Dark Souls (Project Dark) - October 4, 2011

[quote name='io']Is there a bonfire past the fog door (crystal cave or whatever) or is that one on the balcony of the archives my base for attacking Seath?[/QUOTE]
The latter. Crystal Cave is super short anyway.
 
[quote name='Azazael13']Spent some time playing in the Great Hollow tonight, got all the random loot I think, as well as 9 of the 10 lizards. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad they aren't like Demon Souls and only spawn once, even managed to get 2 slabs :)

I am in ash lake now, tips on the Hydra for melee?[/QUOTE]

I hate you. Also, there's not really any reason to kill that Hydra unless you're desperate for a dragon scale.


I farmed the stupud souvenirs from the damn crow demons last night. I had 4 already so I only needed 5 more (I also have the pendant). Got two within 5 minutes and I thought "wow this is great!" Of course it took me another hour and a half to get three more. The damn mobs jump off the side of the world half the time; so annoying.

I did use my blue eye stone while farming just in case and I invaded the same guy twice; I guess he was the only one in my soul range in the Painted World in human form and in my lobby (or however the peer-to-peer online crap works). I almost killed him twice but he got me both times.

Anyhow, I leveled up the covenant and got the miracle, so glad that's over with. Question about Anor Londo:
If I kill Gwyndolin and Anor Londo turns dark, is the Giant blacksmith still available? Or does it only go dark if I kill Gwynevere?
 
[quote name='Jodou']Only Gwynevere. Never done that so I don't even know if the blacksmith leaves or not.[/QUOTE]

Wait, I get these Gwynevere/Gwyndolin people mixed up. If you join the Darkmoon covenant and then forsake your vows and kill Gwyndolin, doesn't Anor Londo turn dark? I thought that would make leveling weapons harder so I was holding off on that. Or is it Gwynevere that you kill to turn it dark? Wait, let me be more clear. I know you are saying killing Gwynevere makes it dark, but she's the Princess covenant person, right - the one you see after Ornstein/Smough? And Gwyndolin is the darkmoon covenant guy (I have yet to do that). So I can do the darkmoon covenant and break it and not have dark Anor Londo?

But if you kill Gwyndolin, the firekeeper in Anor Londo gets mad?

About fire keepers, Jodou, I think you said you just went ahead and redeemed the Firelink alter firekeeper to upgrade your Estus flask. So far I haven't done anything with it. I guess with the ability to warp it isn't a big deal. For example, to tackle New Londo I just warped from Anor Londo to Firelink, then ran down there - yeah, it was one more step but no big deal. So probably in the interest of getting a more efficient Estus flask I should just use what I have to upgrade (right now I also have the one from Logan's cell). Those two would put me at +5. Then I guess I can get the one in Anor Londo (from the firekeeper there) for +6.
 
I gave the fire keeper her soul back - I have found it very convenient to have that fire at Firelink. However, right before my NG+ I'm planning to murder the firekeepers in New Londo and the Chaos Servant and feed their souls to Anastacia at Firelink to upgrade my Estus twice more.

Speaking of the Chaos Servant firekeeper, I never had the Old Witch's ring and killed Eingyi before I knew he was a merchant (saw him blocking the path and shot fireballs at him from range, oh well), so I never talked to them to get the backstory. It's actually kind of sad:

Description

Saint of the Chaos Servant covenant. Blind, weak, and on the verge of death after swallowing the blight pus of her attendant Eingyi (and, it is assumed, the other egg bearers), she is completely immobile and the fire keeper of the nearby bonfire. Her speech seems incoherent at first (just '…?'), but with the Old Witch's Ring equipped, you may talk to her normally. She mistakes you for her sister, Chaos Witch Quelaag, as she is the only one who visits (and can talk) to her. Eingyi calls her the White Lady.

