Not at all, I didn't say I was overlevelled. What I said was that I had reached level 78 in 20 hours, with zero grinding (not having reached Mergo's Loft even) to highlight how that way of playing (not overreaching, spending whenever I have too much, then rushing back to where I was) is much more efficient in the long run. Let me put it another way. What level are you and how many hours did you spend getting there?
You said it right there in your post, last paragraph.
I just checked, and I'm edging in on 70 hours. Keep in mind this is my first time through the game, and I've been taking things leisurely one way or another.
The average time to complete the main story alone, without any deviations, is 35 hours, but between doing all optional content except some of the chalices and the story, I'm well in the range of the average playthrough, all things considered.
And keep in mind that this is not just my first playthrough of the game, but also my first souls game in general. Extra time for adjustment is warranted. I also don't claim to be an exceptional player in any sense. Hell, half the reason I don't want to bother with PvP is that I just assume most people would eat my lunch online and I don't want to deal with that.
What the fuck.
It's okay to admit your jelly of my huge stats
Well, as long as you're fine in the knowledge that levelling up a character that high takes way more time than levelling up three separate specialized characters. And more importantly, that your high level character will be completely useless in any kind of multiplayer situation (versus or coop) because it'll be either downlevelled proportionally making all of his stats crap, or be vastly outclassed by specialized characters at any comparable level.
Again, I doubt this. For one, as mentioned above you're assuming I'm going to play this with patience and skill and finesse. Nope. I do well enough to get by, and leave it at that. I don't have the patience required to be as methodical as you're describing yourself to be. For another, if you're doing it in 20 hours, I'm assuming that means you're not doing the optional areas? Or atleast not all of them? I would probably want to do those. Or you might be, but again, I'm not good enough to do it that same time frame.
That's not the point at all. You said you're not happy when you lose that much, and I said there was no reason you should ever be in a situation where you'd lose that much. Since...
But that's the thing, you had to either port back to the Hunter's Dream or use a Hunter's Mark to reset the run; why not use those 125k to level up before the next lap?
That was just carelessness and impatience. Yeah, I could have done it, but I don't like going back and forth for 1 level, and I can reliably kill the enemies in the grind spot if I'm careful. I managed to get away with everything 95% of the time. I'm not happy when that 5% happens, but it'd be more tedious to go back each time. Maybe if you had an item that directly teleports to the hunters dream....
Just curious, how are you even getting enough chunks? Yet another reason to make three specialized characters is that you get a lot of chunks as one-time lootable objects, meaning you have enough to level up each character's specialized weapons. With a single character you'd have to farm a ridiculous amount of chunks if you want to level up every weapon (or even half of them) to level 10, and there's really no easy way to do that other than killing absurd amounts of enough blue-eyed werewolves. Either that or NG+(++++), which again makes the whole "not making more than one character" kind of pointless.
Upper cathedral werewolves + eye runes. I get one about 1 in 5 times, and they only take like a minute to do. If I had the 3rd eye rune, that percentage would probably be even more frequent.
I am planning on making a NG+ run though once I get the character up to snuff. From there, I can get what I need.
Sure, I can understand that, I'm a completionist too and always want to have the perfect savegame in RPGs. I just wonder if it's a humanly reasonable undertaking in this particular game, let alone more efficient than having three different characters. But it's definitely a way to play the game and now I'm curious how it will all end up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJsZx0ysj_U
You can make 80,000 souls in 5 minutes. I know it says 120,000, but he went from recovering 120K at the beginning to having 200K at the end.
From this calculator, I officially need 7,200,000 more echoes to get to 181 like I want. Assuming I do NOTHING but this grind, and I don't make any mistake, it will take me 7.5 hours to complete. Now, keep in mind that I am NOT going to do this. I have the Old Hunters to play, and chalice dungeons. Even without Grinding, I have plenty of game left. But if I do grind as a supplement to normal gameplay, it doesn't add that much time, while also giving you higher than normal levels.
