Dark Souls

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I finally beat Ornstein and Smough on NG+ after getting beaten umpteen times. Then I decide to go to the Giant Blacksmith to get a few nice upgrades using my boss souls. A lightning demon follows me into the area where the Giant Blacksmith is and I accidentaly hit the Blacksmith. Now the Blacksmith keeps attacking me and I can never get my boss weapon upgrades as a result. As a consequence of this totally frustrating development I'm done with this game for good. **** this unfair ****!

If you didn't kill the Blacksmith outright then you can go and absolve your sins with Oswald of Carim underneath the Parish belltower! Although it will cost you a fair few souls since you're on NG+ and probably a high SL.

So I've recently bought a copy of Dark Souls in the local HMV (Tallght , the Square)
and this game has to be the most frustratingly hard game I've ever played ,
anybody wanna disus?
any Tips/hints?




im new here btw.

Big Knox wrote: »

If you didn't kill the Blacksmith outright then you can go and absolve your sins with Oswald of Carim underneath the Parish belltower! Although it will cost you a fair few souls since you're on NG+ and probably a high SL.

Oh right I didn't realise you can do that. I didn't kill the blacksmith at all so I'm gonna go straight to Oswald now. I thought I screwed up my chance of getting the Greatsword of Artorias forever. Thank you for this, THANK YOU!:pac::pac::pac:

If your on NG+ you should have the silver serpent ring, so if you go to Oswald and he asks for too many souls head down and farm the forest dudes with the ring, its close and you'll rack up souls in no time

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Yeah but with vow of silence I rarely get to use it. Handy though for tanks, break their guard then hit r2 and r1 for a quick combo.

Yeah It's a great guard breaker alright. If you get a knockdown you can pretty much spam it with dead angle and wake up timing for the kill but it can feel a little cheap! :pac:

Would you not run GMB instead of vow to allow yourself to cast?

noodler wrote: »

What is that "Let there be Light" thing about on that ledge?

Equip the skull lantern or sunlight maggot to find out.

As for gmb, never used it, keep thinking of the shield from demons, does it restrict movement?

So I had a day of dark souls today.
Little bit more progress:

Opened that door in woods and farmed a bit for souls there. Got good few stats and that cool eastern armour?
While I was in the woods I killed those giants and that butterfly.
Next I got to down town and killed some dual wielding demons prick. I died about 5 times on him. The stupid thing is the boss was not a problem, those 2 damn dogs were a major pain in a hole!
So that's for today . I know I a noob compared to you lads, but I am getting there.

I have a feeling that I have an aweful aweful setup, but surprisingly it works for me. I am using a 2 handed sword in one hand and boldar shield, plus mix of eastern and chain armour. Got the poison ring ( getting ready for blightown ) and ring which lets me have more load. So far I easily keep it under half. I could get away half load even witouth that ring though, but still not enough to make it 1/4 .
So far this setup works waaaaaay better for me then I had dex/light set up on ps3. I will see how it will work out in the feuture

So now few questions:

I am using basic 2hander sword ( zinsething ). It's +5 and can't get it any more, need some better titanite, but still haven't found a bit of it . I got black knights polearm and some demon clever thing? ( from that boss in downtown with 2 dogs ). So which 2hander do I work for? Are the ones I got are any worth getting trained for?
Any ideas where to get better one? Btw do I have a brain fart or those mossy stone giants in wood drop a 2hander too? I could swear they dropped some sort of sword when I was still playing on ps3.

I tried earlier to find someone to summon for Manus without any joy. Where are the usual/best spots to pick up summon signs? I'm about SL55 maybe that's working against me for summons?

ShadowHearth wrote: »

So I had a day of dark souls today.
Little bit more progress:

Opened that door in woods and farmed a bit for souls there. Got good few stats and that cool eastern armour?
While I was in the woods I killed those giants and that butterfly.
Next I got to down town and killed some dual wielding demons prick. I died about 5 times on him. The stupid thing is the boss was not a problem, those 2 damn dogs were a major pain in a hole!
So that's for today . I know I a noob compared to you lads, but I am getting there.

I have a feeling that I have an aweful aweful setup, but surprisingly it works for me. I am using a 2 handed sword in one hand and boldar shield, plus mix of eastern and chain armour. Got the poison ring ( getting ready for blightown ) and ring which lets me have more load. So far I easily keep it under half. I could get away half load even witouth that ring though, but still not enough to make it 1/4 .
So far this setup works waaaaaay better for me then I had dex/light set up on ps3. I will see how it will work out in the feuture

So now few questions:

I am using basic 2hander sword ( zinsething ). It's +5 and can't get it any more, need some better titanite, but still haven't found a bit of it . I got black knights polearm and some demon clever thing? ( from that boss in downtown with 2 dogs ). So which 2hander do I work for? Are the ones I got are any worth getting trained for?
Any ideas where to get better one? Btw do I have a brain fart or those mossy stone giants in wood drop a 2hander too? I could swear they dropped some sort of sword when I was still playing on ps3.

Havels ring is excellent, it's my go to ring along with ring of favor and protection. I have used it on all of my playthroughs!

