Dark Souls- PS3, Xbox 360, PC

[evil_ash_xero]

Ugh.
Capra Demon is a huge roadblock for me right now.
;_;


Trying to get the Drake sword atm, hopefully that with some charcoal pine resin helps.

Yeah, definitely get the Drake Sword. You should have had that ages ago!
But you should run past him(you can get killed doing this though), and go up the stairs. Sometimes he'll go up, and sometimes his dogs will go up, but whichever..either kill the dogs as they come up the stairs, or jump off as he is coming up the stairs and kill his dogs before he gets back down. After that, he's MUCH easier.

[Jeneki]

From my experience, Capra Demon is either won or lost in the first 5 seconds. Either the player is able to escape the initial Capra + dogs blitz and take out the small fry for an easy remaining fight, or the player gets stun locked and loses immediately.

Ugh, I'm using white soapstone lately and it's rather frustrating. Every time I join a game, the host makes an oops mistake such as rolling off a cliff. I'm a bad luck charm, haha.

[JBC]

Finished Blighttown and rang the second bell yesterday. Hopefully the next areas have a better frame rate...

There are no other parts in the game, that have a frame rate that is that bad. I don't now what's up with Blight Town. It's a blight on the game. See what I did there?

One that always bothers me is climbing the first ladder in New Londo Ruins. You're being chased by at least 4 ghosts at this point (if you didn't fight them) and suddenly chu chu chu chuuuuuuuuu all the way up the ladder. It's not game breaking or anything but alot of times I swear my PS3 is gonna crash.

[Zaarock]

Why is everyone using the drake sword if you're speedrunning or something I understand.. personally I didn't even want to pick it up on my first playthrough.

I even got summoned by someone using drake sword at the last area of the game today (he casted darkmoon sword on it before the boss) and he was doing good damage.

Afterwards I beat the last boss myself with 2h lifehunt scythe moveset is pretty weird though and I need to raise my endurance above 40 to have an alternate weapon with me.


Also, capra demon: just run around him from the right, and run behind him to the stairs, luring the dogs and then killing them there. just like herding bullets in a shmup :p it just looks claustrophobic.

[CMoon]

Capra Demon> Yeah, hate to say it but just keep trying again and again until you can get up on that ledge and take out the dogs. I know there are harder bosses, but this was the one point in the game I hit where I was genuinely frustrated--IE substitute real difficulty for 'run like a mutha fucka and maybe get lucky'.

Got the cat ring and did a few forest invasions--of course, it seems whoever's world you get sucked into is way more powerful than you. Fun anyway.

[CMoon]

[sjewkestheloon]

Re-Drake Sword. Anyone using it beyond the very early game must be lacking imagination or will to grind for upgrade gems. I had replaced it by the time I entered Blight Town. Was glad to have it for the Depths and Undead Parish though, and I will be getting it each time I play without any sensation of guilt.

What's with the strength requirements of some of the weapons? 40 ffs? My lowly 16 strength has a long way to go and I am not sure it is worth investing the points in it until I have my stamina maxed and I have some points in intelligence. Maybe I will be able to use it by level 120...

[Leader Bee]

I'm using a divine great axe +6 at the moment, it takes 36 strength. but the dragon kings axe you get from Gaping Dragon takes 50 Strength so i'm not sure i'll be using that this playthrough, does anyone know the pre-reqs for using the iron golem axe? I think once I get through sens fortress i'll be upgrading to this.

Probably wont go divine though, i only upgraded to that because I didn't have the option to go fire/lightining at the blacksmith in the undead parish... great for while I clear the catacombs though as skeletons don't revive if you kill them with divine weapons.

[CMoon]

Well I'm doing a faith build + pyromancy (every build is + pyromancy now!) and am working my divine claymore +5 (sometimes alternating with the straight astoria sword +2 which does OK damage.) Humorously, they have the same moveset, only one is MUCH LARGER than the other. As far as faith weapons, there's been some talk about the Crescent Axe +5 (which is divine and scales with faith). Guess I can always take the claymore to +5 occult.

There's talk in the next patch about either elemental weapons being nerfed or scaling weapons getting buffed. Honestly I was looking at a very long road of upgrading several weapons (one fire, one lightning, one occult), but maybe that won't be necessary now.

[Jeneki]

Jolly Co-Operation!

Hey, that was me last night! I was totally rocking the Zweihander in coop, although I was going shirtless for extra intimidation factor.

I'm tempted to run some invasions bare-fisted style, just to see how many players will humor me and brawl it out.

[Zaarock]

Well I'm doing a faith build + pyromancy (every build is + pyromancy now!) and am working my divine claymore +5 (sometimes alternating with the straight astoria sword +2 which does OK damage.) Humorously, they have the same moveset, only one is MUCH LARGER than the other. As far as faith weapons, there's been some talk about the Crescent Axe +5 (which is divine and scales with faith). Guess I can always take the claymore to +5 occult.

There's talk in the next patch about either elemental weapons being nerfed or scaling weapons getting buffed. Honestly I was looking at a very long road of upgrading several weapons (one fire, one lightning, one occult), but maybe that won't be necessary now.

