In just three weeks the first /dsg/ thread tourney is starting. On March 25th, 2pm PST a PC tournament will be held prior the release of The Ringed City DLC. Participants will be matched up with others who sign-up and fight for the claim to be /dsg/'s champion. The winner and runner-ups will receive prizes including Steam games and being better than everyone else who fought.
For the sake of organization either your Steam ID or a Discord ID will be needed to sign-up. If using only one, Steam IDs will be organized via that messages there and Discord users can join the accompanying server in the link above to ensure we don't have last minute drop-outs with no explanation.
RULES: -Maximum Soul Level of 125 allowed. Someone with CE open will be monitoring all players to make sure this rule and others aren't broken. -The starting location will be High Wall, followed by Farron Keep bridge and ending at the Darkmoon Tomb. -Fights are best of 3 -Each fight is 2 minutes long, the one with the most % health left at the end will win if both are alive. -Gargoyle Flame Spear, Washing Pole, Throwing Knives, Anri's Straight Sword, Ethereal Oak Shield, Ancient Greatshield, and Fire Surge are banned. -Only two Ashen Estus sips per fight, any more and your win will not count, initiating a rematch. Do this twice and you are disqualified -All Regen items and spells are banned to disencentize passive shittery. This includes Sun Princess Ring, Blessed Weapon, Spells like Bountiful Sunlight, the weapons/shields mentioned above with innate regen and anything infused with Blessed. -Normal FC rules still apply such as no healing items. Fight rotation will be determined once brackets are set.
why dont you just ban pyromancers while you're at it you faggots?
Sebastian Martin
No one likes you pyros, shoo.
Aiden Watson
I think I'm finally done with "DIE CIS SCUM". Now I just need to finish leveling her up.
Jacob Wilson
>gfs is pyro weapon when you can just get dark plow with lower reqs and comparable damage
Nolan Harris
Only very rarely, when I feel like it. Last time I streamed DaSIII was about 3 months ago.
Alexander Williams
Cute!!
Mason Ross
How much fanmail have you gotten through doing this?
Christopher Phillips
the dark plow doesn't have a lavagasm attack
also >Implying it isn't a pyro weapon when it has D/D/D/D scaling it's not like it's even the longest reaching weapon, witch's locks weaponart has more reach and that's in a big sweeping move.
Nicholas Peterson
cute
Colton Ward
>pyro build with gfs has less AR and invests into way more stats than a quality build using it while Onyx and Locks are actual pyro weapons
James Baker
Disappointingly, very little. Probably because the Recent Player feature on the PS4 was/is broken, so the only method you have to send someone a message is by remembering their name and manually searching for it.
Andrew Nguyen
Faraam Knight is a true hero.
Benjamin Morris
Is simple infusion alive?
Cooper Russell
Damage difference piles up since all you get from int/fth is fire damage.
James James
>alive Allowed*
Ryan Ward
>17 less AR >wanting to ban weapons from casters who are already limited to very few decent weapons
Jace Bennett
27/40/20/20 is the best GFS. Fire damage fucking sucks.
Joseph Ross
Reposting in the new thread.
Thanks. I don't know. I'm really struggling with the crow talons.
Oh also, is there any reason to use the bleed infusion?
Apparently the bleed infusion adds the same amount to the bleed value on a weapon as carthus rouge does, plus 50 extra damage when you bleed something (less for weapons that don't already have bleed).
Does the poison infusion/resin buff do aything similar? Is there any difference in the amount of damage caused per tick or just the poison value on the weapon?
Aaron Sullivan
That's lewd user, post cute!
Joshua Jones
Is the Carthus Bllodring worth the ring slot?
Michael Peterson
>frost buildup isn't affected by luck
what did memezaki mean by this?
Carter James
I don't think From even remembers that the frost status is even in the game
Brody Hill
>Is the Carthus Bllodring worth the ring slot?
