Can you beat Dark Souls on Baby Easy mode?

[@ryzekiv7147]

Gwyn: “I have an army” Player: “I have a Sorcery.”

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

pretty much exactly what happened lol

[@benchguy69420]

@@DoomWolfOfficial CMW with any weapon = best

[@RedSkyYT64]

"'A' sorcery? Just the one?" "I only need one, bud."

[@JaggedBird]

@@RedSkyYT64 have fun with that guy, Gwyn! I'll be over here forcing people to abandon the flame, because it makes me happy - Kaathe, probably

[@Navir9]

Bro i literally oneshotted him with sorceries

[@jelleluyten5017]

Playing Dark Souls after Elden Ring is going to feel like playing with Ultra Instinct toggled on

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

it 100% is, DS is soooooo slow comparatively lol

[@oliviercote6665]

True

[@Thanatos-X-Gaming]

This is 100% facts

[@ThunderGiant]

As someone who has done exactly this, yes. Literally have only died about 6 times before Blighttown

[@danielfonseca2560]

Then use the opportunity to try a SL1 All Bosses run, it's pretty fun.

[@KNIFEGUY37]

Almost as easy as the broken straight sword run.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

That run is so easy it qualifies as "giving the controller to great great great great grand pappy easy"!

[@edex2409]

Nah bru I play fist only

[@ZombossLordOfDoom]

*ZeroLenny has entered the chat*

[@onefreeway75]

both broken

[@HeyCarlosYTBR]

Broken straight sword truly is a *broken* weapon...

[@silentkhaos1176]

The funny thing about calling DS1/DSR "Hard" is the fact pyromancy exists. Pyromancy requires no stat allocation than Attunement, can be obtained the second you reach the sewers, and has some of the strongest support/offensive magic in the game that isn't just Dark Bead.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

ah pyromancy, one of my favorite schools of magic in these games, possibly my favorite. shame that several enemies are straight up fire proof lol, but agreed, if you know what you're doing the games aren't hard at all

[@zakuguriin4521]

Yeah Pyromancy is absolutely busted. You can have stats for the strongest weapon in the game and have magic that can 3 shot or 5 shot most bosses. Stupid! Lol and I love it

[@HeroSword_P]

Yes but those starting Fireballs are atrociously slow

[@din6675]

Ok what he didn't figure out is that you can wear the invisibility ring (or cast hidden body) and the muffle ring, which basically lets you run through any area without being attacked and even lets you attack enemies without being detected. THAT is how OP you can be.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I knew this, but just never do it, Nito is already too easy ;) lol

[@RadXader]

I noticed the fog ring also somehow messes with enemy attacks precision

[@Longknife]

You don't have to skip to Griggs, there's the locked up dude outside of the New Londo Ruins. You can reach him without a fight and he sells a copy of the basic spell, which is enough to get you all the way to Griggs without having to limit yourself.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

yeah...but I don't like Rickert ;) lol to be fair though that would have been the "easier" way and therefore in line with the run

[@midgetydeath]

And this run calls for the mastery key, no less, while he skips an opportunity to use it to make his run easier sooner.

[@BubblewrapHighway]

#rickertdidnothingtoyou

[@historicflame972]

@@DoomWolfOfficial what's wrong with richard (yes)?

[@bengorham1605]

Rickert more like…. Dickert

[@imaplaguedoctor2146]

As someone who played full sorcery, it's fun, buuuut, the full pyromancy build was too powerful. For me of course.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I did a souls level 1 Pyro run! it is incredibly easy! If you don't restrict yourself to level 1 pyro would probably be easier, minus the fire resistant bosses (even in my pyro only run I had to come up with creative ways to beat them)

[@tinchoide]

Sl1 is sooooooooooo much fun, i love it. +5 maxed pyro flame and spam chaos fire balls, bosses get deleted.

[@Pistaa13]

you can be too powerful with melee, pyro, miracle or sorcery... this is the point of ds.

[@22Moody]

I think that the sorcery is way easier. I just finished a run with a pyro+dex build (lvl 90, max pyro flame, 40 dex, Iaito+15) and I was using my weapon most of the time instead of the pyro. I even have Quelaag's sword and didn't use it that much. Most of the endgame bosses are either too fast to use pyro or fire resistant. Sorcery also has the cast-time problem but at least you can cast them from further away. Next run I do will be a faith build (maybe faith strengh or faith only with a divine/occult weapon, I haven't decided)

[@sirsquiggles1584]

Two copies of Combustion and you can clean out almost any area, pretty fun for co-op

[@btd6vids]

Everyone called Elden ring an easy game… DS1 looks like a joke in comparison. Unironically playing with a bleed build in ER still looks harder

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

haha yeah 100% ER is harder. DS1's combat is so slow (comparatively) that the only fights that are challenging are Manus and Kalameet (because they actually move fast with large hit boxes). Honorable mention to O&S because Duo fight lol

[@Dumbsourplum]

partly Cuz ERs bosses are kinda garbage with Extra aggressive AI and infinite stamina 20 hit anime Combos that do Half your health each hit.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

@@Dumbsourplum yes the bosses having infinite stamina is not a good time, or Malenia quite literally breaking the rules the game established haha.

