If anything, you should pay me for the trauma! I saw my knife flash before my eyes as I fell. Although, it was an imPRESSive throw, I'll give you that much.
There's the special piece of equipment, the Engraved Gauntlets from the Pate and Creighton quest which give a 5% chance for any attack to deal 50% extra damage and it WORKS with consumables, in the long run, that'd be tons of extra damage.
@@JKLeedsit’s to be expected, I would guess. None of you have anything to prove. You’ve proven it already. Only thing left is to celebrate what everyone else manages to do as well.
The reason poisoning bosses in ds2 just says “15” is there’s a bug in the boss health bar code that makes the numbers not add up like they’re supposed to, like they do in all other souls games.
Yeah, it just display the latest amount of damage dealt. So attacks that hit multiple times will only display the last hit. Easy to observe with most hits of lightning spears that usually deal a little bit of damage after the attack is done
They’re pretty crazy in Elden ring too, with a quality build they were taking good portions of health off late game bosses with very minimal risk on top of the decent bleed they come with, plus they stop bosses poise from regenerating so just chucking them out every once in a while will at least give you more riposte then without em
@@portl1298kukris have quite Big damage, plus kukris can make bleeding build up, other knifes are not bad either, specially the fan daggers ( the ones that patches sells ) Consumables are legit a decent build for beating the game
I think the petrified Ogre in aldias keep is more environmental storytelling than just some progression obstacle. Like it’s meant to clue you in and warn you that there’s a basilisk near here, but not just any regular basilisk you’ve found so far, but one that’s capable of taking down an ogre just with its breath. Or maybe I’m just doing the explaining for the devs.
You actually can get more knifes for all those pesky dlc bosses. You can drop stack of knives right near the fog wall, get more, enter boss battle and when you run out - pick dropped stack near the fog wall. So you can have much more ammo and do all bosses
Well...actually the only one this would be possible with would be Fume Knight. With Ivory King, you can't get to the fog gate and with Elana, you can't get back to the bonfire by walking and dropped items disappear if you use a homeward bone.
I mean, I think the main problem was moreso the duration than the lack of consumables. While he would save like 40% of the time because he could use only the normal (better) throwing knives, it'd still take fucking ages.
Hey YOU! YES YOU, person lurking there in the comments section! Would you like a shout out in the next Throwing Knife video? Well all you gotta do is answer these 3 questions, write them as a reply to this comment and, if you answer all three correctly, that shout out is yours when the next throwing knife vid arrives! The questions are: 1. What is the most amount of damage I do in this video with a single knife? 2. There is a deliberate mistake in this video, what is it? (HINT: it's to do with me saying something was added to the Scholar edition of DS2) 3. During the Lost Sinner fight, name the computer game that the music I play there comes from
I’ll take a stab at your questions! (I’m not at all confident on the last two, but here goes) 1. 250 damage 2. The petrified ogre in Aldia’s keep was always there, not added in. 3. I honestly didn’t hear any music during the Lost Sinner Fight, but I could just have bad hearing 😅 Bonus: Laddersmith Gilligan can’t be sent to Firelink, he goes to Majula for some Majula-nese (which now makes me want to make my own hot pepper bolognese).
1. 250 at 4:06 2. The petrified ogre was always in Aldia's Keep 3. Not cultured enough to know this one sadly, I'm in the comment section of ds2 video after all
1. 1756. I looked it up and tested myself, the Gank Squad does *not* have friendly fire. 2. Aldia’s Keep Ogre is in both OG Ds2 and SOTFS, it drops the Dragon Acolyte Mask. 3. No clue. I can hear the music faintly but your voice drowns it out. It kinda sounds like something from a Rayman game?
In the intro, I was fully expecting the therapist to say "My conclusion is that we're dealing with a clear case of skill issue" Great video, great run! Your sacrifice honor us!
I tried this challenge run myself in my spare time, and im surprised at how viable those little knives are. Also serious props to you for beating lud and zallen, those two usually give me hell lol. GG dude, I'm glad you didn't lose your sanity this time
I unironically appreciate the recipe segments in this series. The food is great, and so is the fact I'm learning how to make it in the middle of a dark souls challenge run video.
