Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-6132984-20130527010542/@comment-24922390-20140514174124

Zelron wrote:

Rahkuhl88 wrote: I hope this thread is still relevant. I started with a thief and found myself getting utterly destroyed. It wasn't until about my 10th time dying to Capra that I decided to reroll into a knight, and I'm destroying enemies with ease! I don't think I started really having problems until halfway through Blighttown, but I was still able to make short work of Quelaag. right now I'm moving through the Catacombs, before Sen's Fortress (I know, bass-ackwards) and it's been fairly smooth so far. I'm about to take on the bonewheel skeletons though, wish me luck! The Thief and Knight have very opposing playstyles. Thief focuses on movement and precision attacks. The Knight focuses on standing their ground and tanking everything. The problem is that the Thief just has a higher learning curve. I didn't have a problem playing a thief my first time, expect it took until the Four Kings to realize I should stop trying to use the Bandit Knife on bosses.

Yeah, I might go back and try again with the Thief once I'm done playing through with the Knight. It may feel radically different, but by then I'll at least have a decent amount of knowledge about enemy movesets and weaknesses, which will definitely help me to adapt a lot quicker.