Boss Soul Weapons in Dark Souls II are Weapons crafted from the souls dropped by Bosses throughout the game. There are various weapons which can be constructed from the souls. You may also consume the Boss Souls if you wish, but they are best reserved for the construction of these unique weapons. You can trade the Boss Souls you've acquired to two different NPCs namely Straid and Ornifex. Each of them produces different types of Boss Soul Weapons often from the same Souls so it is important that you choose which NPC you'll trade in your Souls.
Boss Soul Weapons Guide for Dark Souls 2
The Process
Boss Soul weapons and some spells are acquired through trading.
This involves giving an NPC a boss soul and getting a spell or piece of equipment in return, plus a soul fee for creating the spell/weapon. You do not need any of the base weapon types.
There are two NPCs who can be traded with for boss weapons, and each with their own inventories.
- Straid of Olaphis (The Lost Bastille)
- Requires 3 INT for him to trade with you
- Trades boss souls for both spells and weapons, also sells some very useful spells without trading boss souls.
- Locate Straid in his cell in Lost Bastille (located above the stairs past the gate to Sinners' Rise).
- Unpetrify him using a Fragrant Branch of Yore after clearing out all the enemies surrounding him.
- Assuming that your Intelligence is at least a 3, you may now trade with him.
- If you trade at least 4 boss souls, talk to him and he will give you the Black Set (the staff he uses can only be obtained in Dragon Shrine at the cost of a Pharros Lockstone, an incredibly low price for any sorcerer with 50+ INT).
- Weaponsmith Ornifex (Brightstone Cove Tseldora)
- Trades boss souls for weapons.
- Blacksmith, but does not have the ability to imbue.
- Near the Shaded Ruins bonfire there's a single petrified Lion Clan Warrior just across the tree bridge. Unpetrify and kill him to get the Fang Key.
- To the right of the Giant Basilisk, there are some wooden planks on the ground. If you walk on these planks, they will break and you will fall into a pit with 4 regular Basilisks that ambush you. These basilisks will petrify you quickly if not expected. Fight them or run further into the cave (if you do decide to run through the cave, avoid the puddles as they will corrode your equipment). Once the basilisks have been killed, you will find a locked wooden door. Use the Fang Key to unlock it and talk to Ornifex to trigger her relocation.
- Ornifex will leave and go to a room full of dolls near the third bonfire in Brightstone Cove Tseldora. She'll grant you a free trade (boss weapons only) of your choice (standard pricing is not shown when trading the first time).
List of Boss Soul Weapons in Dark Souls 2
The following is a list of Boss Souls Weapons. These can be acquired after obtaining the appropriate soul, and by buying the weapon from the appropriate trader. The first table below shows the Boss Souls Weapons you can trade with Straid. You can click here to see the table of Boss Souls Weapons that can be traded with Ornifex.
Trade with Straid
Quick Search of All Boss Soul Weapons with Straid in Dark Souls 2
Trade with Ornifex
Quick Search of All Boss Soul Weapons with Ornifex in Dark Souls 2
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by far the best boss weapons in the series, way more interesting than any of the other games and more varied. Fashion souls was so fun in this game, sad that they killed it by making dark souls 3 bland and boring.
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for some reason it's not giving me the option to trade some boss souls idk what to do
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Does anyone know any good soul farming place before shrine of Amana?
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i do have to say, people skip a lot of good things added in DS2
you don't need a +10 weapon to get a boss weapon of the same type, and they kept this also in DS3
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Boss........................................................ weapons?
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First Playthrough I didn't know about boss weapons because I had no idea where the harpy was and thought straid was just a hollow guarding a bonfire
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The boss soul weapons are nice, but would be better if there were some weapons for sorcerers...a nice staff would be great
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Hey, I'm level 100 now and heading into harvest valley for the first time. Got almost ten souls + lost sinner and have only used one boss soul, traded for the bow. Maybe I'll use all other boss souls.. Haven't met the second boss soul trader yet though
Ffs, solely snotbrats in here whining and expressing bs that's irrelevant to the thread topic. Sod off!
Now, back to the subject concerning boss soul weapons. I'm on my first playthrough, 8 hours in at around level 45. Got the two first boss souls so far and I'm wondering if it's worth it to save them of consume for leveling up instead?
What boss soul weapons are your favorites in the game and why? (best scaling, speed etc)
Cheers!
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ok so im playing through the game again and i was going to ornifex. While i was talking to her the *****ING BASILISK KILLED HER!!!! I POUTED FOR A BIT AND WENT BACK FOR THE TOMBSTONE WITCH COSTS 11K!!!!! TO RESSURECT HER... so i went through the game normally WITHOUT GETTING KILLED AND SHE WASNT AT HER HOUSE!!!!! so i pouted again for like an hour so i resdurected her again went to her house and she wasnt there!!!!!!!!!!!! i went to majula and waited again and still nothing... god why am i doing this no one will see this its 2017... and even if they do they didnt make it here... but if you did, hi im killing myself.
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i think it hard and easy but mainly hard plus i cant find some bosses
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Did anyone notice that dark souls 2 is kind of hard after you get past iron keep? it's like I'm in NG+ But not. And in dark souls 1 it was easy in ng+? In dark souls 2 it keeps getting harder and I like that but I keep getting invaded :p I love the game! about to buy The sunken king DLC Wish me luck :D
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any of this is useful for a sorcerer build?
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