Background

The unnamed Daughter of Chaos once lived with her mother - the Witch of Izalith - and her two sisters in the ancient city of Izalith. After the Flame of Chaos incident, all but her sister Quelana were transformed into nefarious demons. She and her sister Quelaag escaped the worst of it, having their lower torsos bound to giant spiders. Fleeing their deranged, demonic kin, they climbed to the base of blight town and Quelaag fashioned themselves a home. The precise details of what came next are only suggested at and implied by Eingyi. For whatever reason, the daughters of chaos brought denizens of Blighttown with them, either as food or as servants. Quelaag was unmoved by their suffering, but The White Lady wept for them. Overwhelmed by empathy, she did the only thing she could to help: she swallowed their blight pus, despite orders against such action from Quelaag. This cured the undead, but left the White Lady in her current state - near death, surrounded by eggs that will never bring life, and now, due to the actions of the player, completely and utterly alone.
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from http://darksouls.wikidot.com/quelaag-s-sister
 
[quote name='io']Wait, I get these Gwynevere/Gwyndolin people mixed up. If you join the Darkmoon covenant and then forsake your vows and kill Gwyndolin, doesn't Anor Londo turn dark? I thought that would make leveling weapons harder so I was holding off on that. Or is it Gwynevere that you kill to turn it dark? Wait, let me be more clear. I know you are saying killing Gwynevere makes it dark, but she's the Princess covenant person, right - the one you see after Ornstein/Smough? And Gwyndolin is the darkmoon covenant guy (I have yet to do that). So I can do the darkmoon covenant and break it and not have dark Anor Londo?

But if you kill Gwyndolin, the firekeeper in Anor Londo gets mad?

About fire keepers, Jodou, I think you said you just went ahead and redeemed the Firelink alter firekeeper to upgrade your Estus flask. So far I haven't done anything with it. I guess with the ability to warp it isn't a big deal. For example, to tackle New Londo I just warped from Anor Londo to Firelink, then ran down there - yeah, it was one more step but no big deal. So probably in the interest of getting a more efficient Estus flask I should just use what I have to upgrade (right now I also have the one from Logan's cell). Those two would put me at +5. Then I guess I can get the one in Anor Londo (from the firekeeper there) for +6.[/QUOTE]

If you kill Gwynevere (the Princess covenant leader), then Anor Londo becomes dark. Whether you kill Gwynevere or Gwyndolin, the Firekeeper will attack you. I don't know if you can still do Darkmoon stuff after killing Gwynevere, however, I do know that killing Gwyndolin does not make Anor Londo dark.

I'm 90% sure the Giant Blacksmith stays even in Dark Anor Londo.
 
Is there any point to killing Gwynevere other than to make Dark Anor Londo (which I take it is a big PvP area)?

In other news, much to my surprise I ran around the Archives for a long time in human form last night and didn't get invaded once.
 
[quote name='io']In other news, much to my surprise I ran around the Archives for a long time in human form last night and didn't get invaded once.[/QUOTE]
Because that place fucking sucks.
 
[quote name='Jodou']Because that place fucking sucks.[/QUOTE]

Ha ha. I need to go back to farm the Channeler's Trident, which I'm not looking forward to. I did help 2 or 3 people beat Seath a long time ago, though. It's nice to help someone through the Crystal Cave.

Hit me up if you want to try to co-op to get Seath's tail, Io. I promise not to kill him before it's chopped :)
 
[quote name='Backlash']Ha ha. I need to go back to farm the Channeler's Trident, which I'm not looking forward to. I did help 2 or 3 people beat Seath a long time ago, though. It's nice to help someone through the Crystal Cave.

Hit me up if you want to try to co-op to get Seath's tail, Io. I promise not to kill him before it's chopped :)[/QUOTE]

Yeah, the trident was pretty tedious, though I was getting good at making that 2-Channeler run ;). I think I ended up with about 15 Crystal Straight Swords along the way (from the crystal soldiers). I also gained enough souls for a whole 'nother level during that process.

I will probably want to try tonight - but you know me, not on until at least 10-11 PM Pacific.

I remember reading some discussion here about getting his tail - what's the deal? Something about hitting a crystal in the back and then that is where his tail is?
 
