Dark Souls

[Silvergun X]

I've not found carrying around excess items to weigh me down at all - I'm carrying a huge amount of armor.

Turn them either into vagrants by planting them down on the ground so they invade another player's game, or keep them and sell them for souls after both bells are rung

[Silvergun X]

PeteJ - What level are you, and do you have the ability to turn human? I can try and join your game to help you out?

[PeteJ]

Level 19 I think now. I've just realised that I can summon in the NPC if I'm in human form...?

To be honest I don't really understand the coop part of the game

[Silvergun X]

Yup - If you go human form and you go to the entrance, there'll be a golden summon sign on the ground. You can use this to summon an NPC to help you out with the boss.

Basically, anybody can put a summon stone on the ground to be summoned into the game, but only humans can see the mark and summon.

[PeteJ]

How can I quickly earn humanity? I had two stones and promptly got backstabbed twice by the knight before the boss. Seriously, this game hates me - been playing for hours and that has never happened before!

[briareos_kerensky]

By spending a Humanity point at a bonfire in reversing the Hollowing. To gain Humanity points you can consume Humanities found on corpses or that sewer rats drop (although rare).

[PeteJ]

I did it this game must love me.

Edit - I know what humanity dorsnjust now how to earn it quickly! I tried sticking a coop Thingy down but nobody joined.

[Silvergun X]

I think multiplayer is slightly broken. I've been human for ages and only seen one co-op sign. Was fun when it worked though

[englishbob]

Spent another 3 hours on this today attempting to defeat this Taurus Demon thing, with no success.

I've noticed when talking about Demon and Dark Souls that a lot of you point out that when you are defeated its because of something you did, you where beaten by either slow responses, wrong attack at the wrong time etc. But when using this Taurus Demon as an example, I don't understand that concept. Maybe you can enlighten me.

I've tried going to the top of the tower and waiting for him to get to the bottom to leap off and attack. Yes, strike one!
Then attempt to get back up the ladder by moving through his legs. But this rarely works. Get stuck again the graphics. Manage to get through.
Start climbing up the ladder. Then get hit half-way up the ladder. Half of the health gone and fall to the bottom of the ladder, which triggers a length animation process of getting back up. Try and replenish health with triggers another lengthy animation in which time you are twated again and killed.

Stuck in a loop of hitting it once, then going through the motions of trying to get out of its way which results in being hit because I just can't get out of the way quick enough (usually due to spacial room!), followed by lengthy animations of getting back up, taking a drink, being hit and killed. Again and again and again and again.

Trying slightly different variations of the same thing result in much the same thing. Get in close to attack, land a hit and then recieve a hit because you are too close. Blocking doesn't work because they are too powerful. You are in a confined space, making avoidance just about impossible.

I'm using warrior by the way. Am I to take it that I am supposed to "grind" souls to get magic or something? Weapons don't seem to work for this boss in-particular because close range attacks result in being hit as explained above.

I just don't get this game at all. I can comfortabley say that, yes, being punished by mistakes made against regular enemies is because of my lack of skill. The boss I am quoting though, I don't understand. With what I have to work with ** , it doesn't make any sense to me at all. For a game to present a boss like this at this stage of the game obviously means that in someway I can defeat it with what I have already (a shield, an axe, a long-sword). Or am I missing a massive grind of Gran Turismo proportions to level up before getting to this?

** weapons + speed + health + space to move + small attack arc

[Silvergun X]

You're not missing any grind in doing it.

You should be able to dodge past him to get to the other side of the bridge, get him to follow you, then dodge his attack again and run to the ladder, climb up, and do a 2nd attack. There's nothing else to it than that

[Riskbreaker]

You lack one or more stats to effectively wield the weapon. Try to swing it and the animation will be almost comical.

Yeah I noticed that my stats weren't sufficient to wield it properly, figured that the huge negative was just a weird quirk of the weapon, good to know it's not.

I did it this game must love me.

Edit - I know what humanity dorsnjust now how to earn it quickly! I tried sticking a coop Thingy down but nobody joined.

Best way I've found for humanity is being summoned into another's game by putting down the marker in phantom form and helping do boss runs. But it's far from a stable method and that's assuming you can get the summons. I also read that being sat at the fire when someone else kindles it can increase your humanity, but that involves idling at the bonfire hoping something comes your way. Ultimately I think it's case of just slugging it out working hard to conserve whatever you can get and save any humanity items until you know you can make the most them. There's some stuff here:

http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Humanity

Trying slightly different variations of the same thing result in much the same thing. Get in close to attack, land a hit and then recieve a hit because you are too close. Blocking doesn't work because they are too powerful. You are in a confined space, making avoidance just about impossible.

One approach to attempt Taurus might be to ignore jumping down to the bridge. Instead when he spawns, leg it to the tower, climb the ladder and wait. He'll follow, might have to stand at the edge to bait, sit in the center first and see what happens. You won't have the advantage of doing large damage jumping on his head, but you will have the space to dodge and roll around his attacks. Also, not sure if it's been mentioned but keep your total equipment weight under 25% of your encumberment to have the maximum mobility, again you'll need it without the damage advantage. It'll be a slog, but not unsimilar to the Asylum boss. You'll see his attacks telegraphed better, some of swings have a weird timing where he doesn't quite swing when you expect him to.

[Synthesthesia]

So today I

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Beat the gaping dragon, got 25,000 souls for doing so. Then proceeded to go to the valley of defilement, I mean Blighttown. I died. Then died on the way to my bloodstain.

Needless to say, there was rage. However a few minutes later, I had an invader who was terrible, didn't hit me once and earned myself a nice 12k souls, items and humanity

[Brad]

Bob:
You have two options against Taurus. Either you block his attacks or you dodge them. If neither of those are working then you need to work out why. Blocking is obvious I guess but why can't you dodge? Not fast enough? If so get your encumbrance down so you can run and roll really fast. I used fire bombs on him so I could skirt round the outside. Pretty easy once you work out which way to roll in relation to the direction of his swing. Take off all your armour and unequip everything. It's not like any of it is going to block his attacks.

Doing the plunge attack is good because with a decent weapon you can get his health to half. Then roll roll roll and then run right the way to the end turn round and there should be a fair distance between you. Run up to him and roll past him and then run to the ladder and up you go. I'd hoped I could just jump on him again but no such luck so you'll have to dance around him. You should have enough time to heal before he jumps up. Don't bother locking on when he first arrives as you'll lose that lock once he jumps to the middle.

As previously advised by silvergun, bombs are hour friend.

[crocky-chocky]

After barely getting any further last night and a few failed attempts at progress today, I finally managed to scrape through to the next bonfire.

I had minimal health and no juice in my Estus Flask for a fair stretch and somehow managed to skillfully bumble my way through 2 fights with those fancypants caped undead guys. I nearly chumped it when I whipped out my (so far useless) binocs' instead of a firebomb with one of them 3 feet away, but thankfully he was just dumbstruck by my maverick genius. A few tense scuffles with some crossbow guys later and BOOM! Bonfire.

The relentless dying really is worth it for those monumental moments of satisfaction!

Just called it quits for the night after a few fights with the

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Gargoyle

. He's easy enough until half health. But yeah, after that...

[rmoxon]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh that ****ing gargoyle. I've litterally spent all afternoon trying to kill it! I've even levelled up a few times and got the drake sword but it still kicks my arse!

(I'm hoping that by moaning on a forum that something is really hard that the next time I play it I'll do it first time and it'll be really easy)

Like I said, use lightning. it makes that fight really easy.