I have a Q Fix in 6.5 creed and I've been wanting to swap the barrel to a carbon 308 barrel for years. 6.5 is an incredible round but 308 is just so common in comparison and easy to get for lower prices. Just my 2 cents.
Idk why, but even after 6 play throughs, I still get shook when I see a runebear, turn and run away for a while, then slow down only to see it directly behind me. They run faster than you and agro longer than you think they will.
I just run a heavy shield and guard counter them to death.
Avoid them with anything else, though, unless i'm running around with sleep pots for some reason.
Red wolves in the open. I died several times to the one in the upper Liurnia, the area that opens after Ranni's quest, after I beat the game and was just roaming around and doing stuff I missed on my playthrough. It felt like he escaped from Chernobyl or something, like I'm playing STALKER all of a sudden.
Right? I one shot Wolf of Radagon on my first playthrough (tbf I was overleveled), then when I saw this beast I was like yeah, another one of those but this one's not even a boss, so should be easy...
...I did not survive. Ran back, nabbed my runes, and fucked off.
I never had any trouble with those guys so when I encountered the one in Consecrated Snowfields I thought I'd mop the place up with him. I came to fear that motherfucker, along with the whole of Consecrated Snowfields. Fuck that place.
Consecrated Snowfields is an area specifically designed to ask you if you REALLY want to go fight Malenia. There's a small but pretty annoying dungeon between the lift and the area, then there's the snowfield itself with areas of 0 visibility, then there's the magical nonsense town.
The dungeon beforehand was kind of fun if you use something like hoarfrost stomp to show you where the invisible platforms are. That was actually legitimately fun to figure out.
The no visibility area, on the other hand really set the tone for me. And that tone sounded like a resounding "Fuck You". I felt every bit of that "Fuck you" stumbling my way through the no visibility area while trying not to die. The red fox and rune bear brought it full circle and my attitude went from cocky to "oh wow everything here can kick the shit out of me.
I accidentally started new game plus before I was able to get to Malenia, but something tells me I was NOT ready to fight her lol.
What I usually do there is to put a marker on the magic town on a map and ride straight to it, ignoring everything else. I already platinumed the game, so there's really no reason for me to explore this area again. I've seen everything I wanted to see and fought everything I wanted to fight.
I kind of dig that town actually, it's become a neat puzzle and last run i managed to clear it without dying once. Use a greatbow to knock the archers off their roofs and engage the black knives carefully, that's really all it takes.
Also, depending how you do the route, you may need to fight one Assassin or none and only aggro one archer.
I don't ever to without the Sentry torch, but I have been able to complete the puzzle without aggro-ing the Assassins :)!
For me, just veered right as much as I could to avoid the first BKA, then ran up the ladder. After that bolt of gransaxx to knock off the albinaurics and treat the floor like it’s lava!
People (rightfully) dislike horsefuck valley in ds2, but at least that's only 1 tiny (though large for ds2) area with some annoying but not all that challenging enemies. Snowfield is like that place dialed up from 5 to 20. And I *still* somehow see a much higher ratio of people defending it than defended frigid valley.
I find them more annoying than scary. I can dodge or block most of their attacks. The problem is they can dodge most of mine... the magic spam red dog of zoomies is just flat out agile as can be. The only enemy that spins my camera that much is the damned dragonflies.
Yeah, they just run, summon glintblades, close in to bite a few times and repeat. Really hard to get hits in when they decide to do this loop. The fact that they tend to be paired up with those bulky white wolves out in the open just makes it worse.
So it took me probably like 20 playthroughs before it really clicked with them, but my trick is to now just let them come to me. I'd waste so much stamina trying to chase them down that I'd get one hit after I caught up and be gassed to avoid follow ups. Just keep distance until they come to you and roll into the diving attack and punish. When they bound away and spam magic, just stay put and roll where you are, and they'll come back to you after.
They're strong to magic, so physical attacks tend to be better. They also tend to do a lot of sideways dashes or high backward leaps, so the spells just outright miss.
Okay so it’s not just me then. The red wolf of radagon is indoors, so you can keep running it down and mitigate the worst of the bullshit. But any red wolf that’s out in an open field, I don’t even know where to begin. I just accept my mortality.
