/dsg/ - Demon's/Dark Souls General

>mfw making a Pyromancer named Arvis

Time for the plebs to burn.

>implying
Yeah, no. You have to leave a way out for people who just don't want to fight in PvP.
It's already enough of a pain that you can't use the bonfire when invaded, if you were stuck in the area, the invader would just have to hide behind a wall of enemy and wait for you to come get him.

love the amount of fan-art that's sprouted from these two bros

Thanks for a new desktop wallpaper.

The undead settlement is so bloodborne

In DaS2, if you light up all the torches in Things Bewixt, you get invaded.
What about the others areas? Do you get anything good by lightning up everything?

Why isn't there a dark pyromancy flame for dark pyromancies? I swear to god dark magic feels tacked on this time around.

I want to try DS3 without a shield or at using one as little as possible but I've never tried it in a souls game.

Would it be worth it going to 32 str for the greataxe if I want a faith build or should I just go with the battle axe?

lacking their sister tbqh

>farming a single Flamberge thrall for their sword in undead settlement
>so far only got 2 thrall hood drops with base item discovery

please someone help me

The game is so linear and reuses so many assets it might as well be bloodborne

Depends user, do you want to go full 60 faith for offensive miracles
Or do you just want that fancy DMB'd axe to lug around while you cast heals?

Honestly, if you managed to let a host run all the way there, from halfway, without killing him in a 3v1, you kinda deserved it

>Why isn't there a dark pyromancy flame for dark pyromancies?
i think it was in the cut-content page on the wiki

HAPPY FAMILY

>with base item discovery
might as well kys

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You'll also get invaded in the gutter if you light all the torches IIRC.

If the Nameless King's is Gwyn's son, then who the fuck are André and Solaire?

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lmao, even with sages rapier/symbol of avarice/gold coins it took at least 25 tries for the flambo to drop for me

don't even bother trying it with base discovery, you'll be there for ten years

Does it drop anything interesting?

>using Diablo 2's font

>farming for the thrall hood
>get three flamberges first

Checkmate, lorefags.

Is there anything notable about the great mace? Up until now it just seems like an inferior Vordt's hammer, it has more stamina cost, less damage, no frost effect, it's heavier and requires more strength to wield.

I'd be ideally trying to go both. I don't mind losing 100-200 points of damage with the offensive miracles. It's just for PVE. But I'd rather not be so ineffective (it's on regular NG) with offensive miracles that I'm basically just " 90% melee and has a few buffs"

If you use it with blessed weapon you can do the cathedral knights explosion

want2trade

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Oh no, I wonder what happened here.

Hmm, i'd say go get the Dragonslayer's axe then
You probably can get away with wielding the Greataxe but i think you might be overextending a bit on your stat spread then
Alternatively, give either or both a go and respec as desired

Murderer!

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>tfw no blue orb to punish these heretics
>tfw red invasions as a darkmoon dont make you a blue invader

Literally me.

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A black smith bro and a delusional faggot

what are you wearing

*BFFRRLLLRLLLRLFLFFFFFFPT*

>a delusional faggot
>delusional faggot
>faggot

No, that is it, it'd be the worst weapon in the game if not for the Great Wooden Hammer and Great Lance.

>except for the looking glass knight, shields in Dark Souls don't exist unless you press L1
>having a shield on your back does not protect you from back attack

Shit game.

Pretty sure it's just the assassin starter set.

Assassin set with exception for the helmet, that's the thief mask.

Where is Patches in Dark Souls 2?

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locked in a dome in the huntman's copse

don't hate pate

>Aural Decoy
>Eighteen (18) INT requirement
>Fifteen (15) FP cost
???

If Soul of Cinder is a master pyromancer and is immune to getting parried or riposted does this mean that Jester Thomas/Magerold of Lanafir was one of the undead to completed the pilgrimage and linked the fire, therefore mixing part of himself into the Soul of Cinder as well?

This happened.

Anyway, how does counter work in Souls game? You basically causes 1.5x more damage if you hit the enemy while he's in an attacking animation, right?

>tfw beating meta meme builds with only the whip as dragonsis

some random gave me a flamberge +10 before we fought, you can have mine if you want it

>no firelink ultra greatsword from soul transposition

WHY

>Try and backstab host while chugging
>He turns 180 degrees while standing still
It's a good mechaninc to punish parry spammers,so why do chuggers have to spin around if you try and backstab them?

