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[NJClaw]

Can't use his drops though. Hate the fact that they have 4 million greatswords and like 3 shitty one-handers.

The game has almost as many straight swords as greatswords, unless you count colossal swords in the same category. However, I feel like it's easier for greatswords to have unique weapon arts.

In this particular case, there is a straight sword that is a mini version of the Marais Executioner's Sword:

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Regalia of Eochaid, you can find at the end of the Gaol Cave in Caelid

I noticed a lot of players seem not to do some of the harder optional bosses. Only 35% defeated Elemer of the Briar (who is like a weaker bell bearing hunter, at least weaker than the last 2), only 33% defeated regal ancestor moose.

Aren't the ancestor moose some of the easiest bosses in the game? They seem designed more to be cool and atmospheric than anything else.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

The game has almost as many straight swords as greatswords, unless you count colossal swords in the same category. However, I feel like it's easier for greatswords to have unique weapon arts.

In this particular case, there is a straight sword that is a mini version of the Marais Executioner's Sword:

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Regalia of Eochaid, you can find at the end of the Gaol Cave in Caelid

Looks like crap, and not for my build. Most one-handers i found so far are for Arcane/Intelligence/Dexterity builds.

Aren't the ancestor moose some of the easiest bosses in the game? They seem designed more to be cool and atmospheric than anything else.

They are not too tough, but only 33% of players did it. Probably cause they didn't figure out the moose torch trick.

 

[toro]

With all the talk about Malenia again, try watching this and not feeling terrible at video games.

 

[Andnjord]

With all the talk about Malenia again, try watching this and not feeling terrible at video games.

Don't worry, I just need to do some coop and see some Host die to Renala even though I'm wooping her ass with the Guts Greatsword to know that there is always worse than me

Speaking of which:

I've decided against doing NG+ for the moment, and instead started on a Strenght character. Beelined for the Greatsword in Caelid because I wanted to partake in the gentlemanly art of pancaking fools with Colossal Swords.

 

[Andnjord]

Aren't the ancestor moose some of the easiest bosses in the game? They seem designed more to be cool and atmospheric than anything else.

They are not too tough, but only 33% of players did it. Probably cause they didn't figure out the moose torch trick.[/QUOTE]
As far as Steam Stats go, 33% on an optional boss is really good. Heck, Malenia sat at around 20% when I checked. Keep in mind a lot of games will be lucky to have 20% of the players finishing the game, let alone tackling the hardest optional content.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

I dont know what Myazaki's fetish with COLOSSAL SWORDS™ is, but those things just look silly if you are into HEMA or history.

 

[Andnjord]

I dont know what Myazaki's fetish with COLOSSAL SWORDS™ is, but those things just look silly if you are into HEMA or history.

He's a fan of the anime Berserker from which this character (and his sword) is from apparently.
And yeah, they are silly as hell, that's the whole point

 

[HeatEXTEND]

but those things just look silly if you are into HEMA or history.

Everything everywhere looks silly if you are into history.

 

[ELEXmakesMeHard]

My holy aesthetics. This game is turning me into a fashion fag.

 

[Lyric Suite]

So i leveled to SL42 and now i'm starting to see connections.

But btw, double Crystallians? Lmao, even easier onces than in Luria.

Altus was definitely meant before Caleid, to say the least.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Beat my first Ulcerated Tree Spirit on first attempt, but full grown morningstar beast proved a pain, think I will come back to that one later, once my weapon is more upgraded, right now it will take a thousand hits to kill it without elemental grease.

 

[mediocrepoet]

With all the talk about Malenia again, try watching this and not feeling terrible at video games.

I thought you were going to share something like this:

 

[Lyric Suite]

Is there a summoning pool for wormface?

Says multiplayer it's available, but i can't find any.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Lol, wormface. I took him and his death breathing ilk down on horseback, Mongol style. There is a more annoying version of him in the mountains near Gelmir, in a narrow corridor. But they are similar to dragon fights, you don't want to be close to them for long.

 

[Silverfish]

I dont know what Myazaki's fetish with COLOSSAL SWORDS™ is, but those things just look silly if you are into HEMA or history.

Giant weapons are historically accurate. Our ancestors (10 ft. tall, 600 lbs.) used such weaponry to hunt the megafauna of the era.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

So someone in shoutbox was talking about medium shields for blocking, and at first I thought their guard boost is too low, but then I looked it up on the wiki, and a couple of them have decent starting guard boost, brass shield in particular (which looks like shit) and banished knight shield (starting guard boost of 55, compared to 60-69 for most greatshields). Now since I am already wearing Banished Knight armor set, I thought the shield would look awesome with it. Moreover, this shield scales better with upgrades than greatshields, so by +25, its guard boost is 68, and with the new changes to Greatshield Talisman, it might also give more of a boost to medium shields than greatshields. So I decided to give it a try:

Pretty much the full Banished Knight set, for that ultimate medieval knight look. Will see how the shield holds up against tougher bosses, I got it at +20 now, so guard boost of 65 + the bonus from the talisman.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Lol, Commander Niall is such a bitch fight. He summons 2 tough adds, so I get rid of them, he is supposed to be a tough melee dude, instead anytime you get close to him, he summons some kind of a shitstorm with aoe cold damage, and then raises his leg like a dog about to piss, except then lightning strikes from his pegleg. He seriously looks like some kind of a rabid whore more than a "commander", and this is another example of From Software throwing logic and consistency and coherence to the wind, and just putting together some kind of a blender boss.

"Oh these guys think they know how to fight bosses, we will just combine 30 damage types together, and have the boss fart them out every 0.5 seconds in every direction, that will show them!"

