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Dark Souls |OT3| This thread moves faster than the Blighttown framerate
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bob_arctor
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Sullichin said:
Ah, thanks. Guess I will finish up Demon Ruins before heading to Sen's.
corrosivefrost
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finalozzo said:
I'd help, but I'm only SL 130... besides, I think I'm done for awhile. Still hanging out in here answering questions, but I've moved on to Arkham City.
sixghost said:
You can still farm the lost izalith demon in the shortcut, it's just a little more annoying because instead of running by a capra/taurus/worm and statues, you have to run across lava, then run by statues and kill the octopus first. It's really not much further.
As far as going into new londo cursed? Depends -- if you have a good shield and wear the gold serpent ring as one of your accessories, I highly recommend it -- I got so many drops in there that I still, after going in there *without* the ring on in NG+, I have 37 or so transient curses where I had 45 before. If you don't know where you're going or where the ghosts are, I'd say the best option is to (1) get the rite of kindling, kindle firelink to +20 estus flasks. (2) get cursed and put on the gold serpent ring. (3) Go nice and slow, never rush an area... bait and lure the ghosts out and take them on 1 on 1 with shield up avoiding the grab attack. If you see a ghost with a red eye (there are only 2) waste it as fast as you can, within reason. (3) get to Ingward, get the key, drain the ruins. (4) heal curse by your preferred method.
That's what I did -- and by the time I slowly worked through to Ingward and opened the gate I'd gone from 1 transient curse to +25. At that point, I felt comfortable enough that I'd not run out and healed the curse with a purging stone (which gives you full life, btw) and switched to the transient curse method.
I tried the ghost blade/jagged ghost blade, but their reach is so short and their damage so little that it was better to be cursed (transient or otherwise) to get the damage to kill a ghost effectively. The only other option would be using the soul of Sif immediately to get the greatsword that is cursed and can hit ghosts -- the one caveat here is that your magic and shield will not work, so you're best off 2h.
bob_arctor said:
You can't really *finish* demon's ruins before you go to Sen's, unless you've already been *through* Sen's and gotten the lordvessel, as there's a yellow fog barrier before the 2nd boss.
toastyToast
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Sen's Fortress has 4 Titanite demons on the lower floors. As far as I can remember there are another 3 out in the wild (not counting Lost Izalith which I haven't reached yet) which are the one in Undead Burg, and the other two being in The Catacombs and Anor Londo.
For some reason I found the Anor Londo one a lot harder to kill than the rest. Still need 2 more to get Queelag's Fury Sword to +5
For some reason I found the Anor Londo one a lot harder to kill than the rest. Still need 2 more to get Queelag's Fury Sword to +5
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Sullichin said:
I am SL42 now if I remember. Haven't been to Anor Londo or Sen's. I am a Bandit class with high Strength (36 now) and my weapon of choice has been a Zweihander +6 and a Divine Great Axe +2. I just got Pyromancy a little while ago, leveled it to +6, and copped Iron Flesh and the basic fireball spell. I avoided Blighttown, only going through the lower level shortcut directly to Queelag but have messed a bit with New Londo Ruins, which I aim to go back to soon as well.
Pretty awesome how you can tackle these areas so differently.
toastyToast
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EasyMode said:
There's another towards the back with some loot next to it.
Actually I think there might be 3.
Mattdaddy
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levious said:
Yea he never showed up there in my game. I freed him from his cell, but he never appeared at firelink. I checked several times throught my journey, but he just never materialized. I even looked it up to make sure I was in the right place, I was right where I should have been he just wasn't there lol. The rest of the event with him still played out though... after Blightown.
Even though he never appeared at Firelink after saving him, I still found the murdered Fire Keeper and got her stuff... then invaded him in Anor Londo and got his stuff.
Weird. You're sure you checked the area right outside of the fire keeper's cell?Mattdaddy said:
Come to think of it, he actually did disappear then reappear on me before he was actually supposed to. I wonder if it's a glitch, or a very specific time in the game where he leaves Firelink temporarily before his story arc starts.
