So cool that you not only speak about tactics for the area but also the lore. It's a mix that I don't see anyone besides you doing. Ur vids are lore and gameplay informative AND funny!
Everyone loves Kirk for helping out the Fair Lady, but the moment I take care of Anastacia they all lose their minds. Opinions are convoluted too, I guess. Heh.
Lost Izalith is one of the most unique looking areas in all of souls games, the atmosphere is so different, so intriguing... imagine if they had finished it... *Note* Hawkshaw has a great vid on the Chaos Demons part of the lore
@LeadFaun I have. They have some great ideas, but present it all as "the true lore" (direct quote) despite being just as speculative (if not moreso in some cases) as a lot of other lore videos. They also ignore DS2 and 3 when some of what they say is directly contradicted by the later game. They'll use the Japanese to show how some people misinterpret what's bein said in-game (which is fair, but they also sometimes get that wrong too if their comments section is to be believed. I don't speak Japanese so I don't know), but then when they're entire argument hinges on one word (the Way of White being responsible for the undead because they "produced" one, and they ended up having to lock them up in the Asylum because the secret got out and now everypne's choosing to become undead) they completely ignore all in-game context, how the word can be used in multiple ways, and they don't check the original Japanese to see how the word would have been inteded to come across. So, overall, they're decent, they have some good lore insights, but don't take them nearly as seriously as they take themselves. They're objectively wrong on a lot of points, and most of the rest is just as much guesswork as anyone else's lore videos.
@LeadFaun I don't know much about DS2, I was just pointing out that they ignore both. The WoW creating undead _is_ objectively wrong. Literally the only evidence for it is an item description mentioning Leery, that says something like "when the Way of White produced their first undead, they sent him on a pilgrimage to receive the Rite of Kindling," and apparently Solaire stating he "chose to become undead," however I can't actually find a quote of him saying this. The word "produced" in this context isn't saying they manufactured the undead, it's saying an undead came about within the Way of White. It's like saying the Renaissance Era produced great artists. Every other person and item description states that it's a curse, or a blessing, or the shackles of the gods, but it's never described as a choice or the result of someone turning someone else undead. Also, in Dark Souls 3, we learn that the Dark Sign, the mark of the undead, was first created by Gwyn when he placed a seal of fire on the Ringed Knights to contain their darkness. He branded humanity and linked the fire to feed off of humanity. This is what the Ringed City all but confirms and is where all of yhe evidence leads us to, not that the Way of White was branding and manufacturing the undead themselves. Again, I like some of their stuff, I think they have some interesting and well-thought out theories. But I also think it's insane to say you have the true answers and then ignore contradicting evidence to your points that are based on willfully misinterpreting a single word.
I have an invader that I used to use for this area too. Quelanya, the lost sister who returns after hearing that Quelaag was killed to collect humanity for the fair lady instead. Gold hemmed hood, lord's blade top, dark gauntlets, lord's blade bottoms, Quelaag's furysword, chaos blade, and dark hand.
i wish QLOC was given the OK to overhaul the covenants. imo, chaos servants should be given some type of "chaos" red eye orb, that only works in the depths, blight town, and lost izalith. so that you can actually defend quelana without becoming a darkwraith. cus most ppl are just going to farm rats, which kinda defeats the whole lore purpose of the covenant of replacing quelaag and slaying hollows to defend and cure the Fair Lady. would be a cool way too of giving new players a taste of invading, without having them go kirk route of figuring out a secret sequence break to join invasion covenant. would be a good early to late area range too. i honestly think too they were going to do something like this if development wasnt rushed, or hell maybe it was going to actually give the red eye orb when we think about dks3..... its just oddly coincidental that the quelana replacement in dks3, that is also defended by kirk, gives the red eye orb.
If I'm not mistaken Kirk is a member or Rosaria's fingers, which is more so darkwraiths in DS1 than chaos servants as there is no invasion mechanic for the chaos servant. The whole humanity giving aspect for chaos servant and darkwraith is a bit lame though. It'd be nice if there was some sort of covenant item (like the pale tongue) that you had to give darkstalker kaathe that had some sort of significance to differentiate between the darkwraiths and the chaos servants other than the red eye orbs/invasion mechanic. Also the proposed 'chaos red eye orb' for the areas around quelana sounds like a cool idea
Dude I love it. After two years of DS3 invasions this game feels so pure and refreshing. Also its fun to see how many people heal up in ya face or try to run or pass through a foggate. And than, finally, you punish all that nonsense with that sweet, sweet backstab. Ive done like 130 invasions in those 3 days and it still fills me with joy. But even more to have this game full of people again.. invading back to back at Sens, Blighttown or New Londor - its just great.
Do you intend to do any Moonlight Greatsword PVP videos for DS1 eventually? It's definitely my favorite weapon in DS1 and what I'm using for my current build so seeing some tips on how to use it as an invader would be great.
