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>beat gaping dragon >still at lvl 25 >down to blight
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>beat gaping dragon
>still at lvl 25
>down to blight town
>everything 1 hit kills me
Am I supposed to beat Queelag? She instakills me with any attack so I doubt it, plus the poison sucks up at least two estus charges.

I looted great hallow and ash lake, but I honestly doubt I have any business there. I can't kill the mushrooms and the curse frogs basically forces me to return to firelink..

wat do?
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git gud
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>>318335430
Yeah, you're suppose to kill Queelag.

I was surprised too at the sudden difficulty spike. She's not that hard once you get used to it. If you're fast enough you can dodge pretty much anything she throws, or you can go full tank with fire resistant armor
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>>318335430
I still use that drake sword, but I'm suspecting that I should have farmed souls, leveled up and leveled up my weapons and armors. Or?
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>>318335631
I've did about ten runs on her, figured the pattern but still one hit stuns, locks me and instantly kills me.

Is there anywhere good at this point to farm souls and if so, what should I level up? Firelink is so fucking far away
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Level Vitality.
Take a walk through the forest, gather some moss from the shrubbery, or purchase it from the dearest merchant lady.
Stay way from fatasses who want to go bowling.
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>>318335639
Using drake sword just ends up hurting you in the long run
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>>318335976
I googled some before about leveling up and using weapons and such, but most places just said to play it "as you wanted".

Any suggestions on changing weapon then? Leveling it I guess?

I picked up a handful of weapons such as the tail axes, broadsword, zweihander, astoria sword etc.
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>>318335810
Literally just hold up your shield and step back once she tries to hit you with her sword (Human). You literally dodge all of her swings.

When the (Spider) starts throwing up lava, then run the fuck away so the Laval doesn't touch you

It's that easy. The Arena is huge for a reason
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>>318335605
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>>318336128
List your stats
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>>318336128
The reason the Drake Sword is a crutch is because it has high damage, but no scaling. If you level up Strength or Dexterity, you are not going to get anything more out of the Drake Sword. Because you don't benefit from leveling combat stats, you don't have access to a lot of the game's arsenal.

If you want something common, reliable, and strong, try the Claymore. It's near where you got the Drake Sword, so you might already have it, actually. It's a bit more investment, but it's worth it.
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>>318336128
you can and should play it as you want with nearly every weapon

but Drake Sword doesn't scale with your stats

which is why it will hurt you in the long run

better to get used to a weapon which will get better as you get better

Zweihander is pretty good if you're going for a Strength run
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>>318336319
it's the jump that kills me, she randomly does them and my damage is too low for it not to happen during the fight. oh and probably I suck at this
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>>318336486
Level 32
Souls 0
Vit 16
Att 12
End 18
Str 20
Dex 15
Res 14
Int 11
Faith 9
Hum 0

Might be obvious that I don't have a clue to what I've been doing.
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>>318336596
>>318336512
At my level does any weapon scale well? I haven't gone through all but it seems most weapons are way under the drake sword in damage..
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>>318335430
Put points in health
Wear armor
Use a shield

Alternatively, dodge her attacks. It's not terribly hard to never get hit by her once you're learned her moves and their animations.
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>>318336947
Not really yet, that's why Drake Sword is a great newb crutch early game, it puts out better damage than other weapons because the scaling on them isn't big enough yet
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>>318336821
>Res 14
rest is fine, keep putting points into Vit, End and whichever you want of Str/Dex, and maybe some into Faith/Int if you want to do those kinds of casting
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>>318335810
wear a fire resistant set, pyromancers and the red robes are both in blighttown. stick to the side of her spider head, back up fast when she puts her arms down
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>>318336947
Not many weapons scale well at low levels, but regular weapons are upgraded easier than dragon weapons, which helps a whole lot at low levels when you lack the stats to benefit from scaling.
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>>318337347
>>Res 14
I figure it's shit but did I put points there or should I have put points there?
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>>318335430
Use drakes sword.
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>>318336128
What the claymore anon suggested.
Try the claymore.

