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Ritley said:
Me too eventually, the problem will be that there is so much shit to do that by the time I start looking for what I missed online I’m not going to remember if I’ve done it already
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I can barely remember what I did four days and 40 levels ago. Half my workplace is playing this game and talking about things I know I've done but have no memory of doing.
 
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So I finally learned (thanks to this thread) that I needed to 'activate' Godrick's Rune and that was possibly the most underwhelming thing I've seen in a game ever. It adds zero stats when equipped, despite the in-game text suggesting otherwise, and only does something if you use a Ring Arc which are rare as fuck unless you manage to farm via helping people with bosses.

As a pure mage I'm currently running around with the Meteorite Staff, the two-faced statue head, and otherwise still wearing my Astrologer kit. I have 60 Int, 25 Mind but otherwise crap stats. Thoughts? The Raya Lucaria gear, other than the statue heads, seemed not as nice as the Astrologer Kit and that was kind of a bummer to be certain.

(I also had to look up the whole Flask of Physick business since I kept acquiring Tears and had no idea what the fuck they were for)
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Re: Flask of Physick, there's a vendor-bought note very early on that points to it.

Overall, I think they've done a VERY good job at pointing you toward things of interest. Statues that point to catacombs, ghostly dudes that walk you to caves, vendor-bought notes that tell you where to find this amazing Flask, or give you other useful information. I'm constantly impressed when I find a new source of info that's been around the entire time that I just hadn't quite realized fully.


Unrelated, regarding Edgelordy McSkellyFace in Roundtable Hold:
I teleported to RTH from the Village of Albinaurics after clearing it out, summoning Nephali to help me with Omenkiller. It did the NPC invader thing that they did in DS1 and DS3, where it mimics a multiplayer invasion. Does anyone know the actual trigger for this happening? The main RTH guy (Nephali's father) then proceeded to apologize for the guy (Ensha maybe?) attacking me, so perhaps it had something to do with my interaction with Nephali? Dunno, curious what it is.
 
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Me too eventually, the problem will be that there is so much shit to do that by the time I start looking for what I missed online I’m not going to remember if I’ve done it already
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This is true. I went to a few places where the boss was wrecking me so I left to go do other stuff. Can’t remember which I’ve cleared or not…have started using the marker system after doing that a couple times. Plop down a mob marker when I haven’t cleared the boss yet.
 
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I had the worst kind of Boss experience last night: namely, almost killing them the first time (I whiffed on the attack that would have killed them), and then spending the next 90 minutes fucking the fight up over and over. It took so godamn long because the first stage was a gimmick fight. Man I was frustrated. I was better at the fight when I didn't know what any of the abilities were and just yolod. Luckily, after that I found a dungeon boss I missed and beat him like a sick drum. Love this game. Going to try out Godrick's Axe now for a bit but the damage sucks compared to my upgraded weapon.
 
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Qhue said:
So I finally learned (thanks to this thread) that I needed to 'activate' Godrick's Rune and that was possibly the most underwhelming thing I've seen in a game ever. It adds zero stats when equipped, despite the in-game text suggesting otherwise, and only does something if you use a Ring Arc which are rare as fuck unless you manage to farm via helping people with bosses.

As a pure mage I'm currently running around with the Meteorite Staff, the two-faced statue head, and otherwise still wearing my Astrologer kit. I have 60 Int, 25 Mind but otherwise crap stats. Thoughts? The Raya Lucaria gear, other than the statue heads, seemed not as nice as the Astrologer Kit and that was kind of a bummer to be certain.

(I also had to look up the whole Flask of Physick business since I kept acquiring Tears and had no idea what the fuck they were for)
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The Flask of Wondrous Physick is in the East Lingrave area in the Third Church of Malika. It's quite on the normal path so you must have been really just going wherever. I ignored it for awhile but you can make it into essentially mage armor. Use it. Love it.

If you bought the notes from the Merchant in the first place you find him at the start of the game you could have bought the note telling you where it was for a few hundred souls FYI.

I think Great Runes are really good design. But also hard to know when to use unless you're really confident because dying just removes the effect. Its the apex Git Gud item lol.
 
