I have spent a lot of time in the castle at this point and I have killed a fair number of things that don't come back. The boar, headless lightning monster and mace-knight had already been finished when I started to play last night. Then I started getting attacked by some projectile/conjuring mother-fucker upstairs in the church. It took me a while to get up there to fight him (after wading through a swarm of easy kills), and when I did he really took it to me. I ended up flanking him and going up the other stairs, where I eventually found a NPC in gold armor. I let him out of the cage and went about my merry way (although in the back of my mind I remember Brad Shoemaker saying that I should kill him). The guy said he was going to reward me, but I'll have to wait. Who knows what that is about.
At this point I walked back down the stairs and saw the conjuring guy across a long balcony opening. He wasn't attacking me, so I took out my arrow and shot him in the head. He woke up, started hurling magic my way and I hid behind a corner up near the stairs. Eventually he stopped, so I shot him again. He woke up again, started throwing fireballs (or whatever) my way. We did this dance for a while until he eventually died. Unlike many of the other enemies that don't return, his corpse remained. This made me worried that he was going to come back in the future.
After a little more grinding and fixing my weapons I decided I might as well try that knight on top of the tower with the spiral stair case. Last time I fought him he whooped me pretty well, but this time I felt confident that I could clear out area around him, lure him back to the church and then if I died I wouldn't have to go so far to get my souls back. When I made it to the church I turned around and he was walking away. I figure that I had run too far so he was returning to his spot, so I ran after him and shot him with an arrow. He immediately turned, ran after me all the way back to the main room (nave?) of the church and then I turned to see him run until he hit the door, try to attack (from way out of range) then stop and turn around. I shot him in the back, and then we repeated that game for a while. I don't know why he couldn't enter the room. Maybe because it was close to where another black knight was and they don't tread on each other's territory. Either way it made him an easy kill.
So at this point my main tactic for fighting things that you only kill once is to hide, shoot them with an arrow, then hide again. Aside from the mace knight this is how I have killed everything important. I guess that is going to be my "strategy" for the game? Although I think the boss that I have to kill at the top of the church might have a different idea. Oh, and I started going through the forest then turned around when it gave me a title card. I want the key for the forest, but it is fucking expensive. And now that I have a way to get back to the beginning I'm feeling like fighting the skeletons again. Fuck those guys.
Man, that Titanite Demon gave me fits. Many times, I used Soul Arrow to knock off about half his life, but all he had to do was get me once when I closed for melee and it was back to the bonfire. Finally, Drake Sword did the job the other day. Even Charcoal Pine Resin, which increased my Longsword damage considerably, didn't get me over the hump against him.
ReplyDeleteI avoided the sorcerer for a while, and then killed him almost accidentally on my second or third try when he wandered out towards the stairs and I was firebombing the Hollows around him.
Last night, I went on a run and killed all the Black Knights I had outstanding--the one on top of the tower in the Parish, and two in the Undead Asylum. The last one in particular sent me packing several times after toe-to-toe fights in a cramped hallway, but eventually I figured out his attack pattern and was able to feint him into going after me to his right, which allowed me to slip behind him on his left and land a critical hit. Repeat until victorious.
See, and I haven't had a successful heated battle with anything. I can either spam them or they kill me. I went after the Dragon again last night, shooting it with arrows from different angles so that it couldn't attack me. That route isn't going to work because the Dragon (Drake) heals itself when it lands on the castle, so in order to kill it I have to lure it down onto the bridge then melee it to death.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I thought about trying my hand at the Red Drake last night, and decided to go after the Capra Demon instead. I reinforced my Elite Knight Set to +3, which helped me survive long enough to take down the attack dogs and then have a more reasonable one-on-one fight with the demon. I thought killing the demon was going to open up a new shortcut through the Undead Burg, but instead he drops a key that opened up a whole new area nearby.
ReplyDeleteIs this through the forest? I have no idea what you are talking about. Now that I can't kill the Drake I am either going to go back to the top of the church to presumably ring the bell or I am going to go kill some skeletons.
ReplyDeleteNo, this was all in the lower levels of the Undead Burg. You know that conflagration you can see way down below you when you're near the Undead Burg bonfire? It's that area.
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