06-05-2012, 09:27 PM | #202 |
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Also, JUST BEAT FUCKING ORNSTEIN & SMOUGH.
a;sfhjdaposufhaousanwocunawecanwe9pfuh2q9fp3hawe9pfuhjaw9efha9p2w3fhap9whfa9wehfa9pfh7ap97hfp9h2fp9h ewfa9p78whefpa987h WOOOOO FUCK YOU DARK SOULS. Was actually pretty easy since I summoned 2 people to help me. Killed Ornstein first, and during the second phase, I was at full health and took one hit from Smough that took so much health that I couldn't see my health bar. My character fell down when he got hit and I facepalmed thinking I died. But then he got back up and I was like FUUUUUUCK RUN. Popped a humanity real quick and went back at it. Was intense. Heart was pounding and felt like it was going to explode out of my chest. |
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06-06-2012, 08:19 PM | #204 |
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Think I might get one.
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06-06-2012, 09:17 PM | #205 | |
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I think I finished Solaire's path but I'm not sure. I hope I did because that's what I was trying to do.
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That's basically what happened but on accident. The guide I was using didn't really do too well of a job describing where the shortcut was. I wandered into it and killed all the bugs except I never got a Sunlight Maggot drop from any of them. Received 2 Sunlight Medals though. And so that's where I'm out. Going to go through to Lost Isalith that way now and hopefully he'll be available for the final fight. |
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06-08-2012, 12:20 PM | #206 |
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So for the whole 3 people that play this game...
Right before the crystal caves now. This is all 'new territory' for me since Anor Londo was as far as I had gone on my old character. Think I'm level 81 or 82 now, rocking a +5 lightning uchi, a +5 black iron armor, +5 xanthous leggings, havel's helm, and silver knight gauntlets, +15 eagle shield. started pumping points into faith so now i've got a heal, homeward, and a couple other miracles I can't really use yet. Thinking of going back and joining the Princess Guard so I can use these group heals for when I help people. Most souls at one time was like 261k now, which I got after helping out at the Four Kings for a while, and then cashing in on all the saved up warrior souls I had. Was pretty pumped about that. Never imagined I'd actually hold so many at once, but I've seen videos of people holding like 9 mil at one time, so fuck those people. |
06-14-2012, 05:56 AM | #207 |
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Get a fungi tunic
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06-14-2012, 06:10 AM | #208 |
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Anyone playing this on PS3
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06-14-2012, 06:57 AM | #209 |
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Got this. Gunna camp the Fungi Tunic in Sebelis.
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06-22-2012, 06:40 PM | #210 |
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I am basically trying to level up in the Darkmoon Blade covenant to get the get the Darkmoon Blade Miracle to get the acquire all achievements miracle to get closer to 1000/1000 this.
I need 5 more Souvenirs of Reprisals and it is a bitch because I am nowhere near strong enough to defeat the characters of those I am invading. The guide says try invading in the Tomb of the Giants. So that's what I'll do now. |
06-22-2012, 07:00 PM | #211 |
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How close are you to 1000/1000?
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06-22-2012, 07:02 PM | #212 |
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Not very. I have all the weapon achievements except for divine because I need another White Slab. I'm still on my first playthrough so...
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06-22-2012, 10:12 PM | #213 |
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Ok, I got 10. Wasn't too difficult, just had crappy in the begining.
Might keep invading for the night. |
06-24-2012, 05:30 PM | #214 | |
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Ok so here is my little checklist I've created to 1000/1000 the game. Hopefully, I'm not missing anything.
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06-24-2012, 06:08 PM | #215 |
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Sooo.... yeah.
I dunno what to do. Might try PVPing a little more today, asking people if they have any spare Sif or Gwyn Souls. The guide says I should also use Dark Hand against NPC's and kill them to get certain unique weapons/armor. Might do that. I dunno. I think I'll start NG+ tonight or tomorrow. |
06-24-2012, 07:20 PM | #216 |
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Just beat Seath 2nd try. Got cursed/killed at the same time the 1st try and RoXer suggested using the cursebite ring which I didn't even realize I had. Totally worked him the 2nd time. Got my divine weapon ready for the catacombs. Just a shitty Divine +4 falchion. Only used it cause it was already upgraded to +5 due to having been an enchanted weap, so I degraded it back to normal so I could divine it.
