Easy Human Effigies - Dark Souls II Tips!

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**This text description is full of BIG SPOILERS, but the video is spoiler-free** Patch v1.02 - Calibrations v1.03 Confirmed working on 360/PS3! This is a quick human effigy farming video that'll get you 8 effigies every run (10-15 minutes per run). First, acquire bonfire ascetics from any known source. These are: Darkdiver Grandahl (Sells 10 Ascetics, 7500 Souls each, requires covenant membership) Royal Sorcerer Navlaan (Sells 10 Ascetics, 7500 Souls each) Chloanne (1 Ascetic, 7500 Souls) 3 Ascetics in a chest after the Looking Glass Knight Boss 1 Ascetic as a Starting Gift The enemies in the Pilgrims of Dark Covenant areas (Dark Chasm of Old) will occasionally drop Bonfire Ascetics. To improve your chances, wear items that increase your item find. PLEASE NOTE that you will obviously have to have been to Drangleic Castle in order to unlock some of these ascetics via merchants or to farm them from enemies. I wish I could tell you how to farm them sooner, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that. If you simply need to be human and don't require effigies in item form, consider putting down your white sign soapstone to help other players. You will sometimes gain back your humanity from beating a boss like that. Winning Bell Keeper invasions also seems to do this randomly, as well as red eye orb invasions. Steps: 1. Burn a bonfire ascetic in Majula's Far Fire. 2. Head to Cale's mansion and down into his basement. Kill the skeletons there. Each will drop a human effigy guaranteed. 3. Burn an ascetic, repeat. With every ascetic burnt up to 7, another skeleton will spawn in the basement with a 100% drop rate for a Human Effigy. 4. Kill all 8 skeletons by separating them and exploiting aggro ranges. Collect Effigies. 5. Burn ascetic, rinse and repeat. Each run should take you anywhere from 8-15 minutes depending upon AI and your skill, so go nuts. Note: You will end up getting about 25000 souls per run of the skeletons as well, so you can use that to finance the purchasing of more ascetics IF merchants still have some in stock.

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another good way to get lots of human effigies is to host a fight club. just let the red phantoms fight when one dies,you'll get a human effigy and the other red phantom gets to continue fighting while you summon another red phantom. it's a win for everyone with no need for bonfire ascetics

It's not better to use yearn to concentrate all skeletons in a corner and then spam area attacks while they're still under yearn effect?? You can also do it with alluring skulls (infinite buy from shalquoir) though the cost souls...

thanks for this vid, it helped me a lot

Don't light the fire in that room otherwise they don't respawn

thx man

hey if u want to kill skeleton fast do a blunt damage to em

Where do you get the key for that room?

Hi,
I need some help please.
I am up to the three sentinels in the Last Bastille level and I have run out of effigies, lifegems and have been farming souls to level up quickly so most NPCs in most levels aren't respawning. I also have exhausted the supply from Malentia in Fallen giants.
I'm also in offline mode.
I am stuck and have been for hours. what do you suggest?
Thanks.
Josh

thanks!

Lol dont do that. Just take the champion covenant for endless respawn and go to mcduffs workshop bonefire and farm the dogs endless. They got good chance to drop some.

One thing you failed to mention is bonfire ascetics make the game much harder ever time you use 1

Just use a ring of soul protection and repair it when you die. All the human effigies you get you can just save up. That's what I did and I have around 80 now.

If you help kill a boss by getting summoned, do you get an effigy? And also, does anyone know a really early way to get them without using ascetics? Bonfire ascetics are late game and we need an early method.

nice video, what is that body armor you are wearing?

where can u
get bonfire astetics i just dont find them.

the better wayis to burn a bonfire ascetic at the undead resort bonfire in forest of fallen giants and go back to the wooden chest and you will get 5 from that and a human effigy next to the heide knight so 6 human effigys with out killing bosses and easier mobs

Help me. I can't buy human effegys from the old lady and there are no skeletons
Even the thing you buy from the cat to drop them at the nest I can't buy. Help :(

How to open the locked door?

Wow... that is a pretty awesome tactic! Thanks for the farming tips i've been trying to get human effigies for the dark chasms but i couldn't find any, but this is really useful. Thanks!!!