The First Berserker Khazan

mastery 34 unlocks the ability to use trance after anything
stance break > shadow reversal to get backstab bonus > trance > light > trance > light melts everything, then you spiral thrust > brutal > spiral thrust and it's for sure dead

that combined with phantom heatwave makes spear kinda play itself imo

RICH BAD

sure but max shadowstrike costs 1, is spammable, does more damage than trance and counters, i would skip trance if spamming shadowstrike wasn't so slow, trance just makes briding it easier and doesn't break the stagger combo.
Heatwave was good when it cost double and spiral thrust is shit value for how much it costs and the damage it deals, also resets the stagger because it's too slow.

Heatwave was good when it didn't* cost double

phantom heatwave

Awful for 2 spirit when spear dodging is already godly and does damage

slopiro

sliohp

The empire is just a corrupt shithole. Even when it gets reformed hundreds of years later it immediately goes back to being a corrupt shithole that is experimenting on children. It's the one actually evil region on the planet.

i'll try shadow trance, but i just think it's silly how easy it is to combo bosses to death on spear while having enhanced dodges and everything else

that's my point tho, it's a great buff that's cheap to keep up, and if you ever lose track of what a boss is doing, it's a free auto brink guard while you get your bearings

how easy it is to combo bosses to death on spear

Honestly all 3 weapons become ridiculous, spear just reachs that point the fastest while dual needs all the whrilwind shit and GS require a lot of stats

The game is so fucking bleak, is even possible for Khazan to get a happy end in the possible expansions/sequels?

if dfo lore fags are to be believed i don't think so

maybe I'm just jaded because I've been wearing the bard set for all of NG+ and NG++ and nothing has been as challenging as my NG playthrough. maybe I need to do a lvl 1 run?

This is the more upbeat timeline. In the original timeline Khazan just died in the mountains and Ozma burned the entire empire to the ground before starting a century long crusade against the world until he got sealed away by anime Jesus.

There are so many corpse piles everywhere

I would love to start my NG+ run but I just know I'm gonna style on the bosses. Wish there was something like Sekiro's bell/charmless run which gives you another fresh playthrough.

Great sword is just so fun

I know who the next berserker game is gunna be about.

Seeing Ozma's magic makes me wish for an ARPG about a mage in this setting

NG+ is kind of a letdown
aside from the 3 unique weapon scrolls and large spirit ore scroll, there is absolutely nothing extra aside from a few skills that trivialize te difficulty ever further

If they want to make a game about space New York they could make this guy the protagonist since he's the first Warlock. He also fucks dog women.

You guys really need to go outside and see what Asian people actually look like. They look distinct from Europeans, and you could never mistake one for the other once you notice how different they look.

Sounds cool as fuck

10s of different storylines and characters you could expand on in the DFO universe

Nexon instead uses the billions DFO makes to prop up all their retarded failures they keep churning out

the first warlock

sarpoza

Mind you most mages are from space furry newyork. So the universe is the same but the visual identity would be quite different

weebgoggled plebian thinks every asian looks like like plastic surgery kpop faggot

Does he really fuck Dog Head. If so he's literally me.

Doghead is probably the only one who can touch her boss Sarpoza and even lean against him without any deadly consequences. Anyone who disclosed any private information between the two has been found dead in a sewer, strangled by a dog leash.

Different idea since people already mentioned sarpoza but they could also make a story about louise the first hellcat.
It's based off the brawler class tree and thier whole gimmick is that they all inject themselves with the hell cats poison at some point which is a toxin that constantly tries to make its self more deadly. Louise is own description of it when she created it was "I made this toxin so that it could make me stronger but I was mistaken. The toxin uses me to make it stronger...."

Do any of these characters have a happy ending?

.....no

Are the nioh games worth it? Heard they are pretty similar to this.

dunno about 2 about the first one's garbage

Thanks for the warning.

