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What character are you gonna make for your first playthrough?
I think I'll stick with the same template I used for DaS 1 & DaS 2.
>deprived
>quality build
>longsword + winged spear
>alternatively swap longsword for battleaxe
>>332423558
>Longsword
Dude be more boring, I see all these people opting for a quality build and then sticking with a boring ass straight sword.
Nyuqa, if you're already doing a quality build, why not use as much weapons as possible, vary your fucking moveset, try out new weapon types that you rarely use.
Get interesting or go die!
sword for regular enemies, magic for bosses
>>332423907
On later playthroughs.
Axe is a possibility too, but I don't like the later overdesigned weapons.
>>332423558
>>332423907
ya do estoc and parrying dagger
>>332423558
>Start pyromancer
>Get 3 attunement slots
>Pump Strength, Vitality, Endurance
>Use heaviest looking weapon i can find
My first build in DeS and DaS2
Claymore tier weapon + greatshield
I like fast weapons
Especially since they were so useful in Demons
>>332424105
Does pyro scale off INT and FTH like in 2 or is it totally independent like in 1?
>>332424090
>Estoc and parrying dagger
Nigga, if youre already going str/dex at 27/40, then use as much weapons as you can, by the time you get to the late game, you'll be able to upgrade way more weapons to +9 easily, so utilize those levels and vary your arsenal!
>>332424271
might be independent again cause there's still hexes
>>332424271
No idea, I hope it's independent, Tho i doubt they'll change it up very much, It'll probably still just be increase base damage by upgrading pyromancy flame.
>>332424271
I think it scales off INT and FTH.
In DaS 1 the pyromancy glove scaled off INT, so you got more damage as an INT pyro, although, base pyro damage was good enough so people seldom use an INT pyro build.
>>332424306
>vary your arsenal
>he doesn't just pick one weapon he knows is almost universally good and use it the whole game
>>332424027
>magic for bosses
What a pussy
>>332423558
DEX+INT, as always.
Fell comfortable with that build. The only thing I want to change is to stop using katanas, since it became a mark of a raging faggot with release of DaS2. I love the weapon but don't want to be associated with that group of people in any way. Maybe I'll switch it for an ordinary knight'ish longsword and will be slapping some Magic Weapon on it every now and then.
>>332424428
>In DaS 1 the pyromancy glove scaled off INT
That only applied to slapping people with it. It didn't affect the spell damage.
I'm going to be a dick ass thief, might put a fee points in to INT so I can use magic weapon as well.
>>332423558
This game seems a lot faster, so might opt for a DEX build.
DEX just hasn't been strong in DaS and DaS2. Sure it was viable, and could wreck shit in PvP (with a shitton of buffs), but for PvE, STR was almost always the way to go.
Poise damage is just too good in these games. Hopefully they switched it around with DaS3. Haven't seen shit about the game yet and plan to keep it that way.
pure dex
I'm liking most of the mechanical choices they went with, I mean the game seems to be alot like DaS 2 under the hood with DaS 1 animations and Bb fluidity.
Although poise seems to be useless right now, even more than DaS 2 was, hopefully they patch that shit.
>>332424502
Why would you use magic on normal enemies? What's the point there?
>>332424539
Did not know that.
>>332424528
>so scared of being anonymously associated with other anonymous people that you forego using the weapon type you love
Fuck you're beta.
>>332423558
I'm planning on a paladin build, using miracles and probably a greatsword. My only doubt is if I start from the knight or from the herald.
>>332424552
Really?
I always found it much easier when using light, relatively fast weapons like straight swords and spears.
Things like ultra greatswords certainly hit for a lot and stagger, but I always find it hard to get the timings down properly.
>>332424528
I hate to break it to you, but katanas have been the calling card of the tryhard faggot for four games now, anon. Starting with LMAO 2KAT in DaS.
im going full dex and i'm actually gonna upgrade my bow before the last boss.
i don't want to worry about where the NPCs are in my first playthrough.
