What game are you playing?

[wankerness]

Yeah, I did practice with him a few times and had it down, but it's not quite the same practicing against him vs. actual enemies.

Every time you hit the parry button, hold it down. That way if you mess up the timing slightly you still block. The alternative is mash it as fast as possible, which works on a first playthrough, but it won't give you "perfect parries."

 

[p0ke]

Every time you hit the parry button, hold it down. That way if you mess up the timing slightly you still block. The alternative is mash it as fast as possible, which works on a first playthrough, but it won't give you "perfect parries."

Yeah, I'm doing the holding it down method, but mostly I'm just a tad late when I try to do it. I don't know if it's because of input lag or if I'm just too slow, but I'm sure I'll get it if I just keep practicing.

 

[Jarmake]

Oh well... I am a weak man and I fired up Shadow of the Erdtree. Every now and then I get a feeling that it has been artificially made harder than the basegame. All the enemies take so much more punishment than ever before and they also make a shitton more damage. And what about those combos? Those are ridiculous. Enemies combo-wombo you to oblivion if given a chance. Oh well...

I did beat a few field/dungeon bosses and just now laid Divine Beast Dancin Lion to rest for good. I even surprised myself and beat in on the first try.

 

[wankerness]

Yeah, I'm doing the holding it down method, but mostly I'm just a tad late when I try to do it. I don't know if it's because of input lag or if I'm just too slow, but I'm sure I'll get it if I just keep practicing.

If you are playing on a TV make sure it's on Game Mode (or whatever the equivalent is for your TV - decreases picture quality very slightly to remove any lag). A lot of TVs that aren't on that mode have slight display lag that make sekiro in particular extremely difficult.

 

[MFB]

Made it thru "The Ocean Roars Again" tonight, the main level took longer than the boss given there's ZERO second chances if you get too close to the water; meanwhile on previous missions, if I got too close to the edge of a cliff, there's this whole animation you can still move during to backstep and avoid dying. I found all but 2 Kodama on my own, and one I should've have expected it to be there (near the hot springs) but I was just blinded for whatever reason.

I had 12 of the masks going into the fight, and wasted a few of them since he'd got me once with laser beam after using a couple, and another he jumped on me during; but I was able to get good burn damage on him between talismans/amulets, firebombs, and then the masks in the end. I saved my LW as well, now using Lightning damage, and it did a good chunk on him.

I'm level ...55 I think now, weapon stats are both 300+, one sword is like 327 and another 346, and my spear is ...maybe 315/330? Also getting high armor protection, I think helm is mid -60s, and then my body one is 120, and leg ~90, arms probably similar to helmet. Stats are an even split between heart/body/strength/skill/stamina.