3:24 Lesson Number 3 of Dark Souls: You're not that guy. There's always someone or something stronger, faster, more magical, or better equipped than you, and yet, despite that, with enough skill, you can win.
6:00 WHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEL SKELETONS! Welcome to a contendor for the most frustrating enemy in the trilogy! Every spoke of their wheels is a tick of damage, and they roll FAST.
@@thatsalehart7459so true . Those fuckin wheel bastards in DS1 were absolutely fucking infuriating . They fucking pin you against the wall and spin your health down in .5 seconds . Shit was insane
Far as i know, those dual greatswords are like the last weapons you can get in the second DLC, which you can access either by defeating the first DLC, or at the very end of the base game.
Pontiff is the DS3 manhood test after the Abyss watchers. A boy could beat them with enough tries. If you can take him down you clear this game with enough patience. I will advice you that DS3 is a very R1 heavy game and try explore a lot when you can. There are several shortcuts that will help you get to bosses and make run backs smoother in the future
One of many things I like about Souls-borne games is that everyone's experience is different for each boss. Pontiff is easy for some and hard for others. I found him somewhere in between. For some reason Gael was very easy for me but Midir was a nightmare
1:40 You can, but it's a little hard to do early game. If you have both DLCs, you can access the first one (Ashes of Ariandel) through the Cathedral of the Deep, an NPC will take you into that DLC. Defeat the main boss of the DLC, and there will be a bonfire that will take you into the second DLC (The Ringed City). You will need to kill a very hard boss for low level, but once it is done, you can get to the area where you farm the Ringed Knight set. The Greatswords are further in the DLC, being a guaranteed drop from the knight that uses them.
the carthus milkring is a pretty good item, it boosts your dex by 5 i think. you can also get the pontiffs ultra greatsword and its weapon art sets it on fire
Forget about getting the ringed knight greatsword early. You need to either finish the 1st (very hard) dlc or gotten to the last boss of the game and also you need to be able to at least beat the first boss of the last dlc which is a hard boss as it is let alone when you try him very under-leveled. After beating the old demon king, i strongly recommend you to go back into that level to find Fume Ultra Greatsword. Its hard to explain in a comment where to find it exactly but theres ton of videos on youtube explaining it. Really worth trying out. Btw after beating aldrich and yhorm you need to get back to the bonfire of the second boss, the ice dogg, and go into the castle. There you find the next boss
Of you beat all the necessary bosses a cut scene will bring you there automatically. And fumes is a lot of req for low level. You can also do a short Sword and astoras for a pocket ugs.
Pontiff sulivahn!! His lore is actually kinda nuts but i won't go to into it here since i went on the whole tangent of demons and you haven't seen too much of the game yet Suffice to say, if dark souls story was about defeating evil overlords like LOTR or Harry Potter, or Star Wars, he would be the final boss. He's the closest this story has to like Voldemort or Palpetine But dark souls is not about defeating evil, so instead he's a mid game boss with no cutscene lol More on him later
Damn this bit goes hard lol. So I basically shattered whatever scheme he was running by bonking him with a heave of iron lol. Thanks for the info and support as always my guy!
Hi great LP my dude! I would recommend something.. level up your Endurance and maybe put on the grass shield, it help with stamina regain and it works well with most of builds. But of course you don't have to do that.. I just thought to give some help from an old DS player. Keep up the great work!
Useful tip: strength has 50% level scaling from double handing the weapon which means you can use a 30 strength req weapon by double handing it at level 20.
@@usernameemail i think my wording was correct we dont get 50% strength we get 50% strength level scaling as flat strength would mean damage increase but we get level increase. Altho its ultimately the same and trivial.
