Caltrops - Demon's Souls





	[quote name="Lizard_King"][quote name="fabio"] Finally got the drake sword, which seems to make every other weapon obsolete unless you dip into 35+ strength builds. Not seeing the love for the Balder Side Sword. The move set is worse than the Estoc with roughly the same damage, and once you start running into enemies who aren't staggered by their hits they both become nearly useless. Also not really seeing why you'd go with certain ascension choices (raw, crystal) when others seem clearly superior (fire, lightning vitality builds).[/quote] At +5 and beyond many good base damage weapons such as the halberd/gargoyle halberd start to do a lot better than the drake. The main problems with the drake are scarcity of upgrades for a non-scaling weapon, so it's very effective at first but becomes steadily less so, and dragon scales are enough of a pain in the nuts that you might want them for the excellent Moonlight Greatsword (magic) or Obsidian greatsword (fixed physical damage for builds capped at 24 str) and the move set, which is a poor combination of range and and poise damage. But I've already introduced you to the excellent reinforced club, which lays bare what a pure function weapon ought to be. [quote] Anyways: <b>More flexible PvP-</b> 4 cracked red eye orbs at the start of the game, no more until literally the end (no darkwraith till end either)? Your only other PvP choices are Forest and Londo asshattery where dedicated PvPers lie in wait to farm invaders with their own summoned phantoms. Most of the fun of PvP was dropping into unannounced to murder some guy, but it's an option you only get to do FOUR times the entire game (with disconnects counting as one).[/quote] Beating the 4 kings is viable for sl1 characters with relatively modest progression without much skill. Darkwraith is by far the best covenant, especially once you get the unlimited invade item, but you have to seek it out. [quote] <b>The non-existance of co op-</b> I've constantly been laying summon signs down at the pre-boss bonfires and have yet to summon a single white phantom PC. Yet I'm constantly getting invaded whenever in human form. Where are these people getting the means for PvPing me? I'm not in the book of sin, not in the forest, not a darkwraith, not being invaded by darkwraiths. Are these people who saved their starting red orbs up to the depths? NG+ twinks who had access to the end game red orb merchant?[/quote] Hopefully you've already cracked this, but you lay down your sign to be summoned. If you lay down your sign, then you can't see any in your world. In human form, you need to simply go to an area near a boss or perhaps the last bonfire (the wiki has recommended locations and soul level ranges), and click on a sign someone else has put down. Everyone who is invading you is basically just making a beeline to the 4k. That's all there is to it. [/quote]