Good to see that therapy session paid off! But was it enough to do this with Dark Souls 3? You know you have to do it sooner or later. Fun video again, good job man!
@@JKLeeds im not the biggest fan of ds3 (got burnt put after getting the platinum once and halfway to a 2nd time) but i think it'll (sadly) be the same kind of thing like ds1. But can't wait for the video
I'm not sure what I like here most: the challenging run itself or the amount of puns made unexpectedly here and there with the absolute pokerfaced voice tone :D
@@JKLeeds A DLC1 Crossbow. The special attack has it fire a Dark Orb-like projectile. It eats durability but the damage can get really high. Basically if you've ever been to the statue room in the first DLC you've probably been shot at by the tall dudes, it's their weapon though you can also find it right by the most nearby bonfire. There's also a Dark Orb shotgun-like version buuuut it's not as good.
my best guess for Varg hurting his buddy is that he was close enough to you to be inside your hitbox and for some reason that caused Varg's weapon hurtbox to register him as a valid target too.
Love challenge runs like these so much, glad I've found someone else with great comedic timing and production value to watch! Definitely subscribed, looking forward to watching some of your other stuff!
Doing a great job exploring the boundaries of what can and can’t be done in these games! Liking the persistent referencing to DS1 for context, and clearly so much thought go into these videos. Also, what is with the drunk guys on the bridge? They are like pigeons in the summertime.
Ive been saying it for years - Dark Souls 2 SOTFS gets better with age. Ive played every souls game in the series to death, but every time I come back to DS2, I find new challenges and fun moments that keep it fresh. Thanks for this perfect homage to one of my favorite games of all time. 🎉
17:27 Well I gotta say that in this section in specific, they placed the turtle enemy to block your way to prevent you from skipping your way through which could be argued as a bad design choice or not at all.
28:28 : both in vanilla and scholar this Ogre not only blocks the path but (if I'm correct) drops the cool and fashionable Vaatividya loremaster ultimate helmet. Totally worth the branch of yore!
When I did my first SL1 run in DS2, unable to use a bow and in need of ranged attacks, I was forced to use the throwing knives, and was absolutely shocked at how much stronger they were than in DS1. Became my absolute favorite ranged option and I always make sure I'm stalked up not just on them, but all throwables because they are all surprisingly good.
I know this run was months ago, and I don’t know if you’ll see this, but I highly recommend that, when cooking a dish with onions, cook the onions first in the pan on high heat until they brown. This adds TONS of great flavor to whatever dish your making, takes natural the bite out of the onions flavor, and gives them a more palatable texture. Hope you like it, also, I loved the vid.❤
@@JKLeedskeep up the good work brother, we love the content! I have to say though, I just noticed that when I started my playthrough, I have only beaten Lost Sinner and have no clue about Old Iron King or the rest. I’m doing this in the complete wrong order.👀
Great video! This is the first run of yours ive seen, gunna watch the Dark Souls 1 throwing knives only run now! Thanks for all the hard work these must take, much love brother :)
I don't know if you know, but leveling ADP speeds up consumable animations as well, with the best examples being Estus and Lifegems. In this instance, it lowers your recovery time, so it's more comparable to DS1 speeds
Just so you know for any future obscure ds2 run where you use bleed, it actually has a recovery period like poison because it slows stamina recovery against humanoids. Think of the lowered absorption while you’re recovering from frostbite with the initial damage burst in future games except it’s a flat 200 in ds2 so spamming the lacerating knives is worse than spreading them out and mixing between the regular/poison and them
The poisoning Gargoyles is actually a strat I will use from now on since I struggle with them on my DS2 weird runs because I wanna go there early lol Thanks!
I am way late to the party (found your account just now and am enjoying all of it!) But to keep the ancient dragon from taking off you have to run from one foot to the other while he stops, that way he loops like that forever
See I'm the opposite on Iron Keep. It's my favourite grind spot in the series! I've usually tossed 5 or 6 bonfire ascetics into the first bonfire of the area on every run. Not the most visually interesting location once you get inside, but the SOULS!!
