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Dark Souls FAQ.

++++Introduction++++[intro1]

Hello, and welcome to my very first FAQ.

Dark souls is, at first, a difficult game, but after you've been through it fortwo or three times and know enemy attack patterns, enemy placement and whatgear and build suits you. you'll find it's not that bad.

That's what this FAQ is about, help new players get through it and helpadvanced players with getting those last few trophies for platinum.

This guide is written with getting the platinum trophy in mind, without evergoing online since I hate online gaming and it's very possible, yet timeconsuming to do so.

Alright, enough of my ranting, let's go!

++++Copyright++++

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++++Table of contents++++

-Introduction...........................[intro1]-copyright-Gemeral Tips...........................[genti1]-Character Build........................[chabu1]-Walktrough-Undead Asylum..........................[undas1]-Firelink Shrine........................[firsh1]-Undead Burg............................[undbu1]-Undead Parish..........................[undpa1]

-Darkroot Garden........................[darga1]-Undead Parish..........................[undpa2]-Firelink Shrine........................[firsh2]-Undead Burg............................[undbu2]-Depths.................................[depth1]-Firelink Shrine........................[firsh3]-Undead Parish..........................[undpa3]-Undead Burg............................[undbu3]-Blighttown.............................[bligh1]-The Great Hollow.......................[greho1]-Ash Lake...............................[ashla1]-Blighttown.............................[bligh2]-Quelaag's Domain.......................[quedo1]

-Demon Ruins............................[demru1]-Firelink Shrine........................[firsh4]


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-Sen's Fortress.........................[senfo1]-Anor Londo.............................[anolo1]-Firelink Shrine........................[firsh5]-Undead Asylum..........................[undas2]-Anor Londo.............................[anolo2]-The Painted World of Ariamis...........[paiar1]

-Darkroot Garden........................[darga2]-Undead Burg............................[undbu4]-Darkroot Basin.........................[darba1]-Valley of Drakes.......................[valdr1]-New Londo Ruins........................[nelor1]-The Catacombs..........................[thcat1]-Tomb of the Giants.....................[tomgi1]-Anor Londo.............................[anolo3]-The Duke's Archives....................[dukar1]-Crystal cave...........................[cryca1]-Demon Ruins............................[demru2]-Lost Izalith...........................[losiz1]-Kiln of the First Flame................[kifif1]

-Before we face Gwyn....................[befag1]-What's next............................[whane1]-Boss Strategies........................[bosst1]-Covenants..............................[cvnts1]-Pyromancies............................[prmns1]-Sorceries..............................[srcrs1]-Miracles...............................[mrcrs1]-Trophy Information.....................[troin1]-Version History........................[verhi1]-Special Thanks.........................[speth1]-Contact................................[cntct1]

++++General Tips++++[genti1]

-Don't rush into battle, most enemies, even the early ones can easily kill youif you're not carefull. Just wait for them to attack and either block andcounter or walk behind them and backstab.

-Don't try to fight groups of enemies, lure them out 1 by 1 with your bow andthen kill them.

-Be patient, sometimes enemies will try to bait you in doing attacks to blockand counter, don't fall for it.

- Watch enemy movements, nearly any attack that any enemy can throw at you hasan obvious tell. Learn them and react accordingly.

-Don't overlevel yourself. Off course it seems easy to just go farm for hourson end and kill everything with ease, but in the long run you'll just make itharder on yourself, because in NG+, enemies are scaled up to your currentlevel and become harder then they were in your first run. The higher yourlevel, the harder it gets to gain more levels.

++++Character build++++[chabu1]

For the purpose of this guide we will be using a Pyromancer as base character,because they start out at level 1 with decent stats all-round and a powerfullspell.

We'll be turning our pyro into a dexterity based melee/ranged charactertroughout the game, because speed is more important than strength in this game,


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and it's always helpfull to be proficient with a bow.

Also pyromancies do not seem to be scaled with intelligence, but only with thelevel of your flame.(can someone confirm this?)

Order of levelling:

Get your dex. up to 12 for the shortbow.Get your strength up to 16 for the drake sword.Get your dex. up to 14 for the longbow.Get your vitality and endurance up about 10 points each.

Afterward, divide levels at about 2 points dex to 1 point str., vit, and end.,keeping in mind that at some point, NG+ or NG++, we will need 50(!) faith tojoin the Warrior of sunlight covenant to get the miracles lightning spear,great lightning spear and sunlight spear,

It also helps to invest some points in int. to 15 or so early game to be ableto learn logan's spells. Another thing to keep in mind is that you may want to

get your faith up to 18 early on, so you can use homeward.

I never really use the souls you find to gain levels, but only at shops,because there are plenty opportunities to grind souls for levelling, which willbe mentioned in the walkthrough, and I don't like going back and forth betweenshop and grinding area just to buy something.

Also in your first game NEVER EVER use boss souls to get souls as you need allof them at least once to create a weapon or shield.In NG+ you can use some of them, in NG++ you can use all but the soul of Sifand the soul of Gwyn.

My standard setup is:Left hand: shield, bowRight hand: sword, flame, with a talisman in your inventory for healing and

homwardMagic: 2x fire orb, iron flesh, heal or great heal, homewardRings: Covetous gold serpent ring, ring of favor and protection

++++walktrough++++

In the walktrough I will try to keep it as spoiler free as possible, but I willgive my opinion on events AFTER they happen, so if it's your first run, youmight not want to read past the point of the game you are in. You have beenwarned.

Also because this game is mostly open world you can do most things in any

order, the order I use is what I like best, off course you are free to do itotherwise.

OK, take a deep breath, here we go!

++++Character Creation++++

As stated above, we'll take the pyromancer class.None of the options you can choose will matter gameplay wise, but for a gift Istrongly advice you to take the master key.It's the only item that can't be obtained otherwise and will be pretty helpfullat times.

-Katana Faraway wrote: from patch 1.04 you can buy the master key from the guyyou save in the sewers, creds to Katana for this-


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++++Undead Asylum++++[undas1]

Pretty cool movie huh? Oh well...

You start out in a cell with a glowing orb in front of you, this is what itemsand loot look like so pick it up.

You'll get a message saying it is a dungeon cell key and opens the door of yourcell.

You start out with a straight sword hilt and fireball, which you can't use yet.

Open the door and walk forward, you'll see orange messages on the floor whichbasically tell you the controls, read them as you go.

On the left is a guy holding his head, he won't attack you unless you attackhim, do so anyway to get 20 souls.

Another guy just before the stairs, kill him too for another 20 souls.

Up the stairs, keep going forward untill you reach a pool of water with yetanother guy sitting there, again, kill.

Afterward go right through the archway and climb the stairs, go through thearchway and in the middle of the open area there is a sword in the ground.Approach it and press x to light the bonfire, press x again to rest here soyou can return here if you die.

To your right under the arch is a door you can't open so go through the bigdoors in front.

Holy f*** what the hell!

Theoretically you can kill this guy now, but it will be hard and time consumingso run to the left through the door and activate the second bonfire, rest theretoo.

Go down the stairs to the left and through de door, run to the item and equipyour shield, go towards the archer with your shield up and he will run away.

Grab the next item, your handaxe, equip it and go after the archer and killhim. Go up the stairs and through the white fog.

If you go left here you will see an item on a staircase you can't reach yet so

go right.

Two more staircases, go down first, open the door and rest at the bonfire ifyou want.

Now go up the staircase but about halfway up jump off to your right as aboulder will come crashing down creating a hole in the wall behind you.Go through that hole and talk to the guy who gives you a key and theestus flask, which is your main healing source.

Go up the stairs, kill the guy. BTW this might be a good opportunity topractice backstabbing since we'll be using it a lot. You'll know you did itright if you see an animation ending with you kicking the guy down.

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you can use fireball, but let's not test it out just yet...

Here there will be 3 guys, 2 with swords 1 with a bow, you know what to do.

Don't go through the fog yet, go straight and kill the soldier guy for someextra souls, right now this is easiest done backstabbing.

Get ready for payback.

+boss+ Asylum Demon

When done right, this guy is really easy and beatable without getting hit once.

When you go through the fog, take your weapon in 2 hands, target lock him anddo a jump attack, this takes off about about 50 percent of his health, thenkeep circling him staying between his left leg and tail and spam him withfireball, he should go down after 4 hits, ending the battle in 15 secondswithout a scratch on you.

For beating him you get 1000 souls and the Big Pilgrim's Key.

Use the key to open the door and walk outside.

Up the first flight of stairs, go left, down the slope to get a soul of aLost Undead.

On the right side is a bird's nest with a voice asking for warm and soft.This is snuggly the crow.

There isn't much use for it now but remember this place.

Go back to the center area and proceed to the end of the cliff.

