AWKWARD ZOMBIE

minor armor spoilers, if for some reason the armor selection in the game is a spoiler to you

my other character isn't anywhere close to fashionable yet. i'm so upset the xanthous overcoat looks like shit now

NPC spoilers.
Killing the giants before Patches drops the bridge is hilarious.

Edit: My PS4 controller ran out of charge. The first time this happened and of course it's on Dark Souls.
Luckily I had just beaten the boss I was fighting.
Could've been much worse.

Also about smouldering lake.
This kinda sounds weird but I feel sad about all the dead demons lying about everywhere, mostly the Capra Demons.
Demons should be the last recipient of my sympathy but, I don't know, seeing them all lying there makes me sad.

So I decided I was very unhappy with my first playthrough and started over as a Herald. Since unstable framerates make timing-based things tedious, I decided to camp out in front of the Abyss Watchers in the woods until my brother finally comes through with that new graphics card.

Since I can't do much else for the time being, I've been pouring every effort into Fashion Souls.

I'm quite pop flyin' with this current look.

Well I found something helpful for me.
Pontiff Sulyvahn.
I've been doing Yuria's questline so I have the Londor Pale Shade available to Summon.
I summoned her and then stood over Gotthards Summon sign.
I summoned both Pale Shade and Gotthard to the Sulyvahn fight.
It was glorious.

Edit:
concerning the Dragon Form.
I hate how skinny it is. Like, geez there are hollows with more meat on them. This dragon form looks like it hasn't eaten in a decade.
I want to be a big powerful dragon. Not a lizard that looks like it'll snap in half.

Edit:
Well my second playthrough went far better than my first.
I died to only 3 bosses.
Vordt, Greatwood and Sulyvahn.
Didn't bother fighting Nameless King. So you can count it as 4 if you want. :p
Though to be fair about Vordt, though he killed me at first, my second fight I beat him without getting touched once by him.

Did every questline and got the Usurpation of Fire ending.

Also here's my Knight at the end of that run.

The game sounds like a blast.

i forget where i found it but if you can, find the blessed small red/white shield. the constant healing effect is small, but really noticable and helps when you are passively exploring an area or fighting something you can not block and just have it on your back

Yeah, Blessed infused weapons and shields do that, though thanks to Bloodborne affecting the way I play I'm not one for waiting around. :p
They also deal more damage to undead things like Skeletons.

On the other end, Simple infused weapons restore your FP, even if it's a shield, so pick your favourite infusable shield, stick Simple on it. Use full power Weapon Skills at any time.

Also now doing a sorcerer run. (I am enjoying this game much more than expected.)
Saw a video fighting that boss I never beat with Sorcery and he looked darn easy.
I will beat that boss. Even if I have to take the easy way.

dark sword

dark sword

how can you even consider a single run where you pick that up a success, your character is gonna die anyway because of the pure cancer

The undead don't worry about dying. They did that already.

What's wrong with the Dark Sword? :p

More on my sorcerer run. I actually started as Knight so I had less points in luck and started a bit more able to take hits.
I was overthinking about getting an Int weapon. I forgot Magic Weapon was a sorcery.
I guess I'm more of a battlemage than a sorcerer.

well to begin with, straight swords are kind of the meta. ATM, the faster you can swing, the better.

the dark sword has ludicrous damage, like absolutely stupid damage, with the swing speed of a straight sword.

all you have to do is spam R1 and you win fights. it's worse than katanas.

I'm certain if I just stood in front of bosses pressing R1 I'd get my face flat on the floor. :p Hell, there were regular enemies that smashed me into the floor when I went up and R1 spammed. Mostly Ultra Greatsword or Shielded enemies.
I don't have PS+ so no other players were on the receiving end of it.
Don't really see what's so wrong going into a game entirely single player mode and using the best weapon you can find.

It isn't so overpowered that you never die. I died a LOT still using it.

I'm an offline Souls player. I don't care about PvP meta, I just wanna fight bosses.

I decided to hop onto Dark Souls 1 and help a friend get through the Undead Burg. After getting to the Parish, I was about to set a new sign down when someone invaded me.

I haven't had a proper and true invasion in Dark Souls 1 before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. There was some glowing red ninja guy with a katana and a bunch of Pyromancy I never saw before (since I never invested into Pyromancy before). One of which, the ground erupted into twenty pillars of fire.

So, I thought I was going to get absolutely stomped by someone who max upgraded their everything while staying at a low level to invaded in the Burg region.

Next thing I know, he appeared behind me and stabbed me in the back for a whopping 90 damage. Out of my 700 HP.


... It was far less than I was expecting to take.

I spent the rest of the battle using the Shrug gesture and throwing basic Fireballs at him until his tiny HP pool drained.


I was expecting it to be more troublesome than that.