Just playing this for the first time. It's honestly pretty shit compared to 1 and 3 but I don't have anything else to play so whatever.
I'm not sure about weapons and builds though. I usually just put points into STR, get a big weapon and slap shit, but I've been told that's not too viable in ds2, so I don't know what I should focus on. I'm using the bastard sword and am at the Lost Sinner boss fight and it feels somewhat shitty with mediocre damage and a slowish moveset.
dark souls 2 is the comfiest souls by far, for me it was the most fun out of the three you will understad if you beat the game and DLC.
It has more replayability value too because they add monsters in game not just more souls and HP.
>ds2 apologists don't even bother reading the OP and just spout their shit opinion
like clockwork
anyway most bosses in DS2 are bullet sponges so I wouldn't worry if you're not dealing too much damage. if you really want to kill bosses fast though try a dark build and a fast DEX weapon with good scaling
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Nah it's nonsense son, I've played through the game and DLCs several times wielding a 50 strenght greatclub one-handed, blunt and high-counter weapons make PvE it's bitch.
If you want to try something better than what you have, try Curved Greatswords. You can get a Murokumo down the path where you found the Pyromancy lady or the Arced Sword from Straid in Lost Bastille. The Arced Sword will be harder to upgrade.
STR dumping is fine, plus you can re-allocate your points later on with some really rare items
using a fucking huge sword is viable, but takes a lot of getting used to. You can get one in Huntsman's Copse (red phantom outside an optional boss gate drops it)
It's much easier to get that sword in No Man's Wharf. It's just in a chest.
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>being this bad at rolling
Come on, now.
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next time try leveling up ADP
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True, but you need to go through Huntsman's Copse anyway and visiting the red phantom is a relatively small detour.
Assuming OP went Sinner > Lost Bastille.
i annihilated 2 without leveling ADP once. get off your crutch fag
Don't even need ADP, just need to be not shit at rolling.
t. spellcaster
honestly one of the worst things about this is my favorite weapon the majestic greatsword (abyss greatsword) forces you to put it in the left hand and play fucking backwards to get the full power out of the weapon because it deals something like 20% more damage in the left hand and the bullshit lore reason is just that bullshit
that second roll was really bad and only proves that whoever made these sucks shit at rolling
RAW
SANTIERS
SPEAR
Same I had no clue wtf it was supposed to do so Ignored it and beat the game+DLC without.
the game was easy just the DLC hard.
fuck off, that weapon is literally the equivalent of the zweihander in DS1
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I should try using that without breaking the stone on it.
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Is the game still alive in terms of PVP and Co-op? I got it recently but haven't really played it yet
No, fuck you. In a game with SM and a retarded durability system I'll pick the coolest fucking twinsword in the game.
Also Enchanted Santiers is good for Int builds.
STR is OP in DS2, use a mace or any other strike damage weapon. The best one is the Craftsman's Hammer.
you are literally worse than katana users
I hate how long it takes to die in this game
fuck everything takes so long in this game
Yes, it has the best longevity because it has the best PvP. Even the newest game, DS3, is dying down fast and the one before that, Bloodborne, is already dead.
How do you get your game to do this to you. When i played dark souls the hitboxes were always in my favor. I would sometimes get hit by shit and not take damage.
Tell me what you like to use in Dark Souls 2, user.
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Wait hold up, now that's just insulting dude.
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People intentionally don't level ADP so their base rolling iframes are low, and blame the game for it because they can't time their rolls without generous BB/DS1/DS3 iframes. Casual babies, ignore them.
power stanced bone fists, like a true patrician
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nice
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dark souls 1 has generous iframes? kek trying playing heavy armor build you fucking dumb goy
Thanks for confirming you're a faggot, have some nice bird ass.
Also people are forgetting that every Souls game has bad hitboxes, especially on grab attacks like the cherrypicked DS2 webms that shitposters post all the time. The rest of the webms in this thread are just rolling too early, that's all.
Do your part to stop the perpetuation of the "ONLY Dark Souls 2 has bad hitboxes!" meme.
>haha yeah bro just fatroll even though fatroll iframes are comparable to base adp ds2 fastroll iframes and take this as a solid argument even though 99% of the pvp meta in ds1 is ninjaflipping or fastrolling!
Fuck off.
Big weapons are plenty viable. Blunt damage is strong against almost every boss
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>that's not too viable in ds2
Everything in DS2 is viable.
>generous BB/DS1/DS3
>max iframes in DaS2 is 16
That's a retardedly large amount of iframes for just boosting a stat. ADP was a mistake.