++++Firelink Shrine++++[firsh1]

Is that a cool way to travel or what?

Anyway, first order of business is to go to the bonfire.Now you should be able to gain 1 level, invest it in dex. Do not use the soulyou got earlier, you'll want to use it at the first merchant, just a littlewhile ahead.

You should see a blue guy in front of you. If you talk to him he tells you togo ring the bells, one in the church upstairs and one in blighttown. Basicallythat's our first mission, but first let's explore.

If you go down the stairs to your left you will see some sort of prison withthe firekeeper inside. She cannot speak but if you find a firekeeper soul andgive it to her, she will upgrade your estus flask to heal better.

Go down the next flight of stairs and you will come to a lift, this takes youto New Londo Ruins, but trust me unless you need to go to the blacksmith downthere you do not want to be there yet, in fact even when you need to go thereto proceed with the game, you don't want to go there.

So back up the stairs, you will see a well with an item, this is Humanity.Humanity is really neat because it allows you to go back to your human form,kindle fires, raise your drop rate, and deal more damage to foes,Just be carefull, if you die you'll lose it, just like your souls.

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From the well go up the stairs and take the rightmost archway, here you willfind 6 Firebombs, basically the item version of Fireball.

The middle archway leads to Petrus of Thorolund, who, if you keep talking tohim, will sell you miracles and a talisman, teach you a Gesture, and lets you

join his covenant, the way of the white.

Go up the stairs to his right and you will come to 2 archways, if you gothrough them you will come to four chests giving you 4 cracked red eye orb,1 morning star, 1 talisman,6 homeward bone, and 4 Lloyd's talisman.

Jump down here and you will come to a skeleton infested graveyard. There are afew good items here, but the skellies are pretty strong so we'll do that later,just get the hell out of there and rest at the bonfire so any skeleton chasingyou will be gone.

Back to Petrus and up the stairs, now instead of going to the arches, go rightup the stairs and take the soul of a lost undead.

Now from the well near the bonfire, go towards the large tree and up thestairs, there will be a few enemies here, just be carefull, patient and takethem out with ease. Now before you go to the item and the soldier guy in theback, go up the stairs and take out the firebomber and axe and sword guys thatambush you. The soldier is easiest taken care of backstabbing.

Take the soul of the lost undead. On the bridge you have probably seen an item,you can jump the gap and get it, its a ring of sacrifice, but I dont reallyfind it worth the risk.

Go back up the stairs and take the Soul of a Lost Undead from the corpse.

Through the door and to your left will be a rat guarding another Soul of a lostundead, but be carefull, the rat can poison you.

If you turn around there will be an archway to your left and a closed gate infront of you, you can't open the gate yet, so go left.

++++Undead Burg++++[undbu1]

When you go up the stairs you will be attacked by 2 guys, by now you shouldknow what to do.

After killing them you will see a few stacked barrels, break them and jump downto get a Large soul of a lost undead.

Jump down again and you will be ambushed from 2 sides by 3 guys, so becarefull.

Before you cross the bridge to the right, go into the building on your left andtake the Soul of a lost undead from the corpse in the window. You can't go upthe stairs.

Cross the bridge, go through the building and be carefull of a 4 guy ambush,take the Rubbish, this is used for trading with Snuggly, we'll get to thatlater.

Go up the ladder and take the Humanity from the corpse and jump back down tothe start of the area, cross the small bridge to your left and kill the

firebomber. Be carefull, inside the building to your left is a guy who willambush you so kill him too.


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Cross the white light and take the Soul of a lost undead from the corpse underthe stairs, go up the stairs but don't bother trying to jump to the secondfloor of the other building from here, you won't make it.

Go right and up the stairs and... Whoa what the hell? You know we're going to

kill you for that, you a******?

Well, up the stairs will be 3 guys with swords and 1 on the building with acrossbow, take them out.

Open the door, take the wooden shield and equip it if you want, but unless youhave gotten a hollow soldier shield dropped we'll buy a heater shield in a fewmoments.

Go up the stairs and into the building on your left, light the bonfire andreverse hollowing and kindle the flame if you have the humanity, kindling willrestock your estus to 10 instead of 5 and we'll be using this bonfire a lot inthe coming hour or so. Also note that if you kindle a bonfire while online,

every player that lastly used said bonfire will get a free estus, so you arenot just doing it for yourself.

Anyway, get your dexterity up to 12 now if you have the souls, otherwise grindfor them around here.

Now go back down the stairs, take out the guys and go left across the bridgewe skipped earlier.

At the end of the path will be 2 guys with shields and spears, the best way todeal with them is to attack once, they will block it but it will bait theminto counterattacking, if you circle them while locked on you can easilybackstab them, take note that while you are in the backstab animation, youwill not take damage, but be carefull, because when it ends it can happen thatyou get attacked and don't have time to block.

Guys dead? good.

To the left of this area are a few crates hiding a stairwell, so destroy themand go down.

If you go through the door in front of you there is a merchant who sells somegood stuff, for now at least.

Buy the shortbow, 100-200 wooden arrows, if you don't have a hollow soldiershield, buy the heater shield and if you have the souls also buy the residencekey and the repairbox, but we can leave those 2 for later.

Equip the shield and bow, and don't forget to equip the arrows, or your bowwill be useless.

Now, go back inside the building and go left, there's an axeguy waiting toambush you behind a bookcase so do what you need to.

Continue through the door and at the end of the walkway there will be 4 guys,get creative(or destructive, depending on your point of view) and take care ofthem.

Go up the ladder, take the 10 throwing knives and from here you can jump to thesecond floor of the building we didn't jump to earlier, where you will find a

crossbow and some bolts, crossbows take a long time to reload, so that's why Iprefer normal bows, also a crossbow is scaled with strength(I think), normal


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bows with dex.

Let's go back to the bonfire and rest so we can continue.

First take care of the guys that attack you as soon as you step out the door,then it's time to take out our bow.

Shoot the guys on the roof that are throwing firebombs, a headshot does moredamage. There are 3 of them, but the leftmost one is a bit hard to hit so youcan just leave him.

If you move your crosshair down and to the right you will see a soldier, shoothim once and wait for him to come to you, because inside the building are also2 axeguys. The soldier sometimes takes one with him, but that shouldn't posetoo much of a problem.

After taking care of our friends there will be a closed gate inside thebuilding which cannot be opened from this side, so go left.

Go into the building to your right, kill the 2 guys and open the chest for 5black firebombs.

Back outside go up the stairs and lure out the 3 guys one by one before killingthem.

Now go inside the round tower, kill the sniper and go back down. If you haveeither the master key or the residence key, you can open the door to get 3Gold pine resin. This item gives lightning element to your right hand weapon,which comes in handy for the next boss.

Back outside you have probably alerted a spear soldier so do your thing.

Go up the ladder, kill the last firebomber if you haven't already and take thesoul of a lost undead.

Go back down and lure out the soldiers one by one with the bow and kill them.

Go up the stairs, but look out, a soldier will roll down a flaming barrel soevade and kill the soldier.

Now prepare for a semi tough fight.

Back down the stairs you will see another stair going down. At the end of thisis a black knight guarding an item.

Shoot him with your bow, then lure him back to the large open space with theround tower. Keep circling him untill you get a chance to backstab, he willsurvive so immediatly lock onto him again and throw a fireball at him, Switchback to your axe and repeat untill dead. He will drop a Titanite chunk, whichis used to upgrade weapons, and possibly a Black knight sword or shield.

You now will probably want to go back to the bonfire and rest up which is agood idea, also level up, put everything on strength because we need to get itat 16 for our next melee weapon. Spend any extra souls on arrows.The item the BK guarded is a blue tearstone ring, which raises your defencewhen your HP is low, might as well equip it.

Go back to the flaming barrel stairs and into the tower.

With the master key you can open the door in front of you, but behind it is a


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powerfull enemy who we can barely tickle right now so go up the stairs.

On the level with the white fog is a lizard hiding behind a barrel. Lizardsdrop all kinds of titanite but disapear if you can't kill them quick enough,so leave it for later.

Past the white fog is a ladder to your immediate right, climb it and kill thesnipers.

+Boss+ Taurus Demon

Alright, go down the ladder, use a gold pine resin and walk untill abouthalfway the bridge.

Big ugly will jump down, so turn around, run back and climb the ladder.

Wait untill it's below you, lock on and jump attack him.

This takes away about 50% of his HP, afterwards stand between his legs andstart slashing like a madman, he'll probably hit you once but it doesn't reallyhurt.

There, another boss easily taken down, you'll get 1000 souls for your efforts.

At the end of the walkway is a stairs going down with 2 crates against thewall, destroy the rightmost one for a large soul of a lost undead.

At the bottom of the stairs is a locked door in front, a bridge with somesoldiers to the left and an open area to the right, go there first.

