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[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49538870]And yet here I am, ready to defeat Smough and Ornestein Who's the n00b now, uhm? [B]UHM?[/B][/QUOTE] I don't like your tone.

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49538870]And yet here I am, ready to defeat Smough and Ornestein Who's the n00b now, uhm? [B]UHM?[/B][/QUOTE] 38 damage isn't ready. Your time to farm for shards really was before Sen's Fortress. Going into a boss fight unprepared is more of the "n00b" mistake. Even level 1 challenge players go in with upgraded weapons.

So I got 100% achievements on DS2 SotFS and I feel I can safely narrow down why this game is worse than all the others ( yet still good, mind you ) [img]http://i.imgur.com/Y7EJ7Cm.png[/img] The game is pathetically easy and when it's hard, it's ridiculously unfair garbage. There's no pacing whatsoever with difficulty; zones are often ten times harder than their respective bosses and mostly because of one particularly bullshit enemy that has one or multiple of these things; unbreakable poise, infinite combos, extremely delayed attacks, 100% tracking on most/all of their attacks, lingering "shockwave" hitboxes and/or straight up buggy animations. The only way to properly pace the difficulty would be to fill a zone with Velstadts, Sir Alonnes, Aavas and Darklurkers with the boss being a single Greathammer Drakekeeper. This says a lot about how stupid the game gets. This is ontop of the fact that world building quality went down, you have no sense of direction and everything feels insanely out of place, like they designed each zone invidividually and haphazardly pieced them together instead of creating one single organic world. But powerstancing and the simplified upgrade system are all pretty cool so I guess it evens out.

Gonna' dick around some more on my Lancer build, feel free to jump in and watch [url]http://www.twitch.tv/nidbutt/[/url] [t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/393295805967343614/9CC5199C65C8C0A06AC708C22A154B9C6525F6FD/[/t] [editline]woah nelly[/editline] I just met 2 different dragon lancers in the same area. IT'S SPREADING

Refreshing my memory a bit of playing the last DS2 DLC. Why DID the knights in their prisons just vanish when you open the doors? If they could do that all this time, why couldn't they just "poof" out of their cells and be on the spot by the [sp]hole to the Old Chaos and wait for someone to challenge the Ivory King?[/sp] [IMG]http://pre05.deviantart.net/abc8/th/pre/i/2015/002/f/5/knight_of_eleum_loyce_by_fbende-d8cax7i.jpg[/IMG]

I always saw it that they didn't have the will to fight the Chaos unless lead by someone brave enough. They probably put themselves in those rooms.

if that's true, wouldn't they have gone hollow?

Holy shit so many people pulling their plugs tonight. Do they not realize there's an offline mode? :v:

[QUOTE=Nidhogg;49540232]Holy shit so many people pulling their plugs tonight. Do they not realize there's an offline mode? :v:[/QUOTE] "I want all the benefits of a summon, but none of the drawbacks of a potential invasion."

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;49539029]Did she drop any good loot?[/QUOTE] She dropped a set of clothes (Dinky? Dingy? Something like that) and a Black Eye item. And I had a new Fire Soul to upgrade my vial too... Oh one more thing. I ended up staying too long idled near the praying parasite dudes in the Demon Ruins (solo'd the witch on my first try, surprised myself there). My character started scratching his head and I grew a giant blob over it, removing my helmet piece. I dunno what it does exactly because I used the acorn item to get rid of it. What would it have done to me if I had kept it?

[QUOTE=alpha00zero;49540305]She dropped a set of clothes (Dinky? Dingy? Something like that) and a Black Eye item. And I had a new Fire Soul to upgrade my vial too... Oh one more thing. I ended up staying too long idled near the praying parasite dudes in the Demon Ruins (solo'd the witch on my first try, surprised myself there). My character started scratching his head and I grew a giant blob over it, removing my helmet piece. I dunno what it does exactly because I used the acorn item to get rid of it. What would it have done to me if I had kept it?[/QUOTE] Did... Did you use her soul to upgrade your flask? [editline]15th January 2016[/editline] Also you grew a parasite head, the guys erupt into worms that infect your player. After a while the players head transforms into a parasite, your kick is replaced with a biting worm. The acorn thing is a vermifuge which reverses the effect. It's the only use of an egg vermifuge so there's no reason you shouldn't use it. [editline]15th January 2016[/editline] The black eye orb is so you can bring justice to the person of that world, and that person is who killed the fire keeper. Kill the person to reclaim the fire keepers soul, and then [i]don't use it to upgrade your flask.[/i]

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;49540384]Did... Did you use her soul to upgrade your flask?[/QUOTE] No... I only upgrade once with the Fire Soul that was in Undead Parish's Church. I found another one today in Blighttown behind bars guarded by a pack of fire doggies and dart shooters. I beat up the Queen, rang the bell, got a blob head, frustrated myself with Ceaseless Discharge, turned around and finished my session in Firelink. Found out she was dead, gold dude is gone and I just talked to the serpent with teeth. That's it. My Flask is at +1 since the beginning.

