That's funny. Combine Hunter was drawing parallels between the two on Twitter the other day...Alex79uk wrote:Haha I do tend to overuse the 'this is the best game I've played for ages' line. It's funny playing both alongside each other. I'm almost seeing SOTN as a 2D Dark Souls. Obviously it's not, but there are definitely similarities to be drawn.
Summoning will help. Who do you have available? You can summon both Solaire and Lautrec for that fight. Solaire will appear if you've spoken to him at the dragon-free end of that bridge, and Lautrec if you've freed him in the Parish and spoken to him back down at Firelink. Solaire's sign is hard to miss, but Lautrec's is behind you after you've climbed the first ladder up to the Gargoyles.Alex79uk wrote:Those two bell gargoyles in Undead Parish are a right pair of bitches. Just can't do them solo - closest I got was with a summoned AI, but I died. Need to go and farm a load of humanity but it seems very scarce!
Beating those guys and ringing that bell felt amazing. Need to get back into this.Alex79uk wrote:Thanks guys. I was really struggling and ended up farming some rats for humanity and then retried the battle with two summoned phantoms (not AI, real people) and the fight was a breeze! Onward to Darkroot Garden!
The biggest problem is its massive amount of health. Its attacks are generally easy enough to dodge once you recognise the patterns, but watch out for it trampling you if you're close up to it. Have you taken out the Channeler (the trident-wielding enemy upstairs amongst the rats)?Alex79uk wrote:Gaping Draon boss in the Depths is a real pain in the ass!
You should only have to face a single Basilisk on the main route through The Depths, the others are optional. That said, if you want to do some exploring then Purging Stones are 3000 Souls from Oswald Of Carim (in the Bell Tower), and more expensive from the female merchant. Personally, I was able to back-pedal and avoid curse build-up just well enough to not need Purging Stones, but they are a wise investment nonetheless.Alex79uk wrote:Yeah I've taken out the channeller. I think I'm going to have to bugger off back to the Undead Burg for a bit to farm some souls and buy a load of bloody curse remover stones. Those basilisks keep spewing their curse gas over me. :/
YES!Alex79uk wrote:Woo! Slayed that beast! It's amazing how much easier the bosses are when co-oping. Just having someone else to draw the attention whilst peppering it with arrows makes a huge difference. And then when the dragon turns on me I start legging it whilst he takes his turn attacking.
Someone else said they found him particularly tough. I thought he was one of the easier bosses but I may have got lucky. I piled in with my Demon Spear +4 and did him 2 handed.iwatttfodiwwfa wrote:I found Demo Firesage to be toughest of those.
