Method soul-farming:9

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Starting Archstone	4-1 Shrine of Storms
Required Equipment/Spells/Miracles	A blunt weapon (club or mace). A mace and a morningstar can be found in 5-1 100% damage blocking shield Soul Arrow or bow/arrows
Method	The skeletons take a lot of blunt damage. Draw them one at a time with a bow or spell and kill them with a blunt weapon. Later if you have a good magic ability you can add the dual Katana skeleton when you can kill it with 3 spells. You will have time to cast 3 times when you get to lock-on range. How far you go in per run varies with your level. When done just run back to the archstone and go back to the Nexus.

Comments

crookeddealer 05 Apr 2010 16:39

for a magic build, once you get the Crescent falchion it is very effective in this level

Magic Strategy - Firespray

Sam Camp 09 Jun 2010 20:55

Using fire spray and the ring-of-magical-sharpness can generally kill
these skeletons in about 4-5 shots, while walking backwards, without being hit, and at a fairly low level.
If they do catch up to you, simply use your shield to stun them and start backing up while casting again

Run - finish line

Licoaldo 10 Aug 2010 23:57

I like this run as it's pretty quick. It ends for me as soon as I kill the bigger skeleton dual-wielding katanas as from there it's a quick drop back to the stairs and I'm close back to the archstone to do it all over again.

Dragon Claymore

smearedyam 21 Oct 2010 16:42

I just use a Dragon Claymore and kill these skeletons in one hit… run up under the archers, go upstairs to kill the skeleton and the 2 archers, jump down (minimal damage) run to the dual katana skeleton, kill him with a R1 R2 combo, then I sprint off the cliff… I restart at the archstone, do it all again, then my blood stain is right by that katana skeleton… Its about ~4300 souls with the Avarice ring.

Black Skelly

Cvillain 10 Feb 2011 17:48

Even without any Magic, the Black Skeleton can be a very easy fight, as long as you have a weapon with a backstab. Just lock-on and walk towards him. Wait for him to jump for his double-katana lunge, as soon as he does this, roll forward and quickly turn around. His attack will completely miss you if done right, as well as leave his back completely open for a backstab. After the backstab, when he starts getting up, continue your attack. When attacked from behind (not a backstab, just a normal attack) he gets locked in a quick stun animation that doesn't allow him to turn around for another attempt to attack you. Once your stamina gets low, quickly adjust for another backstab and repeat until dead. This is most easily done with a Dagger or other relatively fast weapon.