No one is summoning me down in the depths so i can help with gaping dragon. :(
Nobody who still plays summons.
>>332446045
That's because nobody ever needs help with Gaping Dragon. Try placing a summon sign outside a boss area which is actually semi difficult.
>>332446045
Nobody needs help with Gaping Dragon.
>>332446275
Would gargoyles be one? I'm late to this game.
I want to become a sunbro
>>332446339
People used to have problems with the Gargoyles but I'm pretty sure it was a meme because the fight is actually incredibly easy. Also people can summon Solaire for that fight if they really need to. Try Quelaag, since that's your next boss fight.
>>332446339
Fat hammer guy& tall dragonslayer guy
>>332446257
The number of people who summon sunlight warriors says otherwise
>>332447343
Summoning honestly makes the game far too easy. There isn't a single boss fight which doesn't become a cake walk through summoning.
>>332446045
>Never get summoned through white or yellow signs
>Never get invaded or invade anyone outside of townshit
Back to SotFS until DaS3 I guess.
>>332446257
played up to O&S this weekend gone and got summoned and I summoned for every boss
except gaping dragon
>>332447487
What you playing on? I've just started a new run since it went BC with the Xbone and there's loads of people still playing, amazingly. While I was pissing about in the Parish I heard the bell ring like 5 times.
>tfw need to get summoned to be able to join Sunlight covenant
>no one ever does
I think I'm too high of a SL where people don't summon anymore.
>>332447715
PC. I'm trying to do low/mid level co-op/PvP but I get maybe one interaction every 30 mins, even with connection mods. Nobody seems to play that much anymore.
Currently at gargoyles. Let's make this happen.
tfw you finally get into dark souls but it's too late.
Ok I have been trying to ignore all these threads for the life of me to avoid spoilers. And I know that souls games like to re-use ideas from game to game.
But is this game literally Dark Souls 1 part 2?
>>332446045
I found Gaping Dragon to be easier solo.
Some people don't even kill the channeler beforehand.
>>332448039
I still got chain invaded in Anal Rodeo.
Fuck that place.
>>332448812
What is? This thread is about Dark Souls 1
>>332448039
Ill play with you bro
>>332448802
You’re just in time for DS3 though.
>>332449431
I want to get through 1-2 so i can appreciate 3 more. No demon souls though :(
>>332449602
Well what the fuck is stopping you? /v/ will never lose interest in this series. We'll be having Dark Souls threads until the end of time.
>>332449602
Do yourself a favor play demon souls first.
You will enjoy the rest of the series more if you do, if you start with DaS1 or DaS2 you will find the lack of atmosphere in the early levels off putting and it will more like a chore to get through in DS
>>332448167
>>332449110
I'll give it a shot, I actually uninstalled it yesterday (I'm on a SSD) because nothing was happening. Shouldn't take that long. I think I have a high level character (around 150), some mid levels and a low level. Will report back once it's reinstalled...
>>332450587
I currently went off to Quellog, skipped blighttown cause fuck that shit place
>>332451303
>Skipped blighttown
Scrub alert. You're probably gonna skip Lost Izalith as well, aren't you?
>>332447465
Those four tall faggots in DS2 disagree.
Every time I summoned for that fight everyone but me died.
>>332451521
What's Lost Izalith?
Nobody summons in DS1 at all.
You have to download the watchdog for summons or whatever it is.
>>332448802
>>332449602
There's plenty of people still playing DaS1 and 2. I was twinking some faggots last weekend and I invaded all the time at parish.
DaS2 has a shitton of players. There's blood splats everywhere.
>>332451698
I got 30 Sunlight Medalions this weekend just dropping signs outside of the Sentinels and Smelter Demon doors all day.
Love being able to still get summoned for bosses you've completed.
>>332451818
Tell that to all those gankers I invaded
>>332451941
I hope thats a feature still in ds3
Fianlly with no SL we can help people forever with no downside
>>332451857
>I invaded all the time at parish
Fucking how? I'm SL 20 and I never get any invasions there.
>>332452035
Yeah. I had a character with around 6mil SM thanks to several NG+ playthroughs.
Everywhere was a fucking ghost town. No idea what the fuck they were even thinking with SM.
>>332452064
I was SL11.
>>332451767
The worst area in the series. Note: Not just DaS, the ENTIRE series. You can skip the most annoying part of it by taking a shortcut in Demon Ruins, I wouldn't though. It's frustrating but it's worth going through at least once just see how bad an area in a Souls game can really be.
>>332452290
they were thinking it would stop twinks.
It didn't. It just made them minmax even fucking harder.
