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DragoonPK
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Merany
France890 Posts
I think I've never screamed as much in my room on a video game as when I defeated Ornstein and Smough after a billion attempts. Edit for the post above: Thanks Cynry! Just another thing, I am still using the Drake's Sword, but it doesn't scale. Is there a better alternative that at at this moment? I know I traded my drake sword for the Quelaag's Furysword (any curved sword +10 + soul of the boss) and kept that one for quite a while. Might not be the optimal choice but it worked quite well for me  | ||
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Cynry
810 Posts
Depends on your stats and playstyle. Can't help you much with STR, but I know the zweihander is used by a lot of people. Can be found in the graveyard next to firelink shrine. For Dex, except the obvious uchigatana (which is very good), I fell in love with the murakumo. It's like a katana, but oversized. Much slower, but the moveset and range sold it for me. Oh, also, requires 28 STR although being a dex focused weapon. For my char this was like 14 level to pay just to be able to use it, but oh boy was that worth it. See spoiler for how to get it. + Show Spoiler + So, first, you got to join the forest covenant. The leader is the cat which is... in the forest before Sith, in the building between the 2 parts of the forest, after the bandit. Then, a new NPC (Shiva) appears outside, to the left, wearing the murakumo and a pretty good shield (considered medium, block like heavy). There's also his bodyguard, half invisible ninja wearing an AWESOME ring. Either you kill them now, or just talk to Shiva and meet them later in blighttown, where Shiva will sell you a few rare weapons. Still for Dex, Ricard's rapier is pretty fun, press strong attack twice for a sewing machine effect, highest dps in the game afaik, but pretty hard to pull. Balder's sword (dropped by red cape undead in the parish) is a solid one, good moveset, range, speed, and damage. I do like the Iaito too, the moveset is sick. That's for my little knowledge about weapons. Wiki knows much much more, if you can resist the urge to spoil yourself the whole game :D Now with that being said, I'd add that dark souls is about bounding a special relationship with your weapon of choice. So try a few as each is a bit different and see which fits you best. Try every attack (weak, strong, backstep>weak, roll>weak, sprint>weak, and jump+strong), and watch the range, those are the most important to me. Standard weapon +15 with good scaling end up with more damage than lightning weapons, but if you don't PvP much, that shouldn't be a concern, so go with what your heart says :D Actually, if you're mostly into PvE, anything can work as long as you upgrade it as much as you can. | ||
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DragoonPK
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Cynry
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Argoth.
Germany1961 Posts
Just slew the Taurus Demon and the Gargoyles though that stupid lightning throwing demon below the blacksmith in Undead Parish is giving me a hard time.. Don't wanna lame it up an shoot 200 arrows at that guy and I'm getting crushed in close combat  Got a question though: Where the heck can I learn to cast miracles or some other sort of magic? I talked to literally everyone at the firelink shrine, including the mute woman who upgrades your Estus flasks, the guy in golden armor I freed from the church and the bishop in the church but I can't figure out where to learn that. Any help? | ||
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ffreakk
Singapore2155 Posts
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Pangolin
United States1035 Posts
Edit: The area beyond the lightning guy is optional at the point you're at anyway, if I remember correctly you should be going to the lower undead burg next. Good luck with the boss there, it kicked my ass more than any other in the game. | ||
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ffreakk
Singapore2155 Posts
On March 06 2012 16:33 Pangolin wrote: Just run past the lightning throwing guy until you are strong enough to beat him. As for a magic seller, I remember there being some at firelink, maybe you just haven't gotten far enough for them to show up? Edit: The area beyond the lightning guy is optional at the point you're at anyway, if I remember correctly you should be going to the lower undead burg next. Good luck with the boss there, it kicked my ass more than any other in the game. Yea, well but the lightning guy just take a little bit of practice. Keep trying to dodge to his left (non-staff hand), and whack at him when you can. His attacks have a certain pattern that you ll learn before long. I personally always get to that "optional area" as soon as possible, a little bit ahead there's the Grass Crest Shield which is rather good .I didn't have as much problem with the Gaping Dragon, but Blight Town is annoying T_T. I often play late into the night, and sleepiness + narrow walkway == bad. | ||
