Dark Souls 2 Unpatched Lightning Spear in a Nutshell
Channel: T1GlistenerElf
Date: 2021-02-02

When I was attempting to beat Dark Souls 2 without taking a death, I specifically forbade myself from using the Lightning Spear miracle. The reason is that, on the unpatched version of the game, the spell is far more powerful, perhaps even broken, at least for PvE. With the exception of bosses that are heavily resistant to Lightning (which, for our route, is pretty much just Looking-Glass Knight,) everything gets practically vaporized by the spell, which would already be viable by having a much faster cast speed than in Dark Souls 1.

However, Evangeline, aka T1StoneforgeMystic, and I did not share in that compunction when doing our run together. While it would have still been possible without the spell, as we could focus on buffing ourselves in melee with our rapier, Throne Watcher and Throne Defender in particular would have been significantly harder, and we still had a hard time even with the Lightning Spears. That said, what you're seeing here is the Nashandra fight, which goes from being a joke to an exploration of the darkest depths of humor. Essentially, we took an already easy boss and made her so much easier that we didn't get hit even as a five-year-old was doing the attacking for us.

Of note, we were doing this with an unupgraded chime, not even the second-best chime for casting lightning miracles, and without having used a boltstone on the chime that we did have. Needless to say, we could have done a LOT more damage than this already incredible amount.

As always, I'm proud of T1StoneforgeMystic, and the excited way that she reacts lets me know that this has all been worth it. She has fallen in love with the series, even though she cannot play it by herself; the sense of accomplishment is a satisfying enough reward for her. She's told me that she can hardly wait to play Dark Souls 3, though we may do some cleanup in Dark Souls 2 first, i.e. take out the remaining bosses, all of which we skipped from the early game, now that we are ridiculously over-leveled. Even as we remain 2p1c (two-player, one-controller,) I fully expect that every one of them can be wiped out in a single video, so stay tuned for that in the not-too-distant future.

Dark Souls 2 Unpatched Lightning Spear in a Nutshell 2 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66DwCOQA-Hk&list=PLL5e2uQsROzlK5kAX_h4lzd38qMgi6nNg&index=38

To watch our run from the beginning, please check out this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwyd9nJROs&list=PLL5e2uQsROzlK5kAX_h4lzd38qMgi6nNg&index=25
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The outro is "Lotus - KA=YA" by DDBY from their album "Cafe de Touhou".
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The animated backgrounds came from AA VFX, a YouTube channel that makes free backgrounds for use in your videos all the time:
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