Dark Souls

[Brad]

Dual Wield? Do you mean wield with 2 hands?

[Supergoal]

Sorry I'm being a right noob, but most of my weapons are in red, yet I can use those...

[rmoxon]

Sorry I'm being a right noob, but most of my weapons are in red, yet I can use those...

Go to the inventory screen and move over the weapon you are interested in, then press either X or square depending on wether you are playing on the 360 or PS3 respectivley.

It should come up with a screen full of stats, in the right hand bottom corner is a series of icons that represent strength, dexterity ect, there are numbers underneath those icons that represent the required stat level. If none of the numbers are red then you can weild those weapons without any penalties.

If you are confused about what the icons stand for you can check the right hand side of the screen as your stats should be there and will act as a key.

[rmoxon]

This game has completely consumed me, I prefer it even to Demon's Souls, definitely a GOTY contender.

I know some people have trouble with the multi player aspect but when it works it's glorious, the reason why you can't part up with friends is because it adds to the feeling of loneliness and disparity throughout the game, only joining forces seldomly with other lost souls, how easy would the game be if you could just coop with two friends throughout the whole thing?

There are times for example in Sens Fortress where I can hardly leave the first room without getting summoned, but it does depend on level, I imagine NG+ will be better for this as players will have a larger spread of levels to summon phantoms from.

It hasnt bothered me too much but i cant say my online experience with this has been as great as yours

I have only ever seen one summon sign from another real life player (as opposed to an NPC) and this was someone who had previously invaded my game and was expecting me to help them fight a boss!

My messages still never get rated either, I'm pretty sure that I am amazingly helpful but I guess no one cares.

I faced O&S is the late 50s, black iron set, black iron greatshield and a +3 black knight sword; started as a knight and focused on strenght and endurance (dexterity was -and still is- at 19, never put a point in resistance and vitality was around 20 at that time). I would wait for Ornstein to dash forward, quickly disengage and attack Smough, one/two strikes top, two handed, from the rear. Ornstein alone, albeit empowered, was extremely easy.
If you have troubles with the first phase you can summon Solaire after clearing the room from the archer and the two giants, he won't kill any of the two bosses but at least he'll distract one long enough for you to kill the other.

Even if I wanted to summon him i currently have no humanity and cant be bothered traveling back to get some as for some reason i seem to have real problems getting out of Sens Fortress and back to the burg alive (those blades on the first bridge seem to kill me on the way out even though they are easy to avoid on the way in). Though if i dont kill them soon I may eventually cave in and end up backtracking a bit to do a few of the sidequests, I haven't opened the 20,000 souls door in darkroot yet... course that would actualy require me to have some souls on me....

I might just use the boss souls, I'm not interested in any weapon they make, unless there is an achievment for getting all of them?

[Blaiz0r]

Dual Wield? Do you mean wield with 2 hands?

Oops, yes I mean two-handed, pressing the Triangle/Y button.

[BaronSqwelch]

I have found fighting most bosses with the summoned character harder (minus the gargoyle fight that is) The gaping dragon and Quelaag def. were. They tend to make the boss move all over the place so you cant stay in the safer spots. After many fails with help I did them first time solo! Much easier to judge what they are going to do next when they are just focusing on you!

[BaronSqwelch]

Quick question....which is the more testing area, Sens Fortress or New Londo Ruins? (have 3 Transient Curses). Need to decide what to do next

[rmoxon]

I have found fighting most bosses with the summoned character harder (minus the gargoyle fight that is) The gaping dragon and Quelaag def. were. They tend to make the boss move all over the place so you cant stay in the safer spots. After many fails with help I did them first time solo! Much easier to judge what they are going to do next when they are just focusing on you!

Thats becuase you were using the summoned people wrong.

When you summon someone all you have to do is get the bosses attention and then guard, if you keep the bosses attention focused on you and only attack it everytime it takes notice of the NPC then tthe character you have summoned can easily kill the boss for you while its back is turned to them.

It completely eliminates the challenge from the game.

[BaronSqwelch]

oh right...in that case I will start using them again

[rmoxon]

Quick question....which is the more testing area, Sens Fortress or New Londo Ruins? (have 3 Transient Curses). Need to decide what to do next

If you are looking where to go next it is worth noting that New Londo Ruins is pretty much optional and Sens Fortress is not, they are both pretty hard, though nowhere near the absolubte agony that comes from the area after Sens Fortress

[JSR]

If you are looking where to go next it is worth noting that New Londo Ruins is pretty much optional and Sens Fortress is not, they are both pretty hard, though nowhere near the absolubte agony that comes from the area after Sens Fortress

What level are you at? Found the place after Sens Fortress

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Anor Londo

pretty okay. Still stuck on the first boss though. Just wondering where I'm at level wise at this place in the game compared to other people.

[rmoxon]

What level are you at? Found the place after Sens Fortress

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Anor Londo

pretty okay. Still stuck on the first boss though. Just wondering where I'm at level wise at this place in the game compared to other people.

Its not the area so much as the boss thats infuriating. Although those archer men on the church were a pain too.

I'm level 50.

[BaronSqwelch]

Iam treating all the areas as 'have to do' because I know I wont get around to playing NG+ so want to do everything in 1 go

[mugetsu]

what a morning i had playing this, worked through the catacombs and the tomb of giants only to find i couldnt get through the fog gate leading to the boss and i couldnt for the life of me find my way back out and those skeleton things on 4 legs were constantly on me.
You Died
You Died
You Died
You Died..........even at level 77 if those things get their combo on you its death.
Finally 5 min before i had to leave to go back to work i found my way back to the catacombs, so tonight im off do some sens castle.

[briareos_kerensky]

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Queelag's Fury

Sword!

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Developed from a +10 curved sword and Queelag's Soul. It has a low phisical damage (60) but high fire damage (180) and like all curved swords hits fast. Has an A in dexterity scaling and E in strenght, but damage also scales with humanity points; not enough my covenant grants me more power to fire damage.

It was nice to see

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the ghosts in New Londo

to burn, though

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they left no souls...just a bunch of transient curses and a special dagger able to damage ghosts.

Unfortunately the

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Fury Sword isn't that strong against the darkwraiths in Lower New Londo, so I reverted back to the trusty Black Knight sword and died two times due to the wraiths' special move.

Cool armor though.