Why didn't you annihilate all three then, bitch nigga?
>boss is so shit you can literally stand still and he won't hit you
Great game
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you can literally kill that boss under 20 seconds if you parry him and then hit him with the arrow launchers
wait i thought ds2 has horrible hit boxes though? these look pretty good
we werent talking about pvp faggot stop moving the goalposts, pvp is shit because of faggots half way around the world abusing lag and fromsofts shitty netcode
It's a meme, user. The DaS2 hitboxes aren't much better or worse than any other Dark Souls game.
gr8 bait
>Thread immediately breaks down into iframe webms and the one guy who spams that soulsclone.
typical
DeS/DaS/BB/DaS3 have 13 frames for rolls.
Maxing the stat in DS2 is literally 3 extra frames. Wew, lad.
t. buster sword
this guy gets it. wiki reading scumbags, you minmax faggots
attunement levels adp though, it's one of the few builds that gets it as a side effect
what armor set is that
Raime's
Some bosses have some minor shock waves that get people riled up, and low adaptability gives less i-frames so people bitch about that as well.
I would rather play a game that gives me bad hitboxes 2/5 times than a game that gives wombo combo nopoiselol death from full hp 4/5 times.
Yes, it's the roll hitboxes that are broken. Posting hitbox porn webbums without rolling doesn't mean shit. All the games have this level of porn.
hot i thought it was but the website i looked up the armor didnt hajve a close up of that set
here, i was specifically talking about taking hits without rolling and not taking damage. Does ADP affect that?
You need i-frames to not take damage from attacks that don't hit the player model?
vg247.com
By that logic, DaS3 is even worse.
Seems like Cred Forums still can't over its hateboner for DaS2.
I don't get how people are so willing to shit on DaS2 unconditionally, but choose to ignore DaS3's massive flaws.
People accept DS2's massive flaws purely because it's the contrarian opinion
On the contrary!
G-get it? Little joke.
I like SotFS.
>user acts like a total sperg to discredit Dark Souls 2 fans.
>as if they need the help
No I was purposelly making a bad joke. I really like SotFS.
>No I was purposelly making a bad joke.
I know, that's why I said what I did.
Fuck off shill no one wants to play this shitty Souls clone.
Well that's what I said what I did to what you said you did say. Wait no it was the other guy.
Why are we even having this conversation!?
But that's a webm of Ni-Oh, not DaS2.
Why do you keep shilling this weeb budget title?
boards.fireden.net
and this is just 1 of his dozens of webms
top autism
Sometimes I love it when the game takes a shit on the player like this.
Dark Souls is a game about masochism, after all.
>press circle
>hitbox freezes in place until the roll is finished
Why is this allowed?
>inb4 "muh ayy dee pee"
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What's the best Soulsborne game for PvP?
I don't mean generic tryhard 1v1 PvP. Fuck that shit.
What game lets me mess with strangers in the most creative ways?
I don't think it's autism I think he's just some chink getting paid by the developer to advertise that shitty game here.
It's almost as obvious as the Paladins shills we had here last week but at least they only paid for 2 weeks of advertising so you don't see them around anymore.
By the way who's your favorite Paladins character?
That didn't take long. Now if only you were as vigilant about killing yourself.
Reminder to sage WEBMfag threads.
The one that's a shitty ripoff of an Overwatch character made to appeal to poor people and Slavs exclusively.
No it's probably some sperg overjoyed he's figured out how to make a webm and posts it at every occasion.
I've even seen Nioh webm spamming in Armoured core threads because from made Armoured core and DaS.
I can't wait until the game comes out and these faglords lose interest in it after a week.
DS1 with Cheat Engine scripts that let you change invasion type, DS3 with purple phantoms.
I would use cracked red orbs to invade, but the Cheat Engine script let you lock your phantom type, so instead of invading as a red phantom, I'd invade as a white phantom, and engage in non-consensual jolly cooperation.
countersaged
You know, it's probably ACfag, actually.
OP here, I think I'll go for a quality build since I already have 20/18 str and dex, if I can get my hands on a Claymore soon I'll go with that because it was one of my favourite weapons in DS1.
Maybe I'll respec later down the line and try to infuse it with something simply because I've never tried any elemental/magic weapons yet, and I've heard they're good in DS2.