[@GodfreyFirstEldenLord]

This game has been out for how long? Multiple months and on ps4 I just searched through the achievements and only about 41% have set the erdtree on fire. Y’all that means the average person didn’t even finish half way through the game yet people act like there’s an easy mode if you use bleed and summons. I wonder how many people made it through malekith. I remember also hearing about how like 5% if the people have the gargoyle achievement when you beat the 2 gargoyles. If that’s true than this game is way to hard for the average person. Like not many people can play for hours straight and memorize the attack pattern when they actually have life’s. So I do advocate for a difficulty setting. Rn I’m stuck in malekith and I’d say I’m a decent player. Tbf I use the greatsword and it’s extemely crappy since a double handed sword style would be faster and would probably do more damage and actually hit before malekith runs away but I almost beat him with this crappy a.. sword. No matter how frustrated I wanna finish this now with this sword. Will take me multiple times dying and probably rage quitting but I think I am doing fine for my first run through and souls game. Also i did. beat the gargoyles with the greatsword and a weird stat build since I had no idea about builds and just leveled what looked better. Feel kinda proud of that tbh. But seeing people beat malekith with 2 moonveils and bleed and mimic than say it’s easy makes me feel like crap for not playing it the same way. But I intentionally never used spirit summons or other summons and did all of it alone because people said it’s an easy mode. Now I use the mimic just to test out how strong it actually is and it doesn’t do that much. Tbf the mimic is supposedly bad against malekith and gets confused since he’s so fast but still spirit summons really don’t do that much imo. Sometimes they can make it worse

[@btd6vids]

@@GodfreyFirstEldenLord Nah that’s just how games work. Most people don’t finish most games, cause of time and so many games they got to play

[@johnbolton7657]

The Black Knights weapons are also op as well as pyromancies. I usually try to get one of the Black Knight weapons at the beginning, there are 3 swords and a possible halberd really early game. Not quite baby mode but not far off tbh.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I remember my first ever playthrough I got the Black knight greatsword. oh man that thing wrecked house lol

[@Pistaa13]

in the first playtreough i almost built giant dad and i didnt know about him at that time :D fire bass cannon, father mask and some big armor + power within. in the beginning i tought ds is too hard, i died 37 times on taurus demon... but later i become god. (0 death on arty and manus)

[@piemaniac9410]

@@Pistaa13 I facetanked Manus the first time I fought him with no deaths. it's ridiculous how strong Havel's armor + sorcery makes you, even if it's just weapon buffs and not even real spells. Having 20 +10 estuses doesn't hurt either, you really gotta screw up if 20 heals isn't enough to kill a boss.

[@asundelgun3487]

What about the sword you get from Nito's covenant?

[@johnbolton7657]

@@asundelgun3487 I usually do deathless runs. The Gravelord sword is pretty good but too risky for me at the start of the game. I pick that up later on but the Black Knights sword can one shot the Capra Demon so it's a no brainer'.

[@vinnie3142]

There is a third option in the painted world for going to Priscilla. At the right side of the bridge you could drop down to an invisible ledge, and from there roll onto the lower level of the bridge.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I always forget about that one, hopefully if I am ever hit with the decision I remember haha

[@manuelc5786]

First time for me was the Claymore. The o’l reliable. All strength baby.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

ah the Claymore, my go to ol' reliable as well!

[@but1913]

Gave me creed vibes

[@benjamingonzalez7014]

Claymore bros are top tier humans

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

@@benjamingonzalez7014 no arguing with that!

[@kneecapz7385]

mine was the zweihander, just crank up to 50 str and even manus will be a joke

[@feircy]

After shelving my original blind melee character at ornstein and smough whose stats I had royally fucked up, and then finishing on another run I was kinda soulsed out. Came back a few years later to try out sorcery and it turned into platinum trophies and collectors editions for all their games since lol. The final evolution into strength maining chad was the best part.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

haha I too enjoy the big bonk builds. In DS1 specifically I find great enjoyment in all dex, str, int, faith, its all fun haha

[@feircy]

@@DoomWolfOfficial 2 and elden ring were my favorites for build variety, but DS1 is the one i remember like every item location in lol. And it will always be my personal goat

[@daviddemuth6075]

My dude the NPC quests end terrible cause they go hollow, the whole theme IMO is about keeping who you are and the friends along the way that help you keep sane. The tragedy is you help them in their pursuit of power and no one, not you or me can wield enough power to stave off death

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

True, the unyielding march of death comes for us all and the game shows that, even Nito is not immune to dying lol

[@vetley6469]

That's dark fantasy for you

[@some15thcenturygermanknigh15]