Roxy dies in her lovers arms after killing the apostle sirroco the assimilator. (This is a canon event in every dfo timeline funny enough)

Sarpoza absorbs the the power of infant space bird God and then need to get put down

Louise purposely gets herself killed in a sacrifice ritual because she's 1 of the 7 hosts of sirrocos fractured soul and with her death it combines with the others

i look like this

imagine her giving head

They are way deeper mechanically (for example, there's a specific mechanic for rapid stamina regeneration akin to perfect reload from gow games, with several even deeper mechanics attached to it) but with worse itemization as a tradeoff. Overall, absolutely. Start with the first one and ignore the filtered shitter above. Don't pay much attention to the builds on your first run, just level everything evenly.

Should adapt the Time Gate arc to a standalone game

Elamein soul recreation dlc trust the plan

She was fun to bully

who was the first jerker?

DLC is fighting phantoms and killing Charon the plan's been changed

What weapon is the deepest mechanically? I don't care if it has one flowchart that's objectively better to spam. Which one has the best variety and style among its specials?

greatsword has multiple defensive options and the best reach in the game, allowing you to do things other weapons can't, along with quite good mobility with furious swipe and titanic descent

She also had the best ost in phase 1
i though we were only getting 2 hismar reskins

You, the player

is the raging bandit good enough armor to carry me through the end of the game for DB

yep, find a set bonus you like and then update your weapon every 10 levels or so and you're fine
once you get at least 32 jarlings you can get the jar helmet and switch things up a bit

He didn't keep the ancient warrior weapons

I kept them on NG++ when i realized you can't craft them

the real question is if this even exists
firstberserkerkhazan.wiki.fextralife.com/Warrior's Common Dual Wield

I too and sick of the anime Asian art style slop. So sick of anime in general. Zero originality in any of it

How is trance spam bad? It's the skill that resets your combo so you can keep the offensive going. It's the skill that can let you take Volbaino from 100% to 0 after a single reflection if you do it right. Why would I NOT want to use trance?

it's not bad, it's just overwhelmingly strong to the point of oppressing other playstyles
look at starts trancing with 2.75 spirit and 80% stamina, boss still has 30% stamina left
gets off 5 trances and re-engages the boss with 2.75 spirit and stamina to spare

whats the point of spiral thrust, crescent strike, or full moon when trance > swift is better in every way?

Okay? I'm pretty sure there is plenty of games for you anon.

DW can also infinitely spam their stuff.
GS has infinite stamina basically.

DW has constant range issues and whirlwind is one of the longest animation commitments for the weapon
GS is also very stamina/spirit heavy for a stunlock, you need to have night's veil active and mix in a gap closer like titanic descent or a lingering hitbox like inner fury after every charged mortal blow

the fact that spear can activate moonlight for no spirit cost and trance auto-refunds the spirit is just absurd. i've played all three weapons now and spear just plays itself, it's ridiculous

I got Nioh 2 BECAUSE people compared Khazan to it. It's....dear god, I don't like it. I can see the connections, mission based format, multiple weapons with different customizable movesets, each mission will either end in a boss fight or a series of fights....but I just don't like it. All the human sized and larger yokai have hyper armor until you break their stamina bar. All the enemy placements are in such a manner that you can get mollywhopped by a pair of hidden hand cannon wielding archers on rooftops 3 zip codes away. The fucking ninja have an instant death grab where they go full jihad on you. The bosses are no where near as obnoxious as the regular levels. They were actually fun to fight.

Khazan is "like" Nioh, but I'd pick Khazan in a heartbeat with how you can turn a single brink guard or reflection into a chance to go full retard on enemies and unleash a big hit combo on them.

spiral thrust is my favorite, the spiral energy calls for me and it is my drill that will pierce the heavens.

Damage multiplier or flat attack?
I'm guessing flat is better for NG?

dfo lore experts anwser this. If khazan could reach hilder would he be able to kill her?

Ideally you get both. Ring, amulet, gloves, and weapon can have both stats and you can get some pretty noticeable increases in damage with them.

flat attack scales with your weapon's level, it's usually always good
DMG% and DMG Multiplier% are for playstyles that can't use stuff like +Charged Attack% or +Swift Attack%, etc

I'm a bit out of date on DFO lore, but I think that in setting Hilder isn't actually that powerful of an apostle, hence why she is consistently a force of trickery and manipulation rather than sheer power.
So, if for some reason she had to fight and couldn't escape it's possible.

huh, i though the eye was some kind of acient god or some shit, was it really a shitter in the end considering how dbz ozma was?

