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Also use the environment to block their missiles while you work out where to go and what to do.
They wont move around to shoot behind pillars and other obstacles. You can freely work out the best path to them and spot hidden threats by looking around the side of the pillars.
If you get non mage aggro, pull it behind a wall or into a house as soon as it starts towards you. Deal with them separately from the mages.
I think you said you are a sorceror, so use binos to snipe them with soul arrows, heavy souls arrows, whatever you got. Don't use hexes to snipe their range is too short. It doesn't matter that it takes a lot. You can bring along a hell of a lot of arrows.
Takes a little practice but its a very handy thing to learn.
You use the binos, point the center of the screen at them and fire off an arrow with the other weapon slot.
You can also use this to pull melee enemies.
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I agree that it makes no sense to me that it doesn't carry over to NG+ iterations. I feel like if you get it on a character it should just be permanent on that character. Seems very odd they didn't do it that way.
Also, you can't actually get the special power until you get the ashen mist heart, right? I assume you need it to access Vendrick's memory? So by that point you're basically going to have giant lord and nashandra left and nothing else. Maybe D&W if you leave them up to do back to back with Nash.
If anyone has any questions about bloodborne, I got in the alpha and it is playable tonight.
It's also playable at the weekend but I'm away! Shocking timing for a wedding.
So much hate.
I hate myself! Destiny has it's hooks in me so I only ran around killing dudes with pitchforks for like 5 minutes! Blunderbuss and extendable scythe were cooler than all the weapons in souls.
Seemed to be other archetypes to choose as well, agile with blades, heavy with sword and pistols and heavy with sword and hammer I think.
Well, I think this snowstorm area is the only thing I have left to do in this DLC. I have died surprisingly little in this DLC compared to the crushfest that was Sunken King for me - a bow and some patience let you choose your battles easily (and my Dragonrider bow can interrupt charging ice hedgehogs). Even Ivory King was pretty easy as long as you play really careful and patiently, and Aava was only hard because it was so slow. Granted, I admit I play like an abject coward, but hey. Dark Souls. Bravery does not get you more points here :P.
Also, on invaders,
Fucking HELL Maldron was annoying. I killed him my first time, but only after ten minutes of running around the entire area like a Benny Hill ending sequence. I think this is the first time since Bed of Chaos I have felt legit frustrated at a DS game
Well, I think this snowstorm area is the only thing I have left to do in this DLC. I have died surprisingly little in this DLC compared to the crushfest that was Sunken King for me - a bow and some patience let you choose your battles easily (and my Dragonrider bow can interrupt charging ice hedgehogs). Even Ivory King was pretty easy as long as you play really careful and patiently, and Aava was only hard because it was so slow. Granted, I admit I play like an abject coward, but hey. Dark Souls. Bravery does not get you more points here :P.
Also, on invaders,
Fucking HELL Maldron was annoying. I killed him my first time, but only after ten minutes of running around the entire area like a Benny Hill ending sequence. I think this is the first time since Bed of Chaos I have felt legit frustrated at a DS game
Be prepared to get legit frustrated in the snowstorm area too. The only noteworthy items there are
A neat greatsword, a useless health regen shield, and a ring that makes you look human when you're a phantom.
Well, I think this snowstorm area is the only thing I have left to do in this DLC. I have died surprisingly little in this DLC compared to the crushfest that was Sunken King for me - a bow and some patience let you choose your battles easily (and my Dragonrider bow can interrupt charging ice hedgehogs). Even Ivory King was pretty easy as long as you play really careful and patiently, and Aava was only hard because it was so slow. Granted, I admit I play like an abject coward, but hey. Dark Souls. Bravery does not get you more points here :P.
Also, on invaders,
Fucking HELL Maldron was annoying. I killed him my first time, but only after ten minutes of running around the entire area like a Benny Hill ending sequence. I think this is the first time since Bed of Chaos I have felt legit frustrated at a DS game
Be prepared to get legit frustrated in the snowstorm area too. The only noteworthy items there are
A neat greatsword, a useless health regen shield, and a ring that makes you look human when you're a phantom.
