Forum Overview :: Demon's Souls

These are great tips by Lizard_King 12/25/2012, 9:28pm PST One thing that helps a lot early is understanding that you have an explicit statistic listed on shields, stability. That dictates how much stamina you lose from getting hit. At each threshold (50,60,70,80) you get to a different tier of hit that you can take without being knocked on your ass and damaged. The sooner you get a shield over 60, the sooner you'll stop sweating the small stuff as much. Turtling is bad, not just because it makes you look timid and sad but because you recover stamina a lot more slowly with your shield up. So take a hit, drop your shield, and pick it back up for the next hit. Or get out of the way. But don't just stand there getting hit and expect good results. Another thing is poise. This is listed under each armor piece, with light armor pieces having 0, medium having some, usually a single digit, and heavy having double digits of poise. Poise is basically the type/amount of hits you can take without being staggered or interrupted. It's worth experimenting with adding a little, medium, and lots of poise (50+ is a great place to be) in order to see how much of a margin of error you have for when you mis-time attacks. Because if getting hit once is often bad, getting hit and then staggered and hit some more is far worse. I've been collecting links for pc mouse guides, the fan patches, and tips as well as tutorials and guides over here. I would repost the whole thing here but frankly too lazy to a href the whole fucking thing over so deal with it.

Bought Dark Souls by fabio 12/25/2012, 4:49pm PST     Re: Bought Dark Souls by Rafiki 12/25/2012, 7:56pm PST         So you actually like this then? Those tips made me never want to play it NT by Roop 12/25/2012, 8:17pm PST             -read LK's write-up on Demon's Souls and ignore that parts that only apply to De by Rafiki 12/25/2012, 8:58pm PST         These are great tips by Lizard_King 12/25/2012, 9:28pm PST     Fiddling with controls right after asylum demon by fabio 12/25/2012, 10:03pm PST         Use your 360 controller. Critical. NT by Gutsby 12/26/2012, 5:08am PST         Re: Fiddling with controls right after asylum demon by Radioisotopes 12/26/2012, 1:10pm PST             fuck you, autocorrect NT by Rafiki 12/26/2012, 1:11pm PST     Getting fun by fabio 12/29/2012, 10:08pm PST         Re: Getting fun by Arbit 12/29/2012, 10:59pm PST             The mystery icon turned out to be durability! by fabio 12/31/2012, 9:44am PST