How things should have been implemented

Raw - Increased base AR to counter decreased scaling

Castlight/sunlight maggot/skull lanter - light source should be able to be seen by other players

Remedy/resist curse - should have buffed up your resistance for a set time period along with curing build-up

Aural Decoy - Should have made a common noise emitted from players such as a weapon banging against the ground/wall, or a grunt.

Dark Orb - Projectile should have been faster

Dark magic - should have done more damage the more humanity the target has

All fire spells - Should have been able to be used as a light source

Acid surge - Should have been a weapon buff that reduces enemy equipment durability by 5 per hit

Poison/toxin mist - Wider AoE/more potent(?)

Undead Rapport - Effect lasts indefinitely until either target dies, user dies, or user logs off. Target follows user.

Seek guidance - Player sees significantly more "phantom players" running around while it is active.

Bountiful/Soothing sunlight - Slightly lowered faith requirement. Increased range

Tiny being's ring - +10 or 15% HP

Hawk Ring - +100% damage for headshots

Hawk Ring - Agreed, it's kinda lame that only adds range

Seek Guidance - Agreed, random phantoms should be able to interact more with each other

All Fire Spells - Agreed, I hate tomb of giants when I can't use castlight...

Dark Orb casts perfectly fine, i wish people would realize how good a spell it is.

Raw actually DOES what your suggested, the only problem with Raw is that it doesn't go to +10.

Normal +5,Normal +10,Normal +15
---------,Divine +5-,Divine +10
---------,Fire +5---,Fire +10--
---------,Magic +5--,Magic +10-
---------,Raw +5----,
Normal +5,Normal +10,Crystal +5
Normal +5,Normal +10,Lightning+5
Normal +5,Fire +5---,Chaos +5--
Normal +5,Divine +5-,Occult +5-


As outlined above, it's the only upgrade path that stops "early". Raw +10 would have been used by buff builds that have base dex or strength, while +15 would be used by builds with high strength or dex.

I like things the way they are, FROM made 1 hell of a great game.

Having said that, they should have had a large raw ember in the game to take raw to +10 like rynn just said.

I say yes to some and no to others. All I wanted was an "Come here enemy emote" for invading.

It wouldn't take up an attunement slot.

You could coral enemies.

I just miss the epic fight from Demon's Souls before the Penetrator. I loved watching the invader sit and wait for us, standing on the stairs, a few red-eye knights at their disposal.....

I think an emote like that coulda been used superawesomely.

I thought it would have been cool if elementals all had their own effects.

Enchanted-Stagger lowers enemies magic defense, does not stack, lasts 30 seconds
Magic-Every 5 enemies you kill gives another casting to a random sorcery that has been attuned
Lightning-As Dibs said, less damage, more poise damage
Fire-Less damage, can cause a "burning" status that deals damage over time
Chaos-Fine as is, Humanity scaling is nice.
Divine-Stagger increases your magic defense, does not stack, lasts 30 seconds
Occult-Drains 5 health per hit.

Also, taking the crystal path "crystallizes a weapon" so it appears to be crystallized.

I like the way most things are except for the Dark Bead, I don't hate the spell itself but...

Dark Bead = Higher INT requirements to use. INT 32 sounds good to me.

Doesn't really matter seeing as how most people have 50 INT on their Dark Bead builds anymore so they can use CSS and have good scaling on the MLGS

I've gotten used to the spell to be honest. I know how to dodge it when someone pulls out a catalyst in PVP and I really don't think it's that OP either.

It's simply the fact that a spell that is that strong is available to someone that only need to put a few points into INT that gets me. Oh well, it really doesn't matter much anyway because they aren't likely to change it now after months of Dark Bead being in the game.

I learned how to dodge Dark Bead and Pursuers pretty quickly.

I think it'd be cool if there were "Sink or Swim" enemies we could fight in DS2 that use a specific tactic so we learn to counter it when online.

