Dark Souls 2 All Bosses Notes

Dark Souls 2 All Bosses DLC 1-3 Melee Rapier/Red Iron Twinblade route
Pop souls and menu wherever you can do it without losing time, don't forget to use the twohanded left weapon strats for faster pickups

- Start Explorer/Homeward Bone
- Pickup Soul Under cart In Things Betwix (or next to Blacksmith if you want to be slow)
- Kill Maughlin with witching urns
- Talk to Emerald Herald and then run away
- Light the bonfire in Majula, then head towards Cardinal Tower
- Light the Cardinal Tower Bonfire
- Buy Club & Firebomb
- Blow up the poorly made wall and run towards Last Giant

# Last Giant (Club, Ooze)
- Pickup homeward bone before pursuer

# Pursuer (Ballista)
- Pop the Pursuer soul
- Open blacksmith door, level up to 14 END, 12 DEX
- Rest at bonfire then to pickup the bow by the blacksmith
- Buy Rapier, Mace, 9 shards & 11 Arrows, Rapier+3, Mace+2

# Dragonrider (Gravity)
- Head Towards Ornstein

# Ornstein (Rapier, Ooze)
- Homeward Bone back to the bonfire
- Pickup the lockstone and then head to No-mans Wharf
- Pickup the 3x Dark Pine Resin in the house to left of the main stairs
- Shoot the bell with your mighty bow after the light-hating monsters

# Flexile Sentry (Rapier, DPR)
- Homeward Bone back to the bonfire
- Level up to 11VGR, 25 END, 20 DEX
- Buy Cat Ring, 10 skulls and 10 bones from the sneaky cat

# Royal Rat Vanguard (Rapier, Brightbug)
- Pickup the branch in black gulch
- Light the first bonfire in black gulch

# Rotten (Rapier, Ooze, Brightbug)
- Run through the 1st DLC, light the second bonfire.
- Grab the 20k soul with the Dragon Charms
- Grab Flynns Ring, get Forgotten Key & Dragon Stone
- Light the bonfire before Elana then warp back to Majula
- Level up to 16 VGR, 30 END, 15 STR
- Buy 3 Brightbugs, 21 gems
- Get to Huntsmans Copse and light the Bridge Approach bonfire for later use (Chariot)

# Skeleton Lords (Mace)
- Talk to Chloanne enough to send her back to Majula
- Grab the chunk in the poison pool
- Pickup a torch if you didn't pickup the first one in Things Betwixt
- Do the fancy OOB skip or pull the lever if you're bad

# Covetous (Rapier)
- Light the first bonfire
- Light your torch and burn the windmill

# Mytha (Rapier, Brightbug, Dark Pine Resin)
- Do the fancy jump to the ember

# Smelter (Rapier, Dark Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Grab the Flame Butterflies in the chest after Smelter

# Old Iron King (Rapier, Dark Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Run through the 2nd DLC
- Light the second DLC bonfire (or the third one if you're brave)

- Level up to 17 VGR, 28 STR
- Buy 3 shards, 10 large shards from Chloanne
- Upgrade Rapier +7, Mace +5
- Buy 3 Brightbugs
- Head to Shaded Woods and grab the Fork Road Bonfire
- Pickup the bones before Rosabeth
- Buy 40~ish Gold Pine Resin from Vengarl
- Grab the Chloranthy ring +1
- Talk to Gandalf and then light the Shaded Ruins bonfire

# Najka (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin)
- Light Gyrm's Respite bonfire for Big Rat later

# Congregation (Rapier/Mace)

# Freja (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Homeward Bone back to bonfire then Warp to Majula
- Buy 3 brightbugs + Max Life Gems
- Warp to Lost Bastille