I assumed the ogre in Aldia's keep was to break that wagon down on the main floor. I thought it was some kind of puzzle as you can't break those yourself, but the big ogres can, and because it was possible to get behind the ogre without the branch I figured he was there so you could lure him all the way down to the wagon and thought that was really cool and such a clever puzzle... Nope, he doesn't even make it halfway down the stairs before going back to where he started
I think this is the longest I have waited to find out that recipe. Not even Mothers of 6 Children can give you a longer Story. On a serious Note keep the good work up!
Elana is truly hell i truly thought she only summoned Velstadt when i first encountered her, prob the only time when i kill a "boss" char in double digits
No grown man should giggle with absolute delight as loudly as I did, when I heard Thera-Press Continue was the one to respond from the end of the couch. Gloriously painful run, you're truly made of sterner stuff than most.
As much as we all hate adaptability in this game, for a consumables only run it is definitely a make or break stat. The fact it shortens consumable use speed and end lag recovery speed adds up to be pretty ridiculously fast
I was waiting for this one! I've been playing a dark souls 2 sl1 run on and off for the past couple months, and my strategy for most of these fights was using a combination of melee and throwing knives/firebombs. I was so excited to see how your run would go compared to mine. The question now is this; will you try dark souls 3?
Although I've never seen any of the gank squad damage each other, one thing I have seen that I thought was bizarre is that Nito can hit himself with the attack where the red sword comes out of the ground. You have to be positioned just right but it does like 200 damage or so.
Between the demon fire sage not resisting fire and the rotten and gargoyles not resisting poison, whoever programmed these resistances needs a stern talking to
37:19 pseudostripy just told me this: "yeah havel can dmg the other dude, depending on how they aggro to you, we use the havel plunge attack to dmg him in the all bosses speedrun, it depends who gets to you first but yeah if havel is second/delayed he'll plunge on the other dude, (and also you)"
28:33 thats there in vanilla too, that ogre does drop a guaranteed dragon acolyte hood im pretty sure tho It probs should drop the dragon sage hood in my opinion, i swear, i get that on every run i don't want it on
@@JKLeeds all the runbacks in the DS2 DLCs through the gauntlet bosses i flat out responded to by summoning to the boss door. screw that. congrats for the throwing knife run. I can't even get myself to do a full crossbow run of the game still.
Interesting that you went for the Basic executioner's Chariot strat, instead of the one where you plink away at it for 20 minutes in complete safety and then watch it fall into a hole at 25% health remaining. I'd have thought that would have been the obvious choice for this run?
Well I thought of that but even just getting the kill on the necromancer with the skeletons and the Chariot running around was very tricky to do with the knives given how trash they are at close range. Instead, what I did is didn't kill either Necromancer, ran straight for the lever, pulled it and then ran up and down avoiding the skeletons and the horse to throw occasional knives at the necromancers. So it was still pretty tedious 😃
the italian influence your wife brought during that cooking segment can be smelled from a mile away lol, that's some high quality lunch right there mate👌🏻
Amazing run! I watched this just after the DS1 run and I thought this would be even worse. Guess DS2 deserves some respect and appreciation in this matter. Btw, was that a clip of Meshuggah performing at the end of the video? 😮
the stone ogre in aldias keep is the only enemy in the game that will drop the dragon sage hood, iirc, no other way to obtain it. so yeah it does serve a purpose there
Wait... ragù?! Here of all places?! I also like it with rigatoni btw. I know know, italian getting summoned by food bla bla bla but... uh?! The intro I was like: "hey, he looks like a press continue character", and at first I was surprised, but then I heard all the bad puns I subscribed to him for, and everything made sense :')
I've honestly begun to wonder if Royal Rat Authority actually is Sif, deeply hollowed, with the similar appearance and all. Plus the fact that you are required to kill Sif in ds1.
The cooking section turned thie video from a ds2 challenge run to one of these from a recipes blogs that post tons of stories before listen the important parts
I think Varg damaged the Graverobber because the attack landed after you died. I think the enemy classes change when you die as you can notice enemies stop attacking after death unlike pretty much every enemy/boss in the other games. This means they are no longer classed as enemies and most likely replaced as friendly NPCs which allows them to take damage from attacks I don't know too much about the inner workings of the game though so I might be wrong
It pains me to go and twist the knife, but I think you owe me a new window...