8:57 average Elden ring damage

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

At least the bosses can handle more than 2 hits with that amount of damage in ER :P

[@godricktheminecrafted3113]

Honestly? I really like the low health high damage bosses of Elden ring It’s like a proper dance to the death where each hit regardless of target could completely change the tide

[@some15thcenturygermanknigh15]

@@godricktheminecrafted3113 then it carrys over to the PvP and oh no

[@Mizuraka4437]

@@some15thcenturygermanknigh15 thankfully the new update completely fixes pvp

[@some15thcenturygermanknigh15]

@@Mizuraka4437 spells got busted

[@CNSninja]

God damn, I just noticed the trademark on the Dark Souls title screen and how it says 2012. That doesn't seem right lmao. I remember 2012 and how my friends and I were like "Let's smoke out on December 20th just in case," and I had no idea Dark Souls was even a thing back then. I can't believe I'm so old that Dark Souls seems kinda more recent than I thought it was. This is so weird, man.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Ah I remember the 2012 doomsday talk now that you mention it. That seems so far way, yet so recent. Weird. but yes its strange that Dark Souls is so long ago haha

[@kevgmei]

I heard that the Manus catalyst makes Dark Bead even more powerful with high strength due to its strength scaling and dark magic's split physical damage in DS1

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I believe you are correct, but I had already invested a lot in int and early investment into strength would have made it less than easy mode :P lol

[@VileLasagna]

@@DoomWolfOfficial Was about to comment this, yeah. I THINK that it's the case that it's better than TCC for Dark spells but I'm not sure that happens at reasonable character levels

[@tomsky4751]

Can confirm that it’s the case. I’ve been using the catalyst myself and it can be even more powerful then the crystal tin catalyst (for dark sorceries specifically if you have 30 into strength) and if you combine it with power within… bosses even in ng+ will fucking melt in one to two casts of dark bead.

[@exiboe3454]

Just started watching your videos and love them, you deserve so much more subs, your content feels like a million subscriber channel. Keep up the great content!

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Thank you! I'm glad you like the content!

[@zegyboo]

Also, if you want SUPER easy baby mode pick up the Hidden Body Sorcery. It makes everything outside of boss rooms (plus Capra) a cake-walk.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

yeah but this wasn't meant to be a serious video lol

[@adharshbalimelu536]

This is such high quality for such low subscribers, i feel like you should have AT LEAST 10k subs

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Thanks, i'm glad you like the content. I try to improve with every video so i'm glad you say they are high quality!

[@masonshucart7055]

I know right. He totally reminds me of The Backlogs. It's hard to find playthroughs that aren't annoyingly edited. This is a great video.

[@jadmohsen8880]

I'm super happy I found your channel! I love this kind of Dark Souls content, keep up the great work!

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Thanks, i'm glad you like it :)

[@sousukesagara-im3td]

For me baby easy mode is a strength/pyromancy build with high poise. Most bosses you can just stand there and take a fee hits and it doesnt even matter. Its how i beat the game the first time when i was a souls newbie so im partial to it as well, its nostalgic to me.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

oh high poise tank strats is 100% the actual easy mode, this was just a silly video, I wouldn't expect people to do all the skips and stuff I did just to make the game easy haha

[@Jamseth_Ingramious]

The moment you get out of the Asylum, you can go down to the blacksmith in New Londo and buy another copy of Soul Arrow, as well as grab one of the best weapons for a sorcerer to have (the estoc). I'd personally do the Archives before Oolacile for all the extra spells. The homing soulmass spells also help alot- they deal pleanty of damage, have lots of casts, and can be cast away from enemies while still doing something.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Rickert bit is true and good advice for anyone doing a sorcery build, I just hate that guy lmao also I did oolacile first just to get destructively powerful, and the ability to break out of the cell using magic

[@slimchelmi6940]

you know you deal a lot of damage when you enter gwyn's arena and only hear "plin plin" before he dies

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Gwyn entered my boss arena lol

[@ce5243]

That animation cancel noted around 5:15 was extremely useful in PVP. Using wog you could cast and cancel but it would usually force a roll from the other player which you could catch with another cast of wog. Was just another way to play mind games

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Someone else commented mentioning that awhile ago, I actually never did PvP in these games (willingly, looking at you invasions lol), so it was news to me!

[@giftbredevaldov.jr.2881]

At the start of the game, you can just walk to new londo and but extra spells, realy helpfull to have extra 30 casts and another heavy spell 12 casts.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

You can, but that means talking to Rickert and nahhh lol

[@LotharinCW]

after binge-watching a ton of your runs recently, I was disappointed to not see 3:16 censored with stream circles. 😭

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

haha! I remember when I did that part I was trying to think of what to say there, and i couldn't so I just left it this time :P next time for sure ;)

[@Mekudan]

This is actually a cool take on the "Can you beat XX with XY" type of videos. Too many of them are something like "Can you beat this game with this (viable and strong) weapon? leT's fINd oUt!"

