Oh hey, didn't someone say something about a lightning claymore a bit back? iirc, lighting provides a pretty big boost to base damage, but it kills your scaling. So, if you're got any investment in strength, you might want to switch it back to the regular upgrade path since the strength scaling will probably let you deal a lot more damage. If you're going with int or faith, their respective weapon augmentations might be a better choice than lightning as well.
I think they said that the claymore was just their backup, and I don't know exactly when scaling will outpace the lightning damage, so maybe this wouldn't be worth the time and resources.
Lightning kills scaling but almost everything is weak to it so it still does big damage. Also that lovely crackle hitting something with it
Did the painted realm. that's a weird area, but neat? it really seems like it should have been DLC or something, it's a little weird that it doesn't have anything to do with anything else in the game.
Painted Realm spoilers
It doesn't gate anything, but there are some lore bits revolving around the boss.
It really, really pains me that the two best dex weapons in the game require killing the boss.
Oh hey, didn't someone say something about a lightning claymore a bit back? iirc, lighting provides a pretty big boost to base damage, but it kills your scaling. So, if you're got any investment in strength, you might want to switch it back to the regular upgrade path since the strength scaling will probably let you deal a lot more damage. If you're going with int or faith, their respective weapon augmentations might be a better choice than lightning as well.
I think they said that the claymore was just their backup, and I don't know exactly when scaling will outpace the lightning damage, so maybe this wouldn't be worth the time and resources.
Lightning kills scaling but almost everything is weak to it so it still does big damage. Also that lovely crackle hitting something with it
Didn't it get nerfed at some point though, such that scaling would still beat out lighting despite the weaknesses?
People have run the math on weapon damage and scaling in DS1, and lightning +5 weapons only start to lose out to normal +15 weapons (the best scaling weapons) in damage output when you have like 40-50 points in the relevant scaling stats for the normal weapon, ignoring elemental weaknesses. Chaos +5 weapons are a bit stronger than lightning +5 if you have at least 20 liquid humanity in your tank and also lack normal stat scaling, but do fire damage and are worse when you don't have any humanity for their special hidden humanity scaling thing. Chaos is the PvP invader min-max infusion of choice to pump as many points into HP as possible since invaders tend to have huge stockpiles of consumable humanity items anyway from the vendor in the DLC or by hacking, since it's the only easily obtained healing item that works for invaders in DS1, so that humanity scaling aspect isn't an issue for them.
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Oh hey, didn't someone say something about a lightning claymore a bit back? iirc, lighting provides a pretty big boost to base damage, but it kills your scaling. So, if you're got any investment in strength, you might want to switch it back to the regular upgrade path since the strength scaling will probably let you deal a lot more damage. If you're going with int or faith, their respective weapon augmentations might be a better choice than lightning as well.
I think they said that the claymore was just their backup, and I don't know exactly when scaling will outpace the lightning damage, so maybe this wouldn't be worth the time and resources.
that was probably me
my strength is only like 16 and my dex is worse, a lightning weapon is the best option for melee dps right now
Ah memories. So many people who didn't understand the Black Knight polearm not only had a very long window to trigger the second swing but had super armor during it
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I've just realised I haven't seen any bloodstains since leaving the asylum. Are they not a thing any more?
Oh they should be there if you're connected to the multiplayer server and not in offline mode
Oh, that explains it. I just moved and we don't have internet set up yet.
Are they from where other players have died? That's neat if so. I thought they were a scripted thing.
All the messages, bloodstains, and spooky ghosts you see now and then are from players, yup! It was intended that players would leave messages to interact with other worlds, and the bloodstains are warnings of where other players messed up. So if you enter a room and see 50 bloodstains something is up.
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Oh they should be there if you're connected to the multiplayer server and not in offline mode
Oh, that explains it. I just moved and we don't have internet set up yet.
Are they from where other players have died? That's neat if so. I thought they were a scripted thing.
All the messages, bloodstains, and spooky ghosts you see now and then are from players, yup! It was intended that players would leave messages to interact with other worlds, and the bloodstains are warnings of where other players messed up. So if you enter a room and see 50 bloodstains something is up.
Oh they should be there if you're connected to the multiplayer server and not in offline mode
Oh, that explains it. I just moved and we don't have internet set up yet.
Are they from where other players have died? That's neat if so. I thought they were a scripted thing.
All the messages, bloodstains, and spooky ghosts you see now and then are from players, yup! It was intended that players would leave messages to interact with other worlds, and the bloodstains are warnings of where other players messed up. So if you enter a room and see 50 bloodstains something is up.
Or a bunch around a chest
There is no reason there would ever be bloodstains around a chest what are you talking about!
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Oh they should be there if you're connected to the multiplayer server and not in offline mode
Oh, that explains it. I just moved and we don't have internet set up yet.
Are they from where other players have died? That's neat if so. I thought they were a scripted thing.
if you click on them, they will show you a phantom of the player actually dying
Yeah I know that, I just thought it was something written into the game that would be the same every time. That's really cool if it's not.
How do you leave a message?
There’s an item called an orange guidance soapstone that you can use to build messages from pre-selected templates. Which is where a whole lot of DS memes come from.
Oh yeah if someone likes a message of yours while you’re playing you get either a heal or an estus charge I’m pretty sure.
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How linear is this game? Like I think I already passed that merchant in the burg, am I going to go through there again or should I backtrack there while I have the chance? I don't have much cash.
