playing Dark Souls for the first time
get invaded in Undead Burg
sees it's my first time playing
drops a +15 longsword

Anyone else have friendly invader stories?

friendly invader
ruins the game for you more than any dickwraith ever could

nice

@lostmypassword

first time playing dark souls
play offline
get a wholesome single player experience without dicks ruining it

I've been enjoying it so far.

@lostmypassword
friendly invader
drops black knight sword of doom or whatever, max upgrade
thanks boi

@kizzmybutt
m-muh pure soulsperience

An invader in the iron keep dlc had the courtesy to not murder me and instead led me to the fume knight bonfire

@Skullbone
Getting invaded only leads to a chase, a pointless fight or guaranteed death anyway. It's not like a newbie in shit gear can fight off an invader. Fucking pointless.

@lostmypassword
How exactly does he see it's your first time playing?

who else has been enjoying killing the fuck out of cooping shitters in 3?
the 4v1s are such adrenaline rushes

@Soft_member
Being shit at the game I would imagine

What's the best level to twink at the Sunlight altar?

@Emberfire
katana PvP
Oh were doing this again. Great. Are any of the other weapons worth using at all or is it all just katana, again.

@Soft_member
as a long time invader there are a lot of obvious signs to identify a shitter, their weapon, using a shield, just the way they play in general

@lostmypassword
get invaded in the pirate cove in dark souls two
guides me through the cove pointing out enemies and lets me put the lockstone in to light up the place before fighting me
Was pretty cool man.

@BunnyJinx
the best weapon in the game currently is a UGS, dex weapons are shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKPD26JD4OY

@BunnyJinx
katanas
ever good
get a load of this habanero

Playing Demons' Souls
This guy invades me
Waves at me and drops a full stack of black maiden souls, then departs

Sweet.

@lostmypassword
+15? Is that Souls 1 only or can you get a weapon to +15 in Souls 2 too?

@Methshot
Someone didnt play DaS2. BB also had katana being an OP weapon for the longest time because of its trick ability.

@lostmypassword
he pretty much ruined your experience far more than just being an asshole and killing you

@VisualMaster
invade people in Tower of Latria
wear overlevelled gear up the ass
play pretend a boss battle and attacking in patterns

@Methshot

Katanas where the 3rd best weapon in DeS, the only viable off-hand, and they dominated the game for 6 months before people discovered toggle.

@eGremlin
only the chaos blade was somewhat good because of the counter damage
chikage is shit, but ill agree rakuyo was stupid

@DeathDog
turning a mans fight against a land trying to kill him into a hack and slash game
pity you desu

@Playboyize
Funnily enough, that's where I got invaded.

@Garbage Can Lid
a shitter

Have they fixed pvp in DaS3 or is it still laggy twinking in low level areas?

@Emberfire
invulnerable in animation
good game

Pick one

@askme
there is no twinking anymore sadly, pvp is ass until higher levels
looks like fromsoft pussied out and gave in to the demands of shitters

get invaded in DaS2 in that little pilgrim town after Doors of Pharros
name is "i am friendly"
constantly drops them items that go "hello" and "very good"
he shows me how to fall in the well and get to the chest in the ruined house
open chest, get killed by mimic
he starts going "sorry! sorry! sorry!"

Invading in Upper Sen's Fortress
See the player
drop a few humanities and a weapon I upgraded and didn't like
wave and leave

Not friendly, but not standard murder
invading in Upper Sen's
stand on stairs, two-handing Havel's Greatshield
just toss dung bombs and block the way until they disconnect
I think I had more fun dicking around and doing stuff like that then I did killing them.

@VisualMaster

2x Chicago.
L1, R1, d-pad right, L1, R1, d-pad right, repeat.
Destroy anyone in 2 hits.

@girlDog
why is anor londo back and all snowy

@TalkBomber
Good. In the rare occasion you actually got PVP with someone your own level in the burg it was a great experience.

going against O+S
every time i'm human i get invaded by some cunt right at the point where i'm fighting the two giants
decide to just try it hollow and succeed

@Garbage Can Lid
every single invasion in das3 is a gank, user
any riposte would be a death sentence

@DeathDog
he played you like a damn fiddle

@lostmypassword
First time playing Demon souls before I even knew anything about the series.
Some guy invades in stonefag tunnel. Decides to just co-op with me through half of it. I'm a noob and pretty much the only reason I made it to that halfway point was because of him.
Before he leaves, he drops me a some firesword. It was 10 times better than everything else I had at the time.
Slapping enemies left and right and then I reach the boss.
Firesword does nothing to flame fucker. I have no other weapon that does a decent amount of damage, I've relied on that sword all the way through.
First time a game had made me slam my controller from how often I died.

It was a curse not a blessing.

@Playboyize
chikage
ever getting hit by its shit moveset

spotted the shitter

someone invades me
find him and see he's dropped an item at his feet
think he's trying to ruse me and kill him before he even gets to fight back
pick up the item and it's like 10 humanities
feel bad
;_;

@DeathDog
troll the fuck out of someone
I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry
The greatest.

dark souls 3 has no way to break people's shit

gone are the days of the scrapper

@TalkBomber
there is no twinking anymore
Why not?

@King_Martha
because matchmaking is also based on your gear upgrade level according to the FAQ on the official website

@DeathDog
not recognizing mimicry on first sight

Playing Dark Souls 2 for the first time yesterday
people say invasions are hared, but I got one in Forest of Fallen Giants.
Fucker killed me, but dropped a few human effigies and a +13 battle axe

Eh, I'll give it to him. He seemed pretty cool. He even seemed to use low level stuff since he wasn't able to kill me in one it. It was a fun fight, all things considered. Probably won't use the battle axe though. It probably one shots everything at this point in the game. Where's the fun in that?

@Emberfire

DS1 only.

@Firespawn
You get summons faggot. Use them.

And nothing beats the adrenaline rush you get after lying in wait and ambushing a twink searching for you.

@TreeEater

There are plenty of other ways to twink with high level spells and the like.

Plus some of the boss weapons, even in their base form, are ridiculously overpowered.

@kizzmybutt
this

he is helping you now but in the longterm he is raping your experience

source: I drop +5 black knight shit at O+S bonfire all the time (kiln is unlocked for me)

of course then they come here and talk about how good they are lol

@GoogleCat
I'll take shit that never happened for 50$.

Raw weapon, no magic, get invaded by pyromancer, keep hitting him while I'm on fire, manage to kill him the same time he kills me.

That was the first time I didn't lose when invaded.

@Garbage Can Lid
You think it's unrealistic for an invader to drop an item?

@lostmypassword
get invaded
guy drops 99 souls of every boss and a lot of titanite
It let me experience what it's like to have every level and weapon I wanted.

@farquit
DS2
+13 weapon improvement
You are a liar

@Garbage Can Lid
why is it so unbelievable lol

sit at O+S bonfire and constantly win
25k souls every time
go back to kiln, get at least 1 of the 3 drops
max upgrade it

I get pretty bored. Also my mage can almost kill first and 2nd form in 3 to 4 shots.

sl44

44 int
dark bead
css
power within
it happens

@FastChef
I meant sl47 but yeah

Just became a sunbro
Get summoned for butterfly
Host drops something and points to it
pick it up
20 sunlight medals
Was a good day

I honestly love Dark Souls and the experience it comes with but I hate how clunky the gameplay feels. Not to mention it doesn't take much for mobs to bug out and shit.

can invade as a sunfag and get medals
dark souls 3 is great

@SomethingNew
I think his imaginary scenario where "he dropped enchanted black knight stuff at O&S and then the very same people finished the game only with those weapons came here and talked about how good they were" is unrealistic.