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

lol when I first wrote the script it was "sorceries only" but I decided to rework it to this, I like it more haha

[@brucewayne1777]

Finally, a difficulty I can play Dark Souls on.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

haha, I laughed out loud a little at this

[@YOUR_NARRATOR975]

Gwyn: "I've killed hundreds of dragons, i have an army of knights, i am the lord of cinder" Player: "wait until i plin plin your plon"

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Lmao, wait until I plin plin your plon. That made me chuckle, nice

[@hypotheticalpineapple]

Great content. Happy to have stumbled upon your channel!

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Thanks! Glad you like the content!

[@Orillion123456]

I think it's important to consider that most of these "things that make game baby easy" aren't likely to appear in a normal blind first run of the game, especially not for the people who would actually need an easy mode. Like, come on, what are the odds of finding big hat logan on a first playthrough? What are the odds a normal playthrough player does the DLC as early as possible (and then also finds dark bead there)? What are the odds of assembling ALL of the magic-boosting special equipment? People often complain how OP and easy-mode magic is in ds1, but they tend to ignore the reality of the situation in a normal playthrough - which is "cast only soul arrows and nothing else forever" which is dreadfully boring and no fun at all and also not nearly as effective as someone who knows the game assembling an optimized build.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

..which is why I made this whole video as a joke at the idea of an easy mode lol If you wanted a first time player to have an easy time, It'd be better to suggest turtle starts with high stamina and strength, imo but this video was just like..satire haha

[@shallowimage8782]

It seems like everyone forgets about the sorcerer/blacksmith at the start of the game just at the start of new londo ruins

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I try to forget him :P lol

[@ryzae6202]

Fuck that guy I TRUST ANDRE

[@ender8166]

@@DoomWolfOfficial I mean, he was the first NPC to sell me my first sorcery, and he can make enchanted weapons, w o o. I tried the enchanted Falchion and it's great.

[@Samoaba]

True!

[@Weldedhodag]

@@ender8166 enchanted great club is the highest damage split damage weapon in the game

[@jaquiquie7232]

Dude your videos are so underated you deserve so many more subs

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I'm glad you enjoy the videos!

[@Gr00t]

5:20 those bahonkadonkerydoos are WILD

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Amazing chest ahead indeed my friend lol

[@potmansonofryker3116]

For someone whose channel is as small as yours, the production quality is so high! Hope you blow up soon

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Thanks for saying its high quality! I keep trying to improve with every video so I am glad you say that!

[@alextintorv.i.9988]

It's quite unique these days to find a gameplay of the "prepare to die" edition rather than the remastered. Respect.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Haha I actually didn't own the remaster (on PC) until recently. I ran out of save slots on PtD, and instead of juggling save slots I just bought remaster

[@JoeLeone117]

Damn I knew sorcery was easy but I had no idea it was this easy.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

haha yes they are quite broken, its great! :)

[@din6675]

At the very beginning you can take the elevator under Firelink and go to the vendor there for your second copy of soul arrow. Then you can also buy a 3rd where he does in this video. Also don't bother with heavy soul arrow, just stick with normal and great until much later when you can increase your cast speed through dex, which will only make a tiny difference for fast spells but a huge difference for slow spells like the heavy ones and dragon breath.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I just don't like Rickert lmao

[@ozandis127]

Amazing video dude! Imma have to do another run to test out this easy mode!

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Thanks! Yeah sorcery only is its own fun run, def recommend!

[@matth3760]

“Oh yeah he’s magic resistant. That’s fine, I know his true weakness: Windows!” Basically any sorcerer build in any Dark Souls game

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

fair lol

[@ElementEvilTeam]

Other challenge videos: "Can you beat dark souls using only sorcery?" This video: "Baby easy mode!"

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Tell me I'm wrong :P

[@bajablaze00]

Haha! Came for the baby easy mode, stayed to find a sorcerey only challenge run.

[@amrabdelazeem9689]

Dude this is brilliant. Really like your narration and edit, great spin on an un-challenge run

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

glad you enjoyed it my friend :)

[@origamiknife7556]

I thought that you were going to say "by leveling up and using equipment."

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

All I need is a magic stick and some rings, don't need nothing else! lol

[@elzar5987]

5:12 yeah thats a pivit cancel, and you're right it serves no use in the main game. pvp though its neat to cancel a spell, let them roll then backstab them

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Hearing pivot cancel my mind just goes to Smash tech lol I never PvPed in Dark souls (at least not against my will) so I had never really thought about it, but a few people have mentioned that! Cool to see that kind of tech utilized in Dark Souls

[@juampan]

Loved the video. P.d. if i remember right, in 14:46 you can drop down from one side of the bridge without attacking the dragon, I may be wrong though.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Thanks, glad you liked it! I am not sure if you can drop down or not, I just know the intended path is a lever in the sewers haha

[@statichammer9984]

@@DoomWolfOfficial can confirm that where the dragons left claw is during the fight, there is a break in the railing and by walking off there you land on an invisible section of the pillar which you can walk around and drop down on to the lower portion of the bridge that leads to the boss.

