Prepare to rage if you walk straight down the path under the arch from the dilapidated bridge bonfire.

Man, I would be really pissed if I didn't get lucky on that run. There were a couple times I almost bit it and lost a gang of souls.

Yeah I found that bonfire now going both left and right. I'm sure I missed a few things but it's sort of nice to know left is mostly done.

Lol this guy sucks

My attacks don't stagger him at all

My night is now complete after I had a female npc ask me to touch her lol. Beat the boss in the indeed settlement and found the sort of hidden bonfire. I found a decent amount of items and opened up the next area so thinking that is my next stop tomorrow.

Maybe I just got lucky, but I only died once on this fight. It was right at the end of the first phase, when one more poke would have been enough for me to survive and heal up.

Also, after grabbing a few more free levels from the dark dude, my hollowing went all the way up to 68ish and I still didn't notice any ill effects other than my guy's face looking a little janky.

I was worried for a bit tonight, because the cost to fully reverse it shot up to 40k souls. I managed to save up 20k trudging around the swamp but ended up losing them to the basilisks who seem much more powerful in this game. Getting cursed to death is one of the more annoying ways of dying still. Eventually I bought a purging stone so it reset, but I've still got the dark sigils or whatever on my account.

I'm sure they're coming at some point soon, but the lack of large titanite shards in this game is holding me back from being able to get more than one weapon up to speed. I've collected a grand total of two in my 15 hours of play, and I'm even sitting on a handful of chunks from the birds nest.

Two? Wow, it sounds like you've farther than me (idk what the AW boss is) and I got about 15.

I have a similar # of hours to you so maybe I've just spent more time exploring.

Finished Cathedral of the Deep tonight. Pretty sure the only place left for me to go is Farron Keep. I have to assume the lack of upgrade and flask materials to this point means there's a whole lot of game left. Rolling with Halberd +3 currently and thinking about going claymore.

Like someone else mentioned, I get the "unable to summon phantom" message WAY too often. It's the most tilting part of the game imo

Played 2 hours last night. Game is so so good.

Prob 22-ish deaths so far.

Are you getting them from monster drops then?

I've found plenty of regular shards, just can't get my hands on enough large ones. It doesn't help that upgrades cost 2/4/6 as opposed to the significantly cheaper costs in the earlier games

Goofy had to have meant just regular shards in that post and misread imo. I haven't found a single large shard and I'm pretty sure I'm slightly past where he is.

In regards to large titanite shard farming....You're welcome!

I'll get to play a little today but I'm out of town most of this weekend so will be out of the game a few days.

I've downed a total of 8 bosses, along with several minibosses (no HP bar, no foggate, etc. but they don't respawn), 26 hours of playtime, ~65 deaths.

I have no way of knowing for sure but it "feels" like I'm at about the half way point, at least in the required progression, probably way less than half "done" when you consider all the side stuff.

I also got a confirmation on the NG+ question I asked earlier.

In regards to the area in the locked tower behind Firelink...

Yeah I'm an idiot zdye, missed the word 'large', sorry.

Heater, it's 'spoil', not 'spoiler'.

On a scale of 1-10, how good is the item on that ledge?

I tried getting it twice, not sure I feel like wasting more time on it tonight though

IIRC, it's both.

For some strange reason, desktop web browsers and the mobile apps use different spoiler tags. So ideal is to nest both, therefore no-one is spoiled accidentally. such as.

[spoil][spoiler] text goes here [/spoiler][/spoil]

LOL, seriously? That's amazing.

I don't remember how good it is, but the type of item is

Huh. Makes sense. I realized after goofy's post that I typed it out on my desktop for some stupid reason. I've probably just been on my phone too much lately.