If anything, you should pay me for the trauma! I saw my knife flash before my eyes as I fell. Although, it was an imPRESSive throw, I'll give you that much.
For a new window I recommend one that you can open. Makes defenestration much less expensive
I guess I'll CONTINUE the chain and say that an even better option is just not having glass windows. It truly gives a great breeze.
That looked pane...ful
This matter seems pressing. You might kleed a lawyer.
There's the special piece of equipment, the Engraved Gauntlets from the Pate and Creighton quest which give a 5% chance for any attack to deal 50% extra damage and it WORKS with consumables, in the long run, that'd be tons of extra damage.
Damn, might have been useful. I always just assume most boosts don't work with consumables
For Fume Knight that's about 200-500 extra damage on average tops compared to the 10k health
@@JKLeeds Expect the unexpected with DS2! Such unique game.
@@JKLeedsyeah, the coverage of the gauntlets is surprising. It works on pretty much everything
Do the Crest of the Rat and Sanctum Gauntlets work with poison knives? An extra 100 poison bonus could've been useful
I don't think it's a coincidence you start the bad puns episode with a Press Continue therapy session.
He's a man who speaks my language 😂
Tseldorable 🤦🏽♀️
the collab none of us expected but we needed it
I'm super happy to have managed it 🙌
I love how all the dark souls challenge runners are collaborating recently
Everyone is really nice also which is a plus!
@@JKLeedsit’s to be expected, I would guess.
None of you have anything to prove. You’ve proven it already. Only thing left is to celebrate what everyone else manages to do as well.
The reason poisoning bosses in ds2 just says “15” is there’s a bug in the boss health bar code that makes the numbers not add up like they’re supposed to, like they do in all other souls games.
I'm grateful for it tbh after no numbers at all in DS1!
Yeah, it just display the latest amount of damage dealt. So attacks that hit multiple times will only display the last hit. Easy to observe with most hits of lightning spears that usually deal a little bit of damage after the attack is done
@@tortoiseknight8438 yeah, I follow a few ds2 modders and apparently it’s just one line of code that’s wrong
I just started playing Dark Souls 2 and after using throwing knives as a pvp meme I was ASTONISHED at how hard they hit in DS2
They are surprisingly good, especially early game
They’re pretty crazy in Elden ring too, with a quality build they were taking good portions of health off late game bosses with very minimal risk on top of the decent bleed they come with, plus they stop bosses poise from regenerating so just chucking them out every once in a while will at least give you more riposte then without em
@@portl1298kukris have quite Big damage, plus kukris can make bleeding build up, other knifes are not bad either, specially the fan daggers ( the ones that patches sells )
Consumables are legit a decent build for beating the game
you might say meme but poison knives are brutal to get hit by before you can farm moss, its my early game pvp build of choice
I think the petrified Ogre in aldias keep is more environmental storytelling than just some progression obstacle. Like it’s meant to clue you in and warn you that there’s a basilisk near here, but not just any regular basilisk you’ve found so far, but one that’s capable of taking down an ogre just with its breath.
Or maybe I’m just doing the explaining for the devs.
probably the latter
I think I might have to call him "Thera-Press Continue" forever now, that's just great.
He is a very qualified professional!
You actually can get more knifes for all those pesky dlc bosses. You can drop stack of knives right near the fog wall, get more, enter boss battle and when you run out - pick dropped stack near the fog wall. So you can have much more ammo and do all bosses
Well...actually the only one this would be possible with would be Fume Knight. With Ivory King, you can't get to the fog gate and with Elana, you can't get back to the bonfire by walking and dropped items disappear if you use a homeward bone.
I mean, I think the main problem was moreso the duration than the lack of consumables. While he would save like 40% of the time because he could use only the normal (better) throwing knives, it'd still take fucking ages.
Hey YOU! YES YOU, person lurking there in the comments section! Would you like a shout out in the next Throwing Knife video?
