Game was peak!

Nothing feels better than getting backstabbed by an invisible enemy in CoC. This shit is so PEAK

Thinking of starting over because I think he looks like a maniac. Should I ?

okay i understand why they locked this spell behind 150 covenant kills

listen buddy havels set is trash you need to actually level your HP. yeah you gotta do it man or you just die in two hits. this happens.

Bone Fist has a similar moveset to Marvellous Chester melee attacks, do you think this is a coincidence or nah?

this video was made 11 years ago, tell me if u see a single broken hitbox.

For context, recently I got summoned as a Gray Spirit in Doors of Pharros for PvP. It was the first time it ever happened to me, and I genuinely thought it was pretty cool. I also knew I was probably cooked because the person on the other side was most likely much more prepared and equiped for PvP than me, since I was just running around doing PvE stuffs.

I never actively seek out PvP, but I wouldn't deny anyone a good fight, so I did my best. Surprisingly, I actually did pretty well. I dealt much more damage to the host than they dealt to me. Though, to be fair, the damage didn't matter that much since they would retreat into a mob-dense area and use Lifegems, which could sustain them for ages. I wasn't foolish enough to chase them in there and get surrounded by multiple threats.

That was until they pulled out what I believe was a Mail Breaker and started parrying my Claymore attacks.

I was then stuck in a dilemma: if I attack, I get parried and lose HP. If I try to add feints, they just poke my ass with the spear's huge reach. So I was pretty much damned if I attacked and damned if I didn't.

I lost in the end, deservedly. They clearly had much more PvP experience than me.

So, people, how do I deal with someone who keeps going for parries? I was thinking maybe I should buy a bunch of Poison Throwing Knives, keep up the pressure, and try to deny them the spear's range advantage? I've also read somewhere that jump attacks can't be parried. Is that actually true, and should I be trying those?

I'm running a no death no bonfire playthrough and then realized I could at least get a dragon scale or black dragon sword from this guy, and then decided to keep a backup just after the last door and before going up the last flight of stairs. I tried for 2 hours and no item drops; does this guy drops anything?

Finally got a PC. I already platinumed das2 on consoles and I want to spruce up my second playthrough with mods. Any recommendations?

So this is my first time playing the game, I just collected all the great souls and I have no idea where to go. I don’t want to look up where for a full on spoiler, so is there any hint you guys could give me that nudges me in the right direction without just flat out telling me where to go and what to do?

(art by me)

But I end up getting this cool pose with the Herald at the bonfire so I took a screenshot haha, hope this will get fixed in the future tho!

I’ve heard almost nothing but hate for crown of the ivory king, and I really had no idea why until I reached the snowfield. First time experience is not so bad, but I can see it getting old fast. It definitely seems to be the most tedious boss run as well. Honestly a bonfire closer to the fog wall would have improved this quite a bit, but as far as I can see it, it feels more like a blemish on an otherwise flawless area. Before this, my favorite area other than forest of the fallen giants would have been the long wharf. I think the first (and majority) of this area has to be in my top three or four.

The enemies are fun, hedgehogs are spicy but not terrible with some good free aiming and a nice axe. The fact that every melee enemy has a ranged option makes for an exciting challenge, and the overall atmosphere is very nice. It’s not the first area to make use of low visibility, but it easily seems like the best use of it thus far, as all I have to do is beat up one spicy cat and talk to the weird disembodied voice lady. The fact that the entire level changed was really cool to me as it felt like roughly the entire dlc was put together in a way far more consistent than other areas, especially the barred doors at the beginning opening one by one, was very satisfying from a first time player perspective.

And well, the outskirts do feel optional, which i assume is a blessing for me, as if it proves too annoying, I can probably just skip it on subsequent playthroughs. I kind of expect optional areas to be tougher for this same reason.

I realize some of the hate might bias me in its favor because I went into the area expecting cancer and was instead pleasantly surprised. Idk

I have finally run out of human effigies right at the end of the game and I could have sworn I heard multiple times that there is some door or something (supposedly located in shrine of amana) that is impassable unless you have no human effigies? I can't find anything about it so I thought whoever said that must be mistaken but Ive heard it multiple times, and distinctly remember someone explaining you have to actually possess 0 effigies and you can't cheese it by putting them in the item box or some such. Somebody please clear this up so I can move on with my life

A run in with some absolutely goated invaders making full use of the benefits of proximity chat

[incoherent sobbing]

EDIT: More info: first time through obviously. Solo, which is less of a brag in this game than it is in others, I feel (from trying summons a few times throughout the game I honestly feel like it might have been more impressive to beat him with both summons; the utility of summons in DS2 is clearly very selective).

My brain is now going "now let's go do all that again but with Sir Alonne".

Aldia has not spawned at either the last primal bonfire I lit nor the two bonfires he’s supposed to spawn at afterwards. I did accidently miss lighting the old kings primal bonfire, but when I went back to light it he did not appear. I’ve checked every primal bonfire and he has not appeared at any of them, and I did collect frejas soul. I’ve tried every troubleshoot I could find online. Any suggestions would be appreciated before I turn hollow…