[sarsamis]

Thankfully I've found that if someone has a monastery scimitar, if I pull my own out and put it back they'll likely switch theirs out too and then we have a normal game. Like it's just understood that we're both just as broken as one another so we may as well play the real game again.

If they don't take it off then I just keep mine out and we spend forever baiting parries, jump attacking, etc. :/

[Gideon Zhi]

Because I feel like I need to plug this in as many places as possible, here's a little project I spent the evening on.
https://twitter.com/dks2_ebooks

You can tweet "guidance" in a @dks2_ebooks mention and it'll respond within 90 seconds. It otherwise posts once every hour.
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Aeon Genesis ~ Ambassador Thorman great man! I do anything he say!

[GcDiaz]

it works.

Damn, but dark chasm of old is actually kinda difficult. By which I mean I've been terribly spoiled by the PvE so far, this place is no joke at all and I should step up my game.
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Let's bring sexy back!

[Tulpa]

dark chasm was pretty easy for me, but I did it late game enough that there's not much anything there could do about sunlight spears and great lightning spears, I just picked them off one at a time from range and dealt with casters and the final boss of the area with a rebel's greatshield

speaking of, it's really fun to just walk straight at magic users in pvp while holding up a rebel greatshield and watching them freak out when their hexes do chip damage.
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[parker]

[Felix]

most people who play WoW actually just want to twink out and/or relax, they're not evaluating critically in that sense

[Talbain]

[mauve]

this is correct; mmos are social outlets first and are games only as something to discuss and exist within.

raiding exists as it does more as an organizational and community challenge than as a game, so to speak. a strategic/meta-game aspect, rather than a tactical one.
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[parker]

Well they don't got to make it as difficult or complex as a souls game, I just mean not charge monthly money for what's actually a padded single player rpg with co-op. Multiplayer wise they don't function any different from souls games, it's not like the game itself actually takes advantage of having all those players standing there at once
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[CubaLibre]

WoW used to be a lot more difficult, actually. Even the non-raiding stuff. Mechanical difficulty isn't its problem.

[parker]

Did I mess up something or what cause I've been getting invaded almost nonstop since I went to ng+ and my friend says he hasn't gotten invaded at all. It happens almost immediately every time I go back to a bonfire. I don't see hardly any summons signs ever either. My buddy is only able to summon me if I wear the ring thing.
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[sarsamis]

What's your soul memory at? That started happening to me after I hit 12 million, but that was well into NG+ and after grinding for a bit because I got obsessed with maxing out my stamina. I can't imagine you hit that so early on unless you were doing a lot of pvp (which starts to give crazy amounts of souls at higher levels).

[parker]

I guess it's 9 million. The only extra stuff I did was repeat the giant lord a handful of times for some extra twinkling titanite. I didn't realize it had made that much of a difference.
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[sarsamis]

^ That guy gives a pretty ridiculous number of souls later on; it's the best grinding area in the game.

And yeah, I guess most who've reached that are getting bored with pve and are invading now.

[parker]

Okay I guess my character is just unplayable from now on. I can only summon my one buddy and if he's available and wearing the right ring and I literally can't go two minutes without being invaded and I have no interest in pvp. That'll teach me from playing the game too much next time. I wasn't even interested in getting souls out of that giant lord fight in the first place, I just wanted the upgrade materials. I should of just stayed in new game nonplussed and bonfire anesthetized every area and tried it out that way I guess.
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[Tulpa]

join the way of blue and let blue sentinels deal with invaders, there should be tons at that soul memory.
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[mauve]

soul memory is real. also it's part of the reason i stopped. http://darksouls2.wikidot.com/online-matchmaking

the aerie is a much better place to get upgrade materials fwiw.
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[CubaLibre]

[Tulpa]

[Tulpa]