>>332424592
>Not having separate midget muncher spells and boss blaster spells
I'm thinking priest but herald is too sexy, perfect template for roleplaying a paladin, so I will probably go herald the first time.
>>332424732
>I'm planning on a paladin build
I loved that in DaS 1 - 30 fth for buffs, support spells and the occassional WoG, which still leaves you with a lot of options to invest in.
I loved the versatility you get from it.
>>332424528
But the katana so look even better this time around with the weapon arts! I usually use greatswords but I've been thinking about making a dex build just to use katanas.
Thinking about going herald and using a halberd weapon with some points in faith to use buffs
>>332424820
I do, but some of the games like to throw a lot of midgets at you on the way to the boss
Holy magic and a massive fucking weapon
The classics
>>332424770
Who cares honestly, The iato looks cool as shit and i'll probably use it for my second run
What bothers me about DS weapon designs is that they are either 1:1 representations of real weapons or absolutely unrealistic animu shit. Why can't they make fantasy weapons that would still work in the real world?
Haven't played DS3 so I can't speak but at least the weapons I've seen so far look good. Hope there aren't many UGS, that shit is gross
>>332424770
Who cares? Unless you are one of the obnoxious fucks who just spam the running attack constantly in PvP it matters not all what weapon you use.
wait what do bows scale with in DaS3?
prolly gonna do an archer build
>>332425069
>Hope there aren't many UGS, that shit is gross
I agree with you, but on the other hand the games have enough weapon variety to satisfy both people who want more realistic looking things and those who made animu shit.
FAITH BUILD LIGHTNING SPAM COMPLAIN WHEN IM INVADED RINSE REPEAT
Heide Spear if it's still in
>>332424753
in dark souls 2 if you used a heavy weapon by the in new game you were just robbing yourself of damage. a buffed faster weapon melts bosses where as the nonbuffed/buffed heavy weps would more damage per hit but less dps overall. Just try buffing a dagger against the bosses and watching the hp drain.
>>332424993
>>332425081
The anon I replied to apparently does, I was just letting him know that nobody has ever liked katana users.
>>332425069
>Why can't they make fantasy weapons that would still work in the real world?
Because Dark Souls was never built on reality, it was built on Kingsfield and stuff like D&D where your character could always do crazy shit.
That's like bitching about the plausibility of mechs in Armored Core. You're missing the fucking point, it's cool.
>>332425386
If NOBODY ever liked them, there wouldn't be any katana users
>>332425427
Sorry but I don't think that a sword that is as big as the character looks cool. Quelags fury sword is a perfect example of how to do the more fantastical weapons right and even then it's a little too much for me, but better than the Dragon Tooth
>>332426350
>Sorry but I don't think that a sword that is as big as the character looks cool.
You're right.
We need to go bigger. We need a 55 meter tall mech that carries a katana that uses nanomachines to transform into a giant western blade so huge it can cleave a battleship in half. And it'll be piloted by a German knight that idolizes the samurai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3g_DQmjMb0
>>332426868
>this is what weebs actually believe
>>332426868
I'm not a weeb so I don't like this thrash, but I'd say it's more passable because it's cartoons doing it. Not a game that tries to have a realistic aesthetic
>>332427010
>not liking things just because they're cool.
>>332427010
>thinking it's just a weeb thing and not a japan thing
Fun fact: shonen style "hot blood" in anime comes from old Imperial Janpanese cultural propaganda that said that the Japanese man was superior to all others that walked the earth because only Japanese people actually had feelings. Everyone else just had shitty half-feelings that were obviously inferior to the feelings that Japanese men could feel.
Other races needed to use inferior crutches like logic and reason to decide what the correct course of action was, but the Japanese man could simply FEEL what was right and what to do.
It was what supposedly defined them as the master race, and was their justification for why all other peoples were inferior and you didn't have to feel bad about anything that you did to them because it showed they were not 'real people' like you.
