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The soldier's soul/unknown hero's soul/storied soldier's soul can be used to increase your number of souls. However, that lead demon's soul is from Phalanx the boss (it should say when you highlight it) which you can use for better things later on. I usually store my boss souls so I don't accidentally click them for more souls.

You can take a hit if you have a decent amount of HP and are wearing the armour, although that goes without saying. I'm thinking I should just get pure black tendency in World 1 now and see if I can net anything good. Kill the optional boss and whatnot. I'd like that Master Ring and the Clever Rat ring (or whatever it is). I don't know why but I remember you and another source saying it's good for killing those lizards among other uses. Actually, won't do that as I still have a difficult last section to do before the last boss, don't want to make that any harder than it is. I will go to pure black in world 2, as I have done all bosses there. Before that I'll try and get the lava bow though. Didn't take long at all to get the lava bow, the sellers had a lot more stock for some reason, and it's fucking quality. Kills the reaper in 2 hits very easily. It takes 10 hits with the magic and the kris blade, so I'm chuffed! I'm pretty sure there was a way of upgrading the bow with a certain soul too, and it increases in power with strength (not sure about dexterity). Awesome. Edit: I defeated the dragon and later pressed on to get the purple flame shield, but it seems worse than my current steel shield, plus I need an extra 2 strength stats to use it. Googling it just confuses me more.

I was quite sure that it was pure white (that's what I meant, not 'world white') because I picked up the Dragon Smasher and the tendency looked the same as when I went down those platforms. I didn't actually buy that many but they did run out. To get it to +10 only became difficult from +6 onwards as I had collected tons of stone in the same level from the miners. I was just saying that it's hard without the fragrant ring for that part, because my current MP meter isn't enough to take down all of those demons. With a bow my luck my change, you're right.

Imagine it's a PS3 exclusive.

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/89?ch=1&sd=1 Damn it looks good.

Gargh a lot of stuff you're saying is what I have done or is painfully obvious. I jumped down the creeky platforms many a times trying to get the different items. In that cave bit, in world white tendency, there was no merchant to be seen, just a merchant's mat and candle. I kill those reaper things and they only net around 4000 souls. You can't just keep buying those shards. Firstly because not one man sells them, you have to go to 2 seperate men to buy them, obviously one is very close to Ed. Secondly, they only sell a certain amount before they run out and you have to wait for them to restock. Thirdly, there's some necessary stone which they don't actually sell. I'll tell you why I wasn't wearing the thiefs ring - I need to have the fragrant and the cling rings in use at that point. I use the thiefs one a lot when I can get away without using the fragrant one but otherwise it's not quite the top priority. That's why I wish there were 3 slots. That Prison area can't just lead to a dead end, it's a whole level surely. You must've killed the bosses within it to get the game completion trophy. I'm probably confusing you - I mean the world with the cells, and the witches that can stun you and do a lot of magic damage.

Kinda at a loss as to what I should do atm. Without a Bow I feel pretty underpowered. In the Boletaria place after killing a few red fade away people I come to a path that a blue dragon perches near, it flies down in a cutscene. I completed the Dragon God place so nothing more to do there really. In the Shadowmen place, I kill the Grim Reaper Guy, then go outside on a thin path that opens up after a switch. There's a lot of those annoying flying ray things that are really hard to hit with magic. They only take one shot, but landing it is difficult. I can't really do this section whilst they are there because it's likely me to hit me at a critical point when I'm fighting those golden skeleton dudes at the bottom. I have managed to reach those things before, having ditched the other tough skeleton archers and the rollers, but I've died there once already and it's pretty frustrating, could probably manage it though. Finally, the prison section leads to a dead end (as far as I know). I'm thinking there's probably a lot of things that change with world/character tendency but I haven't explored those yet and haven't read up on it. Really need that bow, but all those materials need collecting again, which won't be anywhere near as easy as before. Plus I'm still confused as to the blacksmith you're referring to. You said Boldwin was the one you find by taking the lift down at the end of the Stonefang tunnel place, but that's actually Ed. Not sure where Boldwin is. Plus, why do you need both the Hard Demon's Soul and the Flamelurker one? Gah.

