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Dark Souls III: The Ringed City |OT| One Last Journey
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I'm also partial to greatswords for PvE, particularly the Hollowslayer. 516 Attack rating for 40/40 str/dex, plus a %50 damage bonus against hollows. Good balance of speed and reach. R1 is a nice wide sweep for mobs and can be spammed against enemies that stagger (including bosses like Abyss Watchers and Freide). R2 is a really nice poke. 2-Hand R1 is nice and vertical and rarely wall bounces, good for tight corridors.
Robot Pants
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I enjoyed the Executioners greatsword
RandomSeed
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Greatswords are amazing, after that early damage buff made them worth using over a straight sword, and the class of weapons has plenty of variety. Executioner's, Wolf Knight's, Claymore/Bastard, Firelink, Onyx, Princes', Drakeblood, Black Knight, Hollowslayer...it's just ridiculous.
Most greatswords all have the same basic moveset, which I find boring after multiple games in the series. They do have unique L2s, but you only have so much mana and some aren't practical for PVE use.
Which enemies count as hollow?
I don't find it weird at all,
it just adds more mysticism to the character.
Even in possibly unrelated games like Demon's and Bloodborne,he has always been there and somehow always manages to get away with it.
It has nothing to do with being a powerful being,Patches is someone who knows how to survive no matter how extreme the situation is.
And that's the mystery,how does he do it? there's nothing special about him,he is just a simple undead.
Even in possibly unrelated games like Demon's and Bloodborne,he has always been there and somehow always manages to get away with it.
It has nothing to do with being a powerful being,Patches is someone who knows how to survive no matter how extreme the situation is.
And that's the mystery,how does he do it? there's nothing special about him,he is just a simple undead.
Good question. There's no list I can find, so I guess any humanoid enemy with dry wrinkly skin. I'm pretty sure this includes Lothric knights, and perhaps even some bosses like Pontiff Sulyvahn and Nameless King.
Only boss that counts as Hollow is Deacons of the Deep.
Ah, that's a shame.
mcwizardry
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Beat it today, pretty good ending to the series.
Returning the blood of the dark soul to initiate the painting of the Painted World of Ariamis was a nice touch.
It makes sense lore wise as only actual humans can become hollow.
Orthogonal
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Finished up the DLC and really enjoyed it. It wasn't a masterpiece ending, but still very solid with some cool new ideas.
There is something special about the first few weeks after a release when so many are playing online. I haven't had this much sunbro action in a long time. Getting summoned within seconds at pretty much every boss. The challenge is also decent considering how much cool breaks the encounters too. It's fun to get summoned by the same poor schmuck repeatedly as he beats his head on a boss and eventually overcome it after numerous tries.
There is something special about the first few weeks after a release when so many are playing online. I haven't had this much sunbro action in a long time. Getting summoned within seconds at pretty much every boss. The challenge is also decent considering how much cool breaks the encounters too. It's fun to get summoned by the same poor schmuck repeatedly as he beats his head on a boss and eventually overcome it after numerous tries.
Orthogonal
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SixMachine
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Yea they should be able to, those painting guardians also cast a heal that will heal them and the player boss. I never summoned and doing this fight alone is really annoying, especially since they have the benefit of free spells from those spears and orbs.
I used it to solo the rest of the expansion. It's pretty good.
here's my video of me beating
...solo, no summoning help, STR build- Yhorm's Great Machete +5...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NlAtJ0W8kA&
Darkeater Midir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NlAtJ0W8kA&
The fight is harder when you summon, solo is easy mode.
Don't feel too bad, it probably would have sucked
His shield looked nice though.
Yea I know.
I longed for a Burial Blade clone to surface in this game. I think I'm just gonna load up Bloodborne again.Imperfected
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This is true. I tried it with the NPC summon on NG+7 for funsies, and the only thing having multiple people in that fight does is cause the boss to flip out nonstop.
At least solo you can kind of sort of not really manipulate his AI to not constantly fly around the arena or spin around in circles tailswiping nonstop.
it's usually the opposite...which is why I never summon...
Imperfected
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Their solution to this for Ringed City seems to have been making all the bosses absurdly mobile and giving them a lot of sweeping and charging attacks with generous amounts of auto-tracking and large AoE.