Backstabs in a fight are really easy to avoid. Like Saint told you in the video its just counter circling or taking a stab back (see what I did there). Usually it your opponent is backstab hungry with a little bit of knowledge soon he will eat it, not you. So backstab usage is limited in offense. However its great for punishing heals, running or rolling away, fogwall cheesing and so on. Thats why they are great! Nothing you should rely too much in a headon fight but great as a tool to punish weak play. I missed them in DS3
Don't come to DS1 trying to impose DS3 rules,every souls game has a different gameplay,if you want different backstab mechanics go play another souls game.Yes being instant and doing so much damage is unbalanced,but it has beeen like that for 5-6 years,it's easy to avoid backstab attemps from average players
There are more than enough techs not only to avoid but also to counter backstab fishing. You just didn't learn them yet in your 30 hours of gameplay (I'm assuming that number or similar, considering what you wrote).
Yo saint, realised that if I was looking for every reason to not buy this game then I probably should buy it. So here I am, ready to join you on your PvP journey. God I hope ‘Shadow Dies Twice’ is Bloodborne 2.
Ah, I knew SOMETHING happened at 30 other than "turn in to the Fair Lady to unlock the shortcut." The defense is still based on stat total rather than direct humanity though, I'm absolutely certain.
i'm glad they did the smouldering lake/demon ruins and the demon prince in dark souls 3. feels like it did a bit to redeem the rushed treatment that izalith ended up getting in 1, at least in terms of aesthetics. i just wish it actually elaborated on the izalith lore a bit
I'm still on vanilla and invasions are few and far between but his definitely inspired me to try this build. I took to 72 so I could invade up to 99 cause a lot of people still playing end game are pretty overleveled via farming/duping, and used those points to have enough stats for chaos murakumo and 18 dex for black knight sword in case chaos just doesnt do enough damage, plus an alternative pve weapon.
You should try the PtDA mod if you can play DS1 on PC, it's so much funner. I think the Rekindled guys also plan to add new enemies, though they haven't even released the version with the new weapons yet, so that might take some time. Also, 10:49, 11:52 wtf?
Hey Saint, it might have also happened in the original but I've only noticed in the remaster, that sometimes when my opponent and I circle in the same direction (say we were both turning clockwise), they will suddenly get a backstab even though I myself was never in the position to perform the counter back-stab. As far as I can tell what's happening is that they're suddenly changing direction and before my game can register that they've started circling anti-clockwise, they are in position on their screen and hence get the backstab. So far it only seems to have happened on poorer connections so there's probably an element of latency there. I was just wondering if you had any idea of how to counter this?
Saint! I'm putting together a large montage of Dark Souls "wins" and I'm asking everyone if they want in. It would basically involve me picking out a brief clip of your work, probably a fun kill you got, and then you would have your channel name shown during that scene. Let me know if you're cool with that or not! Keep up the good work!
There are two different issues with the same outcome, one moveset swap is based on a latency issue and seems to be more prevalant in the remaster, but to the person doing it it looks like they're swinging their sword normally so they don't know it's happening. The other moveset swap though is intentional and used for trolling, that's what got fixed.
So am I correct in assuming there is no weapon matchmaking like in DkS3 so an invader with a max weapon could invade a player with low weapons? I'd not ever do that myself since that'd be boring, just curious. Also speaking about lore invaders, how about a lv 63 darkmoon knight build? Lv 63 because when invading as a darkmoon via ring or blue orb that level will let you invade all the way down to lv 1, to all way through meta levels so you can punish ALL the sinners
TheValiantBob weapon matchmaking is a thing, check reddit for how it works. a good rule of thumb is to keep your upgrade level at normal +4 / +9 / +14 so that you can reach +0 / +5 / +10 respectively
Matchmaking regarding weapons is still a mystery to us all. I was able to invade a bunch of hosts with a sl40 +5 queelag furysword in anor londo, it took me like 30 secs to find invasions.
can i make a recommendation? full dragon, FaP, your ring of choice, points into vit/end/res until you're at your desired level. have yet to try it out, but it looks interesting.
foxin era It will almost always be better to level up relevant weapon stats. High level endurance and vigor chaos build is essentially Giant Dad. It's not bad, but there's far more "effective" builds. That said, do what you think is fun. You can for sure win with a high level chaos build.
I think they're a pretty cool alternative to enchanted/divine, particularly now that you can't dead-angle your WoG or soulmass or whatever. They are more slanted towards physical though, I'd mostly recommend it on weapons with good base-damage instead of scaling as it applies a modifier to base-damage instead of converting the scaling into int/fth scaling. Lightning weapons are a nice thematic touch on faith using sunbros too, lightning Estoc is my go-to on 25-35 endurance faith builds, I'll at least have a chaos/lightning weapon ready for menu-swap in case of great magic barrier and the opposite for crown of dusk.
