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I just buy every spell the vendor has. I can also cast Heal as Royalty, which is incredibly useful. I don’t really need to grind for herbs. I keep the faith stone in my inventory so I can heal when things calm down, and save my herbs for fights.

There’s a vendor you can rescue from the jail level, Prison of Hope. He sells spells in exchange for boss souls. Those spells are (mostly) good. Buying those spells locks you out of getting the boss weapons for those souls, as far as I know.

There’s also a sword in the tunnel level you can get, Dragon Sword +1, which is incredibly useful. It eschews all stat scaling and does pure fire damage. With all the dragon stones you get in that level you can upgrade it to +2, and if you can get it to +3 or +4 if you buy that Water Veil spell and have the balls to run into some lava to grab upgrade mats. That weapon will absolutely melt most enemies, and I know for a fact it will stagger the Maneater boss on the first swing. If you swing twice, he’ll probably hit you. So don’t get greedy :)

I’m not an authority on this game, but I’ve played all the other Souls games through. Trying to do this one mostly blind. Maneater is on the menu for today. I’m clearing that part of the level and working my way back to him. I’m going to ram my Soul Ray right up his ass.

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Some of the souls can be used to forge certain unique weapons too. They tend to be a bit more single purposed than in some other souls games but there’s a few where you do have a choice to make between different spells or weapons. There’s also another very late game spell vendor that’s kind of obtuse to unlock.

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I’ve always been partial to that bastard sword you can find in 1-1, wielded two handed/no shield AKA make a dodge! Took it through the entire game.

Although as a magic user I recommend a rapier thrusting weapon but I feel like this might have been colored by later Dark Souls games actually. I would need to load my Demon’s Souls save where my main has a 99 Magic stat in NG+++ and check which weapons I was using. The fog of memory.

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I was using the bastard sword on my paladin build, +3 Crushing with 30 Str, and it was… ok. The swings were so slow and they ate so much stamina. DPS is way better with my mage and the +1 Crescent Falchion. I can burn down those mind flayers with 5 swings before they get off a spell. The bastard sword took 3 swings (2 with the heavy attack), would sometimes hit the wall, and half the time they’d poise right through the first hit and finish their spell and I’d die.

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Okay, it looks like I used the Uchigatana in my virgin run. Also in general, Claymore > Bastard Sword when two handed. This thought was maintained into Dark Souls.

Always bet on the Claymore. It’s super solid.

3286

How do I call in someone to help me kill bosses? Is that what the blue stone is for? Or how do I make myself available to help others so my world goes all white (is that how that works?)

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to be summoned, go to a specific place like the fog boss gate and put your summon sign down with the blue stone, then wait.

If you want to summon, use the stone of ephemeral eyes th be in human form. Look for summon signs on the ground near a boss gate

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If you do that, is the device you used up? If so, is it easy or hard to get a new one?

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The stone of ephemeral eyes are a little hard to farm until you get to late game.

Keep in mind if you die in human form the world tendency goes towards black.

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But the blue stone. Is that used up, or does it stay in your inventory? Sorry, so new to this.

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The blue stone has unlimited uses. And no need to apologise happy to help.

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So if I get summoned to help kill bosses I’ll swing my world towards white? Any downside to doing this?

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Helping a player take down a boss won’t shift your world towards white. Helping a player take down an invader does i believe (I could be wrong). Taking out an invader in your world does. There are no downsides to helping others.

This is why it’s tough to get to white if you don’t know what you’re doing. The options to shift up are limited. Only way to go towards white are killing bosses, invaders and killing some specific pure black enemies.

To go pure black you die as a human or kill named NPCs.

3294

Thanks. That helps a lot! Man this is so confusing. So if I got killed by an invader do I go towards black?

3295

If you are a human and an invader kills you then yes. If you are helping someone and an invader kills you then no. Not 100% sure on that I stay away from being human & invasions.

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Almost forgot to ask. In dungeon 2, the digger one, there those guys up above throwing rocks at you at the beginning. I thought I was to the final fog where a boss may be behind (took a winched lift down below), but I never got up to those 2 Boulder throwers. There’s also a guy in between them, hung over the wall with a soul. How do you get to them?

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Below them there is a room with some miners. To the right there’s a lever that turns on an elevator platform up to the second floor (and down as well). I completely missed this on my remake play.

3298

Right in that first room you enter?

3299

Yep!1 (elevator platform not belt)

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Thank you! I never would have seen it I passed by it so many times.

Is there a way to make my magic points regen faster?