Zweihander is great because it stuns large enemies like giant skeletons.
Otherwise just keep on top of parrying & equip the right shit for the area/enemies.
Using the drake sword while you level up your combat stats is perfectly fine, just keep in mind you won't be able to repair it without rare/expensive items, so use a normal weapon for junk enemies.

If all else fails and you feel like you're slipping away from the game, use cheat engine to reverse all consequences of dying. If you do that, you can start supporting the community by hosting invasions too- no reason to fear death means you might as well go human and fight to the end whenever you fancy. Cheating can help the community, not just hurt it.
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>>318335976
This is such bullshit
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>>318337513
You put points into it (I think, if I remember the starting stats correctly no character should start at 14 res) and you should never, EVER put points into Res

it's useless
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>>318337513
resistance is useless.

Keep in mind, having humanities in your bar increases your resistances. Especially to curse. Pop a bunch of humanities if you have trouble with pic-related.
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>>318335639
>I still use that drake sword

Firstly I would like to congratulate you on being a fucking faggot.

Secondly, find a weapon you like that isn't the crutch sword and take it to the Blacksmith at the Parish for upgrading. If you don't know where he is try fucking looking around and learning instead of checking guides.
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>>318335430
The bitch witch is easy as fuck. Just attack from the side when the spider is breathing lava. Roll backwards when she slices sideways, keep running sideways around her. The only thing which is hard might be when she blows up everythign around her, but if you're fast rolling it's only 2 rolls away really.

I killed O&S when I was drunk on friday. Currently up to Nito and getting rekt. Fuck the catacombs/wherever i am
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>>318335430
what are your stats and equipment
some of quelaags move do a lot of damage, but all of her attacks are pretty easy to avoid
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Eastern armor best armor.
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>>318338123
>Nito
>Hard
Just kite and kill all the enemies in the arena first
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>>318338297

SHIVA THE DECEASED LOL
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We should be happy for OP; he's experiencing the Souls for the first time.
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>>318338123
Y you gotta kill papa nito?
He dindu nuffin!
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>>318338340
I've only tried killing him once so far. It was the skeletons which fucked me up cause they respawned.

Might just equip havels and tank him. Using a greatsword so my attacks are slow af
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>>318338469
>they respawned
do you not know about divine weapons?
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>>318338469
Take out the little skeletons with some divine weapon, and then just keep Nito by the part of the arena where you started the fight. With out the little skeledoods, Nito himself is pretty easy.
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>>318335430
>>down to blight town
>>everything 1 hit kills me

Don't fight the Ogres. Just lure them off edges.
Fight the normal orcs one at a time.

Also there's a second path to Blight town. Go through Dark Root Basin. Then Valley of the Drakes. You'll have to dodge some Drakes. Then go to Blight Town. And this path lets you skip 75% of Blight Town. It's the preferred path.

You can get a key there that lets you go from Firelink, to New Londo, then Blight Town.
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>>318338469
Holy weapons prevent skellies from getting rez'd
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>>318338579
>>318338629
It's my first playthrough. I finished DS2 with relative ease Fuck shrine of amana

Where do I get a divine weapon?
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>>318338469
>they respawned

Sir, can you talk to you about our lord and saviour Gwyn?
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>>318335639
>Grinding in a Souls game
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>>318338663
Shit-monsters are prime parry/backstab material.
If OP doesn't know how, he should learn with them.
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>>318335639
>I still use that drake sword, but I'm suspecting that I should have farmed souls

>>318338469
>Might just equip havels and tank him

>>318338663
>It's the preferred path.
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upgrade through white titanite at Anor Londo? blacksmith or astora's shortsword
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>>318338418
That's why we should tell him to fuck off and figure the game out for himself. He's literally ruining his own playthrough.
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>>318338905
Andre does it.
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>>318338579
Not that anon, but I never thought about using it on Nito.
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>>318338663
fugg
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>>318337753
>that webm

that is some of the best ring swapping i have ever seen
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>>318338747
You have to retrieve the correct ember to make your own. I think you find it in the catacombs.
Otherwise there are a couple around town. Closest is probably a straight sword you find next to an undead dragon in the valley of drakes.
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>>318338663
>It's the preferred path.
Do you suck dicks, anon?
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>>318337347
Your low vitality is just making the game harder. If you want to make the game easier, level up vitality. Extra vitality does a lot of good due to the way the Estus system works (even just 10% more HP does a lot to increase the chance you will survive to your next Estus chug, and this extra survival chance gets compounded for each flask you have).

