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On August 26 2012 08:51 malaan wrote:Show nested quote +On August 26 2012 08:44 Gulf wrote:On August 26 2012 08:32 malaan wrote:
playing for 7 hours so far, just killed the gaping dragon in the sewer and a huge rat.
Decending a huge ladder into what looks like a swamp. Keep getting poisonned, where can I find antidote from? there are no merchants anywhere near my location... surely I don't have to walk all the way back to fire shrine? for poison sped half an hour grinding in darkroot garden and you will get enough purple moss to deal with poison for a long time. Hm, I just spent 15 minutes doing this and I noticed that they drop lots of purple moss but for some reason, it does not heal (Toxin( which is what I keep getting poisonned with. is there a different kind of moss to get to deal with Toxin ? edit - I just got one purple moss with white flowers on it that cures toxin buildup. Jeez, one moss in 25 mins grinding... this could take a while.
The undead merchant at the end of the long tunnel going to Undead Burg (near capra demon) sells the moss for curing toxin and poison. They arent cheap though (4k souls iirc) but it saves grinding coz the toxin curing ones dont drop super often
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On August 26 2012 08:48 FliedLice wrote:
core2 duo E6850
2gig ram
geforce 9600GT
would that be enough to run the game? skyrim and d3 run pretty ok but since the port seems to be rather meh-ish i'm not too sure it will be enough
This is the official recommended cfg :
OS: Windows XP , Windows Vista, Windows 7, or newer
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 GHz+ or AMD Phenom II X2 545 3.0 GHz+
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Disk Space: 8GB
Video Card: GeForce 9800 GTX+ or ATI Radeon HD 4870+
DirectX®: 9.0c
Sound: Direct Sound Compatible
Additional: Online play requires software installation of and log-in to Games For Windows - LIVE
I myself am playing with a fairly lowspec laptop (so it is even more lowspec) with
i3 330M, HD 5650, 8GB .
The game is running fine. From time to time i have framerate dropping but still playable.
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On August 26 2012 16:13 Infernal_dream wrote:Show nested quote +On August 26 2012 16:12 Sigrun wrote:On August 26 2012 08:51 malaan wrote:On August 26 2012 08:44 Gulf wrote:On August 26 2012 08:32 malaan wrote:
playing for 7 hours so far, just killed the gaping dragon in the sewer and a huge rat.
Decending a huge ladder into what looks like a swamp. Keep getting poisonned, where can I find antidote from? there are no merchants anywhere near my location... surely I don't have to walk all the way back to fire shrine? for poison sped half an hour grinding in darkroot garden and you will get enough purple moss to deal with poison for a long time. Hm, I just spent 15 minutes doing this and I noticed that they drop lots of purple moss but for some reason, it does not heal (Toxin( which is what I keep getting poisonned with. is there a different kind of moss to get to deal with Toxin ? edit - I just got one purple moss with white flowers on it that cures toxin buildup. Jeez, one moss in 25 mins grinding... this could take a while. If you went through the sewers you should have found a Spider Shield... I haven't played in a while but I think that either prevents or slows the build-up of Toxic. Very useful when going through Blighttown to block those stupid dart blowers. It slows it by like 50% or 65% if I remember correctly. Edit: OP should also be updated with link to the HD textures.
Definately get that shield. It also helps to block the poison dart blowing mobs in blighttown. Must have item in Blighttown. And also get the rusted iron ring. Believe me, you will praise my name for that advice.
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On August 26 2012 17:22 Skilledblob wrote:Show nested quote +On August 26 2012 13:30 Xanbatou wrote:
So I finally got a controller and downloaded that resolution fix mod and I'm having an absolute blast with this game now. However, I'm starting to get the feeling that you aren't really meant to play the game as a pure spellcaster. Sometimes enemies just get too close and its hard to use magic then. Sometimes it seems easier to just use the ol' sword and board. I also really like ripostes and backstabs :3. I'd say magic is best kept for bosses and bigger mobs. For the trash mobs you should use your weapons. I got a question so I got Astoras Sword and it says it does 80 psysical and 80 magic damage. Maybe the mobs are just super resistant but this sword does hardly 40-50 damage on the trash mobs in the blighttown area 
Some weapons require you need a minimum stat in two places. I assume you have the required strength but what about magic/faith (can't remember if Astoras is a faith sword)?
