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El Capitano Gatisto 02-19-2012 01:07 PM

Dung pies are pretty worthless because they harm you as well. If you join the covenant of the spider witch girl behind the secret wall after you beat Quelaag then get yourself infected with the egg disease, you can buy Poison and Toxic Cloud from her servant which do pretty much the same thing.

I spent two hours trying to fight the Stray Demon the other day then gave up, the key is just not to get hit, no matter what your armour is. Keep running behind him, but watch out for his big blast that also hits behind. Stay away from him until he uses it, then sprint in and beat the shit out of him while he is stalled. My problem was that I was using the Drake Sword and it was basically tickling him, so I would whittle his power down to his last quarter, then one lapse in timing and he would flatten me in one hit. It got annoying, I've picked up a Black Knight sword now but I might wait until I get the Lightning Spear in Sen's Fortress before I tackle him again. The Lightning Spear opens up a lot of the game when you get it, it deals with most strong enemies and you can hide behind a shield while using it.

I've just beaten Quelaag and rang the second bell, but I haven't went through the swamp very much yet. There are some goodies in it still to get.

RoXer 02-19-2012 01:45 PM

Yeah, I'm using the Drake Sword and I got him down to about half. He spams the shit out of that fire blast which I can't really shield against and it takes away 40% of my health. Even if I'm really close to him, he'll more than likely use the fire blast instead of that butt stomp move.

I can't imagine playing what I've played through WITHOUT the Drake Sword. I realize that your strength/dex ratings will eventually make normalish weapons more powerful than the Drake Sword but it seems like that's going to be a while.

RoXer 02-19-2012 01:47 PM

I guess it's off to Sen's Fortress then

Requiem 02-19-2012 01:54 PM

Also helps if you've been able to get +10 on a weapon you want. Maybe even ascended it. I'd say by the end of Sen's Fortress you should definitely have a badass weapon. You'll need it by the time you get to Anor Londo.

RoXer 02-19-2012 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by RoXer (Post 3773301)
And how valuable are Dung Pies? Because I'm just going to trade in all of mine to Hawk Girl for Demon Titanite

Oh. You can only do each item once.

I was so happy thinking I'd hit the jackpot and was going to turn my 12 Dung Pie into 12 Demon Tianite. :'(

El Capitano Gatisto 02-19-2012 02:38 PM

Sen's Fortress is annoying as fuck. Real chore to get through. Don't go there with many souls or humanity stored up. Fight the big snake guys by circling round behind them and back-stabbing, as they are pretty slow.

Once you get through there and to Anor Londo, as Requiem says you can start making some glorious weapons. Quelaag's Chaos Sword became my main weapon on my last playthrough, it scales with humanity and minces all normal enemies in 1-2 hits with 10+ humanity. It's made with Quelaag's soul and a +10 curved sword. There's a couple of spots for farming humanity later in the game.

Requiem 02-19-2012 02:48 PM

Gonna get a fire ricard's rapier and a lightning scimitar this time I think.

El Capitano Gatisto 02-19-2012 02:52 PM

I had a +5 lightning Iaito last time out. Bleed effect to the max.

The Gravelord Sword is a beast of a weapon as well. Gives toxic status to people after a few swings, great for PvP invasions.

El Capitano Gatisto 02-19-2012 04:19 PM

I'm co-opping with people to beat Quelaag repeatedly, going to level up in the covenant to get Chaos Firestorm and buy Firestorm then beat the shit out of that Stray Demon.

RoXer 02-19-2012 04:32 PM

I'm thinking of helping out in MP after Sen's Fortress and also specifically leveling up in that covenant since the guide claims an extremely useful shortcut will be opened up.

El Capitano Gatisto 02-19-2012 04:39 PM

The boss of Sen's Fortress is a good one to help out with, as he's fairly easily beaten with multiple people, gives out large amounts of souls and you get summoned there fairly regularly.

El Capitano Gatisto 02-19-2012 07:53 PM

God this game is fucking annoying at times. I was literally one hit away from killing the Stray Demon after half an hour of trying again (new fire spells are no good, Black Knight sword does do more damage however), I got greedy and had one more swing just as he flew into the air then he fucking flattened me with his fat arse, I got up and ran away trying desperately to get to safety to heal only for the cunt to smack me with one of his cheat AoE attacks. One more hit would have got him, but I got too fucking excited.

