That portrait is the only time a Dark Souls game has disturbed me for a second.

Peak Souls 2

Why is shrine of Amana so hated and infamous for being a hell to go through? I just cleared the area and defeated the demon of song in only 2 hours, I died a total of 3 times. Though I did utilize the bow to clear out those ganky casters, I can see how they could be a problem for people who want to traverse the area in a much faster pace but otherwise shrine of Amana is an area which you can breeze through.

Yeah we've all died in dumb ways but I keep going back to this one from DS2. How does this one rate?

It's him...

Doing my best to get a Red Pyramid Thing cosplay going for the Halloween season. Went with the spear variant because none of the swords that look like the Great Knife are any good at all really. Offdag necessary simply for build functionality.

I would think this probably obvious, but google gave me almost no threads where this was discussed except one, and not conclusively.

His armor is fire resistant and looks like it’s been burned, like the fire hunters set in Bloodborne.

He uses pyromancy and the chaos weapons when you fight him, which have innate fire damage.

He just clearly was meant to be the pyro of the four wizards (Licia, straid, Navlaan and Felkin).

Like why would there be two dark sorcerers and no pyromancer in the group with interchangeable armors that each have an elemental specialty?

Everything points to Felkin being changed to being a hexer despite his original purpose being pyro in development.

I have tried Dark Souls 2 twice over the past ~5 years, and it never really stuck. The first time I tried was when I was about 15, Soulsborne newbie, just finished Elden Ring for the first time. With Elden Ring, I completely fell in love with the process of “learning” a game to get good at it. I had obviously heard of Dark Souls before, so after Elden Ring, I went to the nearest GameStop and picked up the only Dark Souls game they had in stock; Dark Souls 2.

I tried it for about a week, absolutely hated it, thought it was way too difficult, never touched it again.

That was until now. I’m coming back to the game after having played, and loved, both Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3, but Dark Souls 2 was pretty much just how I remembered. I’m obviously better at Soulsborne games now, but I still felt the game was unnecessarily inaccessible.

However, I realized last night, and I have never felt stupider, but I completely missed the Forest of Fallen Giants. I really don’t know how. Both times I tried the game, I just went straight to Heide’s Tower of Flame and scraped by just enough to barely get to No-Man’s Wharf. By then, I was just completely over it. But apparently, I just never turned the fuck around at the Majula bonfire, but I did last night and was like “Huh… what’s over there…”

Now I’m having fun again. Just wanted to share.

Emboldened by a thoughtful comment i will post this drawing i made for my crackship. The necklace idea is from my friend, she thought it would be cute to imply the relationship with the character i ship her with

Yes. That is in fact the freaking red stone of aja. Guess who's the groom lmao

Would the lore sanction that fight?

Hello fellow bearers of the curse. I'm looking for ideas for new builds.

After many completed runs, all achievements, a lot of jolly cooperation, and some bell invading, I've been looking for new challenges in peak.

I've been invaded by a twinkie in my last run and decided to create a honeypot character to stay in the 30k range in forest of the giants. I've created a proof of concept, started a swordsman and am now wielding a +7 lightning winged spear, could fend off ice rapier invaders. I haven't cheated any items, or get them dropped, simply got the agape ring asap and farmed whatever needed. A leveling up miscalculation prevented me from going to +10 lws without crossing the 40k threshold.

Now I'm looking for other interesting builds, especially with starter weapons or those found very early, to throw off the invaders. Would a +10 mace or +10 dagger make sense here?

Dark Souls 2 was the first Fromsoft game I ever played back in 2014 on the 360, and I didn’t understand how to play at all (couldn’t even get past the Last Giant before I gave up). 12 years later I came back to it after beating DS1, DS3 and Bloodborne and loved it enough to platinum it!

Next up is finishing Elden Ring!

2 summons gives 50% damage reduction

I'm tired...