Here we will find Solaire of Astora, who, if you talk to him will give you theWhite sign soapstone which enables you to summon other people to help youagainst bosses when you are human. You can also sometimes summon NPC's with it.

Now carefully walk onto the bridge, after a few steps turn around and run back.

It's our dragon buddy!

Ok, make sure you're at full health and run on the right side of the bridgetaking the stairs down to safety.

There are 2 doors here, first take the one with the stairs going down, kick theladder to create a shortcut and rest at the bonfire.

Time to do some grinding.

If you go back up the ladder and up the stairs leading to the dragon, you canbait it into killing the soldiers for you by walking onto the bridge, just pastthe first soldier and running back down. This will give you 300 souls everytime, so run back to the bonfire to respawn the soldiers and repeat.

The stats we're aiming for are 16 Strength, 14 Dex, and you might as well raiseyour Vitality and endurance by 1 or 2 points too.

When you are done go up the ladder and take the other door, which leads underthe bridge. At the end is a soldier with a sword and hiding behind the wall isa soldier with a spear get rid of them by any means.

Once they are dead, go to the side of the bridge where you can see the dragon'stail. If you stand next to the last pillar that isn't attached to the castle,


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you can shoot it's tail. When you do enough damage it's tail will fall off andgive you the Drake Sword, pretty much the best weapon you can have at thispoint.

Take note however that it scales with nothing, the only way to deal more damagewith it is by upgrading it, which we can't right now.

If you want to you can kill the dragon now, giving 10K souls, but it will takea long time and takes away the best grinding spot we have right now, so let'sdo it later.

If you go to where the spear soldier was you will see a door, inside are 3 ratsso you can test out your new toy. Remember they can poison you, so just blockand counter.

Take the ladder going up and to your left you will see a stairs going up. Ontop of it is a Black Knight, this one is a little harder to beat than the firstone so we'll take care of him when we go kill the dragon.

++++Undead Parish++++[undpa1]

Through the door on your right is a soldier, past him you can see a big boar ,3 soldiers and 2 snipers on the walkway. 2 of those soldiers you can lure toyou with your bow, the third one will go hide behind the boar.

Be carefull luring them however because hiding to your right is a spear guy.

As soon as the soldiers are dead, go immediately right, up the stairs and wastethe spear soldier and the snipers. Then stand on the archway and kill the boarwith arrows or fireball.

One of the soldiers could have closed the large gate, sometimes it happens,sometimes it doesn't. We're not going through it anyway. To the right of thegate is a stairs going down and a guy trying to bait you into following him,don't do it because you will be jumped by 2 other guys, so carefully walk into lure them out and take out everyone inside.

In the back of the room you can find the mystery key, so take it and go up thehard to see ladder you just passed.

Kill the 2 guys and carefully walk across the beam to get a Large soul of alost undead.

Go up the stairs and through the white light, across the bridge there arestairs to your left and a walkway to your right, go right first.

Carefully approach the knight and backstab him, with the drake sword it shouldkill him. If something goes wrong and he notices you just use the basic blockand counter. Watch out when he raises his sword though, that means he willparry and riposte which hurts, a lot. Anyway, take the knight shield, go backand up the stairs.

To your left will be a spear soldier waiting to ambush you so kill him.

Go through the door, walk outside and go back in. This should have triggered aspear soldier and a knight to come after you, kill them.

Out on the walkway take the first left and you'll be behind the closed(or not)gate. Take the basement key and halberd lying here and carefully approach the

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There will be a knight running at you, lure him outside and backstab him.Take out your bow, shoot the second knight and kill him too.

While you were sniping the second knight, you probably saw a really big knightin the back of the room, lure him out with an arrow and kill him, just don't gothrough the door because a third knight is waitng to your left to ambush you.

After all enemies are dead, run to where the big knight was and take theFirekeeper soul, just know that on a walkway above you there will be a sorcerercasting soul arrows at you.

From the firekeeper soul go right, kill the 3 soldiers and cross the bridgeinto another building.

If you go down the stairs you will come to a bonfire, light it,rest at it andif you have the humanity reverse your hollowing(if nescesary) and kindle theflame, don't use your souls for levelling though, the hammering sound you hearis Andre of Astora, a blacksmith, who is downstairs. Repair any equipment andbuy at least the repairbox.

Grinding time again.

You probably saw that Andre also sells the Crest of Arthorias for 20K souls.

Go back to where you just came from, kill the 3 soldiers, then go left acrossthe walkway, backstab the knight, kill the spearguy, go to the large areabehind the gate, kill the 3 knights inside the building, go back to the bonfireand repeat untill you have enough souls.

Now go to Andre, buy the crest and go through the door near him.

This ugly thing can be beaten real easily(although cheap) by standing behind abroken pillar in the middle of the room where he can't hit you but you can hithim with manual aim. He drops a Demon titanite and can also drop a titanitecatchpole altough this never happened for me.

++++Darkroot Garden++++[darga1]

As soon as you enter, go left. You'll see a walking tree like thing coming atyou, don't let them grab you, just block and counter. It should go down after3 hits. These guys have a fairly high drop rate of moss clumps, differentcolors heal different status changes, like poison.

When you kill the second tree look behind you, you'll see a glowing flower ona hill, go there.

Now go right and go down the winding path, try to kill the lizard and keepgoing down untill you see an item on a cliff you can jump down to, do so to getthe longbow, some feather arrows and the leather armor set.

If you have 14 dex. equip it and the armor if you want. Now use a homeward boneto go back to the bonfire.

Get back to darkroot garden and now walk to the end of it with the glowing signon a door.

Before you open the door using the crest you bought, hit the wall to the leftof it revealing a bonfire, kindle if you have the humanity.

Now, if you open the door, you will see some guy standing in front of you,


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don't try to fight him. Alone he's pretty strong and his friends will join thefight early on.

What you want to do is run past the guy to your left untill you see anotherguy, then turn right, a third guy will drop down, now turn around running backto the stairs, you should also have alerted a fourth guy.

Instead of running up the stairs, go to the edge on the right, stand close tothe wall and wait, all 4 of them should jump to their deaths from the stairsabove you, giving you 7000(!) souls. Do this as long as you want/dare.

If you have trouble doing this with my crappy description, there are plentyvideos on YouTube showing how to do this.

We have just found the best grinding method in the game that I don't considercheating, there is a better one and I will mention it when it becomesavailable, but like I said, it's cheating.

From here on out I will not tell you to grind anymore, if you need souls for

buying or leveling, just go here. I will however point out decent grindingopportunities whenever we get there.

Now back to the game.

++++Undead Parish++++ [undpa2]

Go back to the area where the firekeeper soul was, if you enter from the doorwith the 3 soldiers, you will see 2 gates, 1 open 1 closed, this is an elevatorback to firelink shrine. Step in the open gate, touch the floor button and getout again unless you need to rest, from now on this is a shortcut.

If you look to your right you will see a stairs going up, go there but becarefull of the knight, lure him down and kill him.

Go up the stairs and through the window you can see the sorcerer that wasannoying us earlier, just shoot arrows through the window to kill him, heshouldn't be able to hit you.

Now be carefull, if you enter the large room you will be ambushed by manyswordguys so walk in a few steps, lock on to the first one and walk back,either blocking and countering or fireballing them, whatever works best foryou.

Once they are all dead, go left twice, kill the knight, when the path startsturning left you will see some planks with light shining behind them, slashthrough them and up the stairs.

Here you will meet Lautec of Carim behind bars. If you picked up the mysterykey you can free him. Now you can either leave him there so he will showhimself out or you can kill him giving you a Ring of divine protection andfavor. It's a nifty ring which raises your hp, stamina and max equipment load,but I advice to let him go, we'll get a chance (and a real reason) to kill himlater anyway. If you don't do anything he'll get out, but he won't reward youafter beating the next boss.

Go back down, continue the path you came from and slash the barrel with thecorpse in it to get a humanity.

Go all the way back to the large room where the ambush was, go straight through

the door and take the large soul of a nameless soldier.


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Back to the large room go left twice again, follow the path and prepareyourself.

+Boss+ Bellfry Gargoyles.

If you are going for the platinum trophy I suggest doing this in 2 stages.

The first rum just go for cutting of it's tail, take the Gargoyle tail axe andlet him kill you or jump of the roof.

Then for the second run reverse hollowing at the bonfire, go back up to the fogagain, be carefull as the big ambush has respawned, but luckily the sorcererhasn't.

If you didn't kill or otherwise aggroed Solaire(the knight who gave you thewhite soapstone), you can summon him here. Do so and if he survives he willgive you a Sunlight medal. You are going to need 10 of these to get a miraclefrom the sunlight warrior covenant.

Anyway, here's the strategy.