Sweet!! Now that you've made it to demons i can talk a little more about izalith and her chaos witches, the creators of pyromancy So the important event with izalith actually happened AFTER the war with the dragons during the age of fire After the first few thousand years, the first flame started to fade and gwen wanted to extend the age of fire due to his fear of the return of the age of darkness and dragons As i said previously, it was eventually figured out that you could burn people alive in the fire to artificially extend it (it needs to be someone powerful in order to get any meaningful benefit out of it) but that was not gwens FIRST idea His first idea was to visit his old ally izalith, since she was the master of fire. Together they tried to create a new artificial first flame to replace the original when it went out However, the experiment went wrong and resulted in a honor explosion destroying izaliths whole city (now called lost izalith or the demon ruins) It also created someone they did not intend. They partially succeeded in their experiment and created a new flame that can never, EVER, go out. But instead of keeping the world lit it consumes and curropts whatever it touches, disfiguring their bodies and turning them into demons. This affected all her witch daughters and turned them into kinda-hot kinda-gross demons that look like naked centaur ladies with a giant spider body instead of a horse It also created a ton of other forms of demons including that stray demon you fought at the top of farron keep. Demons it turns out, actually ended up creating their own society and culture, but that didn't stop gwen from going to war with them and enslaving most of them. Gwen has an army of silver knights, but he trained a certain troop of them to specialize in killing demons. They are the black knights, their silver armor burned black by the demons they fight. Black Knight weapons do tons of bonus damage against demon enemies Izalith herself became a demon as well until she got slayed by the chosen undead (your character in the first game) The old demon king, and the demons you've seen so far are some of the last in existence
That explains why the black knights hit so much harder than the regular ones lol. So what I’m hearing is that though Gwen started this age and society, he secretly did quite a bit of fucked up things to prolong it which basically led to whatever there is now. This lore is kinda insane man, thank you so much for explaining things!
@@TrueSquareFace very accurate. gwen brought the age of fire, but was a pretty terrible person. you'll hear more about the royal family (which play important plot roles in BOTH 1 and 3) in probably the next video or 2. the opening cutscene teased aldrich saint of the deep and yhorm the giant but I can't talk about either of them without talking about sulivahn and gwen/the royal family as well, so once those videos release expect a wee bit more than usual from me lol
SPOILERS! DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANNA KNOW WHERE THE DOUBLE GREATSWORDS ARE LOCATED Im sorry to say it bro, but the way to the area where you get the double greatsword is right at the end of the game.. right before the last boss. You might wanna look up the fume ultra greatsword tho, i think you would like that one. You get it in the catacombs you explored before the old demon king
He could go get them now technically, he can start ashes right now, kill friede, then start ringed city from there and get the greatswords. Would be pretty tough doing friede and demon prince under levelled though
You can get to The Ringed city after you kill the boss Sister Friede from Ashes of Ariandel, two bonfires will appear in her arena, one of which you can rest near and the second will teleport you.
Pontiff has the first Mimic Tear. You can even kill it. He's the only reason I can justify using it in Elden Ring. It felt as if FS rewarded us the mimic tear for defeating Pontiff in Ds3.
sadly there isnt really a way to get the ringed knight paired greatsword in YOUR world befor very very lategame ..... HOWEVER, u COULD arrange for someone to get one for you, join you in a coop session and drop it for you. only issue youd then have to deal with is the 50 STR requirement to use em. i dont really have any plans over the weekend so if ya want, id be happy to help
If you want to get to ringed city dlc area early, you have to go through the painted world of Ariandel first and defeat the final boss there, but... good luck beating it, one of if not the hardest boss in the game with one other exception :)
if you go back to the demon ruins you can find an hostile npc with an even bigger colossal sword if you kill him he will drop it its past 2 illusionary walls and then a room full of basilisk left of the staircase
If i recall right only way to get the weapon you want is to get access to dlc 2 for Dark Souls 3 and the two ways to get there is to deafeat the last boss i dlc 1 or play the game to the last area
after fighting oceiros which is after dancer to th3 left if you get the gesture path of the dragon or way of the dragon (i cant remember the exact name) if you go to ithriel dungeon at the bottom level instead of going to the right one you get to the bottom go left after u go up stairs a dead dragon man will be up there if u use the gesture to the left of the dead dragonman on the carpet thing and wait u will be taken to the area where 2 bosses lie 1 being the wyvern the other being the nameless king. didnt know if you would like to go there but just incase :D as usual good luck on ur game sir
Got a buddy or two to help you? You can set passwords for summons so you directly summon them, and set your region to local to reduce invasions. Makes the game a Lot easier.
