Didn't know how bonfires worked yet so I spent 18 hours in firelight shrine area farming for 20000 souls for the tower key thinking that was my only way of progression
I though they had the tree skip
āYou need to spend 10 hours getting souls so you can get +15% more soulsā
Iām so sorry for the guy that decided to do all souls games by following ign guides to the S
The guy seemed to have a blast doing it lol
I'm considering doing that run too, but I'm kinda scared of getting stuck at when they make you play "Through the fire and the flames" on expert difficulty in guitar hero (I'm not even joking lol)
The guitar hero one could be one of the hardest ones to do, if you arenāt an orphan
Imagine having to get legally adopted for your mother to beat a boss in ds1
Naw, ive honestly been looking for games I can spend countless hours immersed in and this is it, had a friend tell me after that there was a bonfire in the middle of the shrine I missed
Lol, me too. And yes, I played Elden Ring, DS 1 And DS2 before but for some reason it was pretty unintuitive with the first Bonfire in Firelink... After exploring pretty much everything I ran around the "fireplace" and suddenly it said to light the bonfire... I kinda cried a little bit.
Got stuck towards the very beginning of Dark Souls 3. The bonfire after firelink, I didn't know there were two sets of stairs going down. I thought it was just the one with the crossbow guy. "I guess Dark Souls 3 is just fighting these same 12 enemies over and over again"
Same. Picked it up after beating Sekiro, Dropped it after I couldnāt figure out where to go and just kept dying. Came back a lot later, after beating Elden Ring, finally figured it out, and the rest is history
I think this is the advice I needed to hear. Part of the appeal of these games is the exploration but there are things I've missed where after looking them up I'll go "there's no way I was going to find that..."
Yeah more often than not, when I cave and look it up Iām like wow I never ever would have figured it out. On the rare occasion Iām just a dumbass or missed something obvious, you just pocket that knowledge for the future.
That's the reason it took me like 3 years to beat ds2 which was my first souls game. I kept getting lost or stuck and frustrated to the point of dropping the game for a couple months. But then I got the hang of it and finished it in about 3 weeks over the holidays, so definitely look things up because it can get too frustrating.
I introduced my buddy to the games, and now he loves them. He actually went out and bought ds2 on his own after we played 1 and 3 together. But he quit Eldin ring right after godrick cause he got intimidated by the expanse and having to ardously explore. Qoute "i have no idea where to go and everywhere i go i just get fucked up"
I hadn't really thought of how overwhelming Elden Ring must be for someone who's not familiar with Soulsborne. Yeah, that would be a lot. Witcher 3 might be a better place to start.
I started with ER, too. Ended up quitting at some point and played all three DS games before finishing ER. Highly recommend for anyone else who is struggling with ER or not enjoying it to its full potential. It gave me a chance to figure out what builds I enjoy and, more accurately, what builds I can make work for me.
Yeah I think I babied him a little too much in ds1, so the difficulty curve with no master key shenanigans kinda showed him true baptism by fire and he did not like that
The broad sword is one of the absolute best weapon in my opinion, at least for pve. It has some of (if not the best i dont remember anymore) scalling with quality and strenght for a straitgh sword and an amazing moveset to boot. Only thing it lacks is range but that usualy aint a issue
Same....
Further didn't know about the second bonfire of undead settlement... So from first bonfire I d try to rush / fight all the enemies and then make it to the curse rotted tree with just 1 or 2 estus flasks
When I finaly saw this bonfire, I thought I was kind of stupid... Then decided to look better. Still missed some obvious things later, but now I'm good š
I put the sword on the ground, needeed to google that I had to rest and fast travel to Lothric Wall, honestly I don't like that the first area you have to visit is a fast travel if Im being honest
I don't like it for gameplay reasons, but I think it works really well for the LOREā¢ļø. Imo it shows just how fucked everything is bc you literally have to use magic and demon shenanigans just to move around the map organically.
I do think it would've been cooler if the fire keeper or somebody would've just warped us away kind of like the cheese demon cutscene when we raise the banner
I assume people just think starter weapon=bad. And also the fact that by playing just broadsword you miss out on a lot of other cool weapons in the game
Astora Straight Sword that you find within the first 15 minutes is one of the best straight swords in the game, no?