From the start keep moving, he has a confusing jump attack that can let youthrow youself of the roof if you're not carefull.

Just get close, bait him into doing an attack, get behind him and attack.

This way he'll go down pretty quickly, just beware after about a minute hisbuddy shows up who will start breathing fire.

Just stay focussed on the first one, stay cautious but aggressive and take himdown. Repeat for number two and this fight should end without too muchproblems.

If you have Solaire with you, the strategy remains the same, but although Solwon't do a lot of damage, he will provide a good distraction to make the fighteven easier.

When the gargoyles are toast you'll get 1500 souls if you did it alone or 750souls and a sunlight medal if you did it with Sol and he survived.

There is nothing on the sides of the tower, so go in and climb it. When youreach the top you will see a lever, pull it.

You just rang the first bel of awakening, nice going!

Go back down and talk to the creepy guy that has arrived, this is Oswald of

Carim. This guy can give you absolution for sins you may have committed againstcovenants, the cost is high however (2000 souls x your current level) and Idon't really see the use of it. He does sell some good items though, themiracle Karmic justice, some rings and most importantly right now, purgingstones.- Ultimate_Finale wrote: after patch 1.04 the cost for absolution will onlybe 500 souls x your current level, so creds to him-

The rings and miracle are probably way above your price range, but aim to buyat least 1 purging stone, Ozzie sells them for 3000, the only other merchantthat sells them asks 6000 and trust me, if you get cursed youll want one asap,so just buy one.

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++++Firelink Shrine++++ [firsh2]

Go towards where fhe firekeeper is and give her the firekeeper soul if youhaven't already, this will upgrade your estus. Near her, you will see Lautecsitting on the floor, talk to him to get 1 sunlight medal.

++++Undead Burg++++ [undbu2]

When you're done, go into the Undead Burg, to the bonfire there, if you haven'tpicked up the residence key from the merchant yet, do so now, go up the ladderand towards the bridge with the dragon. Remember the door we couldn't openearlier? We now have the key, so open it.

Do so and go down the ladder, here you will see 2 staircases, one in front andone on the right, go right first and open the gate at the end, you shouldrecognize the area. This is another shortcut.

Go back down and take the other stairs, here you will be attacked by 3 dogs,don't fight them on the stairs, you can't swing your sword, instead lure them

back to the open area and just block and counter. These bitches can poison youso be carefull.

Doggies dead? now go down the stairs and make a right U-turn and stand near thedoor without a round top, with the residence key you can open it and saveGriggs of Vinheim. After beating this area's boss he will be at firelink tosell you sorceries. If you roll into the barrel with the corpse, it will dropthe sorcerer's clothing set and a catalyst.

Step outside and go left. At the end of the path will be 7 guys with torches,kill them all and take the twin humanities, this is the same as a normalhumanity but gives you 2 points of humanity when you use it.

Turn around and go the other way. There will be a cart in the middle of theroad, go past it but beware, when you pass the second door to your right, youwill be ambushed by 3 thieves, they are fast, hit hard and can throw knives atyou, oh yeah, they can also poison you.

This sounds like a lot, but they are no match against the tried and testedblock and counter, when they come out, just run back to behind the cart andthey should come at you one by one. Hah! who ambushes who here?

In the first building to your right you will find a mail braker.

Continue following the path but be carefull, another ambush is just ahead, 3thieves and 2 dogs this time, just be devensive and patient, wait for anopening and take them out.

To your left is another corpse in a barrel, this time dropping a large soul ofa lost undead. In the second builing to the right is the black leather armorset, a pretty decent set, so equip it.

Now, before going through the fog and confronting the boss, first go right justbefore it, to create another shortcut.

The boss can be pretty nasty if you have run out of luck, and you don't want torepeat the last few ambushes again.

Go down the stairs, but before going down the last one, take out your bow andsnipe the thief. Afterwards, be carefull, another one is hiding behind the left

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When they are done for, don't go up the stairs yet, go to the end of thehallway and take the large soul of a lost undead.

Go up the stairs, inside the tower, do the same, take out the archer and headthrough the door.

To your right will be a merchant, she does not sell a lot of interestingthings, but she does sell purging stones at 6000 souls each, she will also sellyou 1 humanity if you want.

Turn around and open the iron gate, you probably already know where you areright now, so if you need to rest, do so and head back to the boss gate.

As you go up the stairs to the fog, the 2 dogs will attack you. kill them,make sure you're at full health and go through the fog

+Boss+ Capra Demon

This fight can be fairly easy or just plain annoying, making you want to throw

your controller at the tv screen.

The biggest problems here are the small room and the 2 dogs he brings with him,which need to be killed asap.

Ok, now for the strategy.

As soon as the fight starts Cap will come at you, 1 dog comes at you from theleft.

Run a little to the right I'd say at about 30 degrees, when he raises hisblades, roll straight forward, the second dog will come at you from either thefront or the right.

The timing to roll without taking damage will take some tries to learn, buteven if you do get hit, it's not over yet.

As soon as the roll ends, take a hard left towards the stairs, about halfway upturn around and lock on. Cap walks pretty slow, so you should lock on to one ofthe dogs, which should be right behind you.

Block and counter, taking care your sword doesn't hit the wall. Both dogsshould die with a single swipe.

Those were the first 5 to 10 seconds.

If you get through this in one piece, the rest is plain sailing.

You can either take Cap on one-on-one, circling him and attacking his backafter a two-handed swing, don't do it after a one-handed swing or he willprobably counter, leaving you at his mercy, and he doesn't show any.

Another, safer, approach is to use the stairs.

Lock onto him, always having your shield up, he can hit you from nearlyanywhere, and walk onto the stairs all the way over the arches as far aspossible.

Now he will do one of two things: He will try to jump you from about halfway upthe stairs, miss usually, he can sometimes hit you, so keep your shield up.

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Another thing he might do, is go up all the way towards you. If this happens,jump down, lock on, and wait for him to jump down, slash him twice and get backup.

Repeat untill he's dead.

As you can see, the first few seconds will determine the outcome of the battle,as soon as the dogs are gone the worst is over so just stay calm, get rid ofthe dogs and waste this bastard.

After it's over and you are dancing through the room you will get 2000(?)souls and the key to the depths.

When you are done celebrating, go back out the room, down the stairs and to thedoor you probably saw when creating the last shortcut.

++++Depths++++ [depth1]

When you enter, go down the stairs, you'll see a guy waiting for you in the

distance, don't run to him, because hiding behind the stairs you're on isanother one waiting to ambush you.

Carefully walk in, lure them out and take them out. In the back of the room isa third one who will come at you too.

After killing them turn around and take the large soul of a nameless soldierfrom the side of the stairs.

Go forward and go through the door, under the stairs is a sword guy waiting foryou, a torch guy in front of the stairs and three guys are hiding on thebalcony behind a pillar, again lure them out one by one and kill them.

In the back of the room is a final guy hiding behind a pillar, do I still needto tell you what to do?

If you approach the stairs you will see a dog waiting for you, lure him up andteach him how to play dead.

Go halfway down the stairs, if you aim your bow manually, you will see anotherdog guarding a chest, and a butcher hacking something, shoot the dog, kill himand engage the butcher. Use standard big guy tactics against him. (circle,backstab when possible and if you have it relock and fireball) He should godown easily.

Open the chest to get a large ember. This is used to upgrade weapons, if yougive this one to Andre, the smith near darkroot garden, he will let you upgrade

your weapons past +5, it also lets you upgrade your +5 weapon to a raw weapon.

If you walk back to the stairs you came from you will see a pool of water witha dog in it, kill the dog, go down, kill a second dog and a sword guy.

Go up the debris on the other side and go left into a room with a lot ofbarrels. In the back of the room you will see someone trapped inside a barrel,roll throgh the barrels to free him, don't use your weapon, if you hurt him hewill turn hostile and you lose your only chance to get one of the most usefullpyromancies in the game.

This guy is Laurentius of the great swamp, a pyromancer just like us. Afterbeating the next boss he will be at firelink to sell pyromancies.

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butcher will have come after you, I guess he doesn't like the fact that youjust freed his next meal or something, anyway use the same tactics as with theprevious one and get rid of him.

When he is down, go through the door at the end, and down the stairs. To yourleft you will see an item, don't try to take it yet. Instead take out you bow,

go into aiming mode and look up, the blob thing on the ceiling is waiting tojump you, so start shooting, if it grabs you, you're as good as dead, so killit.

The fight will probably have alerted a torch guy, so kill him too. Now take thesoul of a nameless soldier and move on.

When you reach a room with a torch guy in the back, look up, there are 6 blobson the ceiling, so start shooting.

After they're gone, kill the torch guy, and open the door with the master key.

Thank god, a bonfire. Light it, reverse hollowing if needed and kindle the

flame, it might also be a good time to repair your gear.

