Bacon nailed it... DS2 was primarily a check against soul level and souls collected serverside. That was the clearest indicator of a "cheater". Always best to use an item mod to use your collected soul vessels that grant souls than arbitrarily adding them. If it were me, I wouldn't use any other stat padder in the trainer, even offline mode. Towards the end of my play time with DS2 I did abuse quite a bit of the trainer and did not see any real impact from it.
I haven't touched the "max item" option yet due to the probability that the cap for any given item may be above what the dev has set for it = instflag in my mind. Infinite item use would be much nicer to avoid this...
I'm honestly glad softbans will hopefully be more prominent. The amount of high level chars with low soul levels was too rampant in DS2 lol...
[Edited by Wings516, 4/12/2016 3:39:30 PM]
Well, I just got invaded by some dude using Infinite Health and Stamina. I backstabbed him 3 times but two hits from him and down I go...
Rotten apples I say...