Anyone have a lightning, crystal, or raw weapon maxed to drop to me? I screwed up the siegmeyer story and I'm on my second playthrough about to go to third >.>

My Sorceror is for exclusive PVP use, that's why i'm trying to finish the platinum with my current character. It's just that I don't want to have to farm the harpies for Souvenirs of Reprisal, but i can't invade anyone with Darkmoon.

The current PVP limit is 145 (as it's being discussed over at gamefaqs and wikispaces) so 155 will be too far. My PSN is Lestatarthas btw.

@Chrizum - The scalability is dependant on the weapon, not just the D,C,B etc stat. Weapons with more physical attack will have more scalability. My BK Axe has a scalability of B for strength and sometimes it gets 2 extra points for a point of strength and sometimes gets 3.

Btw, the firekeeper lady was killed. How do I avenge her?

You got an item called Black Eye Orb correct? Well, when you reach a certain point in the game, much further on, you'll get a message that the Black Eye Orb is ressonating. You'll have to use it in that place and you'll invade Lautrec's world. Be careful, it's advisable to clear all enemies in that area before you invade, or you'll have a 6 on 1 fight in your hands (Lautrec has two cronies with him).

Ah ok thanks

How can I get more humanity? I've currently got 16 but I could do with 30 so I can retrieve the darksword and dark armor from the darkwraithe covenant.

On the Tomb of Giants, right before the battle with Nito, there's a couple of Pinwheel enemies and some water down in that area. When you go into the water, some undead babies like enemies keep spawning forever as long as you're on the water or close to it. They drop humanity, and since you're fighting huge numbers, humanity drops pretty fast. 

The other place, if you don't have access to the Tomb, is farming them off the rats on The Depths (or any other place with rats, it's only that in The Depths there are much more rats than in any other place).

Just ordered this off amazon a couple days ago, should be getting it soon. I'm pretty psyched to check this game out, I've been craving a solid dungeon crawler for awhile, especially one that actually takes some skill to play.

Ugh, stats and scaling are so broken in this game. It really ruins the experience of developing your character into higher levels.

777 damage on a +5 lightning Greataxe? About 720 on a +5 Zweihander? This is pretty stupid. I picked bandit cause it focuses on strength, yet after a certain level there's really no point into further specing when it's better to just lightning everything. I jacked up my vitality to 40 cause I really had no idea what else to spend it on.

Being able to lightning-mod dex weapons on a strength guy and use them just as effectively as a dex char just isn't right. Magic and Miracle based chars get the option to do A ratings on weapons but strength/dex chars don't?

I know the 1.04 patch mentions "balancing" it out but to be honest, I don't have faith in From to be able to fix things like this.

Scaling in this game is more inconsistent than ever. There's imbalances all over the place. E and D ratings are the worst, giving you negligible amounts of extra damage. Avoid having these as long-term weapons. C rating on it's own is also pretty bad, while dual C's are ok at best.

A, B, and the rare S (much more common in Demon's Souls) are good weapons, but the huge problem is that lightning will still outdamage even these unless you invest an unreasonable amount of points in them.

As for the imbalances with ratings, one of the most obvious I noticed:  Black Knight greataxe and Black Knight greatsword both have B's in strength, yet the greataxe ends up outdamaging it by a decent amount. It's kinda awkward considering that the greatsword swings as slow as a Zwei and is a stamina hog. Makes it completely obsolete.

I agree, they need to tone down the Lightning damage as everyone's taking advantage of it on PVP. Couple that with the lack of a decent Lightning absorption shield and it's pretty much a game of who attacks first on PVP. It's even worse when it's a Lightning Shotel +5, as Shotel's go through shields and attack bloody fast. And don't get me started on Lightning Avelyn's with Lightning Bolts...

There's also a lot of re-balances they need to do, especially on the PVP portion. Tranquil Walk of Peace shouldn't be an aura but an instant cast AOE, if the enemy isn't within the AOE you miss the cast. It's almost impossible to defeat a Tranquil Walk of Peace + Ring of Fog phantom/player online as you can't turn fast enough to avoid a backstab (couple that with the near-invisibility and that the aura of TWOP makes it even harder to see the user).

The scalability is all over the place, I totally agree, although your point with the BK's Greataxe and BK's Greatsword isn't a good one, since their base Scalability is the same (B for Strength and E for Dexterity) and the Greataxe has a higher base attack at +5 (319) than the Greatsword (307). I've been trying to figure scalability out, but it doesn't seem to follow any fixed formula just like in Demon's Souls. My BK GreatAxe sometimes gains 2 points for each strenght, sometimes gains 3 and sometimes gains none. Also, as far as I know, there's no S scalability for Strength, in contrast with a S for Dex (Black Bow of Pharis) and a S for Intelligence (Tin Crystalization Catalyst).

Also, I hope 1.04 address some of the worst glitches, like infinite souls and magic glitching (you can permanently buff a non-buff weapon such as Quelaag's Furysword or BK's weaponry with magic weapon spells, that's how the number 1 guilty player has a Quelaag's with 880 attack power).