[@zoedoocey4496]

*About to show off Dark Bead* “Here, let me show you.” *casts* KZbin CRASHES I wish I could make up the comedy of that.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

lmao, my timing is just so good it transcends youtube

[@IntangibleCupcake]

It's kind of a shame you slept on the most powerful sorcery of them all, hidden body. You basically get to fight almost nothing but bosses with it.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

That's true, can't hit what you can't see haha

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

My baby-only mode is using a high strength starting class, choosing master key, booking it down to Blight town, get the Blight Town bonfire and rest, run to the great hollow, avoid enemies on the way down, run past the hydra in Ash Lake, cut off the tail of the dragon that gives you the dragon covenant, jump to your doom to return to Blight Town bonfire. Level strength to 35 and enjoy two handing the Dragon Greatsword. Press R1 to win.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

this is a good way, my very first playthrough I actually got lucky and the black knight sword dropped, that was a great time haha

[@flippo202]

Little note to the snake with the cell key after the mandatory death of Seath. There is one spell that can hit it (at least in Remastered) and that is Dark Orb. I don't know why but it can if you position yourself right, which isn't hard at all to find that position.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

i'm assuming that was a note to yourself, because I did that in this run lol

[@flippo202]

I didn't meant Dark Fog (the spell you used) I mean Dark Orb, a spell that fires a dark round projectile with a slow casting speed at enemies and can bei found near the silver pendant in Oolacile.

[@NoNo-xt8ku]

“Artorias hits like a truck” He says right after Artorias hit him for about 6 damage

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

if Artorias hit me for 6 damage, it would mean I have about 7 health lol

[@missingo3594]

You can beat the game with zweihander, the two handed running R1 will always stunlock low poise bosses, like taurus demon, gargoyles, capra demon, ornstein, smough etc etc and the two handed r2 slam will always deal a high AR to everyone else except manus, so long as you are upgraded to +weapons at the right times, I.e +15 for the four kings etc, only 2 trouble bosses with swei are seath and manus but seath is not a hard boss anyway

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

The Zweihander is a good weapon, one of my go to strength weapons in DS1!

[@residentidiocracy7342]

@@DoomWolfOfficial good thing for me im doing my first ds playthrough and im using the zweihander

[@blackmoon2128]

As someone that likes magic and whatnot in basically any game, it's weird that for me sorcery seemed to be so much harder than the other options in DS. And hell, I think in all 3 games, playing as sorceror without knowing how the game works can be more challanging that another class (maybe only a slow ass knight is harder for a first pick), but that being said, oh boy, for a third run and knowing more how to play, it indeed feels like you're a god. Specially in the first two games. Also goddamn seeing you play is amazing.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Magic is really strong (overpowered) _if_ you know where they are, my first playthroughs of these games are never magic focused (unless its used as utility) because you never know where the good spells/catalysts/talismans/etc are, even though in any other game like Skyrim I almost exclusively play mage haha

[@vincefeld6442]

Lothric canonical death lmao!

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

haha yes here we are always all about canonical deaths! ...*cough* definitely lol

[@yosoyunapina]

A suggestion inspired by this run: A run in which you hit every single enemy and NPC in the game with your fist at least once. You can kill them however...but first, they must taste knuckles.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Just a taste of what's to come eh? Haha

[@rfewer]

Nice video I enjoyed keep it up:)

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@vizotzyz]

now i feel like an idiot. I picked dex build on all the gaemes because I thought standing still while casting meant sorcery was hard and looks like not as fun as using the katanas. Now I get why intelligence/faith is needed.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Lol tbf, the true easy mode is a 100% physical block shield, but spells go brrr

[@realiascailt]

Baby easy mode? You mean a normal play through with the busted ass black knight halberd?

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

haha Black Knight Halberd go brrrr

[@djangofett4855]

DS1 remastered still has a soul dupe that works in 2022. I did it for my NG+ play through. I added 100 levels, 50 in faith and intelligence just for fun.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

True, i'm actually running PTDe, of which I have soul duped before (not in this video), but yeah! Would have made it even easier

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Poor Gwyn XD

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Yeah I kinda did him dirty huh haha

[@NaughtyKlaus]

Well I learned 2 things from this. 1. Dark bead isn't useless. 2. You can jump the wall in the painted world.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

That wall jump is amazingly useful...oh and so is darkbead lol

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Let me know what challenge runs you'd like to see in the comments! If you wanna see more don't forget to subscribe! kzbin.info And if you would like to help support me and more videos directly, consider joining my Patreon: www.patreon.com/doom_wolf11

[@KratosisGod]

I haven't seen anyone play ds1 ptde in a long time, brings back memories of 10fps blighttown without dsfix.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Haha, fortunately my computer is relatively up to date so no low-fps town for me ;)

[@KrymsonScale]

The commentary is so attention grabbing, felt like a unique story.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Hey thanks! Originally this was just a "sorcery only" challenge, but after writing the script I felt it was lacking. So I re-wrote it and (hopefully) made it better. Glad you feel this way :)

[@warmaster1112]

As soon as I saw the title I was just think "Just use Sorcery lol". Was not disappointed after the first minute

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

lol, actually when I first wrote the script it was "sorcery only" but I wanted to re-write it to make it more fun

[@warmaster1112]

@@DoomWolfOfficial yeah that does make sense. As you said, everyone has made a sorcery only video, and the way you named it you will definitely get those views from people looking up how to make the game easy.

