Illusory Ring of a Conqueror | Dark Souls 2 Wiki

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Just finished a NG no death/ no bonfire run, melee only (occasionally used the bow, mostly in shrine of amana). At end game: +10 rapier and +10 mace, +5 Lightning short bow, +1 Drangleic shield, Tseldora set, chloranthy +1, Bracing knuckle ring, covetous silver serpent ring +1, and switched between various defense and healing rings as needed. VGR 48, END 32, ADP 38, STR/DEX (both) 18. Wasn’t too bad, failed the first few times dying in the Majula pit, and a couple times to enemy ganks. The only trick is to stay calm and memorize every single enemy placement and move set. Some tips I found indispensable: use devotee scarlet in earthen peak to distract the manikins. There are two that drop down next to a ladder that throw two poison darts at you, you can use Scarlett to Afro them and backstab them easily. Also, backstabbing with the mace is almost necessary to preserve weapon durability, since you’re making fewer collisions with enemies, especially if since repair powder is difficult to come by until you get to Drangleic.

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Don't forget you can sell a bunch of stones and arrows and stuff to Gavlan to reach high enough Soul Memory in the next NG+. Trust me, you're going to get tired of killing the Last Giant over and over again.

Obviously you need Denial, but that usually won't save you if you're fighting a fire enemy or if you're caught in a grab attack or combo.

Using NPC summons is a MUST, so don't skip talking to Benhart, Vengarl, Agdayne or Lucatiel when you pass their areas.

In the Undead Crypt, don't stick around long enough to get ganked by Leydia Pyromancers and Hollows and Skeletons, just run past them, don't forget the ladder that leads to the Leydia Witch so you don't have to get caught in the bull**** tombstones. Bait the Imperious Knights and counterattacking them patiently and carefully. Make sure to kill the Wall Ghosts right away. When you get into the large room with the tombstones and low ceiling, look around for the wide hallway and exit the room right away, then pull the lever to extend the bridge and go rest at the nearby bonfire.

Make sure to summon Agdayne to help you kill the Dragonrider guarding Velstadt's fog door. I would go back and rest at the bonfire after that, then go again, since the Dragonrider doesn't respawn. There will also be 2 Syan Knights and some Leydia Pyromancers behind you once you reach the Syan Knights, so be careful.

Don't forget to use Guidance before the fight, and to restock its uses. Be wary of Velstadt's reach. Don't be greedy.
If Velstadt kills Agdayne before Velstadt's down to less than a quarter health, I would warp back to the bonfire assuming you're far enough away to do so safely (try putting some distance between you and him just before he finishes off Agdayne so you have enough time to use the Feather/Homeward Bone/Homeward (don't waste a slot on Homeward).



Use the zipline above the bonfire in Dragon's Aerie to skip most of Dragon's Aerie and go straight to the Dragon Shrine. Use poison arrows to soften up the Drakekeepers and the Ogres in Aldia's Keep. Honestly, anything you can kill with arrows, kill it with arrows, even if it's monotonous. I got grabbed by an Ogre in Aldia's Keep and it ruined my second attempt.

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No death no bonfire in NG was interesting and fun challenge

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do i lose the challenge of not dying if, in my fight against the pursuer, he grabs and turned me into a undeath?

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Remember to ignore jumping puzzles and spots where you know you're going to get surrounded when trying to get this ring. Trust me, that Poison Longsword is not worth throwing the run.

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having finally got this today, all i have to say is if you got this ring feel free to give yourself a pat on the back kings and queens

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Made it all the way to Throne Watcher/Defender and proceeded to back off the edge of the arena. Don’t be like me, just use a damn summon

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Finally got it both of the illusory rings!

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Did you skip the credits?

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I just got it 10 seconds ago in 2020 not skipping cutscenes at the end on PS5 Scholar edition, can confirm it still works.

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just did a no death run and no reward in 2021... oh well that sucks

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getting cursed does not count as a death btw.

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Hilarious when used with a greatshield

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useful for hiding parry tool, or just vanity purposes

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i finished the game but i did not get the ring

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I decided that the best way to prepare for this if you intend to get it by NG+ is to would be through the following. Use an Agape Ring if you are concerned about Soul Memory, and are intent to show off with your invisible rings by the NG+ endgame. Otherwise, enjoy all the extra souls this is sure to generate if you'd rather be simply OP.