He has a few tails so you need to get to the middle one and whack at the very tip after taking out the crystal of course.

The problem is that the item remains on the tail and the tail can get flung across the room and stuck in a wall.

I got it first try but Ive seen lots of complaints in which that was what happened. Sword is def worth it though
 
[quote name='io']Is there any point to killing Gwynevere other than to make Dark Anor Londo (which I take it is a big PvP area)?

In other news, much to my surprise I ran around the Archives for a long time in human form last night and didn't get invaded once.[/QUOTE]

I think you get a Fire Keeper soul but I'm not 100% sure. Turning Anor Londo dark creates a good farming spot though.

Wooo, I beat S&O solo on my new character. Granted, I have crazy gear on this new character but it felt good, especially cause I'm only SL 38. I'm also not using any pyromancy, miracles, or magic on this character.
 
The problem is that if you're near his middle tail he'll often do a tail smash attack which is pretty damaging and can stun you or knock you down, and he'll keep thrashing so if you get hit once you're probably dead. (At least, that was my experience). It seems to be much easier with another player to stay in front of him to distract him.

I eventually gave up and just killed him so I could move on, but now that I decided to go for platinum I'll have to do it in NG+. Also now I have a sort of mage character so that sword would be nice to have already.

I probably can't play at midnight or 1 Central since I have to get up early during the week (and on weekends since the kids wake us up early, but at least I can be a zombie on Sat and Sunday if needed). Maybe we can co-op on a weekend sometime, though, or some weeknight that you can play earlier (surely your kids don't stay up past 8 at the latest?)
 
Yeah, I agree with Backlash. I had to be cheap and used Great Mgaic Shield to make myself invincible while I chopped it, because his tail thrash is insanely powerful.
 
[quote name='Backlash']I hate you. Also, there's not really any reason to kill that Hydra unless you're desperate for a dragon scale.
[/QUOTE]

I actually watched the Hydra kill itself earlier. After I ran to the dragon I started running back to the start of Ash Lake. Once I saw the Hydra I just stayed away and watched as he ran himself into the tree with the magic spell. He died and gave me 2 dragon scales for my troubles, so thoughtful. Climbing back up the tree took FOREVER since I was afraid of falling.
 
[quote name='IRHari']Yeah, I agree with Backlash. I had to be cheap and used Great Mgaic Shield to make myself invincible while I chopped it, because his tail thrash is insanely powerful.[/QUOTE]

You cheated your way through most of the game, huh?
 
[quote name='IRHari']Yeah, I agree with Backlash. I had to be cheap and used Great Mgaic Shield to make myself invincible while I chopped it, because his tail thrash is insanely powerful.[/QUOTE]

Wait, what?
 
Great Magic Shield makes you invincible. It's a glitch, it'll be fixed at some point, but yeah, that's what it does right now as long as you don't unequip the shield and you have it out.
 
[quote name='IRHari']Great Magic Shield makes you invincible. It's a glitch, it'll be fixed at some point, but yeah, that's what it does right now as long as you don't unequip the shield and you have it out.[/QUOTE]

Huh. I wonder why we aren't seeing more griefers just using that, then. Why bother with TWoP , Ring of Fog, and all that when you can just be invincible?
 
Man I had that 10 minute video of the crystal lizard locations in the hollow next to me on my tablet while I was playing and I still couldn't make heads or tails of the second half of the locations. It doesn't help matters that the author seemingly kept loading up the same crystal lizard spot up to 5 or 6 times so I was never sure it if was a new location. Really wish he would edit it down some. Is there a more clear / concise video anyone else would recommend?
 
[quote name='guardian_owl']Man I had that 10 minute video of the crystal lizard locations in the hollow next to me on my tablet while I was playing and I still couldn't make heads or tails of the second half of the locations. It doesn't help matters that the author seemingly kept loading up the same crystal lizard spot up to 5 or 6 times so I was never sure it if was a new location. Really wish he would edit it down some. Is there a more clear / concise video anyone else would recommend?[/QUOTE]

Just use the instructions on the Wiki.
 
