2371

Ultra Greatswords (or any of those really slow weapons) always make me sad in DS3. The butchering of poise severely affected how much fun I was able to have with them.

2372

They can still armour through most things and can’t be parried if 2 handed. I like the Stomp skill a fair bit as well, it’s fun.

Not a UGS but for a bit of late game fun Twin Princes Greatsword might be interesting. I’m going to need to experiment with a few different weapons.

2373

I’ve started pvping. Level 70 as Aldriches faithful. What’s the best area for consistent ganks? Is 125 still pvp endgame or do people just overlevel and troll an arena like Tichy?

2374

There’s a healthy amount of players at all levels, seemingly. I haven’t had trouble finding people in the arena at level 250, but within the actual world you run into a lot less people obviously.

As far as I’m aware, for PvP within the world people usually stick between 115-125. If you want to do some really silly ganking shenanigans, I would also recommend getting a decent build to (no higher than 60) and fucking around with the Wolf Blood Covenant. There’s tons of low level traffic coming through that area usually, so as long as your soul level and weapon range matches up you’ll see a lot of invasions.

2375

I heard Farron was like level 40 and +3? Sounds like a zone for Twinks and not a main character. More interested in main character world pvp

2376

At level 70 I have 20 vigor, 10 attunement, 24 endurance, 20 vitality and the rest spread between strength and Dex. 10 int and faith.

Running Refined Zweilhander +7, full Lothric Knights, Parry dagger, Carthus Flame Axe. I have favor, cloranthy, havels and llyods sword ring.

So far PvP is pretty free. I trade favourably with everything so mostly I just super armour through attacks and spam people dead. Stomp and the 1h running R1 and charge r2 are great for mixing things up.

2377

Is Prisoner’s Chains worth it? 15 levels is a lot but taking more damage doesn’t sound fun. I’m hearing a lot of mixed things on forums.

2378

Taking more damage is never worth it.

2379

Also more health, more vitality so better armour. It’s a wierd item. Is more damage necessarily more damage factoring all of that in?

2380

I think in general the stats gained do not outweight the damage coming in and there are just better items in general that give you benefits without making you take extra damage. The only item that makes you take more damage that is kinda “worth” it is the ring that gives you more invul frames on your dodge because it becomes really, really annoying to hit you in PvP. Even then it’s more of a troll item since a mistake causes you to take so much extra damage.

2381

Prisoner’s chain is almost always worth it unless you are fairly high level or can’t spare a ring slot (caster build), it gives you more effective health than you lose from the extra damage taken (which is only like 3% iirc) in addition to the increased equip load and endurance.

2382

See this is what I mean. Two completely different responses. Seems that way everywhere but I can’t find hard calcs to back up either argument

2383

Prisoner’s chain is ABSOLUTELY worth it at low level, like 60 or below. It has diminishing returns since it’s most efficient and effective use is when you don’t even have that stats to reach soft or hard caps in stats. At that early in the game all the weapons are weak too, so even with taking a bit extra damage, it doesn’t mean much if you are invading, so you get a lot of bang for your buck. Still useful in PvE too, but again, not past a certain level, and by the time you get it naturally, any physical build doesn’t need it at all

2384

I’m currently 40 endurance, strength, dex. 10 int, faith, attunement, 15 vitality and 7 luck. Rest of the points are just going into vigor, it’s about 20 currently.

Not sure what will be the best final build rings. I’m thinking Havels, Favor, Cloranthy but past that I don’t know. Wolf or Life ring might be okay, Speckled Stoneplate or Steel Protection could work.

2385

Gael can go fuck himself, still trying to kill him

Friede fight was awesome but a bit too easy in the final phase

Greatwolf felt kinda disappointing

The Spear of the Church fight was interesting, reminded me of the Old Monk from Demon’s Souls. Can’t quite figure out how do you join the covenant to do invasions yourself (do you just use the red eye stone?)

The “show your humanity” secret/puzzle was REALLY clever, well done FromSoft

2386

If you wanna do Spear invasions on the regular, you need to beat Midir. He’s the hitpoint-sponge gigantihuge dragon boss in the hidden area.

You CAN still get summoned if you leave a white or (I think) red sign, or if you’re doing regular invasions. If you don’t feel like killing Midir, then (he’s pretty tough), you can leave a white sign somewhere really out of the way where you’re less likely to be summoned.

2387

Mind you, if you wanna do regular Spear invasions you will either want an anti-gank build (heavy weapons and such) or heal spells. You get pretty strong if the player has summoned phantoms, but a good party will demolish your helpers pretty fast, and then you’re without any kind of healing.

2388

Looks like I’ll have to spend more time in the Ringed City to actually find the bastard

2389

As far as using Prisoner’s Chain then, it doesn’t sound like you need it at all at your current level and build you’re going for. Do you plan on doing only PvE or do you plan on doing invasions/PvP?

2390

I bought both Dark Souls 2 and 3 via Steam summer sale. I haven’t played 3 yet, but I couldn’t find a thread on 2 so I’ll just post this here. Personally, I like the game. I know a lot of people hate it, but I like the stuff you can do with your builds. They are much more flexible than DS1, at least to me. I haven’t played DS1 in a long time, and I know a lot of people have moved on from this game but I still see summoning/invasions here and there. My SL is 335.

I have an aggressive playstyle, which is really bad for a game like this because I die way too many times. I remember going crazy in the old Demon Souls/DS threads about the games being way too hard. People just said that’s the motto, you will die. A lot. I played 2 when it first came out, but never finished it. With that said, I came back to see that a lot has change. I remember Faith builds being pretty damn strong, now my lighting spears are so meh. I guess you can’t run around chucking lighting spears at everybody anymore.

So I switched over to a Hex build and I like it. However, it gets boring fast. Dark Orb is very good, but I dunno the range sucks actually. They nerfed some other hexes it seems too, like RS or GRS. Meh. Right now I’m rocking the Sanctum gear set, Lighting Drakekeeper Sword, and Sunset Staff all maxed out. I love the moveset, but the Fire Longsword has the poke I really, really like. Black Knight Halberd is pretty good if you can hit people with the sweet spot. It’s a weapon that takes getting used to.

Some areas in this game are cheesy asf. Frozen Outskirts are whatever that shit is can get fucked, and these goddamn cats killing me 50 fucking times. It’s bullshit. Why does the bonfire have to be so far away? Damn man. I was going to give up but I finally beat that shit. Skeleton Lords raped me for a good minute too, this is supposed to be an easy boss. Not for me. Those damn wheel skeleton thingies keep wrecking my shit. Shrine of Amana urggggh, bullshit. I actually think this place is impossible NG+++ and beyond, at least for melee. So many cheap deaths man, oh and Royal Rat Authority get fucked too. The toxic levels in this one is out of control compared to DS1.

Anyway, sorry for bumping an old thread. I really rage too much in these souls games, but they are very fun to play. I’m having so much fun in 2 that I haven’t touched 3 yet.

EDIT - oh yeah the ToD in this game is waaaaaay worse than 1