Board 8 > I feel like I am in the home stretch of Dark Souls 3.

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Level 105

40 Dex
40 Str
27 Stam
29ish Vit
16ish End

In the last day I have slain, Oceiros, Dragonslayer Armor, Ancient Wyvern, and I feel like someone else I am forgetting.

In Archdragon Peak. I know I have to do Profaned Capital still also. Still looking for a Titanium Slab to +10 my weapon.


I feel like I didn't listen to someone in my previous topics advice to run past a lot and that is why I am such a high level.
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What WEPON are you using?

Final boss of peak is a bit of a pushover, but it's super fun
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banananor posted...

What WEPON are you using?

Final boss of peak is a bit of a pushover, but it's super fun

I think it is called "longsword" or "broadsword"
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Oddly enough that's not a bad choice
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banananor posted...

Oddly enough that's not a bad choice

Really disappointed at the lack of weapon progression in power.
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You can use any weapon and do well in the game
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GranzonEx posted...

You can use any weapon and do well in the game

No problem with that, but I feel there isn't even real upgrades. I find a weapon and immediately just vend it anymore.
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banananor posted...

What WEPON are you using?

Final boss of peak is a bit of a pushover, but it's super fun

1. Nameless King - 50.13% (5,966 votes)
To the surprise of absolutely no one, the hulking, lightning-imbued war god known as the Nameless King takes the spot as the number one hardest boss in Dark Souls 3, as voted by the IGN community.
Fought in a cloudy void in Archdragon Peak after ringing the large bell, the Nameless King rides in on his stormdrake, the King of Storms, armed with a massive swordspear and ready to completely wreck you and the three friends you inevitably summoned for help.
He may be optional, but Nameless King stands as one of the most memorable, epic, and challenging fights in a game brimming with them.



Uhhhh, the boss you say is a pushover is the boss that is considered the hardest lol.
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Why did you spoil yourself?
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Final boss of peak is a bit of a pushover, but it's super fun

Ha

Hahaha

Hahahahahahaha
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banananor posted...

Why did you spoil yourself?

I just looked up hardest bosses of dark souls 3 and every single list has nameless king first. That is not nice, GP.
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He's easily the hardest boss in the game, but there are much more difficult bosses in the franchise.

Still hard as hell, don't get me wrong.
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tazzyboyishere posted...

He's easily the hardest boss in the game, but there are much more difficult bosses in the franchise.

Still hard as hell, don't get me wrong.

Should be fun. The issue I had yesterday was that I killed so many dragon guys and a big ass flying dragon and got ip to like 100k souls but never found a new bonfire so I had to backtrack all the way back when I ran out of flasks so I wouldnt lose my souls. If there isnt another bonfire somewhere before the boss I am gonna lose my mind.
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Corrik posted...

tazzyboyishere posted...

He's easily the hardest boss in the game, but there are much more difficult bosses in the franchise.

Still hard as hell, don't get me wrong.

Should be fun. The issue I had yesterday was that I killed so many dragon guys and a big ass flying dragon and got ip to like 100k souls but never found a new bonfire so I had to backtrack all the way back when I ran out of flasks so I wouldnt lose my souls. If there isnt another bonfire somewhere before the boss I am gonna lose my mind.

there's a bonfire like 5 feet from the boss
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f*** the bulls*** nameless king
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Corrik posted...

Should be fun

Corrik posted...

f*** the bulls*** nameless king

Yup, that's the basic progression
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tazzyboyishere posted...

He's easily the hardest boss in the game, but there are much more difficult bosses in the franchise.

Still hard as hell, don't get me wrong.

I haven't played DS2 still and still a bit of DeS, but it really felt like I died more to Nameless King than any other boss. Part of that may be having a first phase that is liable to take a while, but still.
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Johnbobb posted...

Corrik posted...

Should be fun

Corrik posted...

f*** the bulls*** nameless king

Yup, that's the basic progression

I killed him but he had two bulls*** moves. Lunge and thrust. His super saiyan charge move had an easy dodge and biggest opening to hit him. But getting him to use it was rhe trick. With no flasks left and 30% life I was able to bait 2 of them out. The 2nd time I needed 5 hits to kill him. I knew I had no shot of dodgding an attack if I didnt get the 5. Went for it anyways and we double koed. Good enough for me.
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Profaned capital was like the smallest area ever. Level 109 and yhorm dead now
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Yeh and yhorm is the easiest boss so you did kind of a weird progression

Beat the princes. Hardest fight in the game.

