Parallax's Dark Souls SL1 Guide

Parallax’s Dark Souls SL1 Guide
Who am I?
I am Parallax, a Dark Souls challenge runner. I enjoy doing a variety of challenge runs, including
level 1 runs, no rolling runs, permadeath runs, and minimum stat requirements runs.
I often play Souls games while testing different weapons and strategies for boss, fights on level
1 characters.
I decided to make this guide because I often see people struggle with SL1 runs. SL1 runs are
popular runs and many people attempt them. You can find people in the Dark Souls Reborn
Discord, streaming, redditors, etc trying the sl1 run. However, many struggle be it due to lack of
knowledge of bosses, a suboptimal progression route, or inefficient utilizations of equipment.
I hope this guide will not only assist players in completing the DS1 SL1 challenge run, but
provide insight into how to approach other Souls challenge runs.
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Purpose:
The aim of this guide is help the user with the progression route.
This includes:
● Route of which areas to go through in which order

● Which weapons to use for each boss
● Picking up Embers
● Picking up Rings
● Upgrading your weapons
● Picking up any useful items that may aid you on your journey
● Preparing for NG+ to NG+6
● Basic strategies for the bosses
Parts of the guide will also prepare you for NG+ onwards.
Everything that I believe is only necessary if the user needs wants to go to NG+ onwards will be
written in red
Disclaimers:
This guide will assume that the user is willing to use the item duplication glitch.
How to use the glitch: Original | Remastered (read description)
Keep in mind if your character is female, you need to 2 hand your weapon to make it work.
However, in the event that the user is unwilling to use said glitch, an alternative strategy will be
provided.
This guide does not include acquiring offensive pyromancies.
Pyromancy is extremely overpowered in Dark Souls 1. It requires no stats to use, does an
absurd amount of damage, and are easy to obtain. Pyromancy allows a player to circumvent the
process of learning the boss fights. A such. I believe that usage of offensive pyromancies
defeats the purpose of doing a Soul Level 1 challenge run. While I personally don’t condone the
usage of pyromancies, the reader is free to draw their own conclusions in this matter. In the
same vein, I will not suggest farming for high level upgrade materials to utterly trivialize a boss
fight with pure damage output.
That being said, near the end of the playthrough, a guide on accessing useful pyromancies will
be included for the people who want to continue the SL1 challenge run to NG+6.
Character Creation
Class: Pyromancer
Starting Gift: Master Key
Everything else is up to you.
Undead Asylum
Pick Up: Hand Axe, Cracked Round Shield

Talk to: Oscar of Astora
Pick Up: Pyromancy Flame
Kill: Asylum Demon

Very easy boss. Plunge, then make sure to stay behind him. Attack his butt. If he flies in the air,
make sure to get some distance.
Resistances:
Regular Strike Slash Thrust
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Magic Fire Lightning
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Firelink Shrine
Pick Up: 3x Humanity, 6x Homeward Bone, 4x Lloyd’s Talisman

Go to New Londo Ruins and pick up the Fire Keeper Soul
Don’t be afraid to suicide run.
Kill the rat in the sewers. If he drops a humanity, your run is blessed and you already won.
Undead Burg
Speak to: Undead Merchant (Male) (Don’t ever kill him)
Purchase: 3x Reinforced Club.
(One Club will be Unascended, one will be Fire Chaos Ascended, one will be Divine Ascended)
The Reinforced Club is a great choice for SL1 because it has good base damage (which also
translates well into elemental infusions), decent R1 moveset, very good R2 attack that has a lot
of utility due to its range, and is fairly light.
Rest at the nearby bonfire for safety.

Pick up 5x Black Firebomb, 3x Gold Pine Resin
Kill the Crystal Lizard in the barrel before Taurus Demon.
Kill: Taurus Demon

Very simple boss.
Out-Space his attacks, run in for a running attack punish, repeat.
With the reinforced club, he staggers in 3 hits, meaning you can do 1 punish, wait for a second
opening, then attack him twice to stagger him.
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Magic Fire Lightning Recommended

Weapon:
77 88 67 Reinforced Club +0
Undead Parish
Kill: Heavy Knight
Pick Up: Basement Key, Titanite Shard, Fire Keeper Soul
(If you are okay with using the item duplication glitch, make sure to keep one Fire Keeper Soul
at all times)
Upgrade your Reinforced Club to +5
Kill: Bell Gargoyles

Killing the first one before the second gargoyle shows up is key.
Both of the gargoyles stagger from 2 hits of the Reinforced Club
The second one shows up after the first one is at 50%.
Consider getting the first gargoyle to just over 50% health, then attempt to burst him down.
The second gargoyle has a similar move set to the former.
The second gargoyle is likely to do a fire breath. Running/dodging to the side and punishing it is
a good idea, as it is an attack with a very long animation.
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Weapon:

w/ Gold Pine Resin
Ring the: First Beckoning Bell
Make your way back to Firelink Shrine.

