Briar King, on 20 April 2016 - 11:30 PM, said:
No clue what y'all talking about.
Idk...BT maybe the end of my play time with this game. I've got 74 hrs but this area is bad. I may quit and just look up story and go buy 3.
Lagtown does indeed suck soooooooo much, I detest it, and I can't say I feel much better about the 2 hidden areas (The Great Hollow and Ash Lake) that you can access from the bottom area either, in general the entire area is just awful - especially on playthough 1 when you are trying to collect everything and don't have intimate knowledge of the place. It certainly becomes alot more tolerable on further playthoughs with prior knowledge, when you know what you can live without getting, what you don't want to get at all etc. Even better on NG+ if you've already got everything and have no need of duplicates. You can use the Master Key to enter BT from it's back entrance (In the Valley of the Drakes, take the lift underneath the bonfire at firelink down, you'll be in New Londo, there's a second exit from New Londo down there, you don't have to venture into the area proper to find it), if you didn't pick the key as your starting gift you can get buy it from the Welsh sounding NPC you meet in the Sewers just before the entrance to BT, but only after he moves to the Firelink area I think. He sits under the Viaduct, you have to jump to get to him. I think it's beating the Gaping Dragon that makes him move there. Using the back entrance to BT is a thousand times easier, if you don't care about the items you can get (some are needed for achievements) then it's way preferable.
Amphibian and Traveller are right as well, getting the Rusted Iron Ring from the Undead Asylum first does make the whole thing much easier once you get to the bottom of BT, makes it so you don't move so slowly through the poison inducing swamp you find once you've made it past the blow dart fuckers and their friends. Tip for the blow dart fuckers, especially the one area where there are about 5 of them, poison yourself first (i.e hit yourself with multiple dung pies) you cannot be hit with both poison and toxic, the damage you receive from the use of dung pies is absolutely negligible in comparison to the toxic status frankly, and their attacks become useless as a result.
Getting back to the Asylum is easy, if a little out the way for someone who doesn't know. There is a lift up to the Chapel you have to climb to fight the Gargoyles earlier in the game, in the Firelink Shrine area. You can only operate it from the Chapel side at first, but once you've used it once, it goes both ways. If you hop into it from the Chapel end, ride it down and roll of the lift when you see an area you can't reach any other way, you can then roll of the side at a certain point onto part of the round stone structure that'll be in front of you (sorry for the lack of specifics there, but once you're on the area it becomes rather obvious I promise), following it up and round takes you too a crows nest, if you curl up inside you'll eventually be flown by the crow back to the game's starting area. You will need the Undead Dead Asylum Key to get to the ring in question, the key is on a corpse on the roof of the flooded section of Firelink, again you reach it by rolling off the lift. Watch out if you do keep playing and go there for the ring, there are two Black Knights in the Asylum area once you return, and if you walk right into the middle of the room where you fought the first boss (the Asylum Demon) way back at the beginning, the floor will break you'll fall down and have to fight Asylum's bigger nastier brother. It isn't too difficult a fight really and you get a Titanite Slab for beating it, but you don't have to fight it to reach the ring I don't believe. So you can just avoid it, fight it and see how it goes and then avoid it next time, or keep trying till you win, whatever floats your boat.
This post has been edited by WinterPhoenix: 21 April 2016 - 02:44 AM
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