I've had BK stuff myself by the time I reached O&S, just because you can reliably farm it in the kiln doesn't mean it's an impossible drop from the black knights you meet beforehand. And there's plenty better weapons if you want to cheese, I sincerely doubt there's anyone who only used a BK weapon throughout the entire game.

@RavySnake
be sunbro
drop something
they refuse to pick it up but bow

Maximum respect achieved. Happens a lot.

@Crazy_Nice
What the fuck are you talking about?

Read

@FastChef

Also you can't 'enchant' black knight weapons. Stop posting retard. I drop shit constantly, even slabs.

@lostmypassword
too fucking many, I don't know why everyone is so friendly on the ps3 I have been invaded and giving +5 boss weapons max magic evleyns full paladin set shit is dumb. You just have to make your character look like a retard at the very start of the game and a lot of people drop shit/

@DeathDog
I fucking love those carvings
co-op in sens funhouse on a gough cosplay
get to the very upper interior
take out the serpent mage
no enemies rushing him, the host can take his time
gets hit by the blades and knocked off anyway
toss a carving off the edge to his fading corpse on the ground floor
...
...
...
VERY GUD

@lostmypassword

Invade in duke's archives
Go and solve the staircase puzzle / unlock the shortcut for the guy before I hunt him down and steal his souls

@TalkBomber
That's a good thing, invading noobs in the first level with lightning/chaos weapons was dickish and too common.

Start playing DS2 first time
Get invaded
Invader drops item
Leaves
It's an awesomely powerful weapon
Equip it to try it out for fun
Put it away to not ruin my experince
Play game
Get softbanned from MP for using hacked item
Turns out that item was hacked and its damage was too high

and this is how i lost all faith for fromsoftware

they never even fixed it and just said "don't pick up items lol"

im not fucking joking. that was their response

@StrangeWizard
Why is this gif raping my eye sight?

@Techpill
Because he's a shithead. That's what filtering by image md5 is for.

@Techpill
Its just an optical illusion it isn't actually moving you idiot

@MPmaster
all it does is make your eyes feel funny for a second if you look at it for a while. it's hardly a big deal

@Bidwell
I DIDN'T HEAR IT

@Skullbone
first time playing DaS
no idea how invasion works
have never been invaded
o-okay

dark souls invasion is poison for the same reason that world pvp in an mmo is poison

its 'thrilling' at the expense of all fairness, which implies that the competitive interaction can't truly test you

if you want a thrill you really should get out of your chair first

@lostmypassword
I wish multiplayer in DS1 still worked for me.
I constantly get 0 nodes nowadays.

@massdebater

If he ain't a liar, he's in for a bad time

+13 weapons are hacked and brick save files

@Skullbone
DS1 has just been made BC on Xbone so there's loads on there

@Skullbone
launchfag here

I had no internet, it had not been patched yet regardless

xbawks360

best game experience of my life, I was constantly shitting myself for like a month

@girlDog
...is that supposed to be showing something impressive? The UGS user was terrible, and didn't do anything notable.

first deS playhtrough
game's almost finished
accidentally aggroed thomas the stockpiler

I'm still mad

@DeathDog
Black knight sword is shit and by the time you have enough stats to use it there are better alternatives

drake sword prob ruins the game more

@lostmypassword
when playing DaS1 I would feel 'stuck' on a character and start over with my newfound knowledge of the game in order to excel further
my second character was abandoned after beating O+S and my third was just getting to the gaping dragon
get invaded outside the depths bonfire and get a message
GLORY BE TO THE EVERLASTING GUANDIQUE. GLORY BE TO HIS LUMPINESS
wat
reply with "ALL HAIL"
guy runs up to me and drops a lighting broadsword
USE THE MIGHTY BROADSWORD OF THE GUANDIQUE AGAINST THE TOOTHY SCALED ONE. HE WILL KNOW TO KNEEL BEFORE ALL DISCIPLES OF HIS LUMPINESS
i reply with: THE POINTY CHESTED ONE SHALL FEAR LIGHTNING ON THIS DAY
GLORY BE TO THE DISCIPLE, VANQUISHER OF THAT WITH POINTY CHEST
we fight, pretty sure i get fucked up
use that sword until i get the snake greatsword (i like the moveset)

best invasion i've had across any of the souls games

@DeathDog
its to show that the weapon can carry anyone, even someone with sloppy play and help them kill a dozen phantoms one after the other

@Crazy_Nice
it never happened to me so it's never happened and is imaginary

ok

@Crazy_Nice
lol I see this nigga is mad he's shit at PVP

@RumChicken
I dunno, I'm getting a "i only have a PC from 2003 and a Wii U so I'll never play the games but I desperately need my opinion on them to be heard" kinda vibe from his post

invaders wearing mask of the father

This is getting old now

Nope
I just remember all the times I would go into matches in demons souls with the scraping spear and destroy people's armor and then use that poison dagger to fuck them up while running around nude

first time playing dark souls some dude invaded me in that part with the boar, gy dropped a full orstein set, thats when I feel on love with the game.

@lostmypassword
Play dark souls for the first time.
get utterly destroyed
have to run to survive various encounters
makes everything more enjoyable
return the favor to other newbies. Invade and kill them using whatever means possible: sneak attacks, tricks, attacking while they are bowing, luring tactics, kicking them off ledges.
I hope they had fun

only invaded by npcs
Maybe DaS 3 will be different.

I think the worst thing to ever come out of the souls series are the PvP cancer kiddies. PvP has been shit since DeS and it's literally only gotten worse with each iteration. You honestly have to be a full blown autist to enjoy it for more than 10 minutes.

Picking up items other people give you

It's like you want your save file corrupted

@Methshot
WASHING POLE

@Supergrass
Invading people with the intent to ruin their fun is enjoyable.
Fight clubs and planned PvP is shit. It'll always be shit until the game is balanced properly and has a better netcode.

in sewers making progress using a black knight sword
invader drops the titanite pieces I need to upgrade it to +5

Really helped out I used that sword through the rest of the game

@Supergrass
I just like fucking with people. Win or lose, I don't care.

People hate Blighttown for a lot of reasons, I do my best to be one of these.

be dirty rat cunt covenant in ds2
faith
Camo spell
throw sunlight spears in the water at trespassers
water causes a bigger hitbox

Best shit ever

@kizzmybutt
being this autistic about another player's experience

@lostmypassword

Some guy gave me 300 white arrows in DeS. Pretty great.

So is there anything like soul memory this go around? Or anything in general that tries to make pvp more "fair"?

@lostmypassword
Not sure if this counts but
Just became a moonbro
invading in the Berg to rank up in the covenant
Spawn in, see a darkwraith and two phantoms just standing there
expecting to get ganked
Darkwraith moves into that little square area in the middle, host points at me and then to him
Bow, kill him, then repeat the process with both of his phantoms
Host waves, does that grovel gesture and then drops 99 Souvenir of Reprisals before running off a ledge

This happened an age ago, not sure why I remember it. It was cool as fuck too since I was trying to get the platinum trophy at the time and that really helped.

@CouchChiller
In DaS3? It's based on SL and the upgrade level of your weapon.

@VisualMaster

In my first run in blightown I got invaded before reaching the bonfire, the one near Queelag, it was a woman with a club and that shitty caveman like garbs, damn that guy.

@whereismyname
That was an NCP, dude.

@girlDog
What is impressive about this?
2 reds and knight fighting 1 host
You guys are so good!

want to twink
have to defeat the four kings at like SL 10

fucks sake

@MPmaster

Oh, fuck that NPC anyway, had to run all the way down again.