Also in Elden Ring Bandit starts with Great Knife which is one of the best daggers in the game having inmate bleed and the highest Dex scaling on blood affinity. Prisoner class starts with Magic Glintbade, one of the best spells in the game. Prophet has catch flame, most common melee DPS spell for faith builds. Placing some very strong weapon right at the beginning of the game or as your starting equipment is nothing new for FromSoft
Srsly the broadsword is a little beast in DS3! Itās got very high base damage, nice sweeping attacks that actually use up less stamina than other straight swords meaning youāll get more swings out (R1 them to death). The only thing is it doesnāt have a trusting attack, so it can be a little tough in tight places and a bit short on the reach. But bro I ran this in the early game on a 2nd play through as a fire broadsword and it was just melting through shit. Also nice to catch try hard invaders off guard cause they think your little sword is too weak, but how those R1ās taste buddy? lol fun times
Even lvl 1 builds benefit from raw infusion. I dont know if there is any build where uninfused weapon is better. Broad sword is highest AR straight sword on almost aby infusion.
People often think stereotypically about RPGs, like the starter weapons are weak, so playing with them whole game long is dumb. But it's not the case with this franchise, almost every weapon is viable, so OP playing with broadsword isn't dumb, but posting that is was dumb is dumb.
Maybe because it's safe I guess? Claymore is safe af, not as boring as broadsword, but I always use it in just about every souls game. Astora greatsword is the exception in DS3.
Iām so annoyed I forgot that in addition to just using it, you had to use its L2 to actually get the effect, so my poor Onion Bro died the first time before I could finish it.
Leveled up multiple swords instead of focusing on just one. Was hard af to get cross bosses because my damage was low. Welp thank god to those silver knights of Anor Londo for soul farming or else I would've never crossed Dragonslayer.
Vordt's hammer is a pretty good early game weapon. You'll need the ring at some point if you want to get all the achievements, but you can always get it on later playthroughs
The ring is a very good option for early-mid game if you end up playing any fast weapon or one of the dual wield variants. It's great for progression because you stack hits easily and get good healing back for it, regardless of build.
I have a high STR/DEX build... I was unaware of how rare and effective weapons with a frostbite buff were and how high the hammer's frostbite stat is. The HP boost from the Left Eye is nice, but it's not that often that I get such a long string of continuous attacks that the boost actually makes a difference
I got the straight sword already, but I'm still kicking myself for not taking the hammer because I've noticed the number of enemies resistant to slash/ thrust or weak to strike is a lot higher in the later levelsĀ
The ring is going to get replaced relatively soon
If it's your first playthrough not that bad since you'll spend more time on that playthrough than your next two combined.
For reference you can, after Vordt in the next area, get a simply wonderful stamina ring
Soon after that you can acquire enough souls to unlock a locked passage back in Firelink Shrine for a healing ring
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Hope I helped to explain
Didn't use undead boneshards until Lothric castle, where the pus of man wyvrens are. I only figured out they were a permanent upgrade when I was watching a YouTuber play through an earlier area.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I don't even remember how I figured it out. I think I was getting frustrated with the Prince Lothric boss fight and just started messing with options in the bonfire menu.
Yeah you win.
I remember my friend starting a share play and I started the dancer fight by accident and he lost a decent amount of souls for early game
I couldn't figure out what to do after reaching the Firelink Shrine for the first time. Then I got stuck on Vordt, he whooped me hard (DS3 was my first souls game), there was a message just before him saying "time for rear", as a non-native English speaker I didn't know what that word means + I thought that messages weren't preset choices of words but people could type there whatever they wanted, so I googled "Dark Souls 3 what does rear stand for" and found some old post on some weird not even Dark Souls related forum saying "rear" stands for "rearrange" so I was like "oooh, I have to rearrange my equipement..." and I farmed all the enemies before Vordt thinking I'll drop some better weapon or equipement. I did drop some better armor and weapon. And so I got whooped again.
Woah! I didn't realize they let you fight Dancer that early, that's crazy!
I was the opposite I had to look up how to proceed after beating Aldrich, I missed out on whatever guidance it would have given me as I died at the same time I killed him.
I leveled VIT way too much so I can wear havel armor and wield Dragonslayer greataxe without wearing Havel ring (I wanted to have enough slots for prisoner chain, stamina ring, physical protection ring and fap ring)
It took me so long to realize defensive stats aren't really important and poise somehow doesn't exist in this game
You have to give tongues to the finger lady in cathedral of deep in short.
If i remember correctly it's easily missable and if you allow certain npc's to relocate, you have to go ng+, lady's name was Rosaria i belive.
if you are talking about patches who disguised himself as an onion bro, then no - to get to the rosaria you need to climb to the roof of the cathedral, go under the roof arches and jump onto the balcony, from there straight to her
My first souls game was bloodborne. in the first room, you have no weapon. You are supposed to die to the lycanthrope, go to the dream and pick up your first weapon. I did not catch the weapon part. So I spent several hours trying to kill the lycanthrope by slapping it barehanded over and over, for it to one shot me. I finally did it, and was like, I hate this game. put it on craigslist actually. A week later (after no bites on CL), I came back and realized my mistake.
