I guess my finger slipped, whatever he is dead now. Besides bow and arrow, which I don't care about, does he have anything useful or should I just truck on?

Why are so many people accidentally killing the first merchant? Does he look dangerous?

Why are so many people accidentally killing the first merchant? Does he look dangerous?

You killed him, you tell us if he has anything usefull?
 
He does sell some basic equipment and projectiles, which is mainly why he's still alive in my game.

If you want Fire Bombs, Arrows, and the shard that makes you able to write stuff on the ground that's the only place you can get it, at least as far as I know.

I'm actually also curious why so many people are killing him.

Is it just messages on the ground saying "STRIKE!" or something?

@Grissefar: Not being a dick, genuinely curious how it's happening so often.

If you want Fire Bombs, Arrows, and the shard that makes you able to write stuff on the ground that's the only place you can get it, at least as far as I know.

@Grissefar: Not being a dick, genuinely curious how it's happening so often.

Is he that squishy? What dmg did you do to him? Also, what did he drop and how many souls did you get off of him?

Is he that squishy? What dmg did you do to him? Also, what did he drop and how many souls did you get off of him?

@Grissefar said:

@Management said:

If you want Fire Bombs, Arrows, and the shard that makes you able to write stuff on the ground that's the only place you can get it, at least as far as I know.

Ok no problem then. I already got the write stuff stone from the sun guy in front of the dragon bridge, and I guess his uchitangara and humanity isn't too unuseful.

Pretty sure that's a completely different thing you got from the sun guy.

thats a pretty dumb thing to do, you want firebombs, arrows or repair items then you better hope the undead drop em. So yeah he's kind of important. hope that helps

Someone's mentioned the first merchant has the firebombs, and I've found them incredibly useful so far. Especially on some of the bosses. That merchant also died the first time I played as well. I was running from a couple of enemies and I ran them right into the merchant's room. I didn't know he was in there. The enemies proceeded to hack both the merchant and myself to death. It was early in my play-through, so I went ahead and made another character.

@Grissefar said:

@Management said:

If you want Fire Bombs, Arrows, and the shard that makes you able to write stuff on the ground that's the only place you can get it, at least as far as I know.

Ok no problem then. I already got the write stuff stone from the sun guy in front of the dragon bridge, and I guess his uchitangara and humanity isn't too unuseful.

Pretty sure that's a completely different thing you got from the sun guy.

There was a really helpful note saying to kill him for me. Happily obliged. Missed out on a Bow and Bombs because of it.

@CrazyBagMan said:

@Grissefar said:

@Management said:

If you want Fire Bombs, Arrows, and the shard that makes you able to write stuff on the ground that's the only place you can get it, at least as far as I know.

Ok no problem then. I already got the write stuff stone from the sun guy in front of the dragon bridge, and I guess his uchitangara and humanity isn't too unuseful.

Pretty sure that's a completely different thing you got from the sun guy.

What does the merchant thing do then? The sun guy thing makes me write/rate messages.

The only things I bought from him were the Orange Soapstone for writing and voting on messages, the residence key for opening doors in the lower areas of the Burg, a 100% physical resist heater shield which I have already replaced with something better, and a bow and tons of arrows, which I think is pretty damn useful.

I wouldn't want to miss out on the Orange Soapstone myself, but if you really got that same item from Solaire ( sun dude ) I guess the game just cut you some slack. Solaire gave me a White Soapstone for summoning other players, did he give you that one as well?

You're right I guess the sun guy gave me summon stone, but he probably gave me soapstone too because there was a ton of messages around him and I wrote my first one there too.

@Buckfitches: Sorry for going off topic but what shield did you replace the heater with?

I killed him earlier today and now that I'm stuck I completely regret it

i so regret killing him myself. There was a message on the floor, "try attacking".

I feel like it was a game breaker..

He does drop the orange soapstone when you kill him. The Uchigatana is pretty rad if you don't get the Drake Sword.

I did the same thing on my first go-around but I also managed to kill Andre the blacksmith.

I guess since no one has mentioned it, I'll do. The guy also sells a thing that lets you repair your weapons and armor at a bonfire. It seems to be the only way to repair stuff in the beginning save for going down the elevator at Fire Link Shrine and finding the blacksmith in the area there. However, once you make it to the blacksmith seen in the quicklook you'll be able to buy a repair kit from him.

@Daneian said:

There was a really helpful note saying to kill him for me. Happily obliged. Missed out on a Bow and Bombs because of it.

Ouch. I really hate it when people put misleading or outright false notes...

On top of that people are voting up the misleading notes. i found a jump off cliff rated 10 which killed me.

@Grissefar said:

@KarlPilkington said:

Why are so many people accidentally killing the first merchant? Does he look dangerous?

Thanks for the help. It's nice that you aren't a complete dick about it it.

The guy asked a genuine question and you responded like a dick, dick.

jk, jk dont shoot me!

On top of that people are voting up the misleading notes. i found a jump off cliff rated 10 which killed me.

@Simtastic said:

@Buckfitches: Sorry for going off topic but what shield did you replace the heater with?

The Eagle Great Shield from Blighttown. I used the hearter until then but I had upgraded it to +4.. i also didn't make it to blighttown till i was SL 41.. so i had a decent amount of Strength already.

@Turambar said:

@getsomedrankHowardPhillips said:

On top of that people are voting up the misleading notes. i found a jump off cliff rated 10 which killed me.

Actually, the "rated" portion just means it has been rated 10 times. You need the miracle "guidance" to see the actual +/- value of the note. No, that is not a joke. That miracle only has 5 uses too.

until you need to hit a bonfire to refill it. Alot of messages are complete wastes of time so you dont even need to know if they are good or bad as 90% of mine are "I did it" or "Praise the sun" which is complete utter uselessness.

@musclerider: So the Uchigatana isn't as good as the Drake Sword? How close is it and is it cheap to upgrade? I was a massive fan of katanas in the first game (and in real life).

@xobballox: You get it from the merchant when you kill him. I think the upgrade cost is the same as most regular weapons (Maybe like 9 titanite shards to get it to +5). I don't really know because I only had it on my other playthrough which is now long gone. 80 durability was kind of a killer for me though.

tl;dr: Powerful sword if you missed out on the Drake Sword.

On top of that people are voting up the misleading notes. i found a jump off cliff rated 10 which killed me.

ALWAYS SWITCH TO YOUR BOW WHEN NEARING ANY FRIENDLY NPCS JESUS CHRIST FUCK.

@getsomedrankHowardPhillips said:

On top of that people are voting up the misleading notes. i found a jump off cliff rated 10 which killed me.

Which makes these games great.

lol i also killed him by accident, but it wasnt much of a big deal, im up to demon ruins now after the first boss, that merchant wasnt really a game changer, you will find many others on your way around dark souls, and thanks to the new update, the lady hollow just before the depths now sells arrows.

@GeneralMojo_786: actually, just about any merchant sells arrows now. After you complete the early-game, this guy is more or less useless to you as a merchant. You shouldn't be spending too much time in the parish. After you have the residence key, orange soapstone and have found a merchant that sells arrows, you should kill him for the free uchigatana (only obtainable if you join the forest covenant otherwise), not to mention humanity and a few souls.