Before everything below, gather a bunch of bonfire ascetics via the Pilgrim of the Dark covenant. Enemies there drop Ascetics like candy. You'll want that Dragon's Chime reward as well for what's coming up later, so be sure to complete its journey to Rank 3.

With a mass of bonfire ascetics at hand, proceed....

You'll need restoration consumables. Create a sizable stock of Crimson Waters by hunting out the Shrine of Amana (enter the Champion's Covenant once they're hunted to extinction to continue). Not only will you pick up plenty of twinkling titanite, you'll amass what your primary replacement for both bonfires and Estus. Simple enough. Just do as your playstyle dictates. How you do it is up to you and your normal playstyle.

Optionally, you'll also want to consider Divine Blessings. This can be acquired infinitely by using a bonfire ascetic at the Giant Lord. All you need to do at minimum is grab the replacement ascetic and the Divine Blessing at his location. If you are interested in farming his souls while you're at it, I recommend using a Soul Vessel to temporarily turn yourself into a STR based monster with some really heavy power stanced hammers.

With the Bonfire Ascetics, Crimson Waters, (and optionally) Divine Blessings amassed....
~FINALLY, THE FUN PART OF PREPARATION~<3

--It is time to farm the Old Iron King (again, use an Agape Ring if your concerned about soul memory)--

++For best results, I recommend using a Soul Vessel to temporarily turn yourself into a 99 FTH super cleric armed with a +5 lightning infused Dragon Chime and Heide Lance++

Buff yourself with Denial (incase his wonky hitboxes gives him lucky blow that'll otherwise one-shot you) and Sunlight Blade. Spam the Heavenly Thunder spell (picked up from Cromwell and Blue Sentinel Tar***) while poking him with your pointy stick. The push over will start to go down within 4 minutes a fight.

[Pro-Tip: If interested in the souls, then I recommend dumping all your helmets save for your primary helmet and the Symbol of Avarice into your item box. Quick swap to the Symbol every time you defeat him, but DO NOT WEAR IT DURING THE FIGHT as it will kill you wherever your Denial spell would have saved you (and you'll NEED Denial given the occasions Old Iron King's hitboxes might screw you over). This hot-swap, combined with the best soul gear (Silver Covenant Ring +2, Jester's Gloves, Tseladora Trossers, and the Nahr Alma Chestpiece), you'll net ~325k per run]

You are now prepared for the run. You have what it takes to avoid using bonfires, and minimized the chance of death by skipping half the game using Old Iron's Boss Souls to bypass the Shrine of Winter. Perhaps you're just plain OP as well, had you chosen to prepare by absorbing your kills.

Now make a beeline for Nashandra. Good luck!

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Who knew, that the ring of the conqueror was such a purpose in that game?

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Let's say you become hollow without dying? Via the Pursuer, or the cursing statues. Does that count as a death?

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I skipped the credits and got the ring no problem

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What's a good build for getting this? I'm guessing strength for the early game to abuse blunt dmg, then respec into a hexer when enemies start to get tough and ganky?

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can confirm you can only get one ring per character. just finished back to back no death runs and did not get an additional ring.

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Can you use the darksign and still get the ring?

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I feel like with my hours I could get this if I didn't always compulsively start optional fights and take unnecessary loot on cliff edges

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after 300 hours and 11 pages of notes i get all the way to the end only to die to the giant lord

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Can you imagine if that stupid achievement from Dark Souls 3 where you need to get all rings was in the second?

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Can someone give me or sell me the illusory ring in ds 2? Playststion name:vaperblast

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Finally got it after 56 character startups, ten months, and a little under 1,000 hours. Used the soul memory mechanic to open the door for Drangleic Castle, going with Heides Tower for two bonfire aesthetic. After that I went hard for everything, and I only stepped foot into Drangleic after I reached two million Soul Memory. Stocked on poison arrows for Dragon Shrine, skipped Loat sinner, farmed Giant Lord 6 times, made sure I had max Havel armor before late game by going the Sunken Sanctum. Nashandra was a cakewalk.