[quote name='IRHari']Great Magic Shield makes you invincible. It's a glitch, it'll be fixed at some point, but yeah, that's what it does right now as long as you don't unequip the shield and you have it out.[/QUOTE]
I ran into one of these people last night. Got summoned into Anor Londo for Abbot and Costello fight and we got invaded. Suffice it to say that my backstab did jack shit to him.
 
Went back and tried the instructions on the wiki, I think what was tripping me up is the random ass way crystal lizards seems to function in the Great Hollow. It's like there are 10 crystal lizards with 10 possible spawn locations, but all 10 don't spawn at the same time and the lizard can spawn at the same location twice if you leave and come back later. I killed I think 4 or 5 originally on my way down to Ash Lake over the weekend then I went back last night to finish the job.

I remember I killed the single lizard which was just standing on a tree branch part of the way down over the weekend, but it appeared again in the same location last night. Dropped down to the cave over the weekend and killed a couple at the ledge at the end, and then I ended up killing two more (one each on two separate trips down) where there should have just been 3 according to the wiki. I also don't believe I ever had any spawn down on the ledge near the top of the ladder, but I do believe I have killed a total of 10. Ended up with 2 titanite slabs :)

So I think the game handles lizard spawnings like whack-a-mole in the great hollow. 10 total lizards, but any combination of them can pop up at any of the spawn points each time you refresh the area by lighting the bonfire so that one can appear in the same location on different trips and some spawn points could never be used.
 
[quote name='guardian_owl']Went back and tried the instructions on the wiki, I think what was tripping me up is the random ass way crystal lizards seems to function in the Great Hollow. It's like there are 10 crystal lizards with 10 possible spawn locations, but all 10 don't spawn at the same time and the lizard can spawn at the same location twice if you leave and come back later. I killed I think 4 or 5 originally on my way down to Ash Lake over the weekend then I went back last night to finish the job.

I remember I killed the single lizard which was just standing on a tree branch part of the way down over the weekend, but it appeared again in the same location last night. Dropped down to the cave over the weekend and killed a couple at the ledge at the end, and then I ended up killing two more (one each on two separate trips down) where there should have just been 3 according to the wiki. I also don't believe I ever had any spawn down on the ledge near the top of the ladder, but I do believe I have killed a total of 10. Ended up with 2 titanite slabs :)

So I think the game handles lizard spawnings like whack-a-mole in the great hollow. 10 total lizards, but any combination of them can pop up at any of the spawn points each time you refresh the area by lighting the bonfire so that one can appear in the same location on different trips and some spawn points could never be used.[/QUOTE]

They don't all spawn at the same time, but they all have their own spawn points. If one isn't where it's supposed to be, quit and reload until it shows up.
 
Dammit, farming Souvenir of Reprisal is a serious pain. I thought the Channeler's Trident was bad but this is about the same except you need like 7-8 of 'em. Ugh... I farmed the 4 crow demons (the two that come down to where the fire guys are and the two that show up at the top of the stairs) for about 2 hours and I got two... I saw another but it was on a crow that sunk into the stairs and disappeared right as I was standing on it (didn't get the prompt). :bomb: I realized afterwards that one of those 2 from the top of the stairs ends up in the bottom of the tower if you reload. So a couple of times when they jumped off the cliff I went in there and reloaded but I never found one that way - not entirely sure it would show up even if one had one but I wish I had done that when the one I saw disappeared.

I got one fairly early so then I had to keep going until I got a second one and it was like an hour and a half in between. So now I have 3 total. I know I can get one more, later, from the pendant and then I can wait till NG+ to get 2 more (I forget where the first one came from). If the Sparkly glitch is still active when I get the pendant from Rhea, I can get another, too, since I got a pendant from a Forest Covenant invasion. I'll feel no remorse whatsover using the glitch to get a second Souvenir of Reprisal. That much farming is just pure tedium. Well, I did gain nearly 4 levels (at 40K a pop) from it so I guess I made some progress - though, really, I am trying not to level up too much at this point.

