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Are you making the mistake of playing with keyboard and mouse? In fact, you're making the mistake of playing Dark Souls 2 instead of any of the rest of the franchise, so I'd question your judgement already.

>>15020317

im playing with keyboard and mousoue yes

The controls are the least of that game's problems. Just uninstall it and move on.

>>15020319

Buy a controller.

>but but muh

No, fuck you, buy a controller. You don't play RTS with a joystick, you don't play Souls with a keyboard.

>>15020343

played ds1 with keyboard pretty much won the game just recently installed ds2 went throught steam discusions how to fix keyboard and there is some kind of lag in mouse when i hit it doesnt hit i have to hold it or some shit. Really bad port.

Is Dark Souls 2 the "Dark Souls" of Dark Souls?

>>15020356

Oh, the double click to strong attack thing? That actually has a really easy fix, what you gotta do is buy a fucking controller you tard

>>15020361

No, Dark Souls 2 is the Evangelion of anime.

>>15020362

i wont buy controller for pirated game

>>15020356

Is this what you are referring to?

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dark_Souls_II:_Scholar_of_the_First_Sin#Delay_between_mouse_clicks_and_actions

>>15020376

yes but the problem is it was always on this didn't fix it

I was thinking of replaying DaS and DaS II on different builds just to do the DLC since I never did it.

>>15020310

M&K controls are perfect if you disable the double click stuff, which artificially lags your inputs so it can detect double clicks (which have way too large a window of input).

I use shift+M1/M2 as the modifier for heavy attacks, ctrl+M1/M2 for switch weapon. Rebind lock target and the two-hand control to something non-retarded.

okay im done with this shit i cant even set two shit to one key. Fucking nigger game jesus christ

>>15020409

I want the same controls as in ds1

>>15020436

What the fuck is this mess

ctrl + left click? Are they fucking mememing me. 2 jump attack? Why is this so difficult there are literally 15 buttons for each animation. In ds1 i just clicked leftclick then rolled away like slut.

>>15020454

you modify the script as need be OP

also, the game is shit at explaining stuff, level ADP. it increases the agility stat which governs i-frames on rolls, pump points into ADP until agility hits 92 at the very least. this doubles the i-frames from 5 to 10, pretty much essential

>>15020370

>Too poor to buy game

>Too poor to buy controller

Step 1, get a job

Step 2, start playing games properly

You are only denying yourself a better experience because of your own laziness. Also Scholar still has a decent size playerbase, but that won't last forever. Playing any Souls game without online OR a controller is straight up retarded.

>>15020408

After DeS and DaS I hated DaS2 so much I skipped the fucking DLC even though it came with SoFTS. Now I'm stuck enjoying DaS3, but having absolute shit luck in catching the DLC on sale.

>>15021043

I just got done replaying SotFS after only completing DS2 when the vanilla version launched.

I didn't hate it so much this time, I think mostly because I knoew what I was in for.

Might be worth giving it another go now knowing it's not more of DS1, like most people were expecting.

>He's plays flight sims with a dance mat.

<WASD = 8 way movement bound to camera.

<Dual sticks = 360 degree movement independent of camera.

Mouse and keyboard is not a 'pee cee controller'. The USB ports on your IO panel were not put there by mistake. Buy a gamepad.

>>15020932

The only problem with Soul Memory is that it's based on souls gathered instead of souls spent. Even then, using the Agape Ring lets you control your Soul Memory tier pretty easily. Combining it and the Company of Champions makes grinding items gear sets much better, too.

>>15021632

Gamepads are for consolefaggots though.

>>15021932

>playing action games on PC is for consolefaggots

Guess that settles that, (1) and done.

>>15021945

But you can play action games on keyboard+mouse, anon

>>15021632

Mouse control for camera beats everything controllers can do. Movement isn't 8 way when you control the camera. I basically never even need lock on.

