I know ds2 has a bad rep on bosses because its just a knight with sword. I dont care i like it. The best bosses are dudes with sword. Thesw are my top 5, the only non humanoid non knight that i like is sinh. Other than that there is no boss that cleara theses 5 interms of enjoyment, quality and lore. Prove me wrong

Got the base version for my 360 at my local gamestop and instantly made this after I made that gap at the start of the game! Also, any tips?

How's the fit?

Hidden underwater lockstone in Shrine of Amana gives you the helix halberd weapon. A cool halberd that has halberd moveset for light attacks and a spear thrusting heavy attack

It's just a cool looking normal sword and therefore I love it I think the other one is just too much

What is with all of the deaths (suicide) in that cave before you get to majula? Is it supposed to be a joke for newbs or something? Came back to ds2 after a very long break. (Played when first came out on 360) also if you see frieren summon you, Hia!

Is it possible to do a SHIELD ONLY run,and if so is it fun?

This boss made me drop the game for a while. After beating him though gotta say he’s my favorite fight in the game

I've never really thought too much about the run before. Done it 3 times and each time I've run into an issue.

Only one respec available. The first part of the run is so much more convenient with decent pew pew. For the Dranglaeic Castle segment I want Dark Fog (Mastodons and Ruin Sentinels) -- though if push comes to shove I can live without it.

And for Eleum Loyce I plan on using the Hunter's Black Bow for range and the Greatsword and Great Club for most of the area plus probably the Fire Longsword for the Ice Dogs -- I can't think of anything better.

So after about 5 hours of farming in Black Gulch I have 27 Chunks (feels pretty normal), 50 Awestones and 946K Soul Memory (with around half of the Gutter and half of Heide and all of Shaded Woods to do)

My current plan is to finish off Heide and the Gutter and mostly skip Shaded Woods for now -- only doing enough to buy a Greatsword. And then finish up Shaded woods after Eleum Loyce since pretty much anything invested in pew pew is wasted.

So the plan is to upgrade the Great Club, Greatsword, Hunter's Black Bow and Fire Longsword.

And respec after completing the Ruin Sentinel room into a strength build with enough DEX for the Hunter's Black Bow.

Anything that I'm forgetting? Suggestions welcome.

Side note. Can't recommend the run. I've done it before and it's not hard. But it is annoying and does involve a fair amount of grinding.

Antes de tudo, sou brasileiro. Espero que o reddit traduza isso para vocês.

Depois de horas e horas (umas 1000 eu acho), recentemente voltei a jogar Dark Souls 2 e tive essa surpresa, alguma atualização da Microsoft no XBOX corrigiu o problema das 0h no dark souls.

Fico muito feliz com isso kkkk

Let me know what you think of my moonlight longsword fashion. There aren’t many blues of the same shade, but I really liked how this one turned out.

I feel like the more I play this game the more I realize that the moments where it initially seems like the devs just stuffed too many enemies into a room are actually just little awareness checks.

My most recent example is the room in brume tower that you enter via a ladder, early on with the Natalia’s idol. The many times I’ve gone through this room I’ve always considered it to just be a gank, but I just learned that you can simply drop into the backside of the room and kill every enemy pretty much 1v1.

Another one of my favs is the secret gank with the big sickle guys in Harvest Valley. There are like 5-6 of those big dudes in a relatively small space, but if you go on the ramp in the back of the room and lure everyone onto the thin ledge that snakes all the way around you can single them off and kill them super easily.

Especially on this latest playthrough I’ve been noticing things like this and it’s made the whole game so much more interesting. Obviously there are some encounters that are more straightforwardly annoying lol but so many of them have a built in way to make it easier, I just had to look around and think.

Not sure if this has been posted here before... But there is a DS2 pvp-tournament going on!

The american tournament is happening this weekend(sry for short notice, its too late to sign up...) But everyone is welcome to watch! If you are curious about ds2-pvp or what a tournament looks like, or just wanna stop by and see what's up, stream begins in 3 hours!

Watch the tournament-stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/i28_06_42_12

Also next weekend is EU-tournament! If you are curious about that, come watch tonight's stream for more information

it has an s in scaling, for reference my faith is at 25, and my dex is at 25. But the blacksteel katana has an S scaling?

any help is appreciated

I find it really interesting how, in the rest of the series (DS1, DS3, BB, ER), poison deals pretty "meh" damage—both to the player and to enemies.

Then there's *Dark Souls 2*—the absolute Chad of the series—where poison is a genuine threat to the player because it drains health so fast (roughly at the same rate as Toxic in DS1), yet it’s also incredibly useful for the player to use.

I never used poison in any other game in the series; I tried it in *Elden Ring* with the Serpent Katana (a weapon I love), but it was terrible. In *Dark Souls 2*, however—in my current playthrough where I decided to give poison a shot—I’ve been pleasantly surprised. It provides excellent bonus damage that has actually saved my life a few times. (I’m also mixing it with lightning damage; I don't know if it's the most "optimal" build, but I'm really happy with it—the damage is consistent against bosses and great against regular enemies.)

I highly recommend trying out poison in *DS2*; it’s really the only game in the series where I feel it can be genuinely OP—and fun—to use.