| Build summary | A Realistic Knight |
| Recommended starting class(es) | Knight |
| Recommended Soul Level | 89 |
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Recommended stats (Leave at default (**) if not raised) |
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| Vitality | 40 |
| Will/Intelligence | ** |
| Endurance | 40 |
| Strength | 40 |
| Dexterity | ** |
| Magic | ** |
| Faith | ** |
| Luck | ** |
| Recommended equipment |
ARMOR
WEAPONS
RINGS
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| Recommended spells/miracles |
None |
| Gameplay tips and progression |
This build will not be easy. You will not have the assistance of magic or range of any kind. You will die often if you are careless. You will want to give up. You must persevere. With the help of the Blue Phantoms, those you save, your skill, and pure luck, you will conquer all that stands before you. Starting out as a knight will give you fluted and a long sword and kite shield, which are good alternatives and can be upgraded decently, so you should be set until you acquire the weapons specified. The Knight's Shield and Sword are located at the bottom of the stairs under the Blue Dragon in 1-4, but if you are having trouble getting there, you can farm blue-eyed knights by constantly using the Tower Knight archstone and running back for backstabs. A good way to open the fog gate to 1-3 is to play World 4 and run through, the bosses are easy and the archdemon can be killed quickly, also a Regenerator's Ring is located on 4-1, on a cliff near the end, you can see it from the right side of the gate, behind a wall. You can also do World 5, it is the same way, just more poison and plague, but you can also find a Blessed Mace +1, after a drop to a bridge down to the rat room, behind a tick. The mace makes World 4 much easier as well. World 3-1 is where you find the Clever/Dull Rat's Ring. The Clever ring is on the walkway with the arrow machine, shut it down and get it from one of the corpses. You can get the Dull ring by rescuing Lord Rydell. On world 1-1, you can get the Thief's Ring behind Ostrava, after jumping down after the 2nd fog gate. For skills, try and upgrade evenly, you can put some into dexterity and luck if you wish, but I don't use it. Also, consider putting some into faith, the magic resistance is always nice. Upgrade wise, use hardstone and try to fully upgrade the sword, use faintstone for the mace, hardstone for the dagger, and, when you have it upgraded enough, cloudstone for the shield. For PVP, this class can be used well, you would want your Endurance higher so you could quickly roll, but the Knight's Shield is 100% Damage Reducing, so you can hold your own. I used this and on my first playthrough, it took me one try to beat the Old Monk's Black Phantom, and he was using full Brushwood, could roll in it, and utilized magic well. It took damn near an hour, but it was done and I held my own. |
Knight-Errant
Sounds like a fun themed build, very patriotic. I might try this. The only things I can recommend are gettin rid completely of the Blessed Mace and Dagger, and replacing the Mace with an Estoc or Rapier. Also, keep around a Winged Spear and Claymore, since those are traditional weapons of the Knights of Boletaria (Great Sword is as well technically, since the Claymore-wielding Red-Eye Knights in 1-3 and 1-4 drop them on rare occasions). I made a setup using Great Sword, Knight's Sword, and Knight's Shield with my Str build, but, if you really want to go with the theme, lower Strength to 26 (or 20 if you don't want to use the 1-handed moveset of Great Sword for some reason), and gouge Vitality. If you want to bring this to PvPing level, just raise Vitality as high as possible while staying at SL125. Also, Temple Knight would be a better class to start with, since it has less Magic and Intelligence. Just an option. The originality alone gets a +1 from me. I always thought SC was overrated anyways. ;)
Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate it.
What you said about replacing the weapons, I was trying to keep this like a realistic Western European knight. What you said is a very different (and very cool) idea. I might try something with making a Knight of Boletaria.
I considered using a Temple Knight, but I didn't because the temptation of the Heal miracle is there. Also, with the Knight, you already have the Longsword and the Kite Shield, which is very close to the final stage of the build, whereas the Temple Knight has the polearm (which, in my opinion, makes things easier, due to the speed and range). I liked the idea of, "You have a sword and a shield, GO!"
Thanks again for the +1 and the comment!
Ahh, yes a realistic Knight wouldn't just be wielding KSword & KShield… Very true. God, I wish you could ride a horse in this game. That would just be epic. :P Maybe they'll have something of that sort in Dark Souls.
Temple Knight would be more efficient if you were using Second Chance…. But if you aren't, then Knight would due. Always nice to see that in the status page as your Starting Class, too.
This would make a great PvE build, and maybe even a decent low SL PvP build. But mainly for PvE I'm guessing. The Wiki needs more of those for the people giving DS a go before DkS comes out.