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What's a good soulslike for someone that hates melee besides the Remnant series? (lemmy.world)
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Remnant: From the Ashes was my first dive into a soulslike game and I fell in love with the grind of it, then followed up with playing Remnant 2.

But I hate Melee combat and it seems soulslikes are usually focused on it.

Is there any that focus on ranged combat or have viable builds for ranged?

Thanks!

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

FWIW you can play completely ranged in the the Dark Souls games. DS2 has binoculars which let you treat it like a FPS with spells if you so choose. It's a lot of fun imo. Bows are also viable.

Unfortunately I don't know of anything else like that besides Remnant.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Bows are also viable.

    Do not fall for this

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They absolutely can be. Ofc for ranged sorcery/pyromancy/miracles/incantation are way better but you can absolutely deal good damage with bows

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't fall for this one either

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Have you ever genuinely tried it yourself?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah! Some of my favorite builds involve bows. However, I think suggesting Dark Souls to someone who hates melee and enjoyed Remnant is a trap. Bow gameplay in Souls games is highly janky and bow-only is primarily done as a challenge run. I'd never suggest that to a first-timer to the series, but that's just me :)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's a more fair explanation than just saying "don't fall for this bait" which makes it sound like bows are useless.

    I did say in a separate comment that doing some bosses as bow only is a bit janky.

    Edit: But I did a bow only run on Elden Ring as a challenge run and was surprised how easy it was most of the time. Was only a few bosses that felt janky.

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