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J. Marston wrote: »Started this tonight. I spent about half an hour on the character creation screen alone thinking up a name, class and gift. Then about 5-10 minutes into the game I'm thrown up against some huge monster thing and all I have is a broken sword! But I picked the grenade gift so I just ran and spammed them until I killed it. Played until a giant crow took me away and dropped me off somewhere.
All those things you can level up, your attack, defence and resistance stats, hollowing, kindling. I'm in way over my head! :pac:
Any recommendations for a thief character?
You have no idea how jealous I am that you are starting off without a clue of what you are in for
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J. Marston wrote: »Started this tonight. I spent about half an hour on the character creation screen alone thinking up a name, class and gift. Then about 5-10 minutes into the game I'm thrown up against some huge monster thing and all I have is a broken sword! But I picked the grenade gift so I just ran and spammed them until I killed it. Played until a giant crow took me away and dropped me off somewhere.
All those things you can level up, your attack, defence and resistance stats, hollowing, kindling. I'm in way over my head! :pac:
Any recommendations for a thief character?
Game will feel like a maze of confusion and stats that make no sense, they will eventually. Best advice I can think of is not to try level everything. Jack of all trades will find it a lot harder. Also as said above Resistance is kind of useless. If you are going as a thief you will probably be looking to use some sort of magic (sorcery, Miracles or Pyro) so you can damage from a distance or use a bow witch you will need to level up Dex to get proper damage from.
One thing I will say is that weapon and armour upgrades are actually more important than stats and the fact certain spells/weapons have a required stat target means you should be aiming to meet what you want to use instead of just leveling up because you can.
Stats off the top of my head containing spoilers of sorts: also may make feck all sense
Vitality: Your health, important stat but remember there is no point taking damage if you cant deal it out or defend against it, so raise with end
Endurance: I personally think this is the most important stat to raise early. Its your stamina (what you can block, how much you can attack and how long you can run away ha ha) Its also your equip load (only EQUIPPED items count towards any sort of limit in DS
so carry whatever you want) so this stat also governs how fast you can run and roll.
Attunement: How many spells you can carry on you. (16 will let you carry 4, 19 carry 5 etc) 2-3 spells is usually plenty.
Resistance: Kind of useless to be honest, the amount of times you need good poison resistance makes it a waste of stats.
Strength and Dexterity: Weapons broadly fall into two categories: strength weapons, and dexterity weapons. Every weapon will have a requirement so you can wield it and almost every weapon then scales with one (or more) of these stats. At its simplest you have the option of just getting your str and dex stats to the minimum to hold the weapon then finding other ways to improve damage or continue to invest in its best scaling stat
So lets say you are a dex based character, you will look to find a good dex weapon (scales well with that stat) these are usually daggers, rapiers or curved swords and katanas. You will get your stats to the minimum to wield the weapon you want. You now can choose to stop there and invest your stats in magic and use spells and items on the weapon, upgrade the weapon so that it scales completely differently or pump stats into dex to get more damage. In this example as a dex character investing stats in Str would be pointless due to never using a weapon that takes advantage of it.
Intelligence and Faith work similarly to str and dex, every spell in the game fall into three camps, sorcery using intelligence, Miracles using Faith and Pyromancy using... well neither, you just have to spend souls buying spells and upgrades. To cast sorcery you need a catalyst, Miracles you need a Talisman and Pyro a pyro glove. All of them contain some sort of projectile that can be thrown, Miracles and sorcery can give buffs to weapons but sorcery allows this a little earlier and with less stat investment, Pyro is more fire based damage with various ranges and effects. Miracles have healing spells and one very powerfull close range spell.
You can also upgrade weapons to be either Magic or Blessed so they scale with your Intelligence or Faith, so you have even more options for damage. Like str and dex its probably better to choose one and stick with it, some of the later Spells you get from higher stat investment are deadly. If you plan on having a blessed or magic weapon you would probably be better off not spending the stats in dex/str as it will be wasted due to scaling now being on int or faith :pac:
If that made no sense I apologise :pac:
Pretty much Dark Souls lets you make whatever character you want, so if you want to be a sneaky katana wielding thief hiding in bushes sniping people with fire arrows you can be. If you want to be a heavy armour tank of a knight with a monster axe you can be. Its a fricking awesome game.0 -
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