You might want to make The True Greatsword of Artorias when you can, it's scaling is C/C/B/B and claymore moveset afaik. with the way scaling works that should be pretty badass.

[Elixir]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mCb8nZxg2M

[Zaarock]

DEX confirmed to speed up pyromancy casting: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15913364

Guess I'll have to raise dex to 50 on my first character with the rebalancing patch and this.

Great Combustion in the face > shotel

[sjewkestheloon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mCb8nZxg2M

Some of the most crazy shit I have ever seen.

[CMoon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mCb8nZxg2M

How is this being done?

[CMoon]

DEX confirmed to speed up pyromancy casting: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15913364

Guess I'll have to raise dex to 50 on my first character with the rebalancing patch and this.

Great Combustion in the face > shotel

Man, this is like a street fighter update now with so many buffs/nerfs. Wonder if my strategy guide will have any value after all this.

[Elixir]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mCb8nZxg2M

How is this being done?

They're exceeding the maximum limits by reassigning controllers, I'm not sure if anything else is used.

[Sumez]

Capra Demon> Yeah, hate to say it but just keep trying again and again until you can get up on that ledge and take out the dogs. I know there are harder bosses, but this was the one point in the game I hit where I was genuinely frustrated--IE substitute real difficulty for 'run like a mutha fucka and maybe get lucky'.

...just wait till you get to Demon Ruins and have to fight 6 of the fuckers.
Needless to say, this is one of the last places you go.

[Leader Bee]

I wandered in here after killing quelaag. The boss owned me but at least i picked up the gold hemmed robes there. Shame i'd just gone through the posion swamp so they're almost useless the minute you get them.

[Zaarock]

Man, this is like a street fighter update now with so many buffs/nerfs. Wonder if my strategy guide will have any value after all this.

That wasn't a change in the patch, it isn't out yet.

@leader bee: really, you think the poison resist is the only good stat? you can pretty much play through the whole game with that armor on, it's the the best unupgradable light armor

[Sumez]

The boss owned me but at least i picked up the gold hemmed robes there. Shame i'd just gone through the posion swamp so they're almost useless the minute you get them.

Useless, why? I picked up the gold hemmed set right after Quelaag, too, but I used it for the majority of the game.

[Leader Bee]

I know it's got good base resists but it also has zero poise. Considering i'm using a great axe as my main weapon poise is really useful for me not having my swings interrupted. At the moment i'm rolling with Elite Knights armour and the eastern helmet/eastern leggings. The knights armour has 20 Poise so this is really good, i can still roll decently with it and having upgraded it to +8 have about 78 resist against physical.

I'll swap out for specific armours as necessary.

[iconoclast]

The Elite Knight armor looks like the best in the game to me. A full set at +9 has almost as much defense as Havel's, but it weighs around half as much. Dunno about light armors though.

[Sumez]

I know it's got good base resists but it also has zero poise. Considering i'm using a great axe as my main weapon poise is really useful for me not having my swings interrupted.

Get the wolf ring

As for having your swings interrupted - the trick is not to get hit at all. If you get hit just once, without a shield up, in the later parts of the game, you're pretty much fucked. :S

edit: Never noticed Elite Knight could be upgraded to +10! Seems I gotta do this, as I'm already sacrificing a lot of load, walking around in Havel's body armor (with havel's ring on, naturally)

[Zaarock]

Black iron armor at +5 is also very good apparently. Also I'm thinking of upgrading wanderer manchette to +10, it might have good all around defences. edit: yeah, it's 30/26/32/28 at +9, but 0 poise. Iron set also looks great to upgrade but damn does it look silly mixed with something else :p

edit2: oops, leather gloves have better stats than wanderer manchette Dx

Personally rolling with Brass helm, Black knight armor and Gold hemmed leggings w/ dark wood ring atm :p

Sumez: on NG++ or something sure, but otherwise you can have enough def to not get killed in two hits. it also seems quite useful for pvp.

[Sumez]

How does Black Iron +5 compare to Elite Knight +10?
The wikis aren't too updated on this stuff, it seems.

Also am I the only one who loves upgrading my man-serpent greatsword? For some reason these are treated as common weapons, upgradeable to all other types.
They seem to be quite a bit stronger than the claymore, without sacrificing attack speed.

[CMoon]

Do all the normal upgradable armors take a titanite slab to get to +10? Wish I'd known about the gold hemmed armor as I might not have bothered taking the black leather armor up to +9. The black leather armor set at +10 (I changed out the helmet for chain) is, at least on paper one of the best light weight armor sets, but unless titanite slabs start showing up in abundance, that isn't going to happen. Also, 0 poise. May need to start messing around with that elite set.

[Sumez]

I heard the darkwraith warriors (skeletor with a sword) in the lower parts of New Londo drop titanite slabs?
The aggrivating part: No bonfires in new londo, grhaaa >:o

[Zaarock]

Yeah, there is a drop for every kind of titanite slab.. but they have ridiculously low drop rates. I farmed those darkwraiths for like 6 hours and no slabs.

Also, that man serpent sword is a great weapon, one of the only weapons with B scaling for STR as well.

[Sumez]

6 hours? Christ. I assume you were wearing your serpent ring.