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Really wish you could have just the head like you could in DS1 and DS3. Think this’d look sick with Night’s Calvary set.

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Rock hard

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Lulling Branch has a nice flow with this. For example you can be at 87 FP and shoot a full charge-cast of Ekzyke's Decay, and the FP pip will ensure that you don't run out before the 2nd spray. Then, you can spam Divine Bird Feathers to clean everything up until the Lulling Branch wears off. Both of those deal physical damage that gets buffed hard by the Blue Dancer' s Charm when at low equip load. If you have to stop to munch on a Clarifying Bolus, just pausing from all the Feathers-spam will let you recharge and ready a more costly spell too. And this is an arcane build, so it'd better at farming Nectarblood for crafting the branches than anything else

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Pros: Fantastic for a blue dancer charm build, looks baller, and has defenses close to the wimpiest armor sets. Cons: Pretty weak against status effects, no poise, and tryhards might unironically see this and go "LIGHT ROLL REEE"

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I wish ypu could customize the visual appearqnce a bit more, like adding some more cloth/ robes similar to the priestess' heart

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I think I’ll rock fia’s robe on my goth mommy while running around the landscape; then eat a drag daddy heart when it’s time to beat some boss butt.

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The decision to give this Ludwig's smile makeover sure was a choice; what'd you mean by that Miquellzaki?

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At least let us have different colors of dragon skin. Like black is cool but I'd like to have green skin come mikazaki you can't do this to me bruh

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This is great for BDC builds because 10% negations with zero weight is pretty solid

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Chad dark soul 1, dark soul 2 elden ring dragons form vs virgin goat form dark soul 3

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I've been seeing these in PVP.
It makes rotten breath tougher to deal with, but you will be very vulnerable to fast melee attackers with no Poise.

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Not really viable because of the long dragon communion cast times, priestess heart and dragon cult fits the glass cannon style much better

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I was a hot dragon priestess mama and I ate a rock now I'm just some nasty guy?? at least I get to keep my pretty voice and do a little curtsy every 60 seconds

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why tf is your neck thicker than your waist and both your legs when you use this

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Wish you could disable it without having to die, and keep it active even after dying. Would be nice not to disrobe either.

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I love the design of the dragon man from this too, & the priestess heart. Hope they come out with more like it.

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Dark soul 1 still did dragon form the best way (was op, but does that matter when fun?)

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I miss when dragon form beefed up your bare fist attacks

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Rock tuah! Drag on that thang!

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I kinda wish you could still equip armor with it, but eh still cool

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You need to buff up manually what nails you in place for a few secs, leaves us open for attacks and that alone would be bad enough but it also turns your mimic tear into a potato who buffs up 5 times in a row. So do the math for yourself. For 20% more damage you have to forget about mimic tear which usually doubles the damage output (if it does what it should do). I mean yes, can be worth it, I use it for one shot kills together with Bayles Flame Lightning, there it shines but in the end it's not as great as we hoped it would be. Also not usable on Torrent...

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Ah yes, time to become malnourished dragon

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Dragonborn

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wish this and priestess boost FTH/ARC and FTH a bit, still very cool looking

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The ancient fursuit

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Is it possible to do the DS1 souls glitch with this item to create infinite runes? I used to love having a billion souls and dying to a hollow or mini mushroom

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Why is no one talking about this? It turns you into a dragon man right? You should take extra damage from dragon type weapons, right?

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They could make dragon form scale with your lvl so once you go higher lvl you become more and more dragon-like and it gives more defence and poise

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If you customize your body to make it as stocky as possible, it will become sturdy and look quite attractive

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Limgrave: Become Dragon

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I have a dragon communion themed character where the only non communion spell I know is catch flame. I don't use this item.

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the fact that people are bringing up the dancer charm as a reason to use the dragon form despite both of their inherent flaws is peak elden cope

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Im gonna need a lot more mana

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yo this lore though, almost nothing in the game mentions the sun directly

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At max level (over 400~to 713), I don't feel like the power of the spell is dramatically increased even if I use this heart. Is it just me?

This feeling is especially noticeable when co-oping with three or more people.

It would be better to just wear armor for survivability..

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Hallo, its a long way for me to get it so I wanna ask a question. Do you have to take of armor to use it like in old souls games or is it like bloodborne that your armor isnt partly visible but the effects stay. Thank you

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Makes an already OP and fun build into some of the most fun you'll have in the game. Unfortunately locked behind the Ancient Dragon-Man fight which is a massive pain for low levels or RL1 challenge runs. Still a great throwback and expansion on the dragon form, love it.

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Sure, you have to recast it for 60s buff and you give up absorptions/poise. But it turns you into a goddamn dragon. Who doesn't want to be a dragon? Eat this, Hawkwood!