>>15021735

>>15020932

>buy throwing knives and some repair powder

>every time you do it you inch closer to fastroll havel with super buffs tier

>online

>just works

i hope this is b8

I just played the game again and holy fug I never took in how bad it is. Why are the areas big fucking boxes with repeating textures?

>>15032253

Did they fix the controls? last time i checked the game didn't have 360 degree movement but a 8 direction WASD control scheme.

>>15028962

>every time you do it you inch closer to fastroll havel with super buffs tier

The soul memory ranges are in the millions, spending a few thousand means jack shit. Oh no, my 1 less strength will mean .5 less attack rating which equals .2 less damage per hit.

Also armor is literally useless in DaS2 anyway, the only thing worth wearing are the robes that give elemental defense since the way physical defense works is fucked.

>>15028962

>buying repair powder in Dark Souls 2

You do know your gear is fully repaired for free whenever you rest at a bonfire, right?

>>15032569

Nope, it's still fucked. DaS2 was basically abandoned in the lead up to DaS3.

>>15020932

> Soul Memory fixes the game so that Online just works.

as a lvl 120 who regularly get lvl 500s invading him, no it doesn't.

soul memory operating off of total souls gain on that character, unless you use the "fix the game" ring FORVER, lead to anyone eventually getting thrown into fatty bracket regardless of their actual player level.

so no, you a shit, and soul memory a shit.

that being said, get a fucking pad for 3rd person ARPGs you dumbshit, also dex/int/fth dark sorcery is best since movement is fubar in ds2 so using the heavy dark sorcery to beat havels around will be needed to deal with the 4 guys who still play ds2 for invading.

>>15034059

120? Why are you SL 120? The dueling meta is 150. You're fucking retarded or lying.

The moment isn't fucked. Its slower, but has far more control than the other titles.

>>15024217

No it doesnt. Kbm I'd objectively shit for anything other than shooters because it uses more appendages for fewer options. The bring in the idea of ergonomics and freedom of positions to use the peripherals and Kbm is incredibly restricted.

Quit being stupid and think for yourself.

>>15032381

Wow, some legitimate criticism.

Learn from this Anon.

Yea they spent too little time making the environment in Dark Souls 2 compared to the other titles. That's because it was a different team completely. I agree that it looks like shot but it's still a fun game.

2 does pretty much every mechanic better except hollowing IMO. If you're playing for atmosphere, you're not gonna get it until after then greatsouls are all collected. The DLC'a are the best part of the game too regarding atmosphere as well

>>15020409

M&K controls are perfect if you Buy a controller instead

Don't play Dark Souls 2, and DON'T play Scholar of the First Sin. They're both terrible games.

Believe me as someone who wanted to play through 2 before going onto 3, it's not worth playing.

>>15035018

Movement too, the movement was locked to 8 directions and the levels were filled with long thin bridges you could fall off.

They took the "hardcore Dark souls" meme too seriously and made a game about killing the player. How else do you explain the bizarre change they made to ladder controls? Which was almost certainly made to kill people who were used to the Dark souls 1 ladder controls.

>>15035076

Why would that give someone any reason to take your word?

I put over 1000 hours in DAS before 2 and played 2 from release until 3. I put 600+ hours in 3 and went back to put about 500 hours in Demons souls.

Of all the games, 2 is mechanically the most diverse, balanced, and fun for multiplayer. 2 suffers from not having Miyazaki direct the game regarding atmosphere, but it didn't suffer the multiplayer sabotage he always implements.

I dont even like dark souls and think you're a fucking retard for doing this

>>15035080

How is the movement locked in 8 directions? Who the fuck is spreading that bullshit? God fucking dammit, you guys are gonna make me have to set up OBS to record this shit because you're so fucking stupid.

>>15035076

>A BLOO BLOO BOO I DON'T LIKE GAME, DON'T PLAY GAME

Or how about you let people make up their own opinions you stupid cunt?

>>15035103

It is retard, there are multiple videos you can google which show that movement in DS2 is locked to 8 directions.

You claim to have played 1000 hours yet failed to realize something so basic. Shows the intellect of a DS2 shill.

