@bbalpert: you don't have any curved sword? scimitar? falchion?
I didn't make the furysword until right after that battle actually, haha. I think the most important part is having some summoned backup. don't give up.. So much happens right after this point. It's very worth the struggle.
good luck out there.
No scimitars, falchions, shotels, nothing. I could get a painting guardian sword by killing enough of those guys by the giant painting, but I realized that it wouldn't even matter because I didn't have the foresight apparently to give Andrei the large ember I picked up earlier, so I can't upgrade any weapons past +5 (and I'd need a +10 curved sword).
It's just so fucking frustrating because I've already burned through most of my humanities trying to summon help only to get immediately invaded or have the summons fail (playing on the PC). I finally managed to get someone summoned with my second-to-last humanity and was able to destroy Ornstein with the Caravella method (Havel's armor, iron flesh, and double fisting the biggest, heaviest, hardest hitting weapon I have). Then super-Smough killed me with one hit when I tried to heal right as iron flesh wore off.
The thing is that the boss wouldn't even be all that bad if it weren't for the 3 minute jog from the bonfire to the boss room. And the fact that 1 out of every 4 or 5 of those 3 minute jogs needs to be done all over again because I got stun-locked and killed trying to run past those last 2 super sentinels.
I know I should stick with it, and I will for a little while longer, but the fact that I've held on this long is a testament to how much potential I see in this game. I've definitely quit playing games over much less than anything like the Capra Demon or the Gaping Dragon. And that makes the prospect of giving up that much more disappointing, that I'd be missing out on the rest of this neat stuff. It's just that it's getting closer and closer to the point where the prospect of maybe someday seeing some awesome late-game content simply isn't worth spending any more hours making myself genuinely unhappy.
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