Dark Souls: Prepare to Die

[Garrett x50 cal]

Who here has played dark souls? If you haven't you really should its tons of fun and its under 30 dollars for xbox and ps3 currently. If you play on a PC a port is coming later this month with new content. This new content will be coming to xbox/ps3 as well in October I think.

For those of you who have played it what lvl are your classes?

I have my main class who has beaten NG and is on NG+ currently at lvl 138ish
Vitality is around 30
endurance is at around 38
attunement is 21-4 I have 6 slots
strength is at 36
dexterity is in the 20s or 30s range
resistance is around 25ish
intelligence is 10
faith is 30

I use Gargoyle halbred +5 lightning, maxed out pyromancies, great lightning spears, and I'm starting to use katanas not sure which.

My other class is a strict mage with a rapier at lvl 20

vitality is 14
endurance is like 10
attument is 16 with 4 slots
strength is 10
dexterity is 11
resistance is base value not sure what tho
intelligence is 20
faith is 9

 

[Prof Gallows]

I don't have the game started up to tell you my exact stats, but I main my first character on chaos weapons/pyromancy and I think I'm around level 75. I use a maxed out chaos partizan, chaos storm, chameleon, and my armor is eastern chest, crimson waistcloth, onion helmet(just because), and paladin gauntlets.

I haven't played much recently, and I haven't even beaten the game yet. Stuck on Four Kings. But I've mainly just been doing online to keep me entertained.

Andy will probably post in here too if he sees the thread, we've been pumped for the DLC.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

I don't have the game started up to tell you my exact stats, but I main my first character on chaos weapons/pyromancy and I think I'm around level 75. I use a maxed out chaos partizan, chaos storm, chameleon, and my armor is eastern chest, crimson waistcloth, onion helmet(just because), and paladin gauntlets.

I haven't played much recently, and I haven't even beaten the game yet. Stuck on Four Kings. But I've mainly just been doing online to keep me entertained.

Andy will probably post in here too if he sees the thread, we've been pumped for the DLC.

Tips for 4 kings
A. Go in as a tank with heavy armor and high poise use iron flesh and whack away with a fast powerful weapon if your hp is high enough and weapon is powerful enough there will be time to heal in between kings.

Or

B. with under 25% and just dodge all the sword attacks and when they use magic sprint or backflip away.

You can always use Beatrice to help you as well.

 

[Prof Gallows]

It's more the fact I haven't played in a few months. I'm sure I'd have beaten him by now but I just haven't bothered with it. Figured I'd wait until the DLC came out. I've got a few other characters I've been fooling around with too, almost at a point where I've got my dragon character into a full dragon.

 

[AndyB]

Tips for 4 kings
A. Go in as a tank with heavy armor and high poise use iron flesh and whack away with a fast powerful weapon if your hp is high enough and weapon is powerful enough there will be time to heal in between kings.

Or

B. with under 25% and just dodge all the sword attacks and when they use magic sprint or backflip away.

You can always use Beatrice to help you as well.

I wouldn't recommend any of those in all honesty.
The best way I've dealt with the Kings is put on your best magic resistant gear/shield/rings, they're weak to magic and pyromancies. Lighter the gear the better. Watching out for their grab, AoE and large homing(that sucker stays around for 15 seconds and cannot be dodged).

As for the new content, a whole bunch of things have been released in the past few days. New screens, trailers.
I'm really looking forward to it, shame console players have to wait until later on in the year.

Also, my current character is a Dex/Faith build. Elite Knight Set, but really it all depends what I'm going to be coming up against.

Edit: I mean come on.. the avatar yo?

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

I wouldn't recommend any of those in all honesty.
The best way I've dealt with the Kings is put on your best magic resistant gear/shield/rings, they're weak to magic and pyromancies. Lighter the gear the better. Watching out for their grab, AoE and large homing(that sucker stays around for 15 seconds and cannot be dodged).

As for the new content, a whole bunch of things have been released in the past few days. New screens, trailers.
I'm really looking forward to it, shame console players have to wait until later on in the year.

Also, my current character is a Dex/Faith build. Elite Knight Set, but really it all depends what I'm going to be coming up against.

Edit: I mean come on.. the avatar yo?

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ I honestly just noticed your avatar.

 

[Prof Gallows]

Yessss. I hope this magic is fueled on humanity, I love my chaos pyromancy and all but I'd love to do some real sinister stuff.

Oh yeah, what covenant did you join Garrett, and what rank are you in?
I joined the Chaos Covenant.. just because. Rank 3. Donated 400+ humanity so far. XD

Spoiler: Screencaps from the new trailer

New Armor.

