Orochinagis
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Yeah there is no way you could know about the other endning without a guide, the other ending is just leave the room when you entered.
Curious enough that could be the canon ending.
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Yeah there is no way you could know about the other endning without a guide, the other ending is just leave the room when you entered.
Curious enough that could be the canon ending.
Took you that long to figure that out then?Doesn't take much to set you off, eh? ;P
I suggest a cold shower.
Not really what a cold shower can cure..Ooh sounds like fun what time would you like to start? I assume it's accessed by the lord souls so I assume it's the final boss? I should start the dlc at some point...
It's giving you a weapon that does more damage at the expense of stat scaling decreasing. Which i'm not sure is either a good or bad thing considering it just uses large titanite shards which are easy to get.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
If I'm lucky, 9pm. If not, probably around 10pm. Looking like the latter at the moment.
You totally need to get on the DLC, it's awesome. I can co-op for that too with my STR build, if you're game?
I've just got to back to dark root then I can start the dlc. 9pm onward is fine for me really, we can do it after the four kings if you want?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
King Gilga
Member
Just finished kill every single npc and finished the game. Wow, what an experience.
Great game, great atmosphere, I loved how most bosses/enemies didn't 'talk'. They just got down and dirty. No exposition, not justifications, no nothing. The only ones that did talk at all were the optional ones iirc (priscilla and gwyndolin.).
The armor design is also great, I love how 'used' everything looks. Most of the areas look great as well, they all 'feel' unique and have their own atmosphere, really draws you in.
Going in blind (for the most part) was such a great decision though, exploring and finding out paths, items and areas and having no idea where the hell you are, then realising how interconnected most of the zones are. Just feels great.
People really really oversold he difficulty though, I died more from falling off shit than bosses/mobs by far, and I can count on 1 hand the bosses that took more than 2-3 tries to kill. And it's not that I'm a good player, because I died more on DMC3 on easy than in this game by quite a bit I think, and I didn't even kindle any bonfires till Artorias (did dlc last b4 boss).
Still, a great game, but I don't have much motivation to play NG+ if it's just bigger health and damage numbers, but maybe the aggression mod might change that. DS2 is close anyways, and I really don't want to revisit tomb of giants.
For 2 I hope they:
- Fix the PC netcode, w/e it is it's horrible.
- More bosses like the DLC ones + gwyn/S+O.
- Balance Co-op so it doesn't make every single boss trivial (at least in NG). I played along a friend and did all my bosses solo (except centipede, did with solaire, did Gwyn /w solaire as well, but did again solo right after), and then he summoned me for his, and the it was a bit silly how much of a joke the game was Co-op.
Nitpicking side, it was a great experience and one of my favorite games of the generation. I really hope 2 can live up to it.
Ahah, I somehow didn't manage to see the bonfire at all my first kill and just walked out the (what I thought was empty) room and got that ending. When I went to go kill gwyn again solo (because doing it with solaire felt cheap) I found the bonfire.
Neither endings really made any sense to me though but w/e.
Great game, great atmosphere, I loved how most bosses/enemies didn't 'talk'. They just got down and dirty. No exposition, not justifications, no nothing. The only ones that did talk at all were the optional ones iirc (priscilla and gwyndolin.).
The armor design is also great, I love how 'used' everything looks. Most of the areas look great as well, they all 'feel' unique and have their own atmosphere, really draws you in.
Going in blind (for the most part) was such a great decision though, exploring and finding out paths, items and areas and having no idea where the hell you are, then realising how interconnected most of the zones are. Just feels great.
People really really oversold he difficulty though, I died more from falling off shit than bosses/mobs by far, and I can count on 1 hand the bosses that took more than 2-3 tries to kill. And it's not that I'm a good player, because I died more on DMC3 on easy than in this game by quite a bit I think, and I didn't even kindle any bonfires till Artorias (did dlc last b4 boss).
Still, a great game, but I don't have much motivation to play NG+ if it's just bigger health and damage numbers, but maybe the aggression mod might change that. DS2 is close anyways, and I really don't want to revisit tomb of giants.
For 2 I hope they:
- Fix the PC netcode, w/e it is it's horrible.
- More bosses like the DLC ones + gwyn/S+O.
- Balance Co-op so it doesn't make every single boss trivial (at least in NG). I played along a friend and did all my bosses solo (except centipede, did with solaire, did Gwyn /w solaire as well, but did again solo right after), and then he summoned me for his, and the it was a bit silly how much of a joke the game was Co-op.
Nitpicking side, it was a great experience and one of my favorite games of the generation. I really hope 2 can live up to it.
Ahah, I somehow didn't manage to see the bonfire at all my first kill and just walked out the (what I thought was empty) room and got that ending. When I went to go kill gwyn again solo (because doing it with solaire felt cheap) I found the bonfire.
