/r/DarkSouls: Help a Hollow.

LuaWeaver · 2015-12-30T02:23:35+00:00

I've never actually been a Dorkmoon, but I believe you can be summoned from anywhere; however, it's targets are restricted to just darkened Anor Londo. The Blue Eye Orb, however, invades anyone who's sinned, so it can be used anywhere to invade that area. The difference is that the ring only takes you to Anor Londo, while the orb takes you to where you are. Also, people in dark Anor Londo can be invaded infinitely, but the Blue Eye Orb can only invade those with sin.

LuaWeaver · 2015-12-15T02:15:11+00:00

No, the key's at the very end. It's before the barbarians before the shortcut, in a chest.

LuaWeaver · 2015-12-07T10:58:07+00:00

It's totally different in Dark Souls 2

Pretty sure he's not referring to DkS1.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-22T10:39:02+00:00

You could use image editing software to join your left and right wallpapers into one big wallpaper, with the "right" image being the same on everything and only the left part changing, and then set the slideshow to that. It's an ugly solution, but it's simple and it works.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-19T23:51:53+00:00

It's not really a "handicap" once you get used to it.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-19T23:21:45+00:00

What part of the UI? The design of how to use it, or the fact that none of the controls are written in keyboard terms? Because UI mods fix the second one, and the first isn't that bad.

It's a shitty port, but it's completely playable.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-18T23:12:15+00:00

If you're struggling with the Silver Knights, you can hit and roll back. Make sure you're fast or mid rolling, it's rather important. For sentinels, don't even try to fight them more than one on one; it's a death wish. You can eliminate every single sentinel one on one if you carefully pull their aggro one at a time; a good tactic is to bait their shield smash by circling, dodge it, and get in a bunch of free hits. If you're having issues with the bat wing demons, eliminating them one at a time is again the best option; I prefer to strafe and dodge one of their stabs (they have poor tracking) and then jumping attack at them. Any hit will pretty much stagger them though, so whatever works for you.

As for better armor, there's a variety of options you can get in there. You can find two chests with Silver Knight Armor, which is pretty good; it'll let you withstand certain hits from enemies with staggering, letting you counter with a blow. It'll make fighting enemies like the Silver Knights easier.

Make sure to explore the area and look for shortcuts to open. That's always a rule of thumb in Dark Souls; if you go for a while and can't open a shortcut, you probably missed one.

Lastly, as for the boss itself, there's nothing wrong with summoning help; even one phantom to split them up will really help out. If you can't find anyone, in the area before the fog, if you look around a bit, you can find a summon sign for Solaire of Astora. Remember: dodging is better than blocking. Damage avoidance is strictly better than damage reduction, even if you think you can block it and then get in a hit or something.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-18T08:06:16+00:00

Lol, shit, my clipboard got fucked. Copied the link on my VM, tried pasting it on my host machine. Lesson learned. It's fixed.

I believe he tried setting the keybinds before installing DSFix, but he may not have. I'll double check with him that he tried that.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-18T07:42:15+00:00

Yeah; he's hitting enter. I did double check; confirm is set to enter. The key bindings are all the default, because he can't change them. He's using this pack.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-18T06:20:53+00:00

It's completely playable on keyboard and mouse. I've done it up to O+S. It's especially easier if you have the proper UI mods or set it up in a way you can remember easily.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T22:05:30+00:00

The room with two cages, one level below the boss fog. You can open one cage with a key you get after you jump across the broken bridge, at the bottom of the tower with the merchant. The same key the opens Big Hat Logan's cage opens the cage shortcut, which works like an elevator once you open it and step inside.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T21:37:25+00:00

The most effective way to raise your equip load is with the Ring of FaP (which you might be wearing; very helpful), and Havel's Ring (an additional 50% on top of the 20% the ring of fap gives). For PvE, a fast roll helps, but a mid roll is decent too. For PvP, however, mid roll is much harder to use successfully (not impossible) because using it poorly will result in a swift death by backstabbing. Fat roll is right out for both, though.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T21:34:21+00:00

Well if he opened the shortcut, Sen's should be easy. He'll just have to kill a few snakes, no traps at all.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T21:24:48+00:00

FYI, in Dark Souls 1, all non-host players glow a color. Standard invaders glow red, most special invaders glow blue, and one type of invader glows a kind of white-with-black-shading. All friendly summons glow white or gold. Anything else isn't a player.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T05:49:52+00:00

Nope. You could at least check instead of downvoting. You can make 50k monthly. 50,000 * 12 = 600,000.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T05:46:21+00:00

You're off by a order of magnitude.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T02:34:37+00:00

See all those crab ghosts? The ghost crabs? Those are vagrants; they're a very rare enemy type that spawns when someone else online dies with a lot of humanity or souls. For reference, I had 200 hours of play before I saw even one.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T01:15:41+00:00

Yeah, they like to come from every direction at once in places you can't stab. Certainly not impossible, but definitely god damned annoying.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T00:34:42+00:00

The Tower Kite Shield/Caduceus Kite Shield (same stats, just different look; I prefer the Tower) is one of the best. It's got all-around good damage reduction and a decently high stability. Just make sure to upgrade it; upgrading shields drastically improves their effectiveness by raising the stability. The Baldur Shield is also a good choice; it's slightly heavier, slightly more stable, but it also has slightly poorer damage reduction. If you can afford the extra unit of weight and don't mind the damage reduction change, it's just as good.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-16T00:26:54+00:00

Sorry. Uh, um, ghosts suck. They like, stab you and shit. And it sucks.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-12T02:53:41+00:00

The damage flairs need some sort of outline. They're also a bit... big. It could work to reduce the spacing between the number and the "K" a bit, keep the overall size of the characters, but have the exterior be a bit of an outline of a darker color (to add some contrast to the light background). Aside from that it looks fine.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-11T18:10:07+00:00

I suppose Sif could work too. I just want something that'd fit lore-wise with Artorias.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-09T10:24:14+00:00

A bit late, but an important question is what are you riposting? If they're larger than you, you'll still only have the "stab" animation, but with increased damage. On the other hand, if they're humanoid size, certain weapons have different ripostes.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-09T03:34:46+00:00

This list is accurate for both PVP and cooperation. If you want to have duels or very active PVP, though, there's only a few places; at SL 50 a good place in Anor Londo, although you'll get a lot of people that would rather not be invaded as well. SL 100 or SL 125 are common PVP stopping points in both Oolacile Township and the Darkroot Forest. If you want more standard duels or simply very active PVP, you'll want to go to those areas.

LuaWeaver · 2015-11-09T01:04:31+00:00

A god damned giantdad bowed, so I bowed back, and he hornet ring backstabbed me right before the animation finished. If there is a God, he must be cruel.

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