Another night of little progress. I found the bonfire next to the sealed door. If someone describes something as illusionary I feel like I should just be able to walk through it. I shouldn't have to hit it with my sword.
I spent the rest of my time clearing out the yard behind the sealed door. The things I thought were Darkwraiths are instead part of a forest covenant, The Clan of Forest Protectors. I think the "real" ones respawn, but the "ghost" ones don't. But then again I just fought a knight and a thief for a second time . . . so maybe they do respawn. I eventually found an archer that I just couldn't get a hit on. She keeps her shield up all the time unless she is at range. If I was a knight I feel like I could break down her defense, but as a wanderer I don't really have that option. I also fought some spell caster that was pretty easy (I referred to him as Master last time) and a Cleric (?) with a mace. There was an executioner looking mother fucker with an axe that was the end of me last night. They are blocking a bridge with some sort of small gargoyle on it. When I walked up to the bridge thinks felt strange so I shot the gargoyle with an arrow at which point some text happened. I didn't read the text/hear the audio because I was running for my life (I was out of Estus).
The other big thing in the area is the trees . . . there are lots of them. So far I have found a full set of Eastern Armor. It is pretty cool, but when I put it on I became so slow that I went back to my standard chain mail. I guess in order to get around that I need to get stronger, but for now I am just working dexterity, vitality, and endurance. Maybe I am doomed to just keep my chain mail (at which point I need to start buffing it).
I have a feeling I will be staying here for another night or two. Every real person I kill is wort 2,000 souls and the ghost people are worth 3,000. The trees are kind of crap (100) but with the people respawning I can rack up ~8,000 souls per run. There may even be more quality loot in there somewhere. An eventually I need to cross the bridge . . . although I looked over the edge at one point and thought I saw some tentacled monster in the river below.
Do you have the longbow yet? If you backtrack to the Undead Parish, there's a opening on the right-hand wall (coming from the Parish) in between the first and second tree monsters with one of those lighted flowers on a ledge. There's a narrow path that winds down from there to the Darkroot Basin. On that path is a corpse with the longbow and some other thief equipment.
ReplyDeleteI found this path coming up the other way after I reached the Basin from the locked door in the round tower in the Undead Burg (inside the tower where you fight the Taurus Demon), but you should be able to get there now. I can't remember where I got that tower key.