And yeah, I had the ring equipped plus over 30 banked humanity since I was going to get the dark armor set plus kindle up some bonfires. So I really couldn't be doing much more - just a very low drop rate and some very bad luck.
 
I'd say very bad luck because I spent maybe two hours total to get the six I needed (and that's with one going over the side of the tower, never to be seen again). I thought everyone was crazy about the drop rate because I got maybe three of them fairly close together and they seemed to be a drop rate of like 1 in 30, which isn't bad at all considering you kill four at a time.
 
Yeah, bad luck for sure, though it definitely is a pain. I needed 5 from the crows and it took about 90 minutes I think (I had 3 from covenant invasions, 1 from Lautrec after he kills the firekeeper - which is the one you were forgetting where you got it, I think, and 1 from the pendant).

FYI, I found the best farming method to be this:

- start at the bonfire and run through the courtyard and up the stairs in the annex (killing only the very first zombie)
- turn left, run up the stairs, and kill the fire guy at the top
- first crow will come down from the top of the tower to meet you - kill before she tries to jump off
- go to the corner of the bottom section (the one you are on with the big hole in the middle) and the second crow will aggro and come down to meet you
- run up to the top and kill the next two crows that show up suddenly
- now go back to the part with the big hole in it and go down the other stairs toward the circular tower. Run around until you get to the entrance on the other side
- go just a little ways up the stairs inside and two more crow demons will come down to meet you.
- either use a homeward bone or jump/walk down to the bottom of the tower and back through the courtyard to the bonfire

That gives you 6 crow demons to kill relatively quickly. I also recommend laying down your blue stone as soon as you get into the courtyard on the off chance you can invade and kill another player for a souvenir.


I am so close to NG+ I almost just want to start it now. The only thing I really have left to do is farm souls to buy large shards to get 9 (!) more weapons up to +10 in preparation for turning them into boss soul weapons for the trophy. If I do that now I figure I won't need the large ember again and I can skip the depths entirely in NG+. But I think I'll need 90 large shards, which is a lot of souls at 4000 a pop.

I got the last 3 weapons I needed last night in about an hour or so of farming (maybe hour and a half): stone greatshield, channeler's trident (only took 4 runs I think, so I was happy with this one), and silver knight straight sword. I have a bunch of extra stone greatswords and black knight crap, btw, if anyone wants to try to meet and get them from me.
 
Oh, I also had a different annoying experience last night. I needed souls (to buy large shards) and I figured co-oping would be more fun and potentially faster than farming. So I go to the kiln and I actually get summoned almost right away. We run through the level killing all the black knights, and then, as soon as the last one is dead (right before the fog door), the host dismisses me. WTF? I can't think of any reason to do that, really. It's not like he gets less souls if I help him kill the boss. Of course after that I ran through and farmed the knights for souls and chunks for around 30 mins while I waited to be summoned, and didn't get summoned ever again. Ugh.
 
[quote name='Backlash']Oh, I also had a different annoying experience last night. I needed souls (to buy large shards) and I figured co-oping would be more fun and potentially faster than farming. So I go to the kiln and I actually get summoned almost right away. We run through the level killing all the black knights, and then, as soon as the last one is dead (right before the fog door), the host dismisses me. WTF? I can't think of any reason to do that, really. It's not like he gets less souls if I help him kill the boss. Of course after that I ran through and farmed the knights for souls and chunks for around 30 mins while I waited to be summoned, and didn't get summoned ever again. Ugh.[/QUOTE]

Actually, I think they do get less souls, the coming patch is gonna fix that though. What I don't get is why he did it before the boss, that implies he only has trouble with the knights? Most assholes who do that wait until the boss is almost dead and then send you on your merry way.
 
