Wow Blightown runs like s.h.i.t. on PS3 goddamn. Is it the whole way or just during the initial upper levels?
Beat the Gaping Dragon with little to no trouble, again the Lightning Miracle doing nearly 400 damage 10 times almost killed him, then hacked away at him ass with my +5 Divine Claymore.
But advice wise... I've been doing a Faith heavy build, relying heavily on the lightning miracle, pyromancy and my +5 Divine Claymore/Katana but I also have a +10 Halbred, which I really like as well. Is this a good course to be following? I know they will scale with my faith as it levels but I haven't put anything in Dex/Str since I got them to the levels I need (14/16), only in Endurance, Vitality and Faith.
It runs like that the whole way through Blighttown. Try getting invaded whilst having two summoned phantoms, put on some old timey chase music for the full effect!
If you're going faith build and like it, just keep going, your faith weapons and miracles will scale damage dealt with your faith level and you get access to some fun, tasty miracles down the road. - One you can get now with no effort is offer 10 Sunlight medals at the Sunlight altar and get a stronger lightning spear, requires 30 faith to use.
ok guys I'm stuck in blight town. It's not that it's hard, it's just that I can't make it all the way through without getting toxic condition and then I just eventually run out of health and flasks.
Any helpful hints? what am I missing?
You can farm purple blooming moss clumps to cure toxic from the tree enemies in Darkroot Forest, or buy them from the female merchant. It's always a good idea to stock up on a few and the regular puple moss (for poison) before heading down to Blighttown (not that you would know that on a first run, just saying!)
The Spider Shield blocks those toxic darts if you have it (there's a couple lootable in the game - one in the Depths - and Bandits start with it). If you get toxic, the best thing to do is don't panic and just make it a priority to kill the fucker that got you even if you die, they don't respawn. And as Sajjaja and mannerbot said - the ogre enemies drop dung pies, you can throw these to toxic enemies which also infects yourself, but the strain of toxic from these is much slower and milder than the toxic dart dudes. Honestly it's easier to use a purple blooming moss!