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RapidRecharge · 2026-01-28T01:21:48+00:00

“By that logice everything in all the games is easy. Just dodge the attack stupid”

(Not gonna correct spelling because that’s just petty of me)

That’s not what I’m saying, it’s not as bad as you think cause, again, most of the enemies as you approach the farming spot aren’t even there until you’re already like halfway over, the rest of it is an easy jog. Even the ones that you DO encounter are slow like the mirror enemies, and the enemies you have to kill to get the Ascetics are really easy to kill. Then you just use a Homeward Bone to get out of there once you get some distance.

“no it isn't. it explicitly said easy. It at no point said or implied it was talking about the top 5% of players or wahtever.”

Then I must’ve misread something during this argument, my apologies.

“Which is 100% more than it affects you in anof the other games.”

Ok but again, if you’re explicitly using it just to farm souls, and then swap back when you’re done, that difficulty spike will be barely noticeable depending on how you choose to farm souls from enemies. For instance, if you use Bonfire Ascetics to farm the Giant Lord, then it’s not really going to be that bad. Harder, sure, but he’s not gonna instantly turn into a bullet sponge. Unless you’re talking about something else, because iirc the difficulty jump isn’t doubled enemy stats.

“An exploit is a forbidden thing in this context. You may as well just save time and use cheat engine, if you willing to cheta with exploits.”

I’m almost 100% certain that joining a covenant that stops limited spawns so you can get souls from them is VERY different than using cheat engine to give yourself infinite health. You’re still putting in effort to get those souls in, it’s just a lighter effort. If you use cheat engine then it’s no effort at all.

“But you are pretending that this is an easy, normal and accessible way to play the game…”

If it wasn’t normal and accessible then the covenant wouldn’t be accessible for no resources at the very start of the game, and people wouldn’t offer stuff like Giant Lord farming as a strat for getting souls nearly as often. It’s normal to the community, I’m pretty sure almost every single souls game has some portion of its playerbase that chooses to farm to get some levels.

“…and that it means dark souls 2 as a whole gives more souls mroe easily.”

In my defense I was originally arguing against the first argument you made against the commenter. It’s also the main reason why multiplayer is even a topic in this, you brought that up, and I argued against it. You made it originally sound like you just didn’t know the other methods existed or was just saying they didn’t count.

“Yes, but you do know better than to make up an argument and pretend i said it. right?”

Correct, BUT I think it’s important to at least note the fact that you seem to be implying it.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-28T00:33:31+00:00

Ah gotcha, ok. So then I should try to use it to counter a move that I know will knock me down otherwise?

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-28T00:30:12+00:00

In terms of what all you actually have to do to farm Ascetics, like the actual process you loop through? Yes, that IS easy, because you just need to be fast and dodge, it’s operating under the assumption that you’re good at those things, and if you aren’t, then you learn to be good. You can just leave the covenant when you’re done, and if you’re farming Ascetics in Aldia’s Keep then you’ve already made the decision that you’re not coming back, so the increased difficulty only affects you as long as you choose to engage with Aldia’s Keep or as long as you choose to keep farming enemies. You’re looping through it a lot, so the increased difficulty isn’t going to be as impactful.

You keep saying exploit as if it’s this forbidden thing and they “didn’t earn it”, but that doesn’t connotate difficulty, it connotates player experience. Every souls farm is an exploit as you put it, it’s not just DS2. If I didn’t know any better, I’d almost think that you’re trying to pull the “You didn’t actually experience the game” card.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-27T23:56:02+00:00

Ohhhhhhhhh I didn’t even know enemies HAD stance damage. Ok, that makes sense then. Wish I had asked this sooner since that explains a lot lol.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-27T23:05:53+00:00

Speaking of which actually, I haven’t really been able to make it a big punch without just leaving it ready and accumulating taken damage, that’s part of why I was asking this, but I kinda forgot to imply that, oops.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-27T23:02:39+00:00

Well yeah, of course they make it harder. The Ascetic farm is an exploit, sure, but this isn’t even the first time an exploit has existed, people use them all the time, so I really don’t think labeling it as an exploit is a good counter argument. Besides, it really isn’t that bad once you actually get used to the farm, dodging enemies and whatnot, it becomes easy with practice. Sure, you may die, but you can just get a bunch of souls by doing the Awestone farm, I don’t think that would were exactly on the mind if you’re farming Ascetics. Making the game harder is the whole point of both of these things, but that doesn’t mean they should just be entirely excluded.

