Ah crap you’re right I thought it was 8 for +3/6/9. I even redid that graphic from 12 per to 14 cause I second guessed myself haha. Closer to 1,700 instead of 2k.
I didn’t find a great spot to put this in the video as I was yapping a lot already, but when I checked towards the end of farming, I had easily surpassed 10 million souls in this play though. Enough to get into super high levels for sure…
When you said the Crystal Sage's Rapier upped item discovery when held in the off hand you gave me a horrible flash back to that goddamn staircase in Anor Londo
Me too brother me too lol. My white whale is figuring out if souvenirs can be rng manipulated. I’ve sunk some hours into trying to figure that out, to no avail so far…
Better man than I. Seeing you do this makes me feel a little weak for wanting to drop trying to get the platinum for DS3. Now I feel like I can't quit now
Congrats man, just found your content this evening. I did this challenge on my own accord on Dark Souls 2 a few months ago. To also include - I did not let myself fight the boss or go to the next area until I had every piece of equipment prior to it. Meaning each piece of armor and enemy dropped weapon, etc.. was long, but it was fun :)
Very good video, your DS1 video inspired me to get every weapon in DS1 as well, I got them all I just need to more chunks and slabs, also will we see you max every weapon in Best Souls 2 Next or Elden Ring?
Yippee, unnecessarily convoluted challenges in Dark Souls games! Especially when it's a sequel that I already enjoyed. Also, completely unrelated, but we have almost the exact same number of subscribers at the moment I'm writing this comment, I just think that's funny.
Haha indeed, I didn’t say it here but in the ds1 version, I said it was right on the border of interesting and stupid, which make for the best type of video! I’ve noticed that as well, it’s only right I suppose considering we both had similar videos blow up at the same time! And both redid those same videos afterwards haha
Definitely on the docket at some point, I’ve got plans for a different ds2 video soon (part of the Backlogs 2nd contest!) and want to do a Demons Souls video as well in the interim, similar to my first math souls video for dark souls.
Would it be easier to mass farm souls from the winged knights on the roof of the grand archives? Or do the chunk drops from ringed knights make that farm faster. Also, since you need to do multiple NG+ cycles anyway, would it be easier to wait until later cycles and upgrade all at once? Unless you wanted to upgrade the NG weapons in NG, which I understand. Great content, as always
I’m honestly not sure, I think the Ringed City farm is probably faster, mostly because it’s easier to kill the knights (big weapons stun them on hit), but I can’t say for certain. Idk how many souls you get per 3 ascended knights, but I think it was roughly 1,000,000 souls per hourish of farming plus chunks. It’s probably a little faster to go to NG+ for farming if I had to guess? The real limiter is was actually lack of twinkling and scales towards the end of the farm. Ended up farming rock lizards in arch dragon peak
farming for some of the items in elden ring will be completely arduous, I can tell you from experience doing it myself. I didn't wind up maxing out all my weapons (yet), but I did collect everything I can on one cycle and plan on finishing my 100% collection file at some point, but getting at least one copy of every weapon in the game to +25/10 is going to take numerous NG+ cycles due to the sheer volume of weapons in the game. I'm curious, now, myself, how many cycles that will take. Surely more than NG+7...
Wikis say there are 21 regular and 14 somber per cycle. I dunno offhand how many of each there are, but considering there’s like 350 weapons it’s probably NG+9 or 10
Can’t wait to see you do this in elden ring and have to do like… at least 20-25 cycles for the ancient smithings? Idk the exact number of cycles, I’ll leave the math to you lmao
Haha someone else asked, I actually think it would only take 10/11 cycles. There’s 23 regular and 18 somber I think and like 350+ weapons? I wonder if the ratio puts it exactly at 1/10 of the weapons per game cycle, that would be pretty interesting!
@@trevthedev6134 oh wow! I thought there were significantly less normal ancient dragons smithing stones than that. I guess I severely underestimated the dlc on that part! And that would be really cool if it ended up being exactly ten cycles
Honestly collecting everything is pretty interesting. Ds3 has some quest line stuff that makes this interesting, like there’s a 10+ weapons that require Greirat to pillage / Patches questline and some other stuff
Yeah I was thinking it was 2/4/8 not 6, I double guessed myself a few times haha. I even changed that graphic last second from 6 to 8. I blame it on streamer brain as they say
Would it be faster to grind for souls rather than grind out enemy drops? Im not necessarily too familiar with the glitches in ds3, but is there a way to duplicate high yielding souls?
Yeah I need an editor one day haha. Splicing clips sometimes causes weirdness (especially with how the program I’m using likes to behave sometimes). One day…
Interesting that that’s your takeaway here. I did it this way as I don’t feel it added much to go through multiple game cycles to collect 200+ slabs, as someone who would be doing something like this (e.g., for pvp purposes) would almost certainly dupe slabs. That was my approach anyhow. I’m gonna have to run through cycles in Elden Ring though for sure
Mostly cause the run back versus the potential reward was slower than the ringed city knight. I think the souls would probably be higher, but I was getting at least 4 chunks per knight run, sometimes twice that many, and they can drop scales. That and you can poise stun the knights but not the winged knights, so it was easiest to clear them out.
Rellanas for sure, I used those for a good chunk of my first dlc playthrough. The dancers swords are really bad unfortunately, probably a bottom 30 weapon in DS3.
