maybe, but it has a really dumb RH2 move. Take forever to wind up. I'd rather use my Claymore.
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Dark Souls: Remastered |OT| The Dark Souls of remasters
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maybe, but it has a really dumb RH2 move. Take forever to wind up. I'd rather use my Claymore.
Yes, weapons upgraded with Twinkling Titanite max out at +5. In case of the Black Knight Sword you don't have to worry about it falling behind if you keep your str or dex up a bit. It It can easily get you through the whole game.
The Shield is more of a situational item that you can swap out as needed, like against magic, fire etc.
For general use just get a shield with 100% Physical reduction and some decent stability.
Standing R2 yes, but it has great rolling and running moves too.
Claymore is godlike though and it might be my fav strength weapon.
Yea the Crest shield has 100% physical reduction and decent magic reduction so I decided to upgrade it.
Btw is there a softcap for strength like in Bloodborne?
I could swear it was 100, does this stat change with upgrades?
Siegmeyer is faster than he appears. I ran from Anor Londo, where I just helped him out, to Firelink Shrine. He beat me to the punch, but that can be forgiven because I explored more of AL after helping him there. I talk to him in Firelink and he says he's about to go to Blighttown. I run there myself, beelining there through the shortcut through the Valley of Drakes. I arrive at the swamp and lo and behold: Siegmeyer stands in the middle of it, in a bit of a pickle.
(I know the game teleports him there, just thought it was funny seeing it in action like this.)
(I know the game teleports him there, just thought it was funny seeing it in action like this.)
Just went there myself and got 6 regular large and 5 green titanite shards in one run. No humanity, only the gold serpent ring. Pretty decent, I'll say.
I have no idea why I thought you were using the Grass Crest Shield....
Crest has 100% reduction
I made this video a few years ago showing how you can just sprint through everything to get to the bonfire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yxYFS84zbo
Might be worth trying that a few times just to get the bonfire opened and then explore freely
Pretty much every man-serpent on the way to the top can be avoided or killed with a trap!
Yup, most stats dramatically fall off after 40. Endurance even stops giving you stamina there at all.
First time through is brutal. Know a few people who quit there.
Never played 1&2, beat both bloodborne and 3. I really love 3 and bloodborne. Worth giving these a try?
Dark Souls 1 has some of the best world design in all of gaming. The gameplay is much slower (and archaic in a few ways), but it's still generally fair and rewarding.
Quick question for the Soulsborne die hards. I put 200 hours into Demons back in the day. I Beat BB 3 times and very recently played Dark Souls 3 through multiple times. My Question is, coming off the back of DS3 and BB, is this going to feel super clunky and plodding comparatively? I'm tempted to buy either this or the SF anniversary this month but can't really stretch to both
Same here. I'm like 45% done with DS1. I'm playing it just so I can say I did, but there isn't a single thing I like about this game that Dark Souls 3 didn't do better.
Didn't play through Demons, but I've played through DS2,3 and BB (sans DLC). Dark Souls 1, the one I played first, still holds up. It IS going to take a couple hours to adjust to, though. Your character's slower but the levels themselves are far smaller as well.
First time ever playing as a divine build, and I am using a pole arm as well. I forgot how good this game is, I haven't played DS1 since 2012 or so. Sunlight spear is really nice at lower levels.
It plays really well. The framerate alone is night and day, and it still has the best world design of any of the souls games.
Yes its nice actually doing co-op now. When i played originally getting a match was terrible .
Yeah tbf 60fps is a huge selling point for me. Ahh maybe I'll end up impulse buying it. We'll see. Seems a shame to have missed it when I love the other games so much
If you're comfortable in your rolls, you can play it fast paced. Can't die if you don't get hit.
I mostly only use Claymore in all DS games. DS1's two handed R1 is so so so good.
Tip for anyone farming in the swamps of Blighttown: bring a bow to deal with the mosquitoes. Take out the ones approaching you, then manually aim at their spawn points. You can take them out as soon as they appear.
Both regular bows (short and long) work, but Longbow is better because you don't need to adjust your aim to take arrow trajectory into account (since the Shortbow has, well, shorter range).
