Dark Souls and Demon's Souls Megathread VI. Katana Gank Squad Edition - Games

We don't know if existing users will have a discount though. If it is $45 I think I could only pay for it if I got it for 75% off.

Seeing as they've not said anything so far and they're making it another full priced release, i doubt we'll be getting a discount.

Is DS1 completely dead now?

[QUOTE=Galen;46968720]Is DS1 completely dead now?[/QUOTE] U wot m8? It's more alive than Tanimura Souls 2 right now.

[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;46968665]If Google's yen to dollar conversion is right, the 5,200 at the bottom is around $45. So you're paying for the whole base game a second time.[/QUOTE] are you FUCKING KIDDING ME okay, fuck From. First they repeatedly break the game with each "balancing" update, nerfing shit that didn't need to be nerfed and fucking everything into oblivion, and NOW they want us to seriously pay the full fucking price to buy it again? you have GOT to be shitting me. This is EA levels of "fuck you"

[quote=Skipcast;45687533][img]http://u.rtag.me/s/lKULbVxL.png[/img] lets do this shit[/quote] Took me ~156 days with a long pause in the middle but i made it. Finished the game! Now onto dark souls with aggression mod and perma gravelord. RIP

[QUOTE=Hammer7;46968734]U wot m8? It's more alive than Tanimura Souls 2 right now.[/QUOTE] Just realized why I haven't found any summon signs :v: I forgot to reverse my hollowing :suicide: God I haven't played in so long

Alva knight set looks so good

[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;46966679]Vaati's videos are really getting worse. He's still harping on with the generic "Light is good, dark is bad" crap, which flies in the face of loads of characters and their stories. Now he's even added some shit about how the lord souls were "Souls of light, dark, life, and death", when the Dark Soul was the only one ever noted as being different from the others, and even that was just because the furtive pygmy hid it away rather than using it to get crazy power. It really takes away from the characters when he acts as though they're just being controlled like puppets for their souls. Like the Witch of Izalith was somehow always supposed to create demons.[/QUOTE] In all fairness youtubers like Vaati are working with what they got, which is precious little because the B-team got lore mixed up with plot when they started making DkS2.

I think he mainly means the aspects the souls take/are drawn to rather than the souls themselves. Light is Gwyn, Dark is the Witch, Life is the Furtive Pygmy and Death is Nito.

Or Dark is Manus and Life is the Witch i guess, depending on how you look at it. [editline]19th January 2015[/editline] Fuck, i meant that to merge.

God damn I forgot how bad the loyce soul grind is.

[url]http://fashion-souls.com/[/url] fabulous

[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;46971322]Or Dark is Manus and Life is the Witch i guess, depending on how you look at it. [editline]19th January 2015[/editline] Fuck, i meant that to merge.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that'd make more sense to me, seeing as Manus obviously resides in the dark or the abyss, while the witch tried to use her soul to bring life. (not in the form of demons tho) Also, this is how I'll roll from now on. literally. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/cC48dds.png[/IMG]

Every time i invade somene they summon anothe player to so it will be 1v2. Please grow a back bone and fight like a man

[QUOTE=Teippiman;46972895]Every time i invade somene they summon anothe player to so it will be 1v2. Please grow a back bone and fight like a man[/QUOTE] you shouldn't expect someone to fight fair if they have no choice in whether they fight you or not still sucks, though

And what's up with the low lvl pvp builds. Someone just invaded me and i hit him with a +5 claymore and he didn't even block. 10damage and then he 2hits me with some flame sword

[QUOTE=Teippiman;46973007]And what's up with the low lvl pvp builds. Someone just invaded me and i hit him with a +5 claymore and he didn't even block. 10damage and then he 2hits me with some flame sword[/QUOTE] dark souls 1 had a huge problem with hackers, especially in undead parish, not sure if the same still applies

[QUOTE=Teippiman;46973007]And what's up with the low lvl pvp builds. Someone just invaded me and i hit him with a +5 claymore and he didn't even block. 10damage and then he 2hits me with some flame sword[/QUOTE] was one of the people you invaded a guy with the most fucked up face you have ever seen named hot plate because I was using a 2h fire longsword (you get it in forest of the fallen giants really easily, it's not hacked) and playing with two friends a little while ago :v: I did run into an abnormaly high amount of what appeared to be hackers the other day tho, like a guy who was hitting me without animations and was really smug when I died, and a guy who didn't die when killed, their corpse just flopped down and they kept attacking as an invisible corpse

[QUOTE=Hakita;46973044]dark souls 1 had a huge problem with hackers, especially in undead parish, not sure if the same still applies[/QUOTE] If it was DS1 he didn't even have to hack to achieve that. The one good thing sm did was get rid of low-level invaders with endgame gear.

