This area (which does not connect to the first) has more useful items to grab. You can continue past the second bonfire to find an elevator to carry you up to Blighttown’s other set of walkways. Once you get down to the ground level, the second bonfire is in a tunnel. (Notice the theme of dealing with poison yet?) Further down toward the ground level, you’ll also be able to pick up the Wanderer Armor set, a slightly heavier armor set that still boasts a respectable poison resistance.

Nearby, you can also pick up the Eagle Shield - a very stable and lightweight great shield - and some Blooming Purple Moss Clumps. It’s in a good position to let you regroup after the initial gauntlet of enemies and give you a safe place to examine the items you picked up along the way.īetween the entrance and the bonfire, you can grab both the Shadow Armor set - a lightweight armor with better than average poison resistance - and an Iaito - a katana with a sweeping swing that deals bleed damage. The bonfire among the upper walkways is shortly after entrance from The Depths. Blighttown upper levels Jeffrey Parkin/Polygon These approximately correspond to the two bonfires in the area and how you’ll make your way through it. We’ve broken both the map and our description of Blighttown into two parts: The upper walkways (with so, so many ladders) and the ground level. Once you have those items, you can ignore those paths and move on. Everything else - every other branch and side path - is there to give you an item. There is a path that leads (through a lot of twists and turns) from the first bonfire to the second and, from there, straight to Quelaag and the second bell. Don’t let the confusion or the challenge distract you from that.

Blighttown exists to give you items and to convey you to the next Bell of Awakening. Because of how challenging it is, it feels both more important and more complicated than it is. Once you’re past that, you’ll enter a poisonous swamp.īut Blighttown is deceptive.

It’s full of narrow walkways, blind corners, and precipitous drops. And it’s not just the enemies - the design of Blighttown often feels likes it’s actively trying to kill you. The ones that aren’t breathing fire are probably trying to poison you. The enemies are equal parts dangerous, aggressive, and annoying. Dark Souls Remastered’s Blighttown is all kinds of awful.

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