Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-27370573-20151215022722/@comment-4526779-20151217130412

I would wait and do them in NG+ and do the no bonfire run first. The biggest problem with the no bonfire run is that it's tedious. You can just speed run your way to the place you died at all the way from Thing's Betwixt. The best kind of build you could do for one of these runs is a Quality INT/FTH build, to maximize the amount of weapons you can use. Still, regardless of what you do, you should attune the spells that I recommended up above (if not Denial than just Repair and Heal). Also, grab any weapons that you get the chance to grab, and any OP magic or anything else you can find to minimize the chances of death. Even if you JUST do the no bonfire run first, and you do still allow yourself to die, you're probably gonna want to avoid death as much as possible do you don't have to run all the way back to Undead Crypt or something from Thing's Betwixt. So even if you just do one, you'll probably be able to get pretty far without dying.