>Raises number of i-frames from 12 (.4 sec) to 16 (.533 sec)
if you ever played high level DaS2 pvp you'd know that it is the gayest shit ever to fight someone with 16 iframes
you can literally roll into people r1 spamming a straightsword and not give a damn, equip kirks armor for maximum troll.
the fact that isn't banned is a testament to the incompetence of this tournament
Jackson Price
...Well ok then.
Adam Martinez
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Sebastian Ramirez
alright!
Jaxon Long
So what I'm getting from this is that it's really good, but I'm a cheap fuck if i use it?
Nathan Hughes
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Ian Morales
pretty much, but hey if you feel like going full tryhard make sure you dont forget it.
Jeremiah Nelson
Is not allowing buffing on special/unique weapons in DS1/DS3 really a necessary thing for balance purposes?
Logan Clark
if a join a different covenant, do I lose my rank in the first covenant? What if I spent alot of humanity to get the rank? It'll all be wasted?
Tyler Cooper
Hey hey, I'm not using a dark sword while wearing that particular armor set.
Okay then, I've already go the fap ring, what rings do you think i should have? What's essential or really good?
Caleb King
>from >having any idea what they're doing
basically they just got scared and didn't want to repeat the buffing moonlight greatsword in 2 (pre-patch)
Leo Cooper
You lose half your current offerings in that covenant. So if you were at 30 humanity offered, it is cut down to 15.
Liam Young
Cute!
Christian Wright
You lose half each time you leave a particular covenant. So if you have 20 humanity in a covenant and leave, when you rejoin you'll have 10. I'm pretty sure.
Christopher Thompson
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Josiah Baker
Life&Chloranthy If you need equip load, Havels. Otherwise leave the 4th slot for utility(Leo, Sun Princess, Hornet ) Assuming you aren't caster of course
Dylan Adams
>dark sword >fallen knight set >tryhard
oh you are like a little babeh who gets tryhard and shitter mixed up.
being actually good with the dark sword is harder than say, Gotthards or washing pole. the reason dark sword gets a bad rap is because you see a lot of hosts who just r1 spam their way through the game with it and then they get BTFO the second it doesn't work.
Aaron Miller
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Jackson Turner
Thanks!
Interesting! I've never used the dark sword before, but I've heard the weapon art is really good, plus it's a strength biased ss. I might put it in the offhand of my next strength build.
Xavier Wright
yes it is
David Wright
>but I've heard the weapon art is really good, plus it's a strength biased ss.
Stomp is only good against people who expect you to r1 spam, you will never hit anyone who's seen it before
also it's a quality sword, there are no strenght swords, the closest to you get is the millwood battleaxe, otherwise you have to stick to hammers, big hammers and big axes.
stomping into friede scythe combo is really satisfying though
Jacob Moore
>stick to hammers Hammers are quality weapons, too
Asher Gomez
Doubt and doubt.
Nathaniel Davis
>mfw trying aldrich faithful for the first time at sl58 This is so much fun
Parker Bell
If he doesn't, I'm going to kill myself
Joseph Morris
>Hammers are quality weapons, too
Christopher Lee
i don't any hammer is except drang hammers and those get a pass because dual weapon
Benjamin Long
Artorias, taller than you even when he is hunchback
He likely porked Ciaran.
pic related
Owen Hernandez
>minus 80 physical damage >get 65 fire damage >with higher stat investment than quality wooow, great caster weapon my man
Kayden Parker
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Josiah Phillips
Holy fuck when will the sidemouth meme die?
Josiah Hall
>pre-nerf gotthards Yeah man, let's ban dark sword, estoc and farron memesword because they were FOTM on release day.
Nathan Gray
Maybe he wasn't all in proportion and it was human sized. His greatsword was compensating for his lacking in other areas.
Ethan Martin
>using a greatshield turtle build >people unzip a curved sword >I equip the bloodring >mfw
Landon Lee
Ciaran has a condition. Please don't make fun of her for it. She's very insecure about it.
Kevin Smith
>not following the conversation chain
the discussion was about carthus bloodring you turbo-faggot
Elijah King
sidemouth meme? what do you mean user?
Brody Perry
Post more Setz stuff!
Isaac Butler
I could have sworn it had a str bias.
