It’s due on 18 July, a few days before the release of the first bit of Lost Crowns DLC (22 July on PC for that) and will mean the servers are down for a predesignated period of time. Oh my god everything is changing and my world is turning upside down, what is even real any more? Sorry, just reflecting on this upcoming Dark Souls 2 patch (updating the PC version to version 1.04 and calibration 1.08) which apparently changes the balancing to some degree on just about every weapon, spell and piece of armour in the game.