Imperial Japan told its soldiers that the power of their emotion would make them unstoppable and that reason was for lesser races.
>>332423558
Definetly quality build, either warrior or knight.
Paladin build with claymore
>>332427535
>Other races needed to use inferior crutches like logic and reason to decide what the correct course of action was, but the Japanese man could simply FEEL what was right and what to do.
mfw
>>332423558
Quality build obviously to try out the various weapons.
>playing a knight
How does it feel to be an unoriginal fag?if you do play one i hope you use a cool weapon like mace or halberd
>>332428157
He'll probably use a long sword, and then do a quality build to boot.
These boring ass fags waste alot of levels on both dex/str and end up using the most boring build/weapon ever.
Katana, black armor, flowing cape, maximum edge
basically this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIQJpBDvxIs
STR/FAI all the way.
>>332428315
>having the ability to try out as many weapons as possible for a first playthrough
>boring
You're retarded.
>>332423558
Magic or archer because everyone and their fucking mother is going for a melee build.
explain to a noob. How much do stats matter? Do you have to play through the entire game to get noticeably different stats?
I don't really see the appeal to the RPG stats desu. I think of it as an action game
>>332429237
>archer
kek, enjoy dealing 200 damage a hit when a melee build would be dealing 500
>>332429162
My friend, you lack reading comprehension.
The boring part was wasting point in quality only to end up using a longsword, like most shitty DaS players do, Personally I'll do a quality build too, but I'll be leveling up as much weapons as I possibly can!
>>332429320
Ok.
>>332423558
The long sword with quality infusion is damm good. The blue knight at high wall has a quality infusion gem
>>332429481
No spoilers please.
Herald.
Looks like it would be good for quality / faith.
>>332424753
STR is literally easy mode PvE in DaS. Both of them. PvP whole different story.
Once you get to super late (120+), DEX might get more viable due to the ability to buff yourself to hell and back.
>>332429376
Oh I get you.
I'm not your friend, pal.
>>332429523
THE PROTAGONIST DIES
>>332429706
As if I meant it, fucktard!
>>332423558
>dks2
>quality build
scaling and how scaling works is shit in dark souls 2
stick to elemental damage in dark souls 2 unless you are doing robflynn
>>332423558
I'm going to look into the game first. Magic if its decent, like it was on the RELEASE of DaS2, but otherwise, probably just strength with big fuck weapons.
>>332428540
>onlyafro video
>>332429706
He isn't your pal bud
Also based Cleric one more time, did it in every single Souls game my strongest being in DaS Wotg maxed kat with Darkmoon blade and maxed occult washing pole
>>332430126
what are you implying
HERALD
SPEARS
>>332428540
Fuck off memester.
Masked weirdo with a club and maybe some magic
>>332430242
I'm doing it ironically so its okay
>>332430126
It's cool, he's one of us; unless you're neo/v/, in which case go away.
>>332430205
That you're a faggot.
MOONLIGHT
the one and only
>>332429290
You can complete the game without leveling any stats but it would be like playing a shooter using only a knife.
Possible but the enemies will fuck you up.
>>332430364
it doesn't look as good in DS3 compared to BB
but i didn't use its power up ability so thats maybe why
>>332423558
Can't decide if I want to go quality first or dex with a dash of faith. Is the Darkmoon buff still in? I didn't see it on fextralife but I think there was some buffs that might be been equivalent
>>332430364
This
Going for a Knight + Halberd build and then reset to INT Moonlightfag
>>332430512
Halberd is literally BadScythe
>>332430330
>one of us
he's /vg/ but he's despised there now for being one of the most obnoxious people who have ever posted
can't say i disagree with him, he's been shitting up the entire dark souls community with shitty memes such as giantdad and "git gud casual"
>>332423558
Knight for high vit and lowest wasted points on faith into and luck
plan on using a slew of ultra class weapons so I can two hand them and pancake the influx of le twitch parry faggots who don't know any better.