Edit: finally beat him. Quite quickly obviously, I toxin clouded him which didn't do much, then equipped my lightest armour and the Grass Crest Shield for stamina regen then two-handed the Black Knight Sword. The jumping attacks do 365 damage, so he's taken down fairly quickly with that.

RoXer 02-25-2012 12:41 PM

fuck this game sometimes

RoXer 02-25-2012 01:21 PM

omg

RoXer 02-25-2012 01:49 PM

So I made it to Sen's Fortress and fine, whatever I'm doing a decent job. There are times where I think it's glitched occasionally because sometimes enemies don't spawn and sometimes the boulder is rolling a different way than before but whatever, I'm doing a pretty good job making my way up there. The mimic killed me which made me lose souls and then I died again before I could recover. When I went to kill the mimic, the item it dropped fell down the elevator in that room. It looked as if there was a bottom to it, so I went after. There isn't. I died. I think the item was a Lightning Spear. Sounds useful. I will never know. Died again trying to make my way back and salvage souls because my controller is messed up.

Ok so eventually, I fall to the bottom on that first bridge and notice those 2 prowling demons and all the goodies behind one of them. Somehow I manage to put on the Rusted Ring and I book it the items, grab the items, and kill that one. That was pretty awesome. I walk back out to challenge the other one and those 3 serpents lighting me and kill me. Great. I tried to recover my souls but I didn't survive the fall. Great. Eventually, I manage to make my way down there and kill the other demon.

So I walk around a bit more and notice there are two more in the other room. They're directly underneath Big Hat Logan. Should be a piece of cake. But one of them takes me out.

This was days ago. I think Wednesday night. It's now Saturday morning. Anytime I spent between then and now playing this game was focusing on killing those other two prowling demons. I tried everything I could think of but I never even got the first one down to half strength and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. And if you walk too far to the right, you trigger the 2nd one and now it's 2 on 1 and there's no way I'm winning that. By the way, each time I go down there I have to somehow take out those 3 serpents. I'm sometimes able to plunge one and push one off but most of the time they hurt me pretty bad.

I spent way too long trying everything I could think of to take out those demons but this morning I said fuck it, just keep going. I make my way up there and got about 15000 souls. I need 18000 to level up. I'm using my shitty controller because I don't know why. I'm an idiot. I fall off a ledge and die. I go back to retrieve them and I dunno what happened, but I died. Lost more souls. And I dunno how, but I get it up to about 16000 and I say to myself "just use a homeward bone, go back, and level up". As finish that thought, I fall off and die. I go back to retrieve it and it's on that (I think) last pathway with the slightly different timed hooks. I run and it looks like the last one is about to get me so I roll to make and I roll past my souls, off the ledge, and I die.

I have lost so many motherfucking souls/wasted SO MUCH FUCKING TIME in Sen's Fortress.

WHATEVER THOUGH. A couple hours ago I'm like "Whatever. Just go up to the roof. Fuck those demons. Fuck trying to level up. Just see what's out there."

And I make it to the roof. I take out that black knight. I take out that guy and his rapier. I'm doing fine. Got about 17000 souls or so.

You know that bonfire up there? The one where you have to drop down. There was a helpful tip that said "try jumping" right on the ledge. It was rated a 3. No reason not to believe it. AS I WAS MOVING THE RIGHT STICK TO PROPERLY SEE WHERE I WAS GOING TO LAND, a big burst of fire engulfs me. I guess that guy is throwing fire or something, I don't even know at the time, alls I knows is I'm on fire so I should jump. I did not have time to see where I was landing and I decide to jump. I jumped so far past that bonfire you can't even imagine. Like I'm an Olympic long jumper and the bonfire is the line where you have to jump and I set a new world record.

Went back to recover my souls and one of the hooks got me because my controller was being stupid.

Decided to say "fuck this game sometimes" and take a break.

And then...

RoXer 02-25-2012 01:51 PM

(took about a minute for that post to load after I hit reply and I was ready to kill Triple A because I didn't copy it)

RoXer 02-25-2012 02:15 PM

So I turn the game on again. I'm using my good controller this time. I am ready and focused to take out any and everything. :)

I make it up to the roof with about 11000 souls or so, I dunno. The amount of souls I once had at certain points are becoming a blur. But as I make my way out, I take out two of the re-spawnable knights (I dunno what they are) who dropped some titanite shards and picked up the ring that boosts your fire defense. I run to the bonfire, drop down like I'm supposed to, and save. Phew.

I do some quick math and realize I can take out those 3 enemies, run to the bonfire and save like 3 or 4 times. And then I can level up. I'm fine with that. Seems easy enough.