>>332452064
>>332452389
Also, it was Friday night, so maybe that helped. There were lots of people playing.
Played about 30 invasions, it was fun
>>332447202
I'm on my first playtrough right now. Got Nito and the 4Kings down for the Lordvessel.
Gargoyles are in my top 3 trys.
S&O with 20 trys
Queelag with 10-15
Gargoyle 5-10
I didn't summon any players or NPC's for any boss and used no guides.
>>332452064
The Parish used to be the main area for PvP (And twinking) before the DLC. Now people mostly do it in Oolacile now.
Queelag just pushed my shit in. Do I need to get good?
>>332450587
Ok it's reinstalled. I've got SL 20 and 133 characters. Anybody want to do stuff?I have CE so can change my levels a bit for summon ranges if need be
>>332453025
Nah, she's one of the harder bosses I feel. It's not too bad if you keep your wits about you. The area is fairly big and you can avoid a lot of her attacks by keeping your distance and looking for openings in her attack patterns.
>>332453025
there arehidden walls in the game!
>>332452414
I believe he was making a joke about skipping Lost Izalith so he doesn't know what it was...
>>332453032
Wanna do queelag with me? I want to help someone so i get get the faith requirement drop for sunbros. Should I beat her on her own first though?
>>332453445
Actually i don't know what that place is for real, rung the two bells, never went any further.
>>332453453
Sure I'll head over there now. What's your SL?
>>332453025
Some tips. Makes the fight pretty easystay close to her head. The queen can't hit you there. There is on small lava attack from the Spider which is targeted, but it won't to do much dmg. She does on aoe when. The Spider buts her feet in the ground. You need to run away there, but otherwise stay at the head and 2hand your weapon
>>332453025
Killer her in my second try. No summoning either.
Just use a big shield. Circle her from afar and look for an opening. When the spider throws lava it's a huge opening where she stands there and does nothing.
>>332446045
Change steam server region to Europe LAN Event and you'll find a shitload of summons and invades (assuming you're in europe). Maybe there's one for america too.
>>332453453
I would do the first playtrough on your own with at little guides at possible. Its way more rewarding this way.
She made me crazy for a while, but beating her is a damn good feeling.
>>332453445
You still have to enter Lost Izalith though. It's like Blighttown, in that you can skip a good chunk of it, but the area itself is still mandatory.
>>332453649
33 i believe.
>>332453807
I'm US
>>332453687
>>332453675
I got her once before a looong time ago. I feel like i am underpowered. Oh well.
>>332454007
Ok, sign is down outside her boss fog. I'm SL 21 which I believe is in range. I already killed her though but I can still help you do it
>>332454339
Huh, i dont see it. Only the phantom man hunter chick.
>>332454547
Stuck at 0 nodes for some reason, might have to fiddle around a bit. Don't wait up for me though, god knows if it'll even work.
>>332452414
I enjoyed Lost Izalith.
>>332446045
What SL do I need to have in order to be summoned for Artorias?
>>332454668
What are nodes?
>>332454668
i was 50 for awhile and tried it and also did it at 70 so i don't know
>>332454746
Probably anywhere between SL60 and SL120 would be ideal. Most people in that area are a fairly high SL given its the DLC.
>>332454746
100-120
>>332454680
>>332455124
>>332455286
I'm currently at 60 and I very rarely get summons there, even with 15+ nodes.
I'm almost worried about bringing it up to 100 since there's no way to de-level. It's probably better for me to take the "risk."
>>332454827
I'm using a mod called PvP watchdog which lets you see some info about your connection to other players in DaS. "Nodes" are basically just other IP addresses (i.e. people) that you can connect to. Since I'm stuck at 0 that means I'm not connected to anyone (could be for various reasons), which is why my sign wasn't showing up. I almost broke my router somehow but now I'm gonna try again.
>>332455394
Take yourself to 120. That's the meta SL in DaS.
>>332455394
if you use cheat engine and lower your SL while also lowering your stats by the same amount it's fine
>>332455394
I can't really speak since I last did co-op there over 2 years ago, but I had quite a few and I was sl 100
>>332453025
The other posters brought up some pretty good tips. I just wanted to reassure you that there's a big jump in difficulty from the Gargoyles to Quelaag. It's mostly because she has twice the HP of both Gargoyles combined, which throws a lot of new players off.
>>332453025
>>332455713
also if you hit quelaag's human part of her body with arrows you can stunlock her
>>332446045
If you stick around to queelag's lair I will summon you. For some reason I can't win that fight alone. I don't get it.
