Can You Beat Dark Souls With Bows Only?
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
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During my first playthrough of Dark Souls I would occasionally use the bow to snipe enemies or to lure them out to take them one V one . So a question popped into my head. Can you beat dark souls with Bows only? Today I will be going over my run and how I went about beating it. #Darksouls #darksoulschallengerun #darksouls3
Rules:
1. Bows only
2. All Equipment is Allowed
3. Only Buff Items or Spells
4. Embers Locked Behind Bosses
5. Level Caps
6. No Glitches or Mods
7. No Summons
8. Beat the Game
Timestamps:
Intro/Rules - 00:00
Run - 01:27
Music:
Minor Circuit - Punch Out Wii
Hand of the King - Dead Cells
The Painful Way - Hades
Hornet - Hollow Knight
Out of Tartarus - Hades
God of the dead - Hades - Ігри
14:12 Man, I love a good "Occulut" bow
🤣
Oculate: having a lot of eyes on it, furnished with a lot of eyes 👀
Quelaag when someone uses a bow : Ho shit, here we go again
Meanwhile, the red dragon on the parish bridge when someone uses a bow other than to cut its tail : It’s a beautiful day outside. Do you want me to kill hollows for you on my bridge so you get more ammunition ?
Indeed the dragon was the mvp for the run lol
what the hell is an okyulit- WAIT ARE YOU TRYING TO PRONOUNCE OCCULT
It wouldn't be an Accain video if I didn't miss pronounce a word or two
It sounds cooler
You ever get that feeling of Deja Vu?
Fun run to watch man, really like your use of graphics. Makes the video feel really clean. Looking forward to seeing what else you’ve got cooking 👍
Thanks GamersWeekend, I really appreciate it!!!
I am a simple man. I see Bleach in a thumbnail? I click
Quincies will use fucking lightsabers and tell you they’re still arrows
I think His Majesty would be pleased to hear that his heir beat the Dark Souls version of Yamamotto using only his letzt stil and a bow! No schrift needed!
I'm still sad the souls games don't let you hold 999 of an arrow type anymore.
Also how DS1 was the last time bows were somewhat strong for being bows. Always loved the Composite Bow on my quality builds.
Really? I thought in all of them you could have 999
Having but carrying only 99. Stores the rest in the box
That gwyn fight was actually sweet, I felt like I was watching legolas do bow gymnastics lol
It was fun being able to flip around. Was my first time using the wood grain ring
Why does this actually seem easier than playing normally
cause it's basically just sorcery with less options
@@witha1except dsr bows kinda sukk😭 not like sorcery
@@krashdevaughn5360 i mean, it is, like, both have limited uses, require a weapon and additional ammo, or in case of sorcery, spells, ye it might be worse but the similarities are there
It is until the later half of the game lol
@@witha1 « limited use »
You can have 999 arrows in every type of arrows, which are to the number of 7. Yes you can only equip 2 at a time, but you can just swap them at any moment in the inventory
Saying you are limited with a bow is like saying you are limited with a weapon because of durability (except in the case of cristal weapons because you can’t repair them)
I really like the "badge" animation after every boss 10/10 run!
Criminally underrated channel, amazing everything
Thank you SkyForGames!
I is simple man, I see souls-like challenge run, I watch.
This challenge run, good, very good, high quality, very entertaining, and somewhat informative
Thank you Snuggs!
21:12 OH NO... HE'S LEARNING!
32:53 As they say third time is the charm.
21:12 Remastered working precisely as intended
I really love Darksouls 1. It just gives you so much more freedom than the other two games on what classes you play with, at least for me. You get even more rewarded for exploring.
Great video as usual bro
Thank you thef2pguy249
funnily enough I think there was an IGN guide when the game came out
and it used more or less this strategy:
- get composite bow early
- grind lots of souls with the drake
only it also relied on super heavy armour and just tanking everything
Ive been gooning to all your videos and edging for a while man, new subscriber here. Keep it up!
Will do and thank you!
I just bought Dark Souls few days ago, and im so happy to have found your channel, execellent videos and 10/10 editting, keep the hard work
Thank you Roberbautista, I hope you end up enjoying Dark Souls!
Your vids are amazing! Keep it up man (:
Thank you RmexEdits will do!
damn bru u super underrated the editing is peak the commentary is funny like cmon get this man 200 billion subs NOW!!!
Thank you Habibprout, I really appreciate the support!
This its going to be usefull for my Samus Aran Run. Thank you, great video
Thank you and no problem!
This channel is going places.
Peak content I am subscribing
Thank you Electric_bolt!
@@AccainGamingyou’re welcome
I’ve been looking for one of these nice vid
Thank you Sixfold!
21:12 I started to panic out of reflex because what in the hell was that? I've been playing this game for like 10 years now and I've NEVER seen Smough do that before.
I'm so shocked you only have 1k subs your content is so good and scripted so well
Thank you Oscar!
Great video man really well done
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You’re welcome hope the channel grows best of luck
Your quality is 10/10... Just turned on post notis and I’m not even a quarter way through the video lol
Thank you so much Andrew!