I haven't played Khazan yet so I don't know precisely what you're referencing only the DFO lore, but Hilder is prominently associated with an eye as a symbol, Crying or Keening as a title, and as a backstory her entire drive is mourning her dead planet and trying to recreate it.

That answers most of it.
I can guess the rest of the khazan lore if they keep the same premise

Nah they all die and Kazan becomes an angry ghost that causes the Kazan syndrome. When his corpse is recovered and he's revived by Ozma's imposters later on the dark side (Ozma had to be banished to another dimension so he couldn't fuck up the entire world) Kazan just wants to destroy shit so the player class Soul Bender (a swordsman that calls on ghosts like Khazan and the Blade Phantoms and referred to by them as the king of ghosts) forces him back to the netherworld by summoning a gate to the netherworld and Charon before going on to kill Ozma for real.
youtube.com/watch?v=bIfpO8IXPPo
Check out this video to see what happens in the game. Has some actual gameplay footage as part of it.
Maybe not because some of the important characters in the game world are parts of 12 artificial gods created before Terra (it's our earth but they used some magic+science to create artificial gods using the dark essence of an absolute creator god of the universe, who then showed up and fought them and it destroyed the world) and Hilder is one of those pieces of the artificial gods as well, but they can't harm each other directly for some unexplained reason so she's been using humans to kill the other "apostles." She's ranked much higher than Ozma in power and he couldn't really kill Ozma either, but that could be just be because Kazan is possibly also a piece of.one of those gods that were blown apart like the absolute god was when the earth was destroyed, or he could be part of the absolute god itself like the boss character of the DNF fighting game is which would probably be a similar issue. There was another timeline that existed in the game for a few years where the absolute god absorbed that Lost Warrior character and it fucked up the world even more, but they rebooted it to the original world for whatever reason with this cryptic trailer.
youtube.com/watch?v=2pg1uBajYvg

Why are all the female bosses such PIECES OF SHIT?

Hilder and ozma are the two most powerful mages in universe that aren't the great mage myre or the play character when they are a mage class.
So holder by no means is a push over and khazan probably couldn't heat her

The entire empire is being manipulated by a higher entity. We don't know who wrote the book and staged the whole thing, so there's definitely going to be a follow-up in a dlc or a second game. Perhaps involving Charon

Don't be mistaken. Crying eyes hilder is 1 of the 13 apostles and they are very much basically gods.

Just started, any tips against viper? Reflecting with the spear sucks pure ass because he swings it in such a strange circle that it can't connect with half his attacks

I couldn't deal with Maluca's fight, fucker takes all my life in second phase. Was i supposed to be getting chaos resistance gear on that level?

DW uses way too much stamina to keep things going for long, and Whirlwind is a huge commitment. It does do crazy high stamina damage though

All the human sized and larger yokai have hyper armor until you break their stamina bar.

And it's piss easy to do. A good chunk of yokai have a weak spot, either their horns or glowing amrita bulb on their body/inside their eye. If you hit it, it deals massive ki damage. On top of it, yokai skills reduce their max ki, purity status effect increases your ki damage and certain skills are inherently better at dealing ki damage, mostly ki shockwaves or blunt attacks.
You can also remove hyperarmor if you inflict two elemental status effects on them simultaneously, leading to confusion.

All the enemy placements are in such a manner that you can get mollywhopped by a pair of hidden hand cannon wielding archers on rooftops 3 zip codes away.

The level design in nioh actually allows you to go around a good chunk of ambushes and ambush gunners first. Invest into divination talisman and always use it, it's also the best way to generate onmyo points, it will show all enemy locations on your minimap.

The fucking ninja have an instant death grab where they go full jihad on you.

But that's cool as fuck. You need to pay attention even to the "trash" mobs or they will rape you with desperation moves. Just focus on one enemy at a time, don't leave weaker enemies on low HP.