I get to 17500. And I sit at the bonfire.

I have a bunch of "soul of a _____" that I could use to get me to 18500. I figured "eh, save them. This is easy enough, just save it for a time I REALLY need them."

And that was my decision. Take out those 3 dudes and I'm at 19000 souls.

Oh yeah, before all this I decided to become human to maybe get some more items from those dead knights. Which I actually did and it worked out nicely. I think I got at least 1 more titanite shard each timeout.

So I'm human. I'm at 19000. And I drop on down to my bonfire to level up.

And I can't save. It won't let me. I hit A and nothing. No pop up message. So I think to myself, "hmmm. Could be a bad guy in the area. I'll go back up and check."

Looked around, and everyone was dead. And then it occured to me what was probably about to happen and I actually said out loud "No. No. No. Please no. This can't be happening. Not now. Please don't do this."

I know exactly what's about to go down and I'm trying everything I could think of to some how prevent it. And sure enough... a blinking message.

"St0ned Ape has invaded your game"

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I don't know what to do. I run around but whatever. I see him and he doesn't look too intimadating. Just has a big weapon. I roll away from his first strike but his 2nd one breaks through my guard, 3rd one kills me.

19000 souls lost.

I decided to send him a message.

"Prick."

RoXer 02-25-2012 02:20 PM

http://live.xbox.com/en-US/Profile?g...g=st0ned%20ape

This guy. If everyone could message him calling him a prick that would be fantastic. Thanks in advance.

G 02-25-2012 02:28 PM

Pretty sure you did something similar to tough which made him delete/hate you for the longest time, only you screwed his game up on purpose. I think he then made a long post at aarp.com complaining.

G 02-25-2012 02:30 PM

I keep telling myself I'm going to give this another try but I always put in something else. So much bullshit sitting on my shelf waiting to be played. Never had a backlog before until now.

G 02-25-2012 02:31 PM

3 more chapters in AC Revelations then I can move on

RoXer 02-25-2012 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by G (Post 3779897)
Pretty sure you did something similar to tough which made him delete/hate you for the longest time, only you screwed his game up on purpose. I think he then made a long post at aarp.com complaining.

ahahaha yeah, Left 4 Dead 2. It wasn't exactly on purpose. Well, kinda. Uintentionally intentional or something. He was on the last chapter on The Parish, the bridge part, and I joined mid game. I think we were all on the bridge and we got separated. Instead of all of us dying and starting over, I booked it for the helicopter because I thought we were trying to finish the game. He was trying to get the achievement for beating it on expert or something. It ended the game, he died and I made it to the helicopter, he didn't get his achievement, and I laughed at him.

Was off his friends list for a pretty long time

RoXer 02-25-2012 03:38 PM

OH SHIT I DIDNT LOSE MY SOULS

YESSSSSSS

Fryza 02-25-2012 03:40 PM

Ugh, this game and I didn't get along well.

Maybe when the price drops, I'll try it again- or rent it after Mass Effect 3 is beaten. But man, I was not a happy camper.

RoXer 02-26-2012 01:30 PM

Holy shit, I thought I was going to be stuck in The Painted World of Artimis forever but someone invaded me and instead of attacking me, dropped down and unlocked the exit. Whether or not that was his intention I dunno, but he is my savior.

El Capitano Gatisto 02-26-2012 03:08 PM

You can level up shitloads in the painted world. Did you kill the boss or leave her alone?

Anor Londo might drive you a bit nuts if you've been having problems with Sen's Fortress. There's one bit in particular that was getting on my fucking tits last week, a notorious bit where you have to run up to the massive cathedral on a narrow ledge past loads of gargoyles with two fucking pricks firing massive arrows that can knock you off even if your shield is up.

RoXer 02-26-2012 03:15 PM

I'm right there atm. Not really giving me problems, just made stupid decisions both times. Taking a break.

Requiem 02-26-2012 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by El Capitano Gatisto (Post 3780669)
You can level up shitloads in the painted world. Did you kill the boss or leave her alone?

Anor Londo might drive you a bit nuts if you've been having problems with Sen's Fortress. There's one bit in particular that was getting on my fucking tits last week, a notorious bit where you have to run up to the massive cathedral on a narrow ledge past loads of gargoyles with two fucking pricks firing massive arrows that can knock you off even if your shield is up.

That part made me want to cut myself. Finally just said fuck it and ran right up in the right one's face and almost died in the process but knocked him off the ledge and managed to get around.

