After killing the Taurus Demon, you'll encounter a bridge with a drake guarding it. Avoid the drake's fire breath and hug the right side of the bridge, go down the stairs and there'll be a couple of doorways that you can go through, one of them leads to the rats that you encountered and the other leads to the ladder that you can kick down to activate the shortcut.
There is good loot there, but, unless you sequence broke for a weapon that can actually kill the skeletons, you're better off just making a mad dash for it. It helps if you already know where it is, obviously.
Nah, just sharing a tidbit.
There are two ways to get rid of the drake. Shooting the tail only will make it leave until the next time you rest at a bonfire. Doing so rewards you with a sword, the Drake Sword, that's really good at that point in the game but is rightfully derided by veterans as a crutch for newbies.
...I realize the game takes skill, my ignoble deaths to some the undead in the Burg highlighting that pretty well, but making fun of people for realizing how to get a decent weapon is kinda unfair.
It's more "if you rely on this weapon too much, you'll reach the point in midgame where it falls off and suddenly the game will be really hard again, so keep a backup weapon handy that actually scales with your stats."
As someone who almost fell into that trap my first time through Dark Souls, I can confidently say it's a crutch. The weapon is basically worthless after early game because it costs a rare resource to upgrade that is better spent on pretty much anything else. It's lack of scaling means even if you do spend the resources to upgrade it, it's outclassed by pretty much everything else at a similar level. By all means, use it, but don't make the mistake of thinking it's something worth keeping around long term. The damage drops off a steep cliff.
The soft cap on stats is 50, any points into a stat after that is worth about half what it was before. Level 50 is kind of late to be deciding what build to go for but you've already invested in a Strength build at this point. You should just aim for that soft cap for strength and keep buffing your health and endurance. Assuming you have the DLC, my favorite strength weapon is the Whirligig Saw, it's just a big pizza cutter chainsaw. Barring that, the Logarius Wheel is a close second.
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Velk Even better, hang on to the consumable soul items. They're worth more this way and it just so happens to be easier to use 20 storied soldier souls that way.
That's rough buddy
And the goons?
Take them out one at a time: goons in the upper area, then the boar, then the goons in the lower area.
Nice stuff, but good fucking god the bundle layout page has gone down the shitter.
a lot of these I'm not super into, but I'm kind of curious about the game maker studio item. could be neat to try and make my own game.
