| areason said: Yeah you have tanks, mages and then the sad all dext build that i went for. Rolling costs too much stamina to keep on spamming very annoying especially against bosses. That makes the benefit of having a light fast weapon useless when you can get only one stike off. I'm level 76 and still at the iron keep, wow you passed me by a lot. |
Chloranty ring helps, I lose my stamina way to fast as well rolling around, plus eg lightning spear uses a third of my stamina bar. At least the one strike I can get off with spells is usually a decent hit thanks to all the upgrades.
I got a lot of souls farming for large titanite and titanite chunks. After clearing Black gulch of all enemies a second time with Bonfire easthetic, and doing co-op there (left my sign down while killing the hands) I had over 350k souls to spend. That goes fast. I also cleared out Harvest valley and Earthen keep for materials. Same again in Iron keep. Covetous silver and gold serpent rings speed things up to, plus I found Gavan again, had lots of stuff to sell.
I still haven't found pillars of flame area effect pyromancy (not the actual name), although I see people using it in co-op. I would have been useful against the boss in Doors of Pharros. What a crappy zone btw, annoying toxic + poison attack, too many lock stone places and annoying forced pvp. I stayed online for the messages to see what lock stone mechanisms are useful, and thus got summoned. Run up to closest enemy and get killed to go back. I never got invaded there (apart from an AI invader) so is it other players that summon me? Annoying.
The boss was impossible. 5 or 6 fast moving toxic+poison rats that rush at you, and a huge rat boss that jumps all over the place spazzing out the camera and leaves you guessing what you're looking at. Plus he hits for 2/3 my health bar in a pretty unavoidable path. Not really any time to heal, or hit with all of them coming at once. If it wasn't the boss that killed me in 5 seconds, it was the toxic+poison.
I got creative, used a spell effect lengthening ring and laid down a path of lingering flames (static fire orbs that explode on contact). Then pulled the first rat with a fire orb, turn around run through my traps with all the rats trailing. That gets rid of all but one, and does some decent damage on the boss too. Then roll like crazy and try to stay between the boss's legs, wait until he pauses for a second and either heal or throw another fire orb, get rid of that last rat. After that it gets manageable. Beware in the end he starts urinating a huge pool of acid. I got him on the 12th attempt but died in the acid with half my gear broken, didn't count. After repairs and a human effigy to get some more health, another quick failure was followed by sweet victory. Take that spazzy camera.
The reward, a chance to enter the rat covenant, no thanks! I did get a nice spell by trading its soul with Straid in the Bastille.
Next is Tseldora, damn rock trap got me. Can't wait to play more.
