Dark Souls

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I'm just after losing 700k souls and 16 humanity in the Chasm. F**k, F**k F**K:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I nearly got sick when I read that... Can't even get them back...

Cursed in Depths and I accidentally killed Oswald earlier on, now I have to shell out 6K souls for a Purging stone It's funny, I was doing so well fighting my way through the Depths with 11,000 souls, half an hour later I have half a HP bar and 0 souls with a predicament on my hands.

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Dont give up! Maybe put the run on hold for a while and come back to it fresh in a week or so. I can actually imagine cleric would be one of the harder classes to beat O&S since im pretty sure you can't use a bow to cheese them, and there isnt alot of long range damage miracle spells, with Lightning Bolt taking way to long to get. Pyroglove with combustion seems the best for bursting Smough down. I find Super Orstein easier to deal with

Will return to it at some point. No lightning spear due to only 14 faith. Have a nice lightning crossbow though which was helping. 14 faith does give me a little boost in beating catacombs/tombs and access to magic barrier/great heal but the cleric stats are a curse. Weapon choice is meh (although my favourite weapon is the cleric mace )and 9 endurance is just horrible. I have a feeling O+S, the four kings, and Seath could be a hassle simple due to not having enough endurance to get the hits in and roll away. I'd say a Bandit or Pyro playthrough would be easier in many ways but I'll return someday :pac:

Tommy_NDX wrote: »

Any chance there's a Lvl 15ish ps3 player around to help me with 4 kings? I am getting my ass handed to me over and over.

Pretty sure I have a lv11 character. Might get a chance to get on later.

Danonino. wrote: »

Will return to it at some point. No lightning spear due to only 14 faith. Have a nice lightning crossbow though which was helping. 14 faith does give me a little boost in beating catacombs/tombs and access to magic barrier/great heal but the cleric stats are a curse. Weapon choice is meh (although my favourite weapon is the cleric mace )and 9 endurance is just horrible. I have a feeling O+S, the four kings, and Seath could be a hassle simple due to not having enough endurance to get the hits in and roll away. I'd say a Bandit or Pyro playthrough would be easier in many ways but I'll return someday :pac:

Forgot that spells have stat reqs also, lol :rolleyes:

richymcdermott wrote: »

felt inspired to draw Dragonslayer Ornsteinn today after doing my second playthrough of dark souls

He easily has the coolest gear in my opinion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG9qUol1YeM

wish i had some colouring equipment to properly finish him

Those vocals...Soprano??

richymcdermott wrote: »

the nameless song , Dark souls

Ah, a joke.

I have the soundtrack on regular rotation on my MP3 player.

richymcdermott wrote: »

Ha i didnt catch on , lack of sleep trying to set up that youtube account last night lol

soundtrack is amazing , hope to have a church play every single track when i am dead

Hah, actually think a third are awesome and the rest I could take or leave.

Fireline, Gaping Dragon, S&G,Four Kings, Nito and Kiln or the ones I like.

The rest don't really stand up on their own imo (i.e. when listening to them outside of the game).

Everytime I play Dark it eats up all of my gaming time so after awhile I take an extended break which with 90% of other games would mean I usually don't come back. Then every time I go a month or two without playing I get excited about coming back and starting a new playthrough or doing some invading etc.

No game has ever had that hold over me. God dammit Dark Souls 2 better not mess this up!!

Big Knox wrote: »

Everytime I play Dark it eats up all of my gaming time so after awhile I take an extended break which with 90% of other games would mean I usually don't come back. Then every time I go a month or two without playing I get excited about coming back and starting a new playthrough or doing some invading etc.

No game has ever had that hold over me. God dammit Dark Souls 2 better not mess this up!!

Yeah i know the feeling, played the crap out of it on the PS3, took a break from it for BF3, mass effect 3 and skyrim and i've played nothing else since it came out on PC besides a 2 day break for darksiders 2. really love the PVE and the PVP tho flawed is just awesome, running a no buffs dex build at the moment, chaos blade with silver knight spear in reserve. I'm planning a strength build next, never really bothered with one before.

Very good:) To try and beat those 2 at such a low level would be just too much torture for me:(

Just started a new character myself today. This time I'm going for a super high dex thief. I'll cap him off at about Level 90 so that I can engage in plenty of Jolly Co-operation as a Sunbro:) Already smashed through Taurus Demon and Bell Gargoyles, the Gargoyles with the help of Solaire and some supertough American guy I summoned.

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Invaded some dude last night and he dropped me 8 great hero souls, 16 titanite slabs and a bucketload of other stuff.

This on the PC? I hear character trainers and duping is a massive issue now!

Big Knox wrote: »

This on the PC? I hear character trainers and duping is a massive issue now!

Yeah PC it's not too bad, you get the odd few uber invaders, most who do use trainers use it to build a PVP character quicker. I've done alot of PVP the past month and bumped it only 2 or 3. Supposedly it's quite easy to edit the save on the 360 too, you've seen the stuff rosie does just for the troll vids.

If you look at gamefaqs a lot of people on PS3 will delete the patch create a new character and use the bottomless box glitch and then repatch the game.

They put a petition together and got a few thousand sigs to add back in the glitch. agree with it being patched out, i can picture it being handy but alot would abuse it. They go to crazy lengths on gamefaqs, some have multiple PSN accounts mainly for duping(don't ask how) and some just have that many builds.

Danonino. wrote: »

I wonder if having a character build option after beating NG++ or something would have been cool. Means you have to work to get the ability to create any sl character you want. actually scratch that it sounds ****e just typing it :pac:

Maybe something along the lines of you could consume Gwynn or Manus's soul in NG onwards and it refunds all your stat points and allows you to redistribute them! Not as easy as having free characters at whatever level you like but not as hard as starting a new character from scratch and having to pick everything up again!

Anyway why are we even talking about this!!

I'm about 12 hours in (over the past 2 weeks, that's as much as I can realistically play) and only yesterday did I discover:

- You can make a running jump! Only discovered this as I watched a 'Let's Play' video on Youtube
- You can get Humanity without using the consumable Humanity items! Was stuck fighting the Bell Gargoyles for the 20th time and was thinking of giving up the game for good as I couldn't see a way to turn human to summon anyone, but decided to Google 'bell gargoyles no humanity' and found a post somewhere mentioning you could get 'soft' humanity grinding in an area where the boss was still alive - had no idea about the concept of soft humanity OR grinding for it, thought the only way was to find humanity on a corpse!
- You can summon NPCs! Found this out randomly while reading the Google results above.
- Your humanity / souls can be retrieved as normal after you die in an invasion! At the very end of my playing time last night, after being killed by those gargoyles about ten times and then grinding for a while, I finally got a single humanity, reversed the hollowing and eagerly went into the church, hoping to summon someone to help me with the gargoyles. Obviously instantly some tool invaded, waited for me at the top of one of the ladders in the church and insta-killed me. I quit in disgust and thought about having to stop playing this frustrating game, but decided to check to see if somehow I could recover my hard-won humanity (I just assumed you couldn't, as I understood the point of invading was to kill another player and take their humanity). Glad to find out that I can retrieve this God knows what goes through the minds of those invading a beginning player like myself and slaughtering me as I stand, can't be very satisfying!

I do think the game errs on the side of giving players too little info on actual game mechanics.