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Darknight Stone
Use to imbue weapons with darkness, or to provide darkness reduction to shields.

Darknight Stone is a type of Upgrade Material in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). Darknight Stone, a transformed variant of titanite. Utilize it to infuse weapons with darkness or to bestow darkness resistance to shields. Legends recount the efforts of sorcerers at the Melfian Magic Academy who sought to instill titanite with a range of elements, only to meet with apparent failure. Upgrade Materials are items that are used to strengthen the statistical value and to increase the effect of a certain piece of equipment.

An altered state of titanite. Use to imbue weapons with darkness, or to provide darkness reduction to shields.
Sorcerers at the Melfian Magic Academy once attempted to imbue titanite with various elements, but are said to have failed. Someone must have succeeded though; what else would explain this stone?

Dark Souls 2 Darknight Stone Usage

• Can only be used at Blacksmith Steady Hand McDuff
• Used to imbue equipment with darkness. This reduces the Strength and Dexterity scaling but adds Intelligence and Faith scaling. (Different weapons add different tiers of scaling)

Darknight Stone Location in Dark Souls 2

• Given in exchange for Smooth & Silky Stone (Small Smooth & Silky Stone also works) with Dyna and Tillo.
• The Crystal Lizard on the bridge at the bottom of the Grave of Saints, right before the entrance to The Gutter.
• Inside a Chest in the Undead Crypt, passing straight through the door which leads to the boss corridor.
• Found on a corpse near one of the drakes in Dragon Aerie.
• Found on Apostles in Undead Crypt (Keeping a few of their tombstones up means quick and infinite respawning. Just hit the bell)
• 3 are sold by Stone trader Chloanne after obtaining the King's Ring.
• 2 are found in a body in the moving platforms in Shulva - Sanctum City, in the DLC Crown of the Sunken King

DKS2 Darknight Stone Drops from:

• Basilisks (Brightstone Cove Tseldora, Shaded Woods, Things Betwixt, and Aldia's Keep)
• Leydia Pyromancers (Undead Crypt)

Dark Souls 2 Darknight Stone Upgrade paths

Icon	Name	Type
	Faintstone	Magic
	Firedrake Stone	Fire
	Boltstone	Lightning
	Darknight Stone	Dark
	Poison Stone	Poison
	Bleed Stone	Bleed
	Raw Stone	Raw
	Magic Stone	Enchanted
	Old Mundane Stone	Mundane

 

Darknight Stone Notes and Tips in Dark Souls 2

• Notes and tips go here.

 

 

Ores

Bleed Stone  ♦  Boltstone  ♦  Faint Stone  ♦  Fire Seed  ♦  Firedrake Stone  ♦  Large Titanite Shard  ♦  Magic Stone  ♦  Old Mundane Stone  ♦  Ores  ♦  Palestone  ♦  Petrified Dragon Bone  ♦  Poison Stone  ♦  Raw Stone  ♦  Titanite Chunk  ♦  Titanite Shard  ♦  Titanite Slab  ♦  Twinkling Titanite