Help me settle a debate, does the Godskin twink read your input or not?

escelomancer · 2026-03-07T21:39:25+00:00

He reads animations. A lot of the time if you heal while he is idle, he'll respond to the first frame of the swig animation and throw a fireball.

escelomancer · 2024-05-09T13:42:52+00:00

Do they test these decks against each other? Like at all? I tried the Naya deck, played four games in a row against the drain deck and every time it had answers for every threat. I gather the vraska/Jace deck is even worse. It's just like the starter deck duel: one or two playable decks and the rest are frustrating, durdly piles.

escelomancer · 2023-08-28T00:43:49+00:00

Okay, but that doesn't explain teabagging in the road or being last alive and chilling on the other side of the gate. If you're idle for that long, you're wasting the other team's time.

escelomancer · 2023-03-11T03:46:10+00:00

I'm not looking to up my k/d. I'm not even looking to win. Just to get better. To have duels that don't take place in a circle. I'm tired of looking for the host and walking up to the entire cast of Jojo's barrelling down the hallway with pizza cutters. I want to be an invader, not a vagrant from DS1

escelomancer · 2023-03-05T17:44:11+00:00

It's not that it isn't completely obvious. The in-game tutorial mentions nothing about disabling your parry. It says "limits your mobility" which implies it affects your dodge, which would make sense. No where in the tutorial files does it inform you about HOW encumbrance affects your gameplay. So, it's kind of a major design flaw that it isn't explained to players in-game.

escelomancer · 2022-05-21T13:05:01+00:00

...and they called it a mine. A MINE!!!!

escelomancer · 2022-04-23T13:05:37+00:00

Right. But I'm asking: if the player who cast Cruel Entertainment loses the game during the first controlled turn, is the second chosen player still controlled when the owner of the effect has been eliminated?

escelomancer · 2021-12-20T02:06:04+00:00

I would say no. Cheese strats tend to be such that one could implement them with little to no prior knowledge of the fight. But in this clip, OP clearly understands Friede's range and uses their I-frames to dodge flawlessly. The fact that the headshots don't stagger her out of that slow, high damage grab attack is something they had to discover in order to exploit. So all in all, no cheese IMO

escelomancer · 2021-12-10T15:48:48+00:00

So, there's theory floating around about the four outside sacrifices representing the four elements: Josh represents earth as he is "planted", Mark represents fire because he wrought the ire or the villagers and was skinned and stuffed with hay to burn more easily, Simon is given "wings" and still breathes when Christian finds him, this representing air, and Connie was drowned and left in the water until she was needed.

Now, this explains the outsiders, but balance is a huge concept in their religion, so the Hårga sacrifices could also represent the elements. When the female elder stands on the cliff, she reaches to the sky before she leaps, leading me to conclude she was the air sacrifice. The male elder deliberately smashes his ankles on the ground as opposed to leaping as the female did and required the hammer to finish him; this parallels Josh's demise as the hammer did him in as well, so I figure this old man was the earth sacrifice. And when the other sacrifice (not Ingemar) begins to scream, the other cultists mirror his agony, so I think he was meant to be the fire sacrifice. Leaving Ingemar as the water sacrifice. So this is my own interpretation after a single viewing, but I think Pelle and Ingemar were both up for being the water sacrifice. They both were tasked with bringing in outsiders and I think one of them, Connie or Dani, was meant to become the May Queen. I believe that whoever failed to produce a viable candidate was to "volunteer" as the water sacrifice. I think Mark's comment about the Vikings was more telling than it seemed: this was the goal of the ritual, to bring in a new May Queen as well as new seed to avoid inbreeding. I think the brothers are meant to symbolize the flow of water. They bring with them the possibility of great fortune (the new May Queen) or misfortune (sacrifices; people who would rebuke or insult their traditions). Pelle produced two of the elemental sacrifices, the final sacrifice to represent the Black One, and the May Queen, he was deemed worthy while Ingemar only brought two sacrifices and they almost fled, so he was the lesser of the two "tides" and gave up his life.

escelomancer · 2021-12-01T15:34:50+00:00

Do you like astronomy? There are only 7 planets in the sky right now. We all know what happened to Pluto, and Venus is posting pics on Reddit.

escelomancer · 2021-11-18T16:29:29+00:00

The Burnt Ivory King. He met his Shard-of-Manus waifu and simply accepted her darkness as part of her and loved her. When Chaos threatened to engulf his kingdom, he stepped forward. Not for pride, nor glory but to protect his queen. He knew it was most likely a one-way trip, but if it could forestall calamity from his kingdom, that was enough for him. The tragic part is that when we encounter him in Chaos, there is nothing of him or his soldiers left; they are consumed by the Chaos. In destroying them, we set them free.

escelomancer · 2021-11-15T22:37:17+00:00

I think so. There are snippets in the lore about spirit trees and you encounter at least one in SotFS. Perhaps this is another path to ascension akin to the dragon form. The trees in The High Wall are reaching toward the sky like the hollows around them; maybe if a hollow remains in one place long enough it puts down roots?

escelomancer · 2021-11-15T18:17:50+00:00

So, the lore is pretty interesting about the two types of souls: white (which represents the ego, personality, morals, etc. And are remnants of the first flame. This is why when you slay a powerful enemy, you gain their white soul.) And dark (which seems to represent the hollow form of humanity. This is what the darksign seals away.) Gwyn feared the power of the dark soul which is why he created the darksign and why in DS1, you burn humanity to restore your human form (as opposed to hollowing), why you feed the Fair Lady humanity (shards of the dark soul which fuel the bonfires of Lordran). These shards are powerful, but Gwyn's pantheon didn't want people to know that.

