Discoveries you only made recently.

I discovered that just because someone has high poise, doesn't mean you can't stunlock them. I fought a guy in Smough's armor, I was using a claymore. After a couple of hits he finally staggered, but the next hit (1H-R1) also staggered him, and the next, and the next, and the next. And then he fell off a ledge and died.
I did the same to paladin Leeroy in Tomb of Giants. He took a few hits to stagger, but after that I could stunlock him with claymore 1H-R1 easily.

Something else I discovered is that hitting something while it's doing its death animation still counts as a hit, and has all the same consequences. I already knew the Server's healing still triggered, but it also means large weapons won't whiff, and if attacking the target counts as betrayal, the betrayal will still be triggered. The last one happened to me in the Forest. I was using the ents to get easy kills on the Forest Hunter NPCs, but when 1 of the NPCs died I decided to attack the ent. I indirectly hit the already dead NPC, and suddenly all the NPCs start chasing after me...

Blight Town has no roof O_o

fujiphoenix wrote:Blight Town has no roof O_o

Of course not. You can see Blighttown and The Great Hollow from Firelink Shrine.

Not a recent discovery, but one that I've remembered and figured out how to do consistently.

You can get bonewheels in the catacombs to fall off of the Dark Souls map. You just attract them to the corner between stone and wall by where the necromancer and two archers are and they just charge themselves off the map. No souls, but no hassle and easy for low-level use.

The Sanctuary Guardian dislikes Electricity.

Well, it does look a little dragonic, but I always assumed it would have disliked fire, since it looked more like a demon to me.

Regarding the bonewheel skeletons falling off the map: You do get their souls, but it takes a long time for them to die.

This may be on the wiki, but I just discovered this tidbit: Nito's thrust from the ground can turn you toxic. I usually wear poison protection clothing, but I'm currently doing a naked run and I got toxic'd twice.

Also I was wearing the poison and fog ring when I dropped down and the little skeletons didn't arggo. I also didn't kill any of the small pinwheel guys in the cavern above on that same attempt. I didn't kill anything from the bonfire to the fog gate. And I was dead (not in human form).

RenegadeCop wrote:Kind of ironic, hmm?

Indeed.

Using the Dragonslayer Spear, I killed the Sanctuary Guardian faster than I have ever killed it, and if I didn't go for a tail cut I'm sure I'd have killed it on the first attempt.

And me killing bosses on the first attempt never happens unless it's the Asylum Demon, the Taurus Demon, Queelag, The Gargoyles, or the Iron Golem.

And I don't die on some of those because of NPC summons being able to solo most bosses.

I also find it ironic that the Merchant in Sen's Fortress notes that Tarkus couldn't make it to Anor Londo, yet his stuff is in Anor Londo, and he is capable of soloing the Iron Golem on NG.

I don't think so.

Gwyn isn't resistant to fire, but Artorias is immune to my spear I guess. 100ish damage without counter attacking, only 203 when I counter with the Leo Ring.

Green__Eagle wrote:Also I was wearing the poison and fog ring when I dropped down and the little skeletons didn't arggo. I also didn't kill any of the small pinwheel guys in the cavern above on that same attempt. I didn't kill anything from the bonfire to the fog gate. And I was dead (not in human form).

Really? What was your armor level? 25% or below? I would normally have expected that the use of a slumbering dragoncrest ring would be necessary, but that will be very helpful when I go to fight nito with my boxer.

morte wrote:Well, it does look a little dragonic, but I always assumed it would have disliked fire, since it looked more like a demon to me.

The soul description describes it as a Demon, not a Dragon. Of course, I have yet to fight it with fire, but I do have a pyromancy build at SL 6 that I never use. If I get it to the Sancuary Guardian I'll test the Furysword's damage.

I made this one just a few seconds ago: the capra demon in lost izalith can hit through shields, even when ceaseless can't.

Latitoast wrote:I don't think so.

Gwyn isn't resistant to fire, but Artorias is immune to my spear I guess. 100ish damage without counter attacking, only 203 when I counter with the Leo Ring.

Artorias is kind of immune to everything...

Latitoast wrote:I also find it ironic that the Merchant in Sen's Fortress notes that Tarkus couldn't make it to Anor Londo, yet his stuff is in Anor Londo, and he is capable of soloing the Iron Golem on NG.

NG?

The Tarkus knows no such thing as "NG"

From afar, Smough's head looks like a dildo.

RenegadeCop wrote:The Symbol of Avarice is the best piece of headgear in the game.

And, it is easy to get. Just buy a bunch of Lloyd's and head to Sen's.

reim0027 wrote:

RenegadeCop wrote:The Symbol of Avarice is the best piece of headgear in the game.

And, it is easy to get. Just buy a bunch of Lloyd's and head to Sen's.

Anor Londo has Three Mimics close together from the Bonfire where Solaire is . Better Chances

How do you get a symbol of avarice? I just loot it and then kill it and hope to get the drop, is there a better way?

.....my noob is showing isn't it?

morte wrote:How do you get a symbol of avarice? I just loot it and then kill it and hope to get the drop, is there a better way?

.....my noob is showing isn't it?

If you throw a Lloyds Talisman at it, apparently it just goes to sleep and you can loot it. Punch it to wake it up, repeat until you got an Avarice.

Alternatively, the very last Mimic in the game will always drop the Avarice if you don't have one yet (This is the same for any loot obtained from a mob with limited numbers)