Collapsus wow. This was commented about over a year ago. I still make sounds. This game is to fun. I try to make holy noises when i play a faith build.
The soul great sword wrecks bosses. I can use it four times and it normally slices half their total health after using all castings. My staff of wisdom is +3 and I just finished NG.
***** really, I didn't encounter any problems on my mage before ng +++ you just need to get the moonlight greatsword make it enchanted(not magic), and staff of wisdom max it out, and a 100% shield, then you are set! I wreck freaking havock on that char, I always 5-6 shot bosses even on ng+++
man i love the concept of the magic greatsword and the moonlight greatsword i like to imagine the enemies see an old guy coming and are all relieved and shit and the man just goes like "i shall beat you with the power of intelligence" pulls out a giant sword and just massacres the enemies
What i really like about dark souls 2 is that all the sorceries and hexes are released from the tip of the staff. Unlike in dark souls 1 and 3 where for some reason the spells are released from the center of the staff where your hands are holding it.
I think this was done intentionally because of how wonky the projectiles can be when they originate from the top of the catalyst. In general, the taller the staff, the further away from the target you have to be to hit them with a basic projectile. There's also some weirdness where a tall staff can target enemies directly below you, but a short staff cannot. If you've played the Convergance mod for DS3, you'll know what I'm talking about. Yeah, it looks a lot better and its more satisfying for a spell to come from the staff, but it adds a lot of clunkiness because of how the lock-on targetting works. Having projectiles originate from the caster's hand eliminates these variables.
@@sage94 Basically, if you _can_ handle the difficulties of what you've described as a suboptimal game mechanic, then you're left with a more aesthetically pleasing display of power that doesn't require much of a sacrifice on the player's behalf.
I couldn't choose between sorcerer or warior build. So I got a combination of both. Works better than expected exept for PVP. But the PVP part might be me.
Spellsword? I made the same it's fun, I have tanky armor and I rip enemies apart but I try to avoid ranged attacks because I don't want to be the sorcerer to stand a mile away and attack
@@trentcallahan8461 a faith/strenght build is also alot of fun, and very close and personal. Have played the shit out of this game the past 6 years lol
@@damienmichiels4119 All the fantasy or RPG games I played I start with a spellsword/battlemage build because first magic is fun and it has nice aesthetics but using swords or axes as well as being up close and personal is fun and actually having to put effort into dodging and getting good hits is fun to. My current build is a a spellsword wearing havel's armor, using the fire longsword and having a chime and staff in my off hand, I plan on changing out the fire longsword for the blue flame a sword that cast sorcereries, havel's great shield and pyromancy in the off hand with the shield so I can cast stronger shield to make the great shield even stronger, use crystal weapon and soul greatsword to support my sword attacks and finally using numb to take more hits aswell as pyromancy for some destructive close range spells if I'm grouped up on or I want to have some extra fun.
It removes fall damage completely, unless it is a fall considered 'lethal' to your character. So if you have 1500HP, you will take no damage unless the fall will do 1500+ damage to you.
Starbucks Coffee Gaming Channel Fall Control isn’t useless. It stops 15000 damage. Silvercat stops around a 1000. There are times it can be useful. Like wearing heavy armor and huge weapons makes you take substantially more damage, and they don’t like having to take everything off.
The game was almost put into development hell. Halfway through, most of the assets were scrapped and had a change of directors. We're actually really lucky from what we got. I just wish DS3 carried more mechanics that DS2 brought forward.
@@sanspapyrus9564 and in ds3 too, no? Also in Ds2 they actually dont all sound the same, there are subtle differences that only a sorcerer main will notice, and also the sounds change depending on distance travelled in DS2, which is not something thats in the first or 3rd game either,
I like how there are a lot more spells for all types of magic, and they seem improved a lot, would be less of a bother to play full mage then in dark souls 1 (tried playing as a full mage, ended up playing as a greatsword wielder XD)
Greater Heavy Homing Burning Candy Dispensing Soul Arrow . *Effect* - Similar to Greater Heavy Homing Burning Soul Arrow but with a slower cast time and more candy.
