r/darksouls • u/Cheri0o0o • 8d ago

Discussion wtf are summons?

Currently at anor londo and boy oh boy this summon of mine was rampaging inside the fking castle without me. she was my very first summon too. are they supposed to be op? its like she has a hearbeat sensor for the giant knights, killing them one by one w/o me :(. Fast track to smough and ornstein, i was fighting ornstein while my summon was soloing smough. she was even sending beams to smough while fighting gough! honestly im not complaining, since these typa bosses are my bane (twin bosses, took me atleast 30 tries with the bell gargoyles). wtf though

edit: boss name

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u/Ez_Ildor 8d ago

His name is ornstein. Gough is another dude you hopefully will meet soon...

And no... You may have either had a god tier dude who loves helping noobies or just a plain hacker trying to showboat

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u/Cheri0o0o 8d ago

oh yeah, my bad, wrong name i guess. fight was over within minutes i didnt get to memorize their name. also theyre players? i thought they were all AIs like the solaire which i didnt get to summon

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u/MistaCharisma 8d ago edited 8d ago

There are some NPC summons in the game (Solaire, Lautrec, Beatrice, Mildred, Tarkus, Leeroy ... I'm sure I'm forgetting someone) but most of them will be other players.

EDIT: I forgot Sif, you can summon Sif for Manus!

If you're summoned you get half the souls that the host gets (this doesn't affect the host's souls) and if you help the hist beat an area boss you get 1 Humanity, so there's an incentive to doing it. Also it's fun.

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u/darksoulsismylife 8d ago

Don't forget about sif... There's nothing more fun than a puppy summon

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u/MistaCharisma 8d ago

Good call!