Dark Souls II

[IR_Kuoin]

Aye, thanks! Through where do I get to the Cathedral?

Go down path under the stone archway. It is located behind the blacksmith.

[Joseph Porta]

Go down path under the stone archway. It is located behind the blacksmith.

Where the "contraption does not move" sign is located, correct?

[Joseph Porta]

Heide's tower of flame, go left instead of right to dragonrider

Aha, havent been there yet but I though it was a dead end at a round platform! Will check it out tonight! 

[Nightmare798]

Two types I believe:

Ring of Soul Protection - Stops you becoming hollow and protects your souls when you die. Costs 6K souls to repair apparently. Works for petrification as well.
I found one in the chest in The Gutter, where you jump from a wooden structure to a platform with a single chest & pillar.

Ring of Life Protection - Stops you becoming hollow and protects your souls when you die. Costs 3K souls to repair apparently. Doesn't work for petrification I believe.
Buy from Felkin the Outcast, the bloke who sits in the chair near Huntsman's Copse I think, the page will probably tell you more than me!

Also, it's going to be really hard to get 500 successful protections... I'm currently on 1 for 1, but I am so rarely needed. I don't fancy invading because I want to help people, not bugger up other peoples games.

I left it late hoping that I'd have more of a chance to be summoned considering the larger boundaries at higher soul memory levels, but I suppose more people will be able to go hold their own, and not use the Way of Blue covenant. Get into trouble more people!

Thanks a lot, I will search for the latter immediatelly (it is not like I die from petrification much anyways). There is no worse moment in DS2 than when you get killed for few tens/hundreds thousands of souls and then accidentally fall off the ledge due to bad roll or something.

[Vibe]

I'm running a Falchion offhand and Spotted Whip (poison) mainhand build for PvP at the moment and I just had a whip-out with a guy called Indiana Jones

[Tennenoth]

Thanks a lot, I will search for the latter immediatelly (it is not like I die from petrification much anyways). There is no worse moment in DS2 than when you get killed for few tens/hundreds thousands of souls and then accidentally fall off the ledge due to bad roll or something.

First time I lost souls, I lost 42K, I was very upset, now I'm running around with 1 million souls banked which I never thought would be possible. They become very easy to get very quickly. Granted I'm on NG+ but using the ring to only pay 6K or something similar instead of however many, is a great way to keep hold of them if you can't get back to your souls quickly!

I'm running a Falchion offhand and Spotted Whip (poison) mainhand build for PvP at the moment and I just had a whip-out with a guy called Indiana Jones

I dagger back stabbed Justin Bieber yesterday. Felt really good.

[Kafein]

The life ring is really stupid. It essentially replaces the penalty for dying by a 3k souls tax. Getting 3k souls without dying gets extremely easy not even 10% into the game. Hence you pretty much always want to use this item. The only real cost is the opportunity of wearing a better ring. And I don't think there are many rings that are as powerful.

[Tor!]

Mages / magic users have plenty of good rings, melee however, have pretty much shit rings compared.

[Gravoth_iii]

Epicfacefist inbound, QFT QFT QFT

[Fredom]

I'm at Aldias Keep atm, lost around 300k souls on my way to this damnit area and another 60k in the hall.
My problem now is that I'd like to do something different, I am running around with a shield and a club and heavy armor. Any suggestions?

[Patoson]

I find rolling and dodging, while under 50% equip. load, to be more effective and fun than blocking with a shield. So I use medium armour, like Faraam or King sets, which let me keep a relatively low equip. load (with high VIT too), unlike the heavy armours.

I only use a shield in certain boss fights sometimes, especially when I'm scared.

[Nightmare798]

The life ring is really stupid. It essentially replaces the penalty for dying by a 3k souls tax. Getting 3k souls without dying gets extremely easy not even 10% into the game. Hence you pretty much always want to use this item. The only real cost is the opportunity of wearing a better ring. And I don't think there are many rings that are as powerful.

There should be penalty for dying, but the penalties seem, considering the technical flaws, pretty ridiculous.

Most of my deaths come from falling, due to roll from jump, low visibility, error when navigating and so on, so no this ring is not stupid. If you dont want to use it, then just dont.

Besides, you still have to fight and die for the souls you gather, so I think it is perfectly fine.

I find rolling and dodging, while under 50% equip. load, to be more effective and fun than blocking with a shield. So I use medium armour, like Faraam or King sets, which let me keep a relatively low equip. load (with high VIT too), unlike the heavy armours.

I only use a shield in certain boss fights sometimes, especially when I'm scared.

IMO Blocking drains a little too much stamina. like a quarter of bar on average for one hit. I sometimes found myself speculating of dropping shield altogether for more reliable rolling.

[Fredom]

But dodging is always more risky than blocking with a shield. My shield got 100 physical and sometimes i put it away and just try dodging hits. Against archers/crossbowers and mages it's obviousky not a problem. If I am fighting against 'normal' enemies it's getting risky and I almost get hit 50% of the time.

[Vibe]

I find rolling and dodging, while under 50% equip. load, to be more effective and fun than blocking with a shield. So I use medium armour, like Faraam or King sets, which let me keep a relatively low equip. load (with high VIT too), unlike the heavy armours.

I only use a shield in certain boss fights sometimes, especially when I'm scared.

There was disappointingly low difference between <70% weight and <50% weight rolls and stamina recovery. I think it's just fine to keep it under 70%, no need for under 50%.

[Joseph Porta]

There was disappointingly low difference between <70% weight and <50% weight rolls and stamina recovery. I think it's just fine to keep it under 70%, no need for under 50%.

I found 60% to be the ideal number.. At 70> it gets a bit too clunky to my liking.

Cant find the fucking bonfire after Death Mans Wharf, lost 17k souls again, yay. Boss was once more a piec pe of cake. Idk, after the Pursuer they all seem easy.. Got him on the second try with 50% hollow HP penalty.

The rage is strong though, bleeding is a proper bitch.. I found out the aggrivating way.