A good start for any build, makes the rest of the game pretty easy. You can go back to Felkin later to buy more spells, and the chime you get from killing Licia is pretty good for hexes.
Dark Souls II: The game where you can get to level 40 by beating one merchant to death, punching another off of a tower, and getting a massive soldier with a halberd to kill himself not once, but TWICE. Just one of the many things that makes this game amazing.
+tigerheart6 The armour he received increased soul yield, so he earned enough souls to level up enough for hexes. He killed the other one to get the lockstone, which gives quick entry to the hexman. Killing her isn't exactly necessary, though, but you will have to spend another 2000 souls to get to hexman.
you normally should just play and test things. kinda the point of souls games. that said seems like most people do walkthrough stuff, and the game can stump people. The man that sells the hex's in that cave requires you to have a certain amount of FTH & INT . The exact number escapes me, but without the proper stats, or items, etc. There are SEVERAL npc's that won't talk to you. Like the scorpion dude for example.
Not sure if you're still curious about that, But he doesn't give you items until you have 20 INT & 20 FAI (could be 15, but I'm pretty sure it's 20 of each)
I dodged every fucking big knight in the hopes of going Through the mist and saw a boss fight I pissed my pant.but to mus surprise he killed himself, first try that dargonrider
Omg, what the F?! I just started playing this game doing a "normal" str build and I thought I was pretty though for such a "short time" aka 5 hours in.. When you lured the boss into the water just made me drop my jaw cause I battled that dude too many times and was so proud when I finally beat him xD
+watertower500 :D Dark Souls is a tough game in comparison to the mainstream games on the market. It's perfectly normal to struggle, while adjusting. I played easy to pick up games like LoL and CS:GO before, and man did I get my butt kicked, when i started playing DS2
Caesura It does, I've done it several times in SoTFS. Although I know the timing may be a bit different, so instead of instantly falling off he slowly slides off.
you can also go in, wait as far on the left edge as you can.... he will walk to you and then do his thrust attack... dodge it to the right and then go onto the mainplattform as far left as you can so that there is much open space between you two... he will then try to walk towards you again and fall of. Its much saver than the one in the video... on the one in the video you are save dead when you fail. the other one lets you proceed the battle so that you can try fighting him normally when you fail to bug.....
Tip : kill the old knight with sublime bone dust both the times that way you can get 2 of them right away, and also lower the bridge to old dragon slayer. possibly try to beat orenstien on base difficulty with the gold pine resin you get at starting area near the ogre as it becomes a living nightmare to get to him in +1 difficulty and you get more souls and beat him before you cheese dragonrider as it has no risk of losing souls of dragonrider.
Just tried this on SotFS and it works. Took a couple of attempts to make the Dragon Rider fall. I do suggest that after you beat him the first time you go back to Majula and level up so if you fail the second time you don't lose your souls. They also moved the placement of the praying npc so you have to punch her to the next opening first to push her off . Otherwise she will just fall downstairs and come back up to wreck your shit.
+michael arellano Well, players will typically raise the platforms to make the traditional fight easier, but that makes baiting him off the ledge more difficult. You should be able to do it by imitating what this guy did in the video, just make sure to wait for him to walk towards that small bridge at the entrance and roll past him without falling into the water yourself. :P
+michael arellano 5 steps, start running forward as soon as he starts to take his 6th step. That's how i got it to work 100% of the time, i even think i heard one of the speedrunners actually count it out.
Dark Orb's one of the best PvE spells in the game. Everything else either has few casts (miracles, pyromancy, soul spear) or has had its damage neutered (most sorcery). If you upgrade the sunset staff and pick up more dark orb casts when you can, it will absolutely carry you through the game with ease and even NG+ and beyond. For those (very) few spots where you might have trouble, you're already set up to use sorcery and miracles so you just have to find and attune the spells.
