http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynX3nOHDhCA
He uses sorcery at the very end. It also seems to be capped at 45 dex.
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He uses sorcery at the very end. It also seems to be capped at 45 dex.
Beaten above........
KennyLinder
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Just hit 22 DEX so tried out the Silver Knight Str. Sword, it seems really decent. Nowhere near the damage of my Lightning Claymore+4 (well duh), but it's really quick and has a nice combo. Might upgrade one into another type of weapon. Anyone else like them?
Upgrade some weapons, upgrade pyro glove, buy spells. Plenty to spend souls on besides leveling up. It is cool to go from feeling just CRUSHED that you lost 4k souls when you're early in the game.. to walking around with 100k with a new character like its nothing and barely caring if you lose it.
What level are you? I do a lot of PvP now, wouldn't mind playing against someone on GAF.
I did not want to level up to fast as well and whenver I got a shitload of souls on hand I would head over to the undead merchant in the sewers and stock up on shit. I ened up with:
99 Charcoal Pine Resin
99 homeward bones
999 arrows
most of the moss clumps as well (not the toxin one though)
A number of pruging stones
99 Prism Stones
just stay in close, go behind them to avoid hug, two hand weapon with grass crest shield (or alternative for stamina regen on back)...I've never required iron flesh for first game...once the formula of "attack" at all costs was instituted they go down like flies. One estus per king is enough when you two hand and don't stop mashing R1 until each is dead. With lightning spear +2 they usually take about 5-6 hits each......done in 90 sec. wear lots of magic resist armour like gold hemmed or antiquated skirt....ornsteins or havles peices are better if you have them.
buy lots of arrows and upgraded stones....if you really to want to be santa, drop them in multiplayer.
If you put your Active Humanity to 30 you will have 150 curse resist along with the item discovery and Chaos weapon buff values. Curse resist buff from humanity caps at 30 though, so I just run around with 30 in my counter and 99 in my inventory, when I get too much in my counter, I just donate it to the Chaos Witch.
99 nites tsu
Being human doesn't help item drop rate (at least it didn't pre-patch not sure if they changed it post) but here is what does:
1.)humanity in your meter top left, having one there is huge, diminishing returns for extra humanity after that.
2.)covetous serpent ring from sens fortress
3.) the weird mimic chest head (although you will lose health while wearing)
haven't checked to see if the mimic thing can get you over 410, but generally 410 is the highest you can do .......4 times better than 110, which is wah tmost have when trying black knights early on. I save them until I get the ring as there is not much point in having the equip early anyway if you are limiting your levellling (recommeded to fight griefers who do this ......fight fire with fire.)
I go through to sens, sometimes anor londo, no higher than level 30...always get lightning spear and gold hemmed set as early as possible however while onoly killing the two necessary bosses to get them. The rings from sens are a nice bonus for places like blighttown (slumbering dragoncrest allows you to backstab the zombies if you go backwards.)
Wanted to pimp a video made by my friend for Dark Souls, it's his first so excuse the quality. This is his Maneater Mildred Level 25 character that he invades with in Blighttown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFx_8V-uOoU&context=C378ab94ADOEgsToPDskIXESlSNO7olZbmTOvSUYgC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFx_8V-uOoU&context=C378ab94ADOEgsToPDskIXESlSNO7olZbmTOvSUYgC
1.5 Million souls.. that's a rich bich.
haha yea, he has no use for them so they just add up.
no offense meant to your friend but its not really hard to own most lowbies who aren't designed strictly from PVP from the beginning, especially when you're using a lightning butcher blade
I'm sure it evens out when he runs into twinked sunbros. It's still infinitely more creative than the typical mask of mother, giants armor, and lightning shotel builds.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Not sure what you're pimping. He's not pvping, he's griefing.
lol, never said he was PvPing, he knows what he is doing, at least it's something interesting. As long as you are creative with your griefing in Dark Souls, it can be very entertaining, it fits the tone of the game as well too.
