Dark Souls II

[Vibe]

So I decided to buy it today 

Not sure what I will play as but from experience magic or 2H is exceptionally powerful so I will probs build one of them

Pure melee have it the hardest, ranged is pretty easy, even more so if magic.

[Tennenoth]

Pure melee have it the hardest, ranged is pretty easy, even more so if magic.

Watching people try and run away from me to spam spells/shoot me in PvP is something I've come to covet, but in PvE, particularly when I am helping some, I feel like an idiot for diving left and right, slashing once or twice while nearby ally is just spamming spells.

[SixThumbs]

I was salty before about being outplayed by a buffed santier (and one guy that switched to it after I beat him easily twice before) but if you don't waste a lot of the souls to deaths or unneeded items/upgrades I think strength melee is viable being able to outclass other builds in health, roll speed/distance through END, ADP and/or allowing heavier armors, and stamina (which is probably the most important part).

Avoiding damage is the priority otherwise you're going to lose out. But, I've won a majority of matches simply through pressuring opponents into attacking, rolling, blocking, etc.; and leaving them without stamina for when I still have enough to let one or two attacks off.

My biggest weakness at this point is accidentally draining my stamina bar completely for when I need to chase them down to stop them from healing.

[TheAppleSauceMan]

Gonna roll a faith build and hope it works decently well in PvP! He's gonna be a melee focused faith build though, who will use miracles as somewhat of a sidearm.

[Vibe]

Gonna roll a faith build and hope it works decently well in PvP! He's gonna be a melee focused faith build though, who will use miracles as somewhat of a sidearm.

Works pretty well, just get the weapon and defense buff and lightning infuse shit and you're gonna be dealing a lot of damage.

[TheAppleSauceMan]

That was the plan! Was gonna try this build out I think

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http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/21aae2/praise_the_sun_a_guide_to_primary_faith_pvp_by/

Also, does using a soul vessel to respec reset your Soul Memory or no? Been reading up on this whole SM feature for a bit now and it's coming off as very.....unattractive....

Seems like every new title FROM puts out in this series does a few good things to help PvP and then one BIG thing that hinders it. I just want lots of PvP that's decently fair, too much to ask? 

[Vibe]

Soul Memory is the total amount of souls you collected, Soul Vessel only lets you reallocate those souls. And yes, SM is bad. But as long as you don't go over 15 million SM you'll be fine, above that there's no limit to characters you're matched with (facing 800 SL guys).

[TheAppleSauceMan]

Just hoping I don't end up facing guys 50 levels higher than me or more

[Vibe]

I'm pvping in NG at 155-170 SL, about 2,7-2,8M SM, doesn't feel like I'm playing against overleveled guys. There's SM tiers for summoning, not sure how it works for dueling arena though but it feels fair so far.

[TheAppleSauceMan]

I'm pvping in NG at 155-170 SL, about 2,7-2,8M SM, doesn't feel like I'm playing against overleveled guys. There's SM tiers for summoning, not sure how it works for dueling arena though but it feels fair so far.

Well that's not too bad then. 

I know I'm probably late to the party but damn this game is pretty. The sea in Majula is seriously gorgeous. Definitely falling in love with the graphics, maybe cuz I'm used to Dark Souls and Demon's Souls, both on console.

Any recommended weapons or items to grab early on? Something like the Drake Sword in DkS1? And what would be a good faith weapon to grab early on?

Sorry for 20 questions, half the fun of this series is learning new stuff for me though 

[SirCymro_Crusader]

Not a clue what im doing right now, got 2 estus flasks (shards needed right?) killed the first boss the dragonrider or whatever his name is. Went swordsman class, already not liking it

[Banok]

"CDkeyhouse"

not recommended.

[TheAppleSauceMan]

Not a clue what im doing right now, got 2 estus flasks (shards needed right?) killed the first boss the dragonrider or whatever his name is. Went swordsman class, already not liking it

The class or the game? Bwaha

[SirCymro_Crusader]

The class or the game? Bwaha

The class haha, not a clue where I am, where I'm going or even what the hell i'm doing

EDIT: I think I went to the wrong place first haha

[Tot.]

Just hoping I don't end up facing guys 50 levels higher than me or more

 

If it was just 50 levels.

Entire endgame in DS2 has a friday afternoon designing vibe and soul memory is the pinnacle of the stupidity. Soul memory was supposed to protect your everyday George from low level twinks and PVPers with optimized builds looking for a fight, and now thanks to soul memory George the Casual who loses 50% of the souls he earns is getting matched against veterans who lose nothing and spent everything on making their characters better.

And thats just the smaller problem, the actual retardation is that you cant keep your soul memory low because you keep earning souls even while exlusively PVPing with your SL150. In other words, no matter what you do (except not playing) you will eventually enter the tier of SL600 havelmonsters.