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If you don't get the Drake Sword in the game Dark Souls, you must be crazy! The Drake Sword is easily the most powerful weapon you tin find early on in the game and is simple to obtain if you know how. And then read on to find out how yous can breeze through the early stages of Dark Souls.

Annotation: Dark Souls is an RPG action game for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, sequel to the hit Demon Souls.

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    Prepare for your fight with the Hellkite Wyvern by purchasing the items required from the male undead merchant in Undeadsberg. The trader can be plant near the bonfire in Undeadsberg, underneath the two spear Hollows and sniper, earlier you reach the expanse with the firebombing Hollows. Intermission the boxes after defeating the spearman and go downwardly the stairs. In this room, you will see a bookcase to your right. Be careful, equally there is an ax-wielding undead backside it. In the doorway right in front of the stairs, you go out and there you find the merchant on the balustrade. If you don't have one already, y'all will demand to buy a bow from the trader for 600 souls and a few arrows, ranging from three souls each to 50 souls each.

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    Make your style to the large bridge after your fight with the Taurus Demon Dominate, later on in Undeadsberg. After you pass through the tower the Taurus Demon jumped off, you'll find yourself at an expanse with the knight Solaire of Astoria to the left and the large empty bridge ahead to the right, with a few Hollows on information technology.

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    Walk onto the bridge and trigger the appearance of the Hellkite Wyvern. If y'all begin to walk onto the bridge, after a while y'all will trigger the advent of the wyvern, who will roar and immediately fire you to a well-baked (along with the Hollows on the bridge). Try running back to the starting time of the bridge to avert dying, although if you're not quick enough, this will probably be inevitable.

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    Sprint halfway up the bridge. This volition trigger the Hellkite Wyvern to brainstorm breathing fire upon the bridge, but you volition observe at that place is a flight of stairs to the correct of you lot leading down from the span. If you are fast enough you should reach this expanse before the wyvern's fire kills you.

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    Roll downward the stairs quickly before the fire kills you lot. You volition now be underneath the bridge and prophylactic from the wyvern's attacks and be in a room with two exits.

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    Enter the door alee which will lead farther under the bridge. Y'all will find a serial of bridge arches and small paths either side. At that place is another door to the left which leads back to the Undeadsberg bonfire.

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    Kill the two Hollows underneath one of the arches under the bridge as you move along the narrow paths. There will be one swordsman Hollow and one with a spear.

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    Look for the Hellkite Wyvern's tail. If you stand up on the right pathway in the bridge arch where you killed the two Hollows, you lot will be able to see the wyvern's tail swinging to the correct of the span ahead.

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    Equip the bow and arrows you bought from the merchant in Undeadsberg. You can exercise this past entering your character'due south detail menu and equipping them to your character's left or correct hands, and by equipping the arrows to your quiver spaces.

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    Enter long range aiming style with your bow. This can be done by drawing the bow and pressing the LB button on your Xbox 360 controller. You will now have a big cross-hair on your screen which shows where your arrow will be fired.

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    Aim at the Hellkite Wyvern's tail. Because of your distance and the weight of the arrows, you may need to aim slightly to a higher place the wyvern's tail to brand sure they hit. Also, you volition have to fourth dimension your shots well as the tail swings quite quickly back and forth.

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    Await for the Hellkite Wyvern to return to its position on the bridge. After you shoot the wyvern's tail, it volition fly to the bridge in a higher place and attempt to detect you. After a few moments, it will render to its position guarding the bridge and the tail will be in the same spot as before.

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    Repeat shooting the tail until y'all receive the Drake Sword. If you continue shooting the wyvern's tail, after twenty or so shots (adamant by your weapon harm stats and the size of your arrows) you will see a screen prompt saying you take received the Drake Sword. Congratulations!

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    What practice you exercise if yous killed the merchant before buying the bow?

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    You tin can find a crossbow before in the game, or get a bow later on on by going to Darkroot Basin.

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  • Instead of immediately going under the bridge to set on the wyvern's tail, consider instead going through the second door and activating the shortcut dorsum downward to the Undeadsberg blaze past kicking the ladder down to it. That way, if you accidentally die, you can easily go back up under the span from that bonfire.

  • Something to consider if the fact that the Drake Sword does not level up with your grapheme, and is just upgraded with dragon scales. These scales can but be found on certain bosses, such as the Deeproot Hollow Hydra, then take care not to use the Drake Sword in the later stages of the game if yous want to exist efficient.

  • The Drake Sword is a very powerful weapon early. If held ii-handed and used with a strength attack, it will create a shock wave smash ahead of yous, dealing massive damage merely besides damaging your sword significantly. You lot will need 16 strength to wield the sword 1-handed nevertheless, so it would be wise to proceed another weapon handy until you can. In addition, the sword too grants 10-xx pct more souls from enemies killed in the expanse you found it in.

  • You tin can employ the wyvern's breath attack to help heave some easy souls. If you come up upward the stairs from the Undeadsberg bonfire shortcut, and step on the bridge to initiate the wyvern animate fire on the span, it will impale all the Hollows on it granting yous 300 souls each time! If you lot repeat this over and over, it will prove to be an easy source of souls early in the game.

  • It is possible to get past the Hellkite Wyvern and even kill it! Simply shoot information technology from a tower later on in Undead Parish (or from beneath the bridge, although this volition take about 300-400 arrows!) or wait on the alcove contrary the bridge'due south stairs and the dragon will spring down - sneak past in and it will fly away. However, although you get ten,000 souls, you will miss the hazard to unlock the Drake Sword and harvest the souls from the Hollows on the span. Underneath the dragon is another blaze and another archway to Undead Parish.

  • The hunter grade y'all can choose at the showtime of the game will first you with a bow and arrows to apply, instead of purchasing them at the merchant in Undeadsberg.

  • A crossbow tin exist used as an alternative to the shortbow, and in improver, the crossbow Hollows in 'Undeadsberg' and Undead Parish will occasionally drop one as boodle.

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  • Brand certain yous get a lot of arrows before trying to become the Drake Sword. If you lot run out of arrows and go back to get more than from the merchant, then the wyvern's health will replenish and you'll have to start all once more.

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Things You'll Need

  • Xbox 360 or PS3 console
  • Dark Souls disc
  • Short bow or crossbow
  • 30-40 arrows

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