Note that split-damage suffers from a double defense subtraction, though. Something with a high AR will have a lot easier of a time overcoming those defenses as there's less subtractions per damage dealt, this holds true on pure physical but you're REALLY gonna notice it when you're using a fire split on full giant's. The lightning estoc is okay for finishing people off or when you're on red tearstone ring, I think I prefer it over chaos because, while it's crits are just a bit less, it's pokes seem significantly stronger against a lot of good armor setups, making it more reliable for me. (Pokes are a nice thing to have on a low poise and low stamina mage, 1hr1 takes like no stamina too)
Dark Souls has so much interesting stuff in terms of lore and world-building. I personally enjoy the story surrounding the power of Occult. You know, that power that can hurt gods that Miyazaki forgot about/stopped giving a fuck about because it's Faith related. It's not exactly Dark, more like an Atheism infusion for your weapon. Pretty neat. Also, I dig the fact that you made a character and not a "build". I'm incredibly preachy about that sort of thing-- how people basically use the blank slate 3d model character given to them by the game as a representation of their STATS and not an actual character they made, inspired by lore or their own made up origin story. New players that are brainwashed by youtube tryhard videos sort of rob themselves of the actual RPG part of these games in favor of meta builds and copy/paste gameplay style. My main dude in DS is also a very inefficient dude, but I love him. (I also mid-roll, my mid-roll brother) Anyway, good shit saint. Dark Souls Greatsword is a beautiful UGS, my favorite UGS ever.
Hamster Hamsterton pincognito is making an occult painted world invader right now and it inspired me to make one for the catacombs. That bit of lore is super cool.
I know it was rushed and could've been better, but I love every bit of Lost Izalith, including the boss. People talk shit about BoC, while I think it is the coolest looking and most intriguing of all bosses.
I'm very very new to the multiplayer in ds1, never got to get into in the good old days. Could you possibly give me some advice on where to go for the best matchmaking based on my stats? Pyro glove +8 longbow +8 astora sword +2 drake +1 SL 39. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
Dark Souls world is very non-linear. At that level I would try Sen's Fortress, but it's probably possible to find multiplayer in a lot of areas right now.
See even in those areas which I assumed wpuld be hotspots, I get little to no activity. I've been summoned a total of three times since Friday. I'm starting to think it's my internet. It's NAT 3 which is strict, trying to change it but it's from a mobile hotspot so n it having much luck. I get 25 mbps down and 10 up I assumed that would be good enough but the strict setting may be killing me here... thanks for the input guys I appreciate it!
Got me sort of inspired to try my old pyromancer setup. The funny thing is i don't even remember atp what exactly did i use. Absolutely agree with the point of demon lore being the best. Btw at level 60 all i got in my invasions were fucking gankers who used katanas and did the HI TECH backstab stuff. I'm waiting for your PVP tactics analysis and stuff keep it up bruh
Darkwraith against people with oprimized builds AND phantoms I'm using it for the time being, my mid roll unoptimized ass will get melted otherwise. Against solo hosts I just forget to take it off some times.
I really wish I had PSN Names on instead of character names, or I would have been a lot more cautious fighting you, had I known. I was the GiantDad that threw out an R2, and got backstabbed for it. Nice roll catch by the way. Also yes, I was indeed on my way to get some red chunks and that sweet, sweet slab. I dunno, kinda... Irritates me off that you offed me so quickly. I've always wanted to fight you in Bloodborne, and this was just over so damn fast thanks to backstabs. As much as I love Dark Souls 1, I hate how easy it is to backstab people. Basically makes the fights less fun, and too fast. Bloodborne PVP is just crisp and pure; even gun spam can't put a hamper on it. Oh well, at least I had a slightly better showing than those two other guys that got setup parried.
Imad6185 googling it will bring up a wikidot page with all the data. The most common breakpoints to aim for on a SL125 is 53 or 56 poise because it'll let you tank a 2H GS Running attack
Shall we name the next stream "protect our fair lady" Or " no giant dads aloud in the Izalith" I would be by your side. Never played darksouls one and now I'm already invested with the lore of lost Izalith already.
I was hesitant for a while Saint, but you've convinced me to get this game sooner rather than later. Very excited to experience the game that started it all! 5:46 Also, I would give you ANYTHING for a compilation of shitty Giantdad wannabes. A N Y T H I N G .
Looks more like he's 2handing a straight sword rather than a clay judging from the speed and angle. I've seen a guy supposedly change his entire setup but it looked like he still had something else (at least to himself). Maybe something similar, but visible to other players
If you break your opponent's poise, then the running R1, 2h R1, and 2h R2 of the Claymore all true combo. For example, running R1 => R2 => R1 is a true combo if you stagger with the running R1. You can even mix it up if you don't do the running R1 first - R2 combos into R1 and vice versa if you stagger. Seriously the Claymore is the SHIT in this game.