I bet you also watch hbomberguy videos.

>>15035116

Bruh, I have the game open right now. I am moving in more than 8 directions. I see how if you twist your character and release it resets to the direction you're facing. You can get around this by raising the camera above as it allows complete free movement. All movement has inertia and if you attempt to snap around without turning left or right first it causes a staggered animation unless you replace it with a different animation like blocking.

Meanwhile, in 1 you have cardinal direction rolling and movement is completely altered and locked to 4 directions if locked on. Jump is tied to the sprint button. If the camera adjusts for a wall it adjusts your characters direction of movement (the buttress in anor londo actually kills new players because the camera adjusts to the walls and points them to walk off the edge ). Attacking with a weapon while locked on forces you to commit to a direction instead of being able to adjust it while you attack. Many weapons don't allow enough amount of directional control for them to actually be useful in PvP.

Please, keep opening your mouth and quoting other dumb fucking people instead of thinking for yourself

>>15035145

Try turning while moving without touching the right analog stick. Your character will only move in 8 different directions: Forward, Forward-Left, Forward-Right, Left, Right, Backward, Backward-Left, and Backward-Right. You absolutely need to use the right analog stick in order to have a full range of movement. This was not true in Dark Souls 1.

>>15035145

Thas rite, how dare I quote people who made the mod to get rid of the restrictions on movement.

Like this mod:

www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/76

Or this fix

https://steamcommunity.com/app/335300/discussions/0/2425614539578381407/

Thank god the problem was just imaginary and so didn't need fixing. And wasn't actually a huge problem that even redditors and neogaffers could tell existed.

>Attacking with a weapon while locked on forces you to commit to a direction instead of being able to adjust it while you attack.

It's funny you mention this when Dark souls had this problem but much worse with heacy weapons. Attempting to strafe while wielding a caused you to attack in the direction of the strafe and not the enemy you were locked onto.

>Jump is tied to the sprint button.

Not that terrible, you can't run and jump at the same time.

On the other hand, DS 2 tied the jump button to the fucking left analog stick, which caused players to jump in the wrong direction constantly when they accidentally moved the stick too far in any direction.

Again, for someone who claims to love the Souls series, you sure know very little about it. How much is Shareblue paying you?

>>15035116

See, I'd really rather not have to download and set OBS up for recording but I'm gonna have to if I want you to understand. For some reason, despite being on an imageboard which is a format of anonymous discussion that's supposed to supplement no bias, literally nobody can say anything about 2 without having a legion of fucking retards who don't play the game stating shit that isn't true. No amount of proving them wrong will help this as they're are just trying to fit in. Then, thanks to all the wastes of skin like you are shitting on 2 they make 3. 3 being the worst game in the franchise by far and dumbed down to pander to you fucking casuals.

I'm mentally damage from having to put up with this shit and getting kicked out of communities for people hating 2, and in turn me so much for bullshit reasons. If you're not gonna like it, then use reasoning that actually makes sense. Stop being a bitch equating EVERYTHING related to Dark Souls 2 as being horrible. There are some problems with the game but "8 direction movement" is not one of them. Maybe you should PLAY THE FUCKING GAME to determine what the flaws are instead. If you just don't want to play it, then don't talk about it as you obviously have no substance to your opinion.

I really don't want to install OBS and every time I come onto this site the same fucking thing happens. I check it once a month to see if any opinions change of if any community events i'm interest in are posted. That's not the case though. It's always the same couple hundred retards who are too inept to function anywhere else yelling at each other and praising things for reasons they don't understand. It's just like socializing with fucking normalfags. It's like you're mimicking conversation and don't actually speak to one another. There's less content in what you have to say than there is reading the comment sections on Amazon.

Never again. 2 years of poking back and forth and the new faggots really did ruin this site. I miss having conversation. I miss not having to yell at retards only to have a MOB of retards yell back at me. I miss critical opinions being addressed and misinformation being flamed. I guess i'll just keep playing games instead of trying to talk about them.