It's not worth it.
also
the best looking hat in the game
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Granted, I admit I play like a cunning predator, but hey. Dark Souls.
I fixed your sentence for you.
I dunno, I'm pretty sure sniping the giants with like twenty arrows from two screens away while deactivated rather than fight them and making use of leash ranges to be unthreatened by enemy groups falls a bit under the cowardly banner :P. I'm not sure what I'd do in this game without a ranged attack.
finally decided to bite the bullet and ascetic the drangleic bonfire so i could get the ring of blades +2
final AR on the Chaos Rapier with 40 dex, 30 int/fai, the fire clutch ring, flynn's ring, and the ring of blades +2 is 273 physical, 242 fire (515 combined)
adding up the combined damage is always going to set you up for disappointment since resistances are applied to each damage type, so you won't ever get anywhere near what the damage types add up to on paper
finally decided to bite the bullet and ascetic the drangleic bonfire so i could get the ring of blades +2
final AR on the Chaos Rapier with 40 dex, 30 int/fai, the fire clutch ring, flynn's ring, and the ring of blades +2 is 273 physical, 242 fire (515 combined)
that is reasonably strong
i guess
Is that with the chaos rapier infused with fire or uninfused? If infused, it really gimps the RoB and Flynn damage. You get reduced benefit on infused weapons. It's kind of a double edged blade honestly using a build like you describe, because the fire clutch ring gets more benefit if you fire infuse the weapon, and RoB/Flynn get less benefit when you infuse.
I have like 650+ AR on my current character with Fume UGS, 40 STR/30 DEX and nothing but RoB+1 to enhance damage. =P
So Dark Souls 1 question? I'm thinking of doing another playthrough, and I only used miracles my first playthrough and really not even that much. If i'm going to make a character that uses DEX weapons(haven't decided on Uchi/Balder Side Sword yet), but want to use Pyromancy as well, how many attunement slots would somebody suggest for pyromancies? I figure I don't want to invest too much in attunement since pyro is the only magic i'm going to use, but I want to make sure I can use plenty of the fun stuff pyro has to offer.
That video from Dark Souls 1 cracked me up. The way he timed getting eaten by the mimics with the song was perfect.
Now that all 3 DLC are out it is time to get back into it. Going to roll a new character since my previous one is around sl250 and on NG3 or 4 so I could get all of the achievements. Last time it was dual wielding Dex weapons combined with liberal use of parries and rolling. I would go thunder god but apparently lightning spears got the nerf hammer hard. So maybe a strength build this time.
Also Bloodborne is literally selling me on getting a PS4 by itself. I really hope they have a collector's edition equal to or better then DS2.
I might have figured out why I was having trouble with white/yellow signs
Turns out, seperrate matchmaking servers for NG and NG+X aren't limited to Player vs Player but pertain to CooP as well. Because... reasons? Anyways, I hopped into NG+ and got summoned TWICE almost immediatly in fucking Heides Tower of Flame. Now to make my way up to the third DLC again for that jolly coop action....ugh.
Dabbled a bit with it on the PS3 but I wanted to wait till all the DLC was done for my PC main save
It is fun. Looots of souls. I'm a high enough soul level to fully enjoy the benefits of a Dark Crypt Greatsword. 50 int/fth, 40 str. It is ludicrous. Like 799 AR. Very very slow and my Moonlight Greatsword is better for some bosses/encounters but hoooly cow does it pack a whollop.
Pretty close to the end now. Cleared the undead crypt last night. I don't know if I want to do any of the DLC at NG+. I've ruined permanently huge portions of Sunken King by ascetic farming. Enemies hit too goddamn hard now. The other two but harder doesn't sound appealing either.
Farming for those 50 souls in the 3rd DLC and wearing exclusively soul-increasing armor during my whole NG+ run so far has increased my level from about 190 to 234, and my soul memory to somewhere around 6 million to about 11.
