The lore of the two Smelter Demons is actually quite simple: The red Smelter Demon was a creation of the Old Iron King, when he succumb to his hubris and desire to bring life to husks of Iron. Unfortunately, the creation turned on the master and was the reason behind the Kings decent into the lava lake. But the blue Smelter demon was created for an entirely new, fasinating purpose...to fufill a DLC price quota. Hope this helps!
Nah, he has lore. He was one of the first puppets of the Old Iron King, and was placed there to stop people of trying to steal the iron with which he was creating his weapons, armors and whatnot. That's why the runback is so painful, all the enemies there are protecting the iron. I mean it's not good lore but he has... I like DS2 ok?
@@hlb99feel you bro 😂 Also... yeah... that's literally what it is, it's not profound but it's logical so have a SMELTER demon (that was the blueprint -pun intended- for the new demon) near the forge lol
@@hlb99honestly, if there is a lore reason for something it softens the blow of a painful game experience. Blue Smelter Demon runback was the worst part of that DLC but at least there is a logical lore reason for it even if they could have made a new golem type enemy for it.
@omnipresentl1316 Honestly on my most recent playthrough Alonne was far worse. On my second try at blue smelter I was able to run past everything somehow, only stopping to dodge a couple attacks. I was expecting it to be significantly worse so it was a pleasant surprise.
Poise is tied to the lowest of Endurance and Adaptability and it goes by 0.3 for every point in the lowest stat until you hit 30 and then it hits the first soft cap and increase by 0.2 until you hit 50 and 0.1 afterwards. That's why poise is highlighted since adaptability does affect it. It just doesn't rise since like dark damage it scales with the lower of the two stats.
I personally like one-stat runs more than plain old lv1 runs. You just get more than "find this item that boosts you stats enough you can somehow survive". Watching all those GinoMachino videos where he levels only on stat in Elden Ring and what builds he can make out of it was very enjoyable
Yeah, it's fun leveling one stat to the max and seeing what you can do with it. Unfortunately resistance in ds1 and ADP in ds2 don't let you change builds because they don't effect weapon stats (tbf I guess you could play around with poison in ds2, which is broken, because ADP raises the damage from it but actual weapon changes are still a no)
I mean, that's still an opinion (based on one's preference), so there's little to argue about. Being "worst of the dark souls" means still being better than 90% of games out there, which is different from someone saying "ds2 bad" (which objectively isn't). People on this channel might be cultured enough to know the difference 🎩 (also, we're mostly here or on your channel to laugh, not to jump at each other's throat lol)
I'm gonna be honest, I think the idea behind connecting the i-frames to a stat was kinda cool. Resistance was absolutely useless in DS1, so they tried to make it useful by tying it to i-frames in agility. Unfortunately, they took away too many i-frames trying to balance it, and we got this. If we had 3 more base i-frames, it wouldn't be anywhere near as bad.
DS2 was so close to being a masterpiece and yet so far. So many original ideas, but so poorly or inconsistently executed. Great run, doom! Keep em coming
@@Eo-ms3kw off the top of my head, more generous with souls / higher level cap; power-stancing weapons; the wider variety of environments; including +1/+2/+3 versions of rings in the same playthrough
@@Eo-ms3kw I think the light mechanic as well. In elden ring there are many areas that are nearly impossible to see anything without a torch or lantern. DS2 tried to do that too
@@DoomWolfOfficialYazmania is a UA-camr that uses specific weapons usually suggested by his community for playthroughs making them as OP as possible. Also he plays EXCLUSIVELY on 1.5x speed at all times on a controller.
This is what I expect my friends to do when I tell them they need to level ADP. My review for DS2 is literally a jab at one of my friends who never leveled ADP the entire game
eh, its as necessary as you want it to be. like any change in s from weight ratio in other games, adjusting roll timings accordingly is up to the player to nail down. i generally play at 9 adp which i think is like 88agi. and its perfectly adequate for beating everything. but i dont say this to mean "im so good i dont need adp". it is just, like anything else, a case where you adjust to your circumstances. i have a shorter window than i would otherwise, so i play accordingly. i dont feel obligated to pump 30+ adp because i know it's more than possible to do without through reasonable means of learning like any other. but that option still exists for people who dont feel the same
DS2 walk so Elden Ring could run, Miyazaki himself said it. Keep pumping up the DS2 content is my favorite souls. Love your videos even when you are incorrect about being the worst souls.