@kizzmybutt
Not him, but I hate pvp and even I think you sound like a faggot. People are going to invade you. Live with it. It doesn't make the game poison just because you don't know how to deal with another player.

@Sharpcharm
She's not even that hard; just strafe and fish for backstabs.

@Fried_Sushi

Huh? It never appeared again.

@girlDog
That has to be the worst UGS player I've ever seen

@Emberfire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZOoYnRK7Zk
Can't wait. Pyromancy is good again!

Me and my best friend used to go to anor londo together, team up and kill anyone raiding us. It was fucking hilarious

@cum2soon
That's a great feeling.

@girlDog
10 minutes of chugging and rolling
jesus christ. and this guy can't judge his reach for shit.

second playthrough in SOTFS
went through Heide once now going through it again for Ornstein
Heide knights start dropping their gear
get invaded by some dickwraith

Wut? Weren't both of those things NG+ or did they change it? I didn't use ascetics or anything

@Nojokur
And by second playthrough I mean I beat the original game the first time.

@PurpleCharger
you seem to be confused. reread the post chain. I'm on your side

@cum2soon
It really was. Anor londo was the best place for raiding pvp parties.

yo

any of you nerds with a twink character wanna invade me and drop some paladin shit? I wanna roleplay one last time but dont' wanna bum rush the rest of the game

@Nojokur
Heide Knights are there in NG on SOTFS. They start out sleeping but activate if you kill Dragonrider.

Invasions can happen whenever AFAIK unless you burn a human effigy.

@StrangeWizard
I thought they didn't start dropping their gear until NG+ though, same with invasions I never got invaded in my original playthrough

@Playboyize
Me and a friend tried to beat the game at SL 1, but we were stuck on the Four Kings for months until we game up.

@TalkBomber
@Playboyize
dingy set
crest shield
rite of kindeling
+low level run weapon like chaos club/lightning reinforced club
done

@Playboyize
Just equip Havel's and chug loads of Estus. With an appropiate weapon, you'll have little trouble.

@LuckyDusty
NPC invaders are subjects to the same rules as the players.
You have to be in human form to be invaded, and the boss of the area must still be alive.

@lostmypassword
Dark Souls II
Heide's Tower Of Flame
Invaded by whatever
Let's kill him
Unlimited health
what the fuck fucking hackers i ffucking swear to god if i-
he drops item then jumps to water
mfw 99 red eye orbs

@whereismyname
In das1 you can. In das2 they're the same thing.

Welcome to hardmode, buddy.

@farquit
No, you can tell. Mimics have locks and if you move the camera through them, you see teeth.

@whereismyname
THAT CANNOT BE

THERE IS NO CORROSION!?

@King_Martha
What's twinking?

@TalkBomber
Invading with a really light build.

@TalkBomber
Playing through at a low soul level, getting really upgraded gear, and invading other low-level characters (most frequently newbies who just got the game on a sale and barely know how to play)

@DeathDog
Just pretend its like, youre the chosen one and shit. And thats your weapon to deliver justice sent by the otherworldly gods.(invader faggot)

Really though if you just roll with it and have no one watching over your shoulder it could make for a fun experience.

@kizzmybutt
b-but that's not fair...

First time playing DS1
Zombie town
first time invaded
is wielding 2 havel shields
can't hit him
proceeds to throw dung pies at me
slowly die of poison

fun

@Emberburn
This. Especially when you knock said twink into a hole and kill them.

@farquit
@haveahappyday
Thanks!

So twinking is killing noobs. What a fag.

Also, that's why there's soul memory in DeS2 right?

@New_Cliche
Nah, you'd have to find some way to tell. It took me a bit to notice, though.

@Emberburn
It's too late for me. Played the game for 400+ hours, I'm not going to play it again.

Join Forest Hunters at SL20
Invade my first target
Waves at me, drops three Titanite slabs and a +10 Fire Longsword
Backflips off the cliff near the stairs
+800,000 souls

be me invading in undead parish
low level build, just using up cracked red eye orbs
finally find host
he tries to attack me
parry him
don't ripost
just constantly parry him until he disconnects
I still do this from time to time

be fucking around in 1 in the forest
level 36 or 37 one shot dark bead mage
hacker invades
drops 99 blessings, slabs, ores, just all the shit.

Yes actually.
last night
Invaded in Kiln of the First Flame
Running low on humanity
Guess invader somehow knows it and drops 56 humanity
Kills himself
Adds me on steam saying "Here's a gift man."

@Firespawn
I did it once. Beat an invader by hitting him with a spear then attacked with a sword. Best feeling I had while playing the Souls series because of how stacked the other player was

since we're all bullshiting

Chillin in firelink shrine in DaS 1
invader drops darkwood ring, havel's ring, +10 queelag's sword, kills himself for 1,000,000,000 souls
adds me on steam later, buys me Dark Souls 3 + season pass
turns out it's a really qt girl, happens to live 2 blocks from me, we end up meeting and falling in love
her family happens to be filthy rich, I'll never have to work a day in my life

Thanks From Software

Get invaded while trying to fight Moonlight Butterfly
Hit him with my +2 Longsword
Does damages in the double digits as he just stands there
He asks me what level I am
"25. What's yours?"
"250 lol. I got you, man"
He kills himself, giving me humanity and a shitton of souls
Whoever you are, you were pretty a'ight.

@CouchChiller
lol wtf lies you can only invade people close to your level

@Boy_vs_Girl
That's what I thought, but apparently not.

@TalkBomber
Being an attractive, boyish-looking, young gay man

@TreeEater
you have a heart of gold

@Lunatick
What's better? Claymire and bastard sword?

I can one hit the guys near the hydra in darkroot basin with my shitty lol 30 char.

@Spamalot
DeS2

@Stupidasole
Zweihander. Pancakes everything instantly.

@CouchChiller
You're bullshitting
You can only invade people within 10 levels of yours or higher
So someone who's level 250 could invade someone from 240-level cap

@iluvmen
isnt it 10 levels plus like 4%?

@iluvmen
It's 10 levels+10% of your sl

Just thought i'd make that clear

@Nude_Bikergirl
That's co-op invasions are ten below and everyone above

@kizzmybutt
I don't know if it's a bug, but mimics had a brighter texture, like really bright. I think it's because of the shading being fucked up, but I never fell for them

invaded
blighttown
in the swamp island with the pyromancer, he walks up beside me while i'm talking with the npc, lets me finish
backs off
Gives me a +3 pyro flame I guess he had laying around
I pick it up
he murderizes me in one hit
guess I came out of it ahead.

@MPmaster
Same, some female with a giant 2H sword.

guy invades me
he bows
backstab him in the middle of it
he dies
get a message telling me I'm a dishonorable cheater
explain to him he invaded my world so I don't have to follow his made up rules
but that's not how you play the game
mfw

In the berg I once got summoned by someone who dropped 99 humanity, 99 Boss Souls(including Artorias and Manus) and 99 of every titanite as well as a +5 Chaos Blade. I decided to summon random people dropping random soul items and such. Still have that character saved.

@lostmypassword
i got buttfucked by twinks more times than i can count in undead burg during my first playthrough
fags with full havel
full dickwraiths
holy fags spitting thunder from distance. good times

@Dreamworx
You did the right thing.