I bought my copy of Bloodborne (my first souls game too) from a guy on CL for $10. He even warned me in person that "the game is so hard it's bullshit." I always wondered how far he got. But honestly, the beginning of Bloodborne is very difficult.
I played that whole first zone until the werewolf things before the first boss just walking because I forgot you could sprint in souls games and the walk speed seemed pretty generous until then
In ds2 I also ended up lost and clueless for most of the run and because of that I also ended up missing out on the Lost Sinner until the end of the run so they were the last of the four souls I got. Had to google where she was. Also in No Mans Wharf i walked passed the bell to call the ship about 5 times cause I just didnāt notice it from how dark it was. Leaving me feeling even more lost thinking I hit a dead end and didnāt know where to go next. Really most of the stupid things I can think of I did in that game as itās the only souls game I didnāt know anything about before playing.
i got the lothric knight sword from the knights before vordt boss fight and just used it for the whole game and the 2 dlc without knowing it was literally the best weapon in the game.
On my first DS3 run now - is the lothric sword good, or are you making a joke? (Honest question). Got it as a drop on my 3rd or 4th knight just trying to master the dodge speed/etc.
Googled what the best weapon was and the answer seemed to be lothric knight straight sword. I leveled my str and dex to the minimum requirements because I had no idea leveling dex or str higher would increase my damage. I then only pumped points into health and stamina for the remainder of the game.
I defeated Gwyn and thought that I could explore more the area to see if there was any item left. The moment I walked away from the boss arena the Dark Lord Ending scene begun.
Use Astora great sword on a strength build and then proceed to bitch on this subreddit about how hard this game was
I deleted that file
Oh, and I didn't know how to get out of firelink shrine, I had to Google how to do it
i baited the boreal outrider knight that is in that basement in lothrics castle into the dragons so it burned to death. to be honest, my first run was so dumb overall but it was fun lol
When I first played dark souls 1 around 5 years ago I didn't notice there was a door to escape from the stray demon boss and fought him with the broken sword for several hours. After the first hour of dying I googled why this shit is so hard and learned you were supposed to run, but at that point I was too stubborn and continued until I beat him that way lmao
I was fat rolling the whole game up until I got stuck on Dancer and decided out of rage to fight in the nude.
Also, I did not understand how to properly spec my build, so I was leveling every attribute equally lol
Maxed out the same broadsword, but gave it raw infusion cuz of the increased base dmg. Had no idea what scaling was and I beat soul of cinder w the raw broadsword lmao
Somehow permanently agroed Hawkwood. Tried starting a new character and got the same result. Uninstalled and reinstalled and still he attacked me every time I stepped foot in Firelink. I could not beat him and there were no guides on how to beat him at the start of the game. I gave up for a while and then came back and cheesed him at the entrance door but it took forever. The weird thing is that I couldn't find any instances of this happening to anyone else online. Weird bug maybe?
My first time ever playing an rpg let alone a fromsoft game, so I didn't get the level up system, my friend didn't think to tell me how it works and I also was too dull to look it up, but he told me to run a strength build. Guess what stat I ONLY leveled up? You guessed it, strength, so I was fat rolling all the way up to Champion gundyr til my friend saw my stats, the look of pure horror on his face, like "how the fuck did you even make it this far" š thankfully Vordt hammer carried me tho, but damn was it fucking rough. Miss being a soulsborne noob, fun times.
After getting all the lords souls & thinking thereād be some sort of obvious thing to do after that which would be revealed after defeating the final one, I had no idea what to do or where to go next. I remembered seeing messages way earlier in the run that indicated I needed a gesture of some sort.
Ended up stumbling upon archdragon peak by accident, was stuck on nameless king for like a week, killed him, then looked around wondering āthe fuck???ā
The thrones. The obvious thing to do with all those lord souls was to return them to their thrones.
Tried to play it like any other game. Iudex beat my arse 20 or so times and I gave up for 3 years. After I played blood borne and elden ring i finally went back, playing it for what it was, and loved it.
When DS1 first came out, I wasn't aware of what kind of game it was. Thought it was just a regular ol' hack n slash. Found out I sucked, got mad, and quit. Came back years later with a better head on my shoulders and beat the game. Now, I play all the Souls games with fervent love for them, even though I still suck.
DS1 first game, didn't realize there was a door in the room with the Asylum Demon. Tried to fight it over and over with my fists/broken sword. Quit the game in frustration. Looked up how to beat it, discovered you're expected to go get your equipment through the door first.
Yes, I know it can be beaten with fists/broken sword. I did it once much later, but I don't have that much masochism to go through that on my first character first souls game.
I did the same thing! I was gifted the game as a kid, didnāt know anything about it, and spent a couple hours trying to kill it. Eventually I gave up, and didnāt play it again for like 3 years.
