Silly Dark Souls Challenge Time

[Call Sign: Raven]

I'm bored and tired. Let's do some challenge runs. They are meant to be relatively challenging, but mainly just silly. They are not meant to be obscene, just maybe a little obnoxious and maybe even fun.

These are a few where you're only allowed to level up a single stat, EXCLUDING or INCLUDING a weapon. You are not allowed to level up anything but the stat, no Estus, no weapons, etc. Challenge is completed when you beat every boss. Rings and armor are allowed.

1) The Chad: You may ONLY level up Strength, nothing else, not even a weapon. You are allowed to use any weapon EXCEPT Dragon Weapons, those are off limits.

2) Fit as a Fiddle: You may ONLY level up Endurance.

3) Jack be Nimble: ONLY level up Dex.

4) The Angry Blacksmith: ONLY level up a single weapon. No stats can be increased through leveling up.

5) Bookworm/Priest: ONLY level up Intelligence or Faith. You may use a weapon, but no upgrades, and as many spells as you can equip.

6) Vietman Vet: You are allowed 20 level ups, but must beat the entire game with consumables ONLY.

7) IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US: In this challenge (?) whenever an enemy charges at you, you MUST run away from it until either your stamina runs out, or it catches up to you and does it's first attack. Then, you can engage it normally, but you are only allowed to use a bow. If the mob backs off and charges at you again, you MUST run away again before you can re-engage. Uh, good luck to whoever tries that one lol. Bonus points if you stream it on Twitch and actually yell "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US" each time. Level ups are allowed.

8) Strange maladies: Roll a dice, or use a RNG online. Get 3 numbers between 1 and 12. Re-roll if you get a repeat. Play the game with the 3 disadvantages you get and try to get as far as possible or beat the game. If you get one that contradicts something or seems like it would be impossible, such as 7 and 8, count it as a re-roll and try again.

1 - Carpal Tunnel: no weapons allowed the entire run
2 - Allergic to juice: no Estus
3 - Scared of Spooky Stuff: no magic
4 - Allergic to fabric: no armor
5 - Delicate ankles: no running or falling allowed
6 - My back! : no rolling
7 - Extrovert: Must seek out and talk to EVERY NPC, NO SKIPPING DIALOGUE ALLOWED, must exhaust all dialogue.
8 - Extreme Shyness: you are NOT allowed to talk to ANY NPC, including merchants.
9 - Amnesia: If you die, you are NOT allowed to backtrack the same way you came. You MUST take a different path to progress the game, Master Key required for this run.
10 - Perfectionist: If you take ANY damage, you must die and return to the last bonfire.
11 - Sloppy: During every fight, you MUST take at least one hit from the thing you are fighting.
12 - Confused: You are not allowed to walk in straight lines to your next destination. You must ALWAYS take the least convenient and indirect path to where you are going.

9) Super Class-Change Challenge: Choose a starting class, then mentally pick a different starting class and keep it in mind. For the first half of the game, you are ONLY allowed to use the equipment of your initial starting class. During your playthrough, you must try to obtain the equipment of the other class you picked mentally, before you reach the Lord Vessel. Once you obtain the Lord Vessel, you must DISCARD all equipment from the original class, and use all the equipment of the other class you selected, then beat the game. Your level cap will be 40 for this challenge, you are allowed to level any stat that will enable you to use the equipment of the new class. You are allowed to level up your weapons, but they cap at +6. This can be require bosses only or all bosses, your pick. I've done this one, it's really fun!

10) Extreme Narcissism: Play the game as you normally would, but have your phone nearby. Anytime you get a phonecall, text, tweet, or message on facebook, you MUST stop the game wherever you are, no matter what, to answer the phone or social media post, even if it's completely trivial. You must give your FULL attention to the phonecall or text or whatever. If you are anti-social don't pick this challenge, lmao.

Okay! Have fun! Share your own silly challenges, too!

[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

1 beat dark souls without opening game
2 summon players for each boss without playing online
3 buy item having 0 souls
4 make message in offline mode
5 defead manus without touching controler

tell me when you done with these

[MOSLEY]

Originally posted by Snowy:

1 beat dark souls without opening game
2 summon players for each boss without playing online
3 buy item having 0 souls
4 make message in offline mode
5 beat man without touching controler

tell me when you done with these

4 could probably be done with an exploit.
5 sounds pretty easy with mouse and keyboard.

[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

Originally posted by MOSLEY:

Originally posted by Snowy:

1 beat dark souls without opening game
2 summon players for each boss without playing online
3 buy item having 0 souls
4 make message in offline mode
5 beat man without touching controler

tell me when you done with these

4 could probably be done with an exploit.
5 sounds pretty easy with mouse and keyboard.

no exploits or mouse and keybord allowed

oh i didnt mention DO ALL IN ONE RUN

[MOSLEY]

Retroactively adding rules is not allowed. :D

[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

Originally posted by MOSLEY:

Retroactively adding rules is not allowed. :D

its my challenges and my rules

[Call Sign: Raven]

Originally posted by Snowy:

1 beat dark souls without opening game
2 summon players for each boss without playing online
3 buy item having 0 souls
4 make message in offline mode
5 defead manus without touching controler

tell me when you done with these

lol, Yes, that's silly.

[L9 dorothea]

i tried strength only zweihander before but i gave up at anal rodeo because 1. i was too slow and couldnt tank any damage and 2. id have to wear 2 rings to beat nito and id never get that fap again and ive yet to do gwyn damageless

[Mr. Oibyr]

Some of these I will try. Also, love the presentation, btw. However, most of these are a matter of knowing which twinking weapon to get, lmao!

