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Explorer in Dark Souls II is a Starting Class. The Explorer is meant for players who prefer to start the game with high adaptability. It starts with a Dagger and a Wood Bolt as its starting weapons. The Starting Classes of Dark Souls II will only give you a head start on certain stats. This is because you will be able to freely change your playstyle and build as you progress through out the game.
Well-traveled explorer. Not terribly powerful, but has many items.
Explorer Starting Equipment and Items
Weapons: Dagger, Wood Bolt (x20)
Items: Lifegem(x20), Witching Urn(x8), Aromatic Ooze(x4), Prism Stone(x5), Rusted Coin(x2), Repair Powder, Pharros Lockstone(x1), Spell Quartz Ring
Armor: Traveling Merchant Set
Explorer Class Build for Dark Souls 2
The build that is listed below is a set of equipment and recommended stats that we see fit for the Explorer Class in Dark Souls 2. For more builds, check out our PvE Builds and PvP Builds pages to find various builds that have been created by the Fextralife team and its community.
Flame Knight Build
- This is one of the good Explorer builds that you can find in the PVE Builds page made by "TheJoker".
- Based on the old legends of whip-wielding demon hunters. High DPS Rogue/Spellsword hybrid good for dealing damage to single enemies and bosses which is also Good for PVP.
- If you do not want to put as many points put into ATN, then I suggest getting the +1 Southern Ritual band from Brightstone Cove Tseldora.
- The archdrake staff/chime can be bought from Felkin the Outcast after your int and faith reach 8
Weapons
- Leather whip / Old whip
- Shortsword
- Archdrake Staff
- Archdrake Chime
- Pyromancy flame
Armor
- Saint's hood
- Saint's robe
- Rogue Gauntlets
- Rogue Leggings
Rings
- Darkstorm
- Resonant Weapon
- Flame Weapon
- Soul Appease
- Fire Orb
- Soul Greatsword
Stats
- Your primary stat focus will be Intelligence, Attunement and Dexterity.
Notes and Tips About Explorer
Notes: One of the weakest classes in terms of offense, they are almost on par with the Deprived despite being at level 10, and their item based special attacks are limited. Few of the items he has are ones that can't be obtained from early game merchants. However, the Pharros Lockstone may come in handy to open a treasure room, they do start with the highest Adaptablilty among all classes, so you may invest into a Dex. build if you want to have a character with decent dodging frame or climbing speed. Also, their 20 Lifegems are quite handy early on, that is until the moment when the merchants sell infinite Lifegems.
See builds for more information.
AnonymousChoose healing wares as a gift for an even bigger stash of goodies.
My favorite class,it has the solution of any problem as an item.
Need farming? Rusted coins and hat!
Need ranged weapon? Bolts and urns!
Weapon break? Repair powder!
Low damage? Aromatic ooze!
Need crow trade? Prism stones!
Need heal? 20 lifegems!
Need treasure? Pharros lockstone!
Annoying mage? Spell quartz ring!
Just rush and get stone ring and blue seal and rapier+3 and you are done
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Best class for Consumables Only Run, as it has the best stat bonuses for Poison Daggers (Dex and ADP), starts with Projectile consumables on hand and can have up to 30 lifegems at the very start with the Healing Wates starting gift.
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Dagger? check!
Lockstone? check!
Adaptability already levelled? Check!
Otherwise a blank slate poised to DW daggers or do whatever you want.
My favorite starting class, its liked Deprived +3
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One of the best class, Easy to use and Reliable and quite strong, The Hat is increasing Drop Chance which is amazing
im currently playing a game as this class and not leveling... did you know the work hook increases dexterity? lol
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Today's new character I made is "Erex N. Bjanni". Curiosity guides him. Crazy good at exploration and collector of the strange. Kind, but, carrying the sternness to pull himself through any obstacle. Drangleic, a kingdom built on the ghosts of countless many that had fallen before, became appealing to the many few that succumbed to Curse or Wanderlust. Bjanni realized how outclassed he was, and, took up small bits of Sorcery and Hexes to defend himself if need be, more focused on unlocking the strange mysteries surrounding the Kingdom's fall.
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I might be wrong - but I remember in the early Vanilla DS2 version ,this class had a bandit knife as starting weapon? or are my senses betraying me?
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the explorer is just your standard hoarder keep tons of items for every situation & keep upgrading your intelligence & faith so you can use items that scale with them like magic fire bombs & jar of lightning & regular fire bombs witch scale with faith & intelligence of course this is only the case in dark souls 2 not dark souls 1
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So like a dagger build. Hurray, the parrying dagger finally has a purpose!
i know this is definitely more suited for sorcerer but i already gushed about the memories i have about it on its page (also it's at level 499 lmao) and i wanted to give an unorthodox class a spin, so i came up with this build you can get to at a decent level:
25 vig
15 end
(for my build i needed high vit) 32
7 att
20 str
37 dex
29 adp
30 int/fth
the main weapon you'll want to be focusing on in this would be mid scaling dex weapons with super accommodating elemental scaling when infused, meaning your primary weapon would mostly be the blue knights halberd infused with dark/fire. your secondaries would be weapons that scale higher off the dex investment more than elemental, so i personally picked darkdrift and manslayer. on your offhand you'd want 2-3 weapons on you: sanctum shield, (dark) pyro flame and a parrying dagger if you're confident in that skill. onto the rings, yours to round it out would be - life ring (switch out for whatever you like)/ring of blades/simpleton ring/southern ritual band for the shield. to finish this off, your spells should include but not required for good performance - dark/resonant weapon/gmb/warmth to justify the flame.
enjoy and tell me what tweaks could be done in respeccing too
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