Average End Game Soul Levels.

[Komo]

This thread is simply here to post a question about something a friend of mine brought up recently. Did I go way overboard on soul farming?

I was talking to one of my friends at work who's played through all of the Souls games, and he was curious about how I was doing in DS2. I told him I'd just completed the main story at a SL of 167 and SM of roughly 2.7M. At this he stared at me and said that I had ridiculously overleveled for my first ever playthrough of the game. Is this true? What SL, and SM did you all complete your first playthrough at?

(For context, I completely cleared Forest of Fallen Giants, Heide's Tower of Flame, No Man's Wharf, Iron Keep, Sinner's Rise, and Lost Bastille of enemies. And until around SL 115 I never permantly lost any souls.)

[Ahodori]

There is no 'overlevel' for 'first playthrough'.

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

If you are doing all of the optionals and finding all of the item, that seems right in line. Most of my characters are around that same mark and then are in the 4-5 mil by the time I finish the dlc.

[crystalgatedh]

I think I ended my first playtrough at SL 145 or so. I did not try to farm or try to do every content. I just played trough the game and that was where I ended at.

[120 BPM]

about 150 and 3m is where you should be after completing the game with all dlcs and clearing most areas. maybe 4 mil if you re new

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

There are a lot of players that are much higher SM than that. The highest I can think of is someone that was over 12 mil. SM and they were still on NG. Even 7-8 mil is more common than you think. Myself being around 4 mil in the dlc areas have no problems doing coop or getting summoned.

[TrueArchery]

Цитата допису C2H5SH:

There are a lot of players that are much higher SM than that. The highest I can think of is someone that was over 12 mil. SM and they were still on NG. Even 7-8 mil is more common than you think. Myself being around 4 mil in the dlc areas have no problems doing coop or getting summoned.

With one of my characters, I'm at 30mil and still in NG. Mostly PvP, but still.

[Kerg]

Цитата допису Ahodori:

There is no 'overlevel' for 'first playthrough'.

This. The game is full of content and items. It's there with the intention that players experience ALL of it. Further, the game is designed to be difficult, and designed so that most people have to die and reclear areas multiple times until they learn from their mistakes and are able to get through it. There are also items that raise item discovery for a reason. It encourages you to farm for materials to upgrade your gear. All of this raises soul memory, but so be it.

Limiting soul memory is something that the PvP community came up with, to increase matchmaking odds and level the playing field for endgame PvP. But it has nothing to do with PvE. I wouldn't worry about it unless your main concern is endgame PvP. And you can always start a second character and level him with that specific purpose in mind.

[Askindale]

once went into NG+1 with level 189 NG+2 same character and level 240 ''levels are good''