You know what's funny? Dodging in Dark Souls 2 never bothered me because before discovering Souls I no-lifed the crap out of Monster Hunter. And old Monster Hunter games (without evasion skills, which were unused by my characters because I like damage) had slightly less s per evade than Dark Souls 2 with minimal agility. I got good before it was a thing haha.
To be honest, I clicked this video with all the enthusiasm reserved explicitly for the winner of the "what to watch during dinner after browsing for 3 hours" award and hadn't really considered that this is just SL1 with extra steps till you yourself mentioned it. 😅
I am one of the few that actually likes DS2. I has a lot of flawes but also a lot of nice quirks. Like you level ADP and you max health goes up as well.
I mean, I said "and that's coming from someone that likes dark souls 2" so i'm with you also, I don't think ADP causes Max health to raise? or if it does, it's by like...half a point every time lol
Health goes up with almost anything you level up in ds2, even str or Dex. That's why even if, as someone around the internet always says, you have to "waste" or forcibly put levels in ADP you still gain something else, like HPs. It's really a cool payoff in my opinion.
Noo, my notifications failed me! late to the vid but worth the wait. Loved the run! You've been stepping up your writing game, commentary was fantastic on this one. Looking forward to the next one!
Here I was thinking about how an adp only run for a video series and you come out with an amazing video as always. Now I can ait back and watch your "fun" time playing it 🎉
@@DoomWolfOfficial I would do it but I am not good at editing videos like toy and so many other challenge runners so it probably would be a series of videos instead of just one 🤣
funnily enough Mace is one of those weapons you get early and think that you will switch it off but end up never doing it cuz its superior in every way.
For iron passage you can just use Yearn and trivialize the runback. Granted that on sl1 you'd need the ring of knowledge and the southern ritual band, plus some simpleton's spices but if you don't want to use savestates there's that
Isnt this just SL1 with extra steps? (For the algorithm) Call, calling DS2 the objectively worst souls game? All that ADP cant let you dodge your parent's disappointment that you said that.
Next, magic run with base INT/FTH only level attunement - bonus INT/FTH only come from items and consumables - use spices for high level spell/miracle/hex/pyro - can only use spells Role-playingly a character who is highly attuned to magic but somehow the level of intellect and piety don't match it
"This place is actually the 9th level of hell" Wait what? I thought it was pretty common that Frozen Eleum Loyce (the castle bit at the very least) is one of the coolest (excuse the pun, which is intended) I absolutely adore that DLC The only part I don't like is the part that's meant to be played co-op, but that sucks in every DLC
never forget that beating dark souls 2 gives you the greatest gift of all; watching 9 minutes of unskippable dark souls 2 credits. it was all worth it in the end
@@DoomWolfOfficial it might be scholar exclusive, iirc it shows the entirety of the credits for the scholar edition **AND THEN** the entire credits for original DS2. I think you can skip it on NG+ but not base NG, but might be completely different for original DS2 lmao
For the love of god, attunement also levels agility. It is just another stat that you have to balance in your build, and since it gives all the other bonuses, (health, defense, natural poise etc.) YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE LEVELING ONE OF THEM. You either level attunement as a spellcaster, or decide between a few small stacking bonuses that add up over time, or like 50 health immediatly. IT MAKES SENSE.
correct, it does level it, albeit at a slower rate. but this challenge (big funny air quotes next to that word, I know) was about leveling ADP so I didn't lol
Doom u know supernatural also damn it man y do u keep getting better! Doom I think your great keep up the great work don't over do it take care of your self
You say you aren't good at dark souls 2, but you play better with a horrible meme build than I do with an optimal build. It's been a while though. I know that dark souls 2 is the worst souls game, but I remember everyone loving it when it first came out. I always remember, at least my (now passed) cousin, gushing over the flexile sentry fight. Your videos inspire me to pick up dark souls 2 again, but I want to purchase the dlc first and it's not on sale rn lol. Maybe I'll revisit Elden Ring instead before the DLC comes out in like 6 weeks.
I was half joking about being bad at the game, I def die more than I show (because most of them are just not funny deaths so there is no point lol)I hope you get a chance to play it again soon, I think its the worst of the three, but not a bad game by itself haha
You're the first one to directly comment on that, and it wasn't as bad as I thought, maybe I'll come out of that comment unscathed (death come on swift wings tomorrow I am sure lmao)
Something *can* be objectively worse or better than something else. You can subjectively enjoy something more than something else, but the objective quality of a product will remain the same. It's how progress is made: you strive to better your craft. And if you are going to say I'm wrong, then let me point you to something like The Room. People enjoy watching the film, but it is terrible from an objective standpoint, there's a lot it gets wrong. There are objectively better movies as far as vraft, execution, production values go, but folks may not enjoy them as much.
