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I finished 2-2 and 4-2 today. I thought I was going to have a tough time with the flamelurker based on what everybody else had to say about him, but I just used the purple shield, flame-resist ring and soul arrow and he went down without much of a fight.

I'm kind of confused about upgrading with blacksmith ed. I have the flamelurker and armor spider souls, and want to upgrade my compound long bow +7 into the lava bow. My only option for upgrading from the menu is up to compound long bow +8, am I missing something, or do I need something else to upgrade?

Originally Posted by BlueScrote I finished 2-2 and 4-2 today. I thought I was going to have a tough time with the flamelurker based on what everybody else had to say about him, but I just used the purple shield, flame-resist ring and soul arrow and he went down without much of a fight. I'm kind of confused about upgrading with blacksmith ed. I have the flamelurker and armor spider souls, and want to upgrade my compound long bow +7 into the lava bow. My only option for upgrading from the menu is up to compound long bow +8, am I missing something, or do I need something else to upgrade?

You need to make sure you have given him the red hot demon soul. Have it in your inventory and just keep approaching him and talking to him to unlock the good upgrades.

Originally Posted by Saint Noir ZOMG. So, I was cheesing 1-4 boss. I got him down to about 30% left in his health. I say, look at him just standing there, he doesn't even turn around when I get super close. I'll just finish him off. Tried to back stab, missed, got destroyed. Luckily I only lost 1 soul level. This time it's all cheese...

You got cocky!

Originally Posted by MSI Magus Reading messages can only be done online right(your talking about messages other players leave on the ground?)? I am assuming from this and things iv heard from others its pretty important to play this online/alot easier?

Yeah the messages are online only. I wouldn't say it's a lot easier, but they're useful for little things like there's a trap in front of you or use fire on the guy in the next room (which is not always accurate).

Originally Posted by sendme I thought you could use magic no matter what class you were as long as you had the wand. Where does one get this and how do you get the magic or healing spells?

Yeah find that wand. Once you do people will help you get spells dont be afreaid to talk to the people in the nexus again, until you have the wand or a talisman neither of them want anything to do with you. I didnt realize those people taught spells becuase when I first talked to them they basically told me to get lost.

Dr. Foo thanks I skipped that portion of the lever, found it last night when I went back. I took the back way to Flamelurker, and am going back now to finish up the level

Got a question for anyone.

Say I am after an upgraded weapon. And You can get there with 2 or more routes with various weapons... Does the end result weigh the same?

I am after a certain upgraded weapon and i can get there with the great axe, or the crescent axe. The crescent axe is 3.0 lighter. I assume the end result will weigh the same, but I hate to find out it wont later.

End result is the same.

Thanks Saint Noir!

I just tried 5-1, and I just want to say the plague sucks - I went through all of my plague healing items the first time I tried, should have just died and done it again saving the items. Also what's the deal with the red roach-like things, it seemed like they opened a path, but I couldn't really tell?

unless I'm mistaken, if u load ur game, status effects go away. So if u got plagued by the rats (I don't know what else in 5-1 would have plagued u. Only place I ever got it was ing 5-3), kill em all off quick and just reload. No need to go through your lotuses

Ugh, I'm one weapon upgrade away from the platinum but I really don't feel like grinding those damn mosquitoes for shards/chunks. It sucks that marrowstone is the only one in the game that doesn't have a treasure location other than the pure.

Something I'm wondering about Ostrava. I missed him the first time (didn't look down in that courtyard...frankly, didn't even know you could go down there at all) so I restarted and saved him. Now he's in the Nexus hanging out. But somebody told me if you ever go back to 1-1, Ostrava goes back too and you have to re-rescue him. Something about how you had to rescue Ostrava and beat the 1-1 boss in the same session within that world.

So does Ostrava keep coming back until you rescue him and "lock" him as rescued status by beating the boss? Or is he considered rescued as long as you got him back to the Nexus? I see that you get to rescue him (...again) in 1-2, but I've stopped playing because I'm about to kill the 1-1 boss but need to know if I have to rescue Ostrava in 1-1 again before I kill the boss. I don't want to kill the boss and then go to 1-2 and find out Ostrava died somewhere.

