re: Official Dark Souls 3 Playthrough Thread

I was a deprived build with literally no armor at that point... Was not about to try to fight him straight up

What is wrong with admitting that? Part of the souls gameplay IMO. Nothing cheese about it.

Edit: I have been knocking people off ledges for 4 games now.

So another dumb question here... I'm still early in the game and have messed around with the pyromancer, warrior, and assassin -- but at least so far, the play styles are pretty similar.

Mainly, most combats are dodge/dodge/time an attack/attack from behind, then repeat (depending on the various attacks you face).

The assassin and pyromancer do have a bit of range, which helps when things transform but my basic combat style remains the same.

Do the classes differentiate later? or am I just doing things a bit wrong?

The play styles are all the same outside of going the magic, physical, combo of both route. Picking a class just changes what your starting stats are, which you can completely change as you level up and when you get the chance to reset. You don't get special moves/abilities based on your class.

For example, a warrior will be high on strength/vigor while a sorcerer starts with higher intelligence/faith, but you can level up any of those stats at any time. So if you choose to start as a knight, then you may be at a little disadvantage if you later want to become more magic focused. At the same time there are classes that start with both magic/physical stats so you can do both. What you do after is up to you though.

With that said though, you start with armor and a weapon based on what you pick.

Jesus this game is hard.

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I'm hearing really good things about the Dark Sword. Might respec, ditch the high dex and just go all faith, and infuse the Dark Sword with a blessed gem. Supposedly it's quite amazing.

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I was having a lot of trouble with the Abyss watchers using my +3 bastard sword, it was just too slow against them. Tried out some other weapons and really liked the dark sword. As a strength build it scales decent with strength so I used the heavy gem, B scaling now, and got it to +3. Killed Abyss watchers no problem 1st try. Probably not the best path for the dark sword but its great so far.

The moveset is great, and as stated before, when upgraded it gets fantastic scaling.

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Stray Demon

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That was a rough start

The tension was palpable.

It's not so bad! I've got that level memorized now after doing it (and dying), and sunbroing so many times. Pretty much spent a whole day on it.