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Oh, Pyromancy has been shown to not scale with INT or FAT, so it's an ideal choice for melee characters who want to cast magic. It scales with its weapon.

I'm going really slowly through the game. I think you're all past me at this point.

Also, re: covenants, you can join them all. When you join a new covenant, it reduces your standing in all other covenants, but doesn't drop them. You can join them all before starting to progress in them individually, if you want to get achieves using only one character.

So, boss weapons. I think I'm going to go for Quelaag's Fury Sword.

Yeah, the weapon doesn't scale enough to make it worth stacking INT for; it's perfect for a melee class.

Well, all classes, really.

Edited, Oct 9th 2011 10:49am by Spoonless

When fully upgraded, it has an S rating. But it seems like int STILL doesn't affect your spell damage. The act of upgrading the weapon is what does it. This could be a glitch though.

Dark Souls upgrade system makes my head spin.

WAY better than the Demons Souls one...

The fact that you can make weapons that scale with Int or Faith is really nice though...

This is how I went through all of demons souls. I'm planning on not going through dark souls the same way. :p

I usually Shield+Spear when there are ranged attackers as well as melee, or when I'm ganged up on by 3 or more melee. Otherwise, I'm using a Scimitar.

I kind of hope they patch it.

Don't even know how to do it (saw a video, with the giant tornado head, but it was in japanese and I had no f*cking clue what was going on).

If I know how to do it, I'll be tempted to do it...

As it stands, it's almost guaranteed that I will be taking advantage of the forest-ledge technique. I'm not skilled enough to deal with this game without some help.

I'm also debating starting over (again). First I made a Pyromancer, but was irritated by the long cast times and limited charges of the spells. Then I made a thief, so that I could get the Master Key and Pendant. But I've yet to find a location that made me feel the key was worth it. I've also discovered plenty of situations (as a thief) where I seriously wish I had access to fire spells...

I also deleted the first pyromancer, because scrolling down to play my thief was annoying... *cough*.

In any case, this is my new plan:
Make Pyromancer with Pendant
Spend first two levels in vitality, then focus on stats I'll need to use the drake sword.
Get another magic slot.
Focus on defenses while I take the time to figure out what kind of weapons I'll want later on, and spend stats accordingly.

What sucks is that a fast character appeals to me aesthetically. Parrying/riposting/dodging/backstabs.

But for the life of me, I can't time backstabs--I just have no clue how to get behind the enemies... The fact that I need to be practically naked to be fast enough to reliably get behind them isn't helping.

So I think I'm going to go for a character with high endurance who hides behind a shield all the time, focusing on getting in a few, strong blows rather than combos.

Just start a bandit. You'll need only 1 point in STR to use the drake sword (but you'll need 3 point in DEX to use the bow) and 2 point for a magic slot. If you free the pyromancer (can't remember where he is) you'll get acces to pyromancy spell without investing a single point in INT. You'll have good END and VIT from the beginning. Total of 6 points to get a hard hitting caster with good HP and stamina. You'll need to invest 7 points just in STR to use the drake sword not counting the investment in DEX, VIT and END.

You can only summon/invade someone who is .9x < x < 1.1x, where x is your Soul Level. At higher levels, it widens the brackets, but a level 70 player will only be matched with/against someone 63-77.