Sentinels got fucked. Upgraded both the mace and estoc to +6, which is the highest they can go without titanite chunks. Currently at level 45 with 15 vigor, 20 str, 15 dex and 16 adaptability. 100k soul memory and 0 deaths. Pursuer, Last Giant, Ruin Sentinels and Dragonrider down after an hour and a half of game time. Done playing for the day but I might farm a bit tomorrow to get my vigor up to 20 before continuing on. I guess I'll make my way through the Lost Bastille and see if we can take on Lost Sinner. So yeah, give all the advice you can, especially when it comes to routing and whatnot.
The easiest way I found to farm souls for the Shrine of Winter door is to just get up to the Old Iron King and then farm him with ascetics. He's easy as fuck and there's only one enemy between you and him if you get the closest bonfire.I got him to NG+ 21 because I wanted to breeze through from NG to NG++ to buy the spells from Wellager and 100% the game
Quote from: A Cheese Potato on January 24, 2016, 04:23:31 AMHah yeah, don't want your death run to be spoiled by the damn drop in Majula of all thingsQuestion though, where did you get all of those ascetics? I know you come across several of them through normal play, but 30 is quite a bit. I'm trying to think of a way to get quick and easy access to a bunch of them for Rotten. This might be a pretty big issue. Not many ascetics I can get to without playing through most of the areas I'm looking to avoid.
Hah yeah, don't want your death run to be spoiled by the damn drop in Majula of all things
Quote from: Sandtrap on January 23, 2016, 06:23:57 PMQuote from: A Cheese Potato on January 23, 2016, 06:05:07 PMThe easiest way I found to farm souls for the Shrine of Winter door is to just get up to the Old Iron King and then farm him with ascetics. He's easy as fuck and there's only one enemy between you and him if you get the closest bonfire.I got him to NG+ 21 because I wanted to breeze through from NG to NG++ to buy the spells from Wellager and 100% the gameIron King is the easiest route to take. But he's punishing if you slip up even once. That fucking hole in the arena I swear.What about Rotten? I always thought he was the easiest boss out of the main 4.
Quote from: A Cheese Potato on January 23, 2016, 06:05:07 PMThe easiest way I found to farm souls for the Shrine of Winter door is to just get up to the Old Iron King and then farm him with ascetics. He's easy as fuck and there's only one enemy between you and him if you get the closest bonfire.I got him to NG+ 21 because I wanted to breeze through from NG to NG++ to buy the spells from Wellager and 100% the gameIron King is the easiest route to take. But he's punishing if you slip up even once. That fucking hole in the arena I swear.
Update #3. As much as I would like to just farm the same boss a few times and get my soul memory up to 1 million and bypass the Shrine of Winter, it just isn't feasible. I'm over 800k souls short and From designed the game in such a way that there's hardly any ascetics in this part of the game. Just have to continue normally, I suppose.After killing the Sentinels and leveling up some more, I went back to Majula and headed for Huntsman's Corpse. Fighting the Forlorn NPC invader was one of the hardest parts yet, as NPC's don't exact follow normal combat rules (cancelling during any attack, jumping attacks that are capable of doing full 180s in mid air, poising through everything whenever they feel like it). But we won and continued onwards. I set Creighton free and cleared out the area (including the dark skeleton cave) so I could summon him for the Skeleton Kings boss fight. Easy fight, but Creighton decided to go wreck the main bosses rather than focus on the little skeletons so that I had to fight a number at once. All good though. We looted the shit out of everything in Harvest Valley, killed the lizards and took down Covetous. A very near death experience followed when I ran up the stairs and one of the assassin's dropped down behind me with another in front. Two hits and I nearly bled out. Managed to run back, heal and take them out. I also upgraded my bow now and bought a bunch of arrows to play more of a distance game. Next off we ran by pretty much everything and fought Mytha. Easy fight as always, even though she stuck around the poison which heals her throughout the entire fight. Current situation: just made it to the first bonfire in the Iron Keep. Mace +8, Estoc +6 and shortbow +5. Soul level 55 with 20 Vigor, 20 str, 15 dex and 15 adp. Currently trying to decide whether I should go through the Keep or go back and take on Rotten, as he should be considerably easier. I also went into offline mode to have a look at the death counter in Majula and praise the lord, because it still says 0 deaths.So, do I go to the Keep or backtrack for Rotten?
Not that anyone cares, but we're close to finishing this. I died on the run I was talking about in this thread, but I only have 3 bosses to go now. Just killed Guardian Dragon, so now there's Giant Lord, Watcher / Defender and Nashandra left. Give me good energy people. >_>
What is that in my left hand, you say? Nothing at all? FUCKING INVISIBLE ZWEIHANDER TO THE FACE YOU CUNT.
Quote from: Sandtrap on January 28, 2016, 06:00:12 PMQuote from: Flee on January 28, 2016, 05:50:39 PMWhat is that in my left hand, you say? Nothing at all? FUCKING INVISIBLE ZWEIHANDER TO THE FACE YOU CUNT.Good job m8. Have fun making people's day in pvp shitty.Thanks. Gonna finish up the optional areas first, get the build I want and then do a no bonfire run on NG+ to get the other illusory ring as well. Then it's pvp time.
Quote from: Flee on January 28, 2016, 05:50:39 PMWhat is that in my left hand, you say? Nothing at all? FUCKING INVISIBLE ZWEIHANDER TO THE FACE YOU CUNT.Good job m8. Have fun making people's day in pvp shitty.
Quote from: Sandtrap on January 28, 2016, 06:26:27 PMQuote from: Flee on January 28, 2016, 06:23:52 PMQuote from: Sandtrap on January 28, 2016, 06:00:12 PMQuote from: Flee on January 28, 2016, 05:50:39 PMWhat is that in my left hand, you say? Nothing at all? FUCKING INVISIBLE ZWEIHANDER TO THE FACE YOU CUNT.Good job m8. Have fun making people's day in pvp shitty.Thanks. Gonna finish up the optional areas first, get the build I want and then do a no bonfire run on NG+ to get the other illusory ring as well. Then it's pvp time.99 str dual greatswords powerstanced m8. You've gotta try it once.I just might thanks to soul vessels.
Quote from: Flee on January 28, 2016, 06:23:52 PMQuote from: Sandtrap on January 28, 2016, 06:00:12 PMQuote from: Flee on January 28, 2016, 05:50:39 PMWhat is that in my left hand, you say? Nothing at all? FUCKING INVISIBLE ZWEIHANDER TO THE FACE YOU CUNT.Good job m8. Have fun making people's day in pvp shitty.Thanks. Gonna finish up the optional areas first, get the build I want and then do a no bonfire run on NG+ to get the other illusory ring as well. Then it's pvp time.99 str dual greatswords powerstanced m8. You've gotta try it once.
Dark Souls 2 No Death / No Bonfire