When you're done playing with fire, go back out, kill torchie, and go right.

See the big rat? He can't hurt you here, but we will have to deal with him atsome point, just go straight.

The rats to your right are fairly docile, so you can just go in and kill them,take the greataxe, turn around and go the other way, be carefull, a rat willjump out the crate in the corner, he should have stayed in there.

Again a pack of rats down the stairs, kill them, turn around and take the soulof a nameless soldier you see in the distance.

From here, go right, through the fog, down the stairs is a sorcerer and 3giant rats, so take them out killing the sorcerer first.

Down the stairs to the left are 2 crates with rats hidden inside and a dead endso go right. Kill the rat, go through the door and take the second right,carefull there's a hole in the floor before the soul of a nameless soldier, sojump over it.

If you go straight you will reach the room with the big rat, I usually shoot 1arrow to draw it's attention and then play hide and seek throwing fireballsfrom the hallway, now take the sewer gate key and the other item (Iaccidentally pressed x too fast so I'm not sure what it was, I think somesoul).

Slide down the waterway, in the hall to your left you will see a frog likeenemy, These are very dangerous as they spew a cursing mist. If you get cursed,you die and afterwards your hp will be halved, get cursed again and you hp getshalved again, the only cure is a purging stone. I have never gotten cursed morethen once at a time so I don't know how far the cursing goes and if you needone purging stone to cure all, or if one stone just cures one curse.

Anyway, take it out. If you turn around after killing it and go back to thehall you started in you will be attacked by 3 giant rats and if you are humanyou'll get invaded by Kirk, just kill him using backstabs, he's easy. You'llget 5000 souls and 1 point of humanity for beating him.

Continue the path to the right, go up the stairs and you'll end up in a roomwith 2 blobs and 2 rats and a giant gate to your left. Don't go there yet,


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instead take the stairs in the back to the right, open the door and follow thepath, you'll have created a shortcut back to the bonfire, so go ahead and rest.

Now, I know this guide doesn't cover the entire sewer area, but the only itemthat might be worth getting cursed over(the part I skipped is infested withfrogs) is the ring of the evil eye, which gives a little hp back for every

enemy you kill, but you don't need it for anything, there's not even a trophyfor collecting all rings, so if you desperately want it, you're on your own forthis one, but keep in mind that it's not as good as it sounds.

Go back to where you came from and proceed towards the gate, but instead ofgoing through it go right through the archway. When you can, go right again,follow the path and go down the stairs, go right again and near the stairs youshould see a summon sign if you are human, this is sol, behind the same pillaris the sign for lautec, if you freed him back in undead parish. You know whatthis means, a boss is coming up, but don't summon them this time, their AI istoo stupid to do it properly and makes the fight take longer than needed.Besides, they won't survive anyway, so you won't get a sunlight medal.

Take the heavy crossbow with heavy bolts at the end of the path before goingdown the stairs, go down the stairs, through the fog and face...

+Boss+ Gaping Dragon

This guy looks pretty mean, but honestly, it's one of the easiest bosses in thegame, it's quite tough and takes a while to kill, but also really stupid andeasily kited.

Put away your shield, you don't need it, and take your weapon in two hands forextra damage.

When the fight starts, just stay where you are, it should belch out some yellowsmoke and drop to a prone position before rushing you. This is what we want itto do the entire fight.

Get out of it's way and wait untill it stops, it will stay still for a fewseconds which is your cue to lay on the hurt. Hit him a few times, 3 or 4 atmost and then run away like a little girl getting a good distance in between.

This will cause him to spew smoke again and start rushing. Repeat untill dead.

As this is a dragon enemy, the first priority however is to cut of it's tailgiving you the dragon king greataxe. this also takes away it's nasty tailswipe.

The last thing to watch out for is his jumping attack. When hit dead-on, you're

dead.

When the fight is over you get 25k souls, the key to blighttown and you canpick up the hard leather armor set.

Before we head into Blighttown however, let's do some prep work and tie up someloose ends. Head to Firelink Shrine.


When you get down the stairs, you'll see Griggs, the sorcerer we freed justbefore fighting the Capra demon. He will sell you sorceries if you want them.If you free Logan later, Griggs will stay here for the rest of the game.

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Laurentius, he's our BFF now because he sells pyromancies, including ironflesh, make this your first priority because after beating Blighttown's bossand showing him a new pyromancy from the Chaos covenant he will dissappear.He will also upgrade our flame, take it all the way to +15, this will cost youa lot, but you will need it before beating Blighttown's boss to get thefinal pyromancy near the end of the game.

Anyway, buy everything he sells and upgrade your flame, attune iron flesh atthe bonfire and get an extra slot or replace fireball with fire orb.

Talk to Petrus, the miracle guy and his crew to find out they will be going ona quest soon, don't bother buying all his miracles yet if you haven't, he willbe back.

Take the elevator and go to Andre, the blacksmith.

++++Undead Parish++++ [undpa3]

Talk to Andre and give him the ember when asked, now you can upgrade your

weapons further, although you probably don't have the materials yet.

Anyway, buy the armor and weapon smithboxes so you can do some upgradesyourself at a bonfire and upgrade your bow to at least +5.

Now, go to the merchant at Undead Burg.

++++Undead Burg++++ [undbu3]

Buy as many standard arrows as you can from this guy, aim for 999, and equipthem. You can equip 2 types of arrows at one time so theoretically you couldalways have 1998 arrows ready to go. Now kill him.

Seriously, kill him, before we run out of arrows, we will have found a better,easier to reach merchant and this one drops the uchigatana sword, not that it'svery usefull or anything but at some point we will need it to create a weaponwith a boss soul, so let's just get it over with and be done.

He also drops 1 humanity and the orange guidance soapstone so you can leavemessages if you play online, you'll also get a staggering 50 souls for doingthis.

Do you remember the dragon on the bridge? Guess what's next.

That's right, he's gonna pay for all he has done to us. Go up the ladder at thebonfire and go to the lower part of the bridge.

Kill both the soldiers and take out the rats in the small room ahead too, justto be safe.

Now, go stand on the left side of the door as far to the left as possible, takeout your bow and aim for his head, he will react by going onto the bridge, hereyou can shoot 3 or 4 more arrows at him, depending on your aiming skills.

That's pretty much the whole fight. when his hp drops enough however, he willstart to heal himself. When he starts shaking his head with his wings in frontof him you will know he's healing, taking his health back to about 75%. It maylook like you can't kill him but at some point, usually after 3 or 4 times hewill stop, so just be patient and keep shooting. It might also never heal.

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you can shoot the dragon from here and kill it with one shot, creds to him-

After the dragon is gone, go inside where the rats were, Remember the Blackknight we skipped? Now it's his turn. Go up the winding stairs just beforeUndead Parish, cast iron flesh when you're nearly at the top and take yoursword in 2 hands, have fun!

He will drop another titanite chunk, and might drop a black knight greatswordor a black knight shield, go back to the room before the bridge.

Go up to the bridge, take the claymore and the soul of a nameless soldier.Light the bonfire and open the gate if you want, this leads to Undead Parish,but we don't have any business there right now.

To the right of the bonfire is a balcony with some non-agressive guys, killthem if you must. See the statue with the huge spear? This is where you canjoin the warrior of sunlight covenant, but only if you have 50(!) faith, youwill get a miracle for joining, a miracle for giving them 10 sunlight medalsand a miracle for giving them a certain boss soul, check the miracles section

for info on this.

Pick a bonfire and level up with your "hard" earned souls and head back intothe sewers and Blighttown.

++++Blighttown++++ [bligh1]

Before you open the gate into Blighttown, there is a merchant sitting on thefloor on your right, he doesn't sell a lot of interesting things, but thebottomless box is something you might want to buy. It lets you stash away itemsyou don't need so you can keep your inventory organised.

After opening the gate, go to the left, along the ledge and down the ladder.You will come to a wooden walkway with another ladder to your left. Don't godown yet, destroy the junk in front of you and take out your bow.

See the big guy with the club downstairs? He's fairly easy to beat, but you caneasily fall of the ledge here, so just snipe him, he can't reach you here.

Now, go down the ladder, but walk slowly, a little ahead are 2 more of them,just snipe 1, wait for him to come running, turn around and go halfway up theladder.

If you go all the way up, he will follow you all the way and you have to snipehim like you did with number 1, if you go only halfway up, he will fall of theledge somehow. Repeat with the third one.

When they are done for, carefully walk forward, you'll see some pinkish guywaiting, he has a lot of friends hiding behind him, I think there are about 6total, so take your bow and lure him to you. These guys are fairly tough, butcan be easily beaten by simple block and counter, just be carefull when itsquats and hisses, this means it's going to jump you with a grab attack whichreally hurts, if not kill you.

