Found a new soul farming spot.
Doesn't yield any useful loot, unless you want silver knight drops, but if you just care about raw souls, it's pretty good. Yields 13,600 souls in about 2 minutes on first playthrough.
Requirements:
(1) Kill Gwynevere, Anor Londo needs to be dark.
(2) Test your might: Can you easily drop the two remaining enemies just outside Smough/Ornstein's room? Can you easily drop a silver knight? If yes, you're good to go.
Steps:
(1) Warp to Chamber of the Princess bonfire.
(2) Drop down to Smough/Ornstein's area, exit -- there will be two NPC type characters in the main hall, kill them both for 10k souls.
(3) Go up the stairs (on the left as you exit boss chamber) toward how you originally entered the great hall -- you're headed back to the bonfire after you dropped in the window on your first trip into the castle. Swing the left into the room that had the silver knight armor in a chest guarded by a silver knight (this room is directly across the hall from the small chapel with the titanite demon.
(4) Work your way back to the bonfire as noted in 3, you'll kill 2 silver knights in the room that had the chest and 1 in the hallway (for 900 a piece, so 2700 total.) If you are like me and drop a silver knight in 1 shot of fire orb, head into the room and drop the knight that guards the chest with the 3 sunlight medals for an extra 900.
(5) Rest at the bonfire, warp back to chamber of the princess bonfire.
(6) ????
(7) PROFIT!
Being a powerful pyro, this doesn't take me very long -- I drop off the balcony and heal with estus, then take on the two NPC-types; they drop with less than 6 fire orbs total (depending on my aim and 2-for-1 specials). All the silver knights drop in a single cast of fire orb for me (491 damage).
You have to use the warp back to chamber of princess bonfire -- resting at a bonfire does not respawn the NPC types. Besides, even if it did, taking the side hall through the silver knights for the extra 2700-3600 souls takes about as long as waiting for the elevator if you retraced your steps, so it's a better way regardless.
In theory, if you equipped that silver serpent ring, you could haul in 15240-16320 souls per trip. At this point, 2-3 trips and I can level at SL71... or I can use the cash to buy armor/weapons/upgrade materials... currently debating whether I want to level some of my stuff up quickly before tackling demon ruins.
Next experiment will be the 3rd bonfire in duke's archives for farming blue titanite chunks.
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Akuun said:
So I got the Iaito yesterday, but I'm not sure what the buzz is about. Does this weapon get much better later in the game? Why does everyone talk about this weapon so much?
- Vanilla Iaito. The swing speed on this is between the drake sword and the estoc, but DPS wise it's a bit less than the +5 estoc. I'm not terribly impressed by its damage or its speed right now, though its range and swinging arc is nice. The sword feels slower than it should be, somehow.
The beauty of the iaito lies in the R2 attack. R1 is great for solo combat and getting flying things since it's a vertical type swing... but R2? Great for being surrounded if you can manage it -- hits pretty hard and has a wide arc. Plus it's just badass.
Currently, the iaito is my favorite weapon and I'm regretting having it as "divine+8". :\
Yeah, i guessed that was the case because after i posted my previous post here, i checked some other weapons and eventhough they had some red numbers, i would still be able to use them fine.