@Poker_Star
I got invaded by so many twinks

Get invaded in Burg
Full Black knight with a reinforced club
Oh fuck
He one shots me
Quite pissed, send him a message calling him a cunt
LOL ITS JUST A GAME BRO, JEEZ I PLAY GAYMES 4 FUN FAGGOT GET A LIFE

I then made a twink myself, and went to the parish on NG+ So I could get invaded by twinks, I had this happen once

Invaded by some gook, watchdogs goes crazy
CHEATER DETECTED SL1 (REAL SL 714)
Decide to fight him anyway
He's using the silver knight longsword
Kick his ass, twice
He invades once more, this time with A FUCKING LARGE CLUB
Still beat him

Why do twinks suck so much ass

Playing ds2, sunbroing in drangleic >get invaded, he wreck my shit
get summoned, the host dies immediatly, must be the same invader
use dried fingers and run to the fog gate
he invade, i manage to enter the fog gate so he lose an orb
receive hate mail, lmao

@GoogleCat
@kizzmybutt
@New_Cliche

Never played DaS but this thread is interesting, can someone explain why an invader dropping you a nice weapon would ruin your experience? Does enemy difficulty scale to your gear or something?

@Methshot

It makes the game easier and ruin the experience

@Methshot
Imagine a game where you continually die, but progressively get better at it, eventually being able to conquer the entire game with ease

Now imagine that game but you have a fully maxed out character at the beginning of it
That's what happens when someone drops a new player a weapon.

@Methshot
You won't learn how gear progression works so you will forever use that weapon as a crutch.

@Methshot
One hitting enemies for the entire game is boring

@kizzmybutt
I always just hit the chest barehanded first

@GoogleCat
@massdebater
@Techpill
@JunkTop

Wow that was quick, thanks. So basically it just ruins the point of choosing Dark Souls over other ARPGs in the first place?

@Fried_Sushi
i know that feeling

@GoogleCat
over other ARPGs in the first place?
All ARPGs and all well design games in general have a nice difficulty curve to them, whether they be through better weapons or better moves/skills or just learning the game.If you find ways to break the curve you ruin the game.

How new are you?

@GoogleCat
if youre autistic

I got Scholar of the First Sin in a sale a while back. What kind of character should I play to have the most fun?

I had a lot of fun with pure faith paladin and dex/int battle mage in dark souls 1, but 've heard strength builds are the way to go in DaS 2.

invade parish
drop a couple of humanities or a couple of titanite chunks for newer players

I think it's just enough to not break the game for them.

@Snarelure
Miracles were nerfed yo uselessness in DaS2
Might as well just go strength since they didn't fuck it over

@AwesomeTucker

What about pyromancy and sorcery? And how are hexes?

DaS2
in Eleum Loyce
get invaded
always run and disguise to hide
he finds me in my shitty disguise
does a bunch of emotes
drops me a bunch of mushrooms and disconnects

@Snarelure
Pyromancy
You get the first pyromancy flame after at least 3 bosses or some "sequence break" shenanigans, limited casts won't let you PvE as a pure pyromancer but the spells are really fucking powerful if you use it as a backup. Sorcery sucks early game, late game hits pretty hard but everything in the DLC is resistant to magic so if you do that last you'll end up with a sour taste. Hexes are good, but the best of them consume souls on cast which is pretty shit if you want to stay at a certain SM

@w8t4u

So does strength with pyromancy sound like a good way to go? What weapons/rings should I shoot for?

@LuckyDusty
NPC invasion in Eleum Loyce
See invasion notice, can't find invader
Oh well, guess I'll open this chest while I wai-
Guy transforms back from small box and backstabs me
Chest contains item required to transform in the first place

I thought it was actually pretty neat. I'd like more NPC invaders that use innovative tactics, rather than Armourer Dennis using Soul Spear infinite times.

@Fried_Sushi
Dude, are you me?

@Crazy_Nice
I sincerely doubt there's anyone who only used a BK weapon throughout the entire game.
nigga what? i used a black knight halberd since anor londo and beat the game with it. upgraded it with materials given to me from an invader.

@SniperWish
Pyromancy scales with Int and Faith now, so you need to level them otherwise you'll be doing shit for damage.

@lostmypassword
get invaded at Undead Parish
invader gives me two +5 claws
I think it's a good idea to dual wield them

It was pretty fun.

@SniperWish
I did a Gwyn cosplay build with Strength and Pyromancy, it actually works really well. If you're interested in PvP the Greatsword is a good pick because of the horizontal slashes, or Fume Ultragreatsword for the guard before strong attacks. For rings, Royal Soldier +2 (Equivalent of Havel's) and First Dragon ring (RoFaP equivalent) are good picks, there's plenty of variety so you should decide on your own. Good piromancies are Fire Snake, Forbidden Sun, Chaos Storm/Outcry, Great Combustion and Flame weapon if you want to show off. They do decent damage, but you should rely on your main weapon if you want to hit hard.

If you just want bullshit AR then go Dark/Strength

@farquit
+13??
mfw ds2 only goes to 10 or 5

I started playing DaS for the first time this week and I'm basically always hollowed just so I won't get invaded and can have a "single player experience"

@Booteefool

Oh. Is it worth investing in? I was planning on making a dragon bro with an ultra greatsword and pyromancy. Would it be better to just do the pure strength?

@SomethingNew

Nice. Thanks for the tips, user.

@Playboyize
I mean, none of them have int or faith requirements like sorceries or miracles, but you'll be splitting between Strength, Attunement, Adaptability, Int/Faith as well as Vitality and Endurance.

You can always use charcoal pine resin if you really want to swing a fiery greatsword about.

Also the Dragon Head Stone is in, but is not available until the end of the game, and does shit for damage as far as I'm aware.

@Playboyize
You can still pyromancy because while it does scale, there are no requirements on intelligence or faith to use them.

OH BOY TIME FOR PVP! I HAVE XBOX GOLD NOW! LET'S GET TO THE UNDEAD BURG, I'M SURE THERE'S SOME JOLLY COMPETITION
fins red sign
summon invader for some friendly competition
completely naked
just stands there
bow
hit him
no damage
he dodge rolls around
no damage
faggot is using HP hacks
he starts taunting
I decide to book it towards the boss fog
he gives chase
brilliance strikes me
turn on my heels at the top of the staircase near the bonfire
he is not using a shield, instead using some more thank likely insanely overpowered scythe, two handed
SPARTAN KICK HIS ASS OVER THE LEDGE
message him "The guilty pay the price."

No exaggeration, my dick was rock hard and I masturbated violently. I get hard every time I think about it.

Lost Izalith
fucking around getting all of the treasure and clearing Siegmeyer's quest
suddenly can't sit down
a fucking invader in Lost Izalith, you wot
get past the dragon buttz and off the lava
cunt with a katana appears
starts spamming the shockwave
get hit twice
roll away at the last time
hits me anyway from twice his range

loving it, I later went to Anor Londo, killed the trap and shot a heavy load on Gwynyvere's tits

@Playboyize
If you use high end pyromancies you can get by just fine. I usually backstab then use Outcry right after, they die in one combo. Forbidden Sun is so fast that even if it does little damage, it's great for punishing healers (If you're invading)

Can some kind user come and help me to Daughter of the Cosmos in BB?

I invaded a dude who was AFK in front of the boss fog of Skeleton Kings, so I dropped him little present, gave him a few punches and left.
So after leaving the area to invade elsewhere and coming back 10 minutes later I invade and the mother fucker is still there! He hadn't moved an inch so I picked up the gifts and shoved him down the waterfall.

In DaS I gave a guy an entire set of Steel, Greatsword and Greatshield while invading as Berenike Knight cause he wasn't wearing a dress like some sort of girl's blouse.