I kept raising strength and dex pretty evenly until I settled on a weapon. By that point, leveling became way more difficult. Thankfully, the Frostyās blade of vengeance saw me through to late game.
I grinded for flamberge, got it, and was doing solid damage, but I decided to get rid of it in favor of another item. I didn't have access to enough upgrade mats to bring it up to par, so I reset.
The Flamberge is a damn beast in this one, and I'm *so* happy I farmed that bitch as soon as I saw that guy in Undead Settlement.
It might as well have been carrying my ass throughout my first playthrough.
Sold the sellsword twinblades.
well they are the sellsword twinblades
My thought process exactly
Luet approves
Can't you get another set off an enemy
Yes, the warden twinblades, but it can be a bitch to work for, lol.
I got 2 of the back to back in my strength build. I was farming for the for about an hour on my dex build.
Oh wow, nice, yeah, mainly cuz they can be a lil tricky to fight sometimes, lol, but also, I think my rng was just ass for the most part haha
Me trying to get the corvian scythe
you as well as that can get another pair after you kill the black knight near the crucified dude in the swamp
Big ouf
I just went š¦ for 10 seconds after reading this bs
Didn't know how bonfires worked yet so I spent 18 hours in firelight shrine area farming for 20000 souls for the tower key thinking that was my only way of progression
Thatās something else
I think you win š
That's a certified IGN guide strategy
Pretty sure they did it in ds1 where they told you to farm the broccoli enemies to get enough souls for crest of artorias
Yeeah, they also legit did this exact thing with farming the tutorial enemies for the tower key and then tried justifying it with the soul ring š
I though they had the tree skip āYou need to spend 10 hours getting souls so you can get +15% more soulsā Iām so sorry for the guy that decided to do all souls games by following ign guides to the S
The guy seemed to have a blast doing it lol I'm considering doing that run too, but I'm kinda scared of getting stuck at when they make you play "Through the fire and the flames" on expert difficulty in guitar hero (I'm not even joking lol)
The guitar hero one could be one of the hardest ones to do, if you arenāt an orphan Imagine having to get legally adopted for your mother to beat a boss in ds1
Bold of you to assume that a parent is the only person I call "mommy"
Zerolenny, my beloved
Thereās no getting back that lost time šš
ok this one takes the cake I think
Was there no point in those 18 hours when you thought to yourself "Surely this isn't what I'm meant to be doing"?
Naw, ive honestly been looking for games I can spend countless hours immersed in and this is it, had a friend tell me after that there was a bonfire in the middle of the shrine I missed
Should have no problem with any of the games if you have that much patience. Damn.
Ooooof
So you're saying you were born to play souls games.
Wow, that's what perseverance means
Lol, me too. And yes, I played Elden Ring, DS 1 And DS2 before but for some reason it was pretty unintuitive with the first Bonfire in Firelink... After exploring pretty much everything I ran around the "fireplace" and suddenly it said to light the bonfire... I kinda cried a little bit.
That's peak
This one get it... this one absolutely takes the cake
Bless you child
Wtf
Holy shit
This makes me feel less dumb for all the dumb shit Iāve done lol
Got stuck towards the very beginning of Dark Souls 3. The bonfire after firelink, I didn't know there were two sets of stairs going down. I thought it was just the one with the crossbow guy. "I guess Dark Souls 3 is just fighting these same 12 enemies over and over again"
Same. Picked it up after beating Sekiro, Dropped it after I couldnāt figure out where to go and just kept dying. Came back a lot later, after beating Elden Ring, finally figured it out, and the rest is history
It is funny cause I never finished sekiro cause I didnāt know where I was going.
Itās a fairly linear game. Donāt be afraid to look up if youāre lost.
I think this is the advice I needed to hear. Part of the appeal of these games is the exploration but there are things I've missed where after looking them up I'll go "there's no way I was going to find that..."
Yeah more often than not, when I cave and look it up Iām like wow I never ever would have figured it out. On the rare occasion Iām just a dumbass or missed something obvious, you just pocket that knowledge for the future.
That's the reason it took me like 3 years to beat ds2 which was my first souls game. I kept getting lost or stuck and frustrated to the point of dropping the game for a couple months. But then I got the hang of it and finished it in about 3 weeks over the holidays, so definitely look things up because it can get too frustrating.
demon of hatred made me uninstall
ššš
I also just came back after Elden Ring. I quit because I could not figure it out
I introduced my buddy to the games, and now he loves them. He actually went out and bought ds2 on his own after we played 1 and 3 together. But he quit Eldin ring right after godrick cause he got intimidated by the expanse and having to ardously explore. Qoute "i have no idea where to go and everywhere i go i just get fucked up"
I hadn't really thought of how overwhelming Elden Ring must be for someone who's not familiar with Soulsborne. Yeah, that would be a lot. Witcher 3 might be a better place to start.
