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Dark Souls 2 - Shield Souls

2,110 views · Published 13 May 2014 · 11:21 · Indexed 1 November 2026

Channel: Smight · 2014 · Gaming

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Was originally going to co-op shields only with my buddies to see how far we'd get but that didn't pan out; I got carried away and left them behind when I found out how decent it actually was. Ended up just going through the game for the 2nd time using nothing but shield-bash. Here's some boss highlights, and then belfry pvp (starts at 4:30)

I quickly came to realize that the standard shields can both attack and block at the same time, and used it to beat the hell out of everything. As long as I have stamina, I don't even have to wait for an opening to attack. A lot of the bosses don't have any way to deal with this. Toward the latter half, grabs and shield-breakers seem to become more common; I was just stuck with a poor weapon on bosses with those attacks. Darklurker was a real jerk because I never fought it before AND all its attacks are magic, busting right through my shield. Went and grabbed the Rebel greatshield, the only greatshield I used the whole run, to win there due to its 100% dark resist.

Other players don't seem to have any idea how to handle this, and so it worked way better than I thought it would against them. I was originally avoiding pvp but signed up to the belfry for some chunks and stayed with it when my success rate with it was way too high while doing nothing but pressing attack.

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