@nessisonett It's the damn lightning attack that did for me every time - there must be a jump timing or something that I just couldn't get the hang of because I ended up having to use the dismount i-frames whenever he unleashed it - which obviously comes with its own set of problems! Not fun at all.
@Mega-Gazz I went with Keen affinity, since it scales well with Dexterity.
I’ve been playing around and cloned the Bloody Slash AoW… applying it to each of uchi katanas - I then selected ‘blood affinity’ and have been using dual-wielding combos to achieved phenomenal bleeding on enemies! Throw in the slash itself and the damage is brutal
Of course the DEX scaling for base damage is far less desirable when doing this, but it seems you can tweak the AoW affinity any time you visit a grace point? Nice flexibility to be able to alter before a boss
Ive also just got the Bloodflame Blade incantation but my ARC and Faith stats are too low to use…
@Mega-Gazz I went with Keen affinity, since it scales well with Dexterity.
I’ve been playing around and cloned the Bloody Slash AoW… applying it to each of uchi katanas - I then selected ‘blood affinity’ and have been using dual-wielding combos to achieved phenomenal bleeding on enemies! Throw in the slash itself and the damage is brutal
Of course the DEX scaling for base damage is far less desirable when doing this, but it seems you can tweak the AoW affinity any time you visit a grace point? Nice flexibility to be able to alter before a boss
Ive also just got the Bloodflame Blade incantation but my ARC and Faith stats are too low to use…
I played around on a low level bandit quick, with blood you do get AR from arcane stat, but the bleed number doesn’t change with arcane.
Tempting to go full arcane when I can respec so discovery is high, damage scales with arc and poison is good.
Okay, sadly, I think the STR build with heavy uchigatana has to take the cake, because of how 2h stance increases effective strength by a percentage but not dex. Buffing the weapon with magic doesn’t make up for the huge loss in damage, and a bow can work well enough when range is required.
Honorable mention to Gravitas AoW, which almost made me go magic. It’s really good when int is high, a PBAoE for 280dmg. Goes down to much less damage on the str build, but still stuns all in an area, works through walls.
Sounds like everyone here has made really good progress. I'm only level 32 at the moment but I'm really enjoying it, what an excellent game. I've not done any multiplayer yet, curious to see if I'll get invaded at some point.
Looks like I will be putting more into Intelligence than planned, as some of the better Katanas require at least 18 in that stat. Also means I'll be able to dabble into some magic which I've only done briefly when I first played Dark Souls.
@LieutenantFatman Same here, and I've only seen NPC summon signs too. I'm playing online, so there is probably something I missed to activate it. Not that I'm terribly bothered about either way lol.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
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@JohnnyShoulder
Looks like there's all sorts of consumables for anything related to online play including seeing summon signs. I haven't used one yet but seems like a good idea.
Fought my way through the Academy last night in a classic Soulsborne session of blood, sweat and tears. All for some magic-related items that I'll never use. It was fun though.
I got much more use out of my trip to Castle Morne. This is my favourite location so far, and I came away with a fiery torch weapon, which is wrapped in barbed wire, and has a fire-breathing special attack! The boss down on the beach was superb
@johncalmc Every time I start to think this, I get my arse kicked, so I've tried to stop thinking it. But this game certainly seems free of the sheer mental trauma of the Souls games of old, given you can just walk away from a boss who's bullying you, and go and play with someone else.
@LieutenantFatman I've never been invaded personally, but there's an item you can find/buy which lets you be "on standby" and auto-summons you to other people's worlds if they get invaded (there's a corresponding item that you can use to auto-summon a player if you get invaded). I've been summoned into other people's worlds to kill a few invaders - you get a Rune Arc if the invader is defeated too, just never been invaded myself (except by NPCs)
I had a go at invading earlier, but I spawned right in the middle of the host and their two co-op buddies, and by the time I'd had time to react to that I'd already been flattened
I suspect invasions might pick up a bit, once everyone's had time to actually finish the game and got bored of wandering round the open world, haha
@LN78 Caria Manor basically made me run away from enemies! The hands that eat you are horrible looking. Great boss at the end though and very interesting quests opened up after beating it.
@nessisonett Those hand spiders are such a great design - I've seem them (or something very similar to them) in another FromSoftware game - I can't remember which one off the top of my head. I'll have a go at the boss fight later this evening - hopefully not as much of a brick wall as the Draconian Tree Sentinel was!
I've been using Bloody Slash and can confirm it destroys everything I've faced so far. Definitely recommended if you fancy a change from Unsheath.
Seconded... I've just had BS Art equipped for a day or so, and it is a God-send against armored enemies. I didn't realise either that the distance of the attack is pretty generous, and you don't need to be right up in front of an enemy for it to land.
How is the rest of your build currently looking? What are you working towards and/or pushing for? I have the 'Bloodflame Blade' incantation in my roster, but I need to level up my faith to 12(?) so I am proficient enough to start using it!
Loving the game still, just wasting hours exploring and getting lost in this world...
@CJD87 Yeah I can't wait to try it on some enemies which handed me my backside to me earlier.
As for my build, I gone for Dex and vigor with Mind as a third stat. I did start putting some into Int so I could wield some of the better Katanas, but I think I will just respec at that point.
Think I've cleared the majority of Weeping Peninsula, just got the castle to go for.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Alright everyone? Have we set up a group password for leaving messages etc? Means as fellow Push Square folk we can leave helpful advice which appears differently to regular messages. I propose (if this hasn't been done already) setting the group password as PUSHSQUA (it won't let us put the whole name due to the character limit). One word, all caps. To do this then hit options in game, then go to multiplayer, then hit triangle. It'll let you set different group passwords and means we're all more likely to be matched for jolly cooperation.
Got the third and final Knight of the Great Jar down to a fraction of its health bad but died. Apparently they’re endgame opponents though so I’m out of there 😂
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