This area is characterized.
The gutter scholar of the first sin.
Scholar of the first sin edit.
Exiting and continuing the game will make the item appear where it should have dropped initially.
Multiple torch sconces have been moved replaced and added.
Sometimes when an enemy drops an item it will go through the floor and fall to the bottom of the stage.
Its lore is reminiscent of the valley of defilement from demon s souls and aesthetically it is an amalgam of that world and blighttown from dark souls the statues will shoot poison darts at the player.
The gutter is a transitional zone in dark souls 2 between majula and the black gulch the gulch underwent significant changes in the scholar of the first sin expansion.