I LOVE YOUR CONTENT!
Thank you Satrict, that means a lot!
Its always fun watching Bow Noobs take on these challenge runs even if your accidentally making things harder for yourselves. Still i appreciate the work you put in to this.
Thank you Jeffality!
This reminds me of the backlogs (my goat fr)
I’ve done a bow/crossbow only run and I was so much fun
New video from accain! This day started out great
Glad to hear it!
Great video! Love seeing simple challenge runs like this every once in awhile.
Occult is pronouced "Oh-Cult" btw. I've got a friend with Dyslexia and he struggles with reading it too.
Thank you! Yeah I tried to sound it out and for some reason came to that conclusion lol
Did not expect him to post today
To be honest me either lol
Another amazing video, the only feedback I have is it felt more like a tutorial than a challenge run
Thank you! I gotcha, is that do to me explaining to much of my reasons why I went with x thing? Just asking so I know what to do better for next time
the explanation is good it’s more the third person, instead of saying “I picked up this item” you say “make sure to pick up the short bow and standard arrows, they’ll be to your right” it’s like you’re giving a tutorial for people to copy xx
@@AccainGaming if you watch it back under the guise of “I’m watching a tutorial for a run” you’ll see what I mean, other than that it was outstanding again, brilliant editing, very funny and super entertaining, keep it up, don’t you dare go hollow 💕
I see what you're saying, I'll make sure to keep that in mind while I am writing the script for the next run. Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it!
Great video! You should try the DLC as well!
Thank you! Yeah from now on I will be including the DLC
Hears music from Punch Out
Ah…I see you are a fellow Little Mac Main man of culture 😏
Split damage on smaller weapons is most often a hindrance. Enemy defense is applied multiple times
It's just such a bad system when a Mac divine or occult weapon deals 70 damage two handed to a final boss😂
Blud you deserve 100k subs
Thank you so much for the kind words Scarmedison!
12:20 - floated down*
Very nice (Robert De Niro face for comedic effect of my comment). Your doing great
Thank you Generallee!
All titanite demons,hydra,and many mini bosses I defeat with bow. This is situational but very useful weapon.
you should add that metal shine sound when get the "badges" if you know what im talking about
Wait, this is the second video I watch of you and I'm not subbed yet? Time to fix that.
Thank you Tony-The-Motherfucking-Tiger!
You could have level dex to 40 and str to 27 as you always have two hand bows and use physical damage only comp arrow with large arrows from close range.
The hawk ring helps of course with a longer range.
A large arrow has a worse range so in some cases worse in very long ranges than the default arrow.
Hawk ring+ring of fog+65 range pharis bows can break the game.
Feather arrows have more range than default too but that only matters in VERY long-range snipes where you snipe beyond AI's response range...
Poison arrows can also be useful usually two shots are enough to proc poison.
Occult and divine path physical damage part scaling(from STR, dex) actually soft caps at 50 and not 40 like in the normal path.
So 33 or 34 str as you two hand bows.
I think the magic damage part soft caps at 50 faith.
Split damage goes through two defenses so it often deals less damage than what the AR suggests.
But divine gives a bonus and skellies have low magic defense.
Some bosses including all DLC are very resistant to elemental damage so split damage is very bad.
I actually use bows in every souls game quite profoundly they make game lota easier. Wanna try full greatbow build for elden ring sometime
Definitely! I been meaning to try out greatbows never got around to it yet
Love how you say occult (it’s pronounced “a cult”)
31:44 😩
The result you derived from the bow formula is actually wrong. If you multiply by a percentage smaller than 100 the jumber you get is smaller that your initial number. I myself dont know how bows scale. But if they add 39% more damage the correct formula is either AR+AR*39% or AR*139%
Great video bro, your stuff is entertaining as hell.
I got one question though. Your estus flask is only +4, not +5 and you didn't kill any of the fire keepers besides Darkmoon Knightess I'm assuming, Maybe you don't like killing Qualaag's sister and/or Anstasticia (firelink firekeeper) which is fair enough, I didn't either. But in that case, why don't you get the 5th fire keeper soul from the Duke's Archives prison?
There's a fire keeper soul in the duke's archives?!?!?
@@AccainGamingyeah. If you get to the bottom of the spiral staircase where the tentacle mommies are, there's a jail cell in the back. You can open it by getting a key from the chest on the left, closest to the staircase that you take to get to the courtyard and the crystal cave entrance. Go back with it and open up the jail cell and a fire keeper soul should be there in the back. Big hat Logan will also be in there if you've proceeded with his quest line so far and will sell you crystal magic weapon.
Oh Okay, I have saved Logan before but didn't remember there being a firekeeper soul there. Thanks for letting me know! This will be extremely useful on the challenge run that I am working on right now
@@AccainGamingNo problem, glad to help. One more thing though, you don't have to do Logan's quest line to get it (I sure as hell didn't) and when I found out about the location of it, everyone I watched rested at a bonfire before going to open the cell. That might have something to do with it, it might not, but I thought I should at least mention it.