Awesome vid! The only thing that bugs me is that you used enemies with varying resistances, so at times it was hard to get an accurate picture of how much damage the spells do relative to one another. (like heavy soul arrow dealing way less dmg than soul arrow since you used it on old knights)
I reskilled my character at SL 130. I put 20 in most things, 25 in attunement, 40 dex and 5 faith and 18 strength. then I put my Int to 15. At 15 you get pretty much everything you could possibly need. I uses pyromancy, Bow-arrows, magic, It's all very fun to use, it's good at everything but great at nothing i guess you could say lol.
i really wish sorcerer had more basic spells than just soul arrow,it gets rather boring after a while. the higher spells are pretty god yea,but hex has ton more of basic powerful and creative spells,i get they was trying to give the hex spells a more dark theme but it kinda cut the sorcerer short
Thank you I feel the location is most useful ( not that everything else wasn't the whole video is helpful) because now I may go and look specifically for the spells I would like thanks one again -like-
How did you get so many of each sorcery? Also does (spoiler) freja drop the paledrake soul in each new game. So once in NG+ and again in NG++? (Or by using bonfire ascetics)
Attuning multiple versions of same spells, hexer's hood increase casts, higher attunement increases casts. Freja will drop the Old Paledrake Soul on every fight from NG+ onwards.
I love magic but magic in dark souls generally seems little poor. You need to cast same spell over and over again to kill an enemy which I can kill with 3-4 hit and even I am practically at the beginning of the game. It would run out of casts. There are people who does huge damages with spells, true but like in Ng++...+. It takes time, patience and a lot of work to make something out of magic, more than it deserves imo. Btw it could be very different for pvp, I am talking about pve. Maining magic seem like not worth it but using it definetly worthy and needed. Heals and buffs for exp. For damage magics, I do using them as spice, for difference. Specially pyromancy is not bad at all. Gotta put some spice :)
the advantage is you can stay away form enemys, but you cant do that all the time, and even if some bosses are easier to attack that way, some are also harder, for examplo, the last giant, because for him, meele is better, of course if you take up some strength and dex, you can use magic weapons, like for example, you can dual wield blue flame, and use moonlight greatsword as a secondary weapon, and have a shield just in case, and use the dark witch staff so you can use magic, miracles, and dark magic (including the ones that use a sacred bell). also have a pyromancy flame, nd you got a multi-use mage, you can fight in many different ways.
Ok thanks for answering...Im in that section in game when you find ring of king( ring that opening big gates) so Im not able to use some of those powers but for now Im usong dark orb for enemis and bosses lighting spear wich is miricale stuf. Is that winstom best staf you can get in Ds2?
my build is in the lvl 70 i am with 40 with int and i get 4 magics, 5 faith, 11 force, and 9 in dex. What kind of build i can create beyond sorcerer...for pvp what is the best decision, i using too a fire broadswor with fire.Hence forwar i should prioritize what status to go up???tks, sorry my bad english
Am I the only one disappointed with how non-threatening the enemies in DS2 were? The only ones were the Magnet Knights that had bs hit box that always hit 360 degree. That was forced difficulty on their behalf. The only really good thing IMO about DS2 was the PvP. That was superb. I loved Power Stancing.
Zeta Reticuli non threatening? Man did you play the dlc's? Or some of the more "difficult" areas? Some if not most of the enemies were poise monsters with ridiculous hitboxes and stunlock combos
how about doing an updated version with all the nerfed spells like soul geyser or soul bolt, also soul spear feels slower to cast than crystal soul spear with high cast speed
and extreme great vid... i wonder, i never used magic before even in DS1, which character to choose if i want both good weapons and a magic spells, i am into good weapons as a mjor and spells as minor.
Depends - if you know what you're doing, spells can make the PvE very easy - if you want my say, you should probably get used to melee combat in your first playthrough IMO.
I want to play melee but I don't want to get stuck at some point and have to restart. Im not sure if that could happen but still This game seems ridiculous
Ik im 6 years late, this more to answer other people who have this same question. You can stack the same spell in multiple spell slots. Thats why he has so much Soul Geyser cast
For one you can stack the spells, like having two attunement slots with soul arrow in both of them. Another option is one I'm not to sure on, but it seems that as I increase my attunement that every once in a awhile I'll get another use for any spell, rather it be sorcery, miracles or hexes.