Saint if your lookin for more games to play you should try out Darkest Dungeon.. tons of content and its easy to get drawn into the story (cuz i know you all about that lore). If you havent played it already try it out please :D love your vids man.
Fast rolling was always a high tier metatard meme. It's useful, but I could hardly give a shit about it. Medium works if you have decent poise and fat rolling works if you're an absolute tank.
invading and stealing humanity from other players? just to rank up in the covenants? thats not what the devs wanted. invading is a glitch LOL i love your videos already Saint. i never felt izalith as unfinished.. it just started when other ppl told me that
it's amazing that this game is one of my favorites ever and has an area and boss which I think is maybe the worst in any video game. wonderful art design on said area and boss tho
You know, I'm not disappointed with the remake. It's kinda lazy, but now people can invade in better areas without worrying about their eyes getting raped. I'm definitely gunna buy it when I can.
So cool that you not only speak about tactics for the area but also the lore. It's a mix that I don't see anyone besides you doing. Ur vids are lore and gameplay informative AND funny!
A lore build! And therefore near and dear to my heart. I love the Giant Dad sequence. May the meme find an eternal resting place as soon as possible.
pincognito oedipus souls remastered.
Everyone loves Kirk for helping out the Fair Lady, but the moment I take care of Anastacia they all lose their minds.
Opinions are convoluted too, I guess.
Heh.
Shut up
No u
Dont say that, you poor knigth, you are just simping to a god, feel her hug whit that armour you have?
Lost Izalith is one of the most unique looking areas in all of souls games, the atmosphere is so different, so intriguing... imagine if they had finished it...
*Note*
Hawkshaw has a great vid on the Chaos Demons part of the lore
its based off of Angor Wat ruins in iirc Cambodia
@LeadFaun I have. They have some great ideas, but present it all as "the true lore" (direct quote) despite being just as speculative (if not moreso in some cases) as a lot of other lore videos. They also ignore DS2 and 3 when some of what they say is directly contradicted by the later game. They'll use the Japanese to show how some people misinterpret what's bein said in-game (which is fair, but they also sometimes get that wrong too if their comments section is to be believed. I don't speak Japanese so I don't know), but then when they're entire argument hinges on one word (the Way of White being responsible for the undead because they "produced" one, and they ended up having to lock them up in the Asylum because the secret got out and now everypne's choosing to become undead) they completely ignore all in-game context, how the word can be used in multiple ways, and they don't check the original Japanese to see how the word would have been inteded to come across.
So, overall, they're decent, they have some good lore insights, but don't take them nearly as seriously as they take themselves. They're objectively wrong on a lot of points, and most of the rest is just as much guesswork as anyone else's lore videos.
@LeadFaun I don't know much about DS2, I was just pointing out that they ignore both.
The WoW creating undead _is_ objectively wrong. Literally the only evidence for it is an item description mentioning Leery, that says something like "when the Way of White produced their first undead, they sent him on a pilgrimage to receive the Rite of Kindling," and apparently Solaire stating he "chose to become undead," however I can't actually find a quote of him saying this.
The word "produced" in this context isn't saying they manufactured the undead, it's saying an undead came about within the Way of White. It's like saying the Renaissance Era produced great artists. Every other person and item description states that it's a curse, or a blessing, or the shackles of the gods, but it's never described as a choice or the result of someone turning someone else undead.
Also, in Dark Souls 3, we learn that the Dark Sign, the mark of the undead, was first created by Gwyn when he placed a seal of fire on the Ringed Knights to contain their darkness. He branded humanity and linked the fire to feed off of humanity. This is what the Ringed City all but confirms and is where all of yhe evidence leads us to, not that the Way of White was branding and manufacturing the undead themselves.
Again, I like some of their stuff, I think they have some interesting and well-thought out theories. But I also think it's insane to say you have the true answers and then ignore contradicting evidence to your points that are based on willfully misinterpreting a single word.
Imagine a greater city to explore instead of a dragon ass lake
I missed these passionate invader builds of yours. I'm glad this game came out.
I love the dedication to the fair lady, she deserved a better area :(
I have an invader that I used to use for this area too. Quelanya, the lost sister who returns after hearing that Quelaag was killed to collect humanity for the fair lady instead. Gold hemmed hood, lord's blade top, dark gauntlets, lord's blade bottoms, Quelaag's furysword, chaos blade, and dark hand.
Lots of great info and refreshers in this video. Great content, as always! So happy to be playing in an active souls game again.
Jeff Carter it's so nice getting invasions again.
saint_riot yeah, for real. It'll also be good to see the videos from folks like you and sticky in this game. Hopefully sticky?
Seeing Giant Dads get punked is all I need to see to know that these DS1 PVP videos are going to be of the highest quality. Good shit, Saint.
Your spawn point largely depends on where the host is, invading from anywhere within lost izalith will spawn you in both spawn points
I honestly didn't know Chaos scaled with humanity, thank you for the information.
