Dark Souls 2 Soft Cap (2025)

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What is the soft cap on vigor in Dark Souls 2? ›

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.

The softcap for Strength and Dexterity is 40. Useful for scaling and weapon requirements. The softcap for Adaptability is 39, iirc, but it's not worth getting that high. You should aim for ~100 Agility.

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.

Level 40 is therefore called the first soft cap for Vigor.

And that's not all; every Elden Ring stat has at least two soft cap points, up to as many as four. For Vigor, the amount of HP gained from higher levels will drop significantly after level 60, as you will only get between 3 and 6 HP points per level afterwards.

No, dex increase cast speed though.

The soft cap for faith bonuses appears to be at 40 faith.

The Cleric begins with the lowest Dexterity at 5 and the Swordsman starts with the highest Dexterity at 16. Some weapons require a minimum dexterity level to be wielded properly. Many weapons do not have an innate Poison/Bleed effect, but if you do find such a weapon, Dexterity will increase their effectiveness.

I've played Dark Souls 1 and 3, as well as Bloodborne and recently decided to get Dark Souls 2. As the title suggests, this seems to be the hardest DS game I've ever played. Dark souls 3 was pretty easy, Dark souls 1 a bit harder but also not too difficult.

The best bosses to farm for souls are Velstadt and King Vendrick. With the Tseldora Set and the Covestous Silver Serpent Ring +2 equipped, Velstadt can yield over 200,000 souls and King Vendrick yields about 600,000 souls, making for a total of over 800,000 souls per each run.

Fume Knight, on the other hand, charges, and prevents players from taking a break. Fume Knight is not an optional boss, and yet they're commonly referred to as the kind of boss even hardcore players will skip over, instead choosing to not finish the game's DLC.

Does SL matter in ds2? ›

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!

Increase your equipment load. Also slightly increases your physical defence and poison resistance. Vitality is an Attribute in Dark Souls 2. Vitality determines your character's equipment load, physical defence, and poison resistance.

Players should probably begin their journey by grabbing a couple of free items, including the contents of a chest in the tunnel to Heides Tower of Flame and an Estus Shard in the small well near the village in Majula. Exploration in earnest should begin with a trip to the Forest of Fallen Giants.

The soft cap for faith bonuses appears to be at 40 faith.

Strength has a soft cap of 20 and a hard cap of 40. What this means is, as you level strength, you will get your biggest bonuses from 1–20. Then you will see a drop off but still get solid returns from 21–40. After 41, the returns are so miniscule it's not worth to put anymore points in.

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.

Soft Caps Vs.

Hard caps: this is the very upper limit of a stat. Once a stat has reached this high, it cannot get any higher - it is a cap enforced by the in-game engine. In Dark Souls 3, all stats have a hard cap of 99. Soft caps: when a stat reaches a soft cap, increasing it stops being as useful as it used to be.