Demon's Souls & Dark Souls

[Amante]

I'll grant you NG+, but on your first one there isn't much point to blind killing. c_c

I thought they'd give me good items

[Seven Rain]

After finding out that iron flesh is terribly OP

*Strokes beard*
Mmhmm... I'll have to remember this.

[blankd]

After finding out that iron flesh is terribly OP

*Strokes beard*
Mmhmm... I'll have to remember this.

They might nerf/rebalance in the update- keep that in mind!

[Seven Rain]

After finding out that iron flesh is terribly OP

*Strokes beard*
Mmhmm... I'll have to remember this.

They might nerf/rebalance in the update- keep that in mind!

Either way I need to use more magic. I've relied too much on melee the whole game, so it's rather limiting either way.
I did want to learn Pyromancy but, well... Yeah...

[Amante]

You guys, I found a scythe! Like an actual scythe and not a stupid halberd like one. It's calle the Great Scythe. You can find it in the catacombs by jumping off a bridge. You guys I'm so happy. I can finally die peacefully now. I'm so badass wielding this thing. I turned it into a chaos great scythe too so it does for damage .

In other news I got the last lord soul from bed of chaos, that fucker and should be heading to the final boss soon. Let's see how he likes my scythe.

[Seven Rain]

You guys, I found a scythe! Like an actual scythe and not a stupid halberd like one.

Wait, you never turned Priscilla's Soul into a weapon? :O

Spoiler! :

[Amante]

You guys, I found a scythe! Like an actual scythe and not a stupid halberd like one.

Wait, you never turned Priscilla's Soul into a weapon? :O

Spoiler! :

Haha no, It had a sharp decrease in damage from the Scythe +10 and I wasn't too fond of the additional abilities so I didn't make it. Though I wish I did so I can be closer to the trophy. I like my fire scythe right now, and I can be a total dick and attack people from outside of their own range.

[Seven Rain]

Ah, I see, haha. Yeah, the self-bleeding kind of ruins it, which is a shame.

[TerminalMontage]

I never updated any of my weapons using a bosses soul, couldn't get any of my things to +10, except maybe my electric spear, which was really the only weapon I should use, at all times, I upgraded that so it gave me 210 attack, and when I equipped it, it gave me over 400 attack. Stronger than all my weapons, my enchanted scimitar came in second, it had 100 attack, but when equipped made my attack 320.

This strength thing is weird, I'd much rather use a sword. Game is too easy running around, using OP Iron Flesh, +20 pyromancy, and the thunder spear.


And if they nerfed Iron Flesh by just a little, it really wouldn't be worth using anymore. By the time you get halfway through NG+, or into NG++ I'm sure it's not as useful. I couldn't beat the Four Kings in NG+ with Iron Flesh, so I had to go find the pyro guy and learn it a second time so I could cast it 6 times instead of 3, then that helped.. But if you can get Iron Flesh each time you go into NG+.. It'll always be over powered :l

[Amante]

Since i hear that embers don't transfer over to NG+, I'm trying to upgrade my items all the way up to get the trophies before taking the last fog gate. So far the only one I'm missing is the magic +10 ( at +8), chaos +5 ( at +4, need a red titanite slab), an occult weapon (dont even have one yet, maybe I can turn my divine club into one) and tuning normal into +15 and raw to +5, though those require titanite slabs which are extremely annoying to get.

[Floo Phantom]

I felt kinda bad after killing Priscilla- OH WAIT no I didn't because she's a big ugly monster who tries to trick you into jumping off a cliff.
So much easier to tell if something is friendly when it doesn't have bulging egg sack parasites and giant furry tails.

[Seven Rain]

I felt kinda bad after killing Priscilla- OH WAIT no I didn't because she's a big ugly monster who tries to trick you into jumping off a cliff.

But jumping off doesn't kill you, it returns you to Anor Londo...

Spoiler! :

And Priscilla's hawt.

[blankd]

I felt kinda bad after killing Priscilla- OH WAIT no I didn't because she's a big ugly monster who tries to trick you into jumping off a cliff.
So much easier to tell if something is friendly when it doesn't have bulging egg sack parasites and giant furry tails.