Full PURE dex is an easy way to take Gwyn without getting hit. Use Silver Tracer + RTS/Hornet rings + >49 dex = 2-3 ripostes and done(if not he kills in one hit, anyway).

Try "soul level 1/weapon level 5 cap". Best way to do is Dragon Fist + Power Within/RTSR the ENTIRE GAME!!!(...have fun farming/finding those 40 scales...)

[Call Sign: Raven]

Originally posted by Mr. Oibyr:

Some of these I will try. Also, love the presentation, btw. However, most of these are a matter of knowing which twinking weapon to get, lmao!

Full PURE dex is an easy way to take Gwyn without getting hit. Use Silver Tracer + RTS/Hornet rings + >49 dex = 2-3 ripostes and done(if not he kills in one hit, anyway).

Try "soul level 1/weapon level 5 cap". Best way to do is Dragon Fist + Power Within/RTSR the ENTIRE GAME!!!(...have fun farming/finding those 40 scales...)

Thanks! Yeah, you can use whatever weapon you wish, I decided to use standard weapons but you can absolutely use a twinkling weapon if you want. I just finished a run of #9, the super class change challenge, went from a Knight to a Bandit. The Knight was torture because it was all fat roll, and the Bandit is a freaking glass cannon...that Battle Axe is surprisingly good. I thought I would have trouble with the DLC bosses but I took them all down first try except for Kalameet...he was one hit away, I was one hit away, I had a moment of inattention and he bopped me lmao.

They aren't supposed to be ultra-hardcore challenges, I'm sure you guessed that. More like moderately challenging fun-runs.

[Dexter]

How about original class challenge by EpicNameBro?

https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/3mzhoo/enb_dark_souls_challenge/

[Call Sign: Raven]

Originally posted by Two A's:

How about original class challenge by EpicNameBro?

https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/3mzhoo/enb_dark_souls_challenge/

Ah, I was trying to think of stuff that hadn't been done before, or things that aren't as hardcore as that. I enjoy the class challenge, but I always allow myself to level up, because I did my SL1 run and I don't feel like doing another lmao.

[Dexter]

Originally posted by Harrison Ford:

Originally posted by Two A's:

How about original class challenge by EpicNameBro?

https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/3mzhoo/enb_dark_souls_challenge/

Ah, I was trying to think of stuff that hadn't been done before, or things that aren't as hardcore as that. I enjoy the class challenge, but I always allow myself to level up, because I did my SL1 run and I don't feel like doing another lmao.

Welp, switch it up a little bit. For me it is still THE challenge to go to with little bit of change. For knight, you can level up but always midroll and use only zwei without shield(block with zwei, if must) for example

[Call Sign: Raven]

Originally posted by Two A's:

Originally posted by Harrison Ford:

Ah, I was trying to think of stuff that hadn't been done before, or things that aren't as hardcore as that. I enjoy the class challenge, but I always allow myself to level up, because I did my SL1 run and I don't feel like doing another lmao.

Welp, switch it up a little bit. For me it is still THE challenge to go to with little bit of change. For knight, you can level up but always midroll and use only zwei without shield(block with zwei, if must) for example

That's neat! I find whenever I use the zwei that things become way too easy to stunlock, so I tend to save that for times where I want to just goof around and have an easy time.

[Mr. Oibyr]

How about:

"Twinko Knight"

-there are three(?) black knights available immediately(running/master key/ability to defeat BKs very early needed)
-depending which one drops wep 1st(sword, halberd, great sword); you *ONLY* get the stats to single-hand the weapon(so 18 dex and 20+ str, naturally)...start over if they don't drop any
-must start as knight, only use knight shields and wear anything with "knight" in it's name(rings are exception)
These weapons can be fully upgraded before ANY boss is completed(Asylum Demon is exception w/o skip) as you can farm twinkling titanite from those little titanite lizards. This is also a very satisfying meta build, because you can dump the rest of your stats into your health and stamina with some to spare for attune slots and some spell stats(or pure pyro, either way).



How's this for a NG+ invader:

"Swamp Donkey"

-enough stats to scale/1-hand the Dark Silver Tracer and/or Gravelord Sword and your fav bleed weapon(s)
-enough faith/attune for 2 Tranquil Walks...*he-he*
-put equal parts remaining into vitality, endurance...and...RESISTANCE!!!
-soul level cap of 60, max for weapons
-rusted ring and Blood shield are an absolute must
-invade with red eye orb at the bonfire...RIGHT BEFORE QUELAG!!!
Protecting yourself from the poison isn't really the goal or possible, so "Poison Bite Ring" isn't helpful. Worry about you opponent fighting "fire with fire". Having 89-99 of each "affliction" consumable is a must, Dung Pies and Lloyd's are also a great idea. Most people fighting Quel the 2nd time are usually sl44 or greater. They should have a considerable amount of power/items after having cleared the game, so it's not "that" easy, but still awesome!

It's the only build worth putting some into resist I have EVER found. Feels fun as long as you don't "twinkify" it for 1st "playthroughers"(sl for Quel at that point is like 20, give or take 10 levels and they aren't prepared for it so they summon Mildred and they need to go human to do it.........pure evil).

[Call Sign: Raven]

Swamp Donkey?! lmfao that's the funniest name for a build I've ever heard.