Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin

Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin is an upgrade and bundle of Dark Souls II that brings the game to Playstation 4 and Xbox One, as well as DX11 features on PC. It also bundles all previous DLCs and provides additional features and content.

The game is available for PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One, and is the sequel to Dark Souls. Visit the Leaderboards for the best times ever achieved.

Getting Started

• Visit the Glitches and Skips page to find a list of Glitches and Skips in Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (this lists glitches from both Dark Souls II and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin)
• Read the Category Distinctions page to get a quick overview over the different leaderboards categories of Dark Souls II

Categories

• Any%: Defeating the end boss and triggering the ending cutscene.
• Old Souls: Triggering the end credits after obtaining the 4 Great Souls.
• All Bosses: Finishing the game and defeating every enemy that is considered a boss (health bar at the bottom of the screen), including all three DLC episodes.
• All Achievements: Obtain all Steam achievements starting from a fresh character.

Categories are further split into:

• Restricted: Runners are required to lock their FPS to 60 using MSI Afterburner / Rivatuner and also display their framerate in their videos. FPS must never go down via malicious uses such as abusing PrintScreen, for fairness. Parrywalking is not allowed.
• Unrestricted: Runners are required to lock their FPS to 60 using MSI Afterburner / Rivatuner and also display their framerate in their videos. FPS can go down to any value the runner desires, wherever in the run. Parrywalking is allowed.

World Records

• Any%: 55:59 by PrepayingDeath ((//www.twitch.tv/videos/367015073))
• Old Souls: 1:11:36 by PrepayingDeath ((//www.twitch.tv/videos/220146208))
• All Bosses: 2:20:04 by EnsgMaster ([(//www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtR73pD4PM))

Helpful Tools

• SpeedSouls - Save Organizer
• No Babyjump Mod (dll; recommended)
• No Babyjump Mod (Cheat Engine Table)
• RivaTuner (FPS limiting tool)
• META (practice tool and more)

External Resources

• Speedrun Glossary on SpeedRunsLive
• Speedruns Compilation, a list of records for all categories, collected by KantiDono on Reddit (not updated since June 21, 2014)
• Various Any% tutorials by JeffTheBigLizard
• Dark Souls II at Wikipedia