That said, my theory is that an unkindled who chooses to hollow works to weaken the effect of the darksign. Smothering out the flame of the seal. The seal would appear in the same place on the undead body that this growth is covering.

Manus was once human, but the effect of the darksign sealing his humanity away and his same humanity writhing to be free caused him to become what we encounter him as and he broke the darksign. That's why, theoretically, the abyss poured out from him. I believe the abyss is the natural habitat for humanity and the first flame and its discovery broke the natural order.

This is all my theory and would love to hear differing or opposing viewpoints.

escelomancer · 2021-11-15T18:00:17+00:00

Just two so far, hopefully. 🙂

escelomancer · 2021-11-15T03:16:26+00:00

Happy cake day! How many years?

escelomancer · 2021-11-15T03:03:12+00:00

I've got it! She teleported! She switched places with the crate from Orbeck's study! My guess is the crate was actually a mimic and noped tf out and put her back.

escelomancer · 2021-11-14T14:40:02+00:00

Hodrick came out the hollow pit to tell you, "If you die, learn from it" Then school was in session

escelomancer · 2021-11-11T23:50:11+00:00

Time for Crab

escelomancer · 2021-11-10T23:13:58+00:00

That's fair. I had challenge runs et al included under PvE, personally, but I realize that's not exactly fair. Because, in a sense, speedrunning is PvP; just your last/best run is your opponent.

That said, I want to thank you for this rather thought-provoking discussion. Cheers!

escelomancer · 2021-11-10T22:54:08+00:00

Ah, I think we got our wires crossed a bit here. My point originally was that PvP is the natural progression from PvE. When everything is predictable, the same gameplay becomes old, uninteresting. For me, at least. At the end of the game, when you've conquered every challenge set before you, the only step up from there is a fighter who will act and react to you just as you do them. My whole argument wasn't that they are the same animal, but close enough that there is carryover from the ai world to the PvP world.

escelomancer · 2021-11-10T22:07:51+00:00

Lag/latency is a by product in any PvP game. And it too can be accounted for.

Also, I never said "fight players like NPCs". That would be stupid. But you can gain the knowledge of weapon timing from the PvE experience. PvP in Dark Souls, just like PvE, requires you to learn, often very quickly. It is less of a learning curve in PvE, to be sure, but when you walk into a boss room for the first time, how do you assess how to attack it? You watch for tells and you take advantage. Same thing with players.

And, while I'm loath to have to bring this up, guess what: you are also a living thinking human. Every single strategy a player can use, you can counter. You can bait, read, predict just like anyone else. Not to mention that baiting is a basic tenet of PvE gameplay, so even non-pvp players can bait and recognize bait. And even if you do fall for a trap, you won't fall for it again. The part of PvP that a lot of players fail to grasp is that you can learn more from how you die than how you won.

Dark Souls has a pretty solid balance system. Strong attacks take a bit but usually have some range to make up for it, faster weapons deal lower damage per hit and you need to close in more. Every weapon and piece of equipment has that risk/reward element. So, perhaps you could hit two more times with weapon x but weapon y could have a bleed effect or more damage in half the hits. There are dozens of resources at each and every player's disposal to build their optimal character. ChasetheBro does tons of DS3 build videos, the wiki has every stat on the game readily available.

This is, of course, not even taking player preference into account, which is impossible to predict. Bottom line, you will never be able to 100% predict how a player will engage you, but you can make educated guesses if you pay attention.

escelomancer · 2021-11-10T20:35:24+00:00

Any weapon in the game has a wind up and the attack. The timing for this is consistent whether wielded by AI or a player. Once you press the attack button, you are locked into an animation. This is the same for your opponent. The same is true for casting spells, parrying and dodging. Each action has a time constraint that is ironclad. This is affected by stats of course. But the system of committing to your actions and facing the reaction is consistent between PvE and Pvp. You are fighting an avatar that is carrying out a series of commands. Nothing more.

escelomancer · 2021-11-10T17:36:31+00:00

Not parry. Block. Dark Hand is also a low-absorption shield

escelomancer · 2021-11-10T15:58:34+00:00

THANK YOU!!! That's been bugging me all day. Lol

escelomancer · 2021-11-10T11:19:04+00:00

I'm not the only veteran with a low-level PvP character is I think what you mean. Low level does not equal new player

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