Raise your INT and FTH to 8 and talk to Felkin in Huntsman's Copse. He will sell you a staff and chime that can carry you to the midgame. I would continue from there and retrieve the 2 Yore branches from Harvest Valley. You can get gear that increases your casting speed in the Shaded Woods (before the scorpion lady boss) but it requires 2 Yore branches to get there.
For my first character I upgraded what ever I liked. I upgraded a lot of armor.
With my second character I am doing a mage/hexer. So I am wearing light armors only. And I've only found one set, the hexer set. And it requires Twinkling. So I haven't upgraded it yet. I'm pretty far into the game on this character and I've yet to find any other mage specific armor sets or pieces.So I might start upgrading this one.
I've had 5 Dark Souls 2 policemans go after me after I slaughtered Majula before starting NG+. 3 of them used pyromancy but the spells are so easy to avoid so I don't really see it as an issue in PVP. Flame Swathe is downright nasty when fighting bosses though. The most imbalanced PVP skill is the Great Resonant Soul hex because I've been 2 shotting all the policemans with it. I've been employing a scumbag tactic of casting Homing Crystal Soul Mass then rushing towards the opponent and then casting Great Resonant Soul as they try to avoid the Soul Mass projectiles. This works best if you force the conflict in chokepoints to limit their movement options.
You don't need a Giant Soul, you need the Giant's Kinship from defeating the Giant Lord boss. If that's what you meant, then... uhh... maybe you're shit out of luck.
The boss fight is supposed to trigger when I interact with the dead giant? Well, it just kicks me back to where I enter the memory.
It sounds like you didn't interact with all the Giant Tree things. One of them has a boss fight.
If you've got anything you want to do before you finish the game, such as completing the Pilgrims of the Dark levels, or killing Vendrick in the Crypt, then do so now.
That is not true. You are placed into free-roam/open-world after defeating the final boss. New game plus must be opted into by selecting the new menu entry from a bonfire.
@mason: Very interesting. The strat guide seems to indicate that the spell damage for Hexes scales based on the amount of souls you're holding. I got it right here... one moment...
Ah... Hexes affected by number of souls currently held (according to the Brady Games strategy guide):
Resonant Soul
Great Resonant Soul
Climax (unf)
Resonant Flesh
Resonant Weapon
Lifedrain Patch
I think that's it.
Climax is a special one where the damage boost caps out at 5000 souls but it consumes ALL your souls when you cast it.
I played Demon's after Dark Souls and I don't think I made much of an improvement. I think some of the bosses were harder. This new one definitely seems easier.
I was actually having a conversation with a friend at lunch today and something occurred to me. Perhaps the developers intended for this one to be easier and that's why they introduced the Champions covenant and Bonfire Ascetics.
General consensus right now is that Dark Souls II is harder than Dark Souls. And it's hard to argue that it isn't. Dark Souls II combat system has subtle tweaks, but those tweaks make a world of difference. The difference is that if you know Dark Souls you can beat it dying only once and that's because that death is mandatory. You can theoretically do the same for DSII, but you're not going to. The actual combat is harder, something which was pretty easy in Dark Souls to compare.
Either way, it doesn't really matter. They are both great games, but I think Dark Souls II is the better game overall. Also, I'd like to point out I know why I'm 'kneeling to the lady' from the first time I met her 30 minutes into the game. The fact you don't know it at the end just says how closely you've been paying attention. And that's fine, it's understandable you want to not pay attention and have them feed it to you, but Dark Souls has always been about figuring stuff out for yourself. That included the story.
That "mandatory" death in Dark Souls can be avoided with clever use of game mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8eG7nYXWR4
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