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31 minutes ago, Jamie John said:

I ticked over into hour sixty last night and noticed the first hunt of fatigue creeping in while exploring the Atlus Plateau. I was rooting through another copy and paste cave, however, defaulting to aggroing enemies away from groups with arrows, one by one, like I've done in every other Souls game ever, so maybe that was why.

 

When I come to a new area, something compels me to explore everywhere other than where the game is pushing me towards first (so, for this area, the capital, or VM). I'm not sure why. Maybe because I'm scared I'll miss something. Perhaps I should just follow the critical path for a while. Or maybe I should just completely respec as a glass cannon mage to push myself completely out of my comfort zone.


I think I need to do this. I regret going for a Strength build. I’m just playing it like every other Souls game. Need to go in on magic or something. 

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God dammit, I spent forever trying to beat that Putrid Erdtree Avatar whilst on Torrent. Every time it was down to 1/4HP it seemed to take on a new life and absolutely smack the shit out of me. The first time I try on foot it goes down to five Hoarfrost Stomps. :lol:

 

Edit: Just beat the Castle Sol boss at level 119 on my third attempt of the day. I spent the afternoon doing catacombs elsewhere so it looks like it paid off.

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30 minutes ago, El Spatula said:

Dex/Int is pretty fun. Could also respec to Str/Faith?

 

I'm only around level 35, so still have plenty of time to spec into Faith, and was thinking about it actually. But I don't think I have a catalyst or whatever, and don't know where to find one.

 

I also have Godric's Rune so can instantly add +5 to everything, including Faith, which might be useful in the short term (currently 9).

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6 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

 

I'm only around level 35, so still have plenty of time to spec into Faith, and was thinking about it actually. But I don't think I have a catalyst or whatever, and don't know where to find one.

 

I also have Godric's Rune so can instantly add +5 to everything, including Faith, which might be useful in the short term (currently 9).

 

You can get a seal from the maiden Husks in the Roundtable Hold which will allow you to perform incantations.

 

I started off as a Confessor and put some points into FAI, but any magic user requires FAI/INT as well as FP, so I always feel like I'm spreading myself pretty thin when compared with pure DEX or pure STR.

 

I might respec as a DEX/ARC build as I'm currently using lots of bleed attacks anyway, and some of the cooler weapons require high arcane.

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3 hours ago, robdood said:

So, fellow Ringers, gonna do a bit of a stream session on this over the weekend*... I want ideas for a build to try out!!  

 

So far I'm thinking: 

- Big bashy man.  STR build, dual wielding greatswords, great maces, great axes, etc. 

- Tiny skinny Prisoner and following natural starting stats; i.e. INT and DEX baby. 

- faith seems... a bit crap til later?  Dunno, plus I did lightning / faith on my recent playthrough of that great DkS3 mod. 

 

Could continue my bleed/arcane lady what I started, but that doesn't seem as fun as I want ot make a plan of items to get etc based on what I know so far :D

 

What do you lot think?  Anyone gonna tune in?  I won't blame you if you're all still adventuring yourselves. 

 

* previous streaming issues seem to have been alleviated by my convincing tech support to install elgato on my work laptop, ha! :D

 

Nice one. Always enjoy your streams. When are you planning on playing and I'll try to tune in. I'll vote for big bashy man lol

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5 minutes ago, Kryptonian said:

I’m level 73 and have 2 levels to spend.

 

As I said before, I have 13 vigour - common sense says to boost that a bit now but I dunno? I get really bad decision paralysis every time I need to level up 😩


You wot?

 

I basically alternate between Vig/End/Str and have done since starting, getting them all even and then levelling them in turn, so they’re all about 20-21 at the moment. So I’m about level 34 and 21 Vig. 

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Has anyone on Xbox succesfully summoned anyone? I'm banging my head against the Rahdan fight so was trying to summon someone to help (as everything I've read about previous Souls games is that that is 'the easy mode'). While I can see the gold summons, every time I've tried to summon people (multiple times over the last few days) I just get the unable to summon message.

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3 minutes ago, metallicfrodo said:

Has anyone on Xbox succesfully summoned anyone? I'm banging my head against the Rahdan fight so was trying to summon someone to help (as everything I've read about previous Souls games is that that is 'the easy mode'). While I can see the gold summons, every time I've tried to summon people (multiple times over the last few days) I just get the unable to summon message.

it means they've already been summoned elsewhere, gotta be quick!

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4 minutes ago, metallicfrodo said:

Has anyone on Xbox succesfully summoned anyone? I'm banging my head against the Rahdan fight so was trying to summon someone to help (as everything I've read about previous Souls games is that that is 'the easy mode'). While I can see the gold summons, every time I've tried to summon people (multiple times over the last few days) I just get the unable to summon message.

 

Yes but you have to be really quick. They are getting summoned by other players.

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Just now, 5R7 said:

it means they've already been summoned elsewhere, gotta be quick!

 

I mean I turn up to the portal before the boss and pop my furling finger and sometimes they show up, and they always fail. No more ever seem to appear are they supposed to if I just wait? I mean how can I be quick?

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4 minutes ago, metallicfrodo said:

 

I mean I turn up to the portal before the boss and pop my furling finger and sometimes they show up, and they always fail. No more ever seem to appear are they supposed to if I just wait? I mean how can I be quick?

they will repopulate if you try them all. and you can click when it starts showing the gold!

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24 minutes ago, Hawklord said:

Nice one. Always enjoy your streams. When are you planning on playing and I'll try to tune in. I'll vote for big bashy man lol

Yay! It'll be on youtubes, I think, not sure there's much point doing it on twitch.  Though I might do a bit of testing tonight to see if the quality comes out better. 

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I played this loads today (instead of doing an assignment for my uni course lol) and did a lot more of Ainsel and Siofra Rivers, as well as the areas they lead onto.

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Fun stuff, real Lovecrafty vibes down there. I love the way you find the poison swamp in Liurnia and are like "oh, Miyazaki, you scamp!" Then you find Swamp of Aeonia and think "oh, this is the real poison swamp, the other one was just the kiddy version." Then you find Lake of Rot and you're like 😩😩😩😩😩

 

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2 hours ago, SuperCapes said:

 

One of the most eye opening moments for me was after nearly yarding my controller, I tried poison buildup on Radahn plus a certain talisman, and bleed, and 1 phased him. 

 

Made me feel intelligent turning him into pretty much a bag of moist swamps. 

 

Moments like that are special beyond belief, and make it something else. 


 

I almost one phased him with the Claymore I stuck the Chilling Wind onto. Was so frustrating to not get him down that time, as every subsequent attempt I did where he cometted at half health made me annoyed for a long ass second phase. He’s super susceptible to hits just before he shoots up as well. 

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This last boss can get fucked. It's the worst boss in the game by a mile. Not because of difficulty but because it's such a fucking chore and a pain in the arse if you are melee build. 

 

Had about 15 attempts. Giving it an hour later and if I can't beat him then I'm done. 

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1 hour ago, Number 28 said:

God dammit, I spent forever trying to beat that Putrid Erdtree Avatar whilst on Torrent. Every time it was down to 1/4HP it seemed to take on a new life and absolutely smack the shit out of me. The first time I try on foot it goes down to five Hoarfrost Stomps. :lol:

 

Edit: Just beat the Castle Sol boss at level 119 on my third attempt of the day. I spent the afternoon doing catacombs elsewhere so it looks like it paid off.


I found an axe with Whorefrost stomp. It’s my goto whenever I struggle against a boss or die repeatedly in a dungeon. It really is easy mode when you get the rhythm right.

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