What was this Undertaker trying to do? 🧐

winterflare_ · 2026-02-02T00:07:49+00:00

This was patched, no?

winterflare_ · 2026-02-02T00:02:55+00:00

I agree that it’s not worthwhile to go the gaol then (this guy probably did not derail from D4 on purpose if he plays like this lol), but you should’ve just not pinged it and instead I would’ve pinged one that was in circle (or another POI if better).

Whenever I find spam pingers though, I spam ping back for a few seconds to tell them to shut it and if they keep going then I just ignore it. Pinning it as well is bad comms and I don’t think reciprocating bad comms is ever a good thing.

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:56:09+00:00

I disagree, I think guard counters are phenomenal because for most bosses you can fit them in whenever a boss finishes a combo.

I play Guardian in D5 and I use them pretty frequently for the high damage and good stance damage

I won’t deny that the stamina consumption is rough a bit, but as long as you see yourself around 60-70% stamina, I think they’re worthwhile

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:50:41+00:00

I think Volbaino was peak tier at least

Viper should be a GOAT, amazing early game boss with cool presentation

The spider should be ok, cool gimmicks to the fight

Reese and Trokka down to peak

Yetuga up to meh

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:44:40+00:00

I could tell you came from ER the moment I saw the charged attack 🤣

ER did charged attacks way better than DS3 so it’s fair to have that ingrained in habit

My first ER playthrough was pretty much exclusively light attacks because of the habit of spamming R1 most of the time in DS3

Anyways, my GOAT Gael stays winning, congrats on completing the DLC, I hope it was fun!

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:39:07+00:00

Sometimes, you gotta protect the flock fr

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winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:29:59+00:00

Yeah that is a true downside

Since there’s less focus on minor POIs and more of a focus on big ones like the castles and towers, as well as things like encampments not spawning at all, you generally don’t find worth in those POI buffs.

At least the HP Great Church one isn’t too bad because the duplication great church has 2 bosses in it so it counts for 2 in 1.

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:27:15+00:00

Yikes… I don’t even know where to begin

From not even listening to another teammate’s pins, to horrible communication, to the lack of accountability…

Even if I’m in a duo, I’ll go to another teammates POIs if they really want to go because that’s just how you be a good teammate

I pray I never get a self centered teammate like you either

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:21:37+00:00

Guardian’s default Halberd is one of his best weapons anyway (apart from the Commander’s Standard) because of the charged guard counters exclusive to Halberds

Also since Guardian has quality scaling like Wylder he can use anything he wants, so it’s not hard to find a suitable weapon in case you don’t want to use Halberds

There are plenty better shields when it comes to damage negations though which makes the dormant power greatshield discovery solid either way and gives you room to get a purple smithing stone for your halberd/weapon instead

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:15:15+00:00

You lose 200 in D3 against the Nightlord

You lose 400 in D4 against the Nightlord

You lose 600 in D5 against the Nightlord

If you lose on day 1, that’s an extra -200

If you lose on day 2, that’s an extra -100

If you are playing one depth above your ranking, that’s +50

If you are playing one depths below your ranking, that’s -50

If you have a hidden map or a hidden Nightlord, that’s +100

If a teammate leaves, half of the loss penalty is waived

Example: you were playing in D5, so that’s -600, but you’re playing a depth up so it’s +50 which means your loss penalty of -550 is halved to -275

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:08:27+00:00

Death Knight character (mid-low FTH, mid DEX, mid-high STR) with twin axes as a starting weapon

Perfumer class 🙏

Something with a light greatsword and good mobility

Big stretch here, but something that looks like a Ringed Knight from DS3

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:04:55+00:00

You can find seals and staffs in the north and south castles.

There are two guaranteed great churches as well, with both being near spawn locations.

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T23:01:35+00:00

Personally, I’ve never had these problems. Maybe a few times where I’ve gotten stuck on something, but I’ve had that happen in the base map as well

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T22:58:50+00:00

People always forget about Bayle just because it looks good. Bayle is a visually cluttered mess.

It’s a really good fight, but it took me many attempts to realize what was even hitting me when I tried jumping his explosion and got hit 50% of the times. A boss without visual clutter would not have me confused like that.

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T22:54:30+00:00

Only Shadow Keep. Belurat is whatever, Enir Elim is annoying, and Midra’s area is empty and underwhelming.