The empire fucking sucks.

If you're lacking that extra damage, javelin headshots are severely underrated.

Invest a couple of tries in timing the easier to read moves like his pokes in the first phase and then 2nd phase.

No, it's just the first fight that tests if you've bothered to learn reflect

Some attacks are just not worth it to parry if you don't have the timing down. Practice does make perfect, but some of Viper's attacks are tricky because his delay looks far more natural than other bosses due to him twirling his weapon around. Take your time and slow down in Phase 1. Master the timing of dodging/parrying his leaping attack. You're going to see a lot more of it in a different scenario during phase 2. Don't use Heatwave. That shit is a crutch that'll make you a worse player.

You're fine without Chaos resistance. Learn the parry timing of his Iai. That's the key to the fight. You will wrestle control once you get that down. His moveset is more telegraphed than most bosses, because he feels very, very scripted. Get back on that shit.

arr

It's a boss regains all their stamina and there's nothing you can do about it episode

mfw Bringkus does this into his spin shit and you just die because you got too close to him

this game has so many cool looking armor sets it's actually pretty hard to decide what I want to wear for NG+

How bad is Ozuma with GS?

be me

ignore Reflection

play GS

mash Counterstrike during his combos

dies in one minute, wonder how he got his reputation

play spear on NG+

barely getting damage from openings, fight drags on forever

see a bunch of shit I never saw the first time, like the heal and the weapon swap

end up grinding out the timing for Reflection

I hate having to use Reflection along with Brink Block since their timings are so much different.

have a (you) faggot nigger!

He's one of the better greatsword fights. The pulsing aoe keeps him staggered during phase 1 while phase 2 and 3 dont run away

The princess is the absolute worst fight with GS since after every single attack she backhops

Every boss is easy with Greatsword once you learn to brink block their attacks and counter attack.

isn't getting nearer to him and reverse clockwise the way to go? When you do that the flamethrower would never touch you

he spins too fast for me so I always just backed off and dodged the 2-3 firewaves that got near me

just finished true ending tonight, what a miserable stain on the game that the later part of the game they just gave up on balancing and just gave random hyper armor, random massive stam regen that cant be interrupted and going above and beyond with the incomprehensible attack timings and delays which all on its own could be fine but on 2 or fucking 3 phase fights it becomes an absolute slog.
ozma will completely eat a charged heavy without like a ghost form to show it, he will just hover to the side the heavy attack will go completely through him with no effect it's so lazy. So much running so much back hoping so much immune bubbles and long animations in the air all just fluff and filler to make up for the fact they couldn't figure out how to balance the power they gave us to chain together attacks outside of just ignoring them completely.

Nigga just parry him

This.
Retards focus on which weapon is better instead of improving their defensive games.
Every weapon is god tier once you learn to reflect.

Controller vibration makes a heart beating rhythm when you're low HP

KINO

I'm a retard who didn't pay any attention.
Anyone can tl;dr the story?

Anyone can tl;dr the story?

It's straight up dog shit, better to not think about it

Local war hero's too angry to die after being betrayed by litteraly everyone.
Realise that his closest friend was behind it midway
Learns at the end that the empire betrayed his closest friend and he though both his wife and khazan died hence going full emo.
Khazan then proceeds to turn full emo.

That's the gist

Everyone was manipulated by an evil entity we don't know who is (it's probably Charon). Even Ozma was. It tells you the emperor was fooled by a book which foretold that Khazan and Ozma would betray the empire

Is there any reason to stay in NG instead of going straight to NG+?

No. Go NG+. More content

you can replay bosses and farm mats without slogging through the levels again, also if you missed shit like pots, books and recipes

Only if you want to immediately grab something from the later stages. The Crevice NPCs carry over, so you still have all that functionality immediately in NG+.

Evil women deserve motherhood

There any tips for reflecting with the spear? From what I gathered, you need to activate it a moment before an enemy's attack, it needs to make contact with the enemy's weapon, and it should only be used on attacks that swipe from the side?

what do I spend all my upgrade currencies on? hp or lacrima, hp/stamina/ or % damage?