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;46971899][url]http://fashion-souls.com/[/url] fabulous[/QUOTE] [url]http://souls.darknode.org/[/url] I wish this one took off more.

okay, if I start a new character I have some questions: are lightning spears/miracles still useless? I heard from a friend that they were working on a patch to unfuck them. I can still play with people who have the DLCs, even if I don't have them myself, right? What's the generally "best" SM range for pvp? I know some players usually keeps their char at around level 150 but yaknow

yes yes, but not dlc areas (although I think there was an exploit to get summoned anyway) 15mil

[QUOTE=Schmaaa;46973988]okay, if I start a new character I have some questions: are lightning spears/miracles still useless? I heard from a friend that they were working on a patch to unfuck them. I can still play with people who have the DLCs, even if I don't have them myself, right? What's the generally "best" SM range for pvp? I know some players usually keeps their char at around level 150 but yaknow[/QUOTE] Here's a comparison chart for you from one of my earlier posts: [QUOTE=Elspin;46961961]So here's a damage comparison at 50int/50faith on basic hollows (NG+) between sunlight spear, CSS, and GRS (climax not included because you need major soul items to keep using it in a row, it's not really a bread and butter spell) using the best possible casting tools for each [b]Sunlight spear (1-3 casts/slot) : 872 damage Crystal Soul Spear (1-2.5 casts/slot): 1427 damage*** (see below) Great resonant soul (2-4 casts/slot): 933 damage[/b] So in order (ignoring resistances, which are [i]generally[/i] in miracles favour) we have: -Sun spear being the weakest, with the mid range of casts, with [i]minor[/i] splash -GRS being the medium damage, while also taking souls and demanding an extremely higher stat investment (climax should be a fair amount higher but again it's too weird to directly compare against the other 2) -Soul spear doing by far the greatest damage, with the most minimal stat investment[/QUOTE] Worth noting those tests were done on enemies that afaik have basically no resistances, and bosses are on average [url=http://darksouls2.wikidot.com/resistance#toc2]much weaker[/url] to lightning than other elements. So basically I wouldn't go miracles just for the lightning spears but they're not so absolutely terrible that if I really wanted the supportive stuff I'd still pick another magic branch [editline]ddd[/editline] Turns out the test was botched, the enemy I used to test has medium resistances across the board [i]except[/i] for magic damage which it has very low resistances in, which is why crystal soul spear looks so strong there. Apparently belfry chumps have the most flat resistances across the board so I'll do a test on them later tonight I guess. Depending on how significant that very low resistance is, lightning spears might be looking even better. [editline]yyy[/editline] The math on the website suggests that if they had had medium resistances, they should have taken about 1110 from crystal soul spear, not 1427. Which puts it much closer to lightning spear though still significantly more damaging

[QUOTE=Schmaaa;46973988]okay, if I start a new character I have some questions: are lightning spears/miracles still useless? I heard from a friend that they were working on a patch to unfuck them. I can still play with people who have the DLCs, even if I don't have them myself, right? What's the generally "best" SM range for pvp? I know some players usually keeps their char at around level 150 but yaknow[/QUOTE] They're still useless, especially on bosses. You can still play with DLC owners, yes and there really isn't an SM sweet spot that i know of. So just try the 15m that lintz suggested.

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[QUOTE=Schmaaa;46973988]okay, if I start a new character I have some questions: are lightning spears/miracles still useless? I heard from a friend that they were working on a patch to unfuck them. I can still play with people who have the DLCs, even if I don't have them myself, right? What's the generally "best" SM range for pvp? I know some players usually keeps their char at around level 150 but yaknow[/QUOTE] That depends. Sunlight Spear is still pretty fucking powerful, but Lightning Spear and Great Lightning Spear are mediocre, at best. Other Miracles still seem fine to me, though. The only way you can play in the DLC areas without owning the DLCs yourself is by visiting the entrance rooms to the DLC areas and placing your summon sign by one of the tombstones. People who are venturing inside the DLC areas can spot your summon sign showing up in specific locations. Soul memory is a fickle matter. For NG, it's best to keep your SM around 2-5 million. For NG+ Probably anywhere from 15 million or higher.

Part of the problem with Sunlight Spear is that it still got with the nerf and actually became harder to get because people stopped playing as much.

What are the best greatswords? I'm currently using a mastodon greatsword +10 and an ultra greatsword +10, tried the dragon curved greatsword but it feels kind of weird to use and I don't have the upgrade materials for it

[QUOTE=DS_;46974685]What are the best greatswords? I'm currently using a mastodon greatsword +10 and an ultra greatsword +10, tried the dragon curved greatsword but it feels kind of weird to use and I don't have the upgrade materials for it[/QUOTE] The zweihander is great because you can play golf with it and send people flying over edges.