The reason I agree with the list is it greatly corresponds to my own personal experience, if you ranked them in termso f death. If you lined up my death count vs. boss it would match that list extremely well.

I one shotted Vordt and two shotted the Tree, so I guess I can't relate to anyone who struggld with them.

Likewise PS pwned me hard for about 10-15 tries or something like that, so I can't relate to anyone who downed him with ease.

I one-shotted #12 and #14 but every boss I've faced above them killed me a few times.

Found him to be super easy. First time I died quick because I had no clue. Second time I died because I didn't see the that arcane blast looking move and got owned by it. Third time I embered up and destroyed him. Just stick close after dodging the arrow rain and he can't hit you at all basically. Just went HAM on his tail.

It really shouldn't be breaking. Make sure to sit at the bonfire after you die so the weapon durability gets recharged.

I'm not sure what you mean by not being able to upgrade anymore. Raw weapons upgrade like any other weapon.

Raw is awesome for a first play through if people find a weapon they like early. It isn't split damage like elemental infusions and you can still buff your weapon with resins or spells. You need to put quite a lot of points into str or dex to get the weapon scaling to match the damage that raw can do. All the points you save on str or dex can be put into vigor and endurance if you are melee or whatever if you are doing another build.

He better be. I've been tracking this guy all over the ****ing world for like 10 levels.

I one timed PS with an NPC. Think I probably just got super ****ing lucky or something.

Have not and will not summon anyone. Can only play for the first time once imo.

Yeah the Souls game become rather trivial if you summon NPCs, either comp or player, for the boss fights. I say only resort to such if you are hopelessly stuck on a boss for days.

After you've beaten the game solo of course I say feel free to go nuts with whatever NPCs you wanna use for anything after that.

Yep agreed, I always like to have at least 1 raw that does usually higher base damage. I can always resin or switch weapons accordingly if need be.

I got to the Profaned Capital boss but my +7 brigade ax seemed to either not really put a dent in him or he was healing (flashback of fume knight DSII DLC).

I still don't have chunks so I am guessing they make you wait until the last few areas of the game to level up to +10...sucks but it is what it is. In terms of armor I can now wear the exile which is heavier after getting the ring of favor and equipping that plus havels ring. It kind of sucks since I've stopped pumping INT for my spells but I can't buy any more spells anyway since both NPCs that sell it are dead fml. Oh well....maybe next build.

Got the calamity ring.

makes the game harder, most jrpg's have an item like that

Thanks for the write-up Cotton.

When I'm done I'll have to do a write-up about a Sorcerer build. Totally different experience than what most have experienced. Bosses that melee characters find easy can be extremely difficult and require multiple attempts.

I played a caster to cast. I think someone forgot that.

Installed the 1.04 patch and now I can't log into online servers. The googles tell me I'm not the only one.

edit: framerate seems worse too

I've had that message telling me the 1.04 patch is coming April 18th every time I sign in lol.

Finished my first play through last night. Farming some late stage enemies and dicking around in PvP before going to NG. Beating someone with a Dragonslayer great axe + small parry shield makes me chuckle for some reason.

Servers are back but the framerate issues persist. This patch has officially done more bad than good.

I'm finding #7 on the toughest bosses list to be harder than everyone ranked higher that I've faced so far (6, 4, 2)

edit: finally got him, with 1/3 health remaining after using all 13 estus flasks and then a last-ditch ember

Same. I'd also put #3 as #1 but it's a good list.

Struggling to find a weapon to use with my Dex build that is better than the Sellsword Twin swords that I got at the start of the game with the Mercenary Build.

Infused it with Sharp Gem and upgraded it to +4, but feel like I've picked up a bunch of cool STR weapons but almost no DEX weapons.

Estoc is bestoc

Quick and you can keep enemies stun locked. It's skill is piercing through shields.

Made it to Lothric Castle and had a little rough time with the 2nd fat dude but finally took him down. Its like once you get to this section the game finally gave me permission to level my weapons past +6/7 when it starts letting you pick up chunks lol.

As far as the boss list is concerned everyone's list will be different of course. There are still a few bosses I haven't faced but I would definitely not put Dancer of the Boreal Valley that high. Maybe I just went in and had a good plan with sort of a stick a couple of hits and then back out mindset. She's pretty slow until phase 2 and then you just need to dodge the big spin attack basically. Pontiff was very rough for me. I think I might have been a bit under leveled for that fight or just sucked at that fight once it got to phase 2.

In terms of a review I'll have to wait until I have it completed but I am so far leaning toward DS1>DS3>Bloodborne>Demon Souls>DS2. There is just something about how the areas all tied together in DS1 that made the exploration and boss fight completions that more satisfying for me personally. All of them are fun though and the DS2 DLC needs an honorable mention for being much better than the regular game.

Def agreed on DS1>DS3>DS2. I'm probably the only person here who has DS2>BB; I actually haven't finished BB yet (may or may not go back to it). My issue is that it's not as much of an RPG, it's an action game. There's almost no weapons or progression to the character. Extremely beautiful, smooth, and well done, just feels like a different style of game to me.

I dunno, I don't really have a desire to play ng+ with this game. I'm stuck playing offline so I guess I'm missing out on the fresh pvp meta but there just really aren't any areas or bosses I'm itching to hit up again. And unlike ds2, there aren't any new enemies or items to get according to the Internet.

I might just need to give it a month or so and retry as a caster or pyro, but I'm just not feeling it right now.

I currently have Bloodborne ahead of Dark Souls 3. It's a bit premature to judge, given that there will be balance tweaks and DLC coming, and I haven't even completed a second playthrough. But as of right now, I do prefer the combat, setting, and backstory of Bloodborne.

You can employ a dodge-or-parry style in DS3, but everything in Bloodborne was designed around that style. In DS3 sword-and-board is still the norm, I'm pretty sure.

On occasion DS3 really feels the weight of all the DS1 references it's forced to carry. For example,



NB: I'm not saying DS3 is a bad game. The level design and art design are outstanding. There were some really rather neat encounters and boss fights in there. I'm glad I bought it and will almost certainly buy the DLC when it comes out.

Pretty much agree with all of this.






Interesting. I think bloodborne is fantastic and you should actually finish the game and dlc before grading it so low

I feel like the From games should have Wikipedia-style citation links in the lore sections of their wiki pages. Like, reading up on Bloodborne (spoilering since it's story-related):



Like, what the ****? I had no idea, just as I had no idea (until reading everything later on wiki pages) what the hell DS1 was about. All this stuff is pieced together from the random, makes-no-sense item descriptions, I guess? How many obscure sentences from different items had to be put together to reach that conclusion above?