r/DarkSouls2

PS4/5, nehma goddess of love ring, soul memory is 14,102,347. Ng+2 í think.

. . . I have about a hundred hours in this game and I think I just found out how illusory walls actually work.

I've mostly been playing this game blind and by sheer coincidence I had a wiki page open on Belfry Sol just to check something and I noticed a note about a hidden wall with the Black Knight Greatsword. I tried going to the spot and smacking every inch of the wall and couldn't find it. I'm not even using strength weapons, so I didn't need the sword, but I pulled up a video just out pure confusion and found out . . . hidden walls do not open when you hit them in this game . . .

The thing is that whenever you use a lockstone to reveal a hidden wall you can attack it open. It never occurred to me it was a separate kind of hidden wall, so in my head it never occurred to me I was missing anything. And yeah there's messages all over the place saying "hidden path" where nothing happened when I hit it, but trolling messages pretending to reveal hidden walls is just standard in other dark souls games so it never even registered as weird.

. . . I need to, uh, go back and check some places.

I beat SotFS the other day and have been feeling a bit empty since.

I thought DS1 was my favorite game, but then I finally gave 2 a fair shot, and holy shit. Everything I love about 1, turned up to 11.

In DS2, it feels like I’m going on a grand adventure that I wish could last forever. Same with DS1. Despite the horrors, it draws me in and makes me feel welcome. I can gladly die over and over and simply enjoy myself.

But in DS3, I can hardly call it a fantasy. Some gameplay mechanics are fun but I can’t say I want to spend time in that world, I feel miserable just playing it. I would rather lose forever in DS1 or 2 than win in DS3.

In the “hub world” of 1 and 2, Firelink and Majula, I feel warmth and comfort. In DS3’s firelink, I feel cold and empty.

All of these things are intended by DS3, or so I hear. The game happens at the end of the story, when the world’s flame is finally burning out. But it’s not for me, personally.

So that all being said, what games should I try that’s similar to 2 (and 1)?

Lost ~15 effigy in the process of 3 dungeons and fought him 4-5 times. A duo gank AoE spam and requirement of killing all enemies in the dungeon to have fog hole open are surely something.

My 600 AR Greatsword only take me to his 2nd phase, then the fight becomes a running marathon for 5min.

Absolute runner up to Bed of Chaos. Yeah I gonna finish 3 DLC before meeting him again.

Which spells benefit the most from the incense items?

The obvious choice is spells whose effects don’t scale whatsoever from your INT / FTH.

But what’s some options that do scale? On my bandit with 1 INT and 8 FAI, is there anything useful / fun?

As for ones that don’t scale, I’ll throw out some examples, “Caressing Prayer,” “Perseverance,” “Homeward,” “Guidance,” “Chameleon,” or “Cast Light” would all work (despite most of them being pretty weak).