Yeah, I ain't gonna front that I need to git gud. The later games have really baby'd me up (outside Sekiro which is a whole different beast). I don't think I even lost souls once in the whole run of Dark Souls 3. Died a bunch but always recovered. Here I've lost like 20k in souls already, am always soul poor with no healing items, no arrows, can't upgrade, can't level up.
Need to grind a bit for sure.
I want to know if bebs is fat rolling w his knight build. can see why you'd be having probs with the armoured spider if you are.
I'm not even rolling lol! I've always rolled in these games since I hate the heavy feel, but I'm playing flute armor set + steel shield + bastard sword heavy shield blocking instead of rolling. It's actually be pretty ok so far other than having to switch to a back up mail breaker rapier for the digger trolls since they're weak to thrust and bastard sword is slash. Even Tower Knight I just stayed by the stairs and baited him and then ran to his feet and got a couple hits in and ran out until he fell. Had some issue with 3-1's Fool's Idol boss, beat it on the first try staying behind the side pillars and popping out to hit one and see if it was real/clone, but couldn't figure out how to tell where the traps were and sometimes I'd get trapped and soul arrow x 3 and take a lot of damage.
Anyhow, got like 4.5 hours sleep and in a better mood now, more relaxed. Willing to try to again.
It seems like unlike other Souls game, melee tank is
terrible option in this and you absolutely should not run one. I don't want to run another mage because it'd just feel too much like my memories of kiting around soul arrowing everything and healing. So I'm thinking maybe a 49% equip burden, enchanted magic 1H sword & shield? I've never done a spear build in souls and I feel like giving the melee range issues in this if I could have/make an enchanted spear to get some distance it might be viable.
I don't even remember in the upgrade paths if you can make any weapon enchanted with the right mats or if they didn't do that until Dark Souls. This game honestly feels so fucking basic and the long boss runs are bleh. It's sorta fun but it definitely feels more work than exploration fun of the others in retrospect.
Also when I beat the original it was pure white tendency Japanese release with nice Japanese players. Now it's PURE FUCKING BLACK phantoms everywhere fuck you up USA USA USA and uhhhhh, this makes it a lot harder!
