Hexes Mostly any% Dark Souls 2 Route

Hexes mostly any%? Why not


- Pick cleric class, start with Life Ring
- Run to majula, pick up shard in well, light the bonfire
- Head towards dragon rider (grab effigy on the way if you want)
- Kill Dragon Rider with fall off strats
- Knock Cleric Lady off the edge, rest to get her loot (the chime and stone)
? Maybe buy lightning spear?
- Warp to majula

- Go towards cardinal tower bonfire, grab homeward bone in river
- Get the shard above cardinal tower bonfire, and the divine blessing on the branch
- Buy 2 clubs, 4-ish firebombs and blacksmith key
- Use firebomb to unlock shortcut
- Beat up Last Giant with mace/club and/or firebombs

- Take elevator back up, pop soul on elevator
- Grab the homeward bone
- Parry, ballista and lob a firebomb to kill Persuer
- Take eagle ride, warp back to Majula

- Unlock blacksmith, upgrade clubs to +3,
- Give Estus Shards, level up 13 ATU
- Warp to Lost Bastille
- Kill Ruin Sentinels, grab bonfire after them

- Warp to Majula
! Not sure about exact level up points here but smash all your souls and let's see!
- Level up 20 INT 20 FTH, if you can level up more get 26 FTH
- EITHER WAY LEAVE 6k SOULS AFTER LEVELING UP (or 6.6k for safety)
- Buy Silver Eagle Kite Shield from armor merchant
- Head towards Huntsman's Copse
- Buy Great Resonant Soul and Resonant Soul from Felkin, select TALK from him to get Hexer Hood (and put it on)
? Maybe buy dark orb as well, it's cheap and you MIGHT run out of spells at nashandra, MAYBE just pick up some Spell recovery herbs somewhere in the game, because it's throne watchers and nashandra without a bonfire
- Kill skeleton lords (the club probably is better than magic)

- Warp back to Majula, level up 26 FTH for great Resonant soul, rest into ATU BUT read the next bit
- Attune Great Resonant Soul
! Great reso costs 500 to cast for full power, normal reso takes 100, so ALWAYS leave about 4-5k souls after leveling up for them to use (or have a boss soul on hand to use)
! Hexes scale off your INT and FTH, whichever is lower, eventually want enough faith for Great Lightning Spear which is 42 FTH
! You will need 4 ATU slots eventually, maybe 5/6
- Head towards Covetous Demon
- Talk to ore lady to send her back to Majula
- Kill Covetous Demon with Great Resonant Soul

- Kill Medusa lady (probably magic is faster, but you can club stunlock if it's faster to do so)

- Bone back, level up (just keep leveling INT/FTH after getting 20 ATU)
- Attune both resonant souls if you've not
- Kill Old Iron King
- Take bone dust, primal bonfire back to Majula

- Level up
- Kill Lost Sinner
- Pick up Branch of Yore, use primal bonfire

- Head towards shaded woods, de-stone pyro lady, pick up shard
- Take crossroads bonfire, head through misty woods
- Pick up Clear Bluestone Ring +1 in misty woods (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdHvGgEAfhg)
- Take bonfire in shaded ruins, warp to Majula
- Buy cat ring and and maybe 3 bones?, go towards rotten
- Grab Scraps of Life on way through black gulch (in front of first worm)
- Kill The Rotten, take primal

- Level up, 25 ATU
- Attune scraps of Life
- Warp to shaded ruins
- Kill Scorpion Lady

- Kill the magus (make use of Scraps of Life, and on freja too)

- Kill Freja, bone back

- Head towards Drangleic Castle, take first bonfire in Castle
- Murder Dragon Riders

- Grab Caitha's Chime, pop all the souls on the big long elevator up
- Warp back to Majula for leveling
- Upgrade the Cathia's Chime as much as you can (and use it from now on)
- Murder Mirror Knight

- Murder Demon of Song

- Murder Garl Vinland

- Ore lady at this point sells a lot of upgrade materials at this point
- MAX OUT Cathia's Chime and your shield if you want
- Murder Guardian Dragon

- Do the really long run up to the ancient dragon
- Warp to Cardinal Tower, buy amber herbs from hag (for getting more spellcasts on nashandra, since you have a boss before her with no spellcast refresh)
- Go do the Murdering of Giant Lord stuff in the memory

- Murder Throne Watchers with relative ease

- Use amber herbs before next fight
- Murder Nashandra