Glitches you can do in Dark Souls II 

The backing track to this video is "Get Up" by Windmills, a song released the same year as Dark Souls II: windmills.bandcamp.com/track/get-up And you can watch Distortion2 do other crazy shit here on his youtube channel: ru-vid.com

UPDATE ON THE BRIGHTBUG GLITCH: It will work whenever your character is wet, that is all. You can get wet by rain, puddles, lakes, those water jars on Iron Keep, equipping Pharros Mask, etcetera. 1. Get wet 2. Use the Brightbug 3. Quit game 4. Load your game file and done It will only disappear when you go into a loading screen (warp, die, etc).

Dark Souls II in 2021? Yes please. Gonna make another 39k run.

Had a shitty day and then Phobia uploaded. Day's still shitty but at least I can tune it out.

finally ! Someone who pronounces "Huntsmans Copse" correctly

I am a regular viewer of Dist2 and Ymfah, so I already knew a lot of these. But it seems so cool to have more in depth explanations of them instead of the split second executions. It's amazing to believe that a lot of these are all used in speedruns, usually needing to be executed quickly one after the other.

I’ve got another one that ymfah made a video on a while back. Fume knights sword glows slightly for about 25 seconds before he goes to second phase. By using any healing item when he’s in this state, he will do a sword slam attack on you. The slam will stop the sword from glowing, and you can fight for another minute or so before it glows again. You can just repeat this every time his sword starts glowing to skip his second phase all together.

I've waited for the return of the series welcome back king

I love this game so much. I discovered it years ago before the rest of the Soulsborne series, and it played a huge part in keeping me sane while kicking an ugly habit. I just can't believe that years later I'm still discovering new things about it, along with the rest of the Soulsborne series 🖤

There's something about ds2 that keeps me coming back. Much more than 1 and 3.

Thanks for the infinite brightbug glitch! I’m doing a “thicc” build (max over-encumberance ar all times) and so certain boss fights are very difficult because I have no choice but to tank them. This helps out tremendously!

Before making the Pursuer fast kill glitch, you need to make sure you have enough stamina to do the run from the ladder to the bonfire. If you walk even for half a second you'll miss the oportunity because the Pursuer will leave very shortly after being dropped by the bird thing.

Man that was a great video I also have noticed that you forgot the spell cast swap glitch Sit at a bonfire equip a spell you wanna cast more of with a spell with more casts (recommend soul arrow), next warp to a bonfire and while the animation plays left click with mouse then right click press back to spells and go to the spell you want the cast from wait till the screen is black and click on the spell it's pretty tight to time but if it goes well you have a diffrent amount of cast now you can have like 30 soul spears it goes back to normal if you quit out or the spell moves or gets swapped great for spell casters Edit: it sadly only works on PC so sorry Console players you gotta stick to herbs to refill your cast

Off topic, I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses the shadow mask. I feel like nobody uses it.

Ds2 is my favorite in the series and I will die on this hill

If you use a rusted coin the bright bug buff goes away. Fyi

My favorite glitch I recently discovered: if you spam, and I mean spam as fast as you can, block while running or walking, your legs will flail around all over the place

Subscribed when your Dark Souls 1 glitches came out when I just beat DS1 and then now I’m almost done with Dark Souls 2 and this one comes out. Perfect timing. Thank you, great work. Looking forward to the 3rd!

Attunment Swap Glitch: Allows you to transfer the uses of one spell to another until unattuned, persists through deaths, loading screens, and bonfire sits - PC only - Equip the spell you want the spells on, preferably unequip all other spells inittially - Open the bonfire and open the travel menu, select a bonfire, majula works fine - As you start to travel, use your mouse to left click, right click, and then select a small pop up menu that says 'back' - immediately head over to the attune spells menu - wait for the travel menu to get darker and darker, right before you travel the screen will flash again with color. - during this short window, left click on the spell you want to take the uses away from, such as a basic soul arrow - do it to early and you'll just have the basic spell equipped, do it too late and you'll have the original spell equipped with no changes - Just right you'll have the intended spell with a transferred amount of uses. When you finally get the timing down, it's super consistent and you should get it AT MOST two tries.

And here I was, thinking I knew "everything" about this game.... The pursuer quick kill got me

I love your glitch deep dives, always find something no other souls youtuber has covered.

Hell yeah!! I love your narration skills and extremely detailed videos, Phobia!

I had no idea about the butterfly stationary jump thing or the bright bug glitch and I can't wait to try them out. Also love your song choice windmills are awesome.

Been a while since I've heard windmills. Good video man, made me start replaying this game.

I love they do care about ds2 even 6 years later

Pharro's Mask makes you wet, I assume it works with the Brightbug glitch then

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one in the world that didn't play SotFS, just vanilla DS2

Love windmills, was so happy when that came on. Great video man!

