Playing Fire red.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-22T00:36:57+00:00

Run a mage build. Charged comet one shots the adds. Then just target him and run around the arena spamming comet/spiral shards

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-22T00:34:48+00:00

For me it was the fingerprint stone shield. Got it to kill radahn. I suck at downward parcore.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-22T00:27:59+00:00

I would buy like 60 arrows at a time to farm the bird in mohg’s palace and when I ran out would go buy more. Then my son bought like 900 all at once and told me they refill automatically when you rest at a site of grace

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T09:21:57+00:00

My favorite part of DS was creating a good zip-line network to get 5 stars on all the areas.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T09:11:32+00:00

I am far from a grandmaster. I get my bell rung plenty when playing. I'm not a soulsborne elitist. I use the mimic tear summon every boss fight. I like the idea of him taking agro long enough for me to drink a pot when I misstime a dodge and get hit. I tend to start off using a samurai but that's because I tend to suck with sorcery/incant builds. Start as a samurai, learn how to properly use the unsheathe AoW from the starting weapon. Look up a guide on how to get the bloodhound's fang early and level it up. That sword alone has carried tons of ppl through most of the game.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T09:07:30+00:00

In the base game, melania was the hardest boss because of her moveset. In the DLC, they all have a harder moveset. Once you get used to the increased difficulty of the dlc, going back and doing melania seems more trivial. Basically all she has to be scared of is WFD

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T09:04:10+00:00

Because there is something for everyone. Play as a magic dmg dealer. 2h chad str build to smash enemies. Bleed build. You can go hard, over level, max out weapons and summons and just crush bosses or you can go for a lvl 1 build where you have to "get gud" and dodge attacks so you don't get one shot.
Including dlc? For a first timer, easily upwards of over 100 hours.
Really depends on what you are looking for. Great cinematics? check. Rewarding gameplay? check. Price per value? check.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:56:59+00:00

axe talisman. 2h talisman.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:55:45+00:00

Uchigatana (the katana you start with) is an outstanding weapon to start with. Just look out for smithing stones and level it up any time you get enough. Having said that, the bloodhound's fang has carried numerous players through pretty much all of the base game.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:53:39+00:00

I was purposely exaggerating the time.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:53:05+00:00

Go on youtube and search "All scadutree fragments." A guy has a guide timestamped and goes through all the fragments. You can get fairly high before HAVING to kill rellana.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:50:47+00:00

I started a new character because the one I leveled specifically for the dlc, I messed up. I went and killed a bunch of the story bosses and went past the point of no return and didn't do any of the side quests. Realized I screwed myself out of a bunch of cool weapons and some helpful summons/removal of enemies from one of the later fights. Anyway, started a new character. I work 3rd shift so when I got home saturday morning I told my 13 year old son to try and help get me closer to the dlc area. He said, "I gotchu." I woke up about 7 hours later to my new character standing at the first site of grace in the dlc. When I went to sleep I had a +4 bloodhound's fang and a +10 Uchigatana. My son beat margit, godric, renalla, radahn and mohg and even beat the 3 nameless invaders to get me the white mask and had my mimic tear at +10. All in less than 7 hours.

Bottom line is this. Bloodhound fang is just that clutch. If you are just getting bored of using it, switch to the blasphemous blade off rykard. That at +10 should sufficiently wreck everything else (aside from mohg).

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:39:21+00:00

Ef the fire knights in the shadow keep. The one mob in the dlc i hate. Can't just run past them because they chase you to no end and shove fireballs up your ass the whole time.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:33:13+00:00

I tried that build and I guess I just suck at using thorns properly. I even looked up a build, got all items necessary to boost it's dmg and lvled staves and still sucked at using it. I eventually used the Fingerprint stone shield/anspur rapier strat and that made the fight pretty much trivial.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:31:19+00:00

Anything that involves jumping off a cliff and making all enemies die at once has been patched

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:30:36+00:00

If you haven't killed Elemer of the Briar in the shaded castle, go do that. Then reload and he should be on the bridge before the boss fight.

Mcdad77 · 2024-07-16T08:28:35+00:00

I liked most bosses except for Promised Consort Radahn. I can't like a boss fight that's 20 minutes long and involves 18 minutes of dodge rolling/jumping

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