This is likely the best place to start, as it’s difficult to make judgments about weapons and armor having different attack and defense values if we don’t know what these stats actually do for damage taken and damage dealt, and therefore, we don’t know what these stats do to keep us alive and to make our enemies dead faster.

Consider this blog one of a small handful (provided there is any interest of course). Originally, I was planning to do a lot more in this blog, but I wrote so much about this topic that I thought it would feel rushed to tack everything else on.

I intend to discuss a number of combat stats, suggestions for optimization, and give a few pieces of gear to look for based on this discussion. But there is one thing I think is lacking in many of the Dark Souls resources, including the wiki pages, which is a more in-depth statistical analysis of the game itself. #1 As I wrote in my previous review blog (here: ), Dark Souls is an amazing game.