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Soygen · Mar 17, 2022

So upgrading shield is actually useful now(sorta) and they nerfed mimic tear before I even got to really abuse it, so at least it's not something I'll miss. I wonder if they nerfed that rune farm where the big chicken commits suicide after you hit it with an arrow.

Fogel · Mar 17, 2022

Soygen said:
So upgrading shield is actually useful now(sorta) and they nerfed mimic tear before I even got to really abuse it, so at least it's not something I'll miss. I wonder if they nerfed that rune farm where the big chicken commits suicide after you hit it with an arrow.

I heard its even better as they changed some AI and he jumps off the cliff even faster

... · Mar 17, 2022

i bet my mimic will still do it's job! (since i'm a shield bro.) if it can shield a lil while and not die that's all i want from it. cool about shield upgrades though it's still madness the gilded greatshield is literally the first great shield you can get. yet only like 3 shields block gooder. kind of gimpy about heavy scaling since it's not split damage type or weird build-up, or full of shenanigans. but hey, i'm sure it's okay overall still.

Hateyou · Mar 17, 2022

They’re going to just add a chest high wall right there as a chicken coop.

cyrusreij · Mar 17, 2022

Since we are now a couple weeks after release, I will just spoil the new questlines for those who want to know. Kenneth Haight, Nepehli Loux and Gatekeeper Gostoc's quests all converge together. Go back to Kenneth Haight (all NPC's are now marked on your map, YAY), in East Limgrave. Talk to him, he will teleport back to his fort in the south. There will be some Demihumans of low level there. Just clear them and ascend to the ramparts, and you will find him again there. He tells you he is not worth of ascending you to knighthood (whatever that may mean) and he needs to find a new ruler for Limgrave who is not Godrick. After killing Godrick, Gatekeeper Gostoc will move to the room where you fight him, and stamp on his remains. Go to Roundtable after doing all of Nepheli's questline (Godrick + Village of the Albinaurics), and don't give her Seluvis's potion. Instead give her the Stormhawk Ashes you get from the tutorial area that you can go back to using the Four Belfries. Exhaust dialogue, teleport back to Godrick room. Rest at the Grace there to reset the area. All three NPC's will now move into Godrick's throne room. Exhaust Nepehli's dialogue and she will give you an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone. Kenneth Haight doesn't seem to do anything else. He says he will go back to his fort, but he just sticks around. Gostoc is now in the back of the room as a merchant again. He will have another Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone for sale for 20k.

Diallos's questline picks up in Jarburg, working on that one now.

CaughtCross · Mar 17, 2022

Soygen said:
So upgrading shield is actually useful now(sorta) and they nerfed mimic tear before I even got to really abuse it, so at least it's not something I'll miss. I wonder if they nerfed that rune farm where the big chicken commits suicide after you hit it with an arrow.

Tested bird farm. It still works as before. Surprised they didnt nerf it. Did notice on the map when you hover over a point of grace it tells you the friendly NPCs in the area.

Hateyou · Mar 17, 2022

CaughtCross said:
Tested bird farm. It still works as before. Surprised they didnt nerf it. Did notice on the map when you hover over a point of grace it tells you the friendly NPCs in the area.

That’s a cool addition. Once I was looking for a specific merchant I forgot to mark in the map, I could find him and it was driving me fucking nuts so I spent like 30 minutes going to every fucking site on the map.

Khane · Mar 17, 2022

I was gonna go back and try to do any quests I missed/didn't finish before NG+ but I got pissed off when I learned that since I killed Fia there is no other way to get to the Dragon in Deeproot Depths if you don't kill her, who also drops a rememberance. Its so stupid that you can actually miss something that important because you make the "wrong" choice when interacting with an NPC.

... · Mar 17, 2022

when do you opt for new game plus by the way? do you get your whole ending , get back to open world, then later get the choice? or do you choose at time of credits?

Seananigans · Mar 17, 2022

Rajaah said:
Update, I was farming some exp and waiting to get summoned to help people with endgame bosses (unfortunately, every time I got summoned, the host would die to something stupid on the way to the bosses...every goddamn time). Also had the blue ring activated to get summoned to help people with invaders, but never got summoned for that unfortunately.

