No, those guys are there regardless of your World Tendency.
You keep everything except for keys, and level shortcuts reset. All your other items/weapons/souls/levels/etc stay, even your world tendencies stay the same in new game+.
There are a number of black phantom enemies, but each world has one specific black phantom that appears in pure black world tendency. It is usually a character who normally appears as a non-hostile, some of them only appear in pure white tendency. If you kill them as black phantoms they will still appear in pure white in their body forms. I believe the exception to this is the ghost prisoner in the Tower of Latria, but I’m not sure.
To find out for sure if you have pure white world tendency the best thing you can do is to go into the level and hunt down the character that shows up and/or the level changes that take place in pure white (debris being moved, locked doors unlocking, deady body changing positions so you can take its item, etc).
Check the wiki for more information, anything more from me would just be copypasted from there anyway.
I finally started this tonight…it’s even better than I expected! The first death was hilarious, man…I killed quite a few regular guys and some knights with glowing eyes like it was nothin’. I got to some door/portal thing, and I could see a large behemoth of a character on the other side…but just barely. I went in and it was some giant troll-looking thing with club or something…dude was probably 2 or 3 times my size. I didn’t even have much time to react, and that 1 swing was enough for the 1-hit kill. I put up my shield, but I already figured it wasn’t going to be enough to defend against all that power.
This game already had me at hello. I picked a “Wanderer”, btw…I was going for that or a magician…perhaps Magician will be my 2nd pick. There’s a surprising amount of customization as well. This game is already legendary to me.
well the pure black shit is easy and makes sense however, the white business im not sure about, i think that if you just beat the level without returning to human form if youve been killed you should be fine…
its weird…id like to actually see the developers officially talk about this…because i shit you not i respawned in human form in stage 1 like 5 times and i still got pure white…lol, like ok…
im outi
Roberth
I’ve just reached the penetrator boss and he owned me up a few times. I’m sure I can beat him if I just stay patient and execute. After 3 tries today I got too frustrated and decided to stop for the day though.
Penetrator, Flame Lurker, Maneater, False King, and Old Hero are bosses that become SOO much easier when you got help. Make sure you summon a blue phantom. It doesnt matter if they die during battle, it just give you enough time to two hand (remember two hand gives extra 50% dmg) the boss a few times.
Honestly everyone should just co-op through a level you have no experience in. Look for their rating too, anything above 50% with an S rating, summon them.
Penetrator is an easy boss as long as your character can roll quickly. If you are stuck doing the clumsy dive rather than the quick-recovering roll, remove some of your armor/equipment so that your equip burden is around 50% of your max equip burden (not 100% sure on that number though). All you need for this fight is your most damaging fast weapon, like a sword (preferably not a greatsword-type), so unequip all your other weapon slots. If that’s still not enough take off some of your armor, with my knight character I just took off his pants and unequipped all other weapons and he could roll.
Once you are mobile, the strategy is simple. Two-hand your weapon and stay just outside of his attack range, maneuvering forward and back to try to bait him into attacking. When he does one of his more predictable moves, like the leaping attack or the double spinning slashes, simply roll towards him so that your invulnerability goes through his attack and slash him one or two times during his recovery, then roll away again when he tries to retaliate and repeat. As long as you don’t roll straight backwards when he does his signature charged stabbing move and you make sure to keep enough stamina to roll away after attacking, it’s quite easy. Even on new game+ he couldn’t kill my lightly armored thief in one hit without the charged stab, so even if you make a mistake and get hit there’s plenty of time to sprint to the other side of the arena and heal.
that fight is hella easy if you saved biorr of the twin fangs or whatever his name is…cause he helps you fight him…you should have picked up some keys from them fat men, you can go back to 1-2 and unlock some door and he’ll be in there…
im outi
Roberth
yeah, you also get the tower shield down there, pretty decent defensively but it’s the second heaviest item in the game, like weight of 30 or something. also beware another fat man down there
Effen- Thanks.
Thanks for the tips. I always have my guy equipped such that he can smoothly roll. The problem was I got hit with the penetration move despite rolling in the perpendicular direction… he simply adjusted his aim and got me anyway. Then the next time I made sure to roll back to be out of range, but he got me. I think I just went early.
I didn’t think to ditch the shield and go 2-handed though.
It’s one strategy to 1-3 boss, I never did it that way. I went int full Gloom which is still quite light with my Flame Shield and my Spear and just poked away at him. I’m rather used to the shield as I just don’t like getting that graze knocking me down and then randomly raped for it. Sometimes I just can’t recover after a knockdown so the Shield is nice to just protect against that.
2 handing does speed up the fight though, but I’m used to having 25ish vit and 37 endurance so I can still just go Super Tank while rolling around just fine against him.
