DS2 SOTFS any% notes

Description of the world record run of gooner_gooner as of 2016.02.19.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUsNkxlRxfg
If anything is unclear you can message me on twitch, username: gekko42 .

LEVELUPS:
After first rotten: 20 END 20 STR 25 DEX
After congregation: 13 VGR 29 DEX
After 4th rotten: 14 VGR 50 END 40 STR 46 DEX

Every boss fought is killed by rapier unless an other weapon is mentioned explicitly

Start Bandit and ascetic
Deequip stuff
Do Binocular jump
Jump to Herald
Light Bonfire, head to Forest of Fallen Giants
At lever, set order of clothes(default positions), equip darksign and ascetic
Pick up bone and soul in the river
Crush soul mid-run
Buy a firebomb from Melentia while popping a lifegem, light bonfire
Bomb the wall
On the elevater down, equip bones and estus and weapon, use estus

LAST GIANT
Kill LG with hand axe
Darksign out as soon as you can
Crush LG soul, buy key, 2 brightbugs, get soul ring
Send her back
(deequip weapon while running)

PURSUER
Kill pursuer with ballista
Equip soul ring, brightbugs and ring of blades when he's dead
Go to bastille, warp back to Majula
Open door, rest, discard hand axe while resting
Buy rapier, 6 shards, +3 rapier
Head to the armorer, pop Pursuer soul mid-run
Kill armorer with rapier, pick up tseldora set, equip it after each boss until last rotten, then deequip it
Go to Cat, buy catring, 2 bones and 7 skulls
Do pitdrop, use estus
GUTTER - IT'S HARD TO DESCRIBE GUTTER RUNTHROUGH, watch gooner_gooner (timestamp: about 9:00 minutes).
(Deequip soulring)
Jump to the left at the end of the second bridge counting from the first gutter bonfire, pick up the branch on the plank
Walk around, climb the ladder, do the second jump
Stab the planks you need to go through
Go straight, drop down the hole right to the one you run into, and jump left to the chest with great club, pick it up
Drop down to the bottom, pick up branch
GUTTER END
Use brightbug before first foggate, equip soulring
Head straight to rotten, dont light any bonfire

ROTTEN - brightbug
Try to cut his right arm which has the weapon
DON'T BONE OUT
Run backwards, activate statue before the second bonfire, pop rotten soul, burn ascetic, light bonfire, warp back
LVL 20 END, 20 STR, 25 DEX
Buy Branch from Melentia (should have a little less than 20k souls after)
Head towards Shaded Woods
Equip alluring skulls mid-run
Pick up the bones and lifegems
Activate statue, pull lever, attack pyro girl, and throw two skulls on her, strong attack her when you leave, she should die when you are already far
Kill the basilisk
(Deequip silver cat ring)
Light ruined fork road bonfire
Head to rtsr, block first attack of ogre with rapier, get hit by next one(RTSR setup), pick up RTSR, bone out
Head towards fogged forest, shoot spooky tree with bow to make the ghosts attack it
Buy 13 Gold pine resin (GPR) from Vengarl
Pick up chloranty ring, equip it mid-run
GPR before najka foggate

NAJKA - gpr
Keep rtsr
Head towards Tseldora, kill lizard on the way with great club
Deequip club
Throw a skull from really far in front of the second dropping boulder to make the four hollows suicide after you pass
Pick up large titanite shard on ledge
Throw another skull to distract the three other hollows to open door
Equip great club in one hand, rapier in other, GPR the club

CONGREGATION - gpr
Kill Magus with a two-handed great club strong attack combo, together with a priest and whatever you hit
Stab priest with rapier, throw skull, kill other priest with club combo, finish rest of Congregation
Heal with a lifegem
Climb up ladder, switch to silver cat ring, pick up ascetic, drop down
Kill lizard on other platform with jump and plunge attack with club
Pick up charcoal pine resins in the urns
Kill lizard behind the door with club, poke the spider thingie to pick up an other chunk
Pick up the chunk in the corner behind the door
Go towars spikes, throw a skull (cancel animation), pick up the titanites in the spikes, bone out
Warp back to Majula
Upgrade rapier +10, upgrade club one time
Level 13 VGR, 29 DEX
Warp to Bastille
Switch from silver cat ring to soul ring
Activate statue, use GPR, take hits from soldiers for bit less than half hp for RTSR setup, kill soldiers (no need to kill statue)
Drop down towards ladder, kill soldier at the base of the ladder, climb ladder
You can equip tseldora set mid-run