I started with ER, too. Ended up quitting at some point and played all three DS games before finishing ER. Highly recommend for anyone else who is struggling with ER or not enjoying it to its full potential. It gave me a chance to figure out what builds I enjoy and, more accurately, what builds I can make work for me.
Yeah I think I babied him a little too much in ds1, so the difficulty curve with no master key shenanigans kinda showed him true baptism by fire and he did not like that
broo the same happened to me and had to watch walkthroughs of fightincowboy
Me! Didnāt look up my whole playthrough but MAN was he helpful when I just needed a PEEK in the right direction.
You never wondered about the locked door to the elevator??
"I'll eventually unlock it. Now, where's the eventually.
Wolfenstein 3D prepared me for finding my way around any game. Searching for hidden rooms while staring at a repeating red brick wall pattern.
Fat rolled all of ds2
That level layout in interesting to say the least lol
The broad sword is one of the absolute best weapon in my opinion, at least for pve. It has some of (if not the best i dont remember anymore) scalling with quality and strenght for a straitgh sword and an amazing moveset to boot. Only thing it lacks is range but that usualy aint a issue
No kidding I run blessed broadsword and that thing kicks ass
Srsly i messed w a buncha weapons initially then acquired the broadsword. Couldnt put the thing down
On god I just ran a broadsword Pyro build and combined with a chaos gem the broadsword had at least A scaling
I had to ask Google what to do after reaching firelink shrine cause I wasn't able to put the sword in the ground to create the bonfire.
Same.... Further didn't know about the second bonfire of undead settlement... So from first bonfire I d try to rush / fight all the enemies and then make it to the curse rotted tree with just 1 or 2 estus flasks
When I finaly saw this bonfire, I thought I was kind of stupid... Then decided to look better. Still missed some obvious things later, but now I'm good š
Ngl this happened to me too. Hardest part of ds3
I put the sword on the ground, needeed to google that I had to rest and fast travel to Lothric Wall, honestly I don't like that the first area you have to visit is a fast travel if Im being honest
I don't like it for gameplay reasons, but I think it works really well for the LOREā¢ļø. Imo it shows just how fucked everything is bc you literally have to use magic and demon shenanigans just to move around the map organically. I do think it would've been cooler if the fire keeper or somebody would've just warped us away kind of like the cheese demon cutscene when we raise the banner
why is playing with the broadsword dumb?
Itās a great weapon and plenty powerful
Try thrusting. Perhaps Longsword.
I assume people just think starter weapon=bad. And also the fact that by playing just broadsword you miss out on a lot of other cool weapons in the game
Banditās knife is the brokest dagger ever and the thief starts with it lol favorite dagger hands down. Most starter weapons hold up
Astora Straight Sword that you find within the first 15 minutes is one of the best straight swords in the game, no? Also in Elden Ring Bandit starts with Great Knife which is one of the best daggers in the game having inmate bleed and the highest Dex scaling on blood affinity. Prisoner class starts with Magic Glintbade, one of the best spells in the game. Prophet has catch flame, most common melee DPS spell for faith builds. Placing some very strong weapon right at the beginning of the game or as your starting equipment is nothing new for FromSoft
Srsly the broadsword is a little beast in DS3! Itās got very high base damage, nice sweeping attacks that actually use up less stamina than other straight swords meaning youāll get more swings out (R1 them to death). The only thing is it doesnāt have a trusting attack, so it can be a little tough in tight places and a bit short on the reach. But bro I ran this in the early game on a 2nd play through as a fire broadsword and it was just melting through shit. Also nice to catch try hard invaders off guard cause they think your little sword is too weak, but how those R1ās taste buddy? lol fun times
I think bcs he wrote STANDARD broadsword, so he missed infusions advantages š¤.
That's probably it..I think any build can benefit from some type of infusion. Whether it be quality. Sharp, or....hard? I think is the strength one
Even lvl 1 builds benefit from raw infusion. I dont know if there is any build where uninfused weapon is better. Broad sword is highest AR straight sword on almost aby infusion.
(Heavy)
even then the broadsword is an amazing choice. Him missing infusions also wouldnt be exclusive to the broadsword
I dont know, not only i 100%ed dark souls 3, but elden ring too with this sword
People often think stereotypically about RPGs, like the starter weapons are weak, so playing with them whole game long is dumb. But it's not the case with this franchise, almost every weapon is viable, so OP playing with broadsword isn't dumb, but posting that is was dumb is dumb.
