[Kinto]

Do torches ever become less scarce? Because this is kind of ridiculous.
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[Kinto]

I am so goddamn bored of this fire long sword and requirements for everything else are so far away :(
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[Kinto]

Re: the unhollowing co-op mechanism

Is it something as simple as it minusing 1 from some hollow counter, but the counter can keep increasing past 50% health? Do if you die 100 times in a row you have to help 95 people before your health will start increasing again?

[Kinto]

Well then I dunno 8-) Deej, is it something we can find out from some NPC or something? Cause otherwise it's pretty funny that they've made such a core mechanic so inaccessible when they specifically set out not to.
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[Kinto]

Got summoned in Black Gulch, showed the host the path to the Cervantes-looking lady. Did some more exploring with him and we both accidentally found another path to a very cramped tunnel filled with giants. This is some thickening plot right here.
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[Kinto]

Does 2-handing weapons still lower the strength requirement? I'm not even sure how to tell anymore since they got rid of the clunky, staggering animations when you're too weak.
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[Kinto]

I have some suspicions that astrology is a game mechanic :|

Also, what on earth is the point of palestone? Removes the benefits of certain reinforcements but doesn't drop reinforcement level? What?

Also also, some idiots on /v/ are starting a petition to put The Res Eye Orb in the game, lol.

Thanks Broco, good to know. Found the Claymore, it's scrubbin time.

[Kinto]

I've been lagging behind quite a bit, mostly because I didn't want to lock myself away in for London's first sunny weekend of the year and/or totally ignore my girlfriend.

I spent absolutely ages trying to get co-op humanity restoration to work and I really don't get it =/. I helped a bunch of people kill The Rotten and Smelter Demon and I haven't noticed any improvement to my humanity. Surely those two are important enough to get a humanity reward from?.

I'm not really feeling the sunbros so far. The ring seems borderline worthless and the first reward isn't worth much for my build. Pretty much the only reasons I'm sticking with it are I don't want to abandon it in case there's any good reward coming up and the other covenants don't seem that great at the moment.

Also, I lost 200,000 souls and I didn't even care. Turns out that's 1/5 of my total souls spent, lol.

I like how I'm almost level 90 and I still have to make decisions about how to keep spending my souls. In DS1 you could reach a servicable build around level 40 and the rest of the game just became pumping vit, end and your damage stat of choice. Now I've discovered I've gone terribly wrong somewhere; mid-rolling with a mid-shield and longsword doesn't seem at all viable. Time to go heavy knight like I was planning to in the first place. Also I can't stand how quickly stuff like halberds break =/
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[Kinto]

Well well well

http://imgur.com/CbbewS3
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[Kinto]

Respected my character since ADP is apparently useless and rejigger my char's armour to make her roll faster. Here's a pic: http://imgur.com/IoOCr83

Funny thing is I used the gender swap coffin and found the female form actually looked more like me than the male form, so I kept it :3
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[Kinto]

Fuck me sideways, co-op restoring humanity still baffles me. Helped three dudes kill old iron king and nothing, then died on the fourth and I'm human. What the hell?

You sure this ain't a bug, DJ?

[Kinto]

Btw on gaining my humanity and summoning some comrades I immediately walked into the lava lol
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[Kinto]

Just realised the halberd does terrible damage, let alone it's damage-stamina ratio. Heide sword does more damage hit for hit for some crazy reason, even when accounting for sweet spot damage, Leo ring counters and making it lightning so it gets faith scaling.

Was considering getting the dragon rider halberd from straid but now I dunno...

[Kinto]

Still chugging. Jesus this game is huge.

Blue guardian covenant aka Drangleic P.D. is pretty lame :(
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[Kinto]

[Kinto]

The spiders drop DS1 starter weapons and I'm pretty sure there's a lore reason for THAT, so...
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[Kinto]

I like the Dark Pilgrim areas. They remind me of those mini levels in world 8 of SMB3, where the hands on the world map may or may not pull you in. Super short and sweet but hard enough to make you waste 50 lives on them if you get frustrated.
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[Kinto]

Ancient Dragon can fuck off.
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[Kinto]

I've really hit a wall. Ancient Dragon just aint happening, don't wanna try the king without doing the dragon, don't wanna beat the game without doing the king. My Str and Dex are just enough to weild a black knight halberd and my faith is 46, which turns out to be a totally useless stat on its own. Healing is now even slower and totally superfluous with lifegems, lightning is terrible in pvp and sunlight blade just ain't worth it. The halberd does bugger all damage to the dragon and obviously the reach and stun aren't helping. I'm having my ass handed to me in the shrine in the meantime by invaders cause this build is pretty dumb.

Guess I better respec, but I'm not sure what to. Hexing seems a little expensive slot/soul-wise with the chime route, yet I fear fighting with sorcery-style spells will feel totally alien to me this late in the game.

Dunno how to proceed 8-)
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[Kinto]

Well that's just not cricket, wourme.

So uh I realised I've never once upgraded any chime and that it totally matters.
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[Kinto]

Honestly of all the bosses to nerf I can't fathom why they didn't nerf ancient dragon. It's the least fun most bullshit part of this entire game. It's easily worse than Bed of Chaos.

[Kinto]

DING DONG THE BASTARD'S DEAD

So I decided to respec in the most unplanned way. Shifted half my points away from faith and into int and wound up with some mage gear and a poison Ricard's. Upgraded them as far as I could but I need chunks. Time for the bell covenant!

So I visit Belfry Luna and talk to the little dude, join the cov and immediately get invaded. I'm backed up to the fog wall and try to fend off the invaders by casting dark fog, accidentally aggo the NPC who then proceeded to run at me and roll off the walkway without provocation. Couldn't even look the corpse.

DARK SOULS.
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[Kinto]

So uh turns out when I accidentally killed that NPC it took me out of the covenant. I need chunks to get strong, I need the cov to get chunks, I need 130k souls to repent and I'm too weak to really help anyone or grind.

Lol, shit.
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[Kinto]

Now that becoming human is a total non-issue I don't really see the point of the Ring of Life. That ring slot can be used for something else.
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[Kinto]

Okay what's the deal with riposte damage? My Dark Ricard's +9 does less damage than my Dark Heide Knight Sword +10. I thought the whole point of thrusting swords was riposting?

[Kinto]

Fuck me, parrying just isn't a thing online. You literally can't react fast enough for the animation to start before lag tells you you've already been hit. Your only chance is a small shield and predicting attacks instead (while still needing impeccable timing!)
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[Kinto]

BAHAHAHA okay yeah it's fine.

New meta: dark fog, panic into attacking, parry and riposte immediately, game over.
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