You monster. Well if you're going to do that, I hope you at least got her dagger.

Spoiler! :

And jumping off doesn't kill you, it does return you back.

As for egg sacks....

Spoiler! :

You don't talk bad about miss spider lady! )8<

[Seven Rain]

Blurgh, I made like, no progress tonight. Oh well, it was still fun. My friend Alan brought his PS3 and Dark Souls like we planned and hooked it up to the smaller TV so we had a double dose of misery for Halloween tonight. It was fun, even if I didn't really get anything done.

[blankd]

Got an unofficial (someone translated the Japanese list or something?) changes from the patch:

(Some NPC and skill names names shall be spoiled, but I doubt that's a very big issue)

Spoiler! :

Magic Changes:
Pyro Glove nerfed from 270 to 230.
You can see resonance signs now.
Vow of Silence range increased.
Homing Soul Mass and other pursuit style spells nerfed.
Magic Shield and Strong Magic Shield duration lowered.
Tranquil Walk of Peace and other Slow duration reduced to ~10 secs. Effect supposedly changed from 100% encumberance to 50%.
Iron Flesh effectiveness nerfed.

Status Changes:
Initial weight increased
Humanity Item drop rate increased from 10 to 210
Medium roll recovery faster? (unclear and unconfirmed)

Equipment Changes:
Reported some weapon scaling gets improved at higher normal upgrades (+15 uchi dex scaling goes to A)
Some scaling reported as changing from A to S with higher upgrades
Normal upgrade path buffed by ~10%
Lightning path nerfed slightly (~5%)

Grant scaling changed?
Gold-hemmed nerfed, still un-upgraded
Dust skirt nerfed hard
Silver Knights, Sun, Hollow Soldier's Shield and other medium shield stability nerfed to ~70 at max upgrades to improve Great Shield viability.
Crystal Ring Shield scaling drastically nerfed. Does around ~200 +-50
Dragon Greatsword buffed from 360 to 390.

Combat Changes:
Lock-on acquisition range increased.
Lock-on changing/switching got easier.
Ring of Fog users can now be locked on.

PVE Changes:
Damage reduced on some mobs?
HP lowered on some mobs?
Bosses drop Humanity and Homeward Bones
Ghosts and Skeletons give souls now.
Twinkling Titanite drop rate improved.
Some mobs may have added drops (Pyromancer dropping Lantern? Unconfirmed).

Online Changes:
You can see resonance signs.
Some invasion restrictions possibly changed? Darkwraith upperlimit confirmed as unchanged.
Amount of souls the Master of the game gains changed.
Cracked Eye Orbs no longer get consumed on failure. Confirmed

Other Changes:
Official Guide nerfed.
Lowered requirements for Sunbro covenenant (requirements moved from 50 to 25. 3/4 assists should do the trick)
Fixed some freeze issues
Lvl up screen displays souls needed properly now
Dragon-head glitch, snuggly, and magic shield glitches fixed.
Fixed a bug where your inputs come out 1 second later.
Fixed a bug where the second solaire event wont progress.
Fixed a bug where feeding frampt a titanite stone then going over 99 resulted in having zero.
Fixed some specific map areas where you'd get stuck or be unable to progress.
Changed some english subtitles on the overseas port.

Merchant stock updates:
Male Undead Merchant: Also sells bottomless box
Female Undead Merchant: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts
Andrei: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts
Domnhal of Xena: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts, Master Key
Giant Blacksmith (Fapsmith): Sells Arrows / Crossbolts, Small Titanite Shards, Large Tit Shards, Twinkling (8000 per, inf amount), Green Shards, Repair box, upgrade boxes
Vamos: Arrows / Crossbolts, Small Tit, Large tit, Repair box / upgrade boxes
Inglwood: Sells Transient Curses

Also apparently they changed some of the text?

#Text changes:

The bonfire was lit -> Bonfire lit
You Defeated -> Victory Achieved
You Regained -> Retrieval

I'll admit I mocked the "YOU DEFEATED!" but it was sort of charming )8 (WTF on Retrieval though...)