Dark Souls 2 (PC/PS4/XB1/PS3/360)

[Deadgye]

They'd need at least 106 equipment burden in order to roll as "fast" as your dex build if they have full havels and dual wielding ultra-greatswords. And that's being very generous on the ultra-greatswords. And they definitely won't be rolling very far. That's a substantial stat requirement, what with the 1.5x str and dex to power stance and like 50 vitality needed for the equipment burden.

[Kuishen]

They'd need at least 106 equipment burden in order to roll as "fast" as your dex build if they have full havels and dual wielding ultra-greatswords. And that's being very generous on the ultra-greatswords. And they definitely won't be rolling very far. That's a substantial stat requirement, what with the 1.5x str and dex to power stance and like 40+ vitality needed for the equipment burden.

I have 30 VIT, and I get 107.4 equip burden with third dragon ring and soldier's ring +1 (there's a +2 version I think). So, yeah.

It's really not that hard to get non-fat roll and the differences between the equip burden thresholds under 70% are negligible.

The point is, it's incredibly easy to dodge away from counter-attacks even mid combo with those heavy weapons so there are literally zero consequences for using them.

[Deadgye]

Ah, I forgot about the soldier's ring. That'd lower the stat requirement a good 10-15 points. I still wouldn't say there is zero consequences. Rolling out of a combo with large weapons leaves you with very little stamina, making it very easy to get guard broken.

[Souj]

Spoiler: show

Seemed somewhat fitting.

[Elcura]

Darklurker is a lot of fun to fight, would be especially difficult with pure melee and no magic, but I might save that for NG+.

Are there any repercussions to making just Majula NG+? I'm wondering if the NPCs will behave funnily or not have their usual stock (and then some).

[Darkmagi]

Magic, especially pyromancy is horribly OP for PVE. At least in NG anyways. Was pretty lame to kill darklurker in like 20 seconds.

[Souj]

Took me about 15-20 times to kill him with 0 magic. And doing massive damage to both of them at the same time as he seperate was key to winning. Meleeing them grew nearly impossible if they got far enough apart from each other for long enough, having to dodge nonstop projectiles that require different timing and strategy to dodge correctly.

[Tymon]

Darklurker is a lot of fun to fight, would be especially difficult with pure melee and no magic, but I might save that for NG+.

Are there any repercussions to making just Majula NG+? I'm wondering if the NPCs will behave funnily or not have their usual stock (and then some).

I did it without any magic at all, it's just a battle of attrition after it splits. Pathetically easy before the split.

Run around constantly until one of them does the laser and then hack away for a couple seconds. Wait, repeat. Didn't take any damage even.

[gaira]

anyone have any build suggestions or oddball weapons they've tried and liked? looking to try something different next build.

only thing i'm really not interested in is ultra-greatswords, really.

[Kuishen]

anyone have any build suggestions or oddball weapons they've tried and liked? looking to try something different next build.

only thing i'm really not interested in is ultra-greatswords, really.

What you don't want to be like literally everybody else?

[Deadgye]

anyone have any build suggestions or oddball weapons they've tried and liked? looking to try something different next build.

only thing i'm really not interested in is ultra-greatswords, really.

I was having some fun with fists only. Was quite surprised when I solo'd ruin sentinels solo when I had to pick up a shield and summon help on my first character, although leveling up more and not going there right after pursuer probably helped a lot.

I wanted to try out a dual wield keyblade build, but apparently the keyblade weapon disappears when you go NG+ so it'd have to be a single keyblade build. Also considering turning my fists onry guy into a dual shield build using the greatshields from the undead crypt.

[Kaelan?]

anyone have any build suggestions or oddball weapons they've tried and liked? looking to try something different next build.

only thing i'm really not interested in is ultra-greatswords, really.

I was thinking of trying a greatbow build a little while ago. Never decided on what to do about melee though. Twinblades?

[Myrrh_Quetz]

LADLE

[Souj]

Ladle in one hand, hook in the other.

Has anyone heard of a glitch outside Drangleic Castle where the golem statues outside the door won't absorb souls? A friend says he can't get the door to open.

[Elcura]

Ladle in one hand, hook in the other.

Has anyone heard of a glitch outside Drangleic Castle where the golem statues outside the door won't absorb souls? A friend says he can't get the door to open.

Happened to me, I was super confused about how it worked because nothing happened despite killing like 15 guys right in front. All I did was help someone else (to see what to do) and when I came back to my world it worked.

[Myrrh_Quetz]

I just discovered a beautiful way to farm souls and infinite items. Go to a Giant memory. I found the best one to test this out on was the one in the Place Unbeknownst. Use Bonfire Ascetic. Go in, clear the place, don't grab the Giants hand at the end there, just get loot and use a Homeward bone or the Feather. Repeat. For more souls, increase it higher. I just got 400k souls for killing 3 mobs. And the boss of that one is super easy. Run up the stairs, use spells(hexes work best from what I've seen). He only has 2 attacks. One is a downward thrust of his sword. So easy to dodge can you walk to teh side and be fine. The next is a sweep of the front.

[tyven]

Ladle in one hand, hook in the other.

Has anyone heard of a glitch outside Drangleic Castle where the golem statues outside the door won't absorb souls? A friend says he can't get the door to open.

reddit thread saying this is a bug caused by dying after feeding one of the golems but not the other.

[Datonare]

So I'm on NG++ trying to enter the gate that opens with the four great souls. I've killed the lost sinner, the rotten, freja, and iron king. Touched all the bonfires past them. I've been kind of just running through the game since I'm just trying to get a couple more spells for my platinum. Is there another requirement to getting this door open?

Edit: nevermind, I think I forgot to examine the red mark on the ground after freja since I was rushing and being impatient

[Souj]

reddit thread saying this is a bug caused by dying after feeding one of the golems but not the other.

None have been activated on his. Tried quitting, moving bonfires, getting summoned, even reinstalling game data. The soldiers who're supposed to infinitely redrawn won't even respawn anymore. I dont know what the fuck.

[Souj]

Oh man, Flexible Sentry boss fight in NG+ got me good.

Spoiler: show

I mean, I only died once but that one death... I definitely didn't see it coming in the form of that furious little clawed ninja.