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man, I can barely beat the tutorial without dying
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Some areas would just be nightmares
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I've clawed my way back to No Man's Warf
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YEAH FUCKING NO MAN'S WHARF
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damn that labyrinth of identical-looking darkness-obscured buildings
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I guess the best thing to do would be start on NG+ (so you have endgame gear)
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and those fucking poison guys with the big arms
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do no optional areas or bosses
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who you fight 200 of at once
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in fact don't even go to no man's wharf, go around the other way
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th
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there's another way???
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Yeah
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I did not know this
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where is it I hate no man's wharf
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There's two ways to get tot eh Bastille
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...
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oh right
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bastille is next
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I'll... I'll stick with the wharf
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first is through Heide's Tower then into No Man's Wharf
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the other way is to beat the Pursuer in forest of the giants and then get carried over by the Pursuer's bird
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ahhh pursuer is hard too...
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everything in DS2 is hard
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which too-hard route will I take to the even more too hard zone that follows
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ANyway yeah, avoid no man's wharf altogether, and then JUST do the main areas, don't even touch anything else
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but even then man
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game is hard
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I just one-lifed Manus, Father of the Abyss
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and I'm terrified of the early-mid game of DS2
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I honestly don't know why you have such a hard time with DS2 haha. Like you just TORE through sections of Dark Souls 1 that gave me SO MUCH TROUBLE.
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it is a fucking mystery man
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actually
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I think I might know what it is?
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I play big fat tanks and don't roll much. That's my idiom.
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Put up a massive shield and laugh at the people on the other side.
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That works really well in DS1.
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It doesn't seem to work well in DS2.
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Mmm, yes. That seems fair.
majinken
well, for a new player, no mans wharf has some NICE items hidden in it
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And Gavlan
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I never had much luck trying to tank up in DS2.
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Gavlan WHeel. Gavlan deal.
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I need to actually learn attack patterns and shit
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my biggest problem I have with the combat system is how easily you get staggered
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like, if you get hit once, get ready to get hit six times
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Couldn't you also like, just grind up a million souls and skip the great souls :|a
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I mean that would be tedious, but if you were really playing it safe...
majinken
I did that. Accidentally
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That's true!
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Although you would still need to beat Lost Bastille/Sinner's rise to get a fragrant branch of yore to GET tot he shrine of winter
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But on the other hand farming is actually one of the most dangerous things you can do in this game
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grinding that is
majinken
Or get the one from the gutter
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when you grind an area over and over your brain goes on autopilot
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and when your brain goes on autopilot, stupid deaths result
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And then you can't grind anymore
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Well grinding/farming tend to be among the few things magic is actually good for in this game, sob
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Like in the first game, you can usually oneshot the sentinels outside of Ornstein and Smough's room with your best spells and get lots of souls really quickly