Give me all your SOULS!

[DeusExAlice]

It was pretty bad when I was cosplaying Alonne with a friend. Halfway through the iron keep the weapon broke on me. I had a second one but that one broke when the smelter demon was down to its last sliver of health :|

 

[JayTee]

Oh yeah, Smelter Demon.


Fuck that guy.

 

[Viola]

Pfft, Smelter Demon.


The worst is the boring Sif fight.

 

[welian]

Nacho Cheese and Cool Ranch matching Smelty hammers.


 
So uh....


http://archiveofourown.org/works/2852345?view_full_work=true


Lucatiel and Benhart comic


http://archiveofourown.org/works/3371390?view_full_work=true


Creighton and Navlaan comic

 

[JayTee]

More like BROhart and LucaBRO.

 

[DeusExAlice]

The worst one was when From Soft heard everyone didn't like the reskinning of bosses, so they reskinned a boss and multiplied it.


And elk.


So. Many. Elk.

 

[JayTee]

...Elk?

 

[DeusExAlice]

A particular mob that, for me at least, are the most dangerous and frustrating to fight. Their ability to catch me in my rolls surpasses everything else in the game. Everything. If you do pick up the Scholar edition, you'll see.

 

[JayTee]

Oh, well, money, and all that. ( )

 

[DeusExAlice]

Hold onto your money. It's all that keeps you from being broke.


Oh I'll fool you any longer.


You'll lose your money...all of it. Over and over again.


[insert uncomfortable camera lingering on mouth and patronizing laughter]

 

[welian]

In light of the release of Bloodborne... WOULD SOMEONE WITH A PS4 PLEASE TELL ME EVERYTHING AND LET ME LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH THEM????


And discussion-wise, I guess, let's talk about our favorite installment of the Souls series. Mine is DS2 - the game feels so smooth.

 

[JayTee]

I haven't started it because I don't want spoilers, but it's there for you if you want it.
In terms of gameplay, I agree that DS2 is better, but in terms of world navigation I prefer DS1.

 

[welian]

What I really liked about DS1, is that I know what the hell was going on. The opening cutscene actually explained some of the world, okay, now time to ring the two bells, oh look, Onion Man moved and the gate is open....

 

[DeusExAlice]

I won't talk about it here, but I can offer what I've found so far. I'm doing a blind playthrough though, so I'm of not as much use as other source.


(I confess I looked up coop mechanics though)

 

[welian]

My friend Ed claims he's "gotten good" at the first area but I don't believe him.


No one who says they're good is actually gud.

 

[JayTee]

You don't really get good at a Fromsoft game, you just get less bad.


And that's why we love it.

 

[welian]

This game...

 

[JayTee]

Discussion topic: Best spell!


Personally, I have a huge fondness for DS2s Warmth spell. Just the idea behind using fire magic for healing seems so cool to me.

 

[welian]

Warmth is fantastic! I like the poison cloud pyromancy, I think it's called Toxic Cloud? i don't use it often though, which is a shame. Or pyromancy in general. My favorite spells are Soul Arrows and Great Soul Arrows because of how many uses they have and how fast I can fire them off. I like being a glowing blue machine gun. xD


Soul Greatsword is also pretty badass, and I... I use Cast Light and Crystal Soul Mass a lot.

 

[JayTee]

I really like the utility spells like Light. I want to make sorcery build were I use only utility/buff spells for magic, and melee for everything else.

 

[welian]

That would be awesome!! I still haven't gotten into the habit of buffing my weapons... I'm a terrible player, it took me like, two months to start upgrading my weapons.

 

[DeusExAlice]

I'd say Warmth is probably my favorite, it allowed me to heal up if it was disabled by an invader/as an invader, it let me take care of the hosts/phantoms to save more precious estus flasks and all for a relatively low investment of just one attunement slot!


One of my favorite things to do when power-stancing the fume ultragreatswords against particularly agile players was to throw down a warmth, even if I was at full health. The other player would close their distance to try and force me off of it or use it themselves. Problem is by trying to stay close to that, they tended not to do such a good of avoiding my attacks. Most of the time. I've had a few fights where I never even touched my opponent :/

 

[welian]

So apparently Dark Souls 2 got rebalanced a bit. The latest patch notes say the Chaos Blade and the Ice Rapier...


... both got buffed.


Somebody made this video.


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[JayTee]

I wonder if there will ever be a time where people don't think the katana is the greatest thing ever.


Sigh, someday...

 

[DeusExAlice]

Thank goodness they're finally viable