@StonedTime
I've only got invaded in Lost Izalith once, and it was a friend who randomly invaded me

He was fucking dumb and didn't realize it was me, despite my frantic waving

@AwesomeTucker
How so? Just did a paladin run not too long ago with no problems. They should have been nerfed, all those fucking invaders in the crypt with wotg one shotting you

@lostmypassword
Similar thing happened.
got invaded after Taurus Demon
dropped a few humanities
dropped a +10 mace

Can you drop things in DaS2?
I want to give loyce souls to people since I already got 50

invaded in undead parish while trying to finish up achievements
guy drops fully upgraded fire sword
needed that for the achievement
he killed me after anyway
wasn't the worst guy

What's the best boss for grinding sunlight medals. I'm at SL57.

I don't want to grind the chaos bugs.

@girlDog
ds1 burg
cheat engined to max stats
Another cheat engined invade comes
I backstab him and drink an estus
He backstabs me and drinks an estus
I get up and backstab him again and take another sippy
This repeats another fucking 6 times
He sends me a message about how fucking funny that was

@SniperGod
grinding

just use cheat engine and have some appreciation for your own time, Jesus Christ

@SniperGod
Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. Lots of people will summon you for that fight alone.

@Carnalpleasure
Even at SL57? I would have thought it would've died down by that point.

@Dreamworx
but that's not how you play the game
Then why am I winning sanvich heavy :^):^):^):^):^) ?

@lostmypassword
get invaded
can't find him at all
search forever
message him
"Oh I was AFK, here I'll drop you some shit
Avelyn +15
Flamberge +15
20 slabs
50 chunks

@PackManBrainlure
Pretty sure you get constant summons at every SL at O&S, personally even around S75 I was still getting summoned

@likme
cheating
have some appreciation for the game you're playing, Jesus Christ

friendly invader
drops some stuff
dont pick them, pretending to not have seen him
he desesperately tries to catch my attention bumping into me
get close to a cliff and kick him to his death as he has his guard down
And that day, he learned a very valuable lesson.

@Gigastrength
grinding isn't "the game"

I invaded this guy 3 times, lost twice, on the third he dropped slabs, multiple endgame boss souls, and shit tons of weapons

pistolabrava you are the shit

@StonedTime
Lost Izalith is my favorite invasion spot.

I almost never failed to invade

What's youre favorite enemy?

Anyone else make a SL 15 bandit and just invade low-level burgians?
No twinking or anything, just genuine low-level PVP.

@Dreamworx
Fucking honor system people make up is retarded. Fair enough in a fight club or arranged duel I won't attack but if you invade me and I just want to play my game, Ill take every chance to kill your ass.
Fucking fags sending muh honor messages because I did not wait for them to bow and rape my ass.

Just yesterday I invaded LobosJR in Arno Londo.

I had no idea who he was, but some dude messaged me on steam that I was on his stream.
I guess it was pretty cool.

@lostmypassword
Where can I pvp now? I tried invading at Oolacile yesterday, but I couldn't find anyone.

@w8t4u
1000layerbeandip?

I SL1 invaded people on the dragon bridge with Iron Skin, dung pies and channelers trident. I'd make them toxic, iron skin myself and dance with the trident while their weapons did fuck all damage and bounced off. Near the end I'd give them a crystal weapon - Powerful, but unable to be repaired, perfect gift for a new player, and go on my merry way dancing.

It was a lot of fun. I did the usual bullshit of the headwrap, smough's chest, tiny legs and so on.

@lostmypassword
Only one, and they helped me beat that dude on the bridge. Everyone else has just killed me no matter what, so I just stay hollow.

@BunnyJinx
Yep.
If you saw, I'm pretty bad at pvp, I tried to lure him into the giant sentinels but it didn't work out.

@lostmypassword
first playthrough
sumon guy to help with queelag
literally one guy dressed in catarina armor, vamos helmet and hollow soldier legs
drops +15 fire claymore
allmywat.jpg
drops +10 lightning claymore
thisguy.gif
drops +7 vamos helmet
i'm kneeling for his cock at this point
drops 56 anti-toxin moss
It's fucking christmas
so much excitement
proceed to boss room
check my shiny new gear
didn't cure poison due to autistic excitement
die in front of fog door
mfw

@Ignoramus
needing help with queelag

@kizzmybutt
I thought the same exact thing.

Someone summoned my twink to help fight the Tauras Demon and I ended up only hitting the Demon once or twice, letting the host get hits, and so on and so forth.

I could have annihilated it but I didn't want to ruin that guy's experience.

@Evilember
Well he was playing ng+5 from the start with perma gravelord phantoms. It's an interesting run.

@Ignoramus
+10 Lightning claymore
It's +5 max famygdala

Die to poison in front of fog door

How fucking long were you there?

I invade on the Undead Parish bridge and open the gate that leads to the bonfire under the drake. Then I kite people back to the bonfire and let them kill me.

Climbing up from the bridge each time is zero fun bullshit.

I was fucking around in DS1 PVP doing the thing from the "Wrath of the Darkwraith" video and a hacker was so impressed I kept dodging his attacks that he killed himself and gave me over 400 million souls

The most fun fucking thing to do in Dark Souls 1 is getting a SL710 character and cheesing the fuck out of SL125 PvPers.

Equip Crown of Dusk, Bellowing Dragoncrest ring, and cast Power Within.

As a phantom spawns cast Fire Tempest (alternatively black flame). You'll either one-shot them, or you'll take away 80%+ of their HP.

The rest is just chasing them with a Darkmoon Blade+Uchigatana or something in case they attempt to heal using Divine Blessings or whatever.

@SomethingNew
Has he uploaded the stream yet? I wanna see him call me an asshole when we fight.

@Emberburn
Oh man the nostalgia

I miss my 125 glass cannon build, it had like 215 hp and one shot everything

@whereismyname
Once a hacker invaded my brand-new SL1 character, and I managed to kick him off a ledge and get his like 6 million souls.

What I do now is I use the Cheat Engine mod that lets you force an invasion type, so that no matter how you get summoned into someone's world, you end up as a white phantom. I invade other people's worlds as a white phantom and force them to co-op with me.

JOLLY
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@SomethingNew
Glass Cannons are often the most satisfying. Good shit.

@Gigastrength
I did that a week ago to a PvPer and the guy commented on my Steam Profile that I was a loser.

I commented back something like "Calm down, let's just have fun" but he just waited around for invasions while I ran around doing nothing for lel.

@Techpill
/lobosjr/v/58235211 on twitch
Around 5:21:00

I used to run around the forest for shits and giggles naked with the elite knight helm and the skull lantern chasing after people. Never actually killed anyone I invaded. Sometimes I would pretend to cut down trees with the great axe. Sometimes the host would play along, drop stuff, or just outright murder me.
Good times though.

@JunkTop
@Methnerd
My other favorite build was one where I was naked (sans a xanthous crown) and I just sprint around the forest casting force trying to knock hosts off cliffs.

God Dark Souls was good in its prime

@DeathDog
It's +5 max famygdala
I don't really remember, it's been a long time since I played

How fucking long were you there?
too long for me to admit

@Techpill
I do the same.

Even when I'm around the same level, I prefer to limit myself to be only slightly more helpful than NPC phantoms. Usually that means picking a weaker weapon or limiting my role in some way, that could mean only healing with miracles or using a shield with <100 physical block.

Even when I die it's more interesting than 3 guys steamrolling a boss in 30 seconds.

@VisualMaster
Thanks man, this should be funny.

@Emberfire
Is that a fucking Macho Man Randy Savage emote at the end?

@Stupidasole
Yes! The crown and the shrug gesture were great together. Also dancing around with the trident was fun especially if the host would dance around too. God I miss those hours spent doing stuff like that.