Realized I was 3 flasks short.... after the fight. Those woulda helped for sure
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Looks like you had an easier time on nameless king than I did- some of us git gud faster than others

I really suspect yhorm's whole area got cut short sometime during development

Princes was fun, except when my character's swings refused to hit the little dude during their recovery phase
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banananor posted...

Looks like you had an easier time on nameless king than I did- some of us git gud faster than others

I really suspect yhorm's whole area got cut short sometime during development

Princes was fun, except when my character's swings refused to hit the little dude during their recovery phase

When I finally beat him, I one cycled him. I died a tonnn to that fight. It took me awhile to realize you can't be aggressive and have to keep up endurance to roll at qby time. And that sprint is the best way to beat the beam.
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I love the Princes fight because it's one of the fights that I feel like I perfected dodging and it felt so satisfying, like you know the fight like the back of your hand. I dodge in general but for some reason that one in particular felt right.
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banananor posted...

I really suspect yhorm's whole area got cut short sometime during development

That wouldn't surprise me.
I was sad when I discovered how small that area was. It could have definitely used fleshing out.
Could have also been deeper or more remote, geographically speaking.
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People say the Princes are hard, but that was a one try 0 damage boss.

I'm not going to pretend I'm good, so it had to have been luck.

Nameless King can f*** right off, and the totally f***ed summon signs before it as well.
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Siegward helped me with yhorm. Just beat the last boss. 3 tries. 3rd try finally got him to phase 2 with 1 flask left. Only got hit 3 times at all during phase 2 to easily defeat him.
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Time to start battlefield 1
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Last boss I actually beat my first try; it was weirdly easy for me compared to the Princes and Nameless King

Princes were annoying but I think the Nameless King was considerably worse
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Johnbobb posted...

Last boss I actually beat my first try; it was weirdly easy for me compared to the Princes and Nameless King

Princes were annoying but I think the Nameless King was considerably worse

It is weird. Bloodborne I 1 shot like 4 or 5 bosses. I didn't one shot a single boss here despite thinking i should of many times.
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Ahh Dark Souls 3. Love its bosses, they're pretty challenging because they move so much more fluidly. I think the bosses I one-shotted were Iudex Gundyr, Vordt, Crystal Sage and Oceiros. There were certainly a few which killed me when I only needed to hit one more time either at the first or second attempt. However, I don't think I've needed more than 9 attempts for any boss either. The only one I'm not entirely sure of is the Greatwood and maaaybe the Abyss Watchers (but I doubt it), after that I started becoming better.

What I love about playing the series is that you just notice with each game how much better you become. I just beat Dark Souls 2: SotFS, and while I still died a lot, I never ever felt like "oh god how will I get past this" like I did at the beginning of my first Souls game. That game is the one where I one-shotted a large amount of bosses, but to be fair, many of its bosses are just lame fights and extremely unoriginal. Still have to do the DLC though, and things will pick up significantly there I know.
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Johnbobb posted...

Last boss I actually beat my first try; it was weirdly easy for me compared to the Princes and Nameless King

Princes were annoying but I think the Nameless King was considerably worse

last boss, in typical souls fashion, is a pushover compared to how good you are at the game at that time and how tough the past few bosses have been

i also one shot the last boss my first time through - quite easily tbh
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Nameless King legitimately took me around 30 tries, at least.

None of the rest came close, though a few took probably around 10

I think I one shot the tree, the final boss, crystal sage (lol), the giant dragon and the weird blind lizard thing

Having trouble thinking of names
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Also, was anyone else totally let down by Gundyr 2.0 (I think his name was Champion Gundyr)? What a boring waste of a boss
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Greatwood was the easiest boss imo. Then the skeleton lord. Then yhorm. Then ancienr wyvern.
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SpoinkRulezz posted...

I think the bosses I one-shotted were Iudex Gundyr, Vordt, Crystal Sage and Oceiros.

I think I one-shotted them (though I had seen Iudex Gundyr and to a lesser extent Vordt before I fought them), plus I know I one-shotted Yhorm (but with Siegmeyer and I knew what to do in advance probably because I looked up the Siegmeyer quest) and Aldrich.

I think all of them have killed me on subsequent playthroughs, though. In the cases of Oceiros and Aldrich, probably quite a few times.

And I know I didn't one-shot Greatwood because for the life of me I couldn't get to his weak spot in the second phase without getting wrecked. Pretty sure that once I beat him I've never had trouble since, so I couldn't exactly say what the problem was.

Johnbobb posted...