On my first play through I got the demonbrant very early on. It is a sword that does double damage to demons (ie. bosses). So on my first run to fight a boss (Adjucator) I run into him and start to two hand the sword when he falls over. Use the one two combo (r1, then r2) Wham! 2700 dmg in just two hits. Thing truly in a demon killer though make sure you are going pure white or you dont get its added benefits.
Just recently I invaded a guy and what a stalemate. We were fighting each other off for around 20 or minutes and just kept using up our healing items. I backed off messaged him that it was pointless to keep going. I’m just lvl 89 and he was 115. Anyone else have a it go like that for them?
I don’t like healing items as in 3v1s it’s even harder. In 1v1s though, it’s good reason to have weapons that do bleed/poison/plague because it drains their life and forces them to have to back off to heal and makes them extremely vulnerable to a huge attack. Weapons that also penetrate shields work really well as well as weapons with magical attacks on top of physical ones unless you’re fighting someone with a Dark Silver Shield.
Stalemates are tough though without something to break the tie.
3.1 was soooooooo easy, but the atmosphere made it one of the longer runs for me, i stayed the fuck away from the illithid w/e the hell they are tentacle faces cause i hit a blood stain and saw a dude get like, i dont know, shocked, and then lifted up in the air and killed
Dont want that shit happening to me!
The witch was easy, but i had to kill her like 3 times till i figured out it was the dude who was like no no leave me alone, i wont hurt you!
NO MORE MERCY!!
Already soul level 55 or something, damn that went fast, ive only finished world 2, still need to get 1.4 done, and just started on 3.2
Oh yeh, so I’ve got the lava bow, and i got the white bow from that black phantom, whats better to use in general? I know the lava bow does fire damage, which im assuming will help in certain situations since im a pure melee/ranged guy, and just carry the white bow around incase i fight something strong vs fire?
Heads up guys. The Sticky Compound Long Bow is not worth it until +5. Found out the hard way ><
Well, Phalanx was the first boss to die at my hand. That wasn’t so bad at all…funny thing to me is that the red knight is more of a threat…I STILL haven’t beat that enemy…I’ve died to him at least 9 or so times at this point. My fire-sword(that turpentine item…a shame this is temporary) almost got him a little while ago. I’m guessing you just have to be extra careful and block or parry.
Is firebomb always a useless piece of shit? I got one of those, but:
- The lag in time before the character actually throws it is horrendous.
- It doesn’t even hit a large area…it’s like you’re throwing a cheap firecracker at the enemy’s feet. Obviously that isn’t going to cut it.
-I finally dealt with that blue phantom in the Nexus…he’s been attacking me every time since I hit him about 2 days ago. I led him up to a high point at the top of those stairs, then attacked in hopes of shoving him over the side…I accidentally fell with him, but at least that takes care of him.
*on a sidenote…I think this game is that much better if you specifically avoid getting help from online FAQs or strategy guides. I’m loving the suspense of not knowing exactly what is around the next corner, or what kind of horrible situation is beyond a fog/portal…with only the generic warnings posted from other players, like “Strong enemy ahead…new players should come back later.” There’s also something amusing about that to me…that and the blood stains. heh, you see quite a few blood stains and watch the ghostly animations, and you know "whoah…there’s something serious over there…" Then you get this wonderful feeling of suspense and dread.
classic funny moment—I checked the blood stain, and saw how this one player got caught up in a certain boulder booby(ha)-trap…absolutely hilarious. Watching that actually saved me, since I noticed the trap from watching his tragic mistake.
That’s pretty much the best way to do it, sans the dying part.
Unless you, y’know - stopped hating on the f-bombs, locked on to him with R3, and chucked them at him the whole way to the staircase from which you both eventually fell. He’d be mostly gone by then, if you hit him with them several times - and then you’d just have to trigger those lovely barrels and blow him back to hell.
Playing without the guide is good, although I wish I had known about World Tendency sooner so I could have got pure white on all worlds on my first playthrough, and missing out on an entire playthrough’s worth of colorless demon’s souls is just a waste. Also I looked up how weapon upgrading worked, and some other stat-related details that the game is rather unclear about. I probably would have missed a couple very helpful NPCs like Yuria if I hadn’t looked it up just before completing the game.
As for the actual level information and enemy/boss strategies, that is much better figured out for yourself. Although I did get massively confused in the 3-1 prison and briefly used a guide to figure out where I needed to go.
Also, excessively grinding levels in your first game is officially a waste of time. Farming 4-2’s dual katana skeleton phantom and gold phantoms with soulsucker in new game plus is more efficient than anything you could hope to accomplish the first time through. Plus I snagged a pure bladestone and some chunks like this with the large sword of searching.
i finally got around to playing again, i havent had the time but i got a few hours sin
beat Tower Knight yet I still need… more… souls
then i traveled to the next world, and i am just furious that these weird looking enemy fucks are barely giving me any goddamn soul for killing them. i might hit up that left wing of the castle after all.