All it takes... is a parry

cum

6 million souls... all of them... gone...

ok so storytime real fast, i was farming memory of orro and i forgot to unequip climax bc i thought i would never be stupid enough to use it but i was lazy enough to not unequip it so i farm that **** for like 2 or 3 hours getting like 500k souls per run and thats a lot so i do this **** straight for like 2 or 3 hours and im here chillin at the bonfire not resting at it tho with like 40m souls and at that point i was like lvl 250 smth like that and i had to go eat and after that i stayed a bit on tiktok bc i was exausted and i didnt have the ring that collects your souls bc i didnt know how to extract souls from it so im chillin there and i get invaded so i think its some npc but no i was a player that was around my soullvl and i panic bc i knew that at that lvl you have strong hexes why i know that, bc thats what i was going for, a huge ****ing tank that has 70 strengh and can use powerful hexes for my ng+3 so back to it i get invaded and im randomly scrollin trough my hexes and I THINK THAT I CHOSE great resonant soul to use but i actually picked climax and ofc i killed him but guess ****ING WHAT... i had 0 souls...this **** happened a week ago and im still mad at myself for not going to majula and chillin there

if it does maximum damage at 5000 why does it need all your souls? its just excessive.

You know, the only real defense against this spell outside of dodging it is to be of the Dark yourself. Had a one-on-one with another Hexer in Belfry Sol and we got hit by each other's Climax. Survived it with about 4% of HP because of the raw dark defense you get from leveling up INT and FTH along with decent max HP (1900 - 2000).

kinky

Further proof that chimes are a waste of souls

This Hex is part of the reason why my characters always have a +10 Dark Rebel's Greatshield on standby

the 3 resonant soul spells are basically DS2's version of "throw money at problems to deal with them"