At some point during this there will also be a guy spitting darts at you, thesethings cause 'toxic' status, a nasty variety of poison, that can only be curedwith a blooming purple moss clump, luckily these guys don't respawn afterkilling them.

When all pinkies, including the ones accross the bridge, are dead, go to where

the spitter was standing, down the ladder there are two more pinkies, take themout and go to the end of the walkway, take the soul of a proud knight, turn


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around and go back up the ladder.

When you cross the right bridge, it wobbles a lot, but it never crashed downon me, so I don't know if it can. If you cross the left bridge you will see anitem across a gap, this is the Iaito blade, it's not very usefull or needed fora trophy, so don't take the risk. If you really want it though, there is a

beam sticking out of the walkway, run on to the beam and jump at the very lastsecond to make the jump, this is however a shortcut to the first bonfire, butyou will miss out on a very usefull armor set.

On the plateau where the pinkies were standing, there is a ladder going down onthe left side, don't go down, go to the right of the hut, follow the narrowpath and jump down to the shadow set.

In terms of defence, this doesn't offer much protection, but it has the highestpoison resistance we can have so far, and we'll need it so put it on.

I don't know about you, but I always want to start doing izuna drops and UT'swhen I'm walking around in this...

Anyway, don't go down the ladder to the left, but jump down in front of you toget a soul of a proud knight, then, jump down again to the left.

Walk forward and destroy the wooden thing and take yet another soul of a proudknight.

Go left and from the plank sticking out between 2 poles, jump to the lowerwalkway, be carefull as there will be a pinkie and possibly some fire breathingrats to bother you.

Kill them and go left to light the bonfire, from here I won't tell you tokindle anymore, you probably already figured that out for yourself a long timeago.

Turn around and go up the stairs by the hanging torch, unless you want hissouls, leave the potted pinky, and kill the other one, if you look down fromhere you will see the fire breathing rats, you can shoot an arrow from here sothey will suicide, since they can be difficult to hit.

You will have alerted another pinky, so kill him too and follow the path.

After the stone walkway are 2 more pinkies and a spitter on top of a tower.Sometimes the spitter suicides, sometimes he doesn't, there's not much you cando about it now, so just keep moving and take out the pinkies.

When they are gone, move forward and hide from the spitter behind a large

wooden pillar near a ladder. Down and to the right you will see some big thingguarding an item, take it out from here with your bow.

Go down the ladder and go right, try to go down the next ladder so you lurepinky down there up to you, then run into the alcove with the soul of a proudknight and take out pinky and the other one you just alerted.

Instead of going down the ladder, go back to the previous one, turn around andgo down the ladder where pinky 2 came from, turn right and go up the longladder to where the spitter is, kill him.

Walk across the walkway and go into the cave on the right, 2 more pinkies here,deal with them and follow the cave to the item the big thing was guarding, it

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Go left ignoring the spitter from down below, who guards an eagle shield, it'snot really worth the trouble of getting it, so I'm not going to.

When you get to the large soul of a nameless soldier, cast iron flesh and takeyour sword in two hands, kill pinky and the big guy and follow the path.

When you go down the ladder you will see an item on a platform you can jumpdown to, it's the whip, take it if you want, otherwise go through the fog, bothroutes end up in the same place.

Now things will get nasty, the path is straightforward, only one route to go.

Take out the big bugs as you go. When you come to a platform with a beamsticking out, and a wooden wall protecting from a spitter, walk onto the beam,drop down and head to and take out the spitter. Hiding behind a wall here isthe wanderer clothing set and a falchion, whatever you do don't lose this, weneed it to create the weapon we will use untill the end of the game in thefuture.

Continue your route down, at some point you will come to an island in a lake,from here ignore the enemies and start running keeping an eye on the right fora cave with a bonfire, finally.

From the bonfire, head into the cave, in the back is a chest with a dragonscale, use this to upgrade your drake sword.

Back at the bonfire, go outside, turn right and kill the bug, if you are human,you will get invaded by Maneater Midred, kill the mosquitoes with your bow andjust backstab the hell out of her, you get 8000 souls, 1 humanity, 3 humanityitems and a butcher knife for this.

To your right, in the back, you will see a white/brownish hill with trees, thisis where the boss resides, but before that, let's do some side trips while weare down here.

If you go right, you will see torches on an island, on that island is a slopegoing up. Go there and climb the ladder.

Step on the elevator, and at the top get off, climb the ladder to your leftand instead of climbing the next ladder, go around the left.

Keep following the path, killing bugs, untill you reach a corpse with thecrimson clothes and the tin banishment catalyst. Also open the chest withthe remedy sorcery.

Go back to the ladder we skipped. Climb up and follow the path untill you reach

a corpse with a soul of a proud knight, from here jump down and take thefirekeeper soul, now let yourself die.

From the bonfire, go left this time, past the island we originally came from,to a giant branch, near the end of it you will see an item down below, jumpdown and take the green titanite shard.

Get back up the branch and inside the tree. Take the plank shield from thecorpse, and slash your sword to destroy the fake wall to the left of it.

Open the chest with the twin humanities, and again destroy the fake wall behindthe chest.

++++The Great Hollow++++ [greho1]


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Just follow the path to reach the bonfire, here do your thing and equip thecrimson set, this has the second highest curse resist in the game and there area lot of frogs coming up.

From here just follow the branches down, ignoring all the items you seescattered around, they require jumping and falling to collect and it's nothing

you can't obtain otherwise.

Just keep going down, killing the frogs as you go, but be carefull not to getcursed.

When you are near the bottom, the branches will become mushrooms, just keepgoing, ignoring the enemies.

When you go through the fog, you will be at...

++++Ash Lake++++ [ashla1]

If you look to your left you will see a 7-headed monster called hydra (I tought

hydras had 9 heads). If you look right you'll see a bonfire, go there first.

You can take on the hydra now if you want, it's not that hard. Stand at theedge of the water and wait untill it drives its heads into the sand/ash,missing you completely. Now start hacking its heads one by one to take them offand eventually kill it. You'll get 10k souls and a dragon scale for it.

But there is an easier way, just run past it, keep running picking up thedragon scales as you go all the way to the back of the area, just be carefullyou don't fall into the water, you will drown.

In the back of the area you will see another bonfire and a huge dragon, thisis the path of the dragon covenant. Upon joining you will get the dragon eye,and the dragon head stone. If you go behind the dragon and cut off its tail youget the dragon greatsword.

Remember I told you about the best way to farm souls, but is cheating?With the dragon head stone we can now do so, although you shouldn't do it.It takes away the biggest fun of the game, use at your own risk.

Anyway, to use it remove your headgear, put the headstone in your equippeditem box, remove everything else and use it as an item.

You now wear the dragon head as headgear, pressing [] will cause you to breathefire. Now if you put a soul item in your item box next to the headstone, faceaway from the screen, press [] with the headstone as used item, release [],press down on your d-pad, selectin the soul as item, pull back your left analog

stick to turn around, and then press [] again and keep it pressed, you will seeyour soul counter shoot up. Again, THIS IS CHEATING!!!!!!!

You can do the same with humanity getting your counter up to 99.

If you still want to use it and my description can't make it work for you,there are movies on YouTube that explain it.-Katana Faraway wrote: after patch 1.04 it's no longer possible to do this,creds to Katana-

Now, back to the hydra.

When you return from the dragon, the hydra should be waiting for you, turn

around, rest at the bonfire again and when you go back, the hydra should begoing back too. At some point it vanishes, giving you the 10k souls and dragon


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scale.

When you reach the area with the clam type enemy, just past is is a dead treeyou can go up. Kill the frog at the top, but don't go in, instead look down toyour right, you will see a small piece of wood sticking out between two roots.This leads to the Great magic barrier miracle - creds for this go to whoever

posted it on darksouls.wikidot.com, wouldn't have found it without, thanks-

Aside from some easy to see item collecting, there is not much more we can dohere, so go back to the bonfire in Blighttown.

++++Blighttown++++ [bligh2]

From the bonfire, go right, when you get to where the elevator is go to thefirst pillar you see, sitting on the left side will be Quelana of Izalith,another pyromancer( if you haven't upgraded your flame to +15 she won'tappear). Buy everything you can from her and let her modify your flame to astronger version too.

Now talk to her a few times and when she starts to repeat herself, go to thebonfire and rest, return to her and talk again.

Repeat this untill she asks you to kill her mother. We were going to have to dothis anyway at some point, might as well get an extra reward out of it. I willinform you to get it when the time comes.

If you can't buy everything from her and upgrade your new flame to the max.,don't worry about it, our next main objective is to collect an item that willallow us to warp between bonfires so she will be easier to reach, although thisis going to take some time.

