Maxflier

Have you guys beat the dude on the horse right where you start out? He keeps destroying me.

mhg83

I got him down to 25 percent health. My strategy is to sneak attack magic behind his back. Once he gets alerted I gallop as fast as i can till he stops chasing me. Rinse and repeat.

mhg83

Half of my day was spent trying to take down
Bloodhound knight darriwill. Felt like I died fifty times lol.

It was worth it cause his weapon is amazing

RichC2

An early on spot made life better




It is a sweet weapon.

Jeremy517

Wolf359

I really want to play this, but I'm worried about the difficulty. Never played any of the Souls games for that reason but this looks so cool.

dom56

Finally got the Metorite staff for my mage. The place I got it is nasty I just teleport back to Limgrave map once I got the staff.

mhg83

I'm not an expert soul player but this is by far my favorite. It's very difficult in the beginning but once you start leveling and find good gear it gets more manageable. The horse is the best addition as its easy to escape a tough area.

RichC2

The area in front of Bestial Sanctum is awesome for quick leveling early on - about a dozen or so enemies, each worth 1090+ runes a piece.

I had serious difficulty with Margit the Fell Omen but

mhg83

Summoning is pretty cool too with the spirits. Makes boss fights a lot easier.

Dan

I've made some good progress last night and today. Beat Margit. Beat the Tree Sentinel.





Deftones

I still can't beat that mother fucker Magrit

RichC2

I dunno if this constitutes a spoiler but are you summoning wolves or anything (ashes)? As mhg mentioned, they're a solid distractions while fighting him.

Maxflier

Caelid is a weird ass place.

Dan

Godrick was a pain in the ass
I went and leveled up my stuff a bit before taking him on for good, but eventually beat him.

The game really does hit its stride once you level up enough that most enemies are ready enough to beat, especially focusing on getting smithing stones to upgrade your main weapon. There's a great area early on to farm for runes; start at stormgate and get on your horse and work your way east across the bridge and then follow the path south. Depending on the time of day, you'll hit 20-30 enemies, including two big hungry boys pulling a wagon with a convoy of baddies behind them. If you're feeling even more adventurous, head north instead of south on that path and you can use the wind/tornado thing to laugh yourself up on top of the hill where there are 5 or 6 big hungry boys, each dropping over 1k runes when you kill them. I find them easier to beat on horseback.

Noonan

Up to level 33; killed Godrick last night. I have a ton of the map open though, thanks to some random teleporting chests I've found.

I already had all the areas after Magrit open and explored before I killed him.

Has anyone run across a NPC that sells Int based magic? I have the guy at Roundtable who sells Faith based spells but I haven't found anyone to sell me more Int based spells.

mhg83

I have several INT Spells. Theres a woman mage that sells them in one of the starting areas. Can't remember the name but you cross a bridge and to your right there's a big poisonous flower. You can easily avoid fighting it. Theres an entrance to a boss room right behind it. After you fight it (Big Pumpkin Head dude) She'll appear.

You can also bring her magic books where she'll sell you more spells.

Noonan

Thanks. I know where you're talking about; I found it super early on and marked it to go back to kill the boss. Guess I'll be doing that next. I've already given 3 books to the Faith guy at Roundtable. I'm guessing I have a couple to give the Int NPC as well.

Noonan

Has anyone else come across a normal looking treasure chest that warps you to a completely different section of the map? That's happened to me twice already.

lwhy?

Those are trap chests. I watched a couple videos about them over the weekend.

RichC2

I like those chests personally, they open up other regions quickly, and it's better than the chests from Dark Souls that ate you.

Noonan

Yeah, that's the case for me as well. One dropped me in a salt mine of some type with these cockroach looking enemies. Took me a good few attempts to work my way out to find a bonfire rather than just fast traveling back without unlocking anything.

RichC2

I think you're actually locked in when you get transported, and cannot teleport out until finding one of the Grace points.

Deftones

Yup, the wolves. Does nothing for me as I can only get him to the hammer part and then he wrecks me.

Noonan

For me to get him down, I needed a run where the npc support character lived well past him pulling out the hammer. That way they got most of the aggro attention and I could stand back and spam spells. It still took a bunch of attempts.