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All items are carried over except for keys. This includes weapons, armor, ore, consumables, soul levels, spells, and all items with Stockpile Thomas. All world and character tendencies are carried over as well. Again, the only exception are keys. Keys are not carried over to NG+
The median level seems to be about 80 before people defeat the end bosses their first playthrough, but it ranges from about 60 to over 100. Be aware that NG+ will be signifigantly harder than the first time, so make sure you are leveled enough to be comfortable. The same enemies in NG+ seem to give several times more experience, so that is a reason to move on for levelling up, but consider farming for as many items as you can before NG+ while it's less risky.
Yes, roughly 8% harder each new game, and the amount of souls you receive from enemies increases as well.
Yes, you will get a lot more souls in NG+. Rate of obtaining souls increase up to 4x on mobs, and bosses gives you really more souls. For example: I know for sure that the Flame Luker gives you 90k Souls per kill. Another example at neutral tendency: the silver sword sksletons at the start of 4-1 give 294 souls each the first playthrough, and 1176 (four times more) in NG+.
That red cloud is a sign that you have increased souls coming from killing enemies. Most often, this is because of the ring of avarice, but it has shown up occationally from the silver bracelet as well.
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- Demon's Souls Online
- PvP Tips
- The Eye Stones
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This happens occationally as the servers get really busy. Problems can include, but are not limited to "Failed to connect to host's world", inability to read messages, inability to write messages, etc. The easiest solution is to quit the game and restart it. This is the only means to reinitialize a connection with the server.
If you are the Blue Phantom, upon killing the boss, you get revived and kicked out of the player's world. You cannot pick up any items as a blue phantom. This boss has still not been killed in your world. You still have the oppertunity to kill that boss, and get the Demon's Soul in your world.
If you have summomed a Blue Phantom, you still get to pick up the Demon's Soul as normal.
You will lose a soul level if you die by any other way than an enemy player.
Those are just other players playing the same world online at the same time. They don't affect your game at all, other than you may still learn from observing them occasionally. Especially if you see one sniping from a certain point or accessing a place you have not gotten to.
Any of the Asian versions, (Chinese, Korean, Japanese) use the same servers, and hence can play together. The North American Atlus version, however, uses separate servers and cannot play with any of the Asian versions.
This can be caused by several things:
1) World Tendency, while you are not logged in, follows the trend of all other users on the server. Typically, this means that WT will shift to white slowly while you are not logged in.
2) There is a bug in which if a player logs off in the Nexus, all worlds will be reset to Neutral WT.
3) As a special event for Haloween 2009, all WT shifted more towards black.
Yes, your character tendency increases as you help other players defeat bosses.
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Once you attack any NPC below a certain percentage of thier life, they become hostile. There is no way to make them become friendly again in the current game. Note, however, they will be back to normal in any future NG+.
Unfortunately there is no way to revive any NPC after they have been killed in the current game. Note, however, that they will be present once you start a NG+. If the NPC died by falling off the world, you can simply reload the current game, and you should find their loot at thier usual spawn point.
When characters appear as Black Phantoms, this is in addition to the normal appearance or the NPC.
No, the Monumental can't be killed. She completely ignores your attacks.
There are 5 NPCs in the Nexus at different times which can teach Magic/Miracles, but you cannot learn or memorize spells anywhere except the Nexus. See Magic and Miracles for more information.
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- World Tendency
- Boletarian Palace
- Stonefang Tunnel
- Tower of Latria
- Shrine of Storms
- Valley of Defilement
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These numbers do not appear anywhere inside the game; it is just a shorthand way to refer to how the game is divided up. There are 5 Archstones (Boletaria is Archstone 1, for instance) and within each Archstone there multiple waypoints that will warp you back to the Nexus (they appear as a sword sticking out of a stone). Each section of a level in between waypoints is referred to as a sublevel. For example, Boletaria is World 1 so any location within Boletaria will be 1-X. The beginning of Boletaria all the way up to the fight with Phalanx is referred to as 1-1, because it is the first subsection of Boletaria. After you fight Phalanx a new archstone appears (in the game referred to as the "Phalanx archstone") and a continuation route is opened up which eventually leads to the next boss, the Tower Knight. The section of world 1 between the Phalanx archstone and the Tower Knight archstone is referred to as 1-2.
It may not be the way the original developers intended, but all the discussion on the web uses the same numbering:
World 1: Boletaria Castle
World 2: Stonefang Mine
World 3: Towers of Latria
World 4: Shrine of Storms
World 5: Valley of Defilement
There is no particular order in which you have to take on each level, it is a good idea for new players to concentrate on 1-2, 2-1 as they are some of the easier sections. Try to beat the bosses, and start upgrading your stats, just keep moving forward! Explore through whatever you can, acquiring souls and items and weapons. You will learn that the different worlds have different kinds of drops and loot.
As you gain higher levels and learn the enemy patterns, each area will become easier to manage. As a beginning player, if you go right away to try starting worlds 3, 4, or 5 you should expect to die a lot as you learn these harder areas, especially the Shrine of Storms which starts with a rude skeleton welcome committee. The later levels have much stronger enemies, but do result in greater benefits. It's your choice what you do. That's the great thing about this game - you choose what, and how you do things.
You need to kill any final Boss in one of the other worlds: stage 2-3, 3-3, 4-3 or 5-3.
You'll get the key from Ostava in 1-4 if you save him all 3 times you meet him. Alternately you can kill Ostava or let him die to enemies at any point and he will drop the key.