Neither endings really made any sense to me though but w/e.
Astral/H3X
Member
Gilga, look up Vaati Vidya's youtube videos, they'll explain the story. It's all done in its own out of the way method, and unless you really look into it you won't ever know the story.
NinjaBoiX
Member
Right, so it's a cheaper way to get a fairly powerful weapon but the trade of is poorer stat scaling.
Gotcha, thanks.
Orochinagis
Member
Just one boss to end this game using a melee character, it really felt a great change of gameplay for me compared to my mage runs.
Still trying to be cool?
A raw +5 plus is equal in damage to a +13 normal weapon but with less stat scaling.
Go suck a dick in hell, Bed of Chaos. Enjoy being dead.
I'm close to finish this and seriously, I'm getting quite disappointed on the last zones of the game. Here's hoping it closes on a high note, but yeah, people oversell the difficulty factor of the game.
Lost Izalith, Bed of Chaos, Gravelord Nito and shit are annoying, not difficult, but oh well, I'm getting there.
I'm close to finish this and seriously, I'm getting quite disappointed on the last zones of the game. Here's hoping it closes on a high note, but yeah, people oversell the difficulty factor of the game.
Lost Izalith, Bed of Chaos, Gravelord Nito and shit are annoying, not difficult, but oh well, I'm getting there.
LOL.
Yeah, the last areas suck. Not very interesting at all. Duke's/CC is the best. but even CC is only cool looking - but not long or interesting after you figure out the trick.
Nito died easily i just circled him and killed him without being hit. But speaking of the bed of chaos, this guy needed to be the summonable npc:
It shares the sound with the thing when it's getting burnt.
My pleasure I've got to upgrade my sadist sword to raw it just seems like a perfect thing to do.
Screaming meat do you have a set of thorns spare that I can have? I'll give you that dragon scale you wanted.
last night I went down to New Londo and right before you go to the first bridge, a guy ran up to me and fought me. Looked like a knight without a helmet. I eventually killed him. He wasn't colored, so I don't think he was an invader, but I'm not sure. I got 1K souls from killing him.
Arjen
Member
That was the crestfallen Warrior. You know the dude chillin at firelink.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Not sure if I've ever got it. I'll take a looksee.
I'll be on in minute but also on call.
EDIT: Nope. No set of Thorns on any of my builds. I'm afraid.
xBladeM6x
Member
I was looking through all these "Saving Solaire" videos and how people do it, and I have never seen anyone do it the way that I did.
Basically I just talked to him in the beginning to get the White Soapstone, then when he's sitting in Anor Londo I didn't talk to him. I just went through the whole game, opened the shortcut through Izalith normally / killed the Sunlight Maggot, and then played up until the Gwyn battle, then went back and talked to him at all the places you're suppose to, and his marking was on the ground before Gwyn.
TL;DR - Don't talk to Solaire until you've already basically beaten the game, and follow his path from there, and you'll be able to use him against Gwyn.
Basically I just talked to him in the beginning to get the White Soapstone, then when he's sitting in Anor Londo I didn't talk to him. I just went through the whole game, opened the shortcut through Izalith normally / killed the Sunlight Maggot, and then played up until the Gwyn battle, then went back and talked to him at all the places you're suppose to, and his marking was on the ground before Gwyn.
TL;DR - Don't talk to Solaire until you've already basically beaten the game, and follow his path from there, and you'll be able to use him against Gwyn.
xBladeM6x
Member
Wow, figures it's on the one place I didn't look. LOL
SeventhSon
Member
When I finished my co-op focused NG about a month ago, I received a messaged from the co-op phantom for the Gwyn fight thanking me since he had never seen Solaire used in that fight.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Orochinagis
Member
Finally it ended the fire to the link path, now I am ready for DS II
Burgess_101
Member
You know I read it that way but my brain must not have liked the spelling...
NinjaBoiX
Member
I love the pronunciation of it:
"Ee-a-ee-to".
Fucking kickass sword too, the heavy attack is godly. I have it as a +5 fire sword but I'm going to modify it back to standard and get it to +14 along with my Uchigatana. Then decide which one to max out! (You only get one titanite slab per playthrough right?)
Katana's are the best in DS, love that shit.
Arjen
Member
You can get three slabs guaranteed with the DLC,
- Stray Demon
- End of siegmeyers quest
- Chest in the Kalameet Arena
also the darkwraiths in new londo have a change to drop them
cebri.one
Member
yes
you can skip the capra demon if you have the master key
master key is for losers
VICTORY ACHIEVED.
