I wanna run this game again, what's a fun build to try (current patch scholar)...

I wanna run this game again, what's a fun build to try (current patch scholar). In the past i've done a strength and a sorcery build.

Grand Lance is fun as fuck

This and early hex build are really fun

Moon Butterfly set. Burn a few bonfire ascetics at Majula and buy it as soon as you can.

Good luck.

>Dark Souls 2
Dropped

>bought the fire fades edition
>reach the ringed city
>realize i am at the end of the game
>go online to see if i missed anything
>turns out the dreg heap and ringed city was dlc they sold exactly a year later
>the original last level was just warping to the final boss

how did they get away with it?

Rapier build with 40 dex and Ricards rapier asap

DeS and DaS so the same thing. Kill 3/4/5 Lords and teleport to final boss area.

Besides, how did Grand Archices not feel like a last level?

To be fair, Dark Souls told you the whole time that getting to the final boss area was your goal the whole time, and you knew it was very close, you just had to unlock the door.

DaS3 is pretty disappointing because in all the other games you get your objective switched at some point in the game. I expected some twist but I never got anything

Ring the bells > Kill Gwyn
Find Vendrick > Become the Monarch
Kill the Lords of Cinder > Kill the Lords of Cinder

>want to replay with ultra great sword
>beginning is so fucking slow
>no real armor or weapon (except killing bernhard with your fist), when you start as deprived
>need to fight against 1000 people
>do boss fight

man I love this game but after playing it I just can´t replay it because it´s so long. While souls 3 is shit as fuck and also boring it´s at least faster.

Poison build ups bro, they are too damn effective against people from 30K-1M SM since they don't know how to react.

>dex build
because why not, a lot of good dex weapons in different categories. Rapiers, Spears, Bows to some degree. People suggesting grand lance, which is also nice and found early, but I'm not sure if it's dex.

>how did they get away with it?
you mean what DaS did?

>Kill the Lords of Cinder > Search for the Dark Souls in the Dreg Heap

Fixed

Hex, santiers spear, pyro

>play DS2
>the final area is an ugly hallway where I fought a completely different boss 2 hours ago

broken Saniter's spear

DaS didn't sell the painted world and the final level as DLC?

>He didn't do the Throne Watcher and Defender>Nashandra>Aldia Boss Gauntlet
shame on you.

Was Drangleic Castle that bad?

it was ugly and the layout was absolute nonsense

It felt more like a stage out of DMC than something I would expect in a souls game.

I think TRC and Dreg Heap were the originally intended endgame for DS3 similarly to how AotA and Old Hunters felt very integral to the main game.

Dapper Dan power stance cestus build

git gud

It's quality