Went back to the Roundtable Hold with like 12 million souls on me and got a "The Twin Maiden Husks have new items for sale" message that I've never gotten before when zoning in. Checked out their inventory and they had a Talisman Pouch (aka the one I missed) for sale for 500, plus a few spells I haven't seen anywhere else. I don't think those things were there before and I have no idea what triggered their arrival. The only other thing I did besides farm 12 million souls was that I defeated the last two Evergaols that I missed. So additional items are triggered there by either A) Clearing all the Evergaols or B) Lugging around a massive amount of souls.

C) the patch

TJT · Mar 17, 2022

I killed the gate opening guy because I learned he sold some items that you can't get anywhere else. Like the basic buckler.

He had more quest though? Damn.

Khane · Mar 17, 2022

TJT said:
I killed the gate opening guy because I learned he sold some items that you can't get anywhere else. Like the basic buckler.

He had more quest though? Damn.

This can at least be remedied. You can atone for this kind of sin. But some things you can't atone for. Like the shit I've done. Goddammit.

Seananigans · Mar 17, 2022

cyrusreij said:
Since we are now a couple weeks after release, I will just spoil the new questlines for those who want to know. Kenneth Haight, Nepehli Loux and Gatekeeper Gostoc's quests all converge together. Go back to Kenneth Haight (all NPC's are now marked on your map, YAY), in East Limgrave. Talk to him, he will teleport back to his fort in the south. There will be some Demihumans of low level there. Just clear them and ascend to the ramparts, and you will find him again there. He tells you he is not worth of ascending you to knighthood (whatever that may mean) and he needs to find a new ruler for Limgrave who is not Godrick. After killing Godrick, Gatekeeper Gostoc will move to the room where you fight him, and stamp on his remains. Go to Roundtable after doing all of Nepheli's questline (Godrick + Village of the Albinaurics), and don't give her Seluvis's potion. Instead give her the Stormhawk Ashes you get from the tutorial area that you can go back to using the Four Belfries. Exhaust dialogue, teleport back to Godrick room. Rest at the Grace there to reset the area. All three NPC's will now move into Godrick's throne room. Exhaust Nepehli's dialogue and she will give you an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone. Kenneth Haight doesn't seem to do anything else. He says he will go back to his fort, but he just sticks around. Gostoc is now in the back of the room as a merchant again. He will have another Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone for sale for 20k.

Diallos's questline picks up in Jarburg, working on that one now.

I had already done all of this up to the point where you go to Godrick's boss room, never did that. I guess that might be the part they added with the patch? I had already given Neph the Stormhawk ashes, Kenneth was in his fort, Gostoc had stomped Godrick, etc.

... · Mar 17, 2022

i need to review the "heavy" weapon alignment / strength build nerf to see if it's too annoying to keep using giant smash hammer or if I should just use one of the flavor of the month weapons for similar damage. I'm at the mountain of giants, using massive giant hammer. I could go have my pick of other weapons if i move off of 'heavy' build. though it's worked okay for me so far. maybe loosing 50 damage isn't so bad overall.

Seananigans · Mar 17, 2022

Khane said:
This can at least be remedied. You can atone for this kind of sin. But some things you can't atone for. Like the shit I've done. Goddammit.

Atonement brings dead npc's back to life?

Evernothing · Mar 17, 2022

Seananigans said:
Atonement brings dead npc's back to life?

It resets any NPC you made hostile, and will revive any you murdered. I don' think it will revive them if they died via progression, or a quest.

Seananigans · Mar 17, 2022

Evernothing said:
It resets any NPC you made hostile, and will revive any you murdered. I don' think it will revive them if they died via progression, or a quest.

Whoa I knew it would reset agro but I had no idea it would resurrect any you were forced to kill due to said agro. That's awesome.

ronne · Mar 17, 2022

They massively reduced smithing stone prices from merchants, should make trying out a ton of different weapons a real option now.

It used to cost something insane like 350k runes to get a normal weapon to like +22 before lol.

Srathor · Mar 17, 2022

Is there a speedrun way to get bird farm early? I keep making new toons to try things abd the two balls at dragonburrow is getting old.

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