The amount of fun I'm having fantasizing about Porky's anal desires is definitely worrying.
Nice, I did not see that one coming. It would appear I too have the humour of a 12 years old.
Supposedly, it pierces through enemies and should be able to hit additional enemies behind the main target. At my level (with 25 Strength), it also does more damage than a regular R1, and it can be boosted by the Shard of Alexander (with bows, you really need all the damage boosts you can get).
Nice fight, surely looked a bit tense in places. Did you die using a sacrificial twig before this attempt?
No sacrificial twig: you can see there are my runes in the arena and, with the twig, you leave no blood (tree?) pool when you die. I got myself killed because I wisely entered the fight for the first time with an unupgraded weapon. Honestly, it was still doable, but it would have taken far too long. I did use the twig against Rykard, though: I entered the arena the first time just to get the weapon and die, so that I could upgrade it for the rematch.
And I'm not even building towards tankiness. I'm using neither the Great-Jar's Arsenal nor the Dragoncrest Shield Talisman. I'm not even wearing full armor: most of the times, I'm running around only with the chest piece.
Oh, I was saying that due the fact that you still had 30k+ souls banked up. How come?
I popped a rune to upgrade the weapon. Since I don't really care about runes, I cracked the biggest one I had.
I know it doesn't mean much but, for me, parrying when the weapon starts to move towards you works 99% of the times. So far, it didn't work only against the Godskin Apostle and various minor very quick attacks from random mobs that luckily don't deal much damage.
Buckler and small shields should share the same amount of parry frames (11), but the buckler window is supposed to start sooner (which means it's not only in your head: you have to react a bit later with the buckler). This reddit post says the buckler has more frames, but I'm not buying it. Golden Parry and Carian Retaliation take the best of both worlds (and add a bit more on top of it): they start earlier like the buckler (which is good to react to quick attacks), but also have more parry frames (supposedly 14), which means you're covered even by parrying with the same timing of a small shield. Golden Parry also parries in a non-negligible area in front of you, so you don't have to stick close to the enemy and can better maneuver around him. If you also consider that you can put Golden Parry on a medium shield to get 100% protection against physical attacks, it's clear that's the ultimate parry tool. I guess there's the FP cost, but I've never emptied my starting bar in any bossifight so far, and you can always use the cerulean dagger if you feel paranoid.
Excellent, your mind unconsciously forced you to get rid of an uncouth and ungentlemanly weapon, I see no downsides to this development.
Oh, if you consider the Moonveil an uncouth weapon, you most definitely won't like what I have in store for Maliketh as plan B.Excellent, your mind unconsciously forced you to get rid of an uncouth and ungentlemanly weapon, I see no downsides to this development.
The longest fight yet. It's pretty boring, especially after 1:45. I probably could have played it more aggressively, but I was terrified of getting hit because I had no idea of how much damage I would take. Still, another hitless no-sip fight.
But I now realize I wasted the Moonveil on this guy... my plan was to use it against Maliketh... fuck. I thought I had equipped the Meteoric Ore Blade and the Dragonscale Blade. What makes it even funnier is that using only the Meteoric Ore Blade would have probably resulted in more damage, since he's weaker to slash than magic damage.
Ideally, I want to do 100% of the "main" content, only skipping small dungeons with nothing of value in them.
