The game design sucks

[Dragon20070]

I love spell casters and I hate how the are implemented in this game.

This game literally forces you to play melee with spells as buffs or situational tools.
NO!! I am not liking this.

Now you don't have a number of spells, but mana which ends up very quickly forcing you to use cinder flasks or using a weapon.

Binoculars are now usable items which means that you are forced to equip the staff on you left hand if you want to aim your spells confirming that this game wants you to play as a warrior.

NO NO NO!! I want to play as a sorcerer and I cannot because of the game design! Really bad. I dunno why people can love this chapter where you are forced to play a certain style.

Very disappointing and so commercial.

I couldn't care less about the difficulty, I care to play as I want and the fact that I can't makes me tilt like no other.

I am so disappointed!!

[Blind]

mmm i play pyro/caster and i dont find this to be a problem. use simple infused sheilds/weapons to constantly generate mana(two makes you generate faster) and use your spells intelligently. min max you build with rings, i even use rings that buff my dmg and lower my hp ie:magic clutch rings to make my spells effective as hell. I one hit npc's or two hit invaders and move on. also learn to free aim your spells. its not easy but if you learn it right, and even use lock on last second you can really get off good hits

[Findus (SSR)]

Yeah the build variety isn't very good in this game. Try the Cinders mod if you want to play a mage.

[Skio147]

40/40 casters are boss

[Dexter]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von blind:

mmm i play pyro/caster and i dont find this to be a problem. use simple infused sheilds/weapons to constantly generate mana(two makes you generate faster) and use your spells intelligently. min max you build with rings, i even use rings that buff my dmg and lower my hp ie:magic clutch rings to make my spells effective as hell. I one hit npc's or two hit invaders and move on. also learn to free aim your spells. its not easy but if you learn it right, and even use lock on last second you can really get off good hits

free aiming is gone...
and you must be really delusional to deny that pure spell casters are trash in PvE
half estus that you need to PICK UP on the way
swarm of enemies each time
damage forces you to make glass cannon, reducing your HP as you mentioned and other things
damage of spells in general is trash

and YOU CAN NOT make pure caster run killing majority of enemies on your way
it is simply impossible in Dark Souls 3

[Dragon20070]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von blind:

mmm i play pyro/caster and i dont find this to be a problem. use simple infused sheilds/weapons to constantly generate mana(two makes you generate faster) and use your spells intelligently. min max you build with rings, i even use rings that buff my dmg and lower my hp ie:magic clutch rings to make my spells effective as hell. I one hit npc's or two hit invaders and move on. also learn to free aim your spells. its not easy but if you learn it right, and even use lock on last second you can really get off good hits

Thank you!! That's great!

The reason why I tilted is: Mana ends quickly OK!I wil invest on attune more, You have to use cinders flasks instead of estus: OK!! I will improve rollings more, but when I couldn't equip binoculars I tilted so much.
Tell me that YOU HAVE TO PLAY AS A WARRIOR, why you suggests me classes if you'll end up to play melee?

[Dragon20070]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Findus (SSR):

Yeah the build variety isn't very good in this game. Try the Cinders mod if you want to play a mage.

Thank you! Ok I will try the mod, but I have already uninstalled the game for now, I will see in future.

[Dragon20070]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Two A's:

free aiming is gone...
and you must be really delusional to deny that pure spell casters are trash in PvE
half estus that you need to PICK UP on the way
swarm of enemies each time
damage forces you to make glass cannon, reducing your HP as you mentioned and other things
damage of spells in general is trash

and YOU CAN NOT make pure caster run killing majority of enemies on your way
it is simply impossible in Dark Souls 3

In fact I have uninstalled the game, glad I have wasted 20 euros and not 60.

[Dragon20070]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Praise the sun ♥♥♥♥♥:

dude if u dont know about casting in ds 3 its not miazakys mistake im pure caster build and even bosses run away from me

It's not a mistake, it's a gamedeisgn choice and I am not against From Software which made Dark souls fans happy I am against all those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ braindead Dark souls purists. Because it's obvious that this design is to make those purists happy.

Dark souls 1 is so far away from the third. Much more free about the build, same as the second.

Difficulty matters, not the class you are playing or how much fun you have to play a game.

[Dexter]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Praise the sun ♥♥♥♥♥:

dude if u dont know about casting in ds 3 its not miazakys mistake im pure caster build and even bosses run away from me

Stop simping to Miyazaki... There are so many bad design decisions in Dark Souls 3 it is sad that most people will just fanboy it out.
For example: You can not stop hosts from going into fog area, there is no delay to backstab them.

[𝓡𝓮𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓒𝓪𝓽]

Pure casting is viable, you just have to go about it in a different way. If you have 60 INT, Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring, Young Dragon Ring, and the Magic Clutch Ring, you'll hit insanely hard.

If you take this a step further and allocate your Estus to something like 10/5 or even 13/2 while playing carefully it should be enough to get you through each area. You should also aim for preferably 35 Attunement so you can hit the mana pool soft cap.

If you do these things then there's no reason as to why a pure caster can't be viable, try it out. It's just not viable this way until endgame and NG+ playthroughs because it requires very specific stats and gear.

[Dragon20070]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 𝓢𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓽:

Pure casting is viable, you just have to go about it in a different way. If you have 60 INT, Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring, Young Dragon Ring, and the Magic Clutch Ring, you'll hit insanely hard.

If you take this a step further and allocate your Estus to something like 10/5 or even 13/2 while playing carefully it should be enough to get you through each area. You should also aim for preferably 35 Attunement so you can hit the mana pool soft cap.

If you do these things then there's no reason as to why a pure caster can't be viable, try it out. It's just not viable this way until endgame and NG+ playthroughs because it requires very specific stats and gear.

Thank you so much!! I'll pass btw. I am sorry I didn't see these things before buying. I couldn't care less about ng+ or difficulty or PVP and stuff like that. I loved the athmosphere and the game in general, but the community cares about difficulty and killing people all around showing how good they are and nothing else.

To me Dark souls was another thing than just being hard. It's my point of view.

[Dexter]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 𝓢𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓽:

Pure casting is viable, you just have to go about it in a different way. If you have 60 INT, Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring, Young Dragon Ring, and the Magic Clutch Ring, you'll hit insanely hard.

If you take this a step further and allocate your Estus to something like 10/5 or even 13/2 while playing carefully it should be enough to get you through each area. You should also aim for preferably 35 Attunement so you can hit the mana pool soft cap.

If you do these things then there's no reason as to why a pure caster can't be viable, try it out. It's just not viable this way until endgame and NG+ playthroughs because it requires very specific stats and gear.

Now do this on NEW playthrough without anyone dropping you equipment.

[Dragon20070]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Two A's:

ough without anyone dropping you equipment.

It's simple. If From Software makes cinders mod legit instead of being considered cheating than everything will be solved.

I will wait, but I guess it's not going to happen soon. I do hope that this mod will get great success.
We will see.

[Smaugi]

I dont remember pure casters being viable in ds1 , at the begining you would run out of spells before you could do something. There was dark bead sure but it was op anyway. Here I can actually cast enough spells to kill most bosses. And if your good enough you dont even need HP.

[Dexter]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lord Gwyn:

I dont remember pure casters being viable in ds1 , at the begining you would run out of spells before you could do something. There was dark bead sure but it was op anyway. Here I can actually cast enough spells to kill most bosses. And if your good enough you dont even need HP.

You are wrong. You can make solo pure casters in ds1 and ds2 without much trouble.