almost done with the game
- beat penetrator, who is probably the easiest fight in the entire game. even without biorr playing interference, penetrator himself only has one dangerous attack and it doesn't one hit kill if you've invested any amount of points into vitality. with biorr, i've beaten him in under 20 seconds twice. maybe it's just because i always save him for one of my last boss fights, but he's never been a remotely threatening boss to me, even compared to something like the dirty colossus.
- i said it last night but i beat black phantom garl vinland and gave selen vinland the crest. i'm gonna experiment and try to get pbwt on valley of defilement and see if she'll reappear as a black phantom. would be nice if she did. if she doesn't, i'll still be able to grab the colorless soul from that area.
- did a metric ton of grinding and farming for shards and such. right now my list for platinum looks like this
http://pastebin.com/6mPRJZ26 not including the "get the best of x weapon type" stuff, which i'm already about halfway done with.
- the blue dragon was a really surprising kill since i expected it to take far longer, but it only took one attempt once i knew when to run past his second form flame. i don't even know how i got past the thing the first time, since i thought you could just brute force through the fire. either way, i'm very happy. biorr survived too, like a friend.
- all that's left is false king, doran, mephistopheles, and any errant grinding i want to do before ng+. i'm debating grinding up for a sixth magic slot (currently at 35 intelligence) and maybe some more strength, but we'll see.
