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So I'm standing in Anor Londo after killing the two bosses and going through
the painting world
and I decide to check out my trophies. Apparently I don't have the trophy for getting to Anor Londo. Interesting.
 
Yo Gotti said:
Thanks, I must've missed this when I beat the
catacombs

Still doesn't explain how this guy got the ring, there's no way in hell he beat the
catacombs
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no
, its in tomb of the giants. The area that is pitch black
 
I feel like I'm seriously far behind everybody else playing this thread. I just beat the
Bell Gargoyles
and man, is this game kicking my ass. If I wasn't able to summon whatshisface for that battle, I don't think I would have been able to finish it. I picked Thief for my first playthrough, and I'm currently Level 18. The thief relies on lots of quick, little hits or backstabs and so far the bosses have not been very friendly towards that.

I'm still having a ton of fun, though. I'm already a hell of a lot better at backstabbing than I ever was in Demon's Souls, although I played a Royal and focuses on magic in Demon's Souls, so.
 
Axelhortsemchi said:
I'm at about 80, and the area right outside the
Centipede Demon
is working great for invasions.
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Thx I'll kill the Discharge and try that. I need to be alive to invade? If I lose when I invade do I lose my humanity/souls?
 
zazrx said:
Thx I'll kill the Discharge and try that. I need to be alive to invade? If I lose when I invade do I lose my humanity/souls?
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You do need to be human to invade, but if you die as an invader, you still remain human. Your souls and humanity go to a bloodstain at the place you used your red eye stone at. And as it happens, the hallway right before the boss I mentioned has 0 enemies, so basically no risk if you lose.
 
sixghost said:
Yeah you're good once your on the ground floor. Darkwraiths are regular enemies, and the only other enemies are those "mass of souls". There might be 1 more group of ghosts right before the fog door leading to the boss, but I was just running past them at that point.

Yeah but the trade item is the Skull Lantern, which you get from pretty deep in the Catacombs.
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o my bad, thought it was the pendant. Guess the guy is just terrible then lol
 
I am stuck in New londo ruins
I have cleared everything but there is a locked door and two levers, neither of which work

Any help would be so, so appreciated.
 
Part of me feels bad for farming in the forest. The other part remembers the semi-cheap deaths and bad framerate which kinda justfies at least some of it IMO.
 
Axelhortsemchi said:
You do need to be human to invade, but if you die as an invader, you still remain human. Your souls and humanity go to a bloodstain at the place you used your red eye stone at. And as it happens, the hallway right before the boss I mentioned has 0 enemies, so basically no risk if you lose.
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Ok, I have the red orb, I need to farm some humanity for the set. I guess I'll work my way to that boss. Never been here before.
 
Incendiary said:
I feel like I'm seriously far behind everybody else playing this thread. I just beat the
Bell Gargoyles
and man, is this game kicking my ass. If I wasn't able to summon whatshisface for that battle, I don't think I would have been able to finish it. I picked Thief for my first playthrough, and I'm currently Level 18. The thief relies on lots of quick, little hits or backstabs and so far the bosses have not been very friendly towards that.

I'm still having a ton of fun, though. I'm already a hell of a lot better at backstabbing than I ever was in Demon's Souls, although I played a Royal and focuses on magic in Demon's Souls, so.
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Thief is an awesome starting class, you know whenever you beat a boss or clear an area, you earned it.

FYI though, I fucked this up badly in my playthrough. Stop putting points into DEX around 20 because the DEX scaling sucks. Keep upgrading w/e weapon your are using to +10 normal and eventually you can make it a lightning weapon, which will out-damage a normal DEX scaling weapon until you get to the 50-60 range for DEX. Save your stat points and put them in places like Endurance/Vitality/Attunement. Trust me, I'm sitting on 20 wasted points of DEX right now, and it's making the bosses a bitch.

Tip 2: There's going to be a pyromancer trainer in the Depths, trapped in a barrel. MAKE SURE YOU SET HIM FREE. You'd do extremely well to turn yourself into a Thief/pyro. Like you said, bosses are a bitch with the thief and you will need the damage spikes for later bosses unless you are some sort of god.
 
