Hah I'm stuck with Rennala since I am playing pure sorcerer, I reinforced a dagger and managed to get to second phase but that always gets me. With a melee build I'm sure will be easier!

Divine Tower is cool, I had the cat talisman so no worries of falling to death however I am stuck with the godskin boss (I think is called that) at the basement... need to get more powerful spells or maybe just level up more (currently lvl 59).

The good news is beating Rennala gives you access to respec.

But I want to play as sorcerer! I only need to find some melee guy to co-op

In DS3 I could solo all bosses except 2-3 (Gael/Midir/Cinder) but this game seems less "caster friendly" than previous souls games!

I'm doing quick melee/caster, now that I got a good katana.



My look at the end of the day.

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Looks cool! I am playing as usual with a pure sorcerer (name Chambara ). I always pick that class/name in every soul game I try the first time. Then usually make another build, heavy hitter, and call her Krimm haha

I must be getting closer to the end, because it just got a lot harder. Summons are my friends now.



Since I can't take more than a few hits from the big enemies anyway, time to break out the cloth armor and go light load glass cannon. Let the summons tank, they can take 10-15 strong hits.



It doesn't look like I will get any new good weapons that work for my build, so these will just keep being upgraded.

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Yes at one point I noticed too that going heavy armor seems useless since most high end bosses can almost oneshot you anyway, so better to jumproll and evade (that was the same in previous souls games too).

And yes summons are really powerful once upgraded to the max, need to try again Rennala with better summons

Of course, an hour later I find an area I'd missed, which is now super easy.



I have the Mimic summon maxed, which copies myself, except with a million more HP and defense, it seems.

Haha interesting! I want to try that one too. I now stumbled into Radahn battle and ughh lol

Whoever said this game was easier than other souls is mad!

Yeah, Radahn kicked my ass for a while, but it's a gate keeping fight that opens up important stuff.

The main issue is that I can't seem to find many people for co-op. I thought since it's a record-selling game it wouldn't be a problem, especially on PS (PS4 and PS5 can cross-play). I did some co-op helping people with Godfrick but can't find anyone to help me :D

Hah, I just leveled a bit and now can use Moonveil (magic katana) and killed Rennala at 3rd attempt (with 2nd very close) and also managed to kill Radahn too (that was super tough!).

If gets even more difficult now I don't know what the hell lol

Still using Moonveil (+8 right now), pretty sure I'll be using it for the rest of the game.



Good job breaking those barriers, now it should be easy until the next big boss. Now you can get Rennala's Full Moon spell (well, at INT 70 anyway), and get access to areas with other good spells that should help, like Night Shard.

Heh I tried the mimic thing but sucks lol, the computer AI plays it really bad. Instead I'm liking a lot the skeleton shield one, they're very tough and can block boss long enough for me to deal a lot of damage from distance

Maybe Greatshield Soldier is more for you, 5 dudes with big shields. My Mimic solos some of the bosses.

Well I haven't found yet the tool to purchase gloveworth upgrades so are only +4, maybe if your is +10 is much better

Probably any summon is ridiculous at +10.

There was a video on youtube of someone testing ALL the summons against the draconic sentinel, but IMHO is not a good comparison since some summon are good at ranged combat, others at close, then depends on arena size, etc

I think I'll be leveling both mimic for magic/ranged and the skeletons for close range/keep bosses busy, unless I find something better

Finally finished the capital and sewers, now off to Land of Giants. I can feel the end coming closer.

Haha I'm still way behind, but after today's tooth extraction I guess I'll catch up since I'll be KO a couple of days (no work).

The main thing is that there are some optional bosses that require a specific build. For example in a dungeon there's a putrid tree boss in a very small room, and basically it kills you in 2 hits unless you have a frost weapon that reduces its stamina until it becomes immobilized... so some (optional, lukcily) bosses can be beaten ONLY with a specific setup, and I think that's not cool (should be still possible to beat them somehow with not a 100% specific gear).

Anyway got the Comet Azur+Terra Magicus and it's really cool to halve bosses health in one shot :D