Is there an easier way to get back to the baby skeleton area of Tomb of Giants other than running through the catacombs and the entire tomb again? Warping to Nito's area doesn't seem to have any way of going back up. I really don't want to have to run through the entire area to get the white slab...
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Yo Gotti said:
The Repair Kit slightly cheaper from Andre; kill both of them then I have no idea where you get the kit from, lol.
Anything important from the first vendor can be found on his corpse when you kill him though so it's not a huge deal to off him. He's only really important due to him being the first vendor with Arrows; other than that, just off him for the Uchigatana honestly.
Otheradam said:
Not really. But the Catacombs, when completed, is a pretty short run. You can drop down to shortcut 80% of the Catacombs and then the Tomb is a very quick run to get to the end anyway.
Done the run enough times I can do the Tomb section without lights :/
toastyToast
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Otheradam said:
Nope. You can run through the Catacombs and to the second bonfire in TotG in about 5 minutes from Firelink.
Drop down a few levels in the Catacombs and go to that spiral staircase that takes to you the blacksmith; after that just run through TotG which should be a minute or two (longer if the skeleton dogs are a challenge). Hopefully you have Cast Light or sunlight maggot by this point.
Felix Lighter
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Any word on the BloodShield post patch? With 1.03, fully upgraded, it only has a stability of 75. I'm hoping they left it alone.
MomoPufflet
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Otheradam said:
The Nito bonfire warp is kind of a troll-- you can't really use it for anything other than getting out. I guess they didn't want it to be too easy to get to the skeleton baby camp.
Thagomizer
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It's a really minor thing, but I wish that some of the Bonfires had unique models. Having a sword stuck in a mound of ash just outside of Gwynevere's room threw me a little just because of how incredibly out of place it looked.
I wish they would let people get their materials back on stuff they super nerfed. I was using the Quelaag Fury Sword, Hollow Shield, and Antiquated Skirt....sucks to know I wasted all my materials on them only for them to be now be worthless (sword not as much at least).scosher said:
shantyman said:
go into blighttown from the other entrance. (firelink -> new londo ruins -> valley of drakes). If you just want to get in there for the boss you never need to head to the section with the mutant guys - just a couple of trolls in the entrance which you can pick off slowly, then some annoying mosquitos
toastyToast
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Pumped 8 points into strength so I could use the Greatsword of Artorias only to find out when I excitedly equipped it that it needs 20 faith too FFFFFFF
Felix Lighter
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scosher said:
Damn. What a waste. Weight is a major issue for my character because I'm always hovering right around 50% Equip limit with my gear. I'll have to make some more compromises.
RadicalRad
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So I accidently whacked the female undead merchant once. (She frightened me when i first went up the stairs) Now all she does is yell at me as I pass by, anyway to fix this?
At first it didnt bug me too much until the swamp in blighttown... I ended up using up all the moss I had acquired and apparently shes the only one that sells it? Any advice for getting through the swamp without moss? Guess i just need to kindle some fires and solve my woes with estus overkill.
At first it didnt bug me too much until the swamp in blighttown... I ended up using up all the moss I had acquired and apparently shes the only one that sells it? Any advice for getting through the swamp without moss? Guess i just need to kindle some fires and solve my woes with estus overkill.
MomoPufflet
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deim0s said:
Duckroll translated the JP list here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=32336637&postcount=1
Not sure if From released the list in "official" English yet
MomoPufflet
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That's pretty cool-- I missed that in the notes.
PantherAttacks
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koshunter said:
The patch gets rid of YOU DEFEATED and is therefore dead to me.
scosher said:
The Murakumo is one of the better Occult Faith scaling options, though I never found it worth the 12 STR/3 DEX requirements over the Claymore (202 Physical/212 Magic base vs 184/192, if I recall). Sorry I can't really comment much more than that :/ I've always stuck with the Claymore over the Murakumo.
The Grant is another option but ... 50 STR is a lot (34 STR to two-hand). And that's a post-patch sort of thing
Mechanized
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So I killed the Capra Demon for the first time last night, on my second try. The first time I lost I was like, this is impossible, I'm at a dead end, all the other areas are too hard. Then I looked him up on the Dark Souls wiki and it says you can run up the stairs in the back and do a plunging attack on him. So I try it again, and lo and behold, plunging attacks DESTROY this mofo. It's insane how good plunging attacks are. Made it to the Depths on my quest for a Green Titanite, can't wait to make my Halberd Divine.
It was the same way with Demon's Souls. I'd get so far and be like, oh shit this is impossible fuck this I quit. Then I'd look at the wiki and kill a boss so I could inch a bit further, then plow through a bunch of areas with no guidance whatsoever.
Killing the Belfry Gargoyles was a revelation in how useful NPCs are in boss battles. Summoned Solaire after dying to those douchebags like 10 times and killed them in one go.
Compared to Demon's Souls I haven't had to exploit the AI of many enemies to progress, which is good. Flamelurker you could trap on the environment and just pummel with magic nonstop. Old King Allant you could just poison cloud from the stairs with no reaction. I feel those bosses were broken anyways, so I had no qualms about doing it. Another example, enemies couldn't climb steps so in 5-1 Giant Depraved ones were easy to kite to some steps and just annihilate. Skeletons in 4-1 and 4-2 would sometimes just roll off ledges.