I haven't tested it with Wooden Arrows yet, because I forgot to buy them. But the Standard Arrows are so overkill, the wooden ones should do the job as well. Especially if you reinforce the bow a couple of times.
Both regular bows (short and long) work, but Longbow is better because you don't need to adjust your aim to take arrow trajectory into account (since the Shortbow has, well, shorter range).
I haven't tested it with Wooden Arrows yet, because I forgot to buy them. But the Standard Arrows are so overkill, the wooden ones should do the job as well. Especially if you reinforce the bow a couple of times.
Two handed sword wielding or bust. Only way to play
Or wear the ring of fog, I don't think they've ever noticed me since. :)
I got invaded by a Giantdad and after he killed me I messaged him "you're just bad so you min max with giants armor" and he replied "git good scrub". You spend the time and effort to go Giantdad and you don't even say the line when they set it up?
Never meet your heroes. :(
Never meet your heroes. :(
Farm the other spears, please or you would become another melee class
I'v played every one with a greatshield and I am not stopping anytime soon. Its so satisfying to absorb a hit from a giant dragon/demon whatever and have it drain 1/4 of your stam and do no damage.
Haha! Occasionally I might whack on a Loin Cloth if I need some protection
Yeah knight has a fat roll, i switched the torso armor for the chained male one and its much better, it looks like other game, is there any advantage leveling up resistence skill?
Frampt. You don't get much, but it's a nice way to clear out your inventory/dupes.
I don't think I have that ring yet. Does it shorten aggro range?
Not really. There are other, better ways of improving your resistances and the points you put into it are of much more use to you in any other stat.
First time playing this game and getting grave lorded to heck and getting wrecked. I think in PtD I'd encountered 3 areas total that were affected by grave lords but now I'm getting it every area. It made the run to the rite of kindling in NG+ a challenge.
Also go back to the northern asylum and get the rusted iron ring. It lets you move through the swamp normally which greatly increases trip efficiency.
Are you using the Drake Sword by any chance?
Anyway, the place is very predictable. Once you know how it works you can use the traps to your advantage, and most enemies can be run past. For the pendulums, a good practice would be tilting the camera to an almost top-down perspective, then it's much easier to see where you need to stand. There's only one place where you need to clear all four in one run, for the rest you can wait them out.
Goals for my current run:
- No shield and use weapons I hate (curved swords and spears)
- Don't rely on any kind of magic (I am killing all the trainer NPCs immediately so I can't even fall back on them if I wanted).
- Learn to consistently kill bosses I still have trouble with (just Kalameet and Manus)
I think my dislike of curved swords is because of the lack of a kick, but I started as a Wanderer and intend to use Painted Guardian Sword eventually and mess about with spears (I think the Partizan is the one with the unique moveset?)
When I watch someone like LobosJr deal with Kalameet, his attacks and such seems easy to see coming, but when I fight him myself I seem to have terrible RNG or just trouble reacting in time to certain attacks. Manus is another one I get by through chugging estus - I'd love to be able to RTSR Manus so I could finally do a full game SL1 run - I've only ever done a SL1 run pre-DLC.
- No shield and use weapons I hate (curved swords and spears)
- Don't rely on any kind of magic (I am killing all the trainer NPCs immediately so I can't even fall back on them if I wanted).
- Learn to consistently kill bosses I still have trouble with (just Kalameet and Manus)
I think my dislike of curved swords is because of the lack of a kick, but I started as a Wanderer and intend to use Painted Guardian Sword eventually and mess about with spears (I think the Partizan is the one with the unique moveset?)
When I watch someone like LobosJr deal with Kalameet, his attacks and such seems easy to see coming, but when I fight him myself I seem to have terrible RNG or just trouble reacting in time to certain attacks. Manus is another one I get by through chugging estus - I'd love to be able to RTSR Manus so I could finally do a full game SL1 run - I've only ever done a SL1 run pre-DLC.
For future reference, bonfires stay kindled for NG+, so you can kindle all the important ones in NG so that you don't need to get rite of kindling in NG+.
There are multiple ways to play. That's what makes these games so good.