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Heck, with guard counters, a 100% physical block shield can be a hell of a thing. Put a magical boost on it for other defense types and its even more useful.
And remember to actually level up the shield. I didn't on my Brass Shield at first, thinking "I'm not going to attack with it, so who cares about leveling up attack power". However, Guard Boost is the critical metric that leveling up the shield improves and I only discovered recently, meaning you'll be tougher to guard break and will take less of a stamina hit. Level the shield high enough and you'll be taking pretty much no stamina hit.
There's also a Talisman that boosts (reduces) your carrying weight in case you don't want to commit points to Endurance. Dont remember where I found it though.
That's what it sounded like you were headed toward with being underleveled but going after dragons for 200+ retries, no offense
yea, saw that coming from a mile away.That's what it sounded like you were headed toward with being underleveled but going after dragons for 200+ retries, no offense
If you can't get a boss in 10-15 tries, rethink, level up, come back.
Depending how you explored (sounds like you picked the more difficult path) you should have run into the Raya Lucaria section by now. That’d be the path to lead you in the direction you want.
Probably like me and took a right into Caelid. XD
I ran into those birds, got eaten, and I turned back.
I went straight to that Rot Dragon and spent like three days straight trying to kill it. XD
Just run through and grab what you need, if you engage those guys they’ll just keep respawning. Watch out for the bowmen, they’ll wreck you, but you should be able to sprint through/dodge and activate the boss doors.
I only just learned you can swing to your left while on horseback. For nearly 2 weeks I became a master of keeping enemies to my right at all times
No clue what's to come, but I've killed 4 dragons just by getting close to them and wailing on their legs while still on my horse - When they fly up in the air - go under 'em and then hard-charge them when they land again. Compared to the Souls dragons, they're pretty simple. If your damage seems low, don't forget to boost your weapons.
I fully committed to melee only first run, yet I couldn't pass up the infusion magic. They are just too good. I spent the necessary points to meet the requisites asap. So far all of them have very low requirements so it's not like I'm throwing significant points away.
Oh yeah. That was my early and so far really only farming spot. Equipping the yellow foul foot that gives you 50% more souls per kill and just circle strafing those little Vulgar Militiamen on horseback until I racked up 10K-30K souls. I got lucky and stumbled on the teleporter gate to that area early, it tiook me to the the bonfire inside the building with Gurranq (Beast Clergyman). The teleporter gate was just randomly at the end of an out of the way river hidden by bushes.
A few of the enemies in Dragonbarrow definitely have hard move-sets. Those dogs piss me off, I can 2 shot them, but I end up whiffing more often than not.
