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[Dark Souls] If only I could be so grossly incandescent (as Durante) - Res fix in OP
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Also, my mini Gravelord got gravelorded in the undead burg by a dude with full elite knights and greater combustion with an upgraded pyro flame. He must have gone down through Havels door to the basin and back up through the garden to get the armor; that would also allow him to dodge the titanite demon and get to Andre and unlock the shortcut without even beating Taurus. I have a new plan to follow now.
Also, I wonder if maybe Gravelord buffed enemies only appear for higher covenant levels and if they are alive in the Gravelords world. I saw no evidence of the Gravelord aside from the sign, and his world had no enemies in it when I invaded.
The first time is really the only time you're in immediate danger. Plus, it's more of a screw you than actually practicing cautious gameplay like Blight Town or Sen's Fortress.
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Since you have to invade the gravelord where they put their sign down, they probably cleared the area so that they had a safe place to take you on. I don't believe the phantoms created in your game are ever in the gravelord's world.
I wonder if we can come up with a way to check that; if it works the covenant would be much improved.
I'm not sure how I'm going to beat the three skeletons + big guy without cheaping the enviorment and using stairs to thin them out. Am I doing it right? Or should I be dodging and and such way down there.
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Can the summoned player heal him/herself? I know that invaders cannot but I didn’t know if it was the same for anyone not the host. I ask because my main method for killing the Four Kings solo was to throw on Havel’s Gear, stand right up next to the boss and swing swing drink, repeat. Not sure that would work very well if I can’t heal myself.
Do the rewards for the grueling difficulty make it enjoyable? How does the game reward you?
Four Kings of Gywn seemed to be pretty good places, you'll also get the odd latecomer to Smough and Ornstein and you can spend your waiting time grinding the knights.
Only with heal miracles or humanity, you get no estus flasks.
Summoned player can't use Estus, I believe, but you can use healing miracles. They also lowered the faith requirement for Sunbros to 25, so it's a lot easier to join now.
I've never had much luck getting summoned to fight the Lords. If all you want is the trophy, it might be faster to just make a new, faith-based character and just go get it.
The reward is largely the accomplishment as well as the knowledge you gain in the process and the awesome feeling you get when you wipe the floor with that boss next time.
It's like two large air masses of stupid colliding and forming a tornado of idiocy, devastating all logic in its path.
The requirement goes down by 5 for every boss you help defeat as a phantom.
Also the best success I have had against backstabbers is to charge towards the and just stay as close as possible while circling in the same direction as they are. Works a treat for me and most don't know what to do because they don't have any other tactics.
I'm level 79 now, and Four Kings has been the best place for me to get my jolly co-op on. Supposedly Seath and Nito are also great places for 70s, but I've never been summoned there for some reason. I've also been lucky with being summoned for Fatboy Slim from time to time.
You can also use humanity to heal yourself when summoned, so don't discount that. Havel's + a big sword is pretty much how I roll for co-op, and it works very well.
Single class works. I pretty much went through most of the game with a strength build using nothing more than a claymore + shield. Then I discovered how pyromancy would make my life so much easier...
You basically have to treat PvP like the bastards fucking invisible and could be literally anywhere, which kind of makes it hard to decide to attack.
I just rang the first bell in NG+, about 86, think I leveled too much on my first run but be up for some JCO as long as the servers aren't region separated.
if you have it, using combustion/great combustion at perpendicular angle to the tail is a great way to easily cut it off
Oh this was in NG, not NG+. I don't know if the same strategy would apply in NG+.
Painted world. You'll net a nice amount of souls and people summon quite often there.
Have fun. This game is magical. Like Jesus.
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but of course he got that lame ass halberd
Then I finally got to a long bridge, feeling pretty bad ass, thinking man, there has to be a bonfire behind that door.........hit OPEN DOOR, and a 20 foot monster falls from the sky and smushes me dead. God dammit! I now just want to crush this game to show it didn't beat me!!
Yup. I came to terms with the occasional lagstabs and soul spears that hit you from a mile away, and was enjoying the hell out of PvP. Then this guy comes in, spams combustion nowhere near me, and I dodge and I dodge and still get hit by every single one and die without landing a hit. Instant loss of interest in PvP forever. Such a shame.
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I was the same when I first started playing, not playing Demon's Souls hadn't prepared me for how viscious it can be. But there is something hugely refreshing about dying and the game not cuddling you and saying it's going to be ok but dragging you back to your feet, slapping you round the face and calling you a moron for being so stupid and unprepared but then compelling you to push on again until you get it right.
something reset one of the bridges and now I have to make some kind of crazy detour just to get back on track to getting to the gravelord again (I got the eyes of death, but then the demon killed me)
Cautious game-play? Blight Town? What? I went back after the Depths boss and used my Master Key to skip 3/4 of that shit. And I don't regret one bit of it! W00T!
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