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On August 26 2012 19:24 ToT)OjKa( wrote:Show nested quote +On August 26 2012 17:22 Skilledblob wrote:On August 26 2012 13:30 Xanbatou wrote:
So I finally got a controller and downloaded that resolution fix mod and I'm having an absolute blast with this game now. However, I'm starting to get the feeling that you aren't really meant to play the game as a pure spellcaster. Sometimes enemies just get too close and its hard to use magic then. Sometimes it seems easier to just use the ol' sword and board. I also really like ripostes and backstabs :3. I'd say magic is best kept for bosses and bigger mobs. For the trash mobs you should use your weapons. I got a question so I got Astoras Sword and it says it does 80 psysical and 80 magic damage. Maybe the mobs are just super resistant but this sword does hardly 40-50 damage on the trash mobs in the blighttown area Some weapons require you need a minimum stat in two places. I assume you have the required strength but what about magic/faith (can't remember if Astoras is a faith sword)?
Making sure you have the minimum stats is important. Also keep in mind that different enemies have different weaknesses and resists, so depending on what you're fighting, magic damage may fare better or worse than you'd expect.
Also, from what I read elsewhere (I forgot where, so feel free to correct me if this is wrong), resistances work as a flat reduction, not a percentage. That means that if your sword does 80 physical and 80 magic damage, and you hit an enemy with 50 to all resists, you'll do 30 physical and 30 magic. If you had a sword with just 160 physical, though, you'd do 110 damage. Having multiple damage types means your damage gets hit twice by enemy resists. If you're fighting an enemy that's weak to a certain element, or if the weapon does more damage than anything else you have, or you like the moveset -- then yeah, of course it's fine. Don't neglect pure physical weapons, though -- find something with a moveset you like and start upgrading. Some of the "cooler" weapons that you'd think would be more powerful (like Astora's Sword) aren't always that great in practice, so you should experiment with a variety of weapons.
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Can someone explain when's a good time to use parry/riposte? I tried to use it lots but the enemies combo attacks often get me away. Am I timing it wrong of should you just not parry combos? Also sometimes I get the parry and get the slow motion/sound but I just do a weak attack instead of a critical.
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On August 26 2012 22:44 AndyJay wrote:
Can someone explain when's a good time to use parry/riposte? I tried to use it lots but the enemies combo attacks often get me away. Am I timing it wrong of should you just not parry combos? Also sometimes I get the parry and get the slow motion/sound but I just do a weak attack instead of a critical.
Almost never. Parrying is extremely difficult unless you've practiced it a lot, and even then you risk getting hurt easily. If you almost hit it but not quite, you do take reduced damage, but it's not enough and even that is difficult to get. It sounds like you were too far away from the enemy, close enough to parrry but not to riposte, which can definitely happen. Backstabs are what you should be going for more than parry/riposte. Backstabs are far easier to hit. You are also invulnerable for almost the entire backstab animation, so don't be afraid to use it with multiple enemies around, they won't hit you.
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On August 26 2012 13:30 Xanbatou wrote:
So I finally got a controller and downloaded that resolution fix mod and I'm having an absolute blast with this game now. However, I'm starting to get the feeling that you aren't really meant to play the game as a pure spellcaster. Sometimes enemies just get too close and its hard to use magic then. Sometimes it seems easier to just use the ol' sword and board. I also really like ripostes and backstabs :3.
Yeah, no char can be pure mage. However, you will be able to upgrade your weapons to scale off of int or faith, so you can have really strong weapons even as a mage with no strength dex.
For those who don't meet minimum Str requirements, 2 handing your weapon gives you +50% str with Y(/\), which may make it usuable. Other stats you have to meet or the weapon does no damage and stuns you whenever you swing and hit something.
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On August 26 2012 16:13 Infernal_dream wrote:Show nested quote +On August 26 2012 16:12 Sigrun wrote:On August 26 2012 08:51 malaan wrote:On August 26 2012 08:44 Gulf wrote:On August 26 2012 08:32 malaan wrote:
playing for 7 hours so far, just killed the gaping dragon in the sewer and a huge rat.
