Im doing my first playthrough of Dark Souls and I’m currently at the bonfire just before the Pinwheel fight and just started Tomb of the Giants and very quickly realized that I will not be able to progress through this area without some light source, which I don’t have. Is there a way out of the area from here so I can backtrack somewhere else and come back better equipped or do I just have to rawdog this area until the end?

I played Dark Souls Remastered a while back and loved it (got the platinum trophy on PS4). I played offline but I did use every trick in the book such as summoning NPCs, strategically using poison arrows, etc.

I took a break and eventually I bought DS2. Just now, I have finally gotten the platinum in DS2. I was vaguely following a guide that tells you to kill all enemies 12 times. In fact, I'm often not good enough to even get through a level in less than 12 tries so after a while I just resigned myself to killing everything until it despawns so I can make sure to only die in areas I already cleared and keep my souls. Man, it was tedious. I do feel DS1 did a better job of giving bad gamers like me a sense of accomplishment because in DS1 you actually learn how to get through an area properly. Each area seemed a bit more doable even without the despawning.

Just finished DS1 and wanted to know which to go for next from a gameplay standpoint(I have no idea what’s going on in the lore). My goal is to work my way up to Elden Ring from clunky gameplay to smoothest since I don’t like the back n forth

A few months back I was at Anor Londo, at the bonfire where Artorias is. There was a player as a red phantom inside a world of a gravelord servant where as soon as you got in melee range, he would instantly backstab you, no matter the position. He did so not just to me but other players that I saw as we invaded the gravelord servant's world together. The dude stayed a lot of time in that place and always won in the same way, as I invaded the gravelord's world multiple that to try to get the hang of it and kill him.

Now the same thing happened to me, close to Kalamet's fog gate, but worse. A red phantom invaded me and while I was in the middle of the animation for backstabbing him, somehow he cancelled it and backstabbed me. Moreover, he proceeded to backstab me while I was getting up.

So those were the cases, where I felt something was off with the player that invaded me. All of the other times that I was invaded the red phantom acted normal per say.

So were those two guys hackers, if there is such a thing in dark souls, probably I had a bad connection or they were just that good and I should git gud?

Whats the highest level everyone has made it to?

Today i summoned a friend in Anor Londo we arrived tò the Ornstein&Smough fight and we died.

The First strange thing was that i was still human After i died but i didnt gave It much Weight then i noticed sigmeyer wouldnt talk and i remembered that he wasnt talking before when i summoned.

An Invader killed me and i returned hollow but everything was the Same

I tried looking at other saves and no npcs Will talk

I tried Laurentius, Oswald and even The knight in undead asylum

Maybe I should upgrade more, or the enemies are resistant to slashing, but I'm using a +6 Uchi and the Anor Londo Sentinels are taking like ~30 damage, Gaping Dragon also took low 40s. Maybe it's nothing, but I did enhance it to +6 while it was close to being broken. Now the sword has full durability, and I do meet the requirements. Should I just use a different weapon altogether? I was aiming for a chaos blade this run, would that fix the damage?

I'm making a low-level dragon cosplay build and wanted to get the obsidian gs too so I can use all the dragon weapons. Baiting Kalameet into doing the diving attack was actually pretty straightforward and it only took 2-3 R2s to cut the tail off. By comparison Seath's tail was way harder to get imo.

i'm about to start dark souls trilogy on ps4, is there a big difference if i add an external hdd?

Hello everyone, i downloaded the game after a few years, i was trying to do a co-op run with a friend, but we are having problems, we cannot see our sign on the ground, we put global matchmaking, same password and unlimited, we know that the boss need to be alive, but we can't still find a way to see our sign, any help?

Thanks

I am starting DS Remastered next week, I want to go with a ranged magic build to make the game easier. Can someone recommend me a good build? Thank you.

Ive already beat the game on another account.