Well all you gotta do is answer these 3 questions, write them as a reply to this comment and, if you answer all three correctly, that shout out is yours when the next throwing knife vid arrives! The questions are:
1. What is the most amount of damage I do in this video with a single knife?
2. There is a deliberate mistake in this video, what is it? (HINT: it's to do with me saying something was added to the Scholar edition of DS2)
3. During the Lost Sinner fight, name the computer game that the music I play there comes from
I have no idea what the answer is to any of those questions BUT throwing knives are really cool and ds2 is underrated🫣
I’ll take a stab at your questions! (I’m not at all confident on the last two, but here goes)
1. 250 damage
2. The petrified ogre in Aldia’s keep was always there, not added in.
3. I honestly didn’t hear any music during the Lost Sinner Fight, but I could just have bad hearing 😅
Bonus: Laddersmith Gilligan can’t be sent to Firelink, he goes to Majula for some Majula-nese (which now makes me want to make my own hot pepper bolognese).
1. 250 at 4:06
2. The petrified ogre was always in Aldia's Keep
3. Not cultured enough to know this one sadly, I'm in the comment section of ds2 video after all
i dont want to
1. 1756. I looked it up and tested myself, the Gank Squad does *not* have friendly fire.
2. Aldia’s Keep Ogre is in both OG Ds2 and SOTFS, it drops the Dragon Acolyte Mask.
3. No clue. I can hear the music faintly but your voice drowns it out. It kinda sounds like something from a Rayman game?
its so cool to see all the soulsbourne challenge runners consistently cameoing in videos with each other.
In the intro, I was fully expecting the therapist to say "My conclusion is that we're dealing with a clear case of skill issue"
Great video, great run! Your sacrifice honor us!
I tried this challenge run myself in my spare time, and im surprised at how viable those little knives are. Also serious props to you for beating lud and zallen, those two usually give me hell lol. GG dude, I'm glad you didn't lose your sanity this time
Yeah this was almost refreshing....now onto Dark Souls 3 to ruin it all over again 😅😂
I unironically appreciate the recipe segments in this series. The food is great, and so is the fact I'm learning how to make it in the middle of a dark souls challenge run video.
Charlatan Wonder does a very similar thing in his game reviews!
For the Varg damage, I believe it happened because you died and the "friendly fire off" expired while Varg's hitbox was still active.
First time I've stumbled across your content, and you say way too many puns
I love it, 100% deserving of a sub
Good to see that therapy session paid off! But was it enough to do this with Dark Souls 3? You know you have to do it sooner or later. Fun video again, good job man!
......what do you think I'm working on right now? 😈
Great run, man! Some really cool moments here. I really love DS2, so glad to see it's charm is starting to soften you up
Yeah DS2 does have some great qualities, it's undeniable.
Its great to see JK happy :D felt so bad for him last run and when he told me this was coming (in a comment discussion we had) i was so hyped for this
Yeah this was pretty fun! Now for Dark Souls 3😈
@@JKLeeds im not the biggest fan of ds3 (got burnt put after getting the platinum once and halfway to a 2nd time) but i think it'll (sadly) be the same kind of thing like ds1. But can't wait for the video
I'm not sure what I like here most: the challenging run itself or the amount of puns made unexpectedly here and there with the absolute pokerfaced voice tone :D
.....it's definitely the puns! (At least that's what I'll tell myself 😃)
Dude I love this community of DS challenge TH-camrs, its very wholesome to me lmao. Everyone is always so nice from what ive seen, I'm here for it
Amazing as always!
I would love to see you tackle the game with the Sanctum Crossbow's special attack only...
I have no idea what that is, but you have my curiosity
@@JKLeeds A DLC1 Crossbow. The special attack has it fire a Dark Orb-like projectile. It eats durability but the damage can get really high.
Basically if you've ever been to the statue room in the first DLC you've probably been shot at by the tall dudes, it's their weapon though you can also find it right by the most nearby bonfire.
There's also a Dark Orb shotgun-like version buuuut it's not as good.
@@Bossu So basically what you have to do is make a hex build that shoots repair powders plus you need one million souls to make it happen.