A DS2 video posted in 2021? This must be a dream. If so, I don't wanna wake up.

I think the infinite bright bug works anywhere when your character is wet

3:37 instead of backstepping, use the butterfly wings to jump (without sprinting). It's way easier and way more consistent. As long as you know the jump distance you'll get up there 10/10 times.

You've got a real soothing, pleasing voice. Good video, man.

Amazing! I was waiting for this!! Thanks

Ruining your game and killing the Herald for a video. Mad respect.

Ds2 is a truly a special game that super underrated and under appreciated, B-Team did an absolutely phenomenal job with innovation and their own nonsense to feel different from ds1 and ds3

broooooo, windmills is too underrated, they're amazing. They rly need some more recognition

Awesome video. Great explanations and very useful and/or fun tricks!

Thanks, ds2 is by far my favorite of the series.

Weirdly enough I like dark souls 2 more than 3 by a long shot. Still like the first the most but really love the atmosphere and weird whimsical vibe of ds2 and the world. It’s the one I’ve prob played the most over all

I like the fact that he constantly cosplays as a plague doctor

I literally dropped what i was doing I've been waiting for this for so long

i always get so nostalgic when i see dark souls 2 videos it was my first souls game, always seeing a video on it makes me happy

Thanks for the info, I never knew about the pursuer glitch ^^

I just finished playing ds2 and this vid showed up on my recommended list. RU-vid nowadays doing pretty good job.

Dark soul's 2 was so different compared to the rest of the soul's series, the scenery is very beautiful and the music is very majestic and soothing 😇

I’m a big DS2 fan but somehow I didn’t know most of these. Great video!

Discovered some of those glitches by my own with no guides, but also there were a lot of other glitches in this video I didn’t know about SoTFS. Pretty cool indeed.

I have never managed either of the jump skips in the Forest, and I've tried plenty of times to get the twinkling titanite on the far side. The lower platform jump looks easy when you do it but I always land WELL short of the ledge. I've also yet to get the firebomb trick to work, but that's less of an issue since it is not a long run to get to the far side of that wall.

I'm not sure if it's a glitch or not, but you can get into the pit area under the bonfire next to where you see the pursuer first. There's a spot that you can run and jump and do a dropping power attack and survive the fall by critically attacking the fire-lizard in the far corner. The cave down there leads you to where the fire-lizard is spitting fireballs at you when trying to get the fire longsword. This can be done even on the base game though it's aggravating trying to get the items down there before dying. There's a total of four fire lizards, I believe, but there are locations you can hide from their attacks to hit them with ranged attacks. I believe it leads to the door on the left when you fight the giant, but I believe it is locked from the other side.

I have waited sooooo long, nice job!

Nice video, gonna try the FotFG and Brume Tower skips.

Thanks for this; some stuff I'd never seen before and stuff I had wrongly assumed was patched out.

I can never get the firebomb clip to work. No matter where I stand and how I angle the camera it never works for me.

New DS2 Scholar content?? Don't mind if I do!! Thanks Phobe this is terrific- some totally new info for me

nice to see a bit of content on DS2. decided to go do some pvp tonight and I was surprised how often i was getting fights in the blood arena at 120 mill SM. people still play!

I have over 200 hours in this game and I did not know you could unlock a shortcut to the bonfire in the beginning lol

I've played all the Souls games dozens and dozens of times and I absolutely love them all, but Dark Souls 2 is still by far my favorite.

tumble buff, spell casting swap and stance swaps are still possible to do

Was waiting on this one 🔥🔥

Shout out to YT to recommending this video to when I’ve just started my first blind thru all three DS games! 🙏🏽

DS2 was my introduction to the series so will forever hold a special place in my heart. Plus i like how stamina actually mattered and you couldn't just infinitely spam roll like in the other games and BB. everything felt slower and more meaningful and had more weight, but also just the music in Majula will never not give me nerd chills. I love it so much i'll just have it on in the background whilst i go to sleep or am playing other stuff. It's so nice, and also reminds me of that time when i was first discovering souls games as a pc only player. Bearer Seek Seek Lest!

Ds2 is my favorite. Always will be.

What are the odds that you upload a glitch video on this game the same week I start playing it for the first time? Crazy, man

I didn’t know about the forest of fallen giants shortcut but I guess that’s the beauty of dark souls there’s always something new to learn

I saw this exact character as a ghost in my game just now

This game is so good. I don’t know why anyone hates it. The only downfall is some unmemorable bosses, but other then that, great game. A slight remake could make it amazing if they make the bosses more memorable by putting in a greater soundtrack

Is it possible to get the souls from the pursuer quick kill, but not the items? because I never got the ring of blades or his soul consumable so I assumed I was too slow (ran out of endurance while sprinting) - but I also have 10k souls and I don't know where they came from

Really neat glitches. I might use that Brightbug one on a later playthrough 😅

I will continue to stand my ground as the only person who’s favourite souls game is DS2. EDIT: So, change of plans. Elden Ring kinda came out, and it’s easily the best game I’ve ever played.

malentia restocks her bight bugs every time you get a great soul, however the restock will replace what's left of her current stock, so you can potentially get twelve or fifteen bright bugs from her if you keep buying them before each great soul.

