![]() She will give you a Humman Effigy if you hear all that she has to say. After dispatching him open the door and then talk to Lucatiel of Mirrah. He is slow moving and shouldn't pose much resistance. Turn left on the walkway outside which leads to a tower guarded by a giant mummy wielding a club-like staff. Return to the room with the dead dogs and climb the other ladder. The Antiquated Key will allow you to open a door on this level which leads to a good deal of loot. Here a chest will contain Covetous Serpent Ring and Antiquated Key. Then slide down the ladder and open the door to enter the courtyard. Push the exploding barrel in front of you down on the dogs below to kill them all. Loot it for a Radiant Life Gem and a Large Titanite Shard. Jump through the hole in the wall and immediately take down the Hollow guard here.īelow you is a pack of dogs. Walk all the way around on the the ledge until you reach the corpse. The only way around is via the ledge on the left. Upon entering The Lost Bastille, light the bonfire and then continue on to a broken impassable bridge. Interacting with this will cause a giant eagle to take you to the Lost Bastille area. To the right up the stairs is a birds next. To the left down the chasm, a full set of Drangleic Armor can be found. Both areas are covered in this walkthrough.Īfter defeating The Pursuer, continue through a hole in the wall. Some enemy types for instance are afraid of fire and will not attack you if you bring a torch into the fight.You can choose either way to first attack this area. There's one notable exception early-ish in the game where you cannot avoid getting mobbed by enemies, but that one can also be dealt with by making clever use of the environment.Īlso, for some enemy types there are completely different ways to deal with them besides attacking. ![]() Basically, make sure you always have a bow at hand to shoot enemies and aggro them one by one instead of charging in sword drawn. Dark Souls 2 doesn't have those kind of groups until later in the game.Īnyway, just like in DS1 almost every single encounter with more that two enemies can be handled in different ways that minimize the amount of enemies that charge you at once. Hell, some of the very first encounters DS1 puts you up against in the Undead Burg is enemy groups of 4 or 5 enemies and a couple of fire bomb throwers. I've been playing through the entire series too and I honestly didn't notice any more enemy groups in DS2: SotFS vs. There's actually a hidden feature in-game that changes up your attack pattern if you dual wield and have enough skill points in Dex and/or Str (power stancing).Īs for the enemy groups, I honestly do not know why people keep saying that. I basically always just two-hand my weapon or dual-wield. Only use your shield to block one or two hits as the penalty of your stamina running out by blocking is massive. The roll is also less effective if you haven't leveled up ADP.īasically, my tip for starting out is that the very first thing you level in the game is ADP, until your agility is around 103 (you should have enough souls to do this after defeating Forest of the Fallen Giants), that gives you approximately the same amount of i-frames in a roll as DS1. The gameplay is much more precise and methodical than DS1, where in DS1 the parry timing is pretty lenient and you can pretty easily get through the game with a nice big shield and R1, Dark Souls 2 punishes that hard. It feels like my enjoyment of Dark Souls 1 was just a fluke or a time-and-place situation where it just came at the perfect moment of my life where I had enough time and patience to make it through the game.ĭark Souls 2 is a fantastic game that you do have to enter with a slightly different mindset than Dark Souls 1. I'm so disappointed in DS2 that it's honestly turned me off from trying any From Software games since. Felt like I needed to grind for souls immediately compared to DS1 where I only felt the need to do that once or twice the whole game. I wanted to give it another shot recently so I upgraded to the Scholars of the First Sin edition (or whatever it's called) and honestly had an even worse time with it.įor one thing, I spent too much time getting some Stat up so I could use the whip (which seemed like it had really good stats) and then when I finally could use it, the durability on it was laughable so I could barely use it before breaking. I just got sick of what felt like a constant steam of underwhelming bosses. I got between 5-10 hours through it before stopping. When I beat Dark Souls 1, the sequel was only a few months away so I was really excited for it and even preordered it on Steam.
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