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Is it worth it to grind covenant items right now or will I come across many of them naturally over the course of my next 3 playthroughs? I need to get to rank 30 in some of them.


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(currentl 123 IIRC).
That's like mid NG+ playtrough territory. I still haven't seen the need to level up my main beyond SL 100 and I'm already at Pontiff.

And don't overestimate NG+. (Sadly) the only change applied to increase difficulty is giving enemies higher attack ratings and more health.
Since you know most of the ins-and-outs by now it will be a breeze.
For some reason, my Infusement trophy is fucked. I bought a dagger and infused one of everything onto it, including the irving stone (that gets rid of all infusements, idr what it's called.)
I bought a bunch of daggers and infused one after the other until the achievment was unlocked for me.
Maybe you have to have every infusion in your inventory? I don't know what else you could do there.
Is it worth it to grind covenant items right now or will I come across many of them naturally over the course of my next 3 playthroughs? I need to get to rank 30 in some of them.
Each higher NG cycle wields higher drop rates so wait for NG++ to farm covenant items. You will have to farm for them either way, unfortunately, if you play offline even if you play online, because they are simply not active enough.

Alright seems like you're soon completing your first playthrough. I'm glad you enjoyed youself.
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Each higher NG cycle wields higher drop rates so wait for NG++ to farm covenant items. You will have to farm for them either way, unfortunately, if you play offline.

Alright seems like you're soon completing your first playthrough. I'm glad you enjoyed youself.

Alright, gotcha. I'll start it tonight.

Thanks a bunch.


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Each higher NG cycle wields higher drop rates so wait for NG++ to farm covenant items. You will have to farm for them either way, unfortunately, if you play offline.

Alright seems like you're soon completing your first playthrough. I'm glad you enjoyed youself.

Alright, gotcha. I'll start it tonight.

Thanks a bunch.
One thing though.

You can try duelling in the area directly after pontiff sullyvahn to acquire rewards for the rosarias fingers, mound makers and warriors of sunlight (<- paradoxically) by equipping each respective covenant and putting down a sign with the red soapstone.
There you fight against people, who have given their consent, in a controlled environment and familiarise yourself with the pvp. That's something even Verbatim would be okay with.
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You should try going online now that you've beaten the game once. PVP and co-op with players is actually pretty fun.

I've been playing online since I defeated the Soul of Cinder yesterday. I haven't faced anyone yet but I've taken down the Dragonslayer Armour like, 7 times.

I just wanted to avoid people's hints and alterations to my game.


 
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Each higher NG cycle wields higher drop rates so wait for NG++ to farm covenant items. You will have to farm for them either way, unfortunately, if you play offline.

Alright seems like you're soon completing your first playthrough. I'm glad you enjoyed youself.

Alright, gotcha. I'll start it tonight.

Thanks a bunch.
One thing though.

You can try duelling in the area directly after pontiff sullyvahn to acquire rewards for the rosarias fingers, mound makers and warriors of sunlight (<- paradoxically) by equipping each respective covenant and putting down a sign with the red soapstone.
There you fight against people, who have given their consent, in a controlled environment and familiarise yourself with the pvp. That's something even Verbatim would be okay with.

Too late, already defeated Iudex Gundyr and saved at Firelink. Lol.


 
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So, it's 4:24 AM here. Last night, at 4:43 AM, I took a snapchat of my playtime, which clocked in at 62 hours.

I did the same thing today and it turns out I played 11 hours today.

Damn.


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I did the same thing today and it turns out I played 11 hours today.
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Too late, already defeated Iudex Gundyr and saved at Firelink. Lol.
That's not that much of a problem. In case you want try it out, another popular duelling area is at the very first bonfire on the high wall of lothric. It just gets a bit less traffic than the pontiff arena.


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Can I sell my boss souls if I don't like anything they offer from transposition
yeah but if you're going for platinum you need every weapon so...
Sorry-not-sorry man, but you're wrong again.
There are achievements for acquiring all pyromancies, all sorceries, all miracles and all rings respectively . So before you transpose anything into a weapon you don't want transpose it into spells or rings if possible.

