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My plan is to level up vitality and endurance only for a good long while, then start putting points into whatever stat goes with the sword/axe/halberd/whatever that I think looks the coolest and enjoy using the most. Then I'm going to hit things with it.
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2011 23:51 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:57 |
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God I feel stupid. I've run through the very first loving area (Undead Burg) like ten times, I've gotten past the dragon by going the lower route, and then I can't find a bonfire, I can just see one through a gate that I think I had to go the upper way to get to. What the gently caress.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2011 16:24 |
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Holy poo poo. Now I can't even get past the dragon. The first time I did it, I just ran all the way through, and somehow survived the flame, since you can't time it like you did in Demon's Souls. Now, I just get roasted no matter what happens, and I'm not doing anything different. This game is making me feel like an idiot and I love it.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2011 16:50 |
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Haha holy poo poo gently caress that thing by the blacksmith in Undead Parish. I don't know what the gently caress it is, but I hate it.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2011 18:06 |
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Is there a bonfire right before the gargoyle boss? I've been running around and haven't found one. I'd hate to keep spawning at Firelink as my closest bonfire.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2011 19:42 |
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Parry timing seems a bit more forgiving in this game than it was in Dark Souls, which is good because it's a great way to kill tough enemies (like that golden Yurt look-alike in the Parish). It's really worth it to spend ten minutes screwing around with it at the first bonfire in the Burg until you get the hang of it to do it consistently. Makes fighting easier, faster, and a lot more fun against the low-level enemies. edit: and I know that by killing him early I'm missing out on better loot later but that's fine, I'm just going to get it in my second playthrough of the game anyway
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# ¿ Oct 5, 2011 20:25 |
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der juicen posted:Do you just run, or do you have to fight this rear end in a top hat. I set up a summon stone, if any of yall are 360, right at the entrance lookin at dragon boy. Do what you did at the dragon bridge in Demon's Souls.
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# ¿ Oct 5, 2011 20:44 |
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invalid posted:
There's really no other tips than what people have been saying over and over again. Do the thing you did to the tutorial boss. Wait until he steps away, run back up immediately, and repeat. It takes three hits from doing it this way to get him dead.
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# ¿ Oct 5, 2011 23:27 |
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My one and only issue with this game is the same one I had with Demon's Souls--I don't know what regular weapon to upgrade into something really good, and probably will be indecisive until way past when it would have been useful.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 17:42 |
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So at this point, I've joined the cat covenant, gotten owned by a bunch of high-equipped people running around in the forest just to own cat covenant people, killed like 3 catagator/wolf things using the cheapest method I've used in any fight in the game so far, killed Gaping Dragon and Moonlight Butterfly really easily, and am running around in black leather and a +1 regular black knight sword. This is starting to feel a lot like Demons Souls again, which is good. I'm just worried that I'm getting close to the halfway point already. Is that the case? I've cleared out everything that I can reasonably do so far (Depths, Blackroot Garden, and I can see a Hydra in the basin way below me if I gently caress around in the forest). I'm thinking that the big, sweeping, slow weapons like 2-handers would be better with a dex/heavy armor build (for the poise), which I'm going to do next playthrough. I'm just doing pure str (with dex to equip necessary stuff and vit/end slowly getting up to 30 each) for now, just so I can see what weapons I think I'd like using next playthrough, so maybe I should stick with a faster weapon to go with light armor.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 18:10 |
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Rascyc posted:I had this same fear, and it helps to understand how the forging system works and how the game supplements it later on. Once I did, my fears kind of vanished. I'll try to explain it from that POV: Well, looks like I'll try making a +5 Thunder Longsword, then. I'll just keep upgrading it until I can do comparable damage to this black knight sword I'm using at the moment. I'll ask again, since the thread kind of moved on without me: if I've beaten the detphs and darkroot garden, am I getting close to the halfway point of the game?