With your character, I would start leveling up to mid 20 vitality from this point.
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>>318339091
Nah, the ember for divine shit is after Moonlight Butterfly iirc
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>>318335430

Quelaag is probably one of, if not the easiest boss in the game.

The only thing that might get you is the AoE, and that'd just be once. Everything is telegraphed so fucking hard.
I guess you might get unlucky with lava placement/its hitbox being wonky.
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>>318336821
Your low vitality is just making the game harder. If you want to make the game easier, level up vitality. Extra vitality does a lot of good due to the way the Estus system works (even just 10% more HP does a lot to increase the chance you will survive to your next Estus chug, and this extra survival chance gets compounded for each flask you have).

With your character, I would start leveling up to mid 20 vitality from this point.

(replied to wrong post at first)
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What you do is unequip all your weapons, armour and accessories.

Then, you fucking punch everything to death. All points go in strength. All your knuckles crack the helmet of a black knight. Easy peasy pudding and pie m8
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>>318338892
First time playing m80. I dunno what the fuck im doing, but I needed dat str for the bk greatsword.
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>>318339016
You use fire on Nito, you kill the skeletons around him with Divine
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>>318339284

>16
>low vit
>for quelaag

My first playthrough had 14vit and nearly no troubles. Hell, the game feels too easy when you have 30-40 vit since you can tank a shitload of attacks.
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>>318339416
I just used my trusty regular katana and killed him.
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>>318339372
It being your first time playing doesn't somehow make tanking with Havel's any less of a bitch move m8
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>>318339429
>>318339284

Oh and I don't mean 14 vit at quelaag, I meant my first entire playthrough ended with 14 vit.
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>>318335639
>I still use that drake sword
>I should have farmed souls
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>>318339503
I mean he's weaker to fire
He isn't very resistant to phys iirc, so it doesn't matter
>>318339568
m8 come on, anything goes on a first playthrough, it only gets depressing when it's repeated
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>>318339568
>havels
>that equip load
Right.
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>>318339056
he's using a macro program to do it

but that's like none of my business
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>>318335430
>Queelag

The whole strat in a nutshell;

Hump her ass. When she starts twerkin', start runnin'.
Once she's done exploding, hump her ass again. Rinse and repeat.
Don't stand in fire, etcetc.

It also helps if you go human and get Muff-Eater Mildred. If you go human and go to the bonfire across the goop sea, you'll get attacked by an NPC invader, and if you kick her in her bulldyke cunt she'll throw a sign down outside Queelag's domain and you can pull her in to fight with you. Could probably also find a player phantom. Go for the Gold phantoms (sunbros), summoning a sunbro gives you and them tokens that you turn in for sunbro shit.
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>>318339721
>anything goes on a first playthrough

Just like anything goes with your mom.

If you want to be a cheap scumbag then go ahead and be a cheap scumbag, but the fact you're defensive over it shows you know better, and thus should strive to be better.
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>>318339829
oh how fucking disappointing

it did seem pretty inhuman
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Why do people act like Blighttown is the hardest fucking part of this game? It wasn't that bad. I made it through upper Blighttown my first time and I played on the PS3. Yeah, I get the archer dudes can be annoying but just hold up your shield and don't stand still. What the fuck?
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>>318335976
yeah, youre retarded. theres nothing bad about using that sword. it makes game easy at the beginning but gets outclassed about near sens fortress
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>>318339885
>you should strive to be better
which is what you do on subsequent playthroughs anon
also, I'm not the anon posting his stats, I'm some random autismo
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>>318339985
Huh, figured it was just a gook with too much time on his hands.
Would've used a different webm since I just finished talking about responsible cheating.
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>>318340145
>You should only bother trying to play the game after having already played the game
>It's perfectly fine to be a cunt on your first playthrough

Nothing you are saying is making any sense.
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>>318340053
This, tbqh familia.

The funhouse, the Anal Rodeo archery range, and Pikachu and Snorlax were way harder. Well, Toejam and Earl was more of an endurance thing, poking at slim and dodging fatboy, but it was still 'harder' than Blighttown.