I must admit that
Tomb of Giants
is giving me a spot of trouble at Soul Level 25.

Getting there was trivial. Surviving to the first bonfire is proving a tad bit tricky.
 
ixix said:
I must admit that
Tomb of Giants
is giving me a spot of trouble at Soul Level 25.

Getting there was trivial. Surviving to the first bonfire is proving a tad bit tricky.
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Bail out. now. Until you've completed
Anor Londo
you won't be able to progress all the way through that area.
 
1stStrike said:
Bail out. now. Until you've completed
Anor Londo
you won't be able to progress all the way through that area.
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My objective is
Patches
, not the boss. If I bail out now I can't
call Lautrec's bluff or get Patches horribly murdered. I don't really care which one, really, I kind of hate them both.

I know what I'm doing. I also realize it's kind of crazy.
 
ixix said:
My objective is
Patches
, not the boss. If I bail out now I can't
call Lautrec's bluff or get Patches horribly murdered. I don't really care which one, really, I kind of hate them both.

I know what I'm doing. I also realize it's kind of crazy.
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That's some crazy time-traveling shit you're getting into. It also made me imagine Phoenix Wright existing in Dark Souls.
 
Riposte said:
Has anyone here beaten the Asylum Demon on the first encounter?

Also when is OT3 coming?
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Just pick black fire bomb as your starter. It only takes 5 to kill him. You can use the other 5 to speed run to taurus then 2 shot him with lighting and dropping off the top. I beat the starting area up to past tarurs in under 9 minutes just for the hell of it the other day.

I might do a legit speed run when ever I get a capture card.
 
sixghost said:
That's some crazy time-traveling shit you're getting into. It also made me imagine Phoenix Wright existing in Dark Souls.
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Yeah, it seemed a lot less complicated when I thought of it. But I'm not giving up when I'm one bonfire away from my ludicrous objective.
 
QisTopTier said:
Just pick black fire bomb as your starter. It only takes 5 to kill him. You can use the other 5 to speed run to taurus then 2 shot him with lighting and dropping off the top. I beat the starting area up to past tarurs in under 9 minutes just for the hell of it the other day.

I might do a legit speed run when ever I get a capture card.
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Don't you think the Master Key would more useful over the long run? Or would you just pick thief?
 
ixix said:
Yeah, it seemed a lot less complicated when I thought of it. But I'm not giving up when I'm one bonfire away from my ludicrous objective.
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What you're trying to do isn't going to work,
Patches only leaves the Tomb of Giants after you kill Nito, and the sealed gate only opens after you place the Lord Vessel down
.
 
Axelhortsemchi said:
You do need to be human to invade, but if you die as an invader, you still remain human. Your souls and humanity go to a bloodstain at the place you used your red eye stone at. And as it happens, the hallway right before the boss I mentioned has 0 enemies, so basically no risk if you lose.
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Well I just tried that and I got invaded and owned lol.
 
zazrx said:
Man this sucks, I really need to get some humanity but I don't know where to get summoned at lvl 75.
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Go back to the depths and farm humanity from the giant rats there. You can make a whole route from the bonfire to the vendor and back again without ever having seen a basilisk. The key is to slide down the drain slope from the massive rat's chamber on the very far left, so you don't fall at the bottom of it. Spend the first 15 or so humanity you loot from them to up your drop rate. At 160 Find Rate, you can average 1 or 2 humanity per circuit.
 
ixix said:
Yeah, it seemed a lot less complicated when I thought of it. But I'm not giving up when I'm one bonfire away from my ludicrous objective.
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You should buy the Eyes of Death from Patches for your next playthrough. They are needed for one of the covenants.
 
Xanathus said:
What you're trying to do isn't going to work,
Patches only leaves the Tomb of Giants after you kill Nito, and the sealed gate only opens after you place the Lord Vessel down
.
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You know what's awesome?