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 18:24 |
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Rascyc posted:No, not really. I think the half way point is probably finishing Anor Londo, but it sort of depends what all stuff you cleared that you didn't have to prior to going to Anor Londo. Basically, I'm just trying to do as much as I can before going to Blight Town. I kinda want to hang out in the forest and fight people for a while, at least until I don't have to be in the forest anymore, but the number of souls you get from the guys in that area (and right next to a bonfire) is really tempting, especially since I want to upgrade my poo poo.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 18:35 |
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NESguerilla posted:Thanks. Do you know where I can find a large ember? Also, I have some colored chunks. If I use them does that nullify the +upgrades I have done or will it turn it into a +(element) weapon? Behind the butcher in the depths, there's a chest. It's the first room of the depths, can't miss it.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 19:06 |
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I kindle literally every bonfire, not just because having 10 flasks is way better than having 5, but because I know that someone somewhere is being helped just a little bit by it.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 19:09 |
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Fuzz posted:Another question... found the huge loving door in the forest, only level 31 and using decent stuff, but those rolling cats RAPE me.... should I try this boss, or should I hang back and wait a bit? Also, where the hell is the cheshire cat, and should I kill the boss BEFORE joining the Covenant? Those rolling cats are really really easy to kill. Go to that clutch of trees near the start of the rolling cat field, and walk out until they start charging you. Run back into the trees and they can't get you. Take a swipe as they walk back, then repeat the process. You can kill all 3 way easier than it has any right to be, and they don't respawn as far as I can tell.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 20:46 |
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Fuzz posted:Cool. What about the other question? I haven't fought the boss behind that door (Sif the wolf) because I don't know how I want to handle it yet. The cat allows you to join the cat covenant, which is basically free PVP in the forest arena. If you get to rank 2 in that covenant, you can get a ring that doesn't allow someone to target you in PVP. The downside is that you can't fight the people in the forest cliff area, which are the best soul-grinding spot in the game that I know of. What I'm personally doing is getting to rank 2 for that ring, then breaking the covenant to get the backflip ring and to be able to grind those guys in the forest. edit: wow, completely misread your question. The cat is in the stone door you walk through to get to the lower area on the left of the forest cliff area. There is a knight waiting outside it. It's up on the wall on the left as you walk through. If you go down some stairs to some mushroom men, you've gone too far. I'm going to leave the other stuff in this post though in case someone wondered about the other stuff.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 20:51 |
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Capsaicin posted:This Drake Sword is almost gamebreaking though It doesn't scale for poo poo, so it's stuck doing the damage it does as you level up. That makes it a fantastic early game weapon, but you'll see/feel it start to lose its appeal after about 2 areas. By the time you do the garden, you'll be wanting to use something else.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 21:34 |
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RBA Starblade posted:A curse frog just fell from the sky, landing on my head, instantly cursed me, leading to me instantly dying and losing all my health and souls. gently caress that. You have to admit that owns.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 21:51 |
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I just realized that putting a gravelord sign in an area filled with big rear end in a top hat monsters is probably a better idea than hiding it under some barrels or something.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 22:16 |
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Capsaicin posted:After beating the Gargoyles, should I go fight the dude with the pitchfork behind the blacksmith? Or should I be going in a different direction? You can run straight past that guy, even though he's not that tough. That way leads to an area that you can do right now, but would be very difficult and isn't really a place you need to go. Take the key you just got and go back to the dragon bridge by the Sun Knight. There's a stairway there that you can unlock now.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 22:18 |
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Welp I'm hosed. All out of Humanity items and I can not even dent the boss in Anor Londo without at least the NPC guy's help. Summoning other players seems to be glitched to hell on my end, worked once or twice and now just refuses to even try. Just go kill rats for a while!!!
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 22:24 |
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D is That Guy posted:So I may have accidently led some bandits in a forest on a gleeful chase thru the woods culminating in an impressive lemming impersonation a few times. Am I going to have to absolve myself of sin before I can get the fog ring? I farmed the forest bandits a few times before joining the covenant, you should be okay.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 22:59 |
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I just realized that I've been using the lovely inferior wiki to find out how covenants work.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 23:09 |
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darkhand posted:Which one is the "good" one? They are both loving awful. AJAX realtime chat with spammy noises? loving really? They're both going to suck this early in the game's release, but the wikidot one is already more fleshed out, and was really good in Demons Souls, so I'm calling it the "good" one.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 23:16 |
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They both have some stuff that the other doesn't, I think. The wikispaces one at least has the upgrade path flowchart, which is very useful.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 23:22 |
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RBA Starblade posted:Finally, I killed that rear end in a top hat. Turns out that it's weak to the fires everywhere. I'm not supposed to try to hurt it. Yeah you are. Those knights have a predictable attack pattern and go down in 4-5 hits (or just like 1 hit and 2 backstabs) from the drake sword, which you should definitely have at that point in the game.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 16:46 |
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RBA Starblade posted:It took more than that, and nothing was blockable. I couldn't get behind it even when naked because it was faster than me, and honestly I only won because I had 10 flasks and not 5. At least I got a chunk out of it even if I can't kill the dragon because it won't show up so I can snipe it from the tower. I can hear it roaring, but it's just not visible. What's your endurance at/what shield are you using?
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 16:53 |
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RBA Starblade posted:Endurance 18, Dragon Crest Shield +1. What the gently caress, that should be more than enough to take a hit from a knight. I was using a heater shield at 15 endurance and blocking a hit. If he telegraphs a big swing, then get the gently caress away, don't block it. Take the opportunity you have on his downtime (watch the recovery swing he does, though) to backstab him. The main thing is that you do NOT want to be blocking more than one or two hits from him. Just to be clear, you're talking about the one in undead parish overlooking the wyvern, right?
