Can You Beat Dark Souls 2 Using Miracles Only?
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Yes. The answer is yes. You can beat dark souls 2 using miracles only. You can beat dark souls 2 with a ladle if you want so of course you can. Here's one way of doing it.
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I've hidden a deliberately triggering "mistake" in this vid, extra pie to the first person who spots it
you playing as a female character the entire video
oh no, not a... female!! DESGUSTIN
the Doki-Doki literature club music at 22:30 ?? PTSD still there for me
not the doki doki music, but I'm glad you spotted that!
You mentioned that you had 8 castings of Lightning Spear later on but it's clear that you only have 4? Is that it?
“Then, in a decision that made perfect mathematical sense at the time, but which would cause me a great deal of pain later…” needs to be its own clip
Pov: You just decided to try use summons for Smelter boss fight
@@ExtremeMan10 *For maleina
I just got here in the video and as he said it I read this
@@mangoman1096 but what about summoning let me solo her?
@@isaacmayer-splain8974 ash summons
Ok, hear me out. So it's about this guy named Vendrick. He's a king that turns himself into a pickle. Funniest thing I've seen.
PICKLE vendRIIIIIICK WHOOOOOO
@@nathanielward7241 I turned myself into a pickle nashandra
"For the love of the first flame, go outside and touch grass, Aldia. You're starting to worry me" -Nashandra
funniest shit i’ve ever seen
@@trinidaddy lol
I'm quite surprised you didn't use the crown of the iron king because it replenishes spell/miracle uses
That would have taken too much of the challenge/limitation out of the run.
Doesn't it take about 2 minutes per 1 spell recovered or something crazy slow like that?
@@therighttrousers343 2 minutes for 20% of each your spells rounded up. So the more spells you have the more effective it is.
@@alephkasai9384 OH
Good luck beating that dlc without it tho
Did you know: aldia didnt actually die in this fight, you dont get souls or his soul for beating him, its more like he is testing you. (Which is kinda obvious since he keeps talking after being defeated)
Yeah he is literally immortal, though he lost his body.
I was really hoping to see him in ds3 tbh
@@DrBrooza it’s possible he was the scholar who convinced Lothric to let the fire die though I’ll admit it’s only a theory.
@@SorowFame It’s lost in translation but in the Japanese for the soul geyser sell it basically says this.
@@SorowFame Yeah but why would he want that? From what i understand Aldia's goal is to keep watching the development of the world and follow interesting characters that could help him find "The third way", letting the flame die would not help with that. I just think it was impossible for Miyazaki to progress everything that ds2 shows (Like giants for example) so he just cut it out like it isn't canon, which is ok
You can beat this game with litearlly anything. I've also completed ds2 with items only run, nothing else is allowed to use for damaging/healing/buffing/status effects except items. So that also means no punching to finish off an enemy to save a consumable. It was fun because there's so many different damaging items in ds2, not as fun in other souls games.
Didn't ymfah do that?
@@Maliketh_Montdore Don't know, I did this years ago in vanilla ds2. Not surprised youtubers have done it, it's fun!
@@TheMegaPingasMobile oh ok
@@Maliketh_Montdore he did indeed do an items only run
I did waaaay too many different runs through main game, and some through DLC.
-sorceries only
-pyromancy only
-miracles only
-SL1
-30 000 soul memory run
-crossbow only
-crossbow only as SL1 char
-items only & no equip load (at the same time)
-Butterfly Set only (using shield toattack sucks)
-and, of course, no death & no bonfire
Of course, some runs were "motivated" by certain challenge runs on YT, and Baron is motivating me to do another miracles-only run. 😁
I'm surprised you didn't kill the ng+ skeleton lords for the clear blue stone ring +2 (the one that reduces your speed cast by like 40% or something). Also, I know it's miracles only, but the disc chime (which is both a shield and a chime) when wielded, increases the power of your miracles by 3%.