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Tuco said:
I can barely remember what I did four days and 40 levels ago. Half my workplace is playing this game and talking about things I know I've done but have no memory of doing.
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Keep going old man - keep going.
 
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TJT said:
The Flask of Wondrous Physick is in the East Lingrave area in the Third Church of Malika. It's quite on the normal path so you must have been really just going wherever. I ignored it for awhile but you can make it into essentially mage armor. Use it. Love it.

If you bought the notes from the Merchant in the first place you find him at the start of the game you could have bought the note telling you where it was for a few hundred souls FYI.

I think Great Runes are really good design. But also hard to know when to use unless you're really confident because dying just removes the effect. Its the apex Git Gud item lol.
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So great runes sounds like something I will never use if it’s a consumable:

I like the physik flask because it refills.
 
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TJT said:
The Flask of Wondrous Physick is in the East Lingrave area in the Third Church of Malika. It's quite on the normal path so you must have been really just going wherever. I ignored it for awhile but you can make it into essentially mage armor. Use it. Love it.

If you bought the notes from the Merchant in the first place you find him at the start of the game you could have bought the note telling you where it was for a few hundred souls FYI.

I think Great Runes are really good design. But also hard to know when to use unless you're really confident because dying just removes the effect. Its the apex Git Gud item lol.
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I need to find more orbs for it, I guess. I can only make 2 pretty mediocre potions.
 
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Is it new game + or you can keep playing on your current campaign?
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I believe you can keep playing your current campaign, while having the option to convert to NG+ at any point. If I recall, this is what they did in Dark Souls 2 (possibly 3 as well, I forget).
 
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So great runes sounds like something I will never use if it’s a consumable:

I like the physik flask because it refills.
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It's permanent until you die. So it's like a version of Hollowing/Humanity from the other games.

Use Rune Arc and git gud!
 
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consumables is just one additional way dark souls games can use to make you cry and make pros look magnificent.

I hate them with pure envy and regret.
 
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I love how I am 30-35 hours in, and still unlocking upgrade paths via characters at the home base for items/things I use to level them up lol.
 
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It's permanent until you die. So it's like a version of Hollowing/Humanity from the other games.

Use Rune Arc and git gud!
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Sometimes that’s like 2 minutes. If a rare consumable buffs me til I die I’m not likely to use it ever. Unless it’s something I can farm or refresh.
 
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In think this is what the guide statue was pointing at but holy shit fuck everything about this place:

Some new type of golem with magic attacks and huge lasers and shit on a tiny ass cliff face with death if you fall off lol

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TJT said:
The Flask of Wondrous Physick is in the East Lingrave area in the Third Church of Malika. It's quite on the normal path so you must have been really just going wherever. I ignored it for awhile but you can make it into essentially mage armor. Use it. Love it.

If you bought the notes from the Merchant in the first place you find him at the start of the game you could have bought the note telling you where it was for a few hundred souls FYI.

I think Great Runes are really good design. But also hard to know when to use unless you're really confident because dying just removes the effect. Its the apex Git Gud item lol.
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I bought that note from the merchant and was like "wtf is this note talking about" and then proceeded to find basically every other church than the one I needed. I r dumb. Finally got the Flask and I agree that it is pretty cool and useful (especially if you had, like me, unintentionally been farming the ingredient-things without knowing wtf they were for). I definitely did not follow a mainline path so that's fine with me.

I still haven't used any Great Runes. The game does a terrible job of explaining that and I didn't want to look it up in case I accidentally found out about bosses I haven't fought yet. I'm not bothered now that I know more about what they do.
 
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Hateyou said:
Sometimes that’s like 2 minutes. If a rare consumable buffs me til I die I’m not likely to use it ever. Unless it’s something I can farm or refresh.
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Hateyou uses Rune Arc to trigger Super Rune Buff.

Hateyou then dies to some dogs anyway.
 
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But imagine the speedruns. Souls pro rushes to Godrick gets the Great Rune and triggers it, never dying and propelling him through the game until the next part of the speedrun.
 
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