sloppyjoe_gamer
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What's the method to creating a lightning based weapon, and what is one that you would recommend? Been using the Drake Sword forever, but what something lightning based!!
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Facism
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Can't remember the requirements, but i used a lightning Halberd. Good times.
SiegfriedFM
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Take any normal weapon, upgrade it to +10 at Andrei (outside parish). For this you need a bunch of titanite shards (that you can buy off him) and a bunch of large titanite (that you can buy at the smith in Anor Londo or farm). When it's +10, take it to the smith in Anor Londo to make it Lightning. After that, you need titanite chunks to improve it further.
From the wiki:
From the wiki:
H_Prestige
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Is there any place where you can find a nice summary of the game's lore? I'm really interested in who Havel is. I remember reading somewhere there used to be a whole army of those guys. Would make for a pretty sweet level.
Started playing more again. Dark Souls I can't quit you.
My biggest Dark Souls gripe is that it seems really difficult to compare weapon damages. For example, my Queelag blade does a lot of fire damage on paper, but in practice it doesn't seem to cause as much damage as my silver knight sword +5 for the majority of enemies I encounter. Not really sure why this is?
This makes me really unsure of which weapons to upgrade and use for different parts of the game. For example, I'll need a divine weapon for the crypt, what type of weapon would be best to upgrade?
My biggest Dark Souls gripe is that it seems really difficult to compare weapon damages. For example, my Queelag blade does a lot of fire damage on paper, but in practice it doesn't seem to cause as much damage as my silver knight sword +5 for the majority of enemies I encounter. Not really sure why this is?
This makes me really unsure of which weapons to upgrade and use for different parts of the game. For example, I'll need a divine weapon for the crypt, what type of weapon would be best to upgrade?
I just played through the Painted World for my first time. How incredible is it that entire enemy types were designed exclusively for a part of the game that most people won't ever even see?
valentine71
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http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Lore
I got used to the lightning spear and it works fine. Safe, quick and has a good range. After i used it for 2 levels, i couldn't go back to swords.
I really like the painted world, nice place to farm for souls real early on, and the large pieces of titanite, it's also become my favorite PVP and Co-op place of choice, I love the Priscilla boss fight.
I hang around Quellags domain and painted world looking to Help out people, I stay away from PVP in blightown since They seem to summon a three team wall of death as soon as I enter.
I hang around Quellags domain and painted world looking to Help out people, I stay away from PVP in blightown since They seem to summon a three team wall of death as soon as I enter.
See You Next Wednesday
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I remember people saying Occult is the best against live humans. I'm not sure if that was tested.
EpicNameBro is making videos on the lore, check out his latest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxz4rLqWBe4&feature=channel_video_title
A lot of enemies have good fire resistance. Like it's better to go the lighting upgrade over a fire even though it will give you slightly lower stats just from the fact less enemies in the game have lighting resistance.
Aw man. Had the bright idea of bb glitching a character who had lots of sunlight medals / eyes of death into a new guy so I can get the miracles trophy easier. Turns out I didn't get any miracles when I handed in all my sunlight medals, except for the initial lightning spear (rank 2 now). No option to hand in Gwyns soul even though I have that from the BB too. Apparently I have to wait until NG+ to do this...anyone know if there's a way around this? Maybe if I absolve my sins, abandon covenant, and rejoin.. I don't know.
Mortrialus
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I sat down and made a new character yesterday and spent most of my day off playing it. Got the Black Knight sword from the Black Knight in Undead Burg and leveled it up to +5 and have been tearing shit up. I've also found a few pieces of loot I never knew how to get on my first character. The game's level design, for the most part, is so complex, multi-layered and well made it's mindboggling. The game is absolutely god tier. There are a few hick ups, but I feel confident in that Dark Souls has become my favorite game of all time.
You can just run by her.
Nope. I could the first time, but since attacking her, running to the end of the plank just results in falling off and dying, not in being ejected from the painting like it did before I attacked her.
If you attacked her first after you first greeted her...well yeah.
Otherwise she gives you a free pass.
She is one of the easiest boss fights in the game,
look for the footsteps, roll into them and you'll see your character bounce of of the air, she'll slash nowhere near you and you got like 2-3 secs to take a few stabs and quickly roll back and repeat. You can set her on fire by spamming pyro spells all over places but it will quickly get you killed if you dont watch your bleed meter, this will cause her to reappear for a few moments.
I beat her without ever seeing her.
killertofu
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I started up my game again after having the first one corrupted. I'm in the garden right now and I accidentally killed the blacksmith 
. Is there another one soon?
. Is there another one soon?I started up my game again after having the first one corrupted. I'm in the garden right now and I accidentally killed the blacksmith
You wont get another till Anor lando, and i'm not sure but you pretty much fucked your chances to level up your weapons past +5
who was the last boss you faced?
Priscilla is super easy though. She is specially weak to fire.
Just cheap upgrade options for pure physical damage early in the game. Quickly gets outpaced by the normal upgrades.
killertofu
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I started up my game again after having the first one corrupted. I'm in the garden right now and I accidentally killed the blacksmith
Gaping Dragon :l. I got down to Blighttown but I kept dying in the swamp so I decided to farm up here. I got my Iaito to +5 though...
Wow is this true; I was screwing around and got invaded by the bonfire while getting ready to kindle. I quickly called in two dudes, we killed the invader, then the phalanx, then the black knight and finally the boss, all in about 6 minutes. It was almost too fast as I was planning on exploring more.
On the plus side, one guy specifically got me Priscilla's Dagger.