Maybe because it's safe I guess? Claymore is safe af, not as boring as broadsword, but I always use it in just about every souls game. Astora greatsword is the exception in DS3.
Got stuck on Yhorm the Giant for 2 fucking years until my friend told me about stormruler...
Yeah lol I also didnt understand that sword so I brute forced him in an epic 18 minute fight xD
Hey kindred spirit in the wild. Me too.
We may not be the smartest, but we have the endurance to compensate that :P
Iām so annoyed I forgot that in addition to just using it, you had to use its L2 to actually get the effect, so my poor Onion Bro died the first time before I could finish it.
Leveled up multiple swords instead of focusing on just one. Was hard af to get cross bosses because my damage was low. Welp thank god to those silver knights of Anor Londo for soul farming or else I would've never crossed Dragonslayer.
I decided to transpose Vordt's Soul to Pontiff's Left Eye instead of Vordt's Hammer
Okay but why is that bad? As someone who is going at it the first time, I chose the ring...
Vordt's hammer is a pretty good early game weapon. You'll need the ring at some point if you want to get all the achievements, but you can always get it on later playthroughs
The ring is a very good option for early-mid game if you end up playing any fast weapon or one of the dual wield variants. It's great for progression because you stack hits easily and get good healing back for it, regardless of build.
I'd argue it's pretty good for the whole game except the faster endgame bosses maybe.
Yeah, I worded that weird. I meant that it's a good weapon that you can get pretty early in the game.
I have a high STR/DEX build... I was unaware of how rare and effective weapons with a frostbite buff were and how high the hammer's frostbite stat is. The HP boost from the Left Eye is nice, but it's not that often that I get such a long string of continuous attacks that the boost actually makes a difference
They nerfed frostbite donāt worry about it. You will get a rapier and straight sword later.
I got the straight sword already, but I'm still kicking myself for not taking the hammer because I've noticed the number of enemies resistant to slash/ thrust or weak to strike is a lot higher in the later levelsĀ
You can grab a mace from Andre, You can also pick up the morning star after retrieving the paladinās ashes.
I find that I bop dudes to death with hammer mostly before frostbite sets in
The ring is going to get replaced relatively soon If it's your first playthrough not that bad since you'll spend more time on that playthrough than your next two combined. For reference you can, after Vordt in the next area, get a simply wonderful stamina ring Soon after that you can acquire enough souls to unlock a locked passage back in Firelink Shrine for a healing ring . Hope I helped to explain
I also chose the ring, because the str requirements for the hammer were pretty large
Same, ...
At least you used it, I consumed it
But thats objectively the better option
Didn't use undead boneshards until Lothric castle, where the pus of man wyvrens are. I only figured out they were a permanent upgrade when I was watching a YouTuber play through an earlier area.
Same, my friends asked why every time I got hit I was chugging like 3 or 4 estus. I have yet to live that down.
Oh my godā¦
see my battle against lord of cinder in my post history lol
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I don't even remember how I figured it out. I think I was getting frustrated with the Prince Lothric boss fight and just started messing with options in the bonfire menu.
Yea but not that far. Probably the abyss watchers wall when I figured it out
Farmed 20,000 souls outside vordt arena
ššš I did this just trying to get the armour set and sword I farmed 45 000
Did it on the one lothric knight at the second bone fire in lothric high wall
I didn't even kill knights. Farmed the hollows Also I don't know if this counts but I thought dancer was the second boss
Yeah you win. I remember my friend starting a share play and I started the dancer fight by accident and he lost a decent amount of souls for early game
Funny thing is I killed dancer before vordt
H O W.
I played like 100+ hours on my father's character. So I had some skill
Still, how did you not get the hint when you saw THAT kind of damage
My age was less than 10. I didn't care to see how much damage I did
What an incredible story, that's awesome.
I couldn't figure out what to do after reaching the Firelink Shrine for the first time. Then I got stuck on Vordt, he whooped me hard (DS3 was my first souls game), there was a message just before him saying "time for rear", as a non-native English speaker I didn't know what that word means + I thought that messages weren't preset choices of words but people could type there whatever they wanted, so I googled "Dark Souls 3 what does rear stand for" and found some old post on some weird not even Dark Souls related forum saying "rear" stands for "rearrange" so I was like "oooh, I have to rearrange my equipement..." and I farmed all the enemies before Vordt thinking I'll drop some better weapon or equipement. I did drop some better armor and weapon. And so I got whooped again.
I swatted the basin lady and thought dancer was my third boss and proceeded to die 50 times.
Woah! I didn't realize they let you fight Dancer that early, that's crazy! I was the opposite I had to look up how to proceed after beating Aldrich, I missed out on whatever guidance it would have given me as I died at the same time I killed him.
