Dark Souls II Glitchless Any% (Great Club)

Dark Souls II Glitchless Any% Speedrun (Pokerotten)

IMPORTANT: This route only really works on Version 1.03 Calibrations 1.07. If you have current patch, the Great Club will be very weak, Sentinels cannot be stunlocked, and Pursuer will require 2 ballista shots to kill.

Tseldora equipment should be equipped immediately after each boss kill before Drangleic

Key: &- Item to pick up, !- Something to kill, %- Item to use

Boss Order: Last Giant, Pursuer, Sentinels, Nahjka, Magus & Congregation, 4 Rottens, Dragonriders, Mirror Knight, Frog, Velstadt, Dragon, Giant Lord, Watcher/Defender, Nash

Start Explorer, Ascetic gift
Remove Gear

Run Majula
!Kill Maughlin w/ Witching Urns
&Pickup Tseldora Armor Set (RIP Only Black man in the game)
&Pickup Soul & Lifegesm behind blacksmith
Light Bonfire
Head to Last Giant
Pull Gate lever
%Drop non-Tseldora armor, use Soul (waiting for door to open)
&Pickup Homeward Bone + Soul
%Use Soul (somewhere on the way to Cardinal Tower)
Light (Rest) Cardinal Tower Bonfire
Buy Key & Club from Melentia
!Kill Melentia
&Pickup Silver Covetous Serpent Ring from RIP Melentia
Down Ladder, left through fog gate, up branch, past Hollows, down ladder, past turtle, through fog gate
Elevator Down: Equip Ring, homeward bone, estus, Drop leftover gear, unequip unnecessary items, Magic Ooze Club
!Last Giant (Magic Ooze Club, Equip Clothes at end of fight)
Elevator up: %Use Last Giant soul, do whatever you didn't manage to do on the elevator down
!Titanite Lizard (Witching Urn or Magic Ooze Club running attack if Ooze is still on)
&Pickup Large Leather Shield in lizard room down stairs in corner
!Pursuer (Parry, Ballista, Witching Urn)
Fly to Bastille
Light bonfire, warp Majula

Open Blacksmith, Rest Bonfire, Level up 24 STR, 7 DEX, 10 END (13.6k souls leftover). Buy 2 maces, 10 shards, upgrade maces +1 +1
Warp Bastille
&Pickup Large Titanite Shard (Left from bonfire, on ledge)
&Pickup Large Titanite Shard (Through door, up ladder)
Equip maces through first door
Equip Ring of Blades through last door
!Sentinels (Power stance maces. 3 R1, L2, run behind while stunned, 2 R1, L2)
Use Pursuer and Sentinels souls and equip Radiant Lifegem while opening gate
Up 2 staircases, through door, drop
&Pickup Bonfire Ascetic
%Use Bone
Warp Majula

Buy Cat Ring, 3 alluring skull, and 3 bones
EQUIP CAT RING, Drop down pit
!Titanite Lizard (Running attack, R1 w/ Mace. If you miss the R1, drop down after him and finish him)
Descend gutter (You know the path, right?)
%Pickup Great Club
&Pickup Fragrant Branch of Yore
Grab secret bonfire before rotten
Warp Majula

Buy Rapier, upgrade +4, upgrade greatclub +3
Level up, 12 END, 12 DEX, little bit of ADP (19000+ souls leftover for resins, more is needed if you die on a boss)
Towards Shaded Woods
&Pickup Bones and lifegems by Benhart
Unpetrify Rosabeth, pull lever
%Throw Alluring Skull
!Kill Rosabeth (RIP allaWaifu), 3R1, R2, Throw another skull, 3 R1)
!Basilisk
Dodge Mecz's Stone of Destiny
Light Ruined Fork Road bonfire
&Pickup RTSR
%Bone back to forked road
Shaded Woods, hug left wall
Buy 13+ resin from head of vengarl (at least 13 is needed)
To Shaded Ruins (take bonfire if you're a peach)
Jump for Chest above bonfire
&Titanite Chunk
!Nahjka (Rapier, Resin when she comes up. Stay by her tail to bait tail attacks)
!Titanite Lizard (Great Club R2)
&Pickup Large Titanite Shard before door
%Alluring Skull (door before caves)
!Magus & Congregation (Lightning Resin 2H Mace)
Up ladder
&Bonfire Ascetic
Drop attack lizard left of bonfire entrance
&Pickup Chunk dropping down to the right of the lizard
Bone, warp Rotten secret bonfire

!Rotten (Lightning Resin 2H Rapier, stand in fire for RTSR, equip clothes at end)
Remove Clothes, bone back, Burn Ascetic
!Rotten (Lightning Resin 2H Rapier, stand in fire for RTSR, equip clothes at end)
Remove Clothes, bone back, Burn Ascetic
!Rotten (Lightning Resin 2H Rapier, stand in fire for RTSR, equip clothes at end)
Remove Clothes, bone back, Burn Ascetic
!Rotten (Lightning Resin 2H Rapier, stand in fire for RTSR, equip clothes at end)
Remove Clothes, bone back, warp ruined fork road
Pop Souls
Through Shrine of Winter
!Titanite Lizard (Great Club R2)
!Door Guardians (Rapier), run back to stairs after the golems are activated
%Use Nahjka Souls while waiting for door to open
Head to first bonfire in Drangleic
Light Bonfire
!Kill statue guarding first door on right
Warp Majula

Upgrade Great Club to +10, level 20 END, 50-ish STR, 30-ish ADP, some VGR, some VIT (Really, whatever you want. This is your last level-up. RIP souls to Darksign)
Ascend castle
!Dual Dragonriders
Bonfire
Climb ladder, kill back left statue as it stands up
Through door, through big door, up ladder, drop, down staircase, (bonfire), up elevator. Equip darksign on the way up.
&Key to King's Passage (Left Chest)
%Darksign (it's faster than riding the elevator back down)
!Mirror Knight (Magic ooze great club)
Down Elevator
Through Amana (Good luck)
!Demon of Song (Lightning Resin Great Club)
Through Grave of Saints
You can Lightning Resin early before Velstadt and 2HR2 the fog gate guardian on the left (it'll 1 hit him), then roll past the other guardian.
!Velstadt (Lightning Resin Great Club)
&Pickup King's Ring
%Darksign
Warp Ruined Fork Road
Through King's Door to Aldia's Keep
Through Adia's Keep
!Guardian Dragon (Lightning Resin Great Club)
Up elevator, take bonfire, do Aerie Jump Shortcut
Through Dragon Shrine
&Ashen Mist Heart
%Darksign
Warp Cardinal Tower
Down ladder, across bridge, through King's Door, into Memory
!Giant Lord (Magic ooze Great Club, sprint from start, hide for rolling statue head, dodge opening attack. do R1 R2, not R2 R2)
%Darksign
Warp Drangleic King's Door
Summon Benhart
!Throne Watcher and Defender (kill watcher first and hope they fight Benhart)
!Nashandra