DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin

DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin

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Sinner's Bonfire

Sinner's Bonfire

Light the primal bonfire in Sinner's Rise

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35.8%

How to unlock the Sinner's Bonfire achievement in DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin - Definitive Guide

This is essentially a storyline achievement. Your "objective" for the first portion of the game is to light four primal bonfires which are being guarded by four bosses.
In the interests of not spoiling anything or revealing any of the game's deadly secrets I won't include any information about the bosses or the areas you have to travel through to reach them. If you want to look up any information on your own, the name of this boss is


For this one you will need to travel from Majula through either the Forest of Fallen Giants or Heide's Tower of Flame and No-Man's Wharf to reach the Lost Bastille.
Once in the Lost Bastille find your way into Sinner's Rise and fight through to the boss. You will find the primal bonfire in the room beyond this boss battle.
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02 Apr 2015 10:30

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what is the name of the boss so i can look it up before walking, or running, to my death?
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By Kanchanaburi on 15 Jun 2019 21:07
You got it
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By Catatonic Nali on 16 Jun 2019 07:42
Lit the bonfire no achievment... :/
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By Incinerkakes on 21 Mar 2016 07:51
Sorry I don't know what to tell you, the solution is correct so the achievement should have popped.
Only thing I can suggest is that it might be one of the many problems people experience with achievements on the Xbox One. Sometimes they get stuck on Done...Unlocking or just flat out don't register. As far as I know if that's the case it should unlock randomly at some point in the future.
Worst case scenario I can imagine is that you might have to light the bonfire again to trigger the achievement. If you're planning on getting 100% you will have to light that bonfire at least one more time as you play through NG+ so hopefully that'll solve the problem.
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By Catatonic Nali on 27 Mar 2016 12:36
Nice, didn’t get the achievement, this is ds1 all over again.
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By loonie wins on 30 Jul 2023 14:40
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This is a progress related, unmissable achievement. After defeating the Lost Sinner boss in Sinners Rise you will be able to light the primal bonfire and return to Majula.
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23 Mar 2016 00:00

Story progression – can’t be missed. At the end of the Lost Bastille you will find Sinners Rise. Head down the elevator and through the watery depths to find a long bridge leading to a boss fight. The Lost Sinner is pretty tough and will do relentless physical attacks, so summoning help is advised (you can summon Lucatiel from the bottom of the elevator if you spoke to her earlier and are human). Only go for single strikes and try and recover as much stamina as you can between her strikes. All her attacks CAN be blocked if you have a good shield and stamina, but only counter when there is an obvious opening. In terms of healing Lifegems leave you FAR less exposed than the Estus Flask. Once she dies you can enter a new area to light the Primal bonfire.
 

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Story related cannot be missed

For this trophy you must make your way to Sinner's Rise just beyond the Lost Bastille and defeat the Lost Sinner and light the primal bonfire behind him. There are two ways to go about this.

Forest of Fallen Giants - Use the crows nest past where you fought the Pursuer to take you straight to the Lost Bastille.

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No-Man's Wharf - Go through here, defeat the Flexile Sentry and sail on the ship to the Lost Bastille.

I highly recommend the latter as you can meet and summon Lucatiel in No-Man's Wharf and have her help with the Flexile Sentry boss, contributing towards the Lucatiel trophy. Whichever method you choose, ensure you exhaust Lucatiel's dialogue in the Lost Bastille and summon her for the Lost Sinner battle. This also contributes towards Lucatiel, see the description for more info.

For the Lost Sinner, ensure you light the torches on both sides before entering the fog. This will brighten up the room and allow you to lock on. The Lost Sinner is pretty fast and heavily melee based, it helps a lot to summon Lucatiel and Sellsword Luet in the prison cells to make this fight much easier.

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Quite a nasty boss, because... constantly jumps away from attacks and what’s most infuriating is that she knows how to remove the selection from herself, which is very disorienting during the battle, do not try to put it on again immediately after removing the fixation, because you will not succeed. at this moment, be prepared to dodge a series of attacks, the worst one is the lunge, because it is quite difficult to make a roll from it, I advise you to either fight with a shield, or learn to run behind her back and immediately highlight, so your hero will immediately turn in her direction and start hit her on the back, and not in random directions.
Summoning the phantom Lucatiel from myrrh (the summoning sign near the elevator below) greatly facilitates the battle, because she can tank it very effectively, if a sinner only needs a couple of hits on you, then she needs to pick Lucatiel for a very long time, during which time the sinner can be easily killed.
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09 Nov 2018 13:46

We follow the path Majula -> Heid's Fire Tower -> Deserted Marina -> Forgotten Fortress -> Hill of Sinners. At the end of the last one is the Forgotten Sinner boss.

To make the fight with her easier, you must find a key in the Forgotten Fortress (and NOT in the Tower of the Moon, as in DS2 on pastgen) that will allow you to open 2 side doors in front of the fog to the boss and light the lamps with a torch, which will greatly facilitate the fight with the boss. The key lies on the corpse on the cliff behind the boxes, immediately to the left after the first exit to the street after the third bonfire of the location ("Servants' Quarters").

Also summon two phantoms - Lucatiel and Mercenary Luet (his summoning sign is in one of the chambers on the right above the water, which are near the grate to the bridge to the boss). They will make the battle much easier by distracting the boss.
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17 Jul 2015 16:07