>>332430486
It wasn't that great in BB. Can't believe they made it a quality weapon. It should always be a hard magic weapon.
>>332430486
can you show me some DS3 Moonlight pics, i haven't seen it yet
>>332430681
I know, but I happen to love Halberds since DS1, that fucking weapon carried me on my first playthrough against Jimmy and Timmy.
I've been maining halberd since then.
>>332423558
Whip for Castlevania Souls
And dual caestus for God Hand Souls
Gonna make a mage since magic is mana instead of cast amount. Never tried magic in a souls game outside of basic pyromancy to cheese bosses.
>>332424492
but it was shit senpai
getting the zweihander instead was so much better or the katana
How is magic in this one?
>>332431182
I'd recommend making a pyro instead of a sorcerer, sorcery is extremely fucking weak in DS3 so you should wait for them to buff it in a patch
>>332430236
holy fuck anon
my childhood in that picture
>>332428157
I mostly play heavy warrior with knight armor and a 2 handed weapon that is not too heavy
>>332431182
Haven't tried in ds3 but magic seems nerfed because of the stuff you mentioned.
In ds2 you could spam until you run out of casts but now you can easily run out of mana as it doesn't regenerate but need estus.
>>332431374
Really? I figured it would be really strong like in the other games. Pyro is still strong though?
>>332431667
It doesn't regenerate? I knew you could use estus but I figured it had some regen. There has to be an item that does that though, right?
>>332423558
Str to 40, ignoring all other stats until. Then health and stamina. Use strongest weapon, probably a great hammer, and smash through everything.
>>332423558
Quality build with whatever weapon I find that looks interesting.
What do we know about weapon balance so far?
>>332431801
offensive sorceries and miracles in DS3 have terrible damage scaling, most of them do less damage than non-crit damage from a dagger
pyromancer is easy mode though
Knight
Dump points into Str/Dex, with some points into vig/end/vit as needs be. Might experiment with Luck to meme with bleed damage
Alternate between caestus and greatsword
>tfw 2 weeks left
Is bow-based run viable? Or would it be to expensive to keep buying arrows?
>>332423558
I'm gonna look everywhere to see if I can find a Demon's Greataxe and roll full strength
gonna do a guts build as per tradition with me since its my first character every souls game. wouldnt even care about dark souls if i hasnt read berserk years prior.
>>332432770
who cares if something is too expensive
soul memory is gone! you can farm and buy all you want without getting punished for it
and arrows will probably be like 10-50 souls each so it wont be too expensive
no idea
I was thinking about going DEX pyromancer like I did originally in DaS, going for a hex spellsword build like in DaS2 (dual wielding Mace of the Insolent), or going for an archery build (which I actually really enjoyed in DaS2, and I suppose will be even better this game)
Hell, I'll roll for it
0-2: dex pyro
3-6: closest thing to dual wield hex
7-9: archery
>>332432770
I think you can only carry 99 arrows at a time, which fucks bow runs in the ass.
>>332433292
I was wondering is the retarded "enemies not appearing after you kill them x amount of times" thing gone as well?
because that was fucking retarded
Fair warning to anyone hoping to use offensive sorceries and miracles, the scaling is currently ultra-bugged to the point of basically not functioning at all, so you better hope they fix it by western release.
>>332433504
Enemies always respawn now, it isn't like it was in DS2.
>>332433504
Yeah, that's gone.
>>332424105
>>332424105
lol exactly what i do
Knight
Quality
Halberd
Some faster one handed weapon
Some sort of bowFarron Greatsword when it's available
>>332423558
>deprived
>Dragonslayer build
>DS Spear & demon fist for fun parries/punches
add some INT for cheesy PVE magic
LEAK
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Can't decide between starting as a Cleric or Herald.
I love the Herald's armor, but I want the Mace.
Do we have their starting stats?
27/40 quality
I wanna use a bunch of stuff.
