I haven't played yet this DLC yet, but things like Capra Demon and the Anor Londo archers are way cheaper than anything in DS3 other than maybe the Irithyll jailers. If anything, FROM's generally improved on making their games legitimately challenging.
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Dark Souls III: The Ringed City |OT| One Last Journey
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I haven't played yet this DLC yet, but things like Capra Demon and the Anor Londo archers are way cheaper than anything in DS3 other than maybe the Irithyll jailers. If anything, FROM's generally improved on making their games legitimately challenging.
I disagree since i believe completly different tactics have to be used for the weakness of these new creatures. It's a puzzle of how to progress and tacking cover. It won't be a mind-blower once you get how they work,but i think patience and carefulness are in order like they have always been with souls.
I can hear the rage of people storming in without a plan and i get to be smug for once since i won with cowardice and being smart. It's such a nice felling. Haven't felt this good since predicting plot-points in Zero escape games before anyone else.
I just got to the second bonfire and explored a bit.
I'm level 100, with 27 vig. I'm pretty fragile and learning the path to this bonfire was hard earned.
I don't mind the mob fights because they are weak to rolling; I'm surviving by the skin of my teeth and it feels so great.
This is really giving me "the fear" in a way Nioh didn't. (Though to be fair, I'm only 7 bosses into Nioh.)
I can see why some folks are gonna react negatively to this DLC but I'm stoked. Going to continue in the morning.
Capra is fake-cheap. You can house him so easily with a variety of strategies including just lobbing fire bombs over the fence until he dies. The dogs won't aggro if you use silence magic, your shield can tank him if you use magic shield, etc.
People do the one popular dodge to the right then go for the stairs path, but there are other ways around it. Capra is one of my favorite bosses in the series, easily.
I'm level 100, with 27 vig. I'm pretty fragile and learning the path to this bonfire was hard earned.
I don't mind the mob fights because they are weak to rolling; I'm surviving by the skin of my teeth and it feels so great.
This is really giving me "the fear" in a way Nioh didn't. (Though to be fair, I'm only 7 bosses into Nioh.)
I can see why some folks are gonna react negatively to this DLC but I'm stoked. Going to continue in the morning.
Capra is fake-cheap. You can house him so easily with a variety of strategies including just lobbing fire bombs over the fence until he dies. The dogs won't aggro if you use silence magic, your shield can tank him if you use magic shield, etc.
People do the one popular dodge to the right then go for the stairs path, but there are other ways around it. Capra is one of my favorite bosses in the series, easily.
Yeah, I wasn't saying old souls was perfect, but DS2 and 3 seem to really rely on that kind of tactic more to create their challenge.
This stupid game of hide and seek with the heat seeking missile butterflies/angels isn't fun at all. It's not the worst thing ever, but starting the DLC only to be met with that and a bunch of mobs wasn't the greatest first impression.
comshoplesce
Member
who is it? not to spoil for others tho?
Irithyll Jailers are hilarious because they're not actually that dangerous once you know what you're doing (protip: jumping attacks with any weapon will knock them to the ground). People just hate seeing that health bar go down.
Killer Queen
Banned
Yes. There will be a bonfire before the snake shrine.
They are not heat seeking, hiding behind a corner is the tactic and they can't do much else.
The level and the roots are laid out to always have a corner to progress to and hide from them. Their
aura thing that curses you is a blessing in disguise since they can't shoot at the same time
The
flame mage
lol, I didn't mean that literally. I also understand the mechanic, I'm just saying I didn't like it.
JudgmentJay
Member
Watching Oroboro's stream... he ran past the first
and now he's just running around the poison area like a chicken with his head cut off dying repeatedly. I imagine everyone complaining about the first area did the same. Common sense should tell you that Fromsoft wouldn't put an enemy like that in the game if there weren't a relatively easy way to get rid of it.
enemy controlling the angel
Nuno Pinto
Member
I found an hidden area in the game, but I can't proceed because
Pic of the area in question:
Does anyone know what I'm supposed to do here?
I'm wondering if it's another bug. When I beat the first boss I couldn't light the bonfire in the area :\
there's a fog door in the way. It doesn't let me enter, at first I thought it was loading the area but that wasn't it. I already reset the game but it didn't change anything.
Pic of the area in question:
Does anyone know what I'm supposed to do here?
I'm wondering if it's another bug. When I beat the first boss I couldn't light the bonfire in the area :\
comshoplesce
Member
link?
Wesley-Sigma
Member
Thinking I'll buy the complete edition instead of getting the DLC.
But it's easy, it's just people rushing it have doomed themselves to hardship and people giving the game shit for things they couldn't figure out will be nothing new in this series.
Play style determines how much fun and in what way they had fun. Me as a scrublord that plays offline but summons help once bosses happen and can't parry for shit can say that i am not skilled at this game but had little trouble figuring stuff out.
edit: Has Oro banned spoilers from stream? Then he'll just stuggle on terms he's accepted.
comshoplesce
Member
delete please...double post.
So... I guess I wasn't the only one who began shooting that first angel thing with a greatbow, evading its attacks, shooting, evading..., taking something like 5 minutes in the process, finally thinking Ha, gotcha! when it finally fell, only to see it resurrected right after. What a waste.
An enemy in Lords of the Fallen was very similar, although done in a slightly less frustrating manner.