Hey Doom, potential challenge run idea - ‘Can You Beat Elden Ring With Only Shield Bash’? Pretty simple, all you do is have a shield at all times and can only deal damage with the ash of war, all other bets are off Or, if you’re wanting to particularly hate yourself today, ‘Can You Beat Elden Ring With Only Carriage Rewards’? This means that you literally cannot use anything that doesn’t drop from a carriage chest. This includes healing flasks and smithing stones (at least, I think there aren’t any carriages that drop smithing stones). I’d say the only silver lining is that because IIRC the St. Trina’s Torch drops from a carriage so the Godskin Duo won’t be a complete pain in the ass
6:01 “one last thing to do is upgrade rapier a bit more” “I take out this crystal liz…. I take out this crystal liz…” “I take out this crystal SHITHEAD” 😂😂😂😂😂 CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD💀
I'm honestly not sure it would have been that much better, I showed the difference for drinking estus and it's only slightly faster, assuming other consumables have the same animation speed increase I likely wouldn't have noticed lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial yeah when you reached 99 adp and demonstrates the estua flask drink speed…they def could have implemented agility a bit better. Although even without max adp throwing knives and hexing urns are actually pretty strong
Fun fact raising ADP after a certain point gives you Immunity Frames past the normal limit of 110 through 120. Having Agility past 120 makes it possible to literally dodge roll through an enemy attack that should not be normally possible.
Hey I just got my platinum in Elden ring and I was thinking about you and how you make these videos. I was completely exhausted when I completed my platinum and it took me 3 playthroughs(I can’t back up data to the cloud like most people so that I could get the different endings on one playthrough). So I just kept wondering how in the world you manage to play these games from start to finish over and over without getting tired of it?😅seems like it would be stressful
It's a combination of loving the games, and being patient/stubborn lol It's also fun to do silly runs like this because like "sure of course I can do it...but what's it gonna be like to do so??" And I enjoy the journey
I’m obviously not the vid publisher, but I’m someone who plays these games year round. I’m pretty much always playing a souls game along side the newer games I play. The simple fact is that after your first playthrough, you know A.)where to go, B.) at least some of each boss’movesets, and C.) how to play. Each souls game play just a little bit differently. With all those three things, subsequent playthroughs are a lot less exhausting. And you learn a little more each time so it stacks up to knowing more and more and less effort goes into each following run. Finally, there’s builds. You can learn to dodge every attack and use dual wield builds. You can tank attacks with heavy armor, poise, and great shields. You can make a magic caster. Each plays by the rules a little differently so it stays fresh.
When you think about WandD is the most fair duo fight in every souls and souls like made by from unlike OandS, the twin princes, and godskin duo one isn't a glitchy mess and there's no projectile spam.
14:10 - aha, you have clearly not met Yazmania yet! He truly DOES love fighting Darklurker! Honestly, tho, not sure how he feels about the run-up, he always cuts out that part...
A large majority of damage comes from weapon upgrades, not the skills (yes they play a part but you can have 99 in a stat and it will underperform if the weapon is +0 instead of +10). I did have a few pieces of stat boosting gear on too but overall bosses in ds2 don't have a lot of health, plus the rapier can attack relatively fast so it lobs health off
"at least it's not resistance" - Doom, before and after hating himself
Hey, can you do this run again in the covenant of champions with your fists? Thanks.
I misread it as "hanging himself" which is WAY darker but somewhat still fitting 💀
Hi! I love press continue, the back logs and jk leeds. I subbed!
The lore of the two Smelter Demons is actually quite simple:
The red Smelter Demon was a creation of the Old Iron King, when he succumb to his hubris and desire to bring life to husks of Iron. Unfortunately, the creation turned on the master and was the reason behind the Kings decent into the lava lake. But the blue Smelter demon was created for an entirely new, fasinating purpose...to fufill a DLC price quota. Hope this helps!
Lmao the blue smelter lore reason is peak
Nah, he has lore. He was one of the first puppets of the Old Iron King, and was placed there to stop people of trying to steal the iron with which he was creating his weapons, armors and whatnot. That's why the runback is so painful, all the enemies there are protecting the iron.
I mean it's not good lore but he has...
I like DS2 ok?
@@hlb99feel you bro 😂
Also... yeah... that's literally what it is, it's not profound but it's logical so have a SMELTER demon (that was the blueprint -pun intended- for the new demon) near the forge lol
@@hlb99honestly, if there is a lore reason for something it softens the blow of a painful game experience. Blue Smelter Demon runback was the worst part of that DLC but at least there is a logical lore reason for it even if they could have made a new golem type enemy for it.
