Demon's Souls

[Maguspk]

Can I change my sex? I chose female but I keep seeing stuff like 'if you're a male you'll get a nice armor' or 'best armor set for males', were they intentionally fucking over females by adding all this 'male only' shit? Wish I had known before I made my character...

[Kaisha]

Only real thing of notice fems get is the +Souls ring that males have no alternative for.

Have to reroll a new character if you want to play male.

[Eggroll]

Most armor sets have parallels between genders so don't worry about it. The old king equivalent for females is the binding armor set from Miralda. Typically though, female armor will have slightly less defense but won't impede your stamina as much and will have a lighter weight. Keep in mind that defense is largely useless from new game+ and onwards. The male / female counterparts are below:
dark silver = dull gold
old king = binding
shaman = rogue
venerable sage = old raggedy

[Maguspk]

So my Mausoleum key is pretty much useless?

[Kaisha]

For a fem player, benefits of Old King Doran is Soulbrandt, and the trophy for killing him. His armor is useless since it's male-only.

[Shojin]

Female can wear Eternal Warrior's Ring.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

Most armor sets have parallels between genders so don't worry about it. The old king equivalent for females is the binding armor set from Miralda. Typically though, female armor will have slightly less defense but won't impede your stamina as much and will have a lighter weight. Keep in mind that defense is largely useless from new game+ and onwards. The male / female counterparts are below:
dark silver = dull gold
old king = binding
shaman = rogue
venerable sage = old raggedy

is old raggedy a boost to magic power?

[Hitoshura]

I saw this on the official Atlus forums section of Demon's Souls. Some guy made a thread QQ'n about the Pure Bladestone drop rate and this other troll started to go on and on about how he had so many and kept calling other scrubs.

http://i46.tinypic.com/rj2txt.png

http://atlus.com/forum/showthread.php?p=170544

this fucking killed me:

Foolish Zardoz, I will send wave after wave of full brushwood DBS blue phantoms at you from atop my throne of pure bladestone, as genuine and fine as the cheese that gives this delicious hotpocket that lay before me its flavor. Oh hotpocket, my only friend. If only everyone else wasn't a scrub.

[Maguspk]

Fuck the crystal geckos, seriously.

[Reality]

yeah and chunks of mercurystone, im sick of farming every goddamn facebug and walking out with 35+ shards. and if the game is being extra faggy, itll throw in a couple pures too

[Zeb]

Got this game from Gamefly a couple days ago and I'm hooked. Currently just started soul farming in 4-2 and starting too look into what I need for stones to upgrade weapons. I'm working on Sticky Compound, Moon Winged Spear, and Purple Flame Shield. Is there anything I should be looking for to upgrade for offhand use other than Large Sword of Searching; stuff useful for bosses or soul farming?

[Kaisha]

I personally stuck with LSS until I got my Demonbrand (off Old King Doran in 1-1), but I was fond of LSS's quick attack speed and decent range, not to mention the point of the sword was to increase drop rates, which I needed stones for.

From there, I went into NG+, and crafted my Northern Regalia using Demon/Soulbrand and have kept with that ever since. Sticky Long Compound +5 is friggen godly if you have a high dex.

Some people like DBS (Dragon Bone Smasher), which I tried for a couple levels, but I stopped using shortly after as it's just way too slow for me and my build, which is always having naked run speed and maxed out stamina, so it meant mobs cut right through me if I missed a swing with DBS since it takes a good two seconds just to complete the entire swing animation for that.

[Zeb]

I meant offhand as in not using to do damage but for bonuses, like a weapon that enhances stamina regen or something.

[Kaisha]

Ah, sorry, didn't notice that little detail.

As far as I know, there wasn't much I saw when I played that warranted offhand use other than LSS for loot, and upgraded purple flame shield (or tower shield if you're nuts), since any other weapons, shields, or misc items that had a special effect were usually very weak.
(basically, items which give health/mana regen, are useless with the rate they regen)

[Kitami]

Some pretty nice weapons to offhand, not necessarily for their use, but rather their effect are:


Phosphorescent Pole - Highest MP regen item fully upgraded, 1MP per second - Drop off of Black Phantom Rydel in 3-1. Colorless Demon's soul upgrade. Crescent weapons also give a max MP regen of 1MP every 2 seconds, which make a pretty nice bonus when combined with this pole.

Morion Blade - A complement to the Clever Rat's Ring, adds 50% damage bonus when 'dying' (30% or less HP) and 125% damage total when paired with the CRR. - Created from a +8 sword (short, long, knight) and the Storm Demon's Soul (4-3 boss).

Adjudicator's Shield - 8HP per sec when fully upgraded - Found in 4-1 behind a dual-katana skeleton, hard to miss. Colorless Demon's soul upgrade.


Those are the weapons, aside from LSoS, that offer the best enhancements just by wielding them in the off-hand. Otherwise a Purple Flame Shield(+10) or Dark Silver Shield(+5) are you best bets to offhand regularly.

[Eggroll]

Kris blade too if you're a mage, gives +30% magic attack when fully upgraded.

[Reality]

I plan on upgrading my PFS to +10.. been rolling with DSS+5, it's pimp except for it's rather tame HitRes

FINALLY finished my Mercury Uchigatana+5, total time spent farming for Chunks of Mercurystone was around 5-6 hours, I wish you could make mobs respawn without having to zone...

Looking for 3 Chunks of Greystone, 1 Pure Greystone to finish my Crushing Battle Axe +5, and 1 Pure Darkmoonstone to finish my Crescent Dagger +5

I read online about how Dragon Guillotine Axe +5 is supposed to be awesome, I really don't see it after using it

edit: finished Crescent Moon Dagger +5 :D, and Crushing Battle Axe +5

Just need to finish my Sharp Quality Dagger +5 (@+3 now), and a Marrowstone & Faintstone weapon and all weapon trophies will be done, then spells, miracles, unique weapons, all rings and i'll be @ 100%

(@59% now..)

[AoE]

I have a Dragon Guillotine+5. It's good because of how often you can hit for so little stamina. However because it doesn't scale with you, it's usefulness goes real fast. Good for putting pressure on PVP but wouldn't use it to klll with and it's short range really takes away from it.

[Chun Liroy]

Really pissed off I can't get into this game. I'm only on level 1-2 but I quit normally after I die because doing the same shit gets repetitive.

[Zeb]

Can you get pure ores from geckos on your first game? Looking for pure hardstones to upgrade my PFS and I didn't get shit from 2-3 and some 2-2 geckos with PBWT and LSoS. I think the only pure ores I've gotten so far have come from bosses.