Hornet Ring | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Damn how does everyone in high school wear one of these?

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C'mon they could've brought back Ciaran's set along with this ring, her set was badass

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Hornet ring users: spamming parries

the dragonscale ring in my backpocket:

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Why is everyone stabbed me in the back?!

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no worries about the ring itself, but I don't fancy the art of ring swapping

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What Weapons DO get a modified motion value on ripostes?
Every single weapon I've seen on this wiki either doesn't mention anything or says "the motion value of this weapon doesn't change with hornet ring".

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This ring could have given special stuff to bare hands backstabs and ripostes, like chokeholds, neck snaps, chokeslams, etc. Shame, only ds2 tried to make bare fists viable.

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Oh I just got parried, well it’s alright I have full hp. Oh... that’s the hornet ring riposte animation... oh... I’m dead....

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I'd much rather have a pvp fight end, win or lose, by a single parry into hornet ring crit than what we got in Elden Ring: people hiding behind walls and pressing L2 once or twice

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ah fextra comment sections. never change.

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-rolls that are spammable and have the most amount of iframes from software has ever implemented in a game.
-r1 spam with straight swords being proven for years to be everyone's cheese for any situation in any scenario.
-Tears of denial
-ganks

The 4 reasons for parries and hornet ring to be irrrevocable as long as from software keeps this direction in their games.

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Make no mistake. Parrying and yes this ring are essential to the balance of pvp in this game. This is why parrying is confirmed in elden ring. Without this mechanic pvp would just be a mindless r1/weaponart spamfest. The vast majority of skilled players would bench the game and go elsewhere and the entire series would have died ages ago. I hate parrying. I really do. But with the removal of poise and many other alternative mechanics to balance against mindless attack spam, what else is there?

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the riposte animation to 2-3 hits doesnt show for me am i doing sumthing wrong?

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I never understood the logic why killing the Abyss Watchers is what causes the ring to appear and Artorias’ gear to be sold, somehow changes in the present causes changes in the past

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Parrying with my farron greatsword and doing that 3 hit riposte makes my noob edgy heart happy

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Everyone complains about this ring…. I just want to have fun one shotting mobs in pve

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So 80% of the ppl here complains about the ring, and the amount of whiny gankers out there are about the same percentage. Screw their fckd up sense of balance/fairness and keep sinking those daggers in their livers.

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This ring should not exist or at least give 1/3 or less of what it gives now. Considering that im doing more than 900 dmg, sometimes above 1100 without this ring, or any weapon that has high riposte value, its oneshot from time to time already, this ring just makes it beyond insane. Blind man could see that it would lead to abuse. You invade somebody - you are hitting him for half an hour and he does nothing but parry spam and glitched estus chug. After 354 attemtps he lands one parry and no matter how much hp you have - you're done. Hopefully Elden Ring will learn on DS3 mistakes but i highly doubt it.

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"So we nerfed the clutch rings for PvP to make magic less viable. And we did the same for Steel Protection Ring to make tanks less viable. Should we do Hornet Ring too??? Nah, we need to keep one shot ripostes so the PvP can still be Bloodborne 2... er... Dark Souls 3!"
-Possibly the words of Miyazaki or some salty scrub who got parried...

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man i wish i could get a ciaran set in ds3, would be cool to just sneak around with it

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I've got no problem with the ring, I've got problems with the meta classes who use this ring with a dagger and just roll around and parry spam.

I don't R1 spam at all, but I'm eventually gonna throw some R1s in to try and catch them off a roll, and all they need to do is catch 1 parry and it's GG.

Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so easy to twink at lower levels with it as well, almost any invasion is guaranteed to end in an OHKO parry/backstab or a gank.

Again, no problem with he ring itself, although as others have pointed out it's a buff to an already very powerful, and easy to pull of mechanic that I'd say the game didn't really need to begin with.

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everyone: this is ridiculous im getting killed by one riposte
sorcerers getting killed in one attack anyway: :)

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it's 17% from crits, not 30%

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the weak swing vs a piece of metal

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Should've gotten reduced power like clutch rings and steel protection for PvP

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I get the salt but I purely use this for the animation changes. Riding someone like a whore smashing their faces in with great club can’t be beat. 10/10 would do it again.