And double fuck the archery range, everyone I knew made it on the first try, I failed over and over and had to walk away and furiously masterbate, shower, then come back and try again.
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>>318339721

>Not doing melee only on your first run

Lame and/or gay.
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Can you do anything useful with spells? They seem to have no range at all and take forever to cast.
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>>318339787
I said I could equip havels and kill him. Atm im going naked so i can fucking roll with this bk greatsword.
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>>318340661
Once you get the higher level spells/dark magic they fucking annihilate everything with ease.
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>>318340661
dex makes them cast faster

with the proper equipment you can hit things for 2k damage
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>>318335430
>I can't kill the mushrooms
wat
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>>318340446
Ornstein and Smough were a bitch, I agree.
But FUCK that archer bullshit.

How the FUCK do projectiles that aren't yours home/lock in this game?
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>>318341107
The big one a shit load of HP and can one-shot you.
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>>318335810
Roll towards her during her short swings.

You have enough time on the windup attack to roll back and dodge it.
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>>318340420
>You should only bother trying to play the game after having already played the game
sorry, are we putting words in each others mouths now?
>It's perfectly fine to be a cunt on your first playthrough
Okay anon, whatever makes you feel better
>>318340481
First run? sort of, yeah
Second and onward? no shit
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>>318339205
>>318339091
yeah, divine ember is after moonlight butterfly, large divine ember is at tomb of giants
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>>318335639
WE INTERRUPT THIS THREAD TO BROADCAST YOU AN URGENT MESSAGE

daily reminder to never use drake sword.
If you know someone infected with the drake sword plague, it is highly recommended to kill them, prefferably with +15 pyromancy.
If you spot any members of the community with a drake sword while co-opping, please report and black crystal as necessary.

Common infection times have aligned on numerous occasions with summer and winter steam sales. experts are still trying to find the source of this mysterious malignity.

If you find any spare drake swords, do not retrieve, do not acquire, do not place in bottomless box, do not upgrade or twink.

Dispose of it properly inside the belly of your neighborhood frampt. If you or someone you love has been possessed by a drake sword, the first course of action is to kill them, and then yourself, repeat as necessary.

Thank you and have a wonderful day.
gitgud,fag
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>>318340369
Is that yami?
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>>318341316
What's wrong with it?
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>>318337753
won't cheating get me banned?
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>>318341136
Spooky moon magic
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>>318335430
use and upgrade this weapon OP
http://darksouls.wikidot.com/uchigatana
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SUMMON ME SENPAI
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>>318338435
Fuck that comic is a blast from the past.
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>>318340053
because souls shitters never dealt with valley of defilement.
Also, theyre normies that cant into unlocked combat, or attacking while moving
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>>318341496
Not that anon, but players tend to commit to the drake sword to such an extent that when it does fall off, they don't possess the tools to get a decent weapon. They don't learn how to smith weapons, thy probably don't know where to find titanite, and they have no skills with any weapon besides straight swords.
You're essentially trading in an easy mid and late game for an easy early game.
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>>318341198
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>>318341510
Don't use it online.
If you're being responsible you shouldn't have to.
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>>318341814

The only hard part of VoD was trying to fight the giants in the swamp.
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>>318341136
You'd rather them move at the speed of light? That's the tradeoff and I'd much rather have that.
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>>318339102
>>318338892

Blight town is annoying. And this lets you skip the Depths entirely too. It's so much faster.
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>>318342060
yes. and its FUCKING HARD.
its ironic, all the bosses are easy as shit, but the area is HELL.
have you been there in new game +, anon?
holy fucking shit.
And you cant dodge in the water in DeS.
DaS players will never know....

every time I hear a fag whining about fucking blighttown, or god help me, motherfucking gutter
the sense of condescension I feel is incredible
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>>318335639
>drake sword
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>>318342248
ah, DeS and scraping spear/halberd.
To this day, curse buffed greataxe/halberds are instant gg no re in DeS
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Your level is fine, just don't let her hit you.

