The Official Dark Souls Thread - .....It Begins

[lestatdark]

StokedUp said:

lestatdark said:

The two hydras are down and out. Screw the people over at gamefaqs forums saying that the Ash Lake hydra is the same as the Darkroot Basin one. The Ash lake one hits much, much harder than the Basin one >_>

Edit - The Dragon Greatsword really lives up to it's name...though I still need an extra 10 Str to wield it (50 Str needed >_>). For 360 attack (non scaleable, but I've yet to see how much forging increases it's Attack).

dude! when you say hydras do you mean that thing sitting in the lake that fires ice at you in the Darkroot basin? If so how did you kill that? everytime i get in view of it it starts spitting ice balls at me, the only upside to this is it kills the ice golems aswell

Yeah, it's not that hard to get close to it. If you follow the right side of the path to it, there are a bunch of rocks and some trees you can hide which will block the water spouts that the Hydra fires. Once you're in melee range (the Hydra's melee range, not yours), it will start slamming the heads in your direction. Just put your shield up (make sure it has 100% Damage reduction) and start cutting off those heads. 

The Ash Lake one is even harder, since there's no rocks nor trees to hide from the water spouts and even blocking the heads will do you tons of damage. You'll have to stay mobile and going in and out of melee/water spout range to avoid damage. 

@else - I'm now sporting a Dragon Head of my own after joining the Path of the Dragon covenant. The way the Dragon Eye works really blows though. You have to be summoned by the invaded party >_>. Might just drop the covenant and wait till I reach Darkmoon.