Agape Ring | Dark Souls 2 Wiki

Wore this during my farming run for Loyce Souls during a co-op run with a friend. That’s the only use I’ve found for it.

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Best ring. These people who can't be bothered to burn an effigy or accept dying in a game hahahaha

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Worthless ring souls are literally needed for basically everything in this game from buying ammunition and supplies to repairing broken equipment the only people using this thing are twinks invading low level players. There is no pvp meta is DS2 just level to whatever you want and let your equipment be your build.

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For doing PVP or co-op in a certain area without going above the average soul memory for that area. It doesn't stop twinking, and it's not specifically meant for twinking. Unfortunately, fromsoftware is horrendous at estimating just how cancerous players are, so every game has almost equally bad twinking. Even if someone wanted to be like that in this game, they have no souls for arrows, spells, consumables, weapon upgrades, etc. This system CURES twinking, but in typically fromsoftware fashion, they underestimated people's ability and willingness to be rotten turds so it's a double edged sword. They've screwed this up in 5 separate games. It's safe to assume fromsoftware and specifically Miyazaki have no ability to stop twinking. This by far is the best idea they've had for balancing PVP and co-op, but it's still flawed. Better than elden ring save abusers and DS3 being easy to beat at level ≤20. 99% of the time, you won't be twinked in DS2, 99% of the time you absolutely will be twinked in DS3 and elden ring.

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pepee

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In spanish it is named: no text no text, and its description is: no text. Lol

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Wish you could get this ring in Majula somewhere for a fun challenge run :)

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unfortunately, while you can use parrywalk to skip the pre-bastille areas, ruin sentinels and get directly to where straid is to buy the ring, you'd still need to waste 16000 souls to make the set buyable, 10000 souls to buy the skirt, and 5000 to buy the ring itself, resulting in a soul memory of at least 31k, which would be about the same as if you only killed the bosses to get to straid.

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still better than the hornet ring

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Lol haha gape... twink ring...

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"Agape" means ''love'' in Greek.

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People should not be using the Agape Ring. They should not be “Backing up their save file”, in the name of twinking. If you just level up and play naturally, you get some extremely fun PvP. But there’s no point in fighting some +10 Ice Rapier bro when you just get to Iron Keep. You might as well just disconnect and not give them the satisfaction. PvP went from most balanced on launch to cancer by todays standards.

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It would be have been an interesting ability for this ring to give the souls back when it breaks

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I don't understand what everyone's problem is if u don't want to get invaded play offline...pretty simple

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AKA the keep your soul-memory at a certain level ring.

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Judging by the comments this ring seems to exist to stop twinkers. But you cant stop twinking like that. I think they shouldve bring level mechanic to all weapons, armor, rings, spells etc. So we wouldnt need soul memory thing nor this ring.

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I understand people cope instead accepting that reality is a heavy burden in our tiny little monkey brain, but dont try to tell me that souls memory is a good mechanic, it destroyed coop in this game so hard.

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People need to realize one thing: NO ONE IS BELOW THE TOP TIER OF SOUL MEMORY. Everyone's got millions of souls stacked up. So guess what? Ya don't need the ring, welcome to the way this game was supposed to be played; everyone at top sm at whatever level they wanna be at, totally avaliable to invade or duel or CoOp. Dont act like you havent sunk 150hrs in... Stop pretending soul memory breaks the game just because you wanna keep a low meta for a decade old game. Have fun ffs at get in the arena!!

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I've used this ring to make "baby helpers", twinks that are sunbros or sentinels. It is so tremendously satisfying to shut down "noobslayer" invading twinks. Like the Dark Souls version of an UNO reverse card.

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a bad fix for a bad mechanic...

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Last version of Blue Sentinels seems to remove soul memory system and brings back lvl based online. Can someone comfirm plese?

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Pra quem se pergunta se quebra o anel se da as sua almas de volta?, na verdade não, o anel só absorve suas almas provavelmente é só pra não passar o seu amigo de da souls memoy pra joga coop recomendo tira o anel quando for mata um boss se não você vai joga almas no Lixo

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Hi everybody!!!

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Just imagine some dude use this in forest of giants area and help 500times!!! Just a shower thought names are familiar???

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pretty cool of fromsoft to not only add a ring that slaps a bandaid over a bad game design, but ALSO allows people to twink, which was the whole reason the soul memory feature was implemented. ??????

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So you are saying me this is actually for noob hunter ring? Thats very annoying I already got gud but what about noobs who just started the game? Please dont do this souls games is not for everyone im aware that but you should also give the new players a chance btw at least they make an update about removing this stupid ring so we all can match with soul level.

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They should've just gotten rid of SM and made matchmaking SL-based again in SOTFS, rather than adding this waste of a ring slot. Twinks are gonna twink either way.

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Apparently this ring also makes you unable t obtain boss souls. I'm panicked when I obtained no boss souls after defeating them.

It sucks, I just don't want the regular souls not the items you should have got

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Trash ring, not gonna waste my slot for a stupid ring like that. Hands down ds2 is the worst in the series...

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twink ring

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Imagine wrecking your game's online experience so badly that the only solution is to remove the SOULS from Dark Souls. Should be called the Ring of Shame.

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They could just count how many boss souls you acquired and add that to the matchmaking formula.

