NESguerilla posted:

Outside of the admittedly cool initial effect I absolutely loving hate anor londo . lovely boss run. lovely boss. Can't summon because you'll just get invaded while the summons fail. This is not fun at all.

Barudak posted:

Nah That's not Ornstein. You find out what happened to him and get all of his gear if you beat the optional area

Mazerunner posted:

??? The boss run is a straight line, past some enemies you can easily roll by. you did open the big gate, right? And kill the spider wolf thing??

Omi no Kami posted:

Speaking of NG+, does it substantively change anything? I wanna try a dex/int hybrid, and I'm split between starting over with a new man, or rolling into ng+ and turning my quality build into a quality build that also has spells.

NESguerilla posted:

Yeah I just think it's lame having to deal with those pyromancers right at the door.

NESguerilla posted:

Yeah I just think it's lame having to deal with those pyromancers right at the door.

Jia posted:

Nameless King phase one is the shittiest boss fight in the loving world, it's so awful

The Shortest Path posted:

There were people who thought Gwyn was hard?

He had the most obvious telegraphed attack animation in the game for you to parry. I wiped the floor with him and I couldn't even get the Silver Knight parry timing down right.

I cannot recall a final boss in any video game being as much of a chump as Gwyn.

Mazerunner posted:

Also, what are all the item discovery poo poo things, again? Symbol of Avarice, Golden Serpent... what else? I want to farm the swordgrass dudes.

Nanomashoes posted:

By awful you mean so easy it's trivial? I was doing it without getting hit towards the end of my attempts at that boss.

enojy posted:

Parrying Gwyn wasn't common knowledge until the game had been out for at least a couple months. If you didn't know/think to try parrying him, he was suitably difficult.

NESguerilla posted:

Outside of the admittedly cool initial effect I absolutely loving hate anor londo . lovely boss run. lovely boss. Can't summon because you'll just get invaded while the summons fail. This is not fun at all.

Mr Dog posted:

Pontiff was kinda tricky but it was a fun battle nonetheless. I mean, moveset-wise he's basically Fume Knight with a couple extra tricks.

I need to break this crazy estus budget obsession for the final battle. "Oh the second half will be really hard so I can only take three sips for the first". That way lies sadness.

Doesn't help that I've missed a shitton of estus shards and at least one ash.

Fargin Icehole posted:

Not sure if this happened to everybody else, but fighting the giant demon in the mimic room in the catacombs? All I had to do was goad the demon to shoot fire at me while I was at the top of the stairs.

Everytime said demon would chase after me, he'd run up the stairs, and then slowly back himself down the stairs because It was way past his "Aggro" range. It let me sneak in at least three shots to where i'd run back up and rinse and repeat. It took about maybe 4-5 turns of the same thing happening, but it was supremely easy so long as you don't get bored or cocky, and accidentally walk into the one or two skeletons that could spawn.

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I honestly had more trouble with the Smelter Demon than most of the bosses in DS3. I never did any of the crown DLC despite buying the season pass so I can't really comment on those fights.

Fargin Icehole posted:

Not sure if this happened to everybody else, but fighting the giant demon in the mimic room in the catacombs? All I had to do was goad the demon to shoot fire at me while I was at the top of the stairs.

Everytime said demon would chase after me, he'd run up the stairs, and then slowly back himself down the stairs because It was way past his "Aggro" range. It let me sneak in at least three shots to where i'd run back up and rinse and repeat. It took about maybe 4-5 turns of the same thing happening, but it was supremely easy so long as you don't get bored or cocky, and accidentally walk into the one or two skeletons that could spawn.

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

Lakbay posted:

They stack, you absolutely need a fast weapon and they activate after 3 straight sword swings. If you can combo long enough it's a 30% AR increase in both (on paper). In practice the damage boost is so minuscule that you probably won't notice and they probably suck but I made a build around it and I've been sticking to it hoping it'll get buffed (probably not). There's about a 2 second grace period before you lose the buff.

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

Man, I've killed like 60 Silver Knights while decked out with full item find gear and still haven't had a single ear drop. I just stop by and kill a few every time I get bored so it's not just tedious hours of grinding, but good lord.

Still pretty dumb that Darkmoons / Sentinels are literally the only covenant that can't just invade with their symbol equipped and get items that way. What the hell is the justification for that when even Sunbros get to do it?

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

Fargin Icehole posted:

Not sure if this happened to everybody else, but fighting the giant demon in the mimic room in the catacombs? All I had to do was goad the demon to shoot fire at me while I was at the top of the stairs.

Everytime said demon would chase after me, he'd run up the stairs, and then slowly back himself down the stairs because It was way past his "Aggro" range. It let me sneak in at least three shots to where i'd run back up and rinse and repeat. It took about maybe 4-5 turns of the same thing happening, but it was supremely easy so long as you don't get bored or cocky, and accidentally walk into the one or two skeletons that could spawn.

Dr. Abysmal posted:

Deacons are my favorite boss to co-op on because they're so helpless you can try out all sorts of wacky stuff. On my sorcerer character I just wade in to the pile and go crazy with the soul greatsword, and Pestilent Mercury works well on the second form because the pope hardly moves so he just sits in the cloud taking continuous damage. It's neat to get a use out of stuff like that since most of the enemies are so mobile they just charge right through it and take minimal damage.

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

Still pretty dumb that Darkmoons / Sentinels are literally the only covenant that can't just invade with their symbol equipped and get items that way. What the hell is the justification for that when even Sunbros get to do it?

Mazerunner posted:

Aldritch is a dude snake monster devouring another dude, who was raised as a woman and has tentacles for legs I didn't have too much trouble with the fight but I can't really offer any trick. Just sort of... get in behind, and close. The fire tracks where he moves/attacks, but if you're behind him it's ok. The one thing is he'll kind of twist around and do a big melee swing back at you, but it's not too bad to dodge. The other thing is the knife storm, which is lovely. The first phase isn't bad, just get behind, but the second phase where it tracks is a bitch. You can run/roll in perpindiculars, but it lasts so long that he'll start another move and that sucks. When he reappears, he almost always does the small homing flurry, which you can dodge while moving in, so that's good at least.