Dark Souls for PC

L_No 2017-07-19 21:14:26 UTC #5601

Dark Souls 2 veterans, how do you deal with slower weapons when fighting invaders or invading yourself? I’m currently sporting a +10 broadsword, whoch has a very fast moveset, and tried switching to an upgraded broadsword. The broadsword is so slow in comparison that I can’t seem to hit a thing without getting absolutely destroyed myself. Any tips?

Heliocentric 2017-07-19 21:46:49 UTC #5602

broadsword and a broadsword? Typo?

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[]Keep a polearm handy, a nice light one, keep it in the off hand, feel free to swap between it and a shield as needed. Use it to punish people trying to play the range game against your slower sword. If you can’t stomach the polearms, pyromancy and hexes can fill the same hole depending on your stats.
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[]A key factor is ambush and panic if you are invading or being invaded.
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[]Keep a seed of a giant tree equipped in your hot bar but only use it when it would turn a fight(it makes enemies attack invaders).
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[]Join the Way of Blue, skill Blue Phantoms are great help.
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[]Chameleon is your friend, if the invader can’t find you the odds of a blue defender is pretty good.
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[]Watch for environments when your opponent has a disadvantage, it might be lots of attack blocking terrain which doesn’t effect your swords, it might be environmental hazards
[/LIST][LIST]If you are invading, strike when the host is busy fighting for their life.
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[]Be sure you Fashion Souls and use emotes.
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[]The Cling Ring will stop your matchmaking from getting too high.
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GameCat 2017-07-20 07:52:33 UTC #5603

You mean greatsword? It’s fucking amazing weapon and you can totally destroy everything with it.

L_No 2017-07-20 14:05:20 UTC #5604

Ugh, late night typing strikes again. I am using a +10 broadsword and meant to try a bastard sword (basically a greatsword), but found it too slow. Thanks for the advice!

GameCat 2017-07-25 07:55:53 UTC #5605

I’m almost done with my git gud playthrough (no twinking, no summons etc. like in first 2 playthroughs). There’s only Nameless King left from base game, part of Ariandel just before Friede fight (I hate these hills, I don’t have an idea where I should go) and whole Ringed City.

Sun Sword (I have faith build) is awesome, although I wish it had stance skill instead of buff. It’s really useful for dealing with shielded tanks.

EPICTHEFAIL 2017-07-25 12:14:17 UTC #5606

It does have mad deeps. IIRC it stacks with Blessed Weapon and you can exploit that for mad physical AR, or go with Sunlight Blade for split damage.

L_No 2017-07-25 14:56:42 UTC #5607

Still working my way through DkSII: SotFS, 40+ hours in now. I’ve just beaten the Old King. I more or less stumbled across him while exploring the Iron Keep (dreadful place, would not recommend) with more than 30k souls available. Fortunately I managed to kill him on my first attempt, so my 30k souls survived. I’ve just entered the second DLC area now, Brume tower. It looks very impressive, but haven’t had a chance to explore it yet.

I find DkSII easier than Dark Souls the first, probably due to experience. I haven’t hit a real wall yet, like I did when I first encountered Ornstein & Smaugh in DkSI. The Smelter Demon was quite difficult, especially due to the enemy-heavy run-up, but even that wasn’t comparable to O&S. I simply grinded away all the enemies and tackled the boss after that. I do have to say that DkSII strays dangerously close to straight-up “that’s just bullshit”-territory here and there. Some of the enemy placement, coupled with the level design, seems to have been designed to annoy you and slow you down as much as possible without providing an actual challenge. Of course every game has its weak spots (looking at you, Capra Demon and Anor Londo Archers), but I don’t remember DkSI having as many, especially when it comes to fighting multiple enemies or even bosses at once.

GameCat 2017-07-25 16:16:38 UTC #5608

Vanilla DS2 doesn’t have much bullshit enemies placement too.

Sihoiba 2017-07-30 21:42:09 UTC #5609

Finally beat Sister Friede solo (SL110), haven’t had a chance to play DS3 in a while. It took me 2 or 3 attempts today, but finally managed to catch her when she does her disappearing trick phase 3.

This means I’m at last attempting the Ringed City DLC. Currently in a fight with an interesting pair, can get through the first stage, but not yet the 2nd.

DarkFenix 2017-07-30 23:42:21 UTC #5610

The interesting pair’s second stage differs depending on which one you took out first. One of them is a much easier fight than the other, that can make all the difference.

L_No 2017-07-31 07:58:34 UTC #5611

I take that back, at least when it comes to the DLC. Where the base game isn’t all that hard, the DLC can be hard as nails. I haven’t played the third one (Ivory King) yet, but Crown of the Old Iron King was a slog, despite the interesting environments. I haven’t beaten the final boss yet, but the normal enemies hit like a freight train and have huge health bars. Crown of the Iron King almost soured me on the entire game, so I’m not sure I’ll give it another go on a new playthrough.

GameCat 2017-07-31 08:13:49 UTC #5612

DLCs are often overwhelming thanks to level design with lot of branching paths, verticality and points of no return but they’re still best part of the game.

Sihoiba 2017-07-31 13:36:56 UTC #5613

One version appears to have a laser the other a meteor swarm. The former seems easier,

LTK 2017-07-31 14:24:03 UTC #5614

I prefer the meteor storm. It can be interrupted if you hit the boss enough during the windup; it doesn’t spell certain death that way.

Also, you can avoid the laser entirely if you Stretch Out in the right position.

GameCat 2017-07-31 19:50:25 UTC #5615

Eh, I’ve killed them solo a few days ago and that laser is easy to dodge and it leaves a window for quite a lot of hits or healing.

Or you can just use lay down emote and then demon can shoot his laser all the day and it will not hit you.

EPICTHEFAIL 2017-07-31 20:43:37 UTC #5616

I’ve never fully figured out the meteor storm’s mechanics though. The beam sweep is easy enough to deal with, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to reliably stun the red demon out of the charge-up (one would think a full 40 STA endurance bar from a +5 Black Knight Sword at 40/40 STR/DEX would be enough, but no), or how to reliably evade its seemingly perfect tracking. I have managed it once, by accident, but I’ve no idea what I did differently to all of the times I died a horrible flaming death to it.

LTK 2017-08-01 03:26:18 UTC #5617

That can’t be right. He staggers from 3 greatsword hits, tops. At that point the spell cancels and the meteors will drop straight down, without tracking, so you can avoid them just by running backwards. If you were hitting him in the hope that the meteors would go away, that’s where you went wrong.

EPICTHEFAIL 2017-08-01 10:30:05 UTC #5618

I was attacking him during the charge-up animation, SOP for the spell activating is to run the hell away and hope they somehow miss. Maybe I was hitting him in the wrong place?

LTK 2017-08-01 11:08:38 UTC #5619

Maybe? I always hit him in the front but I don’t think it matters. The cue for the spell interrupting is that he stops spewing fire. You can see what a successful interrupt looks like here.

Sihoiba 2017-08-02 08:49:50 UTC #5620

Twins down, versus laser using final form. Was a good defeat 0 Estus left about 1 mistake from dead.

Helped that a 2H Great Mace could stagger him during his laser attack, and also he didn’t use his grab. (The grab would be find to avoid if he used it frequently enough I’d recognise the wind up). Also being able to block everything with a maxed Yhorm shield buffed with Magic Shield.

The opening is all patience and not getting toxic’ed (though they have annoying timing where it comes to one seems to be always firing purple sparkles when the other is providing an opening). The latter is about getting close and running towards him, and blocking. So much blocking.