Kill: Lautrec of Carim
Pick Up: Ring of Favor and Protection
Ring of Favor and Protection is a very good ring. It increases your health, stamina and
equipment load by a considerable amount. Remember, in DS1, removing the ring destroys it.
Lower Undead Burg
Make your way to the Undead Burg

Speak to the Undead Merchant (Male)
Purchase: Residence Key, Chain Set
Chain Set is a good armour set that will provide poise, which will make the Capra Demon
encounter much much easier as the dogs will not stagger you.
Rest at the nearby bonfire for safety.
Kill: Havel the Rock
Pick Up: Havel’s Ring
Consider parrying or backstabbing Havel. His attacks are very telegraphed and easy to parry, or
roll to the side and backstab.
Get past the Taurus Demon boss arena and enter the Lower Undead Burg
Save Griggs of Vinheim

Make your way past the Capra Demon boss arena and open the shortcut in the sewers that
leads to Firelink Shrine and rest at its bonfire for safety.
Then speak to the Undead Merchant (Female)
Purchase: Purple and Blooming Purple Moss Clumps. Purchase as many as you believe
you’ll need for the Depths and Blighttown.
Also purchase 1 Red, Purple and Blooming purple moss clump to exchange for twinkling
titanite at Dyna and Tillo
Also Purchase: Charcoal Pine Resin. Will prove useful against Capra Demon.
Kill: Capra Demon

When you start the fight, run past the Capra Demon and dodge any attack he throws at you.
Then focus on killing the dogs.
Use the stairs to your advantage, to divide the dogs from the demon and give yourself breathing
room.
Full Chain Set poise will let you tank through 1 dog attack, so don’t be afraid to trade with them.
Wolf Ring is also a very good ring for this, as it provides 40 poise.
After that, roll and punish Capra Demon’s attacks until he is dead.
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Weapon:

w/ Charcoal Pine Resin
Gold Pine Resin would provide more damage than Charcoal Pine Resin, however, it is better
saved for more difficult bosses. Since the boss is only difficult when the dogs are around, which
you can one-shot without Gold Pine Resin, extra damage will not make the fight significantly
easier.
Make your way to the Depths.

The Depths
Pick Up: Large Ember

Save: Laurentius of the Great Swamp
Rest at the Depths Bonfire for safety
If you do not want to use the item duplication glitch, I recommend reversing your hollowing and
fighting Knight Kirk. It will provide a lot of souls which can be used to purchase upgrade
materials.
Speak to: Doomhall of Zena
Purchase: 3x Gold Pine Resin
Kill: Channeller - Location

Killing the Channeller will make him unable to interrupt the Gaping Dragon boss fight by buffing
him and shooting soul arrows at you.
Pick Up: Large Titanite Shard.
It’s located past the Channeller.
Pick Up: Heavy Crossbow.
It’s located right above the Gaping Dragon boss fog.
You are now free to kill the Gaping Dragon
It is recommended to kill him now as it will spare you another run to the Depths and later in the
game, the fight becomes very trivial.
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Weapon:

w/ Gold Pine Resin
If you are unable to kill him, you can return to him when your equipment is stronger.
Return to Undead Parish

Rest at the bonfire
Speak to: Andre of Astora
Give him the Large Ember
Upgrade your Reinforced Club to +6
(If you happen to have more than 1 Large Titanite Shard, likely from killing the Crystal
Lizards, upgrade your Reinforced Club further)
Purchase: Weapon Smithbox
Go to Darkroot Basin
Kill: Crystal Lizard, Halberd Black Knight

Pick up: Grass Crest Shield, Leather Set and Longbow
Grass Crest Shield increases your stamina recovery greatly. It makes running through areas
faster and bosses easier due to more stamina recovery.
Also does a decent job at blocking.
Bone back to Undead Parish
Make your way to Undead Asylum
Undead Asylum
When you enter the asylum, go to your right and rest at the bonfire for safety.
Kill: Black Knight, Oscar of Astora

Pick Up: Crest Shield
Kill: Black Knight
Pick Up: Peculiar Doll
You are now free to kill the Stray Demon

While the Stray Demon has a lot of health, he is weak to bleed.
Make sure to stay behind him. When he does his “stab his staff in the ground” that causes an
AOE, make sure to stay a decent but behind him and punish that with 2 attacks.
His fly and buttslam attack has a very lingering hitbox, so be cautious when running into him to
punish it.
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Weapon:
195 207 168 Physical Reinforced

Club
w/ Gold Pine Resin
If you are finding Stray Demon too difficult, you can come back at a later date when you have
better equipment.
On your way back, exchange 1 of each Moss Clump for Twinkling Titanite
Return to Firelink Shrine
Speak to Laurentius
Purchase - Flash Sweat
Flash Sweat will be used to protect you from lava when trying to retrieve the Chaos Ember.
Can also use it for Chaos Witch Quelaag.
Make your way to Blighttown
Blighttown
Enter Blighttown via Valley of Drakes

