The Bonewheel Shield drops from Wheel Skeletons throughout the game at a very low 2 percent drop rate — Bonewheels can be found primarily in The Catacombs and the Painted World of Ariamis.
They have a requirement of 30 Strength to wield, but it's best to infuse a Bonewheel Shield with lightning for maximum DPS. The Obsidian Greatsword is a powerful weapon in the hands of lower-leveled characters, as it only needs 20 Strength and 16 Dexterity to wield.
It does not require a single-stat dump early on in the game. However, what makes this sword so powerful is its heavy attack, which creates a full degree Area of Effect of flame around the user. This flame attack can be buffed by spells to change its damage type and increase its overall damage. In particular, Faith builds a good pair up for under level 70 characters. This build is best for lower-level characters or newer players to Dark Souls invasions.
This build is very straightforward; with lower stats, the Falchion will cut through weaker characters like paper. The only requirements needed are 9 STR and 13 DEX, letting you use the rest of your levels freely, but leveling Endurance and Vitality will make you shrug off blows.
It is a good build for newer players to begin their first invasions or an overall low-level soul build to farm lower PvP fights. Either way, this build is good, albeit very predictable and repetitive in terms of combat. For the more experienced Dark Souls player, chaos weapons are always a risk-reward playstyle, often better used by fully maxed out characters and very high soul levels.
Chaos weapons scale based on how much humanity the player currently has active; the more humanity, the more damage. Using the Mask of the Mother and some light DEX gear will complement this very risky yet straightforward build. Be very careful when using chaos-based Dark Souls builds , as when you die you lose all of your humanity and have but one chance to retrieve it.
Fighting near bonfires or having a Ring of Sacrifice ready is recommended. They tend to use armor with excellent physical defense and poise to make it easier to withstand attacks and deal damage. They tend to have high vitality and endurance. It is likely to see them wielding katanas, Great axes and Two-handed swords. Several sets of armor are popular among these builds, including Havel's set, Smough's set and the Giants Set. Casters Casters are any build centering on Miracles, Sorceries, or Pyromancies.
They tend to wear a large variety of armors based around what magic is being used. Most faith casters will be packing the Ring of the Sun's First Born to boost their miracle power. Casters have high attunement, and either Intelligence or Faith stats. Rouges and Ninjas Everyone who has participated in PvP has probably been backstabbed.
This is the domain of Rogue and Ninja builds. Focused on high mobility and normally critical damage, these builds will occasionally sacrifice armor for the mobility necessary to achieve a critical hit. When not attempting a backstab, they will usually attempt to parry and riposte. Normally using daggers, or rapiers, these builds can certainly cause trouble if their goals are met. All builds discussed here are rather generalized; you will likely encounter numerous hybrids, or completely new concepts in battle.
Be prepared for anything in the realm of PvP. Join the page discussion Tired of anon posting? Submit Submit Close. This is not a duel, it's not a boxing match. It's a fight. I didn't begin my Dark Souls PvP journey as an amoral trickster. Like everyone else, my first weeks and months were spent devouring Lordran's combination of epic scope and intricate interior design, collecting and familiarising myself with a vast range of weapons and tools, and dying over and over again.
Every time I was invaded I'd end up twiddling on the end of XXXN00bkilla97XXX's spear, and a total lack of cracked red eye orbs the initial invasion item meant I didn't get into invading properly myself until I'd beaten the game several times. When you play any game's PvP mode, the first and eternal question is: how do I win?
I played PvP like this for a long time: more-or-less straightforward fights. But one of the aspects of Dark Souls that, to my mind, never gets enough credit is the humour. It becomes more obvious the more you play: Yes, you die over and over, but sometimes it's just a pratfall. All of the attention goes to the ragequits and throwing controllers around, but far more of us must have seen 'YOU DIED' and known the only appropriate reaction in that moment is to laugh. Eventually that attitude came to dominate my PvP time.
As you play you learn all these tiny things about the game, from the simple 'pull hosts into enemy mobs for an easy win' to the devilish 'invite someone to fight on a narrow bridge and just stand still and block' works amazingly well. One of the brilliances of the Souls series is its embrace of asymmetrical multiplayer—the invader is uninvited, unsought, and has all the world's enemies on their side.
It's just about whether you can screw someone over in a funny way. I did that for like a year to people, at times almost choking with laughter. However, what I got was the opposite. A message popped up at the bottom of my screen.
The Dark Souls I knew was gone. The predictability of the enemies was gone. I was up against another human; A complete wildcard. Needless to say, I was blindsided and killed in an instant. PvP in Dark Souls is just as obtuse as the rest of the game, with the player having to complete bosses in a certain order to join a covenant or obtain a hard to find item.
Knowing what an achievement it is to even be able to invade other players in Dark Souls makes it even more terrifying when faced against someone who has gone to all that trouble just to get to you.
On the opposite end of this are the people who actively seek out invasions, to fight another player for bragging rights and glory. Mastery of the game is required before even considering going into the PvP scene of Dark Souls. An arcane knowledge of the game will help you figure out how to build your character in the best way possible for attack, manoeuvrability and defence, what covenants can get you the most useful skills, and much, much more. The PvP community has several "standards" for play; unofficial rules enforced by community experience and etiquette.
A soul level around Bowing before battle and no healing using estus flasks. The lack of voice communication in Dark Souls means that all communication between the duellists is done via the use of gestures, and a few carvings that simply say things like "hello" and "I'm sorry", making this strict code of honour between players even more unusual.
There's clearly something deeper at work in Dark Souls PvP. Players have a mutual respect for each other, finely honing their meticulously crafted character builds for tens of hours before they even face another Chosen Undead.
As well as forging a fair playing field, the rituals of battle are symbolic gestures of appreciation of all the hard work required to even get to a single duel.
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