All you need is whirlwind streamable.com/otl9dv

You're overthinking it, and it doesn't matter which weapon you're using for it. You have to use it way early so your swing times with the enemy's hit like a Souls parry. I get the feeling the reflect box is on Khazan rather than the weapon, I haven't gotten it to work once backing up out of an attack's range first.

like a Souls parry

I hate the fact I'm out of practice with Souls parries so I have no muscle memory for it. Especially even more so I only parried in 1.

I don't think it matters that much in the long run. Just upgrade whatever you feel is best.

lucky bastard

Don't give a shit, how is the gameplay? It's my reason for playing it.

It's good.

Charon is a pretty chill dude in dfo so I doubt it's him

Is there any way to disable the kill cam from brutal attacks?

It's Hilder. Iris (the prophet) is a sort of homunculus and Hilder's literal puppet who whispered into the ear of the emperor and set the game's events into motion. You can't fully explain why with just ingame stuff though since it's outside the scope of just this game alone. Hilder's motivation is she found a prophecy called the New Genesis which she believes will allow her to recreate the world as it was before it was destroyed (this is a post-apocalyptic world) if she has all of the other godlike beings like her killed. Having Ozma become a god of chaos and then eventually be killed is part of that.

Goddamn reading DFO lore is weird.

The only thing i actually remember is New York exploding and Harlem becoming Literally Hell.

Spider prison side mission

Oh I guess it's time to fight the spider boss palette swap

tfw it's the yeti

it is. remember that one story about the mad piper and how he controlled rats to eat entire neighborhoods or the kartel rocket man?

I hope they do more of these spinoffs cause the world the music, lore and everything else is fucking awesome but actually playing DFO was really just, kinda disappointing honestly.

That's the beastslayer set right

Ok that makes sense
Yeah i suck at that, i mostly guard and I'm happy if i perfect block 1 in 10 attacks. I love how he is summon proof, second phase starts and that guy dies instantly

don't pick reflection cause it's shit

walk backwards when bosses go apeshit and never get hit

they lose tons of stamina just spamming their attacks

hit them with full stamina and exhaust them

It's that easy

its fun but i think the changes overtime made it less mechanically satisfying with interacting with enemies with your skillsets and the grind exhuation catching up.

its why we wanted a standalone beatem up for so long but i think the mmo assets carried it

Looks like it
Easy 20% increased damage and the phantom hits also accumulate the stacks

I just beat Katana bro and I'm still using the pre-order armor...

Because DEI people like you got fired and that is a good thing because it makes your kind miserable, and you and yours being miserable makes me happy.

Beat Ozma last night and got the true end. Really intense fight and definitely a goty contender for me. Phantom is an absolute bro and I enjoyed seeing him grow to respect Khazan when at first he just needed a body.

that screencap looks cool but the gameplay and plot doesn't look good.

It's unfortunate but I think I'm not gonna play this

but you paly as the first berserker. he cuts and hacks like a madman through demons and dragons

I really doubt that you use DW much if you're still regurgitating that. Whirlwind is just one playstyle but howling blade finisher combo loops with deftness and nimble blitz is really strong as well. Outrage is amazing as a combo starter and wind piercer can do very good damage as well. Most DW skills are good and have their place in the moveset.

Nioh 2 is better than this yes
Filtered

unlock legendary armor crafts in ng+

can no longer farm boss materials for said armor when you go to ng+

surely there was another way

Arad isn't post-apo, Pandemonium is post-apo Earth.

Sure you can

Specifically New York, but do we know what happened to the rest of the rest of Earth?

LA LA LACRIMA

not yet but i hope florida lived so we fight space gators

Blew up in a lot of tiny fragments, maybe there's other parts of Earth floating around space with people on them but it's more like New York only stayed habitable thanks to Hilder and Cain.

Based on everything Hilder does it's fucking destroyed

I wanted to save her

You can craft as soon as you beat the last boss, and the boss specific material doesn't change at all. I was able to craft a full set of Epic/Legendary gear before starting NG+/NG++ no problem

Anyone else completely ignored reflect and spear dodge everything with the occasional counterattack?

