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Junior Member
(05-20-2012, 01:47 AM)
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#8952
I could not be anymore disappointed in WotG after all the hype from here and elsewhere. That shit is complete worthless online and vs offline enemies. And I'm using the Grant, which is supposed to have a stronger and larger AoE. Completely ruined my Faith Melee build getting my strength hig enough to use it. Such a disappointment.
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Member
(05-20-2012, 03:04 PM)
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#8954
Gwyn is a total fucker on NG+, getting my ass well and truly handed to me.
If I am lucky I can hit him with 4x Great Fireball and 4x Chaos Ball to get him down to around 50%, but the rest of the fight, forget it. Can't seem to get anywhere near him, his attacks kill my stamina instantly, and even with the stamina boosting ring it's not enough. He's a tough bastard. Tried Lightning Claymore, Fire Bastard, and Black Knight Sword +5, none of which are particularly useful in this fight. The worst part of all is my least favourite part of Dark Souls; having to get to the boss fight from the Bonfire. it's fine if its really short and easy, but with 5 Black Knights to deal with, it's a very long process. I now kill the first two and run past the rest, but it's still annoying. I don't care that "It's the game", it's a fucking pain in the ass! Any tips? |
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Junior Member
(05-20-2012, 03:33 PM)
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#8955
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Member
(05-20-2012, 03:40 PM)
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#8956
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Member
(05-20-2012, 03:51 PM)
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#8957
Well that was interesting.
I switched to Black Knight Great Axe +5, all of Havel's gear apart from Elite +9 helmet and Black Knight +5 leg wear, used that rocky bit and he went down very fast! I was able to hit him through the cover and the axe really chewed him up. Might keep using it now, it's rather badass. Onto NG++! |
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Member
(05-20-2012, 04:00 PM)
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#8958
For the weapon, I used the BKGA and just got in a few hits whenever I could. I only healed after he did his grab move because there's just no time otherwise (i.e. you take a swig and he immediately smacks you again and you're back where you started). Kind of curious how effective the Claymore or MGS would be. They stunlock much better than the BKGA. |
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needs to check himself
(05-20-2012, 05:28 PM)
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#8959
Killed Gwyn for the first time, with my INT-based character (44 INT, 20 DEX/STR, wearing Dusk crown for spell boost) - Took about a minute using 6 homing crystal soul masses to kill, and didn't take a hit, lol.
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Member
(05-20-2012, 08:43 PM)
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#8961
Next time I do a STR char I will try double bonewheel shield...just looks too bad ass not to try once. I've never even tried the animation yet as the y only STR character I made never got the drop!!! My dex faith gal got 3!
Last edited by 2AdEPT; 05-20-2012 at 08:51 PM.
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Member
(05-20-2012, 10:22 PM)
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#8962
I stopped using the claymore as my Black Knight sword +3 does way more damage. My str is 38 at the moment and I'm doing roughly 500 damage per swing :P |
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Member
(05-20-2012, 11:05 PM)
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#8963
I just invaded a person as a spirit of justice in the darkroot garden. The person was using chameleon. I noticed a tree that shouldn't have been there so I was acting cool as I approached but by the time I attacked they had cast a spell. We killed each other at the same time. XD
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Member
(05-21-2012, 12:17 AM)
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#8964
Yess just beat the game at SL1. Gwyn was giving me some trouble until I just got in the zone and wrecked him without healing using great combustion + bellowing dragoncrest ring. The biggest mistakes I make when fighting Gwyn are trying to heal when it's not safe, or I wind up playing way too defensively, dodging his attacks for way too long before trying to go for an attack/parry. Biggest problem of my SL1 run was definitely 4 kings. I thought Seath was the easiest of the lordvessel bosses for this run, Bed of Chaos was proving to be extra annoying and Nito took me a few tries.
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Member
(05-21-2012, 12:26 AM)
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#8965
Platinum Trophy!
