Qwark28
Joker waiting room
Go get it from Iron keep, it's pretty easy to reach, also get to the giant king and start farming him with ascetics, free 2 twinklins, ascetic, blessing and 150k+ souls at NG+.
Go get it from Iron keep, it's pretty easy to reach, also get to the giant king and start farming him with ascetics, free 2 twinklins, ascetic, blessing and 150k+ souls at NG+.
In NG+, Soul Memory doesn't matter, so I'd advise doing all your PvP shit in there. Unless you just want to do random invades, and if that's the case, 3mil+ soul memory is not going to be very helpful.
100+ poise and you get staggered from 1 hit of a katana (while blocking) and then they can just open up on you for 2-3 swings before you can move... also the chip damage from magic weapons can get retarded, buffing MLGS with magic ember and then crystal weapon, or the twinblades spinning attack, that can chip you out with magic + crystal buff.
In NG+ soul memory is irrelevant. If you're pvping you're bound to see more action in NG+
Even in Bell and rat places + Arenas? Can't I replicate the result with an ascetic?
Soul memory is for all type of summoning, friendly included. Basically the more you sunbro, the more souls you gain, and the less likely you are to be able to sunbro with people in that area/boss. In NG+ this doesnt matter, but i dont think it works with ascetics. People can +1 their bonfire and still summon phantoms from 1st playthrough. I was sunbro-ing sinner and a couple of times the fight was the NG+ version with the black phantoms, but people from NG+ cant summon or invade people outside of NG+.
Its still the first weeks of the games release . All summoning / co-op will be booming right now. On day 1 i think i killed each boss once for my self and then about 4/5 times as a white phaontom and i could tell people were ripping each others throats out to get at the summoning signs. Now (on that same character) i just got through iron keep and am level 100 but it takes me 5-10 minutes of waiting around to find a summon. I have a problem with picking my souls back up and have just left 160k on the floor because i couldnt be bothered to get them back, just went elsewhere, but this isnt new as i have probably left in the way of about 500k souls by now, and maybe about 150k on shopping. So thats my level 100 souls + about 600k and im not even through the game on this character. Anyone who cares about their souls more than me would be level 150-200 by now, and anyone who rushed the bosses wouldnt have nearly as high soul memory from pvp/co-op/farming stuff. I feel like in your first playthrough these will be the deciding factor on how much you can interact with other players online, and seeing as the playerbase will at least half in the coming month, NG+ is gonna be the place to go.
I just beat Iron Keep. I'm at SL125 and put my sign at the boss door. I have *WHOOPS BEING SUMMONED AS I TYPE THIS LOL* been having a great deal of ease getting called on without really waiting. 5 minutes tops. Maybe if you have to set your cross region play with 'open?' Whatever the case NG+ is the way to go from what I hear. I thought with all this jolly cooperation and the surplus of souls I'm getting I would be closing myself off to others but this isn't the case. Ran out of things to do with my souls so I leveled up more than I really wanted to, upgraded things I'd never use and have more lifegems than I ever had crescent moon grasses. And STILL it doesn't appear that my Soul memory has affected much of anything. (WHOOPED SUMMONED AGAIN!)
Yeah i had the same problem with souls and not having much else to do with them, they are very easy to farm effectively and SL 150-200 wont be hard to reach in a single playthrough (i could have easily done it already on my sorcerer and didnt even make drangleic keep yet)
Managed to beat them on my first try with a friend. I've heard it's one of the harder fights in this game.
You're not the only one. I'm SL 150 and I just got "that ring". But, then again, I've soloed all bosses and played practically the 80% of the time as a member of the Company of Champions.
It is. Those three and the Rat Authority (with his four little friends that Toxic you with barely two hits) are the hardest ones I've found so far.
btw be careful about using your Bonfire Ascetics. I've read that some players keep them for NG++ because that's when all the bosses start having "special drops". And Ascetic is your only chance to make them respawn to get a 2nd of those drops.
If you join the Covenent of Dark you can use Cracked Red Eye Orb or Red Sign people in the Dark Chasm and get a bonfire ascetic when you kill them. You invade as a "Abyss Spirit" and all enemies in the area are hostile to you as well as the host.
Old giant has a respawning ascetic everytime you burn one so it doesn't cost a thing.
ng1+ better players and stronger + you can get the cracked eye easier and there's good places to invade and the pvp arena
