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PS if you rocked Blasphemous for the knockdown, you should really consider the Ruins GS. Its Strike damage and has always had the better poise damage, both with swings and the weapon art.

The overtuning will be addressed, but core AI and shit like Bayle belly flopping on you 0.0001 seconds after you walk through the fog wall or the forever fall that burns a half minute of buff timer before Putrid Rider likely won't. And I expect some shit to get nerfed, too. Frankly speaking...

The AI literally reads the control inputs and reacts before any actual visual indicators appear on screen of what you are doing. This has been the case for a while in ER (started in DS3, but got dialed up to 11 in base ER and over 9000 in the DLC), but the new part is when boss mobs like Mesmer...

You need to farm up enough Endurance to light roll, plus slot defensive talismans. The big ramp up in this DLC is that spamming dodge (unless you are dex) does not work very well. They added a lot of weird delays and changeups to the enemies that require you to learn the exact timing. Mesmer...

Its actually broken as fuck and probably the best weapon in the game, certainly for PvP. It has an animation that guarantees a two hit combo, plus can be custom fit with a weapon art of choice. Slap anything with hyperarmor on it and spam R1 ftw.

First of all, the jumping meta never existed in Souls games until Elden ring because it is literally the first game in the series with the option to jump. Second, how is spamming weapon arts to clear crash or horsing/running past a bunch of shit to the boss grace somehow more "skill intensive"...

Were I pure int, I would jump on that one. But I am INT FTH and nothing is coming close to the Uzi Spear. There needs to be a catalyst for pure INT thats at least competitive with the Death Prince Staff, because without that 438 scaling your basic sorc nukes are nerf darts.

Core plot seems to be Miquella divided into two aspects, St Trinna (feminine) and his now bodyless Miquella form (childlike and more mascaline). The former is sort of the nice one to her followers at least (but still a poison and sleep demigod) and the latter is tryign to ascend to full divine...

Many such cases..... Expect a couple dozen attempts where you don't even get to phase two to follow.

There is a tracking frost ring spell in the red area of the Cerelian Coast, guarded by a half dozen spell birds (Heima works great here) that tracks and chain casts faster than Ancient Rancor Call. It also completely melts Mesmer. This is the one spell in the expansion that has been money, as...

The wind up is long and it drops you in the middle of enemies, but the damage on this is unreal with the right stats.

FTH STR has plenty of options and weapon styles, plus you get to use the best buffs in the game. The various Beast Incants also are incredibly effective and efficient for such a character and require very little initial stat investment to be useful. Unlike the base game, there are not a lot of...

Because dumping all points into STR and spamming jumping strong attack is somehow more skill intensive..... Comet was never the problem (it was useless on most boss fights in even the base game) with sorcery. It was the ease and safety of trash clearing. You still had to learn reads off of...

Yeah it seems like Rancor/blackflame is the mainstay for a lot of this DLC, which kind of cements the fact that you need to pair Faith in an INT build to be viable. This has more or less been my experience, anyhow. There is a whole lot of "this would have been cool in the early base game, but...

I actually fucked around with the Thorn shit when I was helping my friend out, but the scaling for co-op is so horrendous that it made it almost pointless. I have gotten a lot of mileage out of opening co-op fights with the Malekith spell and the similar dagger weapon art dot, shaving a quarter...

Backhand Blade's are mostly for PVP and little else. They are good in that niche, especially with the PvE shit railroading people into using shields more and more. Relanna's pair is basically meant to be the MLGS / Nights Flame replacement. Its moveset is vastly superior, but the weapon arts...

One shots most trash and is good on bosses who dont move a lot and are weak to holy, so basically nothing if consequence. It is very mana efficient for trash clearing, though. At 80 faith and DLC rune level 10 its one shotting just about every trash mob I run into and has medium to long range...

Yeah thats the one, I am still learning the names of shit. And I know about the Magma Blades, but A) I am mainly playing a Golden Order/Death Staff build for my first run and B) With all the melee hate and AE spam bosses have in this DLC, standing back and firing an Uzi indiscriminately is much...

There is a sort of priest summoner boss who more or less spams holy arc spells and summons in random adds, right before the dark forest area with the unkillable dude in it. Its in the south central area of the map, iirc. Anyhow, the boss drops an remembrance and one of the options (and the...