The only real AI exploit I did so far was killing Havel by luring him out of the bottom of the watchtower and hitting him when he would leash back to his spawn. I tried the "legit" way but it was too hard, didn't want to rely on luck hoping that I'd dodge every overhead strike successfully. You can kill me in one hit? Well guess what, I can poke you to death while you're helpless the whole time. Just deserts.
Really liking the game so far, I'm half burnt out on it because I went straight from putting 50 hours into Demon's Souls and finishing it, right into playing Dark Souls. But whenever I feel like giving the game a break I look up something, see some cool info, and have to play it for a few hours. lol
This and Demon's Souls are my games of the generation easily, and it's funny to think when I originally bought Demon's Souls I hated it. Someone stated before and I totally agree, these games bring me back to the NES era, where you relied on word of mouth from people to find out some item or area even existed, or how to beat a certain boss. So fun.
It was the same way with Demon's Souls. I'd get so far and be like, oh shit this is impossible fuck this I quit. Then I'd look at the wiki and kill a boss so I could inch a bit further, then plow through a bunch of areas with no guidance whatsoever.
Killing the Belfry Gargoyles was a revelation in how useful NPCs are in boss battles. Summoned Solaire after dying to those douchebags like 10 times and killed them in one go.
Compared to Demon's Souls I haven't had to exploit the AI of many enemies to progress, which is good. Flamelurker you could trap on the environment and just pummel with magic nonstop. Old King Allant you could just poison cloud from the stairs with no reaction. I feel those bosses were broken anyways, so I had no qualms about doing it. Another example, enemies couldn't climb steps so in 5-1 Giant Depraved ones were easy to kite to some steps and just annihilate. Skeletons in 4-1 and 4-2 would sometimes just roll off ledges.
The only real AI exploit I did so far was killing Havel by luring him out of the bottom of the watchtower and hitting him when he would leash back to his spawn. I tried the "legit" way but it was too hard, didn't want to rely on luck hoping that I'd dodge every overhead strike successfully. You can kill me in one hit? Well guess what, I can poke you to death while you're helpless the whole time. Just deserts.
Really liking the game so far, I'm half burnt out on it because I went straight from putting 50 hours into Demon's Souls and finishing it, right into playing Dark Souls. But whenever I feel like giving the game a break I look up something, see some cool info, and have to play it for a few hours. lol
This and Demon's Souls are my games of the generation easily, and it's funny to think when I originally bought Demon's Souls I hated it. Someone stated before and I totally agree, these games bring me back to the NES era, where you relied on word of mouth from people to find out some item or area even existed, or how to beat a certain boss. So fun.
Felix Lighter
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scosher said:
Oh wow. I missed that. That should help. Thanks!
MomoPufflet
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PantherAttacks said:
I can't believe they really did that. Moreover I can't believe people complained enough to make them take the time to do that. Besides, it's personality. I remember absolutely nothing about Mario Sunshine other than SHINE GET in the Japanese version.
I need a compelling strategy for S&O, S first.
50% equip with highest phy def
+3 lightening spear
+10 hollow shield
Socery ring, phy def ring
Fire ball, fire orb, great combustion
Kite S&O, throw fireball at S if possible.
After S dies, stay close and behind O. Always block, combust if possible.
50% equip with highest phy def
+3 lightening spear
+10 hollow shield
Socery ring, phy def ring
Fire ball, fire orb, great combustion
Kite S&O, throw fireball at S if possible.
After S dies, stay close and behind O. Always block, combust if possible.
Summoning Solaire really makes the first part of the fight a lot easier. Otherwise you'll just be circling around the room for 30min trying to find any opportunity to attack Smough. Ya, for Ornstein, just stay between his legs. The biggest risk there is getting out of range of the lightning drop. If you can avoid that, then the fight shouldn't be a problem.elty said:
toastyToast
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elty said:
On top of that, make sure that the both of them are always in view and use the pillars to block their attacks (Smough's in particular). If you wanna take out Ornstein second and since you're a pyro too; I went about it like this.
- Get your positioning right. Make your way around the room cw/a-cw whatever. This ensures that Smough never hits you or close to that.
- Once he fails any of his attacks, throw a fireball/great fireball/fire orb. Use up any of your projectiles.
- Eventually Smough will fall, at this point slap on that Iron Flesh and tank Ornstein and use all your combustions. When you get close all he'll do is his buttsplash and Iron Flesh has no issues handling it
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Learn how to manage them when they're together. As I said, use the pillars. Smough shouldn't be able to touch you.
johntown
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Yeah, I can see that for sure. He could always try sending a message and hope they speak english.scosher said:
When I help people I tend to go for whichever one they are not because when you seperate both bosses it makes the fight easier.
EDIT: Most people can handle one of them on their own.
toastyToast
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elty said:
Iron Flesh is more a hindrance against Smough. You want your mobility against him.
edit: do you guys pronounce it Smoug or Smouff?
Smouff just sounds... off
Thagomizer
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54-46! said:
No
toasty_T said:
S'mo
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prodystopian
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scosher said:
Wow, I forgot about that. That might be enough to get me to change my leg armor. Which will make my dex character have some pretty ridiculous armor...
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