180 hours in total, what a ride. Need a longish break from the game now, but will return at some point, maybe for the PC DLC (?), maybe to try out a magic based character. So. Good. Thanks to everyone here for all the advice over the last few months, it's been brilliant! Will be sticking about in this thread to offer any advice I can to players that might want it :) Some final thoughts. No point in talking too much about the game as we all know its amazing, but I thought I'd share my highlights and not so highlights about the game. Favourite Boss Fights - Great Grey Wolf Sif - Ornstein and Smough Tough call for me but I loved these two the most. Sif was easy, even on NG++, but he's so badass-looking holding the sword in his mouth, and the music is epic too. Loved it. O+S are the hardest in the game for me, it's a relentless battle and you can't take your eyes of either or you're in serious trouble. Also, each of the 2nd forms are cool too, the boss fight goes on forever! Also, I loved Quelaag. Least favourite Boss Fight - Bed of Chaos Just. What. The. Fuck. Not even a boss fight as such, just an incredibly annoying dodge the holes and branches section which is just a massive, unfair, disappointment. Can't believe it made the cut. Favourite Area - Anor Lando I could live here, in fact I did for many, many, many happy hours killing those bosses over and over, farming Silver Knights and taking in the view. I love the idea that the whole of Dark Souls is this abandoned world with nobody in it, but I love to think about how it might have been one day, with rooms full of people living in the beautiful city of Anor Lando. Beautiful graphically too. Other favourites would be Sens Fortress, Dukes Archives and Undead Parish (many a good co-op fight there, and the memories from playing it over and over at the beginning are heavily engraved in my head). Least Favourite Areas - Tomb of the Giants - Catacombs - Lost Izalith - Blighttown Blighttown only gets a mention due to performance, other than this I quite enjoyed playing through upper and lower areas, and Quelaag is cool too. Catacombs and Tomb of the Giants were just crappy though, ToG especially with the lack of light and those crazy skeleton dogs. Catacombs also had the weakest boss in the game, which is a shame as it looked great and had fantastic music. Boss that I never killed - The red Dragon on the bridge. Were you meant to? I never found a decent way of getting the git damaged. Things I'd like to see improved in a follow up - Bonfire consistency. Sometimes there were areas with two or three really close to each other (Demon Ruins going into Lost Izalith), whereas others went on forever without on (Sens Fortress). I think a bit more thought could have gone into the placement of those, some were quite annoying, especially around boss fights. - Filtering and weapon/item management in inventory. I don't know about you, but I carried a lot of shit around with me, and having to cycle through pages to get to the weapon I want was a pain, having a filter, or favourites, or something, would of been great. - Some better quality control on things like Bed of Chaos unfairness and those fucking archers in Anor Lando (which ironically only gave me problem on NG++, but fuck me they were a pain). - Online play. I loved it, but I'd love to play some co-op with friends too, just as an option along side how it is now. - Back stab legginess online, it was annoying! Overall an amazing, amazing game like nothing I have played before. Need something colourful and short to play for a while now :) Then I should really crack open Skyward Sword.
Last edited by KennyLinder; 05-21-2012 at 09:21 AM.
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Member
(05-21-2012, 01:06 AM)
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#8967
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Member
(05-21-2012, 02:33 AM)
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#8968
the red dragon, fastest way to kill him i've done is lure him down to the middle of the bridge and smack him hard and fast right in the head. i've killed him in ~2 hits that way with a lightning iato. takes some trying though. for filtering, you know you can manually sort the equipment positions in the list? Just go to the regular inventory view and select an item, then select reorder. I basically dump everything i don't need in the bottomless box, then arrange my weapons so that the ones i regularly use are all at the top of the list in a bunch, makes it much easier to change in the middle of a fight that way. Usually move humanity up to the top of the list too. |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 03:02 AM)
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#8969
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Member
(05-21-2012, 08:37 AM)
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#8971
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Member
(05-21-2012, 09:07 AM)
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#8972
I will soon beat the game with my SL2 cleric. The hardest boss so far was Seath followed by Gaping Dragon whose fight took forever because my weapon was weak at the time. 4 Kings and S&O battles where intense but easy. I beat them in my first try. Needless to say that Chaos reinforced club helped much in these fights... It took me a couple of tries to get the chaos ember though given the small amount of HP I had.
Last edited by Soulhouf; 05-21-2012 at 09:26 AM.
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Member
(05-21-2012, 09:21 AM)
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#8974
Yes and yes. Basically at SL1 pyro/SL2 cleric you have a very limited choice of weapons to use. So the way to go is choose the most powerful you can use (reinforced club) and upgrade it elemental.
