Tired of fighting

[bell jar]

Up to the Gate, keep sitting at around 150 souls, all characters in the second row of memories. I'm tired of fighting creatures that all have really long names, do strong attacks, and require lots of souls to beat. I want to unlock more rows of memories but guessing them is impossible without the letters, and previous areas seem to be populated with strong monsters. I feel underlevelled but don't have the resources available to keep going.

I really enjoy doing the riddles but I'm not finding any more skulls to talk to, and there just aren't enough fish to farm souls and letters from. What should I do?

[paulbbg]

Just a note Bell jar I will be adding in additional "fingers" for enemy looting for those people who are a bit on the low end of skill gain for 1.034 https://steamcommunity.com/app/1885110/discussions/1/6893400166991829081/ As a few people have mentioned now that the skill guessing aspect is on the hard side for them.

As far as best spots to harvest souls, the pools is usually a good place to warp back to, usually the fish respawn there pretty quick and the nearby areas. also use skills that balance out your soul loss a bit ( flip etc ), these should be your go to rather than using hit as they are souls positive, yell and one of these you can leave a fight up on souls. There is a few pools in the downwood that are pretty loaded with fish also. One other way you can get easy souls is playing whatever, depending on the opponent difficulty 30-100 souls per win.

I would recommend using potions if you can, its the easiest way to cheese the whole late game on row 1-2 skills, especially the damage reduction potion, and the heal potion, get the portable cauldron from Ratty's dad so you can mix it anywhere. Stun locking the more powerful enemies if you can is your friend also, but really downwood on row 2 skills is going to be a hard slog.

There are a few semi hidden potions around that are in the SS and bonehouses, warp back to the bridge and take a look around once the bridge gets rebuilt (near the area where the rat guard stood), there is a decently powerful easy to get potion in there that does 3 damage also, might require some Payn translating whistle ...

[paulbbg]

Oh another super easy 3 damage one that destroys armor also, revisit Vitus after delivering the rap track...

[bell jar]

I've had a lot of success using the skills you mentioned that are souls positive, thanks for the suggestions!

[paulbbg]

No worries Bell jar, I really want to thank you for persevering, I have taken community feedback onboard with 1.034 so while it wont help you, additional letter looting from enemies should help people in similar situations in future. Thanks for posting anyway, it all helps figure out the general feel for where the difficulty is at currently.