Make your way to the lower section of Blighttown
Rest at the bonfire for safety
Pick Up: 1x Green Titanite Shard and 2x Large Titanite Shard
Kill all the Slugs in hopes of obtaining Large Titanite Shards and Green Titanite Shards
Consider using the item duplication glitch to obtain 10 soft humanity, or use enough humanity
items to have 10 humanity items
Enter the Great Hollow
Pick up: Twin Humanities in the chest on your way
The Great Hollow
Your goal in The Great Hollow is to make sure you have at least 9x Green Titanite Shards.
That many will allow you to upgrade your fire weapon to +5, and open up Ascention to Fire +6
or Chaos.
Collect Items or kill Crystal Lizards until you have at least 9x Green Titanite Shard
Keep in mind: Blue and White Titanite Chunks can be exchanged to Frampt for 2 Green
Titanite Shards, count that in the equation as well.
If you plan on going to NG+6 it’s very recommended that you collect as much as possible
Here is a good and quick video showcasing Crystal Lizard Spawns.

Once you get to the area simply quit out and load your character again.
Sometimes Crystal Lizards might not spawn and you’ll have to quit out multiple times.
Pick Up: Chloranthy Ring
Don’t be afraid to do Suicide runs.

Souls are not very important in this run.
Once you have reached your goal, return to the Lower Blighttown Bonfire
Upgrade your Reinforced Club as much as you can.
Pick Up: Power Within
Power Within is a very strong spell that will increase your damage by 50% at the cost of
1%HP/Sec.
It’s not needed in New Game as bosses still have low HP.
Power Within Location - While the video does not show it, it’s possible to run past the enemy
guarding the pyromancy and pick it up, which will result in a suicide run.
You are now free to fight Chaos Witch Quelaag

Roll through her firesword swipes, when the spider breathes lava, hit the legs. But never hit her
when under her. This is because if she does the AOE attack, the legs will trap you and you
won’t be able to escape.
Always watch out for the AOE attack and always keep in mind where the lava is, given there is
any at a given time.
When she does the AOE attack, you’ll see the human portion of Quelaag leaning forward and
grabbing the spider’s head.
The spider’s legs will also tense up towards the body.
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Weapon:
229 Immune 205 Physical Reinforced

Club
w/ Gold Pine Resin
Ring the Second Beckoning Bell

Jump down
Talk to Eingyi by going through the illusory wall
Ensure to say Yes or else he will not let you pass.
Rest at the bonfire.
Kill Ceaseless Discharge
If you don’t want to use the easy way of killing him, stay in front of him and as soon as you hear
him do an attack (audio cues are key), run to the side and add a roll for safety, then smack his
hand. Rinse and repeat.
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Weapon:
220 Immune 252 Physical Reinforced

Club
You can also use the alternative strategy to make him fall off.
Video Here
If you are willing to use the Item Duplication Glitch, Pick Up: Chaos Flame Ember
Video Here
Pick Up: 2x Green Titanite Shard (only if you do not have 9)
If you are Not willing to use the Item Duplication glitch, Pick Up: Large Flame Ember.
Location Video
Chaos does more damage than Fire, however it requires up to 10 humanity for the damage
boost.
If you are willing to use the item duplication glitch, use Chaos as you can dupe the Fire Keeper
Soul.
Otherwise, use the Fire infusion.
Once you have collected all that, make your way back to Firelink Shrine
If you need to trade Blue or White Titanite Chunks to frampt for Green Titanite Shards, do so
now.
Make sure you have 9x Titanite Shard to upgrade another Reinforced Club to +5.
Also make sure you have at least 3000 souls in consumable souls to upgrade your Reinforced
Club to Fire/Chaos as much as possible.
Make your way to the Catacombs
Rest at the Catacombs bonfire for safety.
Video Guide to get to Vamos
Do NOT rest at the bonfire near Vamos

This will make it much harder to get out of Catacombs and you do not need to speak to Vamos
on this playthrough anymore, as your weapon will be Ascended enough that you’ll be able to
finalize your upgrade via other blacksmiths or Weapon Smithbox
Upgrade one of your Reinforced Clubs to Fire/Chaos depending on your preference.
Ascend them at least to either Fire +6 or C
haos +0. Upgrade further if you have the required
materials.
Regardless of your choice, the Recommended weapon will be referred to as: Fire, but it can
mean Chaos, depending upon your willingness to use the dupe glitch.
Bone Back

