35 hours in now



new area called AL


new area called ID


boss in AL and boss in ID seem to be my only way to advance
My dark sword +7 will carry me to victory

I have some questions...

I have a bunch of gems, but I can only infuse raw and fire (maybe a 3rd too) at Andre. WTF? Notably the heavy gem, and I'm a str character.

I assumed the key that woman at firelink sells was for the door behind the katana guy. I decided to go try to kill him while farming for the 20k, but then the door said it doesn't open from this side and not "locked". So I'm wrong about that assumption, right?

And possibly something minorly spoilery, but probably not...

Also, found the large club!!! My favorite weapon in each DS game so far lol.

Here I come again with my 2h big club rolly character again

You have to find specific coals and give them to Andre before you can use certain gems.

The door to the tower is on the other side of Firelink. Go out the upper exit and turn left.

The elevator has two platforms.

I completely missed the cathedral of the deep and SW. Couldn't progress to ithrgduh of bordgjh valley. Oops!

Thanks lol.

Sort of wish I spent a bit more time because that seems figureoutable. But at the same time, I think I would just keep taking the 1 platform up/down and assume I needed to go elsewhere to make a change happen and never figure it out.

Level 60 and still the struggle with Irithyll of the Boreal Valley is real

I know my armor isn't very strong but damn that beginning area is pretty rough lol.

I need one more pale tongue to have the 5 needed to re distribute my points. I'm not sure if when you do this it makes you have a minimum # on each stat like 1 or more but still it will be nice to shift the faith/luck stats out to other stats I utilize more. I'm just struggling to get that 5th pale tongue even when going to the best farm spot sigh.

Weapon wise I want to say I have a raw brigade ax +7, heavy dark sword +6 (pumped to get this to 10 since it scales A with str), and then I just infused a black katana with fire +3 I want to say....haven't tested it out yet.

Before I re allocate I need to look at the armor closer. I've got probably 12-15 sets and not sure which I want to use that isn't too heavy but is solid. They all seem fairly close like Bloodborne was.

FML from what I just read it looks like I won't be buying any more offensive spells so I should probably not pursue an INT build unless Heavy Soul becomes OP later on sigh. Both NPCs are gone for good from the sounds of it.

Yeah, the first knight at the high wall is a real bastard

Is he going to do his 2, 3, 4, or 5 hit combo? Guess wrong and you're probably dead

Just got to Irithyll of the Boreal Valley.

SPOILER: HOLY **** THIS IS HARD WTF.

Loving this as much as DS1 tbh. Not sure what some of the negative reviews were about at all. Haven't had any frame rate issues thus far on ps4.

I feel you bud that's exactly where I am at. This is the first time in the game I have felt I need to "git gud" and actually live by those words not just say them.

Got to a bonfire deeper inside so hoping it eases out a bit from here.

Ithffgyl of the Botdufsal valley boss PS is a real jerk.

So you guys are saying that me messing around and farming the areas before Irithyll of the Boreal Valley is actually a genius strategy and I'm not just wasting my time?

its probally much easier to farm in the valley, lots of high soul guys there

I find farming in general much slower than other DS game, it's not till the last few areas of the game you start getting those juicy easy to kill enemies that drop like 3-5K each.

Just got to THAT (AL) boss fight



This dude is destroying me. Think I've got him to 1/3rd health once so far in about 8 tries.

I think your weapon upgrade level is a bit low for him.
Fight advice tho: Stay close and aim for his pooptail, not much of his melee **** can hit you if you dodge and all his magic you can roll thru, the only rough bit is the arrow attack although the p1 is easier, the p2 version felt like it hit harder to me anyway.

The AL fight...

Really? I thought those guys were really fun and i rarely got hit after the first encounter.

Was level 55ish and just sailed through that area until the boss. I really liked it too. Beautiful.

Yeah for real. But what a great fight.

Irithyll forced me to switch up my playstyle, from <30 equip load all-rolling to >30 playing tanky-ish with a shield.

Agreed, the PS fight is amazing. Woke up this morning and wrecked his face. Followed a message and got the reversal ring but I have no idea what it does. The pyro guy says he wishes he was a woman so he can teach me some spells but there's no way I see to give it to him.

Thanks for the vote of confidence lol. I just need to switch up my playing style. I didn't get to play last night but I am sure I will hit some good sessions this weekend. I was going to look at re allocating points but I think it resets you back to your class starting stats not putting them all at like 1 so there isn't as much of a rush to do it.

Irithyll Valley has been the toughest part of the game for me, no matter my build. **** those Pontiff Knights.