These games don't actually make it so that it's hard to not make mistakes. They make it so that if you do make a mistake, there's a good chance you're dead. Just watch her attack patterns, she's an AI with a static script. She's going to do the same moves in the same situations 100% of the time.
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>>318342248

>witch robe

every time
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>>318342414
>skipping the depths
LOOK! THERES A FAGGOT THAT DOESNT FARM HUMANITY!
why, anon. just fucking why.
you're also giving up the cut from gaping dragon
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>>318342414
>The best way to play the game is to skip a large portion of it

Eat shit and die.
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>>318342494

I have not played NG+

I got past the giants by not fighting multiples and in one case just running past one I didn't feel like fighting. Once you got the 'town' part of VoD2 it was easy.

Granted, I had experience from DaS, but I also think Blighttown's difficulty was overstated. I think VoD and BT are about equal.
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>>318342248
Hated the weapons that literally broke another players armour.

Hated that grass and mana was so easy to squeeze in, making fights 20 minute long.

Then I made a big 2h axe built. Roll and hit. Instant half health away. Roll and hit, dead.

GG. NO RE
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None of the Souls games are at all any harder than the others, this includes Bloodborne.
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>>318343346

DeS is definitely the easiest, making the others harder than it.
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>>318342910
unless you know the dupe trick, which, thank god for it, because DeS is a shitty rng grind without it,
those giants are the ONLY enemies with a decent chance to drop ephemeral eyes.
they WILL one-shot you in ng+ almost regardless of armor, unless you were smart with your allocations and boosteed hp, and/or END to use blacksilver armor.
Reminder that they run much, much faster than you in the water, and even a morion build wont help you, since swamp poison will kill you if your health is at critical, and bow causes them to rush you at 10 gorrillion miles an hour with their heat seeking clubs of anal pummelage

Blighttown is only equal on grounds that the boss is actually decent in terms of difficulty.

if we compare the actual areas, a fresh Valley with no shortcuts open is far more of a headache

Ng is babby-tier shit easy in DeS.
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>>318343561

Nope, none are easy and, after learning the tricks to each area, none are hard.

No exceptions or variations.
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>>318343312
yup, beautiful thing.
I have over 35 old monks turbans from building stats like this, as well as using a crushing halberd +5
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>>318343736

Anyone can brute force their way through Demon's Souls chugging grass.

Shit like maneaters are grossly overstated, I beat that shit with a +2 claymore.
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>>318343561
confirmed for never playing DeS.
It has both the easiest AND hardest boss fights in the souls series, putting it on par with DaS in terms of player challenge.

Also, one of the bosses, old monk can literally be another player, summoned in place of the boss. if you have the luck of running into nothing but 1-shot builds, it will be hard for you.

DaS2 too fucking easy in comparison to DaS and DeS. a good game for a beginner of the series though
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>>318343846
this.

the secret is to not lock on.

dont forget you can dupe like crazy.

the difficult points are Old king Doran, summoned player Old Monk, and False king allant, if you dont abuse ranged for either doran or allant,
and the entirety of valley of defilements swamp area.
Rest of the zones are gg no re, even tower of latria
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>>318339372

>it's my first playthough
>i found one of the most obscure and easy to miss covenants in the game

y the fuk u lyin
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>>318343846

Nope, there's lots of enemies that can mob you and grass won't really cut it except during times in between fights.

Not any more easy or difficult than having Estus sippies. Slightly different, sure, but you have to be a special kind of stupid to die a bunch using one system while surviving pretty frequently using the other. The only important difference between the two systems is in multiplayer.

We can do this all day. None of you can actually come up with an instance of one game being harder than the others. I've heard all of the stupid places people try to claim makes the whole game harder than all of the other games put together. World 1-4 red knight mob, blighttown, Greatbows in Anor Londo, etc. It's always the same tune.

Yes, we get it. You have an abscess in your brain. Obviously everyone had to come to grips with a learning process when they ran into the boulders in Sen's. Learning things like this might include you dying at some points of the game. Each instance of learning is not actually more difficult than any of the others presented in the entire series.

These are games that just kill you in a couple of hits. They're not games where avoiding those hits is very hard.

Come at me, bros.
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>>318345383

How the fuck is that obscure?