Nice info, great video. It’s been so long for me that I feel like I’m playing DS pvp for the first time again and I’m having a blast!
Tully81 ditto! I'm loving it.
So much thought went into this which is why I love this video. Very Nice!
i wish QLOC was given the OK to overhaul the covenants. imo, chaos servants should be given some type of "chaos" red eye orb, that only works in the depths, blight town, and lost izalith. so that you can actually defend quelana without becoming a darkwraith. cus most ppl are just going to farm rats, which kinda defeats the whole lore purpose of the covenant of replacing quelaag and slaying hollows to defend and cure the Fair Lady. would be a cool way too of giving new players a taste of invading, without having them go kirk route of figuring out a secret sequence break to join invasion covenant. would be a good early to late area range too.
i honestly think too they were going to do something like this if development wasnt rushed, or hell maybe it was going to actually give the red eye orb when we think about dks3..... its just oddly coincidental that the quelana replacement in dks3, that is also defended by kirk, gives the red eye orb.
If I'm not mistaken Kirk is a member or Rosaria's fingers, which is more so darkwraiths in DS1 than chaos servants as there is no invasion mechanic for the chaos servant. The whole humanity giving aspect for chaos servant and darkwraith is a bit lame though.
It'd be nice if there was some sort of covenant item (like the pale tongue) that you had to give darkstalker kaathe that had some sort of significance to differentiate between the darkwraiths and the chaos servants other than the red eye orbs/invasion mechanic.
Also the proposed 'chaos red eye orb' for the areas around quelana sounds like a cool idea
Rusted iron ring is good to have with you for the swampy bit in Lost Izalith to either catch up to people or get away
Dude I love it. After two years of DS3 invasions this game feels so pure and refreshing. Also its fun to see how many people heal up in ya face or try to run or pass through a foggate. And than, finally, you punish all that nonsense with that sweet, sweet backstab. Ive done like 130 invasions in those 3 days and it still fills me with joy. But even more to have this game full of people again.. invading back to back at Sens, Blighttown or New Londor - its just great.
Chaos flamberge = Chaos flame blade
*You don’t serve the flame till you purify your enemies with it*
Sounds like the beginning of a player covenant to me
Snaps that'd be awesome.
Martyrs' Bloodshade Brigade
Requiriments should be: chaos weapons and the chest part of the armor of thorns
Do you intend to do any Moonlight Greatsword PVP videos for DS1 eventually? It's definitely my favorite weapon in DS1 and what I'm using for my current build so seeing some tips on how to use it as an invader would be great.
Vesper Oh yes. Channeler mask, and MLGS invader for the archives.
Hey saint, do you believe backstabs shouldn't be instant, or that we have enough methods to escape them so it is balanced?
It's not balanced, but yeah there's plenty of ways to avoid it. Learning to counter an average player's back stab attempts is really easy.
Backstabs in a fight are really easy to avoid. Like Saint told you in the video its just counter circling or taking a stab back (see what I did there). Usually it your opponent is backstab hungry with a little bit of knowledge soon he will eat it, not you. So backstab usage is limited in offense. However its great for punishing heals, running or rolling away, fogwall cheesing and so on. Thats why they are great! Nothing you should rely too much in a headon fight but great as a tool to punish weak play. I missed them in DS3
Don't come to DS1 trying to impose DS3 rules,every souls game has a different gameplay,if you want different backstab mechanics go play another souls game.Yes being instant and doing so much damage is unbalanced,but it has beeen like that for 5-6 years,it's easy to avoid backstab attemps from average players
Aust
Don't come into a comment section on your period.
There are more than enough techs not only to avoid but also to counter backstab fishing. You just didn't learn them yet in your 30 hours of gameplay (I'm assuming that number or similar, considering what you wrote).
Yo saint, realised that if I was looking for every reason to not buy this game then I probably should buy it. So here I am, ready to join you on your PvP journey.
God I hope ‘Shadow Dies Twice’ is Bloodborne 2.
Alan Bui I doubt it, but I also hope it takes a lot from Bloodborne combat and mechanics.
backstab game dead memes
I can't believe you spoke ill of chaos eaters. They're such doofy looking 50s b-movie monsters in the best possible way
Yes, indeed. Let the Chaos flow through you! They have a back and YOU MUST STAB!!
Only 6:50 in, but, forgive me if I'm wrong but, isn't 10 the hard cap for item discovery? Doesn't weapon scaling go to 30?
DreamsDragon98 No, weapon scaling caps at 10 as well. You also gain small defence boosts as well but iirc that goes all the way to 99.
Huh, could've sworn. I knew about the defence boosts as well, but that's not specifically for Humanity, that's just based off of total stats.
30 humanity is softcap for resistances. you still get def up to 99
Ah, I knew SOMETHING happened at 30 other than "turn in to the Fair Lady to unlock the shortcut." The defense is still based on stat total rather than direct humanity though, I'm absolutely certain.
