I’ve started up DS3 again after a 1-2-year break and am having lots of fun. Just defeated Oceiros after defeating all three lords and Dancer of the Boreal Valley and am looking forward to seeing what’s next.

What about you? What are you playing right now? Share your experiences with us!

  • Druid@lemmy.zipOPM
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    27 days ago

    Depending on your choices throughout the game, there is another boss after that that you can fight.

    Manus can be the last, though. And I don’t like the fight one bit personally lol. Something about his long, wide sweeping attacks just annoys me.

    Plus the

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    entire phase 2 with his magic and stuff just feels a little too spammy and out of the place for the game

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      27 days ago

      lol I totally agree. Personally I don’t find phase one that bad and with the right combo of dodges and parries he becomes manageable. Phase two though, Jesus Christ a shitshow. Dodging punishes you, parrying punishes you and keeping a distance punishes you.

      I gave it 40 goes and figured I might as well go grind a bit, to see if I can get some more damage. Because I do absolutely no damage to him, when I finally do get an opening.

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        27 days ago

        Yea sounds like you might be a tad underleveled then. Also no shame in turning the difficulty down if it gets too absurd tho. Helped me with the DLC quite a bit

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          27 days ago

          No, grinding levels already felt like cheating, so no difficulty slider for me please :3 and I see what you mean about the final boss. I knew I would have to take out Geppetto as well somehow!

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              26 days ago

              I don’t know yet, but it seems challenging. Just had a single go last night, because I beat Simon super late and had to go to bed. But i got through its first phase and then he went crazy and I died :P

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                26 days ago

                There’s a couple strats you can try besides going for near-perfect play and parries if you want those. Nothing spectacular, but it helped me a little the first time around iirc

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                  26 days ago

                  Well I ended up using the elec grinder, which helped a lot with actually dealing some damage. And then instead of trying to parry/dodging him I used the aegis to just block him.

                  I read there was some cheesy technique to get perfect parries in with the aegis. I tried that but never managed to actually succeed at it :p but it did give me the breathing room to actually get some openings and deal some damage. And then he dead :p

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                    26 days ago

                    I would have suggested the same thing with aegis and electricity - beat me to it then :D

                    Damn, didn’t even take you that you long then? I remember it took me several days of trying at least. Will you be going for the DLC next?