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Dark Souls III: The Ringed City |OT| One Last Journey
- Thread starter Hikami
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I wasted like 8 white branches and didn't get the required form
Maybe it was because I didn't do it in the actual swamp?
Yes, it has to be the swamp.
Do you think
would work well as a
in-game cosplay? I don't have the
but I'm wondering if it restrains the beard from appearing.
Slave Knight Hood (with the long white beard), Undead Legion Armor, Black Knight Leggins and Black Knight Leggings (with Gael's Greatsword)
Gael
Slave Knight Hood
Meanwhile the Raw Drakeblood Sword got the nerf bat. Now it's garbage again. Switching from that to a generic Straight Sword is annoying.
Awesome! My Solaire reincarnated Cosplay will be complete!
I've been just standing outside boss doors helping people until the summons dry up and moving on to the next boss. It's been a great way to play.
A few of the straight swords are already in the 450 AR range at 40/40 alone. It doesn't seem that OP.
At the final boss. Man, that's some arena, lol. Also, so much health. This might take a while.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Lumpy Onion
Member
For some reason I really dug those hordes of enemies in the Dreg Heap that would ooze out of the ground. They seemed liked a minor nuisance at first but eventually they would be all over me in numbers. They had a sort of liquid quality to them and the way they just kept reforming was unique among the game enemies. Glad I could roll through them with ease though.
It's normal. You can't run while transformed.
I just want to say that those Angel enemies are the most obnoxious I've ever encountered in a Souls game. They might even be worse than lady-Brains from Bloodborne.
Overall I find the new area to be very challenging, mostly due to these bastards... I can't explore at all because they keep firing on me, and I can't kill them. I did manage to find the "summoner" for one of them and kill it, which I guess gets rid of them permanently (similar to the toxic blowpipe dudes in DS1) so that's something. But damn, I've died so much in just the opening area of this DLC. I guess I can't complain that it's not challenging enough.
Overall I find the new area to be very challenging, mostly due to these bastards... I can't explore at all because they keep firing on me, and I can't kill them. I did manage to find the "summoner" for one of them and kill it, which I guess gets rid of them permanently (similar to the toxic blowpipe dudes in DS1) so that's something. But damn, I've died so much in just the opening area of this DLC. I guess I can't complain that it's not challenging enough.
It's normal,imagine if want to run away or defend from an invader after being spotted but you still look like a big jar,it would be kinda annoying.
Can you stack the Sunlight Straight Sword's Weapon Art, Lightning Blade and Tears of Denial?
Also, the Iron Dragonslayer Armour looks siiiiick, and
Patches remains an arsehole, although this time he puts you in surprisingly little danger - surely with this being the last thing with Dark Souls ever, they'd have gone over the edge and actually made Patches kill you?
Red Liquorice
Member
You might not have the spell. On my first run through the DLC I didn't have it and I'd already killed Orbeck or whoever sells it to you (probably to get the Morion Blade, it was an old character so I forget why)
Plus you pick up white branches in the swamp anyway, which is a hint to use it. Seems a shame you can't get more of them.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
You can buy them from the old lady in Firelink.
Oh you can? And here's me thinking the puzzle solution could be missable entirely if you ran out of them.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yep. I forgot if you need to give ashes (probably) and whose, but they're definitely for sale in unlimited numbers in my game right now.
Red Liquorice
Member
I think it's Xanthous Ashes - I had to go get them because I didn't have the spell!
Sadly, yes.
Emperor_Uriel
Member
Nah, that's the point. That arc is about the struggle between
his inherently deceitful nature and the friendship he forged with you as Lapp. In the end, he's too crude to thank you for aiding him, but he also can't bring himself to harm you.
You'll note that it's the first time
he ever kicks you towards the proper path. He's showing you the way forward, in his own crooked fashion.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
From is terrible at this. It seems they get worse at balancing with every game.
Demon's Souls had almost no patch, and it still remains the most balanced!
Like OK, fix the obviously broken shit, but leave the rest alone! Or buff them somewhat but stop nerfing everything into uselessness.
Demon's Souls had almost no patch, and it still remains the most balanced!
Like OK, fix the obviously broken shit, but leave the rest alone! Or buff them somewhat but stop nerfing everything into uselessness.
DorkLord54
Member
What is the faith scaling on the Sunlight Straight Sword?
Also, I just realized that Sir Vilhelm is voiced by the King of the Wild Hunt.
Also, I just realized that Sir Vilhelm is voiced by the King of the Wild Hunt.
There is?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Have from done anything to Katanas?
Emperor_Uriel
Member
Online in Souls was at its best when From was hands-off and laissez-faire. Demon's and Dark Souls 1 are still considered the best online within the community because there were very few regulations.