Under 50% equip is fine if you are using a large or great sword. You will need poise however so you can swing through attacks. Try play around with different armour combos and get your poise as high as possible and preferably staying under 50% if you can. The wolf ring in the Butterfly garden is excellent to help increase your poise. It's found behind a tree near the entrance to the stone giants, you need to attack the tree to remove it.

As for swords, the claymore is a fantastic strength weapon. It has a really good moveset both 1 and 2 handed and has great reach while not being too heavy or slow. You can find it on the bridge under the hellkite dragon, but it might require a suicide run! The giants do drop a 2 hander alright but it requires a huge amount of strength to use and is very very slow. The claymore or Zweihander would definitely be your best bet, try both and see which you prefer then start upgrading it.

To upgrade a weapon past +5 you need the large ember which is in the next area you are heading to now. Look around the room with the hooded butcher to find it!

Big Knox wrote: »

No there's no restriction, It's just a magic absorb. It reduces all magic damage by about 90 - 95% including Dark magic and there's no downside to it. It even blocks weapon buff damage like DMB and SLB.

The only problem is the better players will see it and run away until it wears off but you get 2 casts that last 40 seconds each!

Yeah used it today, dude cast pursuers and I walked through it, he ran but I'd <25 equip burden so outran him and did him in.

Got a really ugly armour setup at the moment but its 43 poise for only 20 weight. This weekend Pc was hopping for online. Got about 30 souvenirs. Dark moon is odd yesterday I invaded the same guy 6 times, today some other dude 8 times, got a few 3-4 times tonight.

I'm amazed people don't track who they pvp, one dude got me with wog as I came around a bookcase in dukes and pummeled me. Next time I go to his world I cast wotg at the bookcase knock him over cast silence and he runs around like an idiot shaking his wand when he castes. I did this to him a further 3 times, same place and events every time.

Big Knox wrote: »

Glad to hear you won't be quitting! Let us know how many souls it costs, I think it depends on your SL.

It cost approx 60,000 souls although luckily I had something like 150,000 souls spare. Was worth every soul penny:) I've just started the new DLC and I'm just on Artorias now although he's kicking my ass so far.
I have to say the Lightning Heavy Crossbow +5 has been a great friend to me since last night, especially in the fights against Super Smough and The Stray Asylum Demon

I finally got myself hooked up to Xbox live. Currently a member of the Darkmoon Blade covenant. After last night's pathetic efforts I should change my Gamertag name to "Backstab Bitch". Kept getting backstabbed to death. Oh well, playing against human players will only make me better:). Those I did manage to kill sent me abusive messages, it's great fun:pac::pac:

Also a big thank you to the Sorceror who helped me beat Artorias last night. Your Soul arrows and my Lightning heavy crossbow+5 made short work of him;)

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I finally got myself hooked up to Xbox live. Currently a member of the Darkmoon Blade covenant. After last night's pathetic efforts I should change my Gamertag name to "Backstab Bitch". Kept getting backstabbed to death. Oh well, playing against human players will only make me better:). Those I did manage to kill sent me abusive messages, it's great fun:pac::pac:

Also a big thank you to the Sorceror who helped me beat Artorias last night. Your Soul arrows and my Lightning heavy crossbow+5 made short work of him;)

Backstabbing is 90% of the metagame unfortunately as it's a broken mechanic due to the online side of things being so laggy.

To be competent in PvP you literally have to interpret what your enemy is going to do and try react before it happens. It does make for some very interesting fights though especially if you can counter a move before it happens which makes it all the sweeter.

Back peddle a lot, if any enemy is generally not attacking but is staying close and sizing you up he is more than likely back stab fishing so play safe and don't give him an opening. If you get put down expect a BS chain attempt. Do not roll away from your enemy when getting up as it's the most obvious move. Roll through them or to the side when possible. And finally if that doesn't work and you are still getting backstabbed a lot, try playing unlocked as locking on gives them an advantage to land the BS due to lag.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

well i played today a bit again.

got to the sewers and one shoted that dragon thing? I did summon the sun knight, but he only lasted until 90% of boss anyway, so was pretty much useless.
i bought the whole armor set from that vendor too. chest and helm hit a spot for me. got my poss up to 46 after getting advices here.
i started poking in to blight town and oh boy how i am not looking forward to that place... though i have to say the current setup i got is 1000 times more efficient and easyer then the one i had on ps3 ( dex setup ). I just face roll everything so far and i am level 45 atm ( my dex character was around 55 ).
when i kill that spider bitch ( i hated that bitch ) the rest of the game will be new for me . hopefully i will get to her tonight, but now i got to go and make dinner, because misses is back home soon.

Try and equip as much poison resist as possible, it will make life in blight much easier. It also means when you get poisoned in the swamp that it doesn't become an issue and does minimal damage which you can flask through easily.

You should look into getting the Wolf ring in the butterfly garden, it gives 40 poise and when combined with Havels you can pretty much swing through the majority of enemy attacks while maintaining the mid roll. What weapon are you using out of curiosity?

When you're summoned and help someone defeat the gargoyles and hear the bell ringing a minute later back in your own world:



Need ideas for a build. Level 40 now but have only really put points into vit and dex (and 16 strength for the halberd). I've deleted three characters after about ten hours each because they weren't my cup of tea.
Going for <25% equip load, not really bothered with poise this time