Decending a huge ladder into what looks like a swamp. Keep getting poisonned, where can I find antidote from? there are no merchants anywhere near my location... surely I don't have to walk all the way back to fire shrine? for poison sped half an hour grinding in darkroot garden and you will get enough purple moss to deal with poison for a long time. Hm, I just spent 15 minutes doing this and I noticed that they drop lots of purple moss but for some reason, it does not heal (Toxin( which is what I keep getting poisonned with. is there a different kind of moss to get to deal with Toxin ? edit - I just got one purple moss with white flowers on it that cures toxin buildup. Jeez, one moss in 25 mins grinding... this could take a while. If you went through the sewers you should have found a Spider Shield... I haven't played in a while but I think that either prevents or slows the build-up of Toxic. Very useful when going through Blighttown to block those stupid dart blowers. It slows it by like 50% or 65% if I remember correctly. Edit: OP should also be updated with link to the HD textures.
Which are you guys using? I dl'd this dsfix here and it just turned my game into bright white gibberish.
PS: My error on startup got fixed by restarting windows. ggnore.
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Is there any way to turn off invasions? Kinda sucky mechanic to just have someone join your game that you couldn't kill if they afk'd for 5 minutes while every hit from them is almost a 1 shot...
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On August 26 2012 22:31 dormer wrote:Show nested quote +On August 26 2012 19:24 ToT)OjKa( wrote:On August 26 2012 17:22 Skilledblob wrote:On August 26 2012 13:30 Xanbatou wrote:
So I finally got a controller and downloaded that resolution fix mod and I'm having an absolute blast with this game now. However, I'm starting to get the feeling that you aren't really meant to play the game as a pure spellcaster. Sometimes enemies just get too close and its hard to use magic then. Sometimes it seems easier to just use the ol' sword and board. I also really like ripostes and backstabs :3. I'd say magic is best kept for bosses and bigger mobs. For the trash mobs you should use your weapons. I got a question so I got Astoras Sword and it says it does 80 psysical and 80 magic damage. Maybe the mobs are just super resistant but this sword does hardly 40-50 damage on the trash mobs in the blighttown area Some weapons require you need a minimum stat in two places. I assume you have the required strength but what about magic/faith (can't remember if Astoras is a faith sword)? Making sure you have the minimum stats is important. Also keep in mind that different enemies have different weaknesses and resists, so depending on what you're fighting, magic damage may fare better or worse than you'd expect. Also, from what I read elsewhere (I forgot where, so feel free to correct me if this is wrong), resistances work as a flat reduction, not a percentage. That means that if your sword does 80 physical and 80 magic damage, and you hit an enemy with 50 to all resists, you'll do 30 physical and 30 magic. If you had a sword with just 160 physical, though, you'd do 110 damage. Having multiple damage types means your damage gets hit twice by enemy resists. If you're fighting an enemy that's weak to a certain element, or if the weapon does more damage than anything else you have, or you like the moveset -- then yeah, of course it's fine. Don't neglect pure physical weapons, though -- find something with a moveset you like and start upgrading. Some of the "cooler" weapons that you'd think would be more powerful (like Astora's Sword) aren't always that great in practice, so you should experiment with a variety of weapons.
Moveset is def the most important thing about weapons. I think Astora's is a holy sword though (skeletons stay dead even with necromancer alive), which makes early catacomb runs easier, but getting rid of the ones in your way and running off to kill the necromancer before they revive/follow you is often the better choice. At least Astoras's also upgrades with twinkling titanite so it's far easier to max it over regular weapons.
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On August 26 2012 23:02 Iyerbeth wrote:
Is there any way to turn off invasions? Kinda sucky mechanic to just have someone join your game that you couldn't kill if they afk'd for 5 minutes while every hit from them is almost a 1 shot...
Don't be human. You can only be invaded if you reverse hollowing at a bonfire. There isn't much point to doing so unless you want to be invaded, or kindle bonfires.
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On August 26 2012 23:05 Fyrewolf wrote:Show nested quote +On August 26 2012 23:02 Iyerbeth wrote:
Is there any way to turn off invasions? Kinda sucky mechanic to just have someone join your game that you couldn't kill if they afk'd for 5 minutes while every hit from them is almost a 1 shot... Don't be human. You can only be invaded if you reverse hollowing at a bonfire. There isn't much point to doing so unless you want to be invaded, or kindle bonfires.
Oh ok, thank you! 