@BlogWobbles
What like 5 times until you run out of cracked eye orbs

Playing Demon's souls for the first time.
Get to the mines in human form after defeating tower knight
Invaded
Clench my ass and preparing to fight
He starts killing everything for me
we start killing together
get to the elevator
wait for him to come with me
gestures for me to go without him
turn the wheel
he jumps and kills himself

I miss him

@girlDog
kills PvE'rs
says weapon is broken
next you'll say the longsword is OP

@Crazy_Nice
FUCK IT
I'M BOOTING IT UP, GONNA GO FUCK THE FOREST UP A BIT

twinking in undead parish with a +5 chaos claymore, iron tarkus set with a bag on my head, and firestorm
kill one poor bastard 3 times in a row, sends fanmail
his friend adds me and pleads with me to stop killing his friend as it's his first time playing
I hatch a diabolical plan and told the guy that I dropped a summon sign down near the church
I gave him 4 humanities and I helped him kill the gargoyles

@RavySnake
You're a nice guy, user

@CodeBuns
It's not like it's hard to join the darkwraiths at SL15.

@takes2long
Well you have to defeat the fourkings

@CouchChiller
Ye. And?

It's not like you have to use your EXECUTE MURDER 66 equipment when you're burgin around.

@PurpleCharger
I had a similar experience in DaSII.
doing pvp on iron keep bridge because random invasions are dead lol
some guy summons me, looks awfully confused, wearing vengarls helm
cut him down in a 2 hit combo with my trusty mastodon halberd
he messages me later
"Hello good sir, you killed me really good back there! How did you become so good at this game?!~"
honestly his speech patterns reeks of reddit
I'm not even that good at the game
I give him some tips to not sucking, he wants my help in killing smelter
after a couple of tries and him getting guardbroken since he is a greatshieldfag I tank the entire boss for him
every day from this point on he messages me asking for tips on how to beat an area, and starts talking really submissively like I'm a master of this game
no gay shit, thank god but he honestly would not stop calling me master
eventually messages me one day saying he cannot kill veldstat for the life of him
throw a sign down, he can't see it
his SM had accumulated to 7 million
seven
million
I had to grab an NG+ character to help him out
after we finish off veldstat he gives me his eternal thanks
a month after he stops messaging me his stearm avatar and description are both souls related, and has git gud meme shit all over his page
And that's how I helped an autist beat his first souls game.

Dark Souls III Deluxe Edition: Is it worth it? $80.

@SniperGod
Why would you?

Also are there sincerely people who can't beat Dark Souls?

Like... I can't even imagine. Even if you can't skill through it, you can brute force it with grinding yourself up to "A game of Gods" tier

I often spent a lot of time in DeS invading just to kill all the NPC enemies for people because they wouldn't fight back. It was split between just killing all the enemies and then killing myself or killing all the enemies and standing in front of the boss fog as the only challenge in the level.

I wasn't actually very good at PvP though.

get invaded
fight in that roof in undead burg
swing my R2 towards the guy
deal like 3% of damage
guy just gestures at me
backstab him 3 times
he's like nothing happened
he drops a +15 grass shield
mfw

@viagrandad
Probably pumped his stats.

@askme
No idea really. I think I am addicted to helping pure shitters. It was clearly his first souls game and also pretty clear he wasn't very good at videogames in general, as by the look of him he was probably also using a guide of some sort.
I also felt bad for the bastard that FROM fucked him over with SM and then I was the only one who had a chance at helping him.
I think I also might have helped him LGK, as I remember saying to him "welcome to shrine of amana, you're on your own for this one"

@Boy_vs_Girl
No, buy season pass and the game separately. You save about half a dollar.

I'm not shitting you.

so everyone is getting PC ds3, right?

@kizzmybutt
@GoogleCat
@Techpill
Muh experience
Nothing stops him from dropping that weapon or start over retards.

@lostmypassword
There's a contradiction there, user.

If it's your first time playing at the undead burg, how come you're meeting someone who has +15 longsword? that makes no sense, since you don't share Soul Level with him

@Stupidasole
Zweihander is out the ass broken

@Evilember
Obviously Miles, it's only a contradiction due to how much ass you suck at the game

Any decent player could get a +15 weapon at sl1

christmas 2013
invade worlds in all locations and drop chunks for hosts
the majority of times i get bumrushed by powerful pvp builds while i'm dropping
get told to fuck off in messages
never thanked

The good ol' days.

@Evilember
Objection, cunt.

Soul level has nothing to do with weapon upgrades.

@Evilember
Nigga have you never done an SL1 run?

@Methshot
Part of the experience (with any game, really, but especially one that doesn't hold your hand like AAA trash) is figuring shit out on your own and slowly getting better. Getting maxed out gear so early doesn't really help you to get better at the core gameplay because you'll body half the bosses in five hits or less.

@CodeBuns
I cheat in order to support the PVP community.
You fuckers have a lot of my humanity.

@GoogleCat
It's not even this:
@JunkTop
One hitting enemies for the entire game is boring
Rather it's that it's a game about improving as a player, not just getting better gear. With a crutch weapon, the player isn't going to learn the necessary skills to get past the later parts of the game that actually test your skill as a player. Ornstein and Smough are enough of a brickwall for first time players that have been putting real effort into learning the game's mechanics, but for someone that has been playing with a crutch weapon, it's just flat out impossible without co-op (more crutches).

I saw it firsthand in Monster Hunter. A friend was foolish enough to introduce another friend to the game by steamrolling low rank monsters, not letting the other guy learn anything on his own. Hundreds of hours later, that guy was still the only one dying 3 times and making us fail the quests.His excuse? He needed better gear. But you don't need better gear if you've learned how to not get hit.

@farquit
+13 battleaxe

he's trying to get you banned, not sure if those ruin saves anymore though

@Snarelure
Had so much fun with my Ultra great sword called Great sword. Had it +10 and never fat rolled with Havel's shield and Kings armor.

@farquit
Why do people even like twinking?

More fun to kill newbies when it's a fair fight- they have fun too.

@Sharpcharm
+13 weapons are hacked and brick save files

Will this fucking lie just stop, I used to walk around iron keep with power stanced +10 Ice rapiers Lighting and dark infused. Still use that save file to this day and it works fine. It's only a number it doesn't affect the stats at all. Also used to give away poison and bleed binoculars as prizes for Fight clubs.

ds2
invade some shirtless guy in heide tower
he's at the bonefire
go there
he drinks 4 estus right there in front of me
his character gestures that he's out of heals
start fight, fair stuff,
he gets the upper hand
I start panicking
try to use poison knifes, and pyromances
he evades everything
I run away
he catches me
backstabs me
dead
gestures "no"

That's when I realized I was the scrub faggot

@w8t4u
Sorcery sucks early game
I am playing a Sorcery character right now for the first time. If you use the binoculars, you can snipe everything to death from a mile away right from the start. It is super easy mode.

@Fried_Sushi

"Shh... Shhh..."

"Welcome to Dark Souls."

why do you people keep invading me? it never works. I've never lost with my current char against you guys. I just wanna help people beat bosses and you idiots keep invading. just circle strafing around to backstab me until I get fed up and swing my zwei until they dei

@lostmypassword

That screenshot

That is stolen from pic related
fucking thiefsves

@Methnerd
i literally have never gotten an erection from excitement that was not sexually related. do i masturbate too much or what?

playing Dark Souls for the first time
get invaded in Undead Burg
sees I got poisoned from the rats and am out of estus
uses the facepalm gesture
drops a poison moss clump
jumps off the ledge
mfw

@Emberburn
It's like the curse of the Drake Sword in DS1. Seems godlike to shitters, but doesn't scale at all. They will forever think that everything they pick up is subpar, not knowing that it'll be gold when they gain relevant stats and upgrade it.