>>15035210

>Dark souls had this problem but much worse with heacy weapons. Attempting to strafe while wielding a caused

Dark souls 2, heavy weapons and greatsword.

I blame autocorrect.

>>15035210

People can make pointless mods all they want.

There's an option to make it unlock attack direction even then you're locked on. You wouldn't know that because you haven't played the game.

You can set the jump button back to B if your so bad at pressing buttons you can't use the left stick correctly. Meanwhile, input buffer for 1 and how it remains through any animation overwrite will make you jump even if you let go of sprint provided literally anything happens to you in between.

I mean, who would want to roll out of sprint anyway?

>>15035215

Except I clearly explained how the 8 directional movement was terrible. It was combined with long thin bridges to kill the player. Think of all the long thin bridges in Dark Souls 2 and compare the number to any other game in the series and you'll see what I mean.

The problem with the game was that it was almost certainly designed by someone who's only experience with Dark Souls was to have an intern describe it to him. Except the intern was lazy and took a Kotaku article to read instead. This resulted in the director tinking that Dark souls was only an ARPG that kills the player constantly. This explains the instant access to teleportation, the bizarre changes made solely to kill the player, the death counter and the improved multiplayer.

Miyazaki seemed to have envisioned invaders as obstacles to the player, while the Dark Souls 2 director thought invasions were an opportunity to duel.

Unfortunately, magic and multiplayer are Dark souls 2's only improvements. Everything else was shit.

>>15035228

Maybe this is why everyone else seems to think DS2 is garbage while you don't. Because you keep ignoring obvious flaws and using hbomberguy tier arguments to defend it.

Let me ask a few simple questions

WHY WOULD THERE BE MULTIPLE MODS FIXING A DEADZONE ISSUE THAT DOESN'T EXIST

YOU MONGOLOID

WHY DID THEY CHANGE THE LADDER CONTROLS TO ONE DESIGNED TO KILL PEOPLE

WHY ARE YOU PLAYING A GAME SO SHIT EVEN 3 IS BETTER THAN IT

>>15035218

Isn't this toggleable in the menus? It's a specific feature added for ultra-sized weapons to let you lead a target while locked on. All you have to do is stop holding a direction after pressing attack and you'll swing towards what you're locked onto. How the fuck are you this bad at figuring out games?

>>15035243

Oh man, you're a real fuckin' retard, eh? It's not 8-direction movement, there's a small + shaped dead zone for movement so that straight forwards/left/right/back plus/minus ten degrees is still straight forwards. There's a mod that removes it, and it's a bit uncomfortable going straight from ds1 to ds2, but it's easy to deal with if you realize you can use this thing called the right analog stick to make small adjustments to what is currently in front of you. I used to do that for all of DS1's tiny bridges, too.

>>15035271

>WHY DID THEY CHANGE THE LADDER CONTROLS TO ONE DESIGNED TO KILL PEOPLE

holy shit look at this retard

>>15035278

>(1)

Nice ID change, now answer the question without resorting to hbomberguy tier arguments.

>>15035308

Why change it in the first place? Other than to catch out veterans of the last game. It's just another example of how DS 2 cared more about killing the player so it could pretend to be a hardcore game. It felt more like I Wanna Be The Guy than an actual game.

>How do i fix this there is nothing online.

Because all you need is to remap the fucking buttons, oh and i think reduce the camera speed

>>15035278

>>15035331

Remapping sliding down ladders from holding B to holding B and down on the left stick is gonna fuck with everyone coming from DaS 1 the first time around, sure. Of course, nobody is going to make that mistake twice, and I'd say it's a small price to pay for being able to climb ladders faster and have the option to just jump off if something's below me. Fucking hollows with dark-infused broken swords in the Gutter chasing me up and down ladders was a nightmare during my attempts to get the Agape Ring at SM 30k.

Tried to upload a vlc file of how movement works, but it's too big. I have no fucking clue what I'm doing when it comes to recording, and that shit is 400 MB of 11 seconds of trying to walk in more than 8 directions.