NinjaBoiX
Member
Ah cool. So I can get my Uchi, Iaito and Pharis bow maxed, and maybe the Great Sythe too (I'm not a fan. ENB raves about it, so I grabbed it and upgraded it straight to +10, then decided it was too slow. It's super powerful though, probably worth having maxed out.)
But seriously, what are these quests you guys speak of? I don't think I've ever done one. I don't even know how to initiate one!
Also, isn't Stray Demon in Undead Asylum when you go back?
Red Liquorice
Member
Quests in DS aren't really logged or accepted like in other games, they're just shit that happens along the way and as long as you go through each "checkpoint" they continue.
Seigmeyer - you meet him several places along the way, resulting in the final one where you get the slab.
Other NPC questlines like Kirk, Lautrec, Rhea, Solaire etc. I think you really need a FAQ/guide to do them all, I certainly didn't do everything on my first playthrough some of it is conditional like 'don't do this area until you've met this dude' kind of stuff.
NinjaBoiX
Member
Ah, OK. Well I always talk to NPC's when I see them in case they have goodies, but I can't say I make a habit of doing it every time I see them. And I never know where they've gone when the move! Hmmm, I've probably missed out on most of them, maybe NG+ eh?
Four Kings when I get in from work tomorrow, Manus is kicking my ass! :/
It was there since the get go I'm sure I saw it on the way out. It's just you can kill it when you go back.
Oh well i'll have to get him next time. Sorry if I wasn't much help really I got mugged and grey things grabbed me.
But at least I'll get a lightning balder side sword at some point. I'm not sure what to do with the sunlight sword I mean I like the moveset so I might use it later for another upgrade path.
Thursday War
Banned
so i killed BoC pretty easily today. will kill nito tomorrow and then open up the Kiln so i can farm some black knight halberds off of the halberd wielding knights. need to send out gwyn in a big black +14 halberd BANG!
Finished the game tonight, what a fantastic experience. I ended up getting home and digging in for a long session, ended up killing Kalameet, Manus, and Gwyn tonight. Kalameet and Manus were fantastic fights, really all the dlc bosses were fucking great. Kalameet killed me a fair number of times, but figuring out his patterns was wonderful, that fight was perhaps the most intense in a while as far as stamina management goes. Manus wasn't too tough (I say this as a level 91-ish havel armor-wearing tank) but was really fun to fight. Gwyn was a pushover after beating the dlc bosses, but still fun and had a badass sword.
I had a blast, and am definitely considering going back in for a second run when it gets converted to streamworks and mixing things up with how I build. Really looking forward to DS2 next month even more now.
I had a blast, and am definitely considering going back in for a second run when it gets converted to streamworks and mixing things up with how I build. Really looking forward to DS2 next month even more now.
I'm definitely going to check those out. So many times when going through the game I thought to myself that I'd like to know more but didn't want to go googling around mid-game.
I had a blast, and am definitely considering going back in for a second run when it gets converted to streamworks and mixing things up with how I build. Really looking forward to DS2 next month even more now.
I had a blast, and am definitely considering going back in for a second run when it gets converted to streamworks and mixing things up with how I build. Really looking forward to DS2 next month even more now.
I'm definitely going to check those out. So many times when going through the game I thought to myself that I'd like to know more but didn't want to go googling around mid-game.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Bahahahahhaha
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
so i killed BoC pretty easily today. will kill nito tomorrow and then open up the Kiln so i can farm some black knight halberds off of the halberd wielding knights. need to send out gwyn in a big black +14 halberd BANG!
Sorry, guy. They only go to +5. Still, one of the best weapons in the game.
Hey, we nearly got them the first time. That was about the second best I've done with The Four Kings. After we parted ways I did some PvP in Oolacile with my other build. I actually won a few matches, too. Huzzah!
well... there goes my breakfast.
That is so fantastically awesome. Is it just that? lol, I hope so, that would make it even better.
I'd prefer move Gywnevre paintings although my productivity would plummet.
We actually did something the first time? I had no idea what was going on well now I'm going to farm for titanite chunks. Once I get a balder lightning sword I'll kill tentacle dragon.
What would you lot upgrade a +10 sunlight straight sword to?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
We did. Basically, you got to hammer the grey thing until it dies and before more come out. If it goes purple or unleashes some purple, you have to back away or block, respectively.
Tentacle dragon...?
Okay then that makes sense. Once I got in close I was fine but otherwise not so much.
Well he hasn't got legs...
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Ahhh, Seath! You want some back-up?
Ain't even got no legs. Hows it feel Seath, to be a bitchhhh
Maybe I can get him below half health with lightning spear, it's just getting in close and finishing up. We can co-op if you want to if I don't manage it.
Well he did help kill off like all the dragons before getting a thing for crystals, snakes and tentacles.