Demon's Souls

[AoE]

Haha that was fast. I better get to leveling then.

[Metah]

When you're getting 80k souls per run (soulsucker the black phantom black skeleton and kill the reaper along the way, wearing Ring of Avarice), you tend to level up fast.

Also, just got enough chunks of cloudstone to max out my shield.

[Kaisha]

I just picked up a Pure Bladestone a few minutes ago. Farming the black skeletons with Soulsucker made me SL 168 lol. I'm also 3 chunks away from a maxed out Cloudstone shield; just picked up two chunks over the last two runs of 4-3. Hopefully I'll have them soon.

Level range currently starts at 142 for me now ((168/10)+10)

Heh, you got lucky, I farmed all the way to SL210 (from 80'ish), and didn't get a single pure bladestone. >.<

Had to borrow one from a fellow BG'er. Granted, all those extra levels helped make NG+1 a lot easier.

[Merovingian]

I was lucky then... got 2 Pure bladestone and i was around lvl 160. Forgot who i gave my other bladestone. God i miss this game

[Metah]

two pure bladestone... my god.

[Merovingian]

two pure bladestone... my god.

got the 2nd one when i was farming exp. I dump alot of exp on luck so i was able to get it quick.

[KuroTsuki]

It looks like something I'd love and I plan on buying it regardless, but I'm curious, how long is this game?

[Kaisha]

Depends what you want to get out of it, and how damn good your reflexes are when it comes to playing a level for the first time.

My first playthrough I believe took me 54 hours, but a shitload of that was trial-and-error, enemy position memorizing, and some farming. I ended up spending 100 hours before I got my platinum and had my fill of the game from that point.

[KuroTsuki]

Yeah, I plan on getting the Platinum.

100 hours? Sounds good.

[Chun Liroy]

I've put over 80 hours into the thing, made 4 different characters level 80+ and I still love it. Haven't even touched trophies yet x.x

[AoE]

Metah, I actually got a Pure Bladestone trying to catch up to you so I decided to get the Cloudstone chunks that I need and after about an hour of farming (was watching Kevin Pollack's show as I was playing) only got one chunk which is torture because I only needed two. Gonna farm the other one today.

I don't wanna be a dickhead though and take back my offer so if you still need something, I'll see what I can do.

[Chun Liroy]

This thread revival has caused me to want to play... I think I'll play today instead of CoD :D work on getting my BBS's Luck up.

[Metah]

Nah, its okay AoE. I actually got a Pure Moonlightstone on my first try, lol. I got my Platinum Trophy yesterday night, with 200 hours over two characters. I love Demon's Souls lol

[Ziero]

So I been playin this game a lot more recently, even started two new characters for some strange reason, but there's still something I'm fairly unsure of.

Just how much of a bonus does each "stat bonus" grade give? i.e. when you have a Quality weapon, how much of your stats goes into that "C/C" bonus. Or with the Great Axe, would a +5 Crushing do more damage then a straight up +10 assuming you had like 35 Str 20 Dex or something. Basically, just how would an "S" (+5 Crushing) ranking stat bonus compare to a "D/E" +5 Base) ranking bonus on a Great Axe or other similar weapons?

Also, not really a question, but Old King Doran is such an ass.

[AoE]

I would love to answer that question but the only way I can answer it is through mathematical formulas and I've never been good at explaining shit like that so although someone else here probably can, I'll refer you to this and this

Also Old King Doran is easy as fuck if you have poison cloud although some people are not to keen on using "cheap" methods to beat bosses but whatever.

[Kaisha]

You get diminishing results as your stat gets higher. I remember when my white bow's S (iirc) rank got +2 ATT per dex level for the first 20 some levels I pumped into it. After that it was +1att per every two levels.

I'm assuming crappier stat growth for anything B or lower though.

[Metah]

C is the minimum bonus I consider to be worthwhile. A Quality +5 item can be quite powerful if you have high STR/DEX.

Also, stat bonuses do have diminishing returns. I've found through a few characters that 0-40 carries the highest returns, 40-50 has diminished but still worthwhile returns, and after 50 its just not worth it. Although, it seems Vitality has lower HP bonuses after 30 rather than 40. Intelligence may suffer earlier diminshed returns too but I never got it higher than 30

[Ziero]

I would love to answer that question but the only way I can answer it is through mathematical formulas and I've never been good at explaining shit like that so although someone else here probably can, I'll refer you to this and this

Also Old King Doran is easy as fuck if you have poison cloud although some people are not to keen on using "cheap" methods to beat bosses but whatever.

Those links are pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Though I have no idea what any of em mean at the moment, I'm sure it'll make sense once I spend a few hours looking em over.

And as for Doran, with my Knight, I'd prefer to beat him in a straight on fight. He ended up being a sort of half-assed Guts Mode character, so his only spells are Fireball, Flametoss and Cursed Weapon while his main weapons is a Crushing Claymore +5. Being my first character on my first playthrough I wanted to beat as many characters as possible (barring tendency related fights) with straight up brute melee force. Prolly gonna do the same with my Barbarian when he gets to fight Doran, but he'll have an advantage in that he can just squish him with big axes.

My Thief however will just cheese the hell out of it though.

[Metah]

Get Doran with a good backstab. Whatever you do, don't stop assaulting him under 25% HP, cause he can and will heal himself back to full very quickly with a herb

[Chun Liroy]

Those links are pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Though I have no idea what any of em mean at the moment, I'm sure it'll make sense once I spend a few hours looking em over.

And as for Doran, with my Knight, I'd prefer to beat him in a straight on fight. He ended up being a sort of half-assed Guts Mode character, so his only spells are Fireball, Flametoss and Cursed Weapon while his main weapons is a Crushing Claymore +5. Being my first character on my first playthrough I wanted to beat as many characters as possible (barring tendency related fights) with straight up brute melee force. Prolly gonna do the same with my Barbarian when he gets to fight Doran, but he'll have an advantage in that he can just squish him with big axes.

My Thief however will just cheese the hell out of it though.

I've done the same with my Vit Based northern regalia build and my BBS build. Most of the way through NG and it's not really that difficult. Well, I still used arrows for the reapers so who knows, but for every boss I used melee attacks only (of course paired up with cursed weapon/warding), and they were all rather easy. King Allant is by far the hardest, but once you get used to his attacks its not that bad. Flamelurker is probably second hardest.