AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I made a huge mistake.
i had Yoel give me 5 Dark Sigils because 'Why not? Free levels.' The Fire Keeper can heal them afterwards.

I go to Fire Keeper. "Requires 64578 Souls."

Heck.

Now I'm farming Souls on that darkwraith under Lothric Tower because with Shield of Want and Silver Ring I get 3300 Souls per kill. Plus it only takes 3 Great Heavy Soul Arrows to off him. And the first shot is a free hit.

36 minutes later.
Farmed up 64k Souls and now I'm not hollowed anymore. Amusingly didn't get one Dark Sword drop through all of that. :p

Look at this face.


By design I had his right eye as completely white as possible so it looks like he only has use of one eye.
Then I covered it with hair.
"GENIUS!"

Edit: I just realised just how upset he looks.
I mean if I was in a world where everything wanted to kill me I'd be pretty sad too.

Edit: Freaking dammit.
I messed up again. Big NPC story spoiler.
I told Anri where Horace was without killing him.
After Anri didn't show up at Church of Yorshka I went back to where Horace was.

Anri lying dead on the floor and Horace still standing there.
I should've killed him dammit.

Edit:
Getting more sorceries. Aaaand they're weaker than what I was using. (Tested on the random enemies outside Firelink Shrine.)
Great Heavy Soul Arrow. Deals 544 damage for 14 FP.
Homing Soulmass. Deals 56 each orb for 20 FP.
Soul Spear. Deals piercing 566 for 40 FP.

In terms of efficiency GHSA is superior 1v1.

The fun part of sorcery is that I can still get more powerful than this. I could use Steady Chant, Magic Clutch Ring and my catalyst is only +3.

Edit: GHSA did 702 damage when I put on that ring and used Steady Chant. +3 Heretic Staff and 35 Intelligence. Both Sorcery rings on too.

I have defeated the Ifrit lookalike with Onion Man, where the hell is the bonfire

remember how you went up the tower to reach it

remember how the elevator also goes down

I got a good catalyst and maxed it out. Sage's Crystal Staff +5

I have 41 Intelligence.
Steady Chant.
Great Heavy Soul Arrow on a Firelink Shrine enemy.
947 damage.
Geez.
702 without Chant.

Beat Champion Gundyr as a sorcerer! That was tough. He's unrelenting. Had to Summon the Sword Master NPC because Gundyr's buff phase is nearly impossible to get a spell out alone.

I hate the Untended Grave's Grave Keepers so much I hate hate hate hate hate they barely show up anywhere else and they fucking suck but here they always have dumb health and damage and I HATE

Champion Gundyr is hard as shit too, I just got there again on a second character, had gotten the shit kicked out of me beforehand and had like, three estus. Went in just so I could say I tried. Kicked his booty. I will never be able to replicate this.

Those Grave Keepers are butts.

I can hold myself well against ChampDyr with close combat.
It's when I have to try stay away and look for an opening that I find trouble.
Monster Hunter trained me in the ways of dodging ferocious large strikes. (Nargacugas, man.)

Also I FINALLY DID IT!
I beat Nameless King! Sorceries make it SO much more tolerable.
My fight against him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMrK9Y2rKpQ
Not posting a direct video because spoilery thumbnails were given. :p

I can't go down there there's a scary man down there

there's a scary man in front of every bonfire. put on your big boy pants, grab your sword, and go down there and fight him while crying and pissing yourself like a man.

Or do it the cheesy way.
Run past him. Open door. Spam roll. He's too big to get through the door. (How'd he get in there in the first place? Unless he did that Vordt entranceway thingy.)
Leave him or attack from a distance.

So it seems From forgot to enable player Poise when porting the engine from Bloodborne.

That would explain a lot.

Seriously? How does something like that make it through testing?

Patches locked the team in a closet before they could catch it, obviously.

Patches gon' have to fix it, now.


I hope it's patched up in time for me to try and get into PvP. I'm running a Claymore build, so that'd give me a lot of trouble since I can't find any other weapon I'm particularly fond of using.

I did it but I'll have you know that you're mean

Time for BIRD PARTY

It doesn't. That statement was bodaciously almost entirely false.

What we've learned recently is that while a file in the game has a state set to "0", poise works like DS2, being a hyper-armor that you get while swinging a weapon.

If you set that file to "1", however, poise suddenly works like DS1, meaning you do not get flinched until attacks break an invisible poise meter.

Nobody knows if this is a bug, intentional, or what Fromsoft is doing with this. But saying poise was "forgotten" is flat out completely incorrect, as it is in the game, but with two different potential functions. Which isn't a surprise. Poise has been the biggest balance issue over both DS1 and 2, and they've directly stated they'll probably be working on poise changes and fixes for all of DS3's lifecycle.