Oh,i didnt knew that
Know*
@@ramrodbldm9876 looks like the one that is all that is ya, look at the 10+ line text u did just cuz someone corrected a stranger in the internet
@@ramrodbldm9876 You forgot capitalisation and a full stop.
that 3 percent is going to make the biggest difference
You can tell this channel is going to get super big. He's going to post a god challenge run one day and some game journalism website is going to write and article on it and he'll be plastered all over reddit and suddenly his subs go from 700 to 28k in a single day. Glad to say that I was here while he was still a smaller channel lol
yeah
He’s a mix of ymfah, limit breakers and British wildpie. I agree
ymfah vibe on this dude so glad I'm here now, at 10K because this man's content is great
Aaand we're over 30k subs, gg
@@tacitozetticci9308 yay
These "Can You?" videos would be more aptly named if they were called "Can I?", since 9/10 times the answer is yes, it's just whether or not the player has the raw stubbornness to see it through to the end; and as someone whose stubbornness has its limits, I appreciate others suffering through it so I don't have to.
The most op spell is heavenly thunder. Most of the time a boss tskes 3 hits from one spell. And with 6 cast(+from attunement) per scroll, it decimates all the bosses including aldia.
Right? I was thinking the same thing, like that spell is awesome on so many bosses, and it always seems to clutch up whenever i get surrounded
This would be so much easier on a unpatched orginal ds2 since at launch lightning spear had 30 casts.
I think they nearly halved the damage too. My first play of DS2 I decided to go with a miracle build and Lightning spear could 2-3 shot most bosses until mid game it was insane. Joined sunlight covenant and assisted the ruin sentinel boss for a night and then sunlight spear could 1-2 shot most bosses after that
Then when SotFS came out, I got that and miracles didn't even do anything close to the damage they used to
@@apinkshrimp I have a feeling it was gonna be more like DS1 where it was a high damage and high casts spell with slow cast but they forgot the slow cast part.
Those were the days
@@TommithThyCommeth1111 for real. I miss running around with my popsicles
@@apinkshrimp It was so busted, I decided to go caster for DS2 on day one and breezed through the game spamming spears. Then they got patched into oblivion.
Wow, your editing and humor are amazing! So glad I've found this channel randomly - and have subscribed instantly.
exactly what i did lmao
The Northern Ritual Band rings are good. Those extra casts can be useful, say if you wanted to clear the enemies on the way to the Heides dragon mob, or any other boss. Then remove the ring once the extra spell casts the ring gives have been used, and get back the HP it takes away. Pop a lifegem and you’re ready to fight the boss.
actually, its only useful in glass cannons
@@bruh27071 Like I said in my original comment, it’s useful if you want to clear some mobs on the way to boss, or to a challenging area. Once you’re there, REMOVE the ring, pop a lifegem, and take on the boss. That way you don’t use up casts on the way. See what I mean? Go glass cannon through easier mobs, THEN, when fighting the boss, just be normal. But with all your normal casts.
@@christophercollins3632 as i said, its for glass cannon.
when u use one spell with the ring, if u take it of it will still use one "usage" of it.
lets say that u have 10 lightning bolts with the ring and 8 without it, if u use one, it will drain 1-2 of the 8 after u take it off.
@@bruh27071 I just did the testing, and it confirmed what I thought. I had 7 casts of a spell without Northern Ritual Band, and 9 with it on. I used 2 casts, from 9 to 7. Then removed the ring, and I still had 7 casts. If I understood you correctly, if I have 9 with it, use 2, then remove it, I would have 5, because it uses the casts from my base number. Maybe there’s a miscommunication. But the ring works like I said. Equip ring, use up ONLY the casts it gives, then unequip it, you’ll have your normal maximum number of casts, not less.
@@christophercollins3632 yea
Honestly, watching this has given me a real appreciation for how MUCH DS2 did. There's flavour and details in every corner of the game, and then illusory walls behind those corners with EVEN MORE. Maybe I'm just burnt out on DSR and DS3, but MAN does this game have personality!
Right? DS2 may not be as "Flashy" or "Cool Looking" as other From Software games, but it makes up for that in gameplay and a variety of different tools.
