Maskim: You can get the mausoleum key from Ostrava's corpse, as long as you don't die or go back to the nexus before you get it. I already have my Northern Regalia, so if I can summon you (dunno since our levels are so far apart if I could summon you) I'd be willing to drop the mausoleum key I currently have in my inventory for you. As far as 50k souls for one attribute point, tell me about it. I'm at around Soul Level 120, and paying over 90k for one point. Killing the reaper at the beginning of 4-2, then jumping off the cliff to respawn it instantly helps a lot for getting some levels. Have enough for one attribute point after only a couple minutes of that. Was the halloween thing cool? I played a bit on halloween, and didn't notice anything at all. I got bored looking for something special and ended up just summoning blue phantoms in front of the penetrator fight and casting resurrection on them the instant they joined for about 20 minutes. Got one angry message, and a lot of happy people who sent me thank you's via psn.
You can get the mausoleum key from Ostrava's corpse, as long as you don't die or go back to the nexus before you get it. I already have my Northern Regalia, so if I can summon you (dunno since our levels are so far apart if I could summon you) I'd be willing to drop the mausoleum key I currently have in my inventory for you.
As far as 50k souls for one attribute point, tell me about it. I'm at around Soul Level 120, and paying over 90k for one point. Killing the reaper at the beginning of 4-2, then jumping off the cliff to respawn it instantly helps a lot for getting some levels. Have enough for one attribute point after only a couple minutes of that.
Was the halloween thing cool? I played a bit on halloween, and didn't notice anything at all. I got bored looking for something special and ended up just summoning blue phantoms in front of the penetrator fight and casting resurrection on them the instant they joined for about 20 minutes. Got one angry message, and a lot of happy people who sent me thank you's via psn.
Halloween weekend was PBWT push from the server. You could get all 5 worlds PB just by logging off/on a couple of times outside of nexus.
PBWT was great for farming ores... but damn my arrows on the PBWT 1-4 blue dragon were doing 30 damage or less ROFL, sou ray was like 35 dmg... holy smokes that's a lot of spice
Any advice on where the heck beggars armor or Rogues armor is? My toon is female so I need it.. dark silver etc.. no good
Beggar armor is in the swamp in 5-2, it's either dropped by a slug or lying around around on a corpse. I'd have given you mine, but I dropped it to pick something else up since my character is male.
Atheist: Beggar armor is in the swamp in 5-2, it's either dropped by a slug or lying around around on a corpse. I'd have given you mine, but I dropped it to pick something else up since my character is male.
Yeah that's the slug I can't find, I've already killed the slugs nest and the 4 giant gobs... maybe I killed the slug w/ the Beg Armor but did not pick it up the first 10X I died in the swamp?
Is it closer to 5-2 archstone or more near 5-3 arch backtracking to 5-2? Thanks.
For what it's worth, I think it's closer going back from 5-3. But you likely already killed the slug and didn't pick up the armor, and thus you'll need to get it in NG+.
Maskim:You can get the mausoleum key from Ostrava's corpse, as long as you don't die or go back to the nexus before you get it. I already have my Northern Regalia, so if I can summon you (dunno since our levels are so far apart if I could summon you) I'd be willing to drop the mausoleum key I currently have in my inventory for you.
Appreciate the offer, but from the sound of things you're likely close to soul lvl 90-100 and i'm just under 70, so summoning won't work for the time being. Not a big deal to me if I don't get Northern Regalia on my first time through - I've made some mis-steps along the way on my first game but that will just give me more reason to play a New Game+ after beating it.
Ostrava's blood is on my hands anyway: my first time fighting the blue dragon resulted in me becoming a quick BBQ. The second time I played it too conservative and tried standing back at the second bridge and trying to take him down with arrows, which was too time consuming and resulted in Ostrava's death. I ran to loot his corpse and hit a restriction on weight just before being BBQ'd again - think I got everything except his boots and the key. Third time through I lowered his health to half by sinking ~200 arrows into him on the first bridge, avoiding his fire breath and stood directly under him on the second bridge while locking on and unloading with Fire Spray - much easier for my character to pull off.
Going to try and wrap this game up over the next week in preparation for MW2 consuming my gaming time for the foreseeable future. DS will definitely be a keeper for me - I can squeeze alot of replay value out of it between New Game+ and making different character types.
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Yea, I wasn't sure summoning would work. Sounds like it won't. I'm soul level 120+
Don't feel bad about killing Ostrava. I was making a point to kill no one this play through. Then during the Penetrator fight, when Biorr was helping me, I cast poison cloud on Penetrator. No effect, but it did poison Biorr. I sat by and watched after the fight was finished and in the middle of me talking to him he collapsed.
Once I'd killed an npc anyways, I went back and got the two I wanted to kill. Yurt and Satsuke. Try to use my Makoto on me, you bastich. I'm at the point where I need 1 1/2 more playthroughs to 100% this game. Have all but two of the special weapons, missing 2 rings, and have about 75% of the spells. If only I could give the yellow soul to Urbain and Freke I'd only need one more playthrough.