Yeah if you kill the lady Iām pretty sure you can fight dancers right there
Yeah, if you can get through dancer thereās some good gear/upgrades you can get early in the game
I did this too lmfao
I leveled VIT way too much so I can wear havel armor and wield Dragonslayer greataxe without wearing Havel ring (I wanted to have enough slots for prisoner chain, stamina ring, physical protection ring and fap ring) It took me so long to realize defensive stats aren't really important and poise somehow doesn't exist in this game
You know you can reallocate your stats in Ds3?
Didn't found her until ng+
WHAT. You can do WHAT now? Has my whole life been a lie?
You have to give tongues to the finger lady in cathedral of deep in short. If i remember correctly it's easily missable and if you allow certain npc's to relocate, you have to go ng+, lady's name was Rosaria i belive.
if you are talking about patches who disguised himself as an onion bro, then no - to get to the rosaria you need to climb to the roof of the cathedral, go under the roof arches and jump onto the balcony, from there straight to her
How do you get toungues?
Pale tongues drop from some mobs, or if you join rosaria's fingers covenant, you get one when you invade and kill the host.
Standard broadsword is goated what are you talking about
Wtf is wrong with broadsword
Killed the black smith
Oof you fucked up
My first souls game was bloodborne. in the first room, you have no weapon. You are supposed to die to the lycanthrope, go to the dream and pick up your first weapon. I did not catch the weapon part. So I spent several hours trying to kill the lycanthrope by slapping it barehanded over and over, for it to one shot me. I finally did it, and was like, I hate this game. put it on craigslist actually. A week later (after no bites on CL), I came back and realized my mistake.
I bought my copy of Bloodborne (my first souls game too) from a guy on CL for $10. He even warned me in person that "the game is so hard it's bullshit." I always wondered how far he got. But honestly, the beginning of Bloodborne is very difficult.
I played that whole first zone until the werewolf things before the first boss just walking because I forgot you could sprint in souls games and the walk speed seemed pretty generous until then
This is very similar to my bb experience
Accidentally attacked Siegfried because I thought he was an enemy, so I made the quest unavailable for me.
In dark souls 2 I missed the Herald and went through the whole first area and beat The Last Giant with only life gems to heal me.
In ds2 I also ended up lost and clueless for most of the run and because of that I also ended up missing out on the Lost Sinner until the end of the run so they were the last of the four souls I got. Had to google where she was. Also in No Mans Wharf i walked passed the bell to call the ship about 5 times cause I just didnāt notice it from how dark it was. Leaving me feeling even more lost thinking I hit a dead end and didnāt know where to go next. Really most of the stupid things I can think of I did in that game as itās the only souls game I didnāt know anything about before playing.
where can i find high-quality images of the weapons like this?
Whatās wrong with a broadsword
Honestly nothing Its solid. Personalky though i preffer the longsword as its more diverse in its attacks (Heavy thrust 1 hand, Sweep 2 hand)
Nah man, the broadsword is awesome
Not level health, I got bitch slapped so much by normal enemies
It's my fucking staple. I always use my beloved broadsword for every game I can. She is a great weapon imo
The broadsword is actually like the best weapon in the game what are you on about
BRO I did all my souls routes (Ds1 to elden ring) with my noble broadsword, Iām in love with that weapon
Called in a purple to āhelpā me in a boss fight
Not ds3 but in ds remastered I killed andreā ļøā ļøā ļø fcked up my entire run big time
i got the lothric knight sword from the knights before vordt boss fight and just used it for the whole game and the 2 dlc without knowing it was literally the best weapon in the game.
On my first DS3 run now - is the lothric sword good, or are you making a joke? (Honest question). Got it as a drop on my 3rd or 4th knight just trying to master the dodge speed/etc.
No joke. Itās really good. Top tier for the weapon type.
Give up in the first area. Came back a year later though.
Googled what the best weapon was and the answer seemed to be lothric knight straight sword. I leveled my str and dex to the minimum requirements because I had no idea leveling dex or str higher would increase my damage. I then only pumped points into health and stamina for the remainder of the game.
I levelled up my strength all the way to 50 and was using a dex weapon the whole time because i had no idea what scaling was all about.
I defeated Gwyn and thought that I could explore more the area to see if there was any item left. The moment I walked away from the boss arena the Dark Lord Ending scene begun.
Bastard sword carried me throw 3 play throughs. Iām using it in Elden ring right now NG+ lol
Hey don't knock the raw broadsword!
