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Dark Souls III |OT| Thy path has been tested, now fight unkindled ash
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Audioboxer
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Lothric Knights
has anyone else had a lot of hard crashes around the firelink shrine? reloaded, it saved where i was, but hardcrashed again 30 seconds later.
Try setting lighting to Low, it's a common crash. Check out the PC perfomrance thread.
Don Draper's Hat
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I've been sitting here like a mook for about 5 minutes trying to retrieve latest calibrations.
Is this a known problem or just me? Do I have to start in offline?
Is this a known problem or just me? Do I have to start in offline?
Cob32
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Cool I'll go back and get it. I like straight swords for high pressure bosses.
Kick them. Black sludge things? If I would guess which enemy that is I would say fire. A torch works (does massive dmg), but otherwise no idea what you are talking about or if you mean the normal enemies that turn into Bloodborne enemies - just kill them beforehand.
Audioboxer
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It has a higher critical rating, and IIRC AR starts higher. Looks a bit nicer as well for fashion souls. Going to use it on my pyro, but for now I've got the
Astora sword
Not sure if it can be found, but there's an NPC you can find early on that's a thief. Eventually he'll ask if you want him to go steal stuff, and he disappears for a while. Comes back, and sells it.
Atraveller
Banned
I'm not good at this
Magic only really works with boosting rings, high INT (50+) and certain spells that are late game.
Zank Frappa
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Sludge things:
Kill them before they transform, you won't even get to see the sludge thing if you do it early.
DryvBy
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I dunno how many are left but Xbox One has at least 10 CEs left on Amazon. It looks like a 3rd party seller though. I checked the PS4 and sure enough, they're $210+ now lol.
why are you raising int and faith together?
using that right now. Also there is a desire sensor built into its drop rate just like the DS1 Balder Side Sword that it seems to share a moveset with. I had the entire set from those knights before I saw one drop, and I've found two more since then despite only killing 3.
The longsword's moveset is almost identical but the 2HR2 stab is gonna be so good.
Black Sludge = use fire. It does massive damage and often stun locks them for a bit in a "I'm on fire AHHHHH" animation that lets you get in a few extra hits.
Shield guys you need to "kick" with Analog Forward + RB or just bide your time / dodge around to their back, they'll all eventually have an opening
Shield guys you need to "kick" with Analog Forward + RB or just bide your time / dodge around to their back, they'll all eventually have an opening
TheWorthyEdge
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Is there anyway that I could play this game the way I did Bloodborne? Fast and upclose and personal? If so what build should I go with. I was thinking Strength/Endurance build.
great, thank you! I'm on an old graphics card anyway so this makes sense. Outside of that, the game ran surprisingly well.
I'd advise against this, as they drop stuff (seems guarenteed, at least on first kill) when transformed but don't when killed before it.
Audioboxer
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Yeah it's awesome. Will probably main it on my dex/pyro a bit later on. Only wanted to put 1 point into dex for the sword I mentioned above, and now focus on some attunement, health and then int/faith to 20/20.
On my first knight quality build I was enjoying those knights armour for fashion souls but it requires a decent bit of vitality investment to wear it all with a shield.
Fractology
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I ordered this last night on Amazon thinking that the day of games selling out has ended but it seems that they sold through their original stock of the game. I chose one-day shipping and it still says this morning "Delivery Date Pending." Online rep told me just now that they were out of stock. How long does it take to re-stock this stuff? I've never had a problem ordering anything on Amazon before. Might just digitally download it if it's going to take until the end of the week to get here.
Atraveller
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It's from the default pyro class.
Audioboxer
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Early on with pyro I'd just focus on str/dex to meet minimum weapon requirements. IMO points are better spent on attunement for slots/FP, health and int/faith. There's some decent weapons early that don't require any dex/str investment, or very minor.
You're not going to gain much from scaling this early, so minimum requirements/fire gem infusion are wisest whilst you bulk up your pyro spell damage. And a bit of health too.
dealer-
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Lol awesome. I haven't summoned once yet, I'll have a try now. Has it been confirmed that beating
the dancer grants you access to late game areas early on
Cob32
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Props to anyone that does this at a low level. I got up to it last night the 'normal' way and found it to be the hardest boss so far. Really struggled until I finally beat it.
Audioboxer
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Someone told me earlier in this thread it does, but all enemies there will 1 shot you as well. Still it'll probably become a twink/early loot maniacs dream. I can only imagine it will grant access to some sweet stuff. If you manage to do it though you deserve it all!
thequickandthedead
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whats a mad phantom?
General Build Advice:
Totally seems like people playing it that way have a much, much easier time.
The scaling for Sorceries is just fucked. It doesn't noticeably scale until you get to much, much higher Int.
- Vigor to 25 ASAP.
- Endurance
- Strength (or Dex)
- 1H + Shield.
- Endurance
- Strength (or Dex)
- 1H + Shield.
Totally seems like people playing it that way have a much, much easier time.
The scaling for Sorceries is just fucked. It doesn't noticeably scale until you get to much, much higher Int.
mindfreak191
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The first boss before
was a piece of cake....but God damn those
I was dying like a guinea pig at the
because of that guy xD Is there any special tactic against them, because those fuckers have an answer to everything....I know that they're vulnerable to firebombs, but what to do when I'm out of those xD
Firelink Shrine
beast hollows (with that large black snake coming out of them),
High Wall of Lothric
Audioboxer
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No, you can always respec. 1 point is nothing. Just don't go too far off path just to try something as I'm not sure how early respecing opens up. Got a bit frustrated doing that on my 1st quality playthrough (which I've abandoned early). Went nuts to get a spear working, then found it boring. Although good damage, and it looked sweet, didn't enjoy it all that much.
Poke..poke...poke...meh.
JetSetRadio
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Sure, I played DSII scholar like that and don't have much problems in DS3 so far.
You will probably want DEX instead of STR. Most fast stuff tends to favor DEX. Not to say there's no way to do STR and focus on fast attacks, but it's rarer and will take longer to realize.
Audioboxer
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Daggers have that cool sidestep which will remind you of Bloodborne, but man they are hard to master. Sidestep seems to keep working when FP is depleted, but I'm not sure to what impact. Possibly less i-frames.
dealer-
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Would be fun for a death run! Going to have another go now, the rewards seem worth the investment even if it takes a few hours
probably days
Yeah, the mid/late game bosses get tough, as you'd expect I guess but the majority are really fast and have difficult second phases.
Yes it is possible and not that hard. Really easy on NG+ of course, but opens up way more things in the game at the begining.
First three bosses are really easy. Even the first four (which depends what boss is your fourth), but after that the game will kick your ass here and there.
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