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Dark Souls walkthrough

A survival guide to one of gaming's most hostile environments

Words: on September 10, 2012
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OPTIONAL: UNDEAD DRAGON, VALLEY OF THE DRAKES

Step out of Blighttown’s tunnel into the Valley of the Drakes and follow the cliff to your right. Cross the long wooden bridge and continue until you see a giant sleeping Undead Dragon blocking your path. Once you attack, it will wake up, but it will never move from its initial position. Its main attacks are vomiting poisonous liquid or slamming its claw down. As long as you keep a safe distance of about 20 feet, you can use any kind of ranged attack to defeat this beast. Fireball works great.

The dragon drops a Dragon Scale. You can now safely grab the loot it was guarding, too, which includes Astora’s Straight Sword, the Dragon Crest Shield, and the soul of a proud knight. Astora’s Straight Sword has grade C scaling in strength, dexterity, and magic, and has a physical attack value of 80 and a magic attack value of 80. In other words, it’s a good weapon.

Now is the perfect time to use a Homeward Bone to return to the Blighttown Swamp bonfire. 

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11 comments

  • Sinxar - January 20, 2013 6:29 a.m.

    I assumed you needed to kill the Stray Demon for the ring, turns out you don't to get the Rusted Iron Ring. So just walk around the room to avoid it and still loot the place. It drops nothing of value anyway.

  • matt-mcsavaney - January 14, 2013 7:10 a.m.

    How does a caster beat the asylum boss? He one hits everytime i miss a dodge, i cant do that hit and run tactic the melee uses because of cast time which in turn gets me killed, help please?

  • Sinxar - January 6, 2013 6:49 p.m.

    In "The Depths", you can take the path behind the first butcher and kill the giant rat with a bow from the ledge you land on. It won't jump up to defend itself.

  • yuwendi-gozali - December 20, 2012 12:45 a.m.

    have some question, when went to ring second bell , im not enter blight town form depth but dark root secret road that lead to valey of the drake. so after i rang second bell im went to the depth to look for zena shop but i didnt find him anywhere. after i back to firelink too zena didnt appeared :( (i just read that zena going to fire link after u rang two bell in another walkthrought). the question is, how i find zena? should i have to NG+ first? i really want that armor from knight of atorias in new content (cos the armor is f*cking cool X( )

  • yuwendi-gozali - December 20, 2012 6:51 a.m.

    about my post... , nevermind, i just found him :] btw great walkthrought thx!!!

  • Iwaskia - October 21, 2012 6:25 a.m.

    whats that sword you used to kill the four nights? and how can you get it? i folow the walktrought so far but i dont think i have the sword.

  • Matt Hughes - October 23, 2012 9:10 p.m.

    If you mean the Four Kings boss battle, that Quelaag’s Furysword. You can find the details on how to obtain it near the end of pg 44 in this guide.

  • Iwaskia - October 26, 2012 5:19 a.m.

    thanks men that was a great help.

  • NEPAL - October 20, 2012 4:05 p.m.

    Thanks for the effort you put into the guide, really helped me with the game.

  • Matt Hughes - October 21, 2012 6:13 a.m.

    Sure thing - glad it helped!

  • grappler51 - September 11, 2012 6:17 a.m.

    Awesome guide! Got this recently for PC and was really confused about the humanity system, cleared a lot of things up!

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