u/DependentInner8928

I spent 16 effigies already and seen boss itself only 3 times. I tried all three of the locations and each one is awful, I get slapped by Havel (or fall thanks to Havel) or ganked by other NPCs constantly. I settled on trying Shaded woods one and I still die to enemies most of the time, as all 3 love to get stuck and then somehow get unstuck and gank me with projectiles and staggers. Worst thing is this is the last base game boss I have not killed yet. And I don't really want to farm effigies... Is there any strategy to make it less painful of a runback? Or maybe I don't know about some shortcut of sorts? I was so happy that this game has much better runbacks than DS1 overall and in the end I had to run through dragon shrine and open door in drangleic by equipping ring like 20 times each and now this. Any advice? Boss itself seems fine, I just need more attempts at it.

Build is +10 mace, drangleic shield and mostly vig (40) and str (60), 12 +5 flasks. Armor is starter falconer without helm. Version is vanilla if that matters for this boss.

To clarify - I don't mean boss arena itself, area before it where bonfire is. Is there really no way up to the previous location or am I just blind? I'm pretty sure I searched this place high and low and struck every wall in case of hidden passage. I know I can warp out, but I prefer to finish locations in one go without warping (and also I did not kindle two previous bonfires in Catacombs, so I will need to warp to a Firelink lol).

I even searched maps of Catacombs and all of them are horrifingly awful to navigate. Like, there's no way you just stuck here, right? Cause you can get to that area before getting the Lordvessel, so I suppose I am just blind lol. Please help?

Hi guys! I recently decided to finally replay DS after 9 years since first playthrough (and like 2,5K hours in Elden ring lol), bought remastered version, cause I read that it is basically same as PtDE anyways and played a bit on my PC, everything went smooth. Now I am far from home with my laptop and, uh, I didn't knew this game has memes with running in 45-50 FPS (pretty stable FPS that my laptop shows in this game). Game goes into Matrix' slow-motion. I read a bunch of posts, watched vids, etc how to fix it and best I could do is to get it to run okay in most parts on 1280x768 and 1,7 speed (CE). In some parts though...fighting through Blighttown at either 1,7 game speed or slow-motion depending on where I look definitely was an experience. So, most threads that I read on this problem are quite old and I did not found anything else, maybe someone knows a better solution? Not that I can't play game in this state, but I would prefer to have a better experience obviously.

Thanks in advance if anyone has ideas how to make it at least stable and not to jump between sonic speed and slow-motion! Sorry for duping posts, I did not found anything related to the problem that wasn't like 6 years old, so thought maybe someone got something else to work.

Vid is fat af, so it did not fit here sadly :(

On Youtube: https://youtu.be/LQAU1aqtETA

Yeah, I know, balls with cragblade and golden vow trivialises most of those guys, but I want to do that run (or at least some part of it) in a pretty limited time, so I decided to use the most OP setup I can. Also that's Limgrave, I suspect damage will fall off pretty soon, I think Weeping/Liurnia will also be a cakewalk and then I'll hit Caelid and it will be much less "kill everything in 5 hits".

And fuck demi-human duo, I hate this boss for a low damage no-hit with a passion, they are absolutely the worst and took the longest time (~40 minutes). Stupid RNG farm of little guys. Strat for them is taken from this vid btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtFwaqTG9U

To clarify - its not a no hit run, just compilation of all bosses defeated hitless :D

I've finished first NG cycle of my third true 100% run and as always want to experiment with builds a bit for the next cycle. My current level is 240 and it is a pure STR tank (50 endurance, 99 str, 18 dex, 25 faith and 97 vig just for the memes, everything else is classic wretch's 10s, heavy zwei and all of that). I have almost every weapon, tali and armor in the game, so anything is viable. Any fun builds, preferably with 2-3 main stats to put those useless points out of vig and str? As "build" is pretty vague for that level, I'm asking more for something "cosplay-like" at that point, not something optimised. I did carian spellsword and golden order fundamentalist runs before, so those ones are out of the question probably. I heavily prefer infusable weapons, but may consider fun sombers too!

Anyway, thanks in advance! Would love to get cool ideas!