Dark Soul's: Prepare to Die Edition (PC)

agnes · 24 Mar 2014 at 15:55

I love the Uchitagana, I really like it's moveset, quick and deadly. Tried the Scyth after seeing Jamie from here use it and deal silly damage. But just couldn't get on with it's slow moveset. My Utchi is +15 and I have 40 dex, I deal a fair bit of damage!

Purdy · 24 Mar 2014 at 17:19

agnes said:
I love the Uchitagana, I really like it's moveset, quick and deadly. Tried the Scyth after seeing Jamie from here use it and deal silly damage. But just couldn't get on with it's slow moveset. My Utchi is +15 and I have 40 dex, I deal a fair bit of damage!

What armour set you wear? Also grass crest shield?

RoosterC · 24 Mar 2014 at 17:20

I'm loving the game and I'm early on in the story. Will Games for Windows Live be removed or will the game die in the summer?

Fenris · 24 Mar 2014 at 17:35

RoosterC said:
I'm loving the game and I'm early on in the story. Will Games for Windows Live be removed or will the game die in the summer?

There has been no confirmation either way sadly.

agnes · 24 Mar 2014 at 20:47

Purdy said:
What armour set you wear? Also grass crest shield?

It's a mixture, all silver Knight with eastern legs. Havals ring and the ring of favor or what ever it is. The one that breaks when removed.

I'm focused on fast rolling with as much armour as possible. Shield... Not the grass shield. Similar, but with no buff and 100 physical block.

agnes · 25 Mar 2014 at 15:14

I think I will complete this tonight. Well I hope. If so, shall I bother with NG+ or maybe try play a totally different character? Maybe a pyro/axe character? Or a strength build?

OR, shall I play the DS2 360 copy my mate threw my way to get ready for the PC release.

Grandmaster Fap! · 25 Mar 2014 at 15:23

NG+ is a lot of fun now you are familiar with the mechanics of the game, the enemies hit harder too which adds a new element.
Its also worth doing just so you can roll up to the Asylum Demon as soon as he drops off the roof and whack him twice to kill him

agnes · 25 Mar 2014 at 15:40

Grandmaster Fap! said:
NG+ is a lot of fun now you are familiar with the mechanics of the game, the enemies hit harder too which adds a new element.
Its also worth doing just so you can roll up to the Asylum Demon as soon as he drops off the roof and whack him twice to kill him

Is it worth 'respeccing' and putting points into other areas? As I'm level 92 I think and I still want to put more int in so I can buff my weapon.

Moothead2 · 25 Mar 2014 at 15:44

agnes said:
Is it worth 'respeccing' and putting points into other areas? As I'm level 92 I think and I still want to put more int in so I can buff my weapon.

What's your build so far? Usually you want 40 Vit, 40 Endurance and 40 in either Strength or Dex on a first playthrough as they're the 'soft caps' for those stats where you start getting diminishing returns. NG+ is usually the time you start focusing on buff stats like Faith or Intelligence.

Grandmaster Fap! · 25 Mar 2014 at 15:45

agnes said:
Is it worth 'respeccing' and putting points into other areas? As I'm level 92 I think and I still want to put more int in so I can buff my weapon.

Thats up to you, you need a lot of int to cast something like Crystal weapon which imo is the best weapon buff outside of Sunlight/Moonlight blade. You need 25 int for it though.

That in conjunction with power within and lingering dragoncrest ring makes you a wrecking machine though

agnes · 25 Mar 2014 at 15:56

My build is pretty basic as it stands, think I've got 40 vit, 40 dex and almost 40 endurance. The rest is pretty basic. Think I started as a thief.

finga · 25 Mar 2014 at 22:06

waste of time putting points into dex, strength too imo. You should try playing the other side of the game now, make a new char, pick faith or int build, 40 end, put the rest on vit apart from a couple extra slots for attunement.
run through the game to anor londo, get the lord vessel and go straight to new londo ruins, beat 4 kings and join darkwraith covenant, then, welcome to dark souls

Purdy · 25 Mar 2014 at 22:25

Finally beat it tonight, think I died 40+ times to Gwyn. Brutal.

MrMarvelous · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:08

Thought Gwyn wasn't that bad to be honest.

I really struggled on the two Gargoyles at near the start of the game and the 2nd DLC boss, can't remember his name though.

Purdy · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:47

I was shockingly bad at parrying.

Ended up kiting with the odd parry if I felt confident and smacking him when he tried to grab me.

Won't be touching the DLC until I do a PC play through probably.

Want to platnium Demons+Dark on PS3, will take some effort though

flinco · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:49

I found O+S the hardest. Probably took about 15 attempts.

The rest of the bosses (apart from the DLC) were easy. 4 Kings, Bed of Chaos and Gwyn all went down 1st attempt. Uchitagana FTW!

Grandmaster Fap! · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:53

Gwyn is LOLeasy to parry but i hate doing it that way, prefer a good fight with him. Kalameet is almost ragequit inducing to me, sometimes i can kick his arse to one hit worth and then he sits on me, then i'll spend 15 attempts getting slapped like a pussy.....massive hate.

agnes · 26 Mar 2014 at 22:56

finga said:
waste of time putting points into dex, strength too imo. You should try playing the other side of the game now, make a new char, pick faith or int build, 40 end, put the rest on vit apart from a couple extra slots for attunement.
run through the game to anor londo, get the lord vessel and go straight to new londo ruins, beat 4 kings and join darkwraith covenant, then, welcome to dark souls

Will do mate, sounds fun.

flinco said:
I found O+S the hardest. Probably took about 15 attempts.

The rest of the bosses (apart from the DLC) were easy. 4 Kings, Bed of Chaos and Gwyn all went down 1st attempt. Uchitagana FTW!

Yea, love my Uchigatana

agnes · 28 Mar 2014 at 18:08

Finally, completed. Only missed one boss, the dragon in the royal garden because I killed Gough before he could shoot it down.

Grandmaster Fap! · 28 Mar 2014 at 18:41

You killed Gough!? You are now dead to me!