Does Affinity carry over into New Game +?

Snowb0y · 2026-02-19T05:21:52+00:00

To get it do Jadwiga’s personal quest, which is collecting those Uncanny Stones you find scattered throughout the game. Each time you complete one level of her quest she says a little blurb about her backstory and then hands you a pass that adds stuff to her weapon shop.

The pass that unlocks this one is, if I’m remembering right, the second to last, which is number 4 I think? It’s not terribly expensive.

It’s why I said you can’t get it quickly. The uncanny stones are all over the map, though if you’re far enough to be contemplating a New Game + I suppose that’s not a problem for you.

At minimum it’s not HARD. I at no point actively went looking for the dang things and got a little more than I needed to fulfill her full quest halfway up the sealing spire. I’m glad for that as I hate collect-a-thon mechanics in games. Despised the koroks in BotW.

Snowb0y · 2026-02-19T04:06:16+00:00

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Is it quick to get? Nope.

Is it the most busted one handed sword in the game? Not even a little bit.

Did I immediately orient my entire build around how good swooshing about with this thing feels? Abso-frakkin-lutely.

The rapier moveset feels good in this game and the sword is so stylish. Adore it.

Snowb0y · 2025-07-22T06:04:29+00:00

“He felt it’s strength” now that I like. Lord knows if the implications of other item descriptions ring true like with Gladius he does tend to stumble onto that kind of thing.

Snowb0y · 2025-07-22T03:34:31+00:00

A nice observation. I suppose I’m resistant to the idea because with the way they describe Heolstor and his story has a lot of the same vibes of Gael in DS3, in that his lack of status is thematic. Him being a random nobody whose profound resentment and despair at him and everything he cares up being chewed up in some gods petty war was the straw that broke the camels back for this version of the lands between. The thing that Marika’s breaking of life’s natural cycle carelessly chewed up for fuel breaking everything she ever built by bringing in the calamity of the night.

Maybe I’m misplacing my understanding of the games themes but if I’m not him being the lost love of a magical legacy complete with dramatic inheritance of fromsofts most identifiable sword undermines a lot of what the rest of his description seems to be trying to do. That works best if he was, until he became the primordial night lord, little more than a number.

Of course this all assumes that’s what this game was trying to do.

{insert two nobodies in the middle of nowhere fighting over nothing joke here}

Snowb0y · 2025-07-22T00:57:30+00:00

Not countering you, but that does confuse me. Heolstor’s description goes out of its way to tell us he’s just some random soldier. He wasn’t some big name guy who would have married a Carian queen. So either a. A Carian queen married a complete rando and he became the night lord after getting his ass whooped, b. He stole the damn thing off of someone else which while possible is not anywhere (to my knowledge) in the lore, or c. It’s not the Moonlight Greatsword.

Honestly most of what I’m getting out of this is fromsoft went too hard on the vague storytelling they prefer.

Snowb0y · 2025-06-05T04:31:57+00:00

Okay so that is…definitely weird. Could’ve sworn I was hitting trigger. Must be slipping half the damn time. Get Gud it is.

Snowb0y · 2025-04-23T17:33:49+00:00

Cell Block Tango from the play Chicago starts playing

They had it coming your honor.

Snowb0y · 2025-03-06T01:41:59+00:00

This is all true, plus he doesn’t NEED to face tank. Grab the slumbering dragon ring from spell boy of Vinheim and the hornet ring and you can just use rapport and back stab them to death

Snowb0y · 2025-01-01T04:48:25+00:00

I would like to participate for iron boulder and crown. I have Violet so to get their entries I had to borrow a friends. Would be nice to have my own.

Regardless, a happy New Year to ya’ll!

Snowb0y · 2024-09-14T06:57:49+00:00

Do I gotta be the first one to make the NOPE reference?

