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| Adds 10,000 souls. (Consuming the soul is not advised) |
Soul of a Giant is a type of Consumable found in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). Soul of a Giant, the soul of a colossal Giant who sought to conquer Drangleic. It can be obtained by defeating the Ancient Dragon, and respawns by using a Bonfire Ascetic at the Dragon Shrine. Souls are consumable items categorized as remnants of fallen warriors, consuming souls collects a certain number of souls that is added to the player's stock. Souls are required for players to become stronger in the game by raising their soul level as well as buying and upgrading their equipment.
The soul of a Giant who came to conquer Drangleic. Will the Giants' resentment of the King be pacified in death, or only emboldened? Can be used to acquire souls, only...
Soul of a Giant Usage in DKS2
- Adds 10,000 souls. (Consuming the soul is not advised)
- Vendrick's damage reduction is halved by every soul of a giant in your inventory.
- Having none in your inventory will divide Vendrick's damage taken by 32x, having 1 soul divides it by 16x, having 2 souls divides it by 8x, 3 souls divides it by 4x, 4 souls divides it by 2x and 5 or more souls results in normal damage.
Dark Souls 2 Soul of a Giant Location
- Dragon Shrine. Drop from Ancient Dragon.
- Memory of Orro. On the body of a Giant past two giants and two knights on Ballista.
- Memory of Vammar : At the very end; guarded by a giant
- Memory of Jeigh. On a body of the giant after Giant Lord boss.
- Black Gulch: Requires defeating two giants in a hidden cave. Area is in close proximity to the door for Darkdiver Grandahl.
Soul of a Giant Notes & Tips in Dark Souls 2
- It is possible to farm Souls of A Giant from the Ancient Dragon. Use Bonfire Ascetic at the Dragon Shrine to make him respawn again.
- Great Lightning Spear with high faith does a lot of damage.
- The staff hex Dark Orb, despite its short range, is very effective against giants when considering how quickly it can be cast, and the number of casts it naturally provides.
- The miracle hex Great Resonant Soul is very effective against them as well.
- Giants are fairly easy if you poison them. They don't take an incredible amount of damage, but if you can get them poisoned when you need to run or heal yourself, it can prove to be a boon to your survival and ending the fight quicker.
- You keep the soul of giants into NG+
- No longer works after Patch 1.10 but can be used in unpatched version If the player has accidentally used all of their Souls' of A Giant, or they simply require more to defeat Vendrick, the two Giants in Black Gulch can be farmed for subsequent Souls' of A Giant with the use of a Bonfire Ascetic on the Black Gulch Mouth bonfire. This method can also be used to obtain an infinite number of them, should the player desire to do so.
- There is a bug wherein if you kill only 1 of the giants in the hidden cave within Black Gulch then you are summoned to the Belfry Sol by the Bell Keepers' Seal, upon returning you will be given the Forgotten Key and a Soul of a Giant, although killing the other giant does not result in a second Soul of a Giant or Forgotten Key being dropped. (Unsure if this is only if you lose the invasion or if you can win and have the same result.)(<---- Not specific to Belfry Sol, any form of quit-loading will have the same effect.)
Anonymous"Consuming the soul is not advised"
Even after having killed the king?
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I came here to figure out if i should save these. Looks like my dark souls 2 bs detector was correct once again.
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Alright gentlemen, You can fight Vendrick but I'm going to have to ask for at least 4 Giant Souls.
4 Giant Souls? But the description says "can be used to acquire souls only"!
Keh heh heh heh… They got this all screwed up. *scribbles some punctuation over the description*
'Can be used to acquire souls, only...'
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I found the black gultch cave while getting smacked over the cliff by the second graboid. Saw it as I fell to my death.
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my dumbass ate a giant soul before realizing this.......fml
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Shouldn't it be multiplied by 32x not divided by32x since divided would been you take more damage the more giant souls you have?
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Any reason not to consume them for a quick 50k after killing Vendrick?
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Used one in the room with Vendrick, because I vaguely remembered they had something to do with him
Then I open this page and you don't need to use them, just hold
F**k my memory
"Lower Vendrick's defense bonus when souls are in your inventory."
OH, COME ON !!
IT TOOK ME HALF AN HOUR TO KILL THAT BASTARD
when I keep reading about things on the wiki, I feel even more stupid about everything I've read.
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I summoned 2 npc phantoms to help fight the 2 giants for fun, nit only did they not come down with me, I got to fight 4 giants at once, I lost but I almost killed them
on ds2 sotfs x360
I saved my 4 giant souls and fought Vendrick with a greatsword and I dealt little damage but acceptable
is this correct? because I saw some vidios and the damage was VERY small
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I used all of them. Now i do magnificent 12 dmg per hit. Sometimes 11. Guess I'll take on him on ng+
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Farming these now is a ***** but at least you get tons of money from the dragon
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I wish I ****ing knew that this helped with Vendrick before I used one.
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There are 3 giants in the secret area under black gulch. THREE. NOT TWO. Gave me a nasty fright indeed
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You can use these safely after beating vendrick right? and just get them back in ng+?
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Even though you meet an Ancient Dragon at the Aerie, if you fight and kill it, you get the Soul of a Giant... That must mean something, but I am not sure what. In fact, all I took away was that whatever you met that gave you the Ashen Heart to dive into the memories of the Dead Tree Giants in the forest of Giants was NOT a Dragon itself.
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I never even knew the purpose of these souls so I'm glad I kept it, mind as well use them in the beginning of NG+ or before proceeding to NG+, I had troubles defeating Vendrick but my fight with him probably lasted 10 minutes because I use the Heide Knight's Sword+10 and it was doing 17-21 damage on him, Bleed weapons add 200 when Bleed fills Vendricks meter but with a Sword that does 20 points of damage it went by faster then I thought, I tried using the Flamberge and it didn't do that great a damage for +10 and it kept consuming my stamina way too quick, Heide Knight's Sword FTW!
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For some reason I didn't get a souls for the black gulch giants after using a bonfire asthetic.
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After beating Vendrick are te souls useful , I’m playing sotfs edition if it matters
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I just started playing this game a week or two ago, got to Vendrick and didn't know I needed all these giant souls. I had already used the one fr the Black Gulch giants and went back with a bonfire ascetic to try to get the soul again. I tried both bonfires separately just to be sure. After killing the THREE giants that now spawn, I received no special items.
I can say that, without a doubt, the bonfire ascetic technique doesn't work with the black gulch giants anymore.
How do they expect newcomers who *****ed up and used 2+ souls to know the necessity for them in killing the boss?? Surely there should be a way to get 4 or 5 without doing NG1...
Ridiculous.
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If a new NG cycle is started do you get new giant souls? Cause I used mine after killing vendeick thinking that they do and I am not sure now
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Darksouls 2 is easy
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