100%
@@johnnysalery7383 makes up for that in the whole game being gank encounters with enemies that do half your health bar in a single hit
@@StarchieHalo imagine not levelling vitality
@@StarchieHalo 🧂
31:46 I love the DS2 physics quirk where enemy weapons just go absolutely wild sometimes lmao
Dark Souls 2 is the best one for spellcasters of any kind, making it my favorite to actually play. That spell shot animation is so fast, I hate the "I swing the catalyst over my head for 5 seconds before the spell comes out" from 1 and 3.
It actually looks like you're charging your catalyst and release a spell, while in DS3 is more like catalysts have miracles cast animation.
1 just didn't have any real offensive Miracles to choose from. They actively punished caster builds in 3 though, so everyone was forced to use melee weapons.
@@codafett caster build are crap in ds3 sadly. The only barely available is pyromancer which requires you to be around level 140 tho.
DS2 did it best.
Edit: not to forget there's only like 2 or 3 good spells for that
@@rotanux Not sure what you guys did wrong but I had a great time on my pyro only build in ds3. Absolutely nuked things and had a lotta fun one shots in PvP and channeling flame into fools with the grab pyromancy. Did they nerf something after release I'm not aware of?
@@afrosamurai3847 nah they did not need nothing and I agree playing as pyro is my fav class too in ds3, the problem is that only 4-5 spells sere viable in pvp out of the cool ones
Yeah. So much tougher to do this run if you can't get convenient access to buy Heavenly Thunder -- and the second Emit Force.
This vid showed up in my recommended and I'm glad I choose to watch it :) Your commentary and editing were great :P
one of the best build videos i've seen so far. And i laugh SO MUCH. thanks for making my afternoon better
Miracles(lightning) are the weakness of 95% ds2 pve,bosses,common enemies etc.
yeah thats why this is a noob challenge
@@stevesaitz1706 lol
@@stevesaitz1706 except their normal damage sucks and their cast ammount sucks cause it got overnerfed in the first patchs and never fixed
@@DM-Oz true, even if damage is good the fact you can slip up while restocking your casts with a herb & get wombo combo'd kinda balances it out to me
I love this channel, you make excellent videos. You deserve way more views!
love seeing ds2 done in weird ways - the game really gives you a lot of room for building your character however you want. stellar video, mate!
the cheery ddlc remix that kicks in when you get to aldia’s keep killed me
Earned a sub. Good job! Great content. Oddly, this is my favorite soul’s game with Bloodborne a close 2nd.
"As threatening as britans wild life" best joke in the whole video.
I heard that doki doki song too.
Finally someone giving Senran Kagura's soundtrack some love.
I sure give 'love' to the senran kagura games.
Your challenge runs are always my favorite out of every Soulsborne UA-camr. Keep up the great work man.
Late to finding your channel but I love your vids man, fresh souls content is always dope
Finally, my favorite build gets representation
Old man: "I feela distUrbance in the FOOUURce"
Faithbros represent
Here's the song for the Sir Alonne fight in case anyone was looking for it! ua-cam.com/video/g23y-5-sx0Y/v-deo.html
Thank you
Your a saint
God bless man, thank you so much
thanks
It's actually really nice how you told us straight up its possible. Watching how to do it was the fun part.
Enjoyed your video man, keep up the good work
Good lord the delivery on these jokes is done so rapid fire and non- challant. The intro was so chill and honest and then this is the content behind it. Great work.
Sad that you slept on Soul Appease. Probably one of the strongest miracles in the game.
Only a rat would understand this joke
You deserve more subs your delivery on jokes is spot on .
Class vid mate, really entertaining commentary!
Magic, and miracles are stronger in 2 than in the rest of the series. Especially hexes, hexes were op in dark souls 2. Hex builds overpower everything else, so it's not surprising you can win using only miracles.
Sorcery was never stronger than in Dark Souls 1. I'd say it's even stronger in 1 than in Demon Souls since DeS has pretty long times between bonfires. In DS1 casting didn't cost stamina and Sorcery dealt absurd damage. LobosJr has beaten DS1 with health and stamina locked to 1 using sorcery.
Hex school was pretty great in 2, probably the strongest caster in the game since you got all of sorcery's utility and miracle's healing, with hex damage spells and access to all damage types to varying degrees.
The DS2 DLCs also screwed over casting a lot by giving every enemy increased elemental resistance against projectile magic.
