Soul Farming
Soul Farming is the term used to describe the pursuit of souls to the purpose of increasing one's level or acquiring more items. You may also be interested in Titanite Farming.
With the limited enemy respawn (12), you may find yourself in need of souls and not sure where to get them. Below are some tips on places where soul farming is possible and how to maximize results.
There are a couple of places in DS2 where there is an infinite number of enemy re-spawns where a player can level-up easily, well, with a lot of patience that is.
One location is The Undead Crypt - Undead Ditch bonfire area, and another is Castle Drangleic - King's Gate bonfire area..
Undead Crypt
The Undead Ditch Method - Unlimited Souls + Faintstones & Darknight Stones:
Location 1: (Fastest Method - no bonfires needed)
Farming Route
- Arm yourself with your longest weapon that can do a one-shot kill to the mages which appear from the tombs here. Bring 2 weapons if possible, or a repair spell.
- Enter the large hall just before the Royal Aegis Fog Gate
- Walk up to the tomb after the first lit tomb on your left & wait for the bell to ring.
- The mage should appear in the tomb in front of you. From the front of your tomb, Jump strike and one-shot kill him from the maximum distance you are able, before he notices you.
- Immediately walk back to your original location before other mages see you, and wait about 8 seconds for him to respawn, then repeat.
- Wait until you are finished before picking up the pile of stones he's dropped. If you attempt to pick them up or linger too near the spot they are dropped, another mage will spot you, and you will have to take time out to kill him.
1200 souls. At
1 mage /
10 seconds, one can gather over
7000 souls / min, and thus in 1 hour, accumulate
400000
SPH (Souls per Hour)Location 2: (Much Slower and more dangerous):
Farming Route
- Go to the infinite-respawning ghost near the ladder, try to go behind its tablet and the infinitely respawning mummy will get stuck trying to walk past the other rocks. Try to bring a weapon that can kill the ghost in one hit. Just stand near its spawn point and it will infinitely spawn. NOTE: He won't get stuck for long, as he can break the tombs and clear a path for himself).
Drangleic Castle
The King's Gate Method - Requires resting at bonfires, slower than first method above:
Optimal Method
- Arm yourself right - I found that the enemies here are weak to Hammer / Strike type weapons so equip them up and bash away! :D It's also good to equip a shield, preferably a 100% physical one like most greatshields.
- Take out one stone knight at a time - There are two types of stone knights in the room, one wields a spear (2-handed) and the other a spear and shield wielding dude. there are a total of 12 in the room, a pair per door. The trick is to kill them one at a time so try to lure them to the bonfire hallway where they can't enter for some reason. The 2-handed spear knight is weaker so try to kill him first. Kill them near the door they were guarding and it'll open up revealing a sentinel inside.
- Clear out all sentinels - after beating the sentinels eleven times they won't re-spawn anymore. There are 5 sentinels, so you'll be able to kill them a total of 55 times before having to use an ascetic. Each sentinel nets 2,500 souls on bonfire intensity 1 and 10,000 on bonfire intensity 8. Killing until their respawns are depleted will therefore net you 137,500 souls on intensity 1 and 550,000 souls on intensity 8+.
- Here now is the trick I found. Once all enemy re-spawns are depleted, you would be left with 6 stone knights. 1 guarding each door in the room. And as what the subject states, they have an infinite re-spawn count! Well, sometimes they disappear but just teleport to another place (I usually go to Majula to level up by then :P ) then return and viola! They're back once more for the killing!
Each knight nets about 420 souls so x6 gets you around 2,520 souls per run. So patience is really the key. Run to the room, then wack them while they're still re-animating then run back to the bonfire to re-spawn then once more. I've gotten 500k for 2 hours and counting so far. The stone knights also drop Stone Soldier Spear, Llwellyn Shield, and Titanite Slabs as well.
Hope this info helps new and old players alike. Good luck and happy farming!
