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I haven't seen anyone in this thread complain about the frequency of invasions, just the majority saying they don't want to get invaded at all. Even once is one times too many. I just don't understand why they have to throw away the systems from the last two games just so there will be more invasions. The reason there weren't as many invasions before were because it was too hard to become human in Demon's Souls and there was hardly any point in being a human in Dark Souls. I'm sure if it's not hard to revert to human in Dark Souls 2 then there would be more invasions due to people wanting to avoid the penalties of being a hollow. I'm fine with them encouraging invasions but not like this and I think From hugely overreacted in this whole situation.

@golguin: I was specifically talking about if you get invaded when you're hollow which from my understanding your health can go as low as fifty percent of your max.

EDIT: What I'm getting at is that you are being punished for being hollow without the sole advantage and only reason to be hollow in the first place. Unless the item to become human is incredibly rare why would anybody be hollow? I'd rather they just get rid of the whole hollow/human system if this is how they are going to treat it.

I don't think it's weird at all. I live near Jacksonville, Florida but I couldn't care less about the Jaguars. My team is the Denver Broncos, don't know why but they quickly became my favorite when I started watching football in my teens. I've been to several Florida Gators games but if I had to pick a college team it would be Vanderbilt, It's always fun wearing my Vandy hat to a Gator game.

I was invaded only a small amount of times in Demon's Souls before I started playing offline. None of those invasions were bad experiences so people that invade just to grief had no bearing on why I never got invaded in Dark Souls. I'm sure some people did have bad experiences with griefers and honestly there will still probably be a way to grief low level players in Dark Souls 2. I bet there are many people like me that just have no interest in ever playing with or against another player but don't want to be forced to play offline and that's why I think the Dark Souls system was perfect since there was virtually no penalty to being hollow. I can why they wanted to increase the advantage of being human but invasions at all times is a horrible idea. Also now that there are penalties for being hollow and you can be invaded why would anyone be hollow now? They've taken away the only advantage and then added some penalties that's just going to make it easier for invaders.

I wish that was the case, FFT is one of my favorite games and I couldn't get into Tactics Ogre. It's been a while since I've tried to play it but I remember my main two gripes being that I hated the leveling and skill system.

I assume TO's Orlandu is the birdman whose name I can't remember?

This is turning out to be harder than I thought, maybe I should go with a split damage weapon. What do you guys think about a lightning or chaos Large Club? I like the moveset and the Blighttown Barbarians are easy enough to farm. My other thought would be a greataxe but I'm not a huge fan of its moveset.

EDIT: Bah, maybe I'll just go with a Zweihander after all.

Actually the Demon's Greataxe does the most damage technically as it does pure physical damage. I'm not a fan of split damage as I think From really toned it down in comparison to Demon's Souls.

I should say that I'm not interested in any split damage weapons otherwise the Grant would be at the top of my list. Sorry but I don't want any lightning or chaos weapons

I'll get Toukiden at some point, I'm just not sure when yet. I also haven't decided whether I'll get the FFX collection for the Vita or PS3.

I'll echo the posts above in saying thanks for making these lists.

For once I'm actually glad I'm a Denver fan nowhere near Colorado. As long as he gets cleared by medical I'm sure Peyton will be back, the rest of the offense will likely be different because of free agency though.

So I've played a ton of both Dark Souls and Demon's Souls but the only build I've never really tried is the no shield build. I think I'm decent enough to do parries but I'm leaning more towards a 2H strength build.

The strength builds I'm thinking of are either trying to conserve weight by using the Butcher Knife or Man Serpent Greatsword or going all out attack with something heavy like the Demon's Greataxe.

Obviously a dual wield build would focus on dexterity with either a Great Scythe or an Uchigatana with a Parrying Dagger in the off hand.

I plan on using the fast roll so armor doesn't matter until I get my endurance high enough which I'll probably just use the Black Leather set. At this point I'm just looking for more reasons to play more Dark Souls so any suggestions would be helpful.

EDIT: Also this will be for PvE only and rings will be Ring of Favor and probably Havel's ring till I get my endurance high enough and after that I don't really know.