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06-24-2012, 07:25 PM | #217 |
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Once you kill the 3 (could be more) Necromancers you use normal weapons to kill the skeletons
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06-24-2012, 07:29 PM | #218 |
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Good, cause this thing does like half the damage of my Uchi. lol
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06-29-2012, 01:43 AM | #219 |
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I beat Dark Souls about 30 minutes ago. FUCK YEAH.
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07-04-2012, 04:14 PM | #220 |
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Achievements (41/41) The Dark Soul
All achievements completed. Congratulations! 50 Unlocked on 7/4/2012 phew ... now what? |
07-04-2012, 04:29 PM | #221 |
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07-12-2012, 06:39 PM | #222 |
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This game is two hard for words.. I got like 2 hours in and still only have a fragment of a sword..
F this S in it's A |
07-12-2012, 06:42 PM | #223 |
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Are you going the right way?
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07-12-2012, 06:45 PM | #224 |
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Yeah, I can beat the bad guys one at a time but once I reached the area were there are multiple ones they destroy me..
My little bro said you have to utilize the block/parry funtion early and often which I usually don't do.. I will try again, one day.. |
07-13-2012, 02:18 AM | #225 |
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lol what, there is a starting weapon in the starter area. (not broken weap, you start with that. there is one that you pick up in the tutorial dungeon)
Did you even pick up the shield? You are doing something entirely wrong. |
07-13-2012, 09:10 AM | #226 |
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The Deprived class starts with a broken sword I think?
Parry can be hard to time. If you're using parry a lot then you're also going to die a lot until you learn to time different enemies attacks. That means watching them a bit before trying to parry their attacks. I still find it very hard to time parrying the early enemies sword thrusts etc. The spear guys are easy to parry. |
08-25-2012, 03:58 PM | #227 |
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Got this on PC because it's only $40 and comes with the DLC. Also because I like playing games on PC.
as;ldfahsdfadsfh not getting any rare drops. Neither of the black knights I've killed gave me their weapons or shields. Boar didn't give me the helm. Channeler didn't give me the trident. All I wanted was a greatsword. |
08-28-2012, 02:47 AM | #228 |
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I would probably buy the DLC just for the new multiplayer stuff alone. If they fix up he match-making system and bring in new fighting modes, it'll give the game extra longevity. Making character builds that are good for PvP is a big part of the game.
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08-28-2012, 09:43 AM | #229 |
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It is pretty good. Haven't made it to the DLC yet. Lot of people complained about the quality of the port because From didn't make any changes that were PC specific. It's pretty much the exact game from console, which I expected since they said they weren't experienced with PC games, and since they only did this port because a player petition asked them to.
There were some internal resolution problems that were fixed by a player before the game even came out with a little script fix he made. Graphics look even better now actually, with a really nice draw distance and textures that look even more high-res if you do the resolution fix. Details are crazy. Was standing in Blighttown looking down at the swamp and could see everything. Enemies, shiny loot, all the way from the great hollow, to the beach that leads to Quelaag's. On console, everything just kinda blurred out down there. Pretty nice. I'm in ash lake right now on this new character. Just had my first real loss, which didn't even involve that many souls, but lost me 7 saved up humanity that I'd been building since the start of the game. Stupid giant mushrooms in the bottom of the hollow. Invaded some people, which is pretty awesome with as many new people as there are. Stalked a couple people before killing them. Had a pretty awesome 1vs2 where I waited till the summon was engaged with some enemies before chasing the host away, then bolting back to the summon and killing him really quickly before fighting the host. Host actually knew what he was doing though and killed me after a pretty long fight. |
08-28-2012, 10:34 PM | #230 |
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Forgot I took this yesterday.