Forest of the Fallen Giants
Soul + Twinkling Titanite / The Giant Lord Method (Infinite Bonfire Ascetic)
Recommended Stats
FTH Build | Hex Build
END 30 | END 25
ATN 13 | ATN 30
ADP 25 | ADP 25
FTH 50 | INT 30
-------- | FTH 30
Equipment
Right Hand:
Lightning Dragon Chime +5 (FTH) | Dark Caitha's Chime +5 (Hex)
Head: Nahr Alma Hood (+2.5% Souls) / Tseldora Hat / Warlock Mask
Chest: Nahr Alma Robes (+10% Souls) / Tseldora Cloth
Hands: Jester's Gloves (+10% Souls)
Legs: Tseldora Trousers (+5% Souls)
Rings
1.) Third Dragon Ring (FTH) | Abyss Seal (Hex)
2.) Clear Bluestone Ring +2
3.) Covetous Silver Serpent Ring +2
4.) Ring of Life Protection / Northern Ritual Band +2 (dependant on skill comfort)
Spell Attunement:
FTH Build | Hex Build
1.) Soul Geyser* | 1.) Great Lightning Spear* | 1.)Great Resonant Soul
2.)Great Lightning Spear
INT Build | Hex Build
1.) Dark Hail
2.) Great Resonant Soul
*With only 1 Attunement Slot you can use Northern Ritual Band+2 and/or combination of amber herbs to give yourself enough casts to down the Giant Lord. It takes 15 casts of Great Lightning Spear with 50 FTH and a +5 Lightning Dragon Chime to kill him at Intensity 8. Of course this is just what I prefer.
Great Resonant Soul does better damage than Dark Hail, only taking 9 casts to take down the Giant Lord at NG, while also only requiring 1 ATN slot. However, using GRS spends souls upon casting, so only use if there isn't a better magic option. Great Resonant Soul is not recommended for Soul Farming (Then why is this here? This is literally a page on soul farming), only if you wish to progress through to the end game and will only kill the giant Lord once.. otherwise, don't use hexes which cost souls..
NOTE: 7 casts of Soul Geyser from Magic Staff of Wisdom +5 will kill him. I have 99 in all 4 scalable stats though, 50 or more in the rest. Soul Geyser is the fastest way to kill him, but it requires more slots, though, so reallocate if you are serious about farming souls here
Strategy 1=:
You must have at least 1 Bonfire Ascetic to start this process.
At the Place Unbeknownst Bonfire in Forest of the Fallen Giants, Burn the Ascetic and run into the Memory of Jeigh. Run into the Fog Wall and sprint to the left and claim your Bonfire Ascetic x1. Run down the stairs towards the ballistas on the wall. (Sometimes a Giant will be running up the stairs at you, you can run and jump off the edge to escape this scenario)
Continue running and jump over the small rock in-between the ballistas, rolling into the wooden barrels setting yourself up to be next to the wall as the fire rains down and the statue head kills the smaller giants / soldiers for +~28k souls.
Start walking towards the Giant Lord and as soon as your Stamina recharges start running. He will see you and start an overhead smash attack. Just as you reach the stairs on the left of his area, Roll and you should dodge the attack as long as you were full speed running by the time he notices you. You can see from his shadow and war cry the cue to roll.
From this point Lock on to his head quickly and cast GLS or GRS. Get up to the plateau area and stand in the middle. From this point it is just recognizing the cue for the overhead smash attack or the horizontal swipe attack. The smash has a huge buildup window and is easily roll dodged to the left or right. The target lock seems to be as soon as his sword starts to strike downwards. With a small amount of practice this is incredibly easy to dodge and provides a window for 2 casts of your spell of choice before he strikes again.
*You will notice the best window to cast twice is if he decides to "shuffle around" after an attack. Sometimes he will attack twice in quick succession by not moving at all after an attack. If you don't see a shuffle, then it's better to wait and only cast once. This is what will kill you most often.
Every 2 or 3 cycles you will need to only cast once to prevent going into negative stamina.
