Disclaimer: Everything done in this run is within the bounds of the game. The airwalking is done by riposting an enemy during a roll, and the speed is achieved by rolling/attacking during a binocular zoom. The speed boost has a varied duration based on input timing, and the air-walk is roughly a 2-6 frame window. (No one has really tested this, just my input basically).
This is the fastest any% route (ran on an older patch), but if you’re interested in speedruns without glitches you can watch them done on the current patch. This consists of killing “The Rotten” four times with bonfire ascetics to achieve 1,000,000 souls to open the shrine of winter; from there you clear the game normally with a SL of roughly 140.
For the current best times, see: http://speedsouls.com/Main_Page
For anyone interested in backwards patching: http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/27rvqo/dark_souls_2_files_to_patch_backwards_to_version/
Pre- Pairywalk run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFyy2PqR-7c
Dark Souls II in 16:20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHONQgmfuI8
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