Talk to Griggs of Vinheim
If you are fine with using the item duplication glitch, dupe enough souls from Quelaag’s soul to
purchase: Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring and Lingering Dragoncrest Ring
Bellowing will make your pyromancies stronger
Lingering can be used to extend the duration of Power Within. Useful for Hyper Mode (Red
Tearstone Ring + Power Within)
After you obtained these two rings (or decided you don’t want these two rings), kill Griggs for
the Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring
This ring will make you produce no sound, meaning it’ll be easier to run through areas.
Make your way to the Undead parish, Rest at the bonfire for Safety.
At this point, most of the preparation is now complete, there rest of the areas will not require as
much detail, as there is simply not as many things to pick up.
Enter Sen’s Fortress
Sen’s Fortress
If you don’t have a Reinforced Club +10, Pick Up: 3x Large Titanite Shards
Pick Up: Covetous Gold Serpent Ring
If you still don’t have a +10 Reinforced Club, Pick Up: 2x Large Titanite Shard or purchase
Large Titanite Shards from the Crestfallen Merchant
Spend the rest of your souls on Green Blossoms.
Pick Up: Rare Ring of Sacrifice behind Prince Ricard
Kill the Giant above Iron Golem’s arena.

Pick Up: Titanite Chunk
Kill Iron Golem

Stay near his legs and smack away at them.
Be careful about his hand slam or his grab, they can hit you when you’re under him.
The tell for the grab can confusing, because it is visually similar to the stagger animation.
Once the golem is actually staggered, hack away at his legs and he should fall over, at that
point, the golem should be dead by the time he recovers.
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Weapon:
326 305 245 Fire Reinforced Club
Enter Anor Londo
Anor Londo
Rest at the bonfire for Safety.
There is nothing to pick up in the first half of Anor Londo
Make your way to the Solaire Bonfire.

If you’re struggling with the Demon Archers the most important thing is to be confident. If you
sprint, arrows will never hit you, run up to the Silver Knight on the right as soon as possible.
If he keeps shooting at you, make sure to roll the arrow. Blocking can get you pushed off the
ledge.
Rest at the Solaire Bonfire for safety.

Pick up the Occult Club in the basement
Make your way to the Giant Blacksmith
Make sure you have 9x Twinkling Titanite
If you do, kill him and Pick Up: Blacksmith Giant Hammer
Pick up: Titanite Chunk on the terrace next to the Giant Blacksmith
If you don’t have 9x Twinkling Titanite, and you don’t have the souls to purchase them, come
back after Ornstein and Smough, purchase remaining Twinkling Titanite, kill him and pick up:
Blacksmith Giant Hammer.
Kill Ornstein and Smough

It’s recommended to never lock on in this fight.
Phase 1: It’s recommended to kill Ornstein first. 2 Hits from the Club will stagger Ornstein, use
that to your advantage. If ornstein is behind smough, you can run into smough (around his right)
and no matter what he does, he will miss you, then get behind ornstein and hit him.
Always keep track of them both.
Be careful of Smough’s Shovel attack.
Phase 2: Stay close to Smough at all times. If he does a melee attack, you can strafe it to the
left. Includes the Swipe and the slam.
If he does his Jumping Hammer Slam, you can run under it.
If he does his big butt slam, make sure to run back as quickly as possible. When he lands, add
a roll for safety.
Be careful when approaching him after the attack, the butt slam has a long lingering hitbox.
If he does his shovel attack when you’re close, run left and it’ll miss you.
If he does it when you’re far away, run away.
Resistances: Regular/Super version

Ornstein
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Weapon:
226/221 263/256 1747/1657 Fire Reinforced Club
Smough
180/180 224/224 180/180 180/180

Weapon:
153/153 125/125 108/359 Fire Reinforced Club
Retrieve the Lordvessel
Don’t kill Gwynevere yet.
Return to Firelink Shrine and place the Lordvessel via Frampt
Darkroot Garden
Warp to: Undead Parish

Upgrade: Blacksmith Giant Hammer to +5
Buy: Crest of Artorias
Go to Darkwood Garden
Kill: Moonlight Butterfly
Use the Crest Shield to block its attacks.

You can throw Firebombs when it’s flying.
You can also dodge the magic attacks to the sides.
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Weapon:
Pick Up: Divine Ember

If you don’t want to continue your journey to NG+6, transform your Occult Club to Divine Club
+5
If you plan on going to NG+6, acquire 9x Large Titanite Shard for your Divine Reinforced
Club
You can do so by: Farming Slugs in Blighttown, buying the shards from Crestfallen Merchant
or trading your Blue Titanite Chunks for them.
However, this isn’t urgent. This is only to be ensured before you go into the Catacombs and
Gravelord Nito will be the Lord. Do this at your own pace.
Return to Darkroot Basin

Light and rest at the bonfire.
Use Covenant of Artorias on the door.
Kill Sif, the Great Grey Wolf
Dodge into Sif’s Attacks but watch out, some of his attacks are really quick, especially the
running swipe attack. The R2 covers a lot of distance and is very recommended.
Sif is weak to Bleed and Fire. However due to the current upgrade level of Fire/Chaos.
Reinforced Club, it is more optimal to use the Giant Blacksmith Hammer.
Recommended weapon: Blacksmith Giant Hammer
In NG+ onwards, Fire and Chaos are a better choice
Pick Up: Hornet Ring from his arena.

