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I thought FGTH were quite game changing at the time. I always loved the contrast between the incredibly polished production of Relax and its (for the time) subversive, naughty lyrics. Good stuff.

I thought that was excellent - doesn't get enough praise imo.

His family are preparing to take him off life support. Say goodbye to the Bad Guy

One of the best hubs for me - love the music.

There is. The Ring of Binding.

Still not down Even the usually reliable community on R/BeyondtheFog haven't been able to help. From a few vids I have watched it does look like the fight is more biased towards Magic but there you go.

iirc, there are quite a few vendors dotted around and plenty of places to find them. They also drop from certain mobs but the rate is quite low. Always worth having a look at the Fextralife pages for full details. https://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Human+Effigy

Thanks. The fact that you were lvl 135 makes me feel a little better (and underlevelled )

@Daweii Out of interest, what level did you end up at for the last boss? Did you have many trophies left? Are you intending to go to ng+ or just mopping up misc quests and areas? Ta.

Bang on re. The boss scaling. The last half a dozen or so are ridiculous compared to what's come before. I've spent 5 hours today on Beast clergyman (Maliketh) and still feel a while off taking him down.

The mom must be a right kinky sod.

Paul Anderson. Very good actor tbf.

I think I only have a few bosses to go before I get to the end. The last few areas have been punishing but well designed and enjoyable which bodes well for future playthroughs.

Worth watching the Extended versions just so you can see how Saruman dies. Criminal that they cut that from the original.

New H09909 album (Skin) out today and does not disappoint.

Well this is just bloody weird. Love it.

Someone has put 50p in the word removed machine.

Yeasssss!!!

In case anyone needs a quick ref guide for Soft/Hard stat caps (always find it useful) then here you go: Vigor First Soft Cap: Level 40 (HP gain decreases from 26 to 13 per level up) Second Soft Cap: Level 60 (HP gained is 5 or 6 per level up) Third Soft Cap: Level 90 (HP gained is 3 or 4 per level up) Hard Cap: Level 99 Mind First Soft Cap: Level 20 (FP gained per level up is 6) Second Soft Cap: Level 50 (FP gained is 8 or 9 per level up) Third Soft Cap: Level 55 (FP gain decreases from 7 to 4 per level up) Fourth Cap: Level 60 (FP gained is 2 or 3 per level up) Hard Cap: Level 99 Endurance First Soft Cap: Level 12 (Get 1 and 2 Stamina alternatively each level up) Second Soft Cap: Level 18 (Get 2 and 1 Stamina alternatively each level up) Third Soft Cap: Level 32 (Get 1 and 2 Stamina alternatively each level up) Fourth Cap: Level 50 (Get 1 Stamina per three-level up) Hard Cap: Level 99 Strength First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Dexterity First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Intelligence First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Faith First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Arcane First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Looks like they have added quite a bit more leeway in comparison to usual Soulsborne stats. I'd capped out my str at 50 until I saw these.

"The chest high wall!"

Think I've nearly finished my first playthrough. I've inadvertently gone past the point where you can get the three different endings (I read up after the fact) so the plan is now to finish the main story and then decide when to trigger NG+. I may decide to respec before going to NG+ so it feels like an even fresher start. I'm glad they have gone with giving the player control over when to move on. Never really liked the DS1 way where the last boss auto triggers NG+. Oh and **** that word removed Fire Giant. **** him **** him **** him.

Watched that a fair few times. Really enjoy a good high concept movie.

I think the feature that sends your summon sign to various places is really well implemented. If I'm travelling about the map I just use that and get randomly sent to different boss battles. Nice touch.

Tbf to you, the original version was called Worm. Anyway, back to the Russians...