Some general tips for some of the major cock blocker bosses: Chinese Dragon thing (Divine Beast?)- No major weaknesses but no major resists to anything. As a caster, Lightning Spear or Ancient Rancor Call work great, just be mindful of the AE sprinkler spam if you are pure Melee. Rellana-...

For sorcerers, Heima Cannon with enough INT also works for this.

If you are Unga Bunga or a Bleed Build, 120 is workable. If you are a faith caster and/or Dex build, maybe a bit more. Sorcerer? Well you basically need to be setup like going into NG+ because pure sorcery is flat out useless in about half the content, ESPECIALLY the mandatory story bosses so...

Sorcerer's get turbo fucked in this dlc unless they are Death Staff w lots of incants, too. In other words, if you are not L170 or more death wizard rocking poop man, it's super rapey. And all the toughest fights are designed to screw you on the opening summon and or hyper speed ago. If I...

Fuck Mesmer phase 2 as a caster. That is all.

Rellana Took the most tries for me to get down out of what I faced so far. My friend rage quit over the hippo. Scaling for some of the bosses is way off when you co op particularly If your build is sent it around a status effect. Glad I am essentially a death mage build because i've had...

The moment you start rocking Godrick's Talisman and Alexander's Jar Shard in tandem with the Ruins GS (or MLGS), the entire game will change for you. Fast spam to deal with rushers is still an option, but the damage pump from doing that is so massive it makes a lot of PvE a cakewalk. Granted...

The biggest issues with Agile are three things: First, like communism, it does not scale well. For a small project with well defined end point plus small smart team working on it, its the best workflow there is. For anything without a defined end point or expanded scope, it falls apart fast...

As a melee with no weapon art, sure. Triple crystal rot guys are still harder I think. As a caster they were a joke last time I did them. For my money, the crystal trios are still harder.

Was thinking of DS2 for a moment. Derp on my part.

Once you have cleared Two Princes (or gotten the backdoor elevator to them) farming that long stair run in reverse is really easy and great XP. I generally always farm it to extinction on plays of DS3. The DLC with the giant underground tomb also has an area with big black chompy guys who are...

Most one trick builds (read PVE) can beat the game fairly easily at around 120-130. Its mainly double dip builds that need a little more if you are just casually beating the game, mostly combo casters that want two really high stats. There are a fair number of weapon centric builds where just...

Once you have beaten the game a couple times, don't bother with "conventional means". Its just grinding time. And if you sploit the Caelid dragon early on, thats enough of an initial buff to make you not even desire hitting the Birdfarm for a long ass time. But if you are like me and on your...

As an old fart, most of my top ten list is going to be dominated by classic rock (I will leave classical out of this since the thread is about albums) but I do have something from most decades in here and a lot of styles. For something to be a top ten for me, it has to be something I will play...

I am a console peasant, but the Demons Souls remaster for PS5 was amazing. I would love to see the other three games done to that standard.

The Nameless King fight is the pinnacle of Souls games, in terms of the music, boss design, and look. The actual fight mechanics are pretty difficult too, but not in a frustrating way. The DLC fight with the scythe swinging wench and grandpa with his big flaming pot might be the only better...

Edge lords say shit like that mostly, but there is a subset of masochists who hate the QoL and open world of ER for whatever reason. I personally found the level design the worst of the games, except the DLC. It also had a lot of balance issues between builds and weapons (at least in PvE...

If there is one person who can offer an expert opinion on if a woman actually wants to fuck a real dog, its gonna be Ossoi on this board. He has done the research. Also, women idolizing fictional characters in place or real relationships probably should be in the Incel thread.

That fight is actually really easy if you learn the reads on it. The AOE has a big obvious wind up and you can just run away from it. Its a fun fight once you understand it and bring the unga bunga to quickly crush the bracelets. If I remember right, the two hander you get from that fight is...

Its really down to personal preference for everyone. DS2 gets dunked on because the B Team did it and it had a wonkier world layout than DS1, but I personally like it second best behind ER (caveat is that this is with the DLCs in all games). The ones I like the least are Siekaro and BB, but...