Lion Reichelt Not sure what would be the cause there. If you have high int & faith (20/20 is good, 30/30 is better), and a sunset staff +5, it should do a really nice amount of damage for how fast it is and how many casts it has, apart from some enemies with particularly high dark resist. In NG+ it may not one-shot stuff, but you can easily toss 2-3 at an enemy, especially given that it staggers most things. You can buy it three times too so you can have 60+ casts by the end of a playthrough. Just checked on my high level character (balanced int/faith). Dark orb with a dark sunset staff +5 does somewhat less damage than a great heavy soul arrow using a magic staff of wisdom +5, and about the same damage as a lightning spear using a lightning dragon chime +5. It's got a speed advantage on both of those, and has about double the casts of GHSA and several times what you get of lightning spear.
Lion Reichelt I checked it out again (just because I like hucking spells at things!) using the black witch's staff (same modifiers for everything). Dark Orb does the same damage (against basic hollow jerks who I'm pretty sure have no damage resistance) and has the same cast number as Heavy Soul Arrow. The main differences are that HSA will travel farther, but Dark Orb casts noticeably faster, and is larger (so you can hit stuff easier.) The dark sunset staff +5 also has the strongest modifier of any casting tool in the game, which is pretty significant considering the magic and lightning equivalents have really high requirements and are really late-game, in the dragon shrine and Pilgrims of Dark covenant respectively. I guess what I'm saying is it's kind of a middle-of-the-road spell at face value, but it's got a lot of little things going for it that add up, and few of the downsides that hurt other spells (low range is the only real problem with it). Also, one thing to watch out for if you're comparing spell damage is that spells can get headshots, and get a pretty significant bonus from it. Tall staves like the sunset staff make this quite a bit more common since the spell will usually be angled downward.
you made it look so easy... I just started playing dark souls 2 im at forest of giants atm, man its so tough.... I have like 3-4 guides open on tabs and im getting sleepy killing mobs again and again cause I cant kill them in one go..
+Luciferarrow i would play without guides if its your first run IMO it ruins the experince, the game does have a steep learning curve, i remember being stuck in the first area for awhile
controlfreak494 is there any way for me to get a good spell or a good weapon from that area itself? cause righrt now I have only soul arrow and a little dagger im not progressing further with that man
+Luciferarrow shoot them with soul arrow and finish them off with your dagger, take your time and stay at range, attacking one enemy at a time. look up how to get the fire longsword, very useful if you have a lot of int
@@Luciferarrow It's also been two years, so I'm sure you've done the git gud maneuver, but for any new players in 2019 who find this vid and view the comments I'll leave this as well. There *is* a more powerful soul arrow down in the ballista room near Pate.
Good guide, completed the full walkthrough in 12 minutes! Failed first attempt getting the Dragonrider to fall in NG, but went to bridge on other side of room and tried again, he fell straight in that time and no problems in NG+. Make sure to punch Licia out of window on left of where she is kneeling, otherwise she lands on steps and comes back! Not using full SoFS DLC, only have DS2 and Crown of Sunken King DLC.
paul delgado i did it on accident once i went in saw the arena and went oh shit without moving the boss slowly creeping up on me i thought he'd block my only way of getting on the small circle so i ran past him and this happened i laughed my ass off
InAshesWeStand You have to have the Rotunda Lockstone, which you get from killing Licia. If you just want to get in to the Huntsman's Copse you can exhaust all her dialogue with the "talk" option and she will move to the location at 8:19. You have to pay her to get through though, which is why I chose to kill her in this method.
Xephyr when you exhaust her dialogue and use her stone later in the game she tries killig you , she uses lightning spear so careful if you have no armor it can one shotu
@@christophercollins3632 I like that you came back 8 months later, to make a secondary reply to a comment over a year old, that was older than the one im replying to now in the initial.
I finally got her, and everything went perfectly until I was followed by one of the Old Knight's into the doorway with the mist for the dragonrider... Anyway, it's late... Gonna give it a go again tomorrow...
Killing the merchant seems like a waste of time, since you end up with the hexer gear anyway... Also, did you speed up the video? Looks like there's some Benny Hill shit going on...
