Part 1
After my last post I tried going back to bed, but you know it’s just a Souls thing where you are never satisfied until you learn more about the enemy that is an impossible wall for you. I couldn’t sleep, and focus on other work as a boss hasn’t upset me since the royal rat authority or kicked my ass since Knight Artorias.
So I went back to do a run where in the second phase of the fight (where magic is involved), I just circled the boss while taking all the things you guys have mentioned into consideration. I circled him to better understand when my window of attack is, and at what range he does different things. I’d say I found some interesting things.
But before I delve into that, I wanted to address some things that has been said about me in Gamefaqs and neogaf forums about my earlier posts. A couple people on this forum have sent me PMs to give me an update on the other forums.
Apparently I’m a whiny baby and a b*** according to people that don’t know me, my style of play, and have never seen me play. Big assumptions coming from people that can post anything on the internet. I will only say one thing to counteract to this. Until you have played this game and beaten this boss, you don’t have the F ing right to call me anything or make assumptions about me. The only people that have the right to say anything are the two people that mentioned on reddit that they have beaten the game. No more comments.
Moving onto a more cheery subject: answering questions!
1) The blue meteors track you throughout the whole arena. And this is a gigantic arena. So vast. And the farther you are from the boss, the more he spams this particular move. And when they do come the only indication you have is a small blue glow on the ground a split second before the meteors hit you, because it is a reflection on the water you are standing on. Yes the arena is filled with water, but you do not slow down which is awesome.
2) And no this is my only path right now. I’ve exhausted all other areas. Explored every inch of the game, and this is the boss I have to beat to progress. Can’t do anything else. I am planning to level up my vitality to 25 and my endurance to 20. Which is another 10 levels. I have found a way to farm 11000 blood echoes in 5-6 mins, so I can get there quite quickly, like an hr maybe.
3) My playtime is now 28 hrs. 6 hrs just on this boss alone, which is fine by me. It took me 16 hrs to beat Smough and Ornstein my first time because dark souls was my first foray into this genre of gaming, and I'll admit it, I was terrible. Also I had no internet at that time, and so I could never play coop. I always do the first playthroughs of the souls game blind and alone.
4) I mentioned that I played the chalice dungeon in an earlier post, but never finished it because I ran out of blood vials to go any further. The 2 level boss of the first chalice dungeon is a gank squad of three watchers. One has a shotgun, which he spams the entire time, one had a flamethrower and maul, and the other had a huge club that rushed you. Used all my vials
5) The music is really atmospheric. Sometimes just plain creepy, and sometimes soothing. Boss battles are amazing because of the music that complements the actions and tense situation. I will buy the soundtrack when I get a chance. Just too good.
6) To me the tower of Latria was just a really atmospheric and dark place which gave you so much thrill and tension, and this game delivers that in many areas, but you won’t find yourself falling off huge towers by accident like in latria. There are definitely places where I was just scared to see what could potentially be making those noises, especially the woods. Such unique and creepy atmosphere there along with where I am atm
7) Cannot fire the cannon without 10 bullets minimum. I have levelled my cannon to +5 and does monstrous damage, but still requires 10 bullets to use. I have tried using bloodgems on it but there is no option to put bloodgems on the cannon. I guess it’ll probably break the game if you leveled your bloodtinge lol. Also no bloodgem I have found can reduce bullet use, but only increase blood attack
8) So I finally figured out how to use blood bullets. Derp... you press up on your d-pad. Lol I’m such an idiot. Never knew that. I through it was cycle through your consumable quick mapped inventory. So when you press up on your d-pad you get 5 blood bullet and no more. So it does not help the cannon, because you can only refill blood bullet if the blood bullet value is lower than 5. So for now 2 cannon shots for me. And unlimited use of my arcane imbuing item, because I can just refill my health with vials
9) I will post pics later when I get home
10) Stake driver is an interesting weapon because it has insanely high critical hit damage potential. But it does leave you vulnerable to attacks when charging. I haven’t used it much because I was gonna practice later with it. Story and exploration first. Such a vast and interesting world to explore. It has a very unique moveset as well
. Guess I'll be buying it then.