There are obviously a lot of people just waiting to help out here.
I started up my game again after having the first one corrupted. I'm in the garden right now and I accidentally killed the blacksmith
The only option left for you to have awesome weapons (other than the unique ones) is to go the chaos route.
After beating Blighttown boss, continue to the demon ruins and you will find the chaos ember there.
Go farm 11 green titanite shards or so and make Framp break 2 of them. Then go to the Catacombs. There the blacksmith will be able to ascend a normal weapon to to fire then (use 9 green titanite) ascend it to a chaos (you will need red titanite chunk, you can find 2 of them in the Unded Asylum).
This type of weapons scale with humanity. Try to keep always at least 10 humanities active to use its full potential.
There's no way around it. Also you cannot get any of the covenant items that you received in the original playthrough.
Different enemies have different resistances, also, damage that is split into two categories tend to do less damage than those that aren't. Anything that is blunt is great for the catacombs, because skeletons collapse with each hit taken. I used a halberd, has nice R2 attacks great for skeleton mobs.
Thanks for the info. Guess I'll have to go into NG+ for those, doh. Got the gravelord miracles, Reas, and put 3 souvenirs toward the 10 I need for Darkmoon +1. So I suppose I'll get darkmoon blade, kill gwyndolin, co-op for a few sunlight medals again, finish the game, and get those last ones in NG+... lol.
Or are you saying I won't be able to get the sunlight covenant miracles even in NG+?
I got someone in Dark Root Garden but then we got invaded and I got killed.
Maybe sometime this week I'll get Sif.
I got someone in Dark Root Garden but then we got invaded and I got killed.
Maybe sometime this week I'll get Sif.
Good luck with that. It's almost impossible not to get invaded there.
I THINK that is the case, but I didn't try to verify it. Once I figured I was screwed I restarted my character.
Well, I decided to go through with the rest of my miracle grabbing because I had a hunch that if the game thought I already had the covenant miracles, I would still get the trophy. So I got my remaining miracles, the last being the one in ash lake, and I was right because I got the prayer of a maiden trophy!
So, I think you're definitely right in that I won't be able to get those miracles for this character, even in NG+. But, that's because the game thinks I already have them because the character I BB glitched from did, so I was able to get the trophy.
And that was my last trophy, so I've now platinumed Dark Souls. 400 hours later, still playing
For whatever dumb reason I was farming humanity outside of Nito in human form. I was doing it for about an hour before I was invaded. I was down to only a few flasks, had the chest/mimic head on, and was using a chaos 'scythe' (that R1R1 has a nice sweep) and the lighting spear. The invader was the typical havel's / DWGR. Its the nature of the game and my own fault, but it still made me mad. I wanted to hunt the guy down (in game.)
Just need Sif's great shield now and I should have the platinum. This one zoomed past. * Feel like I've been playing for weeks straight ( probably have been.) I'm definitely feeling like I could use a break from the game.
Just need Sif's great shield now and I should have the platinum. This one zoomed past. * Feel like I've been playing for weeks straight ( probably have been.) I'm definitely feeling like I could use a break from the game.
Lost Fragment
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Jump off of it and push the attack button in the air.
Only because if you enter The Painted World you're stuck in it until you finish it. There's no other connection between the two.
So, if you want to play through The Painted World with an ascended flame, then you should go first to Blighttown's swamp, ascend the flame, then return to Anor Londo to enter the painting.
Keep in mind the cost to go from normal +10 to fully +5 ascended flame is ~150.000 souls (do check a wiki though, if you want more exact info). If your flame is not yet +10, that will add to the final tab.
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My bad with the +10s from above, should be +15
to ascend.
Facism
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wow man the game is infested with these guys who glitched their maxxed equipment from the bottomless box glitch. One dickhead spawned right infront of the bonfire in the Parish. i managed to take him out with a force blast that pushed him over the edge of the pathway as he spawned in.
Yeah I noticed it when I started a new character lately.
Every single player who invades me has a full maxed gear with a lightning weapon which one shot me.
This is really getting annoying, especially when these players are there to grieve new players.
I feel bad when I blame them because there are some players who do this the hard way but they are so rare.
Finally had a chance to play this game more. So glad I finally decided to experiment with the lightning spear. It does double the damage on enemies and bosses with each consecutive hit until my stamina runs out.
Also, accidentally hit Vamos. Had to kill him. Why can't the NPC's tolerate a few more hits before turning on you like in Demon's Souls? One little mistake and there goes one NPC out of your world.
Also, accidentally hit Vamos. Had to kill him. Why can't the NPC's tolerate a few more hits before turning on you like in Demon's Souls? One little mistake and there goes one NPC out of your world.
You can absolve, so I don't think that's a huge concern. Just run away from them or let them kill you.
Oh wow. I didn't even know that. Damn.........no fire or chaos upgrades for me in this playthrough.
But at least I get the Vamos Hammer.
Where do people leave signs to help with Seath? I saw one by the bonfire in Duke's Archive but summoning failed. I didn't see another soul sign between that bonfire and Seath. I also didn't see any soul signs by the Four Kings but those guys were easy.
Also: I am giving up on the Channeler's Trident for now
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Same here: I got so much done this week: O&S, New Londo + Four Kings, Painted World + Priscilla, Sif, Duke's Archives. The ending finally feels close.
Also: I am giving up on the Channeler's Trident for now
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Same here: I got so much done this week: O&S, New Londo + Four Kings, Painted World + Priscilla, Sif, Duke's Archives. The ending finally feels close.
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