From Software The Dark Souls II Megathread™

Apparently you don't gain/lose anything from invasions. It's just arena kills that count.

 

In other words the guy is a genuine bitch.

 

I like to camp invaders in Belfry Sol just to turn the tables around a bit (numbness and helixes for extra asshole) and I've had plenty invaders alt+f4 after a few invasions in a row. A lot of greys just two-hand havel's shield and wait for reinforcements.

 

my own experience; I systematically clear out the dwarves and wait near the spawn spot (which seems to depend on where you are when they spawn in). Get to the spot, profound still them right as they spawn in, and they panic cuz they can't buff and you got it all going. Got a lot of revenge that way, but slowly learned that I have hit the limit of 'getting better' by fighting off greys. For a while, was good practice, but now 80% of the time its I win or I get ganked by 2 or more. Sometimes, I win against 3 and I think "wtf, how bad are these guys?".

In belfry luna, had one red named gooooo or something spawn in 3 times in a row. He had the usual try hard stuff (havels legs and arms, jesters robe, gyrm great helm) and a grand lance he'd cast dark weapon on (that lance is basically a fucking AOE). attacked me while I was waving, killed him. Then a grey comes in, kill him, and the lance red invades again and I kill him again. He (same red) invades later (I went to bonfire and quit out/restarted game) and I kill him again. Then he invades a few greys later and plays nice and helps me against greys.

RED IS A LEARNING ANIMAL APPARENTLY.

Also, MAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK*




*might look better with visible armor of auros but fuck farming that

 

I just had the worst invader ever. Dude just appeared behind me fully buffed and started raping me. There was no invader alert or anything. The feather went dim for about 5 min though... Lag FTW.

 

Soooo apparently the 1 million souls you need to open the shrine of winter can't be from boss souls. Cuz that was my plan to do the no death/no bonfire run. And I just popped them all, getting 1.37 mil souls from it. And the damn gate won't open. What the fuck?

EDIT: NVM... since I"m on journey 4, I need 4 million. Fuck, did not account for this. Gonna burn through every soul I have but I doubt it's enough. Gatdamnit.

EDIT 2: burned all the boss souls, got to 3mil. Fuck fuck fuck. Guess I have to actually kill some bosses now. God damnit. how the furk did I overlook that?

 

Just savescum and kill everything.

 

no sir, honor and etc. i will not besmirch my good monocle name by succumbing to such frivolous behaviors and what have you

well, I'll do the kill everything part but not the save scumming cuz jesus n stuff

 

ghey

 

Finished!

My character was level 166, Vgr 30, End 40, Vit 40, Str 50, 21 DEX, 16 INT, 16 FTH....and a bunch of other stats I can't remember.

Used a fully upgraded Havel armor set and alternated between fully upgraded Black Knight GreatSword and Mastadon Halberd (mostly mastadon for bosses as combined with an element it does insane damage).

I didn't do all the memories or kill the king as I got bored. I also rushed through the last couple areas, so I probably could have leveled even higher if I wanted.

All in all not as good as DS1. DS1 had better bosses, level design, and even though DS2's engine is a vast impovement, the hitboxes often seemed noticeably fucked up in DS2 in a way that was really annoying (The giant Rat and Memory Giant boss fight s were really annoying, you'd swing and pass through enemies with no damage, and they would swing and hit you even though their sword/hands/feet didn't actually touch your character).

Still. DS1 might be my favorite ARPG ever (still thinking about that), so a slightly lesser second helping is welcome enough.

I plan on starting Skyrim for the first time later this week (yeah, I've never played it before). Will it be as good as Dark Souls? Only time can tell!

 

So, I did it. Fucking died 3 times. 1 of them to Looking Glass Knight because I was dumb and tried to swap weapons mid fight. Twice... for absolutely fucking stupid reasons. 1) goddamn lions hit like a dump truck. 2) fucking ledge. I knew it would be a fucking ledge. Fuck. Those. Ledges.

Guess I"ll do it again with bonfires now, should be a bit easier... bleh.

UndetectedButthurt fuggit, I'll scum it up. what's the word on it? Just back up a set file?

 

Just back up your saves after important fights or something. I prefer to quit before backing up. If you paste the file while the game is writing it'll complain that it can't access and boot you to main menu. Save path is something like C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsII

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Is bastard sword upgrade worth investing titanite/souls early in the game for a STR guy?

 

dont forget to do full playthrough of oblivion and fallout 3 as well you faggot

 

Not really, you can find a claymore pretty early on... I'd say to not take it past +4 personally. The claymore has to be purchased, btw, from an unlikely merchant. Let me know if you want specific details.

 

yup, bro, I know how to get claymore, I just compared the stats and claymore has like +5 more base dmg - that's the the only difference I've noticed. Or the thing is Claymore has rising scaling with upgrade?

oh yeah and how's the Pursuer sword?

 

PUGS is kinda crap, like most UGS. stick to greatswords (claymore, mastodon, defender, dragon are the bestest)

 

Bastard sword has the 4 hit stunlock though. Probably a good early PvP weapon.

 

All of the Greatswords have a 4-hit stunlock IIRC

 

Bastard Sword moveset (Old Knight, Bluemoon, Mastodon, Black Dragon) weapons have it. 2H Running R1-R1-R2-R2 guaranteed every time even if opponent has max poise/agility. All other greatswords can probably (not always) do 3 hits.

 

Thanks. I wasn't sure but I did know there's variations for greatsword movesets.

Not like I care in the grand scheme of things. Waiting for SM to either be fixed or to watch the game die. I refuse to PvP with this patch.

 

Greatsword UGS is probably the only worthwhile one but only because of Damage/Reach. Zweihander/Drakekeeper have the best moveset but shit damage.

 

Does the PUGS still stunlock after the patch?

 

i want agdayne's moves