All they do with this shit is not create actually challenging gameplay, but just reward the worst kind of builds, the twitchy "i will roll every time i see anything threatening (after learning all the fake delays) to activate iframe bs" players. Ugh, decline has so many faces.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Still, bitch or not, Niall is down:



Took a few tries, but not nearly as bad as Crucible Knight duo. I had to roll every time for his lightning leg, since my medium shield was crap against lightning damage, and also, unfortunately medium shield even upgraded constantly ran out of stamina under his heavy attacks, so I was often unable to respond with guard counters. So back to greatshields it is for me, though I am going with Golden Greatshield instead of the Gilded Greatshield now, looks better and is a bit more effective.

 

[Lithium Flower]

I dont know what Myazaki's fetish with COLOSSAL SWORDS™ is, but those things just look silly if you are into HEMA or history.

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Pretty much the full Banished Knight set, for that ultimate medieval knight look.

Ah yes, the ultimate medieval knight look consisting of a late renaissance plate harness and burgonet with a tactical scarf-thing attachment. Inexplicably worn with a surcoat, kite shield, and dinky arming sword - equipment actually characteristic of a medieval knight that would very likely not have been used with this armor of a much later period, especially not all at once.

That is not to say that colossal swords are realistic, or that this sort of eclectic mix of equipment isn't cool in its own right. Just pointing out that you watched a Skallagrim video once and ever since have been deluded by the false notion that you actually know anything about anything.

You are like the worst version of myself - obnoxious, pretentious, and witless. One that I struggle every day not to become, and in said struggle come closer than ever to becoming.

I hope you stub your toe and spill your coffee today or something.

 

[Lithium Flower]

also increase your character's head size, you look fucking ridiculous

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

I dont know what Myazaki's fetish with COLOSSAL SWORDS™ is, but those things just look silly if you are into HEMA or history.

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Pretty much the full Banished Knight set, for that ultimate medieval knight look.

Ah yes, the ultimate medieval knight look consisting of a late renaissance plate harness

So what you are trying to say is that me casually using the term medieval as a catch-all for the period from Dark Ages to Renaissance (as it is also commonly used in games) is equivalent to using a 200 pound metal obelisk for a weapon? Eh?

... with a tactical scarf-thing attachment.

Not very historical, but it's a small stretch, considering that knights would often wear clothing over armor for various reasons.

Inexplicably worn with a surcoat, kite shield, and dinky arming sword - equipment actually characteristic of a medieval knight that would very likely not have been used with this armor of a much later period, especially not all at once.

So in other words, most of what I am wearing IS a medieval knight's equipment, but in your effort to make a pointless point, I suppose you feel the need to sweep that under the carpet, so you can more easily focus on the one thing that doesn't fit. Also, that's not an arming sword, that's a longsword. The handle is long enough for 2 hands, arming swords were one-handed. Perhaps you should watch more Skallagrim, eh?

You are like the worst version of myself - obnoxious, pretentious, and witless. One that I struggle every day not to become, and in said struggle come closer than ever to becoming.

Ah, lithium, lithium, what would you do without me...

 

[Lithium Flower]

Good correction about the sword, didn't see the handle, everything else is too retarded to respond to.

 

[Lithium Flower]

Wait, who am I kidding? I hate myself. Cutters have razors, I have you.

So what you are trying to say is that me casually using the term medieval as a catch-all for the period from Dark Ages to Renaissance (as it is also commonly used in games) is equivalent to using a 200 pound metal obelisk for a weapon? Eh?

I implied otherwise when I pointed out that colossal swords are still unrealistic whereas this sort of anachronistic but plausible get-up can still look cool. As can colossal swords, to be fair. The issue is that you, by implication, purported to be someone who "is into HEMA or history." Partially as an excuse for your inability to suspend disbelief of japanese fantasy tropes in a deliberate pastiche of disparate elements, which betrays a pretty sad mismanagement of expectations on your part, but also as a way to aggrandize yourself. And what I am pointing out, and what you are conceding, is that your pedantic interest is strictly superficial and extends to making completely banal statements like "buster swords are pretty dumb."

So in other words, most of what I am wearing IS a medieval knight's equipment, but in your effort to make a pointless point, I suppose you feel the need to sweep that under the carpet, so you can more easily focus on the one thing that doesn't fit.

It is not that there is "one thing" that does not fit, it is that the armor itself does not fit with the accessories (most of which are part of the armor set.) And it is precisely that there are some elements that fit with each other and others that do not that renders something eclectic. For the record, the most believable part of your character is the size of his head, which seems very authentic to his player.

My point, if you still don't get it, is that if you try to use the most basic understanding of a topic to immediately abandon any humility and bore the world with pedantry, there will always be someone who is even more of an insufferable pedant than you out there ready to do the same to you. And moreover, if your fledgling interest in history prevents you from suspending belief in fantasy, the only thing you are ultimately broadcasting is your lack of imagination.

Ah, lithium, lithium, what would you do without me...

The question is the answer.

 

[Silverfish]

Just pointing out that you watched a Skallagrim video once and ever since have been deluded by the false notion that you actually know anything about anything.

Skallagrim is incredibly informative. Did you know that no melee weapons were effective until medieval Europe?

also increase your character's head size, you look fucking ridiculous

No can do, this isn't Resi 8.

 

[NJClaw]

All they do with this shit is not create actually challenging gameplay, but just reward the worst kind of builds, the twitchy "i will roll every time i see anything threatening (after learning all the fake delays) to activate iframe bs" players. Ugh, decline has so many faces.

Porkster, you can't brag constantly about your skill and then cry and piss yourself whenever the game forces you to press the circle button.

We get it, fast enemies that you can't trivialize by hiding behind a shield make your head hurt. It's called "old age" and it happens to the best of us. Lithium Flower and I will love you and care for you nonetheless.