User blog:MayhemXYZ/Keima's DSO Memoirs

Below are the full transcripts of the audio logs Keima Hasegawa started during his play of Dark Souls Online. Pauses, gaps and other miscellaneous affectations have been removed.

Day 0

Date: ??/??/2708 AT (or before day 1)

It's finally time. Graduation is done with and my friends and I are finalising our plans to play DSO. I'm recording these memoirs for the sake of information. FromSoft has been taking great care at limiting information about the game on the net, and if I hear or find anything of worth, I likely won't be able to save it online. But a personal memoir I can share freely. So that is my plan.

Since I'm experienced in RPGs, I've picked last in the group. Blaire has chosen to be an archer, Daniel will be a monk, Raphael is a rogue and Minato is a paladin. In terms of melee to ranged options, I'd say we're relatively balanced. However the paladin is a weak healer, and so we essentially lack a healer altogether. Our front line aggro is also weak with only Minato, so we're weak against multiple strong melee enemies. Hopefully we can make up for with mercenary NPCs, pets or something of the sort. I haven't heard about such things in DSO but information is limited in general. We also lack any spellcaster and crowd controller, so the party is weak in that regard as well. I've decided to go for a bard. From what I'm able to gather from Breddit and forum message boards, it's the most versatile class and should be able to help me balance out the party as a full-casting healer, CC and the second ranged combatant. I just hope it will be enough since I'm forced to cover multiple essential roles. Need to do more research, especially once I enter the game and look at my level tree.

On a note, there are no clerics. It seems somewhat odd, but the rumour has it that it's related to the resurrection mechanics unique to the game. While it sounds believable, I'm not quite sure that's all there is to it.

All in all, we're all excited. Hopefully we're able to go quite far.

I look forward to seeing just how much 'freedom' we'll have.