Any% Dark Souls 2 yo

- Start cleric with healing wares
- Head to Majula, get the 800 soul by the blacksmith, talk to herald for estus
- Go to cardinal tower, pick up the 200 soul and bone on the way, pick up the buckler, buy blacksmith key
- Unlock blacksmith, run over to pyro lady
- Pick up the homeward bones by benhart
- Do branch skip
- Light forked road bonfire
- Do shrine of winter skip
- Light Drangleic castle bonfire
- Pick up the 10k soul under the stairs, 8k in mask room
- Skip Dragon riders and mirror knight
- Pop souls on the elevator
- Peach Strats, level and upgrade now
- Air walk from the syan knights (don't need the 20k soul here)
- Do demons of song skip
- Do Velstadt skip (pick up king's ring from below his room)
- Warp to Forked Road
- Skip Guardian Dragon
- Maybe run back and get the 20k soul by the 3rd dragon
- Get Ashen mist heart
- Go back to Majukla, buy the cat ring, buy the twin dragon shield from maughlin if you want to do falloff strats for throne watcher
- Upgrade your mace to +3/4/5 (a lizard or 2 drops large titanite in dragon aerie, maybe get them)
- Level up all into STR baby
- Do King's gate skip to the giant memory
@ Kill Giant Lord

@ Kill Throne Watchers

@ Kill Nashandra