The Alchemist on 11/11/2009 at 07:34

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Man, Firestorm is crazy. Killed Vanguard in one cast, not that he's that tough to begin with anyway.

Old King Doran was a bit of a hack. I poisoned him with poison cloud and watched as his hp withered away, recasting poison cloud if the effect wore off. He never noticed he was dying, and never healed.

So now I've got his armor and Demonbrand, which I gave to a friends since I don't need it. We play coop together every stage anyway (his melee char has trouble with some monsters plus we get 2x the exp that way cause we fight every boss/stage twice. :P )

Now we're at 1-4 but we dont want to endgame, so we need to finish up 4-x worlds which we had never even visited, and the last two bosses of 3-x. With Demonbrand he hits as hard as my spells do. Good stuff.

Malf on 15/4/2010 at 06:34

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(http://kotaku.com/5517403/looks-like-demons-souls-is-finally-coming-to-europe) Looks like Demon's Souls is finally getting a European release.

More meat to the grinder :D
This may be enough to get me to start a new character so I can help (or hinder) the legions of new players.
A new group of people get to experience the blinding fear that is "The black phantom XYZ has invaded!".

Zerker on 15/4/2010 at 23:57

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Malf, I'm suspecting they'll be playing on different servers unfortunately.

But in other news, if anyone else has finished the game but not played much more (say around Soul Level 68), I'd be game for doing some coordinated co-op.

Malf on 16/4/2010 at 06:33

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Dunno about that; I'm in the UK playing an import copy. I don't know how they decide which server I connect to at the moment, or indeed where their servers are, but it runs fine. Of course, because of the lack of voice communication and the modular hint system, I don't know if I'm playing with Americans, Koreans or Japanese people.
I seem to remember reading that that's why the hint system is modular, so that the same message can be conveyed in multiple languages.

Regarding magic users, start working on a weapon that gives a large damage boost based on your magic stat. I think it's Moonstone for that. I went for a katana; mine has a physical attack of 143 +20, magical attack of 160 +96 and a bleed rating of 180. Strength rating is E, dexterity rating is E and magic rating is C.
Also, I concentrated completely on my magic stat until it hit 60, then started raising other stats.
I'm currently Soul Level 176.
My stats are:
Vitality 32
Intelligence 40
Endurance 30
Strength 30
Dexterity 30
Magic 60
Faith 18
Luck 16

As you can only play with other people within 10 levels of your own, I doubt I'll be bumping into any of you guys any time soon ;)

Levelling for me is a complete bastard though; it pretty much dictates grinding 4-2. It takes well over 200,000 souls for me to level.

Matthew on 16/4/2010 at 11:02

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Woooo, just preordered on Amazon. They say June 25th for a UK release.