I think I'm going to remain addicted to DS until I get pc version of Dragon Age. My ps3 one already shipped from amazon, but in light of reports of bad frame rates and such, and since I'll be getting a new laptop with financial aid in the coming weeks, I think I'll just play it on pc.
Maskim:Don't feel bad about killing Ostrava.
The only thing I feel bad about: That if he had to die, I wasn't the one who killed him.
I was trying to hold off on killing NPCs until my second game. I accidentally hurt/pissed-off the Crestfallen Warrior NPC who sits (and complains) by the first archstone by falling on top of him. Next time in the Nexus there was only a soul where he was normally sitting - kind of panicked until I did a quick lookup and realized that he eventually does that anyway. That experience didn't stop me from quickly quitting and reloading my game when I did the same thing to damage Sage Freke - I need my spells and couldn't afford to piss him off.
Maskim:I think I'm going to remain addicted to DS until I get pc version of Dragon Age. My ps3 one already shipped from amazon, but in light of reports of bad frame rates and such, and since I'll be getting a new laptop with financial aid in the coming weeks, I think I'll just play it on pc.
Enjoy DA:O - I'll be getting to it and Borderlands eventually. Not even considering what games I'll match to get on Goozex, DS and MW2 will be more than enough to keep me a happy gamer for months to come.
So, I started my own play of this title last night and holy cow...awesome. First impression went well.
A very robust character creator left me a bit overwhelmed. While you can never have too much customization, I tend to not know what to do with all the sliders...lol.
The tutorial was pretty neat, giving me a taste of combat and its innate difficulty...nearly died early on! The tutorial was all I got to play so far, but I'm pretty pumped; I had to stop because my wife wanted to see me play this and I was only willing to sneak in a little. By the way, you ARE supposed to die at the end of the tutorial...right? I got all pumped to fight that big boss and did one fancy dodge...only to be one-shotted and swiped down. I was like "Shit...I really DO suck at this!" only to see the story continue...
Sorry Mech, but by the time I got your message I'd already picked a thief, my general playstyle in RPGs...though I'm not sure this game actually has any form of thievery in it so IDK why I picked the generally less combat oriented char...but whatever. I tend to like to make things super hard anyways on myself.
The integration of others floating around, the bloodstains, etc, was awesome as well...a small feature I'm surprised we haven't seen sooner and one that amazed my PC playing friends when I described it.
Overall, this is looking to be a solid title, even if based on the combat style alone!
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Kenny007: By the way, you ARE supposed to die at the end of the tutorial...right?
By the way, you ARE supposed to die at the end of the tutorial...right?
Yep. I was confused by this at first, too.
Another DS question that I was pondering and also was raised by my PC friends. Can this game be played truly single player? Down the road (way down the road I hope, the feature is awesome) when the servers close, can the game still be played? Can you rez yourself if you die without invading others? Will the game play at all?
I figured you probably could, but I wasn't sure, especially since I've only played the tutorial.
Kenny007: Another DS question that I was pondering and also was raised by my PC friends. Can this game be played truly single player? Down the road (way down the road I hope, the feature is awesome) when the servers close, can the game still be played? Can you rez yourself if you die without invading others? Will the game play at all? I figured you probably could, but I wasn't sure, especially since I've only played the tutorial.
I know I've been able to play while not being connected to the Internet, so I don't see a problem there. And you can also rez by defeating a boss.
timpysan: And you can also rez by defeating a boss.
And you can also rez by defeating a boss.
Is that possible in the weakened state of a phantom? Don't they have half HP or some such?
Kenny007: timpysan: And you can also rez by defeating a boss. Is that possible in the weakened state of a phantom? Don't they have half HP or some such?
They have fewer HP but their attacks also do more damage.
You can also use a stone of Epermeral (Sp?) Eyes, which aren't too hard to come across (I have like thiry in the bank). You'll find an item called the Cling Ring in the first area (1-1,) which brings your max health up to 75% (Unless you have pure black character tendancy like myself, then it's only ~60%.)
The Theif class is basically about using daggers and a light shield for parrying, as well as a bow to engauge. They usually are pretty good at getting backstabs, and daggers have a huge multiplier for this.
To play offline, all you have to do is sign out of your PSN account on the XMB while in game. It can be played entierly offline, if for some reason you feel the need to. Though you'll lack messages and bloodstains, as well as Blue Phantoms...
Oh, I'd never want to play offline, it was more of a hypothetical 'In the future' question. I actually read the short EULA for DS and it said they could go down anytime after 4/9/2010, so I just got to wondering what WOULD happen if that were to pass.
Is there any form of stealth to enable one to backstab, or is this accomplished by positioning during battle only?
I did play with the bow a bit, and while I liked the FPS aspect of it, bows are generally too slow for my liking, so if I can avoid using it for most of my travels, without gimping my char, I just might.