[quote name='Backlash']Oh, I also had a different annoying experience last night. I needed souls (to buy large shards) and I figured co-oping would be more fun and potentially faster than farming. So I go to the kiln and I actually get summoned almost right away. We run through the level killing all the black knights, and then, as soon as the last one is dead (right before the fog door), the host dismisses me. WTF? I can't think of any reason to do that, really. It's not like he gets less souls if I help him kill the boss. Of course after that I ran through and farmed the knights for souls and chunks for around 30 mins while I waited to be summoned, and didn't get summoned ever again. Ugh.[/QUOTE]
In Demons Souls they had this, if the host summoned people to help him he would get less souls determined by how many people he had summoned.
But what gettinmoney said makes sense, why would the guy only summon you to the kill knights? What SL are you at?
 
Hmm, I didn't realize that. I'd still rather have help and kill the boss easily, I think. I'm at SL 86 right now; pumped up my Vit a little bit with the extra souls I got while farming for Souvenirs. Right now all souls go toward buying titanite, though.

The only other thing I could think of was that he was farming chunks in human form and summoned just in case of invaders (we actually did have one invader, but he was killed before I even saw him). Really weird behavior either way.
 
So I have been stuck in BlightTown for about 5 hours of gameplay I would say. Didn't take me to too long to get to 1st bonfire, then co-oped a bunch to get a good feel for the second half. Last night, helping someone, I got to 2nd bonfire, so I know where to go now, and probably gained 10 levels in the area, BUT....

1. My Drake sword half-broke last night. It does half damage, and I am told I need to repair it. I don't own the repair stones. Brought out the Uchigutanga; I might as well piss on the goblins, it would do more damage than tickling them with the Uchi.

2. I have 2 moss to heal toxins/poison. I have the shadow armor, but I assume I am not going to make it without more. Everyone says to get more from Dark Root Basin, but I am stuck at 1st bonfire in Blight Town.

I think I could deal with #2, but I am f'd by number 1, I'll never survive without the Drake swords's damage. Even though it currently does 1/2 damage, it is more powerful than the Uchi.

I know the 2nd bonfire in the bottom of Blight Town has a short cut back to Fire Link. But since my sword half-broke on my last run, I am not sure if I can make it that far.... I need someone to buy me a repair stone, and I'll drop some souls off for them. :D

Seriously, I need some advice. I was just started to get frustrated with Blight Town, but now I don't know if I want to even look at the game until I have a solution. Do I have to make my way all the way back to undead parish to buy repair stone? What is the quickest way? Show I try to make it to 2nd bonfire, then use the Fire Link shortcut?
 
[quote name='snowsquirrel']So I have been stuck in BlightTown for about 5 hours of gameplay I would say. Didn't take me to too long to get to 1st bonfire, then co-oped a bunch to get a good feel for the second half. Last night, helping someone, I got to 2nd bonfire, so I know where to go now, and probably gained 10 levels in the area, BUT....

1. My Drake sword half-broke last night. It does half damage, and I am told I need to repair it. I don't own the repair stones. Brought out the Uchigutanga; I might as well piss on the goblins, it would do more damage than tickling them with the Uchi.

2. I have 2 moss to heal toxins/poison. I have the shadow armor, but I assume I am not going to make it without more. Everyone says to get more from Dark Root Basin, but I am stuck at 1st bonfire in Blight Town.

I think I could deal with #2, but I am f'd by number 1, I'll never survive without the Drake swords's damage. Even though it currently does 1/2 damage, it is more powerful than the Uchi.

I know the 2nd bonfire in the bottom of Blight Town has a short cut back to Fire Link. But since my sword half-broke on my last run, I am not sure if I can make it that far.... I need someone to buy me a repair stone, and I'll drop some souls off for them. :D

Seriously, I need some advice. I was just started to get frustrated with Blight Town, but now I don't know if I want to even look at the game until I have a solution. Do I have to make my way all the way back to undead parish to buy repair stone? What is the quickest way? Show I try to make it to 2nd bonfire, then use the Fire Link shortcut?[/QUOTE]

Either fight your way to the second bonfire and try to make it through the short cut or go backwards and back through the Depths. Go buy the repair box that allows you to repair weapons at bonfires. This should be a required purchase for everyone who plays this game.
 
