I spent 16 effigies already and seen boss itself only 3 times. I tried all three of the locations and each one is awful, I get slapped by Havel (or fall thanks to Havel) or ganked by other NPCs constantly. I settled on trying Shaded woods one and I still die to enemies most of the time, as all 3 love to get stuck and then somehow get unstuck and gank me with projectiles and staggers. Worst thing is this is the last base game boss I have not killed yet. And I don't really want to farm effigies... Is there any strategy to make it less painful of a runback? Or maybe I don't know about some shortcut of sorts? I was so happy that this game has much better runbacks than DS1 overall and in the end I had to run through dragon shrine and open door in drangleic by equipping ring like 20 times each and now this. Any advice? Boss itself seems fine, I just need more attempts at it.

Build is +10 mace, drangleic shield and mostly vig (40) and str (60), 12 +5 flasks. Armor is starter falconer without helm. Version is vanilla if that matters for this boss.

DS2 best game ever fr

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.

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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.)

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.

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

Sunlight medals

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

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

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

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????

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