Method soul-farming:15

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Posted by	Soulcrusher65
Starting Archstone	4-3 Old Hero Archstone
Required Equipment/Spells/Miracles	PBWT for World 4 10 Magic(must be able to learn magic) 70 Intelligence Silver Catalyst (MP boost) Silver Coronet (MP boost) Soulsucker(NG+) Soul Thirst(Yellow Demon's Soul) Evacuate(not necessary but a time saver) Talisman of God(or Talisman of Beasts) Sticky Compound Long Bow+5 or a bow that can handle a reaper(the faster the better) Thief's Ring(if you don't have this you might as well jump your character off a cliff because you should have this by NG+) Ring of Avarice(seriously you get a big bonus from this it really helps) Soul Form(recommended for sneaking behind the Black Phantoms) For Females Only: Silver bracelets(for extra souls)
Method	This is similar to another soul farming method but it is so much improved that you will be able to make 300 000 souls in about 5 minutes depending on how fast you are. Obviously this is for higher leveled players only(or players that poured stat upgrades into will/intelligence and dexterity). Warp to the Old Hero Archstone then backtrack past the slug pits and ignore everything in this room do not stop running. Run through the tunnel/hallway and kill the reaper at the top of the stairs with your bow and move to the arched doorway at the end of the path. Switch to your catalyst and cast soul thirst after you locked on to the Black Phantom Black Skeleton then sneak up behind it and use soulsucker. Leave it's item for now you will pick it up later. Now fast walk for a bit of the ledge then slow down(before your in sight of the BP Gold Skeletons or they'll hear you) and use soulsucker on the first Black Phantom Gold Skeleton. then run back around the corner of the ledge(just barely out of sight of the second BP Gold Skeleton because he turns around after the first BP Gold Skeleton dies) then turn back and sneak up behind the second BP Gold Skeleton and use soulsucker on him. Now pick up all the items they dropped. You should have exactly 50 MP left after all of that so switch to your talisman of God and use evacuate. Now rinse and repeat for major souls. Silver Catalyst and Silver coronet together grant you approximately a 44% MP increase which combined with 70 intelligence (which grants you 385 base mana) should provide around 550 MP which is exactly what you need to cast Soul Thirst (200 MP), 3 times Soulsucker (300 MP) and Evacuate (50 MP) without any need of spice. I'm not sure if soul thirst will stay active for the entire ordeal but it still gives a big bonus to the BP Black Phantom(around 30 000 soul bonus on the fourth playthrough). If you do this properly there will be very minimal danger to the player. If you don't have evacuate then you will have to run back to the Old Hero Archstone and teleport from there… or you could just BUY EVACUATE. You want to be fast when doing this method but not too fast because you will probably alert the Black Phantoms if you go too fast. With practice you will have this method mastered in no time and you will be millionare(in the game). Also this method is a great way to get chunks of bladestone and one of the only ways to get pure bladestone(from BP Black Skeleton). I revised this strategy after someone left me a comment about the graverobber ring and the silver coronet so much thanks to that person(I don't know your name so I can't thank you by name).

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soulcrusher65 11 Mar 2010 12:29

I know this is almost impossible to do for most players but I only posted it so people would know that they have the option of doing this later on in the game.

ValynsShadow 11 Mar 2010 15:54

This is the method I used to gain the most souls. It is fairly quick and easy once you run it a few times. A couple of the ones for 4-2 are quicker to run but the net gain on souls in much better in this run.

I used both the Silver Catalyst and the ToB. I would switch to the Catalyst in the Nexus and after killing the last Skeleton switch to the ToB to cast evac. I am pretty sure I ended up using a Fresh spice or 3 in there somewhere to get enough MP to evac, but then I used this run with only 40 int. Either way, the cost of buying spices is nothing compared to the gain in souls you get.

1 million in 3-5 minutes?

bioctoplasterio 12 Mar 2010 17:35

Can someone confirm that it is possible to get 1 million souls within 5 minutes doing this run? I ask because I do this run with PBWT in NG+ with Ring of Avarice, Silver Bracelets (female thief), Soul Thirst and Soul Sucker. I kill the reaper, Dual Katana BP and both Gold Skeleton BPs with Soul Sucker while Soul Thirst is active. I cant get about 190,000 souls in under 3 minutes if I sprint where I can, run where I can't sprint and walk where I can't run; skipping all drops. The moment the second Gold Skeleton BP is dead, I switch to my ToB and Evacuate back to the Nexus. I've done this run a hundred times at least and I've got the timing down to a well-practiced science.

I just don't see how you're getting about a million souls in the same amount of time I can do two runs for about 380,000 souls.

Re: 1 million in 3-5 minutes?

VAMP-_-666 26 Aug 2012 03:36

not 1,000,000, but you can still get a massive amounts of souls very quickly, especially if you're in your eighth playthrough. i say eighth, because that's the cap on the difficulty increase, and i'm assuming, the soul increase as well

sorry about the time miscalculation

soulcrusher65 12 Mar 2010 21:40

yeah sorry that was an exageration I wanted to fix it but every time I tried to the page was locked. I think this page is still being remodeled by the admins but I'll fix it next chance I get.

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Ojimaru 18 Mar 2010 07:43

My bad. Page lock has been removed.

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soulcrusher65 25 Mar 2010 00:16

I still can't edit the page. Maybe it's just my computer or something.

Sorry Ojimaru

soulcrusher65 25 Mar 2010 00:21

The second after I posted that I found out what I was doing wrong sorry.

Tangsta 25 Mar 2010 04:37

I would like to add that wearing heavy armor + thief's ring will allow you to fast walk without the BPs noticing (unless you get way too close ofc)
this will speed things up a bit as with light armor you have to walk up to get pass their detection range (even with thief's ring)

also, I like to maximise each trip by casting thirst twice so I can get the bonuses from all 3 BPs - with ring of averice + thief's ring + thirst + soulsucker in NG+ PBWT you can get around 164k souls per trip, more if you are female and can equip the silver bracelet

a female magic user will be able to fully reap the benefits of this build - you'd need a whopping 750 MP to make the most of each run without having have to rely on spices or MP regen (that's for 2 x Thirst and 3 x soulsucker, 1 x Evacuate)

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arisdenis 21 May 2010 22:34

This gives 145321 and +1136 if some slugs explode by accident in NG+++ without soul thirst…

edit: 188331 when you kill the reaper the BP black skeleton and 2x BP gold skeletons if soul thirst is on, again NG+++

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dfvx990mq321pl 03 Aug 2010 18:50

You can get more souls if you lure the reaper out a bit. You only need to lure it out a little, just until it passes a few steps. As long as you're at the bottom of the stairs it will lose you and turn around. As it goes back it'll get stuck on the top step, leaving it's back turned to you. Soul thirst and soulsuck it away. This soul thirst will last you to the black skeleton. Then cast soul thirst again for the two gold skeletons. As a male character with ring of avarice, I got about 197k per run.

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