Black Bow of Pharis | Dark Souls Wiki

Even if you don't level dex at all, this fire or chaos infused + fire arrows (magic/enchanted + moon arrows for pimps) nets you nice ranged elemental damage bc of bow range.

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Should I off hand the bow and main hand a katana or just use this bow

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Let's say I'm making a lvl 60 build that wants to use this. It is technically a Dex build, but I'm unlikely to have over 25 or 30. Should I still go +15 to get the most out of it, or something else? Build is sort of fire themed, so maybe Chaos? I'm not sure how the math works on scaling.

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Really good bow for sniping purposes.

If you're Dex build AND if you're good at long range headshots make it +15. If not don't bother with regular upgrade and use elemental path +5 lightning, +5 chaos or +15 fire - doesn't matter what you pick actually since it's just to boost basic psysical damage (you won't be probably using elemental arrows anyway).

Then get 999 poison arrows from female undead merchant aka moss lady. It will cost you almost 100k souls but this stack will be enough for long time.

Whenever you ecounter some iritating dude shoting at you from some lame camping spot or some tough guy to risky to engage at close combat just switch to this bow and send him few arrows. Then let the posion finish him off (stronger enemies may require to be poisoned more than once).

If you like being stealthy sniper type use Ring of Fog and Hawk Ring combination. This will allow you poisoning your enemies from longer and safer distance - they will literally have no idea what hit them so they won't even react.

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This plus hawk ring and feather or poison arrows. Goodbye anor londo archers.

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y'all think pharis from dark souls 1 is pharros in dark souls 2? I mean the item description says pharis was a man, but the hat is worn by a female in dark souls 1? perhaps pharis found the coffin from things betwixt and transformed from pharis to pharros?

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Enchanted upgrade +1 requires a Magic bow +5, not a regular bow.

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Lightning bow of pharis or normal bow of pharis for a dex build?

For the short bow, i heard it worth more to infuse it with lightning even if you are a dex build

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Pharis is a man, it says so in the description of his hat

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if youre looking for the lady who drops this, shes aways off to the right of the cat and ripe for murkage. no need to join those mother****ly-ass forest hunters

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Best bow in the game. It's almost cheating when you can dump arrow after arrow into enemies without them ever aggroing.

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I've been looking for something that can at least a B stat bonus in both DeX and int as well as being fast as the short bow. Does the S int make up for the C dex?

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Seems to be the only weapon where magic path AR is higher than enchanted, but I read on another forum that Enchanted path has higher dmg despite lower AR, anyone have further details on this? Really conflicted and would prefer some more definitive answers.

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What I did was that I just attracted some enemy tree people and lured them over to her. I got behind her so that the tree people would hit her, trying to hit me. They kill her while I take little to no damage because I was just blocking.

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(Not so) Pro tip: I accidentally joined the Forest Hunter covenant before killing Pharis, ignoring that then she'd become friendly. Attacking her in that situation would betray the covenant and cause me some headaches fixing that. Kicks (movement forward + normal attack with most weapons) don't turn NPC hostiles. So I kicked her once and again until I threw her off a cliff. Reloaded the game, and the loot was where she was standing. No hostility, no covenant betrayal, all profit! - This was done in DS Remastered Edition -

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The first time Pharis walked off the cliff and I didn't get the bow. After leaving the covenant, rejoining, attacking members and getting absolved by Oswald then rejoining again there was a gold soul on the ground where Pharis usually stands. I got the bow, her hat, and twin humanity. Not sure of you have to do all that; maybe leaving and rejoining is enough to reset her.

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