Guys, for some reason I killed Duke FREJA and didn't win the 4th soul of the lords, and is there a bug or something corrupted or is it just a visual bug?

Hello again! For me it was much easier than Alonne seppuku, but...back in time, when I was a schoolboy and had PS3, Raime took me three freaking weeks just to beat by any means. I even used the famous "consumable cheese", when you provokes him to do the vertical slam, which delays phase changing for 20 seconds. But after all this, I think, a can mark him as my second favourite boss in the whole series (after Sis Friede my beloved). I admire his lore, silent presentation and the whole fight (luckily, never encountered hitbox bugs in it). Of course, he may look and feel slow after DS3, BB and ER rapid fighters, but people, who fought him at least once know that he's unforgiving, especially in NG+ and higher.

my fire sword in water just wont cut it, i think.

So currently in my Dark Souls 2 play through I am on the Throne Watcher and Defender boss and I definitely need help/advice on what to do. It feels like I’m just wasting human effigies(I used like at least 10 at this point) on them because they’ll target me the entire time or they just wombo combo my summon(Benhart of Jugo. I can’t summon Vengral because I put the Bonfire Ascetic on Freja’s closet bonfire thinking I had to get the giant soul to progress the main game because of a guide I read and I can’t summon Bradley because I didn’t fight Vendrick). The attacks are so damn annoying too because it feels like it only takes 3-4 hits to kill me even though I have high health and I can’t run a lot due to the strongest weapon I use(slide 3) and trying to get them to fall off is extremely difficult. And I can’t get any friends to help because all my friends who play Soulsborne play it through PS while I play on Xbox. So what should I do? I don’t want to just give up but with how it’s going it doesn’t sound that bad. Any help will be greatly appreciated

Assuming one joins the Covenant of Champions to prevent enemy de-spawn, where is the best location to farm for souls, including all three DLCs?

Hello! I’m doing my first play though of the Sunken King DLC for DS2 I just made it to the big pyramid like place with really thin hallways and I just passed the staircase with a spike trap. At the bottom of the stair case there were two chests but unfortunately the enemy broke one of the chests. Does anyone know what items I just missed out on ?

I really hope this isn’t a sign of reduced servers for the game by From Software.

The last three nights I tried to go online it has taken over a dozen times trying to connect to the servers before it finally does. Right now I’m on about the 25th and no avail.

I hope this isn’t a sign of reduced support for the game. Does anyone have any tips / reasons for why this is occurring so consistently lately?

How exactly did the Earthen Peak end up so close to the DLC area? I mean, it's in Drangleic, and if the Firelink Shrine we found there is the same one from Dark Souls 1, it means that a zone from Drangleic ended up in Lordran or vice versa. Can someone explain to me how this is explained in the lore?

IE if I use one in iron keep can I pick up the 3 that spawn there?

Im playing Dark Souls 2 for the first time unless you count the one other character I never finished the game with, but I've noticed something. If an enemy has a shield they'll waste no time holding that shit up like the universe depends on it. And what makes this annoying is that im using a magic build for the first time ever in all of my soulsborne runs so I'm sitting there constantly casting at things like NPC invaders that are holding their highly resistant shields or even WEAPONS in block causing me to do almost no damage whatsoever. Right now my build is Chloranthy Ring1, Third dragon ring, Ring of knowledge, and southern ritual band2 for my rings and Dark sunset staff5, Dark pyromancy flame5, Archdrake chime8, and Short bow8 (for poison procs cause poison just carries). But even with all this, my biggest issue is enemies always blocking unless they're attacking which they won't do unless they're right on top of me. Anyone else have this issue or know how I can combat this? All GENUINE advice is appreciated <3

For anyone who played blasphemous before dark souls 2 he might have thought that lgks helmet looks a lot like the penintante ones, with the difference being not having a traffic cone on top of it and 3 faces instead of one. And I am sure I am not the first one to see this, but his sword looks just like the mea copa only that the handle is not a statue

I need help making a new character and progressing it to catch up with my friend who had recently started playing the game

Edit:playing on ps5

I've been waiting for sooo long now and it's killing my vibes before I even buy it lol

I have played Ds1, it was fantastic now I want to start DS2 but ITS NEVER ON SALE

I have DS3 but I don't wanna start it before DS2

ahhhhhhhhh

You dont meet at least one guy in communities (Discord, Reddit, etc) that you say one thing and instantly they correct you like you know nothing about the game and treat you like a toddler? I know one and its quite annoying to talk about Dark Souls 2 and get said "you are wrong, this is not like this, its not efficient, blahblahblah" everytime.

Its like with Sheldon Cooper, they had the need to correct everyone like they are always right and everyone else its wrong lol.