Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-1961216-20140429234542/@comment-1961216-20140430022034

Brainwasher5 wrote:

That's the thing though, Twinkling Titanite was a dime a dozen in Dark Souls: you could just buy them all off the Giant Blacksmith, but now you can't just frivolously spend them. Same thing with Petrified Dragon Bone (you might have gotten lots from the acolytes, but I definitely didn't sadly), although all the regular titanite material is more common than before.

And to each their own; I found some of the bosses in Dark Souls II, such as the Demon of Song and the Ancient Dragon, to be nearly impossible to solo, while nothing in Dark Souls I save Manus the first couple of times was that challenging for me short of the Four King on NG++ and beyond.

Buying them off the Giant Blacksmith is only available near the end of the game, whereas I was sitting on a pile of everything one or two bosses into DS2 thanks to the bird traders. =/

I haven't yet fought either of those bosses to gauge their difficulty, sadly.