By the way, Snake, have you by chance fought a dude wielding a giant club and a stone greatshield on top of archdragon peak? If so check back above the Wolf of Farron bonfire. There's something hidden for you.
Also if haven't done it yet, use the path of the dragon gesture in front of the altars in the archdragon peak.
sorry not sorry you're a faggot for saying sorry not sorry
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i was thinking of the bloodborne trophy

Also this is the first time I've been wrong in my entire life
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yeah but if you're going for platinum you need every weapon so...
Sorry-not-sorry man, but you're wrong again.
There are achievements for acquiring all pyromancies, all sorceries, all miracles and all rings respectively . So before you transpose anything into a weapon you don't want transpose it into spells or rings if possible.

By the way, Snake, have you by chance fought a dude wielding a giant club and a stone greatshield on top of archdragon peak? If so check back above the Wolf of Farron bonfire. There's something hidden for you.
Also if haven't done it yet, use the path of the dragon gesture in front of the altars in the archdragon peak.
sorry not sorry you're a faggot for saying sorry not sorry
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i was thinking of the bloodborne trophy

Also this is the first time I've been wrong in my entire life

Are you sure you weren't only pretending to be wrong


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Can I sell my boss souls if I don't like anything they offer from transposition
yeah but if you're going for platinum you need every weapon so...
Sorry-not-sorry man, but you're wrong again.
There are achievements for acquiring all pyromancies, all sorceries, all miracles and all rings respectively . So before you transpose anything into a weapon you don't want transpose it into spells or rings if possible.

By the way, Snake, have you by chance fought a dude wielding a giant club and a stone greatshield on top of archdragon peak? If so check back above the Wolf of Farron bonfire. There's something hidden for you.
Also if haven't done it yet, use the path of the dragon gesture in front of the altars in the archdragon peak.
sorry not sorry you're a faggot for saying sorry not sorry
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i was thinking of the bloodborne trophy

Also this is the first time I've been wrong in my entire life

Are you sure you weren't only pretending to be wrong


 
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You already beat Oceiros so...

Here are some hints.

You have to be careful with what is behind you, but maybe you should follow them down when you knock the path down....

The path is long and hard, but if you go to the right place and begin to follow it alongside another. You start the path of the [blank].

Looking back at this I still have no fucking clue what you were talking about.


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You already beat Oceiros so...

Here are some hints.

You have to be careful with what is behind you, but maybe you should follow them down when you knock the path down....

The path is long and hard, but if you go to the right place and begin to follow it alongside another. You start the path of the [blank].

Looking back at this I still have no fucking clue what you were talking about.
duh lmao


 
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Need one more Sorcery, a few more pyromancies and a lot of miracles. Need 30 covenant items for some of these so I'm still a ways off from the platinum.


 
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idk why I never had a desire to get all the achievements/trophies for dark souls 3

I platinumed dark souls 2 and played all the way through to NG+7


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Also I wish split damage weapons didn't suck massive dicks


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Guide to literaly the only viable PvP stratagy


40 viggor
40 Dex
40 Strength
40 Endurance

Thorn set
Grasscrest sheild

Chloranthy ring
Ring of favor
invisible roll ting

any of the following weapons

Estoc
Dark Sword
Any Katana
Carthus Curved Sword

Playstyle:
Buff with Fire, Bleed, or Lightning before every fight.

 If your opponent cannot parry you R1 Mash. If they can parry just switch to the biggest weapon you can. It dosnt matter how slow it is, the latency paired with hyper armor will play the game for you.

If your opponent is a sorcerer and manages to sucessfully space you by some miracle of god just throw knives or firebombs. You will outshoot them garunteed. You can also just sidestep and they will literaly never hit you

Dont bother timing rolls. your stamina meter is really just one long invincibility frame meter, roll as long as you want and you will never get hit.

Alternatively you can switch any of these weapons with the Farron great sword or  Gundyr's halberd and spam their special attacks instead. However this costs some of that blue bar, but who cares you;re getting better use out of it than the mages.

Your obsession is pathetic.

I'm fucking right and you know it


 
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idk why I never had a desire to get all the achievements/trophies for dark souls 3

I platinumed dark souls 2 and played all the way through to NG+7

Is DS2 your favourite?


 
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What do you mean "Split Damage"?

I've been using the Gotthard Twinswords and they're badass.


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Also I wish split damage weapons didn't suck massive dicks

What do you mean "Split Damage"?

I've been using the Gotthard Twinswords and they're badass.

On infused weapons, he means. Infusions hurt the weapons more than they help. Some remove scaling entirely and the ones that do give scaling are still nothing to write home about and on top of that you cant buff infured weapons like you could in DS2.

No more Crystal magic Poison Blue flame.


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Also I wish split damage weapons didn't suck massive dicks

What do you mean "Split Damage"?