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Member
(05-21-2012, 10:15 AM)
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#8976
jusgt a bout ready to lose it. That's two playthroughs in a row that I have not been able to open the shortcut door in the tunnel next to firesage. The first time I went in and out of the covenant so may have got confused about how many humanity I gave but this last time no way... I gave at least 30 and I even attained rank 3 in the covenenant and the friggin door did not budge : "locked by some contraption." All the stuff onlne says is about goign to tthe wrong door etc. so waht gives... Am I bugged?
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Member
(05-21-2012, 12:57 PM)
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#8977
Haven't been following EpicNameBros videos on this game since the release window so I just stumbled upon his lore videos. Pretty interesting stuff if you have nerdish interest in it like me.
Examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxz4rLqWBe4& http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZuAgUAQGQs& |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 02:19 PM)
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#8978
I didn't read much talk about it but one of my contacts told me something that fascinated me.
In the Duke's Archives, when you exit the prison, if you look at the sky, you can see a curious black thing. Use your binoculars and you'll see clearly a door in the sky. I checked out and indeed there is a door there. What the fuck is a door doing in the sky? It's a total mystery. I will post a photo of it later. Did someone else see it? |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 02:44 PM)
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#8979
I just love the lore in this game. It's so fascinating. I actually kind of like that there isn't some huge story in the game and that details of characters and lore are just kind of implied. |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 03:01 PM)
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#8981
theres pyromancy, sorcery, and miracles. homing soulmass is sorcery and tied to intelligence. lightning spear is miracles and tied to faith, and pyromancy is not tied to anything. pyro is great, because it allows you to spend your points on dex for faster casts, and attunement for more spells slots, while still having good vitality/endurance. i don't know about combining sorcery and faith in one build due to the disparity of stat distribution. i guess if you want to make a greatsword of artorias build it would be necessary.
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Member
(05-21-2012, 04:21 PM)
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#8982
I could have made things harder by limiting myself to melee only and with no fap ring, but I'm happy with this accomplishment for now. It's more fun to play as a character that has more options available. I loaded up an SL102 mage character in NG++ afterwards and had some fun invading in blighttown and co-opping, I was pleased to see how active the online was at that level in just about every area I tried. |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 07:21 PM)
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#8985
Apparently you don't get a message when you get cursed, but get one when the gravelord dies. You can be hollow/human and have the boss alive or not, it doesn't matter. Only thing important is that the gravelord has the boss alive and is human.
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Member
(05-21-2012, 08:16 PM)
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#8987
There, just finished NG+ for the first time. Got the "evil" ending this time so that trophy is taken care of. Now I just need the rare weapons trophy.
I found a Solaire clone in New Londo Ruins so I grabbed him for 4K. Unfortunately we were ambushed near the boss room. On the second attempt, I managed to find him again and figured we should be fine with just the two of us. Then I spotted another phantom inside the ruins... and it turned out to be Lautrec, although with other weapons. :D Solaire died during the fight but I managed to take the last one down with Lautrec. Then I moved on to Kiln, summoned two random guys who were probably waiting for PVP, and spanked Gwyn rather easily. |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 08:46 PM)
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#8989
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Member
(05-21-2012, 08:47 PM)
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#8990
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Member
(05-21-2012, 08:52 PM)
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#8991
No, but players who happen to wear their exact gear may :)
Something strange happened as I was running back from Firelink one of the tries. I found an item bag in the area where Lautrec and the Fire Keeper are, containing a single Prismatic Stone. Weird, as you can't have phantoms in Firelink and I certainly didn't drop one there myself. |
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needs to check himself
(05-21-2012, 10:31 PM)
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#8994
Just summoned someone and they dumped a ton of stuff - 99 divine blessings, 99 of various boss souls, some pendants, and kinds of stuff, lol.
I was hoping for some slabs, but didn't want to bite the hand that feeds! |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 11:48 PM)
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#8998
If you consume it you will just get souls. To make the weapons you have to go to the giant blacksmith in anor londo.
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needs to check himself
(05-22-2012, 01:58 AM)
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#8999
My new favourite game is playing hide and seek in Anor Londo, giving blue phantoms the run around. The longer they're in your world, the more chance a red phantom will come in, I love being perched somewhere and watching bluey panic as red hunts him down. Salty hate mail ratio is higher than normal, but I take that as a compliment!
Don't consume boss souls, unless you really do not want any of the weapons you can make from them - even then the souls received when consumed aren't really that much, you can earn the same from being summoned for a single boss fight after the first couple. |