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So, since Namco decided to be a bunch of ********, they're continuing with GFWL for Dark Souls even after the service shuts down. I don't even know how that's possible.

So I'm looking for a no-GFWL crack if anyone has one.

The alonne armor has high fire resist. The set is heavy but you can mix in some pieces. After you free the pyromancy lady she sells a fire resist ring. and if you really want to go crazy infuse fire into the royal kite shield. (I skipped that last part.)

Weekend:

I took my Dex toon to 100+ SL just to farm the samurai stuff from the alonne knights. Dual wielding black steel katana's looks cool.

I switched back to caster and completed black gulch, shaded woods, doors, and brightstone. Then cruised my way to castle D. I burned a ascetic on heide's so I could get a new dragon rider bow. I fended off a red or two once the bonfire was level 2 (NG+)

I don't think I am going to take my caster to NG+ because I want to see the DLC in normal once first. We'll see.

*Got Sunlight Straight sword! B/B scaling and a great moveset. Tempted to infuse it even though I know that's naughty. My caster only has 20S/18Dex though and 42 FTH. I'm sure I will pick up more dex and str in NG+ though and regret infusing it. I can always do it then use a palestone to strip it later I think.

Edited, Jun 9th 2014 8:11am by Shojindo

I summoned Lucatiel of Mirrah as well as a sunbro. Lucatiel has lots of hitpoints and is a good soaker. She will die though eventually if you can't burn him during fire aura phase. I DPSed him with my sword during phase one and then once he went nova jumped back and started with the lightning and hexes. He seems fairly resistant and the damage was not fantastic from the spells but they did wittle him down before Lucatiel died which was nice.

I even stayed to kill him a few more times in jolly co-op mostly successfully. Except when the host died once. I'd offer to jump in to help but my SM is getting kinda ridiculous now. I was already well over a million before I took out the last great soul (Dukes Dear Spider). The green lady was like: Umm ok just go to the castle already. Not yet! Wanna kill them all.

My dex guy could maybe help, his dragonrider bow +2 and short bow +5 actually hit smelter respectably hard. I did the same thing on him but swap spell time for bow time. I'll probably take both to NG+ eventually.

Dex is weird. Some things are easier with such a strong bow (40 Dex) and crazy melee DPS. But with no shield it gets dicey against certain mobs. You got to be near perfect not to constantly soak counter hits. It's a fun change of pace though from Block/Counter or Spell. And bosses and mobs you should not block anyway go down pretty fast. Frankly that toon could pretty much shoot everything with the bow and never melee but it's not as fun as looking all flourishy in power stance.

There is a whole range thing but it's weird. I think it tries to find appropriate range first and then opens up some. I was doing some sunbroing on Mirror Knight in Castle D and popping summons super fast at lunch. Even though I am ~1.6m SM. That's only SL level 120 though because I spend so much souls on collecting spells, weapons, and armor + upgrading. I pretty much try to buy all spells so I can use them later if I ever want and to have multiples for NG+

My Dex character is SL 101 at only 780K SM and only two bosses ahead of you so I guess that is pretty standard. I was sunbroing harder on the caster as well and I think that is partially why she has such a high SM. My Dex toon does not bother to collect spells so more is sunk into levels.

I did not realize you had not tried that yet. Not sure what to spoiler anymore but Spoileryeah huge part of the game behind her. Be careful to complete your interactions with her before you pull the trigger. "Be wary of ambush!" Also dress her sexy. ;)

It's fairly short. I usually just rush through it to grab the spices and hidden items on the other side.

Lightning spear is super useful in some fights. I highly recommend it. Unless you're using an xbow or something. But you gotta have ranged... and some bosses are weak to lightning which is nice.

I use LS or GLS first and if the damage is not good swap to Rune Sphere. Between Lightning and hexes one of them usually hits a boss really hard. I'm collecting all the spells but I have not been using pyro or regular magic much tbh. I might in NG+

My character is sort of a swiss army knife. Can shoot bow well (Magic infused Dragonrider bow). Can Lightning. Can Spell. Can wear heavy armor (Well Alva) or robes. Uses a Fire Claymore +10 to melee.

My highest stat is Faith at 42 to GLS. I might spice down some Sunlight Spear at some point need like 2 more medals to get it. But I like having an option for any occasion. I said it before but I think it's pretty cool how unspecialized you can be even in NG and do fine. It used to take NG+ at least in DS1 to start non specializing as it was just so much more effective to use a focused build in DS1.

Here are my stats:


Gonna work on Int to 30 ish
and VGR and End to 20 next

*Forgot to add you don't have to reroll unless you want to. You can respec using a soul vessel and talkign to the old lady at the table in things betwixt. I totally repeced this toon when I realized I liked the lightning/hex power with my sunbroness better than pure spell power. Started this toon as a mage. :)

Edited, Jun 11th 2014 12:46pm by Shojindo

That's really pretty solid. Your only 3 points in faith from Lightning spear. You can pick up one from the cleric lady who spins the room and one from the chest in earthen peak and you would suddenly have 22 Lightning spears in your ******** With that strength and dex the dragonrider bow would do respectable damage as well.

I know you bought the dragonrider shield but if you bonfire ascetic Heidies first bonfire it's really not too bad getting a second dragon rider soul, you can summon to help you get past him again and its good farming. You could mix in a lighter piece or two of Alva's armor (Light weight high defense) and then still use your greatshield if you wanted to stay under 70%. You can buy Alva's from the merchant in Majula after you spend 16k souls total with him so he upgrades his stock. Very very nice set and easy to get.

Plus that 35 str will allow you to use some fun heavy weapons that I can't wield (and greatshields). My trade off is better spells but some of the str weapons are pretty damn uber.

* Edit also the bonfire past Smelter demon has a bunch of very high value super awesome to farm guys in a small room on the way to Iron King. If you get Lightning spear and pick up the binoculars to snipe them you can clean up in that room for like 15-20k per run in about 10 minutes. I pretty much farmed them gone.



Edited, Jun 11th 2014 9:23pm by Shojindo

In the misted woods on the way to the area of shaded ruins you are in now there is a vendor (Vengarls head in a small circle of ruins) that sells the claymore. One hand R1 is sweeps R2 is thrust. C/C scaling. (best weapon ever!?) Sunlight Sword has a real similar moveset as well. Except the thrust on R2 is repeatable with Sunlight sword. Basically it reverses the 1h and 2h of standard longsword.

I used the fire sword plenty as well before I got the claymore. It spammy r1 can lay down some pretty fast damage.

Poison Twinblade. Srsly.