Can You Beat Dark Souls 1 With Only Spell Tools? 

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Hahaha alright, "Canonically it hurts to be on fire" got me good.

Immolation spell users be like

@@ToweringPepsiMan Lord of Sunlight, not lightning.

@@Raoul. Lord of Capri Sun, not Sunlight.

@@kchigley5309 Lord of Sunny D, not Capri Sun.

Huh. Never thought about that. Good point.

That beard works like a survival candle

demon firesage be like: what are you talking about

The Lord of "Cinders", ever burning away.

i just finished my ds sorcery run and let me tell you i agree sorcery is not that great so i used an +5 enchanted uchi with my sorcery

@@desklamp8591 what were you using? sorcery is amazing for damage numbers

@@desklamp8591 well just use logans staff and Crystal spear. Its broken

@@desklamp8591 on ng+7 I one shot Gwynn with, sorceries you good?

@@desklamp8591 sorcery is literally so easy mode it's pvp meta, it does massive damage can be setup before a fight and does massive poise damage to stagger everything that can be staggered

Actually that is false, Gwyn has fairly high resistances overall including to fire, 249, for comparison seath, sif, nito, smough, firesage (firesage is not weak to fire, that's a myth, it's actually its highest resistance), four kings and gaping dragon all have smaller resistances to fire. In fact aside from DLC bosses and the members of izalith's family who are immune to fire, Gwyn has one of the highest resistance to fire in all the game. I've not looked for every boss but the only ones I found with a higher resistance than him are ornstein (both phases) and iron golem.

@@Luca-ds3zl Yes for the lord of sunlight and calling something a weakness when it's one of the highest resistances of this type in the game doesn't really make much sense, does it ? It's like saying demon prince is weak to dark when his resistance is above 60%. He is weakest to, but not weak to. The actual weakness of gwyn is occult damage, just like ornstein and gwyndolin.

@@nathanjora7627 Listen man that's just rpg lingu When something is your lowest resistance its your weakness cause its essentially the best way to kill you

@@solidussnake2425 Thing is that it's a really flexible term, it is often use to describe something that one is actually weak to, especially in the souls series, "actually weak to" in the sense of there being a significant difference or outright bonus to damage between whatever thing you're using to damage the enemy and any other thing (like for example occult against gwyn, divine against skeletons, lightning against NK's drake, etc). Like, maybe my qualm with the term will be explained if I put it that way : "being weak to" is often used to mean "particularly weak to", either in comparison to most other mobs/bosses, or in comparison to the other defenses, and Gwyn is not "particularly weak to" fire in that sense. That sense is the one I see most often, or at least very often, hence why I object. I don't object to it being the thing Gwyn is weakest to though, and by the way considering that he is considerably weaker to both fire and magic than lightning or any physical damage, I wouldn't have any issue saying that he is weak to those both. Does that seem fair to you ? (fair as in "understandable that I'd respond that way", sorta, not sure how to phrase it better >

@@nathanjora7627 My man if you get better elemental damage from fire than any other element then he is weak to fire it's not about nuking him it's about the best way to hurt him By your logic no end game boss is weak to anything because every dev in planet earth gives end game bosses high resistance to everything Jesus

He's the Lord of sunlight my dudr

@@Zzzzzzxx165 Sunlight is connected much more to lightning than fire in Dark Souls because uh... Well, the lightning's yellow, for one?

@@petruciosxd1374 yeah expect his spear isn't called lighting it's literally called sunlight spear and the soul he got from the light was the light soul

@@petruciosxd1374 *soul he got from the first flame

@@Zzzzzzxx165 yea but all the “sunlight” stuff does lightning stuff. Just look at sunlight spear, literally just a sunset colored lightning bolt. In Dark Souls, the sun is attributed to lightning, (they are both plasma anyway, makes sense-ish) and the moon to magic. So there’s not really a problem calling him the lightning lord instead of sunlight lord, as they’re essentially the same thing in-game.

This. This is the information I need.

wait wait wait what do you mean you can pop Quelaag's spider part?? what!?!?

@@np_animation6319 Yeah WHAT?

There's another thing related to poise damage and bosses: Priscilla only turns visible once you stagger her and that it a funtion of poise damage, not damage damage. Can best be seen by using Throwing Knives to stagger her.

@@np_animation6319 you can pop it, you Attack it until it does an Explosion. It wont disappear.

Sorceries put the game in Easy mod, apart from blightown maybe that parte Is Always boring, you can also skip It

Tbf you can get the pokey stick after just one boss if you have the master key. That's pretty earki

In DSR, the alternative twink weapons to the Gravelord Sword was the Tin Banishment Catalyst, or the Demon's Catalyst (any weapon with bleed trivializes Demon Firesage). Because stick fighting is apparently quite strong yet no one appreciated until weapon matchmaking.