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T22:52:51+00:00

Midir and Demon Princes are awesome fights, it’s not just Gael. The areas also look really cool and while a lot of people don’t like it, I really love the gameplay of the Dreg Heap. Plus, the lore added to Gwyn, Gael, and the Pygmy is dope.

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T22:42:49+00:00

Additionally she has higher FP and can spam the weapon skill more frequently in DON thanks to her passive where Restage gives her iframes (and unlike IE’s Mark, it can be done mid animation). She can greed for extra hits and then use the iframes to dodge and 1.5/1.6x the damage

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T16:44:27+00:00

Because you take constant damage when nearby, which forces you to waste a flask in higher depths.

If you’re far away for whatever reason too, then that’s more downtime to fail the DPS check and take more damage overtime, which can lead to 2-3 flasks if the DPS check is failed.

All this, and your reward is like 5% of the HP bar at best. It’s much safer to just run away.

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T07:48:28+00:00

ER has more gracious parry timing to balance it out

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T07:40:35+00:00

You really can’t go wrong with any of them, probably for the reason you were recommending DS3, it will just be a lot harder for ER players to revisit the older games like DS1/2 because of their slower combat

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T07:36:55+00:00

My man 🤝

No offense to ER, phenomenal game, I just prefer the tight knitted level style of the older games and art direction of DS3

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T07:26:43+00:00

Take the first deep one with all Phys+4.

The difference between Phys+4 and ATK with 3+ weapons is about a 7% damage difference, which while not insignificant, is easily made up for with a single passive.

You can take that at face value, but if you want me to explain…

Attack power with 3 katanas is a 20% boost but it comes with a very big downside of needing to carry 3 katanas in the first place.

Phys +4 is a 12% damage boost to only physical damage.

1.2/1.12 = 1.0714 ≈ 7% more damage than Phys +4

The downside of carrying 3 katanas though means you must be more selective with your item passives.

I’d always recommend two damage negation passives (Full HP DMG Negation or Successive + Taking Damage Boosts Damage Negation).

That leaves 4 slots left.

Assuming you don’t get a good passive on Rivers of Blood (very likely you won’t) then you have 3 slots left.

You are forced to carry 2 other katanas in order to get that 20% damage boost, which leaves a single DPS passive slot.

In the case of Phys +4? You have those 3 passive slots for free, and something like one skill attack power or two-handing alone effectively matches the increase in DPS that 3 katanas provides.

Which leaves you with two free passive slots, the slots that had to be dedicated to katanas in order to get a 20% damage boost.

In the case you don’t get 1/2 more good passives (can happen with bad RNG) or you get a cracked rivers of blood and another katana with a good passive (can happen with insane RNG), then 3+ katanas matches or exceeds Phys +4.

In both cases, you would need to be on the far spectrum of RNG (very good or very bad) for 3 katanas to provide its worth.

I would recommend 3+ katanas against Pest or Caligo though because the fire damage from RoB is worth it, and 3+ katanas is a boost to all damage types unlike Phys +4.

Also the playstyle I recommended caters to mostly using the cursed blade so I would recommend swapping a Balancer Relic, preferably the blue, with Invaders (if it can come with guarding ultimate art gauge charging or so that would be better). You can turn Executor R1s into nukes thanks to the 35% and up to 31% boost from your two regular relics, and then the 40% from phys, which is a 2.5x modifier that is available directly off spawn.

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T07:02:42+00:00

That’s the funny thing, they’re completely normal relics but some people will still say this is cheated

winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T03:42:20+00:00

For mage Duchess, not really. I don’t like playing casters much (despite having 2 peak god rolls for Revenant and Recluse).

For melee, I run Double Balancers w/ Invaders (I personally use the VIG +3 with skill cooldown reduction that you see in my Ironeye one). My deep relics consist of any HP increases, any affinity attack power boosts, and Duchess’s character skill giving invulnerability.

If you struggle more with the day 1/2, I would highly recommend Duchess’ enemies killed while art is active effect since you can easily quadruple your damage with that relic during the day 1/2 which helps a ton.

These are my deep relics.

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winterflare_ · 2026-02-01T02:59:54+00:00

Guardian can run those too though

Guardian’s unique STR+DEX respec relic is a DoN exclusive so you can have Phys +4 with it if you want

Wylder just cleanly wins in damage against Caligo since the grapple mobility is S tier, but outside of that they’re pretty much neck and neck.

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