Seath is by far, my least favorite boss fight in the whole god damn game.

[QUOTE=alpha00zero;49540454]No... I only upgrade once with the Fire Soul that was in Undead Parish's Church. I found another one today in Blighttown behind bars guarded by a pack of fire doggies and dart shooters. I beat up the Queen, rang the bell, got a blob head, frustrated myself with Ceaseless Discharge, turned around and finished my session in Firelink. Found out she was dead, gold dude is gone and I just talked to the serpent with teeth. That's it. My Flask is at +1 since the beginning.[/QUOTE] Get revenge for the Firekeeper, wait for a response from the orb. All I can really say.

[t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/362904756550113928/FF0E816C802ABFD3C7584395F0E51772DE6183AB/[/t] Feels nice to be the only shiny guy in fight clubs. :v: [editline]15th January 2016[/editline] So apparently Amazon Prime members are now getting 20% discounts off newly released games and pre-orders, this including Dark Souls III. However, this only applies to physical copies.

[QUOTE=Schmaaa;49540223]if that's true, wouldn't they have gone hollow?[/QUOTE] Maybe not, they don't have the will to fight without a brave leader but the will to fight is still there none the less.

What baffles me is that I can do relatively high damage to Smough, is One-Winged angel Ornestein that gives me troubles (he has a resistance against slashing, perhaps?)

Why you callin him one winged angel?

X-post from the 3d art thread [QUOTE=WrathOfCat;49541408][URL="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/170260716/Pictures/Dark%20Souls/Massive_Final.png"]I got ahold of the world collision meshes for the game Dark Souls, so i rendered them all out in a 15360x8640 759MB image.[/URL][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=WrathOfCat;49541505]X-post from the 3d art thread[/QUOTE] Note to self: don't try to open up a near 800MB image on your phone. It crashed so hard I had to do a manual reset.

[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;49539640]So I got 100% achievements on DS2 SotFS and I feel I can safely narrow down why this game is worse than all the others ( yet still good, mind you ) [img]http://i.imgur.com/Y7EJ7Cm.png[/img] The game is pathetically easy and when it's hard, it's ridiculously unfair garbage. There's no pacing whatsoever with difficulty; zones are often ten times harder than their respective bosses and mostly because of one particularly bullshit enemy that has one or multiple of these things; unbreakable poise, infinite combos, extremely delayed attacks, 100% tracking on most/all of their attacks, lingering "shockwave" hitboxes and/or straight up buggy animations. The only way to properly pace the difficulty would be to fill a zone with Velstadts, Sir Alonnes, Aavas and Darklurkers with the boss being a single Greathammer Drakekeeper. This says a lot about how stupid the game gets. This is ontop of the fact that world building quality went down, you have no sense of direction and everything feels insanely out of place, like they designed each zone invidividually and haphazardly pieced them together instead of creating one single organic world. But powerstancing and the simplified upgrade system are all pretty cool so I guess it evens out.[/QUOTE] Every area must be filled with Drakekeeper Hammers and Maldron the Assassin. Each boss is a colored version of Smelter Demon with different properties and delays.

[QUOTE=For No Reason;49541376]Why you callin him one winged angel?[/QUOTE] [URL="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneWingedAngel"]I spend too much time on TV Tropes[/URL]

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What would lead a man to stoop to the cruelty of invading in the Nightmare of Mensis

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49538738]Just to clarify, my Uchigatana does 38 damage per it to One-Winged Angel Ornestein Time to farm for titanite shards, perhaps?[/QUOTE] You can try farming leeches in Blighttown, they drop 1 large titanite shard or 5 green shards, its good for farming both shards and large shards, especially because green shard can be split into 5 titanite shards each using Kingseeker Frampt's feed "titanite x" option. But of course, first get the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring and get your humanity to 10 before farming like others said.

the occult club is always there if you lack an appropriate weapon

[QUOTE=darkside267;49541938]You can try farming leeches in Blighttown, they drop 1 large titanite shard or 5 green shards, its good for farming both shards and large shards, especially because green shard can be split into 5 titanite shards each using Kingseeker Frampt's feed "titanite x" option. But of course, first get the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring and get your humanity to 10 before farming like others said.[/QUOTE] He's probably got more than enough large shards since they're littered around Sens Fortress. It's the small ones he probably needs, and he can buy them for 800 souls each.

My plan was to farm Anor Londo and buy the shards I need from the giant blacksmith

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49542080]My plan was to farm Anor Londo and buy the shards I need from the giant blacksmith[/QUOTE] That's an ok way to get the materials, but you'll have to go back to Andre to ascend from +5 to +6 anyway. [editline]16th January 2016[/editline] Out of curiosity, how many large titanite shards and ordinary titanite shards do you have?

[QUOTE=Jojje;49541920]What would lead a man to stoop to the cruelty of invading in the Nightmare of Mensis[/QUOTE] Happened to me too, after two minutes of janky combat he dashed off the edge.