Dark (Dark Souls II)

Dark is a damage type that can be inflicted in Dark Souls II

General Information
Dark is a form of elemental damage that can be inflicted by certain Enemies, Weapons, Hexes and Items.

Defense
In order to lower Dark damage, it is necessary to raise the Dark Defense stat.

Hexes
Players can deal Dark Damage by casting almost every Hex in the game.

Items

 * Hexing Urn

Weapon Augmentation
Most weapons can temporarily be given the ability to deal Dark damage through the use of Dark Weapon, Resonant Weapon and Dark Pine Resin.

Weapon Ascension
Steady Hand McDuff can imbue most weapons with Dark through the use of a Darknight Stone. This will lower the scaling of other damage types while adding a decent level to the Dark scaling. Imbuing weapons that already deal, and scale with, Dark will increase scaling and damage, at the cost of Physical damage and scaling.

Weapons
Certain weapons are inherently imbued with Dark damage and can be found throughout the world.


 * Mace of the Insolent
 * Silverblack Spear
 * All Sacred Chimes and Staves that can cast Hexes.

Enemies
The following is a list of Enemies, Characters and Bosses that deal Dark Damage.

Enemies

 * Mounted Overseer

Bosses

 * Old Dragonslayer
 * Executioner Chariot
 * Velstadt, The Royal Aegis
 * Nashandra