Is the dlc worth it?

[Viadric]

Just wondering.

[illu]

It really depends on what you deem worth it. (these are all my opinion)

Storywise? The only one with a decent story is Ivory King

Itemwise? All of them are great in the sheer amount of upgrade materials/weapons/armor/general items you get from doing them and clearing them all

Replayability? Low really, they all get tedious after doing them once. Especially the boss fights in ivory king/sunken king

Difficulty? Ohhh boy are some parts of them difficult. Ivory King if you go in without a guide you're almost guaranteed to die a few times at least.

All three also have a "challenge" area as a sort of fun side area that kind of tests your abilities as a dark souls player. All three of them have annoying aspects, with Ivory King's standing out as probably one of the most frustrating areas in any of the games, right up there with Tower of Latria part 1 in Demon's and Tomb of the Giants in DS1


My recommendation? If you're really into the game buy them. Especially if you plan on doing multiple playthroughs with characters. Generally you want to grind a lot before going to new game plus, but with all the souls and items you get from the DLCs you wouldn't even have to grind much save some certain specific things you wanted to farm

[Viadric]

Originally posted by 101four0four101:

It really depends on what you deem worth it. (these are all my opinion)

Storywise? The only one with a decent story is Ivory King

Itemwise? All of them are great in the sheer amount of upgrade materials/weapons/armor/general items you get from doing them and clearing them all

Replayability? Low really, they all get tedious after doing them once. Especially the boss fights in ivory king/sunken king

Difficulty? Ohhh boy are some parts of them difficult. Ivory King if you go in without a guide you're almost guaranteed to die a few times at least.

All three also have a "challenge" area as a sort of fun side area that kind of tests your abilities as a dark souls player. All three of them have annoying aspects, with Ivory King's standing out as probably one of the most frustrating areas in any of the games, right up there with Tower of Latria part 1 in Demon's and Tomb of the Giants in DS1


My recommendation? If you're really into the game buy them. Especially if you plan on doing multiple playthroughs with characters. Generally you want to grind a lot before going to new game plus, but with all the souls and items you get from the DLCs you wouldn't even have to grind much save some certain specific things you wanted to farm

How long is each dlc?

[76561198173228266]

Originally posted by Viadric:

Originally posted by 101four0four101:

It really depends on what you deem worth it. (these are all my opinion)

Storywise? The only one with a decent story is Ivory King

Itemwise? All of them are great in the sheer amount of upgrade materials/weapons/armor/general items you get from doing them and clearing them all

Replayability? Low really, they all get tedious after doing them once. Especially the boss fights in ivory king/sunken king

Difficulty? Ohhh boy are some parts of them difficult. Ivory King if you go in without a guide you're almost guaranteed to die a few times at least.

All three also have a "challenge" area as a sort of fun side area that kind of tests your abilities as a dark souls player. All three of them have annoying aspects, with Ivory King's standing out as probably one of the most frustrating areas in any of the games, right up there with Tower of Latria part 1 in Demon's and Tomb of the Giants in DS1


My recommendation? If you're really into the game buy them. Especially if you plan on doing multiple playthroughs with characters. Generally you want to grind a lot before going to new game plus, but with all the souls and items you get from the DLCs you wouldn't even have to grind much save some certain specific things you wanted to farm

How long is each dlc?

about an hour or 2 to run through, grab everything, hit all the switches, kill everyone. longer if you die. which you will the first time you fight the iron king. and the next 5 times untill you go back and check again.

[illu]

Originally posted by captainkloud:

Originally posted by Viadric:

How long is each dlc?

about an hour or 2 to run through, grab everything, hit all the switches, kill everyone. longer if you die. which you will the first time you fight the iron king. and the next 5 times untill you go back and check again.

Yeah, length wise they take a few hours each, a bit more if you die or search around for all of the items, which I recommend doing.

Ivory King probably has the most to explore, with iron king at a close second and sunken king coming in third. Sunken King will make you think there's a lot to explore because of how big it is, but a lot of it is empty space or drops that take you nowhere and make you die/aged feather out

[Martok-Worf]

I haven't finished all of the dlcs yet but what I have explored and done so far I have really enjoyed, I feel like if you enjoyed dark souls 2 you'll enjoy the DLC one way or another be it new items, new spells, new areas to explore, some new bosses or pvping in the areas..... Theres something for everyone.

[Trackur]

I got Dark Souls 2 for 14.79 during the holiday special and man ohh man is it worth it... I was planning to get Scholor of the first sin DirectX 11 that comes with the DLC and play it again.
If you can handle the new version it might be a good idea for you to do the same..

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

The DLC is pretty decent. Might want to wait for the upgrade though.

[Projekti koordinaattori]

I only have sunken king and I'd say it was easily worth my money. For me it took hours to complete.

Here's the full story if someone wants a good read about how dark soul deemed fit to treat me.
I had just entered NG+ when the Sunken king came out and I bought it pretty soon after. For a reason that I can't remember I really didn'y have time to play Dark souls that much and when I found time again Dark souls had a sweet surprise for me, lightingn spear nerf. So I ended up beating Sunken king dlc with nerfed faith build on pretty early NG+ :D Let's say that the boss fights almost cost me a keyboard in frustration, but I didn't give up and man I tell you the feeling when you beat it after that difficulty, it was rewarding.

[Groen90]

They're all worth it... some enemies in the sunken king are rather cheap I'd say *coff*infinitepoise*coff* but going through the areas the first time (and maybe the second and the third, why not?) is really cool. You'll almost feel like you're really playing dark souls... you know, the first one... almost...

[svatem1]

this'd really look like the only reason to have it
which in turn (if the only reason to have it is some new weapons & better opportunity for upg. mat.) is big reason why not to buy it, since it resembles pay2win too much

Originally posted by 101four0four101:

It really depends on what you deem worth it. (these are all my opinion)

Itemwise? All of them are great in the sheer amount of upgrade materials/weapons/armor/general items you get from doing them and clearing them all

[brumey]

I SAY:

wait for the DX11 Version. its haz 6 Player coop

[Groen90]

Originally posted by brumey:

I SAY:

wait for the DX11 Version. its haz 6 Player coop :CatacombSkull:

... and good luck finding that many at the same time! I can barely find one in front of fog gates lately.

[76561198173228266]

Originally posted by Groen90:

Originally posted by brumey:

I SAY:

wait for the DX11 Version. its haz 6 Player coop :CatacombSkull:

... and good luck finding that many at the same time! I can barely find one in front of fog gates lately.

unless you go to the bonfire right before the pursuer. for some reason EVERYONE needs a hand against him.

[brumey]

Originally posted by Groen90:

Originally posted by brumey:

I SAY:

wait for the DX11 Version. its haz 6 Player coop

... and good luck finding that many at the same time! I can barely find one in front of fog gates lately.

yeah. Feeling lonely too lately. jus Standing at McPuffs and waiting for invade.
but gotta say .. i have 19 mio Soul Memory


i dont Need help for any Boss.. dodging too op!