Fighter has cleared the way to law firm (via the cathedral, at the solaire bonfire). 15 vit, and I'm ready to do 2 more levelups (to 50 SL; 40 end and 24 str right now)). Should I be pumping vit or should I consider more in strength? Considering this a "strength" charavcter (but I have no idea how high I intend to take it; I should note that none of the Black Knights in the burg/parish/asylum or the one in Darkroot gave me anything). Currently still wearing ring of favor; neglected to get Havel's before coming this way so it's an immediate pick up as soon as I get back to firelink. I have no weapon that I consider my "end game" weapon. Zwei is +6, Claymore +5. I'll be turning some stuff into elemental weapons of course.
The first two are both pretty easy to take care of using a bow. The first can be killed while standing up on the walkway. And the other can be pinged to death on the opposite side of the pillars; he can't get through. Oh... and the serpentman mages can also be easily killed with your bow; it has a longer range than their spells, and their spells just kinda fizzle right in front of you while you can pew-pew them with immunity. Oh man, they really hate that. They hiss, and sputter in a very satisfying way. The other two demon dudes are kind of a pain in the ass, and there really isn't an easy way to take them down. They're not guarding any treasure either, unlike the first two.
I did it with a Divine Claymore / Faith Build. I found ditching the armour and robing up with + lightning resist gear (robes of xanthous mostly, or painted guardian) + lightning resist ring worked well. Silver Knight Shield or the Eagle shield. Makes you take significantly less damage, to the extent you can just grind through to the few gaps there are to attack him. Used a lot of Estus though, around 12-15 flasks.
Got a silver knight shield and upgraded it to +3 (yeah, these things are terrific), upgraded halberd to +5, Zwei to +10, and a longbow to +5 for good measure. I have the Lightning Spear from Sen's obviously. I want to turn another weapon into a fire weapon at some point. I'm considering doing it to something other than the Zwei, which I seem to get increasingly comfortable with (the law firm will be interesting though). Though I don't have any long term plans for the zwei (it's nice that I can two shot silver knights with R2 though).
When someone is trying to summon you and it does exactly like it's shitty programming tells it to and it fails, do you notice? In other words, If I drop a summon link in a known "get help" location is it possible while I'm waiting that in fact someone(s) have tried to summon me and it failed and I just don't know?
It's a safe assumption, yes. You want to wait about fifteen minutes or so before moving it, so ideally choose a spot you can do stuff from like the darkwraith area in New Londo or anywhere that connects to the royal forest. I forget if you are on PC but if you haven't checked the OP for the router settings/xbl summary, that might help as well. I wasn't failing all of them before that, but if at least one of you has open ports you are much more likely to work things out in my experience.
I'm replaying this on the PC after picking it up on Amazon for the cost of the expansion on the Xbox and since I'm so pro I : 1) Killed Siegmayer accidentally in Anor Londo 2) Used the firekeeper of the firelink shrine's soul 3) Played a sorcery build. 1 and 2 I don't mind so much, but this being my first sorcery build, at soul level 50 I think I'm ready to beat the game. Ornstein and Smaugh, no problem, I took the master key unlike my other recent game so I didn't bother with the 10 falling deaths of the depths that come from overconfidence. I'm sure the Duke Archives will be a treat, but really, sorcery is overpowered, where is this supposed to be weak? Am I going to be back to parrying for Lord Gywn or will homing soul mass be the run away defensive spam that it is? I'm glad it's relatively weak in PvP. It's a shame that most PC players introduction will be the BS hackers in the Undead Parish. Although I did get a gravelord message after I died while human to something stupid.
It really isn't weak anywhere unless you build it wrong. I guess you could say the one drawback is that pushing int usually means having lowish vit for most of the game, but nuking the shit out of everything from a distance means that that doesn't matter much. HCMS destroyed Gwyn on the first try for me in NG and NG+ on my sorcery build. NG++ he fights back a little bit more but still isn't too hard. I hear Pursuers is even better. Sorcery? Nah, not anymore. This was the one balancing factor through 1.05, but now that Pursuers exists it's probably as good in PvP as miracles are. Someone who plays more PvP than I do can speak to that better, though.
The summoning stuff is strange. I often get invaded immediately upon turning human, but nine times out of ten my efforts to summon end in failure.
If you followed the instructions in the OP for opening your ports, that just means the person setting it down didn't. Unfortunately, darkwraiths always check their router settings. It's how we they roll.
It's different but related. You can look at the different categories but they have different groups that have vulnerabilities to them although occult does slightly more on average. The contrast to that is that Divine is absolutely more useful for the first clearing of the catacombs in each game as well as fighting Nito.
Good to know. My faith character is at 30 faith, and I think I may leave it there. I was thinking of making a divine weapon, but I may also just take my claymore to +10.
Beat Seath with some help (it was a really close thing though; crystal spear worked great; too bad I had only 8 and my coop partner, who did use sorcery, didn't appear to have any. And homing soulmass appeared to be completely ineffective at times. It would lock on and fire and appear to hit but it looked like it wasn't doing damage), then killed sanctuary guardian, then decided royal woods was too much for then having to fight a boss I didn't want to fight yet. So I headed to the demon ruins, and took care of ceaseless discharge. I killed all the taurus demons and was going to do some looting. I had switched to the gold rimmed stuff. And then I got egg-head, though I'm not sure when. I need to cure it before continuing.
