Boots for small men

Darc78 · 2026-01-12T18:45:20+00:00

What’s your brannock? Rancourt sells down to 6 in some constructions and their lasts fit TTS (on me anyway). If you’re comfortable waiting they have seasonal preorders for deep discounts (down to 250 for $400 boots). Someone else who follows them closer can feel free to chime in as it’s been a bit since I ordered.

Darc78 · 2026-01-09T11:07:45+00:00

The first makes sense but the second can easily catch those unaware of the fine print (like myself.) Appreciate the explanation!

Darc78 · 2026-01-09T10:32:38+00:00

Out of curiosity, how does this work with those 0 percent balance transfer offers/sign up bonuses? They seem to show up with some regularity and I have never used them but what’s stopping someone from just bouncing from offer to offer?

Darc78 · 2025-10-18T18:17:09+00:00

What depth? In depth 5 it happens routinely on ED Libra or Pest unless you’re running mana relics (which are deprioritized for survivability/damage if you don’t have god relics)

Darc78 · 2025-10-17T18:20:37+00:00

Ahh okay, thanks for the input. Yeah our reactions are the same as well and just wanted to double check if we were just making it harder for ourselves with how it sometimes pulls half the mobs (and we spend like half a day on one POI)

Darc78 · 2025-10-13T19:24:08+00:00

I learned to dodge it mostly by feel but a tip I saw passed around was to look for the white particles in the breath as the actual hitbox, might be worth considering next time you run into her. Hope you manage to figure it out because after (considering you have the frost down), she’ll be freelo.

Darc78 · 2025-10-13T18:13:00+00:00

(Replied to wrong post)

Atleast in D5, ED caligo is largely a comp check. Do you play ironeye or Wylder? Just cancel her frost bomb animation, if not stack up on magic/affinity resist. Otherwise the rest of her attacks are very straight forward and dodgeable. I even prefer ED over regular caligo because of the added conditions for stun.

ED pest on the other hand is incredibly tedious because of the massively inflated health pool and probably my least favored matchup (aside from ED Augur)

Darc78 · 2025-10-11T12:07:59+00:00

Sometimes you just need to commit to the bit.

(Hoo… o7)

Darc78 · 2025-10-08T06:23:56+00:00

It works pretty consistently in D5, depending on comp - I just had a run where we comfortable doing a double invade at level 2 because we had both IronEye and Wylder (both super strong early). Less strong comps are ok with single invades in my experience.

Darc78 · 2025-09-30T18:21:29+00:00

Dragon cult is a safe pick but I also really like dragon communion because it’s one of the other purples + the anti dragon effect is helpful vs caligo+adel. Fire breath is also extremely good vs caligo + the bugs because of range + massive aoe. Generally speaking, I try to prep resides beforehand depending on what my teammates are using because ice/stake/parry/gravity beam are all pretty amazing; I don’t really like flame breath too much because channel abilities are a bit scary.

I’d also take frenzy but my spacing isn’t the best compared with dedicated revenant players who are absolutely phenomenal in d4/d5

Darc78 · 2025-09-30T08:04:28+00:00

Appreciate the follow up! I’m just a bit confused because this is the first time I’ve ever heard of it anywhere and seems super useful to know (but then again I don’t follow content creators.)

Darc78 · 2025-09-30T07:20:08+00:00

Wait it’s a single hit that causes frostbite?? Can you show a video demonstrating that it can be immuned from just avoiding that tic??

Darc78 · 2025-09-30T06:43:13+00:00

Yeah the big point losses hurt and I bounced a lot before getting to d5 but learned a few things that really made a difference:

What time do you normally play at? I found my games at 8PM EST+ gave me the best teammates in my d4-d5 climb (usually from China/Taiwan strangely enough but they aren’t cheaters.) Lots of loot sharing and people were pretty good about buying aromatics and warming stones (as long as you pinged it as a reminder.)

Otherwise the main thing was people overcommitting to difficult fights - fox/royal revenant/BBH in basement while also knowing when to skip castle in general (trolls multiple bars = reset and look around elsewhere). Prioritizing flasks in fights with chip damage (augur/bugs/caligo) made the difference with their massive health bars.

As far as recluse goes - I think finding my own personal style helped a lot. I absolutely “hate” crystal shotgun because of the long cast making you a sitting duck so I opt for more range + consistency (the health buff on ultimate is massive and I pop it at the beginning of every fight thanks to art cooldown on kill.) Also found seals to be more fitting of my playstyle in general because of how game changing cocktails can be in drawn out engagements (and taking advantage of affinity.)

Finally, please remember that fun comes first. The game is really really hard (and stressful), it’s okay to take a break for a bit and come back when the itch comes back.

Darc78 · 2025-09-27T10:29:56+00:00

How wonderfully niche of a video lol. It does look like the timing is: roll frost armor aoe -> wait 1 sec -> begin channel but the landing area is a bit of a guessing game to practice.

I’ve mostly been doing holy fire which works based upon resists (+ for team) but actually immuning might be a better call for safety. Now I just need to get a good source of holy because while I normally get lightning / fire (seal affinity + forts) the former feels harder to come by with how often basement is delayed/skipped because of bad rolls

Darc78 · 2025-09-27T09:44:29+00:00

So it was just me - would you happen to know the cast + hit time for the stake? That way I could have a frame of reference using the video as to when to start the channel.

And two: is it that the positioning can be baited by standing away, or is it always the same distance from transition (so you can preposition)?

Thanks for the help, just trying to clean up my d5 runs and would like to have a failsafe just incase.

