Play Dark Souls 2

that's a shame, DS2 is pretty much the only game where magic really shines

The most important part of the fight is to keep moving.

I don't do specialised builds until second playthrough, because it's easy to fuck up and make something missable until NG+.

I’m playing DS3 with Cinders at the moment, it’s more of an overhaul than I expected: I can only roll four times with my stamina bar at the moment even at Farron and my blue bar innately regenerates, it’s nice.

played it. liked it well enough, but still my least favorite souls. maybe one day I'll go back and play the DLCs but enemies were too hp-spongey for my tastes

The only casting school that is not outright shit in DS2 at this point is sorcery
Hexer literally spams dark orb for 80% of the game
Clerics and pyros are the worst they ever were

I would never play ds2 again but I understand

I did. It was good. But it is the one souls game I cannot be fucked to 100% (yes that should include Demon's Souls but doesn't because a kindly user gave me THAT item) because grinding for covenant items can fuck off.

Why are all the bosses garbage? Why are they even just regular enemies sometimes? Why am i destroying everything in my path with such ease???
I can see why people think this one is weird.

I am. I hate that dodge rolls are unreliable so I have to hug everyone and getting hit while being literally behind a boss, shame I couldn't clip the second one.

>clerics are the worst
Nigger did you not see the things they did to the lightning spears in DS3? It's downright criminal.

Have you bumped ADP up at all?

*loads ballista* make me

Waiting for the lighting overhaul

>just 40/40 sword and board
STR/DEX damage scaling is so fucking terrible in DS2. Every single one of my playthrough is just "stack dark/magic enchantments/buffs and go wild".

Have you been levelling ADP? You have to in this game.

Sunlight Spear is still awesome as long as you are casting it point-blank. Ranged attacks are not really as important in DS3 as they are in the other games. And if you are doing a faith build just use dorhys's gnawing until you beat the game, it kicks ass.

bro this shit came out like 10 years ago.

I've noticed that most weapons cap out before 400 AR, which is a sharp drop coming in from DS1 where a maxed out Halberd with 40/40 broke 500. In fact, there's a weird gap where most weapons are either under 400 or over 500.

Hexer gets some cool weapons like crypt blacksword/chime hammer/silverblack spear etc which work well with dark weapon which I ended up using more than dark orb honestly. Dark fog is op too. Never bothered with a chime but looks like there's a few options there.

Shieet, I thought ADP was RES like in DS1 so it was basically useless what's a good level for safe rolls?

>Nigger did you not see the things they did to the lightning spears in DS3? It's downright criminal.
DS3
>added lighting arrow, by far the most powerful lighting spell in whole series because you can hold it off which makes it metafag tiers of retarded in pvp too
>made lighting spears close combat trading tools instead of differently colored soul spears, and they can 1hko phantoms at mid levels with ease and deal utterly retarded damage in pve
>added new unique good AOE (Storm, Stake)
>gave clerics ranged bleeding attack which is unique for the entire series
>gave cleric poisecasting with virtually unlimited poise
Anyone who thinks DS3 faith is bad is a retard. It just takes a long time to come online. There's more good miracles in 3 than anywhere else in whole series.

IIRC S-rank scaling in DS2 gives you 100% STR and 60% DEX.

So with 40/40 in some sort of mythical world where you have an S-class STR/DEX weapon that's about... 50 extra damage. I wouldn't wipe my ass with 50 damage. Just stack buffs. It's horrifyingly effective, I love it.

20? I see some people take that shit right up to 40. If you can end DSI at level 100 say, you are bound to be level 200 in DSII

This is why DS2's built variety is fucking terrible. There's never a reason to make actual physical builds.

>don't get lightning arrow until just before the end of the game
Nice dude

how is making them better criminal

You can get it very early if you have big enough balls to kill Friede and Princes before even finishing Cathedral
Makes for an excellent challenge run.

>Shieet, I thought ADP was RES like in DS1 so it was basically useless
Another one rused by DS2’s obtuseness, sorry bud. At least you know now, how far were you into the game?

2's damage formulas generally don't make sense to me. I riposted some guy in light armor with a +5 Smelter Hammer and it did about as much damage (~1000HP, yes I was 2handing so there was no penalty) as he did to me with two unbuffed rapier pokes when I had close to 700 physical defense.

The fact that you're still gaining constant levels in DS2 while you're mopping up the DLC is nuts. It just never ends. You just get more and more powerful.

Deprived/No Gift is best start.

Why bother with a faith build if you have to do all that shit before it comes online

>[boosts ease of evasion]
What the hell did you think the game meant?

Get Agility stat to 100, so 26 ADP if your Attunement is 6
I have no idea what you're talking about, pure physical builds are far better in 2 than either of the other games. Infused weapons fall off pretty hard in 2 in the dlc and NG+.

Because the game doesn't end on NG for caster builds anyway, they go to NG+2 for sage ring +2 and it's a fucking joy to just stroll around with a high level cleric build in 3.

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>have to beat the game to even play the build I want
Or I could just play ds1 or 2 when my build comes online right near the start...

i don't even blame that guy for panic rolling
what a spawn

Wrong you just have to actually commit to a single stat. No reason not to since respecing is free. Once you have high enough str to powerstance Greatswords or Great Clubs you will destroy anything easily. Similarly a high dex build with dual poison weapons will poison stuff in a hit or two.

40/40 str/dex is really one of the only bad builds, the only point is that it lets you use a variety of weapons. But there is no decent "quality" weapon. For anything with C/C scaling there is another weapon with A scaling in str or dex that does equal damage with 40 in just str or dex, without having to waste points in both. And for the very few A/A weapons like sun sword, the base damage is so low that it evens out and isnt that strong in comparison to pure str or dex weapons.

Oh yes, i remember getting sunlight spear in 1 prior to NG+ and great chaos fireball in 2 before the fucking NG+3

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>Cleric build
>Running around R1ing with a longsword
Is this a joke?

Get 92 agility at least, jesus.

>30 end with those stats
>9 adp

No wonder half of Zig Forums hates ds2, it requires using more than 2 brain cells

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>wasting casts on complete trash during dried finger runs where two invaders can ass fuck you at any point

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>19 vigor
>9 adp
fucking yikes

Get the minimum str/dex to wield your weapon
Get enough ADP to reach 92/96/99 agility
Get as much vigor as you possibly can, it caps at 50

I gotta be honest, I haven't ever bothered to pump END/stamina in any of the Souls games. Base is always more than enough.
Pump health, pump VIT, pump ADP, pump either STR/DEX/magic and let the other two wither and die.