The Dark Souls Thread

[The Schwartz]

Christ man

[riley-o]

dude once you upgrade your pyromania you will be a lot stronger. also just having that variety makes everything a lot smoother but i was a melee character until just about halfway through anor londo. when i went back and upgraded my power glove and switched to that being my primary weapon, the game got a lot easier.

[The Schwartz]

I only used pyro when absolutely necessary id imagine most of the game seeming like a cakewalk using the power glove as a primary

[spacehamster]

What's funny is that I made literally the exact same mistake as my first time with Demon's Souls - started as a Hunter because I wanted a bow (which is actually proving less useful in this one), focused almost entirely on melee because the swordplay is the most fun part of the combat, and eventually realized that I made things way harder for myself than they needed to be. At least I've made a point of upgrading Int along with Str and Dex, so all I really need to do is get my attunement up to where I have a decent number of spell slots. Oh well.

Sif next, methinks.

[riley-o]

I only used pyro when absolutely necessary id imagine most of the game seeming like a cakewalk using the power glove as a primary

don't try and diminish my victory man

[The Schwartz]

Hey man we are still the only two that have finished so I don't diminish anything but the Macedonia glove on the first playthrough clearly outpowers pretty much any enemy so I started feeling guilty using it too often

[spacehamster]

I'd just like to point out, in passing, that I got the game like a week after everyone else. Just, you know. For the record.

[The Schwartz]

Yea and you're level 60 still in the
noobins of the game

[copstache]

I only used pyro when absolutely necessary id imagine most of the game seeming like a cakewalk using the power glove as a primary

ehhh, it's not all that great against trash mobs. too slow, too easy to miss. even when i was running around with like 40 combined fireballs it just wasn't worth using it most of the time.

for big, high-hp enemies it's almost mandatory though

[spacehamster]

Yea and you're level 60 still in the
noobins of the game

Not that hard to grind your way up to that if you know about the Darkroot exploit. What concerns me more is that I'm still having a tough time with a bunch of things, meaning my build sux, and it's really too late to start over. Oh well. Like I said, I ran into the same thing with Demon's Souls and eventually beat the game five ways from Sunday.

[riley-o]

hamper i think schwartzkrieg was simply saying that even adjusting for inflation you're still not done the game yet

[The Schwartz]

I'm going strictly dex and intelligence from here on out

After summoning enough people its clear there is a lot of insane magic in the game and I haven't touched any of it yet

So ill probably go with washing pole +10 for speed slicing and try to trick out some wizardry

[spacehamster]

hamper i think schwartzkrieg was simply saying that even adjusting for inflation you're still not done the game yet

Don't make me bring up my Demon's Souls platinum. Haw haw.

What I'm really wondering about is whether doing Blighttown backwards has made things harder than they needed to be. One big reason why I'm not much of a magic user atm is because I just haven't really unlocked any of the good spells yet.

[spacehamster]

Great Chaos Fireball acquired. What an awesome spell this is. Now I'll take out Sif, then level up my attunement so I can take Cast Light with me as well and finally go to the Depths. Yep.

[guardianoftheblind]

haven't been playing this as much lately because of Forza, but i'm having a doozy of a time at Sens Fortress

[spacehamster]

I think Sif has been my favorite bossfight so far. Finally a big one where the strategy isn't "run up close, hold up shield, circle around back, spam." And it's pretty cool how he sort of starts limping towards the end.

[fallbacktostone]

that shit made me sad when he started limping

[copstache]

Yeah me too. He's probably my favorite boss too

[spacehamster]

So, today's casualty list: Sif, Gaping Dragon, Iron Golem and... Solaire.

Apparently I missed a ton of shit in Sen's Fortress though, I guess I'll have to go back. Don't really want to, though. Ergh. This was a classic case of "die a million times until you've memorized every square inch of the fucking place." Iron Golem was pretty tough too, but somehow I eventually...

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

...got him to fall off the bridge. Apparently you can stagger him if you hit him enough times quickly standing between his feet. I'd died like ten times at this point, so imagine the look on my face when he suddenly fell off the same fucking tower I'd fallen off every time.

Also, add

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

walking down the stairs to Anor Londo for the first time

to my list of all-time favorite gaming moments.

This game is fucking amazing, seriously. I was ready to nit-pick the hell out of it because I love Demon's Souls so much, but it's just too damn good.

[riley-o]

This game is fucking amazing, seriously. I was ready to nit-pick the hell out of it but it's just too damn good.

i've put it back on the shelf for the time being so i don't overkill it, but it's been purely an act of love so i can come back to it and play it again down the road. most games i'll platinum as quick as possible (if i'm going to bother platinuming them) but this one deserves better than that

[spacehamster]

I'll probably have to platinum it just to kinda-sorta cure myself of the addiction, same as with Demon's Souls.

By the way, who was it that said you need Cast Light for the Depths? WTH? Totally not necessary. Of course I also had a bit too easy of a time because I'm totally overpowered. Well, until the Gaping Dragon chewed me up in his giant tooth-gina, that is.

[riley-o]

i didn't say you HAD to cast light, i said it was a nightmare without it

[spacehamster]

i didn't say you HAD to cast light, i said it was a nightmare without it

Seriously, your brightness setting must be off or something. I set mine according to the instructions at the beginning, and I can see fine in the Depths. And they did have areas that were intentionally too dark so that you couldn't navigate them in Demon's Souls (the swamp in Latria 2), so that's what I expected. I dunno. Weird.

[riley-o]

oh der dude you misread or misremember, we were talking about in the tombs after you kill pinwheel

[Friendly Goatus]

I upgraded my pyromancy flame to +15, forgetting that I only need it to be +10 to ascend it through Quelaags sister

Oh well, at least I have one more reason to focus on another early level character that I'm making into a pure all-around magic/pyro user, plus a few miracles using that talisman that scales using intelligence instead of faith.