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On August 25 2012 17:40 anatase wrote:Show nested quote +On August 25 2012 07:13 rebuffering wrote:
So i beat the Taurus demon, or w/e his name is, and i dont know what do now. I keep moving forward, to the bridge, which i skip completely, for obvious reasons. But then theres still like bosses everywhere, am i supposed to be soul grinding for a bit? or going back to the start of the level, and going down instead of up to the castle? just not sure what to do here, theres got to be a better way than to just try and kill these hard as fuck bosses which are one right after the other. Don't forget to hit the dragon's tail for the Drake Sword, 200 att (need 16 dex/16 str to handle it). You can hit the dragon's tail being under the bridge with an arc, a few arrows do the trick and it is totally worth it.
God, don't tell people to do that, it's supposed to be a secret which you shouldn't know about your first run through the game, and it makes the whole start of the game piss-easy and takes away from the joy of the wealth of weapons etc.
What you want to be doing is instead of getting an OP sword which the devs really shouldn't have put there, is go past the bridge, kill the boar miniboss and move on. You're going in the right direction, you will soon get to the church with the real next boss.
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On August 26 2012 23:10 Tobberoth wrote:Show nested quote +On August 25 2012 17:40 anatase wrote:On August 25 2012 07:13 rebuffering wrote:
So i beat the Taurus demon, or w/e his name is, and i dont know what do now. I keep moving forward, to the bridge, which i skip completely, for obvious reasons. But then theres still like bosses everywhere, am i supposed to be soul grinding for a bit? or going back to the start of the level, and going down instead of up to the castle? just not sure what to do here, theres got to be a better way than to just try and kill these hard as fuck bosses which are one right after the other. Don't forget to hit the dragon's tail for the Drake Sword, 200 att (need 16 dex/16 str to handle it). You can hit the dragon's tail being under the bridge with an arc, a few arrows do the trick and it is totally worth it. God, don't tell people to do that, it's supposed to be a secret which you shouldn't know about your first run through the game, and it makes the whole start of the game piss-easy and takes away from the joy of the wealth of weapons etc. What you want to be doing is instead of getting an OP sword which the devs really shouldn't have put there, is go past the bridge, kill the boar miniboss and move on. You're going in the right direction, you will soon get to the church with the real next boss.
Well then the devs shouldn't have put a black knight that can drop the black knight sword before you even get the drake sword  It's a way better weapon, even if it's not as ridiculous as the black knight greataxe.
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^- put stuff like that in spoilers please, even if the original poster forgot to. I missed his post and didn't want to know about it. =/
Edit: Meant the part + Show Spoiler + two posts above.
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I'm finding this game pretty hard to play without a controller. The keybindings are retarded, and it doesn't help that the in-game tips show Xbox 360 buttons instead of keyboard keys.
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On August 26 2012 22:44 AndyJay wrote:
Can someone explain when's a good time to use parry/riposte? I tried to use it lots but the enemies combo attacks often get me away. Am I timing it wrong of should you just not parry combos? Also sometimes I get the parry and get the slow motion/sound but I just do a weak attack instead of a critical.
Parrying can be quite hard to do but you must know that different weapons/shield can give you a higher parry chance frame. Things you'd expect to parry like a buckler or daggers will make it easier to parry (the parrying dagger is best) and usually you should hit the riposte. I think you either R1 too quick or too slow but you'll get the hang of it eventually.
The best way to practice parry is to find weaker monsters that won't fuck you up when you make errors and just gut them. Parrying mobs can be pretty dangerous but it can pay off a ton versus harder opponents like the knights. I think a riposte window might also apply so think riposte weapons.
It's easier to perform in PvP as people use weapons and you'll gradually learn their move sets. With the right build you can literally just one shot most people and it looks nice and painful baby.
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Blighttown is HARD AS SHIT.
I have never been so angry at a videogame. I got right to the bonfire, it was right there, under the bridge, in the swamp, after more than 8 hours trying to get there and what happens.... some bitch ass mosquito swoops out of nowhere and sucks my last HP. You died.
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What I hate about this game is that the difficulty itself doesnt come from the enemies, but the damn environment and the mechanics. If you miss one simple block, or if you attack one too many times and leave yourself open for one second, a simple grunt enemy can kill you. It requires _constant_ constant concentration which makes it so draining.
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