I've only ever seen one person do the wa of the dark sword (outside of youtube videos of course), and I'm pretty sure they did it by accident, as all they did was the opening r2 and then they went back to r1 spamming.
Some of the axes are good for offhand str weapons. Particularly the brigand's, man serpent's, and dragon slayer's. But i like the man serpent hatchet the best, slightly more range iirc.
Ryan Scott
>implying bloodring is any good without a weapon that can abuse it
Isaiah White
it's not even that good
Evan Murphy
>Using stomp with Darksword What a great way to get hit 3 times to deliver a single straight sword hit. Brilliant design from the Dark Souls 3 team.
Ayden Jackson
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Ryan Walker
you do know that you take reduced damage during a stomp like perseverance right?
you do also know that the stomp hit will do 500+ damage on people right?
Michael Russell
>Dark Sword Stomp hits >500 No
Levi Parker
>you do know that you take reduced damage during a stomp like perseverance right? Not all stomps
Jaxon Cook
and that's how we know you dont have the faintest clue about what you're talking about
Cameron Reed
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Adam Williams
take dark sword stomp look at your stat screen realize you're a retard
Samuel Moore
I need advice from you guys. What should I make for my final DS3 build? So far I have:
>SL120 Quality build, first char I beat the game with >SL120 Quality/Faith hybrid paladin >SL120 Int build using MLGS >SL42 dickass thief Catacombs invader >SL37 stealth mage themed Cathedral cooper/invader >SL120 Int/Fai pure caster >SL120 Str/Pyro Demon Fist user >SL37 Farron Keep coop build with 27 Str >SL83 Dex user, endgame area invader
I feel like I should have one around 50-70, but I can't decide on a theme. I've been considering:
>Dex build with a weeaboo theme >Dex/Luck bleed build >Dex/Faith Londor swordsman with dark miracles >Str/Fai Millwood wanderer focused on HP regen >Frostbite themed build with Friede's Scythe and Snap Freeze
I know the last one would be borderline worthless in practicality, but I've ran a poison build before and I've noticed hosts tend to play a lot more passive when they have a bar filling up, even if it's harmless.
What do you guys think I should do? Any suggestions? Also pic related is my build lineup so far.
Luke Gomez
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Austin Cook
I refuse to believe a weapon with 430 AR refined in a 40\40 build is going to hit a player for 500+ damage with a charge R2 stomp. And if I'm wrong its still fucking useless because you're going to lose that trade every single fucking time to 3 straight sword, greatsword or ultra hits. Stomp on a straight sword class weapon is fucking stupid because it cant launch.
Anthony Johnson
It's actually better, the launches and pancakes are useless and only look cool. Dark sword can combo stomp into r1.
Kayden Diaz
IS THERE A FUCKING CE OPTION THAT DOESN'T LET INVADERS HIT YOU?
Noah Watson
>forcing someone to roll recover after a launch and breaking their attack chain is useless. >Dark sword is good What sort of fresh hell have I entered.
Lincoln Lopez
yeah, infinite i-frames
Zachary Richardson
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Cameron Morales
The only other Setz comics I have are BB-related.
Cameron Ramirez
Dual Morion blade with Red tear stone and Blood Ring.
Grayson Reed
>TRC stream later today >know that i won't have enough willpower to not watch it >decided to wait for pc version of nier automata so i don't have anything to divert my attention fuck my life
Yeah you can alter the number of I-frames rolling gives you, I see lots of people who gank invaders doing it.
Jackson Murphy
That too, but there's going to be one today at PAX East or something.
Bentley Carter
you take 60% less damage while stomping while 2-handing the dark sword has nearly 460 AR (and you will always be 2 handing if you're stomping) and it does do 500+ damage, but again as I said in the first post it will only hit people who are stupid enough to stay in your face and/or are shit at rolling
Matthew Morales
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Aiden Jenkins
It's okay, I love Bloodborne.
What are they showing in it?
David Evans
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James Myers
This guy was literally just standing still though. And I just ran into another one, just stands there after I kill their phantom. Fucking subhuman faggots.