[@HossBear]

Do a run with mods you coward! I demand my halo dark souls!

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Ya know, that is on the idea board, maybe I'll just bump it closer to the front.. 😉

[@GersonTadeuGames]

Dark Souls 1 has a lot of easy modes for a game that usually people considers hard - big bonk, pyro, sorceries, falchion faith (also know as oroboro falchion build), katanas, giant dad, etc ...

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

This is true, pretty much everything can be broken in that game if you know what you're doing lol

[@Wafel_Caroline]

the gwynn fight just shows how low gwynn has fallen, from a god that brought down the dragons, the lord of sunlight, to this sad old man, just another hollow we have to cut down. plin plin plon.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

It's the plin plin plon that gets me every time, right in the feels

[@arnavmekala4578]

When I first played dark souls, I was lucky at getting the black knight halberd before the dlc and since I had so much twinkling titanite, I +5 the halberd and practically one shotted all the enemies in oolacile township. Because of that, the dlc was practically a breeze for me, with Havel’s armor and ring of course.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Nice! It's been a loooong time but I think on my first playthrough I got the black knight sword from the one in undead burg, and didn't realize how busted it was, just thought the game was easy lol

[@harrybutimnot]

I have almost 3k hours in just ds1. I've also never seen that little animation cancel. I always love to see something new in this game.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I am glad we both learned something new!

[@uselence]

i remember people using estus cancel in ds3 which somehow triggers by locking at someone in a specific way, so i guess it's the same thing

[@Egorator]

Man, and I've been struggling with my Leeroy roleplay, sluggish midrolling and super slow bonk. Loved it though, never would trade Grant for any sorcery

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I don't think I've ever actually used grant, but I do like the unga bunga so I'd probably enjoy it lol

[@Gakusangi]

I'm gonna stop you right there... Cleric (extra heals), and take the Master Key. Right at Firelink Shrine take the elevator down to New Londo, then unlock the bars to the Valley of Drakes. Grab the Astora's Straight-Sword and the Dragoncrest Shield by the dead dragon (then probably die, but it's not important). Proceed to more or less one or two shot most mobs you encounter, even with the sword un-upgraded. Find the two Crystal Lizards (one before Taurus and the other in Darkroot Basin), then farm the bush enemies until you get all three of the Moss Clumps (Red, Purple and Blooming). From here, take the back entrance into the Undead Perish and rush to the elevator shortcut. Return to Firelink Shrine and use the elevator to climb up on the roof to get the prison key, then meet with the crow and head back to the Northern Asylum. Trade the Moss Clumps for some Twinkling Titanite with the crow's nest. Return to Firelink and go back down to New Londo where Rickert can upgrade your Astora's Straight-Sword to +4. Congratulations, you have a weapon that'll bulldoze most encounters all the way up to Anor Londo and you can do it in less than an hour, while fighting almost no enemies in the process.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

*taking notes* yes a faith sword of death run you say yesss lol

[@Gakusangi]

@@DoomWolfOfficial I say faith-buff by the end, because Sunlight Blade on a Claymore is never bad... and is still faster to make than a proper one-shot Sorcery build, and far more reliable since a fully upgraded sword doesn't run out of ammo.

[@zakuguriin4521]

Get your Pyromancy Flame to +15 with the initial Pyromancer. Then go have Quelana in Blight Town ascend it to a +5. Free Griggs from the Lower Undead Burg and buy the Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring from him and equip it. Go to Dark Root Basin and kill the Hydra then go back to the back of the lake to the left. Reload your game to make a golden Golem appear. Tell Princess Dusk you want to learn sorceries. Run back to shore where the log and solemn tree are and summon Princess Dusk. Now run back to where the Golem wad and grab the item at the back. Equip the Crown of Dusk found in that set. Now after beating Quelaag attack the wall after the bottom to reveal Quelaag's sister. Join her covenant to get Great Chaos Orb. Equip that spell and Great Fire Orb. Now go fight Ornstein and Smough and kill them in 5 hits. No joke

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I mean, yes? lol pyro is OP as well, but I had already done a pryo only video, this was actually sorceries only but I re-wrote the script to make it more entertaining

[@Ashlevon]

The animation cancel is very useful as a feint in pvp. It is typically paired with Wrath of the Gods, and is quite a strong technique with it.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Yeah I've seen it with wotg, but never with spells. It jsut caught me off guard haha

