Came all the way down here, to the Safety In Hell's bonfire, just to learn that you need the Lordvessel placed. Now it's gonna be hell trying to climb back :) GG Game.
Little late to the party, but to anyone STILL having issues without the lava protection ring, you can use the dark wood grain ring to sponge some of the damage you would normally take by flipping forwards. Worked for me to get the large soul of a proud night.
You don't need to get your equip load under 25% to run the fastest and escape ceaseless discharge. It's been proven many times the Sprint speed is the same no matter equip load even though the animation looks "slower"
In my DSR playthrough, a Demon's Greataxe had not yet dropped after defeating all of the Taurus Demons here & previously, but the one guarding the stairs & entrance here respawned when resting or returning to the bonfire, and I collected the Greataxe upon defeating him again.
The page for demon ruins says you get their from qualaags domain which is in blighttown, but then previous location is listed as crystal cave. The duke's archive's says you get there from Anor Londo, but previous location is New Londo. And of course you get to the catabombs from firelink shrine, but previous is lost izalith... I'm sure this is part of some recommended progress route, but without it being on every page, it is just terribly confusing. And of course nito is the end boss to both the catacombs and the tomb of giants, somehow...
There is a soul item in the immediate area you fight the first Capra demon. Also, if you're invaded while proceeding after killing the demon a fog wall blocks off access back to the lava lake.
The elevator shortcut doesn't activate unless you kill firesage and if you enter firesage's arena in anyway other than fog gate, he doesn't attack.
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