It's a casket in the area of the game he went through.
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>>318336947
Even with low stats and shitty scaling, most weapons will match or beat the Drake Sword by +7, which should be instantly obtainable at the start of the depths when you get the large ember. With the large shards in the depths and blighttown, +8 or even +9 should be possible before Quelaag even with shitty RNG on crystal lizards.

Another easy weapon upgrade that takes a tiny bit of grinding is that the leeches in blighttown drop green shards. Semi-rarely, but when they drop it's in packs of 5. Take 10 green shards to the wizard in the cell below firelink outside of new londo, and convert a +5 weapon into +5 magic. Even with no int for scaling, this will be stronger than a +10 weapon with much less effort, and Quelaag is weak to magic on top of that. There are only like 3 enemies in the base game resistant to magic actually. With low stats, eventually you'll want a lightning weapon, but magic is really good even on non-mages for a while.
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I restarted recently after not playing for a while and I realized I have no idea what I'm building.

I'm just leveling strength and dex equally, then endurance and vitality and ignoring everything else.

How do I become a memelord katana rolling faggot?
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>>318345406
well, im not arguing one is harder than the other, im stating that DeS is on par with DaS.


DaS2 babby tier casul disney theme ride though.
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>>318345570
I suppose find a katana and see which stat boosts its damage.
Iaido is in blighttown, I believe, depths entrance.
you need to jump for it.
i remember jumping forever till I got that weapon.

Also, some ninja faggot in the garden drops the ninjarolls ring
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@318335430
You just have to git gud
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>>318345570
Dex and End is all you need for a ninja build.
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for anyone playing DeS.
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>>318344350
>had dual dragon bone swords from duping
>wore a top hat and no armor

Invading people with that shit was always hilarious. The range on that sword was bonkers for the amount of damage it did.
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>>318345993
>@
lol
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>>318346936
amazing 1shots with cursed weapon
you might try to grass, but you'll eat a rolling r1, or even a 1-shot backstab!
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>>318342494
pre-patch shrine of amana as a pure melee is a close second
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Don't go into Souls games with the typical gamer mindset. Just beat the game in whatever ways work for you. Go at your own pace. Don't worry if you aren't playing the game the "correct" way.
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>>318344095
>It has both the easiest AND hardest boss fights in the souls series, putting it on par with DaS in terms of player challenge.
flamelurker is the only hard boss.

Everything else was powercreeped by the time dark souls rolled around.

Currently Ludwig and Orphan are both Flamelurker tier if not worse on NG+.
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I wanna cosplay like this. No idea where Id buy the armor though.
suppose Id have to git gud at artsncrafts n shit.

rather have a legit battleready steelforged set though
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>>318347235
thanks for reminding me of flamelurker

holy shit hes responsible for so many failures to retrieve a DBS
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>>318340369
Gwyn as finally decided to take the Backstabbing issue into his own hands.
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just summon that slut before the queelag room and let her take all the damage while you hit and run lmao
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>>318347235

Flamelurker is hard at first but he's an unfinished boss. He AI is atrocious and easy to read, and he's only got one attack that isn't telegraphed.

Point of fact, he's one of the few bosses whose attacks you can easily -heavy- roll through and then counter attack.

Yeah he's the hardest boss the first time you fight him. He's one of the easiest during the 10th time you beat him.
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>>318348086
His pathfinding is flawed, but he's easy to counterattack? Bullshit, he's Manus-tier relentless.
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I haven't played Demons in a while. Can someone explain whats going on in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UQtBMKCipk
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>>318348086
nah, that AoE can really catch you.
Also, his power boost when his health is low, always using his explosive attacks.
better hope you have him either ranged or under stunlock.

Which reminds me.
Lord Rydell is a fucking bitch to kill, NG+ onward.
holy crap, those 1-shots are real, plus he hyper-armors with most of his moves
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>>318348274

Only his point blank slashes can't be reaction rolled. Just don't stand that distance from him. Any other attack he does can be rolled. Heavy rolled. On reaction. They're slow as fuck.

