after the iron keep?

[xlightningx]

where should i go after the iron keep,i am not that interested in option areas in my first playthrough.

i already did the grave of saints, found both bonfires in the gutter ,found the acid gutter area and got killed by a giant worm. oh and also i went to the second bonfire in the shaded forest , but which area takes the "story" forword?

[Argon]

IGN walkthrough.

If tl;dr, basicly the story splits once you get to Majula from Things Betwixt and clear out FoFG.

You need to defeat 4 mega-bosses. To reach them, you must get through 3 areas along the path to them.

1) Lost Sinner: No-Man's Warf (or FoFG), Lost Bastille, Sinner's Rise.
2) Old Iron King: Huntsman's Copse, Harvest Vally, Iron Keep
3) The Rotten: (Grave of Saints optional) Gutter, Black Gulch.
4) Duke's Dear Freja: Shaded Woods, Doors of Pharros, Brightstone Cove Tseldora.

From there, go to the Shrine of Winter in the Shaded Woods and it's pretty straight forward from there.

[xlightningx]

oh so i need to do the black gulch or the shaded woods

which one would you recommend to do first?

is lvl 116 to high at this point? tried to get summoned but it doesn´t work

[xlightningx]

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[Argon]

Level doesn't affect summons. Soul memory does. I normally play in the order I put the bosses in, but the Rotten is hard for some characters.