Does weight matter in Dark Souls 1?

Weight applies to all types of worn items, such as weapons, armor and shields. The heavier an item is, the more it encumbers the player. Weapons with a higher weight value tend to have a slower swing speed, and heavier armor pieces tend to have more defense and Poise while reducing stamina regeneration.
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What is the strongest class in Dark Souls 1?

1. Warrior: excellent starting equipment, great stats for melee builds as he can equip almost anything early on. 2. Bandit: Best starting class for vitality/strength builds, strongest starter weapon.
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What weight is fast roll ds1?

Fast Roll. Players have a fast roll if their equipment weight is 25% or less of their maximum equipment load.
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What does equip load scale with ds1?

It determines the distance Rolls and Backsteps the player does will travel as well as their stamina regeneration and fall damage. When the player's total Equip Load reaches 70%, the player's roll will become shorter, slower, and with higher ending lag. At 100% Equip Load, the player may no longer roll, run or backstep.
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Is there fat rolling in Dark Souls?

Put simply though, at 25% of your max you start doing the medium roll, and at 50% you do the fat roll. Under 25% you will fast roll, and if you get the dark wood grain ring and go under 15% you can do ninja flips.
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Does weight affect stamina in Dark Souls?

If you exceed 70% weight, you take a slight hit to stamina recovery; past 100%, you get a severe penalty.
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Does weight affect speed in Dark Souls?

If you're at 25,% of your total allowed weight, you can fast roll. Between 25 and 50%, you move set a moderate speed and medium roll. Up to 100% of your weight allowance, you run slowly and fat-roll... Rolling slowly.
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Is resistance important in ds1?

Resistance is hugely useful and is often forgotten. Resistance always increases all your defensive stats by 2 points at least, and will boost your resistance to poison and curses.
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How do I carry more weight in ds1?

Havel's Ring and Ring of Favor and Protection will add more carry weight for you. Otherwise you are going to have to get endurance up to 99 if you want to use some heavier armors and still be 25%.
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What is scaling in ds1?

The scaling % represents how much bonus damage your weapon will get at 99 of that stat, based on your weapon's base damage. This means that a weapon with high base damage but low scaling may still get more from scaling than a weapon with low base damage but high scaling.
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What is the heaviest weapon in ds1?

Weight in Dark Souls is unitless but it has been theorized that 1 unit of Weight would be roughly equal to 0.5 to 1.5 kg (1 to 3 pounds). The heaviest weapon is Smough's Hammer at 28 Weight.
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What is Dragon scale for ds1?

General information. Dragon Scales can be used to reinforce Dragon weapons and increase one's rank in the Path of the Dragon covenant.
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How do you stop heavy rolling in Dark Souls?

You must be under 70% equip load to not fat roll, vitality increases max equip load. Equipped rings, armour, and weapons add to equip load. Just increase your vitality, or wear some lighter armour.
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Is DS1 harder than demon souls?

Dark Souls keeps a bit of its challenge even for consecutive playthroughs, even if the game gets easier, it does not get trivial. In DeS, you could potentially get 99 of every healing and mana regaining item, unlike the Estus/Spell uses system of DS1, making the game easier.
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What is the best starting class in Dark Souls 1?

With all of these factors combined, the Pyromancer is the best starting class in Dark Souls for most players that don't care about min-maxing their stats for PvP.
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What is the best thing to level up in Dark Souls 1?

Best is to either go strength or Dex, even for a first playthrough. The game has more than enough replay value to do a run with either. If you go with a dex build, leveling up strength to 14 or 16 will allow you to use most dex weapons. The uchigatana can be gotten very early in the game and is a great weapon to use.
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What does humanity do in Dark Souls?

With Humanity you can:

(If in Human form) Summon player allies to aid you in battle against the game's epic bosses. Upgrade your current standing with the various covenants you join permitting you access to hidden routes, items and spells.
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Why am I rolling slow in Dark Souls?

Players have a slow roll if their equipment weight is 50%~100% of their equipment load. Slow rolls feature moderate ending lag and have almost no invincibility frames. Should 100% equipment load be exceeded, the player simply cannot roll and staggers if attempting to do so.
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How do you run faster in Dark Souls?

Keep your Equip Load under 25 to move faster and run farther. Movements will begin to slow down between 25 and 100; once you go over 100, you will no longer be able to dodge or roll, and being able to move around is a vital part of Dark Souls.
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What level should I stop at ds1?

Stat scaling stops after 40, and you won't get any more stamina if you level up endurance past 40. So, 40 everything and only go past that on strength to one hand the heavy stuff? Yes. And if you want 1500 hp, that's at 50 vitality.
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What stats should I level up first in Dark Souls?

Melee - If you are a melee character, you will want to focus on Vitality, Endurance and then either Strength or Dexterity. Vitality affects your health, Endurance increases your Stamina and how much armor you can wear while Strength and Dexterity effect what weapons you can use and how much damage they use.
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What stats are important in Dark Souls 1?

Dark Souls: Every Stat, Ranked
  1. 1 Vitality.
  2. 2 Intelligence. ...
  3. 3 Endurance. ...
  4. 4 Strength. ...
  5. 5 Dexterity. ...
  6. 6 Attunement. ...
  7. 7 Faith. Faith is primarily used for the casting of miracles and raising Magic Defense. ...
  8. 8 Resistance. Resistance refers to the character's physical defense, fire defense, and poison resistance. ...
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What does weight do in Dark Souls?

Weight applies to all types of worn items, such as weapons, armor and shields. The heavier an item is, the more it encumbers the player. Weapons with a higher weight value tend to have a slower swing speed, and heavier armor pieces tend to have more defense and Poise while reducing stamina regeneration.
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Do weapons scale in Dark Souls?

Every weapon has damage that scales up to the respective stat(Humanity is an exception) by certain amount, represented by letters S to E. Weapons that deal pure physical damage can have scaling in STR, DEX or(which happens most of the time) both.
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Why can't you fast travel in Dark Souls?

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You can unlock fast travel after you have beaten the boss in Anor Londo. Right now you're far away from it. To get back from Blighttown to Firelink Shrine you can use the wooden wheel , that works as an elevator and will bring you back quite fast.
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