I'd say head back up through the depths to undead parish and purchase the repair box from the blacksmith. Unfortunately, Blighttown (the part above the swamp, at least) is one of the areas in the game where you can't really just run by all the enemies even if you know where you're going.

The "shortcut back to Firelink" isn't like a simple elevator or anything, FYI. You still have to go through a bit of the swamp, then ride up the waterwheel, then climb a bunch of ladders (with enemies, including the toxic dart guys if you go the wrong way), then past 3 of the big club guys, then through valley of the drakes, and then to Firelink if you have the master key or Darkroot if you don't.

Edit: Don't forget the pyromancy is really powerful, if you have any. So you can use that to supplement your sword pretty effectively.
 
I havent' tried the pyro spell I picked up yet. But I think it said it only had one cast. Thanks for the advice, I'll go back through depths, past butcher right?
 
Yes, but the butchers don't respawn. And there's a pretty good shortcut to get back to the bonfire that's in the depths, so once you get out of Blighttown it should only take you about 3-4 minutes to get through the depths. then use the shortcut right outside the depths door (that circular tower) to get back to Firelink in another minute or two.
 
Hey guys, xbox dark souler here but your guys' topic seems to be more active. I'm a little confused as to what I should do right now, been playing blind/guideless.

I've just defeated Ornstein and Smough and got the Lordvessel. Then went to the forest and finally killed Sif (such an awesome boss/fight). I ventured into the Catacombs but the skeletons respawm after I kill them, so I assume I need something special to kill them, then again some NPC talked about people going into the Catacombs for the Rite of Kindling, which I feel I should have at this point.

I tried my luck down in New Londo and I can't touch the ghosts. I realize I have to be cursed to fight them, but is it possible to just make a cursed weapon? How about the skeletons, will some sort of enchanted weapon kill them? I'm currently using a +3 Furysword and +3 lightning spear.

Thanks guys!
 
An enchanted weapon (the weapon stats should show the white O with some high numbers next to it, means its holy/enchanted) will kill skeletons permanently.

You'll find a few dudes holding lamps in the catacombs. They don't respawn when you kill them. They're necros and they resurrect the skeletons near them. As long as they're alive the skeletons will keep respawning, so find em and kill them.

Yeah you can buy transient curses from a merchant, then start killing ghosts. With a high item find stat they'll drop a lot of transient curses so you'll keep having the ability to be cursed and hit them.
 
Thanks man, I must have totally missed seeing an item called transient curse. Time to go tackle the Catacombs, even though it kind of creeps me out.
 
[quote name='burz88']Thanks man, I must have totally missed seeing an item called transient curse. Time to go tackle the Catacombs, even though it kind of creeps me out.[/QUOTE]

Catacombs aren't bad at all once you get rid of the Necromancers. I actually never saw the skeletons revive until very late in the Catacombs when I went kind of a strange way and didn't know where the last Necromancer was. But from the start you can take out at least two of them with arrows before you even get to their skeletons. A couple others later you can rush in and kill quickly.

I guess in my game I'll have to sit in the Painted World until I get enough Souvenirs of Reprisal. I just have terrible luck. The Channeler Trident took me like 20-30 runs to get. And I estimate I killed at least 100 crows last night and got 3 souvenirs (well, 2, actually as I lost 1 off the cliff).
 
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I'm almost done with my NG, but I'm really annoyed that some of the NPCs are bugged. Solaire just stays in his first spot and only talks about gazing into the sun. He never went to Anor Londo. This is a known bug according to the wiki. Also, even though I talked to Siegmeyer of Catarina outside of Sen's Fortress, inside I can't talk to him at all. It says hit X to talk but nothing happens. I tried killing all the monsters, changing the ball direction, even killing the giant on top. Really wanted to finish his side quest and get the titanite slab this time.
 
[quote name='snowsquirrel']I think you just rephrased one of the questions, and answered none.[/QUOTE]

That's cause the two paths are roughly the same distance.

[quote name='burz88']Hey guys, xbox dark souler here but your guys' topic seems to be more active. I'm a little confused as to what I should do right now, been playing blind/guideless.