It's a lot of fun having very high stats in more than two things, while not compromising health and/or stamina
i'm not entirely sure why. it feels like a solid level, that still retains a little bit of distinctiveness to a build. but i do need to make some sacrifices to keep my level that low, and i know no one else is bothering so it's more than a little bit foolish
i'll probably end up just going fuck it and getting 50 in my scaling stats and health and stamina at some point.
in other news, i got an ice rapier and it is not really a big deal. apparently it's more of a thing magic infused.
also i was super excited about the strength-scaling (S!) curved greatsword, but in practice it's underwhelming. it has 500ish AR, which is more or less in line with most greatswords, but has high stat requirements and pretty huge stamina consumption. i can only swing 4 times on 40 END. it gets extra damage on higher NG+'s but if i planned to go high in those, i'd have started a long time ago
The Ivory King Greatsword is a lot of fun but unless you've got bunches of repair items or spells it's not going to be super useful as a regular item when exploring between bonfires or anything.
i do need to try the ivory king greatsword. the fact that's a dex weapon is both cool because variety! and disappointing because my strength character is just starved for cool weapons
mimic head definitely has my approval
DLC was a very solid perfomance, fashion-souls-wise
I don't want to imagine how awful the grind will be now that there probably aren't as many people co-oping the boss as before
I was getting summons like every 2 minutes or so and it still took the better part of 3 to 5 hours
Really hope the team does some post-DLC support to ease up a few of the more tedious aspects of the game, like they did with Dark Souls 1.
If you didn't have internet I imagine it would be a matter of ascetics wouldn't it? I haven't done this boss I just know it apparently requires you to kill it multiple times.
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They wont move around to shoot behind pillars and other obstacles. You can freely work out the best path to them and spot hidden threats by looking around the side of the pillars.
If you get non mage aggro, pull it behind a wall or into a house as soon as it starts towards you. Deal with them separately from the mages.
I think you said you are a sorceror, so use binos to snipe them with soul arrows, heavy souls arrows, whatever you got. Don't use hexes to snipe their range is too short. It doesn't matter that it takes a lot. You can bring along a hell of a lot of arrows.
Takes a little practice but its a very handy thing to learn.
You use the binos, point the center of the screen at them and fire off an arrow with the other weapon slot.
You can also use this to pull melee enemies.
What's even the damn point then
The DLC is the hardest content in the game, you should be doing it dead last
I seriously do not comprehend the design decision behind that.
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So much hate.
Also, you can't actually get the special power until you get the ashen mist heart, right? I assume you need it to access Vendrick's memory? So by that point you're basically going to have giant lord and nashandra left and nothing else. Maybe D&W if you leave them up to do back to back with Nash.
I hate myself! Destiny has it's hooks in me so I only ran around killing dudes with pitchforks for like 5 minutes! Blunderbuss and extendable scythe were cooler than all the weapons in souls.
Seemed to be other archetypes to choose as well, agile with blades, heavy with sword and pistols and heavy with sword and hammer I think.
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For PvP.
Or you could just trade some bonfire ascetics for 5 effigies each and not wear an ugly crown all the time.
Or just pvp as a phantom. That works too.
Also, on invaders,
Be prepared to get legit frustrated in the snowstorm area too. The only noteworthy items there are
It's not worth it.
also
I fixed your sentence for you.
Thankfully I walked it off.
I dunno, I'm pretty sure sniping the giants with like twenty arrows from two screens away while deactivated rather than fight them and making use of leash ranges to be unthreatened by enemy groups falls a bit under the cowardly banner :P. I'm not sure what I'd do in this game without a ranged attack.
final AR on the Chaos Rapier with 40 dex, 30 int/fai, the fire clutch ring, flynn's ring, and the ring of blades +2 is 273 physical, 242 fire (515 combined)
that is reasonably strong
i guess
Is that with the chaos rapier infused with fire or uninfused? If infused, it really gimps the RoB and Flynn damage. You get reduced benefit on infused weapons. It's kind of a double edged blade honestly using a build like you describe, because the fire clutch ring gets more benefit if you fire infuse the weapon, and RoB/Flynn get less benefit when you infuse.