Miracles USED to be stronger than DS1 but after they got nerfed it was way worse, and then it got kinda fixed and now it's about even damage wise
@@timothye.2902 Demon's souls allows farmable MP restoration materials, as well as the low level starting class having a range that passively regenerates it. Without needing any upgrades, you can go through *all* of the archstones with only two spells, and a starting catalyst.
What was that music during the Alonne fight? I really want to listen to more of it.
I've been wanting to know that as well but I'm having no luck
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ua-cam.com/video/g23y-5-sx0Y/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Nnwt
Your humorist commentary on gameplay is awesome👌keep making more n more videos
19:09 the castle gimp seems to be looking after himself well 🤣
for any of these kind of runs i would recommend picking up the binoculars, as they let you aim spells wherever you want
You can even redirect them at the last second if you need to.
I just started the video, but seeing "Miracles" and "Dark Souls 2" really makes me miss the original version. Before they nerfed your number of casts into the ground. Good times. Gooood times.
Lightning is the best! (Before it was nerfed)
Wrath of the Gods op pls nerf
- Me a newbie in 2014 getting one shotted in arena by Havel monster with dragon chime
The last Giant… finds 15 more giants in dark souls 3
This was great!! I love finding obscure UA-cam channels.
thanks dude, glad you're enjoying the content! More coming soon
That intro just spoke to me! no bs, just "yes you can. if you want to see how i did it, here's the video". Loved it.
I'm still playing Elden Ring but a miracle/pyro only run sounds like a lot of fun. I think it would be a little easier for me because since 2016, every DS2 playthrough I've done has been with the CoC always on.
What a thoroughly entertaining video, hosted by a similarly thoroughly entertaining man!
Liked and subbed.
The amount of commitment that went into that character alone was impressive good job 👍
Omg a viable miracle build?
Still waiting for the old man 😡
"How many times do we need to teach you this lesson Old Man"
Amber Herbs? You meant turds
This guy is amazing, he's obviously very talented gamer, but its the comedy that realy gets me. Much love from Minnesoooota!
Just wantet to say that i enjoyed the video.
Keep on making good content my dude :)))
_Example of a genuine question:_ "Can you beat 'Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin' using only miracles?"
_Example of a rhetorical question:_ "Can you beat 'Dark Souls II' using only miracles?"
Where's the miracle build old ma- wait no wrong channel
3:02 that scream gets me every time, love your work. COME, NEREVAR. COME.
I like the pirate jig when you first go to No Man's Wharf. Very nice touch :)
I feel like if he had used the binoculars to snipe enemies/shortcuts and the disk chime to boost miracle damage it might of been an easier time for him
The lightning spear damage on the original release build was absolutely disgusting, and you got extra casts. It was my first playthrough on the week of release and was so much fun, I remember just being a sunbro for countless hours helping people through the game. Good times, from memory they nerfed it into the ground over the first few patches.
18:18 Nashandra, I turned myself into a pickle, Im pickle (Vend)riiick
honestly, that intro and self knowledge was really engaging. made me stick around for the rest of the video on its own
Once before in an old Majula, in the age of 2014, the power of lightning was balanced and all was good. Then came the age of 1.08, bringing with it the smiting blow of Miyazaki's mighty hand. His anger, unfathomable, at the blasphemous entertainment brought by the Faithful, he reformed them into tortured catalysts for masochism to writhe about. As such these forms persisted for all eternity serving only to ward off those with too weak of will to persist. Never forget that Faith was once a mighty power standing tall amongst sword and spell, but seek seek not on what will never be again, lest you succumb to hollow.
Nerf is the hardest boss in dark souls
"Balanced"
Lol in 2014 miracles were hitkill in many bosses,and players online.
And sorcery can still do that sooooo
I remember I actually played with a miracle build the first time I ever played DS2. It was my first Souls game, too. I never really understood why people hated Shrine of Amana so much. I went through it in one try with a good magic shield and lightning.
@@ramrodbldm9876 The fuck?
Man, you just won a subscriber. That was the best intro I've watched in a while... want my pie, though
I don't sub this fast usually but you got that humor I look for. I like your voice too.
