Dark Souls II

[Nicolas]

Argh I wish I could play more! There's still so much to discover.

(SPOILER)Does anyone know where Rosabeth moves to after de-petrifying her? I've looked all over Majula but can't find her.

If she's the girl before the woods, she should have moved near the shrine showing the worldwide deaths.

Last bit of progress for todayI LOVED the two portions I just went through, Dragon Aerie and Dragon Shrine. Probably my two favorite places. Glad they put a good few dragons in this one.

[TrollHunter]

The more I play my sorcerer... the more I prefer it over my ol' quality build. New main build for sure.

Also, magic xSoul Greatsword is amazing. Since I play a more aggressive approach-oriented mage it fits in perfectly and oh GOD that damage at close range is absurd.

[Pete for President]

Argh I wish I could play more! There's still so much to discover.

(SPOILER)Does anyone know where Rosabeth moves to after de-petrifying her? I've looked all over Majula but can't find her.

If she's the girl before the woods, she should have moved near the shrine showing the worldwide deaths.

Hmm strange, she isn't there. I wonder what happened.

Had a good session this afternoon: Looted a Blacksteel Katana in the Iron Keep and upgraded it to +10. It's probably not the best weapon as the falchion swings faster, does bleeding and has similar AR while being a lot lighter, but I'm enjoying the Katana a lot more. Met the Iron King and fell into the lava embarrassingly quick. Met the Smelter Demon afterwards, but got slain by his firesword.

Ventured into the Gutter and Black Gulch, felt like the Valley of Defilement and Tomb of Giants had a baby. Beat The Rotten, it's a cool boss fight. Afterwards I got my revenge on Freja. I dig how the old hollow fellow is in the room afterwards. Really curious about the lore.

Still going strong solo-ing everything

[TrollHunter]

So, back in the GOD SMURFING LONG RANGE MAGICshrine of amana. RAGERAGERAGERAGEI remember why I hated this place so much. And now I dont have a long range option as I use mid-range magic as opposed to a +9 long bow on my quality build. I am fuming right now because of just how infuriating this area is. This area was the first to make me break out not only a shield but also a smurfing bow. And even with both the level is only SLIGHTLY less stupid as hell

[Nicolas]

So, back in the GOD SMURFING LONG RANGE MAGICshrine of amana. RAGERAGERAGERAGEI remember why I hated this place so much. And now I dont have a long range option as I use mid-range magic as opposed to a +9 long bow on my quality build. I am fuming right now because of just how infuriating this area is. This area was the first to make me break out not only a shield but also a smurfing bow. And even with both the level is only SLIGHTLY less stupid as hell

hehe. I have to head back there to farm for one item. Just need one. I'm dreading the entire experience as well.

[Pete for President]

Got my (SPOILER) fourth great soul, beat the Smelter Demon (awesome battle) and the Old Iron King was surprisingly easy. Also found Belfry Luna and Belfry Sol, but I have yet to meet the Sol boss. It's a fun way to farm Chunks!

[TrollHunter]

So, back in the GOD SMURFING LONG RANGE MAGICshrine of amana. RAGERAGERAGERAGEI remember why I hated this place so much. And now I dont have a long range option as I use mid-range magic as opposed to a +9 long bow on my quality build. I am fuming right now because of just how infuriating this area is. This area was the first to make me break out not only a shield but also a smurfing bow. And even with both the level is only SLIGHTLY less stupid as hell

hehe. I have to head back there to farm for one item. Just need one. I'm dreading the entire experience as well.

I had to get my end-game staff there. Thankfully I'm done now, and im also past the next area. I'm at the home stretch now as I'm not doing most of the optional stuff on this character (thats what my first blind run was for). The last few areas are a joy to go through, so I'm looking forward to wrapping up new game on this build. Finishing 2 characters in 2 weeks? That's what I call progress. This game is beautifully put together.

[Nicolas]

So, back in the GOD SMURFING LONG RANGE MAGICshrine of amana. RAGERAGERAGERAGEI remember why I hated this place so much. And now I dont have a long range option as I use mid-range magic as opposed to a +9 long bow on my quality build. I am fuming right now because of just how infuriating this area is. This area was the first to make me break out not only a shield but also a smurfing bow. And even with both the level is only SLIGHTLY less stupid as hell

hehe. I have to head back there to farm for one item. Just need one. I'm dreading the entire experience as well.

I had to get my end-game staff there. Thankfully I'm done now, and im also past the next area. I'm at the home stretch now as I'm not doing most of the optional stuff on this character (thats what my first blind run was for). The last few areas are a joy to go through, so I'm looking forward to wrapping up new game on this build. Finishing 2 characters in 2 weeks? That's what I call progress. This game is beautifully put together.

Yeah. I finished my build today as well. Though, I've had a run in with all the bosses in the game and only have the last 4 optional bosses to complete. I'm getting ready to fight them now. After that, it's the final area of the game for me.

[Ultima Shadow]

Though, I've had a run in with all the bosses in the game and only have the last 4 optional bosses to complete. I'm getting ready to fight them now. After that, it's the final area of the game for me.

Same.

Well, except I only have two of the optional bosses left.