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Hello there. Can you use buffs like howl of Shabriri/Flame Grant me Strength or does the Dragon form count as a body buff?
Thanks in advance.

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The design of this form reminds me of the dragonkin soldiers, especially with the hollow eye sockets and exposed teeth. Maybe this is related to the power they used to obain their dragonkin forms?

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if dragon skin is made of rocks then why do I get one shot by most things?

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The damage bonus should have been a permanent statistic of the change. A buff you need to reapply every 60 seconds to become a permanent fking glass house till you die is not balance.

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Tried applying these before going through the frenzied flame proscription door out of curiousity. The cutscene looks fking hilarious, but sadly the priestress gets no burns marks.

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Provides a good buff to Dragon Communion incants and pairs very well with the Ancient Meteoric Ore Greatsword both thematically and practically which also helps make up for the form's lack of poise.

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Is this a body buff? What are ALL possible buffs that can stack if so?

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Chair is there. Wonder if there's some kind of cut-off. This will be the third painting I have with no painter at location.

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any conditions that prevent chair from showing up even if painting is in inventory? Like burning the tree or beating end boss?

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Could this be the heart of florissax? Like the original. Maybe that's why she turned human because she exchanged her heart for the heart of a human and vice versa. Also makes it interesting to think the original communion involved ancient dragons and not bayle's descendants but that changed down the line.

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Ok hear me out. Use this with 2x Dragon Communion Seals, Blue Dancer Talisman, Lord of Bloods Exultation, Canvas Flock Talisman and RTSR/Ritual Sword Talisman (depending on whether you're ok with getting one shot or not). Have a Rapier with Seppuku and a Martial arts weapon with Shriek of Sorrow in your secondary weapon slots. Leaden and Stone Barbed are probably the best Physicks to use but I don't think there's any that will buff the damage of this build. Work out how many seppuku it takes to get to get to RTSR/Shriek of sorrow level and use one less than that. Then buff with your Physick, Golden Vow, Rock Heart, Flame Grant Me Strength, use Seppuku again and then Shriek of Sorrow (heal up if your using Ritual Sword instead of RTSR) in that order to maximise buff time. Dragonmaw Should do some ridiculous damage now (as if it wasn't strong enough pre DLC).

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This would be absolutely perfect if the buff just lasted the entire time you are in the form instead of needing to recast it every 60 seconds

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the zero poise is really noticeable. sheesh.

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This is gold on low levels especially if you somehow can get a second dragon seal. Be it pvp or pve. If you rush this thingy it will be better at defences than lower-weight armors (for light rolls at low end) and make your dragon incants hit very hard for your level. So yeah gameplay-wise it has it's niche too, sadly requires you to basically twink and do DLC

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Why Fromsoft??? Why do you let us choose between this and literally Armor (which unlike previous Souls games actually is impotent) but not give this a permanent buff off 20% to dragon Communion spells . 20% isn’t bad but it also isn’t that much that it needs to be capped to 60 second while there is literally a armor set that gives a 8% buff to EVERYTHING PERMANENTLY while having the benefit of having literally Armor which gives you over 50 Poise and damage negation. Why this item is so cool and I love dragon communion spells but why why doesn’t this have a permanent buff

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I'm not even an arc build, but I love dragons, and if they let us choose between diff colors of dragon skin I'd throw away all my armor just for this lol

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This thing sucks. Basically gets one shot even before casting a single skill. Why on earth would anyone use it lol?

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is it affected by old lord talisman?

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I did some testing, and it looks like the Dragon Greases have an impact on those using this form. My buddy hit me 3 times with a Greatsword; the first was without grease and did 452 damage. The second was with standard Dragonwound Grease and did 483, and the third was with Dragon Communion Grease and did 497. I healed to full between each and neither of us had any talismans that would affect the results significantly. This wasn't a full test and I don't have numbers, but it looks like there is a tangible effect against transformed characters.

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It requires you to defeat 2 dlc bosses total, it's buff is free and it makes you look like a very malnourished dragonkin soldier. What's not to love.

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Oh, and unlike the other heart it perfectly synergizes with blue dancer since dragon communion seal weights 0 and half the communion spells deal physical dmg. Just main-hand a light weapon with endure

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Sleep on this item, temporary damage buffs based on conditionals are cancer and they need to ****ing die.

Worst ****ing direction of item design FS has ever made since making the pact items in Bloodborne needing to be leveled up to actually feel useful in a PVP setting where you HAVE to up your devotion level just to get a simple move added.

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Why can't I use my dragon rock heart tool, to change, my arcane is 12 and my faith is 50 but have used the priestess heart but not the rock heart but neither work know ? Help! Thanks .

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Not gonna lie, but this just feels like a downgrade compared to the dragon forms of the souls games.

It only buffs incantations from a specific spell school and since you have to ditch your armour for this, the 10% damage resist are honestly just a downgrade.

