Warrior (or anything) levelling guide?

[tenthousand]

Hey there,

I've searched these forums online, but couldn't find a good guide for DS3.

I played DS2 just a bit until my video card died, and I never tried it again. DS3 is pretty fun. I had a knight going until I killed the blacksmith, now starting over.

I'm thinking I'll try warrior.

Anyway - any guides out there? Generally, I'm not sure when to spend my souls on levelling, or when to save them for the blacksmith... A couple of questions I have while playing:

1) Do I spend souls and gems at the blacksmith for my starting equipment, or wait until I get better equipment?
2) I want to get my dex up to 14 for that bow. Should I just get my first 5 points in dex?

Or any other tips?

[tenthousand]

I also wonder about which stats I should focus on, aside from getting Dex up for that bow... Is Vigor really that important?

Should I be going for the heaviest armor I can find?

[la_nague]

up to you really, try to get to 1k hp, spend some points for energy so you can dodge and attack more.
vitality enough to carry your items, either stay under 30 load for quick roll or under 70 for normal roll.

choose 2 stats for damage (or 1 and invest more in other points for example to carry heavy armor better).
str dex int faith are the dmg stats basically. you can mix them or choose 1 mainly.

str and for example very heavy armor and hp, or str dex "quality" build or dex faith or int faith "pyromancy" etc etc etc

[tenthousand]

Nice. Sounds like STR is up my alley. 30 load might be tough to accomplish with heavy armor, but want to deliver some rough offense!

[kNIGHT]

You can't actually level anything up wrongly. You just make it harder for yourself to get to basic stats for whatever build you prefer if you upgrade something you're not really using. Just hover over each stat and read the descriptions. It's all very straight forward.

[Scroubignon]

I'm playing a Knight. I leveled Vitality to 20, Endurance to 14 and put the rest in Str/Dex. I felt like I had plenty of health and endurance until now (midgame). Didn't bother with vigor since you need quite a few levels to get a noticeable effect and it doesn't seem worth it. The 70% roll is more than enough (feels like DkS1's fast roll). Chance seems pretty useless. Int and Faith no thanks. Now I could use a bit more health but that's it.

[tenthousand]

Ah, good - its nice to know. Soul farming is pretty easy when I do want to level.

Warrior and knight seem pretty similar - I wonder if knight fits my playstyle better - going in, melee/block/dodge... that kinda thing. Some bow-shootin when I need it. I like how Warrior has a few more hitpoints to start since I die all the time, that's really making my decision for me.

For starting gift, I was thinking ring of life if I do knight, or coin if I choose warrior.

I love this game!

[la_nague]

after an hour those boh classes can be the same basically, depending on what you level up.

knight starts with a shield that can block 100% dmg, so it can be a bit easier, but try to rely more on dofging it doesnt deplete stamina as much.
And the 1st real map has enemies that drop a 100% shield anyways.

[Snuggles]

Here's my simple guide for Stat allocation in a Dark Souls game:

1. Level Vigor and Endurance equally in 5 incremental intervals. These stats do have caps, however and will be worthless to point into after a certain amount. Vigor's HP per point has a gradual soft cap from 1 to 20, a sharper cap above 50, and a hard cap at 99. Endurance's Stamina per point has a soft cap at 40 and a hard cap at 99. Get both of these to 20 first, then start allocating towards your qualifier stats. After you've done that, get your preferential stats in place. After that, dump into Vigor or Endurance until you feel comfortable. Don't overdo it.

2. View Strength, Dex, Intellegence, and Faith as qualifier stats (i.e. this stat allows me to use this weapon/spell/sheild effectively). Only point into these as much that allows the minimum for the require weapon/spell/sheild. For example, if you want to use that Black Knight Sword that requires 20 str and 18 dex, level up to 20 Str and 18 Dex and no more. Figure out what weapon or spell you want to use and build towards that.

3. Attunement and Vitality are preferential stats. Point into Attunemnet for as many spell "slots" you think your character will need to be effective. Obviously if your character is a magic user, you're going to want more slots than a melee build character who may only want one or two for a heal and an offensive spell. Vitality deals with your equipment load. Higher your equipment load, the heavier, more defensive equipment you can wear while still remaining agile. Personally, I like to find a cool looking set of armor that is moderately heavy/light then point my Vitality until I can fast roll. Totally preferential though. If you know your character is gonna be a fatty tank who is gonna weild all the heaviest gear then its probably worth more to point into Vigor and get more HP because youre never gonna fast roll in that stuff.

4. Luck as far as I know, is worthless. Don't allocate here.

[la_nague]

luck isnt useless but you can ignore it until you know what to do with it.

[karl-emil]

This method is a fast and easy way to farm souls somewhat early, works for every class and it's going to be the fastest way even into the mid 40's.

[tenthousand]

Nice! So I keep getting heavier equipment and need to keep putting points into vitality. I think I'm level 17 now and all have gone there. I still need 2 more vitality points to get me to 70%. Wish there was a better way, or that there wasn't a penalty

[karl-emil]

Originally posted by tenthousand:

Nice! So I keep getting heavier equipment and need to keep putting points into vitality. I think I'm level 17 now and all have gone there. I still need 2 more vitality points to get me to 70%. Wish there was a better way, or that there wasn't a penalty

You'll find a couple of items later on in the game that increases your equip load so it's not worth putting too many points into vitality unless you want to go full tank.

[tenthousand]

Ah, woops - good to know though, thanks!

[Saph]

Quality build has been doing fine so far with a refined longsword.