Demon's Souls

I've already got the CF. Managed to kill the skellies outside then made a run for it once inside. I really need to grab a bow for luring though, would make things a bit easier.

Easiest bow to get first is compound short bow on the top of the tower in 1-2 where the dragon keeps incinerating everything.

And compound long bow as others have mentioned in 4-1. Get to front door, go left, watch floor trap, go up (as opposed to left where you got the CF from) and just before you go forward (where there is 1 melee skelly and the two twats above the front door with bows), go left instead. Before you move look up, and you'll see a skeleton. That's where you're headed. Go forward, and go and do all that bullshit, and when you get the opportunity, you'll be able to chose a way that takes you sparkly. Around there, you'll see a way to get to that skelly. The bow is on the floor just next to him.

There is so much I’ve forgotten in this game 😂

I think I’ll grab a bow from somewhere then see about that mace. Need to change my armour. Fat rolling is not working for me.

Done. Doesn’t help my character though. Also getting some funny looks from the other train passengers.

I’ve got some rags, maybe I’ll just Chuck those on. Not sure how much effect armour really has anyway. Never really kept me alive in the past.

Aha, good progress! Addicted as usual I see. Good, good ...

5 1 is only hard for 2 reasons at your level

1 - that flurry attack the standard goons do is lethal. You can probably block one, but you definitely can't block two attacks of it, stamina wise

2 - It's a fucking nightmare to navigate, BUT, you're only going to the diving board wood area, dropping down, panic like fuck dealing with the 2 flurry bastards as soon as you drop down, and then you should be OK to get the mace (on the right as you fall down)

Or yeah, Tower Knight. What do you prefer? Bearing in mind killing Tower Knight does fuck all for you at the minute, as you can't do 1-3 yet and still need to kill dragon as well as Tower Knight to open side gate.

But levels, yeah, maybe it's worth it. Personally, I'd go 4-1 for levels than 1-2, as they give around 294 souls for each skelly

Dragon takes about 2 minutes if you do it right!

2 minutes? EXPLAIN

If you want to do it quicker you need to,

- get a bow with good range, the compound long bow from 4-1
- do most of 2-1, collect as much spiderstone as you can, making sure you get the crystal lizard that drops spiderstone near the rock chuckers. Always wear the thief’s ring around lizards
- do most of 3-1, collect the clever rat’s ring
- put your souls into strength and DEX so you can use the bow
- do the first bit of 4-1 a few times to get enough souls for arrows, maybe a level or two
- when in 1-2 kill all the soldiers, get on the first guard tower, equip clever rat ring, go back down, hold shield up and let the dragon fire hit you so you go to less than 30% HP
- go back up and position your bow crosshairs where the dragon flies past and fire away. Check that you’re hitting it by moving the view to see it’s energy bar if you need to

Takes a couple of minutes and 30 arrows or so. I realise that there’s a bit of work before hand but your character does benefit from that work and it’s better than a 2 hour slog

In general that is the best way to play Demon’s anyway, dip in and out of levels, collecting the equipment you need to make other levels more manageable. Never straight line it unless you purposefully want to make it harder

You’re fine with the less than 30% HP as you’ve cleared everything out and it’s just you and the dragon

Having to side with Danno here! My luck would be falling off the tower to survive the fall but *only if* I had more than 30% health

Worlds are split up into 3/4 parts, 1 at the start of each and there is a boss before the next one.

Levels are designed around opening shortcuts back to the start 'bonfire' before tackling the boss, allowing you to boss run quickly.

Yeah, avoid that guy til much later