Make your way to the Hydra and kill it.
Stand in the water, block the hydra’s melee attacks then do an R2 with the blacksmith giant
hammer.
When the hydra is dead, go to the left side, save and quit, then reload and fight the Golden
Golem. Talk to Dusk of Oolacile.
Bone back.
Warp to Anor Londo first bonfire
Duke’s Archives
Make your way to the Duke’s Archives.
Kill the Blue Golem and Pick up: Broken Pendant
Go all the way to Seath and let yourself get killed by him - Equip the Rare Ring of Sacrifice
you picked up in Sen’s Fortress to not lose your souls, humanity and avoid getting cursed.
Archives Prison
When you spawn, kill the Serpent Soldier by the gate, pick up the Key and open the door.
Go downstairs and up the ladder.
Pick up: Archive Tower Giant Door Key.
Go through the area normally.
Light the bonfire and rest at it.
Pick up: Crystal Ember (in NG+)
Crystal will do better than regular +15 on Artorias, Manus and Kalameet, however you only have
10 Durability per Reinforced Club.
It’s very useful for NG+6 DLC as it provides a nice damage boost over +15.
It’s only really recommended if you’re okay farming for multiple Crystal Reinforced Clubs +5 or
are willing to use Save Scumming to revert your save between boss attempts.
Make your way to the Crystal Caves
Crystal Caves
Kill the Crystal Lizards located after the first invisible bridge.
This has a chance of giving you materials that will help with your Divine Reinforce Club
upgrade.
Kill: Seath the Scaleless
When you enter the fight for the first time, consider save and quitting then loading in again, as
there is a high chance a clam will enter the fight and cause chaos.
Break the crystal when Seath is close, because this will stun him for a short period. Get some
free hits in while you can. If you’re close to him and he starts an attack animation, run to the
side as it will likely hit in front of him.
Best way to fight Seath is to stay mid range, bait a mid range crystal breath attack and punish it
with about 3 R1 attacks.
Disengage before he starts attacking again.
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Weapon:
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Hammer
New Londo Ruins
Make your way to New Londo Ruins

Pick up Transient Curse from the hollow in the big jar.
If you run out of Transient curses before reaching I ngward, you can buy some from the U
ndead
Merchant ( female). You can also have 10 humanity and C ovetous Gold Serpent Ring while
making your way through New Londo Ruins to increase the chance of enemies dropping more
Transient Curses.
Make your way to Ingward and receive Key to the Seal
Open the Seal.
Pick up Red Tearstone Ring
Pick up: Titanite Chunk (one behind an illusory wall guarded by a darkwraith, one in the
building next to illusory wall)
Pick up: Very Large Ember
You are now free to kill 4 Kings
Always run towards one as quickly as possible. Strafe them to the left. You can easily strafe the
vertical attacks, but for the horizontal slashes, it’s the best to roll back for the first one, then roll
right for the follow up.
For the magic AOE you want to run away from it and stay at range until it’s over.
The grab can also be outran if you start running back early enough. Rolling right also works.
The magic projectile is best blocked with your shield. It’s possible to avoid it if you circle strafe
the king left, but if they do magic attacks it becomes much more difficult.
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Weapon:

Hammer
Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith

Before killing the Bed of Chaos make sure you have upgraded your Pyromancy Flame to at
least +10 and have spoken to Quelana of Izalith, otherwise she will disappear after killing Bed
of Chaos.
Use souls you have gotten from 4 Kings and previous bosses as well as the upcoming bosses
to upgrade your Pyromancy Flame.
Alternatively you can use the item duplication glitch to obtain the souls needed.
Warp to the Daughter of Chaos bonfire.
Make your way through the Demon Ruins
Kill: Demon Firesage.
When you enter the arena, Demon Firesage w ill most likely leap at you. Dodge that attack to
the right, then just as Stray Demon, focus on staying behind him and hacking away.
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Weapon:

Hammer
Continue forward and make your way to Centipede Demon
Kill: Centipede Demon
Stay at the platform by the fog gate.

Wait until it closes in on you. It can do a few long range attacks first. Make sure to avoid them.
Then he will do a distance closing attack where he will spin midair and slam. That attack covers
a lot of distance so be careful.
After Centipede Demon closes the distance towards you, the fight is pretty simple.
Stay in front of it. Its attacks are telegraphed by a small roar. Brace yourself, react to the attack
accordingly and punish with an R2.
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Weapon:
174 Immune 215 Blacksmith Giant

Hammer
Make your way to Lost Izalith
Rest at the first bonfire.