I've never been able to do the Pursuer glitch. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I never seem to be fast enough to get back to the bonfire. Even when I'm naked

Keyboard and Mouse glitch here. You can turn a low use spell into a high use one. (Or the reverse...?) Select your spell, then warp anywhere. But then right click the screen, the right spots would be unlocked areas. It should show "back." Select, then go back to the attune spells screen. And highlight another spell. Just as soon as the loading screen happens, if you confirm your change, you'll spawn with your spell usages swapped, but you'll have, for example, 30 forbidden suns by 'swapping' it with Soul Arrow. It'll last up until you quit the game. So it unfortunately won't work with the brightbug glitch since that requires quitting out, and for this one you must not quit out.

Yay, more glitches!

Windmills is ridiculously underrated

Very informative, didn’t know any of these, and just ended a run like a week ago.

just to add one more, you can prevent fume knight from entering 2nd phase if you time your estus usage properly

you can also count 7 steps from the dragonrider! but you have to cut a close angle next to the edge to make it work. that's how I usually do it

Wow how tight is the timing on that pursuer quick kill? I've been trying it but it doesn't seem to go through Edit: It's pretty tight. If you're a relatively low stamina class (like cleric) you'll probably need to try a few times to make it)

Even if i knew all tis glitches except for one, really good video man, keep doing this becouse is amazing

I would love a second part, very good video

amazing stuff, man, I have more than 500 hours in this game and I still learned a lot of things here

I like all Dark Souls games but the second one is my favorite by far. Best PvP, more weapons, more spells, more consumable items, most replay value, etc etc.

Awesome content man!

A fun thing about DS2 is that it's the only game in the series that has no instakill limit on fall distance, so you can theoretically survive any fall as long as it isn't the usual instakill from falling into a pit.

DS2 will always be my favorite of the series. It had so much charm and potential

Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Glitch

there is a glitch allowing you to have more casts of any spell when you have a spell like forbidden sun that takes 3 slots and has 1 cast at base, you can glitch it to take 1 slot and have 30 casts, you do need a mouse for it though 1. attune the spell you want to increase the casts of 2. fast travel somewhere (you can fast travel to the same location you are already in) 3. during the fade out right click with the mouse it should pop up the back option, after clicking that option you will see the bonfire resting menu again 4. click the attune spell option and then the spell you have attuned 5. there is a flash of the screen after the fade out finishes, during that flash select a spell like soul arrow (that has 1 slot and 30 casts) to switch the forbidden sun 6. once the loading screen finishes (from the fast travel) you should have 30 casts of forbidden sun and it should appear in the attune menu as soul arrow after the glitch going in the menu and equipping another soul arrow will work to increase the casts to 60 and so on (yes you can have infinite forbidden suns) it works with any combination of spells it will last until you either die or quit the game i think ymfah has a video where he shows how to do it

The very first glitch you can do is hotboxes.

Pursuer is the coolest and one of the most memorable bosses in the entire series in my opinion, with the Gwyn and Sif close second.

This is really cool! I love all of your glitches videos, especially of the souls series. But, is the dragonrider falling off the platform really considered a glitch? It's so easy it almost seems like an intended way of beating him.

Great video, subbed 👍

“You know the giant hole in Majula? It sucks!” Preach brother preach

Nice! Can't wait for DS3

DS2 is my favorite of the three 🥺

I saw Distortion do a jump in Brume Tower once, from one platform to a lower one by lining up with a bow and then running and plunge attacking. That was from just below the first bonfire inside the tower to an intermediate platform, and then they turned and jumped down to the main floor where you use the Scorching Iron Sceptre. Took less than ten seconds to go from the higher platform to the Foyer level. Not a glitch, I guess, but still cool

I remember the first time i played DS2 and i also unlocked the shortcut in the church, but for some reason with a spear thrust? - I couldnt recreate it since back then but it felt so good.

I love Dark Souls 2, such a fun game.

200hrs of game and I never discovered the bombfire shortcut.

Some of the stuff I learned from this actually made Dark Souls 2 fun for me. Strangely enough though the only glitch I use is the wharfs bell. The rest is just knowledge like the butterfly set. Ph and the fire bomb clip... Still cant get it in one.

I was ready to try that pursuer glitch, cause I just hate the pursuer so much lol, anyways did the jump, no good, did it several times he never would spawn, any suggestions, do I have to kill nearby enemies, the bomb blast didnt take the wall down either. Which version is this btw?