poison swamp of amana

[Yoni the Hero]

i wonder what made the devs think "hm lets make this swamp full of tanky enemies that overwhelm you in numbers constantly and why not put an elite in the middle of it"

sure this might be challenging but this is the opposite of my idea of fun

[Socke]

agree. why do so many soulslikes have these areas with pointless status effects draining u down while everything is attacking u.

[sgrey]

No other reason that it was in dark souls games. The most hated place in all of the games and they thought it was a good idea to do it

[Yoni the Hero]

Originalmente postado por Socke:

agree. why do so many soulslikes have these areas with pointless status effects draining u down while everything is attacking u.

as a guy who has played many of em, theres a huge difference between making it interesting and making it outright insufferable, the amount of enemies spitting poison, grabbing etc is really dumb, perhaps they shouldve worked on that instead of nerfing the early bosses

[Yoni the Hero]

Originalmente postado por sgrey:

No other reason that it was in dark souls games. The most hated place in all of the games and they thought it was a good idea to do it

i personally didnt mind farron keep and harvest valley that much, same with the swamp in LOP, you can make the area inviting and interesting but on the same wave you can make it the worst thing ever made

[parent child bowl]

I made the mistake of fighting there. Take my advice.

Just run through and collect everything.

[sgrey]

Originalmente postado por Yoni the Hero:

Originalmente postado por sgrey:

No other reason that it was in dark souls games. The most hated place in all of the games and they thought it was a good idea to do it

i personally didnt mind farron keep and harvest valley that much, same with the swamp in LOP, you can make the area inviting and interesting but on the same wave you can make it the worst thing ever made

It might not have been as much of a problem if the resistances were done better. I loaded up with an armor, necklace and a ring with poison resistance, had something like 600 total and it didn't seem to make a difference at all. In addition all those stupid spiders that throw the web at you and can even freeze you in the air in the middle of a skill execution.
Farron keep at least had a lot fewer enemies and a lot more land where the enemies were located. This thing has almost no land and even if you go on what land there is, the spiders will keep attacking you with poison. So badly designed....

[Yoni the Hero]

Originalmente postado por sgrey:

Originalmente postado por Yoni the Hero:

i personally didnt mind farron keep and harvest valley that much, same with the swamp in LOP, you can make the area inviting and interesting but on the same wave you can make it the worst thing ever made

It might not have been as much of a problem if the resistances were done better. I loaded up with an armor, necklace and a ring with poison resistance, had something like 600 total and it didn't seem to make a difference at all. In addition all those stupid spiders that throw the web at you and can even freeze you in the air in the middle of a skill execution.
Farron keep at least had a lot fewer enemies and a lot more land where the enemies were located. This thing has almost no land and even if you go on what land there is, the spiders will keep attacking you with poison. So badly designed....

yep, they were definitely better designed than skoffa cave... theres a very fine line between a well designed poison swamp and a badly designed one. anyways i just beat the area boss, that one is pretty neat (much better than the whole area leading up to it, thankfully), cheers.

[JohnRick]

Just beat the boss, spent more time navigating this crap than the boss -_-. Never coming back here again.

[Yoni the Hero]

Originalmente postado por JohnRick:

Just beat the boss, spent more time navigating this crap than the boss -_-. Never coming back here again.

Yup me too, i spent roughly 40 mins with boss while area took me way longer, most of which was the damn swamp section

[Darth_Roxs]

I actually made it through in my attempt. Wear the slayer set until you get the poison res passive. I was also lucky and found both an amulet and ring that gave me poison res. I could legit stand in the poison and kill ♥♥♥♥ with no problem. You also should have an abundance of poison cure items on you by now as well.

[LorKh4]

The poison resist stats seems to be broken. I have 300 resist and it hardly makes a difference.

[illustrious.jfunk]

Originalmente postado por LorKhan:

The poison resist stats seems to be broken. I have 300 resist and it hardly makes a difference.

I had mine up over 600 with the armor, necklace, and ring and it didn't seem like it let me stand in the poison any longer. I left all that gear on anyway because I figured even if it's a small % I'd wind up dying by that sliver at some point and kick myself.

[sgrey]

Originalmente postado por illustrious.jfunk:

Originalmente postado por LorKhan:

The poison resist stats seems to be broken. I have 300 resist and it hardly makes a difference.

I had mine up over 600 with the armor, necklace, and ring and it didn't seem like it let me stand in the poison any longer. I left all that gear on anyway because I figured even if it's a small % I'd wind up dying by that sliver at some point and kick myself.

same here. I had over 600 total and it seemed completely useless.

[illustrious.jfunk]

Originalmente postado por sgrey:

same here. I had over 600 total and it seemed completely useless.

Which makes it seem like the +4 you get from stat increases must be a complete troll. If 600 doesn't show obvious results, then the tiny amount you gain naturally is surely pointless.