I've just defeated Ornstein and Smough and got the Lordvessel. Then went to the forest and finally killed Sif (such an awesome boss/fight). I ventured into the Catacombs but the skeletons respawm after I kill them, so I assume I need something special to kill them, then again some NPC talked about people going into the Catacombs for the Rite of Kindling, which I feel I should have at this point.

I tried my luck down in New Londo and I can't touch the ghosts. I realize I have to be cursed to fight them, but is it possible to just make a cursed weapon? How about the skeletons, will some sort of enchanted weapon kill them? I'm currently using a +3 Furysword and +3 lightning spear.

Thanks guys![/QUOTE]

I don't know if Enchanted weapons kill them permanently, but Divine definitely do.
 
[quote name='IRHari']An enchanted weapon (the weapon stats should show the white O with some high numbers next to it, means its holy/enchanted) will kill skeletons permanently.

You'll find a few dudes holding lamps in the catacombs. They don't respawn when you kill them. They're necros and they resurrect the skeletons near them. As long as they're alive the skeletons will keep respawning, so find em and kill them.

Yeah you can buy transient curses from a merchant, then start killing ghosts. With a high item find stat they'll drop a lot of transient curses so you'll keep having the ability to be cursed and hit them.[/QUOTE]
I have to disagree with you on killing skeletons permanently with an enchanted weapon, when I went back to the catacombs on NG+, I had my enchanted Iaito and thought that it would kill them, but no it didn't, I "killed" them multiple times and they kept getting right back up. So I thought that I misread something and degraded my Iaito and then swtiched to Magic upgrade, went back and the same thing still happened. The only solution that remains for me is to kill the pyromancer that controls their revival.
Unless I have to to kill the skelotons a certain way with an enchanted weapon? My Iaito was +4 when I tried killing them.
 
[quote name='gettinmoney662']That's cause the two paths are roughly the same distance.



I don't know if Enchanted weapons kill them permanently, but Divine definitely do.[/QUOTE]
I just read this, I have yet to try a Divine weapon so I hope in my NG++ they will be gone for good!
 
[quote name='Assasin']I just read this, I have yet to try a Divine weapon so I hope in my NG++ they will be gone for good![/QUOTE]

I just made my Iaito into a divine weapon and the skeletons definitely do not respawn as I kill them. Catacombs don't seem nearly as bad as I was anticipating.
 
[quote name='burz88']I just made my Iaito into a divine weapon and the skeletons definitely do not respawn as I kill them. Catacombs don't seem nearly as bad as I was anticipating.[/QUOTE]
Good to hear! Yea the Catacombs aren't bad at all, it's just that the skeletons are extremely annoying when they do they're rolling attack.
 
Killed maybe 40 more Crow Demons over 30-45 minutes - got one souvenir of reprisal... So my drop rate of around 2-3% is holding pretty steady over a fairly large sample size. I have 410 on item discovery too...

I'd put down the invasion stone, but do you have to be part of that covenant to get one then? Also, I'd equip my char differently for PvP vs fighting the crow demons so my likelihood of success would be very very low if I actually invaded someone.

Edit: another 30-40, another souvenir. I also realized I don't even have a blue eye stone or whatever it is. I guess I need to join that Darkmoon covenant? Maybe that will make the drops higher??
 
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So last night I killed Lautrec, found a super easy way to kill him. Just used the same method as killing the False King Allant in the last game. I tried to melee him, but just couldn't do it.

Tonight, I killed Ornstein and Smough. Actually managed to kill Smough first, so in NG I can kill Ornstein first. I ended up beating them by myself. I tried to summon people, but they died pretty quick and I got killed. I had to try like 5 or 6 times to finally get it; also had to kindle the bonfire to 20.

I finally figured out how to get up to that staircase in Firelink and have the crow take me back to the Asylum. It totally scared the crap out of me when I fell through the floor and had to fight the Stray Demon; I wasn't expecting that. Was able to kill him w/o any trouble, but his stupid flame hurt me even through my Eagle Shield.
 
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