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So I got the silver knight spear leveled up and went back at him. It wasn’t going much better than previously until I missed a dodge and he tossed me across the room – into a pillar. There are pillars!
So, shield always up + spear attack + pillar dancing = win!
What a fantastic game. I’m not sure why I was so ambivalent towards it all this time!
Did you finish the game dwinn? If you didn’t, did you do the expansion content? If not, it’s definitely worth checking out. You probably didn’t stumble onto it, it’s pretty hard to find unless you specifically go looking for it.
ok, new strategy for gaining humnanity. Put down my summon sign at the bonfire, do some farming and waiting to be summoned… also fun to help others with O&S
It is now 3:1 … also lots of souls as reward + 1 humanity. Great, that this game is still populated!
This is surprising. I never saw any summon signs in Dark Souls from human players. The only time I searched for them for hours was in front of Kalameet, and I just kept waiting and no one ever tried to summon me or offer up to be summoned.
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I did see summon signs for O&S at Solaire’s bonfire. My guess is people playing DS3 have gone back to play the previous versions as their are times when DS2 has lots of people playing. Mostly weekends though.
I also saw quite a few summon signs at Solaire’s bonfire, a couple in front of Artorias (but not when I needed them!), and in several other places, but much of the time we were playing Dark Souls, Rock8, the multiplayer flag was broken so we were missing both messages and summon signs in quite a few places.
Finally, after waiting and waiting for summon signs, doing farming runs, finally a sign appeared in the corner of the bonfire room! Rocket Balboa, thank you bro, we did it! O&S are history… could have done it on my own ;) whatever— I hope that this was the hardest Boss, right?
Probably the hardest, yes. Since there’s two of them. There’s individual ones up ahead that are harder than each of them, but they’re not together, so you can take the rest of them solo.
I think I am going to help out guys in that area, putting down my sign at the bonfire…
True. And by the time we finished the game, it hadn’t been that long since the online blackout, so maybe the game hadn’t fully repopulated with people yet. I did notice a lot more people and messages in my 360 playthrough, which never went offline.
That’s a nice idea newbrof. Help others get past Jacob & Rammstein!
online dead again? I never know what’s causing it… I left Anor Londo behind, might warp back at some point (probably to get to the archives)… also a lot of praise is for the “story”, I have a different experience. The more I read about the lore on items, dialog etc… the less I care for it. The atmosphere of the world and world layout, enemies, bosses, game systems I still love it. But to read about the first flame, or being the chosen one and successor to some dude (Lord Gwynn), and that big boobs lady, it is getting a bit stupid and the usual fantasy mumbo-jumbo. I can’t put my finger on it, but I think it is just too much lore… I might ignore it for a while and just enjoy the fighting and exploring part… also I am back in the catacombs and kicking some skeleton’s ass!
edit: what I really like about Dark Souls lore are the names, I don’t know who invented them, but they are evocative enough for me: Boletaria, Atorias the Abysswalker, Balder knights, New Londo ruins, Darkroot garden, the cling ring, Sen’s Fortress, Blighttown, Astora, Lothric and Lordran etc… Vinheim and the Great Swamp. I am really imagining the great school of sorcery of Vinheim.
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When I was playing DS just before Rock8man I never had any online problems…using a PC. Now with DS2 I have had no problems. It may be the hours I play or the PC, I don’t know.
And congrats for beating O&S. As someone said they aren’t that tough individually but together they are a handful. Nobody gives me more trouble than them.
oh boy, you can throw fire bombs over the wall to kill the Capra demon without even entering the boss area… haha
I found the blacksmith in the catacombs, why do we need another one? It looks if he can make fire weapons from +5 weapons?
Different blacksmiths use different embers, and can forge different weapons. They also sell different stuff.
Though, to be fair, I didn’t end up going to the Catacombs blacksmith much because of his difficult location. I went to Undead Parish the most, followed by the one who was an elevator ride away from the Firelink Shrine, who did my magic stuff for me. And of course, the giant Blacksmith in Anor Londo, who was everyone’s friend and savior while they were fighting Farlstein & Williamson.
I read some of the early parts of this thread today from when the game first came out. I gotta say, I’m just really glad I didn’t play through this game back then. Lots of people in this thread were dicks back then! My fellows-in-arms were so much nicer and more helpful in comparison. :) I <3 you guys. You’re the best.
Well maybe don’t play this weekend ;)
Should be fun. I’ll be starting a new PC character, not sure what build yet.
This could be fun. I’ll be making a new char too. Should help me forget my frustration with DS2…
Can you participate with old chars? Probably different soul levels could prevent me seeing others?
I’d be up for starting a new character. Maybe crazy enough to start as a cleric this time. That way if I ever make it as far as Patches, I can gleefully tell him “Yes, I’m a cleric, what are you gonna do about it?”