NOTE: The Slumbering Dragon Crest Shield together with the Chloranthy+2 Ring, the Clear Bluestone Ring, and the Third Dragon Ring can allow 3 casts of GLS, and 2 during recovery periods, with proper Attunement Level for Higher cast Speed
The horizontal swipe is easy to dodge too, a slightly shorter cue but still can see it coming a mile away, just roll backwards as soon as he swings and you will dodge it. Sometimes rolling isn't required based on where he is relative to the plateau. Better safe then sorry though. NOTE: you can roll either left or right over the sword to avoid it without problem, as well.
15 Casts of GLS or 9 casts of GRS (or 7 casts of Soul Geyser) will down him and by then the fire should clean up any other giants lingering around and you can collect 507,000 souls, Ring of Giant's +2 x1, and Soul of the Giant Lord x1. Collect Fire Seed x1 on the plateau and Divine Blessing x1 off on the back wall a little ways away. Exit the memory, and fall down the broken staircase for Twinkling titanite x2 and Aged Feather back to the Bonfire. At this point you can either,
A.) Burn the Ascetic you got and rinse and repeat. Each attempt should take 5 minutes or less. Allowing for 20 kills per hour (I averaged 19 though due to having to wait for fires sometimes.)
or
B.) Memory of Vammar
Warp to the Cardinal Tower Bonfire in the Forest of Fallen Giants. Run out the Broken Wall Shortcut to the left and down the ladder. Run into the alcove opposite the cracked wall with the baslista trap in it and you will find the memory of Vammar to enter at the end of the hallway.
Entering the memory run forward until you meet Captain Drummond, and directly across from him is a chest with Smooth & Silky Stone x5 and Petrified Something x1. Entering the next room will provoke a giant to break through the wall and charge at you. A properly timed roll will get you past this giant.
Manage your stamina well and run out the hole in the wall and dodge roll around the 2 giants in the field. Approach the next area and climb the somewhat hidden ladder on the right to get to the roof. *quickly* run across the roof and drop down, running into the tower directly in front of you.
Inside this tower is a ladder you can climb to get onto the roof the Pyromancy Giants were on. There is a Bonfire Ascetic x1 on this roof. Back down in the tower, exit and slightly to the right is some Rouge Water you can grab before exiting. There are a few Soul of a Hero and some equipment you can get too, but probably isn't worth it at this point. Continue on to...
C.) Memory of Orro
From exiting Memory of Vammar, run back the way you came, and continue to the right, past an Old Ironclad Knight. Exit the hallway to the right and run through the Soldier's Door, up the stairs and to the left. Run through the old Boss room of the Pursuer and at the end you will find Memory of Orro.
Entering the memory run forward and exit to the right of NPC Benhart of Jugo. Enter the courtyard quickly because it is chaotic out there and the Giants & Archers will 2 shot you on Intensity 8.
Run to the right immediately and you will see a Soul Vessel x1 on the ground in the corner. At this point you can Aged Feather back to the bonfire or risk your life continuing.
I recommend the former but opposite your current position is a Soul of a Great Hero x1 and a ladder that leads up to Soul of a Proud Knight x1 and a drop off to the roof where Wilted Dusk Herb x3. Be very quick around the archers in this area or take the time to dispatch them.
From this point return to Benhart and run upstairs to the left. Quickly run around to the right and up the stairs to the roof. Mind your stamina and run to the back left corner of the roof where you can cut the support on the crane to lower a platform.
Drop to the lowered platform and jump into the hole in the wall and quickly open a chest for Bonfire Ascetic x3. Run and jump out the window back onto the roof with Wilted Dusk Herb x3 and Aged Feather your arse out of there!
Warp back to The Place Unbeknownst Bonfire in the Forest of The Fallen Giants and burn an Ascetic to start all over again.