For example, we find an enemy that relies entirely on criticals, so you either sink, and get critical'd by him and die, or you counter his fishing and kill him, and swim.

Or a pure Caster enemy, who uses distancing and angling to try to hit you with his spells.

Speaking of magic

Instead of having Spells that hit once every blue moon, but can kill people in one hit they should have implemented spells that hit often, without dealing enough damage to kill Manus on NG+7 in one hit.

I've never fallen for TWoP unless it was a spawn TWoP, and in that case you're going to get messed up either way, regardless of if he's packing spell, or if he's packing a DGA with Hornet Ring.

I have yet to see a spawn TWoP user hit me from the front, they always circle for a BS, or spam spells at me.

Most spells hit more than once a blue moon, if the users actually understand how to use them. Even the soul spear spells are amazing if used at the appropriate distance (which is actually near it's edge of it's range.)

Seek Guidance - show enemy HP, possibly more stats

Shield Bash - more stamina damage

Crystal Magic - simply a visual effect of using the crystallization catalyst to cast Soul Spear, Soulmass, Magic Weapon, etc.

White Dragon Breath - steerable during charge animation (curve left/right)

Pyromancy - Friendly fire

Chaos Pyromancy - same as regular pyromancy, but cast from a "Chaos Glove" to add lava. Lava can damage self.

Invasions - No "Dark spirit xxx has invaded"-notice to the invaded player

Crossbows - Kick should be usable

Pyromancy - Needs a scaling stat

Connectivity with other players - more things like gargoyle/quelaag's bells can be heard when other player rings them should've been implemented (like the sound of other players foot steps at times etc. to create paranoia)

Critical hits - Backstab should do regular hit dmg (unless you're using dagger or some other weapon that gets bonus on criticals) and parry should do the amount of current backstab dmg. This would prevent a lot of spam out there.

Stealth - Should work

Ring of Fog - Should remove 3/4 of the lock-on range and maybe hinder projectile dmg a bit.

DWGR - shouldn't exist

I wish invansions could occur after your boss is dead. Farming wouldn't be so boring if you could be invaded. This could open player fights to the boss area and would guarantee a one-a-one only fight since the host could not summon help.

I wish you could see other player's summons signs while your summon sign is down. It would give you some indication of how busy the area is for your soul range.

Green__Eagle wrote:
I wish you could see other player's summons signs while your summon sign is down. It would give you some indication of how busy the area is for your soul range.

If your human you can see summons signs, BEFORE you lay yours down. No need to see the signs while yours is down.

Odinbear wrote:

Green__Eagle wrote:
I wish you could see other player's summons signs while your summon sign is down. It would give you some indication of how busy the area is for your soul range.

If your human you can see summons signs, BEFORE you lay yours down. No need to see the signs while yours is down.

if you are trying to co-op and have killed the boss to stop being invaded that plan is rather flawed

Co-op…Phantoms revive after beating a boss instead of gaining a point of humanity. You want humanity? Earn it through invasions.

Sanctus…Health regen should scale slightly with faith.

Path of the Dragon…Covenant ranks should increase resistances while in full dragon form.

Gravelord…Should get a notice when they have successfully infected another world.

Dark Bead…Number of beads fired should depend on INT, just like soul mass and pursuers.

Item & Consumable Buffs…Should not be stackable, wear either the dusk crown or the bellowing dragon ring, use either green blossoms or the grass crest shield, etc.

Artorias Greatswords…Should be more viable, they require a vast spread of stats that aren't of any real use to the build and it only ever just barely edge out a +15 claymore (by 15AR) except the claymore doesn't require a redonculous stat investment.

Chaos Servent…Should do something.

Way of White…Should do something.

Princess Guard…Should have ranks.

Forest Covenant…Rubbish, really?

Covenants Should Be Adversarial…Darkmoons should invade darkwraiths regardless of sin, gravelords should infect all way of white covenant members within their lobby/server, etc.