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Transcript

A comic in 3 panels

Panel 1: Melina sits near a Site of Grace. She proffers her hand.

Melina: Shall I turn your runes to strength?

Panel 2: A Tarnished wearing ornate heavy armor, and a red cloak with gold trim sits opposite Melina.

Tarnished: Well I sure ain’t here to turn ‘em to DEX

Panel 3: Close up of the Tarnished’s face. Images of strength based weapons, such as Ghiza’s Wheel, can be seen behind him.

Tarnished: That’s for fuckin’ sure

  • wopalopa@lemmy.world
    22·
    6 days ago

    ten years ago at the eve of dark souls 3 release i promised myself that i only buy it after i beat dark souls 1 and 2.

    i told myself that it would be easy because im an avid monster hunter player. 10 years later im still stuck at that double boss in ds1 and havent picked it back up yet. and since then fromsoftware has released 3 soulslike game… but i still holding on my word

    • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      expect the ornstien rush at the start.

      you mission is to manage distance, your back should always be face at the angle firthest from both.

      now you have a choice to make, depending on what reward you want.

      A. the better over all reward requires you kill Smogh (large lad) first, which is trickier, because he is slow, and ornstien will be attempting to rush you down. you objective is to orbit Smogh, you MUST maintain facing with both. but do not attempt to try to get kite distance away from orstein, just use smoghs lard size to body block ornstein by a close orbit. dont mind ornstein if he is behind smogh so much, focus on smough. keep close to him so you can orbit with less work, but watch for his telegraphed attacks. you can punish him more consistently then you can ornstein because his attacks have slow wind up and recovery.

      B. If you just want this fight done, kill ornstein first. its easier. you can kite smough entierly when fighting ornstein, but just watch for his rushes as he likes to reach around ornstein. ornstein is very fast on recovery, so only hit him a coulle of times when the opportunity arises, do not over comit your stamina. if you are low on stamina focus on positioning both enemies and getting distance from smogh. ornstein has less hp so you get more work done for less.

      after the first is dead the other will switch up, but the fight is your standard boss deul. just testing your composure and remaining allowance for mistakes/healing.

      generaly, abusing the pillars in the duo phase can give you a moments breath, but its mostly a trap and may seperate the two. also you have been hording those resins, because you have the gamer disease. after the first fight or two when you manage to get one of them to less then half start useing them, and dont look back. THIS is THE fight. you will have better options in later fights.

      all else fails, summon. as much as elitests will argue, it more important you get hours in and see the game. it will get you to improve. and you will learn to love this fight. you can always return for your annualy mandatory playthrugh.

      praise the sun \[T]/

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      It’s my opinion that O&S are the hardest boss fight in all the souls games. They probably aren’t actually the hardest, but for the position they’re at in the game I think they are. At that point you’re into the game, but you haven’t mastered it. It’s also hard to travel around to get upgrades, because they’re the thing gating teleportation.

      All the other games that may have bosses that are more challenging, they’re later in the game and/or optional. You’ll also have more options available.

      I think DS1 is one of their best games, but O&S are a bit of a mistake I think.

    • imadethis@fedinsfw.appEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Hit anyone here up and I bet they’d love to sun-bro you through. I’d suck at it, but I love the games enough to replay them with anyone who wants to try them.