I'm bad so so bad. Complete muck any starting tips?

My HP bar only stays at half way I don't know why.

wasn't me

This work with 2 sword build?

human effigy fixes that

Heard about them . Where get?

You become a little more hollow every time you die, losing a little bit of max HP every time down to a minimum of half your normal HP.
Using a human effigy on yourself completely reverts hollowing.

You need agility for literally every build. Assuming you aren't using magic and have base level ATN, it's 20 ADP for 96 agility and 32 ADP for 105.

Beat at launch, thought it was good, but not DS1 good
Played SOTFS recently, stopped playing because of how bad it is. I'd say it's the worst in the series, but 3 is equally as bad.

Certain enemies occasionally drop them. You can also find them as treasure throughout the world.

So there rare oh nooooooo. Looks like I will just restart. The big fat fucks in armour are to blame for this.

there's a ring you can get in an early area that reduces the health loss penalty of dying, I think it's in heides tower of flame.

Wait u can set the stats at the start? If so. I'm dump

classes, my dude.

but i do remember the stats not being as self-explained as the other games. pretty sure it's just icons right?

oooo i remember now, have to press a button to be able to hover over each stat to see its description.

so classes only determine your starting equipment and starting stats, other than that you can become anything you want later on in the game.

I wouldn't restart though, there should be enough effigies to get you going comfortably and you can level up anything you want and create whatever build you want.

So if I pick a sword user. Am I exempt from using magic sticks?

I'd tough it out, but that's up to you. Also what this guy said Only insofar as you can choose your class. Everyone but Explorer, Sorcerer, Bandit, and Cleric have base level ADP.

No. Your starting class only determines your starting stats and equipment, you can go anywhere you want from there.

I guess so I could just farm the weaker enemy's.

Game kinda reminds me of supermeat boy. I have to die a million times to get it.

Learn to fight without lock-on.

iframes?

Are you in the company of heros covenant? I joined it without realizing what it did my first time and got my shit pushed in the entire game.

Ye it's made me fall to me death many times

..... Yep XD I didn't know what it so Isigned up. What is it a curse u can get off?

invincibility frames, when you roll in dark souls, for a few frames mid roll you're invincible, those frames are called i-frames, so if you time your roll right as you're getting hit, you can negate all damage.

now demons souls, dark souls 1, 3 and Bloodborne have a fixed, and generous, amount of i-frames, in dark souls 2 however, you have less when you first start the game and you increase it by leveling up the adaptability and attunement stats, adaptability moreso than attunement.

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Rolling makes you invincible for a short amount of time, that's called iframes. See iframes are important because they let you dodge dangerous attacks that might be disadvantageous or even impossible to block with a shield.

What is even so good about DS1 when you leave out interconnectivity

you can leave the covenant at the cat npc in majula, or by joining another covenant, company of heroes is basically hard mode, not recommended for first time players.

Go to Sweet Shalquoir (the cat) in Majula and select the option to abandon covenant. There's no penalty for doing so.

lul its a covenant you can talk to the cat in majula to leave it, it makes enemies and bosses have more health, do more damage and take less damage from your attacks. Youre essentially playing on hard mode thats why youre having such a hard time.

Bruh a cat . What XD. This is like a anime

Infuse a straightsword with the starting gift fire gem.
Put stats only into Vigor until 27 and Endurance until 30.
Don‘t level Vitality, ever.
Level STR/DEX/FAI/INT after HP and Stamina are no longer a problem.
Get a shield with 100% Phys block.

Is there other forms of dodging. Like shiming or side steps?

nigga this is dark souls 2

Is blocking necessary or can u play by being a dodge master

This is a terrible idea, don't do any of this.
ADP should always be your first priority in a build.

don't listen to this , his advice is terrible and he's talking about s different game all together (still terrible advice for the other game)

Kek

Combat design, enemy placement. Some bullshit is included (anor londo archers, capra demon, bed of chaos) but mostly it's on point and the reason for dark souls being regarded as hard but fair. I only realized how good it was when I played through ds2 sotfs, especially when comparing it to Black Gulch which places 2-3 invasions in an area with so many environmental threats, and the enemy-ridden bullshit areas Iron Keep and Shrine of Amana

There's a backstep but it's not that great compared to rolling.

You can absolutely clear the game by dodging everything with no shield. You shouldn't try to do that as a new player though.

And parry?

Unrelated but I love Alonne knights. Its a nice mix of good ol' plate armor and asian armor
While ADP helps quickly falls off. Sounds odd but get strike weapons, many enemies in this game are armored knights and really helps

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Not worth it unless you know what you're doing, or you're using one of the specialized parrying shields AND you know what you're doing.

Think I got enough tips thanks.
The YouTubers just wank the game of instead of explaining shit

kek, well I'd say it's good that you started with 2, otherwise you'd hate it for sure, but be sure to play the other games afterwards.

Don't worry I will

Level up Adaptability so your dodgerolls don't suck. I think around 20ish points of ADP / 93 AGI your rolls are acceptable. Blunt damage is pretty strong so regular mace goes a long way. If you're a dexfag, powerstanced rapiers also fuck shit up.

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>start with the worst in the series
Good luck.

play dark souls 3 then bloodborne. Then dark souls 1 if you want to. Zoomers can't stomach des, ds1 and ds2 because of the jank.

>offense
12 dex, rapier, leo ring, ring of blades
>defense
88 or 92 agility, 27 vit

27 vit will get you to the bottom of majula's well. Roll iframes are based on agility. Having more iframes means you can roll through larger and slower attacks. 88, 92, 96, 99, 105 are the agility values that give more iframes. The rapier with rings will kill just about anything in the game quickly and doesn't need to be supported with stat pumping.

Well if you start with the worst of the series then it's uphill from there honestly. Even though DeS might be the mechanically worst / jankiest game out of them all.

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I've beat DS2 the most. it's the worst game in the franchise. it's also piss easy once you compensate for all the broken shit that doesn't work how it should.

he wont manage to complete ds2 because its hard as fuck for the wrong reasons.

nah I believe in OP, he just needs to persevere a bit and he'll get it done easily.

I want to play as a SPEAR bro, what is the faster way of get a spear

It's not that hard... But I lost interest in Souls for around a year because I got bored of Dark Souls 2. I went back to it and finished it before Bloodborne but it felt like an emulation of Dark Souls rather than an actual sequel. But thankfully it was an exception rather than a new norm for FromSoft. It's not terrible or completely worthless but....yeah.

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>But thankfully it was an exception rather than a new norm for FromSoft
Ahem.

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Sekiro was a great game. Not flawless but I enjoyed it greatly.

what? sekiro is amazing, in fact, non-sequels are the best from games, DeS, DaS, BB and Sekiro.

You can buy a spear from the blacksmith in Majula, the guys in Forest of Fallen Giants also drop a different spear and you can find a halberd as a treasure there too.

Its literally DS 2: 2 sweetie

I like Sekiro but I want a true Tenchu and a Kuon game, heck in fact they can reuse pretty much everything in Sekiro

>feudal jap setting and mechanics for Tenchu
>the bug monsters for Kuon

What boss is giving you trouble? I’m sorta getting the hang of it, but I can still improve.

>sweetie
haha, you totally showed them