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I’m actually working on a new Dark Souls one as well as a better spreadsheet that people can change stats, weapon levels, infusions, etc. I did it for a SL1 with mathematically optimized dps so I only have a few weapons in there at the moment but hopefully can get everything in there at some point!

Not botherd about one shotting them just the ones u think are most powerful in general for bosses

Hmm well I am at 99 stats in these videos, but at least for a ‘general’ boss fight, the easiest way to get more damage out of your buffs (without dropping into low health for the red-feathered branch sword) is to use: White mask + Lord of Blood’s Exultation and the Seppuku ash of war. Commander’s Standard skill. (Poison stuff also works, but blood loss is a bit easier to come by and you can use a flask to get back to full ho if needed instead of a consumable to stop the poison DOT) Other damaging talismans / tears / equipment. Something like the jump attack talisman and raptors feathers, or the charged attack tear and talisman. You could also use the black dumpling first and Shabriris woe, but you will take extra damage for the whole fight. Really for a more general play though I like stacking the first group and then focus on my secondary stuff, whether that’s sorcery, certain damage types, charged attacks, etc.

@@trevthedev6134 thank you so much for reply 🙏

Yeah there’s trade offs for actually maximizing dps down to a theoretical level lol. If I wanted to be super pedantic, you could say you would have to max out all damage stats before the first fight, but that’s not really in the spirit of the run. Fwiw even though I didn’t mention it I was up around maybe 25-30 endurance end game and was using the bloom kite shield. Just at earlier fights it would’ve put me above light load (and I dislike rolling in medium load in ds2)

Lmao that’s a 500+ hour endeavor

Yeah there are always some minor tweaks you can do in an open ended game like dark souls where there’s leveling, stamina management, etc. I was more so focused on just the theoretical numbers absent stamina usage.

I still think it would take 15-20 hours cause of farming for some 1% / 0.5% weapons and needing to hit NG+, but yeah you could blitz through it pretty quick.

Honestly me too. I was certainly thinking 100+ hours. I’m curious to see how long it will take me in other games if/when I tackle them

​@@trevthedev6134it would be something I'm absolutely willing to see! :D

More or less. Essentially, you don’t want it to be a simple attack - defense formula, otherwise, everything would be very samey and much more intuitive, and everyone would kind of default to using the same few weapons over and over. With this, the behind the scene math makes it more confusing to figure out what is best at a glance without testing yourself (or looking it up). Helps to keep the experience varied.

Yeah it’s kind of a weird mechanic. Even more so in ds3 and it’s equivalent in Elden ring.

@@trevthedev6134 ok, I really thought it was fonction of the vitality stat capped at 14

Hmm it’ll probably vary per boss, but they would almost certainly be up there. My guess (for whatever weapon is used) would be raw infusion with blessed weapon to get the most bang for your buck (or resins for enemies really weak to certain elements)

Yeah I would like to do both as well. Hopefully sometime this summer but I think I should be able to this year at the very least

I think that’s an interesting concept! I think that might be my next video. Thanks for the idea!

Yeah that’s how I usually do that fight, makes it a lot easier. Unfortunately the dps drops down considerably as the R1 attacks are a fair bit weaker with a halberd, so it was a bit of a slog this go around

Nope! I must’ve lost my footage somewhere unfortunately. Tends to happen with how I record (I just do the boss fights, and I had to redo him multiple times so must have deleted it when I was purging extra video files that weren’t gonna be included). Too bad to, as I had to dodge hits in between setting up buffs and debuffs as the run back takes like 30 seconds so doing them before the fog wall isn’t the best strategy.

@@trevthedev6134 my go-to has been just using dark weapon buff, +10 rusted iron twin blade (dark infusion) with rtsr & dark clutch rings. Once I pass the rolling statue head, I stand by one of the fires before the boss trigger to bring me into rtsr range, buff as my health chips down, then run in. I’m at +99 bonfire ascetic and he typically goes down within 9-12 R1 hits. I’m hesitant to use any of the resonant spells since I’m grinding for souls, but so far what I’ve found is that using red iron twinblade with all dark is the most effective.

I think when I did my platinum run I would use sorcery to grind levels. It’s been a while but soul spear / crystal soul spear seemed to be pretty good to whittle him down and then finish him off with hexes. I think I finished at roughly level 250 when all was said and done, can’t imagine going to max level!

Yeah I was talking with someone last night and I guess it’s actually slightly different than what I had.

Yeah 60 max load. I think I needed 2 levels in vitality to not fat roll for the dlc bosses where I was using the stamina regen shield.