Not... really a great way of doing it, to be honest, but I guess it's better than a humanoid boss just sort of slowly rotating in place failing to keep up with two players circling him constantly.
Red Liquorice
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....fade to black.... DARK SOULS II
This so much! Especially if it had Burial Blade moveset.
8bitForLife
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Even in the DaS II dlc they addressed this, to varying results. Fume Knight is probably the most successful.
Anyways, decided to upgrade my Black Knight Great Sword to handle the first boss. I'm doing much better damage now.
Imperfected
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Yeah, and to be fair, it even shows up in DS3 to some extent. The Nameless King has real problems dealing with someone walking slowly in a circle around him at point-blank range.
What does hollowing do? I played this DLC on NG+3. I couldn't beat Demon Prince. Then i cured the hollowing and somehow it was more easy to beat it.
Does hollowing points make the world harder? I only have 3 purging stone. Yes, NG+3 and only 3. And you know what? This DLC has 1 purging stone. Coincidence?
What are your thoughts?
Does hollowing points make the world harder? I only have 3 purging stone. Yes, NG+3 and only 3. And you know what? This DLC has 1 purging stone. Coincidence?
What are your thoughts?
Imperfected
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Hollowing makes you look like beef jerky.
The confidence to defeat the Demon Prince came from looking sexy again. That's how Lorian defeated him in the first place: just being hot.
Seriously? I'd have thought his swings were wide enough to catch most people.
There's a good boost to your health when you're in ember mode. It allows you to tank more hits before having to heal.
Imperfected
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If you circle him at close range, as far as I can tell at least, he will just endlessly spin around in place to try to track you until he reads a non-movement input. At the very least, I spun him around until I got tired of waiting for him to do something.
This is as opposed to the DLC bosses, who will all instantly and quite enthusiastically freak the fuck out if anything ever tries to move behind them for any reason, even if the reason is because they just did something that explicitly moved them into a position where the player is forced to be behind them.
I really wonder why the reapers get shit on so much.
I can personally come up with several new ones with unique appearances and movesets right now. C'mon FROM!New patch!
Good improvements, but why nerf the Dragonslayer Spear? :_(
Also not sure about this
if they're talking about Weapon Arts, they already have longer wind ups, nerfing poise on them can make the game more of a R1 spam than what already is.
The patch for invaders is fairly good. Needed changes.
Good improvements, but why nerf the Dragonslayer Spear? :_(
Also not sure about this
if they're talking about Weapon Arts, they already have longer wind ups, nerfing poise on them can make the game more of a R1 spam than what already is.
The patch for invaders is fairly good. Needed changes.
RandomSeed
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Why little magic tweaks here and there, when the whole thing needs a huge fucking rebalance to even approach being "fun" in PVE?
Imperfected
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Nerfs. Nerfs everywhere.
How about instead you just stop making all the content bullshit that isn't worth stopping to interact with so people don't have to play DLC like they're speedrunners?
How about instead you just stop making all the content bullshit that isn't worth stopping to interact with so people don't have to play DLC like they're speedrunners?
Bright-Light
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Oooohh..
Hard to find weapons that scale with faith. Dunno what Yorshka's spear is, will have to check it out.
Hard to find weapons that scale with faith. Dunno what Yorshka's spear is, will have to check it out.
Imperfected
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It's the golden spear with a hammerhead near the tip.
If you want Faith scaling, wouldn't you just want to focus on buffable weapons so you can put Lightning Blade or Darkmoon Blade on them? Yorshka's, sadly, isn't buffable.
It's the hammer spear that's been completely worthless since it's inception, so hopefully that's about to change. They even buffed its weapon art last patch.
Unbuffable weapons can be good if they have decent scaling damage (Moonlight Greatsword, Onyx Blade).
I don't expect Yorshka's Spear to have decent damage.
They nerfed Lightning Infusion in the previous patch by accident. Fixing that with this patch.
Imperfected
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Just poison him like a coward. He's a scumbag anyway, it's the death he deserves.
Exactly, the change is terrible. There are some fantastic Weapon Arts in this game but they're barely worth using if enemies barely flinch at them and can interrupt them with ease. They keep adding super flashy moves like it's one of my japanese animes and R1 spamming is still the best way to go about it, it's ridicolous.
Give me back trick weapons >_>
Replaying the DLC, it's not bad at all when you know what you're doing.