In regard to the game itself I don't think it's as bad as some adamant haters are trying to imply, although so far it's less enjoyable than 1 and 3 in terms of bosses and levels, although I'm only 15 hours in so I won't jump to conclusions until I get to some of the good areas it does get better later on right?
who cares
Remember to dump levels into ADP to "fix" the broken roll hitboxes.
>heavy armour in dark souls 3
lol it's like he was asking to get shit on
>I'd invade as a white phantom, and engage in non-consensual jolly cooperation.
this was so good during steam sales
i'd drop +15 weapons and help fight off the invaders in the burg
Or just get better at the game.
All stats start having diminishing returns at 20, so he hardly needs to dump anything.
What's the best way to practice making attacks that don't hit the player model not do damage?
I found using my shield more reliable than rolling so far desu, my adp is at 20
>Claymore
Same direction as the Murakumo.
>Cheat Engine
PCucks really are the worst. Game is still fun and popular on Xbox 360 for a reason.
some levels in 3 are fun to invade if you're enjoying being in disadvantage and prepared to fail a lot (at least for first time). My personal favorite is library level with cats/ranged invisibility rings. When you know range on your ring, you can do a lot of fun stuff, any build can benefit.
Rolling on time.
You mean rolling solely so that my i-frames let me phase through the attack because actually dodge rolling inexplicably doesn't work?
So I'm one of those shitlords that grabs the nearest ultra GS or axe and two-hand the entire game. I just got the game and played the others but friends keep telling me weapons break all the time when two handing them and most likely any ultra GS will break before you even get close to the boss of an area. Is this true? fuck I hope not. I'm hoping repair powder can be bought in bulk to prevent this but i don't know
just stick with 30 fps, the eye can't see above 24 anyways
>i'd drop +15 weapons
well done on ruining their entire playthrough
was fixed in scholar
okay duly noted
I don't think it was.
I wouldn't worry, if it ever gets low enough to the breaking point you can just use another weapon for a short stint. You only pay to repair weapons if they actually break, they always go back to 100 percent at bonfires.
nice meme because 24 is where eye starts to see it as motion instead of slideshow
There was an early game bug where 60fps on pc broke your weapons super fast. Should be fixed now.
I two handed a big sword through the vanilla version of the game last year just fine.
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I mean learning how a game works and playing accordingly instead of crying about how you wish it worked.
What is this game and why do these webms make me *not* wanna play it?
I can certainly work around the broken hitboxes but that doesn't make it right.
Morally?
>I usually just put points into STR, get a big weapon and slap shit, but I've been told that's not too viable in ds2
werkd 4 me
I had a much harder time with that in 3 than 2. Just get a large or great club and the great sword.
Being good at a bad game doesn't make the game good.
Being bad at a bad game still makes you bad at games.
>Should be fixed now.
lol
But I'm not bad at the game.
sounds like you are
Honestly, it's kind of what I wished mad phantoms would be like, but unfortunately, purps don't get to make the hosts co-op with them.
Since I mostly did it in the Parish, I'd spawn in on the Hellkite bridge and I'd run for that bonfire underneath it, then open up the gate and invite the host down to light the bonfire.
I got ds last year and loved it and am thinking of getting ds2 when I see it on sale.
Is ds2 really that bad. From what I read it seemed most people hated it because they turned pvp into shit but is the single player still decent.
Get SotFS, it includes all the DLC.
Isn't the Scholars version meant to be harder than the base game?
no its easier in a lot of ways, harder in others
Its just more consistently balanced
Just use a mace
When in doubt use a second one
It's fine, no harder than the base game. The DLC is brutal though.
>whole starting zone is now Koopa Kingdom
>no harder
you can do that in das2 and das3 as well
I had no problems
OH NO
TWO EXTRA TURTLES
TEENAGE MUTANT HERO TURTLEEEEEEES
This happened to me so many fucking times I got so fucking mad holy shit
>TEENAGE MUTANT HERO
you did this on purpose just to piss me off didn't you
>the ember is now in Lost Bastille instead of whatever lava world was called
Scholar confirmed for 8.8/10
No
Well you just suck.
Try getting good.
That was a pretty good relocation.
The Heide Knights and Dragon in ToF were retarded though.
>the heide knights in heide's tower were retarded
Level design in 1 & 3 really wasn't realistic either.
yeah like move the fuck on already guys the kingdoms gone
>give generous i-frames and fast roll speed to mimic DeS and BB
>make UGSs as slow as they were in DS1
DUDE SPEED LMAO
The only game I asked a refund for. Also the only game I've been denied a refund and ALSO the only game I've permanently deleted from my account.