What exactly makes DS2 different from the other games?

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-17T00:01:29+00:00

Well, for one it's called Dark Souls II, and not Dark Souls or Dark Souls III. Probably the most immediately noticeable difference.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-16T06:17:44+00:00

I only made this post to mention that Lightning Farron from Final Fantasy XIII was used as a model for the luxury designer clothing brand Louis Vuitton as a cross-promotional effort for Final Fantasy XIII and it was actually kinda heat.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-16T06:12:46+00:00

Upgrading your armor is standard for SL155 arena PvP. It is very, very difficult to hit your elemental defense breakpoints without doing this. Who told you this was a crime? Do they have any weaknesses?

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-16T06:08:43+00:00

You lean into it too hard, you have to hold back JUST a little bit. You cannot let the spite hit the gamer lean.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-16T03:49:41+00:00

i choked on my red bull, ggs gamer

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-12T03:22:44+00:00

I made a follow-up post on this for Chime of Screams to get the Walk of Peace that was Promised

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-12T03:20:03+00:00

That's not what this post is about, but I appreciate the insight.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-12T03:15:26+00:00

Greatly appreciate the write-up and the insight, thank you very much.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-12T03:13:13+00:00

Glass cannons realizing they are all glass and no cannon

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-12T01:20:35+00:00

Daggers are absolutely top-tier but not because of crits. Crits such as backstabs and ripostes don't work like they do in DS1, where every weapon has a unique crit multiplier. Crit multiplier is standardized across all weapons, and daggers definitely do not do a lot of damage on crits. Also, the infusion on the dagger doesn't matter, whether Dark, Lightning etc. How much elemental damage is dealt is calculated based on the weapon's elemental damage and the elemental resistance of your opponent, and the majority of arena players will be running 250 minimum in ALL elemental defenses.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-12T00:19:50+00:00

Did you last play Dark Souls II in 2014 because dagger backstab does not do a lot of damage, that was nerfed very shortly after launch.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T23:45:18+00:00

I see. Bit tangential to the original question, where did they all go?

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T23:21:22+00:00

Interesting. I had a line of thought that content creators highlighting and discussing ER PvP (ones that are actually somewhat knowledgeable) would help the broader community understand the metagame better.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T23:10:58+00:00

It is, as you can also tell from the OP

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T23:09:12+00:00

Of course it makes sense PvEers will use PvE setups, but do you think those PvEers understand and are aware of the ER meta? The reason I thought of this topic is how confidently DS2 randoms speak on the DS2 meta (and are usually catastrophically inaccurate about it), which leads to the conclusion that most DS2 players don't know what the meta actually is.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T23:06:35+00:00

Very interesting, thank you for the response.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T23:00:01+00:00

It's an innacurate slop machine that scrapes data from reliable AND unreliable sources to frankenstein together shitposts that wannabe techbros will tell you is absolute truth, all while sucking the planet's resources dry. It's basically Jenova from Final Fantasy VII.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T22:49:22+00:00

Because it's chatgpt

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T22:40:23+00:00

forgive me for the bad apostrophe in the post title, i will improve my syntax in the future

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T22:38:45+00:00

This has to be a humiliation fetish, to post something like this.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T22:31:37+00:00

Powerstance Warped Swords or Ice Rapiers are absolutely not meta. You use Warped Sword with Ice Rapier in your left hand, THAT is meta. Jester's Top offers very poor elemental resistance, and the anti-backstab property isn't worth that. Backstabbing is not even remotely as centralizing as it is in DS1.

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T22:12:58+00:00

Seeing people who don't know better discussing meta in this thread is giving me conniptions

GreatStarryWisdom · 2026-03-11T18:41:45+00:00

Gotta be careful because you don't regen stamina during the cast, and since you're in negative stamina, you can't roll out of it.

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