Acidic_Cook wrote:Well my friend, the opinion of others is mostly secondary, including mine. Your opinion of what you should do is the primary.
Well, indeed. Came for the Dark Souls, stayed for the good advice!
sparkly-twinkly-lizard wrote:do you use buffs with your estoc? if not
do so if you feel you aren't dealing enough damage. what arew your
stats? dex with int or faith or no magic stat? if no magic stat try
pyromancy which has one body buff spell (power within) that boosts dng
by 40% but saps health also allowing you to apply resin to your
blade.
I haven't raised any magic stats - I've never so much as equipped the pyro hand or catalyst. Partly because, as I say, I'm pretty new to gaming and it felt like an overload, and partly because the melee system in Dark Souls is so nice that I wanted to use it to the full extent. I don't know, magic and pyro just felt a bit cheap to me. I've bought some Charcoal Pine Resin for PVP, but I haven't used it yet, will be sure to try it out.
This isn't my final PVP build, just my original character which is the only one I took to 120. Because of that, I did some pretty dumb stuff early on in the game, like raising my resistance a little. From a Warrior, I ended up with:
Vitality: 50
Attunement: 10
Endurance: 40
Strength: 20
Dexterity: 47
Resistance: 14
Intelligence: 9
Faith: 12
Doing it again, I wouldn't have raised my strength past 16, my faith, or resistance. So that'd give me, what another ten levels to put in somewhere. I guess I'll just work with this for now, though.
Toastfacekillah wrote:Don't write off the Great Scythe just yet - A
fully upgraded Chaos/Elemental GS is deadly to keep in your left hand
when dual-wielding. You get a partial block with L1 and massive circular
swing with L2 which is excellent at hitting bs fishers and keeping them
off your back.
Now, that does sound pretty awesome. I reckon this is what I'm going to do, thanks! Is there a special reason for going elemental, or should I put it to +15 so as not to lose the dex bonus?
Pargar-theGreat wrote:HEy also Mayerling whats your covenant in which
you joined? Invading as say a darkwraith is a fun and an easy way to
pracitice pvp without losing much, other than time.
I'm in the Chaos Servants right now just for the shortcuts, but I wasn't sure what to do after that. Darkwraiths would be a good option, but I have no Kaathe for this playthrough...stupid, I know, wasn't thinking. There's no other way to join now, is there? Also, would the RSS be more reliable for duels? I've only ever really used covenants so far for my level 20 sunbro to help out newbies in the Parish. That is one of the reasons I'd like to get better at PVP....to give the griefers there and in the Forest what's coming to them
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Yeah, I'm not a turtle, I barely use my shield really because I tend to oarry and flip, so none of that is really an issue for me. I'm not sure what to do about my armour, though. Right now I'm just wearing the Black Leather gear +9 and Gwyndolin's hat, because I thought it looked cool and since the PVE idea was basically to just not get hit anyway...