So I killed Ingward after backtracking to New Londo Ruins from Anor Londo so I could get to the
despite not having the Lord Vessel. The drakes in the Valley of the Drakes take a good chunk of my health by the time I make it inside; I hate them so much and I have the Ring of Fog ring equipped too. I still haven't fought the boss yet. Oh and I also got the Rite of Kindling after fighting Pinwheel (who was ridiculously easy without needing to summon Leeroy; he just served as a good diversion) plus I met
Plus I got the Strange Doll and finally managed to defeat
after several tries. Next stop after New Londo, a detour into the Great Hollow and Ash Lake before heading back to Anor Londo.
I need to turn human more often and do some more PVP. It's pretty fun. After seeing you folks getting rich off doing this, I'm ready to throw in the towel from grinding in the Forest Covenant area (which I haven't done in a while).
Four Kings
the Gravelord. I spoiled myself for Tomb of Giants since I know he's the boss. Shouldn't I just go back to his place and kill him just to get it over with or do I need to go through that place any way? If so, I'm not going back in there until I've dealt with Ornstein and Smough.
Stray Demon
I need to turn human more often and do some more PVP. It's pretty fun. After seeing you folks getting rich off doing this, I'm ready to throw in the towel from grinding in the Forest Covenant area (which I haven't done in a while).
KoreanBarbecue
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Unfortunately you've gotta trek through the Tomb of the Giants to take out Nito. I know, ti would awesome if you could just take him out from where you join his covenant.
Also, are you going through the Valley of the Drakes via the Darkroot Basin path? If I remember correctly those are the Drakes on and around the bridge, right? You can run right past those without having to fight them.
You know you don't have to go through the valley of the drakes to get to inward right? Its easier to run by the ghosts in New Londo, and even easier still to return that way once you drain the water.
Or the mask of the father, two hand BKGA, grass crest shield on the back builds. When I'm looking to summon people for help I don't even take those sorts anymore. They've got to have something fairly unique. People always like to criticize COD players for all doing the same thing, but there are so many carbon copy builds at the Kiln in this game I might as well be getting invaded by the same person over and over sometimes.
KennyLinder
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The image that shows when selecting the Dark Souls disc on the XMB, does anyone have the JPG or whatever of that? It's a wicked pic 
Hmm, there are ALOT of vids out there, here is a good one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWPd79TxJL4
and a great Demon's Souls one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtD0UR3NT8
KennyLinder
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That is AWESOME! I can't wait for my character to be that powerful, wowzers!! The magic too, shiiiit! I haven't gone down the magic route at all, might have to as it looks fucking amazing!!
Invading with a lightning weapon in your underpants is about as far from creative as you can get in terms of Dark Souls invasions. It's pretty much the reference implementation of the boring invader build. It'd make for vastly more entertaining invasions if he was running an actual Maneater Mildred build, without the maxed-out equipment. Blighttown's a hostile place; using the fatal drops, the poison swamp, and the enemies it'd still be possible to pull off a win without relying on the stunlocking/backstabbing non-scaling weapon and partial nudity invasion recipe.
I'll tell him to not use a Sack that is upgraded to +10. Shit's OP fully upgraded.
An upgraded Sack? As if the Lightning Cleaver weren't bad enough.
Kids these days ain't got no respect for accuracy in costuming. I reckon ol' Mildred's rollin' in her swamp-grave.
Haha rots of raffs. yeah. You can (usually) tell alot about an invader/victim by what they are wearing. I.e. something like fat boy Snough armor with Gold Hemmed hood, tells you the person is crafty..
Ahh, just finished!!! Shade over 50 hours.
It wasn't all too long ago where I lost my 35 hour save and felt like balls and almost put the game away. Now I'm listening to some sweet ass end game music. Gonna mess around some in NG+ but I'm gonna save the full 2nd playthrough for sometime next year. I can already tell I don't really want to wait though this game is straight crack.
/True story...I died like 8 times in a row to Gwyn, getting him down to a sliver of health time and time again and barely losing. Then I was like err, I should put on my sorcery boosting ring. Absolutely annihilated him FTW.