Chaos servants have always been my favorite covenant. ❤️ Fair Lady
i'm glad they did the smouldering lake/demon ruins and the demon prince in dark souls 3. feels like it did a bit to redeem the rushed treatment that izalith ended up getting in 1, at least in terms of aesthetics. i just wish it actually elaborated on the izalith lore a bit
Finally someone who appreciates the chaos demons!
Minor Lore Fact:
Vamos the Blacksmith might be a Descendant of Izalith
You cant say " heres a fact" and then say MIGHT
Of course the enemy placement of Lost Izilith would be CHAOTIC
I'm pretty sure that it's possible to incorporate Chaos pyromancies with this build if you make minor adjustments to it.
Dark Souls remastered? more like... Backstab remastered... because they... they backstab... a lot...
It's only a giggle mate why you gotta get real steamy?
SpaceDudeMark nailed it!
bigevilworldwide1 It's a joke, you fucking idiot.
bigevilworldwide1 you said 'Scrub lord' and wasn't joking...embarrassing lol
I'm still on vanilla and invasions are few and far between but his definitely inspired me to try this build. I took to 72 so I could invade up to 99 cause a lot of people still playing end game are pretty overleveled via farming/duping, and used those points to have enough stats for chaos murakumo and 18 dex for black knight sword in case chaos just doesnt do enough damage, plus an alternative pve weapon.
You should try the PtDA mod if you can play DS1 on PC, it's so much funner. I think the Rekindled guys also plan to add new enemies, though they haven't even released the version with the new weapons yet, so that might take some time.
Also, 10:49, 11:52 wtf?
Can someone please help me understand how is he using the red eye orb if he’s a chaos servant ?????
Been having such fun on DSr the last few days. Great to see your first invader Saint! ❤
What is the helmet of the guy in 20:40?
NombreGenerico777 ty
Hey Saint, it might have also happened in the original but I've only noticed in the remaster, that sometimes when my opponent and I circle in the same direction (say we were both turning clockwise), they will suddenly get a backstab even though I myself was never in the position to perform the counter back-stab. As far as I can tell what's happening is that they're suddenly changing direction and before my game can register that they've started circling anti-clockwise, they are in position on their screen and hence get the backstab. So far it only seems to have happened on poorer connections so there's probably an element of latency there.
I was just wondering if you had any idea of how to counter this?
i maxed out my weapon at sl60 just like you and i coudn't find any invasions because of the weapons matchmaking ... how did you do ?
Saint! I'm putting together a large montage of Dark Souls "wins" and I'm asking everyone if they want in. It would basically involve me picking out a brief clip of your work, probably a fun kill you got, and then you would have your channel name shown during that scene. Let me know if you're cool with that or not! Keep up the good work!
Lightning raw and fire all work the same way if you want to swap up the theme.
How do you kill the king's low? I'm having trouble with it
Sorson_ block the magic. Have enough poise to tank their sword. Do enough damage you never have to fight two at once.
Thanks saint your a saint
The tank method, Havels or stone armor, grass crest shield, two hand your weapon, r1 spam until you run out of stamina then chug.
Gonkers pay the price.
20:54
Isn't this guy moveset swapping? He's got a 2H Straight Sword moveset on a Claymore with a shield equipped?
I thought this got removed 🤔
There are two different issues with the same outcome, one moveset swap is based on a latency issue and seems to be more prevalant in the remaster, but to the person doing it it looks like they're swinging their sword normally so they don't know it's happening.
The other moveset swap though is intentional and used for trolling, that's what got fixed.
It's a glitch, on their screen everything seems normal. It's only visual, only for you. Gets fixed if they switch weapon or stance tho
no its just a visual glitch
I remember Giantdad, he invaded my world once..... and got instantly incinerated by a dragon.
Whenever I watch you, I miss Martyrs Brigade more and more
14:40 The good ol Counter Backstab
hot damn, how much time did you spend farming slabs?
flagsteeler he's got like 99 humanity, so not too long lol
he has three +5 chaos weapons and u can only get 1 slab per playthrough, farming chaos eaters sucks absolute ass. i applaud the fortitude
absolutely beautiful ;_;
Woah woah woah, Lilith, in that armor, with that sword? DC'ing? shes a filthy ganker, from when I've seen her anyways
12:33 Idk what it is, but suddenly, I could really go for some lasagna.
So am I correct in assuming there is no weapon matchmaking like in DkS3 so an invader with a max weapon could invade a player with low weapons? I'd not ever do that myself since that'd be boring, just curious. Also speaking about lore invaders, how about a lv 63 darkmoon knight build? Lv 63 because when invading as a darkmoon via ring or blue orb that level will let you invade all the way down to lv 1, to all way through meta levels so you can punish ALL the sinners
TheValiantBob weapon matchmaking is a thing, check reddit for how it works. a good rule of thumb is to keep your upgrade level at normal +4 / +9 / +14 so that you can reach +0 / +5 / +10 respectively
Matchmaking regarding weapons is still a mystery to us all. I was able to invade a bunch of hosts with a sl40 +5 queelag furysword in anor londo, it took me like 30 secs to find invasions.