>>15035355

Ur just bad lol git gud *le anime laighing girl*

Just change the controls bro

I don't have buyers remorse.

>>15035355

Bullshit. Prove it.

>>15035364

Do it yourself. Either that or my controller was fucked it isn't. I just stood in the doorway after the Smelter Demon and tested by baiting the two knights on the platform to get in the doorway and just pressed RB. I was staring right at them and then I turned around and hit the ground behind me. After that I just kinda stopped using heavy weapons and started using UGSs that didn't have that retarded downward chop.

>>15035374

…Are you talking about the Greatsword (weapon, not weapon class) followup 2hr1? It hits a 180 degree vertical arc of in front of you to behind you. That's not 'randomly turning around' that's something that happens whenever you press r1 twice in a row with that weapon. It's a way to both hit something and punish things going for a backstab. Did you play all the way from No-man's Wharf to Smelter Demon without ever noticing that?

>>15035383

No the regular ass R1 hit with 2 hand. It just randomly hits behind you for no reason at all and it has killed me numerous amounts of time.

>>15035389

If you're not talking about 1:26 in embed related, your controller is fucked.

>>15035408

ur controller fuckd m8

I've never even heard of something close to this happening to anyone else.

>>15035408

Have you tried getting your game blessed by the local DS2 shill? He can cure it of any bugs and problems by telling you to change the controls.

>>15035416

My controller works excpetionally in every mechanic in every game except that fucking insanely specific situation in which I turn on a dime and hit behind me.

>>15035418

>after getting completely destroyed, the butthurt retard is forced to resort to petty, passive-aggressive snips

Do you have a vagina, or do you just gobble a gallon of soy daily? If it's the latter, keep it up. It's better if your balls fall off so tards like you can't breed.

>>15035425

That's fucking weird as hell. Can you record this? I want to see it. I mean, there's some weird shit that goes on when you lock on in that place. I've literally done midair 360s on jumping attacks in there, but I've never heard of anything like this.

>>15035434

All you've done was argue about minor issues, you still haven't addressed the main issue that the game was fundamentally designed by someone who thought Dark souls was a game about killing the player over and over again.

This is why people everywhere keep saying that DS 2 is garbage. Because they point at the moon while all you do is examine the finger for flaws and saying git gud.

Why don't you switch IDs again, Dark souls 2: Remastered can't market itself after all.

>>15035465

The thing is, you've ignored large part of my posts. Only focusing on anything that lets you say "le git gud" while ignoring anything else. This is literally the Hbomberguy style of arguing.

Have you adressed the deadzone issue at all? Or the level design? Or the problem the anon has with greatswords which effect every heavy weapon in the game? Or how about things we never even got to being up like how level design is a lot worse than 1, with linear corridors with no shortcuts? Or how all the bosses were samey and filled itself with adds? Or how 2 literally pallete swapped a boss for it's DLC and copy pasted a boss for another.

Or how about Soul Memory? Or how covenants were made meaningless.

Nah, I bet secret sky castles make up for all of that right?

>>15035486

>Have you adressed the deadzone issue at all?

>Or the problem the anon has with greatswords which effect every heavy weapon in the game?

Yes, actually. Scroll up and read my posts, eh?

>level design is a lot worse than 1, with linear corridors with no shortcuts?

No, this is valid. I wouldn't call the level design bad, but it's definitely worse than 1.

>all the bosses were samey and filled itself with adds?

This is actually a really interesting and absolutely massive flaw in DS2 I'd like to go into a longer post about, but the tl;dr on the real problem is "Dark Souls 1 bosses are also all really samey and filled with adds, but clever usage of boss room layout and various other circumstances within the boss fight kept the challenge unique and interesting despite how similar all their attacks are, which Dark Souls 2 almost completely failed to do."

> Or how 2 literally pallete swapped a boss for it's DLC and copy pasted a boss for another.

