Dark Souls 2 Any% Current Patch detailed notes 2/9/2016

Dark Souls 2 Any% Current Patch detailed optimal notes as of 2nd of septembre 2016.

Use auto-dash to do menuing.
2 Hand your left hand fist whenever you can, it makes animations faster (hold Y, or triangle)

#Last Giant

Autorun unequip the starting set.
Pick explorer with bonfire ascetic.
Autorun unequip explorer set and everything you don't need.
Run to maughlin, 4 head shots with witching urn, pick up Tseldora's.
Pick up soul near blacksmith, tag herald, light bonfire.
Run towards Last Giant.
At the gate do any other menuing you will need, pop the soul.
Pick up bone + soul in the river, equip bone + soul.
Run to melentia. Pop lifegem as you talk to her.
Buy club and 2 firebombs. Lightbonfire.
Bombwall, run to elevator. Do jump if you're a man.
Heal with flask, equip club, tseldora's, and use ooze on the elevator.
Kill Last Giant with club and bomb/urns.
Bone out.


#Pursuer

Pop Last Giant soul
Here you need the small soul equipped, tag melentia, use soul, spam A to enter her menues.
Buy key, 3 brightbugs, talk to melentia, get ring, exhaust dialogue.
Run to pursuer
Ballista kill
Equip soul ring and brightbugs waiting for fog gate
Run to nest, use bastille bonfire, warp majula


#Rotten 1

Tag herald, open blacksmith.
Level up 10 endurance, 12 dex. Rest at bonfire
Pick up bow in chest, buy rapier 6 shards and 11 arrows, upgrade rapier
Equip rapier (keep club on), Ring of blades, arrows autorunning to the cat.
Buy cat ring, 2 bones, 3 skulls.
Equip cat ring, drop down the pit.
Kill the lizard with running r1 + r1, run through gutter
Take Bonfire before rotten, kill rotten with brightbug + ooze.
Equip tseldoras before you get rotten souls.


#DLC 1 runthrough

Equip Bow, bones, rotten soul, skulls on your quickbar
Sinh jump if you're a man, run around if not.
Don't take the bonfire.
If you're EMP, yolo the photoshop jump.
If you're a peach, shoot the switch, and attempt the jump.
If you fail the jump, pop rotten soul.
Run to sanctum, make sure you got tseldoras on for the guys on the bright that sinh blows up
Inside the sanctum shoot the switch at the end of the pit 3 times, and the switch on the wall for the 20k soul.
Run around to the chest with the ascetic, throw skull, open chest, dodge the trap, pick up ascetic.
Run to flynns ring and equip the 20k soul.
Pick up flynns and bone out. If you didnt take the bonfire I said not to take, you go back to rotten bonfire here, if you took it, skip to next split.
Burn ascetic in the rotten bonfire.
Warp majula.


#Shaded Woods

Tag herald, pop 20k soul, spam A to level up
14 Vigor, 20 Endurance, 30 Dexterity with poison RTSR setup
7 Vigor, 20 Endurance, 37 Dexterity with fire RTSR setup
Run to blacksmith, EQUIP FLYNNS poke him twice with rapier.
+4 rapier, close menues, poke blacksmith till he dies.
Run towards Shaded Woods.
Pick up bones x3 + lifegems x3 before trap room.
Pull trap room lever, throw skull at other end, poke rosabeth 5 times
Throw another skull, poke 5 times, regen some stamina, poke once.
Kill frog.
Make sure you got tseldoras on for all those kills.
Run to Bonfire, light it.
Run to vengarl, pick up 2k soul and buy max Gold Pine Resin
Dark sign out, run to RTSR, dark sign, warp to Lost Bastille


#Sentinels

Apply resin before boss room
Kill sentinels
Equip RTSR before rotten, can be before sentinels too but you take fall damage in the fight then.
Run towards sinner, pick up 800 soul. Run to the gate.
Kill mummy before the gate, pull lever, pop all souls.
Kill 2 mummies after the gate, run upstairs, open the door and drop down.
Don't die to the chain. Pick up ascetic. Bone back.
Warp to rotten.


#Rotten 2

Poison or fire RTSR setup
Resin
Kill Rotten
Bone back.


#Rotten 3

Burn Ascetic
Poison or fire RTSR setup
Resin and brightbug
Kill Rotten.
Bone back.


#Rotten 4

Burn Ascetic
Poison or fire RTSR setup
Resin and brightbug.
Kill Rotten.
Bone back.
Warp Majula


#Twin Dragonriders

Run to melentia, pop all souls.
Buy 3 brightbugs and lifegems if needed.
Level up 18 Vigor 40 Endurance, 40(or 39 if you bought lifegems) Strenght, 40 Dexterity.
Warp Shaded Woods
Run towards the Castle, unequip tseldora's forever.
Equip brightbugs, club and bow in left hand while running to the Castle.
Open the gate, get RTSR from the Royal soldiers if you want.
Run inside, kill the stone soldier to trigger the door, then go light bonfire.
Pick up mushroom OR old radiant lifegems. Remove flynns to pick up shroom.
Reequip flynns if needed, run to Dragonriders
Resin, 2 hand bow in left hand shoot the bow dragonrider, run to him and kill him.
Kill red Dragonrider.


#Mirror Knight

Climb ladder, poke stone soldier in the left back end of the room.
Either run around, or kill 2nd stone soldier, then dark sign out.
Get RTSR from the jump (or the ladder if you dark signed).
Pick up the key, dark sign.
Kill Mirror Knight with Consistant Knight strat. Use ooze.
Run to elevator


#Demon of Song

Make sure you got cat ring equipped.
Run through amana. Have fun.
Do MrTakahashi 2nd foggate strats or kill everything like a peach.
Remove flynns, kill shrooms, reequip flynns
Get RTSR from soul arrow mages, or dont like a peach.
Run to the boss, try to poke once before it closes it's shell.
Apply resin, kill frog.
Run towards the Crypt.


#Velstadt

Equip bow, remove rapier.
Pop brightbug just before the invasion point, on the stairs, so the mage's spell cancels it.
Shield people bow strat.
Equip the Key to the Embedded.
Apply resin before you get to the room leading to velstadt.
Don't die to velstadt foggate.
Kill velstadt. Use R2 before he buffs, R1 while he buffs, and R2 again after the buff animation is over.
Pick up the ring, dark sign back.
Warp to Shaded Woods


#Guardian Dragon

Unequip the Key whenever you have a long running segment, it's heavy as fuck.
Equip King's Ring, run towards dragon.
Use the last Ooze in front of the first wall that gets destroyed by the hippos. Apply it fast enough so that the hyppo hit doesnt cancel it. This is the RTSR setup.
Use brightbug near the 2nd wall that the hippos blow up, make sure you dont get hit here.
Guardian dragon strats (watch a video this kind of technical)
Take elevator to Dragon Aerie


#Ashen Mist Heart

Aerie Jump, get ashen mist, dark sign out.
Warp to Forest of the fallen giants (melentia's room)


#Giant Lord

Do Giant Lord jump.
Or run around like a peach.
Resin, kill Can't See ShitLord.
Dark sign out.


#Throne Duo

Clear quickbar of stupid shit at the king's gate, equip shroom, or old radiants.
Gooner jump if you have old radiants.
Just run to the boss if you have shroom.
Bright bug, resin, enter fight, shroom, destroy throne duo.


#Nashandra

Use another resin before the cutscene.
Destroy nashandra.
Celebrate your new World Record.