4. Healing Dark Souls II Guide

In this chapter, you will learn everything about healing your character. You can find here information on items that influence the condition of your health and how to use them. You will also learn how and where you can upgrade your healing items. Also, you can find here information on how death influences your character and about the ways to avoid its adverse effects.

Healing items

The Estus Flask is the most important healing item

In Dark Souls 2, there are many items that you can use to heal your character, or to raise the maximum of your health points.

• Estus Flask - is one of the most important items, of this kind, in the game. After you use it, it restores some of the health points that you have lost. What is important, after you rest at the bonfire, the contents of the Estus Flask replenish.
• Lifegem - an item that gradually restores some of the health points.
• Radiant Lifegem - a stronger Lifegem.
• Old Radiant Lifegem - an even stronger Lifegem.
• Monastery Charm - heals poisoning and restores health points.
• Poison Moss - heals poisoning
• Life Ring - increases, slightly, the maximum of health points
• Ring Of Restoration - gradually restores health.

You can also restore health points by resting at bonfires.

Hit the stone to obtain the Estus Shard

You can enhance the maximum uses of the Estus Flask. To do that, you are going to need the Estus Shard. You can find one in Majula, next to the villa. Approach the well and hit the stone at its rim. This way, you will start an elevator. What arrives on the platform is a corpse and the Estus Shard. Then, go to the Emerald Herald and choose the Upgrade Estus Flask option.

Dying and the consequences

You died?

In Dark Souls 2, the death of the hero does not go without its effects. Once you die, you are transferred to the most recently visited bonfire but, the game does not end, in a typical way. If you have been in the human form, at the moment of dying, you lose your human form and turn into an undead. This has its consequences,. Each time you die, the maximum of your health points drops. To the level of 50%. To regain your human form, you need to use the Human Effigy. This, however, needs to be done with deliberation, because you will not be able to find too many of them, along your path. Note: Human Effigy only unlocks the full health bar and does not restore health that you lose earlier.

If your situation is critical and, as a result of many deaths your health bar is shorter by a half - do not worry. There is still hope! You can then use the Ring of Binding to your aid, which decreases the penalty for dying. Thanks to this, your health bar will drop to 80% and will not be declining any further. Where to find it? In Heide's Tower of Flame, or rather the Cathedral of Blue, adjacent to it! The ring awaits heroes in a chest that you will reach after you lower the big bridge (it is here that you fight one of the bosses). Phew!