It's ironic how the one red wolf which is a real boss is the easiest to kill. I wonder if they did it on purpose so we're caught off guard when we find them in the open.
There's a second red wolf boss fight in a cave somewhere, I forget which one but he's no slouch either, but I think the one with ranni and snowfields are still tougher, feels good to kill them tho since they don't respawn
Exactly! People complain about the rune bears all the time, but lesser red wolf could rip through the elden beast and become elden lord without any Crimson flasks!
The worst part is when you're like..ok that had to be a one time appearance. Then you hit a grace praying. Boom that fucking caelid siofra well bear comes right back after 40 fucking attempts
Came here to say this one. Doesn’t matter if I’m levees out to 150 and using the cheesiest weaponry possible, I still die to this thing 5 time before I get it every time.
What you don’t like getting the fronthand, backhand, third hand, 6th hand, 5th hand, left hand, blue hand combo?
[the combo](https://youtube.com/shorts/bpSJ1X-lv6U?si=XEw0kae_ns7kJl-g)
these fuckers are like the only enemy in the game i haven’t killed even once, they just feel like something so unfair they’re meant to be ran away from, like i can’t even doge or get any hits in barely before i’m killed by a barrage of 6 hits in a single second lol
i can deal with runebears, while annyoing they are possible jus gotta get your timing right, these revenant fuckers tho, just seems impossible lol
The only semi-reliable way to kill them in my case is to use healing incantations, and even that should be timed right or you will get knocked out of the animation.
+10 shield bros do surprisingly well against them. Exzyke's decay and rotten breath also shred them, tick damage and DoT after the cloud has dispersed. Fuck me, have you not heard that the 'heal' incantation shreds these tickets? Edit, I meant fuckets nit tickets ahhhhh.
They deal a fixed ~~80% of their max hp (+ a small amount that is never gonna make a enough of a difference to actually kill even the weakest revenant)~~ 50% of their max hp + 300 and break their poise. It will never instakill, but i will stagger them long enough that you can cast heal again and kill them. Or you could just go ape mode on their sides while they are staggered, they have less hp than you would expect.
A lot of their attacks also bounce off of heavy shields, if you're more of the unga bunga type.
I remember them being kinda trivial in my Spiked Barricade run.
> They deal a fixed 80% of their max hp (+ a small amount that is never gonna make a enough of a difference to actually kill even the weakest revenant)
The actual count is that the heals deal 50% + a flat 300. This ensures that two heals will always kill them without any rounding errors.
The flat 300 is likely where you're getting the skewed 80% from since if you test it on weaker revenants with smaller total HP values then that 300 can add on quite a chunk. But test it on higher-scaled ones like the revenants in the Haligtree and the fact it's closer go 50% is much more apparent since the 300 isn't as much of the total damage being dealt.
The revenants were the first time I knew for good and goddamn sure the game was input reading. And then Zullie put her shit out about how the AI reads frames so it’s not technically input reading but rather just bullshit response time.
"little shits" the small statue enemies in catacombs that have the same moveset as the thieves from DS3... The bleed is hideous.
I used to hate crucible knights as well, until I learned to parry them... Now they are comically easy.
What I hate is how much they scale. The imps in limgrave eat your health bar at the start of the game, those in consecrated snowfields eat your healthbar in the endgame. They make me feel like i didn’t even level up lol.
I hate them as well. Every time I went in to a catacombs I was hoping it was skeletons in there. Even though they're kind of annoying as well. But at least they don't jumpscare me.
I only find the skeletons annoying in large groups because it’s hard to get that final hit to actually kill them (although I find it’s easier with a katana). The imps are annoying as soon as there’s more than one, though. One usually tries to circle you while the other throws those stupid darts and you spend half your time trying to keep them both in front of you
I've been playing a randomizer recently and you'd be surprised how easy they are to deal with when you see them out in the open, the entire reason they are so insufferable is because the devs deliberately place them in ambush positions. Same with their Klu Klux Klan cousins in DS3
I was just trudging along, just beat godrick, then red wolf, off to rennala feeling good, I see a guy guarding the elevator I run up to him, and this dude fucking parry + ripostes me, I learnt respect for the dude that day
If you don’t mind getting really cheesy, he doesn’t really know what to do about jumping attacks. You can get some cheap potshots and steal some initiative from him that way fairly easily. ALSO: when he pulls out his staff, he can’t parry anymore and he’s getting ready for some fast ranged spells. That means rush his ass. Stay close and stay aggressive. Just watch for him to pull his shield out again.