The rat covenant ring actually gives a massive boost to poison damage so you probably could have used that to make a few bosses go faster
my best guess for Varg hurting his buddy is that he was close enough to you to be inside your hitbox and for some reason that caused Varg's weapon hurtbox to register him as a valid target too.
ds2 proves it again it's the best souls with just how viable any weapon can be
I'm definitely swayed towards it!
😬
The addition of the pasta bowl within the montage made it 10 times better haha !
the happiness in your voice made me feel just how much hell the ds1 run actually was
Love challenge runs like these so much, glad I've found someone else with great comedic timing and production value to watch! Definitely subscribed, looking forward to watching some of your other stuff!
Lovely! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
Doing a great job exploring the boundaries of what can and can’t be done in these games! Liking the persistent referencing to DS1 for context, and clearly so much thought go into these videos. Also, what is with the drunk guys on the bridge? They are like pigeons in the summertime.
They're just absolute wastemen 😂
Keep up the crossovers you guys!
Hell yeah!
Ive been saying it for years - Dark Souls 2 SOTFS gets better with age. Ive played every souls game in the series to death, but every time I come back to DS2, I find new challenges and fun moments that keep it fresh. Thanks for this perfect homage to one of my favorite games of all time. 🎉
Extra points for using the music and format of Monkey Island 💜👏🏻
17:27 Well I gotta say that in this section in specific, they placed the turtle enemy to block your way to prevent you from skipping your way through which could be argued as a bad design choice or not at all.
press continue and jk's script styles mesh so perfectly, they both have so much fun wordplay
8:20 that's exactly what ppl do in video critique, playing like big dumb and then complaining about the amount of mobs X'D
Yeah, the prime candidate is that bit at the start of Forest of the Fallen Giants where they wake up all those enemies
28:28 : both in vanilla and scholar this Ogre not only blocks the path but (if I'm correct) drops the cool and fashionable Vaatividya loremaster ultimate helmet. Totally worth the branch of yore!
I'm actually also stupid because after making this video I found out there's some stairs right next to him so the branch isn't even needed 😂
Glad to see another DS2 challenge run, by far my favorite Souls game
When I did my first SL1 run in DS2, unable to use a bow and in need of ranged attacks, I was forced to use the throwing knives, and was absolutely shocked at how much stronger they were than in DS1. Became my absolute favorite ranged option and I always make sure I'm stalked up not just on them, but all throwables because they are all surprisingly good.
I know this run was months ago, and I don’t know if you’ll see this, but I highly recommend that, when cooking a dish with onions, cook the onions first in the pan on high heat until they brown. This adds TONS of great flavor to whatever dish your making, takes natural the bite out of the onions flavor, and gives them a more palatable texture. Hope you like it, also, I loved the vid.❤
The Legend is back! I love your videos, not to mention Press and JK Leeds is a legendary duo that rivals Jordan and Pippen.🤣
Wow high praise! Thank you so much
@@JKLeedskeep up the good work brother, we love the content! I have to say though, I just noticed that when I started my playthrough, I have only beaten Lost Sinner and have no clue about Old Iron King or the rest. I’m doing this in the complete wrong order.👀
Definitive proof that DS2 is a cooler game than DS1
If anything, I think this video proves once and for all that......
......Dark Souls 1 and Dark Souls 2 are both games in the Souls series 😚
@@JKLeeds fr fr I got got
Great video as always, keep it up my man
Unreal content, idk how this channel doesn't have 10x the subscribers
Thanks, that's kind of you to say 😊
Great video! This is the first run of yours ive seen, gunna watch the Dark Souls 1 throwing knives only run now!
Thanks for all the hard work these must take, much love brother :)
I don't know if you know, but leveling ADP speeds up consumable animations as well, with the best examples being Estus and Lifegems. In this instance, it lowers your recovery time, so it's more comparable to DS1 speeds
Just so you know for any future obscure ds2 run where you use bleed, it actually has a recovery period like poison because it slows stamina recovery against humanoids. Think of the lowered absorption while you’re recovering from frostbite with the initial damage burst in future games except it’s a flat 200 in ds2 so spamming the lacerating knives is worse than spreading them out and mixing between the regular/poison and them
The poisoning Gargoyles is actually a strat I will use from now on since I struggle with them on my DS2 weird runs because I wanna go there early lol Thanks!