Imo they should have made the spell buff a bit lower but in exchange make it a passive effect and turn the active effect into something beneficial to more playstyles, like maybe have it be a baby version of Greyolls Roar that doesn't do as much damage or knockback but still inflicts the debuff.

The only use I can see for this is as set-up for niche one-shot builds.

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You were born a child of dragons! What could you possibly fear?

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So activating it again for the incant buff gives you a good 3 seconds of iframes. This probably isnt intentional but has been coming in pretty clutch in pvp. Could probably use it in pve for style points but most enemies are too agressive or have to long attacks for it to matter there.

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10% negation and 50 resistance at 0 equip load is a great deal for blue dancer charm builds

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Am I the only one who thinks that the Rock Heart and Priestess Heart should switch buffs? The Rock Heart turns you into an Ancient Dragon so shouldn't it boost the lightning incantations? The Priestess Heart turns you into a fleshy dragon so that should boost Dragon Communion incantations. Am I just weird?

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Finally, I can truly be like a dragon™

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Rock hard

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I wish Old Lord Talisman worked on the buff

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The incant buff should be permanent, because unless you’re popping it constantly (which is hard to do in a fight) this form gives no benefits besides 10% negation and drip

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RADIOOOOOOOOOOOO

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"When you use the heart while in dragon form, it gives you a +20% damage to Dragon Communion Incantations for 60 seconds"

That's definitly to short. The Dragon inantations are so slow to used, we also have to take the time to use the Rock Heart to have the Dargon form, AND a second time to have the buff. That's just totally useless unfortunatly.

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I honestly wished atleast one of the two Dragon forms would've been like the cool armored one from Ds2. Which also had pretty good defensive stats. Sadly, both of them just slight improvements of the starved goat in Ds3.

They even removed the roar from re-using the item, now it's just a silly pose.

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Does this make you vulnerable to anti-dragon effects? Like the harpoons or dragonscale blade?

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Does it carry over to NG+?

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And here I was thinking that there was only 1 dragon transformation, and it benefitted dragon cult incants instead. Thank god. And this one's easier to get too

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Can this item be dropped to other players?

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Gives you +10% negation to all damage. Weird that’s not noted here.

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Did some testing, stacks with Body, Aura, and Health Regen buff slots, so is most likely a unique buff

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You take additional damage from anti dragon effects like dragon grease.

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I like how this one transforms you into something resembling a midway point between human and magma wyrm as opposed to the "human" form ancient dragon like the other one. Fits with the item description, and it also explains why we don't become a magma wyrm despite eating 23(?) dragon hearts plus Bayle's. We're just doing it wrong apparently. New-school Dragon Communion doesn't turn you into a badass, magma spewing lizard like the old-school communion does.

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Its cool and all but i wish, since they made two forms, they had made this one tanky.
One for melee builds, one for squishy builds.

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What type of buff is it though? Sure it stacks with Exalted Flesh so it can’t be a Body buff, the stacking with Contagious Fury means nothing as that is a Unique buff and stacks with everything. So is the Dragon Communion buff an Aura buff or Unique?

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A dragon is meant to have dragon scales and be nigh immortal, tankiness is the maint hing with dragons, ever lasting dragons.

Why always a squish lord *sigh*

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Being a dragon doesnt carry over to mimic tear and he doesnt seem to use either hearts to transform. So, if you want to be a dragon and still use mimic tear: wear your default armor > summon mimic > strip all armor > turn into a dragon. A lot of effort just to utilize the buffs when reusing the heart.

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I can't believe From really let us be a COOL BLACK DRAGON, stats be damned

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The fact it's not a on off transmutation in regards to appearance angers me

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Does a person using this suffer from the anti dragon stuff in pvp?

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Rock for rawrs, priestess for pretty lightning.

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can it be dropped?

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I found this after stumbling across a random empty chair in the dragon area proceeding from the dragon peak mountainside. Didn’t do any quests or paintings, just found a random ass chair and started swinging at it

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Can you use the rock heart while in priestess form to boost dragon communion instead of dragon cult. And vice versa?

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guess ds1/2 still have the best looking dragon forms. thanks fromsoft, i guess

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Looks like Bloodborne still has the undisputed best transformations.

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How stupid is this that the buff is not permanent when switching to the form ???

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tough to find weapons that match with the aesthetic, personally using the sword of milos. any other good options?

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Why didn't they just make the buff to Communion Incantations permanent when you are in dragon form? Seems a little silly to not when you already get 10% to all damage negations and 50 boost to status resistances.

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I've been rocking this with the hand to hand arts and the dancer talisman. Gods are no match for the fury of kungfu dragon!

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He looks disgusting, I love him

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okay but can i drop this for a new level 1 char to do a full naked goat run of elden ring

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