Trying to get giant dad but pinwheel dropped mama mask so I have to beat the shardbearers and then wipe manus, and by the time I’m done return to lordran will likely be over because I’m only done with Anor Londo and Sif. Does anyone have tips on speedrunning or soul farming? Will a NG+ cycle to Anor Londo and killing artorias give me enough souls to get 99? I only ended up at around 82 on my first ever playthrough by killing all bosses and using a bunch of soul consumables and feeding frampt items
This first video explains quantity usage so you can get all your humanity and souls as soon as you arrive in Firelink. https://youtu.be/nqOS60hR-M8?si=t1ESFDNAXxpUPb7q
This second video: https://youtu.be/sbQ94iGKp0g?si=X5wgFo1Io4XptwTf explains how to use a variation of quantity usage to get even more souls, humanity, and items for both controller consoles and PC. Only one part is wrong in my experience. When you are trying to buy the 999 axes from Andre, if you’re on PC, press E right BEFORE you click the arrow that moves the menu over to the weapons tab, not after. This made it more consistent and let’s you spam click it.
Soul duping if you're open to using glitches, otherwise generally the most effective soul farming is the "Phalanx" enemies in painted world (weird deformed things with spears and shields bunched up like the Spartans from 300)
Covetous silver serpent ring (tomb of the giants) + symbol of Avarice (random drop from any mimic, guaranteed from last mimic if you kill them all) stack multiplicatively.
Each gives a 1.2X boost to souls, so ring gets you to 120%, then symbol is also 1.2X for another 24%, total of 144% souls gained if you have both items and can deal with the slow health drain of symbol of Avarice.
Regarding the father mask, you can buy it from patches if he's still alive, or farm it from the pinwheel servants immediately before Nito.
Edit: corrected location for silver serpent ring as pointed out by fellow redditor
Just a note that this ring is in Tomb of the Giants (somewhere between the two bonfires, IIRC, on a ledge you have to drop down on from a kinda counterintuitive place nearby). Sen's has the gold ring.
Thank you, corrected my comment, been a while since I needed to farm souls 😅 my last run before this year's RTL was a SL1
I always do Pinwheel 1st if I'm gonna use any masks throughout the run. That way I'm not wasting much time just starting over for another shot. Undead asylum gets fast when you know what your doing. I do the same if I'm going for a BKH.(The other black knight weapons take too long to get to for my patience.) Random drop items aren't much fun if you have a specific build in mind.
I mean, if you care about your time, just soul dupe with the use item bug. Soul items drop from the ghouls in blightown if you used them all your pickups and need more. That's a several million souls an hour farm. If you don't value your time or dont want to abuse a bug, painted world is popular place to farm souls.