@omnipresentl1316 Honestly on my most recent playthrough Alonne was far worse. On my second try at blue smelter I was able to run past everything somehow, only stopping to dodge a couple attacks. I was expecting it to be significantly worse so it was a pleasant surprise.
Poise is tied to the lowest of Endurance and Adaptability and it goes by 0.3 for every point in the lowest stat until you hit 30 and then it hits the first soft cap and increase by 0.2 until you hit 50 and 0.1 afterwards. That's why poise is highlighted since adaptability does affect it. It just doesn't rise since like dark damage it scales with the lower of the two stats.
nice, today I learned! :)
Isn't this just SL1 with extra steps?!
Ayyyy, you got it lol
SL1 but your roll is slightly better
@DoomWolfOfficial not quite though. Low adp is what you feel the most at sl1. I'd argue it actually fixes the biggest problem of ds2 sl1
@@JohnDoe-kn7ex SL1 with way better rolls. At max you have 16 I-frames compared to 9 at Lvl.1. Most other souls games have 13 for comparaison
Also every level gives you 1 or 2 HP regardless of stat.
8:20 Btw Freja's heads are knocked off by hitting them often enough, meaning if you do too much damage it's not possible.
Ahhh that explains it, I'm jsut too strong lol
I personally like one-stat runs more than plain old lv1 runs. You just get more than "find this item that boosts you stats enough you can somehow survive". Watching all those GinoMachino videos where he levels only on stat in Elden Ring and what builds he can make out of it was very enjoyable
Yeah, it's fun leveling one stat to the max and seeing what you can do with it. Unfortunately resistance in ds1 and ADP in ds2 don't let you change builds because they don't effect weapon stats (tbf I guess you could play around with poison in ds2, which is broken, because ADP raises the damage from it but actual weapon changes are still a no)
Doomwolf: "Dark Souls 2 is objectively the worst Dark Souls game"
Comments section: **unleashes nuclear explosion**
Laich in 3 2 1
surprisingly I haven't gotten any comments about that yet, must be the calm before the storm lol
@@DoomWolfOfficialSubjectively, I think you are wrong. Because I am biased.
There, happy now? :b
I mean, that's still an opinion (based on one's preference), so there's little to argue about. Being "worst of the dark souls" means still being better than 90% of games out there, which is different from someone saying "ds2 bad" (which objectively isn't).
People on this channel might be cultured enough to know the difference 🎩 (also, we're mostly here or on your channel to laugh, not to jump at each other's throat lol)
I would say there is no worst souls game, every single one is really great
I'm gonna be honest, I think the idea behind connecting the i-frames to a stat was kinda cool. Resistance was absolutely useless in DS1, so they tried to make it useful by tying it to i-frames in agility. Unfortunately, they took away too many i-frames trying to balance it, and we got this. If we had 3 more base i-frames, it wouldn't be anywhere near as bad.
Yeah I actually like it in concept but they flubbed the execution.
DS2 was so close to being a masterpiece and yet so far. So many original ideas, but so poorly or inconsistently executed. Great run, doom! Keep em coming
Part of why Elden Ring is so good- they adapted a bunch of the ideas from DS2, but had the time and resources to polish them
DS2 is great, they added a lot of cool stuff, and some..not so cool stuff but I love it none the less! Thanks!
@@MasterworkLeathercraftLike what exactly? I honestly can't think of anything Elden Ring took from ds2 and did better.
@@Eo-ms3kw off the top of my head, more generous with souls / higher level cap; power-stancing weapons; the wider variety of environments; including +1/+2/+3 versions of rings in the same playthrough
@@Eo-ms3kw I think the light mechanic as well. In elden ring there are many areas that are nearly impossible to see anything without a torch or lantern. DS2 tried to do that too
Ok, that pun about Mytha was brilliant. Love you Wolf xD
lol glad you liked it :)
Respectfully, you're the funniest youtuber I've ever watched (and this is not a joke). Thanks for making content like this and please keep doing it.
Well thanks my friend I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)
Yazmania in the background:you don't hold a 1000th of my power🗿
unfortunately i'm not sure who Yazmania is, but i can believe I dont' hold 1/1000th of their power lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial I think he's a DS2 UA-camr
@@DoomWolfOfficialDS youtuber just like yoy
@@DoomWolfOfficialYazmania is a UA-camr that uses specific weapons usually suggested by his community for playthroughs making them as OP as possible.
Also he plays EXCLUSIVELY on 1.5x speed at all times on a controller.