Akuun said:
He has a lot of random stuff he says. Notably,
he gives insight into Petrus being a terrible person and it's through him you're supposed to find out about Rhea's whereabouts in the Tomb (though he tells you it expecting you to kill her). A lot of his random talks seem to bring up some shady things he does (he notes that he learns this information from some "fleeing old man" he killed, for instance)
sixghost said:
He does seem to leave occasionally and come back, though I honestly don't know what causes it. To be honest, like 90% of the NPC scripting in Dark Souls confuses me.
DigitalDevil
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Oh see he says that when you get back to firelink and talk to him. He said the other stuff when you talk to him just after freeing him.Akuun said:
Mattdaddy
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sixghost said:
Yea I thought I was just confused or something, but I looked online and saw right he should have been. I don't know if I did something that changed the event, just missed him, or if he actually walked a path and got stuck somewhere, or if it just glitched or what. After ringing the second bell everything went along fine though.
corrosivefrost
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EasyMode said:
Yup -- I found him, let him out and immediately killed him cause I didn't like his attitude in my first game. NG+, I let him out to do the stuff that requires him. NG++ I didn't even go near him (my extent of undead burg/parish was limited to the building with Andre, using the elevator in the church in case I needed the shortcut later, and going straight to the roof to kill the gargoyles. He still got out and did his thing. I was quite pissed when
I warped from anor londo after killing smough and ornstein to do something quickly at firelink (don't remember what) only to find out she was dead and I had to grab her orb and go kill Lautrec. Fucker.
maomaoIYP said:
People can summon you for whatever purpose they want if you put down your sign.
If that person is a griefer who wants to kill all comers in Anor Londo and is just standing around as a human waiting to be invaded, well, have fun. Or use the black separation crystal.
Covenant of the white, never joined another one. Can I even leave white summon stones if I'm not?Mihos said:
maomaoIYP said:
Anor Londo is dark in the world i get summoned to, not in my world. don't know about the world's of the invading players. It's happened a few times, the player who summons me messages me saying to wait for invaders. Red and blue phantoms come. It's fucking fun as hell actually even though I suck at PVP. Also it takes way too long to get summoned, I'm waiting forever.
Even after skipping the worst part of Izalith, I absolute hate this area.
Now that I have beaten the boss, again, I never want to fucking see this place for a long time.
Hopefully Tomb of Giants isn't too bad on the NG+ run.
On the way to the boss after the short cut, the floor gave way at a certain location and I fell into a swampy-like area with some Cthulhu-looking things. I thought "Hey, a place I haven't seen in my first playthrough!". But naturally, for the effort one would have to go through to fight all the enemies here, I only got shit like crappy soul items. And one of them ended up breaking all of my equipment as a "middle finger" to me with its breath attack before dying.
Hopefully Tomb of Giants isn't too bad on the NG+ run.
dreamer3kx
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So covenant stuff is mainly for online pvp stuff, correct?
You can leave white summon signs regardless of your covenant.Sullichin said:
Some covenants focus on online co-op (Way of White, Princess' Guard, Warrior of Sunlight), and the others on online PvP. I usually just join covenants for the items and leave. For example, the Warrior of Sunlight covenant gets you lightning spear miracles, while the Princess' Guard gives you support miracles. Chaos Servant gives you Chaos pyromancy while Way of the Dragon gives you items that turn you into a dragon and also an item that lets you invade people with dragon scales.
I like the Darkwraith covenant for the infinite use invasion item.
Nobodyspatzy
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finalozzo said:
I'll try and co-op with you =p I am at...SL140 something now, on New Game+++, so I'll get to Blighttown as soon as I can.
Side Note: As I mentioned before, the difficulty jump now is so minor, I nearly didn't notice! Then again, using both pyro and sorcery is working well as an alternative (excluding the Catacombs, the first time....hate using Divine weapons)
electricpirate
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Why did I not realize that there's an item that let's you get summoned into peoples worlds for PVP duels instead of strictly invading? That's awesome and explains how i got invaded recently, not realizing what I was clicking.
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