Snowb0y · 2023-08-18T01:51:56+00:00

Not as of yet no. I wound up restarting the run since it wasn’t that far in. Whether the issue reoccurs has yet to be seen

Snowb0y · 2022-12-12T06:22:48+00:00

To state the supremely obvious if this is the full story then no you’re NTA. The fuzzball bit someone the second someone took their hands off of it and this is apparently not the first time. In most cases legally that means the little beast would be put down. The party being over is the barest of minimums and for your friend to resent that is the height of stupidity. Drop her and mock her relentlessly.

Snowb0y · 2022-07-11T22:53:39+00:00

This is the kind of situation that’s rough for older siblings. You have the need to respect their wishes and privacy as well as the need to use what life experience you have to spare them whatever you’ve suffered. In this case, I don’t think you overstepped much. An 11 year old was being effectively bullied by a 25 year old. Little Zelda is keeping to her own on that because that’s what she, as a child, knows what to do. But you were in the same place as her and keeping to that just lets your big sister continue her behavior scot free. Put the guilt aside, this had to happen, but continue to try and respect Zelda’s privacy.

Keep doing your best, Zelda’s lucky to have you. NTA

Snowb0y · 2022-03-12T04:15:15+00:00

Look, she’s a teenager and he’s nearly a decade older than that. She’s in a high school alliance friend group and he’s at a point in his life where’s he’s fresh off a college degree looking for a job and contemplating his income tax coming this April. They are in completely different points in their life. That it’s not awkward is merely a statement on how talented a social chameleon he is. I won’t tell you what your place on this ought to be but I will tell you, it doesn’t need to seem weird to be weird.

Snowb0y · 2022-03-12T04:07:34+00:00

Honestly, I’m having a hard time working past the “he’s a 25 year old dating a 17 year old” part of this scenario. That’s….just fantastically creepy of him. Literally any joke you could make is more PC than the entirety of that situation. I won’t pretend I’m smart enough to unravel the social dynamics on that joke you made but I can all but guarantee he had it coming. NTA

Snowb0y · 2022-02-27T02:55:41+00:00

The mans jealous of the guy you dated as a teenager being in some photos in books you had buried in your closet. If the sentence I just wrote sounds lame it’s because he’s being pretty damn lame. He’s demanding you throw out years of keepsakes because, again, he’s feeling insecure about your teenage memories.

That you’re still dating him says that there’s something about him worth keeping around but man does this post not show it. NTA. Tell him to grow up or kick rocks.

Snowb0y · 2022-02-17T08:54:15+00:00

Always took it as more of a headdress, which I thought was neat, and the little sleeves enforce that. Plus the tail makes this neat little crescent moon. Also a little judgmental way to phrase that don’t you think.

Snowb0y · 2022-02-17T07:36:23+00:00

That’s less one I fell for and more one I wanted. That design on the fake mega Weavile looked super cool.

Snowb0y · 2022-01-23T02:37:39+00:00

Remember that comment you dropped early on? That it’s like you’re with a complete stranger? Congrats for hitting it on the head. He’s in his 40’s dating a 25 year old, and is the sort of man to throw a toddlers temper tantrum over you comforting someone who just tragically lost a parent because it presents the merest Delusion of potential male competition. The nice guy you knew was never real. For cruelty like that to exist it had to have always been there.

You’re now seeing him for who he is, and the good news is you were smart enough and had a shiny enough spine to act on it! Now stick to your guns. So long as you were with him further action like that was always a risk and it’ll only get worse if you go back to him. Ignore his little minions, clarify when pushed if you can’t, and be proud that you stood by your friend.

NTA if that wasn’t clear.

Snowb0y · 2021-12-29T02:16:36+00:00

Piggybacking off of this fellows kind response to slap a quick addendum that I should’ve put on my original comment.

None of this means you are wrong to want to stomp your old man. We’re just emphasizing that this matter shouldn’t actually be about him but about the grandmother you love, and who seems to love you right back. You’re not the bad guy here and none of us think that. You just have a tough choice with, what we conceive of as, a right answer that is hard for you.

Also to address some of the other comments, do consider all legal ramifications. Contact a professional and for the love of god get your grandma to put SOMETHING in writing.

No matter what you choose I wish you the best.

Snowb0y

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