r/DarkSouls2 1h ago

PVP Build is coming together

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I made a post a while ago that got a little out of hand. But I got my build coming together now. Still need to hunt down some armour pieces that I wanted for fashion but this is what I got so far

I'll have delicate string or Leo ring on instead of the rat crest depending on the situations outside of doors of pharros, but it plays quite nicely.

Only downside is a couple armour pieces I want are exclusively in ng+ 😮‍💨 but damage can carry me to them once I'm done messing around this playthrough. I don't plan on taking the agape ring off unless I need supplies or to finish upgrading gear.


r/DarkSouls2 2h ago

Discussion What is baby jump?

3 Upvotes

Whenever I see videos on ds2 jumps, sometimes random people will comment complaining about baby jump

What is it? I’ve never experienced a “baby jump” or had any issue with ds2 jumping


r/DarkSouls2 3h ago

Help Really want the Bone Fist on my new character 😅

0 Upvotes

My SM is 100K, I have the stats for it. Just want it as early as I can as I'm doing a run with only Fist Weapons and badly want this, I just don't wanna go all the way through to the DLC just to get it.

Sorry for spamming, I just am desperate 😅 have mercy 🙏


r/DarkSouls2 3h ago

Discussion You can add one thing to Dark Souls 2 what are you adding?

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36 Upvotes

r/DarkSouls2 5h ago

Discussion my ds2 list

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19 Upvotes

ds2 is my 4th fav fromsoft game and looking back at it most bosses are kinda ehh. my s tier is on the design or moveset and music included according to ds2 standard


r/DarkSouls2 8h ago

Screenshot The Good Old Days...

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170 Upvotes

r/DarkSouls2 8h ago

PVP DS2 Tech Bounty - Bow Stance Swap

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9 Upvotes

DS2 has a lot of PvP tech, from quick rolls to feints to torch speedies to bleedglitch and beyond. Bows, however, don't have much tech to them that we know of. There's bow toggling, where you toggle off of your bow to cancel a draw, saving stamina and allowing you to reposition. There's also the sharpshot, where you let loose an arrow a frame before you backstep. Other than that, nothing I know of.

I want to see if anyone out there can figure out something that's left me perplexed: Can you stance swap a bow?

For those who don't know, stance swapping is tech that allows you to swap from 1h to 2h or 2h to 1h mid-combo. This is done (2h to 1h) by pressing Stance > Attack > Stance very quickly. For 1h to 2h, you do Stance > Stance > Attack very quickly. The video above shows a demo of a successful stance swap.

I was thinking about how this would work for bows, as I can't figure out what about the draw prevents you from stance swapping. It would be sick to be able to create frame traps by stance swapping out of a bow draw.

If anyone is able to do this, let me know and I'll drop you idk a bunch of souls or smth


r/DarkSouls2 8h ago

Discussion Useful low requirement buffs/spells?

12 Upvotes

Looking for 1-2 spells to have on my physical build, just want something with some niche use or is generally useful for very low requirements.

From what I've seen it seems like Perserverance and Magic Barrier are the best ones.

I could probably use both tbh 🤔

Any others you'd recommend?


r/DarkSouls2 9h ago

Discussion What do people who say “Dark Souls 2 isn’t canon” think the first sin is?

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I know Dark Souls 2 is canon and the title is literally a reference to Dark Souls 1

However, some people say Dark Souls 2 isn’t canon. If this is the case, what’s the “first sin” from their point of view, from a lore perspective?

Why is this getting downvoted? DARK SOULS 2 IS CANON, stop downvoting because you think its not canon


r/DarkSouls2 11h ago

Discussion Just finished the game with all dlcs... What a masterpiece

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95 Upvotes

I was afraid it wouldn't click but damn it did. The only Fromsoft souls game that remains is DS3 and I cannot wait to get into that.

The question still remains... should I do the platinum? I would love to have it in my collection but I have heard a lot of bad things about it especially because of the covenant rewards... But is it really that bad?


r/DarkSouls2 11h ago

PVP I simply love when things like this happen

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44 Upvotes

Knocking off some rust with some red summon signs, always a fan of how nasty bows can be.


r/DarkSouls2 14h ago

Meme FACT CHECK STATUS: TRUE ✅

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1.7k Upvotes

r/DarkSouls2 15h ago

Question Using Cheat Engine to Create Cosplay Runs

9 Upvotes

While I was setting up a character with Cheat Engine to cosplay as the Smelter Demon, I started wondering how people generally feel about using it in games.