Originally Posted by Jodou Ugh, I'm one weapon upgrade away from the platinum but I really don't feel like grinding those damn mosquitoes for shards/chunks. It sucks that marrowstone is the only one in the game that doesn't have a treasure location other than the pure.

I want to start upgrading weapons for the trophies and haven't seen that discussed much. I'm just using the winged spear. Jodou, since you've done it, what weapons should I be upgrading to get the other trophies that won't interfere with the spear or the purple flame shield upgrades or anything else I might need for other purposes? Ie, are there any "easy" ones I can knock out now? I have rather large collectons of all kinds of stones from the first half of the game.

Originally Posted by crunchb3rry Something I'm wondering about Ostrava. I missed him the first time (didn't look down in that courtyard...frankly, didn't even know you could go down there at all) so I restarted and saved him. Now he's in the Nexus hanging out. But somebody told me if you ever go back to 1-1, Ostrava goes back too and you have to re-rescue him. Something about how you had to rescue Ostrava and beat the 1-1 boss in the same session within that world. So does Ostrava keep coming back until you rescue him and "lock" him as rescued status by beating the boss? Or is he considered rescued as long as you got him back to the Nexus? I see that you get to rescue him (...again) in 1-2, but I've stopped playing because I'm about to kill the 1-1 boss but need to know if I have to rescue Ostrava in 1-1 again before I kill the boss. I don't want to kill the boss and then go to 1-2 and find out Ostrava died somewhere.

Until you beat the boss, Ostavia will reappear in the level everytime, and you have to save him. You can save him after you beat the boss though (for 1-1 at least, haven't tried it in any of the other levels)

The guide says that you don't want to rescue him in 1-2 until you beat the boss there too. I beat the boss and he's still in his little cage. I have yet to rescue him though I might do it tonight.

I died stupidly in 1-1 not too long after rescuing Ostrava and then he died fighting the respawn while I was fighting my way back to him. >_< By the time I got back to him, he was just a glowing Masoleum key. :(

Kinda bummed that I missed out on a free clearstone, but I don't plan to restart the game any time soon. Actually, if I ever beat the game, I might do a new game over instead of new game +.

So you save him and immediately beat the boss in 1-1, but beat the boss and then save him in 1-2?

Originally Posted by crunchb3rry So you save him and immediately beat the boss in 1-1, but beat the boss and then save him in 1-2?

If you save him the first time, he'll continue to reappear as an NPC "quest" (where he'll ask for assistance again) in different worlds, world 1-2 included.

If you're referring to why you should wait until after killing the boss in 1-2, it's mainly to improve his survivability later on in 1-3 (IIRC).

Originally Posted by crunchb3rry So you save him and immediately beat the boss in 1-1, but beat the boss and then save him in 1-2?

All I know is that I beat the 1-2 boss long ago and Ostrava is still sitting in his little cage. I never went down (from the other side) to save him. But I've gone into the beginning of 1-2 repeatedly to farm stones off the mini-phalaxes. He's there every time. But I think I will save him tonight.

Note that you can also not save him in 1-1 and beat the boss there first too. I went back and got him later. I was in his general area but never went over to where he was originally and he was still there when I went back well after beating Phalanx.

I think I figured it out. The first time you enter his area, he stands on that balcony and doesn't come down to fight until you clean out that initial mob keeping him up there.

But if you trigger him coming down, anytime you enter that area again, he will be down on the ground already, fighting enemies. I think this is how he is getting killed. He can take out the enemies near him just fine, but usually dies when he makes it to the blue knight's hallway.

Anyways, I saved him and beat the boss. I'm glad he's at least stuck in a cage in 1-2. I just fear going back to 1-1 to get past that WT gate, and having to worry about saving his ass again. I would think saving him once just triggered a script so he would no longer spawn in 1-1 anymore.