Cool Ranch Smelter is a very different fight than normal smelter, and it's not like that flaw is unique just to DS2. I mean, there were four asylum demons in DS1. King's pets shit was pretty stupid and lazy, but the frozen outskirts were just shit at every level anyway.

>Or how about Soul Memory?

I've never really had a problem with it. People say buying throwing knives forces you to fight sl600 havelmonsters but I've never had that happen. It's more worse in theory than it is in practice. Maybe if you leveled up to 150 and then spent 200+ hours doing invasions you'd have a problem, but I've never encountered anything like that in actual gameplay, and I've gotten wretch status on 5 characters.

> how covenants were made meaningless.

You're going to have to elaborate on this. If you mean covenants don't do anything, then you're wrong, because DS2 is the only game where most of the covenants actually work and are populated. If you mean breaking a covenant doesn't punish you with half your rewards and maybe denying you a single miracle any more, I don't really get why you'd care about that. The only real effect that it had for DS1 was that you couldn't invade people with DMB+falchion. None of the other covenant spells were really worth using and all other rewards worked without being in the covenant.

>>15035008

>uses more appendages for fewer options

What? Pretty sure I'm using both hands. Do you operate your keyboard with your feet?

>The bring in the idea of ergonomics and freedom of positions to use the peripherals

Are you complaining that you can't operate KB/M while lying on your back giving a blowjob?

Mouse simple provides far better view control than a stick can, and this translates into more accurate movement. You can sprint along narrow beams with complete confidence of not falling off when you aim your direction with a mouse, you can't do this with a controller since it's impossible to guarantee a heading of straight forward and to position the camera so that straight forward is aligned with the path.

DaS critiques aside, I really enjoyed Sakuraba's work. He usually does a different type of music, so it's nice to see him from a different angle

I'd cuddle and make out to this song tbh

>Only played pirated vanilla game long ago.

>Never heard a lot of shit from DAS2 anyways.

>Now both versions are at 10 euros in summersale.

Im thinking of getting it, should I? And should be the Remastered version?

>>15036066

Yes. Im getting remastered. haven't played it in like 4 years and It's a good time to do so with the sale.

>>15036073

>>They never buffed the damage instead they nerfed it

Actually, they did buff the damage, but only at very high levels of faith. Lightning Spear and Great Lightning spear uniquely have scaling on top of your catalyst's scaling, so at 50 fai it's hitting harder than soul spear. It's really weird, but the spells are still fine. Better than Soul Spear and Crystal Soul Spear, at least.

>>Removed the golf club swing from 2handers after I assume some assmad dev got hit from old iron bridge into the lava.

They reworked the way knockback worked because of the bone fist and accidentally the golf swing. Real shame.

Everything else is on point, though.

>>15036169

All spells are universally shit in SotFS though. Crystal Soul Spear barely tickles end game bosses, it hits for 500ish damage when common enemies have 2000 health.

>>15020310

Get a controller.

>>15036183

Nah, Soul Greatsword still melts motherfuckers, and Soul Stream can take out endgame bosses in one or two hits. Great Soul Arrow is really solid for weaker enemies. Soul Spears are too slow for their power to be really worth it, though.

>>15036220

No, the numbers I gave are entirely accurate. CSS hits 500ish max on damn near everything in the DLC areas with 50 INT and and bosses there almost universally have 10k health. Enemies take similar damage and usually have 2-4k health.

By comparison anyone with a longsword can deal 1k damage by the time a mage finishes casting CSS, and they can do it far more safely with the ability to roll halfway through their attack string if need be.

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>>15020454

FUCKING CAPITALIZE AND PUNCTUATE YOUR SENTENCES YOU ABSOLUTE FAGGOT

You sound like an underage primate.

>>15036252

I didn't say those specific spells were endgame viable, I said spells weren't universally shit.

>>15036268

go back to facebook grandpa

>>15036269

There are no spells that hit significantly more than CSS, or that are significantly faster to cast (thereby achieving better DPS) than CSS. So since CSS is shit all other spells are shit.

