2821

I forgot about that one. I was thinking of the guy in the depths, who you can’t get to until you deal with the Capra Demon.

2822

As a mostly pyro by the time I reached Capra, I just sprinted / rolled past him and the dogs, up the stairs, turned around and took out the two dogs, then retreated to the top of the arch where I blasted him with whatever pyro spell I was using at time, then he fell down so I did a plunging attack, by which time he was pretty low on health and I was able to finish him off. Sounds easy, but it took a dozen+ attempts to pull off the initial run to the steps. Not my favourite boss fight.

2823

O&S… (those bloody bastards!!)

2824

You need to Praise the Sun!

2825

yeah, trying a bit without the sun. I learned that it is best to kill the small guy first, Ornstein, he is fast, so I try pulling him too me, before Smough is coming. Smough is pretty fast too, regarding his stature… If I can’T do it, then I will have learned enough tactics to do it with Solaire, but I don’t want to waste too much humanity, could run out of humanity…

2826

You can buy more humanity. At least, normally you can. But I think you killed the vendor who sells humanity IIRC.

2827

Easiest way to get humanity is to farm the rats in the depths; from the depths bonfire, head right down the stairs, then out the door, and start exterminating. There are a bunch more to the left, and through a small tunnel. If you put the covetous serpent ring on, you’ll generally get 1 or 2 (if you’re lucky) humanity with each run. Occasionally you’ll come up empty, but it won’t take long to get it all back again.

2828

Easiest way to get humanity is to farm the rats in the depths

1st, I don’t think I will ever, ever go back to the Depths or Blighttown ;) this chapter is closed in my life… hahhaha heee hehe
2nd, if I ever have to go back to the Depths or Blighttown, I will not do it from Anor Londo, back to Sens Fortress, back to Undead Parish etc… and then fight those 2 silver archers again to get back to O&S… hehehehehe ho. Never

2829

Well, after you defeat O&S it’ll get a bit easier to go back to the Depths, if you ever wanted to. ;) But you don’t actually have to do the archers again at Anor Londo. Just open the large double door at the other end of the hall where the O&S fog door is. You can also use the elevator to skip the majority of Sen’s Fortress. I had to undertake this journey to improve my weapons and armour to take on O&S (to reach the original blacksmith). It wasn’t too bad.

Also, farming those rats in the Depths, you don’t ever have to see another one of those googly-eyed basilisks ever again. Well, not in the Depths anyway.

2830

double door at the other end of the hall where the O&S fog door is
right, almost forgot about that door. I hope I do not have to go back, though. I think I have enough hitpower, I have a feeling I can do it… it is a bit like the gargoyles fight (took me 2 hours), I did that on my own, still feels great ;)

2831

When you defeat O&S will you get something that will make traveling back and forth a much less daunting task.

2832

So I’ve finally made it to Gwyn, and he’s whooping me pretty good. It seems like you basically have to block, dodge and heal enough and take advantage of avoiding his grab to get a kit or two in – pretty frustrating!

2833

You can do it dwinn! As you get more practice, you’ll start getting a better feel for which move he’s about to make, and do the appropriate action to counter that. For me that mostly works on an unconscious level. My brain starts getting more and more familiar with the boss, and I instinctively know it’s time to do X in order to counter that move, where X is blocking or dodging or a quick attack or sidestepping or jumping backwards or a heavy attack, etc.

Gosh, I miss this game already. So good.

2834

Assuming he is still “alive” Solaire is available to summon. His sign is to the left when you cross the bridge to the final walkway to the fog door.
If you can parry, and I am not good at it, you can parry Gwyn…almost over and over.

2835

Sadly, I failed to save Solaire. /[T]\

I think I may grind out a few more levels to be able to use and level up the silver spear, since it can attack behind shield guard. But man, Black Knight Sword +5 basically served me well through 66-75% of the game.

2836

I beat Gwyn in my first go round with a Fire Zweihander leveled up to +10 or higher. Surprisingly Gwyn is susceptible to fire. So if you have pyromancy you can try it. Sadly you can’t put fire on your Black Knight Sword.

2837

burned all of my humanity (something like 3 double humanity, 5 single)… using Solaire for O&S. Sad to say, that he is not very useful in that fight. Now I am on my own again. This fight is hard, hard work. Ornstein died to my demon helberd maybe 10 times already, I had Smough down to his last sliver of health, but he was faster and dispatched me again. Took me 4-5 hours… I have not used range attacks, yet, maybe I should try that huge dragon bow. Tomorrow, I know it.

2838

The strategy with Smough is to stay close enough to him that he doesn’t use that cheesy long range sliding hammer attack. Try to get him into the jumping attack, when he jumps you let him land, then move in for a hit, or two, move out again and bait the jump attack again. If you try this a few times it will make sense and he becomes vulnerable.

Also with Solaire, he rarely gets past the door and gets caught up with both O&S, while this is going on do your best to take out Ornstein as soon as possible. If you have pyromancy you can use it on Smough while he takes on Solaire after that.

2839

Also newbrof, level up your weapon even more if you can. Having to hit a boss 10 times instead of 15 times can make all the difference.

dwinn, I finally found a use for Quelaag’s Fire Sword with the Gwyn fight. Of course it helped that I had Solaire there too, but that thing upgraded does good damage to him.

2840

Heading into Sen’s Fortress tonight…been about 2 years since I conquered Dark Souls so I’m looking forward to revisiting this place!