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Dark Souls - Artorias of the Abyss out for consoles now

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    Save ash lake for after anor londo

    and do the dlc as like, the very last thing before you beat the game.

    Indie Winter
  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    what level are ya Stilts? if you want I can try to go down to Anor Londo and put a summon sign, try and help you

    Level 46.

    The Pyromancies I have are Poison Mist, Combustion, Fireball, Great Chaos Fireball, Power Within and Flash Sweat.

    And while I appreciate the offer, I don't really want to do Anor Londo right now. I'm burned out on that area. I'm hoping that going back and catching up on stuff I missed will help me go back to the fight with a clear head.

    Stilts on
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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    I think if you do all those areas you'll level up enough so that O&S will be way easier

    the fact that 98% of all summonings don't work is a major bummer though

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    Nerdgasmic
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    i think i figured out how to fight the darkroot hydra
    get close to it and stab the heads when they get stuck
    i had it down to 3 heads, and then i fell in a hole

    so i will try again tomorrow

  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    Stilts wrote: »
    what level are ya Stilts? if you want I can try to go down to Anor Londo and put a summon sign, try and help you

    Level 46.

    The Pyromancies I have are Poison Mist, Combustion, Fireball, Great Chaos Fireball, Power Within and Flash Sweat.

    And while I appreciate the offer, I don't really want to do Anor Londo right now. I'm burned out on that area. I'm hoping that going back and catching up on stuff I missed will help me go back to the fight with a clear head.

    This is a perfectly acceptable course of action. I would suggest going back to the undead asylum (starting area) or trying to clear the first area under the firelink shrine, the one with the skeletons, but only if you have a divine weapon.

    Or you can farm sens fortress, if you feel comfortable there now.

  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    ehmm

    just remembered something

    if you want to avoid being frustrated Stilts, then maybe going down to the Catacombs isn't the wisest course of action

    Skeleton Wheels

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    ehmm

    just remembered something

    if you want to avoid being frustrated Stilts, then maybe going down to the Catacombs isn't the wisest course of action

    Skeleton Wheels

    Are they really that hard? I just used a bow for most of them.

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  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    so after all my hard work, i have finally gotten a ring that doubles the amount of damage i take

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    yeah if you don't have a ranged weapon you are basically completely fucked

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    Pharezon wrote: »
    ehmm

    just remembered something

    if you want to avoid being frustrated Stilts, then maybe going down to the Catacombs isn't the wisest course of action

    Skeleton Wheels

    Are they really that hard? I just used a bow for most of them.

    LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

    THE SCRUBLORD OVER ALL YOU SCRUBSERFS

  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    Pharezon wrote: »
    ehmm

    just remembered something

    if you want to avoid being frustrated Stilts, then maybe going down to the Catacombs isn't the wisest course of action

    Skeleton Wheels

    Are they really that hard? I just used a bow for most of them.

    LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

    THE SCRUBLORD OVER ALL YOU SCRUBSERFS

    Don't you have a Forest Covenant to protect, champ?

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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    Either A) get a high stability shield and tank them, or B) dodge them and let them roll at a wall until they tire out.

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    hey
    HEY

    I AM A SERVANT OF THE EVERLASTING DRAGONS YOU TOOLBAG

  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    warriors of sunlight forever

  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Chaos Servants fo' life

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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    Blade of darkmoon for me.

    You get to be mean to mean people!

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    yeah if you don't have a ranged weapon you are basically completely fucked

    Then it's a good thing I have a Longbow AND the Dragonslayer Greatbow.

    And, like, a ton of arrows for them.

    Barcardi wrote: »
    Stilts wrote: »
    what level are ya Stilts? if you want I can try to go down to Anor Londo and put a summon sign, try and help you

    Level 46.

    The Pyromancies I have are Poison Mist, Combustion, Fireball, Great Chaos Fireball, Power Within and Flash Sweat.

    And while I appreciate the offer, I don't really want to do Anor Londo right now. I'm burned out on that area. I'm hoping that going back and catching up on stuff I missed will help me go back to the fight with a clear head.

    This is a perfectly acceptable course of action. I would suggest going back to the undead asylum (starting area) or trying to clear the first area under the firelink shrine, the one with the skeletons, but only if you have a divine weapon.

    Or you can farm sens fortress, if you feel comfortable there now.

    Already cleared Undead Asylum.

    Including the Stray Demon.

    I died a bunch to him, but it helped that a) I didn't really need to summon anyone and b) the battle was, like, three seconds away from the bonfire.

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  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Also, I just realized I probably shouldn't have joined the Chaos Servants so soon, since I'm gonna need to join the Forest Hunters, like, right now in order to buy Shiva's items (and then murder him).

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    don't murder Shiva! Just murder his ninja buddy!

  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    Don't murder Shiva! Murder everyone!

