Finished my first ever DS3 run with a quality Farron Greatsword build; did I cheat?

After Elden Ring as my 1st ever Soulslike, I wanted to backtrack on the Dark Souls serie to experience it and man, Dark Souls III is my absolute favourite.

When I found the Farron Greatsword and its L1 moveset I fell in love instantly, because even if I don't like Greatsword and STR big slow hit playstyle and geberally prefer fast-paced combat, the L1 active feels fast paced and dynamic.

But honestly the more I advanced in the gane the more I realized how this weapon felt more of a pattern bypass in most fights?

Disappearing from most enemy hit radius, chaining big damage attacks.

I still see peoole saying Friede is probably the hardest boss in the game and yet it took me like 3 tries at best with Farron.

So my question is: is Farron Greatsword renown to be a noob/easy weapon?

Did I have it too easy?

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u/ex0ll — 4 days ago

About Revenant Reign Viego: Ascension

This will come off greedy to many perhaps, but I've been thinking how much this skin could have used an additional final sword that Viego would unlock upon Ascending.

>What is Ascension?

For those who are not familiar, Ascension is the final animation event that occurs when the special central Crown HUD is clicked by the player after a Pentakill or 15x Possessions are achieved.

This special event unlocks ALL champion class Swords, adding extra VFX layers to Viego's sword, crown, gauntlets and hair model parts.

The final Sword would be similar to the starting Revenant Blade in nature, as it doesn't belong to any class archetype —however it would be the final "prize" for a champion to pursue that would truly symbolize the completion of this already astounding meta-quest.

That being said, it's just wishful thinking, I know.

But just thought to let my thought out about it !!!

u/ex0ll — 6 days ago

Qualcuno che lavora in RFI come "Operatore Specializzato Manutenzione Infrastrutture"?

Ho passato l'assessment online sul sito ufficiale di FSI, e mi hanno invitato alla "seconda fase di selezione" tramite e-mail (non ho ancora idea se si tratti di altri test oppure di un colloquio).

Avrei delle domande a riguardo:

  1. Di cosa si tratta esattamente questo ruolo? Manutenzione binari? Qualcuno sa darmi una giornata tipo?
  2. Dovrei studiare o ripassarmi qualche nozione teorica particolare in vista di questa seconda fase? Se sì, quali materie?
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u/ex0ll — 11 days ago

I discovered FromSoft & Soulslikes for the first time with Elden Ring. Is it normal that I'm liking Dark Souls III way more?

I love Elden Ring jumping, and the open world is really cool.

I don't disdain crouching, though I don't see much realistic utility to it, and as per the mount... I don't have a strong opinion about it.

However... how is it that I'm LOVING Dark Souls III so much more?!

Granted I tried Dark Souls and Dark Souls II and they didn't click for me as much as Dark Souls III (I guess it's because Dark Souls III is most similar to Elden Ring).

Lots of things, starting from just the ANIMATIONS feel way better (I love the Run animation from DS3 way more than ER!), and I love the setting and I love how there are unique weapons with dual wield option (damn it, I love the Farron Greatsword with the little dagger!).

The only thing I wish FromSoft implemented in their soul games is an option to sheathe back weapons so you can for example go around sheathing your greatsword on your back, rather than constantly wielding it or having it resting on your shoulder!

Cheers, ashen ones <3

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u/ex0ll — 24 days ago

Replay system needs fixing

I really need to get this through some official Riot Games' QA because PBE environment is hella frustrating, especially for content creation.

8/10 times the replay gets stuck and won't download properly, client needs complete shut down and restart, to which ONCE MORE there's a chance the file won't download correctly again from the client, fueling an endless cycle of pain.

Live client does not suffer from this, Replay files are downloaded fast and smoothy and never get frozen.

I know nobody gives a damn about me or about creators who like to use cinematic takes from PBE servers, but if there's a small chance I can get this fixed, I might as well try.

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u/ex0ll — 28 days ago
▲ 30 r/Filmora

I love Filmora, but locking previously free assets behind paywalled subscriptions is despicable.

I am a lifetime license user, been using and supporting Filmora since its very early iteration.

I love the software but I'm here to express my disappointment after the latest build.

First, free assets went through being strategically hidden in the library because of course the company needs to sell their subscription, which I understand but it's still a shady move that will not make your consumers happy.

AI became prevalent, which I don't really care as long as their integration is optimized and are optional and useful.

But now, Wondershare is literally paywalling PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE FOR FREE assets in their library, specifically I'm talking about Text Animation effects.

And this is absolutely despicable on their end, and though I know they have plenty of specialists to study such cases on a broader scale, I want to reassure you as a customer that this will only make you bleed loyal long-term customers instead.

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u/ex0ll — 1 month ago

Revenant Reign Viego - List of Bugs &amp; Potential Improvements

Revenant Reign Viego by Vladimir Matyukhin

>I play Viego for 90%+ of my League time, and ever since I got Revenant Reign Viego there's no other skin I've been playing on him.

