've been co-oping Maliketh a lot, it's fun. I might try to become a master at parrying him, cause that seems to be the only way that people are able to win that fight.
I heard there's a spot you can stand in that will make the duelists jump to their deaths
I checked out some videos and it looks like those spots are blocked off.
Most of the guys I've summoned all have a ranged Ashe too
Actually has anyone here cheesed this after the most recent patch? Because now there are walls preventing you from getting to the branches / cliffs
honestly, just save quit out before you go to summon any of them, switch to offline mode, and fight the 3 pre-canned invader NPCs they have instead. they're a little rough but not rivers of blood rough
I heard there's a spot you can stand in that will make the duelists jump to their deaths
I checked out some videos and it looks like those spots are blocked off.
Most of the guys I've summoned all have a ranged Ashe too
Actually has anyone here cheesed this after the most recent patch? Because now there are walls preventing you from getting to the branches / cliffs
honestly, just save quit out before you go to summon any of them, switch to offline mode, and fight the 3 pre-canned invader NPCs they have instead. they're a little rough but not rivers of blood rough
Everybody has always had a Youtube build on those. They still don't know how to react to jump heavies because they're AI.
You know, I'm sure your correct.
Also, if you go to the remaining branch and try to bait them out they just circle on the ground. They won't attack. If you throw items at them they just roll around. Must have gotten significant upgrades.
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Okay, got them. The solution is, as always, Shield Crash. Just get them pointed in the direction and send them off a cliff.
Which shield are you using? I'm thinking of pumping up the spiked shield to really focus on damage instead of just the knock back, but I don't know if I'd need to invest hard, with my limited smithing stones.
Okay, got them. The solution is, as always, Shield Crash. Just get them pointed in the direction and send them off a cliff.
Which shield are you using? I'm thinking of pumping up the spiked shield to really focus on damage instead of just the knock back, but I don't know if I'd need to invest hard, with my limited smithing stones.
It can deal a ton of damage though, like legit good as a weapon by itself, especially if you add frost affinity plus full guard while you do the weapon art.
Alas, that spiked shield video is showing a +25 shield against enemies that dont seem commensurately hard, which often seems to be the case and makes it hard for me to accurately judge how well these things work.
Okay, got them. The solution is, as always, Shield Crash. Just get them pointed in the direction and send them off a cliff.
Which shield are you using? I'm thinking of pumping up the spiked shield to really focus on damage instead of just the knock back, but I don't know if I'd need to invest hard, with my limited smithing stones.
I'm using the Golden Great Shield cause it had the highest guard boost and I still use it for mostly defense.
However, giving it a Frost affinity is where it is at.
If you tap L2 you get a two combo hit and if you hold it you get several and the knockdown.
If you get a few hits you'll almost certainly proc Frostbite and you can follow it up with a charged R2.
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For leveling yourself up, you cannot go wrong with vigor in this game. It scales way better than other souls games early on. It soft caps at forty. I would say racing it up to at least 20 asap is very very helpful.
that's a lot of nonsense. summoning npc/other players and using ashes are how you adjust the difficulty of encounters to your own preferences, and nothing more
don't give up, skeleton
I should clarify, what I've read is more in terms of "if you are going to put the time into directly getting a level, or directly getting a weapon upgrade, go for the upgrade, it's a lot more impactful than that 25->26 STR"
Also fuck anybody who tells you how to have fun in a damn vidya game. If you want to run marios face into that first goomba you just shine on you crazy diamond.
Which reminds me, I should probably learn a spell...
The buff to colossal weapons is especially felt with guard counters. They whip out so quickly you can actually interrupt enemy combos for the stagger end it's great. Before you could only get one if you ate the whole string of attacks.
Course if you miss on a regular attack your still eating that animation for approximately nine years.
now i wish I could find that dumb little comic where the "wizard" is shouting stuff like color spray and whatever but it's just weapons he uses to bludgeon people with instead of actual spells
That, and I don't know if they played with the aggro and tether range on all enemies or just bosses, but I don't seem to get pelted by spells constantly from a billion miles aways while riding around.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
Rather than triggering this horrible frenzied flame ending that I'm now locked into, I've been helping people fight Malenia.
You didn't manage to pick up the golden parachute that lets you bail out of that ending?
-Didn't realize I could attack from the left side of my horse for about forty hours
-Didn't use Spirit Ashes/Ashes of War at all until sixty hours
- Didn't use consumables until after Mountaintops of the Giants
- Didn't use my L2 skills at all until the Commander Niall fight (I'd been walking around with "Bloody Slash" for most of the game and didn't use it because "what if I need that FP for later", and now I don't know how I ever lived without it, especially for Banished/Crucible Knights/Any Invader fights)
The greatest magical element of all: Incredible Violence
You want to see my Magic Missile? Well do you, Punk?
I didn't save it, but I was able to track it down!
https://www.deviantart.com/whodrewthis/art/The-Wizard-Pt-VI-98068300
I have the item, but I couldn't use it because I got locked out of the one place you are able to use it. I died while killing the boss of that place and couldn't activate the grace to get back there, and the method to reach said place doesn't work after you kill the boss.
Apparently they fixed that problem in 1.04, so I might go there after work, but I'm having too much fun fighting Malenia as a summon, despite the relatively low success rate. I think I'm getting close to being able to solo her. Hell, it would probably be easier than keeping some of these hosts alive.
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Lol okay the last guy used some spinning attack from the scythe that went completely through my great shield and killed me in one animation
They're replicas of players that have completed this, so you're going to run into a lot of outright broken builds.
Cheese it and trick them all into jumping off the cliffs, that's what I did.
I checked out some videos and it looks like those spots are blocked off.
Most of the guys I've summoned all have a ranged Ashe too
Actually has anyone here cheesed this after the most recent patch? Because now there are walls preventing you from getting to the branches / cliffs
honestly, just save quit out before you go to summon any of them, switch to offline mode, and fight the 3 pre-canned invader NPCs they have instead. they're a little rough but not rivers of blood rough
Oh hell yes this is a great idea.
As a fellow heavy this is no longer true. I've been at this an hour and everyone has a YouTube Build.
You know, I'm sure your correct.
Also, if you go to the remaining branch and try to bait them out they just circle on the ground. They won't attack. If you throw items at them they just roll around. Must have gotten significant upgrades.
as if you have to ask
Which shield are you using? I'm thinking of pumping up the spiked shield to really focus on damage instead of just the knock back, but I don't know if I'd need to invest hard, with my limited smithing stones.
It can deal a ton of damage though, like legit good as a weapon by itself, especially if you add frost affinity plus full guard while you do the weapon art.
I'm using the Golden Great Shield cause it had the highest guard boost and I still use it for mostly defense.
However, giving it a Frost affinity is where it is at.
If you tap L2 you get a two combo hit and if you hold it you get several and the knockdown.
If you get a few hits you'll almost certainly proc Frostbite and you can follow it up with a charged R2.