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Post by CompetitiveDad on Sept 19, 2021 13:57:33 GMT
Nice one. I've unlocked the other blacksmith so I'll go to the miserable sod the next time I boot it up.
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Post by quadfather on Sept 19, 2021 14:04:48 GMT
Yeah he's a grumpy twat  |
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Post by CompetitiveDad on Sept 21, 2021 13:26:04 GMT
Found the flame lurker! Died to the Flame lurker!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 13:40:09 GMT
Hit him in the face with a blessed mace!
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 14:19:51 GMT
You can cheese him if you want. If you put the thief's ring on before you go through the fog door, and then immediately stand still when you go through the fog door, you'll have time to work out your strategy, as he won't see you right at the entrance with that ring on.
See the ribcage in the top left corner of the room? Just near a pillar?
If you leggit over to that ribcage, and get behind it, he can't get behind it, and you can circle him with the ribcage separating each of you. Keep moving around and always get behind the ribcage if he manages to hit you. He'll eventually just walk back to his starting position and stand still. You can then let rip and he'll come bounding over again. Repeat the whole process.
Takes time and zero skill, but if you want him dead by any means, there you go.
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Post by retro74 on Sept 21, 2021 15:06:02 GMT
Reject the cheese and do it properly!
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Post by Danno on Sept 21, 2021 15:10:28 GMT
His movement is pretty limited, you'll have him down after a few goes to work him out. Can get pretty hairy after he's at 50%, his aggression goes nuclear and he soends much less time dodging and repositioning himself in favour of FIREHULKSMASH, so watch your stamina
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Post by CompetitiveDad on Sept 21, 2021 16:04:49 GMT
Cheers. I'll give him a few more tries, I barely have any heals...
Where's the best place to farm? Collecting souls by killing enemies doesn't seem to reward many souls.
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Post by Danno on Sept 21, 2021 16:08:53 GMT
If you've got patches at the nexus then soul farming is always better, half moon grass is cheap as chips. The flayers in 3-1 are a decent target for souls if you can handle them quickly, otherwise use the blue eye knights at the end of 1-2
Eta: until the Reapers in 4-2
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 17:28:04 GMT
There's a miracle called evacuate that you can buy for 20,000 souls.
Sounds a lot, but once you get it, you won't look back. It's probably better used when you're comfortable taking out the skeletons in world 4. When you get to access 4-2, there's a really good routine that ends with you evacuating back to the Nexus with a ton of souls.
Before then though, I used to just warp to various archstones and take out goons that always drop grass. 1-2, for example, then turn around and go backwards to the blue eyed knights there.
Also, depending on your plan for phalanxs boss soul, you could always consume that. And tower knights too, IF you don't want the weapons they can create, that is.
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 17:28:36 GMT
Or what Danno said basically. Missed that.
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Post by Danno on Sept 21, 2021 18:55:35 GMT
There's a miracle called evacuate that you can buy for 20,000 souls. Faith requirement is really low iirc, like 10 faith? So worth getting on any chatacter that can spare the attunement slots. Although, now that you can respawn the world just by touching the archstone I'm not so sure now, or was that always a thing? |
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 19:13:54 GMT
Always a thing.
Evacuate I find has 2 uses, 1) "fuck, I've fucked up, I need to get the hell out of here", 2) "that was a good farming run, right, back to the Nexus and do it again"
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Post by retro74 on Sept 21, 2021 19:16:15 GMT
It was only useful in the OG for the glitch. Save your 20k and just kill everything you see THEN go back the Nexus
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 19:21:45 GMT
Not if you want to farm quickly
Hang on, what glitch?
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Post by Danno on Sept 21, 2021 19:22:33 GMT
Did you have to go back to the Nexus, then back to the world from the archstone to get it reset? (Involving hellish load times) I'm thinking in very narrow terms, specifically the 4-2 single Reaper farm
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Post by retro74 on Sept 21, 2021 19:24:00 GMT
Not if you want to farm quickly Hang on, what glitch? The dupe glitch, it was needed for that. Probably why it’s prohibitively expensive at the start. FROM seems to think of most things |
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 19:24:10 GMT
Did you have to go back to the Nexus, then back to the world from the archstone to get it reset? (Involving hellish load times) I'm thinking in very narrow terms, specifically the 4-2 single Reaper farm Yeah that's how I remember it. 4-2, reapers, evacuate, wait, Nexus, archstone, wait, go again is what's etched in my head |
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 19:24:54 GMT
Not if you want to farm quickly Hang on, what glitch? The dupe glitch, it was needed for that. Probably why it’s prohibitively expensive at the start. FROM seems to think of most things Ah right, thought you meant some kind of evacuate glitch |
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Post by Danno on Sept 21, 2021 19:31:30 GMT
Then I think for 4-2 just running back is almost the same as evac'ing. You just select the same level at the archstone and it resets instantly
Still a damn handy miracle if you're in too deep an running out of grass
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 19:34:12 GMT
Yeah true, it's probably as broad as it's long. It's just the way I did it.
However, I fondly remember being absolutely fucked in 5-2, and we know what that's like, where evacuate saved my bacon quite a few times
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Post by retro74 on Sept 21, 2021 19:34:19 GMT
I’d just kill a boss and fight my way from one archstone to the other if I was farming stuff. 4-1 is dead easy and it’s heavy on souls
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 19:35:34 GMT
4-1 maybe, but 4-2 has a few banana skins up its sleeves
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Post by retro74 on Sept 21, 2021 19:36:57 GMT
Yeah 4-2 is a whole different kettle of skeleton
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Post by Danno on Sept 21, 2021 19:37:46 GMT
Ugh 5-2 can do one, it's easily the main reason I'm hooked on Ghost of Tsushima instead. Those Giant Depraveds hit like trucks and aggro while you're 100m away from land. I'll get back to it shortly. Any volunteers to get sacrificed for the pvp trophy? I don't pvp anymore because it always felt like a dick move.
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Post by quadfather on Sept 21, 2021 19:51:01 GMT
They are absolute fuckers aren't they
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Post by Danno on Sept 21, 2021 19:53:53 GMT
I thought I had a handle on everything until these bastards. I'm likely to end up cheesing them with a bow and thief's ring, because a magic build (no tower shield) in that swamp has little other option
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 20:04:39 GMT
Danno I utterly hate those cunts. And that island with four of them around it? Nope. Nope nope nope nope.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 20:04:59 GMT
Huh. Fudge knuckle now is it. I like that.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Sept 21, 2021 20:39:33 GMT
Danno I utterly hate those fudge knuckles. And that island with four of them around it? Nope. Nope nope nope nope. Haha, never once went near that. Just looked from the distance and thought exactly the same. |
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