Which ending to aim for first playthrough?

[[Army of Two] Wolfi]

So i am playing as blind as i can, but after getting the dark sigil i just had to see what this curse was about.

So i know that to get the 3rd ending(unsurped or something), i have stay with this curse. I briefly read that removing the curse becomes more expenisve the longer you have it, so i just want to know if i should stick with it and go for this ending or if this way of playing is way too hard the first time through the game?

And if i should NOT go for the unsurped, should i remove the curse asap?

please dont spoil :)

[FireStarter]

do it how you like really, personally my first play I just linked the fire normally
2nd I will do the usurpation which is apparently the "Best ending"
on my 3rd I will end the fire which is also known as the "True Ending"

[RustyNails]

Well unless you follow a guide with lots of spoilers, you are not likely going to get the third ending by yourself. Just do what you think is the best ending.

[FireStarter]

Also yeah the dark sigial become expensive to heal, on my 2nd play SL 140 its cossting me over 1 million souls to heal of cousre I am not planning to heal it. Now I was worried for later on but I heard that when you do a new game, the dark sigil will be removed so no cost:)

[Lowcost]

Honestly i don't think you will be able to do that ending blind. Without spoiling, you have alot of things to do with different npc for this ending.

Else you don't need to remove the dark sigil. All other ending work fine with it.

[FireStarter]

Originally posted by RustyNails:

Well unless you follow a guide with lots of spoilers, you are not likely going to get the third ending by yourself. Just do what you think is the best ending.

yeah that ending requires a pretty precise 10 step thing to do, you know you can do it if you have Anri alive , perform an avowal ritual and can mass up 8 dark sigisl(you only get 5 from yoel)

[Dodon]

Originally posted by FireStarter ProdigY:

I heard that when you do a new game, the dark sigil will be removed so no cost:)

I was wondering if this was the case. If so, that's good, because I wanted to play a sort of "dark, renegade for life" character first playthrough, then "paragon til death" second playthrough without farming a hundred million souls.

[Rezonus]

I'm aiming for the dark lord ending. then i wont have to deal with any of this questline crap, doing it all on first run.

[[Army of Two] Wolfi]

ok, il just heal the curse and see what i end up with, probably not the unsurped one though :P

[FireStarter]

Originally posted by Result:

Originally posted by FireStarter ProdigY:

I heard that when you do a new game, the dark sigil will be removed so no cost:)

I was wondering if this was the case. If so, that's good, because I wanted to play a sort of "dark, renegade for life" character first playthrough, then "paragon til death" second playthrough without farming a hundred million souls.

yeah taht seems fun! so if you go for dark first at least the new game + will remove it and absolute worst case,(lets say if that source was wrong) you won't have to spend over a million to heal it as it seems to go by how much your current SL costs to lvl up.

[FireStarter]

Originally posted by Army of Two Wolfi:

ok, il just heal the curse and see what i end up with, probably not the unsurped one though :P

definitely not, if you heal it you can't get usurpation, honestly might as well go for linking the fire the first playthrough, its a simple notihng really happens type of ending, then use a small guid to get the better endings on your next play.

[Mr Chappy]

I'm on NG+, I'm still hollowed at 99...

[⛧ Innsmouse ⛧]

Originally posted by Mr Chappy:

I'm on NG+, I'm still hollowed at 99...

Hollowing stays but you do lose the sigils since they're key items and key items are lost on NG+.

But OP, do whatever you feel like. Personally I always go for the dark ending, in this case End of Flame I managed to fk up that ending so I didn't even get an achievement for the secret ending that I did by (serious spoilers)>>> Going the end of flame ending and then killing the fire keeper during the 10 second window after the cutscene

[FireStarter]

Originally posted by WeLiVeR:

Originally posted by Mr Chappy:

I'm on NG+, I'm still hollowed at 99...

Hollowing stays but you do lose the sigils since they're key items and key items are lost on NG+.

But OP, do whatever you feel like. Personally I always go for the dark ending, in this case End of Flame I managed to fk up that ending so I didn't even get an achievement for the secret ending that I did by (serious spoilers)>>> Going the end of flame ending and then killing the fire keeper during the 10 second window after the cutscene

Yes I heard about that not counting because of that one action, apparently being the bad guy alt ending....should still count but because of that fact when I do end it I will avoid that action

[[Army of Two] Wolfi]

Originally posted by FireStarter ProdigY:

Originally posted by Army of Two Wolfi:

ok, il just heal the curse and see what i end up with, probably not the unsurped one though :P

definitely not, if you heal it you can't get usurpation, honestly might as well go for linking the fire the first playthrough, its a simple notihng really happens type of ending, then use a small guid to get the better endings on your next play.

If im not going for the unsuprt ending(requiering lots of side quests) why do i need the curse? isnt better to just no have it?

since i know very little, my thought is, if i have th curse i might aswell go for the unsurped ending, if im not i shouldnt have it. But i might be missing something

[SundownKid]

I did Link first, and plan to do Dark 2nd and Usurp 3rd (mainly because I messed up the usurp ending in NG+)

Linking seems like the de facto "first" ending to go for since it's the typical ending and the most boring of them.