Biorr is in 1-2, off of the small room right after the last bridge section and right before the boss. There's a locked door in the antechamber guarded by the two blue-eyed knights, on the other side of the room from the stairs leading up to the archers, and that locked door leads down into a dungeon. You get the key to this door in 1-3 from the fat minister.
See 1-2, 1-3, and Biorr, of the Twin Fangs for more information.
Check the note number 2 on the first map of 2-2 (http://mycheats.1up.com/view/section/3169297/26623/demon_s_souls/ps3). Remember that your world 2 tendency must be at Pure Black. If you are on the tunnel landing where the bedroll/campsite/candle is and where the 2 crystal geckos spawn, you are in the right place. If he is not there it can only be because your world is not Pure Black, or he has been defeated already!
Warp into Stonefang at 2-2 (Armor Spider Archstone). Take the tunnel to the right, with several miners in it. At the end of that tunnel, you'll come to a large pit, where you have to gradually jump down via wooden planks. Eventually, you'll see a small cave landing about halfway down (all the way down leads to some worms and Flamelurker). Jump off here, and inside the cave, toward the back, you'll see two Crystal Geckos on the left side. On the right side, you'll see the living Scirvir (Pure White world tendency) or the Black Phantom Scirvir (Pure Black world tendency).
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Go back to the Nexus with it and show it to your trainer. They may offer a new skill or weapon to you, so don't just "use" it in for souls unless there is no skill on offer. Also note that Blacksmith Ed can use demon souls to boost weapons later in the game. See the Demon's Souls page for more info.
Yes, you can. The Maiden in Black will allow you to upgrade until all of the world bosses have been defeated.
You can kill the Red Dragon in 1-2 and the Blue Dragon in 1-4.
You need pure white world tendency. See the 2-3 walkthrough for details.
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The speed of any weapon will increase when holding 2-hands. It has nothing to do with any stat.
You can just equip a weapon on the left and right hand, attack with L1 and L2. You cannot preform special moves like the Black Skeletons in the Shrine of Storms with them.
In general, a weapon in the offhand is not a good decision - weapons in your left hand cannot combo attacks together like they can in your right hand (they are limited to repeated single attacks). However, there are circumstances where it can be beneficial. The paring dagger allows for easier parrying. The Large Sword of Searching's effect works when it is equipped in the off-hand as well. You can use talismans/catalysts in your off-hand to be able to cast magic at will while still being able to attack.
That is the added damage that you get from your stats.
It's negative because your stats don't meet the base requirements to wield the item. You can still wield it, but you have severe penalties for doing so. See line 10 on this screenshot for the stats required for your items.
The Lava bow will consistently outdamage the White bow with lower stat requirments. On the other hand the White bow can be upgraded with colorless demon souls and can eventually outdamage the Lava Bow. On the third hand, the White Bow is free (whereas the Lava Bow needs the spider demon's soul and a +7 bow).
Finally, note that the Viscous Compound Long Bow +5 is the best bow in the game as Dexterity goes above about 30.
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Please refer to the upgrade page for complete information.
Please refer to the upgrade page for information.
Meltstones will purge out all of the ore you invested in that weapon and you will not get any ore back. Some weapons cannot be bought from vendors and can only be gained from treasure or farming. If you forge with the wrong ore or do not like the current stats you can reset and re-forge the weapon without restarting your character or waiting until New Game+ to get the new weapon again.
If you ask different people you will get many different suggestions, but there is no "absolute best" option. You need to decide what types of weapons you like (Pole weapons, european swords, blunt weapons, large weapons) and what stats you are aiming for. Obviously, you are going to want to choose weapons that have high ('A' or 'S') AddedParams for the stats you are going to be building up high.
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Answer: No you do not need to have the Demon soul in your character inventory. It can be stored with Stockpile Thomas. However to learn Spells and Miracles from Saint Urbain and Sage Freke you do need to have the Demon Soul on your character.
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Just use them. All they do is give you souls of varying amounts. Tip: save using them for when you're in the Nexus as while they're in item form you can't lose them like you can souls when you die.
They are a treasure item which is found in all worlds like other items, grass, etc. Use the maps; overall you can find 25 or so as treasure just lying around. Also they are a drop if you kill plague babies in 5-3, or shift your 5 world tendency to black, then kill the giant goblins and Black Phantom giant goblins, who often drop the stones.
No, you can farm them. Get pure black tendency for world 5 and farm the trolls before the first fog and those after you go past the slug nest in 5-2. (There will be an extra black phantom troll on each group so be careful) They will keep dropping Ephemeral Eyes.
More info: http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/stone-of-ephemeral-eyes-farming
There are 2 ways to get one (see the NPCs page for more details on each below)
1) Push world 2 to Pure Black world tendency, and then find and kill Black Phantom Scirvir, he will drop one.
2) Release Yurt in 3-2, and get Pure Black character tendency, and you can encounter Mephistopheles on the second floor of the Nexus. She will give a series of NPC assassination quests, and for each there is a reward. One of the NPCs to kill is Ostrava, and the reward for killing him is a Talisman of Beasts.
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What the point of invading others worlds?
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Date Asked:11-12-09. What can cause all of the npc to vanish. yurt didnt do it, he was dead and his gear was on the ledge before his cage-his cage was closed and still is. Both blacksmith are alive, the soul maiden and the guy that stores things for you is alive, but all other merchants including those not in nexus are gone. I am on newgame +
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Answer: Well it would be a good idea to have an alternate weapon depending on your opponent, and choosing to have a strong weapon to break a strong opponents guard and switching to a faster weapon and finishing your opponent would be a good idea but it all depends if you manage to hit your opponent.
Date Asked: november 25, 2009 Should I kill all NPC's in the Nexis except Stockholm right before defeating the final boss?
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