Oh right, well I had the right blacksmith then. I saw no return offer once I gave him that soul.

That kid still sounds like he is 5 years old. Actually has got quit annoying now, he needs to be put down.

When you said to get that amount of stuff I just assumed you hadn't asked me to get enough. I don't understand as a design point of view why it can't be upgraded beyond +7 to get the fire version. I bought some shards/chunks from different people as well as spamming lizards to get what I want, yet now that's all been a waste, plus those lizards won't come back. The enemies that drop those crafting materials in the Burrow King level don't even drop stone anymore. I'm not sure why I thought I had to go to Ed to get the fire bow. So you're saying it's a different guy, where is he?

You can degrade bows can't you? With meltstone?

Well my bow definitely is +10, it says. And what? I have him the soul he asked for? I don't understand how I've gone wrong.

I just upgraded the compound short bow to 10+ and thought he would then offer to make the lava bow, but apparently not. I gave him the Flamelurker soul he wanted too. Pretty pissed off, I had to do a lot of hardstone farming to get it to that level, yet it still does fuck all damage. Apparently it needs to be +7 or something. I'm kind of tiring of the lack of information. Why aren't I told about this black smith and his desire for this particular soul, why doesn't he tell me what he can do with it and why doesn't he clearly say he can make a fire bow once I've upgraded my bow?

Would I be able to kill the red dragon with that? I couldn't even hit the bastard with my magic or bow when I was on the sniper perch on the bridge.

I got the dragon bone smasher, need a lot more strength to use it though. Haven't actually used my bow or crossbow yet because they just seem seriously underpowered and ammo is sparse. Bare in mind I probably have the worst bows going.

Since when did that stop you?

Jason Bourne, or you could just have more than one phone. The reason Nick Clegg has done well is because he's been put on an even level with the other parties now. It seems much more like a 3 horse race than a 2 horse race now. I wouldn't be overly surprised if Lib Dem got voted in. I think Clegg would shit himself in shock, and panick when sitting in no.10

You can't really make some leave early as people have things called mobile phones. The time just needs to be extended long enough so that people don't have to worry about checking the clock.

Too much text. Education is poor, my mate confirms it.

That's true across every exam I've taken bar maths. It has made some subjects seem more hard at GCSE and A-Level literally just because of content. People usually rate subjects harder either because the text-books they learn from have more pages or because the words are complicated and hard to learn.

Yeah I guess. I still feel like this has happened too soon after my purchase though. Obviously I bloody enjoy having an HDTV now but why didn't they put this awesome feature in sooner?! It obviously has to be pretty damn cool at this stage by now anyway. Bastards!

Amen to no time limits in exams. They infuriate me. I don't care how much that would cost on top of how it stands now, neither do I care about early finishers complaining, people should be able to put down answers they are happy with, ones that aren't sub-par because of time restrictions. The benefits of doing so would be great, plus there are ways of getting around the issues the above brings up. Extending the exam time you get by a couple of hours would suit me to the ground. Extra time doesn't mean you can cheat more than usual.

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/108/1084010p1.html Kind of annoyed that 3D ready TVs hadn't come out at the time when I bought mine last year. I really think 3D HD gaming could be absolutely brilliant, but I'm not splashing out on a new set. It's like I've been unfortunate to marginally miss the last major update televisions have been getting recently :/ Motorstorm in 3D... That would be amazing, I'm surprised there isn't much buzz about console gaming in proper three dimensions.

Well Drake's fortune is known to be buggy. A whole firmware patch (not solely for this game) had to be release once, which fixed it. However, subsequent updates may have undone this work.

I think that's the idea. Although I might take some tips from Altair. I despise Cameron's 'you've have 13 years to sort this out' line. Incidentally that's the same amount of time I could happily spend curb-stomping him until I got tired from the blood stains.