@@johnnyjoestar7105 Imagine stacking Soul Geusyer or however u spell it. Im a knight main, never done spells, About to beat Dark Souls II, thinking about trying out magic in Dark Souls III
@@timcronin5107 man I've seen ppl do crazy glass cannon builds doing with stacks of soul geyser but you have to go into new game plus for that lmao. I cant believe I got notified from this comment 5 years ago tho that's wild. I think dark souls 3 magic is solid so I'd recommend it, the system feels sleek. Cheers man
Either finding/buying more "scrolls" and then attuning them or increasing attunement. Increasing attunement slightly increases casts at certain boundaries whereas attuning two of a spell doubles the casts
Hubiera estado mejor si los hechizos ofensivos los hubiera probado con un solo tipo de enemigo ya que la mayoría tiene diferentes defensas y por ende a algunos no les hará tanto daño como a otros.
It appears my terrible internet connection has made me a fool. For your compassion of not destroying me my friend, I thank you. May the sun forever praise you.
And that is how showcases are done.
(everyone else who's done this quits cause people are just mean about it)
I admire magic users for being able to put up with that casting sound every single time!
You drone it out eventually, haha.
It's not that bad really
LugeTuber it also helps if you make your own sounds as well lol
+derek “mrdjohn0120” johnson ..Oh, you mean like "Chiyowng" or "chiyung"..LOL XD \[T]/
Praise the Sun!
Collapsus wow. This was commented about over a year ago. I still make sounds. This game is to fun. I try to make holy noises when i play a faith build.
Look at all of these different ways I can cast Magic Missile!
Swinging a huge ethereal greatsword has my attention...
The soul great sword wrecks bosses. I can use it four times and it normally slices half their total health after using all castings. My staff of wisdom is +3 and I just finished NG.
***** really, I didn't encounter any problems on my mage before ng +++
you just need to get the moonlight greatsword make it enchanted(not magic), and staff of wisdom max it out, and a 100% shield, then you are set! I wreck freaking havock on that char, I always 5-6 shot bosses even on ng+++
*108 souls arrows*
man i love the concept of the magic greatsword and the moonlight greatsword
i like to imagine the enemies see an old guy coming and are all relieved and shit and the man just goes like "i shall beat you with the power of intelligence" pulls out a giant sword and just massacres the enemies
+apewithheadphonesKK
This made me laugh harder than it should have.
MIND SWORDS
There should be a version of the Moonlight Greatsword for Faith builds though...
@@highlightermarca-texto3281 elden ring has one now
What i really like about dark souls 2 is that all the sorceries and hexes are released from the tip of the staff. Unlike in dark souls 1 and 3 where for some reason the spells are released from the center of the staff where your hands are holding it.
I think this was done intentionally because of how wonky the projectiles can be when they originate from the top of the catalyst. In general, the taller the staff, the further away from the target you have to be to hit them with a basic projectile. There's also some weirdness where a tall staff can target enemies directly below you, but a short staff cannot. If you've played the Convergance mod for DS3, you'll know what I'm talking about. Yeah, it looks a lot better and its more satisfying for a spell to come from the staff, but it adds a lot of clunkiness because of how the lock-on targetting works. Having projectiles originate from the caster's hand eliminates these variables.
@@sage94 It still looks way better.
@@Ragitsu yeah, I wasn't arguing that it doesn't
@@sage94 Basically, if you _can_ handle the difficulties of what you've described as a suboptimal game mechanic, then you're left with a more aesthetically pleasing display of power that doesn't require much of a sacrifice on the player's behalf.
I have to say, I love magic in dark souls 2 some of the spells look amazing
Man, i love the huge variety of spells in DS2, makes most of them play and feel very different and useful in many ways.
Holy shit soul geyser
I couldn't choose between sorcerer or warior build. So I got a combination of both. Works better than expected exept for PVP. But the PVP part might be me.
Spellsword? I made the same it's fun, I have tanky armor and I rip enemies apart but I try to avoid ranged attacks because I don't want to be the sorcerer to stand a mile away and attack
@@trentcallahan8461 a faith/strenght build is also alot of fun, and very close and personal. Have played the shit out of this game the past 6 years lol
@@damienmichiels4119 All the fantasy or RPG games I played I start with a spellsword/battlemage build because first magic is fun and it has nice aesthetics but using swords or axes as well as being up close and personal is fun and actually having to put effort into dodging and getting good hits is fun to. My current build is a a spellsword wearing havel's armor, using the fire longsword and having a chime and staff in my off hand, I plan on changing out the fire longsword for the blue flame a sword that cast sorcereries, havel's great shield and pyromancy in the off hand with the shield so I can cast stronger shield to make the great shield even stronger, use crystal weapon and soul greatsword to support my sword attacks and finally using numb to take more hits aswell as pyromancy for some destructive close range spells if I'm grouped up on or I want to have some extra fun.
