Dark Souls 2 Soft Cap (2024)

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What is a soft cap in Dark Souls 2? ›

It's the point in which investing more levels into a stat would give you less returns. The softcap of Vigir is 20, but it's still worth it to go up to 30, and even beyond for that extra HP. The softcap for Endurance is 20 and should only be more if you need more Stamina or used as dump stat.

The soft cap for adaptability appears to be at 39. The Bandit begins with the lowest Adaptability at 3 and the Explorer starts with the highest Adaptability at 12. Adaptability 3-10 gives 2 points of Agility, 10-20 gives 7 points, 20-30 gives 8 points, 30-40 is 7 points, 40-99 is 7 points.

According to this Dark Souls 2 wiki article: The highest possible level attainable is 838. With all stats leveled to 99, the maximum Health is 2505.

Here are the stats in Dark Souls: Vitality (soft cap: 30 & 50) - Raise HP, very important, especially since enemy dealt tons of damage in Dark Souls. At least get 30, some people put 50.

Increasing the global New Game cycle by entering NG+ will increase the intensity of all bonfires by one stage, regardless of their individual intensities, until the difficulty cap at NG+7.

You don't become an all-powerful god at max soul level. If you're playing the game long enough to get your SL up to the highest possible, then the game won't be nearly as difficult just because you know what's coming. Heck even by the time you get to NG+, you pretty much know what to expect.

Raising Adaptability improves action speed, such as evasion and drinking Estus Flasks. However, it does not improve the player's parry speed. Improving Adaptability also raises all status defenses (i.e. Poison, Bleed, Curse and Petrify), whilst also raising the player's HP and Poison Attack Bonus slightly.

Soul Level does not matter in summoning — it is purely Soul Memory that affects it. NG shares the same ranges as NG+. The Soul Memory threshold flattens out at 360M. Once you pass this threshold, you can summon and be summoned by anyone else past it, regardless of how large the gap is!

When focusing on the main objectives, Dark Souls II is about 43 Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 118 Hours to obtain 100% completion.

Is ds2 DLC long? ›

When focusing on the main objectives, Dark Souls II: Crown of the Sunken King is about 5 Hours in length.

Vigor : From 0 to 20 vigor You'll get 30 Hp each leveling, Softcap = 20, From 20 to 50 vigor you'll get 20 HP each leveling, Hardcap = 50, From 50 to 99 you'll get 5HP each leveling.

Sorceries and Hexes require a minimum intelligence level to cast. Some special weapons also have an intelligence requirement. The soft cap for intelligence bonuses appears to be at 40 intelligence. Intelligence affects the number of Homing Soul Mass and Homing Crystal Soul Mass.

Hexes deal dark elemental damage and offer a good balance of offensive spells and self-buffs. They are divided into two categories: Staff Hexes and Chime Hexes, and are unique in that respect. Dark damage scales with the lower of the Intelligence or Faith stat. The soft cap for dark damage is at 30/30 Int/Fth.

The primary stats are: Vigor - Vigor affects HP and Petrify RES. Endurance - Affects HP, Stamina, Phys DEF, and Poise. Vitality - Affects Equip Load and Poison RES. Attunement - Affects Slot, Cast Speed, Curse RES, and AGL.

The Small Smooth & Silky Stone can be used to heal the player's HP a very small amount, or it can be given to Dyna & Tillo (Those voices near the nest) to receive a random item.