I've been using the Gotthard Twinswords and they're badass.

On infused weapons, he means. Infusions hurt the weapons more than they help. Some remove scaling entirely and the ones that do give scaling are still nothing to write home about and on top of that you cant buff infured weapons like you could in DS2.

No more Crystal magic Poison Blue flame.
actually I was talking about weapons like the dancers enchanted swords that split there damage into multiple types ( magic, physical, and fire in this case)

The dancers swords (and other weapons that deal damage of multiple types) have to check the defense stats of EACH damage type it uses. This is why the dancers swords can look like they should do 400 damage but only hit for like 100



 
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What do you mean "Split Damage"?

I've been using the Gotthard Twinswords and they're badass.

On infused weapons, he means. Infusions hurt the weapons more than they help.

Even things like Raw, Refined and such?


 
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What do you mean "Split Damage"?

I've been using the Gotthard Twinswords and they're badass.

On infused weapons, he means. Infusions hurt the weapons more than they help. Some remove scaling entirely and the ones that do give scaling are still nothing to write home about and on top of that you cant buff infured weapons like you could in DS2.

No more Crystal magic Poison Blue flame.
actually I was talking about weapons like the dancers enchanted swords that split there damage into multiple types ( magic, physical, and fire in this case)

The dancers swords (and other weapons that deal damage of multiple types) have to check the defense stats of EACH damage type it uses. This is why the dancers swords can look like they should do 400 damage but only hit for like 100

Yeah, the Dancer's Blades blow ass.


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Also I wish split damage weapons didn't suck massive dicks

What do you mean "Split Damage"?

I've been using the Gotthard Twinswords and they're badass.

On infused weapons, he means. Infusions hurt the weapons more than they help. Some remove scaling entirely and the ones that do give scaling are still nothing to write home about and on top of that you cant buff infured weapons like you could in DS2.

No more Crystal magic Poison Blue flame.
actually I was talking about weapons like the dancers enchanted swords that split there damage into multiple types ( magic, physical, and fire in this case)

The dancers swords (and other weapons that deal damage of multiple types) have to check the defense stats of EACH damage type it uses. This is why the dancers swords can look like they should do 400 damage but only hit for like 100

Yeah, the Dancer's Blades blow ass.

Does what I'm saying make sense?

Theoretically the dancers blades should be way better than the twin swords you're using.

Like if you just look at base damages(no upgrades or scalings), gothards are doing 100 physical damage and dancers are doing 79 physical, 62 fire, and 62 magic. That should be over double the damage. But the dancers swords not only have to check the same physical defenses as the other sword, but also the targets magic and fire resist. So they do pitiful damage. There's quite a few weapons in the game like this including a ton of the boss weapons.


 
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What do you mean "Split Damage"?

I've been using the Gotthard Twinswords and they're badass.

On infused weapons, he means. Infusions hurt the weapons more than they help. Some remove scaling entirely and the ones that do give scaling are still nothing to write home about and on top of that you cant buff infured weapons like you could in DS2.

No more Crystal magic Poison Blue flame.
actually I was talking about weapons like the dancers enchanted swords that split there damage into multiple types ( magic, physical, and fire in this case)

The dancers swords (and other weapons that deal damage of multiple types) have to check the defense stats of EACH damage type it uses. This is why the dancers swords can look like they should do 400 damage but only hit for like 100

Yeah, the Dancer's Blades blow ass.

Does what I'm saying make sense?

Theoretically the dancers blades should be way better than the twin swords you're using.

Like if you just look at base damages(no upgrades or scalings), gothards are doing 100 physical damage and dancers are doing 79 physical, 62 fire, and 62 magic. That should be over double the damage. But the dancers swords not only have to check the same physical defenses as the other sword, but also the targets magic and fire resist. So they do pitiful damage. There's quite a few weapons in the game like this including a ton of the boss weapons.

Why don't they patch that? Seems like a huge oversight.


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idk why I never had a desire to get all the achievements/trophies for dark souls 3

I platinumed dark souls 2 and played all the way through to NG+7

Is DS2 your favourite?
I think I just liked it's world the best and I felt like it had way more weapons and spells that were actually fun and viable so I never got tired of playing through it.

Shit I had an entire character dedicated to invading and running around dressed as a butterfly whipping people to death with a poison whip and throwing pots of acid that broke their weapons

I don't think I can call any of them my favorite because they're all the best at one aspect or another