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Dark Souls

Yeah, still grinding away.
Are you still playing? I've just gone back post-skyrim. Spent the first twenty mins dying cos I was pressing the wrong buttons. :facepalm:

Good to be back though.

Yeah still grinding away. Put a couple of hours into it this aft and got a few levels up. I still havent got past that Taurus Demon right at the start. I could probably do it now but I'm enjoying grinding atm, which is something I never thought I'd say.
 
Tommers likes this.

Have you sorted out your connection?
No, I haven't quite had enough incentive to start pulling the wires out of their neat placement behind the cupboard to try to fix the problem. One day...
 
The sodding DVD drive has gone on my 360. I've ordered another so hopefully it will be here early next week. I'm gonna paint YOU DIED on the old one and have it as an ornament.
 
I had the best game ever last night.

I got summoned and helped some guy kill the area boss. That gave me enough humanity to kindle the bonfire and be human. And, in return for helping him, the guy gave me a hint about how to get past the bit I'm stuck on.

As soon as I turned human I was invaded but I killed the wraith. Then some other weird wraith invaded and killed me. (He was blue, not red and had no name and I couldn't indict him?) I think he may have been one of the blademoons or whatever they're called.

And then I met this hilarious American fella who kept dying and messaging me to say he was a waste of space and would I summon him again? He was mental.

Anyway, by the end of it I managed to almost get past the bit I was stuck on, which was good.
 
I have now made a start!

And I don't have the first clue what any of that means...
 
That's part of the game. I've done about 66 hours and I still have no idea who the blue fella who killed me was. It was obviously another player but I don't know why he was blue and I couldn't see his name. :)

Sort out your connection. It adds a whole other dimension cos you can see all the hints people leave.
 
I was playing yesterday and there are loads of stairs and at the top there are 2 giants. Both about 12 foot tall, with shields and halberds bigger than me.

And, at the bottom of the stairs, somebody had written "be wary of giant".

No shit.
 
:D

Incidentally, my character is a woman. This has become a tradition -- always roll up a woman.

Pyromancer as well. Hope that wasn't a mistake.
 
It doesn't really matter as, after a while, you get access to all the different armours, weapons and whatever.

Pyromancer was my choice at the start. It's good cos you get the fireball which is powerful in the early stages.
 
Seriously, fireball them. If they have a shield up then throw it at their legs. You only get 10 or something like that though, so use them to get past points you're stuck at. There's a good grind place near the second fire you're dropped off at. Loads of people who don't attack you until you attack them and if you keep swinging they're dead before they can hit you. If you miss though...

Oh and don't attack skeletons.
 
How do you actually use the fireball? I've not come across any instruction for it, nor any indicator that I have it.

I did kill the asylum demon last night though, which was nice.
 
You should have a "pyromancy flame" weapon. Equip that in your right hand.

And then you can "attune magic" at a bonfire and allocate the fireball to a slot. (select slot, select fireball)

Then you attack with it by pressing "quick attack", strong attack is a punch with the actual flame.

Well done on killing the asylum demon. He's a great first boss. Did you try to fight him with the broken sword hilt to start with? :D
 
I'm not usually into games like this with XP and magic and stuff like that (except FFVII) but this is pulling me by the balls toward the local game shop....
 
You should have a "pyromancy flame" weapon. Equip that in your right hand.

And then you can "attune magic" at a bonfire and allocate the fireball to a slot. (select slot, select fireball)

Then you attack with it by pressing "quick attack", strong attack is a punch with the actual flame.

Well done on killing the asylum demon. He's a great first boss. Did you try to fight him with the broken sword hilt to start with? :D
Great, thanks!

No, I killed him by dual-wielding my hand-axe. It took me a good 7 or 8 attempts, mostly because the first few times I kept dropping down next to him and immediately getting walloped.
 
Great, thanks!

No, I killed him by dual-wielding my hand-axe. It took me a good 7 or 8 attempts, mostly because the first few times I kept dropping down next to him and immediately getting walloped.

did you do the plunging attack?

2-handing helps against him cos, let's face it, you're not blocking anything are you?
 
I repeatedly attempted the plunge attack but I could never make it work. Very odd, I gave up in the end.
 
I couldn't do it. They looked so miserable already.

Even the one who's praying?

Was that what he was doing? He was more prepared for death than the bloke on his knees, crying. They're just souls to me my friend, souls. I've ground quite a few levels out of them too so I've stabbed them all to death quite a few times. Worrying.
 
Can you only level up once per bonfire?

When wil I be able to do something with these human souls I am pillaging from corpses?
 
Can you only level up once per bonfire?

When wil I be able to do something with these human souls I am pillaging from corpses?

No, you can do it multiple times.
If you use the souls they get added to your soul count. Do that when you're about to level up at a bonfire.
 
Cheers.

Am I missing some tutorial that tells you all this? Or should I have read the manual?
 
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