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what is soul memory FOR! everybody keeps on saying that! my sm is 1732675394

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Woah this is useless

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I ****ing love this game but this makes it very annoying to coop and PvP. Why couldn they fix it im SOFTS aaaaa

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i love this game, but soulmemory isnt great for coop at all, wish from would have changed matchmaking to soul level and upgrade rank.
Yeah i know twink ppl suck ind ds3 but id take that rather then having to play without getting souls to be able to coop

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Too OP plz nerf. Too much extra damage and resistance for wearin the ultimate fashion ring? Unnaceptable

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why bother with a ring when dev shouldve just create an npc for stagnating soul memory. The ring takes up a slot.

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hey whats up guys hows it going

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Is it frowned upon to use it to assist lower levels/new players? I've been contemplating grabbing it on a lower soul memory character and running my old mace and alva armor with hiede knight iron mask combo. Even contemplated running it wish the red-eyed ring for people who find themselves needing some assistance.

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It's almost like the devs forgot about the high skill cap in the online community, and how sweaty dedicated twinks will always find a work-around

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rocking this ring flynns ring rob+2 and a ring depending on what im feeling like on sm 39K and absolutely wrecking fools with unupgraded weapons

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But what's the upside of this ring?

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annoying ring for annoying MM system. ._.

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for those in 2020 still wondering if dark souls 2 still has the crappy SM system. it does. I still have an sl 25 at 39998 sm with a +10 ultra Greatsword. and I'm still 1-2 hitting scrubs in forest of fallen giants/bastile/wharf. SM still does nothing to stop it. it just stops bad players from being able to do it. which means only somewhat skilled players can do it, which is worse. it also prevents archers or mages from being able to do it without hours of grinding for consumables and arrows every now and then. You'd be surprised at how many brand new players there are still checking in to this game. oh well, more food for my sword x'3

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"This allows players to control their online matchmaking experience by limiting their total souls collected". Yeah, and also limiting the items you can buy because there's no *****ing way you can gain souls to spend on items, reinforcing or repairs if you wear the ring, and if you take it off then you raise your Soul Memory and you fixed nothing. Such a bad system, SM should have been an optional feature.

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Also, you don't get the souls that the ring absorbs. Ever. I was wondering if I'd get them when i took the ring off, nope, they're gone.

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imagine creating such a retarded system that you need to implement a item only so players can bypass it truly advanced game design

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It should be mentioned that you also can't sell to Gavlan while wearing this thing.

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Can it be traded? You'd think it would say so. The ring of whispers page has the information.

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Because screw passwords with friends... this is Dark Souls, git gud

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all these comments that clearly didn't even read the base entry lol jesus people cmon

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Kinda sucks that it takes up one ring slot

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Where's the guy with the marriage joke?

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Lol its so sad that they added soul memory to prevent people from twinking then they added this ring defeating the purpose of soul memory

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I prefer to use this item for base level runs. I get all the expendable resources + weapon upgrades I will need with the 30k souls, and make it all last as long as possible. it is difficult, but I've beaten this game twice like that.

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lmao they had to add an entire item to try to "fix" their*****ty game HAHAHAHA

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on top of everything else this failure of a game is compared to its others in the series, now you can have an entire character ruined by someone throwing acid at you too many times, on too many occasions. if it happens to you, just hope they don't kill themselves "for you" aswell.

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its always been a shitty mechanic. considering how ppl on any souls game can easily find ways to become op, all this does it prevent you from playing on the same character if you rely on resources like archers and mages, while it wastes a ring slot on all chars. fingers crossed one day a version comes out with it removed. it doesn't stop op melee chars from being made, so why bother? now I've gotta rush to Straid just so I can help people kill the very first 2 bosses on a low lvl char when I feel like it?... jesus.
game was doomed before anyone even played it to find out it was the shittest in the series.

I'm only playing again because of nostalgia, but it's like they don't want you to keep playing. :/

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to me says "no text" in the rings name and description

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Does this ring still function if Broken?

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It says the ring was added with sotfs edition, it was in base game DS2 before the first dlc came out. Lol.

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For people coming back from ds3, ds2 online matching is based on soul memory. Every foe you kill, you gain soul memory increased. If a guy keeps playing the game for 300hrs, he/she can never be matched online with another guy for 100hrs. So the ring is a kind of hotfix, it puts stop for obtaining further soul memory. Most PvP players use this ring when they are at Level 150-200 for skill play.

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lol comment section is full of retards

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To all the people who go and say they don't know the purpose of the ring right away, take a moment, pause, take a deep breath, and start reading, because everything you would need to know is just 1-2 scrolls up... I know it's crazy...

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This ring is useful when used online for matching with people going up against bosses so can be used to farm sunlight medals and tokens of fidelity

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I think the concept of Soul Memory is kinda dumb, but I never played DS2 so I don't think I can make this my permament opinion. I think the sell price of this think should be equal to the amount of souls it absorbs. This would only make sense in a world where SL determines summoning range, though.

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yeah, let's completely disable the entire currency system, because who the hell in the right mind would ever need supplies

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So if this ring absorbs souls for you without changing your soul level, does that mean you can't use these souls as currency / experience?

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By far one of the best rings in the game for advanced player a who wish to beat the game at crazy low soul memory. So worth it if you understand the rings true power.

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funny im playing sotfs in ps4 and when i purchase the ring from Straid, it has no name and no description, it only read: NO TEXT....

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Would equiping this ring prevent released souls from activating the golems in the ivory king zone?

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I am not sure what the point of this ring is?

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