From Quelana, go a little forward and right to get a Large titanite shard, thisallows you to upgrade your weapons from +5 to +10, but you'll need to modify itto +6 at Andre first before you can do it yourself.

Head to the island with trees, but stay on the right side of the lake, on theleft side are stone throwing giants who you don't want to mess with.

++++Quelaag's Domain++++ [quedo1]

Just walk forward towards the fog, ignore the 2 egg-covered dudes, they won'tattack you and when you kill them they will spawn annoying worms, so just leavethem.

Go through the fog.

+Boss+ Quelaag

Too bad for the lower part of her body...

When the fight starts, she will jump you and breathe lava, don't step in it.

The easiest way to fight her is to just get close and bait her to do her swordattack, if you get to the right of her spider face up against her, she can'thit you, after the first strike, attack a few times and wait out her next move.

If she stops moving completely, back off asap, she will do an AOE attack whichhurts, get your shield up to absorb some of it.

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She will also spit lava around the area, while she is spitting, this isanother good time to do some damage, just be carefull you don't get surrounded.

If the part of the area you are fighting is getting covered in lava, just gosomewhere else, it's a large room with a lot of space to move around.

You'll get 20k souls for beating her and the soul of Quelaag, whatever you do,DO NOT USE IT TO GET SOULS! Especially this one, because with the falchion wegot earlier, and this soul we will create the weapon we'll use for theremainder of the game.

If somehow this fightis too hard, you can go to the fog in human form to summonManeater Mildred to help you, like Sol with the gargoyles she won't do a lotof damage, but provide a good distraction. You will only get 10k of soulshowever and no sunlight medal.

Go up the stairs in the back of the room and through the door, you will see alever, pull it. This was the second bell of awakening and you have justcompleted your first main objective, congrats!

Before we head all the way back to the firelink shrine, there are a few thingsleft to do down here.

Go down the stairs to your right, on the right hand side of the wall in thisroom is a piece of wall that looks a little different from the rest, strike itto reveal a secret room.

Don't attack the egg creature, talk to it and it will ask if you are a newservant, awnser yes, if you say no just once, you'll have to kill it to getpast it and lose the chance to get 2 pyromancies a little later.

Use the bonfire if you wish, and talk to the white spider chick.

This is the chaos servant covenant, upon joining you get the great chaosfireball pyromancy, if you give her 30 humanity you'll get chaos stormpyromancy. She can also upgrade your estus.

The egg thing can upgrade your flame for you if you want, and if you returnto him with an egg on your head he will sell 2 more pyromancies, let's do sonow.

Go out and turn right through the hole with the red glow.

++++Demon Ruins++++ [demru1]

Rest at the bonfire and unequip your weapon, also remove your headgear.

Strike any of the egg things with your fist to turn it hostile and just standthere until it grabs you and uses it's worm to bite you. You have now beeninfected and after some time you will grow an egg on your head, just head backto the chaos servant room and when the egg pops, this will takea few minutes, talk to eggie.

He will give you an egg vermifuge you can use to get it off, but moreimportantly, he will now sell poison mist and toxic mist pyromancies.

There is one more thing to do down here, go back to demon ruins, go down theslope and make a right u-turn when you can. Cross the bridge and go through thefog.

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back of the area and go right, take the item, the gold hemmed black cloak set,a great piece of equipment we will be using for the rest of the game. The onlydownside is that it has zero curse resistance, but we'll only fight one moreenemy that uses it anyway.

When you take it, the boss gets angry.

+Boss+ Ceaseless Discharge

Don't fight this thing straight up, you can't win.

Instead run like a pussy into the side path on the left, where it can't hit youand wait for it untill it gets to the other side of the rock you are hidingbehind, now show yourself, staying where you are and bait it into attacking.After the attack, run as fast as you can back to the fog you came from.

Here he can't reach you, but will still try to attack you. As soon as his handslams on the ground, run up to it and start slashing, after 4 or 5 slashes itwill die.

If something goes wrong and you die before you can do this, you'll have to doit the hard way.

Get into the side path where he can't hit you. You'll notice he uses adifferent attack now, a huge tentacle will slam down with a blaze of fire,hide behind the rock and when the blaze dissipates, start attacking thetentacle, it will take a while to kill it, but isn't that hard.

You'll get 10k souls for this and a new path will open up. The enemies downthere are really strong and we can't get to the final boss of the area yet, sogo back to the firelink shrine.


The first thing you'll notice is that the bonfire is out. If you try to lightit, you'll get a message saying the keeper is absent, let's go check it out.

When you get down there you can take the dingy clothes set and the black eyeorb, this will allow us to invade the world of whoever killed her, do younotice someone else missing down here? You'll get a message when it's time forpayback.

If you haven't bought all pyromancies from Laurentius yet, now is the time todo so, if you talk to him he will ask you to show your new pyromancies, you'llhave to agree to go on, but if you leave firelink now, he will be gone forever,so buy everything.

Now go to where the pool of water was and talk to the serpent-like creature,this is Kingseeker Frampt, he will tell you to go to Anor Londo to get theLordvessel, our next main objective.

We need to go through Sen's fortress to get there, but head for Andre theblacksmith first.

When reaching Andre upgrade the falchion we have to +6 using the large titaniteshard we got back in Blighttown, if we find more, we can upgrade it to +10oursleves.

Go back up to the bonfire and go through the door here.

++++Sen's Fortress++++ [senfo1]


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Walk across the bridge and enter the fortress, if you look down, you will seea pressure plate, don't stand on it yet.

Instead walk past it on the left side and when you reach the first pillar, waitYou'll see a snake-man like creature coming to you from the far right side of

the room, wait untill it's in the center, lock on and walk backwards over thepressure plate, the spikes should kill it.

If you walk in further you'll alert a second snake. You'll find that the drakesword doesn't really hurt them, but they are weak to fire, so either backstaband fireball them, or just use pyromancies, a new weapon is inside thisfortress, so deal with it for now.

To the right of the door is a soul of a brave warrior.

Go through the door and lay your eyes on what makes this place so nasty,swinging pendulums on a narrow bridge, before you cross, take out your bow,and shoot the snake waiting for you ahead, he'll come running and should get

knocked of by a pendulum. If you get knocked off, you'll take damage and fallinto a pit with a total of 3 lightning shooting demons.

Anyway, on the bridge there will be small parts chipped off it, this is wherependulums swing, so move your camera above your head to see how far you haveto walk.

After the first 4 pendulums, a female snake starts shooting lightning at you,run past the fifth pendulum and from the safety of the windows on the otherside, snipe her.

Follow the path up to another pendulum trap, 4 this time, just cross themusing the same technique, camera above head to see where you and the pendulumsare.

At the end is another pressure plate, so roll to the side to avoid the dartsand open the chest for 2 large titanite shards.

Continue the only route you can take, cross the bridge, don't go down, we'llget there later and outside to a new kind of trap, rolling boulders.

Outside the door, go right and down the slope, kill the snakes and talk to thefat guy, he doesn't say much but after obtaining the lordvessel, this enablesus to get another miracle.

Now go all the way up the slope, into the small room to get the ring of steelprotection, this raises your physical defence so equip it.

Go back down the slope and through the fog on your right, go over the pressureplate, kill the snake, up the stairs and to the next boulder trap.

Wait for the boulder to start going around the corner, and follow it, becarefull you don't touch it, it hurts.

Downstairs, stand in the hallway on the left and wait for the pit the bouldersfall into gets full, the next boulder will go through the wall so you can takethe covetous gold serpent ring, this is a great ring as it raises your itemdrop rate with 200 points.

Go back and right, and DO NOT try to open the chest, it's a monster that will

eat you if you try, just start slashing and don't stop untill it dies, if forsome reason you can't kill it quick enough, just circle, wait for an attack


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and slash. It drops the ligthtning spear, our next weapon, so equip it.

In the back of the room, on the left is an elevator, stand on it and turnaround. As soon as you can get off, do so. If you are too slow the elevatorwill drive you into spikes on the ceiling, which hurts.

Go up the stairs, through the cell door, if you cross the bridge into the nextroom, there will be another cell door, we'll open it later.

Anyway, go down the stairs and up the slope, into a room with a contraptionthat lets you steer the boulders.

Turn it counter-clockkwise once, wait for a boulder to fall, turn it again andgo down the slope. Kill the snake, and go into the newly opened passage.

The guy in the cell is Logan, another sorcerer, with the master key you canfree him. After beating this area's boss he will be at firelink to teach yousorceries if your int. is at 15 or higher. The item is a soul of a hero.

Now take the route back to the boulder room.

Turn the handle so there will be no boulders falling into the second trap,This is the one next to a door, and drop down from the right of the brokenpillar, take the large soul of a proud knight and go through the nearest door,take the black sorcerer set and hush sorcery from the corpse, and open the celldoor up the stairs, now turn around and go back, through the hole in the wall,and take the slumbering dragoncrest ring. You can drop down further and fight3 lightning demons or just use a homeward bone and get back to undead parish.

