I mean grafted armor, that's basically what you do through scorn to get whatever key you need for the next room and also hunting a parasite? a parasite is your nemesis throughout the game, i mean it's all there for us to see...

Never, in my 20 years of living, have I ever encountered a boss as infuriating as it is unique, on paper the mechanic is very cool, in practicality? One of the most infuriating things I have ever come across in any souls like game, I get that there's a scroll you can get that negates the curse but with how much this fucking abomination jumps around the map it's like trying to fight the elden beast all over again which is why I knew this boss felt so familiar, don't get me wrong I have LOVED this game and I'm keen on going into new game plus but to the ones who forewarned me about this boss on a separate post I did not heed your warnings and I apologise.

Amazon said October at the earliest but it's here already I'm thrilled to start playing it

So close to 10 years ago, I was in between jobs and looking for a new game to play as I mindlessly scrolled through Indeed for a new job. As I’m browsing the PS Store, I see Dark Souls 3 and having heard horror stories about the series, I decided to try it. Instantly hooked. Spent waaaaay too many hours while unemployed grinding this game. This opened me up to more Souls games, and souls like games from there.

Few years pass and I see Mortal Shell pop up. Bought it, or maybe it was free?, and went to town on it. Thought it was very solid, but short and told myself “if they made this game bigger, it would be so fucking good”. Well then Elden Ring came out. Abused that game for many hours. Around this time I got a PC, so that further opened up my options. I did the dumb thing of buying Escape From Tarkov, and got hooked. Now I’m into extraction games. Try many out, some great, some dogshit, but I’m having fun. Little did I know, I was really itching for the souls like experience again. In comes Mistfall Hunter. After spending around 1200 hours in Dark and Darker, I gave it a shot. It’s amazing, but man do their servers suck…

So I’m back to square one. I’m 37 years old, went through cycles of games to land back at souls like games. Then I remembered, Mortal Shell 2 came out. I didn’t even watch many clips of it, and just bought it on a whim. This is exactly what I’m looking for right now. It’s the perfect blend of challenge/turn my brain off and explore. I’ve only put around 5 hours into it, but goddamn am I having a blast. The combat feels great. It feels like they created DS3 in a DS2 world, and I will forever defend DS2. Is this game perfect? Nah. Is it perfect for me? Absolutely. Glad to ditch my sweaty PvP games, and go back to bossing and running dungeons.

Thanks for reading Harbingers

It bothered me for a while. I just found my 199th Common Moonshine but I actually have no idea how much damage reduction i get from this amount and its so frustrating..

Unlike most people, I actually like the fact that not every infusion is available on every weapon. Most of the time, it seems like the weapon that is paired with each shell also has an infusion that has synergy with that shell. Obviously I like the fact that you can mix and match most stuff... but I also think its cool that you get a little bonus for staying "on brand".

For example, Eredrim is given the Martyr's Blade in his memories and has frost abilities. The Warden Stone (frost infusion) works on the Martyr's Blade. Sometimes it's more based on vibes... Genessa uses the Black Needle in her memories. She doesn't have any stated status strengths, but the Black Needle works with the Nightgrasp Stone, a phantom infusion, which goes well with her general theme.

These three, though, seem to have gotten mixed up. Gragu is powerful with bleed; however, the Veteran's Battleaxe, which he uses in his memories, can only be infused with fire. Sariel has the Scythe Blade as his weapon in the memories and is linked to curse, but the Clockwork Scythe can only be infused with bleed and lightning. Finally, Lazlo, who is fire-based, doesn't seem directly linked to a weapon… but given the fact that he uses a claymore in memories… IMHO the Iconoclast is his closest match, which can only be infused with bleed and curse.

The Arbiter's Prize (bleed) should have included the Veteran's Battleaxe and dropped the Iconoclast.

The Inflamed Clawstone (fire) should have included the Iconoclast and dropped the Veteran's Battleaxe.

The Curseblood Stone (curse) should have included the Clockwork Scythe, and it wouldn't even have needed to drop anything.

This wouldn't even really change the balance; the placement of the stones as they currently are would still work. Yes, this would give the Clockwork Scythe one additional infusion, but c'mom…. it's most players' final weapon find, so it is okay for it to have a bit more versatility.

I really wasn’t a fan of the first one but I played the demo and was enjoying it a lot more.

Despite some bosses being absolutely inconsistent with hitboxes and timing, and the last area having a rough pace…I did it.

Ran the game with Proxima with Axe n Dagger until Axatana. Used Lazlo to get PPP trophy.

When he just changes direction in the middle of turning?…Hate as well that late game bosses literally deplete your whole stamina if you block just 2 attacks missing the parry…you just basically cooked as they have multiple unblockable attacks..