An enemy in Lords of the Fallen was very similar, although done in a slightly less frustrating manner.
DorkLord54
Member
You have to
knock Darkeater Midir (the purple dragon) into the chasm. The fog door is his boss arena once you do that.
It's always funny when a tactic gets completly nullified and you'll have to figure something different out. For once where i do play online, the messages have saved me on one headache in a upcoming area.
I'm stuck in that area now. Not amused.
????
I've seen you post a few times in the DS3 DLC topics the last few days and you seem to be the only one there talking down Dark Souls 3, making yourself out to be some martyr for liking one of the best games last year. I'm not sure what your deal is, but I've never seen any of the DS3 hate you describe (and repeat all the time). Eveyone I know IRL loves it, who cares what a few fictional salty forum members think?
On another note, DLC is downloading, can't wait to play after I get home later.
So you have overlooked the crucial thing about them or just can't find the hosts of the ones that give you trouble? They have plenty of blind-spots to hide in and it's not that huge of a place. There aren't many obstacles besides them, be on the lookout for roofs you can walk on.
roflwaffles
Member
Just took down the first boss on my second try, he wasn't too difficult.
It probably helps alot that I'm using the cancer Exile Greatsword though lol. The rest of that area though, omg. I've never died so much in one level in either this game or Bloodborne.
It probably helps alot that I'm using the cancer Exile Greatsword though lol. The rest of that area though, omg. I've never died so much in one level in either this game or Bloodborne.
Nuno Pinto
Member
Thx.
The boss fight is super hard, even if I block I take a ton of damage. Evading is hard since the boss is so big, guess I can't use lock-on here. And I only do 250 damage with a weapon that has near 600 attack power lol
Really not feeling the bosses, the two I've faced are exactly what I don't like in this game :\
I guess a magic build can have a easier time against this kind of foes.
Can't find the host. I'll try the roofs
Gun Animal
Member
alright, what's the trick to these
angels?
comshoplesce
Member
Hikami
Member
Have to find their body on the ground. Move between cover. When you're behind cover in the swamp area and it can't shoot lasers at you, it'll do an AoE curse build up move above you and it's safe to move to the next cover then.
DorkLord54
Member
I thought I would hate
since it starts off as a gank, but it's actually how I feel Friede should've been handled. Also, is
resistant to blessed weapons, or does he just have high resistances, because I'm only doing 83 dmg with a +10 blessed broadsword.
the Demon Prince
the Prince
This is the perfect advice for the
Angel
Killer Queen
Banned
You need to get to Soul of Cinder to enter the DLC if you haven't bought/beaten Ashes of Ariandel. You don't need to beat him, but that area is the only other entrance to the Ringed City.
This is really awful. I'm just forced to run past everything because of infinitely respawning enemies. I have to hunt and find these weird
enemies and kill off the thing that summons them because if you kill the
enemy with ranged attacks they just instantly summon another one. I tried to use the sneaking magic to get by but they instantly detect you anyway and start raining down death.
It's really not fun to deal with. Even when I try to run by while he's targeting other enemies in the area as soon as I'm out in the open he's raining down bullshit on me. Plus they have that thing that goes through walls that curses you so you can't stay behind cover for long.
I'm not underleveled or anything is there some mechanic I'm not understanding or an item I'm missing?
gatling angel
angel
It's really not fun to deal with. Even when I try to run by while he's targeting other enemies in the area as soon as I'm out in the open he's raining down bullshit on me. Plus they have that thing that goes through walls that curses you so you can't stay behind cover for long.
I'm not underleveled or anything is there some mechanic I'm not understanding or an item I'm missing?
CaptainAmeijin
Member
Just beat the first boss and... by God that was tough. I wish I could say that I didn't have to use a summon, but
Gotta be in the top 10 of my favorite Soulsborne bosses.
I get what people are saying about the
, as someone who likes thorough exploration I was a little irked to be dealing with them so often. Still, I don't think they ruin the DLC by any stretch of the imagination, especially considering that you can
Slave Knight Gael was just sitting there, tempting me!
I get what people are saying about the
angels
permanently kill them.
I've done Ashes of Ariandel already so I'm just wondering if there are weird story tie in bits that can show up (if people have found any).
Take Hikami's advice above and also I used the lothric Greatshield which blocked a barrage of those shots. I can't test more since i killed them all but try that and see how that goes.
Killer Queen
Banned
Nothing I can think of, the only story tie in's I know of only involve the painter of Ariandel.
comshoplesce
Member
yes
Can somebody test out if the Lothric Knight Greatshield has unusually high defence against those
attacks? I don't know if it's because i am SL200 but they couldn't do much damage to me behind that shield, so that made progressing easier. I have no one left to test it on unless they make a return in the latter areas.
angel
Great, thanks!
Adam_Vania
Banned
when i found the first bonfire i was like WAT
its really cool. right now i am basically traversing a sideways castle
I have a crystal LKGS +10 and it's really cutting the damage a lot but you have to lock on for it to be useful because if you're just sprinting by with your shield up you won't guard hardly any of their shots.
One shouldn't need to sprint a lot to get somewhere safe.The roots are placed just right so that there is always a place to hide behind. With my first enounters with them i thought it was unusual how little a full frontal attack took of me with my shield up so i used it instead of my other shields.