    Indie Winter
  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    Stilts wrote: »
    Also, I just realized I probably shouldn't have joined the Chaos Servants so soon, since I'm gonna need to join the Forest Hunters, like, right now in order to buy Shiva's items (and then murder him).

    i think you can actually just rejoin the chaos covenant without paying for absolution

    tsplitter on
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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    I don't think you even need that

  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    i meant to type without

    but yeah i have so far been a chaos servant to open the izalith shortcut, then became a sunbro to get the lightning spear miracles, became a forest hunter for the 20 seconds it took me to kill shiva and his friend, and now im a darkmoon blade.

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    darkwraith #1

  • scarlet blvd.scarlet blvd. Bebop Cola Goooood!Registered User regular
    So, I'll probably start a new character, but I have no idea at all about the basics of this game. or at least what seem to be basics
    what's this thing I can do at bonfires with using humanity to stop being hollow or whatever? does it get explained?
    I guess this is what I get for playing the second without playing the first huh

  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    If you have humanity on you, you can use it up at a bonfire to cure your undeadness and become human, by selecting Reverse Hollow while resting at one.

    While human you have boosted resistances and son on. Better yet, you can summon other players or NPC helpers at certain areas to help get past bosses and such. However, while human you also

    About kindling: If you are human, you can use an additional humanity to kindle a bonfire, which raises the number of estus flasks you get by 5, so your total goes up to 10, but only at that bonfire.

    You can eventually learn how to kindle fires multiple times, up to 3, for a total of 20 flasks.

    Be warned, though. While you're human, other human players may invade you and try to kill you. It's 100% worth that risk, though, for what you get out of being human.

    Edit: Most of the humanity you get isn't usable at first. You'll get items called "humanity" in your inventory. You have to select those, and use them like items, in order to add them to your humanity counter at the upper left. We call that loose humanity. Then you can spend them at a bonfire. However if you die, you lose any loose humanity along with your souls (but can get them back if you reach your bloodstain, just like souls)

    Goatmon on
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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    being human doesn't increase your resistances

    having "loose" humanity (meaning you have a number greater than 0 in the counter) gives you a boost to all your defenses and item drop rate, up to a max benefit of ten humanity

  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    So I'm at Ando Londo, and the only way forward from here is across a lengthy (and very high) buttress, and then crossing the rafters very high up in a building.

    I gotta say, being universally scared of heights is not helping me here.

    Goatmon on
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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    So, I'll probably start a new character, but I have no idea at all about the basics of this game. or at least what seem to be basics
    what's this thing I can do at bonfires with using humanity to stop being hollow or whatever? does it get explained?
    I guess this is what I get for playing the second without playing the first huh

    if you don't mind spoilers, epic name bro has some great information
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c21w40cHQdE&feature=plcp

  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
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    hello ladies

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  • scarlet blvd.scarlet blvd. Bebop Cola Goooood!Registered User regular
    Thanks for the video DD, that answered quite a few questions actually
    tsplit that's horrifying

  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    Oh godamnit.

    Have a full health white phantom and a full health solaire for Skittles and Oreos, and the white phantom dies immediately and solaire never fucking passes through the fog.

    Still manage to kill Smogh before super Ornstien kills me though.

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • ButtfortButtfort don't go to church on a sunday got my own special wayRegistered User regular
    pvp in sen's fortress is a hoot and a holler you guys

  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    tsplit that's horrifying

    i have no idea what youre talking about
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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    Oh and @stilts I was having the same kind of thing going on with not being able to summon anyone in Anor Londo, but I found leveling to 50 gave me a lot more choices so I could just pick and choose people who I hadn't failed to summon before.

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Currently trying to get the Fog Ring from the Forest Covenant.

    I'm bad at PvP, so this could take a while...

    On the bright side, I killed Sif my first try, no help.

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  • scarlet blvd.scarlet blvd. Bebop Cola Goooood!Registered User regular
    tsplitter wrote: »
    tsplit that's horrifying

    i have no idea what youre talking about
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    I think I'm going to like playing this game.

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    i broke down and farmed souls (gaping dragon) to buy the crest of artorias for the door in dark root, sprinted through, talked to alvina the cat, joined her covenant. Then I talked to Shiva and spotted his buddy, but he wouldn't sell me anything. I found that Eastern Armor and then died to the hydra four or five more times. Then I went back to the Undead Asylum.

    And got the rusted iron ring, the doll and the crest shield. Poor Oscar. I also killed two black knights and got a sweet sword I can't quite one-hand yet. I need two levels in strength.

  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    i broke down and farmed souls (gaping dragon) to buy the crest of artorias for the door in dark root, sprinted through, talked to alvina the cat, joined her covenant. Then I talked to Shiva and spotted his buddy, but he wouldn't sell me anything. I found that Eastern Armor and then died to the hydra four or five more times. Then I went back to the Undead Asylum.

    And got the rusted iron ring, the doll and the crest shield. Poor Oscar. I also killed two black knights and got a sweet sword I can't quite one-hand yet. I need two levels in strength.

    Shiva won't sell you anything in Darkroot.

    You have to find him in Blighttown.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Oh. Goddammit.

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