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 16:56 |
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RBA Starblade posted:Yeah, that guy. I wanted to kill him so I could snipe the dragon but it's bugged and the model doesn't show. I could block a couple weaker hits, but basically everything else went clean through. Yeah, with strong enemies like that you really don't want to block more than one hit. The idea if you're dead set on blocking is to leave the shield down when you know a hit isn't coming so you regen stamina faster, then take the block. If you block, you really need to watch your stamina to make sure it's safe to take a swing. The ideal for black knights is to bait one of their "HERE I COME, I'M GONNA HIT YA REAL HARD" attacks, back up so it doesn't do poo poo, then get around behind them while they do their pose to backstab. You can probably get a 2H hit in while they stand up, too, but that's risky. Basically you have to fight them the way you do any big enemy--be patient, because if you rush it, you'll die.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 17:01 |
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RBA Starblade posted:Yeah, I tried doing what I did with Havel and other large guys but it didn't really work out. Honestly the most irritating thing is how its sword is large enough to clip through the tower walls so if you try to fight there, you basically lose, but it takes forever to set up the rest of the level for him. Yeah, the tight quarters on top of the tower aren't really ideal for fighting him, but really, they're probably your best bet. You just have to do it really well, so it's kind of annoying. The thing he's guarding is another bonfire and an altar with some non-aggro dreglings around it. It's for the sun covenant.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 17:10 |
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It's been a really long time since I've seen a game actually get a lot of these "you can get the big sword from that one boss if you get it to 10% health and let it live" or "you can get a super-secret O_O ending if you do this ________" sort of rumors. As in, like, OoT was the last time. Finding out about or fighting the Pygmy is going to be the new Triforce.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 21:40 |
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Where should I go after I finish Blight Town? I really just want to be able to get to Anor Londo as soon as possible so that I can finally make this +7 longsword into a lightning longsword.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 21:50 |
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DeathSandwich posted:I think its been explained as said by goons so take it as you will, but if you join the darkwraiths, it is explained to you that the pygmy is/was one of the first dark lords and you are one of his descendants hence why they want you to work against gwyn and his daughters. No, I get that they're all unsubstantiated rumors, but there's all kinds of speculation that really just feels like people saying "I heard if you play the song of time in the warp spot at every temple without warping in under an hour, the back of the temple of time opens up and you can get the triforce." And that's just fine by me. It's nice having an air of mystery in a game again. Macksy posted:Any hints on where to go? Other than darkroot the only other place I've found has a poo poo ton of ghosts that I can't hit. You know how you got a key? Go use it on a locked door earlier in the Burg. Specifically, the locked door next to the dragon bridge by where Solaire was.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 22:04 |
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I really should invest in a better bow than a short bow, even though I just use it for pulling enemies. Is it possible for me to rush to Anor Londo after blighttown, or is there another area between?
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 22:11 |
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areyoucontagious posted:How do you dudes get through this poo poo so fast? I'm barely, BARELY into Undead Burg and I'm getting my poo poo packed by that big gently caress-off black knight dude. I'm trying to learn, I swear! I'm just slow in my goddamn head! I feel like it's going to take me a year to get to where you guys are. In Demons/Dark Souls, unless you're really good, there's a rule that you should follow: if something fucks you up without even trying, you usually don't have to fight it, and shouldn't. Go another way. The Black Knights in the burg don't block anything you need to go through to beat the level (in fact, one blocks nothing at all). Come back when you're strong enough to beat his rear end.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 22:39 |
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Is there a bonfire in Sen's Fortress? Because I may have beaten it last night without using one.
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 15:14 |
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smuh posted:Yeah, but it's kinda hidden. In the outside area where you can see the giant dude in the distance, just look for a ledge where you can drop off from. I had a bunch of "Bonfire ahead" massages in front of it too. Well, I guess I can just be a smug rear end in a top hat about beating Sen's fortress in 3 tries without using its bonfire.
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 15:33 |
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I don't think anybody's explicitly said it, but the Welcome To Anor Londo cutscene is loving amazing and gives you a sense of just how loving enormous this game is. And the aesthetic of the area is loving cool--I was expecting a run-down city (again) and was blown away with what I got.
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 16:53 |
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I don't get the "this game isn't fun, it just gives you a sense of accomplishment from killing hard things" sentiment either. I'm enjoying this game a LOT. Way more than I've enjoyed any game in recent memory.
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 17:49 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:57 |
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Irsh posted:Has anybody used the Cat Covenant Ring? You can go anywhere, it just takes a long rear end time. And when you do get summoned, it's likely to be by someone looking to whip your rear end. 3/5 times I got summoned, there was a guy waiting in a far open corner with homing soul arrow cocked and ready to fire.
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 17:53 |