Due to the nature and price of the skin, I want to apologize if this sounds "elitist" or "1st world problem" since this is a high-premium skin for whales.

However, since especially since it's the most successful Exalted skin to date and it was acquired by several tens of thousands of users, I feel like there's a need to talk about this.

Here's a list of bugs and issues that I'd very much like to be fixed:

  • voice lines often break and do not respect target's champion class
    • examples:
      • possessing an enemy Yasuo will result in Viego addressing them as mages
      • being killed by an enemy Smolder will result in Viego addressing them as tanks
      • other cases whose track I couldn't keep
  • sword swapping with CTRL+5 is laggy and unresponsive in proximity of combat state
  • skin map music suffers from different issues
    • music sometimes mutes completely after possession
    • music base volume is TOO LOW compared to the og Summoner's Rift BGM, and it's hard to hear even when everything else is set to lower
  • possession causes very often texture bugs when it breaks during some abilities and not even death or re-possession fix it, causing these visuals to corrupt the rest of the match
    • examples:

https://preview.redd.it/iw8lrryyoi4h1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=27c94c95aa6c929a6e71e5db57c3e23156511bda

Here's a list of improvements that would drastically improve the experience:

  • Spell1 passive's DoubleAttacks_toIdle animation's playback lasts only 1s (compared to base Viego and all other skins' 3s duration)
    • this causes the following Attack animation to be unable to take over before DoubleAttacks_toIdle ends, creating this awkward and anticlimatic moment in between Attacks where Viego stares at his opponent in Idle animation
  • Run_Slow is the only missing Status Effect animation Viego and all of his skins need to have 3/3 and basically be perfect
  • Homeguard_Run should have its own Idle state where Viego just keeps hovering mid-air rather than landing every time
  • Spell3 is missing a transition to Walk/Run, where Viego instead just snaps out of the mist and starts running/walking unnaturally
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u/ex0ll — 1 month ago

Viego's POSSESSION is lots of fun and should definitely belong to League. However, I firmly believe it does not truly represent The Ruined King's identity built up since 2012. Surprisingly, if you swap Bel'Veth's kit with him instead, it feels more accurate? Here's my adaptation.

Viego is honestly one of Riot’s weirdest cases of gameplay/lore dissonance IMO

people forget that Viego’s existence was foreshadowed for years before he became a champion:

  • 2012: Twisted Treeline rework + Blade of the Ruined King item
  • 2013: Lucian release showing Darkfallen Ghouls and the Sentinels fighting them
  • 2015: The Harrowing refining the Black Mist mythology and Viego’s obsession with Isolde

for almost a decade, the Ruined King fantasy was consistently presented as a Wraith King traveling through the Black Mist, slaughtering anyone in his path and feeding the power of his Blade, raising armies of Darkfallen Ghouls while searching for the scattered fragments of his Queen’s soul.

and then, Riot finally had to turn him into a playable champion.

According to Riot August on stream, Viego’s possession mechanic actually came from a scrapped early Seraphine concept because they couldn’t find something else they liked enough gameplay-wise.

and ever since that choice was made, all subsequent Viego media started adapting around it (such as possessing Darius in the Ruination cinematic trailer).

The problem is… Possession doesn’t actually fit Viego’s core fantasy that well.

Viego never needed to possess people to achieve his goal.

his entire identity was:

  1. travel through the Mist
  2. find Isolde’s soul shards
  3. kill whoever stands in the way
  4. absorb their souls through Sanctity/Soulrender
  5. raise their corpses as Darkfallen Ghouls
  6. continue the search

Possession serves basically no purpose in that loop beyond being a flashy gameplay gimmick.

What makes it even stranger is that Riot also failed to fully commit to the “Blade of the Ruined King” fantasy mechanically.

Viego’s Q passive clearly pushes on-hit gameplay, but his overall kit barely supports the BoTRK fantasy, building BoTRK on Viego isn’t even particularly good and so Riot pushed him more toward Crit instead?

so basically his lore fantasy, gameplay fantasy and signature item fantasy all feel disconnected from each other.

Ironically, when Bel’Veth released, I realized her gameplay structure fits Viego’s thematic fantasy way better than his current kit does:

  • infinite on-hit scaling
  • attack speed obsession
  • evolving through consumed victims
  • summoning a growing army
  • consuming “fragments”
  • map pressure through spawned units

it's absurd how this is all stuff that more naturally align with the Ruined King fantasy lol

you could literally reinterpret most of Bel’Veth’s mechanics into Viego concepts:

  • Lavender stacks → Isolde soul fragments
  • Void Coral → Isolde soul shards
  • Enhanced Coral → Isolde’s "Remembrance"
  • Void Remoras → Darkfallen Ghouls
  • True Form → Wraith Armor

and magically, the entire “searching for Isolde while building an undead army through the Mist” identity becomes coherent.