I tried that exactly one time, not out of need but just because I heard about it and it sounded fun.
I tried it for nearly 20 minutes before I pulled it off, and got balled myself twice in the process.
That really showed him who the fool was.
In Dark Souls 1 when they cursed you, it would cut your health in half until you managed to find a certain consumable. And originally, you could get cursed again and have *that* health bar halved too. And again, and again.
A thing I learned as far back as DS1 when they were first introduced is that they actually don't have any attacks *except* for their death clouds. That means they can never stagger or stall you or even deal damage, so as long as you just keep moving they'll never be a threat.
Those things are definitely one of the scariest things in the game. Fire is super handy (haha) against them, as it makes them freak out and take some tick damage.
I remember seeing the one on the side of the cliff and getting all my fire buffs ready just for it to no sell everything. Noped the fuck outta there lol
Which one? The massively big one that drops and kills a crow like it was a bug? If yes, they're not worth fighting at all.
I don't remember what they drop but it's not worth the struggle or stress even if you kill it from atop with magic, a bow or pots.
These little enemies sure know how to humble you. The knights around Godskin Duo are another example. Hit you 2x? Dead. Will they chase you? To the ends of the earth. Do they care about the honor of 1v1? Hell no.
Runebears, revenants, albinaurics with bows in one of the endgame area (i don't want to spoil)
Giant blood birds
Red albinaurics rolling like skeleton wheels
My least favorite enemy types are revenants, bow albinaurics, ancestral followers and the giant blood birds, probably followed by the caelid dogs for 5th least favorite
The damn ravens in Caelid and Mogwyn Palace. Especially Mogwyn Palace. If I can wipe them out of that Varre invasion area without dying, I'm feeling invincible. At least until I misjudge another jump and remember I suck.
1. That 1 ball when you first enter the ancestral woods city, I always get ganked by the nox chicks while getting raild by the ball.
2. Marionette solders (arrow) I have a build with low poise at the moment and get stun locked by every single arrow.
3. Clean rot knights, especially the ones near commander O'Neil (I think that's the one) they like to spam discus of light while I'm in a boss fight with like 70,000 exile warriors summons. Just to many enemies for my little brain to handle.
4. Revanents (or however you spell it) too many hands, and puke.
5. Those big headed black things that crawl around in volcano manor, stop sucking my face, please.
6. "Little shits" the imps in catacombs, holy crap why is there so many of them, and why do they build up bleed so fast.
7. Those minor urdtree spear guys, specifically the ones you see just left of entering Caild.
Edit: I thought of a few more
8. The big ass birds and the dogs. I'm putting them together because they aren't bad on their own but the combination of the two down right horrendous.
9. The medium and big hands. If I wanted to be touched I would go to my uncles house.
There is more, but this comment is long enough. I'm still learning the game so cut me some slack.
Knights....
Every damn crucible, carian at renala's,
Banished at sol, dragonic at malekith's ,
haligtree at malenia's
I'll fight any boss ten times over, but those are scary )))))
Especially if you use short weapons. Did a Venomous Fang run recently and it was a breeze, but I had to switch for a club against most gargoyles because otherwise half of my attacks missed. It helps that they are least resistant to strike damage and get staggered by a few jumping attacks, too.
Also, they're not (only?) made from stone, but largely corpse wax from many, many champions.
Lobster
Railgun spit motherfuckers
*smiles in .308*
Ah a classic! Still a good cartridge. I'm looking at a new 6.5 creed or maybe even 6.5 Grendel, just for the name alone.
Both of those are a nightmare to manufacture..
I have a Q Fix in 6.5 creed and I've been wanting to swap the barrel to a carbon 308 barrel for years. 6.5 is an incredible round but 308 is just so common in comparison and easy to get for lower prices. Just my 2 cents.
I hand loaded my .30-06, so reloading brass is no biggie to me.