[@skywarka]

Ah yes, the easy mode where you hitless Artorias before beating Capra Demon

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I mean...your sentence itself houses the fact that my video isn't actually 'easy' mode :P

[@danksmeme698]

Gwyn: Behold, I have claimed the first flame as my own! I slew the Ancient Dragons with my mighty lightning, and established my kingdom with a great army! I bore three godlike children, established four unbeatable knights and empowered my comrades with the strength of the lord souls! What could you possibly do to end my age, foolish undead?! Chosen Undead: *R1 Spam?* Gwyn: *_NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!_*

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Gwyn, lord of fire, dies to great combustion spam lol (that's not this video, but still applicable)

[@dianalamelavazquez9970]

Glad to see someone making videos who actually knows correct data about the game lmao

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

haha thanks

[@autismrizzard]

Doom Wolf: "This game is easy!" Me: *dies the to Taurus Demon 8 times trying to play sorceror*

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

it's everyone's journey lol

[@SolidFoxHoundSF]

The fact that there’s DS1 KZbin content in 2022 makes me so happy :)

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Haha its an amazing game, I'm sure it will continue on an always have content made about it

[@Nobody432_YT]

i loved 1 day after release people invaded you with dark bead, giant dad, havel armor, ninjas all while being sl12

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

such is the way lol

[@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514]

My toughest run of this game was a no health/stamina sorcerer, literally only putting points into intelligence and attunement. I used an enchanted dagger for melee. Fun run.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Oof, no health and no armor (because no stamina) would be tough. One shot by like everything...sounds on brand for me lol

[@spidey509]

Seeing you enjoy these games and make these challenge runs just reminds me how I feel like I’m missing out, despite how much I don’t enjoy them. I’ve genuinely tried to get into souls-likes multiple times, but the controls, atmosphere, and mechanics are just too difficult for me to figure out, for any of them. Which sucks because I hear so much about how it helped people with their depression and how the games are some of the most fun they’ve ever had, so whenever I try to play them and find them too hard or frustrating, I feel like I’m missing out on them. Like some sort of guilt for not liking them or that there’s just something I don’t personally understand. It also doesn’t help when the default answer to saying the games are too difficult is just to get gud. It makes me feel so bad for disliking them so much. And your channel has a lot of enjoyable souls content to watch. I enjoy the videos a lot and hope you make more for some time to come. And if you do read this, I appreciate that you took the time out to hear a 23 year old talk about his experiences with these games (and hopefully aren’t too bummed by them). Keep up the good work man. Thanks for the enjoyment you bring me and a lot of people every day.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Thanks for the comment my friend, i'm glad you enjoy the videos

[@spidey509]

@@DoomWolfOfficial I haven’t, no. I’m typically more of a solo player with games and the few times I have played games coop with other people, I’m the only one that tends to stick with the games or is willing to do coop. The rest of my friends really don’t.

[@joshm7335]

I really wish I knew how broken this was during my runs of this game. I got a taste of it when I tried a Sorcery + Pyromancy + Miracle run in Dark Souls 3. Those spells were bonkers powerful compared to my usual technique of hitting things with pointy sticks. With the cost of being painfully slow to cast.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Yeah but sometimes hitting thing with pointy stick is the most fun :P

[@joshm7335]

@@DoomWolfOfficial Amen, brother.

[@solaire2540]

First time I played Dark Souls 1 I dropped the Black Knight's Greatsword. I had literally no problems for the entire game. It was great

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

same actually, it's such a strong weapon!

[@johnm.8476]

Same thing happened on my first run some days ago , dropped the Black Knight Sword first try which made progressing through the game such a breeze !

[@electric1150]

I am glad I did not. I do not like when game become easy or even normal. When that happens it is over. This is why I cannot play old games that does not have hard modes anymore

[@solaire2540]

​@@electric1150 Well I still had a great experience and I liked the lore of the game the same. I think I enjoyed more, because I had to actually earn the stats for the weapon instead of having it at the start, so that it doesn't take out the difficulty off the game.

[@kevinhamb]

Don't forget your Elisabeth mushrooms. These make you invincible;)

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

That's true, it's super healing lol

[@exeledusprince9165]

Generally when starting sorcery playthroughs i choose master key because there is a vendor at the very start of New Londo Ruins who sells Sorceries. No need to even step foot into undead burg to get more.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

This is true, and good advice for anyone else. I jsut hate Rickert lmao

[@mediumjippy]

Dark souls was hard for me until beating the bell gargoyles, after that the mechanics clicked and the game felt easy

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I think a lot of people felt like this, glad it clicked with you after them my friend :)

[@Vman_95]

I never played DS games with Sorcerer build, now I started playing another Playthrough with Sorcery build, and my god it's hella fun😂🔥

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Right! It's pretty fuck to just obliterate enemies from a distance haha