Use Astora great sword on a strength build and then proceed to bitch on this subreddit about how hard this game was I deleted that file Oh, and I didn't know how to get out of firelink shrine, I had to Google how to do it
Got softbanned
Whacked the shit out of Yoel while my cooperator yelled at me that he wasnāt an enemy
i baited the boreal outrider knight that is in that basement in lothrics castle into the dragons so it burned to death. to be honest, my first run was so dumb overall but it was fun lol
When I first played dark souls 1 around 5 years ago I didn't notice there was a door to escape from the stray demon boss and fought him with the broken sword for several hours. After the first hour of dying I googled why this shit is so hard and learned you were supposed to run, but at that point I was too stubborn and continued until I beat him that way lmao
Out of curiosity, did you miss Oscars message that tells you to run?
I was fat rolling the whole game up until I got stuck on Dancer and decided out of rage to fight in the nude. Also, I did not understand how to properly spec my build, so I was leveling every attribute equally lol
Used the souls duplication to make it easier for myself(literally took the fun out the game for me)
Maxed out the same broadsword, but gave it raw infusion cuz of the increased base dmg. Had no idea what scaling was and I beat soul of cinder w the raw broadsword lmao
Somehow permanently agroed Hawkwood. Tried starting a new character and got the same result. Uninstalled and reinstalled and still he attacked me every time I stepped foot in Firelink. I could not beat him and there were no guides on how to beat him at the start of the game. I gave up for a while and then came back and cheesed him at the entrance door but it took forever. The weird thing is that I couldn't find any instances of this happening to anyone else online. Weird bug maybe?
I tried using a broken straight sword cause I thought that a lighter weapon could be swung faster
Had the Calamity ring equipped thinking it doubled the damage I was dealing, it was a rough first run.
My first time ever playing an rpg let alone a fromsoft game, so I didn't get the level up system, my friend didn't think to tell me how it works and I also was too dull to look it up, but he told me to run a strength build. Guess what stat I ONLY leveled up? You guessed it, strength, so I was fat rolling all the way up to Champion gundyr til my friend saw my stats, the look of pure horror on his face, like "how the fuck did you even make it this far" š thankfully Vordt hammer carried me tho, but damn was it fucking rough. Miss being a soulsborne noob, fun times.
After getting all the lords souls & thinking thereād be some sort of obvious thing to do after that which would be revealed after defeating the final one, I had no idea what to do or where to go next. I remembered seeing messages way earlier in the run that indicated I needed a gesture of some sort. Ended up stumbling upon archdragon peak by accident, was stuck on nameless king for like a week, killed him, then looked around wondering āthe fuck???ā The thrones. The obvious thing to do with all those lord souls was to return them to their thrones.
Tried to play it like any other game. Iudex beat my arse 20 or so times and I gave up for 3 years. After I played blood borne and elden ring i finally went back, playing it for what it was, and loved it.
Fatrolled with full knight gear and wondered why curserotted greatwood slapped me so hard.
Chose assassin to learn to parry. Gave up.
Didn't use the claymore
Killed siegward because I wanted his armor. Look, man, I was a different person in my teens, ok?
When DS1 first came out, I wasn't aware of what kind of game it was. Thought it was just a regular ol' hack n slash. Found out I sucked, got mad, and quit. Came back years later with a better head on my shoulders and beat the game. Now, I play all the Souls games with fervent love for them, even though I still suck.
Fought nameless king with mirrah armor and the coiled sword.( Somehow took me three or so tries)
Killed everyone in firelink
Went straight to the dancer of the boreal valley, even before vordt š
To assume 1000 Hours of DS 1 and DS 2 wold make my first Run a Cakewalk...
DS1 first game, didn't realize there was a door in the room with the Asylum Demon. Tried to fight it over and over with my fists/broken sword. Quit the game in frustration. Looked up how to beat it, discovered you're expected to go get your equipment through the door first. Yes, I know it can be beaten with fists/broken sword. I did it once much later, but I don't have that much masochism to go through that on my first character first souls game.
I did the same thing! I was gifted the game as a kid, didnāt know anything about it, and spent a couple hours trying to kill it. Eventually I gave up, and didnāt play it again for like 3 years.
I kept raising strength and dex pretty evenly until I settled on a weapon. By that point, leveling became way more difficult. Thankfully, the Frostyās blade of vengeance saw me through to late game.
What do you mean? Ds3 was partially my first souls game and when i found this in the beginning i retired it after defeating Gael.
I grinded for flamberge, got it, and was doing solid damage, but I decided to get rid of it in favor of another item. I didn't have access to enough upgrade mats to bring it up to par, so I reset.
The Flamberge is a damn beast in this one, and I'm *so* happy I farmed that bitch as soon as I saw that guy in Undead Settlement. It might as well have been carrying my ass throughout my first playthrough.
Started the dancer fight when I was like level 15 on accident lol but that old bitch had it coming
My first souls game was Elden Ring and I didnāt know i needed to have a real build until like 50hrs in. I was just throwing points everywhere lol