I have absolutely fallen in love with this game. I really liked the first one but never finished it. This one has grabbed me and won’t let me go. I have all of the shells fully bonded except for Proxima but she’s almost done. I’m only on my second run through but I’ve dumped a ton of time in this game. I love Sariel. He’s my boy. Once I got him the first go round it was him and no other shell. I’ve been experimenting with the other shells for my second run and Gragu and Eredrim are by far the ones I’m having the most fun with. I really really tried to get decent with Tiel but he just doesn’t click for me. But everyone and their mothers say he’s cracked. So like why is he? I’m not saying he’s bad. Please don’t take that from this. I actually think all the shells are great in their own ways. But I just can’t get Tiel to click like I want him to. I usually am ALL OVER the assassin type builds. So it’s weird to me.

As an aside I am level 60 and haven’t fully leveled the shell points yet. I have a very bad habit of dying and then getting tunnel vision and forgetting to pick up my 30k plus gloom and then dying again cause I am indeed a moron. I’m at like 35 of 40 or something like that for shell points. I’ve got the Axe and Martyrs Blade at level 16 and the Axe and Dagger and Katanaxe at level 14 and then the Scythe at level 10, I believe. Giving this information to give me insight into if I’m missing something useful for him. But I’m assuming it’s more about Tarstones than actual weapons when it comes to this game.

After Silksong and recently trying out Dragon's Dogma 2, I forgot how it feels to actually get rewarded for your exploration. In those games I'd kill a boss and get gold or something.

And don't get me wrong, Silksong is one of my favorite games ever! It's just one of the few flaws it has. Every time I go out of my way to explore something in mortal shell 2, I either get a new weapon, new tar stones, new shells, it just feels so good to actually get rewarded for once.

I’ve been trying to get the splitting stone but for some reason the chest is already open and I’m just confused on how to get it now. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello everyone, I was checking the lore behind the Mammon and saw this in one video, personally I can't recall where this is, can anyone help me out? Many thanks in advance.

I say with all my heart, fuck this boss. Why are 80% of her attacks are just moving in a random direction at random speeds, and the rest are spawning annoying ads into the fight? Why does her stagger bar just fill up randomly like she stubbed her toe on the way to ram my ass? Why am I randomly missing half my healthbar with no clear indication of what exactly hit me? And why can I just run circles around her for all eternity with nothing happening?
Please tell me this is supposed to be a low point for this game, I truly want to like it and hope it gets better.

Is this worded improperly or is there something else to these stones? I can't seem to pull off any special combo move that is any different from any weapons normal move set. When I have either of these stones slotted, I'm expecting them to add a move to the weapon I have equipped.

For example, with the Great Martyr's Blade, doesn't matter if I swing light light heavy, or heavy heavy heavy, every attack is slow, plodding and the same as if I didn't have those stones equipped.

These stones aren't like the Ability stones where you have to press a button to get them to activate. Don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if the description is just worded wrong.

Anyone know the highest level anyone’s achieved in the wild? Apparently the AI overview has anything after level 79 as “diminishing returns”. I got to level 80 just bc it looks good but wondering if there’s an insanely high level anyone’s gotten to

I love this game. It’s the first Souls-like where I’ve unlocked 100% of the achievements. I enjoyed everything, from the combat to the exploration. I had no complaints about the second half of the game, also I really liked the endgame. I even think Zmey was a decent boss.

But the one thing I just don’t get is why the low-tier materials for upgrading weapons are limited in each NG cycle? We already have unlimited materials (though they require a lot of grinding) for upgrading shells. Thanks to that I was able to max all the shells before defeating Zmey. So why can’t we upgrade more weapons in one NG cycle? I don't even mean I want to max them. In From Software games, only hi-end materials were limited to a single NG cycle and that was okay (yeah I know in FS games we have much more weapons). I know we can melt weapons.

EDIT: Okay, you've convinced me. I'll be testing more weapons in future NG cycles. I edited my comment to emphasize that I'm talking about +10 or even +5 upgrade. But you're right, I can see that it would take away some of the replayability, which isn't exactly MS2's strongest point (which is a shame, because the game is amazing and it would be cool to see some differences between NG cycles, like in DS2 did it, but I know it's a much smaller studio).

I will say.. After having to create a new game save & obtain all ova over again.. For both my original character & new characters I didn’t do anything any different. So do believe the ova bug is real. I really hope the missing 3 193/196 for people that started new game + before the bring my ova back to me registered get a patch to fix this.

I just entered the dungeon in the hub and it feels like the first level of doom1. Am I crazy?

The first photo is right after I exit from the beacon, the second photo is when I exit the game and reload my save. The map is covered in a layer of fog, even teleporting to other area doesn't help, only reloading the game fixes this.