Dark Souls II

I must have tried to fight that medusa over 20 times in the poison pool before I coincidentally encountered a video that didn't have any poison.

Respect

I can't seem to get Lucatiel to survive the Smelter boss, always dies within 10-20% (once 70-65%) of the fight... She can't take anymore than 6-8 hits, and smelters defs is too crazy high for me to kill him quickly (lightning and magic weapons don't make a difference in damage either). On first game, should I give up on this? I've wasted 5 human effigies already, 14 left, I don't even see myself beating this thing (haven't gotten past 50% myself) so I don't see it as being possible.

It doesn't help that the more I attack that less damage I do... then the DoT and AoE...I'm annoyed, frustrated, and lost.

I felt the same way with this boss and the Lost Sinner boss.
If she can't pull her own weight (get the demon past 50% by herself), she isn't worth summoning (although if you go 100% hollow, you get a small damage debuff).
Switch weapons if you need to. ([size=10]cough he can be poisoned[/h])

Just keep trying, my child. If at the first 50 times you don't succeed: keep on succin' till you ceed.


Edit - as much as I was disapointed with this game, I don't want to see somebody stop playing just because of a honorable boss battle.

I spent a few hours mindlessly (sometimes really) trying to kill smelter before/after the post, I don't quite remember, I passed out shortly afterwards. But I looked into some videos (I did not know I could do this) but of people who brought her in with another player (3 vs smelter). I'll try this at some point, from the videos, she doesn't survive in those often either.

(I may have actually failed around 50 times... I kept encountering bugs too, smelter hitting me after I dodged, (instead of being thrown) teleported back into and ending up stuck in a wall, till he has at me. Enemies in the area not spawning, or their hit box not registering unless I entered a certain range from them, to which, this has never happened before. Had the game for a week.)

I wasn't the only one who wasn't completely in love with Dark Souls 2... yay~ Thought I might be too much of a pessimist looking at Dark Souls 2 with negativity and tented nostalgia for Dark Souls.

So, since I'm out of new things to do I challenged myself into making kawaii faces with the character creation. Believe me, doing this is as difficult as playing the game itself but I finally made something worthy of posting here:



Regarding the Smelter Demon, apparently you can throw holy water on him to remove his flame buff.

DS2's April fool joke? :

I hope not.

Solaire was literally a badass who can and will kick your ass to kingdom to come and makes sure you will see the sun.

It sucks to still be waiting for PC release...

Juin the club.

You guys can at least enjoy some ost in the meantime

this one must be the badassest:

I enjoy my badassery when i get my Zweihander and shove it up a darkwraiths ass after I lighting bolt the twat.

While listening to that.

Well it certainly does sound badass, and makes me want Dark souls 2 even more!

Haha I was waiting for the PC version too, but gave up on waiting 2 days after the release and got the ps3 version.

Dat dedication

Your lack of dedication will be your downfall.

So I got an email from Green Man Gaming with a 25% off coupon for the P.C. version. Should I go ahead and bite the bullet at US$37.50?

Go for it.

There is nothing else on the market like Dark Souls 2.

Even with its faults, it still shines more than the recent triple AAA titles

New Game + is really a different kind of monster... Changing specs from melee to caster for this run, though. What is your favorite build so far?

PC footage, steady 60fps/1080p, slightly better textures but no cool lighting effects. I'd double dip to be honest.

Indeed indeed.