I reached the bonfire and immediately saw this post.

Edit: wait, actually, I only lit the bonfire, I haven't rested at it yet. I find myself upon the horns of a dilemma.
 
oh my god i am sucking at fighting
Gwyn

i've got him to halfway at one point but most of the time i'm dying in under 30 seconds. and i'm stubborn as hell so i don't want to summon any help. haha. i'm still trying to get to the hang of parrying attacks.
 
keeblerdrow said:
Go back to the depths and farm humanity from the giant rats there. You can make a whole route from the bonfire to the vendor and back again without ever having seen a basilisk. The key is to slide down the drain slope from the massive rat's chamber on the very far left, so you don't fall at the bottom of it. Spend the first 15 or so humanity you loot from them to up your drop rate. At 160 Find Rate, you can average 1 or 2 humanity per circuit.
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What? You serious? I must do this then.
 
There's a potentially better place to farm humanity but it's really difficult to get to and you can only access it after placing down the Lord Vessel
In the room right before Nito in the Tomb of Giants, there's a horde of respawning tiny skeletons and a couple of mages. The tiny skeletons drop humanity.
 
ixix said:
You know what's awesome?

I reached the bonfire and immediately saw this post.

Edit: wait, actually, I only lit the bonfire, I haven't rested at it yet. I find myself upon the horns of a dilemma.
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That's why I said to bail out. You can't do anything there yet except waste time and possibly farm humanity if you get far enough/really want to, but it shouldn't be necessary at the part of the game you're up to.
 
Hey, guys. I'm SL 32. Where is a good place to put my summon sign up? I want to lower the requirement for the Covenant of the Sun.

Also what's a good faith-scaling weapon?
 
Kyoufu said:
The start of the area (wooden bridges).
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Yeah, no one places summon signs outside the 4 kings boss because it's annoying to clear that area mainly due to the ghosts. Most people just run straight past them and into the boss gate.


Kwixotik said:
Hey, guys. I'm SL 32. Where is a good place to put my summon sign up? I want to lower the requirement for the Covenant of the Sun.

Also what's a good faith-scaling weapon?
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Try Queelag.
 
george_us said:
Ugh Capra Demon fight feels like I have to get lucky to beat him.
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I struggled with him the first time too, but once you figure out his attacks it's pretty easy. I think a lot of people leave that battle emotionally scarred, though :P
 
1stStrike said:
That's why I said to bail out. You can't do anything there yet except waste time.
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Bailing out is weaksauce. Even if I had known that
Patches wasn't going to get himself killed
I would have soldiered on because hey, why not? Though now that I've reached the bonfire I need to decide whether to rest at it and deal with exiting the
Tomb of Giants
by the heel-toe express, or off myself, revive back at the
Catacombs
bonfire, and write off my 13 Humanity and 30,000 souls as the price I paid for doing something awesome.
 
1stStrike said:
I struggled with him the first time too, but once you figure out his attacks it's pretty easy. I think a lot of people leave that battle emotionally scarred, though :P
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It's not him that's the problem, it's the dogs. I basically have to pray that they and the Capra Demon don't attack me in such a way that leaves me trapped. The confining space provides enough challenge already, they developers didn't need to cheapen the fight by adding those dogs.
 
george_us said:
Ugh Capra Demon fight feels like I have to get lucky to beat him.
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If you can avoid his initial attack when you first enter, you'll be fine. He tends to use his two-handed swing just as you enter which breaks your block and deals massive damage. Try to roll if you can.
 
zlatko said:
Huh?

I don't speak Blanka player.

My issue with these guys is simply the layout of the dungeon doesn't permit for room to fight them. If you try to take them face on, you will lose because they will rip your stamina to shit in one combo and thus it will lead to your death before you can back off to regain it/heal yourself. Too many tight areas with ledges to fall off, and yet they don't fall of as hard as I try to angle them to push themselves off.
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Just bait them into a bigger room and strafe, was eating them for lunch after a few tries.
 
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