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It’s widely believed that the Last Giant is the Giant Lord, so I made this for fun
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It’s widely believed that the Last Giant is the Giant Lord, so I made this for fun

u/KhanDarkSouls — 15 hours ago

Where did I get this miracle from??

I was looking through my spells and found "Emit force" among them, but I never bought this, the miracle merchant doesn't even sell it. Did I get it for leveling up faith? Do I unlock new miracles at certain faith levels??

u/mdtpdsparkls — 6 hours ago
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This is by far the most toxic thing in the game so far

u/Skyanu — 12 hours ago

How the hell did I die more times to smelter demon then to the old iron king where I needed to max my mace and i run out off human effigy's and to use npc summo to kill him, where I killed iron king the first try without any summons (also question is aldia supposed appire in the og version of DS2?

u/Novel-Remove-2068 — 9 hours ago
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Is this hp decrease permanent??

I've noticed my hp getting lower whenever I die, but I don't know how to fix it? Is there a way to fix it?

u/mdtpdsparkls — 20 hours ago
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There’s aura farming. And then there’s this.

I’m not just talking DS2.

In fact I’m not even talking just FromSoft.

This dude just has it.

u/Soulsliken — 15 hours ago
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Is DS2 Lighting Engine Path Tracing Worth It? | Vanilla vs Path Tracing Side by Side Comparison

DS2 Lighting Engine Path Tracing (BETA) removes almost all fake lights in Dark Souls 2 SotFS, replacing the original flat lighting with real-time path traced illumination that makes every torch, ember and light source behave physically accurately. Native HDR is fully supported, torches and light-producing items become genuinely essential in darker areas, and DLSS and FSR4 handle the performance demands of real-time path tracing at 4K.

This comparison covers multiple locations across Dark Souls 2 to give the most complete picture of what path tracing actually changes in practice, from outdoor environments and interior dungeons to boss arenas and lighting edge cases where the difference is most dramatic.

I'm also making a couple of videos comparing HDR and Lighting Engine HDR, as well as a special video comparing the vanilla game and E3 colour grading (my personal favourite).

So, which version do you guys like the most? What a time to be a fan of Peak Souls 2! :)

P.S. Please remember that this mod is currently in Beta, so it is subject to improvements and changes.

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u/LumenHDR — 11 hours ago
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Why is this happening, rigth at the end...

Context: I've got 99h and I'm about to 100% the game, im in ng+2 with Chancellor wellager for the 2 miracles and the pyromancy im missing and I in fact did buy those, the thing is I DID NOT GET MY ACHIEVEMENTS! I really don't understand why, is my file corrupted was i offline when it happened (pretty sure I wasn't) like what happend???

u/CommercialNo2134 — 19 hours ago
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Just beat DS1 today, now moving onto DS2.

I played little bit of this game like a year ago, and by a little I mean I only have a few hours in it. So I've basically forgotten everything about it. But I must say this game is so much prettier, it looks and feels a lot nicer. And the UI/Menus feels so much better to sift through.

Wish me luck on my first playthrough! And leave anymore tips that you can think of for a beginner XD

u/mdtpdsparkls — 1 day ago

My understanding of Elana's lore.

Everyone already knows the story of the four daughters of darkness; they are all fragments of Manus, born from his death, taking the form of human women and allying themselves (or at least attempting to) with some king in the past.

However, it's noticeable how each one represents an aspect of humanity, and all have almost clear objectives.

Nashandra was the smallest of the fragments and sought precisely what she lacked, power; she represents ambition.

Nadalia searched for a king, but he had long since disappeared by the time she arrived, so she clung to what she had of him, his tower, his relics. Nadalia represents solitude.

Alsanna directly states that she represents her father's fears; when the fragments were separated, she felt she would disappear, but she found a comfortable place to stay beside the ivory king.

And we have Elana representing Wrath... and that's all :D.

Okay, she sings to the dragon Sinh, amassing souls for the coming day of vengeance. But vengeance against whom? Against the Drakeblood Knights for attacking the dragon? Okay, that would make sense if the Knights weren't in such a deplorable state now; their leader died attacking Sinh, and the rest must have died thanks to the poison cloud that engulfed the town. The few survivors have all turned Hollow.

Elana is supposed to represent Wrath, so it doesn't make much sense to me that she only demonstrates this after all the chaos has happened, while her sisters demonstrate their aspects all the time.

Wrath and common anger are not the same thing. Wrath is linked to something more divine, just, or that there is a reason for it to happen.

What I'm starting to believe is that Elana always wanted this to happen in the first place, and this is her vengeance.

The descriptions say that when the Drakeblood Knights' leader's spear pierced the dragon's chest, the poison that had accumulated inside gushed out, poisoning all of Shulva but purifying the dragon. If the dragon was purified, that means the poison was never its own, so how did that poison end up on it?

The Sunken King created this city to worship the Dragon, and all methods of defense, including the soldiers, were created to stop the Drakeblood Knights, as they believed that dragon's blood would allow them to transcend existence.

The way this is handled leads us to understand that the attack described wasn't the only one. Attacking and killing dragons isn't new in Dark Souls; if there's a dragon, there will always be someone wanting to kill it.

I think Elana already knew this, and that's exactly why she's here. It's never said where she came from, when she appeared, or what she wants. She just popped up in Shulva's story out of nowhere.

I believe she came to these lands precisely because she already knew of Shulva's conflict against the Drakeblood Knights. She gained the Sunken King's trust and became a priestess of the sanctuary, singing to the sleeping dragon, but secretly accumulating poison within its heart.

If the dragon were attacked, the poison would spray directly onto the attackers, completely decimating them; and considering the pattern of events this would happen sooner or later.

Since Elana is the "augur" of Wrath, daughter of the abyss and the "Squalid Queen" this is probably exactly what she wants; Shulva's fate is merely a consequence, irrelevant to her plans as long as she delivers what she intends to

The Sunken King ends up being just a victim of a stray bullet in this story, or a means to an end for Elana, since he only made things easier for her, and I doubt she really cared about him.

u/Goodhunter465 — 3 hours ago
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I managed to farm the full Mad Warrior set.

I’m replaying Dark Souls II with the goal of collecting all the armor sets I think are cool. It’s been pretty challenging so far. At the moment, I’m trying to get the Monastery Set, and I believe this one is the hardest.

Any tips on how to speed up the process?

u/flxwvr_boy — 22 hours ago

What does this remind you of?

I’m not sure when this memorial was erected but DS often draws from real things. Mostly.

It’s a war memorial to Russian dead I think, in Lambeth, London, near the imperial war museum.

u/davodot — 9 hours ago
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The feeling of being cursed 1000 times while you're already hollow

I apologize, basilisks, but my skill issue got in the way first

u/tsukitemi — 18 hours ago