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Soul Farming Breakdown: (at Bonfire intensity 8 and beyond)
~2000 each from random soldiers
14,600 per smaller giant
507,000 from Giant Lord
~538,200 per run
Items:
Twinkling titanite x2
Divine Blessing x1
Bonfire Ascetic x1
Fire Seed x1
Ring of Giant's +2 x1
Giant Lord's Soul x1
Including Optional Steps B&C
Soul Vessel x1
Wilted Dusk Herb x3
Smooth and Silky Stone x5
Petrified Something x1
Soul of a Great Hero x1
Soul of a Proud Knight x1
Bonfire Ascetic x4
Rouge Water x1
*Giant Lord's Soul is 25,000 per soul crunch
19 kills in 1hr = 10,225,800 base + 475,000 from soul crunch
Totals
10,700,800 souls per hour
38 Twinkling titanite
19 Divine Blessings
19 Fire Seeds sold for 800 souls per = 15,200
19 Rings of a Giant+2 sold for 1850 souls per = 35,150
50,350 souls from selling items
Soul Grand Total after Selling excess items:
10,751,150 Souls Per Hour
Hope this helps someone who didn't know how to do this.
NOTE FOR MELEE CHARACTERS:the easiest way to farm the giant as a melee character is to just hug the back of his left leg,strike after every one of his attacks.there are only two attacks you need to be worried about:first,is his stomp attack wich you can easily roll away from and the second attack is when you are circling too slowly and you are in range of his right side,he will try to attack you with his sword backwards.to dodge this attack simply run to the left side of his left foot.
NOTE: A good loop for those with maxed Bonfire Ascetics or who don't need to farm them is to kill the giant Lord at Jeigh and pick up the Ascetic & Twinkling Titanite, then transport to Vammar and pick up the Smooth & Silky Stones & Petrified Something only, then return to Jeigh & Burn the Ascetic. Your Soul Farming will be much more productive, and you will pick up alot of Petrified Dragon Bones from trading your stones & somethings.
NOTE: If the risk of losing souls troubles you, try using multiple Ring of Life Protection. Using 2 or 3 and repairing them is simple and only costs 6000 (for 2) or 9000 (for 3). (Use only 1 per death!)
AnonymousAny armaments that boost souls so I can just equip them on my back?
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Shield of Want increases souls by TWENTY PERCENT. You read that right, 20%. The fact that this "guide" doesn't even mention that tells you all you need to know.
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Dunno about the math, but the door exploit in Dragon Shrine seems decent.
Only extra kill you need to do is the GS Giant in front of the door, the others can be skipped.
When you get to the stairs with 11 dragon knights, aggro them with something ranged, run back to the door and close it. Now in most cases the dragon knights will shove each others away from the door letting you poison/aoe them without repercussion.
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Warp to Straids Cell, walk out and stop just before the hollow creature in the center, look at the ground and cast Soul Appease. Get about 1300 Souls at best, walk back to the bonfire and repeat. About 5778 souls per minute, actual time is 10-13 seconds per run
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i'm sure someone's already said this, but:
buy tons of fire arrows from cornifex
go to black gulch second bonfire (behind hidden branch of yore statue, around to the right of the area with a ton of coal tar pits)
shoot fire arrows at the ones with coal tars in them (you'll have to remember the pits which is easy once done a couple times)
You can up the first bonfire (black gulch mouth) with ascetic and it won't make this harder, it'll only take longer for coal tars to burn
Make sure to use ascetic on the first bonfire (black gulch mouth), then warp to the second (hidden chamber) to do the farming (I think the second bonfire ascetic only brings the boss back?)
I'm @ 1st bonfire level 7, 6x coal tar gives ~1500 souls, and has a chance of dropping TITANITE CHUNKS which you can quick grab or not and loop back around to the bonfire relatively quickly
The only issue you'll have to deal with is killing that invading spirit Gully, but once he's gone it's easy
If you destroy the pots blocking the north-most pit, they won't repair when you rest (which is good, won't block your arrows)
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"Your Soul Farming will be much more productive, and you will pick up alot of Petrified Dragon Bones from trading your stones & somethings."
