How to earn souls?

[87aw]

I have thoughtlessly used up all souls and don't know how to earn new ones.
Beaten the game on NG2 but didn't get one soul.
Would need the souls to unlock my +3 gear and runes. At the moment I've only can use +1 gear and runes.
Tought I will get the souls from the bosses.
Before the update I was on NG4.
I'm afraid that I have to beat the bosses on NG4 to get souls.
Since I can't manage this without the +3 stuff

[Omegatherion]

So far you will only get souls once from every boss in every NG cycle. So if you want to get more souls, you have to go to the next cycle you haven't beaten yet.
Doing the challenges also gives you souls once.

I'm wondering if there are any other sources of souls as well in the new patch. Or if we really have to go to NG+whoknows to buy everything in the shop.

[87aw]

Ok,then I hope that there is a possibility to get my last savefile, to the state before the update. As far as I know, someone lost all his money and was able to get his old save back.

[ProtagorasEmber]

My Soul Shop's door is still boarded up. What do I need to do to get the shop open?

Edit: 15 hours in and I still haven't beaten the first Estuary. Is that embarrassing fact what the hold up is?

[Agent_Rete]

Hey Protagoras, yeah you need to beat an Estuary to open up the soul shop. But once it's open, it's open forever!

[ProtagorasEmber]

Originally posted by Agent_Rete:

Hey Protagoras, yeah you need to beat an Estuary to open up the soul shop. But once it's open, it's open forever!

Any tips on what classes make the first one the easiest? I usually pick Valkyrie over anything followed by Barbarian and Knight, but I was thinking the first Estuary might be a whole lot easier with either the Mage or the Gunslinger, something ranged that would potentially keep me alive longer. I'm open to any suggestions at this point.

[alpnorman]

Okay, souls. I'm working my way through the NG+2 bosses, but it seems like there's very little available in terms of what you can afford.

Once you get to NG+5, do you get souls each time you beat a boss, even if you re-thread the world?

See, back 20 years ago, after Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and then Hasbro bought WotC (which about a year before D&D 3.0 was released, so if you wonder why it bogged down even worse than what happened after ownership of TSR was seized from Gygax, now you know) . . . anyway, after the game came out, people realized that there were 'new player traps', that is, certain feats were far less useful than others, even if they sounded cool.

Even worse, you couldn't just buy the good ones later, because the resources you bought the newbie trap feats with were strictly limited by your level. Once you bought a bad feat, you were stuck with it for as long as you kept that character.

I'm worried that if we make a bad souls purchase, we'll be stuck with it as long as we play that save file, because souls have been strictly limited by NG+ progression.

Is there a way to refund soul purchases? Or to grind unlimited souls? Or do we need to wait for someone to play canary and discover which soul purchases just aren't worth it?

[Agent_Rete]

We're thinking about letting people reset souls in a future update, but for now there should be a ton that you can get by playing the game. Going through NG+ is one of the slowest routes atm.

The majority of souls are locked behind the Scar Challenges. If you get silver or gold in a couple of those, you should have more then enough to spec out in any direction you like.

[[NewNet]*Akiyama]

I see you are writing in every topic that going through NG+ is one of the slowest routes atm and that there are many ways to get them. But where to get them expect of Scar Challenges?

[Seig]

The scar challenges are pretty... challenging. I would assume that a lot of players won't be getting any souls through them.

[87aw]

Yes, I think also.
Just tried it and was only able to get 400 souls. Since NG4+ is to hard for me I'm at the moment stuck with +2 gear and +1 rune.
Unlocked the class upgrades and further things with the souls wich are not so helpfull :-/.
A way to reset the badly spent souls would be awesome.

[ProtagorasEmber]

Originally posted by Agent_Rete:

Hey Protagoras, yeah you need to beat an Estuary to open up the soul shop. But once it's open, it's open forever!

Well I finally beat him. I went with Barbarian and just stood there and beat him down for as long as it took. I got out of the way for his bigger hits but for the most part I was pumped up enough to just take the hits as long as I kept hitting him.

I did find out that I had overlooked one minor item, a particular insight that came in handy that I never found until I looked up tips on beating that first boss. To think that it was right there. All those times I was in the lantern room, patting myself on the back for not recklessly smashing my way up top and how i "wasn't missing anything" by being careful. If I had been a little more reckless in that room just once I might have stumbled on to it....