Dark Souls 2 Any% (Current Patch)

- Start Explorer + Ascetic
- Kill Maughlin
- Grab Soul near blacksmith
- Talk to get Estus and light Bonfire

- Head to Forest

- Pick up Bone on the way to Forest
- Be good at barehand Parry or Pick up the Buckler
- Buy Club and 4 bombs
- Move Melentia to Majula
- Pick up bone after Turtle Guy
- Pick up Fire Arrows
- Kill "Last" Giant (OOZE)

- Pop soul on Elevator

- Kill Pursuer
- Pop soul anytime before getting back to Majula
- Warp to Bastille

- Don't light the Bonfire and pray you do this first try
- Pick up 2 Large Shards (Left of Bonfire and Above Lucatiel)
- Blow up the wall (First try or Run Ded)
- Pick up the 2 Large and 5 Regular Shards (Should be the 2 chests on the left)
- Bone Back

- Use Ascetic
- Head to balista room and knock on the door
- Then get the 3 chunks in the center Trapped Chest
- THEN get the large behind the door
- Bone back
- Warp to Majula

- Buy 3 Brightbugs and Key
- Talk for Ring
- Open Blacksmith and Sit at Bonfire
- Buy a Shard and a Rapier, Upgrade to Max
- Level Max DEX and head to Dragonrider
- Pick up Bow in the Chest
- Equip rings and Rapier on the way

- Dragonrider Slips
- Don't take bonfire, Might be best to just run through the entrance door
- Pop Dragonrider Soul while Bridge falls
- Head to Ornstien (OOZE) and kill him
- Take bonfire and warp to majula
! Don't level if you are getting the Shaded woods earlier!
- Buy Cat Ring, Bone and Skulls (6-8 if you can't get them all)
- Head to Gulch

- Kill lizard on the Wooden bridge at the bottom for last shard
- Get 20 gems in pot for safety
- Get Branch
- Take the Second bonfire in Gulch
? Do Shaded woods stuff now? Grab RTSR, 13 Resins and Chloranthy Ring then bone back?
- Kill Raw10 (OOZE) (Brightbug)
- Head to DLC Area

- Skip First Bonfire and grab the second one in the Tower
- Run through the DLC picking up 20k Soul after the bridge
- Get Flynns Ring
- Get Eternal Sanctum Key
- Bone back

- Head to the Gank Squad Area
? Lightning Clutch Ring? (Is it Useful?)
- Get Bonfire and Fall then Bone back (NPC Invasions suck)
- Run through and get the 3 Bonfire Ascetics, Try not to die and Bone Back
- Warp to Majula

- Buy Brightbugs on the way and Upgrade Rapier if you haven't earlier
- Level if need be
- Head to Shaded Woods
- Get bones and Gems by Benhart
- Kill as many things as you can While the Door opens, (Use skull as distraction)
- Take Corssroads Bonfire and get RTSR
- Head to Vengarl and buy 12 Lightning Resins (Use Resin on Every boss from now on)
- Get Chloranthy Ring and Bone Back Safely

- Warp to Gulch Bonfire (Using RTSR, Flynns, Leo Ring, Ring of Blades)
- Swap RTSR for Silver ring for extra souls after Killing Rotten
- Bone back after Every Kill
- 1 Ascetic
- Poke the Rotten (Brightbug)
- 2 Ascetic
- Poke Him Again (Brightbug)
- 3 Ascetic
- Poke Him some more (Brightbug)
- Warp to Majula for Leveling Main 30-35 END and 40 DEX, 20 STR maybe or 24-ish VGR

- Warp to Crossroads
- Go through Shrine of Winter and Pray you are over 1 Million Soul Memory
- Grab Holy Water Urns if Nash Glitch still works
- Kill Lizard on the Way (3 Chunks and a Slab)
- Take First Bonfire and go Upgrade Rapier Max
- Kill Dragonriders

- Do Soulevator stuff
- Kill Mirror Knight (OOZE) (Brightbug)

- Go through Amana
- Kill Demon of Song

- Run through Crypt
- Shouldn't have to pull Lever
- Kill Velstadt (Brightbug)
- Grab ring and Bone back

- Warp to Majula and buy last of the brightbugs

- Warp to Crossroads and head for Aldia
- Resin and get hit buy the Second Hippo thing for RTSR set up
- Kill Guardian dragon

- Warp to Cardinal Tower
- Don't die before the Kings Gate
- Kill Giant Lord (Use the Fireball before him to get RTSR set up)
- Bone back

- Warp to Drangleic Kings Gate

- Kill Watcher with Fall off Strats, or Normally, Or Summon Benhart

- Kill Nashandra, Make her glitch if possible

- Party, because you are done!