Advice for an user heading to blighttown?

I'm doing a mostly blind play through. It's either blighttown or valley of the drakes. I know blighttown is poisontown and that drakes are just annoying.

Valley of drakes isn't really an area. It's more like a single hallway that acts as a shortcut connecting several; it doesn't even have its own boss.

I just don't really know what to do next in the game.

Bandit Shield is nice. Lots of poison cures and shit, bring those.

My first time through blight town I went in the fucking back way and made my way to the front. kek.

I dont think I ever opened the big giant gate either. what a cluster fuck

bring a bow and lots of arrows to kill the poison blowdart guys

also the next boss is pretty easy to accidentally miss so just be sure to explore everywhere

get to the bottom of blighttown nerd

don't play on console

have dsfix on pc

Dsfix?

Blight town isn't that bad. The reputation came from consoles getting like 10 fps and all the bullshit in blighttown on TOP of that so it was way harder than it should have been.

>massive fucking out-of-place white hill
>giant obvious hole to enter

>>>>>>>>pretty easy to accidentally miss
maybe if you've only ever played strictly linear games before

Poop pies.

you can skip the whole thing if you picked Master Key
Toxic dart guys don't respawn
Make sure you have a bit of purple moss that you can get from the tree enemies in the forest
If you're human at the bonfire at the bottom, you get invaded by a unique NPC with a pretty good strength-scaling weapon

it unlocks fps
I didn't know about it either my first time and was fucking amazed how much better 60fps was

Anyone have advice for killing the snakes in the forest? Giant boss looking one that spits water

>it unlocks fps
Yeah but it can fuck with the physics. I like to play with the fps unlocked but still capped at 30. That way the drops to 15fps near bonfires and certain areas are fixed but shit still runs like it was designed to.

come back later at a higher level
use a solid shield
It's just kind of a slog unless you can put out big damage

Going in the back way through the valley of drakes or new londo if you have the master key helps you skip most of blighttown.
Bring some blooming moss because guys with bags on their heads shoot you with shit covered darts.
Theres a fire keeper soul where a bunch of those guys are at along with some fire dogs once you go down some ladders.

Only real danger are the dart snipers that inflict toxic. But these don't respawn.
Also don't bother with poison resist or poison cures, as you WILL get poisoned walking in the water. Only toxic will kill you. You can literally keep poison on yourself for 10 minutes before needing to refresh your estus.

Slugs at the bottom of the area are the best way to farm chunks of ore. Time to upgrade all your shit.

Ash Lake entrance is hidden down there as well. You'll need to check a guide for this.

even without picking master key you can still enter through the valley of drakes way

if you are dodge savvy you should be able to get there no problem
just save at darkroot basin bonfire and don't aggro the big zombie dragon on your way

If you can get close enough they stop doing the magic attack and do a attack where their heads lunge into the ground. Attack their heads when they're stuck in the ground and eventually they'll pop off one by one.

Just run in blindly and start killing shit. It's Blighttown, everything will work out fine.

If you haven’t already don’t spoil the experience too much for yourself OP.

OP get yourself a Spider Shield from the Depths (unless you started as a Bandito) before Blighttown

Don't.

>tfw The Gutter was comfier
>tfw Black Gulch wasnt comfy

Better except for the couple of literally impossible jumps that don’t work at 60 because japcoding e.g. the one in Blighttown for I think the katana.

Wasted half an hour on that before I realised what the problem was.

Fight them later on after you've leveled up a bit and have better equipment.

Easiest way is to use a bow. Fighting the hydra properly is a pain in the ass.

It breaks the physics and makes the game more glitch prone. Better to unlock the fps but limit it to 30.