Dark Souls by From Software is the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls. The game is a dungeon crawler with an emphasis on its high difficulty levels and punishing the careless player. It is well known for its taunting trailers, telling the player to "Prepare to Die". Published by Namco Bandai for ...
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What are the best levels to be to help out as a sunbro?
I've tried helping people out for the Gargoyles boss at levels 11, 12, 13 and all the way up to 20 and it seems like it's just SUPER rare to get someone who needs help (as opposed to invading...)
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What is the highest damage weapon usable by a Soul Level 1 Pyromancer?
I'm currently working my way through a Soul Level 1 playthrough of Dark Souls. I'm using the Pyromancer class, since that is the only class that starts at SL1.
Because I'm not leveling my character, ...
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Why do we want to kill Lord Gwyn at the end of the game?
I played through Dark Souls and sort of managed to follow the story most of the way, but ended up getting lost towards the end. By the end, I really had no idea why I was fighting Lord Gwyn or what ...
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Why am I getting less souls than other players on dark souls?
I was watching a walk-through of the game and noticed that the player I was watching was somehow getting more souls for each kill. Anyone know how I could do this?
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What is the best class to use for a beginner in Dark Souls?
I've been playing this game for a while now, and it's pretty hard. I'm constantly dying and as a Thief I feel I'm not doing enough damage while I have too little health.
I have around 2 hours play ...
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Is it possible to complete Dark Souls without leveling?
One of the things that have always irked me about the Dark Souls games is the ability to store up souls, and effectively grind your way past a certain point by leveling up indefinitely. Accumulated ...
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Are there Dark Souls servers?
From what I understood, Demon's Souls had servers thus why they originally were going to shut down the servers [1]. However from what I hear, Dark Souls is P2P based.
Is this true, and if so why does ...
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Titanite Slab farming
I've been looking around online for information concerning where I can farm Titanite slabs., yet all of the information I have found is outdated as the newer versions tend to change quite a few ...
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Failed to load Artorias of the Abyss
When I try to load the game along with the Artorias of the Abyss DLC to play offline, I receive an error stating the DLC failed to load properly and that I will not have access to that content or to ...
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Which gift should I choose for my first play-through of Dark Souls?
When creating a new character in Dark Souls, I am allowed to select a gift amongst:
Goddess's Blessing
Black Firebomb
Twin Humanities
Binoculars
Pendant
Master key
Tiny Being's Ring
Old Witch's Ring
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Dark Souls retail version to Steam?
Is it possible, to register Dark Souls CD key from retail version (Box) on Steam (I don't want just add it to steam library but to account as other steam games)? Box version is really nice, so I'm ...
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Where is a list of keycode values to use in DarkSouls.ini?
Dark Souls does not allow binding of many common keys via the user interface. There are guides for the number keys, but no guides for other keys. Specifically, I have a Dvorak keyboard, and would like ...
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Upgrading Uchigatana +11 [duplicate]
I am lvl 87 and trying to upgrade my from Uchigatana +10 to Uchigatana +11.
After checking the giant smith in anor londo and the smith in undead parish, none of them offered me to upgrade to 11. I am ...
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Is soul farming necessary in Dark Souls?
Either for leveling up or to upgrade weapons. Perhaps it depends on playstyle/class as well?
By "not necessary", I mean you gain souls in the normal course of trying to play through the game. Instead ...
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How should I spend souls to improve pyromancer
I'm playing as a pyromancer in Dark Souls and am still near the beginning of the game (In the Depths). I'm not really sure how to improve my character however whenever I get a lot of souls (10k+ or ...
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What effect does upgrading a particular skill have on my character?
I've recently started playing Dark Souls again, and I want to create my character with some knowledge of the skills. What effect does each skill have on my character, and in particular which are ...
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Dark Souls PC FPS drops - can I fix that at all?
My configuration: Mac machine using Win 7 with Bootcamp, ATI Radeon HD 6490m display adapter. And the game runs horribly, compared to what I see for consoles.
I tried different things, most notably ...
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What is this enemy called in Dark Souls? Looks like a huge dark hell spawn knight
Those are the size comparisons more or less for the demon. And what it's face looked like.
I found him walking around some sort of barracks/watch tower thing on route the "church up high" the NPC ...
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Unable to co-op in the forest after first boss
On the PC, my friend and I entered the forest for the first time and used the White Soapstone to co-op (my friend hosted). We progressed and defeated the Butterfly, and thus I was returned back to my ...
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How do I get to the new area(s) in the Prepare to Die edition?
I originally played through Dark Souls on the PS3 and now am playing the Prepare to Die edition on the PC. I've gotten to the point where all I have left to do is kill Lord Gwyn, but I haven't ...
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Is it possible to kill Ornstein and Smough at the same time?
I know when you kill one the other will absorb him and regain all health and get some new abilities.
This leads to the strategy of focusing one quickly while "ignoring" the other.
My question is, if ...
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How do I get the item outside of the chapel above the Blacksmith Andrei?
Above the Blacksmith Andrei, there is a small chapel with a podium or altar. (I'm not talking about the chapel with the Balder Knights and the Fire Keeper Soul.) To the right of that altar there is ...
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Steam version of Dark Souls and GTA 4 crash on Windows 8
Is there a way to play Dark Souls on Windows 8 RTM? Think it crushes because of games for windows live client..
UPD: found the answer here.
see Q. Dark Souls crashes and has a reference to XLive.dll, ...
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How do you provide hints in Dark Souls
In Demon Souls you could just press select (I think) and add your selected message. I would like to know how to do it though because I like everyone's help and feel bad at not being able to provide ...
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How do I get my Xbox 360 Controller to work with Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition?