@@TrueSquareFace no problem, g. Also, the shell dude you found dead. He was killed by a female assassin as part of a quest line with a different ending.
That area was actually one of my favourites for some reason:). I hated the swamps. I alwys hate the swamp areas. Im playing Dark Souls 1 remastered and had a smiliar evening not long ago:). You get a little tilted, you become impatient, you rush and you just end up dying and dying. It seems if you want to speed up, its the worse thing in souls game, it seems to you you play thesame, but you make small mistakes, you amass mobs because you go to fast, and it fast becomes a cl#######ck . I ended the day very frsutrated and hating the game. Next evening , beat the same area no sweat, feeling patient....
You should get the cloranthy ring man helps a lot with low stamina and greatswords etc. not sure if you’re going for a strength/quality build but pyro is pretty strong in this game. My end build is dex/pyro with friedes great scythe (before that was using strength and lorians greatsword). Oh and the ringed knight dual greatswords are pretty far into the ringed city (2/3 pretty rough bosses in) and the ringed city is pretty hard not gonna lie 😂 if you didn’t like the old demon king you’re gonna have a bad surprise when you fall down a big pit later on 😅
also zero hate at all but when i get to pontiff i usually am hitting about 400 a hit with normal swords, that are fast. you need to upgrade your weapons asap that greatsword could do 1,000+ per hit soon
Dark Souls 3 is the perfect level of difficulty. Elden Ring was just trying to be difficult for the sake of it, to the point of hurting actual boss design. Delayed attacks and almost non-existent attack windows are just not it.
go back to early game first place where u killed borealis or how ever u spell his dmn name been so long sense i played go back up the stairs and in the room past the 2 knights kill the old lady and interact with the statue in the back if she already dead still interact with the statue and have fun ;)
@@TrueSquareFace thanks man, one more quick tip, try to play ds1 before ds2. I would sugest playing ds3 after ds1 and 2 but you already started ds3 lol
5:11 There is actually a lore reason why there's so god damn many skeletons down here, and why the catacombs are so expansive.
3:24 Lesson Number 3 of Dark Souls: You're not that guy. There's always someone or something stronger, faster, more magical, or better equipped than you, and yet, despite that, with enough skill, you can win.
6:00 WHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEL SKELETONS! Welcome to a contendor for the most frustrating enemy in the trilogy! Every spoke of their wheels is a tick of damage, and they roll FAST.
Yep it’s right up there with those dogs that apply bleed in Elden ring
@@TrueSquareFace Bleed Dogs are a part of dark souls as well, have been since the start.
Have fun~!
man, the wheel skeletons in ds3 are nothing compared to the ones in ds1 :,)
@@thatsalehart7459so true . Those fuckin wheel bastards in DS1 were absolutely fucking infuriating . They fucking pin you against the wall and spin your health down in .5 seconds . Shit was insane
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING on second phase pontiff... That's was perfect
It gives the vibes of the fight because vergils summon makes the fight a lot harder
This man is gonna have the worst time if he plays DS2 or DS1, if hes complaining about the enemy placement in DS3.
The BERRIED DELIGHT of Pontiff Sulyvahn's second phase. Intersting. Bro was like "What form of power is this?" when he transitioned.
Far as i know, those dual greatswords are like the last weapons you can get in the second DLC, which you can access either by defeating the first DLC, or at the very end of the base game.
Yeah they are basically ng plus weapons
Pontiff is the DS3 manhood test after the Abyss watchers. A boy could beat them with enough tries. If you can take him down you clear this game with enough patience. I will advice you that DS3 is a very R1 heavy game and try explore a lot when you can. There are several shortcuts that will help you get to bosses and make run backs smoother in the future
Alot of people find pontiff hard i found him quite easy
@@monkegamer_420 yep, I always parry him
@monkegamer_420 Same, I first tried him and wasn't even over leveled.
One of many things I like about Souls-borne games is that everyone's experience is different for each boss. Pontiff is easy for some and hard for others. I found him somewhere in between.