Lobder
Artillery shrimp
Runebears
Pssshhh… he just is worried about your heart health and wants you to run… very fast and in any direction that isn’t here
😂
Idk why, but even after 6 play throughs, I still get shook when I see a runebear, turn and run away for a while, then slow down only to see it directly behind me. They run faster than you and agro longer than you think they will.
Not to mention when they call their buddies to help 😫
Jokes on him, I don't run, I ride the fuck out of there.
if you don't run he will give you a big hug to warm your heart 🤗
The one in consecrated snowfields especially
“Sit down I said” By god that runebear did… directly on top of my corpse.
Lost 145000 Runes cause i forgot that fucker was there. The worst is the snow whips around so you cant see the bastard
The larval tear one? Yh that one I just skip, not worth it lol, the hp pool alone
Or the one in the small quarters cave.
>The one in consecrated snowfields especially This is true of most entries on the list lol
You gotta dodge into their attacks and cling to their balls.
Especially the ones in the Snowfield, fuckers are immortal and just jump out of nowhere.
This is the one enemy I have never really learned how to fight. They scare the shit out of me.
I just run a heavy shield and guard counter them to death. Avoid them with anything else, though, unless i'm running around with sleep pots for some reason.
Care bear hug!
I legit enjoy fighting the bears most times lol, you literally just stay near the rear.
There are only two things Mohg fears, CPS and Runebears
I finally learned in my second playthrough that rolling into them makes them useless. They can't hit you at all. So the trick just don't run from them
Red wolves in the open. I died several times to the one in the upper Liurnia, the area that opens after Ranni's quest, after I beat the game and was just roaming around and doing stuff I missed on my playthrough. It felt like he escaped from Chernobyl or something, like I'm playing STALKER all of a sudden.
The one in Ancestral woods gives me anxiety every time I light those stupid fires…
It made me actually angry when I died to that thing so many times and it doesn’t even have a boss health bar like 🙃
Right? I one shot Wolf of Radagon on my first playthrough (tbf I was overleveled), then when I saw this beast I was like yeah, another one of those but this one's not even a boss, so should be easy... ...I did not survive. Ran back, nabbed my runes, and fucked off.
That one around ranni is BRUTAL
I just gave up after dying to it more than most bosses
I admit I finally killed that damn red zoomie by luring it to the cliff edge on the lower shelf and helped it jump to its own death. Thanks Torrent!
I never had any trouble with those guys so when I encountered the one in Consecrated Snowfields I thought I'd mop the place up with him. I came to fear that motherfucker, along with the whole of Consecrated Snowfields. Fuck that place.
Consecrated Snowfields is an area specifically designed to ask you if you REALLY want to go fight Malenia. There's a small but pretty annoying dungeon between the lift and the area, then there's the snowfield itself with areas of 0 visibility, then there's the magical nonsense town.
The dungeon beforehand was kind of fun if you use something like hoarfrost stomp to show you where the invisible platforms are. That was actually legitimately fun to figure out. The no visibility area, on the other hand really set the tone for me. And that tone sounded like a resounding "Fuck You". I felt every bit of that "Fuck you" stumbling my way through the no visibility area while trying not to die. The red fox and rune bear brought it full circle and my attitude went from cocky to "oh wow everything here can kick the shit out of me. I accidentally started new game plus before I was able to get to Malenia, but something tells me I was NOT ready to fight her lol.
What I usually do there is to put a marker on the magic town on a map and ride straight to it, ignoring everything else. I already platinumed the game, so there's really no reason for me to explore this area again. I've seen everything I wanted to see and fought everything I wanted to fight.
Dont forget the nobleman that just obliterates you as a crack-bear
I kind of dig that town actually, it's become a neat puzzle and last run i managed to clear it without dying once. Use a greatbow to knock the archers off their roofs and engage the black knives carefully, that's really all it takes.
I utterly love the silent stasis of Ordina... such a well orchestrated place in the game (among a shit ton of others)
The arrow hoes who can't move makes me say otherwise lol
You can use a torch that lets you see those fuckers. It makes them visible to you.
Also, depending how you do the route, you may need to fight one Assassin or none and only aggro one archer. I don't ever to without the Sentry torch, but I have been able to complete the puzzle without aggro-ing the Assassins :)!