Papa Gigante... oh dear
Awesome video saint!
can i make a recommendation? full dragon, FaP, your ring of choice, points into vit/end/res until you're at your desired level. have yet to try it out, but it looks interesting.
Great vid bro. You make it look way easy!
C O C K Y J U S T C O C K Y
I cannot wait to get this game...... no money though
will be chaos build efficient in the high lvl invasions?
foxin era It will almost always be better to level up relevant weapon stats. High level endurance and vigor chaos build is essentially Giant Dad. It's not bad, but there's far more "effective" builds. That said, do what you think is fun. You can for sure win with a high level chaos build.
I think they're a pretty cool alternative to enchanted/divine, particularly now that you can't dead-angle your WoG or soulmass or whatever.
They are more slanted towards physical though, I'd mostly recommend it on weapons with good base-damage instead of scaling as it applies a modifier to base-damage instead of converting the scaling into int/fth scaling.
Lightning weapons are a nice thematic touch on faith using sunbros too, lightning Estoc is my go-to on 25-35 endurance faith builds, I'll at least have a chaos/lightning weapon ready for menu-swap in case of great magic barrier and the opposite for crown of dusk.
Note that split-damage suffers from a double defense subtraction, though. Something with a high AR will have a lot easier of a time overcoming those defenses as there's less subtractions per damage dealt, this holds true on pure physical but you're REALLY gonna notice it when you're using a fire split on full giant's.
The lightning estoc is okay for finishing people off or when you're on red tearstone ring, I think I prefer it over chaos because, while it's crits are just a bit less, it's pokes seem significantly stronger against a lot of good armor setups, making it more reliable for me.
(Pokes are a nice thing to have on a low poise and low stamina mage, 1hr1 takes like no stamina too)
backstab game on fleek
I see they still haven't fixed the Kirk armor roll glitch
Also, you should try out a dragon build. Use the Obsidian greatsword, Dragon Ultra greatswors, etc. I found these weapons to be really fun in DS1.
Dark Souls has so much interesting stuff in terms of lore and world-building. I personally enjoy the story surrounding the power of Occult. You know, that power that can hurt gods that Miyazaki forgot about/stopped giving a fuck about because it's Faith related. It's not exactly Dark, more like an Atheism infusion for your weapon. Pretty neat.
Also, I dig the fact that you made a character and not a "build". I'm incredibly preachy about that sort of thing-- how people basically use the blank slate 3d model character given to them by the game as a representation of their STATS and not an actual character they made, inspired by lore or their own made up origin story. New players that are brainwashed by youtube tryhard videos sort of rob themselves of the actual RPG part of these games in favor of meta builds and copy/paste gameplay style. My main dude in DS is also a very inefficient dude, but I love him. (I also mid-roll, my mid-roll brother)
Anyway, good shit saint. Dark Souls Greatsword is a beautiful UGS, my favorite UGS ever.
Hamster Hamsterton pincognito is making an occult painted world invader right now and it inspired me to make one for the catacombs. That bit of lore is super cool.
I like your style. Subbed. u on PC?
I still need to learn how to do that parry bs tech. Hoping to see some helpful informative videos in the future.
Cryptic Blight press parry, mash r1 repeatedly. If any of the r1s is a backstab, it takes priority over the parry, and interrupts the parry animation.
saint_riot I’ll have to practice it in pvp. I can get it to work on npcs but it rarely works in pvp.
great video! Do you think it might take longer for you to make content due to the lack of respecc-ing in DS1?
Kevin Slaven yup. Silver Knight build just got to Anor Londo.
I know it was rushed and could've been better, but I love every bit of Lost Izalith, including the boss. People talk shit about BoC, while I think it is the coolest looking and most intriguing of all bosses.
I'm very very new to the multiplayer in ds1, never got to get into in the good old days. Could you possibly give me some advice on where to go for the best matchmaking based on my stats? Pyro glove +8 longbow +8 astora sword +2 drake +1 SL 39. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
Dark Souls world is very non-linear. At that level I would try Sen's Fortress, but it's probably possible to find multiplayer in a lot of areas right now.
See even in those areas which I assumed wpuld be hotspots, I get little to no activity. I've been summoned a total of three times since Friday. I'm starting to think it's my internet. It's NAT 3 which is strict, trying to change it but it's from a mobile hotspot so n it having much luck. I get 25 mbps down and 10 up I assumed that would be good enough but the strict setting may be killing me here... thanks for the input guys I appreciate it!
Chaos Servant only true covenant.