>>332453025
Also, if you have any golden pine resin leftover from the burg, she's a good target to use it on
>>332446257
In my experience of invading in pretty much every area at various level ranges the past months say otherwise. Most people who has been playing for the past year even (outside of townshit homos) are on their first playthrough.
>>332455967
gold pine resin helps.
also you can get an uchigatana from the male undead merchant from the undead parish and make it a lightning weapon, it'll deal a ton of damage against her
Nobody ever needs help with Gaping Dragon since it's like the second easiest boss in the game
>>332455967
I can help you! Just just killed her like a second ago!>>332456091
I just got her, did not use any pine resin either. Just stuck close to her head.
>>332455967
I'm going to run to the bonfire fast and then come back with more estus flasks
>>332446339
Gargoyles used to be the point where I would farm up Sunlight Medals, but everybody is too good to bother needing help with it now.
>>332456272
you'd think no-one would need help fighting the taurus demon either but there's still a thread every now and then about some braindead cunt who can't handle his own ineptitude
>>332456272
This. Plus bosses get more HP the more people you summon and then the chucklefucks die and leave you to chip away at it for half an hour.
>>332456390
O&S and artorias are the prime spots for co-op, everyone always needs help there and once you've fought it enough it becomes second nature
>>332455842
"Hit her in the face."
Best advice ever.
The Gargoyles gave me a LOOOOOOT of shit, but I was a new player and had no idea what I was doing, and didn't know how to summon or stay human. Once I got in my groove, the fight was a lot of fun, and I used the tail axe for a good portion of the game.
Quelaag was definitely a challenge, but once you get her patterns down she's easy enough.
Strangely, I didn't have any problems with Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. the first time I came up against them, I was whittling both of their health down, unaware that they transform and get t all back. Also, I made the mistake of killing Chris Farley first, thus dealing with super saiyan David Spade.So what names do you call them, /v/?
>>332456616
>Anor Londo so active it's hard not to invade a trio
>they get overly cocky and you always fuck their shit up by killing the summoner
>mfw
>>332456761heem and babet
>>332456761Enraged Enrique
>>332454668
I had to wait 10-15 minutes to get any, after that it jumped up to 10
>>332457273
Still waiting...
>>332456761Coke and Pepsi
>>332446045
No one should need help with gaping.
He's the easiest boss in the game.
>>332446045
Nobody wants to do gaping dragon. Its one of the easiest bosses in the game and since it has a ton of health, its merely a boring grind.
>>332455967
Alright i put my sign down
>>332456761
Mario and Luigi or Biggie and Smalls.
>>332452414
Lost izalith wasn't that bad. It was just way too simple. All of the enemies hit like wet noodles and died in 1-2 hits. The bounding demons will also never aggro unless youre a dunce and walk right up to them. The boss technically dies in 3 hits.
Gaping Dragon is the easiest boss in the game.
Easier than Pinwheel.
>>332457880
The boss is a fucking nightmare, by far the worst in the series imo. It's just not fun at all.
>>332447202
Didn't they change the goyle fight a bit so it isn't as unforgiving?
>>332458064
I don't think so. People just got better at the game, or you had Sunbro sequence breakers come in and two-shot them with the lightning bolt.
>>332458064
you get a homeward bone after killing them unlike when the game first came out, that's the only difference I think
>>332448812
>is dark souls dark souls 1 part 2?
What the fuck are you even talking about goddamn dude.
>>332446045
Most people replaying it are probably using the master key to avoid optional fights like that, OP.
>>332456616
People seriously don't fight artorias solo? It's one of the best and most fun 1 on 1 fights in the entire game.
>>332446045
I want to help people whenever i play but no one wants help
>>332458318
I agree, which is why I always put my sign down there so I could fight him again.
but yes, quite a lot of people have trouble with him, especially spellcasters and dex users
I played through this game for the first time on ps3 like 2 weeks ago and there's summon signs everywhere. This is like 2 weeks ago. And there's an overabundance of faggot invaders in anor londo, as if getting to and beating ornstein and smough isn't a pain in the ass enough
>>332458064
You can summon solaire AND lautrec so it becomes a 3 vs 2 fight in your favor. No idea how anyone had a problem with it unless you're committed to staying hollow.
>>332458567
>summoning lautrec on first playthrough without knowing how to do it
Doubt it.
>>332458353
Same. I even made a twink left at an area's SL just to lay down a sign and help others. Sign just sits there for a while untouched everytime
But then I try to invade and get prey right away, so there ARE players in human form around
Bitches force me to be a cunt
>>332458564
they're there to remind you how bad you are
>>332458564
pc online has always been fucked
there are 6000 people playing right now
>>332458680
I personally never summon other players for bosses because I assume they're shit and will get killed in the first 2 minutes, leaving me to deal with that extra health boost the boss gets.