Before they nerfed miracles into the ground it used to be a lot easier. I ran a miracle build and I loved it
"Fuck yes you can!" - Me when I read the title.
I have maxed characters every skill in pretty much every souls game. I could never decide the build I wanted and just went even distribution for it all, however pre-nerf lightning spears in ds2 especially were potent, though hexes were by far my favorite spells to use.
1 min in and I already love his style of video. Thank you youtube recommended!!
This is quality content. Earned a sub from me, boutta go binge the rest of your shit. Keep it up dude!
I remember getting Dark Souls 2 when it first came out and played a faith build for first character. After the first update I'm pretty sure they nerf that shit real quick.
Barons: "The Rotten has shaddy grab hitboxes"
Also Barons: 8 ADP
ADP doesn’t fix hit boxes
@@Gary_a_normal_human_being Plus the hitboxes are actually good in this game. See the clip where the Last Giant's arm barely sweeps above the player's head (which can be seen in the first boss clip).
@@mastergame1311 Wow, one good hitbox.
As soon as he burned the Ascetic at Heide's, I realized the future was not gonna be bright...
Good content, keep up!
You can literally do anything in Dark Souls 2. That’s why it’s best.
Damn, this is doubly impressive because not only did you put a difficult self-imposed limitation on your playstyle, but also played DS2 willingly.
lmao
Old tired joke
good stuff! keep it up!
Dont care about the issues,this game is Fun and this is what a game has to be
Im currently doing a DS 2 miracles only kill everything run. Meaning i can only advance to the next area after every enemy stops respawning. After 24 hours i just got done with the forest of fallen giants.
Masoquism in another level
You should’ve just cheesed Ancient Dragon by standing in between the toes of his back foot. It would’ve completely trivialized the fight.
wouldnt have been as entertaining tho
"Since my trips to the woods was an even bigger failure than my actual real life"
...Are you okay?
Can someone please tell me the name of the first song in this video. Sounds awesome!!! Also great video mate, I just subscribed to your channel. All your content is crazy good!!
Weird how patches is telling me how to beat the game as a filthy cleric
The Amber Heard joke aged well...
You can now use the joke with Dung Pies! #AmberTurd
These videos are great for when I can't sleep and am bored as fuck, good stuff
Underrated channel. You should have Vaati numbers by now. Keep at it woadie.
This game is still the best in the series for miracles. Especially Emit Force, somehow. Love it.
Edit: I think people like Sinh because he actually kinda fights like a dragon. You know, cheap as fuck and likes to fly around to avoid you.
Basically, Sinh remembers they have wings and actually uses them.
Picking up the Clear Bluestone +2 from Skelebobs on NG+ would have made your life a lot less painful.
Yeah what you did isn't exactly novel but the writing was anything but. I could watch you reupload this with your commentary and I'd watch it every time! Subbed mate!
Baron: can I beat ds2 with just miracles
Me: can i beat ds2
you can beat ds2 but ds2 hits back
I fucking love your vids, you could literally commentary anything in the future
I love the ordering of your videos so much
Love the commentary
That was great watching Your journey!
Can I have Your playlist? Especially that one background theme on 4:37
Is that the "Curse of Monkey Island" soundtrack I hear? I already liked your videos, now I know you also have good taste in point n' click games too
"Chapter 9: Putting off the Inevitable"
Gwyn? What are you doing here!?
The thing about me I’ve gotten back into playing the three games again, and try different builds or such then before. I normally only played STR builds, try to get the most heavy armor and large weapon and just beat the hell out of everyone.
Never was into magic, dex build, or others but did them and it’s such refreshing way to go back knowing of how to fight people
But now have to do it and different way
Love this intro how you give us the answer at the start of the video. Much respect. No clickbaity bullshit ❤️
If anyone want to have fun using miracles just remember to glitch out miracle (or any spell) castings. You can have like 30+ forbidden suns or something. I haven't played for a long time so i don't remember there specifics. What i do remember is that it is fun spamming lighting all day.
15:50 that spooked me. Leftover response from the many falls during that boss.
The name you chose truly is quite humorous!
Oh and nice video or whatever
Just being upfront like that earned you a sub my man.