Dark Souls 3

Kirby

froog wrote: »

so i finally summoned someone to help with

pontiff sulyvan

. That ****er is hardcore, don't know how anyone can beat him solo! kinda feel like i've a cheated a bit, do people generally summon much for bosses?

Depends on your build. For me, it was a cakewalk. I just blocked everything he could do. He has a command grab but apart from that I would just block. Very simple. Cool fight but not hard.

Conversely, those regular lothric knights and dark knights gave me no end of trouble earlier in the game due to their attack strings. I couldn't block everything while having enough stamina to hit them. I found them hard while the quick roll type guys seem to beat them easily. Your build will dictate what you find piss easy and what you find hard.

froog

Kirby wrote: »

Depends on your build. For me, it was a cakewalk. I just blocked everything he could do. He has a command grab but apart from that I would just block. Very simple. Cool fight but not hard.

Conversely, those regular lothric knights and dark knights gave me no end of trouble earlier in the game due to their attack strings. I couldn't block everything while having enough stamina to hit them. I found them hard while the quick roll type guys seem to beat them easily. Your build will dictate what you find piss easy and what you find hard.

some of his attacks break my shield block and cause me to wobble, allowing him to smash me. am i missing something? have the dragon crest shield +2.

johnny_ultimate

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Adventures in the

Archives

ME: Hmm... Here's an ominous, dark, fog shrouded room with two crystal geckos but no visible enemies. Bet you there's an unpleasant surprise lurking in here somewhere!

*10 seconds later, anxiously rolling away from a

bookcase

*

ME: Oh, From, never change.

Dunking your head in

wax

has to be up there with the highlights of the series. Just a pity it wasn't more fatal and necessary

You could get through there by simply blocking with a shield , when they should have had the curse build up much faster.

Digital Solitude

RopeDrink wrote: »

Two big spoilery questions:

Q1:

Was there any point to the dark-shrine, other than to get the infinite port pit-sword and/or meet old-maiden for other items and/or the fire keepers eyes? It's pretty much a dead-end so I teleported back to the normal shrine once I was convinced I saw all I could see.

Just for coolness after that

Very cool place either way.

Q2:

I'm going to take a detour to the Demon King, though I only saw someone elses perspective as a co-op Phantom - they didn't have that gigantic worm, nor the huge ballista firing down on them like I do. I assume I'm to use the ballista thing to kill the worm via kiting?

Yep, if you leg it past the worm, up the the right there's a bonfire that's handy. From that bonfire, head straight across the lakey bit and hide behind the worm, behind a rock outcrop at the end of a path, you can sit there until the worm dies. I probably explained that poorly but I'm sure you'll find it.

Other than that, Q1 part was really cool/weird.

I gave her the eyes and haven't a foggy idea what they do for my play through.

Second ending

nix

RopeDrink wrote: »

Two big spoilery questions:

Q1:

Was there any point to the dark-shrine, other than to get the infinite port pit-sword and/or meet old-maiden for other items and/or the fire keepers eyes? It's pretty much a dead-end so I teleported back to the normal shrine once I was convinced I saw all I could see.

Very cool place either way.

Q2:

I'm going to take a detour to the Demon King, though I only saw someone elses perspective as a co-op Phantom - they didn't have that gigantic worm, nor the huge ballista firing down on them like I do. I assume I'm to use the ballista thing to kill the worm via kiting?

Other than that, Q1 part was really cool/weird.

I gave her the eyes and haven't a foggy idea what they do for my play through.

Q1: yeah dead end, the eyes are the big thing about that place, for alt ending. What i will say, at a certain point after the final boss fight you will see a summon sign, be sure to use it before initiating the end game sequence. I only copped the sign just as it was too late on my first play through triggering what i think is the default ending and missing the "eyes" ending.

Q2: No you cant use the ballista unfortunately, just disable it. Which i strongly advise doing before going for the worm. Hes actually pretty easy once you dont have the ballista up your ass.

RopeDrink

RopeDrink wrote: »

Ended up not going there, got distracted and progressed through DBarracks - dayum the boss there is tense, some people used items to summon 3 Phantoms and still got their faces kicked in. Lot of people getting one-shot by his lightning smash (myself included whilst stuck in long-ass jousting animation).

Ugh, the game used to throw Heavy Gems at me 24/7, now no amount of coin crushing and farming hollows is dropping just the ONE I need for my Greatlance.

EDIT: Now sites are saying slugs in Farron... Sigh.

I was getting them regular enough from the 3 guys at the Keep bonfire, while farming wolfgrass , when I say regular 1 in 20 runs but it's a 30 second run. Item discovery was 360 though using the head, ring, coin and crystal sword though you could use a hollow infused shield but that will only give you +4 or 5 in luck so not really worth the mats.

F1ngers

RopeDrink wrote: »

Q2:

I'm going to take a detour to the Demon King, though I only saw someone elses perspective as a co-op Phantom - they didn't have that gigantic worm, nor the huge ballista firing down on them like I do. I assume I'm to use the ballista thing to kill the worm via kiting?

