I'll admit I haven't really given many of the weapons a go. I know I have a ton of weapons in my box that I haven't really messed with yet. I've also only ever made it to the first blacksmith. If I understand right as I make it to the others they will sell some much better weapons, right? Also I assume as I get further in the game weapon drops will get better too. So instead of always getting longsword, short sword, and axe drops I might get something a little better, I hope.
I will make more of an effort to test out some more of the weapons that I already own. I'm going to be hanging out in the Berg for a while so that I can grind and level up a bunch before I head out so that sounds like a good opportunity to put some of these weapons to the test. I probably souldn't have leveled up my axe to +5 already and waste all of those titanite pieces, damn. I really should have held off on upgrading until after I had more experience with a greater variety of weapons.
I'm always learning things with this game. That's why I love it so much.
Kill = Souls and
lvl1 is probably too low to get summoned at the gargoyles. Try undead burg, help with with Havel and Taurus.So I started again, this time on the PC and I'm trying to do a SL1 run.
It's a shame no1 summons me for Gargoyles though
IMO, weapon upgrade comes first always. Shield is nice, armour is for when you're flush with souls or upgrade materials.
No, it's just that the feel of RB (right bumper, equivalent of R1) and RT (right trigger, equivalent of R2) feel really off for Souls controls. It's hard to explain, but if you're really used to the DS3 buttons and then you try to play Dark Souls with those buttons I'm sure you'll feel it too.
Rickert, but yeah it's unlikely.
You were probably mistiming your casts too, because the pyro's fireball works really well against Taurus. Does strong damage and you can usually find an opening after dodging one of his attacks.
Some are dupers/glitchers (or outright hackers) and are probably at max level. In my very first playthrough, pre-TWoP nerf patch, I invaded the forest at a really low level (maybe 40-50, my best weapon was like the Lightning spear in Sen's) and managed to kill a guy who gave me about 800k souls. He was SL 700+, I couldn't stop laughing. I felt almost cheap, since those souls were acquired by proxy-cheating (not MY cheating but still), but I eventually decided to spend 'em anyway, spent them on maxing out my pyro glove. xD Made the Iron Golem trivial though, but it's okay, he's easy anyway.
Nah the longsword is a better weapon overall, don't worry about it. If you like the longsword moveset you can keep it for the whole game if you want, so long as you keep upgrading it.
Booo it's your first playthrough you shouldn't know about this.... stop using guides.
Yes, it's very useful. It's always the first thing I spend my souls on when I make a new character.
I'm on PC. What level?
Whips are really fun, I used them a lot in one of my low-level challenge runs. They are not good though, they're kind of a lolweapon. I used a chaos whip (lightning scimitar as backup) and a crossbow and had a blast. The notched whip has bleed but requires a bit more dex and whips don't combo well so it's rare that you'll get the bleed effect, sadly.
Sage Robe from Logan's set is pretty good imo. Good overall resistances for a relatively low weight.
I had a similar experience, i was sunbroing at the gargoyles, had the gravelord sword.
each to their own...the game allows all kinds of approaches so I guess I shouldn't be so bold as to say that its ALWAYS better to have no FAP on....I hate tedium and farming etc. but found I needed to farm a lot of pine resin....the mushroom guys have lotsof health so for example using tearstone and dusk ring for more pyro uses was mandatory for me...I would have worn the beelowing as well had I a third slot. as AC pointed out any area where you need tearstone, and believe me for a guy that cant stand lengthy battles it is basically on all the time, the attack power benefit is better than health/defense. again, the whole idea of these runs is that dodging and quick estus etc. can replace defense...its how are you going to attack better that is the question?
Good work! again dont worry about materials..just upgrade the crap out of that longsword, and any other weapons you like the feel of...if you want to modify them with boss souls later the materials wont be wasted.
Any time I lost souls that I felt I should not have lost, I found a way to cheese farm them back....the garden is a good place to do just that.....you can find a good dex weapon in blightown and although I have made the jump at 60 FPS, it is a hard jump if on PC...its closer to the start of the level but if you tripped the first bonfire dying a couple times to get it wont be an issue. If you joined the cat covenant earlier and talked to shiva outside the door, he will open a shop at the bottom of blight town near the bonfire. He sells good shit but you may have to drop your sign atthe bonfire and help people on the boss there to get enough souls to buy them. the demon spear and washing pole are awesome, or if you want to tank the DEmon great machete is sold there as well. Finally, once you exhaust the sales, killing the guy and his henchman also provide some good wares. The henchman's drop is the only way you can get that item in the game.
That's a great video of the artorias battle done right man....tearstone at the end or not, the dodging and the quick attacks right out of the dodges were textbook! Cool looking character as well... the heavy boots are bad ass...why cant I make the game look that easy?!?!?!?!?This is a excellent point for base-SL playthroughs, especially for the 4K's fight if you're not Havel cheesing it. Going in with Red Tearstone active and the Giant Blacksmith Hammer and just kicking their asses feels great.
Also wish From had made it possible to roll dodge the Soul Missile in the fight, instead of just running left as fast as possible to get close to the king and hoping for the best.
Only boss fight where the Favor ring at base-SL helps is O&S, especially with crazy restrictions like no healing and especially considering what weapon you're using.
Take note of my Artorias kill here at SL1, not a "restrictive run" just a relaxed SL1 run really. But as you can tell, if I hadn't stupidly put on the Favor ring, he would have activated Red Tearstone when he hit me (was intentional but his attack just didn't damage me quite enough
Create a CHAOS one. It scales with humanity and is stronger than fire (iirc).
Stack poise and 2-hand him to death.
IIRC that item is more of a roll than a jump. It's a consumable soul item btw so nothing too interesting.
The toxic blowdart guys don't respawn, so even if they toxic you don't bother using a moss (if you have any) until you've killed it. Even if you die, take him out with you because he isn't coming back! Blighttown is always worth doing the whole of, whichever way you enter because it has a lot of nice loot, especially the top part.
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