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im still dead set on it being patches

soul level 125 and around that used to be the good low bracket ..175 mid and 225 high .. so thats what i tested at .. i avoided being onlien or played in hollow form for most of the areas where i really wanted to get through it with minimum hassle

especially around 175 i was getting constant invasions in all late game areas , got invaded twice in anor londo while trying to deal with the 2 black knight archers , which made me turn it off while progressing ehhe

i rember at around 100 i waso sitting at the blight-town bottom bonfire , and waiting for invaders there , has a nice area up behind it that serves as an arena

i guess just pick an area that suits your fighting style

being a caster i tried to wait for my attacker in a narrow hallway or something where they couldnt easily dodge my spells

whatever you do , dont waste time bowing , i one shot a few ppl with crystal soul spear that way

sure there are alot of hackers and dupers but i find more "honest " players when you reach the higher soul level brackets that the demons souls pvp community would remember( just look at demons souls pvp builds and most conform to SL 125 etc ) even if they duped souls to get there they are usually trying to fight legitimately .. the lower levels are where you will see stat hacks and shit to troll new players so thats why i avoided it .. but i did make ALOT of ghosts fall off cliffs ehhe

and uhh gwyn

and seath .. hehe

lightning scimitar will be better but the quelaags furysword is a bit easier to get upgraded , and if youre a pyro then you might want to keep alot of humanity and then youd benefit from that with your pyro spells and the furysword at that point damage will be comparable if not the same

lightning is just amazing though as far as pve goes .. i imagine people will start buffing lightning resist for pvp to compensate tho ...

id say keep both around .. unless you cant spare another +10 scimitar

@thehuntsmen5434: i see ... so quelana got in trouble for duping souls , and that was the result .. ok

ok then the pygmy descendant theory is interesting but also weird

one thing i noticed in the intro is the woman that is tending to your corpse when it mentiosn the darksign , she seems to be anastacia of astora , and she seems really bummed that i revived her

ITS PATCHES

@LordXavierBritish: hehe yeah i almost added that at the end , and it makes alot of sense .. but is almost too contrived to be possible .. for dark souls that is

yeah .. sorry .. thats its only known use so far .. but i assume it is NPC chain or Covenant related .. or like the witches ring .. it adds some dialogue but is ultimately useless

Ok starting a discussion on this in a seperate thread as its more lore related .

lots of people have been wondering just who or what the furtive pygmy mentioned in the intro is , the last of the "lords" that were born.

My theory is that he is the Bed of Chaos boss , as the little thing you kill in the center of it looks like some kind of curled up maggot person , thats close enough to a pygmy for dark souls .. so that could be it

the confusion here is that the boss is in Lost Izalith , and also "missing" is Quelana the Witch of Izalith ,, not to be confused with the daughter of chaos you fight outside the bed of chaos room

but who is the bed of chaos .. is it Quelana or the Pygmy ,, Quelana also is close to Quelaag , so mabye she became corrupted and became a spider .. but that lowers her a bit from her "lord" status

frankly i love the mysterious nature of the lore but i hate to think that some of it just got lost in translation...

@Shirogane: the pendant is traded to Snuggly the crow for a "Souvenir of Reprisal" (item for ranking up in darkmoon blade covenant)