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09-21-2012, 01:47 PM | #231 |
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I've been playing this since Monday, overall I'm not finding it as "hard" as Demon's Souls but I guess I can put that down to knowing what I'm doing right off the bat. That didn't help at all with Capra Demon though, took me about 20 attempts before I could even get a hit in on him. That tiny room is brutal. Gaping Dragon seems to way outlevel me so I'm currently in the catacombs looking for some miracle maiden. Pretty great so far.
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09-21-2012, 07:59 PM | #232 |
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Nah gaping dragon is a piece of cake. Catacombs is way rougher than the depths.
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09-21-2012, 08:15 PM | #233 |
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I've cleared the catacombs, wasn't too bad once I killed the mages. I took on Gaping Dragon with the two phantoms and I was pretty much doing chip damage to him with magic weapon / scimitar +7. He just kept squashing the other guys before I could even get him down to 3/4 health then kept whipping me with his tail breaking through my poise then squashing me too. Pinwheel on the other hand put on a totally pathetic display.
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09-21-2012, 08:46 PM | #234 |
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Have solo'd gaping dragon multiple times, sometimes on the first go. Key is to stay behind him until he starts turning to come at you. Then, get far away and when he charges, just run to either side and circle behind him. You can get a decent amount of hits on him from behind before he turns again. Also.... 'try the tail'
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09-22-2012, 05:45 PM | #235 |
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Got him, was about 8 levels higher than last time. The tail method made him much easier, I should probably start putting some levels into strength by the looks of all these rare drops. Made it to the second bonfire in Blight Town, it's so much like the Valley of Defilement that I was bricking it the whole way down. Was so glad I found that bonfire after aimlessly wading through the swamp on my last Estus Flask.
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09-23-2012, 12:25 PM | #236 |
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Str/Dex is really just based on what character you want to play. You're not required to use any of the drops to beat the game. You could, essentially, just use the items you started with and upgrade them the whole way through and only use them. Dex/Str is just a playstyle.
Now of course, if you ARE a strength build, then by all means, stack the shit out of that. I have 50 str on my first PC character so that I could use the dragon greatswords and the like. |
09-23-2012, 01:03 PM | #237 |
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I'm sure some crazy people somewhere have beat the whole game with a broken sword hilt. I'm only DEX 21, STR is about 14. Just want to try out some of these ridiculous giant weapons really. Got the Meat Cleaver and i remember it being pretty useful in Demon's Souls.
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09-23-2012, 02:57 PM | #238 |
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The problem with Strength builds is that you have to sacrifice mobility to be able to use those heavy weapons. You have to pour stats into Endurance to up your equip weight. I have a strength/endurance build and I still can't really use the massive weapons effectively. Dodging is much better than strong armour in Dark Souls, even taking into account poise, I think. They never really fixed that from Demon Souls. In Demon Souls I finished the game in the armour I started with usually. In Dark Souls I tend to mix and match the highest damage resistance I can get while still maintaining below 50% equip weight. Heavy weapons kill that.
That said, my Strength build is armed with a +7 Lightning Greatsword that murders everything in sight. |
09-23-2012, 05:07 PM | #239 |
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The moment you put lightning/fire on a weapon, it negates the scaling you get from whatever attribute the weapon uses.
So putting lightning on a sword is going to make it not based off strength anymore and kind of negates being a 'strength' build so much as just 'enough strength to use the weapon'. If you're going strength, you should really just go +15 on weapons. My problem on my strength build is that I wasted my dragon scales upgrading dragon tooth and it turned out to not work as well as I wanted it to. Should have upgraded the dragon greatsword instead. Also didn't get lucky enough to get the black knight drops on this character so I just used a giants halberd for a while, which actually isn't that bad, but loses effectiveness pretty quickly. Edit: I also use the fatty roll right now with my str build and it's actually quite effective just straight up blocking/tanking hits. I could wear full havels, but fuck that noise, so I do a combo of golem armor and silver knight's because it looks badass. Just upping my equip load at the moment to be able to actually use some of the beastlier great shields. |
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