So, what are Dark Souls 2's objective flaws?
>maps don't make sense
>not enough boss variety, making all strikes weapons OP
>durabilities issues
>SM
>lore is totally new and ignore most of Dark Souls
>SotFS edition who doesn't change enough to be worth the money
Do I forget anything?

What was Miyazaki implying with this?

Cute Gwyn family!

Wouldn't even fight back, really.

Because it's not an UGS

you're about two years late buddy

Is it op like DSII where the enemies couldn't stop focusing on it no matter what for a few seconds?

>no invuln while backstabbing, opening doors etc
>useless frustrating lock on mechanic
>obnoxious enemy placement and ganking
>powerstance requirements are too much
>ADP
>too many merchants who only sell a handful of items

Are Gwyn and NK fucking?

looks like he's just jelly seeing his kids hug

>Lack of full orb/forcing people to either join the duel cancer or farm them with ascetics.
>Invaders unable to interact with mechanisms
>Heals working over time instead of being instant
>timed coop/invasions

I like how they let tanimura ruin not one, but two games's PvP

>id love it but i want to stay in the sl~70 and +6 pvp tier

I just want to recap things a bit, because there are many things I like with Dark Souls 2 but I want to start with the flaws.
The ascetic system is interesting, for example. Majula has a lot of stuff to find, the covenant of champions and the no death/no bonfire rewards add a lot for the best players, there are many different weapons, the envirronement are very varied, it runs fine on most computers, it allowed powerstancing, it had a secret easy mode by dumping levels in ADP, the Gutter was oppressing as fuck, and Shalquoi's voice was incredibly erotic.

The version from SoC's final phase would work great for an UGS when used by the player. It's big and thick and would make short work of any guy on the receiving end of it.

>cross deadzone
>bow freeaim removed
>fucked up poise damage calcuation in pve (compare a great club and santiers)
>no r2-r1 chains

It's supposed to be like Gwyn's sword which, again, was a greatsword.

I should invade you some time, ashen-user ;-)

>fucked up poise
Yeah, that. I forgot about the pose.

Mostly because I never understood how that worked.

>Heals working over time instead of being instant
That one is actually logical, I don't see anything wrong with it. Maybe they should've made it a little faster, but it made sense from a PvP perspective.

>Astora's GS at base stats is better refined than raw
>It outdamages most UGS I face against in a fucking mage build
>weights like a feather
>people still say this weapon is fine and perfectly balanced

You know what
It is.

The problem is not the AGS, the weapon is fine, is the other UGS that are too fucking weak. Don't nerf the AGS, buff all the others.

reminder

Dragonslayer armor also passively blocks and I think berenike knights, syan knights,imperious knights and the pursuer get your attack intercepted by the shield id you accidentally swing to it.

>but I believe DeS, DaS, and Das2 all had a pretty lengthy fog passing animation
Actually it was instant in DeS, and yeah it's dumb that they made it unpunishable again in DaS3

>summon some guy for NG++ Greatwood because I can't be bothered
>throws something on the ground for me before the fight
>paranoid about taking items so I leave it there
>we beat the boss
>throws something again
>what the hell
>it's 5 embers

That guy was a bro

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To get one of the more trivial things out of the way:

>that stupid-ass bloodshot effect in some cutscenes

This was the final blow for me that made this game feel like cartoon souls.

No ones talking about him you dumb nigger

>Mostly because I never understood how that worked.

Two handing pretty much negates poise. Multi hit weapons build up poise damage fast as fuck, and stagger enemies like BIKs knights and Ice Horses with just R1s.

The problem with heals meant that sometimes you'd better just stop attacking. If you finish estus but I hit you, you're actually healing part of that damage too, which is plain wrong

im posting it so it will stay that way

Was this guy supposed to be Vallarfax, or did From just reuse the Twin Fangs armor so they didn't have to create the Tower Knight armor?

>tfw using buff 40/40 dragonsis with oversized ultragreatswords

Ha, it's like an invisible poison bar filling up and it staggers enemies.

I thought the staggering depended from how much damage you dealed. Or that, like in Doom, it was random.

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>That stupid charge WA on A FUCKING UGS!
And I'm stuck with perseverance.

Stop making me want to play DaS3 again.