Or 35 old whips, i only got 5 petrified dragon bones while trading 99 silky stones and 20 petrified something, my luvk was over the places...
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Join CoC. Wear King's Ring. Go to King's Gate.
Be able to kill statue'd Syan Soldier before is is completely awakened, i.e., in 1.5 to 2s.
Go down the stairs to the left, kill statue'd Syan Soldier on the right.
Walk back up the stairs, turn left, go up the ladder, kill statue'd Royal Swordsman.
In the next room, kill 4 statue'd Syan Soldiers.
Go outside the castle, kill two Royal Swordsmen, then kill three statue'd Syan Soldiers.
Finally, kill the statue'd Mastodon Knights, preferably from a distance, as attacking one will wake both.
Use Aged Feather. Repeat.
This yields about 11.5k souls without any multipliers, and takes about 2 to 2.5min. With (slow) 2.5min this is 24 rounds per hour, so 276k souls per hour.
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So far, the easiest method that i've found for faith characters.
In front of Straid's cell there are 5 undead citizens. With all the equipment and 2 bonfire ascetics, they can drop almost 5000 souls (4996).
There's a specific point that you can kill all of them with one soul appease miracle.
The total time for going to the point, farm and resting on the bonfire is approximately 14 seconds
5000/14 = 357 souls per second
In 10 minutes, you can farm 214200 souls. In a (very boring) hour, it's equivalent to 1285200 souls.
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Put on the Tsedora set, Coventous Silver Serpent ring, and farm the Rupturing Hollows by Straids Cell…it nets about 2,000 souls per run, and if your quick it takes barely one minute(if your running a caster build), also the hollows are completely non-hostile, so don’t worry about dying.
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try killing old iron king/the robby rotten if you have the bonfire ascetics, they are easy to get the hang of, and you get 100k just from the consumable souls. Easy early game money!
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about the 6 stone knights remaining
Haha! Like you RAPE the game!
...Yeah, because in this case, mispelling "voilà " in "viola" means "did rape".
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...What?
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In my blind playtrough I chose the Lower Garrison bonfire in the Ivory King DLC. The Witchtree Mages, or whatever they are called, are incredibly easy to rush and kill in melee. I burned a bonfired ascetic, then joined Covenant of Champions and killed those three mages over and over for a couple of hours while listening to a podcast.
Each one was dropping 4688 souls while wearing the Nahr Alma Hood + Nahr Alma Robes + Jester's Gloves + Tseldora Trousers, IIRC, plus some witch tree branches every now and then. There is a door right past them that leads to the inner courtyard with golems and ice porcupines, so you can try rushing there, killing the inactive golem for around 10k souls at bonfire intensity 2 and wearing the farming set.
Still, farming the Giant Lord is just the best when you already have gotten to level 200 or so, you can farm the Soul Spear in the Bridge Approach bonfire, get some 6 or 7 of those, respec into a caster and go kill that giant while using Drummond to keep him busy while you destroy him with your previously acquired witch tree branch.
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I think the best farming locations are Belfry Sol and Iron keep
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Ivory king isn't too bad a farm either, if you get used to his attack patterns
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Whi the hell thought this was a good idea... I had to join covenant of the champions. It makes the game harder but going to a boss with a cap of souls per phase without possibility of obtaining more is harder.
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Hey Uhm a better way for twinkling titanite is join COC then shrine of Amana, it is way easier than the method stated above, I got over 40 twinkling titanite and roughly 10-15 levels (I got there around level 150) it’s an easier location to fight in and no need for bonfire ascetics which is great!
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fighting Giant Lord, it might be worth it to get captain drummond in on the fight. i summon him and he runs straight through the two giants in the way and takes all of the giant lord's attacks. i use dark orb spam to kill him, and drummond makes it way easier to use all of my stamina at once instead of constantly stopping to dodge attacks (i stay on the platform to the left, it's pretty easy to dodge from up there)
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The highest amount of souls per hour should be closer to 15 Million if you ascetic Giant Lord, grab the ascetic in the memory and go straight to fighting him. The fastest I’ve been able to do it is 1:49 but im averaging around 2:20.