@@DoomWolfOfficial A complete madlad who plays DS2 at 1.5X speed, which honestly makes the game look and feel WAYYY better than before IMO
Only if I could adapt a life 😔
mood, but don't worry, you got this!
This is what I expect my friends to do when I tell them they need to level ADP.
My review for DS2 is literally a jab at one of my friends who never leveled ADP the entire game
I like how ADP isn't necessary...but it totally is especially if you wanna have a good time :P lol
eh, its as necessary as you want it to be. like any change in s from weight ratio in other games, adjusting roll timings accordingly is up to the player to nail down. i generally play at 9 adp which i think is like 88agi. and its perfectly adequate for beating everything. but i dont say this to mean "im so good i dont need adp". it is just, like anything else, a case where you adjust to your circumstances. i have a shorter window than i would otherwise, so i play accordingly. i dont feel obligated to pump 30+ adp because i know it's more than possible to do without through reasonable means of learning like any other. but that option still exists for people who dont feel the same
Thanks for the video man can't wait to see what you do next for ds2. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it my friend :)
DS2 walk so Elden Ring could run, Miyazaki himself said it.
Keep pumping up the DS2 content is my favorite souls.
Love your videos even when you are incorrect about being the worst souls.
Lol deal my friend, already got some more ideas
Ahhh the “stop trying to hit me and hit me!” Build.
100% accurate name lol
😂
You know what's funny? Dodging in Dark Souls 2 never bothered me because before discovering Souls I no-lifed the crap out of Monster Hunter. And old Monster Hunter games (without evasion skills, which were unused by my characters because I like damage) had slightly less s per evade than Dark Souls 2 with minimal agility. I got good before it was a thing haha.
nice! You laughed in in the face of ADP before it was even a thing haha
Look what youve done now i have to go rewatch supernatural again
So I did a good thing then? :P
To be honest, I clicked this video with all the enthusiasm reserved explicitly for the winner of the "what to watch during dinner after browsing for 3 hours" award and hadn't really considered that this is just SL1 with extra steps till you yourself mentioned it. 😅
Haha I'm just glad I was chosen as the dinner video, as someone who also searches for a good video to watch while eating, I am honored :)
I'm so glad I randomly found you! So much fun, gonna binge and recommend to everyone.
I appreciate it my friend, and am glad you like the videos :)
Holy shit, seeing your past videos, you've come a huge road, audio quality, video quality, sheesh, you deserve the success.
Thanks my friend, I try to improve with every video, so I'm glad you feel like I have :)
14:11 Counterpoint: Name a Covenant whose quests the fans DON'T consider busywork
Ya know what...you got me there lol
I am one of the few that actually likes DS2. I has a lot of flawes but also a lot of nice quirks. Like you level ADP and you max health goes up as well.
I mean, I said "and that's coming from someone that likes dark souls 2" so i'm with you
also, I don't think ADP causes Max health to raise? or if it does, it's by like...half a point every time lol
Health goes up with almost anything you level up in ds2, even str or Dex.
That's why even if, as someone around the internet always says, you have to "waste" or forcibly put levels in ADP you still gain something else, like HPs.
It's really a cool payoff in my opinion.
“The edgy Kingdom Hearts boss” is more correct than I thought was even possible.
Right! It's a painfully accurate description lol
"Mercyless Rowena, i've seen enough Supernatural to know where this is going" my personal fav moment of the vid ;)
Glad you liked it lol
Noo, my notifications failed me! late to the vid but worth the wait. Loved the run! You've been stepping up your writing game, commentary was fantastic on this one. Looking forward to the next one!
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks! I try to improve with every video haha
im amazed that one guy can be funny, make good videos AND still react to basically every comment on said videos. love these challenges man :)
Well I am glad that you like the videos my friend, I appreciate it :)
Here I was thinking about how an adp only run for a video series and you come out with an amazing video as always. Now I can ait back and watch your "fun" time playing it 🎉
lol yes enjoy my pain, i mean fun time :P
if you make a run of it let me know i'd love to see how other people do things!
@@DoomWolfOfficial I would do it but I am not good at editing videos like toy and so many other challenge runners so it probably would be a series of videos instead of just one 🤣
Amazing stuff. Hats off for doing all the DLCs too.
Whats next? DS3, Vitality only?
Thanks :) and I'll do DS3 luck only, eventually lol
funnily enough Mace is one of those weapons you get early and think that you will switch it off but end up never doing it cuz its superior in every way.
