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#1 Stann

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30 December 2012 - 04:19 PM

I don't know how many of you Dark Souls players are subscribed to vageta311, but he's been doing an interesting challenge run lately that you guys might be interested in. It requires a lot more in depth knowledge of the game, rather than the pure manual dexterity that ENB's challenge needs. I'll link to the first video, since there's no playlist up for it.

The rules of the challenge:

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Basically your goal is to kill as many bosses and mini bosses as possible with one attack. For every point you gain you can increase one stat point. Get as far as you can or die trying. I don't know if I'm going to try it, but I thought you guys might be interested. It's definitely different than the usual "low level no armour no shield fists only" kind of challenges.

#2 Star Scythe

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30 December 2012 - 08:52 PM

Definitely looks interesting... Maybe even enough to tear me away from 1.3 to try it... Though I think with these rules the only way he'll be able to down Quelaag in two shots is to pour it all into strength and use the demons greataxe with insane super hyper mode. That should boost base attack up to a little above 1700 damage, which should be enough to down her with two heavy jumping attacks. Unless there is a way to get a crit on her that I don't know of. With such a stat commitment just do down her pretty much stuck with str build from then on.

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#3 Ludovician

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31 December 2012 - 12:14 AM

I started this challenge earlier today. I have relatively poor DkS knowledge though, and I'm going through it without watching Vageta's videos just so it's not me emulating everything he does.

I did see someone killing Quelaag in one hit though. I believe he had a DKGA with gold pine resin, power within, red tearstone ring and hit her in the sweet spot for extra damage. Did approx 3.3k damage

#4 Stann

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31 December 2012 - 06:41 AM

Vageta uses the asylum demon hammer, but yeah, same strategy. Hit her in her weakpoint for massive damage.

#5 Star Scythe

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31 December 2012 - 09:34 AM

wait... quelaag has a sweet spot? Time to get my google fu on.

#6 philsov

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31 December 2012 - 09:45 AM

iirc, it's pretty much anywhere on her human (upper) body.

If you attack her with bow/arrow it's pretty easy to tell the difference. Staggers her, too, for perma-stunlock funsies.

Starting as a pyro is easily the best call, 2 attunement slots for Power Within + whatever, Fireball to aid in early questing, and nice initial Str.

There's probably a sweet spot where pointing Int to get greater magic weapon is worthwhile over continually boosting Str and using a resin buff, but I don't know where that breakeven is.

Edit: Probably once you can equip whatever the leetest weapon is Greater MW is 198 netdamage, for a difference of 48 over a resin for a 5 point investment. "A" scaling grants... 5 more damage per point, for 25... guess it's a matter of resistance on dual damage vs. single damage?

#7 Advent

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31 December 2012 - 10:41 AM

As someone who's not really a Dark Souls person (I just haven't been able to really get into it) I find this challenge to be very interesting. I might follow this guy. :sir:

#8 Ludovician

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31 December 2012 - 01:33 PM

Advent, on 31 December 2012 - 10:41 AM, said:

As someone who's not really a Dark Souls person (I just haven't been able to really get into it) I find this challenge to be very interesting. I might follow this guy. :sir:

Vageta311's definitely one of the best players around in DkS. I learn something new just about every time I see one of his vids.

philsov, on 31 December 2012 - 09:45 AM, said:

There's probably a sweet spot where pointing Int to get greater magic weapon is worthwhile over continually boosting Str and using a resin buff, but I don't know where that breakeven is.

Edit: Probably once you can equip whatever the leetest weapon is Greater MW is 198 netdamage, for a difference of 48 over a resin for a 5 point investment. "A" scaling grants... 5 more damage per point, for 25... guess it's a matter of resistance on dual damage vs. single damage?

I plan on getting my STR to 34 to 2-hand wield the Dragon King Greataxe which doesn't scale but has very high base damage, then level up int for magic weapon and later on maybe the projectiles too. With decent STR and INT at the same time, manus catalyst would do insane damage.Of course you'd have to kill Manus first, which may or may not even be possible.

#9 Stann

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31 December 2012 - 02:01 PM

Ludovician, on 31 December 2012 - 01:33 PM, said:

Vageta311's definitely one of the best players around in DkS. I learn something new just about every time I see one of his vids.

I plan on getting my STR to 34 to 2-hand wield the Dragon King Greataxe which doesn't scale but has very high base damage, then level up int for magic weapon and later on maybe the projectiles too. With decent STR and INT at the same time, manus catalyst would do insane damage.Of course you'd have to kill Manus first, which may or may not even be possible.

Dark Bead will pretty much win you the game.

#10 Ludovician

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01 January 2013 - 01:43 AM

Stann, on 31 December 2012 - 02:01 PM, said:

Dark Bead will pretty much win you the game.

Really? That's disappointing. I haven't actually played a non-restricted character since PTDE came out.

24 points so far. Levelled STR up to 22 for a couple of weapons, and just made a Great Club +15. Got enough points now to get to 34 for the DKGA. Think I can kill Quelaag 1 hit with that.

#11 Star Scythe

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01 January 2013 - 12:11 PM

31 str will get you the demon's great axe, which is the highest damaging str weapon. Saves you 3 points you can put into INT later.

Anyone know what happens when you wield two tin crystalization catalysts at the same time? Does the second one provide an additional boost to spells cast by the first?

#12 Ludovician

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01 January 2013 - 01:08 PM

Star Scythe, on 01 January 2013 - 12:11 PM, said:

Nope. Whenever you cast a spell, it's cast with the magic power of whatever catalyst you're casting it with. The TCCs don't provide any buff, they just have an incredibly high magic stat.

My first video for this challenge is up now, complete with awful commentary (sorry).

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#13 Ctorj

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02 June 2015 - 12:25 AM

I know this reply is for a very old topic, but I mneant to post this a looong time ago. I did this challenge!

https://www.youtube....Ywu_Z2Bt-b1H_SD

Very rewarding.

#14 Ludovician

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02 June 2015 - 12:37 AM

This playlist doesn't seem to be in any logical order.

Did you finish the game? Beat the DLC bosses?

#15 Ctorj

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05 June 2015 - 11:02 PM

Ludovician, on 02 June 2015 - 12:37 AM, said:

This playlist doesn't seem to be in any logical order.

Did you finish the game? Beat the DLC bosses?

I keep forgetting to put them in chronological order. Yes, I beat all the bosses, including DLC.

#16 Ctorj

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06 June 2015 - 12:44 AM

Ctorj, on 05 June 2015 - 11:02 PM, said:

I keep forgetting to put them in chronological order. Yes, I beat all the bosses, including DLC.

I haven't viewed the playlist in a while and saw that quite a bit was missing so I put the time in and reorganized the playlist by chronology and added the missing videos. Should look a LOT better now.

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