Did flamekekker on 1st try, dodgerolled like a madman and used a bow though.

@Need_TLC
yet there is nothing stopping you from starting a new game and doing exactly that, it doesn't matter.

@Playboyize
You might have testicular cancer, go check your doctor asap

read this thread
get nostalgia
load SL11 character
pop red eye
invade instantly

ps3 stronk

@likme
Won't you be detected by Watchdog if you do that?

I don't want to grind but fuck being labeled as a cheater alongside flipping soil level 1 Havels

@TurtleCat
Was having no trouble invading or getting invaded at Oolacile on PC 2 weeks ago ~SL100

Can you guys give me any ideas for a trollish asshole build?

Only ideas I got are sprinting around the forest, forcing people off cliffs and standing in crucial doorways in full giants with ironskin

@Gigastrength
I used to force co-op back in demon souls since red phantoms could kill monsters in that game.

@VisualMaster
Pretty sure watchdog only detects hacked/unobtainable things, it can't detect if your +10 sword is real or hacked if it's completely normal otherwise.

had dedicated SunBro character for helping people thought the parish.
Killed solitare and cosplayed as him with a +5 longsword

I'd occasional invade but I wasn't crazy overpowered so the fights were pretty damn even and fun. God I miss those busy as hell days in DS1.

@Sir_Gallonhead
If you worship a god of war it's sort of fitting.

@lostmypassword
get invaded
faggot bows
go behind him and backstab him
You honor fags are fucking retarded

@Deadlyinx
That was the best. People would get crazy pumped too because the monsters wouldn't even attack the red phantom but they could clear entire areas for the host.

@happy_sad
invade blighttown with
gravelord sword
lighting/chaos short bow + poison arrows
poison throwing knives
dung pies

@Firespawn
Shh...

@DeathDog
genius

be invading townshit
see a guy dual wielding a zwei and claymore
drop him my zwei since i wasn't using it on that build
commence duel
i like to think he upgraded it to full and went on to crush people without needing to go NG+ for another one. feelsgoodman

@iluvmen
You can't participate in multiplayer if you are hollow. So if you never reverse hollowing, you will never be invaded.

@Need_TLC
it sucks that once you get past a certain level, nobody wants to summon and only wants pvp

@lostmypassword
So I want to play a souls game again since it's been a while. I played a pirated version of dark souls, and demon souls. Should I get the ps3 version of dark souls 1 to experience the online or should i just get dark souls 2?. No, i can't play them on pc, it has to be ps3.

@GoogleCat
bullshit in ds2 i was hollow and still got invaded, not sure if its intentional or game being retarded but it happens for some reason

playing demon souls for first time in 2015
get invaded
the guy stands next to an npc vendor trying to get me to accidentally kill him
once he realizes I wont attack him, he just hides near the monsters I need to kill
ends up with him headbutting me in a corner infinitely (I couldnt move) until the monsters kill me

later doing that "boss fight" with the giant towel hat guy who is just another player
the guy keeps using the spell that drastically reduces physical damage and constantly heals
after like 5 minutes we accomplish nothing
just let him kill me then do the fight in offline mode

should have known the only people invading in a 6 year old game were complete shitheads

@Nojokur
Up til O&S You can get summoned but afterward is pretty much a no go. It is kinda shitty in that regard that the jolly co-op just seems to stop halfway though the game.

@idontknow
Falchion dex build.

@Playboyize
when I can finally get someone to summon me I always message them and try to friend request just to fucking get some more summons. its so barren dude

@Deadlyinx
Demon Souls PvP was a fucking nightmare even compared to the bullshit people tried to pull in DS1 in the undead parish.

@5mileys
He was talking about DaS, not DaS2, retard. They work differently

@5mileys
In DaS2 it was changed so you can get invaded while hollow.

@CouchChiller
Thanks doc

@lostmypassword
Not so much friendly as perplexing.

He opened the gate in Undead Parish while I was still making my way through. Then he just circle strafed with me while switching his weapons. I think he may have been trying to lead me into the church. He obviously outclassed me, because I stabbed him in the back and it did piss all damage. It also sounded like he could talk.

@Deadlyinx
Be glad you didn't get to experience the bullshit that is the scraping spear.

@Flameblow
Is it ps4 compatible?

tfw I only started playing dark souls early this year on PS3 and never got invaded or summoned once

@lostmypassword
invaded someone as a blue wraith in 2
i look around what seems like forever for her in the Iron Keep but eventually find her standing alone, she waves at me
she's unarmed and dressed in a priestess set.
I climb the ladder expecting her to rush me when I reach the top, but she doesn't
when I get up there, she drops an item, turns around and does the meditation emote
I kill her as shes on her knees with a couple hits from my katana then pick up the item before warping out
it's a divine blessing

:,^(

@girlDog
that female screech when she dies

trying to get some invasions going on PC DaS1
literally nothing, no soapstone signs appearing, might as well be offline
fug

DaS backwards compatible with xbone
"Get DaS1 free is you pre-order DaS3"
Load up DaS on 360 because lmao who the fuck has a xbone
So many new people

I've had a pretty fun week so far

@Emberfire
You're the reason gaben made cheaters
They are our punishment for your sins

@Spamalot
what? i'm playing DaS1 on PS3

@New_Cliche
Are you playing right now?
If so would you be interested in PvP?

@Snarelure
Replaying DaS2 (first time with SotFS) and running a pure DEX build dual wielding warped sword/katana is pretty fun. DEX scaling is still fucked up but the game moves so much faster than DaS that it's much more fun to play than my first couple character's STR builds.

@GoogleCat
Deal with it you faggot

@PackManBrainlure
It wouldn't be his first time doing it then retard.

@New_Cliche
Yeah. Know if it's backwards compatible/needs the marketplace?

@lostmypassword
Wait for a sale

@idontknow
watch DS gameplay whenever I'm eating
ecelebs constantly run into you faggots
you always, ALWAYS, get rekt in the most embarassing ways imaginable
oh are we laffin, erry day

@Illusionz
no clue, sorry man

@LuckyDusty
sure! all my characters are fairly low though, not sure if you were hoping for SL125 at oolacile

@girlDog
killing phantoms restores estus
Wow talk about casualization

@girlDog
I was rooting for onionhead the entire time.

DS2
SL1 Ogre character
CE red soapstone, 99 dung pies, agape ring, covenant of champion ring
put sign down on first bridge in the forest
emerge from water, fist fight new players

good times

@lostmypassword
Character level doesn't matter, where should we meet?
I'm currently in anor londo and haven't beaten O&S so it might take some time for me to get back to the other side of the map

@Illusionz
They run into their viewers, user.

Replayed ds2 for ds3 hype got a Ds4 for it great decision

I got my blacksteel katana build going, never in my life used a katana after 500 something hours in ds1

I would get summoned to duels and sometimes the host would estus chug, I'd easily punish it and they would die then I would do a mock gesture at their corpse

This one guy summoned me over and over and he estuses and I do a no way gesture and kill him
Next time he summons me he does a sorry gesture and chugs his entire estus before the duel and after that we both bow and have honorabur duels for hours upon hours in a single day and eventually he'd win and it got to be more balanced as I think he got better by constantly duelling me

It felt nice and I like to imagine I made some scrub less prone to estus chugging mid battle.

Like I was his weeb mentor and he was my generic knight student

It was fun!!

Ps. Blacksteel katana is fucking overpowered as hell btw

@girlDog
how were they getting estus back after they ran out? Both the host and the dude playing had to have chugged like 30+ times

@eGremlin
Half the time the red would chug and the estus wouldn't go down either.
Probably some retarded ring that has a percent chance to refill and not use estus.