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Everyone crying about the damage but no one mentioning the animation changes this thing brings. Nothing is more satisfying then getting on top of someone and clubbing their faces in with a great hammer.

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"the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expect different results"

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Everyone's complaining bout parries, when I see someone start parrying I pull out my 2 handed claymore and smash em more

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Parrying is a garbage mechanic and I hope Elden Ring removes it.

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the ultimate gank spank tool

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“i ShOuLd’Nt GeT oNe ShOtTeD fRoM gEtTiNg PaRrIeD!!!1!!”

Then don’t get parried scrub

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This ring is garbage and only used by casuls who suck at this game






Says the guy who miserably fails to parry himself but couldn't even spam his pkcs lol

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one shot parry controversy aside, hornet ring's critical attack animations are sick

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You have to break me down after seven estus chugs, 10 siegs and a divine blessing. Meanwhile I only have to parry you once, it's a statistical inevitability that i will get that parry and one shot you.

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Everyone here’s complaining about one shot parries, but no one’s talking about how easily you can trivialize pvp by abusing backstabs with a straight sword/dagger + hornet ring. Especially with how shitty latency is in this game, half the time you’re gonna get backstabbed for half your health even though you were looking right at your opponent. Gives me Ds1 flashbacks

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In pvp, the only ppl who are affected by this ring is the kind of ppl who spams r1 until their stamina bar is completely empty.

Apparently, every host of embers is that kind of ppl.

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Does this boost crit damage from dual greatdoor shields too??

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does it also affect stagger ripostes like on lorian, NK (both phases), and midir?

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Quite a lot of scrubs trying to parry me with this ring, which turned out to be disastrous for them as my pkcs is too fast and powerful for them to handle

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Guys Patch 1.30 fixed the dark damage bug : "Fixed issue where bonus value is not affected by Dark Damage when equipping Hornet Ring during critical attack."

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Anyone noticed that the animationlook similar to demon souls,or it is the same animation

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Swich to this ring whenever you see a gank in the distance, take it off when done, boom you get best of both worlds and you have my respect

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Coolest ring

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Spear holding lothric knights are harder than anything to practice party timing.. haven't met a player yet more unreadable.. you're welcome

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the parry is prob the most important thing you can add to your invasions, just use sparingly. ever since i practiced learning parries with someone else (instead of black knights) and implemented them in my invasions i win more ganks and do so in style. assuming you already got solid spacing and timing. basically you can counter atk a whiffed atk and can roll catch decently
they help in a number of ways. **** ton of burst damage, cause most fighting to stop, make people wary of hitting you and esp hitting r1 spam, and practically stop the abuse of running atks and rolling atks cause they don't want to get parried as well.
but again use sparingly

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Stop whining, gonker

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Can anyone confirm whether this affects headshots with a bow/crossbow?

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man the comments here are all cringe lol

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Don't take this as bait but you're all very weak.

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All I gotta say is this is the best counters to those kids with 3 phantoms who haven't touched a single boss alone in their lives.

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Damn, i just got to where it usually is and noticed it's not there. Now i gotta go kill the abyss watchers

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Parries and ripostes as a whole need to be nerfed, not just this ring...

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because its easy, and it does a lot of damage...

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"It's such bullsht to be one-shotted from a single riposte, it's unfair, bla bla bla..." how convenient that everyone talks about this ring as something unbalanced but not a single soul tells anything about how game-breaking summons are. Ffs just deal with it.

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"Durr you just R1 straight sword spam durrrr git gud". No. Often times I play against a player with latency who parries my very first hit of a greatsword(2h) by randomly swinging his bloody fist out, then proceeds to do 1200 damage to me. That's not a knock on my skill at all, that's just unbalanced bullshit. You can be a spacing god, but 1 randomly timed parry and your skill suddenly means absolutely nothing. About as annoying as those people who get backstabs from infront of you, and do like 800+ damage from it.