It does do good damage, and has great stagger potential for smaller enemies, I just can't get over the range lol
6:13 You and lizards 😅 In your DS3 one shot attempt you also had issues with the overgrown lizard to help you against Gundyr 😂
You're right, it's always the lizards lol
These little shitheads.
For iron passage you can just use Yearn and trivialize the runback. Granted that on sl1 you'd need the ring of knowledge and the southern ritual band, plus some simpleton's spices but if you don't want to use savestates there's that
hmm, never though of doing it that way, good idea!
Can't alluring skulls do the same? I use them to run through the rest of Brume Tower
@@rhysofsneezingdragon1758 Alluring skulls don't work against some enemies (like the fume sorcerer or the possessed armor)
That Rowena//Supernatural deep cut is in here just for me, isn't it? Definitely was not aware of an overlap between those fanbases haha
We are few, but strong in number lol
Isnt this just SL1 with extra steps? (For the algorithm)
Call, calling DS2 the objectively worst souls game? All that ADP cant let you dodge your parent's disappointment that you said that.
Thanks, and you're absolute correct :P lol
lmao, nice, they one shot me because I didn't through the disappointment
0:32 damn bro, you got some cake
Thanks I don't skip leg day lol
6:19 WHO HAS SUMMONED ME?!
lmao, more people have made this kinda joke than I thought they would
Next, magic run with base INT/FTH only level attunement
- bonus INT/FTH only come from items and consumables
- use spices for high level spell/miracle/hex/pyro
- can only use spells
Role-playingly a character who is highly attuned to magic but somehow the level of intellect and piety don't match it
Interesting, I like this idea!
@@DoomWolfOfficial Bandit has 1 INT the lowest of all, need 9 more to even use basic staff 😁
I've watched this video a couple of times now, and I have only just noticed the 69 souls bit.
Oh DoomWolf never change.
lol glad you got it
"This place is actually the 9th level of hell"
Wait what? I thought it was pretty common that Frozen Eleum Loyce (the castle bit at the very least) is one of the coolest (excuse the pun, which is intended)
I absolutely adore that DLC
The only part I don't like is the part that's meant to be played co-op, but that sucks in every DLC
Maybe on a normal playthrough, but when do I get to play these games normally, that's barons castle's job lol
If you no-hit,no-heal, under 5 minute Sir Alonne, You get a unique death animation where he commits seppuku
I didn't know it had to be no heal and under 5 minutes, thought it was just no hit. I did it on my SL1 video, but not here lol
bro you are so funny. this is the first video i watched in your channel and im dying😂😂
I'm glad I could make you laugh my friend :)
So basically SL1 with extra step ... sisters. 😁
wha-what are you doing step-hollow??
Fun fact the vanquisher’s seal is a ring that makes your fists better than a lot of weapons available at sl1 and has no stat requirements
Yeah, but you have to get the vanquishers seal, and even with the cheese I can't be bothered lol
Mr.ADP:"Not being known by haters until... "
Haters got nothing on mr. ADP
@@DoomWolfOfficial they don't know mr.Adp, unfortunately
never forget that beating dark souls 2 gives you the greatest gift of all; watching 9 minutes of unskippable dark souls 2 credits. it was all worth it in the end
Was that changed with sotfs? Or with the PC port? Because I am 99.9% sure I'm able to skip them lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial it might be scholar exclusive, iirc it shows the entirety of the credits for the scholar edition **AND THEN** the entire credits for original DS2. I think you can skip it on NG+ but not base NG, but might be completely different for original DS2 lmao
For the love of god, attunement also levels agility. It is just another stat that you have to balance in your build, and since it gives all the other bonuses, (health, defense, natural poise etc.) YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE LEVELING ONE OF THEM. You either level attunement as a spellcaster, or decide between a few small stacking bonuses that add up over time, or like 50 health immediatly. IT MAKES SENSE.
correct, it does level it, albeit at a slower rate.
but this challenge (big funny air quotes next to that word, I know) was about leveling ADP so I didn't lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial I know, I have no gripes about you, the comments are what's getting to me. This was actually pretty fun to watch.
Wow!! I have played through ds2 10 times or so and never realized Mytha had horns until right now
Right! It really is nice to find new things about these games haha
Doom u know supernatural also damn it man y do u keep getting better! Doom I think your great keep up the great work don't over do it take care of your self
I do, I really like the show haha, and thanks! :)
You say you aren't good at dark souls 2, but you play better with a horrible meme build than I do with an optimal build. It's been a while though. I know that dark souls 2 is the worst souls game, but I remember everyone loving it when it first came out. I always remember, at least my (now passed) cousin, gushing over the flexile sentry fight. Your videos inspire me to pick up dark souls 2 again, but I want to purchase the dlc first and it's not on sale rn lol. Maybe I'll revisit Elden Ring instead before the DLC comes out in like 6 weeks.