Oh and for reference, once you hit 12 million soul memory, you'll be able to connect to anyone from 7 million up to 999 million using a white sign soapstone, so it should be significantly easier to find coop again at that point. I feel like 3 million to 9 million is kind of a dead zone of soul memory, with most players either above or below that.
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[parker]

[mauve]

jump attacks solve everything
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[Amish Chipmunk]

Only now do I realize that the jump attack is not an attack you execute by jumping and then attacking. I wonder how I missed that one.
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[diplo]

[parker]

Yeah Rotten and Velstadt were the two bosses I had trouble with. With Rotten I just had to eventually put a red eye ring on and let Lucatiel handle it, I couldn't get anything going. Velstadt didn't seem to fall for that though and the summonable guy was worse than useless. I can't believe I've seen people mention Old Iron King as being anything close to difficult though, I thought that one was the easiest boss in the entire game, and most dissapointing because he's a giant satan. He just slowly slams his fist down and leaves it there as a punching bag for 2 minutes over and over.
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[misadventurous]

the rotten drove me crazy, because it would have been the easiest boss in the world to beat without the mad tracking/bad terrain. it felt cheap.

old iron king is really easy (the real boss is the stupid lava pit in the middle of his arena) but the easiest is covetous demon, hands down. i made baby noises and was like WHOS A GOOD BOY at all his big dumb predictable attacks. i dont think hes ever hit me or ever will.

[mauve]

velstadt's like super easy? his attacks do a surprisingly low amount of stamina on block and you can just roll his highly telegraphed stuff pretty easily. rotten is in the same boat generally, slow easily telegraphed attacks.

if you don't pump agi somehow it can be kinda hard to roll effectively vs old iron king though, and sometimes you just get phantom hitboxed off the edge anyway.
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[Felix]

Rotten is extraordinarily easy with the fire old whip because your melee range is better than his, the terrain isn't that hard to circle strafe around, and he's slow and weak to fire. I may have had the best possible weapon against him and not realized it.

[CubaLibre]

Yeah I found Rotten to be one of the easier bosses. His attacks are just easy to roll. Super big telegraphs.

In general I feel that the game suffers from having too many bosses. It doesn't have enough ideas to cover them all, and a lot of them end up feeling pretty lame or pretty samey.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[Brooks]

Aye, there was enough not-boss exploration to make the bosses seem all the grander in the last game

The fact you've got not one but two bossweapon generators also... did the excess of bosses come first or the desire to have a load of extra weapons?

[a pair of gators]

i'm just glad one of them constantly insults you & yells about souls

[diplo]

Yeah. Dark Souls has almost as many bosses but its lineup retains some of the individuality of Demon's' (sometimes to its detriment, sure (Bed of Chaos, Four Kings, Ceaseless Discharge)). There's only so much you can do with "[armored] humanoid with big sword/spear" before the mechanics and design start to show their limits. And, generally, the riffs on prior bosses don't do enough to be distinct. Most people are in agreement on the devs' resources running thin in that area.

Playing through this the third time and I just realized how bungling the placement for Drangleic Castle's lift activation is -- it's right after the "point of no return" (of course, a three-foot drop from a doorway), so the proceedings are all optional if you have a homeward bone on hand. And when you eventually open up that gated door close to the trio of elevated archers, there's not even a case to be made for its utility as a convenience in future exploration.

[Broco]

[parker]

I'm playing 1 now and I'm surprised there are these unique non respawning enemies. Why didn't 2 have anything like that
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[diplo]

It does, but in the most frequent case you kind of have to play the game with murderlust to figure it out.

[Ymer]

Anybody even noticed this?


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[Felix]

hah. oops.

[sarsamis]

That probably explains why the dogs in Lost Bastille hit so fast. I swear sometimes it seemed like I was just taking damage for being near them.

[diplo]

Phantom-hits seem to mostly happen with the spiders, spider-hosts, dogs, and muscledogs.

[Talbain]

[parker]

I don't remember anything like that except the npc phantoms and the sleeping knights
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