For some reason Gael was very easy for me but Midir was a nightmare
1:40
You can, but it's a little hard to do early game. If you have both DLCs, you can access the first one (Ashes of Ariandel) through the Cathedral of the Deep, an NPC will take you into that DLC. Defeat the main boss of the DLC, and there will be a bonfire that will take you into the second DLC (The Ringed City). You will need to kill a very hard boss for low level, but once it is done, you can get to the area where you farm the Ringed Knight set. The Greatswords are further in the DLC, being a guaranteed drop from the knight that uses them.
Appreciate the help my guy!
7:50 Well, more Hungry than malevolent...
Ds3s my fave cos of the challenge. AAA boss fights. Drip. Weapons. The characters. The shrine. Love it
Wut!? The bosses are either way too hard or way too easy.
Sorry about crushing your illusions but eldering is the goat, THE GOAT.
the carthus milkring is a pretty good item, it boosts your dex by 5 i think. you can also get the pontiffs ultra greatsword and its weapon art sets it on fire
It boosts dex by 3.
@@marcelmautz thank you for the correction
Forget about getting the ringed knight greatsword early. You need to either finish the 1st (very hard) dlc or gotten to the last boss of the game and also you need to be able to at least beat the first boss of the last dlc which is a hard boss as it is let alone when you try him very under-leveled.
After beating the old demon king, i strongly recommend you to go back into that level to find Fume Ultra Greatsword. Its hard to explain in a comment where to find it exactly but theres ton of videos on youtube explaining it. Really worth trying out.
Btw after beating aldrich and yhorm you need to get back to the bonfire of the second boss, the ice dogg, and go into the castle. There you find the next boss
Of you beat all the necessary bosses a cut scene will bring you there automatically.
And fumes is a lot of req for low level.
You can also do a short Sword and astoras for a pocket ugs.
@@turboslug1130 still those req bosses are too hard to do when you just beat pontiff
What happened to experiencing the game naturally? You are spoon feeding him what to do.. Figuring it all out is the fun part about this game bro 🤣
From watching you play my favorite "Bloodborne", now this video makes me wanna play this game and rage on the difficulty
I swear these are my comfort vids! Keep up the good work❤😊
I love that you're playing ds3 now this is awesome
Good video man. I also had a difficult time with old demon king. He was my highest death count until one of the late game optional bosses.
Yoel died because you killed the Abyss Watchers before you got all 5 levels from him by the way, this locked you out of an NPC, Yuria of Londor.
He got the nuts sword!! Aaahh shieeet
Pontiff sulivahn!!
His lore is actually kinda nuts but i won't go to into it here since i went on the whole tangent of demons and you haven't seen too much of the game yet
Suffice to say, if dark souls story was about defeating evil overlords like LOTR or Harry Potter, or Star Wars, he would be the final boss. He's the closest this story has to like Voldemort or Palpetine
But dark souls is not about defeating evil, so instead he's a mid game boss with no cutscene lol
More on him later
Damn this bit goes hard lol. So I basically shattered whatever scheme he was running by bonking him with a heave of iron lol. Thanks for the info and support as always my guy!
Hi great LP my dude! I would recommend something.. level up your Endurance and maybe put on the grass shield, it help with stamina regain and it works well with most of builds. But of course you don't have to do that.. I just thought to give some help from an old DS player. Keep up the great work!
Useful tip: strength has 50% level scaling from double handing the weapon which means you can use a 30 strength req weapon by double handing it at level 20.
@@usernameemail i think my wording was correct we dont get 50% strength we get 50% strength level scaling as flat strength would mean damage increase but we get level increase. Altho its ultimately the same and trivial.
Welcome to dark souls
Pontiff was the source of the Minic Tear summon
Probably the best Fromsoft game
Sweet!! Now that you've made it to demons i can talk a little more about izalith and her chaos witches, the creators of pyromancy
So the important event with izalith actually happened AFTER the war with the dragons during the age of fire
After the first few thousand years, the first flame started to fade and gwen wanted to extend the age of fire due to his fear of the return of the age of darkness and dragons
As i said previously, it was eventually figured out that you could burn people alive in the fire to artificially extend it (it needs to be someone powerful in order to get any meaningful benefit out of it) but that was not gwens FIRST idea
His first idea was to visit his old ally izalith, since she was the master of fire. Together they tried to create a new artificial first flame to replace the original when it went out
However, the experiment went wrong and resulted in a honor explosion destroying izaliths whole city (now called lost izalith or the demon ruins)
It also created someone they did not intend. They partially succeeded in their experiment and created a new flame that can never, EVER, go out. But instead of keeping the world lit it consumes and curropts whatever it touches, disfiguring their bodies and turning them into demons. This affected all her witch daughters and turned them into kinda-hot kinda-gross demons that look like naked centaur ladies with a giant spider body instead of a horse
It also created a ton of other forms of demons including that stray demon you fought at the top of farron keep.
