LogFAQs > #963495781

Throne Watcher and Defender are awesome, but severely undertuned. They were one of the most challenging boss fights in my Soul Level 1 run. The problem is that in a normal run you are so powerful that they are too easy to defeat, and you can't really get a sense for what the actual boss fight mechanics are. In fairness, this problem applies to a lot of the endgame and final bosses in pretty much most of the Souls games.

So yeah while Nashandra and the Scholar are also disappointing, I don't think this is a feature that is unique to Dark Souls 2. The real King Allant fight, Mergo's Wet Nurse, the Moon Presence, Nashandra, the Scholar. Gwyn has presentation and style on his side but I think he's considered to be relatively easy. Only the final boss of Dark Souls 3 is, mechanically speaking, challenging enough for a fully realized endgame build.