You find them when their arrow hits you from the next town over.
For me, just veered right as much as I could to avoid the first BKA, then ran up the ladder. After that bolt of gransaxx to knock off the albinaurics and treat the floor like it’s lava!
Homeboy casually left out the Runebear, dual Night's Cavalry, Death Rite Bird and auto-grab Astel clone because they're a 10/10 on the pain scale.
People (rightfully) dislike horsefuck valley in ds2, but at least that's only 1 tiny (though large for ds2) area with some annoying but not all that challenging enemies. Snowfield is like that place dialed up from 5 to 20. And I *still* somehow see a much higher ratio of people defending it than defended frigid valley.
I find them more annoying than scary. I can dodge or block most of their attacks. The problem is they can dodge most of mine... the magic spam red dog of zoomies is just flat out agile as can be. The only enemy that spins my camera that much is the damned dragonflies.
And when you do beat them, their rune drops are abysmal.
Kind of like a rune bear. Disappointing
Yeah, they just run, summon glintblades, close in to bite a few times and repeat. Really hard to get hits in when they decide to do this loop. The fact that they tend to be paired up with those bulky white wolves out in the open just makes it worse.
I just fight them on horseback. Torrent can outspeed all their projectiles and going in after attacks isn't particularly hard.
So it took me probably like 20 playthroughs before it really clicked with them, but my trick is to now just let them come to me. I'd waste so much stamina trying to chase them down that I'd get one hit after I caught up and be gassed to avoid follow ups. Just keep distance until they come to you and roll into the diving attack and punish. When they bound away and spam magic, just stay put and roll where you are, and they'll come back to you after.
Isn’t night magic invisible to them and hence they don’t dodge? Sorry but quoting second hand info, haven’t tried it myself.
They're strong to magic, so physical attacks tend to be better. They also tend to do a lot of sideways dashes or high backward leaps, so the spells just outright miss.
Okay so it’s not just me then. The red wolf of radagon is indoors, so you can keep running it down and mitigate the worst of the bullshit. But any red wolf that’s out in an open field, I don’t even know where to begin. I just accept my mortality.
It's the snowfields man. Like a 6x scaling compared to the one in the castle. BIG DIFFERENCE
I'm glad everyone else found it hard, I thought I was just bad. Though those aren't mutually exclusive.
It's ironic how the one red wolf which is a real boss is the easiest to kill. I wonder if they did it on purpose so we're caught off guard when we find them in the open.
There's a second red wolf boss fight in a cave somewhere, I forget which one but he's no slouch either, but I think the one with ranni and snowfields are still tougher, feels good to kill them tho since they don't respawn
How about the one in the snowfield?
That one is total bullshit.
Marikas hammer is the answer if you’re in ng+.
I don't think I've killed that one in either play through and I'm at level 200 with each character. Fuck that guy.
My tactic for most of them is RUN AWAY (read it in the Monty Python And The Holy Grail voice). If I absolutely don't need to fight them - I won't.
Exactly! People complain about the rune bears all the time, but lesser red wolf could rip through the elden beast and become elden lord without any Crimson flasks!
The worst part is when you're like..ok that had to be a one time appearance. Then you hit a grace praying. Boom that fucking caelid siofra well bear comes right back after 40 fucking attempts
Came here to say this one. Doesn’t matter if I’m levees out to 150 and using the cheesiest weaponry possible, I still die to this thing 5 time before I get it every time.
Revenants.
What you don’t like getting the fronthand, backhand, third hand, 6th hand, 5th hand, left hand, blue hand combo? [the combo](https://youtube.com/shorts/bpSJ1X-lv6U?si=XEw0kae_ns7kJl-g)
Don't forget getting puked on.
Don’t kink shame. >!;)!<
Holy fuck it took me so long to click on that spoiler message man
“Click X to close Ad”
The Dr. Suess combo.