His attacks are all telegraphed by his left leg, unless its the forward slash but that wont hit you unless youre way out of position. Just stand directly under his balls and move to the leg that isnt stomping when he does that and watch for the tell on the rotating slash he does(he will lift his heel up before rotating). If you just walk thru his legs to his frontside he wont hit you with that attack. Try and steer him away from the walls and GG.
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You people will not like this, but hear me out...Black Gulch. It takes a few run throughs to destroy the statues and the npc invaders, but it is relatively safe and I'm getting about 1 million souls an hour. Use ascetics at the "Black Gulch Mouth" bonfire, get any old bow imbued with fire, and just light those oil pools and watch the alien face-huggers do a dance of death. Just gotta watch out for the worms, don't get greedy with your swings so you can GTFO when they recede and pop out, it's usually Insta kill. I was worried it might affect the boss fight with the gross one or whatever, but on my ng+ with the mouth bonfire at 9, but i smoked him like nothing. I think it's because of the second bonfire behind the petrified hollow, which I never upgraded. So it's boring, but you literally are in no danger unless you get out of position with one of the worms. You can also go down where the giants are and cheese them to pretty much double your take for one run, but I find it's faster and much less risky to just burn the oil monsters and hack up the worms that can't reach you at all when you stand next to them. Like I said, about a million an hour and that's while watching YouTube. I think clearing the top floor gets me about 45,000 souls per clearing, and you can clear the room in under 5 mins easy. Hope this helps.
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I'm in NG+2 in undead crypt 99 faith, fully upgraded lightning dragon chime and 7 lightning spears attuned. standing at the 5 oclock position and up against the spawning statue near the ladder with the black leydia at the top and using binoculars (to prevent as much movement when casting) and just firing them at the ghosts as they spawn using an audio cue to know the perfect timing to fire the next as it dies you can get massive souls per minute. Takes 5min 55 secs to go from the bonfire kill ~98 ghosts and get back yields over 48000 per minute when wearing all soul gear and silver ring and faster cast ring+2. You still have to inch forward ever so slightly every 8 shots because you still move a little back while zoomed in, but besides that it's hold left trigger and tap right bumper to the rhythm. This of course works in lower difficulties too with int builds as long as you can 1 shot the ghosts.
Just want to say this: don't summon either NPC for the Giant Lord fight because you gain LESS souls. I don't remember if this is a general mechanic of DkS2 but I didn't realize until after several hours of farming, and I was sitting there wondering why I was getting nowhere near the stated 500k souls per kill.
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Where can i get the twinkling titanite? Have been going to all three memories but no twinkling (the corpse near memory of jeigh didn't respawn twinkling isn't it?)
- Anonymous
Use the covenant of Champions and every re-spawn is infinite. Great for farming gear, souls, all stones/titanite, and soul items. In other words, this covenant is the rare candy method of this game.
- Anonymous
A good starting farm is the first bonfire at forest of fallen giant's, you need a staff and soul arrow, literally kill the 2 soldiers, attack the ogre with soul arrow, head back up the cave/tunnel you reach the bonfire from, the ogre won't enter there, spam him with soul arrow for an easy 1000 souls, it can also drop proud knight soul packets and titanite shards for another 2000, I can't say it's infinite, but it lasts enough for a good starting level.
My fastest run on Giant Lord 1 min 50 sec then repeated for another 1 min 49 sec. Left Hand: Blue Dagger Right hand: Magic Infused Staff of Wisdom+5 & Dark Infused Sunset Staff+5 Rings: Dark Clutch, Sorcery Clutch, Abyss Seal & Serpent Ring+2 My Stats for Intelligence 79 faith 70 End 25 Vig 25 Atn 79 str 40 dex 30 It took me a while to farm for the blue dagger. But it boosts both Sorcery & hex.
