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I’ve never had a single problem with any summon so I couldn’t say, although I don’t think I’ve used any of the “legendary” ones.

I’m pretty sure I’m overleveled for the area I’m in just because I went around and did a ton of other stuff first, but I’m still finding myself running around a bunch of enemies I find too tedious to fight. Every single knight-typr enemy in this game can suck my dagger. They are just so annoying. The crucible guys with spears are the absolute worst.

4071

Duh. Yep.

4072

Maybe the boss area has some kind of debuff that takes FP/Mind? Madness damage hits FP and some enemies eat it (e.g. the zombies in the Raya Lucaria graveyard.)

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Well, that was unexpected! I was exploring the Castle, doing quite well, then stumbled upon Godrick, and low and behold: killed him in one go! Either I’m getting better at this, or astrologer/Uthel is overpowered :-).

I so like this game, even if though I’m not that good at it! Very happy that you guys/girls convinced me to give it a try!

4074

I’ve put together a build I like, got a katana that I got up to +4, the meteorite staff and rock sling, my spells are Scholars Armament and Rock Sling and Carrion slice. I’m at level 37 now. I’ve got about 20 into vigor, my intelligence is pretty high for my level, etc. My primary summons is the skeletons which I got a +1 on.

I was able to beat the Tree Sentinel, though it took three tries. I could beat the boss in the boat. And I can beat people I could not before. But I STILL have a problem with the main guy in the gatefront ruins camp. I really struggle with people with lances/spears.

I also need to find things to let me get more flasks. I run out of FP too fast using the Carrion Slicer and Scholars Armament, wish there was a way to make the Scholars Armament last longer. And Rock Sling uses a lot of FP. I guess I could points into mind to increase my FP?

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Oh - and it just flat irritates me that I can’t play this in co-op with my brother without allowing invaders. He wants me to help him as he’s getting started but the last thing we want is to be griefed by invaders.

4076

Just look at them as being part of the game. Another enemy. The POG are pretty close together so you don’t lose much if you die. Just have fun together.

4077

Yes, challenge yourselves. It’s always 2v1. Be the hero, defeat the villain.

You’re well past the level where griefers would show up. Look up videos on how to counter the Moonveil katana and you’ll be 90% of the way there.

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I have invaded 3 times (for Varre’s questline) and been murdered within 15 seconds all three times by the co-op pair working in tandem.

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I assume though if my brother is low level (he’s just starting) we’ll be an attractive target. I will drop levels to match him?

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This is what happened to a friend of mine. Enough that they just quit trying to play any co-op.

I’d love to have an option to disable the invaders and play co-op. I’m not sure why they feel that is necessary.

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Are you sure you haven’t used an ability to take you down 2FP or something? Other than that, it doesn’t make any sense to me and nothing I’ve seen before. I’m pretty much using Lhutel and Engvall, and haven’t had any problems with summoning her.

I’m still not 100% on Lhutel, she just has this annoying habit of teleporting to somewhere I dont want her to be and dropping agro - and she even killed me once in the lucaria graveyard when she went and teleported and agroed a whole bunch of dogs. Surprise dogs are the worst dogs. . A lot of lists put her as S-tier (oh, and list makers, you don’t make up your own f’ing tiers…wth is SS tier? and what a fucking stupid thing to put, did you even think that through? I’m not going to link the site, because i dont want to give them any traffic…anyways…this list is probably the one i agree with right now, with lhutel and engvall being A-tier leaving me with 3 i havent yet seen to be even better :)

Because it’s From and they amuse themselves with player’s pain and misery.

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Play co- op in your brothers world. Invaders will be limited in their level by your brothers level. And with game this active and with the invasion rules pretty much nerfed in the hosts favor I can’t imagine you would get invaded very often.

4083

is co-op limited to summon range, or can you explore the world a bit?

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Yea, this is a game that has NPC invaders just so guys playing offline know what it is like.

4085

You may be limited to areas within the stakes. But it would include pretty much all bosses and dungeons. Open world areas as well but it would be harder to know the size of the area.

4086

Dive-bombing into this thread without reading the last 4k posts to ask how much it matters what console platform I play this on—XSX or PS5?

I don’t know exactly what the multiplayer component of this is like, though I think my friends on both platforms that would be interested are already either done with the game or way ahead of where I would ever catch up. So I don’t know if the social component would be a factor at all, but again, I don’t really know how the multiplayer works.

So that and “are there serious performance advantages?” would be the main thing I can think of to differentiate the two consoles.

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You can play the PS4 version on PS5 for perfect 60 fps. A lot of people here say PS5 version is fine, but I noticed hitching in some places that bothered me so I’m playing the PS4 version til they can make that a bit better, then I’ll port my save games to the PS5 version.

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I just asked that yesterday. :) Linked to an article I found that talks the advantages of each platform. Basically, Xbox Series X is smoothest because it supports VRR, but the PS5 loads faster and is a bit faster if hitchier.

I haven’t started it either – I was going to wait for a sale but all of the raving by friends has broken me down. So if you’re looking for another N00b for co-op, I’m game.

I’m leaning Xbox Series X because we have two of those and I might be able to convince my son to co-op with me a bit. (But if I go PS5, I can call in a rescue from @jpinard if I’m in trouble!)

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I’ve been playing PS5 and haven’t noticed any hitching at all.

I’m level 76 and making decent progress. Focusing mainly on Dex/Int. Thinking of branching out and trying some of the weirder weapons I’ve picked up.