MEANWHILE

Possession unironically feels like it would fit Bel’Veth more thematically.

think about it for a moment: she's manipulative, corruptive, adaptive, an entity that assimilates organisms into herself.

that fantasy LITERALLY supports taking over bodies or identities !!!

so again: the Possession mechanic is fun gameplay-wise... I just don’t think it was ever the right mechanic for Viego specifically.

u/ex0ll — 1 month ago

POSSESSION is lots of fun and League needs it, however I firmly believe it doesn't fulfill Viego's champion identity--Bel'Veth's kit unironically conveys better the power fantasy of The Ruined King: void corals (Isolde's soul fragments) + on-hit (BoTRk) + pets (mist ghouls)--here's my adaptation!

>The overall on-hit infinite scaling and Attack Speed + Attack Range based gameplay fits Viego a lot more in terms of "Blade of The Ruined King" + "Isolde's Soul Fragments' fantasy than his current kit

Lavander stacks -> Soul Fragment stacks

^(pretty much Sanctity/Soulrender's fantasy is that it drains the soul off its targets/opponents to become stronger and hurt more, but because they had to find a gimmick between the character and the kit they came up with (which btw it's a scrapped version of Seraphine's early concept as confirmed by Riot August)) ^(they went with the Possession mechanic instead (which is good, just not his imo)))

Void Coral -> Isolde's Soul Shard

^(the whole quest behind the identity of The Ruined King is finding his queen's soul shards and put them together to bring her back, but this is totally inexistent in his current kit design)

Enhanced Void Coral -> Isolde's Remembrance

^(this empowered soul fragments drop from Epic Monsters and it would be used to fuel Viego's army and enable him to summon Darkfallen Ghouls to push a wave "in search of his queen")

Void Remoras -> Darkfallen Ghouls

^(in all possible pieces of media, Viego is represented with his ARMY, the darkfallen ghouls (aka all victims who die within the Black Mist, whose soul is absorbed by Sanctity and whose husk raise and serve Viego) but the game outright discarded it because he already was given Possession --which is fun, but again, doesn't fulfill Viego's identity)

True Form -> Wraith Armor

^(the "true form" could use the Wraith Armor model, which is barely seen or aknowledged by anyone anyway in its current state (despite being one of the coolest features of Viego))

u/ex0ll — 1 month ago

Unable to download &amp; play Replays

This is something that ALWAYS happens in PBE Client, where often the Replay button just freezes or loops forever without downloading anything.

My fix usually is restarting the client, and after some tries it just works.

But today it just won't do it, no matter how many times I restart the client or kill Riot processes.

Is there a solution?

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u/ex0ll — 2 months ago
▲ 529 r/wow

Why won't they update Acherus Deathcharger the same way they did with Paladin mounts? The model is fresh from Shadowlands, in the Rider of the Apocalypse Hero Talent

u/ex0ll — 2 months ago
▲ 195 r/wow

Having a blast with TRP3 and I'm just here wondering how is it possible this isn't a default feature in the game?

u/ex0ll — 2 months ago

Salve, ho fatto apply per la preselezione che si terrà il 19 di questo mese di un concorso pubblico per Istruttore Politiche del Lavoro.

Il discorso è che purtroppo ho un liceo scientifico e non ho mai studiato queste materie neanche lontanamente... ho comprato un libro Teoria & Pratica di Edises Edizioni ma a dirla tutta sono COMPLETAMENTE PERSO.

Volevo sapere se c'è qualcuno che ha affrontato e/o superato questi tipo di concorso recentemente per darmi una panoramica su come funziona e se (al di là della lista argomenti segnalate nel documento di bando) in genere si concentrano su qualcosa di specifico etc.

Insomma, qualche dritta non mi dispiacerebbe!

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u/ex0ll — 2 months ago

This is a WELL put together scam I just received and I almost fell for it if it wasn't for digging a bit and doing some researches.

This scam was already posted on this subreddit more as a question than an actual confirmation/warning, that's why I'm making a new post to raise awareness among other new/inexperienced creators like me.

The company actually exists, and it's animamundiherbalism.com

except, well, it's actually not them.

The e-mail sender reads very legit indeed:

sarah.thurman@animamundlherbalism.com

BUT as you can see, rather than animamund'i', it's animamund'l' with an L

That's a small detail that will cost you dearly if you don't double check !!!

It's a well put together e-mail with a nice layout and various links, the thing that made me suspicious enough to realize it was a scam was how, after agreeing upon a rate, they wanted to redirect me to a 3rd party platform to allegedly better handle deliverables, schedule & payment.

The 3rd party platform is called BRANDSNOB. AI (I put space because I don't want it to be a clickable link).

It looks 100% like a legit platform, except... when you click on "Join the platform" it will redirect you to another window and ask for authorization to connect to your YouTube account.

That's when they start locking you out of your account and all the connected accounts and start changing passwords everywhere.

This can become a real nightmare real quick, so please BEWARE !!!

Special thanks to the YouTuber Zlatkio who went through it and made a video to warn other creators.

Please stay safe out there --it's a merciless, cruel world.

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u/ex0ll — 2 months ago