El Capitano Gatisto 02-26-2012 03:24 PM

Once I got inside the main building of Anor Londo I burned through it in about 10 minutes with the help of two legends. One of them got killed during the bossfight unfortunately for him.

I'm at The Duke's Archives now, helping people take out Seath the Scaleless so I could get enough Sunlight medals to get the Great Lightning Spear miracle.

RoXer 03-01-2012 07:55 PM

I'm in Anor Londo, opened up the shortcut to the blacksmith, reclaimed the fire keeper's soul from Laurtec, and attempted the boss fight but didn't really do much there. I think that might require more people.

I used a Crystal Halberd I found against Laurtec. I can't repair it though and it has 20 durability (probably because it's made out of crystal). Can I ever repair it? When eventually ascend a weapon, will I be able to repair those too?

RoXer 03-02-2012 02:50 AM

Is it possible to beat this game with nothing but a casteus? Thinking about switching to that for shits and giggles

RoXer 03-02-2012 02:50 AM

Or to "have a laugh" in ECG's case

El Capitano Gatisto 03-02-2012 07:30 AM

Crystal anything cannot be repaired. You can repair ascended weapons as normal.

I think there's a vid of a guy on Demon Souls beating various bosses when bollock naked and unarmed using only his fists, but I imagine it would take fucking forever.

RoXer 03-02-2012 12:42 PM

I'm really starting to enjoy this game but it's going to take a back seat next week when Mass Effect 3, SFxT, and MLB 12 come out.

RoXer 03-03-2012 04:59 PM

FUCKING LIGHTNING WINGED SPEAR

Started off this morning trying to beat the stray dragon and would get to about half or so with the crystal halberd. So instead of risking it breaking on me I decided to finally ascend a weapon. Dunno why I decided on a Lightning Winged Spear but I did and I don't regret it. It is making life so much easier.

Went back to Anor Londo to get it made and on my way back, noticed a cage. Actually, I noticed it the first time but I guess I just forgot about it. It's a shortcut so you don't have to go through Sen's Fortress all the way through. Nifty. I remember seeing it on my first playthrough too but I guess I just forgot about it.

Grinded out an extra level, went back in to face the stray dragon. Using the anti-fall spell really helps since you don't take any damage falling through the floor. He killed me but then I decided to use most of Havel's Armor since it is very anti-fire. I think I went with Black Iron leggings so I wasn't over my equip load.

Kicked his ass. Suck my dick.

Grinded out another level and I don't know where I'm going to go from here. Might try those two prowling demons in Sen's Fortress that were giving me trouble. Might also help out with taking down some bosses with people. We'll see.

RoXer 03-03-2012 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by RoXer (Post 3786380)
Suck my dick.

Suck my wanged spear

El Capitano Gatisto 03-03-2012 08:49 PM

I'm going to pour all my lightning upgrades into the Iaito. Lightning damage + bleed effect. Quelaag's Fury sword is simply too good to not use though, as it's a chaos weapon it scales with humanity. I've got 22 humanity right now so it does 480 damage or something ridiculous. Think the scaling only works up to 10 humanity maybe but still.

RoXer 03-05-2012 01:05 AM

Stuck at the boss fight still in Anor Londo. Forged Quelaags Furysword to I think a +3. Have some good, light, anti lightning armor on with a +5 Eagle Shield.

Got my ass kicked twice. Beat one of them but couldn't do much with the other.

So I decided I would turn human and summon others, except my world got invaded. I maybe could have beaten him but I tried luring one of the royal sentinals out because I thought it could attack and damage him too but I guess it can't.

So I decided to throw down my summon sign instead and help others. I think I'm too high of a level though because it hasn't been matching up with anyone really. The first guy just ran in without really waiting for me and died because he was an idiot and already at half health when he ran in. The 2nd time was a 3 man gang and we stomped their ass. It gives me hope that I can probably do this if I summon people.

So yeah, only two summons in about an hour of waiting. I'm going to wait about another half hour to see if anyone joins for my lucky 3rd time. I have 38000 souls and I wonder if I lose them if I die in their world. I hope not. I guess I'm about to find out.

RoXer 03-05-2012 01:07 AM

Someone tell clox that that's how you make a mobile post.

RoXer 03-05-2012 01:16 AM

Cool. Just whipped their ass again. I now have faith that I can beat this game.

Gunna just stay there and help out except I decided to go level up so that might cause even more problems finding a game


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