re: Dark Souls (Remastered) Thread for replay discussion and first timers

Do. A. Suicide. Dodge. Run.

I generally avoid anything close to one upping people in Souls games, but here we go: last time I played a NG+ run, I think Manus took me three tries. He’s honestly not that complicated once you learn his move set. I found the four kings harder on NG+ than I did Manus. On NG runs, I usually first try him.

Go back, read the advice you’ve been given on this thread, and stay calm. If you have questions, ask them, because Manus isn’t an unfair fight.

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Manus is a bastard.

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True. Manus punishes sloppy play, hits really hard, and can one shot. But he has fair openings the player can punish as well. It's a very balanced fight.

That’s awesome, man! Yeah, there’s nothing quite like getting destroyed over and over again and then having the fight just click for you, wrecking the boss while barely using estus.

Now enjoy your victory for a bit and then let us know when you want to bang your head against Kalameet

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Turned the sound off. Weirdly helped

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lol I could definitely see this working. I find myself gripping the controller tighter than usual when the FromSoft boss music ramps up into high gear

There’s actually a pretty consistent way to get the archer on the right to fall off the ledge, if they are ever being particularly county

Alright, a few things about Kalameet…

His hitboxes are bullshite, especially when attacking. Just get used to being frustrated by it and keep your health topped off. His fire breath isn’t fire. I want to say it’s a mix of dark magic and physical, but I don’t remember for certain, just keep that in mind when picking your gear. He has, basically, four fire moves. If he flies up, he’s going to do a large circle of fire straight down. Get away as fast as I can. When he dashes, he’s going to rotate around with fire. At mid range, he’ll sweep fire across the field. At long range, he’ll shoot fire straight around, and it has a much larger hitbox than you think and lasts longer than your stamina can hold out. If you try to stay under his feet, he’ll repeatedly do his fly straight up thing. You have to fight him from the front for the most part, only getting underneath enough to hit. If you stay behind him, he’ll tail whip you. If he rears up red, he’s coming down with a grab attack that has a fricking massive hit box. It’s bullshite. Dodge sideways at least twice.

Kalameet is a straight up endurance fight. He has tons of HP and very high armor. To make up for this, he has much longer delays between attacks than Manus. Several of his attacks, if you can dodge them correctly, allow for multiple hits. For example, if you can close distance when he starts his sweep fire attack, you can hit him 3-4 times in the neck. Multiple attacks can be punished several times.

Also because it’s an endurance fight, fully kindle the township fire and put your stack of single humanities on your hot bar. Don’t burn through them to save an obviously hopeless try, but you don’t want to run out of estus with him low on health and have to do it all over again just because you ran out of healing because you’re keeping your health topped off.

That’s it just off the cuff. If you find yourself having issues with particular moves, come back and post them. It will likely jog our collective memory.

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Stayed up late last night and took down Havel (easier than I remembered), the big butterfly (way easier than I remembered), and did all of the darkroot stuff up (including the hydra) until the Sif fight. I don’t remember the darkroot areas being as small/short as they felt this time around unless I missed something. I got clapped a couple of times by Sif and went to bed. I know the strategy but was probably just too tired to execute

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Havel’s difficulty is basically inversely linear with either your level, your ability to parry, or both. I usually try to save him until I have enough HP to face tank one “mistake”, but if I’m feeling froggy, I’ll take him on immediately after kicking down the bridge ladder. Usually takes 10-15 perfect parries/ripostes at that low of a level, but as long as you don’t panic and don’t get juked by his delayed shoulder heft strike, it’s perfectly doable.

Not sure which areas in Darkroot you did, but in Forest, don’t forget the back path down to the grass crest shield and the hally knight and then the golden gollum beyond the hydra that has Dusk. In Garden, you have the optional area behind the living trees with the wolf ring, the area off to the side with the three cats, and frankly, just a lot of optional square footage to explore, but none of it is necessary.

I avoid DkS pvp for exactly that reason. The latency is off the charts high, so it just feels “unfair” because your actions so rarely match what’s on screen. What should be clear hits missing, what should be clear misses hitting, teleporting enemies, etc. Just sucks.

And yeah, very shitty way to lose souls.

I think Kalameet ate NWO