+Kouska Chikara typically guides like this are not aimed at someone doing their first playthrough, and you really shouldn't follow them on your first playthrough. This is more for someone just looking to quickly set up a second character, imo. Killing NPCs in general means you'll miss out on something or another. In the case of Maughlin, you're basically missing out on all the boss armors he sells and a set he gives for free, for like 10k souls or something trivial like that. It's a nice early game boost but not worth it in the long run if you care about those armor sets at all.
His armor set gives more souls per kill. I'm pretty sure you can get his set later on as well as other sets and rings that do the same without killing him. I do not endorse killing NPCs. Makes you far more invadable online, limits your ability to obtain items and it's murder. Well. The last point is moot, but it is, even when you're out murdering everything in the countryside. At least these people. Still have a functioning soul of their own.
Am I doing something wrong? When I get to the dark NPC at the end, he doesn't hand over all those items that Jeck receives in this video. The only thing I did different was not kill the armor trader in town which Jeck did in the beginning of the video. Does that have something to do with it?
still works fine, you have to lure the dragonrider closer to the entrance to make him drop after a second swing, souls are enough even without killing the shopkeeper in majula
Kinda late to ask this question, but what if Licia doesn't cast miracles only? She got up and smacked me with her chime twice and it dealt with me fairly quickly. Is there a way to make sure this doesn't happen or is it RNG?
So dumb, don't do this. Save your bonfire ascetic for the skeleton lords and get a 55% cast speed ring instead making all your spells better. the guy gives you the hexers hood and the staff when your stats are 20 faith and 20 intellect. And you get better items later anyways (good gear early on tho).
you teach to use a bonefire ascetic to new players and ruin all theyr game , i know you did this video with the propose to help , but i think willl hurt more then helps because they dont know that they are putting that zone in new game plus one.
SlynchThePuppy its the first or second area a new player will go , its hard for many to remenber that but it is , i see many many players going there even before going forest...
gorytarrafa If they do it the way the video showed them already have the bonfire to get to no mans wharf. So I wouldnt worry about it ruining their playthrough.
SlynchThePuppy a good way to do that its to make the bonefire ascetic in things betwixt , but its a lot harder to kill those 2 red phantoms , but after that its super easy you can farm 600 souls in each guy and even get the falcon set for free , imade that and was pretty nice.
so question, playing sotfs on xbox one edition and following this exact build to the T, it takes me 2 shots to kill that first zombie thing in huntsmans when you one shot it. from there most things in huntsman take multiple shots 3,4,5, to take down. do i need to upgrade sunset further or what? the build is supposed to be strong but im not seeing the damage output, like i used all dark orb shots to take down the boss in no mans wharf, why's my damage not quite there?
hexes got nerfed hard. they're still good, but you can't just go screaming "LEEDELEEDELEEDLEEDELEE" through the entire game anymore -yes you can you just need to git gud- btw level int+fth equally since iirc hex scaling is determined by the lower stat, meaning if you have them equal it will use both stats for scaling
As a warning to new players, *Because I know tons of Hexer mains who aren't new will have a field day with this* Starting with hexes in no way helps you improve. Hexes are a football helmet with extra padding, with training wheels and an electric wheelchair. Trust me, using them is not a challenge nor is it going to help your gameplay spike upwards. I can solo the game at the highest NG cycles through use of careful positioning, timing, tactics, a couple miracles and my trusty array of curved swords and whatever else catches my fancy, and fashion souls armor. Your gear and combat choice mean a lot less if you are not proficient on your own without all the accoutrement. Oneshotting people with climax and resonant soul != skill. I say that coming off of my no death no bonfire run with two new rings, so trust me, newer players, don't cheese your way to victory at the beginning when your learning means the most.
Ms Tsvanni Pretty sure the "football helmet with extra padding, with training wheels and an electric wheelchair." is more appropriately applied to havel mages/ havel UGS rather than a bog standard 'op' hex build early game. Hex is fucking weak either way anyways, soon they realise that they get smashed by anything with the tiniest bit of dark resist.
