samurai and “the guy that looks like Sawyer from Lost” - golden seed, about 5 minutes of agony deciding on a name, and googling if we really need the multiplayer part
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Currently breaking every box and whining about no goodies.
“I hit the button how did I die” fighting the unbeatable first boss lolol
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Anyone have an opinion on a recommended level range that someone should be at before fighting Margit? - Or a specific attribute level that unlocks something cool that would be helpful to beat him?
If you’re like me and you suck, then aim for +4 weapon that suits you, at least +1 spirit ashes, unlock Margit’s shackle, and maybe 25ish vigor. The exact level you are is mainly just having enough stats to use your preferred weapon, spells, and/or incantations more than the level itself. Oh, I forgot flasks. I forget how many I had, but you want at least 4-5.
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Whew, finally beat Rennala. It’s made quite an impression on me how much different materials and tactics make a difference on different enemies. Like, the knight before Rennala, usually I try to cheese knights with spells, but that fucker runs fast, and there’s not that much space to run around. Shielding knights doesn’t work all that great, either, so I tried out 2-handing my scythe and trying out it’s built in power on the guy. Totally owned him first try that way. But, trying that out on Rennala was a recipe to eat a bunch of blue bullets. Also, I’d usually found that my skeletons were the best summons for bosses, because they’d resurrect to re-pester the boss after getting inevitably smushed. But Rennala just keeps floating away from them and blasting me without paying them heed. Gotta use wolves. Killed her the first time I went back to the wolves. Guess you gotta hoard all this shit in case it’s useful later, because apparently you never know.
Yeah, you can cheese Renala pretty hard by sending in wolves to interrupt all her attacks.
I went ahead and did the pvp for Varre’s quest tonight. It was, unexpectedly profitable? First match, I encountered a guy who had automatically summoned help, but his help left while I was trying to find him. Then he summoned someone else who also left, and I still hadn’t found him. Then I found him hiding in the bushes and murdered him for a rune arc. Kaching. Second two times, I found the guy right away, but he had summoned help, and I, being bad at this game and outmached by two players, was killed. I lost the small amount of runes I still had on hand. So I guess, spend your runes, go kill players, waste time until the help leaves, profit?
Anyone got a sense or source for the most useful crafting recipes? I keep tracking down these recipe books, but most of the recipes are for something like, oh, this will protect you from magic damage a little bit, and I’m like, great, I have ingredients for one of those, but I’ll get waxed 11 times before beating this boss with or without it, and by the time I’m good enough at the boss that it might make a difference, the boss is dead. The golden fowl feet have their uses when cheesing something good, and the raisins can be OK to keep the horse alive, but it’s hard to know what consumables will actually turn the tide of battle vs. what’s just sorta cute.
In DS3, those buffs were always good for bosses when your would come very close but not quite to beating them. Sometimes just a little edge helps you win. But you have a limited supply of buffs so it’s stressful to use one.
So I signed up with Team Volcano Manor, seems like I’m headed down the bad story path? Worth it, though.
There’s no crafting meta afaik other than gold feet things which when used right can get you 50% more runes at times (giant sick dragon in caelid), seems like a pretty big waste sadly.
Team Volcano doesn’t change anything and is pretty fun so go nuts.
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That’s kind of disappointing. They make it seem like you’ve gone down the Bad Guy path, kinda sucks if it’s of no consequence to the story.
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There’s a completely different bad guy path!
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Oh wow, the poison katana you get at Volcano Manor looks choice for dexterity builds. I might finally replace the katana I’ve mostly been using since the very start of the game (if you add the blood slash art of war this is a very good weapon).
My only minor complaint with the game so far is that so many gameplay elements feel tacked-on and unnecessary. The crafting, the wondrous physik, altering your garments, the great rune slot, etc. They all feel like beta versions of things that From Software didn’t have time to flesh out.
Physik feels pretty good to me as a handy buff going into boss fights: cast your buff spells/incantations, summon ur boi(s), then restore your FP and boost your main damage stat for what will hopefully be the duration of the fight.
Garment alterations, like, people want to look cool out there. Seems fine?
With you on the great runes, though. I die a lot, so it’s hard to know when spending the arc is worthwhile.
I have like 20 rune arcs and have never used them
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First Souls game here. So I’m running around Limgrave, level 27, heading down to Castle Morne. I’m brandishing Lordsworn’s Greatsword +5. I’m hesitant to spend any more stones to upgrade it in case there is something else I should be investing in.
Am I good rocking this sword through the game or should I be saving stones and looking into a different weapon? I’m a Vagabond primarily upgrading Strength with Vigor and Endurance as my secondaries. Haven’t put any points into anything else yet. I one-hand my sword with a shield in my other.
I’m open to any suggestions regarding weapon choice or anything else really. I’m going to knock out Castle Morne then head up to Stormveil. I think I’m done nearly everything else in Limgrave.
There just isn’t a massive difference between weapons and there are plenty of places to get Smithing Stones. I’m still rocking my dual scimitars and I’m like level 60.
Seems perfect to me, almost exactly what I did my first time.
Alright, good to know. I’ll keep running with this Greatsword.
Yeah, I had the same fear, but it turns out it’s baseless. It feels like you only have so many smithing stones right now, but there are dungeon rewards that you can cash in found in later areas that allow you to buy an infinite number of smithing stones from the creepers at the Round Table, and since you can farm runes ad infinitum, you can literally get every single weapon in the game up to its penultimate level if you want to take the time to do so. The only finite smithing stones are the ones that let you go from +24 to +25, or +9 to +10 for somber smithing stones for legendary weapons.
Your sword is pretty good, though. You might think about putting a little into dex and trying out the uchigatana from the Death Touched Catacombs (bloodloss is amazing, and uchigatana has it built in). Also, bloodhound’s fang and the reward from Morne are pretty cool, too, but they use somber smithing stones for upgrade. They don’t compete for resources with other weapon upgrades at this point.