Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-24.203.177.118-20140129031337

I'd like to start a thread about people's adventures in the game; their experiences, their successions and failures, funny moments, awful moments, where they got stuck and how they strategized. This should make for some fun and interesting reads!

I'd like to start with my own that happened today which gave me the idea: was on the NG+, I decided to play the game in a rather different manner than my first play through. Instead of an Elite Knight with a sword and shield coupled with a little pyromancy, I decided to try going with a Gargoyles Halberd two hands. No shields. A composite bow for starts, some pyromancy and some miracles. Totally different outfit too; crystalline helmet with wanderer top and black leather legs, wanderer gauntlets.

I came to the point where I needed to take down the two Bell Gargoyles, thing is, I`m stubborn and like to try to do all these bosses myself. I got pretty far, but died time and time again because I couldn`t handle the flame. Oh, did I mention I dicided to make a new habit of remaining human through the game (last playthrough was almost all undead)? So for each time I died I wasted a humanity. I gave up the two handed Halberd and grabbed a Gargoyle shield...yes, garygoyle halberd and shield against the bastards I killed for. Also I switched my top and gauntlets to the explorer which resulted in a well balanced defense of all things. I also kept trying to use flash sweat, and once a poison resin...didn't do it. Anyway, all that and by the time I got there I had forgotten to pull out my shield, died. Did it again but changed the placement of the battle on the roof, and again...forgot my damned shield...(just to be clear I only needed to kill one to insure success, the other I could hand in easy). And as a result...I WON! Didn't need my flash sweat, shield, poison resin, NONE. Just a two handed Halberd...and a margin of error on their part. Ha! Knew I could do it. One last thing: I wore the Wolf ring and the fire defense ring, then eventually switched fire for Coranthy realizing my recovery rate was faltering.

Point is, all that altering of strategy and I didn't need it in the end, that sent a direct line to my funny bone. lol

So, what's YOUR story? 