Rather than early what I would've preferred was that the moveset wasn't as garbage. Like... Don't give poke to what's obviously an axe (demon) or a mace (crystal), and don't give a special garbage poke rather than a standard spear poke to a spear.

As someone whos done catalyst runs of all the souls games, they are super viable and even in pvp if you play your two whole cards as best you can. Also love your profile pic, dat from Devil's candy comic?

@@Professor-Badger Yes

Gwyn also counts as Hollow as well doesn't he? If I remember correctly Hollow's take more damage from fire so that would make more sense as to why he's weak against it.

Sunlight ain't lightning boi

@@Karan-Aujla In the dark souls universe, it is ahah. See his "Sunlight spear" that does lightning damage. Yeah it's stupid

@@AriaFromMahabre Oh. I never made that connection, i always assumed they did some kind of holy damage. Makes sense now, how it doesn't do much damage to Ornstein.

You sure HE’S the lord of sunlight?

It's a base stick you cant upgrade catalysts

@@TheOrzhovSyndicate the joke! You missed it! Oh god why!

Blue flame and black witch staff are the best late game options. Earlier - probably archdrake staff? Idk.

Lightning +10 disc chime On a faith build did more damage than my Thorned lightning great sword +10

I'd be all for it, but you can hardly call it a challenge, in my experience a lot of casting tools, even the non-weapon ones are lethal, and that's not even including the weapons like the spontoon or the flame... and then there's the sanctum shield, what a lovely weapon

@@PowdergameFan18 saw someone whack a chime around and laughed at them until I Stood still, got hit, and It oneshot my remaining hp lmao

Just level up adp

This channel is going to explode out of nowhere and Backlogs will finally have that overdue recognition he deserves!

Gwyn had been burning for ages, and his element was technically electricity, so there's some logic there, though it's not the most intuitive weakness for a boss.

Neither are weak to fire, they both have amongts the highest resistances to fire, firesage's fire resistance is actually his highest elemental resistance. Gwyn's fire resistance is still higher though, which is quite funny ^^

@@nightscout9979 it's actually not even a weakness at all ^^

Part of the definition of cinder is that it is literally something still flammable. Gwyn's weakness to fire wasn't an oversight it was an intentional weakness.

@@dorkmoonblade4315 Gwyn is literally not weak to fire, he has superior fire resistance compared to most bosses. Also I could just as easily argue that you have the logic backward, since the definition of cinder is that it's partly burnt, meaning it has less combustible matter than it used to, which means that if I wanted to I could say it makes sense that the fire resistance is so high since it's filled with non combustible material.

Oh wow. Completely forgot that was considered a weapon. Okay, yeah, that idea tickles my fancy - I'm in!

@@TheBacklogs I mean, it deals fire damage, which the lord of fire is weak to (obviously). Should be pretty easy cause that's the only boss that matters, right?

@@Knightshadess Quelag? Bed of Chaos? Both are immune to fire damage.

@@proximityclockworkx1572 That's for him to figure out how to deal with it ;)

@@Knightshadess I can't remember for sure but I think skull lantern counts as a shield so you might be able to buff it

Honestly, this run was a lot of fun. I would be more than happy to push it forward to the next few games :)

Heretic's Staff tho. It has great range, decent damage and you can get it pretty early on.

@@TheBacklogs Fun Fact: In DS2 the catalysts are VERY good for bonking damage. Due to how the game doesn't use spell adjust, but instead just gives catalysts a damage AR for each element to pull from for calculations. And it uses that same AR for the bonk damage, so you end up with catalysts with an AR in like the 600s. Sure it is split damage, but it is still CRAZY strong, especially considering the physical part of the damage is blunt which the majority of DS2's enemies are weak too. Even the spell casting shields do ridiculous damage when used in the main hand for bonking. It's certainly a...unique experience, but one I think you'll enjoy.

@@TheValiantBob Ditto on the casting shields! I used the dark one you get in the first dlc to make a Shield Knight cosplay (from Shovel Knight) long ago, and it was stupidly strong and versatile. DS2 might be the least polished of Fromsoft's recent games, but it is second to none for making crazy off-meta builds.

Blue Flame would feel like cheating since it's a sword. He could go with Chime Shield (I think that's the earliest one you can get if it's still in the same place in SoTFS.) Then go pick from either Sanctum Shield or Black Witch Staff both of which has insane bonk damage because of scaling from Magic/Dark/Lightning.

Swinging is a somatic component for casting the spell, but it has to make contact for the spell to resolve

After seeing the massive damage of the demon catalyst, I didn't feel like bothering with Logan's questline. Demon's felt strong enough.

Was just going to say this. A simple look at the wiki or taking any character to see what a max flame vs base flame damage confirms this. Its not much of a boost but its something.

Legitimately never would have gotten out of blight town or into dark souls if not for that catalyst. It will always have my love!

I remember going from 7 r1s or four spells to take down an enemy, to one shot killing everything. I suddenly felt like a god!

no it cant cast spells

That's only in ds3 iirc