Save her? From what, she's clearly perfectly fine!

no... way!

That's the problem, I gotta kill Ozma 30 times for a set before entering NG+, otherwise I won't have access to it until the end.

You can buy 3 materials from the jar guy. Then each kill drops a crafting mat or piece.

Farming isn't that bad though, Ozma becomes an absolute joke with the next tier of gear. Just make the epic bloodstained weaponm equip the rest of the set (doesn't need to be epic) then proceed to just demolish him with phantom blood dance and gale doom. It's actually hilarious how fast he dies

It's been confirmed on one of the maps that jamacia is also rotating around arad too.
We never been there gameplay wise though.

He scared of needing to blink block to even play the game

Khazan is hot

Set the next spinoff in Empyrean thanks

almost 8 hours

only 2 achievements

let me guess, filtered by onryoki? it's okay soulsbab, real action games aren't for everyone.

It just works.

What you don't remember that the sky tower the have giant magic circles that hold THE ENTIRE ocean above them
Or that on top of that ocean are islands that are being oppressed by a tyrant dragon (bakal the father of hismar skaza and spirazzi) who basically banned the usage of magic up there in hopes that the people up there would develope some type of means to kill him without magic. (They came up with tech) so that crying eyes hilder couldn't use there power against thier own contry because he actually loves all the people of countries and only plays the bad guy. (His children aren't in the know though so they are just shit heads)
Also cyborg mad max land
Clown Vietnam
Furry and elf New York
Mage fight club
Space bird god planet.
God there is so much

Call Of Duty: Dungeon Warfare

This universe's lore sounds schizophrenic. Does DFO do a decent job on showing a lot of it?

Who the fuck would we play? Young Varchet?
Would gun gameplay even translate well into this type of game?

I’m starting to think it doesn’t, but it was in some promotional images, either way I’m glad I got someone else looking for it.

NTA but it's a very pretty game so you "see" most of it if you play enough

DMC but only Gunslinger?

Why is the a void in the middle of the moon making it look like an eye?

For 20 years of lorr that been re written 3 times.
It does a good enough job if you decide to pay attention to the story durring a first play through.
And I just choose the most memorable and memable stuff there alof of fucked up classical elements too.
Oh and forgot another memorable one being a express train ontop of the ocean that got hijacked by swashbuckling reptile pirates that ham up thier cliches to the max.

I just beat the game. Overall I feel like it has some of the best and most well designed bosses in the genre. While it's true some bosses do have annoying stuff, you never have to deal with anything like wonky hitboxes or just a ton of shit cluttering the scene that makes it hard to see. Everything attack has very clear tells and you can react to them as long as you know the timing. I feel like there's only 3 real "filters" in the game.

Viper

Volbaino/Rangkus depending on the person

Maluca

But if you can get past Maluca you really shouldn't have trouble with anything else in the game.

DW has 10 skills to choose from on their epic weapons

GS has 7

spear has a whole fucking 3

one is for dodging

second one is tied to a bad skill

third one is a pseudo javelin throw

This is the price for being a spearchad

You can change them now so just whatever you feel like, I got like 10% extra lacrima and put the rest in healing.

But the only good ones for DW is phantom blood dance and bladestorm
The rest are kinda shit

so did khazan use zanbato on ozma

They need to add a preview window for weapon skills so you don't need to build the full set to see what the skill even is.

Haven't beaten the game yet, but I feel like the delayed and fast as fuck attacks would be annoying if the game weren't generous with letting you take a fair bit of damage. That being said at least those attacks become readable after eating shit from them the first time usually so it's not as bad as something like Elden Ring.

Normally fuck fextralife, but the only thing they're good for right now is being able to look at skills and even see a preview of them without having to complete a set in game.

Just make an fps.

I can almost guarantee you that Arad and the continents above it (Empyrean and Seon) are just earth having been blown up and they'll reveal this at some point.

There's no reasons, we know there's multiple planets besides Earth.

Make it like a 3rd person doom

Empyrean Killer7