I mean if that’s how you wanna play, but I definitely would advise against it. Most of the fun of these games is getting better, and finally defeating a difficult boss. The gratification you get is unrivaled in really any other PvE game imo. Like I said, you’re gonna play it however you want, I’m just saying you’re missing out on greatness!
I'd bet you'd get the hang of it if you tried.
You're doing fine, cheese it up to your heart's content, there is no invalid way to clear the game.
Honestly I’m doing my best not to cheese it but I’m slowly trying to grade up any self imposed challenges over time as I get better at the game. Like yeah on one of the guys that killed me I shamelessly back stabbed him and ran away till he died the first time, and now I can fight him normally. It’s a minuscule baby step in the grand scheme of the game but it’s progress nonetheless. It reminds me of the principles of strength training when I help new lifters. Some people can’t even bench press an empty barbell, so we start with push ups, sometimes assisted push ups, but eventually the end result is the same, we all just have different starting places. Same thing with games or anything that requires skill and / or time to excel in.
I think at a lvl 156 and +10 mimic you will destroy whatever is left in the game without much thought.
Strongly disagree on the "without much thought" piece. Being this level and having a maxed tear / Lhutel / Tiche mostly just provides a ton of damage output while bosses still chain massive damage attacks that have the ability to potentially combo you to death. That, or they leave you near death and needing to retreat to heal while having to perfectly avoid whatever comes next to even get that chance. They definitely considered summons when balancing bosses, both in their damage output and their mobility. Singular mistakes are very costly so the typical Fromsoft learning cliff of each boss still is present, even if you and your summon can pump out thousands of damage when given the chance. Maliketh is a perfect example as he's flipping around everywhere while doing large arc swings and explosions, leaving the player with minimal windows of opportunity to safely get in damage or heal. Fortissax, Placidusax, and Fire Giant are also great examples as they're extremely difficult to chain enough big hits to stagger, have multiple attacks to punish whatever avenue of attack you're going for on their bodies, regularly move themselves outside of harm's way while also attacking, put down hazard areas that absolutely must be avoided, will shave off well over half your life even with the "small" hits without multiple damage resistance talismans, and have more than enough AoE to shut down both you and your summon at the same time.
Referring to a specific spirit ash summon.
Gotcha. I’ve been using the Lhutel around +4 or so and he’s fcking insanely good in boss fights. Might stop using spirit ashes, for me it makes some of the boss fights a bit too easy, especially with ones like Lhutel which feels essentially like a summon.
You get more than enough upgrade material to upgrade several of them to test them out upgraded
I don't know, I do not think it is too far off. I had not reached any of those bosses you mentioned so I just picked fortisaxx and b-lined to him. The only thing hard about that boss is the fucking shitty camera making the fight harder than it needed to be. Once I realized to stop using lock on I beat him first try and it took 4 tries total. My vigor barely at 30 and I was lvl 80 also using the talisman that makes you take more damage. He did not hit very hard at all with plenty of time to heal.
That shit had me dying, they kept making it so easy on me. Such a nice group eh? Lmao
You can spot their direction in the compass.
Gotcha, I figured that’s what that was on my compass, which is why I angled my camera that way before I TP’d (no idea if that matters or not, first time I’ve ever used it lol).
Yup, that’s what I meant by “TP’ing away”. I saw a few videos/clips of people doing that during the Network Test.
Invasions not really fun to me at least. You are always facing 3 people if not they summon them right away. They stay in one spot out in the open and just wait. Usually a mage and a tank you get close they do rot breath while mage shoots magic at you and the other person chases you down with the other shooting lightning bolts at you. I have done at least a hundred invasion and 90% of them are just as I described.