Honestly I'm tempted to use it every time from now on! I hate that boss 😂
Lets go more beat souls 2!
Yes indeed
@@JKLeeds yes more indeed!
I am way late to the party (found your account just now and am enjoying all of it!) But to keep the ancient dragon from taking off you have to run from one foot to the other while he stops, that way he loops like that forever
Gonna try that recipe but maybe add a bit more herbs and also swap with Italian style sausage/beef 50 50 mix. Thanks for the quick supper idea!
oh my god someone who doesn't complain about enemy placement in DS2. you've gain a subscriber for that.
I came to your channel for the challenge runs, but I stayed for the recipes
Love your videos, mate
See I'm the opposite on Iron Keep. It's my favourite grind spot in the series! I've usually tossed 5 or 6 bonfire ascetics into the first bonfire of the area on every run. Not the most visually interesting location once you get inside, but the SOULS!!
True, if you're not abusing bosses for souls, Iron Keep is the most memorable grinding spot
My favourite cooking show on the internet returns! With a knife-ly done rigatoni too.
It's knife to see your channel growing like this
Living the good knife!
I assumed the ogre in Aldia's keep was to break that wagon down on the main floor. I thought it was some kind of puzzle as you can't break those yourself, but the big ogres can, and because it was possible to get behind the ogre without the branch I figured he was there so you could lure him all the way down to the wagon and thought that was really cool and such a clever puzzle... Nope, he doesn't even make it halfway down the stairs before going back to where he started
If you wanted to minmax with levels in this build, consider putting points into ADP and FTH to further boost poison and bleed bonus respectively
great video! i definitely did not think this one would be fun, but i almost want to try it. I haven't even played ds2
....yeah I'd recommend trying a normal build for your first time playing DS2 instead of this 😅, there's so many cool weapons to try!
Every single pun is like a knife to the gut.
Then I've succeeded
@@JKLeeds10/10 experience, would be pincushioned again.
I think this is the longest I have waited to find out that recipe. Not even Mothers of 6 Children can give you a longer Story. On a serious Note keep the good work up!
Thank you 😊
consumables are goated in DS2, maybe one day i'll have the courage to try them against Friede
Well that day is coming for me sometime in the next couple weeks 🤪
as an italian, i am impressed with your majula-nese, nice job
Love all the colabs of challenge runners
I didn't even know royal rat vanguard existed before this video lol, Great video.
I'm jealous of you, I wish I didn't know it existed
Elana is truly hell i truly thought she only summoned Velstadt when i first encountered her, prob the only time when i kill a "boss" char in double digits
No grown man should giggle with absolute delight as loudly as I did, when I heard Thera-Press Continue was the one to respond from the end of the couch. Gloriously painful run, you're truly made of sterner stuff than most.
Glad you liked it 😂
8:17 this way too real bro
Sakuya Izayoi and Dio would be proud
As much as we all hate adaptability in this game, for a consumables only run it is definitely a make or break stat. The fact it shortens consumable use speed and end lag recovery speed adds up to be pretty ridiculously fast
I was waiting for this one! I've been playing a dark souls 2 sl1 run on and off for the past couple months, and my strategy for most of these fights was using a combination of melee and throwing knives/firebombs. I was so excited to see how your run would go compared to mine. The question now is this; will you try dark souls 3?
......what do you think I'm working on right now? 😈
@@JKLeeds lol, good point
The Monkey Island shopping interlude caught me entirely off guard in a wave of nostalgia.
Although I've never seen any of the gank squad damage each other, one thing I have seen that I thought was bizarre is that Nito can hit himself with the attack where the red sword comes out of the ground. You have to be positioned just right but it does like 200 damage or so.
yep, iron keep enemy aggro range was increased a lot, this is why we wait them before the bridge !
Ds2 is at its peak when you do random challenges so much fun almost anybuild is fun because of the branching pathways
Fully agree!
