EDIT: This should be in the Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin Forum

Been sunbro-ing for a bit in the Undead Purgatory and Aldia's Keep. For the love of God, do NOT light the statute torch that illuminates the Undead Purgatory or Aldia's Keep unless you are prepared to deal with 4-5 red phantoms on your way to the boss in each area. This is in NG and it sure seems like most people who are forced to summon to get through those areas are decidedly not ready since I have hosts dying left and right in both areas.

By the way, its better if you place this in a specific game forum than in general discussion so people who don't know would know what game you are actually talking about. :D

@gaspower:

I thought I had? I searched for Scholar of First Sin and clicked on it but it didn't register. Mods can you move this please? Thanks.=

@bceagles128: No problems! Forums might be having issues again I reckon.

I thought this was going to be about how co-op trivialized the entire game. Because it does. It was bad before, but now that you get a third summon its just stupid.

Pretty much. I did some co-op against Sinner to max out Sunbros and it was absurd to see 4 dudes wailing on her. The AI consistently got messed and either did nothing for half the fight or just got staggered from the sheer number of attacks. Not to mention if there is severe lag, the boss will just glide around the room.

This has always been the case in Souls games. I don't see what's wrong with it, I never summon and if you want to do it you can. Great system.

Ya, I'm not saying people shouldn't co-op if they want to. I'm just saying its rather dull and some what pointless when you have four dudes all wailing on a boss so much that they can't even get an attack off. And you beat it in 30-45 seconds. I don't get why they added an extra summon if they didn't make it so when you did so the bosses got extra hard. There is no change from 3-4 summons. I just feel they should have really raised up the difficulty for that. Yes its always been easy with 3, but 4 is worse.

@sterling: Eh... It's always been pretty easy with 2. 3 was always a slaughterhouse and if you're adding in a forth I don't think that could make it even easier than 3 already was.

Maybe the extra summon isn't meant for a summon. When I read it had one more online player, I thought they opened up the possibility of more invaders or something like that. I haven't checked, but I guess that might not actually be possible. Maybe it's just to conquer an area rather than a boss? Most likely they just did it because they could, I'm guessing.