Go all the way back to the boulder room.

To the right of one of the boulder's paths is a door, through the door isanother pressure plate, step on it and move back. Wait untill the spikes aredone and continue.

Follow the path untill you come to the next pendulum bridge, this one isespecially nasty, because you have to get past all 4 at once, just creep upto the first one as close as possible, and when you get the chance, run likeyour life depends on it, oh wait, it really does.

In the next room to the right is another snake, past that snake is a hole inthe floor, don't fall into it, unless you want to fight 3 lightning demons.

To the left is a she-snake on top of the stairs, kill her but don't go up yet,instead go past the stairs on the left, to another snake, guarding 2 largetitanite shards.

Now go up the stairs to yet another pendulum trap. This one isn't as nastyas the last one, but this time there is a she-snake waiting to snipe you onleft, kill her first. Be carefull, you have to take 2 pendulums at a time onthis one.

When you cross the bridge and go left, there will be nothing there, so go rightand up the stairs, watch out for the pressure plate though and cross the fog.

Thank god! We're outside. If you go right here you will come to a knight, it'sa little stronger than the ones we faced back in Undead Parish, but shouldn'tpose a problem by now, continue the path to another one guarding a flamestoneplate ring.

Go back to were you came from and go left up the stairs this time.


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Don't take the items yet, just keep going up untill you have a clear shot atthe giant throwing fireballs at you, snipe him.

Now go collect the 2 large titanite shards and the large soul of a bravewarrior. On the level where the soul is, you'll see a piece of broken wall,

jump down to a bonfire. Upgrade your lightning spear as far as possible, ifyou can, upgrade your bow, and upgrade the falchion all the way to +10 if youcan. Now follow the path, drop down to the stairs, and go back outside.

When you get back up to the level where the titanite was, instead of going leftup the stairs, go straight. There will be a big knight waiting, you know theroutine by now, just circle and kill, you can't backstab him.

Continue the path down the ladder and up to a soldier who drops Ricard'srapier, I am not sure if you need it for the knights honor trophy, but take itanyway. At the end of the path is a chest with a divine blessing and a chestwith a rare ring of sacrifice. Go back to where we sniped the giant.

Go up the stairs and cross the bridge, turn left when you can and jump the gapto a merchant who sells some good stuff. He sells titanite shards, largetitanite shards and green titanite shards, whenever you need to upgrade weaponsand need titanite, go here, don't worry he'll be easier to reach in the future.He also sells arrows, buy at least 150 feather arrows.

In this tower, go all the way downstairs, to a she-snake guarding the cage key.

Go back up, cross the bridge, and when you get to the end go right, left is adead end with nothing there.

In the building open the left cage and step in and immediatey get out, this isa shortcut from the first pendulum trap.

Go outside, follow the path and kill the sniper. Inside the building, to theleft is fog leading to the boss, to the right is a staircase leading to wherethe giant was, if you didn't die between killing him and getting here thereshould be a titanite chunk(I did die so I can't confirm right now).

If you go down and right across the bridge, you come to a room where you cansummpn Iron Tarkus if you're human, The coming boss is pretty easy, so don'tbother.

Go back, go right through the fog and meet the next boss.

+Boss+ Iron Golem

The first thing you'll notice is that the plateau you fight him on is prettysmall, here also lies the biggest risk: you falling off.

In the center is some sort of broken down wall, try to keep him here.

When the fight starts, he will do some sort of shockwave attack with his axe,it shouldn't hit you.

Lure him to the center and start circling him up close, with his axe heshouldn't be able to hit you. Watch out though, if he raises his free hand, hewill do a grab attack, get behind him to avoid. When he raises his leg he willstomp the ground a few times, back off.

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down and poke some more.

You'll get 30k souls and the core of an iron golem for beating him.

Afterwards touch the yellow ring that appeared.

++++Anor Londo++++ [anolo1]

What the f***, get off me, oh wait, you're helping me.

When you're back in control, just follow the path untill you reach a giantknight. These guys are real easy, circle them untill they do a shield bash,then throw a fire orb and poke them some to kill them.

If you look inside the building, you'll see 2 of them, lure the first one outwith your bow, and kill it. Don't waste an arrow on the second one, just goinside and kill it. In the chest you'll find a demon titanite.

Outside there are 3 ways to go. To the right is an elevator down, straight is

a building with 2 more knights and 2 treasure chests and to the left abonfire, go there first.

The chick standing against the wall is Anor Londo's firekeeper, if you have afirekeeper soul, she'll reinforce your estus.

Now go outside and left into the building, there are two giant knights here,if you stand in the doorway you can snipe them both without them coming to you.

The left treasure chest holds a twinkling titanite, the right one is anothermonster, dropping a crystal halberd.

The door to the right leads to another giant and a path to some orange fog wecan't cross yet, so now go to the elevator.

Go down the stairs and outside on the bridge you'll have to fight a gargoyle.Like the gargoyle boss from long ago, you can cut off it's tail and it willdrop a weapon, don't worry if it fails though, you don't need this one for thetrophy.

When it's dead, go back to the stairs you came from and drop down to the leftof it, follow the path to a chest with a demon titanite, now turn around, gothrough the archway and climb up on the support beam thing sticking out ofthe building to the left. Be carefull you don't fall of, the camera will getshaky while it is between the pillars.

Go through the broken window and take out the ninja that drops down, and the

other one in the back.

Climb the ladder and cross the narrow beams, be carefull you don't fall of oryou'll die. The ninjas up here will throw knives at you when they see you,just raise your shield and wait, eventually they will come to you so you cankill them.

About halfway across the beams, you will see an item on a chandelier, breakthe chain with your weapon so we can pick up the item later.

At the other end you will see fog and a stairs going down, this is a dead endwith nothing there so go through the fog.

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One side leads back to the other elevator and the bonfire past it, the otherside leads to our next destination. If you go down the stairs you come to theground floor of the building we just exited, but let's leave that for now anddo that later.

If you pull the lever again you'll go down one more floor leading to a bonfire

and a ring of the sun's firstborn. Remember this place, we'll come back herelater. Pull the lever to make the elevator go back up one level.

You'll get attacked by another gargoyle, put him out of his misery. Up thestairs will be 2 giants, go to one side of the stairs to lure one out and killit, then go up the stairs and kill the other one.

Stand on the hex-shaped plateau on the right side and snipe the far minigargoyle. It will come to you, these things have a high lightning defence, butseem to be weak against fire, so fire orb it.

Go through the door and down the stairs, instead of fighting the second one,just lock on, keep your shield up and endure his attacks, you'll notice you're

pushing it backwards and eventually off the edge, the sucker can't fly.Around the corner to the left is another one, do the same.

Now things get tricky, in the building below you are two more non-flyingdemons, on a ledge to the left are two snipers you can't reach yet, but theycan hit you.

Go down the slope, aggro-ing the demons, turn around and run all the way backup the slope. The demons can't follow you and from the edge of the slope, thesnipers can't hit you, so put some arrows in the demons heads.

When they're gone, run down the slope, go left, up the slope with your shieldup.

Time to take care of the snipers, I have read a lot about people luring theright one into jumping to his death by approaching him, this never worked forme, so I just shoot him. Here's what to do.

Stand behind the wall untill he stops shooting, go into aiming mode and withjust a small piece of the wall on screen aim your crosshair to be justslightly left of him. Now walk right, he'll start shooting, when the centerof your crosshair is on his bow, shoot and get back, you don't have time toshoot twice. Wait untill it stops shooting and repeat.

I know this isn't a good description, but I don't know how to make it moreclear, just practice. If you can't get this done there are probably videoson YouTube showing the luring technique and probably even the shooting

technique.

Now for the second one, as you go up the slope, you'll hear him shooting thepillar, go up on the ledge, and go stand in front of the third window to theright, he can't hit you, but you can hit him, enjoy. He guarded a soul of ahero.

Get back on the ledge and follow it around the building untill you can dropdown and go through the fog. Open the first door on the left and go into theroom, finally, a bonfire. If your falchion isn't +10 yet, do so now.

Go back out and open the other door, kill the silver knight, these guys areeasy, just backstab them once, stand close to them and when they get back up,

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souls for killing them, making this area good for grinding if you need to.

The treasure chest holds 3 sunlight medals.

After exiting the room, go around the stairs, open the door on the left.The fireplace in this room has a fake wall, downstairs are 4 chests holding

Havel's armor set, his greatshield and the dragon tooth, the fifth chest,the one with a different color is another monster, it drops the occult club.

Back up and outside we can't open the other door yet, so go up the stairs.

Up the stairs open the door to your left, kill the knight

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