Great video, havent played as a caster yet. Doing that next game I thinks.
What are you doing here lol?
Lol
"Fall Control: Reduces damage taken when falling from heights."
Reduce? More like Negate! Someone explain please.
If you fall from a height that would normally kill you, you will still die (I think).
It removes fall damage completely, unless it is a fall considered 'lethal' to your character. So if you have 1500HP, you will take no damage unless the fall will do 1500+ damage to you.
Useless. Silvercat Ring wins
Starbucks Coffee Gaming Channel Fall Control isn’t useless. It stops 15000 damage. Silvercat stops around a 1000. There are times it can be useful. Like wearing heavy armor and huge weapons makes you take substantially more damage, and they don’t like having to take everything off.
Would it have killed the creators of this game to vary the magic sound effects a little?
The game was almost put into development hell. Halfway through, most of the assets were scrapped and had a change of directors.
We're actually really lucky from what we got. I just wish DS3 carried more mechanics that DS2 brought forward.
@@Battleguild In 6 years, I never knew that, so thank u. I gotta give them a little more credit in that case
@@RafaelElectronic who knows if there might be remake of dark souls 2 on the ps6?
Hey all the soul arrow and soul spear sounds in ds1 are the same
@@sanspapyrus9564 and in ds3 too, no? Also in Ds2 they actually dont all sound the same, there are subtle differences that only a sorcerer main will notice, and also the sounds change depending on distance travelled in DS2, which is not something thats in the first or 3rd game either,
I like how there are a lot more spells for all types of magic, and they seem improved a lot, would be less of a bother to play full mage then in dark souls 1 (tried playing as a full mage, ended up playing as a greatsword wielder XD)
Hidden weapon + washing pole, Hehehehe...
sir
god bless you
Thank you for putting so much time and effort into this video.
Great video, thanks! You sold me on the sorc as my first class.
Super helpful! Thanks for all the hard work man!
Fantastic showcase.
Greater Heavy Homing Burning Candy Dispensing Soul Arrow . *Effect* - Similar to Greater Heavy Homing Burning Soul Arrow but with a slower cast time and more candy.
Soul arrow: small amount of damage
Also soul arrow: 399 damage
yay description table of contents :)
Awesome vid! The only thing that bugs me is that you used enemies with varying resistances, so at times it was hard to get an accurate picture of how much damage the spells do relative to one another. (like heavy soul arrow dealing way less dmg than soul arrow since you used it on old knights)
I love combining soul vortex and soul shower. Throws everyone off and looks intense
4:45 Of note you can ascetic instead of ng+, I believe the old paledrake soul is from Freja
thanks for putting a video just starting a mage build this is a very good reference vid.
Only valuable speel is Chameleon, rest is unworthy. Turning into a box, that's real deal.
I needed this. Thanks.
thanks so much for this vid! nice and hard work man! thumbs up :) HONESTLY
Never knew strong magic shield would be that useful!
Fine work, sir.
Awesome Kelsper.
Thanks for posting this video man. Can't wait for the hexes.
Heavy soul arrow is actually weaker than great soul arrow, but it has higher poise damage. :3
Great video! thanks!
I never play as a magic user. I'm going to have to try my hand at it.
I reskilled my character at SL 130. I put 20 in most things, 25 in attunement, 40 dex and 5 faith and 18 strength. then I put my Int to 15. At 15 you get pretty much everything you could possibly need. I uses pyromancy, Bow-arrows, magic, It's all very fun to use, it's good at everything but great at nothing i guess you could say lol.
4:14 the perfect timing dodge
i really wish sorcerer had more basic spells than just soul arrow,it gets rather boring after a while. the higher spells are pretty god yea,but hex has ton more of basic powerful and creative spells,i get they was trying to give the hex spells a more dark theme but it kinda cut the sorcerer short
Dark magician diffusion wave motion! 6:56
Thank you I feel the location is most useful ( not that everything else wasn't the whole video is helpful) because now I may go and look specifically for the spells I would like thanks one again -like-
Didn't mean to cross that out
Note: Chameleon does let you block while you are disguised as flower pots.