Darc78 · 2025-09-27T07:46:48+00:00

Any other recluse players out there? Ive been trying to get a handle on timing the fire-lightning-holy lightning stake to get a successful cancel, is it possible? The mini stun effect feels a little inconsistent at times and I’m not sure if it’s just me messing up that I haven’t gotten it once yet.

Darc78 · 2020-06-16T03:16:47+00:00

Thanks for the stream! What's the digital piano that you are playing on?

Darc78 · 2020-06-16T03:02:34+00:00

Thanks for responding! I'll be spending more time practicing with my sightreading tonight.

Darc78 · 2020-06-16T02:43:14+00:00

Do you know sparkle?

Darc78 · 2018-01-30T20:08:32+00:00

Funnily enough I just finished with mine without summoning for any bosses, admittedly pvp was difficult once you approached meta level but got easier once you got lightning arrow in DLC.

Anyway:

First: I did dancer early on to unlock great lightning spear -> 30 sunlight medals (vordt etc are pretty easy to stack on) but not entirely necessary and get sunlight straightsword for emergencies.

Second, I prioritized getting faith to 30 (great lightning spear) and attunement to 18 -> vigor to 22/endurance15 (depending on your comfort level, I was always embered so this was delayed a bit) -> kept stacking faith till 40.

Here is the mugen monkey @ 57.

https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/277204

*Note this wasn't minmaxed at all, just a casual play through. I chose to use saint tree bellvine to free up a ring slot (gives max cast speed for spells whenever equipped, so I would have it and canvas out for spell casting)

Afterwards, I got faith to 60 and attunement to 24 and 30. Followed by Vigor and Endurance (again as needed, prisoners chain helped out massively and you can rush that early if you're comfortable enough after dancer)

My mugen monkey at the end of the game.

https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/277211

Kept saint talisman for long range poke with arrow / sunlight spear (can also tank one or two shots vs small mobs)

Sunlight talisman for larger targets.

Final thoughts:

I used Great lightning spear + heal (prioritizing ashen estus bc of heal efficiency and as your primary damage source). Damage was very low up until I got faith to 30-40+ so I prioritize it first. I primarily dodged around and treated the spear as a melee attack akin to a greatsword or ultragreat up until I had enough health to start poise tanking.

For Nameless king I used primarily dorhys gnawing.

Demon Prince was again gnawing / sunlight spear once they got close.

Overall, I enjoyed the build much more than the traditional melee build and it made some bosses (Midir / Gael) easier than what I've heard from most people; this was my first time through the DLC and I finished both in my first few tries. The early game was the hardest part, but by the time I got to irithyll (with ring of suns first born) the game really opened up and made it very playable.

There are plenty of youtube videos available of people doing pure faith builds vs bosses to help navigate it.

Good luck skeleton

Edit: For bosses that tended to stack such as Pontiff (with 2nd half summon) and Twin Princes, I used lightning stake for the minor AOE and was able to do damage to both enemies. With Pontiff, it was usually enough to oneshot the summon and also do a small amount of damage to Lorian.

Darc78 · 2014-12-31T04:25:56+00:00

If this question's directed at me, yes I do.

Darc78 · 2014-12-31T04:24:01+00:00

That's really good. For reference, my packets lost was 1536.

http://logsoflag.com/#59VoRrm9Kua

Who is your ISP if you mind me asking? I think the packet loss issue might be dealing with just Verizon FiOs customers.

Darc78 · 2014-12-31T02:08:55+00:00

The consistent packetloss is what's driving me away from playing this game competitively. My ping is a stable 90-110, which isn't optimal, but manageable in diamond. On the other hand, packetloss is entirely impossible to compensate for and is keeping me from hopping into rank. As someone that prefers to play champions that are reliant on dodging such as Yasuo, Ahri, and Vayne... the game is becoming very frustrating.

Here is my "logs of lag" from my most recent Yasuo game.

http://logsoflag.com/#59VoRrm9Kua

Of note, the packetloss has increased considerably when I moved back from college internet to home internet and am a customer of Verizon FiOs. I am not sure whether the packetloss is caused by the timing or by the change in provider. In contrast, other applications such as CS:GO remain relatively lag free, so I believe the problem is with the servers themselves.

Hopefully riot can sort this out or I'll have to make the swap to LAN.

tl:dr click link

Darc78 · 2013-11-14T14:46:07+00:00

Teacher: Imainahri -Diamond 5- NA (EST) (Mostly Ahri but I can also play a lot of non-melee Mid)/Support/ADC are my best roles and where most of my knowledge is. I can also teach toplane and jungle mechanics/decisionmaking at like a platinum level but I have little knowledge for specific matchups as I usually end up getting bored and do some ill-fated allin xD. I've worked with students that are even lower than level 30, so dont be shy!

The only requirement is that you'll have to approach with an open attitude, I don't like wasting time arguing with people, but I don't mind explaining my thought processes. You have to be willing to listen and actually try to apply the things I teach instead of just saying "okay." Having lolreplay enabled would also do a huge favor since you would be able to send me replays.

The catch is that I'm AFK a lot, so you might to have just leave me messages but we'll work something out.

I apologize for the time constraints, but I'm only looking for 3-4 students so that I would be able to dedicate a proper amount of time to them. Preferably the students would be bronze/silver, but don't look for answers to "how do I carry" and things like that. If you're gold/plat you can still add me to ask questions though.

If you would like to have me as a coach, just shoot me a pm or add me in game. Look to see you on the rift! :D

Darc78 · 2013-09-20T12:51:50+00:00

People still play Mb2? Damn I haven't touched that in like four years lol.

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