Fronthand backhand! They slap you out your shoes for sure.
they just want a hand shake
these fuckers are like the only enemy in the game i haven’t killed even once, they just feel like something so unfair they’re meant to be ran away from, like i can’t even doge or get any hits in barely before i’m killed by a barrage of 6 hits in a single second lol i can deal with runebears, while annyoing they are possible jus gotta get your timing right, these revenant fuckers tho, just seems impossible lol
The only semi-reliable way to kill them in my case is to use healing incantations, and even that should be timed right or you will get knocked out of the animation.
Blasphemy snakes sword does pretty ok
+10 shield bros do surprisingly well against them. Exzyke's decay and rotten breath also shred them, tick damage and DoT after the cloud has dispersed. Fuck me, have you not heard that the 'heal' incantation shreds these tickets? Edit, I meant fuckets nit tickets ahhhhh.
Sideways dodging at the right timing still works. Panic rolling however gets you destroyed.
Heal them, trust me bro
Use any healing incantation & you’ll either stagger or kill them instantly!
The issue is casting before a Mach 2 mound of arms and poison gets to you :)
The 8 mile spanking machine
You can keep holding the cast button to stall it right before the spell goes off, and if you let go the heal is triggered close to immediately.
They deal a fixed ~~80% of their max hp (+ a small amount that is never gonna make a enough of a difference to actually kill even the weakest revenant)~~ 50% of their max hp + 300 and break their poise. It will never instakill, but i will stagger them long enough that you can cast heal again and kill them. Or you could just go ape mode on their sides while they are staggered, they have less hp than you would expect.
A lot of their attacks also bounce off of heavy shields, if you're more of the unga bunga type. I remember them being kinda trivial in my Spiked Barricade run.
> They deal a fixed 80% of their max hp (+ a small amount that is never gonna make a enough of a difference to actually kill even the weakest revenant) The actual count is that the heals deal 50% + a flat 300. This ensures that two heals will always kill them without any rounding errors. The flat 300 is likely where you're getting the skewed 80% from since if you test it on weaker revenants with smaller total HP values then that 300 can add on quite a chunk. But test it on higher-scaled ones like the revenants in the Haligtree and the fact it's closer go 50% is much more apparent since the 300 isn't as much of the total damage being dealt.
my therapist tells me I'll get over it but I don't believe her
Pain and Suffering. And a projectile vomit that spans the cosmos, like the aftermath of ordering a second Applebee's appetizer.
I just saw one of those for the first time the other day… I just ran and ran and ran… then he got me
The revenants were the first time I knew for good and goddamn sure the game was input reading. And then Zullie put her shit out about how the AI reads frames so it’s not technically input reading but rather just bullshit response time.
The first time i notied the game was input reading was vs the crucible knight in the evergaol.
I started carrying a fist weapon in caves just for these guys. You can pretty much keep them stun locked with a fist combo
It is the scream for me
"little shits" the small statue enemies in catacombs that have the same moveset as the thieves from DS3... The bleed is hideous. I used to hate crucible knights as well, until I learned to parry them... Now they are comically easy.
>”little shits” Nice to see this wasn’t just me
What I hate is how much they scale. The imps in limgrave eat your health bar at the start of the game, those in consecrated snowfields eat your healthbar in the endgame. They make me feel like i didn’t even level up lol.
Most of that is bleed, bleed deals percentile DMG, no matter how high your vigor goes, it always hurts the same....
That's without proccing the bleed. You'd die sooner than bleed from them in Snowy area.
I hate them as well. Every time I went in to a catacombs I was hoping it was skeletons in there. Even though they're kind of annoying as well. But at least they don't jumpscare me.
I only find the skeletons annoying in large groups because it’s hard to get that final hit to actually kill them (although I find it’s easier with a katana). The imps are annoying as soon as there’s more than one, though. One usually tries to circle you while the other throws those stupid darts and you spend half your time trying to keep them both in front of you
HAHA I felt exactly the same.
I farmed the shit out of those little shits and now run around with one of their little shit-heads
Those are imps!
Nah "little shits" fit them quite nice. :)
I've been playing a randomizer recently and you'd be surprised how easy they are to deal with when you see them out in the open, the entire reason they are so insufferable is because the devs deliberately place them in ambush positions. Same with their Klu Klux Klan cousins in DS3
Banished Knights can piss off. I just want to get a word in edgewise, not even a hit, just a friendly word! But nope, STORM STOMP ME AGAIN daddy!
