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[s0]

what? i can think of at least 4 bosses that are way easier than gwyn

nashandra is pretty easy tho, yes

btw im a bit disappointed with the dark chasm. why did they make 3 short linear levels instead of 1 big one? considering its the only legit "secret" area in the game it sure is underwhelming :/

[Carrion]

Was doin some pvp in the forest today...

[Faust06]

what? i can think of at least 4 bosses that are way easier than gwyn

Yeah. I just mean it gave a similar sense of underwhelming difficulty for a final boss.

I didn't even know about dark chasm until a few days ago.

[Glyph]

I just realized that I've spent 237 hours playing this game... I'm going to have to start limiting myself

[s0]

the darklurker was kind of a joke. dark covenant was a massive disappointment.

enjoyed 2nd playthrough more than 1st just like with dark souls 1. looks like im gonna finish this piece of shit 3 times in less than 2 months. i dont think ive ever done that before in my ~18 years of playing vidgams.

[Dragonmaw]

not even with metal gear solid?!

i'm kinda lost right now. or rather, i'm stuck on dealing with the asshole smelter demon, and i have no more effigies to go human to co-op. blarp.

[s0]

protip 1: use a pharros lockstone near the boss room and roll around in the water pool it creates.

protip 2: use a gyrm greatshield if you have enough STR

protip 3: the smelter demon is skippable

protip 4: restore your humanity by getting summoned

protip 5: you can easily farm human effigies by using bonfire ascetics in majula

i can never reliably dodge his downward slash btw. i almost always get hit no matter how i time my roll. either im dum or the hitbox is wonky

[Dragonmaw]

i'm really sick of being invaded while fully hollow and trying to get my bloodstain back.

i've lost upwards of 80k souls. it's very frustrating.

[SirNiko]

I thought invasions only applied when you were human / not hollow. Is that mechanic different for Dark Souls? Did I misunderstand how that works in Demon's Souls?

[Dragonmaw]

Dark Souls 2 allows you to be invaded while hollow.

So far I've been invaded solely by twinks while I have a bloodstain of 30k+ souls.

There's "hard" and then there's "fucking stupid" and this falls entirely into the latter category.

[s0]

what.

i was invaded like 4 times total in 2 playthroughs and the invaders were always total scrublords

also why would you ever carry 30k souls and not wear a life protection ring

[Dragonmaw]

It was broken and I kept not repairing it

[Ben_Hurr]

The more I play this game, the more I realize I need to look up everything with a wiki or miss out on the stuff I actually want. 

Want one of the few sorceror outfits that actually looks decent? Fuck you its NG+ only.
Want the default sorceror outfit but didn't start as a sorceror? Fuck you if you didnt realize the only respawning necromancers are in a boss chamber.

Start as a Cleric? Fuck you go grind in a late game area for the rest of your outfit, and theres no grinding allowed in dis gaem sucka.

Also ok, we have sorcery/hex catalysts, we have miracle/hex catalysts, we have sorcery/hex/miracle catalysts even, why are there no pyro/sorcery, pyro/hex, or pyro/miracle catalysts? >:I


I just my god this game disrespects you and your time as a player so much, I have never seen a game do this so badly before, seemingly on purpose.  If anything it should at least kick me in the ass to get back to work on my own action RPG, at least as an example of how this challenge/rpg shit SHOULD be done, sans multiplayer.

[s0]

which sorcerer set are u talking about

[Glyph]

Other than twinkling titanite, grinding in this game is very, very minimal. At least in my experience. Compare that to Dark Souls 1 where you could only get three slabs per playthrough or farm them off of Darkwraiths with an impossibly low chance to drop.

As for the pyro catalyst thing -- pyromancy is primal, not refined like the other schools of magic. It's definitely separated on purpose... though it would be cool if there was some catalyst that could do that.

I'd like to hear more about how you feel this game wastes your time as a player. Because I think it's one of the few games out there that doesn't (except for light grinding, which is only really necessary for PvP).

[Rat Casket]

How does limited grinding disrespect the players time?

[s0]

what he means is if you play the game fashion souls style its harder to get specific pieces of armor that are only available as drops

watever im content to wear my new age hippie robes (astrologist set) i bought from jekyll&hyde

[Faust06]

fashion souls

 

Armor sets and weapons can be more viably swapped in early-mid game as the base values tend to be strong enough, except maybe the light armors I guess. But by late game it's easy to get titanite.Twinkling isn't stupidly rare either.

[Rat Casket]

everybody shut up

http://arcanekids.com/ambientdarksouls

[s0]

fun fact: the spell chanting of the channelers is actually a reversed dialog sample from the demon's souls npc lord rydyell. it says "retrieve an article from my corpse". the whispering in duke's archives is also a mishmash of demon's souls dialog iirc