10 DEADLIEST Dark Souls Sorceries
5. Climax
Dark Souls 2 introduces the concept of hexes, which are darker sorceries that demand a sacrifice from the player in order to use. For most hexes, it's a small amount of souls that you're required to give up. But in the case of Climax, you're going to have to be prepared to completely empty that metaphorical wallet of yours.
The soul price boosts the effectiveness of hexes - the more money you put in, the more power they put out. And since Climax claims the player's entire wad of souls, that should be an immediate indicator of how deadly it is.
Visually, the spell involves the character channeling a dark mass of energy from within and hurling it forwards. On impact, the attack causes massive damage, often rewarding you with a one-hit KO.
The downside, obviously, is that you can only use it once at full power. That, and if you have more than 5000 souls, the amount that the spell's damage caps at, you'll still have to pay up and not get any extra benefit from it.