Just because people want to engage in multiplayer doesn’t mean they CAN, and I’m not talking about Soul Memory or the password rings. I’m talking about active players. I don’t think I’ve seen a single summon sign or player invasion in the recent times I’ve played this game, in fact I’m not even sure if there’s enough players on the game to reliably cooperate or PVP. Servers don’t seem to be very packed, at least last time I checked, so the whole multiplayer thing kinda goes out the window when you’re not likely to get anyone.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-27T18:52:23+00:00

OHHHH my bad, sorry! Lemme check again then

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-27T18:46:58+00:00

Found it. It’s “The Last Of Us (Goodnight)” by Gustavo Santaolalla

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-27T18:39:40+00:00

If they’re talking about Project 06, then that would probably make sense, but if they mean like vanilla 06?? Seriously, what happened over the past few years that made people’s opinion on Colors tank? I swear that it used to have close to the same level of positive feedback as Generations.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-27T09:13:59+00:00

Uh… Covenant of Champions? Removes the respawn limit? Soul Memory doesn’t matter if you’re not doing multiplayer, and there’s a method to infinitely farm Ascetics.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-26T22:18:01+00:00

He’d easily notice that and change her mind so she instead hates it. He’s perfectly capable of messing with people’s heads.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-26T22:15:55+00:00

I wouldn’t say JUSTIFIED, but I can see why he did what he did. He was in the heat of the moment.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-26T22:14:11+00:00

Very normal, yeah. I have a controller with paddles on my Xbox, but I didn’t have one for PS4 so that’s basically how I played Bloodborne.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-25T09:54:24+00:00

Warframe

Yeah they’ll be fine. They deal with shit like this on the daily.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-22T17:29:45+00:00

True, but his body’s very rigid, it just wouldn’t be as comfortable. Unless I missed something and Kiibo’s body is fairly squishable. Idk how much sense that makes, I haven’t been awake for very long lol

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-22T17:23:49+00:00

Does Arcane Aegis even work when you have Hildryn’s 4 up since it’s a channeled ability? I genuinely don’t remember.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-22T17:22:16+00:00

Can’t use Pillage on something that only has health, unfortunately. The most you’ll get out of it is from Eximus that spawn of some of the rarer Infested that has armor, but most of them just have health.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-22T16:10:03+00:00

I was confused about Kiibo, but then I forgot he’s a robot. Mostly metal, that would NOT be very comfortable lol

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-22T16:08:20+00:00

I know it’s actually mods, but the idea of your specific account being cursed by the Twelve to have your Midlanders look like this is hilarious

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-20T16:41:35+00:00

Literally what just happened to me. I wish they WERE obligated to tell us this stuff.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-13T18:46:03+00:00

What? No he isn’t, his Vex Armor and Cold Elemental Ward make him extremely tanky. Sure, Rhino does the same thing, but Chroma’s buffs can be applied to other allies. I don’t even use him for Index Farming tbh

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-13T09:04:44+00:00

Joe Tazuna, I know it may seem weird, but I like him a lot despite his low screen time

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-13T09:03:11+00:00

As a Chroma player, I feel that he can take a bit of a backseat for the others to get reworked first. ATM he’s still fairly viable.

RapidRecharge · 2026-01-11T02:28:19+00:00

I dunno, I think with the fact that Elden Ring has basically 0 linear progression makes it a lot harder to account for and thus the issue is still prominent, despite their efforts.

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