>>332458567
I was a complete tard my first game, took me 70 hours, and I still beat gargs no problem. Never understood the complaints.
>>332458680
I hate this. All I want to do is co-op, but I leave my sign for an hour and get NOTHING, meanwhile I walk out into the Forest Hunter area and I'm invaded before I'm even off the stairs.
should I kill marvelous chester
>>332458676
I summoned him on my first playthrough.
He wasn't hard to find in his cell. Is there another step required to summon him other than release him?
Does that person still need help with Queelag ?
>>332459001
His summon sign is pretty well hidden, whereas solaires is right there
>>332458987
Has he invaded you yet?
After that happens just kill him, you get his clothes.
>>332458987
He's a very handy resupplier, and the fact he charges extra doesn't really matter when you hit your cap (if going for a pvp cap at all)
Dat sick coat tho
been waiting at artorias for 20 minutes now
gotta play video games while waiting to play other video games
>>332448167
steam ID? I'm thinking of rolling a new char and wouldnt mind helping out.
>>332459309
What are the chances that any player is going to run past Artorias, whilst being in human form?
This is why summoning is retarded
>>332459309
What SL are you at? I think I have an SL133 character at Artorias.
>>332459384
Dukenstein or Bear, one or the other.
>tfw you will never fiddle with Gwyndolin's snake feet while you cuddle, watching the sun set in Anor Londo
you need to find mr whiskers and get the condom
>tfw fapped to Sweet Shalquoir
that voice and personality is so sexy
why FROM?
>>332459513
jovox
That's probably because anyone who plays at this point skips the depths.
>recently tried to see how fast I could beat the game
>got to Sen's in under an hour
It was NG+ but still, kind of exhilarating
>>332446045
Summoning someone for Gaping Dragon is the worst Strat. What you want is GDragon to concentrate on you so you can smash it's tiny head in when he does the body slam attack.
Queelag is a good boss to do Co-op with.
>>332451941
>>332452035
>>332452290
>>332452491
Yeah it was fucking dumb, the best way to implement that system, even though it's really not good at all, would have been to calculate how many souls a player has spent in total on everything they have equipped, plus their levels, and anything in their inventory.
>>332446339
Go to Anor Londo or Dukes Archives.
I don't know why, but people always need/want help killing Seath, you should get summoned on average every 5mins there.
That's where I farmed Sun medals last time I played.
Just tab out and shitpost while you wait.
>>332460396
are you german or us?
>>332446045
>Invading people in dragon spire on Dark Souls 2
>they are all pussy faggots that spam arrows and spells from inside doors to big for the giants
Loving ever laugh
>>332457880
Did anyone ever bother trying to kill the undead dragon lower halves? Do they drop anything?
>>332461628
what level for anor londo
>tfw I hate doing capra demon because of the damn dogs
>>332461317
That'd be okay. Something I'd also like would be if the game ignored your levels in INT/FTH if you weren't using those. Annoying to implement but I liked dipping a bit into them for fall control/cast light/homeward.
>>332463562
nigga what
you can kill the dogs in the first 3 seconds of the fight
>>332463708
Wouldn't be that hard to implement, all it would need to do is check if the player has any spells equipped or any weapons that scale with faith/int equipped, and then count the points out properly.
>>332447202
Quelaag is way easier than gaping dragon, game is a joke for beginners before both bells are rung
>>332463562
>run to the side shield up
>roll through both the boss (very likely) during his jumping attack and the first dog
>roll again towards the stairs through the second door
>run to the top of the stairs and use a front or up-down attack to kill the dogs, then step to the side until capra demon falls back down
Not that complicated, negro
>>332464340
second DOG*
fug
>>332464340
I try but I get stuck on the dogs charging in when dodging to the side or camera angle gets shit
>go the undead chapel, throw down summon sign for gargoyles
>50 minutes with out a bite
>meanwhile DaS2 is still very active and filled with people even though it's fucking shite
>>332465215
>>332457371
how do i get the nodes thing?
>>332446339
16 Str
10 dex
Zwei
Ezpz
>>332465293
PVP Watchdog I believe.
Do you still have to set your location to something silly on Steam to get more nodes?
>>332465249
Is that really how many people actually bought the games? Why even bother going PC.
>>332466872
That's how many people are currently playing ya dolt.
>>332466872
>>332456761
Kenan and Kel
