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Dark Souls III |OT| Thy path has been tested, now fight unkindled ash
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Eh, I honestly don't think he was that bad, and he's far from being unfair. Try dodging left (his right) to avoid most of his attacks, if I remember correctly.
I don't think any boss was unfair tbh, some just required more adjustment to their style than others.
Freezasaurus
Member
How does it confirm anything? I feel like I'm missing something here, he was clearly meant to sort of resemble O
rnstein
dragonslayer
rnstein.
I haven't gotten to N
amless King
Got through A
and beat A
after two tries. Felt pretty proud of myself.
Proceeded to see other dudes get wrecked. The
covenant doesn't seem to be workling very well. Never got summoned.
. Yep. Watch me go sunnnnnnnnbros.
nor Londo
ldy
Proceeded to see other dudes get wrecked. The
Darkmoon
Ima gonna run into those a
rrows
WhiskerFrisker
Member
Yeah, I had the first phase down pact. The second phase was intense until I realized the lower left pillar was a 100% shield to her attacks.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
OH HEY I GUESS WE'RE DOING JUMP SCARES IN DARK SOULS NOW
COOL FROM THX
COOL FROM THX
The magic of these games right here, one of a kind.
RandomSeed
Member
For a game with great music...what the shit is up with the C
S
track? I've heard more melodious farts.
rystal
age
Quote
Member
I think it's because it's a buggy fight. Once when I was summoned there was no lighting effects from the bracelets so basically I was fighting a shadow in a unlit room. Another time his HP bar wouldn't move and the mobs were invincible. And then once he crawled past the wall so his poison was unavoidable.
Just grab their attention and run away, they will always fall and kill themselves. It's easier with a bow but walking up to aggro then running works fine. I didn't have to touch one of them to kill them all.
Yeah, I had to summon for
as well.
Tried her a lot and always got caught in the kill move.
Called a Sunbro and he was even nice enough to let me have the finishing blow.
Afterwards helped out some folk to repay for my sin and did not get ONE sun medal due to hosts getting killed.
Dancer
Tried her a lot and always got caught in the kill move.
Called a Sunbro and he was even nice enough to let me have the finishing blow.
Afterwards helped out some folk to repay for my sin and did not get ONE sun medal due to hosts getting killed.
Freezasaurus
Member
Actually, if you're near the very end of his tail you can get a free hit on him as he's teleporting since it's outside the range of his black whirlpool teleporty thing.
My first 3s in there were spent getting hit by an arrow or knife, being knocked back and then plummeting to my death.
From there on, I bow cheese everything in that scaffolding with great pride and no regrets.
Once, at the bottom of the cathedral, I left my player for 5 minutes to go to the bathroom. I thought I had cleared everybody out.
This motherfucking slug slithered halfway across the level over some dry land to fucking murder me while I was in the bathroom. Lost 10,000 souls.
Fucking Miyazaki.
I think my favorite thing of that whole fight is during the second phase with the t
racking arrows
Well, you can watch my victory here and see how on my toes I'm being to avoid dying. Far from an optimized battle, I never learned the parry timings so it's a lot of knowing when to roll, when to block, when to heal and when to poke him. His kick is so punishing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=10l_WOHGhCw
CS and AW were easy peasy for me though I can understand how they could be a PITA. The challenging bosses for me were PS, DA, CG, NK, 2P, SC... If I hadn't already learned DotBV well in the beta test it'd be on the list too.
Found that out a co-op fight or two in lol. But trying to help folks out and they get caught in that aoe during the teleport hurts my soul.
If you do a magic build, every boss fight the first half hour of the game will feel like you are a spitballing degenerate trapped in molasses trying to murder Greek gods.
There is a trick.
Alright, I cannot remember the bonfire I'm at and I don't want to go googling things for spoilers. I've just killed a boss that involved
and now I'm stuck with an invisible wall not allowing me to pass across a bridge into the most gorgeous freaking city I've ever seen. I don't want the answer flat out, but is what I need to proceed something obvious I've overlooked or do I need to go exploring to find a branching path that I've missed? So far it feels like I've taken a straight path through the game, no optional bosses so it feels like I've missed out on another path.
It's gonna take a pretty epic weapon to stop me from using the Butcher's Knife, I love the thing! I think once I get a decent tower shield I'll switch to tower shield + greatsword but for now this Butcher's Knife has served me damn well.
touching a goblet and getting transported to fight him
It's gonna take a pretty epic weapon to stop me from using the Butcher's Knife, I love the thing! I think once I get a decent tower shield I'll switch to tower shield + greatsword but for now this Butcher's Knife has served me damn well.
Uh what the fuck?
I did a 2-day trial of PS+ and it just expired. Now I'm at the title screen and 'press any button' and does a couple checks and says 'your PS PLUS membership has expired. Returning to title menu.'
Rinse. Repeat. I've restarted my PS4 twice.
I can't play the game I bought.
I did a 2-day trial of PS+ and it just expired. Now I'm at the title screen and 'press any button' and does a couple checks and says 'your PS PLUS membership has expired. Returning to title menu.'
Rinse. Repeat. I've restarted my PS4 twice.
I can't play the game I bought.
toastyToast
Member
lol he's much harder. I don't know how you could keep up with CG and have trouble with NK's moveset. Plus one of them lets you heal free.
Freezasaurus
Member
Check under options. Turn off matchmaking and set the game to offline mode.
SunBroDave
Member
If your attacks are hardly doing any damage, then you're approaching the boss the wrong way. Remember this for future bosses.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
Go into options (in dark souls) and change to srat offline
I couldn't even do that. I literally could only go to the 'press any button' prompt and couldn't access the main menu.
However, just rebooted for a third time and turned off my router. Now I can access my game. Hmm.
Thank you though.
Interesting. I only fought NK a couple times and decided to leave him for later just to have something fun and novel to try later on after I've beaten the game a couple times. The emerging consensus I'm seeing is NK being the hardest boss but since I haven't put the effort in yet myself, I guess I'll wait and see.
Ghostmaster
Member
You've missed the branching path and an entire area likely, go to the road of sacrifices and try to hug the left side and enter the ruins that are near a bunch of little crabs.
What? Nah, man. The only thing tough about CG is the dumb kick and mostly because you don't expect that bruce lee shit out of such a huge guy, but his swings are way easier to dodge than NK's mix of swings and piercing attacks and some can even go straight over you.
SunBroDave
Member
NK def gets overblown as the hardest boss in the game. The only real difficulty is
with the camera in the first phase of the fight. Knowing when to not lock on is key. Phase 2 plays out like many other melee oriented bosses. Once your familiar with his moveset, it's very doable to roll through everything.
I avoided that crab place like the plague, just ran through looking for anything interesting but I must've missed it. Thanks!
lostsupper
Banned
Never forget:
Try tongue
but hole
Try tongue
but hole
toastyToast
Member
I don't know if you wanna discover this for yourself (dodging and timing related)
He doesn't have the mixups like CG and his melee swings are much more predictable.
I think the issue people have is (itemization related)
that he hits for a serious amount of lightning damage that'll tear through their shields. To mitigate that there's an 83% lightning resist shield you can find. Also on Archdragon Peak there's a lightning resist ring you can pick up. You can get melted for messing up once if you aren't at full health but with those two items equipped you won't have such a bad time
I dunno man, everything seemed like slow motion compared to CG. You're also not including CG's
shoulder barge
i was pyro. Never put a point into strength/dex.
Gotta get a raw weapon stat. And a buffing spell. Then you are set
Yup. He was the only boss I got legit frustrated on, and it was purely over the camera.
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