Dark Souls Low% Glitchless Attempt 4¶

Day 1¶

After attempt 3, I sat down to plan out an actual route using thoughts from the first 3 attempts to streamline some content and plan better, so this is going to be following that route and plan as closely as possible. Deprived and Master Key as Deprived covers all of the requirements besides Strength being 24.

Gargoyles: 5

Power Within: 5

Quelaag: 5

Chaos Servant Covenant: 4 Humanity

Ceaseless: 1

Undead Parish before Sen's Fortress: 1:48ish

Iron Golem: 4

Anor Londo after Iron Golem: 2:16ish

Day 2¶

Rafters: 1

Archers: 1

Shortcut: 2

Ornstein and Smough: 13

Demon Ruins after Humanity farm: 3:31ish

Bed of Chaos: 1

Cemetery: 2

Pinwheel: 1 (Mask of the Father)

Nito: 2

Sif: 1

Ghost house: 1

Four Kings: 1

Bonfire before Seath: 4:47

Seath: 1

Gwyn: 1

Finish: 4:55:56

Level 60

Closing Thoughts¶

My goal after run 3 was 6:30 which I blew out of the water. Admittedly, when I check the time before Seath, I started playing recklessly. I didn't think I could be under 5 hours, so when I saw I was, I decided to shoot for it knowing I was already way past my goal of 6:30. Easily one of my cleanest Dark Souls play-throughs ever and I don't think I'll do better than this. I also didn't take many notes during the run, besides cleaning up the route notes I wrote after run 3 to have a more precise walkthrough. I was questioning the Humanity routing during the second half, but I'm happy where it ended up. In many places I had extra souls, but didn't want to ruin the route so I either darksign'ed or didn't retrieve just to be consistent. I still ended up right around where I wanted to be. The Cursebite Ring worked wonderfully and cut the Asylum. Probably could've just played more cleanly, but being able to face tank Seath sped that fight up greatly. Not sure why I never considered the Hornet Ring for Gwyn. Huge miss on my part. Maybe could then cut out the Flameplate Ring, but it would only save like a minute, so really isn't a huge deal. Flameplate can help for a few enemies at least and in many cases, it was either that or Covetous Gold Serpent Ring, so better than nothing.