Dark Souls: Prepare to Die (PS3/360/PC)

[Datonare]

Okay so I went and got the Iaito and +14'd it (no slabs). With 30 dex it has 300 attack (211+89) and according to my level up, it will get +6 atk when going from 30 -> 31 dex. I'm not sure if it's somehow percentage based, where 1 point of dex now adds 6 damage, but 1 point of dex in the 50s could add 8 or 9 or whatever. Either way, my lightning spear has 444 damage and if it is a stock +6 per level, I'm going to need around 24 dex to catch it up to the spear, less if I get it to +15 i'm sure.

[Zeb]

Okay so I went and got the Iaito and +14'd it (no slabs). With 30 dex it has 300 attack (211+89) and according to my level up, it will get +6 atk when going from 30 -> 31 dex. I'm not sure if it's somehow percentage based, where 1 point of dex now adds 6 damage, but 1 point of dex in the 50s could add 8 or 9 or whatever. Either way, my lightning spear has 444 damage and if it is a stock +6 per level, I'm going to need around 24 dex to catch it up to the spear, less if I get it to +15 i'm sure.

except stat scaling becomes almost useless beyond 40

[Datonare]

Awesome... but why is that? Just get less atk per stat?

[Souj]

exactly

[aru]

Supposedly they are going to patch the stat scaling to make it stronger, among other things, but who knows when they are going to release it.

[Ragnell]

Neverauy

[Souj]

I don't know what it is, but I'm sucking hardcore on 4 kings fight on NG+
My 1st run through I killed them on my 3rd solo try.
NG+, I've died solo about 7 times and I just got killed while I had a person helping.

killed again, this time with the beatrice NPC helping and a human player... got utterly destroyed....
Guess it's time to take a break from Dark Souls. Maybe i'll start it up again after playing Uncharted 3 a bit.

[Ragnell]

Iron Flesh + Greatsword of Artorias +5/Moonlight blade +?? + Capt America Sheild = Win for 4 Kings

[Krazy]

I had an awful time with 4 Kings on NG+++, they started using this grab move that would take out 1/2 my HP and waste almost the entire duration of one of my Iron Flesh spells. It caused such a delay that by the time I got the life bar down to 1/2 all four kings would be out shooting magic shit at me.

[Ollieyk]

Anyone found a use for H2H weapons yet? Thinking of using my Iron Golem soul for the Dragon Bone Fist as the only other use of this soul would be for the Axe which looks pretty terrible...

Fist has an A STR scaling but never used a H2H weapon so no idea of the attack speed / dmg etc...

[deshende]

I would never claim to be good at pvp in this game, but whatever glitch/item the invaders use to pull off back stabs from the front is pretty lame. (Not a parry, just walk up and get a back stab even though I'm facing and blocking).

[Makwa]

I've heard of people using H2H builds, but most of them recommend being in the dragon covenant for it. Apparently the body form increases H2H damage.

[Kaisha]

Does that 20k crest thing you buy from the blacksmith survive a NG+? I'm sitting on 20k souls atm, wondering if I should buy it, or just spend it on some miracles.


Also am glad I went back to Blighttown to farm some green titanite shards and large tit shards, as I accidentally discovered the New Londo Ruins key on my way back. At any rate, I need to figure out how to get to the smith in the Catacombs (and figure out how to get there to begin with) so I can start making a fire-path weapon for those serpent guys that gave me a headache.

[Datonare]

Nope, you lose it when going to NG+

[Siralin]

You're going to have to buy the seal during each new game so you might as well get it over with.

[Hellfury]

I can't read japanese, so I don't know if this translation is true, but from the preparetodie forums about patch.

Spoiler: show

Dark Souls 1.04 (2nd November)

Changes to the effectiveness of certain spells
Magic Shield and Greater Magic Shield
Tranquil Walk of Peace
Ring of Fog
Iron Flesh

Changes to equipment balance
Magic adjust balance >for pyromancy?

Multiplayer matching condition adjustments
Coop hosts will get the full ammount of souls when defeating a boss
Cracked red eye orb will not break when it fails
Adjust the amount of time you kill a enemy acquisition Seoul >what?
Adjusting items when defeated enemy drops

Some bosses will now drop "humanity" and "homeward bone"
Rare item and reinforcement materials have improved drop rate
Effect adjustment · Person may increase power by finding items >what?

Shop lineup adjustments

Undead merchant (M)
Bottomless box added
Undead merchant (F)
Normal, heavy and wooden arrows/bolts added
Andrei blacksmith
Normal, heavy and wooden arrows/bolts added
The Xena Donaru
Normal, heavy and wooden arrows/bolts added
When 火継ぎの祭祀場に移動後 is achieved the master key will be added >need condition
Giant blacksmith
Normal, heavy and feather/sniper arrows/bolts added
Titanite shard, large titanite shard, green titanite shard and twinkling titanite added
Repair box and the reinforce weapons/armor stuff added
Vamos blacksmith
Normal, heavy and wooden arrows/bolts added
Titanite shard added
Repair box and the reinforce weapons/armor stuff added
Ingward
Temporary curse added

Warriors of sunlight covenant requirements reduced (Requires 25 faith and reduced by 5 for every successful coop, required 50 faith before)
Reduced cost for absolution (Before: level × 2000, After: level × 500)
Adjusted lock on behavior
Enable modification of the case hangs >what?
Changed to level up display >to see number of souls required to level up?
Fixed infinite magic bug
Fixed input delay bug
Fixed Solaire of Astora not appearing in NG+ bug
Fixed bug regarding Kingseeker Frampt where feeding him materials can cause 99 items to go to 0 items
Fixed getting stuck in the map permanantly, ruining games
Fixed some English language translation errors >YAY!

We apologize for the long time it took to long to deliver this update which will also make current printed guides obsolete.

Source: http://darksouls.fromsoftware.jp/online/

source: http://www.preparetodie.com/forums/v...p?f=18&t=17137

[Kaisha]

Some of those patch notes look wrong........they're making the game more convenient? Preposterous!

If the notes are true, bit disappointed at the lack of fixing the connectivity problems with the PS3 release.



Anyone got that farming guide handy for behind that 20k souls Crest door? I figured I may as well farm my 20k back so I can invest in some miracles at least.

[Chun Liroy]

Adding twinkling titanite to sold status by giant blacksmith... wat.

[-Zer0-]

Probably going to be retardedly expensive

[Minions]

Sounds like they are enabling gimpy mode. Ah well I've completed what I wanted to already