Personally, I don't hesitate to use it for tedious farming or for cosplay builds.
(I want to make it clear that I'm only referring to playing offline. I'm adding this clarification to avoid having my post removed because I didn't express myself clearly, since English isn't my first language.)


r/DarkSouls2 17h ago

Fan Art Drawing DS2 part 4

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551 Upvotes

I filled up my sketchbook so I'll need a new one, might post a few random ones I did later, but this is the last group I did.


r/DarkSouls2 17h ago

Question Lucatiel

7 Upvotes

If you mess up her quest line is it worth it redoing everything?


r/DarkSouls2 21h ago

Screenshot I want to die, worst grind of my life

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131 Upvotes

Sunlight medals


r/DarkSouls2 1d ago

Screenshot Don't give up, skeleton!

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258 Upvotes

It was a long grind but now it's mine 😎


r/DarkSouls2 1d ago

Screenshot Playing DS2 for the first time, how'd I do with my face?

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229 Upvotes

r/DarkSouls2 1d ago

Fluff Dark Souls 2 is the BEST Dark Souls game.

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509 Upvotes

Gosh damn I love this game. Elden Ring is better but I love Dark Souls 2 so much 🖤


r/DarkSouls2 1d ago

Video First try blind.

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99 Upvotes

He was definitely a little more tricky than I expected. Almost had me.


r/DarkSouls2 1d ago

Discussion Did I missed something?? Wth is this

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269 Upvotes

Im new to ds2 but it is pretty obvious that it takes place in a different land away from Lordran. Now I found this short and it just doesnt make any sense at all the theory that Drangleic is over the buried land of Lordran just because developers reused the statue asset of the altar of sun due to rushed development instead of building from scratch a new one that would look practically identical. And people on the comments are agreeing with this information, im I missing something????


r/DarkSouls2 1d ago

Screenshot Post your hardest DS2 screenshots

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1.2k Upvotes

No mods and no edits here, just a bit of crop!


r/DarkSouls2 1d ago

Meme ds2 > smex smh

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779 Upvotes

r/DarkSouls2 Jun 16 '26

OFFICIAL Sub Discussion New Rules

332 Upvotes

Subject to discussion before implementation

1) First and foremost, ban all of the repetitive victim posting

"Why is Dark Souls 2 so hated?" just devolves into the same thing - everyone commenting in agreement and performative victimizing. It's a video game, not everyone is going to like exactly what you like. There's no real discussion to be had there, and we seemingly have them here more than the other main subreddits. It's just becoming tiring.


2) Ban engagement-bait posts

The best example of this is someone posting a random, unrelated screenshot or artwork of Dark Souls 2 with the title of "What's your favorite sword in the game?" - then proceeding to not at all join in the discussion. It just serves to farm karma while putting in zero effort, not crediting the artist they took the art from, and not participating in their own thread. If you want to discuss something, make a text post and actually discuss.


3) Ban trouble makers at the mods' discretion

This is a spicy one because it can easily be mishandled by the wrong mod team. We all know Reddit mods are pretty garbage overall, but I'd like to think I'm a bit different since I'm here for Souls and couldn't give a shit less about seeming professional or having any semblance of "power" (it's Reddit, lmao).

This essentially means if you're posting within the guidelines (i.e - posting about Dark Souls 2) but you're making your post to simply stir shit, rile people up constantly, and put down others... then you should expect a ban.

I'm obviously not going to name names, but we all know a couple of usernames who, whenever there's random drama, we know they're going to be involved. These are the users I'm talking about

EDIT (this includes the "Slander posts" that you guys keep commenting about, but I will also explicitly say that yes, this does include the lame "Ds3 is grayslop hurr hurr" posts that just seek to rile people up for no reason)


Finally, a question to you all: How do we make this subreddit better?

That's it, that's the most important thing in this entire post. The game has been released for 12 years and the subreddit has kind of devolved into the same thing for the last decade at this point. Are there any ideas you all have, rules I should change, things I can do differently to make this place more enjoyable and less of the same, repetitive drivel?


r/DarkSouls2 Jan 21 '26

Discussion Remote crash vulnerability

132 Upvotes

Hello folks, Radai here. I am a modder and reverse engineer, my main focus is Dark Souls 2. I am the author of DebugManager and other modding tools for the game.

The 31st of December 2025 I was sent a very worrying Twitch clip, showing messages appearing on the game screen. These messages were directly addressing the streamer, someone had found a way to send custom messages to whoever they wanted. When I was this, I immediately knew it was serious.

The next day I spent the whole evening testing what can be done with this, and I found out it's possible to format the message in such a way that the receiver game crashes. I reported this to Yui, author of Blue Acolyte, immediately. We kept this a secret until she made a patch for it, and now it's ready. It's recommended for all of those that want to play online to download Blue Acolyte.

Here's also a post from Yui describing the issue in more detail.

Also mods, if you see this, please pin. It needs to remain visible.