@@GlizzyKami I gotcha, I'll keep that in mind. Luckily enough I need to do Logan's quest line for my current run
Nice apple run
You are hilarious. Also I used you to prove to my gf that you can do a fistcules run
And I will prove it to someone else who struggled hitting big ornsteins legs
Thank you! Yup fist runs are definitely doable
Did you know she's actually resistant to the damage type of a divine bow
That explains a lot lol
Because of Ishida subscription is a must
Thank you Mohammedij!
@@AccainGaming but seriously man I really enjoyed your video the edit was great and you were great keep it up!!!
Thanks@@mohammedij24! I really appreciate it and will do!
8:54 punched Lautrec, run invalidate
Touché
God don’t hate u bro he love u I promise 😊😊
Ishida!
Do you know what about the farm in dark root gardens? If so do you think the bridge is faster?
I see you got to the dark foot farm now. I just find the bridge annoying and go straight for dark root
At the time It slipped my mind that you could do the grind at darkroot garden. I should of just got the 20k from the bridge, get the crest of Artorias, and grind from there. At the time I was going through it pretty quickly and wasn't doing the most optimal route lol
@@AccainGaming fair enough great video love watching ds1 runs
Thank you @@crazydeadperson!
I also did a bow only run for the first time around a month ago, i don´t know why you leveled faith to 50 AND bought moonlight arrows when they both pale to the composite bow on a 27 STR/40 DEX build using large arrows, i guess you wanted to kill skeletons? Not knocking on your video, but i don't hate myself enough to level another stat to 50 and waste 500 souls per shot. And you didn't kill the DLC bosses (use feather arrows btw, large ones will miss 50% of the time).
By the way the composite bow doesn't actually have that short of a range, and that stops mattering after getting the hawk ring, plus if you need to snipe something from a range the black bow excels at, you could also just grab the fog ring and poison arrows. If you ever want to give the bow only run another try with a physical build grab the composite bow ASAP and never look back, i somehow got 4 slabs before getting enough chunks to upgrade my composite and black bows to +14, so i upgraded every other bow as well, the composite outdamaged every single one but the dragonslayer with its specific arrows (you're never using this in a real battle ever so it doesn't matter lmao), didn't test dark moon with moonlight arrows because i didn't have the stats, but i'd bet it' slightly weaker. It's hilarious how superior this thing is, they should have made this one a long bow and the black bow a short one to give you a reason to use it, which they did in ER, sort of (black bow is a long bow but it can do the jumping/rolling shot thing of short bows).
I see what your saying. I just went on MugenMoneky and looked for the highest damage output, but made the fatal mistake of not taking bosses resistances into account lol
What was the pinwheel Mask?
I got the mask of the father
my guy thought "occult" is related to "oculist" and not "cult"
21:12 bro encounter godskin noble 💀
I definitely shit my paints when it happened lol
Why u didn't use +15 composite bow with ornstein ring? With 40 dex and 27 str it's most powerful combo
At the time I had read a reddit post saying this was a good build for bow runs and just went with it. I didnt really know much about the game at the time
Yes. Yes you can. Ive done it before easily.
Isn’t Ornstein like the 1 boss weak to occult too?
I believe anything living is weak to it, but I could be wrong
@2.30 u broke the rules of the run when u landed on assulym demon
fyi theres a black bow and a composite bow
It's been a min since I made the video but I am pretty sure I use both in the video. I get the composite bow(short bow) at the beginning and the black bow(long bow) from the bow forest hunter in Darkroot gardens. I use both of them in the run
Wait, you can get the solaire armour in dark souls I thought you could only get it in three
You can get it by killing him 😅
What’s AR?
AR - Attack Rating, is the number of damage your weapon of choice can potentially put out. It's the number thats shown on your stats screen.
waffles > pancakes
I disagree. Pancakes are superior
Hmm this is a hard one. I like pancakes more but waffles are more fun to dip in syrup
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1:18 unvalidated
What is that pronunciation on occult?
You said "occulate"
😅 I know how to properly pronounce it now lol
Y u killing yngvard?
Spice things up lol
8:50 kicking is not a bow…
Touché
He was bow legged for a moment
To be honest, I think you might hate yourself even more if you actually chose to include crossbows and greatbows. I wouldn't wish the use of those on my worst enemies.
Oh dang are they that bad?
@@AccainGaming Yes.
Especially Ds1 greatbows. Comparing Ds3 greatbows to these ones, is like comparing a wet banana peel to an atomic bomb.
And while crossbows are slightly better, the only one in consideration to be decent is the Avelyn, which is always pretty good anyways.
@@LoverofTragedy Interesting, I will need to check them out. Maybe even attempt a run with them lol
The fact your using a blech character for head is 👎🏾
Thou granted us moe, there for thou are awsome, grammercy good sir.
Thank you Dabe!
funnily enough I think there was an IGN guide when the game came out
and it used more or less this strategy:
- get composite bow early
- grind lots of souls with the drake
only it also relied on super heavy armour and just tanking everything