Demon ruins weren't too difficult. The first boss there is easy with sorcery (the wiki didnt really emphasize that). Centapede demon was obnoxious because it took forever for him to get into spell range. Bed of Chaos was tricksy. I lost about 45k souls dying to him and then failing to recover from them because I screwed up at the headless demon guy on the way over a few times. I got him, though. Catacombs are obnoxious. I made a paritzan divine, not realizing that I was thinking of the winged spear when I was thinking "a basic spear move set with pokes will probably serve nicely". I'm at the second bonfire; had a death in the room with all the wheel skeletons (took a bunch out from the ledge, but not all).
Found Leeroy Jenkins by accident, killed pinwheel (or rather, watched him kill Pinwheel), but I had a death on the way down to the Tomb of Giants. Then I missed the jump going back down to Pinwheel's chamber and died and lost a boatload of souls. Ahh well.
Persevere! One thing I've taken to doing very early on lately is taking out Pinwheel and dashing to the Silver Covetous Serpent Ring. It's often a suicide run but on my last two characters I've even managed to homeward bone out with my Pinwheel souls intact. Anyway, getting that bonus in souls from very near the start of the game is just really awesome, although you do need to be careful that you don't accidentally out-level whatever co-op/PvP you want to do, if any.
So Slammo is kind of overlevelled for a Sen's Fortress invader... I'm debating just continuing with him and doing my invasions in NG+, or alternately, starting a new character to land there at roughly appropriate level. See, I decided I was going to use force to toss people into pits, but I didn't buy it before the guy at Firelink stopped selling miracles. So either I have to do ToG and come back (which will be a bitch since I have no light source, and strangely enough have already done Cats), which really means also getting the lordvessel so I don't have to climb out of ToG. Bleh.
You could also just switch him to Blades of the Darkmoon and invade downward there, if you want. When does he stop selling miracles? That's never happened to me (although I am not usually in the habit of purchasing his wares); the most he's done is make me listen to him whine for a few conversations before the menu options come back up. Try talking to him a few more times if you haven't already?
The sorcey is soul level 80 (or 81, I forget). According to the wiki that seems way high, but then I thought I read somewhere that 1.05 increased the soul intake rate? I still have a few things to do obviously, and presumably could easily level 3-5 more times just playing naturally. I now have 6 attunement slots, and a bit more end and vit. I have been using the Maggot for light. I haven't gotten the silver covetous ring yet so I guess I'll do that first thing (I have nothing to lose, now). Also, Patches hasn't reverted the bridge again since the first time, but I might kill him because one. does. not. do. that.
Way high for what? I believe 80-90 is a pretty typical level range for finishing NG, but that's presumably going to be higher if you've done the new content as well.
He stops selling when the priestess disappears down into the tomb. He just whines about how he fucked shit up and won't sell.
Interesting. I generally kill him at that point to head off his bullshit. FWIW it's not that hard to go down, rescue Rhea, and homeward bone out without doing the whole level. Do you use the method of entering the Tomb that dumps you right in front of Patches?
For the "recommended" ranges listed in a couple of places on the dark souls wiki I've been using. It usually lists level bands, and I'm usually well above the top end. I haven't really had much trouble getting summon help (I mean, outside of the general trouble of it actually working). It's sometimes hard to say whether the problem is lack of traffic or "maybe I outleveled the norm here by too much".
I thought just talking to him again would remind him of his vending responsibilities. Am I misreading the dialog tree?
So if I do a Sen's invader from scratch this is most likely what I'll end up with: http://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?b...sOSx3b29kZW4sd29vZGVuLHdvb2Rlbix3b29kZW4sMQ==
I'll try again, but last time I talked to him he was repeating himself and not offering to sell me miracles. Maybe because I had never talked to him about miracles before?
Run past the first giant then follow the lights to the left which take you to a slide. Slide down and you'll have another slide in front of you, but don't go down it. Run to the right instead, go past another giant and bail off the side of a cliff and you'll land on another slide. Get down it as fast as you can to avoid being followed and when you drop off the end you'll see Patches's smilin' face. It's less hassle than any other way that I know of, and it's great for making a quick no-bonfire run at the Silver Ring/Skull Lantern/Patches/Rhea.
The light source is one thing but don't be a wimp and cry about climbing out. Once the necromancers are dead, big whoop. Put on your big soul pants and smash 'em dead.
Using the above method, the light source is a non-issue too since it's mostly (relatively) well-lit up until the part where it gives you a Skull Lantern.
It may be that you need to have a preestablished vending relationship with Petrus to get it again once he gets depressed. Why?
Personally, I aspire to one day have the finesse that this guy applies to Tomb. From my own SL1 NG runs so far, I think it's unrealistic but what the hell. If those are my choices, I will go with "you are dumb".
I dunno, that's about the level of finesse I have with it through the platform that the silver ring is on (except that I didn't know about the shortcut to the second bonfire, which I will be using from now on), and I'm nowhere near as good as that guy is at Dark Souls, obviously. Just start running it a low levels with crappy gear and you figure out the optimal paths pretty quick. :( Shows you how much I invade I guess.
I drew an eyeball next to a square on a piece of paper just now, so I have *about* the level of finesse with painting as Picasso. You made me choose!