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Pangolin
United States1035 Posts
On March 06 2012 16:45 ffreakk wrote: Yea, well but the lightning guy just take a little bit of practice. Keep trying to dodge to his left (non-staff hand), and whack at him when you can. His attacks have a certain pattern that you ll learn before long. I personally always get to that "optional area" as soon as possible, a little bit ahead there's the Grass Crest Shield which is rather good .I didn't have as much problem with the Gaping Dragon, but Blight Town is annoying T_T. I often play late into the night, and sleepiness + narrow walkway == bad. I didn't mean the Gaping Dragon, I meant the Capra Demon. I didn't get hit a single time by the Gaping Dragon, and was actually disappointed that that fight wasn't harder than it was, considering how terrifying it looks. | ||
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DnameIN
Poland146 Posts
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ffreakk
Singapore2155 Posts
On March 06 2012 20:53 DnameIN wrote: My strategy for capra demon was quite simple. He killed me many times before i went into enrage, equiped strongest (and slowest) armor ive got and rushed inside raping him badly^^ Just killed dogs first, with high armor you are able to survive few hits w/o need of blocking/evading. I don't know what you use, but i ve never been able to block Capra's big hits at all (he often open the fight w them), they always ate all my stamina + send me flying (or flat on the ground). Plus 1 of the dogs jump at you immediately once you get into the area. Granted i ve never been much of a defensive player, sinking most points into offensive stats right off the bat most of the time. So far it's just been dodging -> kill dogs for me, Capra himself is nothing when alone. Dogs, though, are really fast @.@. The first time was pretty hard, subsequent times are ok .And yea i agree Gaping Dragon was disappointing. | ||
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Argoth.
Germany1961 Posts
And when I finally beat him, I guess the natural way would be Depths and then Blight town? Had a look into New Londo Ruins, but got scared and ran away, lol^^ | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
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solidbebe
Netherlands4921 Posts
On March 06 2012 22:24 Skilledblob wrote: are there any news on a PC port? I really want to play this game :/ Same, I have a ps3 but id much rather have it on pc | ||
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Argoth.
Germany1961 Posts
Good god I want to destroy something. Must resist the urge... | ||
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ffreakk
Singapore2155 Posts
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Pangolin
United States1035 Posts
On March 09 2012 12:27 ffreakk wrote: If you are not using DnameIN's strategy of massing defensive gear, then i guess killing the dogs off quickly is your only good bet. Personally Katanas hit them the best (for me), killing in 1 shot + hitting quickly (bigger swords tends to be slow, and the dogs can jump away before you actually hit). Is it actually possible to have katanas at that point in the game? I didn't get any until the Iaito in Blighttown. | ||
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Souai
United States47 Posts
On March 09 2012 13:09 Pangolin wrote: Is it actually possible to have katanas at that point in the game? I didn't get any until the Iaito in Blighttown. You can get an Uchigatana from callously slaying the male undead merchant in the undead parish, assuming it hasn't changed since release. | ||
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EMIYA
United States433 Posts
-i can only imagine it was a poorly designed mechanic overall, that easily takes advantage of npc mobs as well with little skill to master it. The first play through exprience (and more specific, first ~20 hours) is mind-boggling awesome. Nothing is more gratifying than defeating that horrifying creautre that takes up 2/3rds of the screen, with urgent music blasting the whole time, with only a sliver of your hp left. Suddenly, you exhale and realize your palms had been sweaty, gripping the controller for dear life. Eventually i found it to be a little too easy later on, with the insane amount of damage you inflict on bosses and how some of thier move sets are predictable, but if i could pay someone to erase my video game memory, id do it in a heart beat to experience the first 20 hours or so again. 9/10, and i'm being lenient on the lag/freezes/studdering in blight town and other parts of the game. They should've released it for a PC, as the graphics were pretty damn cool. (naturally, i'd plug in a controller to play it...probably). | ||
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