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This changes R1 meta to L2 meta.
Its pretty broken when you realize that you have to succeed only once during a fight in order to win it.

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Thing is I think parry damage is balanced without any modifiers. Just a straight up regular riposte can easily deal 600-900 damage depending on your weapon and your opponents absorption, at meta SL's. So already it takes out a large chunk of your opponents health. When you add the hornet ring on top of that, it becomes imbalanced, and then you get oneshots.

It's frustrating especially when you are in a long duel with your opponent, gradually wasting his estus and watching carefully for parries. Eventually they might get a lucky one and you instantly lose.

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I get that the saltiness is stupid when it comes from LKSS wielders, but when you are running an interesting build and the Havel monster host parries you by accidente, then pulls out a Chaos Dagger and one shots you, then point down, with their posse of R1 spammers making fun of you, you can't help but feel dead inside.
A parry is a move that usually isn't even that hard to pull off, so losing just bc of ir SUCKS sometimed

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"No, you're just bad if you get parried. You're not supposed to keep swinging your sword more than two times in a game about swinging swords."

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Funny riposte go brrrrrrr

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R1 spammers all over the shop...

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More like Horny ring because most casul parry kongs keep trynna get those parries lmao

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Salty Nerds

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Casul gonker's bane. 1 parry timed right and goodbye.

As for 1v1ers, watch what your opponent is wearing in the left hand and think twice before using r1 (mind your own weapons too). Is that simple.

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Objectively the worst addition to the Dark Souls series, particularly in this game.

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Nearly every single negative thing talked about this ring comes from straight sword users (especially the lothric knight straight sword users) calling upon the hipocrisy of how this thing is op, meanwhile they got a weapon with ridiculous AR, low stamina consumption and phantom range of a melee marth grab. The only response they give? "Lmao git gud." I absolutely love parrying people and using a chaos infused dagger to make them shut the **** up or disconnect as they whine about the ring.

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"You have to defeat Abyss Watchers for the ring to appear at Untended Graves"

Yeah. Try reaching it without defeating them

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at first i thought parry is boring, but when i got into pvp i changed my mind. parry is what lets you destroy r1 spammers, even in 1v2 or 1v3. parry is for gud players ;)

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I see a lot of people here are under the impression that having this ring makes you good at parrying, and not having this or not liking it makes you bad or a predictable player, most of the time that's wrong. When I parry and riposte it does half health more or less, nothing to scoff at, it's nice to have another combat option to spice things up and not rely on it. But when they proceed to parry me due to a slip up (like most people tend to do occasionally), it's quite belittling when they pull out a chaos dagger and one shot you, then pointing down as if they are better than you because they follow the meta. You can't help but be a bit ticked after that.

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Literally every single person that moans about this ring being op while wielding an op lothric knight straighsword with a phantom range equivalent of melee marth's grab and insane scaling is a hyprocrit.

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I really don't understand ppl who complains about this ring. "It's uNfAiR to get 75% of health gone in a RiPoStE" if you wanted your whole game experience to be a r1 spam joyride, you should've stayed in bloodborne.

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Dislike it all you want, but spamming r1 throughout the whole game with your 2 or 3 phantoms always there to back you up will be something you re gonna pay for, sooner or later.

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You have No idea how disappointed I was to get to untended graves early with my dagger build (after beating dancer as my first boss then ocieros then champ G) only to find it not there because haven't beat abyss watchers. Gah... Oh well least I have a +10 weapon before vordt

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When I wear this, sometimes the unique animation doesn't occur when I riposte. Is there a reason that happens?

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There's less salt in the dead sea than in the comment section of this page. lol

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As long as the possibility of ganking exists, one-shots parry from invaders will be there to end cheapy farms. There's no getting around it.

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This ring ruins 1v1s. Absolutely ridiculous.

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I love this ring, but hate it soul level <30. Like getting made fun of by the snob kid with rich parents/friends.