>>332433489
Wth couldn't you carry 999 arrows in the previous souls? Surely that'll get patched
>>332424492
that's a bad weapon.
Atm, nothing.
If I manage to "win" a copy from Umaru-fag or anyone else, then probably a generic sword and board Knight.
>>332433504
That shit's gone now.
G R E A T L A N C E S
>>332435345
Nice blog
>>332433489
No way that's true.
The Fume Knight Great Ultra Sword looks fun, so I guess i'm gonna need STR.
>>332435486
Nice meme.
>>332435036
give me about two hours
>>332435573
I don't know why they brought that giant slab of meme back. 90% of the people playing are going to end up using it because of how ridiculously powerful it is.
I've always rolled quality knight and used mostly greatswords and polearms in heavy armor in 1 and 2 so this time I want to try out a dex katana/rapier/estoc build.
>>332435781
>2 hours
That's not how you spell "no."
Str/Fth build.
The Frosty guy's mace looks cool. What is the new Frost status anyways?
>>332435781
>le two hours meme
Stop posting this meme faggot, you have been saying two hours for 5 days now
What is a quality build?
>>332435970
Level 1 Deprived No Armor run.
I just wanna go full Guts in this game
What aspects of DS2 aren't in this game?
>>332423558
CLAYMORE
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>>332435970
Basically you half and half STr and DEX, usually to 40/40 and use weapons that scale with both evenly.
>>332423558
guts build, gotta get that abyss watchers sword
>>332436301
Soul memory
Despawning enemies
Plastic armor
Generally being shit
>>332435964
Stop asking when it's going to leak retard, if it was gonna leak it would have happened days ago.
Was gonna gonna go Paladin, but I heard Tarkus armor is back, so I'm doing that instead.
>>332424528
>DEX+INT
STR+VIG or go home mr fancy pansy
>dexfags
>>332423558
Templar Knight, the only way to play it
>Armor
>Polearms
>Miracles
>>332425526
Nobody has ever liked katana users. Katanas are different.
As a weapon class they've always have had try hard movesets, phantom-reach, and good comboing potential. Newbs hate them because they're great pvp weapons. Shitters hate them because they got invaded by someone wearing all black and wielding one. Vets hate them because they've always been kinda bullshit in some way in every game. Hipsters who shout Deus Vult hate them because they're not a great sword. People who watch plague and skallgrim hate them because they're parrots who can't form their own opinions.
I went Great Sword in DeS, Zweihander in DaS, Greatsword in DaS2, and Ludwig's in BB.
Think I'm gonna go with Fume's in DaS3, unless another UGS catches my eye.
I'M DOWNLOADING IT RIGHT NOW
SUCK IT PKEKS
CONSOLES WIN AGAIN
>>332437483
>STR+VIG
You're supposed to only list the damage stats, so it would just be STR. It is assumed you raise the other stats as well.
>>332437653
I love katana usersin DeS
2KAT
2KAT!!
>>332437809
look at the meme police over here
>>332423558
Gonna make a total anime fuccboi, find the witch set and the trap ring and chill out.
In the hopes that offensive miracles won't be absolute dogshit like in DS2, thanks B-Team, i'll go and try to be your friendly neighbourhood paladin, swinging around a mace, wearing heavy armor and shooting lightning spears.
>>332424528
>ashamed of katanas
Good, go, we don't need sackless men in our ranks.
>>332423558
Hexer to the max.
>>332438425
Actually fuck that, i just remembered that Dual Weapons exist. What's a good idea for using miracles and some dual blades?
>>332437809
>It is assumed you raise the other stats as well.
nah just cap stamina bar and then dump points in STR and VIG
probably will do a faggy Darkmoon blade build instead of my usual though
>>332430330
>trap
>one of us
>>332438631
Hexes suck now apparently.
Herald, for dem miracles heals and buffs.
Medium shield.
I hope Curved Greatswords will be good, I just loved them in DaS 2.
