No, Faith and Arcane are my “dump stats”, which ironically means that those are the only two stats I don’t plan to dump points into.
Is that what it means? I thought it meant the opposite. Like, you dump points into them.
Me too! It was @stusser that set me straight a few years ago.
I wonder if knowing the true meaning of “dump stat” is some kind of in-group thing I never caught on to. How many times have I outed myself as a newbie…?
But yeah, dragon stuff requires faith. There is no DS1 pyromancy here.
Bateau
1967
I think the term comes from taking points out of stats, which used to be possible in early cRPGs (less so these days, devs learned I guess).
Kolbex
1968
I regret to inform you that stusser steered you wrong. A dump stat is, from ye olden D&D days, the stat where you dump your lowest ability score from the six you rolled because it’s not relevant to your class. Classically, this was Charisma, but of course Opinions Varied.
I might be weird, but I really enjoyed the Radahn fight. There’s nothing like getting naked to take on a god. And by naked, I mean I removed most of my clothes so I had the light encumbrance, and could get some extra I-frames. It took me 4-5 tries to get the dodging of the initial arrows down, then it was summon all my buddies, and pew pew pew with comet as the rest of the group dogpiled. I bet him on the first time I saw stage 2, though if the fight had gone on any longer I was just about out of FP and would have been screwed.
jpinard
1970
Interesting. Hadn’t thought of stripping for the extra rolls. That fight is pretty epic. Can humans be summoned to help with that battle?
Not sure. I’ve yet to summon a human for help!
Humans I don’t think so but it’s so cool that you can summon multiple NPCs.
Summoning a player for rahdaan means you cant use your horse. You might get lucky and get sombody that just breaths rott all over him for you.
Ooof. Horse is pretty useful in that fight once you have all your friends there, so I’m probably better off without hoomans.
Thats what I figured. Im repeating myself, but I ended up respeccing to use the dragon rott breath, hit him with it once, and it will tic him down to half, and hit him a second time in the 2nd phase. The trick is just to not get killed in one hit while your running around re summoning guys. Then I went back to be regular build. Gave it a shot with bow, sorcerery, and melea, just couldnt do it without the cheese.
Scuzz
1976
I have a +5 faith Talisman I put on if I think I might use Dragon breath of some type. 17 is what most require.
I use that talisman too, I think, or it might be +3, so that I can use heat cure or cure allies or one of those. I haven’t used it yet, but I’m ready for it.
ShivaX
1978
Not sure, I’m mostly drawing a blank on the layout there… I remember one in the capitol that I couldn’t quite do, that probably qualifies. I didn’t know about the load thing at the time so assumed I was missing something, but later realized it probably just required light load.
jpinard
1979
The dragon breaths that you cast “from above”. What’s the benefit of that vs. the straight one?
By the way spewing mass amounts of scarlet rot is fricking AMAZING! OMG wiping out the masses so fast is so much fun! What is scarlet rot supposed to be anyways?
Kolbex
1980
Yeah, I helped like a dozen people do it. I wanted revenge.
Finally got some time to play the last few days. I’d left off finally getting up to the top of Mt Gelnir- I was looking around down by the blood-soaked shack, and stumbled upon the ladder. So up and up, until I hit the Full-grown Fallingstar Beast. Despite having taken him out a couple places before, this one gave me trouble. Then when I finally picked it back up last night… I beat him easily with the sound off. I’d been listening to an album on another channel of the stereo, and just left it on when I fired up the game. I guess I just found it easier to follow exactly what he was doing without the distracting sound? Wacky. But past that (besides more fingerspiders, dammit ) was Volcano Manor! I’d heard y’all talk about it, but had no idea where it was.
But really, the big news was I finished Ranni’s quest line. I finally managed to beat Astel of the Void. What a difference 30 levels or something makes? Or maybe it was the Flame of the Redmanes someone here mentioned, on my leveled Misericorde. The damage isn’t great, and the casting time a bit long, but yeah, it sure staggers tons of stuff, just interrupts whatever they’re doing and forces them to restart their actions. Pretty nice. Killed the wizard dragon after, gave the lady her ring, etc.
I really should get back to the giant’s mountaintops, though.
Kolbex
1982
You guys weren’t kidding. Malenia is total bullshit, and I haven’t even managed to get to phase 2 yet.
Edit: Ok, I got to phase 2. Still sucks. Endless attack strings, and she just, like, heals every time she hits you? Fucking hell.