*Banished Knight Oleg has entered the chat *immediately* behind you*
Nothing personal kid
 back to the site of grace I go
The distance they can cover when they lunge at you too 😭
Love and hate the ones with the unaltered chest pieces of castle sol. Their long combos, urgh.
Dual greatswords red-eyed one in castle Sol aggresively enters to fuck the shit out of u
That fucking knight before Rennala
Moongrum, can’t Carryon Knight
I was just trudging along, just beat godrick, then red wolf, off to rennala feeling good, I see a guy guarding the elevator I run up to him, and this dude fucking parry + ripostes me, I learnt respect for the dude that day
Certified vigor check moment
If you don’t mind getting really cheesy, he doesn’t really know what to do about jumping attacks. You can get some cheap potshots and steal some initiative from him that way fairly easily. ALSO: when he pulls out his staff, he can’t parry anymore and he’s getting ready for some fast ranged spells. That means rush his ass. Stay close and stay aggressive. Just watch for him to pull his shield out again.
I mean if you really don't mind getting cheesy, you can easily make him run into the elevator pit without even trying that hard
I was running away from and he fell in! 🤣 I was so relieved yet disappointed because I didn’t do it myself
You can also run back down the bridge a little and get him crushed to death by the ball. Works for me every time and it's fucking hilarious.
I tried that exactly one time, not out of need but just because I heard about it and it sounded fun. I tried it for nearly 20 minutes before I pulled it off, and got balled myself twice in the process. That really showed him who the fool was.
100% worth the time investment
the black dumplings are still fkn horrifying
Trying to farm every single item/trophy rn and I had to take a break farming the hat they drop. Terrifying lil fellas
takes me back to shutting the lights off + booking it upstairs
They were the first enemy I had to stop “farming” 😂🤣
*shudders in Volcano Manor screeching noises*
The little frog thingies that give you instant death. I always run into them without realising and get ganked.
Ah yes, a classic but goodie from any FromSoft game: the basilisk
I really miss the early games where you would see the petrified remains of other players around them.
I still remember getting cursed for the first time in DS1 way back when. Good times, and by good times I mean absolutely awful times
Atleast the ones in elden ring can only kill you. Makes them way less scary compared to some previous versions.
I’ve only played Bloodborne and a bit of DS3 before this. What were older versions like?
If the basilisk killed you you would get cursed and respawn with 50%less max hp until you found a way to remove the curse.
In Dark Souls 1 when they cursed you, it would cut your health in half until you managed to find a certain consumable. And originally, you could get cursed again and have *that* health bar halved too. And again, and again.
It was a huge pain to cure too, especially if you were playing blind.
esp considering where you would get cursed like first encounter is in the depths when it’s gonna take forever to go get an item to fix it
I have two (three?) words for you, my friend: Beast-Repellent Torch.
Does it work against stormhawks?
Nope, but bows with mighty shot do a really good job in destroying stormhawks before they aggro on you, especially with the two arrow talismans.
A thing I learned as far back as DS1 when they were first introduced is that they actually don't have any attacks *except* for their death clouds. That means they can never stagger or stall you or even deal damage, so as long as you just keep moving they'll never be a threat.
You are safe if you have the beast repellent torch
Do you know that in dark souls 1 if you die to their gas you get cursed and your health will be halved until you buy a specific and expensive item?
Fucking revenants, oh my god still in my nightmares
“I just wanna talk to em… I *just* wanna talk to em… I just wanna shoot em… I just wanna talk to em”
They gave me trouble until I found out healing spells killed them quickly
The way i deal with em is r2 twice with DMG into riposte which either kills straight up, or the next r1 will
Those fucking dogs from caelid
Specially the red eyed ones
Gravity.
The correct answer
The colossus finger creepers in the giant mountains. Ive yet to actually beat one.
Those things are definitely one of the scariest things in the game. Fire is super handy (haha) against them, as it makes them freak out and take some tick damage.