Just picked up this game today and I would much rather play it with my Xbox 360 controller. I'm having quite a bit of trouble however due to the fact that although I have my controller connected and ...
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Dark Souls P2DE: Little shining worm
I'm playing Dark Souls on PC. I'm after fight with demon taurus. I've got 2 questions. First is that I destroyed some barrels in tower which leds to him, and I noticed little shiny worm, I killed it ...
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All areas necessary in Dark Souls?
When I first started the game, I followed the same path as many other beginners and went to the first bell and then to the Depths, Blight Town and to Queelags Domain to ring the second bell.
However, ...
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I'm bored of the Drake Sword, when will I find a decent replacement?
I'm a lvl 50 wanderer and have been using Drake Sword since level 20 or so. I have completed most Darkroot Forest (Killed Wolf), Basin (Killed Hydra), The Depths (killed Gaping Dragon) and Blighttown ...
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Making Dark Souls just a little bit easier?
I started Dark Souls the other evening and like most people (I imagine) I'm finding it rather difficult.
Is there a particular character class that will make the game easier to learn? I can only ...
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What are the equivalent PC keyboard keys and mouse buttons of the Xbox 360 game controller buttons shown on the screen?
The PC port of Dark Souls shows Xbox 360 game controller buttons on its in-game messages and the UI. However, I'm playing with a mouse and a keyboard. This makes learning the controls a bit awkward.
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Are there places only reachable by jumping in Dark Souls?
Near the Firelink Bonfire, on the path to Undead Burg, there is a bridge and we can see an item near a corpse under that bridge. I've been able to reach this place by jumping above a little hole ...
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How did this invasion happen?
I'm a SL11 and managed to invade a guy in undead parish who was wearing full Havel's and carrying Black Knight Sword. I get where he got Havel's from, but how can a 11 +-10% use the black knight ...
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Dark souls PC controls - Help with aiming and switching between weapons
After watching a youtube video I realised three things:
That console players can aim, and lock on targets. Can PC players,
and if so, how?
That you can switch between weapon sets with the
press of a ...
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How to get to the third giant in Sen's Fortress in Dark Souls?
There is a respawning giant who is loading the boulders into the system, and there's also a giant throwing exploding balls onto platforms on the top of Sen's Fortress. Somewhere around that area you ...
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How to survive the curse-frogs in Dark Souls?
I am in the depths, fell down a hole and died to a curse when three frog things pounced. Is there a way to block the fog, or do you just have to kill them before they burp it up?
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Chest or corpse with three Souvenirs of reprisal
I am fairly sure somewhere in Dark souls there is a chest or corpse with three souvenirs of reprisal on it. Similar to how you can find 3 sunlight medals in Anor Londo. However I can't remember where ...
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Is it possible to to mess up a character build in Dark Souls?
I just barely beat the two gargoyles in Dark Souls. I'm using the Zweihander sword I found in firelink shrine and for that I needed to get STR to 24. I like the idea of playing a STR-heavy character, ...
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Place files into the Steam downloads folder instead of re-downloading them?
I recently bought Dark Souls on Steam. I already have the two hefty 1.5Gb files that make for the bulk of the game and I really don't want to download them at 100kb/s.
I found the folder where Steam ...
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How do I kill the skeletons located in The Catacombs?
No matter how many times I kill the skeletons found in the catacombs, they always come back to life. To say the least it is very annoying.
Is there anyway to prevent them from coming back to life?
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In Dark Souls, can player from different platforms interact with each other?
My friends own the PS3 version of the game, while I am playing on the Xbox 360. Will we be able to join each others' games?
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How to do a plunging attack?
I'm playing through Dark Souls on the PC. I'm a bit stuck on the first boss, the Asylum Demon. I don't seem to be able to successfully do the plunging attack when I dive off the platform. So I'm ...
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What is the difference between Dark Souls on Steam and Games for Windows Live?
What is the difference between Steam and Games for Windows Live versions of Dark Souls? I'm not sure, but I read somewhere that Steam version is also connected with GFWL.
I'm asking because my ...
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Dark Souls P2DE: Trainer Laurientus
By chance, I told him where I learnt chaos magic ( chaos covenant ), but I didn't learn all spells from him, is there any possibility to learn it somewhere else ?
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Surviving as a Spellcaster vs. Capra Demon in Dark Souls
I managed to beat this boss on the 15th try as a melee character. There are two attack dogs and one Capra Demon (who has good attack range and an unblockable attack) in one tiny room.
How can a ...
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Will I lose my humanity if I die as a phantom?
I would like to help some players out, but I currently have 5 humanity active and I don't want to lose it.
Will I lose my humanity if I die as a phantom in another players world?
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How do I play with a full resolution?
My PC runs at a 1440x900 resolution. In the Dark Souls options page, I do not see that resolution listed.
I tried picking the next resolution down, but it creates black lines at the top and bottom of ...
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I can't get the Knight's Honor trophy
Knight's Honor trophy will not come up. I've looked all over the net and I have all the weapons. Can someone give me the full list of what they are, please? I need to know if the trophy is glitched or ...
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Got all sorceries, but didn't win the Trophy
Here's some other information I can add:
In this playthrough I used the Bottomless Box trick;
I won the Pyromancies Trophy without having all pyromancies with this char.
I have all sorceries from ...
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Is it worth killing the dragon on the bridge in Undead Burg?
I've just beaten the Taurus Daemon in Undead Burg and after that encountered a bridge guarded by a red dragon and some Hollow Warriors. I've found a way to sneak under the bridge through a stairway ...
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Chaos path weapon scaling
Let's say I have a Claymore sword, which I believe scales with Intelligence. If I upgrade that sword to Chaos, will it now scale with both Intelligence and Humanity, or just Humanity?
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