Also, was anyone else totally let down by Gundyr 2.0 (I think his name was Champion Gundyr)? What a boring waste of a boss

Actually now that you mention it he wrecked me until I looked up a parry timing video. He might have actually killed me more than Nameless. I was using the Washing Pole 2-handed and I couldn't find the timing to land an unpunished hit in the second phase. I might have been playing really late at that point though, so I couldn't say for sure it wasn't just because of that.
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kevwaffles posted...

SpoinkRulezz posted...

I think the bosses I one-shotted were Iudex Gundyr, Vordt, Crystal Sage and Oceiros.

I think I one-shotted them (though I had seen Iudex Gundyr and to a lesser extent Vordt before I fought them), plus I know I one-shotted Yhorm (but with Siegmeyer and I knew what to do in advance probably because I looked up the Siegmeyer quest) and Aldrich.

I think all of them have killed me on subsequent playthroughs, though. In the cases of Oceiros and Aldrich, probably quite a few times.

And I know I didn't one-shot Greatwood because for the life of me I couldn't get to his weak spot in the second phase without getting wrecked. Pretty sure that once I beat him I've never had trouble since, so I couldn't exactly say what the problem was.

Johnbobb posted...

Also, was anyone else totally let down by Gundyr 2.0 (I think his name was Champion Gundyr)? What a boring waste of a boss

Actually now that you mention it he wrecked me until I looked up a parry timing video. He might have actually killed me more than Nameless. I was using the Washing Pole 2-handed and I couldn't find the timing to land an unpunished hit in the second phase. I might have been playing really late at that point though, so I couldn't say for sure it wasn't just because of that.

Greatwood was literallt just atay at range. Let him fall down then kill his limbs. So easy
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Champion Gundyr had a second phase?
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I thought the original gundyr was harder than champion due to that fuxking pus of man bulls***. I hate that enemy so bad.
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Champion was hard, that's not my issue with him. I just think he's the game's biggest example of bad boss design. They took Iudex Gundyr, a very uniquely designed boss that completely throws you off, and then made Champion, which took everything interesting about Iudex Gundyr out in exchange for an arbitrary strength/defense boost and more spammable moves. It was "cheap difficulty" at its absolute worst.
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Corrik posted...

Greatwood was literallt just atay at range. Let him fall down then kill his limbs. So easy

Yeah I'm always surprised when people say Greatwood was hard. It's a Dark Souls boss that literally has giant, glowing, throbbing weak spots
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Johnbobb posted...

Corrik posted...

Greatwood was literallt just atay at range. Let him fall down then kill his limbs. So easy

Yeah I'm always surprised when people say Greatwood was hard. It's a Dark Souls boss that literally has giant, glowing, throbbing weak spots

Like I said, I honestly cannot explain what I was doing wrong at first. I certainly wasn't confused about the weak points, and phase 1 wasn't the issue. I certainly wouldn't call him hard by any stretch.

Corrik posted...

Champion Gundyr had a second phase?

Virtually every boss does in DS3. Some are just less obvious than others. Ones like Champion Gundyr just unlock new attacks/patterns around half health but don't do anything else fancy to show it.
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Champion Gundyr might be my favorite boss in DS3.
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Murphiroth posted...

Champion Gundyr might be my favorite boss in DS3.

Why
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Corrik posted...

Murphiroth posted...

Champion Gundyr might be my favorite boss in DS3.

Why

I always prefer the smaller bosses that are closer to your size and fight like you. Hunter battles in Bloodborne, for instance.

Champion Gundyr is fast, hits hard, has deceptive combos, and has very specific openings to exploit if you're not parrying him to death. Super fun and probably killed me more than any other boss in the game.
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Murphiroth posted...

Corrik posted...

Murphiroth posted...

Champion Gundyr might be my favorite boss in DS3.

Why

I always prefer the smaller bosses that are closer to your size and fight like you. Hunter battles in Bloodborne, for instance.

Champion Gundyr is fast, hits hard, has deceptive combos, and has very specific openings to exploit if you're not parrying him to death. Super fun and probably killed me more than any other boss in the game.

Thought he was nothing special. Dragonslater and last boss were better ino
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I don't see why Champion Gundyr was a bad boss. Overall, I think I would have to side with Murphiroth as to why.
I tend to dislike bosses with gimmick weaknesses (e.g. Bed of Chaos) and care less for bosses where the danger area is vastly dwarfed by the size of the boss's vulnerable area (e.g. Vordt of the Boreal Valley).
Bosses that bring it down to your level and give you a serious run for your money tend to be my favorites, especially when combined by creative designs and combat dynamics.
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Just thought he was nothing special. I almost died after killing Dragonslayer by a barrage of magic. That almost pissed me off.
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Oh yeah. Generous amount of cheese for sure.
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