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just wanted to say I was sitting on 1.4 million souls last night. Got 850k on a single target. I was level 94 at the time and I am now 110 with a shit load of souls on hand.

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I have 61 so that I can equip medium armor and a greatsword. It's my highest stat by far.

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I don't really see a reason to start a newgame+ with any characters. I'm not sure why, but I just don't see what I have to gain by doing that. I mean, especially how much I manage my soul level in Dark Souls in a way I never did in Demon's. Intentionally not leveling up so that I can stay the average community level to participate in multiplayer. I dunno, maybe one day I'll see a reason.

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I mean, to that end I would just make a better character and do that shit in a single playthrough.

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I'm not arguing that no one should new game+. Yeah, I hadn't considered the things you're mentioning Remote... but I guess if I wanted one instead of the other I would just do it on a new character. Same with discovering new places. And you sure can equip all of Smough's equipment on your first game! I did! Without his weapon I can cartwheel!

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Hey I just came up with an idea. A Dark Souls theme restaurant called Undead Burg... but this time "burg" is short for for "burger".

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My post kill taunt is to attempt to use an unusable item repeatedly. It's the best emote in the game. In coop I managed a humanity stealing grapple on a pyromancer and my buddy stood beside us doing this taunt. Joy is the worst taunt because it ends in a little embarrassing shuffle back into normal stance. Also, a guy I cooped with last night made his character look like the joker. That is all.

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Focus you are bad man.

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accidentally threw away 20 humanity last night that I'd been holding onto for the entire game. (my new character that I've almost cleared Anor Londo with.) Sort of.. depressing.

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Seems like at low levels PvPers just abuse combustion. Neat.

I'm really ready for the patch to come out. I've made a divine pike+5 that I'm looking to take occult+5. I want to make sure I get the scaling upgrade from the patch though... and I'm not sure if I need to wait until the patch is out to make it or if it will just change with it :S Probably the latter but I want to be safe. I really like the pike - it's like the best chasedown weapon. It's running attack is a long as fuck spear-out 2x speed sprint jab mowdown thing.

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Maybe he used the separation crystal because you guys killed the wrong dude first. I did that once, and made sure in the future to tell my team mates which one I was going for. I tried to coop with some people on Ornstein and Smough but it took so long for me to get summoned and the host got wrecked by smough immediately both times I actually got to play.

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Man I'm having so much trouble planning out this character's sequence and build. I want him to be PeRfEct!

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Man - I had an awful night with this game. I found myself on the wrong side of PvP constantly. Getting lag backstabbed and similar bs. Constantly matched up with people twice my level. This character build in general is starting to worry me - I have to put stats in too many areas it feels like and I accidentally skipped darkwraith covenant this time when I really wanted that armor since it's good and can be upgraded with twinkling. Also, kind of wanted the darksword. The way I skipped it isn't even by giving the lordvessel to frampt or anything... it's by accidentally skipping through dialogue too fast and sending him away forever. Ugh.

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I'm in ornstein's currently, which is working fine. I wish Dark Cleric's gear wasn't garbage.

I think I'm just going to put in the effort to get wrath of god before returning to level the darkmoon blades covenant so I can have something to abuse instead of just throwing myself against a wall of high leveled duos who are abusing plenty of shit of their own.

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Most games that I finish while thinking "I've missed so much stuff I really need to go back through and.." I maybe start and put an hour or two in and then put them away forever. Not Dark Souls.........

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But the shortcut wasn't open :(

edit: oh. Whoops.

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Yeah I think I'm going to take a break and play metal gear until the patch comes out.

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no the most secret trick in the entire game is the one where you make solaire your boyfriend.

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Well I prefer to have the flip switched that allows for the main bridge by the second bonfire to not be spikes. Seems pretty convenient.

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Yeah I'm seriously fucking pumped about this. The game will be a brand new game and in the best way. Like, I had a lot of fun with broken dark souls and now I get to have fun with a fixed dark souls. I'm mostly excited to be able to use scaling weapons.

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Uhh I guess I didn't notice that, but if that's all they did then it doesn't sound like scaling weapons are fixed at all. Which was the main thing I was excited about.

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Haha sorry, I was actually sort of joking. A friend of mine gets really mad about combustion. I for one never saw it as being any worse than all the other OP shit in the game and unlike crystal ring shield or homing soul mass it pretty much never one shot killed me. Additionally, it's the only really useful pyromancy skill that I can think of for PVP.

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Started a new dude yesterday and, yeah, I was getting invaded in Undead Burg by people who were at least way way over equipped and likely over levelled. A guy comes in cartwheeling in havel's with a lightning katana and the pinwheel boss helmet, I backstab him 3 or 4 times and get some slashes on him and it nowhere close to kills him and then he kills me in a single swing followed by taunting my corpse. Completely pathetic. But anyways I leveled my dude to 40, used the black cleric gear except the body was switched out for the black sorceress or whatever gear. (My character was a female.) Fully levelled that shit up, got my bandit knife to +5 lightning, then my friend and I took all comers in the forest. Made for a pretty fun night. I was doing kinda shitty though considering my only real option was to backstab and I wasn't doing very good at that. I mean, I was only using dark hand as a shield so there was nothing stopping them from just mashing R1 if we got into a backstab standoff. A lot of the time I would get my friend to bow at the approaching opponent, they would bow back and while they were in the animation I would start tossing poison knives or dung pies at them. Honor is a coward's tool.

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Trying to build a level 40-50 pike man. It's not working out considering how serious the investment in stats is for the pike. Additionally, a lot of endurance is necessary to make use of the feature I really liked in the pike. So there's not really any room for vitality. I dunno we'll see how it turns out.

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I'm kind of extremely annoyed by these cool guys invading undead burg with insane gear and greater combustion who taunt after they gracelessly absorb your backstabs and blows only to one shot you with whatever OP shit they have on their dude. Seriously, it's just pathetic. I'm totally fine with being wrecked by invaders and shit at any point of the game - but intentionally making some super-dude to raid brand new characters in the burg with is just fucking pathetic. It can't be fun.

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The dragon is optional, the "lady" is a statue that doesn't attack, and if you really want to you can avoid the slimes. However, you have to go into a dark pit filled with bonewheel assholes.

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On moveset quality rather than damage output: of you want a katana, the lightning pole (sold by Shiva in Blighttown after you join the forst covenant then you can buy it using souls and wield it to cut shit) is a really nice weapon. Disregard the description that says it breaks easily, you could easily run a level five times before needing repairs. The long range + the running attack blindsides many invaders.
The claymore is also pretty good. Much faster to swing than the name implies, horizontal and vertical options.
Make your first upgrade lightning. You'll have enough resources to make a weapon that scales with your main stat later.

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Oh, right there's that. Which is why you have to manage 4 kings before the others if you want darkbro.

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I really just dislike Duke's Archives. I don't know why but I hate it. I think it's mostly atmospheric. Lost Izalith is obviously awful, and the boss is just stupid as fuck IMH2GO - but I dunno it doesn't bother me much any more. Duke's really FEELS like bonus content.

But as you say - I really don't even do them all any more. I do what I have to in order to make the character I want. I'm not interested in beating the game I'm interested in PVP (at this point). However it occurs to me I never actually DID finish Gwyn sooo maybe I should make it a point to do that.

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Is there no better upgradable heavy armor or do you just really like Ornstein's? I mean, as a rule of thumb, armor that can upgrade seems better. And now that twinkling can be bought that's more realistic for some of the good sets.

I'm not trying to criticize you or anything. I mean, for me gold hemmed became an irrelevant set as soon as I learned the value of upgradable armor.