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[dark souls] I don't care for the giant's tomb
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go through a ten minute long boss run full of enemies who are impossible to run past and who can also kill you almost effortlessly
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to fight a boss who has special mechanics that require me to switch to shittier weapons that scale with stats I don't have
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who has so far killed me in under ten seconds every time I've gotten to him
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walk around without a lantern? get ambushed and die
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walk around with a lantern? get hit with no shield out, and die
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there's so many hazards and they just seem impossible to mitigate
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you have to deal with all of them at full power every single time through
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Fuck the Dog Skeletons
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I can kill everything there in 2 hits and it's still a fucking nightmare
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Once you reach the second bonfire you can run past all the doggo skellymen instead of fighting them
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c... can you
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...is there a bonfire I don't know about
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There’s two bonfires in there. The one by Patches is the first one
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well
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where the fuck is the second one
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Haha you think I can describe how to navigate in the fucking tomb of the giants
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I'd settle for "is it before ar after the baby skeleton room"
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I guess it has to be before because that leads right into nito
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before, yeah
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Yeah it’s before the baby skeleton room. Right before you get to the part that has light.
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I'm running into walls on every front
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my main weapon does like 10% damage to the enemies in the archives
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tomb of the giants is a hellhole
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and new londo just
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sucks
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all around
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it's on a slightly hidden path leading kind of backwards, before the hole with the tiny ladder
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I had this notion in my head that the difficulty of DS1 drops off substantially after O&S
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either this is not the case or my build is just dogshit
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oh here's a room where I need to fight a colossal murderous flesh mound, multiple death knights, and 850 ghosts simultaneously
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at this point I'm just trying to clear this run to prove to myself that I've still got even the vaguest idea how to beat this game anymore
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maybe I just need to admit that I just hate dex builds
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it seems out of character but I have literally never once finished any souls game with a dex weapon
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and I don't know if I ever will
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every souls game I'm going to get a medium-sized weapon and a midroll and the heaviest shield I can manage
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nothing else EVER fucking works
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curved swords and katanas do have the very serious problem of doing slash damage
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The Worst Damage Type
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do normal swords not do slash damage
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no
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there's a Normal damage type
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what... do they do
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WHAT
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literally why, dark souls
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so I guess dex builds are just...
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sacrificing all my armor and poise
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to do less damage
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I think a good general practice
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is to have a slashing sword and a rapier
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the big name dex weapons don't even attack faster!
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both
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why did I bother!
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also like
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the lifehunt scythe swings like a strength weapon
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there's no reason you can't have heavy armor on a dex build
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strength and endurance are separate stats
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I wanted to play with the fast roll
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but I guess roll has nothing to do with weapon type
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and instead just means I can't use any good armor
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fuck this run
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yeah
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I wanted to play a Quick Guy
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and instead I have a slow, plodding weapon that doesn't work half the time and also kills me if I overuse it
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and can do a backflip but fold in half in two hits from anything
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I have a couple questions
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1.) would you be willing to try and salvage this build
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2.) got any Twinkling
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1. I'm dubious but maybe
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2. some
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hm, well, you can always buy more from the Giant Blacksmith
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I have 40 end, 30 dex, 25ish vit
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level 71
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but if you were looking to become Spammy McFast
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I'd direct your attention away from katanas and scythes
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and go with maybe, so you don't have to worry about Titanite Slabs,
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Ricard's Rapier?
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sold it
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well if you've got normal titanite, a normal Rapier shouldn't be bad either
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Estoc is somewhat slower but has more reach and some swingy moves
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I'd have to adjust to doing so much less damage at this point that I might be better off starting over rather than trying to learn a new play style against endgame enemies
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fair
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maybe do the opposite of this
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light fast weapon + midroll
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good curved sword that doesn't use a slab, if you want to go thrust/slash sidearms: Ciaran's gold one
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that'll be something to consider if I survive 60 hours into another playthrough
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to get to, like, just short of endgame
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really an underconsidered element of which weapons are good picks imo is when you get them
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an amazing weapon you get 90% of the way through the game is great... for 10% of the game
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maybe a lightning rapier
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I started over and I am LOVING the estoc
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a forest knight or a titanite demon overcommits to a whiff and I can attack FIVE TIMES before they recover
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shield poke + rapid-fire R1 stab + R2 swing is a fantastic kit