The plan for today is gathering up several thousand souls to buy a purging stone - then I'm off to The Catacombs for the first time. 97 hours on the clock.

tigerswiftly said:

I saw some YouTube partner analysis that reckoned DSP makes over 200k a year

That's sobering.

finished this today. ;)

I have a thing with my builds now where I don't like hitting sens without a fire weapon ready to go at +5, and without a +10 normal weapon ready for AL blacksmith. I also don't like, with a faith build, hitting AL without wrath of the gods. It's a little bit of messing around to get the order of things right. I was going to add chaos covie at max to my to do list, but I can't be arsed burning that much hume again, so I've decided I'm going to, since this build is just being levelled up when I need something, take into to 14 and get cast light. Want to finally give the washing pole a crack too, so it's str to 20, faith needs to be 30 for darkmoon blade, and probably for wrath of gods too (heck, that may even be 40, can't remember), so it's all a little funny. Still, it's cool just making a build to use whatever I want, and it'll be the lowest level it can be while still using everything. Plus having a black bow at +10 with solid dex is proving very handy.

Are you taking the piss or telling me something new that I don't know.

Fair play. I don't want to seem like I was having a go, I wasn't. It's just 97 hours and still only 10 flasks per fire, and some other things, and plus there's limits to how long I could do a first playthrough without seeing more of the game. Just seems like there'd have to be like 20-30 hours of just, I dunno, farming the forest covie?

Just checked, and my play time is actually 89 hours. I've been taking my time :) Also indulged in a little PVP. My character is SL71.

Facewon wrote:

since this build is just being levelled up when I need something, take int to 14 and get cast light.

Well, that wasn't so bad. Hydra down easily first time, summoned the chick and bought all her low level fun spells. Very handy that they're all only 14 req in INT. Now I can go back and finish off what i was doing in ToG. Might even sneak through and suicide run for the silver serpent ring, just for souls farming purposes.

Was gonna try and cap this build around 50, but I may amend to 60-70. As long as i can take strength to 20 and get enough faith to use wrath and darkmoon I'm happy. The rest wil go to dex and END.

The thing I learned from my sl10 playthrough is that whatever your quickest/biggest damage moves/spells are, do them early.

It doesn't matter how many kings are around at the end, when you drain that big health bar, it's done. So hammer the first king as much as possible.

Also, it's well worth stocking up on green blossoms from the merch at the top of sens. stamina is vital. (if you have powerful spells/miracles/pyro, use 'em early. they don't cost stamina.)

A strong magic defense shield (crest is good and light) and knowing that you can roll through most of their swings and you'll be golden. (The roll that's most useful is a forward roll when they do that big down swing. You can just roll straight into it.)

Did the depths last night. Got cursed, cured curse, spent 30 minutes on the edge of my seat killing every basilisk. Found the short-cut from the bonfire to the boss, breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Killed the mouth-teeth boss without too much trouble.

I can learn Pyromancy now, I probably should invest in that, yeah? I don't have any magic, just a few sorceries to buff my weapon or shield.

SL32

Thanks for the info, but I have more questions! Why is my chain armour slowing me down so much now when it wasn't before, also some fuckhead 'invaded' and started killing me, so I disconnected from Xbox live. What the hell is that about people a much higher level than you can come into your world and fuck you up?

I just rubbed my weapon with lightning powder and finally killed this black knight dude, now have his sword but I don't have the strength to wield it! He was guarding a blue tearstone ring. And Tiger this guy's gamertag was 'Wild fox lvl 62' which made me think it was a much higher level player, had it happened before I might've thought the 'lvl 62' was just part of his gamertag.

Having a fuck load of trouble again. Done Sens, Anor Londo and Catacombs. Tried 4 kings got murdered, same wih seath the scalless. Rocking a SL 70 Grave Lord with +5 silver armour and qualags firey sword thing. Where should I go next?

Also Is Havels armour worth wearing even if it takes equipload over 50%? It just seems so tempting.

Havel's is really useful for the 4 kings as it happens. Good poise too, but not worth it to take load over 50%. 

4 kings (not on NG) is all about max damage per second. Equip the most armour you can manage, green moss for stamina and grass crest shield on your back. Double hand the weapon and drop into the Abyss. As soon as the 4 kings appear run up and batter them. Watch out for the grab and the AOR and roll through them. You are trying to kill each one before the next appears. 

Seath isn't that bad, don't stand directly in front, or get round his back (unless you are trying to cut off his tail for the sword), as at the front the curse spell does you, at the back ho's tails fuck you up. Sort of side on works the best. Again, 2 handed and chop away.

On Seath,