re: Official Dark Souls 3 Playthrough Thread

Yeah the Knights with infinite stamina pissed me off

I just died as I killed the boss so i had to run all the way back

I'd be lying if I said there weren't a few encounters that left a bad taste in my mouth. It feels like this is the first game where the accusation that the games are hard for the sake of being hard has some merit.

I'm pretty much done with the game; beaten all the bosses. I'm trying to gather some of the spells and stuff for the achievements - something they've made more strenuous than necessary. They have the stupid acquire all rings trophy like Demon's, but some of them have +1-3 variants like ds2, so you're forced to go to NG+3 if you want to get the platinum. That really frustrates me, and the drop rates are horrible for certain items.

DS1
Demon's
DS3
DS2

I'll post my thoughts in the other thread.

Probably just behind DS1. Bloodborne eats DS3's lunch.

Going from bloodborne directly to ds2 for me was rough

I'm pretty terrible at these games, but it does seem like there is an initial learning curve with regards to playstyle.

It took me some time to beat the first boss (the snake-knight) but after that, beating him with other characters became pretty easy.

As a newbie -- dodging, timing movement, and being patient on attack seem like core concepts to embrace in this game.

Two questions:
1) How much farming are people doing? Is there the idea of "level zones" for the game, or are levels used mainly to make the game slightly easier?
I've farmed the high wall of lotharic a few times and am level 16.

2) Any other folks working on an assassin build? if so what are you prioritizing? I'm almost all dex at the moment with a bit of vigor and vitality and attunement.

The only farming I really do is to drop my summon sign at bonfires to further explore levels while helping others. I use those souls mainly to just buy shite at Firelink, and just experiment with stuff. This first play through is all about experimentation, for me.

As far as the Usurper ending goes, I hope it means what I think it means.

Amazed some of yall have already beat the game. How many hours did it take to beat?

Only thing in this one that I find harder is some of the bosses. Very fast paced and contant attacks. Some times I can barely get off any swings before im dead, or maybe I just really suck. My knight strength build is too slow.