Ms Tsvanni So another "spells = no skill" comments, as someone who used a pure caster build I can assure that being good with spells is really, really hard you have low health and almost no armor and to win you have to be really good with dodging/timing your spells, not to mention that PvP is almost all about combos, sure some people will not know how to dodge a climax or soul spear, but those who do will put a good fight, and I can assure guarding behind a shield and spamming parries is no more skillfull than using spells
Lexender Casters are only OP for PvE for PvP i'd say melee users are more OP. If you have ANY roll timing ability with a good high agility for more s fighting spell casters is nothing, my melee user can just walk up to you with his rebel's greatshield and block at least most of whatever you throw at me and just give you a good poke with my grand lance or a few good swings of my claymore. And thats a gimped to fuck faith build with melee abilities. I digress fighting mages in PvP is as simple as knowing how to roll and having an appropriate shield for blocking. Melee is a whole different can of worms, you have people with big weapons that 1 or two shot you, fast guys that need a lot of hits to kill you but good luck hitting them, or people in between. Being a mage demands you know how to roll to avoid death cause you have no HP or defense, particularly for those idiot hexers who use the ring that takes HP to boost the power of your hexes (THATS NOT WORTH IT GUYS) while melee you can have decent armor and what would normally one shot a mage, a melee character can possibly tank two or three times. Mages also have to know how to time attacks and combo well while melee users have to be very godo with stamina management and parrying. This goes doubly so for strength builds making use of big weapons. Super armor doesn't protect you from damage, backstabs, ripostes, or losing stamina. In short mages equal easy PvE but hard PvP, melee equals hard PvE but easier PvP. Now the dumbest thing in these games is when invaders bitch that you use estus when they fucking invade you as if were supposed to allow them to kill us. Like were obligated to do so and it is some how dishonorable to do so.
thank you for the video,before burning ascetic, I would invest one point into str so you can one hand the mace, and go kill oristien. summon the npc outside the dragonrider and run like hell to the next boss gate.
I very much doubt you did. That part of the level is riddled with high-level white knights that can 2-shot you and kill you easily. The designers of the game intentionally put them there making it impossible to do this run. They even moved the rings to other parts of the map to chests that are guarded by White Knights. So no; it is *NOT* possible in the new update.
MechaAkuma Only played a little bit of the sotfs update as I don't own it myself, but I did this run just as easily as in this video. The Heide knights (white knights as you call them) doesn't seem to be agressive until you attack an enemy in the area, which I never do in this run. So maybe git gud? (Just kidding, I love you)
MechaAkuma I'm well aware that when you kill Dragonrider that the Heide Knights will start to roam the area. However, when you use the bonfire ascetic, Dragonrider returns and the Heide Knights sit back down where they originally were. Even if the Heide Knights were active after using the bonfire aesthetic you could easily outrun them and dodge their attacks. Also, considering how you don't know the names of the enemies or who made DSII, I'd assume that you don't know much about the game. The run is incredibly possible and I could record and upload the run for you if you don't believe me.
Hey does that dude only give you his set if you have certain faith or what? Cuz I can't get it from him on this toon I got no clue. Maybe 20 faith? Cuz my int is over 30 but I think my faith I'd only at 18
Good tip but this makes the Ring of Binding very difficult to obtain by NG+ the Heide's Tower of Flame area. Before burning the Bonfire Ascetic at 5:25 should first head for Cathedral Blue's entrance to obtain the Ring of Binding from the corpse. Or even kill the boss inside first.
Is it necessary to kill Licia? For instance, if you still intend to buy Lightning Spear, Homeward, etc? I assume there are other chimes you could use for Lightning.
This is still very doable, I bought Sotfs for PS4 just today and I used this method and it worked, of course I died three times trying to do this but it's very much worth it.
This still works everybody, don't worry about the SOTFS update, the Heide Knights WILL NOT aggro you after using a bonfire ascetic at the first Heide's Tower Bonfire. Only difference is hexes hit for a good deal less, but this is still a great way to start the game regardless of build.
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