I've not heard of ochuhu cups just yet so will keep an eye out. If my choice of weapons at the start doesn't matter at all, I'll start using some of the others to get points.

Didnt scroll down on the ninja tree so only just seen the bonuses down there. Choice.

cut, dodge, it's all in the mind.

I beat him with a spear I think. Low stance lets you dodge fairly quickly, medium stance gives you decent damage, The best advice is, like Souls, don't get hit. It's a bit faster, but not much different. His tells are pretty massive, like him. Dodging his thrown balls after he breaks his chains is the hardest part.

Spend a few hours playing online helping folk out. I waited 10 seconds at most before the game found me someone. There are alot of folk out there wanting help. Didn't set any conditions so got called to lots of random levels. A few boss fights that I got called to repeatedly. What I didn't realise was how much Amrita I accumulated while helping. 900,000 amrita. That was enough for me to level up a few times.

Btw, The sickle and chain weapon is freaking devastating at higher levels. Watching peeps go to town with that is a sight. I really should try it. It's pretty interesting playing with others, people using spells and magic that I've never seen or utilising weapons that I also use with attacks that I have no idea how they are doing.

Blinding game.

Dinostar77 wrote:

digi wrote:

Im stuck at boss in

Spoiler:

ship after burning village

near start.

If you need help and have any summing cups available. Let me know. I'll be on it from 7pm tonight.

Whats a summoning cup and how do i get them?

I generally try and beat a game once without summons though so id prefer not too.

Il try spear later.

Girlfriends watching last few episodes of fargo season 1.

I just got to the first boss, getting much more confident in my abilities with the tonfa and spear. Mid spear has a really short first hit, which is awkward.

Was doing alright, had no elixir left and got greedy when he fell down on low health. Wrecked me when he got up.

Looking forward to having another crack tomorrow before work.

The 'recommended levels' are inflated to say the least, especially in NG+ (Way of ??? forgive my memory). 

There comes a point in all these games where your SL is kinda soft-capped and spending levels for the sake of 99-ing a particular stat is kinda silly. Obviously none of that applies if you're playing that Legendary type one-shot difficulty they introduced in the last DLC. But fuck that noise!

I need to get back on this. But its not like Souls where you can fall back into the rhythm after a few months away - this shit is complex and manually dextrous.

@Dinostar77 - Are you on PSN? Add me if you are. I love coop in this game, because the summoning system is utter perfection. I wish Souls games were so effortless with their Phantom mechanics.

Just heat a tough ass motherfecker of a boss. Hands are shaking and heart beating so fast. Lol. That was souls like. Damn.

I hated her, I died alot on her.

Subbax wrote:

I'm through to the lady boss of the caverns.  She stunned me a lot.  First attempt always has lots of dodging from me but not quick enough.

You can avoid being stunned and other status effects if you equip the right charms and armour. That fight was much easier once I got my stun resistance over a certain number.

One tip that absolutely no-one i've played online with seems to know is: the two-horned brutish Yokai can be crumpled with a simple Stone. Spacing is key, then just lob one at his head and he'll fall flat on the floor. Dash up for the backstab while he's down and it's an easy kill.

The one-horned slightly more aggressive Yokai can be floored with an arrow to the head. Anything wearing a helmet: use your rifle. Also, the XL punchy Yokai that flings boulders is really weak to fire.

You need the stealth skill (can't remember the name) off the Ninja tree to perform a proper back-stab finisher. You then have to walk very slowly up behind the enemy, when the reticle turns red, attack.

The Katana has a couple of parry moves.

@curtis, that stone tip is great.

Killed a boss on my first go, love when that happens. I think I'm near the end of the game, "Demon King revealed" is my next mission.

Works for spears as well. Defo need sneak skill and backstabbing skill though

I'm really getting into this now. Finished off the second boss lady, did a bunch of side missions and now I'm in some sort of underground shrine with some lass. 

Levelling some sword skills currently but just picked up a pretty sweet kusarigama. Not really sure about build so just levelling stats to get armour and then a bit of this, bit of that.