@viagrandad
But the level does matter, you can only interact within a certain range
https://mpql.net/tools/dark-souls/

I'll head to you, I can warp

@lostmypassword

Undead parish
he resets the gate
leaves a gift in the other side and warps out
turns out its a crystal broken hilt

I've been trying to darkwraith in Oolacile for the past 2 hours with my SL90 build. What gives? This thread gave me the impression that I might find some invasions.

@Harmless_Venom
what is youtube
what are random invasions

Even with twitch/hitbox, are you really suggesting they're pre-meditating all their invasions?
You may have brain problems, user.

yeah you know what, even with that weapon the game is still hard.

@SomethingNew
I'm currently at the bonfire with solaire before you fight O&S

@BunnyJinx
You can though?

They just take twinkling titanite.

@happy_sad
That's upgrading, not enchanting.

@SniperWish
Not what I said at all. I said they're getting invaded by their viewers.

Their viewers are shitters. Simple as that.

invaded for the first time in the Catacombs
was there before I should have been
guy is across a narrow walkway throwing lightning spears
say fuck it and charge him
accidentally roll off the walkway

@Stark_Naked
I'll be popping my red eye, psn is cheetowarrior

@whereismyname
He probably said "whee" when you did.

In Dark Souls 2, how fun is playing rapier/bow?
Are the weapons good?
I want to do a playthrough before DS3 comes out because I suck dicks.

@girlDog
Silver Knight set is back and will have a proper cape

My dick = diamonds

@whereismyname
invade guy in anal rodeo
he and his phantom is ontop the beam trying to get into painting guardian church
do WELL WHAT IS IT at the bottom of the beam
his phantom shoots a greatarrow at me
manage to backstep through the arrow right as animation finishes, feel like fucking god
I'm gonna fuck you up now fucker
run up and then straight off the beam to my death
didn't invade again that day

@haveahappyday
Try leveling up more. 90s kinda low man.

seems like a good thread to ask: do you still need to set your Steam location to something whacky to get nodes in DaS1? i want to play some before 3 comes out.

invade in the dragon place in ds3
get 2 shot by an fugs user while ive got 35 vigor cause the first hit stuns and the game has horrid phantom range
such fun

DaS
dlc just came out
invade some guy in the royal woods
just try to piss him off poking at him with poison knifes and dung piles
he chase me into Chester
he aggro his ass with WoG and get headshotted

Fucking arround with people is way better that fighting right away

@kizzmybutt
get summoned to help people with Ludwig
use top-tier gemmed Pizza Cutter to beat the boss in 20 seconds
ruin their experience completely
do this for a straight hour or two

@BlogWobbles
Katana users

@Flameblow
There's no region lock if that's what you mean

DaS
100+ hours of SL1 dickwraith
invade Ariamis
drop 3x purple moss near poisoned person
if attacked, pick it back up, keep poisoning
sens funhouse
wait for person to go to trader
keep standing in fireballs with shield out
any time he tries to arrow me, he eats dung pie
pic related

mfw one-shotting people in the Burg with the zweihander +15

@Lord_Tryzalot
right, i just remember back in the day you had to set your download location to Lichtenstein or something to easily find people.

post builds
http://mmdks.com/84ok

@Sir_Gallonhead
I'm talking about when they do the invasions, friend.

@PurpleCharger
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

I just make the spookiest outfits and then walk slowly to people I invade

@FastChef
thats funny because I make really fat characters and put on the onion outfit and slow walk towards people because its in character.

@PurpleCharger
Also this was my favorite spot for SL1 invasions in burg chapel.

Ganksquads eat fire, new players eat broken sword.

@BlogWobbles
weeb mentor and generic knight student
One day he'll surpass you.

@Raving_Cute
nice idea user

@Techpill
I dunno. If someone summons then they want the assistance. You didn't do anything wrong, but if someone summons me I assume they are either having trouble or want to ensure a win safely.

@Dreamworx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bvO4fc-pW4

@Deadlyinx

I have this idea for a while now but I fear whips suck dicks

https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/494843

Friendly invaders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qkX8MRWi4
Relevant to thread. Love being invaded by friendlies.

@girlDog
Whips in 1 are pretty bad, and you should use Sunlight blade for buffing. It's not impossible though, make good use of throwing knives and black firebombs

Congrats on posting best Belmont my nigger

@Boy_vs_Girl
Even MORE likely their viewers are eagerly waiting for them.

@w8t4u

I forgot about that, +15 whip + buff sounds better

@lostmypassword
Not an invasion but i was summoned as a white phantom
Play on vanilla ps3 because for comfy
summoner gave me gold tracer, dark silver tracer and other shit related to DLC
thanked him and invasion comes
fight vigorously as all invaders fell
he thanked me and added me on PSN for future co-operation
That was nice

@lostmypassword
DS2
have hilariously overpowered gear for that point in the game
help people out in Iron Keep
fucking steamroll everything
wait for them to go into the Smelter fog gate then peace out

@lostmypassword
Playing Dark Souls first time online
Get invaded in undead burgh
Invader drops a +15 claymore

Didn't need another sword the whole game

@lostmypassword
You could also go divine, it would ease your time in the catacombs. Great Lightning spear can be seen as Agunea too

@SniperWish
Cancer in the first degree

get invaded by a guy called DAKKA_DAKKA
fat naked guy with dual avelyn

I love when people do themes

you guys are making me want to buy das 3. should i just hold off incase they pull a SOTFS again? no way I'm paying again for a better version

@SomethingNew
They most definitely will, so hold off.

@Stark_Naked
I fought a guy using Bone Fist and broken Santier's calling himself KUNG FU MASTER

That was a fun fight

@StrangeWizard
mfw seeing this after going through Sen's and the catacombs in one evening

Invaded the world of Chris Benoit

@SomethingNew

buy 3, play day 1.

@Inmate
play day 1
Wasn't that last week?

@Evil_kitten

well, day 1 for non streamers/press. it's worth it.

@w8t4u
And the entirety of Japan.

@JunkTop
not him
No idea why, but for me capra was easier than quelaag
Took me a while to understand when she uses her burst attack while capra was just a matter of kill doggies

@SniperWish
@Boy_vs_Girl
He's right

game alone is 8% off, bundle is 5%
screws it up

@Skullbone
Change download zone to japan, that seems to work

I invaded somebody with one of the cracked eye orbs at the raveyard and invaded somebody at the brug that was level 200+ i hit him and did 14 damage he fell off the map when we were fucking around. went from level 1 to 57 from all does souls

I recently finished DeS for the first time without encountering anyone on the multiplayer. After a second run looking around more carefully it turns out that the lower SL(1-35) are populated. I got to invade 20 people in around 2 hours in 3-1. It was also my first multiplayer experience in a Soul game, and I have to say that it was fun as fuck
mfw using scraping spear on dex/magic fags

@Soft_member
Nips region lock themselves to their shitty island anyway

Invade in the burg
All enemies are dead
Hunt hi and low for the world master
Occasionally hear a crash or the flip noise but can never find him
Pause mid run and turn around
There he is
He has the camoflauge ring on and is using the dragon crest ring so he doesn't make noise
.He's literally been following me around the whole time and I never new.
START MASHING MY FUCKING BLACK STONE SWEET JESUS
.
..
...
Decide I need to get a drink
Get up
Come back
YOU ARE BEING INVADED
>Its him

@StrangeWizard
Hello me circa right after DS2's release. Bonus points for using the ascetics to make your mobs deadly.

I bought all the titanite from killing SL700's in DaS and then gave it to random people. Seriously max level players are such shitters, they can be poked to death with a demon spear.