Make your way to the second bonfire and rest at it too.
Pick up: Red Titanite Slab
Location Video
Kill: Bed of Chaos

The Bed of Chaos often will do a double swipe around the arena then a slam in the middle.
When it does that, use it as your cue to go toward one of the cores. When one is destroyed, you
can quit out and destroy another one. Then go for the actual Bed of Chaos
It is recommended you first go after the left core, than the right core.
Alternatively, you can use a bow to shoot through the branches at a distance and break the
cores that way too. It’s a very safe method.
A second alternative is to use the firebomb method to break the cores.
Video Tutorial
Catacombs and Tomb of the Giants

Make your way to Pinwheel.
You can skip a large amount of the catacombs like this and make your way to pinwheel very
easy using this trick
Kill Pinwheel
Rush to him as quickly as possible. If you’re lucky enough you’ll be able to kill him before he
does anything.
If he teleports away and spawns clones, quickly notice where all the clones are and determine
the safest route to kill them all.
Be careful because, believe it or not, he can do a lot of damage very quickly.
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Weapon:

Hammer
After that, make your way through the Tomb of the Giants, until you find the bonfire.
From the bonfire, you want to get kicked down by patches so you can pick up the Skull
Lantern.
It’s an item that will help you through the Tomb of the Giants. Equip it in your off hand and
block with it. It will illuminate your surroundings.
Pick up: Large Divine Ember

Location Video
arge Divine Ember. Consider doing so.
It’s very possible to do a suicide run to get the L
Navigate your way to the Second Bonfire

It can be a little hard to find and people often miss it.
Location video
Restore humanity at the bonfire and fight Paladin Leeroy (npc invader)
Pick up: Sanctus
Sanctus is a shield that regenerates your HP. It can be used to stay in “hypermode”
Hypermode - Power within and RTSR.
If you are cursed, use R TSR, Lingering Dragoncrest Ring, and have Sanctus equipped, you
can stay in RTSR range with Power Within for its whole duration.
Kill the Crystal Lizard
In the area before nito, there will be a few White Titanite Chunks as well as Pinwheel
Servants that have a good chance to drop a White Titanite Chunk.
Farm them until you have 7x White Titanite Chunk.
Pick up: White Titanite Slab
Location Video
Once you have acquired all White Titanite Chunks and White Titanite Slab, warp back to
Undead Parish, upgrade your Divine Reinforced Club to +10 and bone back to your last
bonfire.
Kill Gravelord Nito
First of all, stay where you drop down. There, only the small skeletons will aggro onto you.
Kill them using your divine weapon so they don’t respawn.
His Scream stab comes out as soon as he plunges his sword into the ground, so you can use
that as the cue. Alternatively, very often it works to just sprint forward to avoid the attack.
Alternatively you can use high poison resistance gear and just tank it.
Stay in front of him and dodge his sword swings. Hit him from the front. If you see him charging
the AOE, make sure to disengage and run away, as the AOE has high range.
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Weapon:

Hammer
Rest of the game
Here you have access to Kiln of the First Flame once you place all the Lord Souls in the Lord
Vessel.
Sword Black Knight drops a regular Titanite Chunk
Greatsword Black Knight drops a Red Titanite Chunk
Farm them two until you can upgrade your Reinforced Club to +15 and Chaos/Fire
Reinforced Club to +5/10
As well as your Crystal Reinforced Club to +5 (which you can only do in NG+ onwards as the
giant blacksmith is dead)
Go back to the asylum and trade the Skull Lantern for Ring of Fog
This will make it much easier to run through the DLC as it will make you near invisible (hidden
body effect)
Go to the Undead Merchant (Female)
Purchase: Dung Pies and Blooming Purple Moss Clumps
This will help you set up RTSR
Enter the DLC by going to where you freed Dusk of Oolacile
Kill: Sanctuary Guardian
Sanctuary Guardian is weak to fire as well as bleeding. He also staggers from 2 hits.
Use your Fire Reinforced Club
Don’t lock on the boss, kite it. Punish it when it does a 4 hit combo with an R2.
When it does the water shockwave attack, run to the right and then into it. Punish it with a
running R1, followed by an R1 which should stagger him. Immediately do an R2, which should
catch it during its evasion.
Watch out for lightning attacks. Make sure to dodge them.
Continue through the Oolacile Sanctuary and make your way to Knight Artorias
Consider wearing Fog Ring for your way through the area.
Speak to: Marvellous Chester
Purchase some Green Blossoms
Kill: Knight Artorias

