Dark Souls 2 savegame. NOT SOTFS. NG3 All Sorceries.

First make a backup of your original savegame in : C:\Users"user"\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsII\randomnumbers\DARKSII0000.sl2

Save it somewhere safe.

Step by step guide:

Note - Be careful not to select "Yes" in the "save data not loaded correctly" dialogue bar, unless you have your backup saves in another folder.

1 - Have your downloaded savegame on your desktop

2 - Start a new game on Dark Souls 2, as soon as you spawn in Things Betwixt quit to the main menu, but do not quit the program.

3 - Click the screen again bringing you to the main menu.

4 - Alt-Tab out of the game without quitting it and navigate to the folder C:\Users"user"\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsII\

5 - Go into the folder in this folder that has a bunch of random numbers on it

6 - With the game still on the main menu, take your downloaded Dark Souls 2 saves from your desktop (should look like "DARKSII0000.sl2") and overwrite the newly created one in this folder. STILL KEEP A COPY OF THE OLD SAVE JUST IN CASE.

7 - Now, go back into the still running Dark Souls 2 game, and click on "Continue".

8 - Try loading the newly created character. This should fail, and bring you back to the "Continue" menu. However now, you should see your old saves.

9 - Try loading one of your old saves. This will fail. Now go back one screen to the main menu, and click on "New Game"

10 - Once again, quit the game once you spawn in Things Betwixt, go back to the maine menu and now you should be able to load your downloaded save.

Only use this savegame when the game is offline. If you go online with this savegame you will get softbanned.

If you are using this savegame for steam achievements you need to disable your DS2 internet access, because you don't get achievements while Steam is in offline mode.

When you start the game, you will be in front of the Bellkeeper NPC. Simply talk to him until the dialogue runs out and you will earn the achievement.