Then, with Dark Souls 2, they suddenly because hyper-aware of every little whiny thread on every message board ever. Invaders are too strong? Make invasions in NG virtually nonexistent. This weapon is the flavor of the month? Nerfed to oblivion. This boss is killing a lot of co-op noobs? Slow it down and weaken its attacks.
This way of thinking has dominated their multiplayer design since, and the result is garbage online in Bloodborne and inferior PvP in Dark Souls 3 (that, in turn, makes PvE weaker by nerfing viable items offline too).
The irony, as always, is that if they'd just left FUGS, Bleed, Dark Sword, Gargoyle FS, Ringed Knight PUGS, Drakeblood, Sunlight SS (next to be nerfed), and all of the other "meta" weapons alone they'd all just balance each other out. It's precisely because there's only ever one or two top-tier builds due to constant nerfing that online gets so redundant.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
This is exactly right! That is why Demon's Souls was so "balanced" in PvE and PvP. Sure, Curse Weapon + sharp Estoc is so damn good. But so are purple dual kats, a purple Dragon Bone Smasher, a blessed great axe, Northern Regalia, or a Light Weapon Blueblood Sword. Blessed gaxe wasn't as hard-hitting as the cursed-buffed crushing one, but it had HP regen (especially with an Adjudicator shield on your back) that made defensive play effective. Sure, Northern Regalia's backstabs will OHKO everyone, but that's why everyone's using Second Chance, and its regular moveset is mediocre. Sure, a lit BBS does ridiculous damage, but once the buff expires, it's trash. Sure, dual kats push-lock combo is very effective, but it's completely countered by a shield (and shield + estoc is even more lol). Sure, estoc + shield is absurdly good, but you can always dead-angle with a Dragon Bone Smasher's rolling r1.
tl;dr -- So in the end, nothing straight-out dominated the meta because pretty much every OP thing could be countered. I wish From understood that and left most things alone.
....Yeah I did spend way too much time in Demon's Souls PvP. xD
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Double post, sorry.
BossDarkseid
Member
Afaik the new scaling is C/C/B
Same here. Feels good to be back in Souls after a year off. I'm enjoying it so far as well.
You know what, you're right - it's better this way. That's not the last we see of
Patches right? Kinda want to see what he'd sell in The Ringed City
Using a Dragonslayer Greatbow to
shoot Midir off the bridge feels lame, but I guess there isn't really a satisfying way of dealing with a dragon outside of arranging the area around it a la Ancient Wyvern.
Also, any particular reason why it's
Eygon who invades
Yeah they seem to be taking everything in the wrong direction. When the weaker weapons should be stronger, instead they weaken the stronger weapons. Weapons with huge STR investment like FUGS and Ledo Hammer do less damage than some that are several times lighter, faster and take less stats and stamina to swing.
IMO how the weapons were originally was fine, only the Dark Sword was maybe excessively powerful for what it is. Considering the base game had so few weapons that did dark damage they could've actually made that do some dark damage and be done with it.
The new poise system would have fixed most of the issues with weapon balance or they could've just made weapons do less damage in PvP only.
Just tried the Sunlight SS and yep, it's legit when buffed.
I think they'll nerf it. At this point From should give more respec options. There has been so much changes and nerfs in these months.
Seriously, the Dragonslayer Spear is below 500 AR now...
Some weapons need tweaks, Dark Sword or Carthus Curved Sword or the recent Heavy Exiled GS buff, but they're taking it too far. The problem comes more from moveset and speed than ARs after all.
EDIT: 526 AR 2handed with a Corvian Scythe with base DEX / STR and 40 INT FTH. Not bad...
I think they'll nerf it. At this point From should give more respec options. There has been so much changes and nerfs in these months.
Seriously, the Dragonslayer Spear is below 500 AR now...
Some weapons need tweaks, Dark Sword or Carthus Curved Sword or the recent Heavy Exiled GS buff, but they're taking it too far. The problem comes more from moveset and speed than ARs after all.
EDIT: 526 AR 2handed with a Corvian Scythe with base DEX / STR and 40 INT FTH. Not bad...
His attacks are pretty easy to avoid and punish, and he doesn't deal all that much damage. The third phase is pretty chaotic until you figure out what's going on but even then he has a couple of combos that leave him wiiiide open afterwards.
Just finished up Ashes of Ariandel. Good DLC. I'm not seeing the too short complaints. It was about the same length as any of the Crown DLCs. Played on NG+ and
was a bitch. That
Defeated the
on the first go though.
Pretty sure I died more in this DLC than I did the entirety of Nioh. lol
Onto the Ringed City!
Sister Friede
third phase is tough when she can straight up lob 80% of you HP in a single hit.
Champion and his little puppy
Pretty sure I died more in this DLC than I did the entirety of Nioh. lol
Onto the Ringed City!
Red Liquorice
Member
What IS going on, other than me panic healing a lot?! XD
Lucatiel set was already in vanilla 3 :^)