If you feel like you're getting mileage off of the Heal miracle, then by all means those points haven't been wasted. They're there now, and this is what you have. Though, the extra points you've dedicated to Faith might've been wiser to spend elsewhere. Largely, your stat allocation is in good shape.
#LIGHTNING SPEAR DARK SOULS 1 UPGRADE#
The important thing, regardless of whether it is with a spear or not, is to find a weapon moveset you like and upgrade the hell out of that weapon. You can absolutely beat the game with a spear, and you can do so easily. You would be better served with a regular spear or farming Anor Londo's Silver Knights for a Silver Knight Spear.Īgain. In fact, it's actually probably holding you back. Your Faith is low at this point, too low to take advantage of the spear's scaling. It offers good-to-great scaling, but unfortunately, it scales with Strength, Dexterity, and Faith. User mentioned this before I could, but the Dragonslayer Spear is a bit of a tricky weapon to use properly. For clarity's sake, I am literally suggesting a longsword sold by Andre, if nothing else, which you can upgrade to +7 or +8 at this point and out of which you will get immediate use. A one-handed sword's quick sweeping attacks will cover those bases. You will certainly encounter situations wherein the thrusting attacks of a spear are either too slow or cover too narrow a radius to be effective. While it's nice to specialize in a certain kind of weapon, different problems require different tools. Something simple, like a rudimentary long sword, that you can easily use with one hand. What you should do is think about picking up a second weapon type. Spears are incredibly powerful and versatile weapons in Dark Souls whose benefits, primarily in the form of reach, can on their own merit overcome most of the enemies you'll come to find over the remaining hours of the game. Disregard anything suggesting you should abandon spears altogether. You're completely, unforgivably boned.įirst things first.
The armors I am currently using: black iron for heavy fighting and the ninja armor for more agile stuff Now I'll check out the Beginner's Guide in the forums and will prepare to die. Now I am going for DEX to boost my spear damage and am thinking of going for DEX swords.Īny input is greatly appreciated. Then I tried some strength stuff and got faith up enough to use a heal spell. Originally I went for END and VIT as suggested by Rorie in the QL. Not sure if it's subjective or I am simply thrown off because of the different styles or whatever. Thing is I have a feeling I am not doing as great as with my +5 spear I used up until now. With the help of a friend I managed to beat Ornstein and Smough to get Ornstein's soul and create the dragonslayer spear (currently +2). Thing is, I kinda decided to go for spears and have gone through wikis to find the perfect one for my point in the game. That said I haven't played in a while and the reason I stopped playing way back when was because I thought I specked my character wrong. I've been thinking of playing dark souls again for a while now, and since DS3 recently came out, I think now would be a great time to do so.