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Second ending

And the fourth ending - the one where you don't get a trophy for finishing the game.

Pickpocket

I tried out multiplayer for the first time. I can feel my heartbeat in my ears.

I think I'm gonna have to put my two dogs on Adverts.ie.

Digital Solitude

Pickpocket wrote: »

I tried out multiplayer for the first time. I can feel my heartbeat in my ears.

I think I'm gonna have to put my two dogs on Adverts.ie.

PvP was it? It's great fun, summoning normally works better than invasions I've found. Above the Watchdog of Farron and the Kiln are the duelling areas as far as I could see.

I'm not sure if you're aware but there's a general limit on your level set by the community, I believe it's SL120 so everyone will be about that level, for fairness sake.

J. Marston

Did anyone actually complete a NPC questline without consulting a guide? I can't see how it can be done, they're so obtuse.

Evade

J. Marston wrote: »

Did anyone actually complete a NPC questline without consulting a guide? I can't see how it can be done, they're so obtuse.

Sort of. I got the

marriage

ending for Anri's quest but then I messed up the rest of the

usurper of fire

game ending.

J. Marston

My NPC questlines were a complete shambles on my first playthrough...

Siegward: Met him at the tower, helped him beat the fire demon. Never saw him again.

Sirrus: Met her at Firelink Shrine, joined Rosaria's Fingers, she left. How the hell was I supposed to know joining that covenant would piss her off?

Anri: Met him at Road of Sacrifices bonfire, then at Firelink Shrine. Never saw him again.

Greirat: Gave him Loretta's bone, sent him pillaging twice. Found him dead in the sewers of Irithyll.

Yoel: Came back to Firelink Shrine and found him curled up, dead.

Irina: Did nothing other than tell me she was a nun of Carim.

Cornyx: Did nothing other than tell me I was his pupil.

Orbeck: Did nothing other than be snarky.

Karla: Did nothing.

Leonhard the Ringfinger: The one I did actually complete.

Consulting guides now that I'm NG+ and even still, it's awkward.

Evade

RopeDrink wrote: »

Not sure how I disable the Ballista though.

General hint

explore the catacombs on the other side of the lake.

YouSavedMyLife

J. Marston wrote: »

My NPC questlines were a complete shambles on my first playthrough...

Siegward: Met him at the tower, helped him beat the fire demon. Never saw him again.

Sirrus: Met her at Firelink Shrine, joined Rosaria's Fingers, she left. How the hell was I supposed to know joining that covenant would piss her off?

Anri: Met him at Road of Sacrifices bonfire, then at Firelink Shrine. Never saw him again.

Greirat: Gave him Loretta's bone, sent him pillaging twice. Found him dead in the sewers of Irithyll.

Yoel: Came back to Firelink Shrine and found him curled up, dead.

Irina: Did nothing other than tell me she was a nun of Carim.

Cornyx: Did nothing other than tell me I was his pupil.

Orbeck: Did nothing other than be snarky.

Karla: Did nothing.

Leonhard the Ringfinger: The one I did actually complete.

Consulting guides now that I'm NG+ and even still, it's awkward.

Exact same outcome for me, got as far as Sieg giving me a Slab but nothing beyond that. Didn't progress Leonhards quest and found

Anri dead in Anor Londo, with a Pilgrim from earlier dead outside her door

Did you happen to find

Archdragon Peak on your first play? Its so well hidden i don't see how anyone, in the world would find it on their own

Mickeroo

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Exact same outcome for me, got as far as Sieg giving me a Slab but nothing beyond that. Didn't progress Leonhards quest and found

Anri dead in Anor Londo, with a Pilgrim from earlier dead outside her door

Did you happen to find

Archdragon Peak on your first play? Its so well hidden i don't see how anyone, in the world would find it on their own

Pretty sure that's the end of Sieg's quest?

If you freed him from the cell and he gave you a slab he should have showed up for the Yhorm bossfight.

I found

archdragon because there was a message saying "Try gesture", so didn't consult a guide or anything but the message made it fairly obvious what I needed to do!

froog

this game has turned me into a bag of nerves. i find myself only able to play an hour or so at a time now, too emotionally draining!

Regarding Irina ,

her burly friend cam to firelink to visit me and warn me I later found him dead in her cell

No idea as to the how or why there

Evade

Concord grinding is slow going, even with item discovery at 357.

Pickpocket

Digital Solitude wrote: »

PvP was it? It's great fun, summoning normally works better than invasions I've found. Above the Watchdog of Farron and the Kiln are the duelling areas as far as I could see.

I'm not sure if you're aware but there's a general limit on your level set by the community, I believe it's SL120 so everyone will be about that level, for fairness sake.

I done a bit of everything. I even tried invading but I got my arse handed to me.

