From Software The Dark Souls II Megathread™

Wait, people think there's a better boss in the base game than Smelter demon?

 

Yes, his name is John Cena Sir Alonne.

 

How is that bad spelling? That is how you spell Alonne.
http://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Sir+Alonne

 

It is not bad spelling but it is bad reading comprehension. Sadly, I do not have a button for that so I have to use bad spelling for multiple purposes.

He said in the "base game". Alonne is in the DLC.

 

Fair enough. I did find the base game bosses, smelter included, to be underwhelming.
Smelter felt like every other big dumb boss to me. He just has tracking and a 3 stage gimmick.
Alonne had a cool moveset and boss theme at least.

 

Do you wear heavy armor? Armor doesn't feel as effective to me as in DS1.

 

Best PVP is invasions, try invading sunken kang sanctum, dragon aerie and Shrine of amana.

After you accumulate enough sin(by invading and killing players), bluefags will start invading you. So it's win-win.

Nothing in the game is SL based, guess you meant SM. There is no upper limit in arena matchmaking, you can get matched with a max. level/stat faggot.

Reddit bridge is kind of lame, because it attracts hackers/gankers.


Your best bet is invading, bell keeping(you may have to wait for a while) and rat covenant.

 

What's a good boss to farm sun medals for the Sunlight covenant? I want that miracle cheevo, because my OCD forbids me from letting a game I spent 30+ hours on go uncompleted.

 

I got my sunbro medals primarily from Smelter Demon, people really seem to need help with that. Warning: after 30 summons you will come to despair the average skill level of the random spaztards playing

Edit: You probably need to do Orma's suggestions though if you're SM > 1.1mil though

 

Oddly enough, I get no activity around my soul level range in Iron Keep.
However, that might be due to 3 factors -
1) I'm still in NG
2) I'm playing original DS2, not scholar
3) I have nearly 2mil soul memory. Being a completionist when it comes to souls games is a bitch.

 

Yeah. Heavy Armor doesn't feel as effective because poise works differently. I think it's the best handled out of all three. Poise doesn't feel kind-of-sort-of overpowered liked in 1 and it actually exists and works, as it should, unlike 3's poise that is "working as intended".

 

Idk, to me it feels backwards to have poise only work when you are in an attack animation, where if you get hit you'll probably die anyway at higher levels of play.
It made more sense in DS1, where you always have poise, so you can't get stun locked before starting an action.
I might be missing something though.

Apparently DS3 poise is super fucked up, as it only applies to certain weapons. Which is pretty dumb.

 

Except when it doesn't. And I say that as that being the ONLY way I could play 3 without feeling physically ill. DS1's would be alright if you didn't get free Equip Weight for leveling a neccessary stat, which made everyone become absolute tanks regardless of build. (different roll speeds were alright but c'mon).

 

In DS2, Poise also affects you when you get hit while just idling or moving. If you take a hit but have enough poise to withstand the attack, you just get slowed down a bit but are still fully functional. If you don't then you get staggered.
The Hyper Armor in 2 applies to most great weapons and greatly increases your poise.

In DS3, there is no poise, just Hyper Armor on only a few heavy weapons. Meaning that if you are wearing a full set of havel's but you are using something like a Straight Sword, you will be staggered by absolutely anything; rats, doggos, skinny hollows with butter knives, etc. You may as well not be wearing armor because even the damage reduction from armor hardly matters, thus, heavy armor is effectively worthless.

 

Really? Because if I'm wearing armor in DS2 and I get hit by something then I always stagger unless I'm attacking.
Maybe the enemies in the DLC just deal that much poise damage, because I remember being staggered all of the time when just moving, even whilst wearing drakeblood armor.

Maybe for NG+ I should respect as an armored cleric or something.
I always liked the idea of a warrior priest. Might be the Warhammer fantasy player in me. Would fit with my attempts at farming medals for that pesky sunlight spear.

 

Go for it. In fact, there is a set of armor that's perfect for that. It's the Heide Knight Set, it's basically crusader armor
http://imgur.com/a/F2God

Lightning Infusions scale with faith and lightning element is strong against a lot of things in DS2 AND Heide weapons have innate lightning damage.

 

You can also combine between: Heide, Throne Defender, Insolent, Cleric, and anything you find that you like really. Few armors "suck" like that. There are some nutty sets outstanding for their weight, but no need to chase those unless you're a 1000%er.

 

Yeah, I know the insolent set. When I saw it I thought "That's crusader gear. I want it."
I might use lightning heide weapons and an uninfused mace / great hammer. Because what sort of warrior priest would I be without a big bloody hammer?

Yeah, that set is nice. Its a rare drop in the original though, isn't it? I might wear insolent for the time being.

 

You've also got the Barbed GS, Defender GS, Dragonslayer's Axe, and the other Heide weapons; the Spear, Lance and Greatlance. Or whatever the hell you feel like and infuse it.

Vanilla: In each NG+ they drop a different piece, therefore you need to play around them and with Ascetics, and having a good eye in the Wikia
SOTFS: Just drop rates. Better to switch to Covenant Of Champions to avoid them despawning and making the area harder after the Ascetic reset.

To literally improve the Insolent set, change helmet (Cleric's hood looks oddly well), and put on the Faraam Boots instead of the Insolent boots. Believe me, it's a straight upgrade. Also good stats.

 

Any pointers on getting summoned? Its taking ages to get summoned. What soul memory would I need, and where should I hang out?
I know about the orange borders in the travel menu, but even if I hang out there nothing happens. I suspect the activity shown is other people waiting to be summoned.
One problem I find with the summoning system is that the activity indicator isn't precise enough; yes it shows activity in an area, but the areas are pretty large with several bonfires and its hard to tell where people actually are.
Brume tower has 5 bonfires, each pretty far apart from each other. While I'm wasting my time waiting at fume knight the people I'm waiting for could be somewhere else.

 

Yeah that's something that a patch for Dark Souls 3 around the The Ringed City DLC launch improved on.
You just gotta put a sign down and hope for the best.

 

Ok, I finally found out what you guys were talking about shooting the Pursuer with the ballista...after I killed him...without even noticing there is a ballista in the arena. I seem to be unable to actually pay attention to shit.

 

I never have that much luck with the ballista myself, so I usually just fight him properly.
If you kill him on that plaza you don't have to deal with him again, at least.

 

It's an old game, few people still playing. On my last playthrough half a year ago it's been a pain to co-op. Ultimatelly my best shot was to come here and ask people. Co-op is a mountain of fun, especially in the DLCs.

 

Spy's problem is he isn't even playing SotFS.