I was half joking about being bad at the game, I def die more than I show (because most of them are just not funny deaths so there is no point lol)I hope you get a chance to play it again soon, I think its the worst of the three, but not a bad game by itself haha
When i saw adp my firet thought went to the payroll company. It wasnt until you said adaptability that i was like 😮
lol, can I beat Dark Souls 2 while capitalist!? :P
12:26 "Smalldia" was right there! I'm disappointed.
That's a jk Leeds level of pun, and I'll never be that great lol
in response to 6:20
I'm doing great, thanks for asking :)
I wonder how The Rotten was doing, though.
PBBT, I laughed lol
Good vid once again! 👍🏼
Glad you enjoyed it my friend :)
“I’m pretty sure with a tiny bit of practice a 2 year old could hitless him”
I mean. I’ve seen a fish beat him, so.
lmaooo poor last giant
6:04 lmao, I would go insane if it happened to me.
fortunately, I lost my sanity long ago lol
@@DoomWolfOfficialdont you dare go hollow
He just said : nah I'd adapt
haha, yeah, and then at the end: nah, id win lol
12:53 funny doofenshmirtz reference lol
thanks lol
Something cannot be objectively worse or better, because "worse" and "better' are subjective metrics.
You're the first one to directly comment on that, and it wasn't as bad as I thought, maybe I'll come out of that comment unscathed (death come on swift wings tomorrow I am sure lmao)
@@DoomWolfOfficial A contradictory statement is still contradictory whether someone points it out or not.
@@unnamedmuffin muffin are you alright? I saw you commented on another comment about this and it's not really that important lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial You get rightfully called out and instead of admitting to being wrong you keep trying to dodge the issue.
Are you alright?
Something *can* be objectively worse or better than something else. You can subjectively enjoy something more than something else, but the objective quality of a product will remain the same. It's how progress is made: you strive to better your craft.
And if you are going to say I'm wrong, then let me point you to something like The Room. People enjoy watching the film, but it is terrible from an objective standpoint, there's a lot it gets wrong. There are objectively better movies as far as vraft, execution, production values go, but folks may not enjoy them as much.
Hey Doom, potential challenge run idea - ‘Can You Beat Elden Ring With Only Shield Bash’? Pretty simple, all you do is have a shield at all times and can only deal damage with the ash of war, all other bets are off
Or, if you’re wanting to particularly hate yourself today, ‘Can You Beat Elden Ring With Only Carriage Rewards’? This means that you literally cannot use anything that doesn’t drop from a carriage chest. This includes healing flasks and smithing stones (at least, I think there aren’t any carriages that drop smithing stones). I’d say the only silver lining is that because IIRC the St. Trina’s Torch drops from a carriage so the Godskin Duo won’t be a complete pain in the ass
i've done shield only, but not shield bash only, not sure how different they are, and the carriage reward one could be fun!
As the avid DS2 lover who plays it every week. . .no, we do not wake up excited about Pilgrims of the Dark.
Exactly!
6:01 “one last thing to do is upgrade rapier a bit more”
“I take out this crystal liz…. I take out this crystal liz…”
“I take out this crystal SHITHEAD” 😂😂😂😂😂 CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD💀
As long as I made you laugh :)
Doomwolf, answering humanity's hardest questions. 😅
it's for science, and not because i've lost my mind lol
7:23 man is using a fire buff against a fire boss.
still did good damage lol
Being called the worst dark Souls game is basically like winning bronze at the Olympics.
yeah! Except there are only three entries :P lol
Haven’t watched it yet but using consumables would be genius cause the animations would be quicker with the high ass agility
I'm honestly not sure it would have been that much better, I showed the difference for drinking estus and it's only slightly faster, assuming other consumables have the same animation speed increase I likely wouldn't have noticed lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial yeah when you reached 99 adp and demonstrates the estua flask drink speed…they def could have implemented agility a bit better. Although even without max adp throwing knives and hexing urns are actually pretty strong
Another masterpiece Mr. Doom. Thank you! DS2 is so goofy.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Fun fact raising ADP after a certain point gives you Immunity Frames past the normal limit of 110 through 120. Having Agility past 120 makes it possible to literally dodge roll through an enemy attack that should not be normally possible.
just the way michael zaki intended lmao
ADP? What a weird way to spell masochism
lmao, true
Nice video again, cheers from Germany
Thanks my friend:)
Bad video, again. Hatred from Germany.
