Dark Souls 2: YOU DIED HARDER

phew, two bosses down (last giant and dragonrider dude, who wasn't that hard)

i'm thinking of totally rerolling my stats using that one item. (although...i murdered everyone in the hut at the beginning of the game so maybe i'm not allowed now? i think i remember reading that you had to talk to someone there to use the item. sigh.)

i started as a knight but didn't think about how badly that would cutoff both INT and Faith. i don't want to be a spellmaster or anything but i was hoping to at least be able to cast a miracle or two in a pinch.

you killed them? lol why

too many "heh heh hehs"

so yeah, fuck it, i'm going to be least faithful, least intelligent soul in this terrible land. level 36.

isn't int / faith base requirement 10? thats only a few levels needed

i'm thinking of totally rerolling my stats using that one item

let us know how it goes if you do, i'm curious if you have total flexibility with that. until i get another one i'm saving it for NG+ (unless i hit a wall and just have to level up a neglected stat, of course).

man, that would be a bummer if the co-op humanity thing gets changed, but i can see it making things too easy. it certainly has a lot more edge & tension when i'm agonizing over whether to use an effigy to summon help on a boss, or just to get hp back for a better shot. and here i thought they were just encouraging us to help each other out, haha. if it's a bug that would explain the inconsistency too.

i wonder if anyone's killed the emerald herald yet. guessing there will be hardcore runs on youtube for that.

oh yeah u can revive killed npcs if you go back to where you killed them and pay whatever it costs. might work with the hags i dunno

am i supposed to attack lautrec in the forest of giants?

four ring slots is both luxurious and somehow still not enough.

my original plan was to kill the 3 hags and free the 4th woman in the room. she seemed to be sending subtle hints that she hated her job and i expected a high five from her after i murdered her terrible bosses. but no, after the 3 hags perished the remaining person chased me around the room with a cleaver or something. i even left for several hours and came back, and she was still angry. so i had to kill her.

*dark souls psychopath*

i love touching the blood stains around NPCs around majula and lol at ppl that died cuz they attacked them

Thanks to circa1916 for the Tower of Flame ring info. It's difficult to suicide-run your way to it cuz it's hidden behind a drawbridge and you need to kill the giant armoured knight which guards the drawbridge control before the knight's other giant bastard mates catch up to you. So I ended up grinding combat against roomfuls of giant knights until I finally got to the ring and managed to level up a lot on the way. Then I killed Dragonrider on the second attempt. Felt like a total fucking hero.

Really want to keep playing but my wife is chain-watching episodes of Hart of Dixie on Netflix instead.

DAMN YOU RACHEL BILSON

assuming everyone is deep into dark souls world right now

SKULL DEEP. Man, I love the ambient sound in this game. So many subtle touches.

i've helped out a few people via the soapstone, but i've never once seen anyone else's offer to help me. is there some item i'm missing?

You can put down a summon sign in any state, but you gotta be human to summon others.

If you're human you should almost always see summon signs popping up around boss areas. I have had times where quitting and starting up again seemed to "refresh" things and more summon signs started showing up.

ah, that's right. sorry with newb questions.

finally cleared out the wharf. it shouldn't have been so difficult but i started to get really impatient. eventually i ran through the same areas so many times that the enemies went away and things got easier. kind of a bittersweet victory

Yeah, that's a new mechanic. After you kill enemies a certain amount of times, they stop respawning. Not sure how I feel about it yet.

Just had a mega intense gargoyle boss battle. My summoned bro ended up dying fairly quickly and I had what seemed to be a 15 minute fight against four of them. I managed to pull it off! My pulse was through the roof. True Dark Souls moment.

just doing the wharf now, the first time i was super methodical and got to the boss without a problem, now i'm recklessly trying to get back there and dying again and again (duh).

at least i can finally cast spells for the first time in a Souls game!

Yeah, I had the same issue at the wharf. No deaths on clearing the level, but got destroyed trying to hustle back to the boss. Feel like using the stone to light the area was a waste.

is there another area where you can use the stone? or you mean just spending 4000 souls to buy it was a waste?

either way i know what you mean. i never did manage to clear out the spider monkey house, even after running through the place with a torch. the spidermonkeys are scared by the torch for about 4 seconds, and then they gang up and attack.