Also, I'm trying out the King's Ultra Greatsword, fully upgraded. The power is crazy and it has pretty good physical defense and stability while two-handing and blocking with it. The only problem, though, is that its moveset is kinda "meh". You pretty much have to two-hand it for it to be useful, so I think I actually still prefer the good old Greatsword after all as far as Ultra Greatswords goes. I might switch to the Melter Sword though, if I can just be bothered to farm enough petrified Dragon Bones again.

Still... it is pretty fun to two-shot people with a Sunlightblade-enchanted King's Ultra Greatsword, when you just get the chance to land a hit.

Oh yeah... and I absolutely love the item Bonfire Ascetic by the way. But I've already used 4 in the best area for Petrified Dragonbone farming, and the difficulty bump really did show when "certain enemies" I could previously one-shot didn't even get staggered by a one-handed attack from an Ultra Greatsword anymore.

[Pete for President]

Reached (SPOILER)Drangleic Castle. Those stone spear guys are a pain.

[Ultima Shadow]

I have now defeated the optional bosses. I will do some more random PvP and stuff and then go beat the game.

[Nicolas]

I have now defeated the optional bosses. I will do some more random PvP and stuff and then go beat the game.

Yeah. I've got three more to go. I beat (SPOILER)Ancient Dragon and Vendrick last night. The last three for me though are probably going to be a bit tougher since I've started a fight with each one besides (SPOILER)the covenant based jerk who is in an area that is a huge pain for me.

Drangleic Castle was fun, I thought. Fairly short, but you do see the return of a certain enemy there. The areas after, or at least one of them, I thought was harder than Drangleic Castle.

[TrollHunter]

In NG+ on my mage now.
The quest to get good at PvP with my longsword has begun. My goal: to not be a gimmicky scrub like most mages in pvp. Trying to not be completely godawful at basic melee fights and then I'll start implementing magic.
CMW MLGS users are annoying as hell, even with my 100% magic block magic infused magic shield. Lord knows I'd stand no chance against them without it.

UPDATE: So... pvp experience as a blue sentinel. It's been... interesting.
Sparring/Dueling: Did about... 10-12? Lost every single one expect for 2
Invasions: Did about 15. Won every single one except for 1. And that ONE was against gankers.

....curious results to say the least. I need to work on my dueling skills, I'm a total scrub. Oh well, invasions are a blast (except when you get gankers. Once I get good again I'll love gankers... but sadly I'm still a complete noob right now)

[Pete for President]

Whoohoo more progress. Can't believe how huge this game is, it feels so much bigger than 1. Here we goBeat the Dragonrider duo, Looking Glass Knight, found the Embedded which I thought was freaky and intriguing at the same time, made it through the Shrine of Armana of which the boss was surprisingly easy. I like how the difficulty ramped up in Castle Drangleic. Gonna upgrade a Twinblade for awesomesauceness, not sure which one yet. Either the normal or the Stone version.

I've started reading up on the knowledge about areas I've beaten and I had no idea there were so many NPC's to summon. But I can't recall seeing any of the NPC summon signs. I saw people summon the guy for (SPOILER)the Ruin Sentinels but he surely didn't show up when I went in there. Does anyone know what's up?

[Nicolas]

Whoohoo more progress. Can't believe how huge this game is, it feels so much bigger than 1. Here we goBeat the Dragonrider duo, Looking Glass Knight, found the Embedded which I thought was freaky and intriguing at the same time, made it through the Shrine of Armana of which the boss was surprisingly easy. I like how the difficulty ramped up in Castle Drangleic. Gonna upgrade a Twinblade for awesomesauceness, not sure which one yet. Either the normal or the Stone version.

I've started reading up on the knowledge about areas I've beaten and I had no idea there were so many NPC's to summon. But I can't recall seeing any of the NPC summon signs. I saw people summon the guy for (SPOILER)the Ruin Sentinels but he surely didn't show up when I went in there. Does anyone know what's up?

Yeah. Going through all the dialogue for every NPC tends to net you some pretty neat things, such as summoning them when you get to certain bosses. The one you're mentioning is located in one of the open cells near the boss fog.

And apart from the Shrine of Amana, I found the entire last portion of the game to be pretty easy. Even the final bosses were pretty easy. The only ones I had difficultly with were the optional bosses you don't even have to bother with in any way.

On that spoilerific note...I finished the game after beating Ancient Dragon and Vendrick. The only boss I have yet to beat, or get to really, is the Darklurker. That was mostly because you are forced to use your Human Effigies get to him. As I said earlier, most of New Game's ending segments were a bit too easy. Heck, the hardest bosses for me were Ancient Dragon and Demon of Song towards the finale. The Dragon was only difficult due to the fact that he OHKO'd me every time if I wasn't exact with my running. The Demon of Song just liked spamming his ram move against me.

I know they added a bunch of phantoms and irritation in New Game + that I want to get to with this character, but I'll save that for later.

As far as the game goes, I very much enjoyed it. It combines great systems from both Demons' Souls and Dark Souls to make a very well rounded entry in the series. I loved the overall layout of the game. It was a fairly neat combination of Dark Souls' open world with Demons' Souls' level like progression. That's about all I'm gonna say for now until I replay this game with a new character build or NG+ it.