I just don’t understand how anyone completely misses the castle to the point where you’re doing the next one instead. You open the map (or look up) and there’s a huge fucking castle there! My brain is hardwired to want to check that out. Maybe not before I explore he rest of the world, but certainly before I settle in to tackle the next major dungeon. (I’m at that one too, by the way — best multiplayer in the game so far.)
@JeffL You’re doing everything right so far. Wolf packs hard. Bosses hard. Clear that camp. Then after all that hard work, maybe take a rest nearby if you haven’t already…
Kolbex
2011
I don’t know if I’m gonna have enough points for faith stuff. I kind of regret the five points I put in it already to equip the Tree Sentinel’s big halberd; could have really used those in stam. I’m a big burly strength guy right now, one-handing the brick hammer I found somewhere.
I assume at some point there will be a (painfully expensive and/or require a rare item) way to respec. I think that’s how it was done in previous Souls games, at least.
Kolbex
2013
Oh yeah, I did end up doing that once in DS3. You couldn’t do it at all in DS1 or BB (or Demon’s).
They kept or added so many QoL features that I can’t imagine them backsliding on that. Let’s hope. I accidentally leveled dexterity. Don’t tell anyone.
I killed the boat guy! My first even semi-big enemy! Wow, what a fun fight!
I have no excuse. I think I’m conditioned to scan for things off the beaten path before I go the way the game obviously wants me to go. Just to be thorough and find secrets and loot. Going off the beaten path led me to a huge flood plain, more bonfires, and the mage academy. Also, the sad-sack sorcerer in the church near there told me about the academy and the key he needed so I thought I had to go get that right away.
Btw, when you clear the boss in that castle, her rune allows you to respec your stat points.
From my own experience when I first played Dark Souls 1: The bosses are meant to give you the feeling of not being ready for them. They tend to be overwhelming. There is hardly any boss (as a newbie) you will go in and kill with ease. Some bosses seem impossible to beat within the first three, four, five tries and nevertheless they’ll be down at your 20th attempt. Well, at least, that’s the way the Souls games work for me. I am always overwhelmed by the bosses but with time I’ll somehow find a way to beat them. Meaning: That boss will be a good starting point once you decide to fight him.
edit: Says the one who just chickened out from the Crucible Knight fight after three attempts. I have no idea how to beat him with my current loadout/skill/understanding. He takes hardly any damage.
Fozzle
2019
Actually, before the scythe I used a longsword I got from the first camp for the longest time. That plus a faith weapon art, and a shield with Barricade on it was it. But as I got higher up I wanted to play with more toys, and found the scythe =)
I love how fast the sword is, and you can’t go wrong with em. You can also get faith fists early too, but I haven’t messed with them yet. They are in my inventory though for when I tired of the scythe. I’m guessing that scaling on Somber weapons works differently then regular smithstone weapons because the scythe at level 5 blows away my sword at level 12…
Fozzle
2020
There is indeed and you will find it somewhere in your 40-60’s, depending on your route. I am at 70 right now, and I’ve found enough McGuffins to respec about 4-5 times. So it’s rare, but not horribly rare.
The game seems balanced around all the extra tools and Spirit Summons. Margit right now was such a tough fight when it was just a man and his katana. Then I summoned my little vampire things and I could - oh Dark Souls, what have you become? - button-smashed him down, no thinking but brute-force, two or three rolls until he totally lost his stance. Crazy difference!
Okay, I definitely need to play this game for hundreds of hours now. I got so tired of accidentally sneaking when panicking in combat that I bought an elite controller so I could disable the left stick click.
On a dollars/hour basis this game now needs to last me a while but it looks like it will.
My favorite moment thus far: killing a nighttime boss with absolutely nothing left, having a bunch of runes, and then getting bumped for my last 1 or 2 health by a sheep that I had unknowingly backed into while kiting. That silly sheep got 15000 runes off of me (temporarily of course).
Scuzz
2024
I have three times got him half way down and had the game crash. It is the only action location where that has happened. And it had never happened until today.
Scuzz
2026
So I did a lot of exploring on the east side of the lower area. Found some castles, died many times. Dropped into a mine that took me awhile to get out of. I also beat another NPC invader, this one hit real hard.
I also finally met Godrick or Godfrey, whatever his name was. I died so fast I didn’t get a good look. Stormveil is huge, I have now found at least 5 bonfires there, and there are mini-bosses all over the place. Kinda fun.
Yeah, I really like Stormveil’s layout.
Review from my 10yr old son:
This game is way better than Roblox.
Petey
2029
Bought mine in Roundtable Hold from the merchant there…I had to google how to get there even though my kiddo found the way on his own.
