Yeah, +1 level per point I believe all the way to 99
I know that 40 -> 41 still adds 1
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Yeah, +1 level per point I believe all the way to 99
I know that 40 -> 41 still adds 1
NEOPARADIGM
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KoreanBarbecue
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So, as someone who doesn't want to deal with the constant invasions/summons with the Bell Keepers Covenant...is my only option to get to rank 2 with them to play offline and farm that rarely-appearing Mad Warrior? I ran that route about 30 minutes last night and he only appeared twice. Ugh.
Me Me Me.
Already practicing with a low soul memory build to gank pc n00bs walking into Belfry Luna.
Oh, don't know why I didn't remember that. My bad. lol
That's what I did. It was pretty painless. Just listen to something else while you do it. He spawns randomly but he's not as rare as people say. Overblown, imo
It uses a lot of stamina but two hand R2 does a smashing attack for 800+ damage and then if that didn't knock the enemy flat to the ground you can follow up with a second R2 that does a two hit spin attack for another 1000-1200. This combo generally consumes my entire stamina bar but it also kills almost everything that isn't a boss. It even has some hyperarmor frames where I do not take damage if I'm hit during them. My damage output per second with swords doesn't seem to balance out. I'll keep experimenting....
Clubs are pretty great.
I think the only situation in which they aren't faster to kill than a sword, is if you crush an enemy without killing it, and it is one of the fuckers that cannot be recrushed when it is standing up. Most humanoids can eat a second hit while standing up, but there are a few that can stand up and avoid your second hit.
Red Liquorice
Member
I've never seen this bell tower invader, is he instead of the red phantom dwarf guy?
The 2H R2 combo of the large/great club is amazing. This is what I used on bosses all day on my first character. I've yet to surpass that type of damage output with melee since. Although it's really hard to land the large club in PVP.
Yea, he's the Predator guy. There are no invasion alerts. He's just standing there outside the lever room. His spawns are completely random so you need to go back and forth resting at bonfire to make him spawn.
He doesn't actually invade at all. He's either there or he's not. Run straight, turn left and look towards the tower with the ladder in it, he will be standing in the corner. He's got a skull face with dreadlocks.
KoreanBarbecue
Member
Red Liquorice
Member
The_Hitcher89
Member
This is my setup at the minute, armour is tailored so I can stay below 70% and upgrade with normal titanite.
Played for 77 hours, Soul Level 155, only way for me to go is further into the
Also still have to beat
Right-hand:
Black Knight Ultra Greatsword +5
Sorcerer's Staff +10
Pyromancy Glove +10
Left-hand:
Tower Shield
Dragonrider Bow +4
Rings:
Ring of Binding
Covetous Silver Serpent Ring
Southern Ritual Band +1
Ring of Life Protection/Ring of Blades +1
Spells:
Heavy Soul Arrow
Great Heavy Soul Arrow
Great Fireball
Imported Hood
Lion Mage Cuffs
Alonne Knight Leggings +10
Played for 77 hours, Soul Level 155, only way for me to go is further into the
Undead Crypt.
Darklurker
Right-hand:
Black Knight Ultra Greatsword +5
Sorcerer's Staff +10
Pyromancy Glove +10
Left-hand:
Tower Shield
Dragonrider Bow +4
Rings:
Ring of Binding
Covetous Silver Serpent Ring
Southern Ritual Band +1
Ring of Life Protection/Ring of Blades +1
Spells:
Heavy Soul Arrow
Great Heavy Soul Arrow
Great Fireball
Imported Hood
Creighton's Chainmail
Alonne Knight Leggings +10
Not so bad, I got Rank 2 in less than 4 hours. If you do it 30 minutes a day, you might be lucky and see him in successive spawns. Happened to me a few times.
Outside the bell lever room in Belfry Sol.
KoreanBarbecue
Member
This is my go-to attack now for PvE. With the item degradation reduction, I literally just run around two-hand smashing everything into the ground. So satisfying.
I think the full sets from those enemies that spawn in with Flexile Sentry in NG+ is way harder to get. I saw a video of it and some dude used Ascetic 7 times just to get the full set. Pretty crazy.
Screaming Meat
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It's a great feeling when that happens. I did it in Belfry Sol, had 2 greys and 1 red invade me at the same time and killed them all.
I have no interest in rare armor stuff. I just happened to get the Mad Warrior stuff from trying to get Hidden Weapon. I have to give props to people who go through the headache of obtaining every piece of gear out there.
Yesterday at the bell tower I literally had grey>blue>grey>blue invade me. It was fun killing all of them
Really? I don't think you would need an aescetic? I was able to farm them on NG+ and got the whole set. The enemies on the way to the boss were long extinct, but the NPCs that spawn with him kept coming. Took about 5-6 hours of farming...even died once when they had dropped an item I wasn't able to get to it.
Huh, interesting. Maybe the guy didn't know they respawned. Now that makes it funnier. He mentioned the helm wouldn't drop at all until he used Ascetics for more drops. I think he mentioned he fought them 100 times.
Well good news it doesn't match mad warrior so...
I have not done much PvP yet but I was in the bell tower, just about to ring the bell when I got invaded. I cleared out the little guys and waited. And waited. Finally, a second invader shows up and they both come up the ladder and I managed to take them both out by using leap attacks and the horizontal swings. My heart was pounding a little and I got off the couch and did the decapitate emote in real life along with my character, hahahaha.
Luckily my fiancee thinks that kind of behavior is cute.
(I usually bow, but waiting to 2v1 gank gets a decap if I win.)
as long as he doesn't have any stupid mobs, I can't wait to shoot Sunlight Spears at him.Goddamn, Velstadt doesn't fuck around on NG+
chris121580
Member
I'm trying to earn some souls by being summoned to help others with boss battles. I've been leaving my sign but not getting pulled into other games. Any tips on things I can do to make my sign more visible? I sat at one very popular boss for at least 20 min and never got summoned.
If you don't get summoned within 1-2 minutes, log out and log back in and try again. It should work better. Put it in the middle of the path as well for more exposure.
What boss? Are you in NG? What is your Soul Memory?
Wish you recorded it
chris121580
Member
Thanks for both of these tips. I was at the Smelter Demon. I'm not NG+ yet but I have defeated all the bosses. I just planned to help out others before going to my NG+. I'm not sure what my soul memory is off hand unfortunately
KoreanBarbecue
Member
I ended up grinding out bosses with people on the easy ones - like the Old Dragon Slayer. The soul reward is less, but for me I could get through probably 3 times as many fights compared to one harder one. Think the record for ODS so far is about 30 seconds with two other folks.
You've already beat the main end-game boss? Yeah, you are probably to high for that area. I'd recommend going into NG+.
NEOPARADIGM
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Well SD is more of a mid-game locale; try the back third (the various spots in the castle for instance) for better luck.
I ended up grinding out bosses with people on the easy ones - like the Old Dragon Slayer. The soul reward is less, but for me I could get through probably 3 times as many fights compared to one harder one. Think the record for ODS so far is about 30 seconds with two other folks.
I recommend Vestaldt with a Silver Serp ring. It's easy and fun. Souls come in pretty fast. It's still my fave hot spot.