It's me. The guy who likes doing pilgrims of the dark as much as I like darklurker.
I think you are the only person to say this so far, and ya know what? ...I respect it
Sending positive vibes. Looking forward to ds3 by only levelling luck.
Thanks my friend :) and soon tm lol
Got a chuckle out of the sword fazing joke
I'm glad haha
Wait hold up. Isn't this just a sl1 run with extra steps?
you are absolutely correct!
loving the legally distinct Behar Grilles
Thanks haha
6:29 the souls counter...
nice :)
You can see it bearer of the curse, my cursed technique!!!
all the curses, everywhere lol
Hey
I just got my platinum in Elden ring and I was thinking about you and how you make these videos. I was completely exhausted when I completed my platinum and it took me 3 playthroughs(I can’t back up data to the cloud like most people so that I could get the different endings on one playthrough). So I just kept wondering how in the world you manage to play these games from start to finish over and over without getting tired of it?😅seems like it would be stressful
It's a combination of loving the games, and being patient/stubborn lol
It's also fun to do silly runs like this because like "sure of course I can do it...but what's it gonna be like to do so??" And I enjoy the journey
@@DoomWolfOfficialWow. I normally need a break of many months after completing a game. don’t stop making these videos😊
I’m obviously not the vid publisher, but I’m someone who plays these games year round. I’m pretty much always playing a souls game along side the newer games I play. The simple fact is that after your first playthrough, you know A.)where to go, B.) at least some of each boss’movesets, and C.) how to play. Each souls game play just a little bit differently. With all those three things, subsequent playthroughs are a lot less exhausting. And you learn a little more each time so it stacks up to knowing more and more and less effort goes into each following run.
Finally, there’s builds. You can learn to dodge every attack and use dual wield builds. You can tank attacks with heavy armor, poise, and great shields. You can make a magic caster. Each plays by the rules a little differently so it stays fresh.
I just realized Mytha has horns, and Covetous Demon has nails
but same though lol
When you think about WandD is the most fair duo fight in every souls and souls like made by from unlike OandS, the twin princes, and godskin duo one isn't a glitchy mess and there's no projectile spam.
I'm not sure about most fair, but definitely the easiest lol
You sure adapted to the situation
Quality pun, I approve
well at least you'll be invincible, right?
Dark souls 2: "that's what you think." lol
You seriously have never seen semon of dong's waterspit attack!?!?
I can count on two hands how many times I've played DS2, so no lol
hand axe is a better starting weapon and you can wield it straight away
I don't think i've ever used the hand axe in ds2, but I did a whole play through with it in 1 lol
Your boss order is astonishing
Thanks! ...what do you mean lol
I would love to see a DS2 baby easy mode run one day.
I would love to make one, just gotta figure out what that would look like.. lol
Does he really reply to all comments? (Luv U doom 😍)
I try to :)
also 6:22 I seen what you did in the bottom right with your souls….. *NICE*
Thanks lol
"So what exactly is ADP?"
Me: A really dumb mechanic that cost me 10 hours of my life.
lmao, accurate though
14:10 - aha, you have clearly not met Yazmania yet! He truly DOES love fighting Darklurker! Honestly, tho, not sure how he feels about the run-up, he always cuts out that part...
Haha I agree, darklurker fight is great, run up...we don't talk about that here :P
The secret to challenge runs is to hate yourself.
actually true though lol
11:40 - the phrase 'room temp IQ' is new to me, and I WILL be using it in the future LOL
As opposed to Sauna IQ or the exaggerated Oven IQ
I'm glad I could give you a new phrase lol
Darklurker, man. It's crazy how there's like only one good boss fight in that whole game (not counting DLC) and they hid it that hard.
right! I love the fight but god I hate having to get to him lol
you could've avoided dying to every boss once by achieving the secret 100 adp...oh wait
I'm just not good enough to hit that legendary number haha
Velstat is very sad.
Indeed :(
What i like about Doom is he replies to all comments
I do my best :)
You sir, are a hero!
Thanks, but we both know jk Leeds is the real hero haha
The “peace out bitch” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
glad you liked it lol
Your attacks do surprisingly good damage for having like no stats
A large majority of damage comes from weapon upgrades, not the skills (yes they play a part but you can have 99 in a stat and it will underperform if the weapon is +0 instead of +10). I did have a few pieces of stat boosting gear on too but overall bosses in ds2 don't have a lot of health, plus the rapier can attack relatively fast so it lobs health off
6:18 NICE!
lol thanks