I find it odd that ds2 has the projectile come out of the end of the staff and not where your hand is. Strange.
How did you get so many of each sorcery? Also does (spoiler) freja drop the paledrake soul in each new game. So once in NG+ and again in NG++? (Or by using bonfire ascetics)
Attuning multiple versions of same spells, hexer's hood increase casts, higher attunement increases casts. Freja will drop the Old Paledrake Soul on every fight from NG+ onwards.
From really went all out with Magic this time.
Straid of Olaphis also selling Cast Light
I love magic but magic in dark souls generally seems little poor. You need to cast same spell over and over again to kill an enemy which I can kill with 3-4 hit and even I am practically at the beginning of the game. It would run out of casts. There are people who does huge damages with spells, true but like in Ng++...+. It takes time, patience and a lot of work to make something out of magic, more than it deserves imo. Btw it could be very different for pvp, I am talking about pve. Maining magic seem like not worth it but using it definetly worthy and needed. Heals and buffs for exp. For damage magics, I do using them as spice, for difference. Specially pyromancy is not bad at all. Gotta put some spice :)
the advantage is you can stay away form enemys, but you cant do that all the time, and even if some bosses are easier to attack that way, some are also harder, for examplo, the last giant, because for him, meele is better, of course if you take up some strength and dex, you can use magic weapons, like for example, you can dual wield blue flame, and use moonlight greatsword as a secondary weapon, and have a shield just in case, and use the dark witch staff so you can use magic, miracles, and dark magic (including the ones that use a sacred bell).
also have a pyromancy flame, nd you got a multi-use mage, you can fight in many different ways.
i like this class
thanks bro! verry helpfull.. subed ;)
VERY NICE
I still say a magic buff, magic blue flame is the best catalyst.
Ok thanks for answering...Im in that section in game when you find ring of king( ring that opening big gates) so Im not able to use some of those powers but for now Im usong dark orb for enemis and bosses lighting spear wich is miricale stuf. Is that winstom best staf you can get in Ds2?
Am I the only one who likes to make "Pew pew" noises while casting Soul Arrow?
I forgot the most important one there’s focus souls
14:13 Prop hunt Dark souls version.
my build is in the lvl 70 i am with 40 with int and i get 4 magics, 5 faith, 11 force, and 9 in dex. What kind of build i can create beyond sorcerer...for pvp what is the best decision, i using too a fire broadswor with fire.Hence forwar i should prioritize what status to go up???tks, sorry my bad english
Am I the only one disappointed with how non-threatening the enemies in DS2 were? The only ones were the Magnet Knights that had bs hit box that always hit 360 degree. That was forced difficulty on their behalf. The only really good thing IMO about DS2 was the PvP. That was superb. I loved Power Stancing.
Zeta Reticuli non threatening? Man did you play the dlc's? Or some of the more "difficult" areas? Some if not most of the enemies were poise monsters with ridiculous hitboxes and stunlock combos
Amazing video, question tho, can Yearn be destroyed by the enemies? Can the orb that Yearn produces be destroyed once it lands on object?
No, it lasts until its timer goes out.
how about doing an updated version with all the nerfed spells like soul geyser or soul bolt, also soul spear feels slower to cast than crystal soul spear with high cast speed
nice ty for Video :)
and extreme great vid... i wonder, i never used magic before even in DS1, which character to choose if i want both good weapons and a magic spells, i am into good weapons as a mjor and spells as minor.
what's the best character build for mage warrior?...focuse on str end fth and int?
Sorcerer
Wait, so how did you cast Soul Geyser which req 64 Int, with only 53 base Int (+1 from Hexer gear)??
I used spices to get the requirements down.
***** Oooh the Simpleton's Spice, I see, thank you! I didn't know they could be stacked like that :-D
does unleash magic buffs weapons buffs too?
like if i crystal magic weapon buff on my weapon, would the magic portion of the damage increased by 20%?
They misspelled something.
It is not Soul Spear Barrage.
It is Soul Spear Massage.
I respectfully request some advice from pros. Should I use Sorceries or Miracles, if I'm a guy that's all about "flashy attacks"?
