Universaldamps
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Just lost 19 humanity. Le sigh :-(
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electroshockwave
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Are you farming in the Depths or the Great Hollow. Drops were pretty slow for me even with the gold serpent's ring on but I at least got them more frequently than every 50 kills. And I think there might be something where the frogs don't drop them if you have 10 in your inventory.Zzoram said:
Ok it is obvious to me that the INT does NOT help pyromancy....but my own early tests like when I first got the glove, didn't improve the pyromancy damage when I used the dragon crest ring. Most on here syaing it helps? ANyone that beleives the dragoncrest does not help at all becuase it did not appear to help me at all, where it helped a tonne for the soul arrows.
Universaldamps
Neo Member
Yoshichan said:
It would have been more like that if I hadn't discovered the awesome farming spot in Tomb of the Giants. You can rack them up pretty quickly there
toastyToast
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Got my first level up with my Pyro. Where should I be putting my points for now and going forward?
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Ohh... the babies?Universaldamps said:It would have been more like that if I hadn't discovered the awesome farming spot in Tomb of the Giants. You can rack them up pretty quickly there
Universaldamps
Neo Member
Yoshichan said:
Yeah.. I was there for maybe 20 odd minutes with the Serpent ring on and racked up about 15 or so Humanities. Pretty rad!
corrosivefrost
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Dresden said:
I can test this later on when I boot up and go back to duke's archives for large magic ember.
Question:
If I start a weapon upgrade, so long as it's past the acension stage, I don't really need to worry about finding the embers in NG+, right?
That is, if I have a chaos straight sword, or a magic falchion +6, I won't need their respective embers in NG+ to finish the weapon upgrade trees, right?
My test was done at a low level, like 15 maybe, definitely with dragon crest for magic power boost as I just got the other one at level 50.Dresden said:
1.) sit at fire at Firelink - no ring, kill first hollow up the path to Burg. Shoot pyro - 200 or so damage. dead in one shot.
2.) go back try again, same damage this time with ring.
3,) same for magic
The difference was 50 points...like 130 vs. 180 with magic, no diff for pyro...hadn't upgraded glove yet. NOt sure what to think?
NervousXtian said:
Yeah, there definitely was a quality drop in the level design in the later levels but I wouldn't consider them to be garbage, or annoying really. (Lost Izalith could be close to that, but I didn't think it was that bad). There was some exploration to be had in Tomb of the Giants, and you could see
Ash Lake trees
corrosivefrost
Member
Yoshichan said:
The Piscasa at the bottom of the jail in Duke's Archives are also (B) drop rate for humanity -- I get 2-3 on most trips down the stairs. It's not as fast as the tiny skeletons in TotG, but it works well enough and has a better soul yield since they're 300 or 600 per kill and die in one normal pyro fireball.
Guevara said:
Why would they patch it? It's not a glitch... :\
I really do hope the stat rebalance is pretty huge in the upcoming patch. I'm looking through the book of the guilty and most of these guys are rolling with minimal damage scaling stats. Lightning weapons make them pretty much useless and even with the lowest faith/int available at character creation you can get an extra 100 damage just for using a magic weapon. This is not right.
ConcealedBlaze
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So if I somehow "betrayed" the Forest Hunter Covenant (some dumbass walked off a cliff I think), is there any negative impact on my game aside from simply no longer being in the covenant? I don't want to have to pay such a huge amount to get absolved...
brandonh83
Banned
I put this down to play Arkham City but while playing that I just want to come back to this.
Ghost_Protocol
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fuck the crystal caves.
"Only in the leap from the lions head....WILL HE PROVE HIS WORTH!"
"Only in the leap from the lions head....WILL HE PROVE HIS WORTH!"
Varna said:
Yup. My first character was going for all out Dex. And then I made a lightning weapon and all those points into dex became absolutely useless. Unless I take out my bow and use that. Which is like once in a blue moon.
I was comparing my Black Bow of Pharis +14 and my Longbow +14 last night. Black Bow has S for dex scaling, but starts off a few base damage points less than the longbow which is A for dex. The longbow beats it still.
corrosivefrost
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ConcealedBlaze said:
You won't be able to buy from Shiva or kill him and his bodyguard to get their drops.
You won't be able to get a ring of fog unless you trade the right item to snuggly the crow.
That's it, at least off the top of my head.