You're just not doing it right.
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>>318348348
light weapon buffs headbutting which replaces your kick, on a weapon with decently low stat requirements. also, in DeS, stunlocking continues until stamina is spent, so just use a weapon with very little stamina requirement, with a massive magic damage buff to get massive gains over everything
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>>318348348
The push was really fucking good in DeS. It uses very little stamina and can, a lot of the time, be followed up with an attack. The push with a fist weapon is the fastest push in the game. The push counts as an attack, allowing you to deal your buff's damage by pushing. By buffing his fist's weapon, he's dealing rapid amounts of damage by pushing.

A similar tactic is Katana Pushlock, which you would buff your right hand katana, push with it, then strike with the offhand (because it's faster and cancels the animation), and then push again.
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>>318348376
>nah, that AoE can really catch you.

No it can't.

Let's say he's standing in front of you. He does his power bomb.

Roll forward.

Roll directly into his ballsack. His attack doesn't have as many active frames as your roll has invincibility. It's not even hard to time. Roll directly forward. Congratulations. You are now standing next to him with however many free hits your weapon allows.

It's not a distance or positioning thing. His attacks are telegraphed and have a limited window of threat. Just roll during it.
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>>318348686
spotted the casual guide-user
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Sorcerers and laser spam is the only way to go.
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>>318349075
till you pvp and someone rolls through your shit
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>>318342248
>mfw i would counter-grief scrapingshits off ledges with the stormruler
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>>318348910
Lol nope, I came here to see a thread about people helping a player new to one of my all tome favourite games--a new player who's already chosen to ask for outside help by virtue of being here--and instead found cancerous faggoty circlejerking by a bunch of dingdongs who want everyone to know how gud they think they are by shitting on a new player. Why choose to get triggered by his weapon usage or strategy?
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>>318349424
that knockdown...

The panic you can cause with it in tower of latria is real
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>>318349508
because in order to GET the fucking Drake sword, he must have ALREADY tried to use a guide.

Dont you get it? he dug his own grave by trying to faceroll through the fucking game, the heckling is justified
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>>318349508
>triggered
You are the only one that has been triggered.

Nice speech about moralism in video games, btw.
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>>318349671
Why would I care if someone else uses a guide?
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>>318349678
I was absolutely triggered by this A-tier faggotry. Thenks I worked real hard on it.
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>>318335430
get fire resistance, like flash sweat
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>>318349508
he deserves the shitting, because hes a shitter that obviously already uses wikis for crap, like the drake sword and hasnt even upgraded armor. see >>318341881

people have already told anon what to do though
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>>318349817
Why would you care that people are criticizing him for it?
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>>318350151
It's typical /v/ e-weenie pissing contest garbage
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>>318350851
there is no e-peen, we're all anonymous here, mate.
If someone does something fucking stupid, they are gonna get called out on it, then told how to rectify their mistake, such as >>318345534
sure you can help people, but that doesnt mean you have to be a a goddamn hugbox.
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>>318351442
mfw he notices this is not one of the posts I called cunty to begin with.jpg


Doesn't have to be a hugbox--exactly, so when the criticism is just some le i am better than you git gud maymay trash, I point out that it's stupid, cunty garbage, why bother with such silly superiority complex shit when we're all anonymous as you mentioned? And ivee a viyagame, for fuck's sake.
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>>318336128

the more research you do on this game the more you are killing the experience
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>>318353085
because >>318345534
most fucking likely could very well
the SAME poster who posted
>>318335605
>>318336362
>>318338041
>>318338787
>>318338892
>>318338956
>>318339568
and
>>318339618


at the very least,
A. the op learns his lesson and doesnt repaet the same mistake trying to rely on guides
B. these are peoples legitimate reactions, its not just a "le ebin meme" thing
C. "gitting gud" isnt just a bait meme thing, means investing time to learn boss patternsm, upgrading weapons, learning your hitboxes, the combat system, actually PLAYING the fucking GAME instead of using a crutch weapon to carry you.
This has been gone over in every souls thread since the beginning of the earliest souls threads.

there IS a skill gap in this game that requires someone to have some base level of coordination and reflexes to overcome as well.

Literally, Get. Fucking. Better.

Git
Gud

because victory isnt handed to you on a silver platter
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>>318353085

seriously nigga just practice and git gud. stats and cheap weapons go along away but skill goes about 10x further.
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