Dark Souls 3

[Armpit_Sweat]

Magic seems cool so far, i like the soul sword spells, but theyre not hitting too hard, so most of the time i just find myself plowing through with a great magic weapon buffed broadsword. Cant wait for some soulmasses and spears though, theyre goign to be sick.

I have yet to find and test a soulmass, but I doubt the spear will be any good in PvP... It's close to impossible to hit anyone with projectiles in DS3, and it will be very FP expensive to spam. I am hoping for aoe spells, or something similar to sword spells, or even summoning of turrets of sorts ( like that pyro hover ball that shoots smaller fireballs )
I don't use buffs, as it just makes my Mage another type of melee char. It's a matter of taste of course...

Edit

That farron sword spell I was talking about earlier costs almost no FP, and takes very little stamina, casts instantly and has good range. With my 35 int, it hits as my normal +3 crystal short sword, it's not much, but I can cast about 8 of them before running out of stamina, and they really fly quickly, I would say they spam with dagger speed, or even faster.

[Gravoth_iii]

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I have yet to find and test a soulmass, but I doubt the spear will be any good in PvP... It's close to impossible to hit anyone with projectiles in DS3, and it will be very FP expensive to spam. I am hoping for aoe spells, or something similar to sword spells, or even summoning of turrets of sorts ( like that pyro hover ball that shoots smaller fireballs )
I don't use buffs, as it just makes my Mage another type of melee char. It's a matter of taste of course...

Edit

That farron sword spell I was talking about earlier costs almost no FP, and takes very little stamina, casts instantly and has good range. With my 35 int, it hits as my normal +3 crystal short sword, it's not much, but I can cast about 8 of them before running out of stamina, and they really fly quickly, I would say they spam with dagger speed, or even faster.

The trick with range spells in pvp is to shoot them without lock-on, predict roll positions and be MLG. Its actually not super hard, but you need a spell that pays off bigtime for it to be usefull. Farron sword spell is sick, i hope it deals good damage on a high tier stave at 40 int. At least so that it has some use, the greatsword spell is pretty good too, big chunk of FP but dat range and aoe.

[Kafein]

also: no hate this is me rn

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Are you literally wearing Smough as headgear?

[Gravoth_iii]

Listening to all the bossthemes now, without having to bother with focusing on fighting, and ive gotta say it kind of feels like they lack character. Many of them start of pretty much the same, with minor instrumental differences. Some just dont feel like they define the boss or are unique compared to the others. Still pretty good, i like the abyss watchers the most. I kind of miss the demons souls music, it felt kind of overly cheesy to the point where its not cheesy anymore and just epic. Much more defining on the bosses, and much more unique.

[Armpit_Sweat]

The trick with range spells in pvp is to shoot them without lock-on, predict roll positions and be MLG. Its actually not super hard, but you need a spell that pays off bigtime for it to be usefull. Farron sword spell is sick, i hope it deals good damage on a high tier stave at 40 int. At least so that it has some use, the greatsword spell is pretty good too, big chunk of FP but dat range and aoe.

Casting time on the greatsword is too long for 1vs1 imo... I have 24 att, using a ring, and still it opens me up too much. Usually, I roll and start spamming farron, and roll out as soon as the enemy counter attacks.
Btw, I have to admit playing on ps, so aiming spells without a lock seems too tricky idk how it works on a pc, but I imagine it's more manageable with a mouse.

[Gravoth_iii]

Casting time on the greatsword is too long for 1vs1 imo... I have 24 att, using a ring, and still it opens me up too much. Usually, I roll and start spamming farron, and roll out as soon as the enemy counter attacks.
Btw, I have to admit playing on ps, so aiming spells without a lock seems too tricky idk how it works on a pc, but I imagine it's more manageable with a mouse.

Im with a controller too, its just a little trick you have to get used to. Being able to assume approximately where you are aiming, maybe not super precise but just sending the spear somewhere in the vicinity of rolling enemies has a good chance to catch them late roll.

[Molly]

This seems cheesy and completely contrary to crpg :D

[Overdriven]

Anyone else trying to follow the NPC stories? I feel like I'm decoding the enigma trying to keep track of everything and when to do what. There's no way you could figure these all out without it being accidental.

Also using sorcery atm but working out what side weapon to go. I've started using the irithyll straight sword which is fast and nice but don't reckon it will hold up end game.

[Vibe]

Listening to all the bossthemes now, without having to bother with focusing on fighting, and ive gotta say it kind of feels like they lack character. Many of them start of pretty much the same, with minor instrumental differences. Some just dont feel like they define the boss or are unique compared to the others. Still pretty good, i like the abyss watchers the most. I kind of miss the demons souls music, it felt kind of overly cheesy to the point where its not cheesy anymore and just epic. Much more defining on the bosses, and much more unique.

My fav. But I agree that many sound the same.

This seems cheesy and completely contrary to crpg

This is as funny as it is sad. RIP poise I guess.

[Banok]

re: estoc pvp

also Ive beat half the game with pyro and sorcerer, pvped with both. had some fun times, especially group pvp. but casters are definitely underpowered 1v1, which Im totally ok with.

I mean, I made a sorcerer in ds2 for pvp and it was boring because it was way too easy. but the tracking, cast time etc. seems way worse in ds3. could be because staffs and items not balanced, ie the cast speed ring seems to do nothing.

they really dont seem to have generally put much thought into magic in ds3, for example it doesn't show scaling for staffs properly and none of the staffs are better than the starting staff. unless you are 50+ int then one of them is slightly better ;/

[Vibe]

I mean, I made a sorcerer in ds2 for pvp and it was boring because it was way too easy.

wut. I can't think of one case where magic presented any real threat in PvP (duels at least), disregarding the weapon buffs that were pretty necessary. Maybe the batstaff poison era, but beyond that, I don't see how you can say that being a sorcerer was easy for PvP when literally every sorcerer I met was a free kill for me (and a lot of others, I presume). Even with free aiming the spells I don't think magic has ever been viable for PvP in Souls games.

[Molly]

Pyromancer counts as magic?

[Vibe]

Pyromancer counts as magic?

absurd :lol:

[Gravoth_iii]

I love this NPC, me and Kenda keep quoting him now because he's the best npc ever.

[Molly]

A banwave rolled over the game, many people undeserved banned.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/361787186424251460/

https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4fmhws/help_tons_of_legitimate_pc_players_have_now_been/

http://kotaku.com/dark-souls-3-pc-players-dont-know-why-theyre-getting-ba-1772288791

Bandai Namco told me it’s possible some accounts have been flagged wrongly, and they’re going to examine each report. “Our team will review their account information to see if the player has been using any sort of hack/cheat or if the flag was a false positive,” said a company representative.

In a message to customers that was passed on, Bandai Namco explained that players cannot fix the error re-installing the game, as “the game will continue to display this message until the Dark Souls III server team has had enough time to research the player data to determine if any hacks/cheats were used.”

It’s unclear how long it will take the company to sift through the accounts.