When Artorias is running at you, feel free to run at him. Anything he will do you are able to
strafe, especially the stab and the one handed uppercut attack. If he does the spin, it’s much
safer to roll.
You can punish the aforementioned 2 with an R2.
Aside from the spin attacks, and stab attacks, roll backwards. For the other two, roll to the right.
At 80% HP he will start buffing. Whenever artorias rolls away once or twice it’s your cue that he
will buff. Make your way to him quickly to break him out of it. He will do more damage if he gets
his buff off.
It’s 2 hits to stagger him out of the buff. If you’re really early you can do 2 R2 attacks. If you’re
not confident, do 2 R1 attacks.
Artorias has high elemental resistance, and for this reason, regular Reinforced Club +15
should be used.
Rest at the Oolacile Township Bonfire

Make your way through the Oolacile Township.
On your way pick up: Crest Key that is inside a Mimic.
Make your way to the Oolacile Township Dungeon bonfire.

Kill: Manus, Father of the Abyss
Make sure to always stay at mid range from him.
Most attacks dodge backwards and use the R2 for 1 hit punish.
For his big swipe you can dodge into him and also punish with an R2.
Don’t punish the quick 1 handed slam or the staff attack as they can have follow-ups.
Magic attacks:
He has 3 different tells for the magic attacks, learn to recognize them.
His shotgun like attack you want to run right and dodge at the very last moment to avoid it.
Sadly, you cannot punish it.
For the humanity rain attack you want to run to the side and you will always be able to avoid it.
For the big circle attack that closes in on you. If you are close, you can run towards him and it
will stop before reaching you. If you are far away, look back and stand between two of them
closing in to have them miss you.
Manus’ elemental resistances are also absurdly high. Using a Regular Reinforced Club +15
will be your most optimal choice.
Go back to Oolacile Township

Make your way to Kalameet’s boss arena and sight him.
Return and go to Hawkeye Gough
Ask him to shoot down Kalameet for you
Kill: Black Dragon Kalameet

You want to stay close to him at all times. That’s when he’s the most likely to do his leg stomps,
which are quick but have small range and can be punished with an R2 attack.
When he dashes forward, he will turn around and breathe fire. Roll through the fire and punish
him with an R2.
If he stands up on his back legs he will either try to do the calamity grab attack or will breathe
fire in front of him.
If you are sufficiently to the side of his legs, both will miss you
If he does his neck swipe while you are running into him, don’t roll and just keep running into it
as only the head has a hitbox.
Again, due to his huge elemental resistance, Regular Reinforced Club +15 will do more
damage.
Despite being a dragon, his elemental resistances are very large. Reinforced Club +15 is about
a 40% damage increase from Blacksmith Giant Hammer.
Pick up: Titanite Slab
Return to Anor Londo

Make your way to the painted world
Painted World of Ariamis

Make your way through the Painted World.
Easiest way it killing the Undead Dragon, then continuing through the bridge, jump attacking
the second one for him to rise.
Video Showcase
Kill Crossbreed Priscilla

When you attack her she will go invisible. Always stay where the snow is observe her feet, run
to where you think is behind her and attack her. Try landing an R2 attack. After a few hits she
should stagger and become visible.
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Weapon:

Hammer
Return to Anor Londo

Go to the Darkmoon Tomb bonfire and rest at it.
Warp to Chamber of the Princess
Kill Gwynevere
Warp back to Darkmoon Tomb and kill Dark Sun Gwyndolin
Gwyndolin has 3 attacks.

Barrage of soul arrows: To avoid it, hide behind a pillar.
Great Soul Arrow: To avoid it, run to the side or roll through it.
Darkmoon Bow shots: To avoid it, run at a diagonal angle towards him.
When you’re about 4-5 pillars away from him, wait for him to do his bow attack. It will allow you
to get close to him and hit him a few times.
Gwyndolin is weak to physical damage and fire damage.

Use Fire/Chaos Reinforced Club
Pyromancy Obtainment
Almost all of your useful pyromancies are to be obtained from Quelana of Izalith
Purchase: Fire Tempest, Great Combustion, Great Fireball.
Other Pyromancy to obtain: Chaos Fireball, Chaos Storm
These Pyromancies are to be obtained by joining the Chaos Servants Covenant.
Chaos Fireball is received upon joining the covenant.
Chaos Storm is received upon Giving 30 humanities to the Fair Lady
You might not be able to do so no, so do this as you’re going through NG+ cycles.
Make your way back to the Firelink Altar

Make your way to Gwyn, Lord of Cinder
Kill: Gwyn, Lord of Cinder
Prioritise Stamina Regeneration in this fight.

Start the fight by running into him and parry his intro attack.
You have to be right in his face and parry at the last moment.
After that you have 2 choices.
- Stunlock him with a series of 2 R1s. If you do it well, there is a small chance of him escaping
and doing anything.
Do R1R1, walk behind him while waiting for your stamina to regenerate, R1R1 and repeat.
If he jumps away after 1 R1. Consider an R2 as it covers a lot of distance.
You can continue attempting to parry him.