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Initial acclimation to Tomb of Giants and Crystal Caves both sucks. The only really horrible thing about Crystal Caves is getting the blue slab... fuck me, that was making me rage. That and Seath's tail. Luckily next time, I only need to worry about the slab.
Maybe it's a good thing for me it's not out until next month on PC.brandonh83 said:
On the other hand, coming just in time for me to either be finished or burned out on a game that's been out two weeks > sandwiched between Skyrim and Zelda. It'd be worse too if anything else out there was something I wanted right away rather than either ignoring or willing to wait awhile on.
Guevara said:
http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Upgrades
All Blacksmiths give the option to downgrade back to Normal +5 or , if from an elemental state, back to it's Normal state.
Weaponsmith & Armorsmith boxes: Normal upgrades available at your bonfire. ( Purchase from Andrei)
Note: After your weapon reaches +5/10, select MODIFY EQUIPMENT to proceed to +6/11 or Special +1/5. The weapon will then return to the normal list
Blacksmith Andrei Special: Raw Weapons to +15; Divine Weapons to +10; Occult Weapons to +5
Blacksmith Rickert of Vinheim Special: Magic Weapons to +10; Enchanted Weapons to +5;
Giant Blacksmith Special: Lightning Weapons to +5, Crystal Weapons to +5, Uses Boss souls to create Unique Weapons.
Blacksmith Vamos Special: Fire Weapons to +10; Chaos Weapons to +5
Titanite Shard
Reinforce standard weapons to +5
Merchant: Blacksmith Andrei (800 souls)
Drops from: Undead Soldiers (spear), Undead Soldiers (bow),
and Red Cape Undead Knights (spears/swords)
Large Titanite Shard
Reinforce standard weapons to +10, Raw weapons to +5
Merchants: Crestfallen Merchant Sen's Fortress (4000 souls)
Drop: Slime (The Depths) & Undead Knights of Sen's Fortress rooftops, Steel Knight of Sen's Fortress rooftop, Swamp Larve/Leech at Blighttown
Titanite Chunk
Reinforce standard weapons to +14, Crystal and Lightning weapons to +4
Drop: Crystal Lizard, Black Knight, Dark Wraith soldiers, Sen's Fortress Giant (Bomber and the one through secret door), the furnace of the first day of the Black Knight
Trade: Snuggly with Rubbish
Titanite Slab
Reinforce standard weapons to +15, Crystal and Lightning weapons to +5
Drop: Crystal Lizard, Stray Demon (Northern Undead Asylum on return), Rare Drop Darkwraiths (New Londo Ruins)
Green Titanite Shard
Reinforce Magic, Divine and Fire weapons to +5
Merchants: Crestfallen Merchant Sen's Fortress (5000 souls)
Drop: Slime at The Depths, Swamp Larvae/Leech at Blighttown (5 per kill)
Blue Titanite Chunk
Reinforce Magic weapons to +9, Enchanted weapons to +4
Drop: Crystal Golem, the first furnace of fire Black Knight
Trade: Snuggly with Dried Finger
Blue Titanite Slab
Reinforce Magic weapons to +10, Enchanted weapons to +5
Crystal Cave: Take long invisible path near Crystal Lizard
Red Titanite Chunk
Reinforce Fire weapons to +9, Chaos weapons to +4
Drop: Chaos Izarisu lungs and multi-head turtle, the first furnace of fire Black Knight
Trade: Snuggly with Pyromancy Flame
Red Titanite Slab
Reinforce Fire weapons to +10, Chaos weapons to +5
Izarisu: In chest of sewer area near Den of Chaos
White Titanite Chunk
Reinforce Divine weapons to +9, Occult weapons to +4
Rare drop from Bone Towers. (Tomb of Giants)
Trade a Sunlight Medal with Snuggly.
White Titanite Slab
Reinforce Divine weapons to +10, Occult weapons to +5
Tomb of Giants, looted from a corpse in the skeleton baby area.
Drop: Necromancers in the skeleton baby area drop them rarely.
Twinkling Titanite
Reinforces weapons that cannot normally be reinforced
Drop: Crystal Lizard, Giant Clams
Trade: Snuggly with Purple Moss Clump, Crimson Moss Ball, Blooming Purple Moss Clump
Demon Titanite
Reinforce weapons made with souls to +5
Trade: Snuggly with Prism Stone or Dung Pie, 100% drop from Titanite Demon
can also be farmed from the Titanite Demon in Lost Iizalith
Dragon Scale
Reinforce Dragon weapons
Blighttown bonfire near the treasure chest, etc. Various places in Ash Lake.