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does game crash while you are a phantom counts as a death?

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Get it as early as you can, as low soul memory as you can. Finally earned this at NG+3 (wasn't aware it existed before), but I'm at 30 mil. soul memory and it's kinda pointless. Wanted to use this with pike in the left hand 'cause the arm position with the pike in it is as if it were empty (just a peaceful little arm, just standin' there naturally), but you got insane reach with greatlance style distance-closing R2. But, yeah, I have to look for online players for 20 minutes to have a 2 minute fight and then in the middle of reading newspapers I hear an invasion like "Oh, right, I have to alt tab. Wait, where were I...oh, yeah...". Meh. Too late.

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Useful for hiding your shield in pvp so opponents don't know that you have a shield,which can be useful to surprise your enemies by parrying them without noticing that you have a shield.

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You can get this ring and the other one in a NG+ run through the game so you could have all the spells and stats you want. Also if you choose to get the other one at the same time you would be able to equip all of your spells before you enter NG+ otherwise you wouldn't be able to get them. Phantoms that die in your world don't count against you, dying in pvp does, dying as a phantom does, soul protection ring does, denial doesn't since you don't actually die, curse doesn't affect this as well. Also you could do this offline if you're worried about invaders. I used flame weapon, crystal magic weapon, soul spear, dark orbx1 great fireball x2 flame swath and lingering flame (very useful since you know whats ahead of you, you can drop like 4 of these to kill large enemies with 0 effort) and was able to get both rings done in a NG+ run at once.

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Someone gave this to me in pvp. I could never have made it. That guy gave me a lot of effigies too. There are angels amongst the undead

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What about summoning NPC phantoms?
If they die while helping you does their death count and stops you from getting the ring?

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Just for the record: You can't gain a second ring with the same character and you can't trade them. So it is impossible to get more than one. But why would you anyway :D

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This is to get in the PS4 Scholar of the First Sin edition if you take advantage of the PS4's cloud save feature. Quit your game before each boss, upload the save to the cloud, and then if you die just download the last save you uploaded (I'd first reccomend turning off automatic cloud save backup, just to prevent the PS4 accidentally overwriting your pre-death cloud save with a post-death one).

Funnily enough, while doing this I ended up not dying at all to the bosses (I was in NG++ and supremely overpowered). However I'm still glad I cheesed the cloud save feature because a few ill advised jumps in the gutter and Dragon Aerie would have ended my run.

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Just got it. Easy.
I used a Pike+10 and that thing did literally no damage lol, but I got experience, I played every souls-game and have over 1000 hours in them, so, yeah. Explored everything, killed every boss including all DLC.
NG is really not a challenge, Ng7+ would be more fun tbh
(Or just getting the ring for making every flame on the map in Majula blue, because that is 100x more challenging in my opinion. Not even once arsed myself to do that.)

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I got it right now,it was in my sixth try,in ng,i used the regular rapier,pure dex build,i killed the rotten 4 times and a few more bosses,so with this method i saved myself fighting against the other 3 great bosses,with one million souls you can open the gates of the shrine of winter,i am so *****ing happy!!! GG

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Does dying while using denial's effects count as a death?

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It isn´t that hard. You don´t have to explore whole game and kill all bosses, just get to Nashandra as fast as possible, kill her and end the game.

You need 1 mil. soul memory to enter the Drangleic castle. Then you need king´s ring from Undead crypt, after go meet the ancient dragon, after kill Throne Watcher and the second guy (so you don´t have to fight them with Nashandra at once). Return back, kill Giant boss and then again return to kill Nashandra. Easy as that.

That´s how I made it, my third attempt. Also I don´t recommend going down in the Saint Grave, Gutter and Black Gulch. The few souls you may earn there aren´t worth the really easy death. Most likely from fall. Good luck

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dc from server at pvp servers and pray to your god you are not mad for tring this :D

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i would never waste my time playing 30 hours with no garantee of my survive.

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Easily the most frustrating item in the entire game to obtain thanks to that level.

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Am i allowed to rest at a bonfire and travel for this ring ?

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Confirmed ; dying as a grey spirit counts for a death.

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