Demons it turns out, actually ended up creating their own society and culture, but that didn't stop gwen from going to war with them and enslaving most of them.
Gwen has an army of silver knights, but he trained a certain troop of them to specialize in killing demons. They are the black knights, their silver armor burned black by the demons they fight. Black Knight weapons do tons of bonus damage against demon enemies
Izalith herself became a demon as well until she got slayed by the chosen undead (your character in the first game)
The old demon king, and the demons you've seen so far are some of the last in existence
That explains why the black knights hit so much harder than the regular ones lol. So what I’m hearing is that though Gwen started this age and society, he secretly did quite a bit of fucked up things to prolong it which basically led to whatever there is now. This lore is kinda insane man, thank you so much for explaining things!
@@TrueSquareFace very accurate. gwen brought the age of fire, but was a pretty terrible person. you'll hear more about the royal family (which play important plot roles in BOTH 1 and 3) in probably the next video or 2. the opening cutscene teased aldrich saint of the deep and yhorm the giant but I can't talk about either of them without talking about sulivahn and gwen/the royal family as well, so once those videos release expect a wee bit more than usual from me lol
SPOILERS! DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANNA KNOW WHERE THE DOUBLE GREATSWORDS ARE LOCATED
Im sorry to say it bro, but the way to the area where you get the double greatsword is right at the end of the game.. right before the last boss. You might wanna look up the fume ultra greatsword tho, i think you would like that one. You get it in the catacombs you explored before the old demon king
He could go get them now technically, he can start ashes right now, kill friede, then start ringed city from there and get the greatswords.
Would be pretty tough doing friede and demon prince under levelled though
@@atheonslittlevogchamp3138 oh yeah thats right, forgot about that. But that's basically impossible if you ask me xD
You can get to The Ringed city after you kill the boss Sister Friede from Ashes of Ariandel, two bonfires will appear in her arena, one of which you can rest near and the second will teleport you.
The ringed knight set is very late game and you’d have to complete the ashes of ariandel DLC to get to the ringed city to find it
pontiff is just a lawnmower
How could you D;
late but im here your content is insane!
Appreciate the support, my guy!
Pontiff has the first Mimic Tear. You can even kill it. He's the only reason I can justify using it in Elden Ring. It felt as if FS rewarded us the mimic tear for defeating Pontiff in Ds3.
The attention to detail in the title is amazing also I beat elden ring today I’m realy happy
My alt praise the sun how did I get this account
sadly there isnt really a way to get the ringed knight paired greatsword in YOUR world befor very very lategame ..... HOWEVER, u COULD arrange for someone to get one for you, join you in a coop session and drop it for you. only issue youd then have to deal with is the 50 STR requirement to use em. i dont really have any plans over the weekend so if ya want, id be happy to help
Thanks for the offer my guy! I’m gonna try to get them on my own but if the time comes, I may have to take you up on your offer!
There are two huge DLC with killing ennemy and boss in the Goty edition..
If you want to get to ringed city dlc area early, you have to go through the painted world of Ariandel first and defeat the final boss there, but... good luck beating it, one of if not the hardest boss in the game with one other exception :)
My first Souls game was DS3 in 2016. Branched out from there and have beat all of them except Sekro and DS2.
if you go back to the demon ruins you can find an hostile npc with an even bigger colossal sword
if you kill him he will drop it
its past 2 illusionary walls and then a room full of basilisk
left of the staircase
these are the only hints you get
If i recall right only way to get the weapon you want is to get access to dlc 2 for Dark Souls 3 and the two ways to get there is to deafeat the last boss i dlc 1 or play the game to the last area
I recommend you use a bow and arrow to lure enemies away and reduce the number you have to fight at the same time.