Block the quick slash then parry the follow up.
Parry the slow horizontal slash.
Avoid the Kick and grab attacks.
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Choose whatever ending you want.
Congratulations! You beat Dark Souls at Soul Level 1
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● Route of which areas to go through in which order

Pick Up: ​Hand Axe, Cracked Round Shield

Kill: ​Asylum Demon

Regular Strike Slash Thrust

Magic Fire Lightning

Pick Up: ​3x Humanity, 6x Homeward Bone, 4x Lloyd’s Talisman

Rest at the nearby bonfire for safety.

Kill: ​Taurus Demon

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Magic Fire Lightning Recommended

Upgrade your Reinforced Club to +5

Kill: ​Bell Gargoyles

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Magic Fire Lightning Recommended

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Ring the:​ First Beckoning Bell

Make your way back to ​Firelink Shrine​.

Lower Undead Burg

Make your way to the Undead Burg

Save ​Griggs of Vinheim

Kill: ​Capra Demon

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Magic Fire Lightning Recommended

127 119 67 Reinforced Club +5

Make your way to the Depths.

Pick Up: ​Large Ember

Kill: ​Channeller​ - ​Location

Regular Strike Slash Thrust

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Magic Fire Lightning Recommended

117 108 84 Reinforced Club +5

Return to Undead Parish

Kill: ​Crystal Lizard, Halberd Black Knight

Kill:​ Black Knight, Oscar of Astora

You are now free to kill the ​Stray Demon

Regular Strike Slash Thrust

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Magic Fire Lightning Recommended

195 207 168 Physical Reinforced

Make your way to ​Blighttown

Enter ​Blighttown​ via ​Valley of Drakes

The Great Hollow

Here is a good and quick video showcasing ​Crystal Lizard​ Spawns.

Pick Up: ​Chloranthy Ring

Don’t be afraid to do Suicide runs.

You are now free to fight ​Chaos Witch Quelaag

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Magic Fire Lightning Recommended

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Ring the ​Second Beckoning Bell

Regular Strike Slash Thrust

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Magic Fire Lightning Recommended

220 Immune 252 Physical Reinforced

Do ​NOT ​rest at the bonfire near ​Vamos

Return to ​Firelink Shrine

Kill the ​Giant​ above ​Iron Golem’s ​arena.

Kill ​Iron Golem

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Magic Fire Lightning Recommended

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Enter ​Anor Londo

There is nothing to pick up in the first half of ​Anor Londo

Parallax's Dark Souls SL1 Guide

Parallax's Dark Souls SL1 Guide

Pick Up: Hand Axe, Cracked Round Shield

Kill: Asylum Demon

Pick Up: 3x Humanity, 6x Homeward Bone, 4x Lloyd’s Talisman

Kill: Taurus Demon

Kill: Bell Gargoyles

Ring the: First Beckoning Bell

Make your way back to Firelink Shrine.

Save Griggs of Vinheim

Kill: Capra Demon

Pick Up: Large Ember

Kill: Channeller - Location

Kill: Crystal Lizard, Halberd Black Knight

Kill: Black Knight, Oscar of Astora

You are now free to kill the Stray Demon

Make your way to Blighttown

Enter Blighttown via Valley of Drakes

Here is a good and quick video showcasing Crystal Lizard Spawns.

Pick Up: Chloranthy Ring

You are now free to fight Chaos Witch Quelaag

Ring the Second Beckoning Bell

Do NOT rest at the bonfire near Vamos

Return to Firelink Shrine

Kill the Giant above Iron Golem’s arena.

Kill Iron Golem

Enter Anor Londo

There is nothing to pick up in the first half of Anor Londo

Make your way to the Solaire Bonfire.

Rest at the Solaire Bonfire for safety.

Kill Ornstein and Smough

Retrieve the Lordvessel

Don’t kill Gwynevere yet.

Return to Firelink Shrine and place the Lordvessel via Frampt

Warp to: Undead Parish

Use the Crest Shield to block its attacks.

Pick Up: Divine Ember

Return to Darkroot Basin

Pick Up: Hornet Ring from his arena.

Make your way to the Crystal Caves

Kill: Seath the Scaleless

Return to Firelink Shrine

Make your way to New Londo Ruins

You are now free to kill 4 Kings

Kill: Centipede Demon

Make your way to Lost Izalith

Kill: Bed of Chaos

Pick up: Large Divine Ember

Kill Gravelord Nito

Enter the DLC by going to where you freed Dusk of Oolacile

Kill: Sanctuary Guardian

Kill: Knight Artorias

Rest at the Oolacile Township Bonfire

Make your way to the Oolacile Township Dungeon bonfire.

Go back to Oolacile Township

Kill: Black Dragon Kalameet

Return to Anor Londo

Kill Crossbreed Priscilla