Got me sort of inspired to try my old pyromancer setup. The funny thing is i don't even remember atp what exactly did i use. Absolutely agree with the point of demon lore being the best. Btw at level 60 all i got in my invasions were fucking gankers who used katanas and did the HI TECH backstab stuff. I'm waiting for your PVP tactics analysis and stuff keep it up bruh
Could you drop hornet ring? Just not that interesting when 70% of your opponents die in one backstab
Darkwraith against people with oprimized builds AND phantoms I'm using it for the time being, my mid roll unoptimized ass will get melted otherwise. Against solo hosts I just forget to take it off some times.
That's a quite out of character thing to say.
Defend that homeland!
I really wish I had PSN Names on instead of character names, or I would have been a lot more cautious fighting you, had I known. I was the GiantDad that threw out an R2, and got backstabbed for it. Nice roll catch by the way. Also yes, I was indeed on my way to get some red chunks and that sweet, sweet slab.
I dunno, kinda... Irritates me off that you offed me so quickly. I've always wanted to fight you in Bloodborne, and this was just over so damn fast thanks to backstabs. As much as I love Dark Souls 1, I hate how easy it is to backstab people. Basically makes the fights less fun, and too fast. Bloodborne PVP is just crisp and pure; even gun spam can't put a hamper on it.
Oh well, at least I had a slightly better showing than those two other guys that got setup parried.
I wish if you used pyromancy spells with this character
So is there a poise breakdown spreadsheet in ds1 similiar to ds3???
Imad6185 googling it will bring up a wikidot page with all the data. The most common breakpoints to aim for on a SL125 is 53 or 56 poise because it'll let you tank a 2H GS Running attack
darksouls.wikidot.com/poise
Shall we name the next stream "protect our fair lady"
Or
" no giant dads aloud in the Izalith"
I would be by your side.
Never played darksouls one and now I'm already invested with the lore of lost Izalith already.
Its funny how toggle escapes are thing. Thought they would have fixed the glitches rip.
I was hesitant for a while Saint, but you've convinced me to get this game sooner rather than later. Very excited to experience the game that started it all!
5:46 Also, I would give you ANYTHING for a compilation of shitty Giantdad wannabes. A N Y T H I N G .
chaos? HERESY!
This character could be black metal DS1 version
So hang on, this is weird. See the guy at 20:53? See what he's doing with his shield? He is two handing his claymore there, right?
MasterThief009 probably an unintentional move swap glitch. It happens occasionally when you invade.
Looks more like he's 2handing a straight sword rather than a clay judging from the speed and angle. I've seen a guy supposedly change his entire setup but it looked like he still had something else (at least to himself). Maybe something similar, but visible to other players
Chaos dad invasions
>Not using a chaos zwiehander
Poor Giant Dads :(
If you break your opponent's poise, then the running R1, 2h R1, and 2h R2 of the Claymore all true combo. For example, running R1 => R2 => R1 is a true combo if you stagger with the running R1. You can even mix it up if you don't do the running R1 first - R2 combos into R1 and vice versa if you stagger.
Seriously the Claymore is the SHIT in this game.
Yay new video!
Saint if your lookin for more games to play you should try out Darkest Dungeon.. tons of content and its easy to get drawn into the story (cuz i know you all about that lore). If you havent played it already try it out please :D love your vids man.
I wish they allowed not to kill Quelaag and just establish covenant with her, like they originally intended.
miss old excision
back stab game ... uhh
dead memes
backstab meme or whatever
Oroboro cosplay Dks 2 7:50
Or maybe I'm tripping
Fast rolling was always a high tier metatard meme. It's useful, but I could hardly give a shit about it. Medium works if you have decent poise and fat rolling works if you're an absolute tank.
Ash Lake next
Dou can't invade there lol
Aether Films mah soul :(
i never questioned anything i just dropped the hammer on em but 🤷♂️ each his own
I the only one who likes this area ?
And then Dark Souls 3 went and dumped on the Fair Lady and Quelaana
At least the Fair Lady didn't have to die alone :'(
invading and stealing humanity from other players? just to rank up in the covenants?
thats not what the devs wanted. invading is a glitch LOL
i love your videos already Saint.
i never felt izalith as unfinished.. it just started when other ppl told me that
it's amazing that this game is one of my favorites ever and has an area and boss which I think is maybe the worst in any video game. wonderful art design on said area and boss tho
Is DS1 PvP fun? Hell yea. Is it broken? Hell yea. Why do people hate on it or try to defend it like its not a broken mess? Hell if I know.
BearManPig15 at least someone acknowledges that. shit's deeply flawed and boils my piss at times but goddamn if it ain't great as well
"Backstab games ..... dead memes" (Did I do it right ?)
You know, I'm not disappointed with the remake. It's kinda lazy, but now people can invade in better areas without worrying about their eyes getting raped. I'm definitely gunna buy it when I can.