# Sentinels (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin)
- Light the Servants Quarters Bonfire

# Gargoyles (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Homeward Bone back and then head for Sinner

# Sinner (Brightbug, Rapier, Gold Pine Resin)
- Homeward Bone back to bonfire
- WARP STRAIGHT TO RUINED FORK ROAD
- Take the 3rd DLC bonfire
- Kill the suicidal lizard before the castle
- Pop your souls while waiting for the big door to open
- Grab the King's Gate Bonfire
- Warp to Majula
- Buy 3 brightbugs
- Level up to 35 STR, rest VGR
- Talk to Gandalf, Homeward Bone back to bonfire

# Dragonriders (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin)
- Light the Central Castle Drangleic
- Get the Key and Homeward Bone back
- Grab the alluring skulls before Mirror Knight if you need more of them

# Mirror Knight (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin)
- Pickup Red Iron Twinblade in Shrine of Armana

# Froggy Frog (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin)
- Buy shield of the insolent shield, ring of thorns and all the shrooms from Agadayne
- Light the Undead Ditch in Undead Crypt
- Pull the lever to open up the shortcut for Vendrick later

# Velstadt (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Grab the King's Ring and then Homeward Bone back
- Warp to Majula
- Buy 6 shards, 5 large shards, 8 chunks & Ascetic from Chloanne
- Upgrade Red Iron Twinblade to 10+, Rapier +10
- Level up 40 STR, rest VGR

# Chariot (Red Iron Twinblade, Gold Pine Resin)
- Homeward Bone back to bonfire
- Warp to Gyrm's Respite

# Royal Rat Authority (Red Iron Twinblade, Gold Pine Resin)
- Warp to forkrode bonfire
- Grab the RTSR on your way to Aldia's Keep

# Guardian Dragon (Red Iron Twinblade, Gold Pine Resin)

# Ancient Dragon (Red Iron Twinblade, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Warp to the first DLC
- Do fancy RTSR strats for Elana

# Elana (Red Iron Twinblade, GPR, Brightbug)

# Sinh (Red Iron Twinblade, GPR, Brightbug)
- Homeward Bone back to bonfire then warp to Cardinal Tower bonfire

# Giant Lord (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin)
- Don't forget to pickup the Soul of a Giant, then homeward bone back
- Warp back to Majula
- Buy 3 brightbugs from Melentia, buy all life gems and effigys
- Level up to 40 VGR, 25 ADP and rest END
- Now you are done with the covetous ring and clothes, engage nudist mode
- Warp to first DLC
- Pickup the 2 Brightbugs before Gank Squad

# Gank Squad (Red Iron Twinblade, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Warp to 2nd DLC
- Light the bonfire by the elevators
- Get the Scorching Iron Scepter and suicide
- Go get the Key and go for Smelter

# Blue Smelter (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Darksign back to the elevator bonfire

# Fume Knight (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Darksign back to elevator bonfire
- Pickup the 2 brightbugs in the 2nd DLC

# Sir Alonne (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug)

# Kitty [Invisible Aava] (Twinblade, GPR, Brightbug)

# Ivory Dude [No extra knights] (Twinblade for mobs, Rapier for fight, Brightbug, GPR)
- Pickup the 2 brightbugs before Pony Land

# Double Kitties (Rapier, Brightbug, GPR)
- Darksign and Warp to Black Gulch
- Kill the Giants and Darksign
- Survive the 1st Dungeon (Use Brightbug)
- Warp to Shaded Ruins
- Survive the 2nd Dungeon
- Darksign and Warp to Undead Ditch

# Vendrick (Rapier, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug) (With 3 giant souls)
- Darksign and Warp to King's Gate
- Pickup the faram set before gandalf
- Survive the 3rd Dungeon

# Darklurker (Red Iron Twinblade, Gold Pine Resin, Brightbug)
- Darksign back to bonfire
- No need for Benhart, just tank the fight with faram set

# Watcher & Defender (Red Iron Twinblade, Brightbug, GPR)

# Nashandra (Red Iron Twinblade, Gold Pine Resin)