I know it doesn't fix how crap the durability is, but if you carry a torch the spiders will just not attack you.
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DoctorSpooge_sl
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Fair enough - been seeing a lot of hints suggesting using torch on the spiders, but I'm out of flame butterflies and keep forgetting to light it at bonfires. Regardless, farming the spiders is proving worthwhile - just got a Mastodon Greatsword, which was my bread and butter in vanilla.
This is my first time playing a caster. I've always heard they're easy mode, but I'm not finding that to be the case - some areas are rendered trivial for sure, but the bosses are waaaaaaaay harder when I've dumped a ton of points into int/faith/atn (33/30/20 atm) and the spells I have available barely scratch them. Anyway, my point is that I might just respec to melee and accept that the 12 int or whatever the sorceror starts with will be wasted points. I'll make use of the attunement. My Mastodon Greatsword is beckoning.
This is my first time playing a caster. I've always heard they're easy mode, but I'm not finding that to be the case - some areas are rendered trivial for sure, but the bosses are waaaaaaaay harder when I've dumped a ton of points into int/faith/atn (33/30/20 atm) and the spells I have available barely scratch them. Anyway, my point is that I might just respec to melee and accept that the 12 int or whatever the sorceror starts with will be wasted points. I'll make use of the attunement. My Mastodon Greatsword is beckoning.
Vorph
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Sorcery always pretty much sucked, but from what I remember the damage was significantly reduced in the great nerfing of April '14.
Miracles and hexes are what people meant when they said being a caster was easymode, but those days are gone. You used to be able to walk around with like 2-3x as many lightning spears and great lightning spears per spell slot as you can now. Don't really remember anything about pyromancy at all, except that flame weapon was strong.
Miracles and hexes are what people meant when they said being a caster was easymode, but those days are gone. You used to be able to walk around with like 2-3x as many lightning spears and great lightning spears per spell slot as you can now. Don't really remember anything about pyromancy at all, except that flame weapon was strong.
Vaclav
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Shrug, it's what cinches every PVP encounter I've had so far too, heh. 11-0 for defending on invasions so far mostly the magic making the difference.
DoctorSpooge_sl
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Err, I'll eat my words on Smelter Demon. That guy caused me untold grief the first time I played this. One-shotted him this time with Lucatiel. Sorcery most certainlydoestrivialize that boss.
Quineloe
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I'm a bit confused, I add three files to the game directory that don't overwrite anything? That works?
Noodleface
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It works. I think it tricks the assembly calls so that they get called instead, or something. I'm not sure how that stuff works.
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Vorph
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Dinput8.dll is part of DirectX. Putting a modified version into the game dir causes the DkS2 exe to use it instead of the default one installed in your Windows directory. The other two are just unmodified MS Visual C++ DLLs required to support his code.
Yeah, even metal chests can be mimics now too from what I heard.
Bleed requires you to fill a bar (which starts to drain if you're not constantly attacking) and then it does a big chunk of damage. You can only see your own bar when getting hit by a bleed attack, there's no way to see how close you are to getting the proc on an enemy. If the enemy is resistant to bleed it fills slower, drains faster, and does less damage. So depending on the mob it can be very easy or almost impossible to land a bleed.
Also, barbed club got nerfed/bugfixed. Used to be when you infused it the bleed would go from 100 to 122, now it drops to 75. Guess I missed that one since it was done last July and not as part of the massive nerf patch in April. Seems kind of shitty now if the best way to use it is to not infuse at all. :/
Quineloe
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Yeah I'm familiar with the bar mechanics. I basically cheesed through DS2 with Poison arrows, 4 hits and you have the mob dragons going down. But 4 hits don't trigger a bleed, and some enemies (like monster pigs) survive even five hits and don't start to bleed..
I am experiencing this also with a morning star +6 or +7, which has a bleed stat way above 100, not just the barbed club.
edit: +7, bleed is 108
I am experiencing this also with a morning star +6 or +7, which has a bleed stat way above 100, not just the barbed club.
edit: +7, bleed is 108
Seananigans
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Speaking of bleed, re: incoming bleed, why is there a countdown bar AFTER you are bled, if the bleed effect is simply immediate damage? It doesn't make any sense like Poison/Toxic. Is that bar a buffer to being bled again immediately? Can you not receive more "bleed points" while that one is counting down?
Vaclav
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You need an item from up where you get the Witchtree Branch and such. For SotFS there's key items you need to find. (Iron King DLC one is in the salamander area - not found the 3rd DLC key yet)
Quineloe
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So I need to get the stupid key from the Black Gulch with the two other last giants, then down the well for the locked door?