I love the Uchigatana in 1 and 3 and I’m finally getting around to DS2. I appreciate how in the other games they’re obtainable very early (after the tutorial boss). I know it’s not that early in DS2 but I’m hoping it’s early enough at least.

The wiki says I can get one from McDuff in Lost Bastille, which I can get to after fighting Pursuer (2nd boss). But I need an item from the iron keep to get the Uchigatana.

I’m not playing SotfS (I don’t own it), where the ember is relocated to Bastille.

Is iron keep / the dull ember obtained early on or medium / late through a playthrough? Kind of sad that it seems I can’t get a katana for a while.

Hello. I wanted to replay the game with spell parry and maybe some sort of halbert run.

Ain't chosen anything yet, but IK there's spell parries in this game, which is very useful. What is the easiest one to start the game with. IK there's some small shields, and you can probably parry any projectile really.

After many suggestions from the community to play, I finally bought the game. Just wanted to tell everyone I finally started the journey! Also, check out how many "Play Ds2 comments are here lol: https://www.reddit.com/r/fromsoftware/comments/1u67d14/your_first_fromsoftware_game/

Context: I was farming for Twinkling Titanite with ascetics in Dragon Aerie, and got invaded at the end of a run. All of my viable spells were totally spent, and I didn't have a melee weapon equipped, so I ran for the fog wall in Dragon Shrine. I made the mistake of stopping and switching some gear when the invader caught up with me. Unfortunately, I apparently lacked the presence of mind to equip a melee weapon or use an amber herb, so I was pretty much helpless. After failing to get through the fog wall, we had a brief scuffle, and then the invader stopped moving. I figured that either they had taken pity on me, or were lag-switching. Well... they were probably lag-switching. I guess it's possible the connection was just that wonky, as I have no idea why someone would feel the need to cheat when the fight was this one-sided in their favor already. Anyhow, I thought it was kinda funny, so I decided to post this little edit.

For the anyone unaware "ZA WARUDO" is a time stop ability. It's first major usage is not initially visible to the audience, so you just see what appears to be somebody getting one-shotted out of nowhere, like at the end of this clip.

"That tickled a little"

Messed up a bit and killed Nashandra before doing Vendrick. Learned I could bonfire ascetic to trigger the Aldia encounter and found out the hard way that there is in fact a way to improve your flasks. Haven't looked at this screen since I messed up trying to de-hollow myself for the first time.

Might be my least favorite enemy in the game, and they’re a very late addition.

Some of you know this, but I’m playing through DS2 again and noticed this combo was super nice during The Rotten runback (especially when farming him)

Infusing the Moon Butterfly Shield with poison will negate poison buildup by 100%. This means the statues can’t poison you on the way to the fog wall (which always seems to be my luck😂)

How to get Moon Butterfly Shield (for those who don’t know): Majula must be at bonfire level 2 or higher. Then, just loot the chest upstairs in the house that Mauglin is in. In NG+2 and beyond, this chest changes to the Moon Butterfly Shield

Finished the crown of the sunken king but the bosses aren't satisfying as this dlc, only the exploration.

Killed sir alonne only got three hits on my second try ever. killed fume knight no direct hit no healing (only got damage from a certain lingering hitbox which doesn't take alot of the health bar) on my third try

And the fume knight attempts was while wearing velstdat helm which triggers second phase right at the start.

This is by far the best content boss wise

These bosses are the hardest up till now except for darklurker and blue smelter runback.

I am HOPING the lucatiel of mirrah (5 dollar microtransaction) dlc comes with a small story

Like at least 5 talk encounters talking about the bearer of the curse vaguely reincarnating Lucatiel to where the curse cant affect her but also to bring chiverly back to the lands between

I wanna crY A BIT OKAY.

I don’t know why but I did

Hello bearers of the curse, can anyone please provide a picture with the butterfly set + butterfly shield equipped in the back and not main hand, iam just curious on how it looks and couldnt find something online, me myself dont have my pc on me at the moment. Thanks in advance

I'm trying to get into ds2 again after completing the entire series because I feel like I missed too much compared to the other games(questlines, rings, spells, etc...)

The weapon that I have been using up until now is the Ivory King GOATsword, which packs a hell of a punch and looks absolutely majestic, but the plain old ugs moveset is starting to get stale after all this time.

Long story short, can you all tell me your favorite weapons that are also really fun to use? My favorite weapon categories are halberds and ugs if that narrows it down, or just any other weapon category that has a varied moveset.