What type of flashy are you looking for? A melee build with magic/faith integrated (buff build) or a full-on magic/faith build with fast cast speeds?
I'm thinking of having a holy knight build. So melee build with magic/faith integrated. Thanks for helping by the way.
Im going to play dark souls 2 and have no previous experience(noob), should I go with sorcerer or knight or something else?
Depends - if you know what you're doing, spells can make the PvE very easy - if you want my say, you should probably get used to melee combat in your first playthrough IMO.
I want to play melee but I don't want to get stuck at some point and have to restart. Im not sure if that could happen but still
This game seems ridiculous
Saif Alkuwari Reallocating souls has its disadvantages. You spent quite a bit upgrading the gear for one character, to have to restart with another.
***** nice bro
Imagine to stuck unleash magic with sacred oath buffs together you can 1 shot bosses with soul gayzer 😂
how the hell do you have so many casts? my couple friends are still trying to figure out how I got 3 in soul geyser
nvm, read other comments lol
Ik im 6 years late, this more to answer other people who have this same question. You can stack the same spell in multiple spell slots. Thats why he has so much Soul Geyser cast
Did the range to lock target increased?
You are awesome
So much nuke and laser.
How come I can only use the soul geyser only when I have the hexer's hood ;o
Wish soul vortex was still in DS3
How the hell does he have so many casts?!!!?!!? I had 85 attunement and 70 intelligence and only had like 15 extra casts on most spells
he attuned more than one copy of that spell
lucian burito oh I didn't know you could do that! Thanks so much!
Stetson Erickson no prob
how can you make additional casts of spells? I want also 50 casts :D
For one you can stack the spells, like having two attunement slots with soul arrow in both of them. Another option is one I'm not to sure on, but it seems that as I increase my attunement that every once in a awhile I'll get another use for any spell, rather it be sorcery, miracles or hexes.
@@johnnyjoestar7105 Imagine stacking Soul Geusyer or however u spell it. Im a knight main, never done spells, About to beat Dark Souls II, thinking about trying out magic in Dark Souls III
@@timcronin5107 man I've seen ppl do crazy glass cannon builds doing with stacks of soul geyser but you have to go into new game plus for that lmao. I cant believe I got notified from this comment 5 years ago tho that's wild. I think dark souls 3 magic is solid so I'd recommend it, the system feels sleek. Cheers man
I'm a pussy to build a magic character, they look so vulnerable with their slow castings
I can cast heavy soul arrow in half a second just level up
I like the final one
Does unleash magic also buff hexes' damage?
i watched ur playthrough of fire emblem shadow dragon english dub japanese version thing :D !
Bro why do sorcery animations look so cool and badass in DS2 and are so derpy in DS1 and DS3?
so I only missing hidden weapon :o thanks alot! time to get platimun trophy ;)
what are the overall best spells for pvp/pve?
Is it just me, or does the concept of spells being referred to as bought items and only getting a few casts instead of an MP stat seem silly?
How do you apply magic to the sword?
You can have more than 99 spell casts for spells??
Looks like it, though multiple copies of Soul ARrow are easy enough to get.
How do you increase the ammount of spells?
Either finding/buying more "scrolls" and then attuning them or increasing attunement. Increasing attunement slightly increases casts at certain boundaries whereas attuning two of a spell doubles the casts
Ariel Ezra You can also equip a ring and possibly other equipment that increases your amount of casts.
Makes me sad I'll never got to use soul geyser at full power:(
You missed one
How come repair didn't work
I this before the soul guyser Nerf
I love you
Very Nice and good profile pic lol
Spend souls on leveling up in attunment
So hush is only good for sneaky pvp?
Probably but I think it's mane use would be to stop that annoying noise
Hubiera estado mejor si los hechizos ofensivos los hubiera probado con un solo tipo de enemigo ya que la mayoría tiene diferentes defensas y por ende a algunos no les hará tanto daño como a otros.
Y si, se que este video ya tiene mas de 6 años, pero meh.
14:24 Did he just turn into a barrel? Somebody call pewdiepie!!!
What armour set is that?
Hexer's Set.
It appears my terrible internet connection has made me a fool. For your compassion of not destroying me my friend, I thank you. May the sun forever praise you.
TheWraithkiller No problem. \[T]/
What is your armour?;O
Why 50 50 int/faith