Yeah nine out of ten times I get an “unable to summon” response, it’s extremely frustrating. Was not like this the first few days I was playing
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Hmm. I got a Clayman’s Harpoon from the underground blue boys, and it’s the only weapon i’ve seen so far that has like, native elemental (magic) + physical damage and can be imbued/buffed with ashes/spells. From you shoulda made this holy + physical, so close, you were almost there.
Yeah, I believe we’re gonna learn that the erdtree has created an ecosystem which seems to benefit humans in some small and brilliant ways, but it’s actually a totally alien corruptive force that has turned humans into, like, the equivalent of parasitic microorganisms. Humans are now basically the equivalent of the erdtree’s gut bacteria. They’re dealing with all the challenges that come from being a tiny thing living in the native ecosystem of another creature. I am thinking that not all the dudes with tree shit growing out of them wanted to end up that way, that the erdtree avatars used to be people too, and that all the erdtree pollen that gives you the damage boost etc. is actually not so great for people.
I think the fact that a fungal blight like the elm blight is basically the main hazard in an entire zone is genius shit, haha. It’s in the erdtree’s interest to have a whole faction of guys fighting the blight and trying to contain it, but there will never be any salvation for those folks. A tree cannot care that you get corrupted and zombified by elm blight, haha.
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I hadn’t thought that far, I was stuck on analogies to native natural forces, but your theory is convincing. A lot of the shardbearers’ individual themes gesture in that general direction (the grafting, dreaming, rebirth, the meteor and the unpurgeable corruption).
Ok now I’m sold on this game’s themes unless it specifically goes in a more boring direction in the ending
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Oh no, no women were involved in any aspect of the book’s production, Mr. Martin was very clear about that fact
I thought Cemetary Shade was super creepy too. I think those crypt cat statues are really unnerving as well. Lots of scary stuff in this game!!
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My method is try the boss with the npc summon, likely die, and then just drop my summon sign in the pool outside of the fog gate over and over to both level and practice until I feel ready to try it again with player summons. It’s fun. I always assumed that’s what they expect players to do.
That being said I spent most of today fighting that gangly guy in the castle over and over and while I personal feel like I’m finally doing pretty good, the hosts only pulled through like 5 out of 800 times.
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I love how Radahn canonically, if you talk to Sellen, has his moniker because he stopped the stars from turning in the heavens, thus interrupting the flow of destiny
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It has. It is called “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler”
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So I’ve been using ash of war on my sword and just applied one to my shield but now L Trigger only does the shield special not the sword, can I only use the ash of war abilities for one at a time?
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Not at once. You’ll have to double-hand your sword to trigger it’s skill.
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the only difficult enemies in this game for me are dogs and wolves and the goblin guys because I swing my sword right over them
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Aw yiss I just got the ash to summon those incredibly annoying wretches who two-hand a greatshield. Sounds like perfect bait to occupy a boss while I poke their backside
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TBH if you want to get into Calvino, get “Invisible Cities” first. It is his masterpiece and its better lore than anything else. Its also very short, like, 80 pages if my memory serves me right.
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yes, but you can put no-skill on your shield to bypass it’s thing.
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The dragon at three sisters roared at me and then deleted itself. I didn’t get any rewards and I haven’t seen it since.
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The roar translated as “my home planet needs me”
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This is a plot guess that I have, based on message I saw written in the world! It spoils stuff that you haven’t seen if you haven’t yet restored a Great Rune!
I was up at the top of the Caelid Divine Tower restoring power to Rahdan’s Great Rune and like all the other towers it has a pair of fingers lying dead at the top. Someone had put the message:
mushroom!
They stuck it right on top of the fingers, in the hollow of dead flesh missing from the center mass of the fingers, where they’re missing a big chunk and there’s a lot of exposed brownish substance. That’s when I realized–holy shit, theres no finger bones in here. There’s no fingernails. This is not a skeletal hand. None of the fingers anywhere in the game have visible fingernails, skin-textured flesh, muscles, bones, etc. The hairs growing on them don’t look much like hairs–they could easily be shreds of mycelium. The flesh on the inside of the fingers looks like some kind of organic fibrous material but it doesn’t look like muscle. Is this a fucking mushroom???
Are the fingers led by a bunch of sentient freakin mushrooms who have designs upon the Erdtree??
They don’t look much at all like the blight mushrooms covering caelid. So my guess is I guess an extension of my earlier post about humans being parasitic creatures in this Erdtree-driven world–I’m guessing that these are a bunch of totally alien plants fighting some kind of plant biology long-game war and the Fingers are being manipulated by a society of mushrooms who want to do something to the Erdtree. My guess would be that they don’t want to kill it, but they do want to grow on it or live in it? I’m also gonna make the call that when we get into the Erdtree and find Marika in there she’s gonna be some kind of freaky mushroomified lady.
This is probably wrong but I like the idea of it a lot, haha.
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I am…not even close to getting radahn. I get him below half health about 1 in 10 times. most attempts I literally don’t hit him. he’s a complete mystery to me, and whatever success I ever do have is completely down to RNG. sometimes all the summons are dead before I touch him, sometimes they last long enough to transition. I’ve never been close to killing him. don’t really want to do this anymore. I think in general the bosses in this are the worst of all the miyazaki games. everyone seems to hate DS3, but that game had bosses that were fun, this game doesn’t have any. not a single boss that I would rate.
edit: well, I did it. I think I personally hit him once in the second phase. then jar guy told me he was a coward and I acquitted myself with valor. twas the opposite, my rotund friend!
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