SENTINELS - gpr
After killing first sentinel, drop down asap and attack second sentinel, dropping down should give you RTSR
Use estus after fight
One-hand the rapier
Head for the ascetic, pop Najka and sentinels soul while waiting after raising the grating, and make the leftmost hollow explode while doing so
Stab the hollow blocking the way
Drop down for the ascetic and bone out
Warp to rotten, use poison setup for rtsr (block a hit from a poison statue, roll through a second hit)

ROTTEN 2 - gpr
Use gpr after entering foggate, bone out after, burn ascetic, repeat

ROTTEN 3 - gpr

ROTTEN 4 - brightbug, gpr
Warp back to majula, pop all your souls, buy brigthbugs, buy 11 lifegems
Level 14 VGR, 50 END, 40 STR, 46 DEX
Warp to ruined forkroad
Deequip Tseldora set for good
(Deequip rapier)
Jump against the falconer in the middle of the road
Switch Soulring for Catring
As approaching the castle gate, equip rapier in right hand and bow on off-hand
Kill soldiers to activate gate, take hits from other soldiers so you have RTSR
Equip club, use charcoal resin on it
Run towards the kings gate bonfire, activate door with killing a stone soldier with club, kill following soldier with rapier, activate bonfire (in that order)
Deequip club, equip rapier
Pick up old radiant lifegems, ignore the mushroom
Run towards dragonriders, use charcoal pine on rapier

DRAGONRIDERS - cpr
Use bow on upper guy to make him drop, kill them with rapier
Go towards the elevator activator giant, dont forget the ghost in the wall
Almost kill the dropping down rogue, lure it to the giant and kill it with bow
Walk back to the bonfire (DONT BONE OR DARKSIGN), deequip catring for RTSR setup
Activate bonfire, take the elevator, take the key, darksign, head to mirror knight

LOOKING GLASS KNIGHT - gpr
Use consistent knight tactics (http://www.twitch.tv/kfnslayer/v/6541261)
Heal up to full on the elevator down
Drop down at the first bonfire, use a lifegem
At the first three arcdrakes, run in the left shallow water to make them aggro later
Amana runthrough is pretty hard to describe, but the only goal is to get through alive
(gooner_gooner WR timestamp: around 42:00 minutes)
You can use a bow to draw the archdrakes from the second foggate, and use a GPR while they run to you
Kill the giant shroom with the rapier

DEMON OF SONG - gpr
Reresin when he first closes his face
Heal up after the fight up to 3/4 health
Deequip catring and drop at end of elevator for RTSR
At the first shield dude, go into the right corner and shoot him with arrows until he aggroes to you
Use brightbug
Stab stones until you get through
Use bow to make the left shield dude turn
Use GPR

VELTSTADT - brightbug, gpr
Get Kings ring, darksign out, warp to ruined forkroad
Get RTSR from ogre
Kill syan knight, use brightbug
Run through aldia's keep
Use GPR at first ogre

GUARDIAN DRAGON - brightbug, gpr
Get 3 attacks on his head, then poke his leg as much as you can, he should be dead
Heal up on the elevator
Equip CPR, bow, alluring skull
(deequip rapier)
Zipline past aerie jump
Aggro big dragon knight at door with bow, run to small dragonbro to bait an attack, open door
Get ashen mist heart, darksign out
Warp to forest of fallen giants, use skull to aggro hollow, do giant lord jump without catring for RTSR
Equip keyblade
Use CPR right before giant lord baiting his first attack and the rolling stone head

GIANT LORD - cpr
Darksign out
Warp to Kings gate
(deequip keyblade and darksign)
Do a jump so you are injured
Equip rapier, use GPR and brightbug before foggate

THRONE DUO - brightbug, gpr
Use an old radiant lifegem at beginning
Heal up, use GPR after they are dead
Brightbug should last for nashandra

NASHANDRA - gpr
Bait lazorz with lifegems and kill her

THE END.