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

[Moothead2]

I got up to the dragon boss in the crystal cave and I'm stuck trying to chop his tail off.

Stand in front of the crystal and wait for him to charge up an attack. Begin your run behind his tail and he should smash the crystal himself stunning him for a few seconds giving you time to two hand your strongest weapon and go to town on the tip of his largest tail.


Had the most tense fight I've ever had today against Artorias on NG+. I'm usually an almost pure Int build so I only have 16 Dex and 10 Str meaning my melee options were limited. Basically what happened was I ran out of casts when he had about 1/6 of his health left meaning I had to melee him down 39-93 damage at a time and avoiding all of his attacks at all costs. Finally beating him after dodging and attacking once or twice for 5 or so minutes was incredible .

 

[Purdy]

Pretty much!

Cheers

 

[HankScorpio]

Stand in front of the crystal and wait for him to charge up an attack. Begin your run behind his tail and he should smash the crystal himself stunning him for a few seconds giving you time to two hand your strongest weapon and go to town on the tip of his largest tail.

Yes I do that and I take about 30% of his health off whacking his tail before I gotta dodge and cannot get near his tail again.

 

[Fenris]

Yes I do that and I take about 30% of his health off whacking his tail before I gotta dodge and cannot get near his tail again.

Make sure you are attacking the tip of the tail, if you attack too close to his body it won't actually work.

Also I assume you are actually hitting his tail not one of his tentacles? Just to make sure his tail is the one that is actually behind him.

Another thing this is to try and get a balance a between strong and fast, you want to get powerful hits off quickly.

 

[HankScorpio]

Just had another two goes and got his HP down to about 10% from solely hacking the middle part of the fat back tail, not the side legs and nothing dropped.

Will try the tip next time but he swings it back so fast.

 

[Moothead2]

You have to take off 15% of his HP by hitting ONLY the tip of the tail (around the length of the height of the player give or take).

 

[Tibbz2]

I should re download this soon

 

[Omaeka]

I should re download this soon

Before you're dropped to the kind of internet that Richard the Lionheart had on his invasion of Jerusalem.

 

[Tibbz2]

Before you're dropped to the kind of internet that Richard the Lionheart had on his invasion of Jerusalem.

Yup, I think I might fill my hard drive with any games I might want to play in the next year before I move!

 

[Moothead2]

Urgh, I wish the Bonfires were closer to the boss room. The run to the boss is usually just a complete chore rather than a challenge. Seath being a prime example: I can get to him without attacking a single enemy and then he's taken up the habit of 1 shotting me by directly hitting me withhis breath as I try to round him .

 

[Tibbz2]

Urgh, I wish the Bonfires were closer to the boss room. The run to the boss is usually just a complete chore rather than a challenge. Seath being a prime example: I can get to him without attacking a single enemy and then he's taken up the habit of 1 shotting me by directly hitting me withhis breath as I try to round him .

Tbh it doesn't take too long when you've got it down to the stage of just running past everything.

 

[apatia77]

I really think they should have included an easy mode in this game (perhaps using easy mode you don't get all achievements etc).

Easy mode:
-not loosing souls when killed,
-taking less damage,

Applying the resolution fix is a must as the game looks so much better with it

 

[Moothead2]

Tbh it doesn't take too long when you've got it down to the stage of just running past everything.

Yeah I know, but it's still annoying as hell running back. Especially on Low Vit characters who die in 1-2 hits.

Have to say magic is incredibly OP in this game. Dark Bead + Manus Catalyst + Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring and 50 Int = the best part of 5000 damage to Gwyn on NG++ .

 

[Tibbz2]

Yeah I know, but it's still annoying as hell running back. Especially on Low Vit characters who die in 1-2 hits.

Have to say magic is incredibly OP in this game. Dark Bead + Manus Catalyst + Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring and 50 Int = the best part of 5000 damage to Gwyn on NG++ .

Yeah it can be annoying

And yeah I heard it is, I've never used it myself though, I have always refused to use magic/be a sorcerer in any game i've ever played, I have no idea why... I guess I just don't like magic

 

[Murray]

So dying... that's fun

I hate this game.


I also love it.

 

[OminousLatinNoun]

I really think they should have included an easy mode in this game (perhaps using easy mode you don't get all achievements etc).

Easy mode:
-not loosing souls when killed,
-taking less damage,

Applying the resolution fix is a must as the game looks so much better with it

The consistency is a huge plus point imo -- varying difficulties can often give people diluted experiences, especially concerning game balance.

I think the difficulty of dark souls is hugely overstated though, and details like being able to use pretty much any equipment any enemy in the game has isn't mentioned enough.

 

[Moothead2]

Yeah it can be annoying

And yeah I heard it is, I've never used it myself though, I have always refused to use magic/be a sorcerer in any game i've ever played, I have no idea why... I guess I just don't like magic

I used magic for the first time in a Souls game on Thursday last week as I wanted to try it out. I've breezed through 3 playthroughs with that character since and I've barely had a challenge.

 

[smogsy]

so im pretty much at the start of the game but whats the easiest way to defeat the big sheilded mobs with swords?

my attacks are always blocked Can never get behind them

only way ive found is force them to hit me while sheilded take some dmg then hit them hard.

im a thief might try a knight atleast id have more hp

 

[Moothead2]

so im pretty much at the start of the game but whats the easiest way to defeat the big sheilded mobs with swords?

my attacks are always blocked Can never get behind them

only way ive found is force them to hit me while sheilded take some dmg then hit them hard.

im a thief might try a knight atleast id have more hp

Have you gotten to the point where the dragon lands in front of you and flies away? If so you can turn right just past this part (towards two spear wielding hollows which can be ignored) and roll into the boxes there to reveal a staircase leading to a merchant. Buy the Heater Shield from him which will block 100% of physical attacks.

If you haven't gotten to that point yet just block and attack when they bounce off. Don't worry about being hurt a bit too much and just heal when needed. Try and face them 1 on 1 as well.

 

[strumpusplunket]

I used magic for the first time in a Souls game on Thursday last week as I wanted to try it out. I've breezed through 3 playthroughs with that character since and I've barely had a challenge.

Ooh, actually this has made me want Dark Souls even more!

I always play magic users if it's an effective option to do so, and generally prefer games that take what I feel to be an appropriate approach to magic user level progression (i.e. you start out very fragile and weak but end up a magic-slinging death machine ).

I dislike it when games under-power their mage classes, but of course the other question is how satisfying magic is (it was pretty powerful in Risen, for instance, but not really satisfying)