[@KrankuSama]

we used to do spellcasting animation cancels in pvp as a mind game trick, mostly with pyromancy and WOG, if your opponent spots the startup animation they might be tempted to roll away, less experienced players would even roll forward making them very sucseptible to a backstab. For some reason the ability to 'pivot' your character is absoloutely busted in that not only can it cancel spells but you can also frame perfect pivot and face tank direct attacks with heavy weapons without being staggered (Even with low/no poise)

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Someone else mentioned using WotG for the cancel, I never deliberately pvped in this game, so I didn't get to experience that haha

[@lunarbreeze5019]

Honestly, using the Stone Set you can find early in the forest and just face tanking bosses and chugging in their face is probably way easier then magic. Or hell, you can do both.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Definitely. If I were to suggest an actual easy mode it would be a high stamina turtle strength build lol

[@virtualcolt]

This is basically DS3 with Pyromancy. Seriously I started as a pyromancer in DS3 because I loved using them with my depraved character in DS1 and holy hell, I created an absolute monster.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

My first playthrough of ds3 was also pyro, can confirm, was monster lol

[@Apeisfuckinginsane-]

I've never played sorcerer. I want to now. I'm scared of myself.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Play sorcerer, but remember my friend. With great power comes great responsibility.

[@nimbylive]

Magic strong. Strength with a shield is stronger. Carry the biggest shield you can up to the Greatshield of Artorias and you win. You can go heavy with the Great Club or just grab any strength weapon like the reinforced club (hell even the Longsword works). Wear all/part of the Stone Knight set until you can get the Giant Armor. You will medium roll the entire time, but poise works in this game. The greatsheild can face tank Manus and everything lesser.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

haha, I see you are also a fan of the big bonk

[@kascimo]

This game became super easy when I discovered that the asylum demon can be defeated in the first encounter using 5 fire bombs and when you choose thief you can parry almost every enemy with the small shield and one shot them with a knife

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Oh yeah, pretty much everything can be extremely effective, parry with a good CRIT weapon and the hornet ring does crazy damage

[@jadenpokemon8952]

If anyone is doing this run, you can buy another copy of soul spear from Griggs and Logan for a total of 8 spears, really op.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

This is true, and helpful

[@Tyrim]

in the painted world, you had a third option: use the invisible platform to the right to skip the dragon butt.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I never really remember that exists as I don't think it's intentional lol

[@Tyrim]

@@DoomWolfOfficial yeah, it's a glitch for sure. but so is the dragonbutts standing up in my opinion, so... you need to train against bonewheels to not be scared of going down there. Everything is bonewheels run when? :kappa:

[@ChromePyramid]

The black knight halberd is true easy mode does very high base damage and can be upgraded several times early game only thing holding it back is it being an rng drop

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Oh yeah its very strong, I've actually never used it (never been a fan of the Halberd class), but I know of its (and other black knight weapons) legendary power!

[@Challenger10K]

Player: How do I beat artorias Doom wolf: press R1 30 times 1:00 if you don't get it

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

was it 30? I didn't even count lol

[@Challenger10K]

@@DoomWolfOfficial idk because you cut some of the fight out. a tip for if you only do sorcery for early game you can buy soul arrow from rickert so you have more casts. also im suprised you replied to my comment since small youtubers like me do but lots of big youtubers don't normally reply to comments. Keep it up!

[@jeremy9416]

Huh this made me think of my old character in dark souls, the good ol' days, I remember that I was so frustrated about people online blasting you with magic, so I created the most anti- magic character possible , It could tank a soul crystal spear and dark magic without dying, I remember the panic when my character didn't die in one hit

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I'm just picturing you tanking the damage and being like nanomachines son! lol

[@jeremy9416]

@@DoomWolfOfficial I remember equipping the giant armour, the one you can buy in anor londo, Havel shield, smough great hammer , mask of the son , crest ships and cloranty ring for max stamina Regen, artorias pendant for dark magic. NGL it was always a bit scary to face a mage back in the days. Especially the ones with Chinese names...

[@KayOScode]

Funnily enough, I did a full sorcery run a long time ago and I think I consider it by far my hardest playthrough. I probably did some things wrong. I was only using soul arrows through most of the run though since I knew nothing about the sorcery npcs. I did normal progression too, meaning I did capora almost immediately after torus and that boss stuck out to me as very frustrating. Then the other problems were mainly running out of spell casts before bosses died

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Only regular soul arrows would be really difficult, nice for pushing forward through it!

[@holschermarc]

Meele Weapons actually make Magic Builds almost easier because Weapons like the Titanite Catch Pole are complet nukes. The Pole has just a 2% drop chance from Titanite Demons so u do have to farm the Izalith Demon probably but its fully upgraded Damage is complettly nuts. Also the range and poise damage it has/does as a Halberd is pretty dam good. Also Moonlight Greatsword exists and a Enchanted Straightsword also does stupid damage.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Titanite demon pole is good you say, hjmmmmm lol