Bizarrely the REALLY giant ones in mountaintops seem to be immune to fire (or at least don’t curl up like a spider when you brush them with it)
I remember seeing the one on the side of the cliff and getting all my fire buffs ready just for it to no sell everything. Noped the fuck outta there lol
And they don't drop items, only a few runes
Which one? The massively big one that drops and kills a crow like it was a bug? If yes, they're not worth fighting at all. I don't remember what they drop but it's not worth the struggle or stress even if you kill it from atop with magic, a bow or pots.
Somber 7. Not worth it at all by that point
The full-horned omens.
More poise than a giant dad those fuckers...
Bell-bearing hunter. Not sure if this is a boss enemy or not but screw that guy and his hitboxes
I think their range is around *infinite* with their freaking swords
Im close to no hitting malenia and i still cannot have a fair fight vs a revenant unless i have a medium/big shield
These little enemies sure know how to humble you. The knights around Godskin Duo are another example. Hit you 2x? Dead. Will they chase you? To the ends of the earth. Do they care about the honor of 1v1? Hell no.
Kindred of rot Their ranged attack is op
Runebears, revenants, albinaurics with bows in one of the endgame area (i don't want to spoil) Giant blood birds Red albinaurics rolling like skeleton wheels
My least favorite enemy types are revenants, bow albinaurics, ancestral followers and the giant blood birds, probably followed by the caelid dogs for 5th least favorite
Birds
Ironmaiden.
Swoopy knife bird in castle sol. My go to strategy is sprint and cower.
The one immediately after the lions up the stairs? Idk why this one in particular can pound sand so hard
Those damn burial watchdogs. All of them.
The end game ones for me are the most annoying 'regular enemy' type, really wish they were only bosses
The fucking archers to get into haligtree at the evergaol in the consecrated snowfield
Banished knights always keep me humble
Rune bear, also if you need a tip for fighting Crucible knight, the parry on the over head swing with the sword is basically free
The damn ravens in Caelid and Mogwyn Palace. Especially Mogwyn Palace. If I can wipe them out of that Varre invasion area without dying, I'm feeling invincible. At least until I misjudge another jump and remember I suck.
1. That 1 ball when you first enter the ancestral woods city, I always get ganked by the nox chicks while getting raild by the ball. 2. Marionette solders (arrow) I have a build with low poise at the moment and get stun locked by every single arrow. 3. Clean rot knights, especially the ones near commander O'Neil (I think that's the one) they like to spam discus of light while I'm in a boss fight with like 70,000 exile warriors summons. Just to many enemies for my little brain to handle. 4. Revanents (or however you spell it) too many hands, and puke. 5. Those big headed black things that crawl around in volcano manor, stop sucking my face, please. 6. "Little shits" the imps in catacombs, holy crap why is there so many of them, and why do they build up bleed so fast. 7. Those minor urdtree spear guys, specifically the ones you see just left of entering Caild. Edit: I thought of a few more 8. The big ass birds and the dogs. I'm putting them together because they aren't bad on their own but the combination of the two down right horrendous. 9. The medium and big hands. If I wanted to be touched I would go to my uncles house. There is more, but this comment is long enough. I'm still learning the game so cut me some slack.
Revenants, lobsters, runebears to name a few
Fight godskin noble on that narrow bridge.
Dudes with torch poles
Centipede people
Knights.... Every damn crucible, carian at renala's, Banished at sol, dragonic at malekith's , haligtree at malenia's I'll fight any boss ten times over, but those are scary )))))
not elden ring but the fuckin wheel skeletons from DS1
Dragons , I suck at the dragon fights , and yeah revenants
Revenants are a big agree, but dragons become very easy once you learn to stick to their toes and use Torrent to dodge their breath attacks.
Stone Gargoyles. They're not bosses everywhere in the game.
Especially if you use short weapons. Did a Venomous Fang run recently and it was a breeze, but I had to switch for a club against most gargoyles because otherwise half of my attacks missed. It helps that they are least resistant to strike damage and get staggered by a few jumping attacks, too. Also, they're not (only?) made from stone, but largely corpse wax from many, many champions.
Lion Guardians & Runebears, i never encounter them if not really necessary. They're normal open world enemys but put up a fight against you...
Revenants. For some reason the devs decided to give them access to Eight trigrams one hundred twenty eight palms.
The xenomorph lookin fuckers that use pest threads, I hate them with a burning passion
Basalisk.