I have like 650+ AR on my current character with Fume UGS, 40 STR/30 DEX and nothing but RoB+1 to enhance damage. =P
at least i got one for my strength character tho
thank you
for that
I should start using item discovery items...
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This makes me feel bad, I thought they were common
Game threw 8 at me before I'd finished the DLC bosses
OMG that leaping attack to spin the thing was just too much, I laughed so hard. Your commitment to the caestus only dream is a thing of beauty. =P
Am I a Soul bro yet?
...
Still waitin' for the Ornstein and Smough...
Beating them is easy, young one.
Getting to them, there is your real challenge.
i've just about emptied out the path between the first two bonfires
Now that all 3 DLC are out it is time to get back into it. Going to roll a new character since my previous one is around sl250 and on NG3 or 4 so I could get all of the achievements. Last time it was dual wielding Dex weapons combined with liberal use of parries and rolling. I would go thunder god but apparently lightning spears got the nerf hammer hard. So maybe a strength build this time.
Also Bloodborne is literally selling me on getting a PS4 by itself. I really hope they have a collector's edition equal to or better then DS2.
PSN:Furlion
Turns out, seperrate matchmaking servers for NG and NG+X aren't limited to Player vs Player but pertain to CooP as well. Because... reasons? Anyways, I hopped into NG+ and got summoned TWICE almost immediatly in fucking Heides Tower of Flame. Now to make my way up to the third DLC again for that jolly coop action....ugh.
Steam ID: 76561198021298113
Origin ID: SR71C_Blackbird
Dabbled a bit with it on the PS3 but I wanted to wait till all the DLC was done for my PC main save
It is fun. Looots of souls. I'm a high enough soul level to fully enjoy the benefits of a Dark Crypt Greatsword. 50 int/fth, 40 str. It is ludicrous. Like 799 AR. Very very slow and my Moonlight Greatsword is better for some bosses/encounters but hoooly cow does it pack a whollop.
Pretty close to the end now. Cleared the undead crypt last night. I don't know if I want to do any of the DLC at NG+. I've ruined permanently huge portions of Sunken King by ascetic farming. Enemies hit too goddamn hard now. The other two but harder doesn't sound appealing either.
i'm pretty sure i have like 6 million soul memory at this point
It's a lot of fun having very high stats in more than two things, while not compromising health and/or stamina
i'm not entirely sure why. it feels like a solid level, that still retains a little bit of distinctiveness to a build. but i do need to make some sacrifices to keep my level that low, and i know no one else is bothering so it's more than a little bit foolish
i'll probably end up just going fuck it and getting 50 in my scaling stats and health and stamina at some point.
in other news, i got an ice rapier and it is not really a big deal. apparently it's more of a thing magic infused.
also i was super excited about the strength-scaling (S!) curved greatsword, but in practice it's underwhelming. it has 500ish AR, which is more or less in line with most greatswords, but has high stat requirements and pretty huge stamina consumption. i can only swing 4 times on 40 END. it gets extra damage on higher NG+'s but if i planned to go high in those, i'd have started a long time ago
kind of a boring DLC as far as gear goes.
counterpoint: they gave us the mimic head and a lightsaber
mimic head definitely has my approval
DLC was a very solid perfomance, fashion-souls-wise
i want the loyce set, but dat grind
I was getting summons like every 2 minutes or so and it still took the better part of 3 to 5 hours
Really hope the team does some post-DLC support to ease up a few of the more tedious aspects of the game, like they did with Dark Souls 1.
If you didn't have internet I imagine it would be a matter of ascetics wouldn't it? I haven't done this boss I just know it apparently requires you to kill it multiple times.
the frog helmets suck, so i don't care if i get that
can shortcut the soul by being an asshole
hmmm
is the ivory king set locked behind the grind too?