Hawkeye Gough

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

Yessss. I hope this magic is fueled on humanity, I love my chaos pyromancy and all but I'd love to do some real sinister stuff.

Oh yeah, what covenant did you join Garrett, and what rank are you in?
I joined the Chaos Covenant.. just because. Rank 3. Donated 400+ humanity so far. XD

Spoiler: Screencaps from the new trailer

New Armor.

Hawkeye Gough

I'm a warrior of sunlight, sun bro (w/e) On my mage class I have 50+ sunlight medals all from helping others but haven't turned them in because I may switch to forest covenant to kill Shiva/ninja and if I do that I lose my rank in the Sunlight Co.

As for my other class I'm also a warrior of sunlight I believe +1 because I got the Great lord sunlight spear (Gwyns sun spear.)

But I have been thinking of switching to gravelord covenant because I like the sword and miracles.

When I get 15 more dragon scales I'm switching over to dragon CO for the full body dragon.

Princess protectors seems really stupid I mean you get some cool miracles but you need really high faith 36 40 and 50 I think....

The only CO I haven't joined/found is the dark wraiths I don't want to kill Sif just yet...
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Have you ever watched Epicnamebros lore videos Gallows? They're really cool!

Thanks for posting the pics, they're really cool!

 

[AndyB]

Some more info has come about to do with the new content:

While it wasn’t there being demonstrated, another new feature added was the inclusion of PvP matchmaking. Dubbed the Battle of Stoicism, players looking for a break from dungeon crawling will be able to enter a brand new dedicated battle arena and test themselves against other players online. Matche types range from one-on-one, two-against-two, and four-player deathmatchs. Upon entering the arena, players can activate a marker and set up the matchmaking process. The inclusion of a dedicated PvP matchmaking system should be a welcome relief for returning fans who had to perform rather unorthodox methods to have an organized PvP match.

Destructoid Preview article

Now this has me very, very excited. I love the PvP and much like they say, it can be a pain to organise something, otherwise just sitting there trying to invade/get invaded.

 

[Prof Gallows]

Yes, I do watch EpicNameBro's videos. He's fantastic.

and here is a dev demo if you wanna check it out.

http://www.gamesradar.com/dark-souls-prepare-die-edition-developer-walkthrough/

 

[Prof Gallows]

Deserves it's own post.

 

[AndyB]

Even more info coming out now, I'll add a spoiler here.. just incase you don't want things ruined.

Spoiler

Sif makes a return in the new content.
http://jin115.com/archives/51891575.html

Couple new screens there, but from the size it looks like Sif is just a puppy here.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

Have either of you ever played Demon Souls? I'm going get it one of these days myself.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

Have either of you ever played Demon Souls? I'm going get it one of these days myself.

@At video Gallow posted @ 1:09 It looked like that was the Iron Tarkus that you can summon to help you with the Iron Golem boss battle. Maybe he'll become an NPC you can talk to now. As far as I know thats the only encounter you have with him.

 

[AndyB]

I don't own a PS3 to play Demon Souls. I would love to play it however.

That Tarkus piece was from an old trailer/demo reel, you also see that the Knight puts the sword into it's hilt which was taking out of the game. So as far as the new content goes, I don't see him being in it.
There are so many things that are popping up and it's making me so happy, seems like old/dropped plotpoints are coming back.

Another thing I am loving is that the new content isn't changing how we'll see the world and how certain people/creatures are.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

I don't own a PS3 to play Demon Souls. I would love to play it however.

That Tarkus piece was from an old trailer/demo reel, you also see that the Knight puts the sword into it's hilt which was taking out of the game. So as far as the new content goes, I don't see him being in it.
There are so many things that are popping up and it's making me so happy, seems like old/dropped plotpoints are coming back.

Another thing I am loving is that the new content isn't changing how we'll see the world and how certain people/creatures are.

Namco and From must've noticed the communities attempts at making a story and timeline for Dark Souls. Do you watch Epicnamebros videos Andy?

 

[AndyB]

They know what they're up to, sneaky ********.
And yeah, I watch ENB. I liked his latest one, he was where I got that recent link I posted. Honestly, he's mostly where I get a lot of my information from, lore, tips etc. I've pieced some things together myself, but yeah.. ENB is a cool guy.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

Have you beaten the game, if so what ending did you choose?

 

[AndyB]

Have you beaten the game, if so what ending did you choose?

I've beaten it a few times, testing out characters etc. But the times I have, I light the fire.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

I've beaten it a few times, testing out characters etc. But the times I have, I light the fire.

I've only beaten it once and I chose the dark lord ending. Once I beat NG+ ( I was about halfway then I created my mage.) I'm choosing to link the fire.

Speaking of NG+ whats the highest NG you on? Or do you just go to another character when you beat it?