Between the demon fire sage not resisting fire and the rotten and gargoyles not resisting poison, whoever programmed these resistances needs a stern talking to
37:19 pseudostripy just told me this: "yeah havel can dmg the other dude, depending on how they aggro to you, we use the havel plunge attack to dmg him in the all bosses speedrun, it depends who gets to you first but yeah if havel is second/delayed he'll plunge on the other dude, (and also you)"
Ahh that's very interesting!
One of the things I love about Ds2 is that almost every weapon is viable and you can rock with it all game, Best Souls 2.
28:33 thats there in vanilla too, that ogre does drop a guaranteed dragon acolyte hood im pretty sure tho
It probs should drop the dragon sage hood in my opinion, i swear, i get that on every run i don't want it on
ahh, this was my first dark souls game. it's nice to see sometimes. eff the frigid outskirts, but amazing job here!
Thanks! Also yeah F the Frigid Outskirts!
@@JKLeeds all the runbacks in the DS2 DLCs through the gauntlet bosses i flat out responded to by summoning to the boss door. screw that. congrats for the throwing knife run. I can't even get myself to do a full crossbow run of the game still.
love the DS2 content. Best game
Interesting that you went for the Basic executioner's Chariot strat, instead of the one where you plink away at it for 20 minutes in complete safety and then watch it fall into a hole at 25% health remaining. I'd have thought that would have been the obvious choice for this run?
Well I thought of that but even just getting the kill on the necromancer with the skeletons and the Chariot running around was very tricky to do with the knives given how trash they are at close range.
Instead, what I did is didn't kill either Necromancer, ran straight for the lever, pulled it and then ran up and down avoiding the skeletons and the horse to throw occasional knives at the necromancers. So it was still pretty tedious 😃
the italian influence your wife brought during that cooking segment can be smelled from a mile away lol, that's some high quality lunch right there mate👌🏻
8:17 damn, shade thrown. But you right though
Good video as always, also Italian here good job on the ragú 👏
Amazing run! I watched this just after the DS1 run and I thought this would be even worse. Guess DS2 deserves some respect and appreciation in this matter.
Btw, was that a clip of Meshuggah performing at the end of the video? 😮
Hahaha it was indeed Meshuggah! Well spotted!
the stone ogre in aldias keep is the only enemy in the game that will drop the dragon sage hood, iirc, no other way to obtain it. so yeah it does serve a purpose there
Now we wait for ds3 throwing knife only 👀👀
....maybe next month 😈
"Vell, next up is Wellstadt" is the joke that made me subscribe lmao
Awesome Vid!
Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany
Im suprised you never made a Knife Party - BONFIRE reference lol
Gotta save that one for the right time ⏲️
26:20 - 26:24 I think press has competition. actually know that I think about it all challenge runners seem to make puns.
That’s cool and all but that meal you made looked so good!!!
It tasted great also! One of my staple dishes 😋
Wait... ragù?! Here of all places?! I also like it with rigatoni btw.
I know know, italian getting summoned by food bla bla bla but... uh?!
The intro I was like: "hey, he looks like a press continue character", and at first I was surprised, but then I heard all the bad puns I subscribed to him for, and everything made sense :')
I've honestly begun to wonder if Royal Rat Authority actually is Sif, deeply hollowed, with the similar appearance and all. Plus the fact that you are required to kill Sif in ds1.
The cooking section turned thie video from a ds2 challenge run to one of these from a recipes blogs that post tons of stories before listen the important parts
Exposure therapy in a controlled environment, like Dark Souls 2, sounds like a perfect strategy to treat your post-traumatic knife disorder.
Best collab in TH-cam history ever
That's pretty strong but thanks 😂
@@JKLeeds I may or may not have read that TH-cam comments are solid facts only.
Mad lad actually went and squeezed in a cooking tutorial before credits ended lmfao
11:30 you can drop 99 knifes at boss arena, and go buy another 99
that first 99 will still lay at the flour
I think Varg damaged the Graverobber because the attack landed after you died.
I think the enemy classes change when you die as you can notice enemies stop attacking after death unlike pretty much every enemy/boss in the other games.
This means they are no longer classed as enemies and most likely replaced as friendly NPCs which allows them to take damage from attacks
I don't know too much about the inner workings of the game though so I might be wrong
This sounds legit! Could be right