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Starting Archstone	4-3 Old Hero Archstone
Required Equipment/Spells/Miracles	Pure Black World Tendency for World 4. A good bow, Viscous (Sticky in NA version) Compound Long Bow +5 or Lava Bow. A Compound Long Bow can be found in 4-1 beside the Silver Skeleton (Bow) near the Crystal Gecko A good shield (Dark Silver works well) Thief's Ring Evacuate or Splinters of Archstone Soulsucker
Method	1. Take the Old Hero Archstone from the Nexus. 2. Back track to the slug caves. 3. There are white lights that will explode when you are near them. A good shield will help you survive a blast from the front but if it explode behind you, you may get killed. With less than half your equip weight used, you can simply run past them and avoid getting hit. 4. Run through the first narrow path, be careful not fall into the slugs waiting below. 5. Once pass the narrow path, keep right and hug the right side of the cave to the exit point to the tunnel. 6. Run through the tunnels and stop at the steps. 7. Use your Bow to snipe the third Reaper that is at the top of the steps. Alternatively, just run up and melee it to death in a few hits if you're strong enough, just be sure to hug the right wall so that the phantom on the left can't hit you. 8. Once you kill it, run up and collect the loot, mostly Splinter and Chunk of Dark Moonstones. 9. You will reach a short passage and see the Black Phantom Dual Katana wielding Skeleton with its back facing you. 10. Equip the Thief's Ring and walk (don't run or it will hear you) till you are behind it. 11. Cast Soulsucker to kill it. A good way to measure your step is as follows: 1. Before entering the passage, align your feet with entrance. 2. Walk in and lock onto the target as soon as you're close enough. 3. Walk your feet, once it crosses the exit. You can take at most 2 more steps. If you are a bit further away from it, tap your left thumb stick slightly to inch closer. Try to remember the correct position so that you can repeat it again. If the Black Phantom turn its back, start running and remember to turn off the auto-lock. You can try again if you run far enough (take the right turn). Video tutorial: 4-3 Farming souls - BP skeleton soulsuck

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Alternatives and Notes

Ojimaru 11 Mar 2010 08:57

Alternative Measuring
Use your weapon to measure distance:

* Sneak up to the skeleton and pan the camera so you look at both you and it from the side.
* If you are using an Uchigatana, when the very tip of the weapon touches a part of an enemy (when not moving), you are close enough to use Soul Sucker that enemy.
* Other weapons have different ranges, but this will provide a permanent marker once you learn it. Additionally, it works on both the Black and Gold Skeletons. For Gold Skeleton's aim at the back arm.

Alternate Soulsucker Tactic:
If you have to use Ring of Magical Nature to remember Soulsucker, try this out. Naturally your 2 rings will be magical nature and avarice, to get the most out of it. This doesn't leave room for thief's ring, or Hide spell etc. Un-equip armor cause it doesn't particularly matter on this guy anyway :P When you approach his back, use any ol' single hand weapon to back stab him. Have you wand ready in your left hand. After your cinematic attack, chase him down and begin Soulsucker. You should get it off with no issues, but be sure to lock on and run into his 'center'.

Note
If you are so inclined, you can walk a few paces forward after killing the phantom skeleton and you'll notice two black phantom gold skeletons with their backs turned. Hit the first one with Soulsucker and then unlock your target and walk a few paces back before the other one can get to you. He will start to walk back to where he spawned, thus giving you the opportunity to walk back over again and use Soul Sucker him as well. This will add another 60k+ souls to your run. After you're done, Evacuate. Rinse and repeat.

Note 2
If you have the max stamina, the eternal warriors ring for quick stamina record, got the running timing right and are strong enough to take out the reaper by close range attack you can do this run in about 1 minute 30 seconds including nexus time for a total of 77k. That works out to 3.08 million an hour. This is using the alternative measuring method and a pure black world tendency. A nice advantage of this run is it's the most likely to net you the Pure Bladestone, the rarest upgrade stone in the game.