Way of the Rodent

PVP (Player vs Player)

This is completly different to Summoning Blue Phantoms.
What this does is while your in Soul Form your forcing you way into another players game while their in Body Form. Casuing you to be the Black Phantom who just broke into someones game, to do this you will need:

First. Black Eye Stone
Second. You yourself is in Soul Form and the Host in Body Form.

If you ever feel bored then go ahead and drop a Black Eye Stone. This will cause you to force you way into the Host game. You either kill or be killed. If you somehow manage to defeat the Host you will gain Souls.
If you die by the enviroment but not killed by the host you will automacticly get a Soul Level deducted off your highest stat.

To avoid being invaded always play in Soul Form or risk being invaded by someone random

Right. I've picked up Demonbrand, killed the Rune Sword Black phantom and pretty much decided that I'm not going to be able to level up enough to make any significant difference to my current attack power (BBS would take waaaaaay too much grinding to get my faith stat up, and DemonBrand doesn't seem worth the extra grind either since I can't enchant it). I guess if I completely get my arse handed to me by the 1-4 demon, I might grind a bit to upgrade my faith to get the second slot to equip second chance, but for now I can't be arsed.

So that's it I guess. Next time, I'm going in..


(see you in hell)

You need the underpants of flame retardation.

Yeah, those two were the hardest bosses in the game for me.

False King is not that bad. Flamelurker and Maneater are far worse.

The key is recognizing his attacks, all of which he telegraphs. If he's going to do his huge area-of-effect attack, rush in and pound him. If he does either of his leap/charge attacks, you can roll out of the way to the side fairly easily. If you're in close and his hand starts to glow, get the hell out of dodge (preferably with a backward roll) -- although if you've got a Blue Phantom helper, it's pretty easy for them to backstab him while he's draining your Soul Level. ;)

Money stat for BBS is Luck btw.

My Friday launch for Demon's Souls has been transformed into Demon's Souls Saturday! For I have the place to myself for most of the weekend.

Once the small matter of Saturday's final training run is out of the way - 80 miles minimum (gulp) - I shall set sail. Or collapse in a heap on the living room floor in a manner not too dissimilar to my soon-to-be pulped Royal.

3-2 is reasonably straightforward as long as you have your wits about you. I liked the way the shortcut opened up too.
You can grab the gloom armour set from yurt here too. The boss is a bit nasty tho.

I'd do 2-2 if you haven't already, then make the lava bow from the armour spider's soul - it's awesome ;-)

Patches the Hyena sells leather armour, he's locked in a cell in 4-1. There's a hidden passage in the hole where the pit is. Just smack the archway to open it and sneak up on the skellys to stab them in the back - I think one of them drops the key for the cell. Watch out for ambushes in those narrow corridors tho ;-)

I don't think leather armour gives much flame resistance tho - you are better to learn water veil, and kill the red dragon so you can grab the purple flame shield from where he roosts in 1-1. You can also unequip some armour to free up equipment weight.

What weapon are you using to hit him? He's weak to magic so crescent falchion is maybe an idea.

Just get playing you wuss.

It is at the moment.

I'm nearly done. Dunno if I'll do an new game+ right away tho. I have other games in my list that deserve some attention.

Really enjoyed the game tho - at first it's a bit of a slog and you feel like you are not getting anywhere but it slowly starts coming together and getting its hooks into you.

I'm going to have to turn the brightness down on the telly now tho - every other game I play is going to seem really bright now!

Ah that will be great. All of us going in at the start, working things out as we go along.

Regret not getting this played before the PS3 went.

Righty, the dragon is down and so is the Vanguard. 4-1 is far more forgiving at my current level than the last time I went after it. I need two more levels to get high enough strength to use that purple shield, but I'm getting there. Black skeleton's also turned out to be pussies, even though the strategy guide gave them a big sell.

Quite nice to be making progress. The problem with this game and sticking points is it can feel like bashing your head against a wall, and using up all your health items on the same fight again and again.

Item questions - I know for getting the nifty weapons forged with the demon's souls, the level has to exactly right. I'm aiming for a scraping spear from a winged spear +6. If I were to make that a Quality Winged Spear +6, is it then unusable for a scraping spear? I also need more shards of sharpstone. I only have chunks of sharpstone - can they be broken down to shards or are they for higher level upgrades? (this last paragraph has mainly been for the benefit of putting off Kentish!)

Nope - you can't reduce chunks or shards, they stay as they are.

Also, I wouldn't waste rare resources on making a Quality spear if you are going to convert it. Sharpstone is much more abundant (plus there's a guy who sells it at the start of 2-1) so I'd just make a +6 spear out of any old shitty spear you have spare.

And black skellies are easy as long as you learn to get the fuck out of the way of that double katana leap thing. Then dive in and smack them about afterwards.

I know exactly what you mean about progress, although the nice thing about the hub system is that there's usually somewhere else to go and explore or grind so you aren't constantly retrying the same fight.

edit - just checked, it needs to be just a basic+7 spear for that. A quality one wouldn't work.

It's the same regardless of base.

Finally, The Rock has come BACK- I beat the flaming cunt, despite a distracting 'message received from Kentish' pop-up when I had one fucking hit to go!!

Yay!

Nice one. Go kill that dragon god now - easiest fight of the game, that one ;-)

He killed me about a million times and I only lost one soul level. You need to be rolling more Scotty.

Got in place to fight the Dragon God, I found a sword called the dragon bone smasher, which is as tall as my character and I assumed was essential to the fight. Weighs a ton.

So for the last half hour I've been charging at the dragon god with this sword assuming it was the only thing that would smash through the broken stone pillars blocking your path... stripped to the underpants in order to avoid the item burden and be able to move at full speed. As it turns out the bone smasher only turns up for pure white world tendency, and is less than essential. Jesus wept!

I took down the Red Dragon last night. Mainly with magic in the end, so I've got loads of arrows left over. Went on to have another bash at the big knight chap after spending my winnings, and got killed again, but felt I did some damage. Got killed embarrassingly a few times on the way there, having forgotten my tactics for Boletaria. And maybe having become a bit cocky. I think I'll try some stronger armour if I fancy another try.

We talking about Kentish again?

2-2 is a bit of a slog. There is a shortcut to the boss if you go right instead of left at the minecart near the start but be prepared to die a lot trying to figure out where to drop off next.

Most folks figure out the shield thing round about Flamelurker, impressive that you made it this far hamstrung by that. ;D

Part of the problem with Allant is that you get psyched out by the feeling of the moment and the long lift ride before you get to the area.

Chad_Sexington said:

We talking about Kentish again?

Hahaha. Bravo.

Tomorrow morning sir. Should have it wrapped up by tea!

Right, I'm up. Quick shower then it is time to see what all the fuss is about.