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Legend Criteria

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Show your stats, rings / equipment screen after killing the bosses. It is recommended to show souls obtained, especially for higher

NG kills.

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• SL1 NG+7 No Bleed/No Toxic/No Poison/No Frost

• SL1 No Rolling/Blocking/Parrying

• SL1 NG+ Broken Weapon/No Bleed/No Toxic/No Poison/No Frost

  • Shields and offhand tools must also be broken (parry frames/stamina loss on block are affected so it matters for gameplay)​

• SL1 No Hit & Any%

  • Record the full run.

• SL1 +0 Weapons/No Infusions/No Bleed/No Toxic/No Poison/No Frost​

• SL1 Torch only

  • Kill Iudex in NG+

• SL1 Soldering Iron only.

  • You're allowed to have the weapon and the required rings dropped for you after Iudex​. 

  • Kill Iudex in NG+

• SL1 -80 NG+

  • This is SL-80, obtained by using exploits or cheats with the result of having only 1 point in every stat.

• SL1 Armour of Thorns only

  • It is recommended that Deacons, Halflight and Gravetender be fought under different legend restrictions. ​​

• SL1 Perma-Death, All Bosses.

  • Record the full run.

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Legend Banned Equipment & Strategies

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• Prisoner Chain + Lloyd's Shield Ring Combination is banned for all runs. 

• Tears of Denial. Promotes error-prone combat, avoiding death via equipment is already simple.

• Morion Blade and Dark Hand; they are unobtainable at SL1.

• Storm Ruler's weapon art against Yhorm. It’s too strong.

• Siegward versus Yhorm is unacceptable.

• Storyteller’s Staff against bosses. The weapon art makes boss fights way too passive with little risk.

• Tanking ban: Kills aren't expected to be flawless, but avoid excessive tanking. You might be asked to redo the kill (at the checker's discretion)

• Offensive spells are banned. 

• Ranged weapons like bows and crossbows are not allowed.

• Damaging ranged consumables are not allowed. You can still use throwing knives to kill Crystal Sage's clones.
  
   

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Master Criteria

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• SL1 NG+7 No Roll/Block/Parrying: ​

  • All bosses must be flawless​

• SL1 NG+7 No Roll/Block/Parrying/Rings/Buffs:

  • All bosses must be flawless​

• SL1 NG+7 +0 Weapons/No Infusions/No Aux

  • All bosses must be flawless​​

• SL1 Fist only​
   

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Additional Master Criteria 

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• Breaking furniture in a boss room (Pontiff chairs/cinder stumps etc) and quitting out to have the arena cleared when re-entering the boss fog isn't allowed -

• Damaging Gravetender Greatwolf during the two areas encounters to have him appear with 15% less hp in the bossfight isn't allowed -

• No abusing first-encounter savestates in order to damage a boss during their intro (Champion Gundyr, Old Demon King, etc)

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Useful Resources

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Parallax’s General SL1 Route and Advice.

SL1 All Bosses Route.

Usable weapons data by Decc.

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Recommended Equipment:
 

• Dragonslayer’s Axe (Raw): Usually mentioned as DSA. Extremely good weapon, you can use this on almost everything.

• Millwood Battle Axe (Heavy w/knight's ring, else use Raw): Similar to DSA, but with physical damage instead of split. Good for bosses resistant to lightning but not difficult to damage. Can be used together with Lothric War Banner 

• Broadsword (Raw, Deep and Fire): Acts like a faster Millwood Battle Axe, but with less damage. Good for general damage on fast bosses. Raw allows poison application. Can be used together with Lothric War Banner.

  • Astora Straight sword is not what used it used to be after the nerf. Broadsword has the higher AR among all the straight swords​

• Flamberge (Sharp): High stagger potential, good damage and bleed status. Can be used together with Lothric War Banner. 

• Bandit’s Knife (Blood): Bleed status.

• Profaned Greatsword: Charged R2 cheese on some bosses, notably Halflight.

• Storyteller’s Staff: Poison scales with max health. Tons of damage.

• Rotten Ghru Dagger (Poison): Produces poisoned status extremely quick.

• Dagger (Deep, Fire, Sharp): Good critical damage.

• Black Knight Sword: High stagger potential, requires 3 rings (Knight's ring, Hunter's ring and Carthus Milkring) and two handing at SL1. Very useful against Demon bosses.

• Reinforced club (Heavy w/knight's ring, else use raw): Extremely useful for staggering bosses like Nameless king and Dancer.

• Caestus and Small leather shield: Lightweight parry tools.

• Irithyll straight sword: Useful against bosses that are weak to frostbite.