The only spells that have enough casts to get through end game areas are basic Soul Arrow and Dark Orb, which relegates you to plinking away at enemies forever @ 200 damage a cast. If you use high-power spells like CSS or Dark Greatsword you run out of casts in your first fight. Every spell other than Soul Arrow and Dark Orb is simply not PvE viable by the endgame, they are strictly for PvP.

>>15036295

>There are no spells that hit significantly more than CSS, or that are significantly faster to cast

You mean aside from Soul Greatsword and Soul Stream which I specifically listed? Because both of those are way better than CSS.

>Every spell other than Soul Arrow and Dark Orb is simply not PvE viable by the endgame

The hell build are you using? I got through DLC as pure caster just fine. I just had to switch up what elements I was using to hit whatever the enemies were weakest to.

>>15036295

This is generally true. I use a variant of soul arrow or dark orb to carry me through the levels, with a magic bandit's knife to kill everything else relying on bleed/crits. I equip soul spear/CSS for boss fights and then use my dagger when I run out of casts. Its not universally shit, no, but you can tell they tried hard to balance for how ranged combat can just break the game.

>>15036306

>I got through DLC as pure caster just fine.

I serously doubt you had no problems with the Burnt Ivory King. Unless you're a faith/int mix.

>>15036314

60 int 60 fai 50 att. I died in one hit from anything but didn't get hit because shit died before it could reach me.

>>15036343

>Not a spell that exists.

Oh, right, it was Soul GEYSER in DS2. It got translated differently in DS3.

> it's not magic, fire or dark.

It actually IS dark. Resonant Soul and Dark Orb are the best way to take him down. He's still got monster elemental defenses, but dark's the best way to go about it.

>Covenant of Champions

Ah, that explains it. You're dealing way less damage then you should be because of that covenant and everything has more health.

>>15036569

I can tell from the UI you're not using clutch rings either, are you? Or, like, any spell-related rings at all.

The absolute lack of viability in different builds in DaSIII actually made me go back to II. At least you can fuck around and make some wild builds in that game

>>15037171

What's the lowdown on builds/other major changes in DaS3? Completed 2 for the 2nd time a few days ago, probably going to do a 3rd run as a tank/high poise build (armor sucks though, not sure how much tankiness is possible) before picking up 3.

My biggest problem with 2 in terms of builds is that the game gives you so many levels that you can max way too many stats by the end. This character is level 241 and hasn't gone to NG+ >>15036682

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>>15037281

In DaS 3 you're better off building around stats rather than a specific weaponUnless that weapon is some kind of sword or, gods forbid, casting. Casting is fine PVE, and is arguably better in the ways you can manage focus, but in PVP you're either ganking in a squad with support fire or using a few very specific spells, like farron flashsword, as a caster. Any time there's a viable spell in the meta it gets nerfed.

For one, while DaS 3 armor is generally better in terms of stats actually protecting you, it lacks poise so going full Havel's isn't much of a big deal compared to earlier entries that have poise that works.

>finally pick up DaS 3 due to the Steam summer sale

>go with Herald as my starting class because I dug str/quality and faith builds in DaS 1, the spear and shield looks like a good set of starting gear, and the armor is pretty

>find out that the spear is genuinely awful, with poor damage/stamina efficiency and windup long enough that enemies can attack after the animation starts and hit you before it finishes

>the shield is equally worthless, with such low stability that even maxed out it's only barely better than DaS 1's unupgraded Heater Shield

>not even the miracle you start with is that great, with the first chime you find providing better healing for less FP

At least the armor is still pretty.

>>15020310

Try pcgamingwiki.

>>15054404

delayed swings really fucks people up when the majority of the game isn't like that.

>>15054477

delayed swings is where nameless king derives his difficulty from

>>15054404

Never said Fume Knight was hard, I beat him my 2nd go. It's funny, his 2nd form is so much easier than the first.

>I had to summon help to beat him, having to kill some swarm before him drains it

Summoning makes him harder IMO.