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What level is your pyromancy flame? Get that up above 5 or so and she shouldn't be too bad.

Also, anyone try the Dragon Bare Fisties Challenge? My roommate's been working on it off and on for a while. Spoiler

One thing to note, in case you didn't know, is Pyromancy doesn't scale with any stats, so you can invest a lot early, and deal a butt load of damage. Having Fire Orb definately helped with Gaping Dragon. My next move before re attempting Quelaag is to farm 70-100k souls and dump them into my pyro glove, then onto Sens Fortress.

So I decided I was not liking how my knight was doing in either blight town or the catacombs. Decided to roll me up a new pyromancer, kill to Taurus, and invest in faith up to 14 with end and vit.

Then I used the master key from the elevator down to new londo ruins/Valley of Drakes and promptly suicide ran the undead drake to pick up Dragon crest shield and Astora's strait sword. I'm a fan of longswords in the game with both thrust and slash. Plus it does Divine damage until I can go get me the ember to make ascended divine weapons.

Going for a Faithomancer ish type thing this time see how I like that. Plus I was really regretting not having master key to skip the top of blightown if I wanted. I'll never finish this game at this rate of rerolling >.>

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The Catacombs is really easy if you have a divine damage weapon. I often go there after the gargoyles to +5 Fire a weapon and grab the item that allows you to kindle up to 20 flasks before continuing on.

I'm not a fan of the area beyond without having Homing Soul Mass, but the catacombs itself is rather easy.

You can do the catacombs first thing if you want to. It's the tomb of the giants that you shouldn't really bother with until you have the lordvessel.

If you already have the covetous gold serpent ring and the rusted ring, the leeches in blighttown near the giant tree drop an absurd amount of green shards(and large shards). When I was farming large shards to upgrade my Balder shield, I ended up with something like 45 green shards in the process(results probably atypical, but I'm sure you could still get 20-25 in no time).


Edited, Nov 28th 2012 2:02am by Poldaran

I am pretty sure I just facetanked her with Iron Flesh. I am also pretty sure that shortly thereafter, there was a nerf to Iron Flesh.

Double posting like a pro to say: 4 Kings down. Stone Giant Armor, Lightning Claymore +5. Charge and 2 hand with grass shield for stam to burn them each down before the next could spawn. Took 2 tries before I got it down.

Edited, Dec 2nd 2012 5:18pm by Shojindo

So last week I was on crystal cavern with my Faithomancer and got kinda bored. Also I realized I did it again and because I wanted to use Ornstiens stuff and dragonslayer greatbow I had a very balanced non specialized character. I was not doing bad though, I fully intended to continue the character...

So I rolled a Sorc just to try out some spells. Now he is 87 and on the last boss of the game with all the souls needed to open up the last area.

Dex = 40
Int =40
End, Vit, STR between16-19 will boost end and vit first in NG+

Moonsoul GS + 5, Uchi +15,

Was doing Velika's Rapier + 5 for a while and it was fun but eventually the Uchi and the MLGS just out shined it. Crystal Magic Weapon + Uchi15 is the boss destroyer. The amount of damage you can spam out with that + stam regen items, while two handed is just insane. Gonna do the AotA expansion area first before moving on to new game plus.

This game is definitely a classic. Looking forward to DS2 hopefully they don't water it down to much and kill the charm.

Trade the crow to get a ring of fog. Those two are easy mode if they can't see you as you approach.

How much damage are you doing to the big knights? They have an easy way to get them to give you an opening, but if you're not doing enough DPS, they'll just heal up to full over and over.

If you have a great shield you can just riot shield the right hand knight off the ledge by rolling up to the corner and making him draw his sword. Then just block him and he will fall off. On my first guy I got really good at parrying them with a target shield. It's hard to parry the halberd ones but the sword knights are super easy to parry and counter.

I got a new toon now with 40 STR 40 End and he had the easiest Anno Londor ever. Great Shield + Zweihander you can 2-3 hit the giants. R2 strong knocks knights over spat on their face. Totally hilarious.

I farmed the 2 big giants before orn and smo for chuncks to make a lightning Zwei +5 and that thing is so fun. Walk through the giants legs. Swing twice, profit.

Now I have moved on to using a Manserpent GS +15. That sword does sick damage with A scaling on str. I'm also wearing Black Iron Tarkus gear with a great shield of Ast. Need havels ring and a RoFaP just to stay under 50% weight but I could just sit their and block Flame demon boss on the way to Izalith and 4 kings was silly easy.

I don't know why str builds get a bad rap. I'm using 0 magic or pyro just a crap ton of str, end and vit and it's my easiest run through NG yet. Almost to Nito on him and he is the last one.