You missed the Fumi Greatsword sooo much better
Kinda seems like your weapon is underleveled
after fighting oceiros which is after dancer to th3 left if you get the gesture path of the dragon or way of the dragon (i cant remember the exact name) if you go to ithriel dungeon at the bottom level instead of going to the right one you get to the bottom go left after u go up stairs a dead dragon man will be up there if u use the gesture to the left of the dead dragonman on the carpet thing and wait u will be taken to the area where 2 bosses lie 1 being the wyvern the other being the nameless king. didnt know if you would like to go there but just incase :D as usual good luck on ur game sir
Thank you for the info my guy!
Lol pontiff was so easy for me like first try almost everytime,but for some reason crystal sage fucks me up
Got a buddy or two to help you? You can set passwords for summons so you directly summon them, and set your region to local to reduce invasions. Makes the game a Lot easier.
That’s actually great info, thanks my guy!
@@TrueSquareFace no problem, g. Also, the shell dude you found dead. He was killed by a female assassin as part of a quest line with a different ending.
Fume Ultra Greatsword is close! (aka FUGS)
That area was actually one of my favourites for some reason:). I hated the swamps. I alwys hate the swamp areas. Im playing Dark Souls 1 remastered and had a smiliar evening not long ago:). You get a little tilted, you become impatient, you rush and you just end up dying and dying. It seems if you want to speed up, its the worse thing in souls game, it seems to you you play thesame, but you make small mistakes, you amass mobs because you go to fast, and it fast becomes a cl#######ck . I ended the day very frsutrated and hating the game. Next evening , beat the same area no sweat, feeling patient....
You should get the cloranthy ring man helps a lot with low stamina and greatswords etc. not sure if you’re going for a strength/quality build but pyro is pretty strong in this game. My end build is dex/pyro with friedes great scythe (before that was using strength and lorians greatsword). Oh and the ringed knight dual greatswords are pretty far into the ringed city (2/3 pretty rough bosses in) and the ringed city is pretty hard not gonna lie 😂 if you didn’t like the old demon king you’re gonna have a bad surprise when you fall down a big pit later on 😅
Appreciate the info my guy!
Great Video❤
You can always do pyromancer but that’s the cheap way out
DS3 is phase 1. Wait till you get into the DLC..
I beat pontiff first try with a sharp plus 5 great scythe
It's hilarious, I love it 😂
Dark Souls 3 is easier than bloodborne over all but it also has some of the hardest boss fights in the series
i commented last video about difficulty spike.......you found it:D
also zero hate at all but when i get to pontiff i usually am hitting about 400 a hit with normal swords, that are fast. you need to upgrade your weapons asap that greatsword could do 1,000+ per hit soon
your next games should be nioh 2 and hollow knight trust
Dark Souls 3 is the perfect level of difficulty. Elden Ring was just trying to be difficult for the sake of it, to the point of hurting actual boss design. Delayed attacks and almost non-existent attack windows are just not it.
go back to early game first place where u killed borealis or how ever u spell his dmn name been so long sense i played go back up the stairs and in the room past the 2 knights kill the old lady and interact with the statue in the back if she already dead still interact with the statue and have fun ;)
Thanks for the info my guy!
Weird seeing my name in a UA-cam video wtf
If it annoys you, I won’t do it again. Mb my guy
@squareface8572 oh it's all g amigo, it ain't an issue, just surprised me lolol
Ayooo csm manga fan?
It pains me to watch you use that trash ass weapon
It’s great
@@TrueSquareFaceBro, the weapon is good for PVE, just don't use it like that in PVP, they parry you easily with it
You dont need to shink about if something is at your level. Ds3 is so linear comapred to the other souls games
Got it, thanks my guy! Great to see you again btw!
@@TrueSquareFace thanks man, one more quick tip, try to play ds1 before ds2. I would sugest playing ds3 after ds1 and 2 but you already started ds3 lol
Second trying Pontiff is crazy respect my guy 🫡