Starting Classes | Dark Souls 2 Wiki

Explorer starts with balanced stats + high Adp, free lockstone and consumables, a fast crit weapon, and a stylish beret with item discovery. Truly the thinking man's class

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Level Adjustment (actual points spent vs Deprived)
Warrior: -1 (SL 12 vs 10 points spent)
Knight: 0 (SL 13 vs 12 spent)
Swordsman: 0 (SL 12 vs 11 spent)
Bandit: 0 (SL 11 vs 10 spent)
Cleric: 0 (SL14 vs 13 spent)
Sorcerer: 0 (SL 11 vs 10 spent)
Explorer: 0 (SL11 vs 10 spent)
Deprived: baseline
Warrior is statistically the worst class you can pick.

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I’d suggest warrior, it may have a shitty weapon but it has great stats, also if you start with the petrified something and get lucky or go grab the morning star you should have a good weapon for early to mid game

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still confused why pyromancer isn't an option.

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Bandit best class for no bonfire + no death run, deprived for everything else.
Leveling ADP is for bad players.

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I love how DS makes such **** classes to choose from. How bout hand me the 54 points and let me decide. Been a gamer since I was 4 and am now 39 years old so I think I can figure it out.

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Haven played in a long time, anyone remember which class is best to start with

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I just think its wierd that bandits have the second highest faith and yet have the lowest attunement. they have the power for miracles but not the slots. same with the explorer, has 3rd highest attunement but lower than average int and faith

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The Knight Is A Good Starter Class So Is The Bandit

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Really? No Pyromancer? I mean, c’mon! They have a dirty rotten Cleric for Gwyn’s sake! Shame on you, greedy guts!

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After listening to suggestions on how to deal with NPC's you have no interest in, I come to find out the default hidden class in Dark Souls is "Asshole". I love gaming.

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What is the best class for speed and attack?

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Haha! Looking at all the classes, Deprived seems to not care about posture.

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I'm on PS4 on SoTFS and I was wondering if anyone could help me boost a new character to SL 194. My PSN is NathanHawaii

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This will is very helpful for casuals kust kidding

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Sorcerer starting with 3 strength. Making it one of the worst starting class

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Not even an HP number? COME ON!

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1. Pick sorcerer2. Go backtrack and find the track with big footprints3. Kill the big fat guy with your magic arrow4. Equip stunlock ring5. Progress through tutorial6. Find out Snorlax had friends7. Kill them8. Go back to the old ladies9. Get ladle10. Hit things with the ladle until it breaks11. ?????12. Profit

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I actually went with this one on my very first contact with the game and i'm now SL130+. It was a pain at the very start due to the lack of strong hits but once you get the stats up to par (drangleic armor set for example) it's getting easier. The learning curve teaches you how to be humble when playing though, definately recommend it for a first contact class, I had a blast with it and I'm only half way through the game (2 out of 4 special boss souls (the sinner and the old iron king)) but it's easier to adapt to any situation with this class (eventhough you need a lot and i mean a LOT of souls at start). Awesome experience all the way!

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This is my first run through of dark souls 2 and I have taken my time with it. And the more videos and walkthroughs of the game, people are using magic and I don't know how to use/select the magic for my quick select. I only have right and left handed weapon and the item.

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