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    Dark Souls II

    Game » consists of 12 releases. Released Mar 11, 2014

    Blood, souls, and tears are continually spent as players traverse the land of Drangleic in FromSoftware's third entry in the Souls series.

    Undead Purgatory - kind of a waste of time?

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    #1  Edited By LaudaSolem

    I don't get the Undead Purg. I fought through those effing guys w/the staves and whips, defeated the red knight and the Undead Chariot only to find a creepy dwarf and a new covenant to join. Is that it?

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    Not everywhere goes to a main objective. Videogames.

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    In NG+ the boss drops the Chloranthy Ring +2 so that's reason enough for me.

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    In NG+ the boss drops the Chloranthy Ring +2 so that's reason enough for me.

    This. Plus, the covenent is the main PvP area.

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    It's the way to access some great pyromancies and the main PvP covenant. You can fight without any risk for a chance to win cracked eye orbs if you join and pray at the statues.

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    This is what I didnt liked about the game ... too many interesting areas only devoted to those damn covenants :(

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    It's not that long of an area to clear. You get:

    1. Interesting boss for easy souls
    2. Sublime Bone Dust
    3. New Covenant
    4. Early access to more advanced pyromancies
    5. On NG+, Chloranthy Ring +2

    It's more than enough reason for an area that takes around 15 minutes to complete.

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    #8  Edited By EuanDewar

    In addition to what everyone else said I believe the 'trigger' for opening the Shrine of Winter door to progress is 1 million souls accrued so they need to give you as many opportunities as possible to get souls.

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    In NG+ the boss drops the Chloranthy Ring +2 so that's reason enough for me.

    What? Headed there now.

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    @mosespippy said:

    In NG+ the boss drops the Chloranthy Ring +2 so that's reason enough for me.

    What? Headed there now.

    I didn't find it significantly faster than the Chloranthy +1 ring really but since I already got it why not.

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    @euandewar: it's a secondary trigger. You can farm 1 million souls or the more conventional way is to acquire all the great souls.

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    @aetheldod: The optional areas are one if my favourite parts if the Souls games and this one expands on that massively. Half of the game is optional! But this is coming from one of those dudes that likes to make a bunch of builds and mess around a whole lot. So I may not even visit the Abyss on most playthroughs, but you can be sure I'm going back there once I have a build that incorporates hexes.

    In terms of the Purgatory however, I'll be going there pretty much every time, except for my coop builds. I plan I getting into some faith stuff where I'll likely join the blues but blood is way more my style. This area is essential for many people. I even like the boss, even though he's really easy.

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