Demon's Souls

[Tomiko]

If you're encountering Black Phantom medusas in 3-1, then you must have died alot there in body form because there are none normally. Dieing in a level in body form shifts your World Tendency towards black, which makes normal mobs harder and spawns black phantoms. Yes, dieing makes the game harder. Have fun

Think I only died there like twice in body form, but it was on Halloween so I think that might have had something to do with it. I eventually killed it after using a stone to return to body form. Oddly enough I don't mind dying as much as I did when I first started.

I'd suggest trying to get through 2-1(blacksmith), 2-2(ability to make super weapons & unlocks NPC with heavy arrows), 3-1 (Advanced spells NPC unlocked), and the beginning part of 4-2 (advanced miracles) decently quickly. Unlocking those things won't potentially mess anything else up, but there is more to unlock.

Also the red outline monsters are black phantoms. The ones that look like players but are not will only appear once a playthrough (the xbow/dagger one at the end of 3-1 is one of these). The ones that look like monsters are just stronger versions, and they come back. If you get invaded, which the game will let you know pretty clearly if you have been, the invader will have that same red outline too.

Thanks, I'll work on those before I progress further.

I've been invaded twice so far and lost both times since they seemed to be more focused than I am. What's the weird one where the zombie king summons you as the Mnk with the tornado headgear? That happened to me the 2nd time I used my Blue Stone. I ended up killing the person I got sent to and got the Headgear (which I heard isn't 100%).

[Kaisha]

That's in the 3-X areas, it's a fun head piece to show off when summoned to another's game.

Makes it a bitch to play co-op though in that general area.

[Celeras]

WORST FALSE KING EVER. Soul drained 4 times @ 152 -.-; Seemed like everytime I rolled away to do Warding/Heal he would queue it up, raaaaaaaaaaaage.

Along those same lines, I lost a soul level summoning somebody from a red soul sign to test out meat cleaver. Wasn't aware that the summoner could lose the level, thought it was only the invader.

[Doombear]

Makes sense doesn't it? Isn't 'red soul sign' the duel stone? So makes sense to me at least that loser loses a soul no matter what.

[AoE]

Just checked the pantheon out of curiosity. Currently I'm number 8 on uniters of the world. Pretty awesome.

[Celeras]

DORPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Pure Moonlightstone, NG+6. Finalllllllllllllllllllllllllly, Platinum :D

[Kaisha]

How many pures of one type are typically needed for a full weapon upgraded? Got one the other day (Clearstone I believe, can't recall) off a lizard. Getting better at killing them with my bow at +5 for hardstones, two shot kills vs. 6+.

Cleared 2-3 finally, and got that big ass sword, to which I've been dumping SLs into STR, which I'm probably going to regret later on, but god damn do I want to be able to wield that sucker single-handedly asap, it really lets the game's weapon physics shine in terms of how damage is dealt.
(after STR is 30 for the sword I'm going to pump some levels into Faith for miracle memorization)

Slowly working on 4-1 now, trying to figure out where to go in particular. Most I've come across is going along a cliff edge dodging those flying mantas (I wish Soul Arrow would fire faster, most just out fly them), and nearly died to a gold-looking skelly around one corner, which I bailed out and hit Evacuate before losing 15k souls. >.>

[Null]

I haven't played in quite a while but I believe its three pures. One for the upgrade before the final and two for the final.

[Kashka]

It's one pure stone in the final stage for every weapon that isn't "great". The Great Axe and Great Sword will require two pures for their final stage, but none for the 4th. The size of a weapon determines how many materials are needed, so make daggers and short swords if all you want is the trophy and not the actual weapon.

[AoE]

I'm at my last upgrade for the Purple Shield and I believe it takes 2 Pure Hardstones (which I have luckily). Just need 6 chunks. ;-;

[xopher]

I'm selling this for $45 if anyone is interested.

[Kaisha]

Shame there's not a Hoardric's Cube in this game. Take three of a kind of stone, combine them into the one the tier above. >.>

[Kashka]

Forgot about shields if you bring them up with hardstone... I only upgraded the dark heater +2 you find and dark silver.

Chunk of Cloudstone drop rate made me want a horadric cube for sure... it's disheartening seeing "You can't put anymore of those in your stockpile" for shards when you never saw a chunk. I ended up running through NG+'s for the two chunks on the dead body near the boss, figuring it would be faster.

At least I got the pure bladestone pretty quickly though.

[Kaisha]

Finally beat 4-1 after having beaten 2-3 earlier.

All I can say is, man, took Adjudicator down in 4 hits using Dragon Bone Smasher, SL44.

Time to grab my White bow and farm souls to my hearts content. Btw, does +Souls item likes Avarice Ring apply to bosses also?

Now I see why people like 4-2 for farming. Easy 5.5k souls within 10 seconds of entering the area. Working on DEX For a bit to use White Bow now.....hope it's worth it.

[EDIT] Whelp, Soul Level 60, and from the way things are going this playthrough, I believe I'm going to focus on getting the all Miracles Trophy first, that way I don't have to worry about some of the NPCs my next playthrough, and then do All-Spells trophy next. Then after that focus on the bronze-weapon-upgrade trophies if I can't find someone to gear me up temporarily to get them easily.

By the way, what determines what the NPCs will teach you for Magic/Miracles? What I can purchase now is a tiny amount of the total in the game. Is it progress based, or based on your stat level respective to the npc?

[Doc]

Anyone around level 214 that can let me hold onto Friend's Ring and/or a fully upgraded Darkmoonstone weapon for trophy?

[Eggroll]

Man Selen Vinland is a complete bitch to fight. Her attacks do 25% of my hp and can't be blocked or evaded since you can't roll.

[SnickySnacks]

If you're talking about BP Selene, just grave robbers/thief ring it up and shoot her with arrows from afar. If you time it right (and your bow is upgraded enough) you can beat her curing spells.


As for me, I beat the game finally. Started over so I could do the pure white world stuff easier and I was immediately struck by how pointless it is to keep playing. The first playthrough was fun but now it's just farming so I can farm better. There shoulda been an option to fight the old one or something at a high soul level or something to give the game a point to replaying it.

False King fight was pretty horrid for me. I couldn't dodge his attacks worth crap for some reason, so I gave in and got blue phantoms to kill him for me.

Also, according to the wiki I screwed up the friend's ring quest by saying 'no' tot he monumental at the start of the game. GD >.<

[Eggroll]

I hate False King, he drained 5 soul levels from me since I just rushed him with Warding up and afterwards the Nexus portal opened up so now I can't level back up and I'm locked out of my Meat Cleaver until I do NG+ :/

[Tulun]

For Selen Vinland:

You can always backstab her and *almost* one shot her, at least in the first playthrough.

Be sure to equip Clever Rats + Morion blade. My backstab did 1500 dmg with meat cleaver... took 1 more swing to kill her, as she tried to book it and heal herself too.

[Kaisha]

What's the deal with Morion blade? Does its +30% bonus still apply when off-handed or something?