Dark Souls

Rajaah said:

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He uses this for the last 75% or so of the run and it seems absurdly powerful. Chunks everything even at SL1. He has the low health attack buff on most of the time, maybe that's the reason for all the damage.

Why go through almost all of the game as an ugly-ass rotted husk, though? If you're never gonna die, just be a human and wear that. The rotted form is a punishment for dying.

This really makes me want to go and do my 93rd Dark Souls 1 replay. Blacksmith Giant Hammer playthrough?

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Rajaah said:

Looks like it yep.

He starts with a hand axe, uses that until he gets a club (Reinforced Club, I think), uses that until he reaches the blacksmith, then uses this hammer for the rest. He also had the blacksmith turn the club into a Divine version real quick, and switched to it whenever he had to kill undead. Rest of the time it was blacksmith hammer all the way.

Very efficient playthrough, looked like fun. I managed to SL1 this with Pyromancer (easier than you might think) and ranged fire attacks. Pooling all your normal leveling souls into strengthening the Pyromancer Flame instead makes your spells devastating. Kind of interested in trying a melee SL1, especially if this hammer has some sort of wonky scaling that doesn't need much help.

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Rajaah said:

I think Dual Sellsword is what I ended up with later on in Souls 3. One of those "how is it this good" noob/early weapons, like the Bandit Curved Sword (can't remember what it was called, the rusty-looking curved swords with a ton of bleed buildup) in Elden Ring. Get two of those, put Blood ashes on them to ramp up their procs, and just destroy the game. There's also the Beastman Curved Sword late in the game that has a similar effect and might be a little better, don't remember.

Should clarify that the Souls 1 hammer is from the GIANT blacksmith, not the Parish one. Would need to go back to the Parish one to upgrade it, after O&S. Can buy everything needed to max it out at +5 beforehand. Buy all the Twinkling Titanites needed from the Giant Blacksmith (10 I guess?) before slaying him for the hammer, go defeat O&S, warp back to Parish and max it out, roll the rest of the game.

Trying to decide if I want to do a NG+ with the hammer (i.e. go kill the guy at the end of my old NG file and start a NG+) OR try doing an SL1 run from the beginning and get the hammer/use it.

Problem is that it takes quite a bit of time to get to the hammer, the O&S area is like a third of the way through the game even if you beeline to it.

Edit: Also, the hammer requires 16 str to one-hand it, so it might not be usable on an SL1 run unless you two-hand it. Unless someone starts with 16 str, but then they probably won't be SL1, it would just be a "no leveling" run.

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Rajaah said:

I think Dual Sellsword is what I ended up with later on in Souls 3. One of those "how is it this good" noob/early weapons, like the Bandit Curved Sword (can't remember what it was called, the rusty-looking curved swords with a ton of bleed buildup) in Elden Ring. Get two of those, put Blood ashes on them to ramp up their procs, and just destroy the game. There's also the Beastman Curved Sword late in the game that has a similar effect and might be a little better, don't remember.

Should clarify that the Souls 1 hammer is from the GIANT blacksmith, not the Parish one. Would need to go back to the Parish one to upgrade it, after O&S. Can buy everything needed to max it out at +5 beforehand. Buy all the Twinkling Titanites needed from the Giant Blacksmith (10 I guess?) before slaying him for the hammer, go defeat O&S, warp back to Parish and max it out, roll the rest of the game.

Trying to decide if I want to do a NG+ with the hammer (i.e. go kill the guy at the end of my old NG file and start a NG+) OR try doing an SL1 run from the beginning and get the hammer/use it.

Problem is that it takes quite a bit of time to get to the hammer, the O&S area is like a third of the way through the game even if you beeline to it.

Edit: Also, the hammer requires 16 str to one-hand it, so it might not be usable on an SL1 run unless you two-hand it. Unless someone starts with 16 str, but then they probably won't be SL1, it would just be a "no leveling" run.

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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS said:

I'm retarded. They're called the sellsword twin blades.

Here is me playing the final boss for DS3 base game a few years ago w/ the sellsword twinblades. This is on XSX w/ a controller and a 1ms 1440p monitor. (I have since built a gaming pc, but I dont own this game on Steam).

I've beat Elden Ring 4x. Twice with strength melee only (using the Greatsword) and then twice with the Faith/Strength Blasphemous Blade. Blasphemous Blade is honestly OP.

Ive never beaten DS1, though. I've beaten DS3 maybe a dozen times but I'm not strong enough for DS1, I guess. If I had a PS, Id for sure play BB. I bought it for my brother (another state), and we play it when Im visiting him.

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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS said:

Do you get it from killing the blacksmith?

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Adebisi said:

Okay fuck that

I could never do my homie like that

I swear I could play all three games on loop forever.

Where did the "meh" feeling for ds2 come from anyways? I loved it.

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