The sight of an invader in the distance, mercilessly hacking through the environment in order to get his hands on you, is a serious rush.

Digital Solitude

Pickpocket wrote: »

I done a bit of everything. I even tried invading but I got my arse handed to me.

The sight of an invader in the distance, mercilessly hacking through the environment in order to get his hands on you, is a serious rush.

Ah invading is only ****e, gank squads everywhere. Spent a good hour invading the other day, won 3 fights, all because the host and summons were just stupid, literally zero 1 on 1 fights unless you summon a dark spirit or get summoned.

J. Marston

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Ah invading is only ****e, gank squads everywhere. Spent a good hour invading the other day, won 3 fights, all because the host and summons were just stupid, literally zero 1 on 1 fights unless you summon a dark spirit or get summoned.

If you invade a world, why should the host play fair?

If you invade my world I will use every trick in the book to get rid of you. Summons, Seed of a Giant, Young White Branch.

Digital Solitude

J. Marston wrote: »

If you invade a world, why should the host play fair?

If you invade my world I will use every trick in the book to get rid of you. Summons, Seed of a Giant, Young White Branch.

Ah I don't mind that kind of stuff, it adds variety I guess, it's just pretty boring when literally every person you invade has a summon or two with them to stunlock you to death. Even Darkmoons take a few minutes to spawn, giving you an opportunity to atleast duel.

Like the odd person would be expected, but literally every world I invaded had a summon with them already

Pickpocket

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Ah invading is only ****e, gank squads everywhere. Spent a good hour invading the other day, won 3 fights, all because the host and summons were just stupid, literally zero 1 on 1 fights unless you summon a dark spirit or get summoned.

I don't know enough about it to criticise it one way or another, but to be honest I'm too much of a happy helper dude to bother putting serious time into that aspect of the game.

I helped a guy in co-op earlier. I'm not a very skilfull gamer, but even by my lowly standards he appeared to be struggling. Helping him on his was was hugely satisfying and I can see myself doing a lot of more of that. 10 days ago I didn't know what had it me (and in fairness I'm not even halfway through the campaign so I still have a long road ahead), but here I am today helping out someone even worse off than myself. It feels good.

RTighe

Anyone getting a constant network problem in the last few mins ?

Edited. Seems Xbox live service is having issues

Digital Solitude

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Ah I don't mind that kind of stuff, it adds variety I guess, it's just pretty boring when literally every person you invade has a summon or two with them to stunlock you to death. Even Darkmoons take a few minutes to spawn, giving you an opportunity to atleast duel.

Like the odd person would be expected, but literally every world I invaded had a summon with them already

Good :pac:

Can't stand being invaded

RTighe

RTighe wrote: »

Anyone getting a constant network problem in the last few mins ?

Edited. Seems Xbox live service is having issues

Yeah same BS as last night, party chat doesn't work and disconnects. I've had to play offline and use NPC phantoms ewwwwwwwwwwww

Evade

RopeDrink wrote: »

Just give me two damn pale tongues so I can go back to doing what I was doing...

Have you found the 3 pale tongue pick ups in the game?

RTighe

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yeah same BS as last night, party chat doesn't work and disconnects. I've had to play offline and use NPC phantoms ewwwwwwwwwwww

Driving me demented. Trying to do smouldering lake

Mickeroo

RopeDrink wrote: »

On the topic of PvP, ****ing hate it. I literally HAVE to invade now to get pale tongues for respecs, seeing as drop rates in PvE, like always, are terrible when you need something. Anytime I spawn in, it's me vs Host with double Sunbro's. All they have to do is charge in, get one block or hit and you're locked out. Most, as you would expect (and is totally fine) avoid places that are a hazard to them, so I have absolutely nothing to my name against 3 people.

Lucked out 1-2 just by invading smouldering lake and trying to get the Ballista to help, or the worm - but even that failed half the time. I just need two damn tongues and have been at this frustrating garbage for about 1-2 hours. The one time I spawned into a 2v3, my help was a mad phantom who could hurt me as well and screws up my targetting.

I'm sure it's a lot of fun when it works out for you - but it's few and far between for me. I'm not a DSer or a min-maxer, versus people who clearly just dump everything into damage traits and rely on one lucky combo, or dodge away endlessly to repeat the cycle waiting for that one combo. Just give me two damn pale tongues so I can go back to doing what I was doing...

EDIT: One more... GIVE IT TO ME, NAO.

If you know anyone else playing the game or maybe someone on here on the same platform will do it, just set a password and summon each other through the red soapstone, easy pale tongues.

Digital Solitude

Mickeroo wrote: »

If you know anyone else playing the game or maybe someone on here on the same platform will do it, just set a password and summon each other through the red soapstone, easy pale tongues.

Does summoning with the Red Soapstone give tongues or do you have to be summoned? That'll be my go to I'd say, I love summoned duels, could do them for hours in Dark Souls 2 on the Iron Keeps bridge