Dark Souls II

[SixThumbs]

any idea why i cant use this switch?

also anyone know why I hear constant growling since I beat spider boss, not sure if bug or intended

Where is that switch? And are you wearing the ring of whispers?

Yeah im doing arena pvp, it really is full cancer.

After re-rolling my character from my corrupted save file I'm at 275k SM (SL 74) and the BoB arena seems just as active as any other SM I had tried it at while being less of a cheese fest for the most part. I still occasionally run across characters who're obviously further in the game than my char but at this point it feels like there's less cheese and the builds so far or more or less "unique".

Although I did run into someone named "Shrek" who had turtle armor on and when approaching and waving he one shot me with dual, invisible avelyn's. I ran into him a second time and just black crystalled out, he can have that shallow win. The third time I saw him he was duel-wielding great-hammers and I wrecked him.

Now that I've hit the first rank of BoB with 68 cracked red eyes stocked I've backed up my save and making lower level invasions more common. 

My favorite is when an arbiter spirit joins or they already have phantoms with them. 

[Patoson]

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any idea why i cant use this switch?

also anyone know why I hear constant growling since I beat spider boss, not sure if bug or intended

The switch is precisely for that chest in the screenshot. When you use the switch, the platform with the chest lowers, and you can get to the chest by jumping from the stairs.

[Banok]

The switch is precisely for that chest in the screenshot. When you use the switch, the platform with the chest lowers, and you can get to the chest by jumping from the stairs.

I figured, but the reason I posted is it wont let me use the switch for no apparent reason ;/

or are you saying I already used it? since I dont recall doing so

[Patoson]

Yes. I think that, judging from the screenshot, you have already used it. You can only use those switches once. Just go back to the entrance and you can jump to reach the chest.

[Banok]

done a handful of pvp fights now, the ones I lost I was already dead due to monsters. find it kind of dumb that monsters focus only you, and pker gets credit for doing 10% of my health.

[Vibe]

whoever thought that it was a good idea to put in an ability to make your weapon invisible should be fucking fired

[IR_Kuoin]

whoever thought that it was a good idea to put in an ability to make your weapon invisible should be fucking fired

What I miss and think is equally stupid to the rings (which were pretty cool to have such milestones for players but mules / hackers just fuck that up is the ability to only use 1 self-buff. Here you can just stack buff on yourself.

[Vibe]

Problem is that all this infusing and weapon buffs are so powerful. There is literally no drawback to have elemental shit on your weapon, in fact you're only gimping yourself for being pure melee with no buffs.

[IR_Kuoin]

Wish the SL meta was 120 ... ty SM.

[Tot.]

Met any binoglitchers in the arena so far, Vibe? 

[Banok]

whoever thought that it was a good idea to put in an ability to make your weapon invisible should be fucking fired

this may explain how a guy punched me to death in seconds.

can I get some advice where to put my stats

got 40 str 40 dex, for my bastard. kind of feel like I should have gone pure dex or str right now
also got 20 vigor, 20 enfurance, and 19 vit, 12 adapt (for 90 agility)

so where do I put points next now I hit the first soft caps, vigor?

[IR_Kuoin]

this may explain how a guy punched me to death in seconds.

can I get some advice where to put my stats

You can actually get a ring that gives you more fist damage, one of my characters got around 394 fist damage with the ring.

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[Rhaelys]

You can actually get a ring that gives you more fist damage, one of my characters got around 394 fist damage with the ring.

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That's why you should always have an unparryable weapon in your slots. I personally main a Syan's Halberd without any ranged or magic, and it completely wrecks 90% of people in arena. It's like fighting people who don't know how to manual block in cRPG.

Met any binoglitchers in the arena so far, Vibe? 

I met one. He was pretty bad when he realized that I had Jester's Robes on and couldn't be backstabbed.

[SixThumbs]

I don't need an unparryable weapon when I've found the beauty, and timing, of pulling off R2 feints. Especially with the bastard sword the character does a spin before jumping into a roll.

The only styles that seem "OP" in PVP to me now is things I've never seen before and don't understand the cadence of. I was playing in the blue arena, because it's more conducive to trying things than the red one; someone beat me dual wielding shields and just shield bashing into all of my attacks, a very proficient turtler with a spear beat me (although I got him the second time around), and a pure [non-magic] ranged character with a bow. I also lost to a santier user because he went 1-handed and the attacks are wildly different.

[Vibe]

Met any binoglitchers in the arena so far, Vibe? 

none so far, surprisingly

I've gotten a lot better at backstabing, playing a +10 dagger backstab fisher for a few hours. I've gone to NG+ on my FTH char, already 2 blue invasions in Forest of Fallen Giants (one wasn't an uber tryhard, the other was an invis halberd spin2win). Other than that, like KuoiN said, random invasions are far less tryhard. I did get beaten by a pure melee guy with a small shield in arena who parried me twice fair and square, I was so glad to lose to a guy like that.