ihearthawthats
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damn, i'm so annoyed right now. i made a chara specifically for a leo ring build, i just beat ornstein and wasn't paying attention and forgot to pick up the ring. there goes 10hrs for nothing.
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Dark Souls |OT4| Victory achieved for Scamco, text defeated
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The slime in front of the bonfire in the Depths for shards, and the rats in the Depths for humanity.
But don't the slimes only give green shards? Also, they take FOREVER to kill.
If you have the DLC, the humanity phantoms in the Chasm of the Abyss drop humanity at a ridiculous rate. I got the impression they drop more when I was hollow, but I could be wrong.
Before Blighttown.
Not sure if your guide tells you this, but Blighttown has the best mid tier upgrade farm spot in the game. Enemies drop tons of Green Shards and Large Shards, you can then break down Green Shards to get huge amounts of regular Titanite Shards later on. Try to get whatever weapon you are using to +6-10, then just make your way through Blighttown. Also, use Fire on the Slimes in the Depths, Pyromancy or Firebombs work very well.
Yeah, but Blighttown scares me.
Deified Data
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Great place for co-op, FYI.
Bring lots of moss.
Ring of Fog works wonders if you take the time to get it.
Forest Hunters reward or trade Skull Lantern with Snuggly.
Expect little opportunities for co-op.
Yeah, but Blighttown scares me.
Embrace the fear, and plunge through it, you'll come out stronger and smarter on the other side.
Or you'll just die a lot and rage quit.
Plunging through something never works out in Dark Souls.
Morrigan Stark
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What the hell, why are you playing with a guide and ruining everything for yourself?
Meh, what you actually do need to do before getting to Blighttown is at least stocking up on some moss. Especially the blooming kind. You can flask away the normal poison, but if you get toxic'ed and have no blooming moss, you're SOL. You can find some there, but make sure you have about 3 or so before getting there just to be safe.
One Combustion and they're toast. Or, if you don't want that, one firebomb + one hit of your weapon. -_- Maybe, if you experimented and tried stuff instead of just blindly following a guide you'd get better at the game and enjoy it more? :|
Wolfe
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, it's the first character I made and I spent a real long time going through the game my first time (really enjoyed exploring and checking everything out). I recently started playing him again in in NG+ and I'm up to blighttown now.The_Hitcher89
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Just spent a couple of hours trading stuff with Snuggly, getting/upgrading the Silver Knight Spear and upgrading the Black Bow of Pharis. Ready to start the end-stretch later on
Isn't the limit lower?
I had to switch to the Japanese version to be able to create new characters because it was telling me I hit the limit.
Limit is 10 per memory device. I have recently upped my limit from 30 to 40 on 360.
Arjen
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Get some mosses to cure toxic and posion
Morrigan Stark
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Fair enough, I just don't see how anyone can enjoy playing a game, especially a game like this one, with something telling him/her what to do instead of discovering by oneself. To each his own I guess.
Deified Data
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I don't need to be lectured on the use of a guide.
I'm really enjoying the game either way, and that's all that matters.
Indeed, don't let it bother you. It's all good-natured concern I assure you. At least I'm 90% sure. =)
I went into the game mostly blind but I still used the wiki to learn about farming spots, upgrades, and equipment locations - I feel I had a more interesting DS experience because of that. Some would disagree - vehemently - but we'd just have to agree to disagree. I wouldn't get any pleasure out of accidentally killing Laurentius, for example, or hunting all over Lordran for Siegmeyer's next story location only to have it be in an area you'd have already cleared and had no reason to return to. Finding the bonfire in Sen's Fortress would have been more of a chore than an adventure without a guide.
Different people enjoy the game differently, I think we all understand that.
We're just all jealous that you get to have a first playthrough of Dark Souls, but you are using a guide for it. Play how you want and enjoy it, but it's mainly out of jealousy, we want you to have the best first playthrough possible, because you only get one of them.
Do what you want though, I won't give you any more shit for it, and I'll keep giving advice if you ask for it.
Do what you want though, I won't give you any more shit for it, and I'll keep giving advice if you ask for it.
It's okay man.
Also, every cool greatsword I want to use needs 18 dex.
Just one more thing to grind, lol.It's okay man.
Also, every cool greatsword I want to use needs 18 dex.
Claymore, Greatsword, Zweihander only need 10 dex. I guess you're talking about black knight weapons?
Black Knight Sword, Greatsword of Artorias (both versions), etc.
Either Greatsword of artorias are not worth the stat investment. They will be very underwhelming
What's wrong with them?
Deified Data
Banned
Nothing - use whatever weapon you want. Game gets really boring when you try to min/max everything.
ihearthawthats
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they require you to spread out your points, rather than focusing on a couple. it can work at high levels when you have extra points to spare.
claymore and zweihander are both great low and high level swords, but especially at low levels.
It requires investment in STR,DEX,INT,and FAI to use. The vast majority of weapons in the game do not require investments in 4 different stats. The requirements are pretty high too, and with base requirements it's pretty good but underwhelming compared to other options that don't have such requirements. The move set is also not great. Normally you want to focus on a few stats to upgrade, not all of them. It's not worth increasing FAI to 20 just to use the GSOA if you don't have any other purpose for FAI, for example
Deified Data
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You could use that claymore forever if you wanted to.
It's pretty sweet. It catches enemies that try to dogde, and it even has a thrust for tight quarters.
Wolfe
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Pretty good, just toss a sign down at the bonfire.
Actually tossed down my sign near the fog door. Got summoned twice. Got the first guy the Dragon King Greataxe before he died (he hadn't killed the caster LMFAO) and beat him with the second guy.
Master Key
Alright, sounds good. (Don't worry I'm not a thief.)
Nah, Master Key makes the game a whole lot easier. You can open doors immediately that would otherwise require some work, even up to opening Blighttown without beating the Depths boss.
I'm not playing with a guide...but I have had to spend several hours reading through the Wiki and googling various things. Even started a thread here on GAF.
I like discovering things and all, so I try not to look up areas I haven't completed (unless I'm truly lost), but christ the game doesn't explain anything to you! I don't get how you could figure out any of the gameplay systems / subsystems let alone their intricacies without some help.
I love the sense of discovery and all, but that doesn't really apply to a game being cryptic and poorly explained just because.
Morrigan Stark
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You need the Large Ember to ascend to +6 til +10. It's in
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Some parts of the game are obscure but that isn't what he's doing, Piano. Anyway, I said I'd stop pressing the issue, so I will.
the Depths
Some parts of the game are obscure but that isn't what he's doing, Piano. Anyway, I said I'd stop pressing the issue, so I will.
But I already gave it to him!
Morrigan Stark
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There's a tab with different ascensions at the top of the forging screen.
+6 is achieved in the Modify weapon menu.
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