LOVE YOU DARK SOULS ;-)
It wasn't all too long ago where I lost my 35 hour save and felt like balls and almost put the game away. Now I'm listening to some sweet ass end game music. Gonna mess around some in NG+ but I'm gonna save the full 2nd playthrough for sometime next year. I can already tell I don't really want to wait though this game is straight crack.
/True story...I died like 8 times in a row to Gwyn, getting him down to a sliver of health time and time again and barely losing. Then I was like err, I should put on my sorcery boosting ring. Absolutely annihilated him FTW.
LOVE YOU DARK SOULS ;-)
It really is soul crushing to get into a multideath/soul recovery cycle, trying to fight off a bunch of drakes, and then forget the damn elevator is still at the bottom. I haven't been back since.
I did get a free demon spear from someone who PVP'd me. I finally beat him after a 2nd rematch and he invaded me again and dropped some loot. Pretty cool dude.
This video has some pretty hilarious and very creative Blighttown invasions. A Dragonbow archer build seems like fun but man that would be a pain in the ass to use for anything besides PVP invasions.
This PVP vid is probably the funniest one I've seen for all the wrong reasons. Still a lot of dudes like this in the forest camping around at SL 100+ with a buddy. They always indict you as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Feb9gH55Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Feb9gH55Y
catashtrophe
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I thought both Pin Wheel and Nito were too easy and let downs, Especially when I first saw Nito in the intro I thought he was gonna be an incredible boss but he was slow and fairly easy and beat him on my 1st attempt i think.
The Skeleton dogs were a problem though, they killed me a number of times
I just remembered from last night that I never ran into Solaire again.
I talked to him at the bonfire after the Centipede Demon fight. Heading towards the Bed of Chaos fight I
Obviously I missed something. I didn't take the shortcut.
I talked to him at the bonfire after the Centipede Demon fight. Heading towards the Bed of Chaos fight I
killed Quelana of Izalith, but never saw Solaire. Looking at the guide it said that was the area he was supposed to attack at
Obviously I missed something. I didn't take the shortcut.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I got one of those back a few weeks ago at the dead end in Sen's where that balder is right before the cage shortcut up top.
Shit looked weird.
yeah you need to take the shortcut I think to get Soliare for gwynn. THink you can get the helm and kill the bug that drops the helm first (before centipede) but not before firesage, nor placingthe lordvessel. The inside door to the shortcut was locked for me prior to centipede one time though IIRC so not 100% sure. Gauranteed if you get the helm at your earliest convenience and DO NOT go backwards form izalith into the shortcut, you will get solaire if you see him after centipede....not sure if you have to hire him for centipede but I have every time and it did work so take it for what its worth.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Anyone want to help me take out the Four Kings?
There just isnt anyone with soul summon signs around.
And I'm tired of the area and want to move on. I'm SL 58.
Gonna try again in 15.
edit: also what's the quickest way to the fog door? I've been running from Firelink through Valley of Drakes. But it's a ton of running, and lots of enemies along the way make it annoying.
There just isnt anyone with soul summon signs around.
And I'm tired of the area and want to move on. I'm SL 58.
Gonna try again in 15.
edit: also what's the quickest way to the fog door? I've been running from Firelink through Valley of Drakes. But it's a ton of running, and lots of enemies along the way make it annoying.
Go down with the elevator from firelink, run past the first two ghosts and go to the right by the first stairs, try jumping off. 360 or PS3?
It's definitely easier to go from firelink right to New Londo ruins. Run past the first ghosts, and head to the right around the staircase. You can drop down on a ledge there and then onto the ground. Then you're pretty close to the fog door, and it's possible (and not too difficult) to run past all of the enemies to get there quicker.
I'm not even quite sure how to get to the valley of drakes from firelink.. don't you have to briefly stop in New Londo Ruins to do this anyway?
NEOPARADIGM
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Solaire is clearly out of his mind.
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