Trade: Snuggly with Egg Vermifuge
Large Ember
Located in the Depths, continue down the path until you reach the kitchen.
There you will find the chest which is located along the back wall behind the table.
Divine Ember
After defeating the moonlight butterfly, continue across the bridge and up to the top of the tower. A dead blacksmith is clutching it.
Chaos Flame Ember
After killing Ceaseless Discharge and all the Taurus demons after the lava flows away, you can walk all the way back to where Ceaseless Discharge was standing and roll through the lava to grab the Ember on a corpse.
Enchanted Ember
used to modify or reinforce magic weapons
Located at the heard of the darkwood garden second area where there are mushrooms. It is stored inside a treasure chest guarded by big mushrooms in shallow water. If you attack a small mushroom it will lead you to the big mushrooms.
Very Large Ember
used to modify and reinforce +15 weapons
New Londo Ruins: After lowering the water level, go up the staircase found in a corner of the room with the big slime enemy closest to Valley of Drakes. Ember is on the third floor.
Dark Ember
Ascends +5 divine weapons to occult weapons
This item is found on a stone statue in the painted world of Aremias.
Crystal Ember
Ascends +10 Standard Weapons to Crystal Weapons
Behind bookshelf in Archives in room with stairs leading down to Crystal Caves
Large Magic Ember
Ascends Magic Weapons to +10
After defeating Seath the Scaleless, return to the area where you first comfronted it and open the chest.
Large Divine Ember
Ascends Divine Weapons to +10
Obtained from a dead blacksmith who is among several giant skeletons in Tomb of the Giants.
Large Fire Ember
Ascends Fire Weapons to +10
In the Demon Ruins, after descending the great stairs, taking the left path before walking up to the fog-gate will ultimately lead to the Ember.
abstract alien
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^^^^^^^
Thanks
Thanks
Why did you have so many stacked up? Does a higher number actually help?Universaldamps said:
Holy shit. Had no idea the crystal ring shield was -that- powerful. Wish I had it before tomb of the giants - place would've been a breeze (can more or less 1-shot all of the most troublesome enemies).
I'm kind of considering going back there to farm souls. How easy is it to avoid getting
with all of the
running around (
).
Do I care to buy all of
spells before fighting seath? I'm not going to be able to cast with any sort of proficiency until at least ng+, if even then. I've already bought the basics, but I don't feel like collecting 150,000 souls to finish buying everything when the forest is becoming boring to farm, the pvp is so broken, and I'm overleveled for most areas to be summoned.
(probably going overboard with the spoilers?).
I'm kind of considering going back there to farm souls. How easy is it to avoid getting
cursed
skeleton babies
assuming cursebite ring, decent armor
Do I care to buy all of
logan's
(probably going overboard with the spoilers?).
abstract alien said:
Well, if you're using a chaos weapon then you need at least 10 at all times to get the maximum amount of damage (cause otherwise it sucks at 0 humanity).
Other than that, if you don't die for a while, or are helping people beat bosses and stuff - humanity just tends to pile up.
abstract alien
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Just what I needed to know. Thanks.1stStrike said:
Augemitbutter
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maomaoIYP said:
i did. took me 30-45 min. i killed two each run.
brandonh83
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Kyoufu said:
Well I think it could be because I'm truthfully not enjoying Arkham City at all =\
Sorry, definitely not attempting to go off topic. Just finding it amusing that I was at one point trying to get through Dark Souls as fast as I could because of the upcoming releases, but I'm finding that I'm just wanting to go back to DS despite the new stuff hitting.
corrosivefrost
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JRPereira said:
#1 It's not hard. Wear the crimson robes and you'll be fine. I made a post about how to farm the hell out of that area.
#2 Yes, you care. If you want all the spells, at least, you need to buy all the spells before fighting seath, I think. But if you do #1, you can amass 100,000 souls in less than 30 minutes (and like 30 humanity).
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To anwer the question higher up: Carrying humanity on you (up to 30) improves your drop rate.
brandonh83
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Zzoram said:
Again not trying to go off topic but since you asked and I don't want to ignore you-- in one post-- it's like AA, but the more open world makes it feel like I'm playing an Assassin's Creed game instead, and all the missions feel like chores to me and the environments are very sloppy and confusing.
That's not to say the game SUCKS and there have been moments of brilliance, it just hasn't quite blown me away just yet... I'm over halfway through it too.
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