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My fastest run on Giant Lord 1 min 50 sec then repeated for another 1 min 49 sec.
Left Hand: Blue Dagger
Right hand: Magic Infused Staff of Wisdom+5 & Dark Infused Sunset Staff+5
Rings: Dark Clutch, Sorcery Clutch, Abyss Seal & Serpent Ring+2
My Stats for
Intelligence 79
faith 70
End 25
Vig 25
Atn 79
str 40
dex 30
It took me a while to farm for the blue dagger. But it boosts both Sorcery & hex.
- Anonymous
My fastest run on Giant Lord so far is 1 min 50 sec. 507k souls per run. not including the extra 14-28k
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lol yal tripping. You can farm the giant lord infinitely for over 1 million souls per 6 minutes. Just pick up the bon astetic each time in the memory.
- Anonymous
THE best soul farming spot is just before veldstat, if you can reliably kill the ghosts that spawn in a single shot (I use crystal soul spears) when they spawn with full soul absorb gear, you can get ~5k per kill on NG+7 (don't remember lesser playthroughs, but the ghosts are still worth more that most enemies. Because they spawn from a bell, you don't even need to move, they return in seconds and infinitely. I net roughly 15k every few seconds. The downside is you won't have the time to pick up the constantly increasing pile of items
- Anonymous
At least 800k/hr at the Grand Cathedral (before you kill the boss.) Have two Loyce knights fight off the Charred Loyce knights while you help. It helps to summon two NPC phantoms if you're overwhelmed. Right before the boss shows up banish your phantoms and use an Aged Feather and repeat. One run is less than 5minutes and will net you around 100k.
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Guys... Just go to the iron keep. On bonfire intensity 2 with full soul absorption gear, i run about 60-80 thousand souls per run in the section from the first bonfire to the second bonfire. And the enemies are a joke with a greatshield/great hammer build.
- Anonymous
the twinkling titanite down the broken stairs directly to the bonfire does not seem to respawn after using a bonfire ascetic. Is that a bug on my side or did this get patched? If this got PATCHED I would like to know if the souls aquired through killing the boss got changed too. Can anyone confirm this?
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A good spot to farm is in the iron keep, go to the bonfire just before the Old Iron King and use a bonfire ascetic and there will be the iron Clad dark spirt at the bottom of the latter(if your at the bonfire room) the quickest method to kill him is to get him up the ladder and hit him off the edge (best weapon to use is the Ivory King greatsword, which I can do easily 3300 damage in total) and repeat till his dead, after that rest at the bonfire and go to the boss, wear anything to increase the souls and kill the boss, he'll give you about 200,000 souls on the 6th gameplay on the area, if you beat the boss 2 times you'll have 4 mil + the souls 2 mil and that should take 30 mins to do the fight 20 times if your fast and use poison... The next best spot is the Ivory King boss fight, use anything to increase the amount of souls and kill all the loyce until the second loyce closes the second gate then return to the bonfire and repeat the process. You'll earn ruffly 4000+ per kill and this is an unlimited source also if you collect the armour pieces you can sell them to Galvin for souls... They are my favourite ways to farm souls
- Anonymous
Also, you can burn in Straid's Cell a lot of Ascetics Bonfire. The Undead Citizens will stay neutral until you attack them, one by one. In a Bonfire at Intensity 5, with Tseldora Set and Covetous Silver Serpent Ring +1, I receive 1163 souls for each Undead Citizen killed. Also, you can One Hit Kill them, since their HP is low than 250-255. For example: My Winged Spear+10 deals above 300 of Damage. Each Undead takes me 3-4 secs, so, in 20-25 seconds, you'll receive 5815 souls. This, in a Bonfire Lvl 5. It will scales more and more.
psa: ascetic-ing the giant lord bonfire for the grind also ups the level of the other giant memories, so be more careful about getting one shot like i did after pushing my intensity level past 99
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