I'm ready. I will assemble the most glorious pile of veggies the land has ever known.

But if they make me burn through another 27 bonfire ascetics only to add the gear in a chest later on, I'm going to punch someone. Hard.

WHERE IS THE PC VERSION?

*IN B4 GOING KILING SPREE*

[edit] sorry, I was looking for "PC" word and didn't see it...

Some covenant info. Minimal spoilers, obviously. Should mention that you can switch covenants whenever you want.

Warriors of Sunlight. Seems to be the same jolly co-op covenant as they always were. You get a couple of miracles as you rank up. Your phantom is gold when using the white soap sign stone and orange when using the red soap stone or red eye orb.

Way of Blue. Same as the previous iteration. You get invaded by hostile phantoms, a member of the Blue Sentinels or Blades of the DarkMoon can show up to help you. No ranks or rewards.

Blue Sentinels and Blades of the DarkMoon. I'm going over these two together, since they are effectively the same group. If a member of the Way of Blue is in trouble, you could be summoned to help them. They share ranks and rewards (a ring and miracle), and the only differences are who you're visiting for rank increases and the shade of blue your phantom is. Sentinels are light blue, Blades are dark blue.

Rosaria's Fingers. The new red eye invader covenant, and the group you go to when you want to respec your stats (up to five times per NG.) You get a ring and staff as rewards and your phantom is red.

Watchdogs of Farron. One of the new "Forest Hunters" covenants. They automatically invade people wandering through their woods. You get a curved great sword, great shield and a ring. The phantom is blue with a red tint.

Aldrich Faithful. The other "Forest Hunters" covenant, except they can invade in a city. You'll get a sorcery and a staff. Phantom is the same blue with a red tint as the Watchdogs.

Mound-Makers. If you're summoned through a white soap sign you're placed in a friendly phantom slot but you can attack the host, other phantoms and pve enemies. You have to kill the host for your reward and you can't enter the boss fog. Invading with the red eye orb is business as usual and other phantoms, including members of your own covenant can attack you. You get a katana and pyromancy for ranking up. Your phantom is purple.

Wow. Just... wow. Unless you can tell that the phantom is purple before summoning it, or the sign itself is purple, that's nasty.

And way to stick the exclusive pyromancy with the dick covenant, FromSoft. There better be another way to get it.



If you don't have time or patience, summon! The warriors of sunlight need to rank up somehow.

Now that I think about it, the covenants with pyromancies in previous Dark Souls were also the jerk covenants. I farmed humanities from rats in 1 for chaos storm and if I'd played up to NG++ of 2, I could've gotten the covenant spell from the merchant near the end of the game. (I did not as I was burned out.)

I'm so glad pyromancer is back. Watch fire be ineffective against everything.

Didn't care for Dark Souls 1 -- Found it uninteresting, but loved Bloodborne for its setting, atmosphere, trenchcoats and different approach to combat. Dark Souls 3 feels like Miyazaki's attempts and recapturing the spirit of Bloodborne with Dark Souls so that has me intrigued enough to check out the 3rd game.

Oh, I get you. I am also stubborn and generally only use NPC summons when available. I rarely resort to summoning real people unless I'm repeatedly getting my ass handed to me, and even then I'll usually just walk away from the game for a day or two. (Or a whole month, in the case of Ornstein and Smough.)

I kinda hated summoning help for Bloodborne's Ebrietas, but I had to get the game finished as there was something else coming out just around the corner (I forget what, but I know I was pressed for time. The Witcher 3? I think that's what it was)

It gave me one of my favorite trophy screenshots ever though.


Still didn't beat the game in time. Got to the last boss, ended up shelving it for six months only to come back and beat it while trying to remember how to play at the same time.

www.pcgamer.com/dark-souls-3-review/

www.pcgamer.com/durantes-dark-souls-3-port-analysis/

PC version is great too.

Bloodborne also got me hooked into souls games, and I'm hoping that with the diversity of armors and weapons, that I'll be able to have a great time.

I just need to pick the class with good dodging abilities. And if I want to go for any of the three magic schools. Because shields are for people who can think and strategize, therefore not for me.