[CubaLibre]

Yeah but... there's no blunt halberd.

Bring back Mirdan Hammer
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[Felix]

[Talbain]

[scratchmonkey]

Dark is whichever is lower out of Int and Faith.

[diplo]

[Felix]

Yeah, this is the first time in the series I've found shield breaking much more fun and effective than parrying.

[CubaLibre]

Beating ass with a Blacksmith Hammer. The Halberd is still king though.

Been playing a lot of co-op in Bastille, cuz why not (and also I'll be god damned if I'm fighting a triple-team by myself). Man, there are a lot of people what are not very good at this game. Hard to get your body back when the host keeps dying on the Sentinels even though you're tanking two and he only has to deal with one...
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[mauve]

[Talbain]

That last boss was NOTHING like I expected. Huh...
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[sarsamis]

Does anyone have pro melee strats for Royal Rat Authority?

complaints in spoilers: I don't have enough time to kill the little guys with arrows or knives and the best I can ever do is killing 2 or 3 of the 4 with a broad stroke of a greatsword or something, mostly since they're so fucking short my attacks just go over them; I tried wildly punching without locking on once and scored absolutely no hits due to their Odd Job bullshit.

I can't really fight the boss at all if they're still around once he starts attacking and it's hard to divide my attention since he never stops doing that damn charge move.

Do items that reduce poison's effectiveness also work for toxic?

[bza]

fight him like sif and he becomes a joke
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[A New Duck]

So real quick, does anyone who had some trouble running Dark Souls on PC have any input on how this runs comparatively? A little better, a little less taxing? I have two machines that can run Dark Souls a little choppily at very low settings, and might pick up Dark Souls II this Christmas when it's $6 on Steam.
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[Tulpa]

my computer's crap but I have had smooth framerates at medium-low settings
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[Toptube]

[Brooks]

Okay I'm not trying mouse/keys anymore, it's a mess

Knew I shoulda packed a gamepad for something

[Brooks]

Also I definitely had a torch at one point and now I can't seem to find the thing anywhere on me, what have I missed

[Iammadmak]

[Brooks]

Ah okay, it's not remotely clear what "Y" is with mouse/keys

[shrugtheironteacup]

[Iammadmak]

[GcDiaz]

Man, you know what? I dunno why I ever ignored Faith builds in the past (oh wait yeah I do: DS1 is why). They fixed it, and boy did they ever. Having too much fun with this to ever go back to straight melee or Sorc.


Also: Sunbro at last!
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Let's bring sexy back!

[CubaLibre]

Yeah I have started pumping my Faith recently. I've always been a Temple Knight at heart.

Fuck this fuckin Belfry place. Did they really have to put in another gank squad area? Really?
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[Felix]

yeaahhhhhh Archdrake I never did find a shield I could be bothered to swap it out for long-term

kind of want an excuse to use the King's Mirror but [space lance voice] it's so heavy!

[parker]

I feel like a lot of these places should be giant 90s pc crpg labyrinths (the places and mood of the game remind me of anvil of dawn a lot) and then you get there and it's a just a goofy little playground area like iron keep.
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[Felix]

Demon's was much closer to that than Dark was, even -- I think it's more the preponderance of exceptionally goofy areas like Iron Keep in DkS2 that invite complaint. but I think we started to touch on "is it still a good metrovania" in the other thread?

[scratchmonkey]

[Felix]

also beating the boss there makes the end boss from that path much easier

(if this is the only terminus you've reached, go back to Majula! There are a few more directions you can head in.)

[scratchmonkey]

The difference isn't enough to make it mandatory though, and if you really want to make that fight easier, summoning will do the job as well.

[CubaLibre]

[Tulpa]

I was able to get through belfry luna pretty easily and I was pvping there as well? I dunno it's such a small area you can get to the top in a single dash pretty much.
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[Tulpa]

Which is to say I was able to clear it and open the boss gate.

Now I need to get up the nerve to fight those gargoyles :/

They're totally destroying me every time I try, what's their secret.
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[diplo]

Nothing, they're just a dumb boss trio because multiple targets = challenge

Summon someone and chug estus

[Ronnoc]

I finally made it back to the Belfry and kicked them right in their butts.


Prostrats: be overleveled?

[scratchmonkey]

They're rough for pure melee characters, as you're going to be fighting more than one for 95% of the fight. Ranged characters, just play defense, get them all clustered at one end, run to the other end, get off as many easy hits as you can as they rush over to you, rinse, wash repeat.

Concentrate on damaging one of them at a time. Two spawn right at the start, a third spawns at 90% on the boss health bar, then another at 70% and then a third at 50%. So if you spread around your damage you can wind up facing 4 or 5 at the same time, which is rough. If you're high-DPS, you can blast the one that spawns to your left right off the bat; otherwise, the general strategy should be trying to keep them to only 2 at a time, then concentrate on getting on good hits on one of them. Once they get below 50% on their individual bars, they like to breath fire, either in a 180 degree arc on the ground or flying up in the air -- if they do it on the ground, they're a sitting duck for running around behind them and giving 'em a smack.

It's a lot easier if you can at least one summon so that you can trade off dealing damage and tanking attacks.

[CubaLibre]

I've been doing most of the bosses co-op. This is a big change from Demon's and Dark 1, where I took great pride in beating all the bosses myself with a melee character.

I dunno, a lot of them have an "I get it" pattern where I just don't feel like doing all the waiting in between when I can poke. Jolly co-operation makes it go faster. I'm having a lot of fun with it this time around.

I'm at Earthen Peak and cheated cause I was getting antsy about being able to infuse stuff. Apparently the thing I need is right in the next area, so that's good.
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[Talbain]

[Felix]

[GcDiaz]

[Talbain]

Does anyone have exact information on how scaling works with weapons/spells/armor in this game? There seems to be a lot of conflict on the wiki due to scaling not seeming to be normalized for all types of weapons (that is, not all scaling on Ultra Greatswords is consistent).

The only thing that has really bugged me so far is that certain boss encounters don't seem like they were intended to be soloable for certain build types (Ruin Sentinels seem particularly egregious. I know that they are technically beatable with a solo naked Sorcerer using just spells, but god the level of technical expertise you need with rolling is ridiculous and they become so much easier with just one other person helping). On the other hand it also seems like certain encounters were (maybe intentionally) made to be destroyed by certain builds. (The Dragon Shrine in particular is made a joke if you have spells/bows - I now know that Dragons are extremely weak to spells though so that was just a weakness I was accidentally exploiting my first time through that area).

Also this has been my first time through with a melee character and fuck those stupid exploding jumpy zombies in the Lost Bastille. God those guys are just pure obnoxiousness, made worse by the fact that they die in one hit to everything so they are another technical space challenge more than an "this enemy is tough" challenge. In that sense the design does seem much more built around the areas encounters exist in and thus combat feels more tense, but it still feels like the AI is reactive and the times when it seems adaptive is when the game's at its best. I find it frustrating how much less important rolling feels in this game as a result of enemies like these zombies whose body explosion makes your roll effectively useless and your predictive capability with regards to their attacks more important.
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[CubaLibre]

[Rud31]

A month into the console release you hardly see signs* so enjoy it while it lasts.

*- everyone is super hungry for signs so scoops them the second they appear or .
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