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Look, I use the Hornet Ring and I'm fairly apt at parrying. So this is not coming from a place of salt: the people complaining about the Hornet Ring do have a point. It doesn't happen often, but I have been in a situation were I'm beating a host down, draining their estus down to nothing, I haven't drank much myself, then they get a lucky parry and one shot me with the Hornet Ring. It's by far not the biggest problem with this game's PVP and it's not even that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but it is definitely a problem. Especially when you consider it's hard to one shot a host, but not a phantom/invader. However, if you hate it that much, just use Tears of Denial. It's not that big of a stat investment to do so.

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Seems this ring f*cked community up for good

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Listen, I get it. It's gotta be annoying to get parried and *****ing die in 1 hit, but there are ways to get around this, exhibit 1. Ultra weapons can not be parried, at least when 2 handed, easy way to get around this, 2. Try firebombs, kucc knives, or Lightning urns. Yeet those *****ers at them and force them to stop. 3. Greatsheilds shield bash, especially dragonslayer greatshield are very effective at *****ing these guys over, give them heavy pressure if your weapons has a slam attack. 4. Spell casting, while it CAN be parried, it will not open you up for a crit, making it also effective, I'd recommend combustion, (do not use flame fan cuase I've heard and even had it parried for me), Lightning stake, great combustion, and sunlight spear, a long with every single sorcery. If you don't want to use these strategies, then stop complaining please.

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And now I'm really wondering if Ciaran was functionally head-over-heels for Artorias. Oh wait, WRONG PAGE FOR THAT POST.

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It doesn't seem to work on bosses

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Tired of being parried? Guard breaks guarantee a 1-shot kill? Worry not, skeleton! With just a couple of doors, these problems will be in the past! Purchase TRC and flex your doors like it’s nobody’s business!

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I won't defend whiners, but I find it kinda funny when the saltiest people are not the ones complaining about lads using this ring to one-shot people or some other bs, but the people that furiously downvote these posts and instantly jump in the comment section to say some***** like: "git gud scrub", "haha just don't get parried lol it's easy xd", "wow so salty" or "just be unpredictale" OR "don't spam r1 scrub lol (they just instantly assume that THIS is the case and there is no other way)". Like.. i don't really get why these people are SO DEFENSIVE - aren't they supposed to be some chill dudes that are REALLY good at the game? Hilarious, isn't it?

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I kinda love-hate this ring. Like, yeah, it's the best damn thing in existence when it comes to punishing turtles and no skill noobs who think r1 spamming with a SS makes them God and DC the second they get parried once, but I DESPISE this thing when some ***hole comes into a PvP match with a caestus and and rolls through all my ultra swings and parries every thing else proceeding to 1-shot me and then point down like he's good at the game. Using a ring that you use as a crutch to insure that you win a PvP match because your too much of a pansy to ACTUALLY fight with skill does not make you a good player. Final note, git gud.

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Is utilizing this ring while using a luck build viable? Or would the modifiers make it obsolete to say beating the hell out of someone instead

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Does anything else constitute a critical attack, say staggering or guard break?

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Cancer: the ring.

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Years later, and people still make excuses for this ring? Let's get something very clear: spamming parries with a hornet ring does NOT make you a good player. In fact, it makes you a pretty terrible one.

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Isn't teh dmg reduced on pvp?

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I don't understand why people hate this ring, if you try parrying attacks you would know it is really hard to get the timing down, so before you complain you should try, and just use ultras and 2 hand them if your having trouble with it.

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Does it work with dark weapons yet?

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I never leave home without it!

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Does it stack with RTSR?

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yeyeyeyeye <3 i wuvvy luvvy this ring UwU my twink builds do Soooo much damage :3 I love invading in the undead settlement and pretend to be good Uuuuhhh i get *slurp* *click* noice vibes in my peepee when i rek noobs xd UwU <3

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Scrolled for a while and didn't see anyone complaining about the ring, only ppl complaining about ppl complaining lol

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These comments are hilarious. All I see are casuals who are not good enough at the game to learn to parry or counter it. Pathetic.

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DS3 players: “hornet ring op! It ruins low levels!” Dark hand: “Am I a joke to you?”

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