Whoever put the soapstone message next to the lever at the chariot boss fight can burn in hell.

The stones can be used at a couple of different spots. Generally for more useful things.

avoiding this thread so i can have more a blind playthrough but i'm enjoying the hell out of this game. i think i like the limited respawn thing for now. also really like majula as a hub that eases the frustration. the demons souls hub did that too but also had a claustrophobic feel to it being enclosed and firelink in dark souls wasnt removed enough from the crap surrounding you.

Yeah this game is dope as hell and I will probably be playing it forever. Cleared four bosses this afternoon. Productive day.

guys i've been trying to beat this dead horse all day

i've only put in about an hour, work has been distracting badly. would play now but tv is unavailable... huge sadface

The Ring of Life Protection changes the entire game!

got my copy today. Will report back once I've given it a go this evening...

ugh, got the executioner's chariot down to a tiny sliver one time (solo) and haven't been able to do it again since. there's so much in this game though, i love it. i'm sure i'm missing as many secrets as i'm finding.

-on my first time getting through the bastille, i was very careful and did a few rounds of co-op on the boss to practice, but i forgot that all weapon degradation and item uses count toward your normal game. so when i finally got a couple of phantoms together to do my run it was a hilarious debacle -- ran out of estus, my sword broke, i'm jumping into menus in the middle of the fight to try to come up with anything, and i come up with...the parrying dagger. really wished i could explain/apologize to the other players (could definitely use a shrug gesture).

-on the way there i was invaded for the first time and actually won, that felt amazing.

Killed the Lost Sinner today on first attempt. Possibly the proudest moment of my 30 years of gaming.

When you get summoned and defeat the boss, your equipment should be repaired and estus refilled. Not so if you lose though. Seems to reliably be the case in my game.

Chariot was a big pain. I attempted it about a dozen times in other people's worlds (1 Win, 11 Losses) before I felt comfortable enough to do it in mine. Summoned some help for it and we managed to pull it off on first attempt. Was pretty lucky.

xp

ah right, clearly i was doing some losing in other worlds.

-accidentally destroying a treasure chest is the worst feeling

-so apparently getting cursed is not a big deal in this game, but poison is no joke.

i got to some shithole called 'the gutter' and died from poison with the bonfire in sight. i never want to go there again.

Getting cursed makes you go hollow, right? So if you were human when you got cursed, that would really suck.

true. on the other hand if you're playing hollow with the ring of binding on, it does nothing.

so i guess if you're actively playing co-op and you get cursed, then your phantoms get banished (or you do if you're a phantom)?

I just got to the Gutter too.

FUCK POISON GRAAARRRGH

vs lost sinner:
with 85% phys shield: 0/20
with 100% phys shield: 1/1

haven't reached the gutter yet but i guess that is the new world 5/blighttown huh? brilliant

is that what's down the well? don't tell me.

I just got to the Gutter too.

FUCK POISON GRAAARRRGH

― bizarro gazzara, Monday, March 17, 2014 3:32 PM

I CRIED

vs lost sinner:
with 85% phys shield: 0/20
with 100% phys shield: 1/1

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, March 17, 2014 5:09 PM

vs gauntlet of exploding mummies
1/50

So many weapons, hard decisions. I'm pushing STR but so many of the big fuck off swords I want to use scale hard with DEX as much or more. I might go Great Club. Good move set and A STR scaling off the bat.

ha i'm having same problem. i wanna use the drangleic claymore but i don't have the dex. i did two-hand the great club against an invader to great effect, even though i lost it pancaked him flat on the ground

finally defeated that stupid horse (solo) after countless tries. i ended up getting very good at rolling under the spikes instead of standing in the alcoves, and on my successful run i didn't even take any damage, lol. turns out doing so wasn't worth much besides the sense of accomplishment.

now i'm venturing into Harvest Valley, so desolate. i feel like my path choices at this point are poison vs poison.