Doesn't help that right at the very top, there's a couple of messages saying "hidden path ahead: try bow" (this is on steam, not sure if some joker has done it on PSN as well) - with a "point upwards" emote pointing to the upside down tower with what looks like a pressure plate on it
Took me quite a few tries (and a bit of googling) before I resigned to the fact that my arrows weren't going to trigger that pressure plate
I think I’ve been making hard work of this. I’m about 10 hours in now and at level 29 I finally beat good old Maggie. I’m two handing a +2 Uchigatana and using unsheathe every opportunity I get. It took me a while to realise that if I spammed it too quickly the Uchi wasn’t being sheathed in order to unsheathe so I was missing out on plenty of opportunities to stagger. Throwing this question out there though… would it be better to get a half decent shield and use no skill on it or carry on two handing it and rolling? I’m doing ok with rolling but getting screwed over in places where my timing isn’t perfect.
@render Hey mate, I'm also using the Uchi and leaning/investing heavily into DEX... I would HIGHLY recommend that you go and pick up the "No Skill" AoW (Warmaster Shack merchant I think, in Limgrave). As you point out, this then allows you to use the Uchi weapon art whilst 1-handing - giving you capacity to block. Of course 'Unsheathe' is slightly less powerful when used 1-handed, but honestly I felt the trade-off was worth it to have protection from the shield (especially with huge mobs). I also felt the parry window was pretty small, and I war rarely/never attempting to use this Art (which is default on some/most shields?) so made sense to change out to "no skill" anyway.
Nothing to stop you two-handing when the situation calls for it! But then at least you have the option to use unsheathe still while using shield.
Have you discovered the AoW 'Bloody Slash' yet? I never thought I'd step away from Unsheathe, but I havent gone back since I picked up BS!!
Hi All, just beat Renalla last night... incredible fight, albeit I did need to summon someone to support me on this as she was levelling me to bits in final phase ha.
I am very conscious of not exploring too much so far, and would really like to do a few optional/side dungeons and bosses.
Aside from Castle Mourne (which I took on prior to Stormveil) I've not really tackled any other areas.
Any bosses and/or dungeons that have some nice DEX/Samurai loot would be a plus! But really just want to see some cool stuff before I progress further on the 'main' bosses. Loving this game, and want to drink in as much as possible...
@Mega-Gazz Yeah, I have about 25 vigor and while ok, my talisman makes me take 15% more damage, it doesn’t feel like enough. That Putrid Tree Spirit was killing me in one hit.
@Jimmer-jammer Sounds great mate, and I am ready for a couple of minor excursions away from the MSQ!
Yes spot on, I'd rather start mopping up Liurnia & Limgrave before rocking into Caelid.... so I'll check out the recommendations.
Thanks again, will give them a go!
@Jimmer-jammer I got to the top of there last night and was gutted I had to leave! I've been trying to avoid guides but looked that one up, I've not even met that npc yet . I've been working my way through the academy, anyone take the warp point before the boss? I was not expecting to meet a giant tortoise with a mitre hat selling spells 😂
Welp I finished up today. As for a update, well there's not much to update about, my whole five hours was me trying to beat the first real boss on top of some grinding, I'm close, if anyone got any tips I'm happy to listen.
(LV 14 BTW, and still love learning the boss pattern!)
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@nessisonett Yeah that has happened to me too, one of the bosses in the catacombs just didn't do anything. Had a load of those little goblins which were still running around though.
@render You only have a limited use of Unsheath or whatever skill you have, as it uses FP, so I would probably be a bit more deliberate in timing your hits. Jump + R2 is a great way to stagger enemies, even the larger foes will stagger if you follow up with a couple of hits. Great way to cut the distance between you and an enemy too.
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@Elodin Yeah same, I had the NPC summon and my jellyfish with me. Wasn't too bad once I learned the attack patterns as I just rolled through most of his melee attacks and kept my distance from his AOE attacks.
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unlocked the majority of the mountain area (including some weird manor that contains some sort of factional questline)
defeated General Radahn (really wild boss fight)
found the hidden dungeon in his area, struggled with that for a while (those archer spirits can bite me), and then defeated the Putrid Tree Spirit at the bottom of said dungeon after a couple of tries
found the area where the shooting star landed after Radahn's fight
explored the majority of Nokron, the Eternal City after a Shadow Link-ish boss fight
found the mimic tear summon
It's 2:30 AM now, so I figured stopping was a good idea if I didn't want to look like the living dead in the morning.
@nessisonett Lucky you. The thing thrashed about like a Bloodborne boss on crack for pretty much the entire fight. I didn't have healing items for scarlet rot, either, so by the time I killed it, I was hurriedly warping back to the entrance before the rot killed me and forced me to retrieve my body.
Boss actually wasn't too bad for me. Probably because I'm doing pretty sweet damage with my new dual katana setup (uchigatana +12 and nagakiba +13), and it's so big you can spam light attacks and usually end up hitting it. I died WAY more times to a few of the spirits in the dungeon leading up to that boss.
Radahn was pretty easy too, come to think of it. I had him down to a sliver of his health on my first run, but he ended up creaming me a couple of times before I managed to take him down.
Only boss I've been fully unable to beat so far is the Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast. Just ended up running past that thing.
@CJD87 I picked up the No Skill yesterday and had a quick read up on it as it's one of those which doesn't sound immediately useful but could very well be the opposite. I've currently just got the Red Thorn Roundshield which I didn't even bother with as I'm not good with the parry. I'll take a look around and see if I can find something that works better for blocking and it sounds like even though the sword skill will take a slight hit I'll still get some benefits. I've also got AoW 'Bloody Slash' but haven't tried it yet, but I will do now that you've sung it's praises.
@Jimmer-jammer I'm beginning to come round to that thinking. Rolling has been working out fairly well for me but Margit was destroying me with multiple attacks that I just didn't have the stamina to roll away from. I'm going to go with a shield and see how I get on.
@velio84 Thanks for that tip, it sounds like a good option. I really want to be good at parrying as it's a great skill in GoW but with DeS I just couldn't do it consistently as the timing is different for each enemy type. I didn't even bother trying it with ER as I knew it would be futile.
@JohnnyShoulder Using FP isn't ideal as it's another thing I was having to take timeout to refill during action so thanks for the tip RE jump attack. I've been using that on human sized enemies since the start but for some reason that went totally out of my head during the Margit fight 😂
There's something about this game that's making me feel like a total noob so thanks for all the tips 👍
If you don't mind me asking, what is your current stat spread? Dual wielding uchigatana +12 and nagakiba +13 sounds really interesting... but Naga needs a STR investment of 18 total to 1-hand?
I'm currently with STR at 12, but DEX at 30 - working with dual uchi katanas, both scaling nicely with DEX as they are linked to 'keen affinity'. Still rocking bloody slash AoW on both and also using incantation 'bloodflame blade' which is wild!
How does Uchi+Naga measure up against Uchix2? Thanks!
@CJD87 if your Strength is only 12 I'm assuming you're not using Radagon's Soreseal? (It's well worth finding and using if you don't know about it already)
this actually happened to me a while ago (and I'm sure it's happened to most other people in this thread) but one of my favourite moments so far was hearing beautiful, monastery-like singing and thinking "oh, sounds like there's a nice side quest this way"
Managed to sneak a quick go in this morning and after an initial bit of trouble (with both if I’m honest), managed to beat Moongrum Carian Knight and then Renalla Queen of the Full Moon. I really liked Raya Lucaria… wasn’t ‘quite’ as awesome as Stormveil Castle… but still really cool nonetheless.
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