How linear is this game? Like I think I already passed that merchant in the burg, am I going to go through there again or should I backtrack there while I have the chance? I don't have much cash.
Plenty of opportunities to return to places you’ve been.
It’s sometimes fun to think about how the widely accepted interpretation of the lore in Dark Souls is just that, one interpretation. Trying to go through the game and make up my own version of the s a fun exercise
My headcanon interpretation for what I consider to be the real ending to Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin is a huge part of why it's my favorite Darks Soul.
The internet tells me I’m wrong, but to this day I like to consider these things to be true just because I enjoy it more:
Velka, Goddess of Sin, was a Pygmy of the Dark Soul whom Gwyn wed. This is why his children, especially Gwyndolin, have traits of both light and dark.
When Gwyn exiled her people to the Ringed City she split from him, and fled to the first painted world. She’s not the cause of the undead (that’s all part of Gwyn’s gambit to save his age), but she does send her pet giant crow to carry any that look promising off to wreck shop over in Gwyn’s dying kingdom.
Next up, I like to interpret Dark Souls 2 as the sequel to the ‘walk away’ ending to the first game, while Dark Souls 3 is the sequel to the ‘link the fire’ ending.
Ushering in the age of dark leads to the gods being forgotten and man taking their place... for a time, until the terribly conjoined fire and dark become corrupted once more. In the standard ending, when you’re locked away on a throne, the cycle continues, one way or another.
The true final ending, where you walk away from the world of fire and dark heads towards an unknown outcome. Potentially the bearer of the curse paints the next painted world.
Linking the fire is a short reprieve, one that has to be repeated over and over by new heirs of fire over thousands of years. To the point the powers that be create an ashen one, a barely person of fire and dark, a facsimile of heroes past. There’s a bunch of endings here, but they’re still bound by the ever not quite dead state of the age of fire.
However, in its true final ending, the ashen one collects all that’s needed for a painter to paint a new world. Is it just another hideaway, or a whole creation equivalent of the Dark Souls universe? Dunno!
I’m trying to be very coy about how intricate and connected the world is because being like “oh fuck I’m HERE again!” about 50 times was one of the highlights of my first playthrough
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Lightning kills scaling but almost everything is weak to it so it still does big damage. Also that lovely crackle hitting something with it
Painted Realm spoilers
It really, really pains me that the two best dex weapons in the game require killing the boss.
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that was probably me
my strength is only like 16 and my dex is worse, a lightning weapon is the best option for melee dps right now
Oh, that explains it. I just moved and we don't have internet set up yet.
Are they from where other players have died? That's neat if so. I thought they were a scripted thing.
Died three times to the skeletons near firelink shrine.
Getting slightly better each time though!
you should not be engaging the skelemans yet, they're deceptively late game
go up the ramp toward the aquaduct
All the messages, bloodstains, and spooky ghosts you see now and then are from players, yup! It was intended that players would leave messages to interact with other worlds, and the bloodstains are warnings of where other players messed up. So if you enter a room and see 50 bloodstains something is up.
if you click on them, they will show you a phantom of the player actually dying
Or a bunch around a chest
There is no reason there would ever be bloodstains around a chest what are you talking about!
Yeah I know that, I just thought it was something written into the game that would be the same every time. That's really cool if it's not.
How do you leave a message?
Use the... I think it's the white soapstone? Maybe the orange? One is for messages and one is for placing your summoning mark
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orange soapstone which you buy from the undead merchant? I think
There’s an item called an orange guidance soapstone that you can use to build messages from pre-selected templates. Which is where a whole lot of DS memes come from.
Oh yeah if someone likes a message of yours while you’re playing you get either a heal or an estus charge I’m pretty sure.
Plenty of opportunities to return to places you’ve been.
The internet tells me I’m wrong, but to this day I like to consider these things to be true just because I enjoy it more:
Velka, Goddess of Sin, was a Pygmy of the Dark Soul whom Gwyn wed. This is why his children, especially Gwyndolin, have traits of both light and dark.
When Gwyn exiled her people to the Ringed City she split from him, and fled to the first painted world. She’s not the cause of the undead (that’s all part of Gwyn’s gambit to save his age), but she does send her pet giant crow to carry any that look promising off to wreck shop over in Gwyn’s dying kingdom.
Next up, I like to interpret Dark Souls 2 as the sequel to the ‘walk away’ ending to the first game, while Dark Souls 3 is the sequel to the ‘link the fire’ ending.
Ushering in the age of dark leads to the gods being forgotten and man taking their place... for a time, until the terribly conjoined fire and dark become corrupted once more. In the standard ending, when you’re locked away on a throne, the cycle continues, one way or another.
The true final ending, where you walk away from the world of fire and dark heads towards an unknown outcome. Potentially the bearer of the curse paints the next painted world.
Linking the fire is a short reprieve, one that has to be repeated over and over by new heirs of fire over thousands of years. To the point the powers that be create an ashen one, a barely person of fire and dark, a facsimile of heroes past. There’s a bunch of endings here, but they’re still bound by the ever not quite dead state of the age of fire.
However, in its true final ending, the ashen one collects all that’s needed for a painter to paint a new world. Is it just another hideaway, or a whole creation equivalent of the Dark Souls universe? Dunno!
I don’t think it’s supposed to be Yharnam though.
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How so? It's been a while, and I probably missed it.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
Massive spoilers
Man now I'm kind of sad I haven't been online for the last few days. I'm curious what ghosts and messages I've missed.